Daqin Prefecture is a newly established city, so it is naturally very vast. Instead of rushing in like a headless fly, it is better to make some preparations first.
"That's right." Hu Han said solemnly:
"Before the flash flood in Cangshe County of Daqin Prefecture, I once encountered a strange person who seemed to be from the Dadao Sect..."
"One of the female monks was called... Daoxu Immortal by the others."
Daoxu
Qiao Mu was stunned. He had once lost his life to this female monk at the Caishikou in the imperial capital. In a sense, they were friends for life and death.
Qiao Mu is a very loyal person. Since we are friends for life and death, he should repay his loyalty with life and death.
But soon Qiumu realized something was wrong.
"After the human disaster at Caishikou in the imperial capital, I remember that the Xianmen Da Dao Sect had already punished Daoxu. Did they ask her to reflect on her mistakes facing the wall in the sect for ten years as a punishment?" Qiao Mu asked.
Hu Han curled the corners of his mouth, laughed dryly twice, and said nothing.
Seeing Hu Han's reaction, Qiao Mu was speechless.
Perhaps the sect's ten-year seclusion was just a show for the world? To save some face for the Great Yan court
"Mr. Qiao, the one who appeared in Cangshe County that day was not only the strange man Daoxu, but also a second-grade spirit-refining warrior named 'Iron Wolf'." Hu Han explained:
"'Iron Wolf' is a wanted bandit. He is good at light and claw skills. He was my mortal enemy in the past. Before he entered the second level of soul refining, he fought with me many times."
"And I have also made some preparations to eradicate the Iron Wolf... Mr. Qiao, please read this."
Hu Han took out a small bottle from the cabinet in the house. There was an air hole at the mouth of the bottle for air to vent, and inside the bottle was a small insect the size of a fingernail.
"This thing is called the 'Fragrance-Retaining Insect'. Wherever this strange insect stays for a long time, there will be an odorless fragrance. Even warriors with keen senses cannot smell it. Only the fragrance-retaining insect itself can smell it."
"The Iron Wolf's body was tampered with with the powder made from the fragrant insects. The smell will not dissipate for a month or two. So as long as we go to the Qin Palace, it will not be difficult to find the Iron Wolf with the help of the fragrant insects."
"If we find Tielang, I think we can also find the strange man Daoxu..." Hu Han said.
Qiao Mu thought: "Iron Wolf? The aliens are always arrogant and look down on warriors. How can this Iron Wolf, a second-grade soul refiner, be qualified to hang out with Daoxu, a disciple of the elder?"
In all likelihood, this Iron Wolf, like the Bronze Body Arhat, is a Taoist soldier of the Martial Arts Alliance. I think it should be a second-grade Iron-Bone Taoist soldier.
The bronze-bodied Taoist soldiers are made of cloud-patterned mountain copper, and the second-grade iron-boned Taoist soldiers... I think they will be another kind of immortal material.
Qiao Mu also wanted to stop and practice the "Spirit Refining Chapter" of the "Eternal Life Fist Sutra", but he didn't have the time now - as a top-notch spirit refining technique, the time required to practice the "Eternal Life Fist Sutra" to achieve some success could easily be measured in years.
You're going to die anyway, so you might as well practice after you die.
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Daqin Prefecture, Cangshe County.
A Taoist priest with a face as pale as paper laughed strangely, and with a gesture of magic in his hand, a ball of bone-eating fire jumped out, burning any mountain it came across and burning any person it met. For a moment, the ground was filled with cries of grief.
The wailing did not last long before it suddenly stopped. A mortal being would not survive more than a few breaths under the bone-eating fire...
But amidst the wailing and howling, a powerful roar suddenly appeared like thunder:
"How dare you, demon, act so recklessly in the territory of the Great Qin Prefecture!"
A sturdy middle-aged warrior jumped up and fought fiercely with the white-faced Taoist for dozens of rounds. Finally, he broke through the flames with a pair of iron fists and pierced the white-faced old man's body.
"They are the four great generals under the command of King Qin, General Iron Wolf!" Some people recognized the newcomers and shouted in surprise.
"If a warrior can really kill that evil man, there is hope for martial arts..." Some people who have practiced martial arts were so excited that they couldn't express it in words, with tears on their faces:
"After so many years, I actually saw a martial artist defeat an immortal..."
"As warriors, we will also have a day to fight against the immortals."
Tielang seemed quite graceful. After comforting the people of Cangshe County, he used his Qinggong skills to leave quickly.
"When the work is done, he leaves, hiding his merits and fame. He is truly a great hero..."
"After all, they are the generals under the command of the King of Qin. It is still difficult to rely on these martial artists to solve man-made and natural disasters in such a huge Qin Palace."
"This Iron Wolf warrior left in a hurry. I'm afraid he has something else to do?"
Amid the discussions, Tielang disappeared.
... ..
A moment later, he appeared in the deserted back mountain and bowed to the female monk Daoxu who was waiting there.
"Using martial arts to defeat the immortals... Such a boring drama, but those mortals never get tired of watching it." Daoxu just sneered.
"It's just the delusion of a mortal. It's precisely because martial arts can't be compared with those of the immortals that they have such fantasies." Tielang also laughed.
What a joke! If martial arts could catch up with the way of immortality, why would he abandon his physical body and practice the "Golden Body Technique"
The white-faced Taoist just now was just a paper figure controlled by Daoxu.
Over the past few months, Daoxu had performed many similar scenes in the Daqin Palace. She was already fed up with it and was obviously feeling a little irritated.
"It's rare for me to leave the sect's cliff of reflection, but my master sent me to such a boring place like Daqin City... It's boring."
"Although I'm out of the Cliff of Repentance, my master also told me not to enter the Great Yan Capital for ten years, not to look for Daozhen, and to use a sleight of hand to conceal my identity, and not to use the name 'Daoxu'... Then what am I doing out here?"
Daoxu shook his head and laughed secretly.
Elder Qingzhuo is the elder who handles mundane affairs of the Da Dao Sect, and Elder Qingzhuo also made great efforts in the establishment of the Martial Arts Alliance and the enthronement of King Qin.
There is a lot of work to be done in the capital city of Daqin. It will take more than a day or two to build the fairyland on earth that the sect wants.
Having spent so much effort to train a "King of Qin", and even asking elder disciples like Daoxu to help, the Da Dao Sect's plan must be extraordinary.
Creating momentum for the King of Qin and for those who enter Taoism through martial arts is also an important part of establishing a fairyland on earth.
"Master insisted on having me come to the Qin Palace to do this kind of menial work. If I had known this would happen, I would have stayed at the Cliff of Repentance..."
When Daoxu was feeling irritated, he suddenly had an idea. He frowned and took out a jade talisman from his storage bag.
Although the Taoist soldiers who have mastered the "Golden Body Art" have seemingly free personal will and are not puppets like bean soldiers or paper figures, they are still Taoist soldiers in essence, and the immortal sect naturally has ways to control them.
Holding the jade talisman in his hand, Daoxu belatedly realized something.
"The King of Qin's former protector, the Bronze Body Arhat, is dead?" Daoxu frowned.
"Who did it? Are the other eight major sects unhappy with this and are secretly plotting something?"
She didn't even think about the mortal warrior killing the Arhat. The opponents of immortal cultivators have always been other immortal cultivators, so how could a warrior have a role to play
Chapter 235: Capture the King First (4k
Daqin Prefecture is a newly established prefecture city.
Its predecessor was a big city that suffered from man-made disasters. Half of the city was destroyed by thunder. Many people died in the city, and many refugees left.
The imperial court simply expanded this half-ruined city into a new provincial capital as the fiefdom of the King of Qin.
Over the past few months, the capital city of Daqin has been undergoing massive construction. When Qiao Mu arrived at the outskirts of the city, all he saw was a scene of bustling activity.
It was noon at this time, and most of the houses on both sides of the road were under construction.
Most of the houses in this suburban area are wooden houses and thatched houses, but there are many pedestrians coming and going, including many hardworking craftsmen and laborers, which makes this new city seem quite popular.
"Mr. Li Gongde is giving out porridge..." Someone was striking a gong under a roadside awning, and the sound could be heard far away on the street.
Soon, there were more pedestrians on the street, rushing in like a tide.
"When it comes to distributing porridge, we must also follow the rules and regulations." The middle-aged director holding the gong said loudly:
"This good porridge is only given to the old, the young, the women and the children, not to the lazy and idle."
"We don't keep idle people in the Qin Palace. If you have any young and strong people, there are many places in the city that need them. Don't come here to make trouble and ruin Master Li Gongde's good intentions."
Although there were a lot of people, there were also many porridge-distributing directors watching the line. At first glance, it seemed quite orderly. Everyone was queuing up honestly, and there were no young men trying to take advantage of the situation.
"The Great Qin Palace actually looks like this?" Qiao Mu was quite surprised.
After the separation at Anxi Pass, the old man from the armory took a group of the disabled, elderly, women and children from the lonely city and said that they wanted to settle down in the newly established Daqin Palace.
Qiao Mu, Hai Siyuan and others thought that since the Great Dao Sect was behind the Great Qin Palace, the people of the isolated city would be in great danger if they came here. They might be persecuted and bullied, or even their lives might be in danger like they were in the desert back then.
But when he got here, he found that it was nothing like what he had imagined.
"If it weren't for Elder Qiao and Captain Hai..." The old man in the armory, with only half of his face left, shook his head and said:
"Oh, yes, we have to call General Hai now... If you hadn't told me this, I wouldn't believe that the Great Qin Palace is actually related to the Great Dao Sect."
Qiao Mu did not come to Daqin Palace alone.
Accompanying him from the imperial capital were not only Hu Han and his daughter, but also Hai Siyuan and other veteran soldiers.
Now that we know that the Great Qin Prefecture is a den of wolves and tigers, it is not easy to take away the old, young, women and children in the former isolated city. Qiao Mu cannot do it alone.
There were about hundreds or even thousands of women, children, disabled and elderly people who followed the old man from the armory to the Daqin Palace. If Qiao Mu came alone, it would probably take him several days to find everyone.
"Mr. Qiao, is your news true?" The old man in the armory frowned and couldn't help asking.
If someone else said this, he would definitely not believe it.
Over the past month, their life in Daqin City has been quite good. It is completely different from the precarious days in the isolated city in the desert.
The Desert City is a secret place created by the Dao Sect. If the popular new city of Daqin Mansion is also built by the Dao Sect, then the gap between the two is too big...
The old man in the armory didn't disbelieve Qiao Mu and Hai Siyuan, but he just couldn't believe it.
"The bustle of the Qin Palace may just be superficial. Maybe after drinking this porridge, they will even sell their souls to the Immortal Sect." Qiao Mu said casually:
"Who is that Mr. Li Gongde who is distributing porridge? Is he a subordinate of the King of Qin?"
"Li Gongde is a wealthy man in Zhongzhou." The old man in the armory explained:
"I heard that among the four richest businessmen in the imperial capital today, the second one is Li Gongde..."
"Li Gongde seems to believe in the theory of merit. Although he is a wealthy man in Zhongzhou, he often helps the Great Yan court to provide disaster relief and porridge in the name of accumulating merit."
"He was originally in the imperial capital, but I heard that he came here specifically to rebuild the Great Qin Palace."
Super rich
Coincidentally, among the four richest people in the imperial capital, Qiao Mu happened to know one of them, whose name was Wan Ronghua.
Not to mention Wan Ronghua, his family descendants are actually very generous and philanthropists. Part of the money that Qiao Mu used to buy a house in the imperial capital was raised from this great philanthropist Wan.
"I heard that the Wan family also has a background in immortals and has climbed to a high position in the Da Dao Sect..." Qiao Mu pondered.
In this age when the nine great immortal sects dominate the mortal world, even the imperial court of Dayan is more or less manipulated by the immortal sects, not to mention the wealthy businessmen among the people.
When a wealthy businessman reaches the level of Wan Ronghua, he naturally has to recruit martial artists as his followers and try his best to please the immortal sect.
Therefore, Qiao Mu guessed that Li Gongde, who came all the way from the imperial capital to Daqin Prefecture, might also be related to the Immortal Gate.
At this moment, there was a commotion among the crowd.
"Master Li Gongde is here..."
"Mr. Li came here in person to distribute porridge?"
Qiao Mu looked in the direction of the sound and saw a wealthy middle-aged man with a round face coming from the corner of the street, followed by several expert guards with bulging temples.
Li Gongde was born with a rather wealthy appearance, and had a very amiable look, especially with a faint smile on his lips, making him look like Maitreya Buddha.
The presence of a figure like Li Gongde naturally attracted everyone's attention. The people in the queue, young and old, were all very grateful and naturally thanked him when they saw him coming.
Li Gongde was not arrogant. He just stood on the roadside and chatted with the poor people who were waiting in line for porridge. After the conversation, a middle-aged director behind him took two quick steps forward and stuffed some silver coins into the hands of the poor person he was chatting with. The latter was naturally grateful again.
Li Gongde was smiling brightly. He came not only to distribute porridge, but also to express his condolences to the craftsmen and workers in the suburbs of the city.
This looked very much like the leaders Qiao Mu had seen in his previous life, personally inspecting the work on the front line. The only difference was that... Li Gongde was always followed by a few middle-aged directors, and every time after Li Gongde verbally praised the workers, he would directly give them some change.
He is just like a walking boy who gives away money.
The power of money is far greater than verbal praise.
I don't know how much money Li Gongde distributed after this trip, but the poor people and laborers' faces were visibly filled with smiles, which was really inspiring.
"Are you really here to gain merit?" Qiao Mu complained in his heart.
After Li Gongde left, Qiao Mu, Hai Siyuan and other old soldiers came in to discuss how to evacuate the women, children and the elderly in the isolated city without making any noise.
After all, their next target is the King of Qin and the Taoist cultivators from the Da Dao Sect behind the King of Qin.
If the women and children in the city were still there, they would be more cautious.
"I really want to blow the King of Qin to pieces." Qiao Mu felt itchy, but he held back.