Vol 5 Chapter 63: Proxy war

After throwing Peng Xingtian out like a dog, the people of Lingjun Hall quickly withdrew from the western foot of Hengyun Mountain.
Chen Xun was not in a hurry to return to Canglan, but temporarily stayed at Hengyun Mountain as a guest.
Chen Xun claimed not to interfere in the affairs of the sect in the Northwest Territory, but that does not mean that he cannot stay in Hengyun Mountain as a guest.
Kaiyang Yu did not react at all on the east bank of the Xize Sea, and the Northwest Territory Protectorate also pretended to be deaf and dumb, but the people who occupied the Qiyun Gate in the Lingjun Palace quickly withdrew and retreated to the heavy ground of the mountain gate.
They were obviously also afraid that Chen Xun would not play cards according to common sense, and directly led the three thousand Wushan disciples to destroy the Lingjun Palace.
The mountain protection array of the Lingjun Temple is a forbidden level. According to the spiritual veins, it can withstand the strong attack of the celestial prince. Even if Chen Xun can attack by force, the price will be high, not to mention that he cannot fall into the chaos of the Northwest Territories. During the war of the sect.
Fighting a proxy war is the best choice for Wushan.
Chen Xun saw more than a hundred disciples who had escaped after Qiyunmen was destroyed. Those with the highest cultivation level were only in the late stage of the womb. Unless there is an enchanting figure like Ji Lie among them, otherwise, Qiyunmen has been passed down for thousands of years. I am afraid there is no hope for revitalization.
The situation in Hengyunzong is better. At least most of the disciples can be preserved. However, even if Gu Xuanzhen’s closed-door practice on Wangji Peak set up a forbidden circle, it was not breached at the last moment, but the spiritual vein rock formation deep in the mountain was also damaged. To severe damage.
The pavilions within hundreds of miles, as well as the fortified villages where mortal relatives lived scattered, were destroyed without exception.
The Hengyun Mountain, which is close to the west cliff of the Xize Sea, stretches for three thousand miles. In addition to the peaks and cliffs, abundant aura, suitable for the first-class sect to establish and inherit the Taoism, the geographical position is also extremely important.
To the west of Hengyun Mountain is the most important granary in the Northwest Territories, and it is also the ten Hengyun County with the densest population in the Northwest Territories. Shen Jinjiang, which originated from Shenxiao Mountain, flows into the Nishizawa Sea from the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain.
Through the Lingjun Hall, Kaiyang Yu can control the fertile land of a dozen counties in the lower reaches of the Shenjin River and the two to three billion people living on this land as long as Hengyun Mountain can be controlled.
Population is always the most important resource.
At this time, the Four Sects of Wushan had more than 6,000 disciples above the birth level, all of whom were selected and trained from the middle-level population of Canglan's hundreds of millions.
When the Northwest Territory was at its peak, as many as two to three hundred thousand cultivators in the womb stage were returned, and there were as many as two to three thousand cultivators in the Tianyuan stage.
Although after the devastation, the number of intermediate and high-level profound practitioners in the Northwest Territory has dropped drastically, and may be less than one-third of the peak, but as long as the Northwest Territory sect does not continue to wither, as long as the Northwest Territory two or three billion people continue to be here. The number of cultivators in the land that thrives and reproduces, and the number of monks in the womb state and the heavenly origin is likely to be restored within one or two hundred years.
As long as Kaiyang Yu clan controlled Hengyun Mountain, although the number of high-level profound practitioners above the Yuan Dan realm would hardly increase rapidly, the number of low- and low-level profound practitioners controlled by his subordinates in the fetal return realm and the Tianyuan realm would have increased in a century or two. It may grow exponentially.
The Hengyun Three Sects, the southeast corner of the Lingjun Hall, the Hengyun Sect is located in the west, directly facing the Hengyun Plain, and the Qiyun Gate, located in the northeast, directly controls the lower reaches of the Shenjin River. Jundian controls Hengyun Mountain, and Qiyunmen and Hengyun Sect are two nails that must be removed.
Chen Xun stood in the clouds, looking at Qiyun City, which was destroyed by Lingjun Hall at the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain.
Qiyun City was once the largest city controlled by Qiyunmen in the lower reaches of the Shenjin River. Together with the Qiyunmen sect at the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain, it was destroyed by Lingjun Hall a month ago.
Large tracts of houses were destroyed, and a large number of refugees were scattered in the wilderness on the south bank of the Shen Jin River, not knowing where to go.
The more than a hundred disciples who escaped from Qi Yunmen all voluntarily joined Hengyun Sect.
This means that the land on both sides of the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain and the lower reaches of the Shenjin River will automatically become the territory of Hengyun Sect. However, the strength of Hengyun Sect at this time is a problem to resist the attack of Lingjun Hall, let alone effective control. Such a large area.
In this land, in addition to the three larger sects of Qiyunmen, Lingjun Hall, and Hengyunzong, there are dozens of other small and medium sects and aristocratic families with varying strengths.
The Lingjun Hall was secretly supported by Kaiyang Yu Clan, and the edge was flourishing. Obviously, these small and medium sects and the aristocracy did not dare to tie Hengyunzong together again.
At this time, Chen Xun led three thousand Wushan disciples to stay in Hengyunzong as a guest. Kaiyang Yu did not react at all. For the time being, the Lingjun Hall did not dare to poke out the fierce minions again, but it did not mean that Chen Xun left Hengyun. After Yunzong, the Yu clan and Lingjun Hall will always be silent.
The disciple of Hengyunzong who temporarily escaped from the disaster of extinction still has an undiminished expression of worry on his face, lifelessly cleaning up the wolves left by the Zongmen war.
Many disciples of the Hengyun Sect participated in the demon battle of the Thousand Demon Sand Sea, and Chen Xun was old-fashioned. In the past few days, Chen Xun, Zong Ya, Su Tang, and Qing Xuan were frequently asked to recount the old times. The idea of ​​the Yunzong disciple was to move the sect westward.
To the west of Tushan Mountain, although the western wasteland is huge, the environment is much worse than that of the northwestern region.
Even though there are some mountains that are more majestic and steep than Tushan in the Western Wilderness, most of them are terrible places and not suitable for the sect to stand on. Not to mention the wild tribes struggling to survive in the Western Regions. rare.
If it weren't for this, Tushan alone would not be able to stop the expansion of Yunzhou Zongmen to the west.
If this were not the case, Cetian Palace would not have acquiesced to Wushan Four Sects to expand westward without restriction.
Except for the poisonous insects and the beasts, no one can survive in this wild and wild land, and Wushan's unlimited expansion to the west is meaningless.
The areas suitable for the reproduction and inhabitation of Yunzhou are mainly concentrated in the eight areas of Yunzhou controlled by the Jiang family and Liuzong, which is also the essence of Yunzhou.
It's the same as before everyone entered the Heavenly Furnace Secret Realm and desperately wanted to fight for a foothold in the Skyfire Mountain Range.
At this time, the Skyfire Mountain Range is the only place in the secret realm of the Heavenly Furnace that is worthy of everyone's investment in resource development; other places are hundreds or thousands of times larger, and they have no meaning at this time.
Tushan also became a spiritual mountain suitable for large sects to gain a foothold and inherit the tradition after the sky flame disappeared.
Previously, apart from the desperate Su clan’s ancestors who moved westward, only a few small and medium sects, such as the Xuanhan Sect and Yishan Sect, had established a foothold in the wasteland west of Tushan. The situation was mostly similar to that of the Su clan. They all moved westward after desperate.
Of course, no matter how barren the Western Wilderness is, there won’t even be a place to settle Hengyun Sect. However, after the Hengyun Sect moves out, what choice will be made by thousands of sects and aristocrats in the Northwest Territory. Such development is not what Chen Xun can predict at this time.
Of course, Hengyun Sect really wanted to move westward, and Chen Xun would not refuse.
Even if he cannot intervene in the affairs of the sects of the Northwest Territory at this time, such as the westward movement of sects like the Hengyun Sect, Ce Tianfu and the Northwest Territory Duhufu will not stop them, and at the same time can greatly enhance the Xuanxiu Sect to the west of Tushan. The power of the door.
It is impossible for Chen Xun and Wushan disciples to stay in Hengyun Mountain for a long time as guests. Whether to leave or stay, Hengyun Sect disciples must make a decision immediately.
On the sixth day when Chen Xun stayed at Yashan at the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain, Gu Xuanzhen paid a visit and directly mentioned the matter:
"Wushan really has the ethics of Shenxiaozong, Chen Zhenren really doesn't want to intervene in the affairs of the sect of the Northwest Territory?"
Chen Xun smiled and said, "Whether Wushan can inherit the Taoism of Shenxiaozong is not the answer for Wushan. At present, even Qianjianzong can't return to Gushan, saying that nothing else is too great. Meaning."
Gu Xuanzhen thought it was the same. No matter which company Cetian finally decides to fill in the Northwest Territory, it is most likely to directly establish a foothold in Gushan and enclose the Xinmeng Mountain, Wutengshahai, Yuanwu County and other territories. The possibility of the influence of Living Wushan infiltrating east of Tushan Mountain is beyond the reach of Xizehai and Hengyun Mountain.
There was no response from Kaiyang Yu. To put it bluntly, it was expected that such a situation would be expected, and only then would he have the mind to respond to changes with the unchanging, and to stop with static.
Gu Xuanzhen said: "The Hengyun Sect has been passed down to me. It is already the sixth generation. I will never abandon the ancestral mausoleum, but I can't force everyone to stay and burn with the jade in the Lingjun Palace..."
Chen Xun understood what Gu Xuanzhen meant. Most people in Gu Xuanzhen and Hengyun Sect would choose to stay and fight against Lingjun Hall, but they would arrange for young disciples to move westward and find one or two spiritual veins to settle down temporarily, depending on the future situation. Make other plans so as not to cut off the orthodoxy of Hengyun Sect.
Hengyunzong's arrangement was the best to Chen Xun, and he smiled:
"There is no explicit statement from Cetian Palace, but I know in my heart that they do not expect the Wushan Four Sects to develop east of Tushan; we also have to be clear about not developing to the east of Tushan, or even move the sect to the east. The land of the gate was expanded to the mountains of Tushan Mountain. In this way, the mountains of Tushan Mountain are empty. Hengyunzong must arrange for some of the disciples to move west. We can lend one or two mountains..."
After Tushan, it will all be the sites of the Four Sects of Wushan, but it is impossible for the four Sects to develop and occupy all the spiritual resources of Tushan in just three to five hundred years.
Chen Xun now chooses one or two mountains from the eastern foothills to lend Hengyunzong a foothold. One is to strengthen ties with Hengyunzong, and the other is to encourage Hengyunzong to work with the ambitions of the Yu clan. Worried that there is no place to retreat.
Gu Xuanzhen was also overjoyed when he heard this. He was sure that Wushan couldn't really abandon the Northwest Territory. He just lacked a strong excuse for direct intervention, and at the same time he didn't want to be caught by Ce Tianfu.
Hearing Chen Xun's words, Gu Xuanzhen felt confident in his heart, and asked, "Wushan refining vessel is famous for the world, I wonder if Hengyun Sect can get one or two?"
Wushan is inconvenient to directly intervene in the affairs of the sect of the Northwest Territories, but he trades weapons and magical instruments with Hengyunzong through bartering. Chen Xun is not afraid that Yu Clan, the Duhufu of the Northwest Territories, and Cetianfu can bite him. what.
However, Hengyunzong only had five Yuandan real people in charge. Without a group of sharp weapons such as the Qingyan Lotus Arrow, it would be impossible to fight against the Lingjun Temple with the strong support of Kaiyang Yu Clan.
Since we want to fight a proxy war, we must first be an arms dealer, supporting the Hengyun Sect, and at the same time ensuring that a large amount of training resources flow into Wushan in the northwest region.
As long as Hengyun Sect is really reliable, Chen Xun can even arrange for Hengyun Sect's disciples to enter the heavenly furnace secret realm to practice. R1058