Daozu is Cthulhu

Chapter 378

Li Fan quickly checked the dead on the ship. These people were killed by a magic weapon like a steel needle pierced through the top of the skull and heart veins.

So Li Fan stayed for a while, put the Mingguang talisman to leave a signal, and sent another letter talisman to report to Nanzhen not far away, then he picked up the basket and fled south immediately with Li Tangyuan.

Li Fan felt something was wrong.

At first glance, it seemed that Nangong Wushuang and Yuanying who attacked Feizhou were in the same group, one restraining the other and arresting people, and they came for Li Tangyuan, but this didn't make sense.

First, there is the question of Li Tangyuan,
If the other party has been tracking Li Tangyuan's whereabouts, and even invited Nangong Wushuang to take action directly, why not intercept him directly at Peach Blossom Mountain?Isn't it much easier to encircle and suppress with the Nangong army?

Even if he wasn't on the Nangong family's territory to deal with him, there were many times in the past two days that Li Tangyuan was out of Li Fan's sight, so he could sneak away from Lou Guandao, right?

And if it was really aimed at Li Tangyuan, wouldn't it be over if you just picked up the basket and left?Why is it necessary to do so much? After attacking the flying boat, you have to kill innocent people and eradicate the living, and fake it as a crash?
So compared to a carefully planned trap, Li Fan felt that this was more like a coincidence.

Yes, by chance, because it was by chance, so the other party had to tidy up subconsciously.

And this coincidence was caused by Li Qingyue.

After all, in the context of the turmoil in Liqiu Palace and the imminent burp of the king, the moment the name 'Li Qingyue' appeared on the Taoist certificate of Lou Guandao in Nanzhen, it would definitely attract the attention of a large number of people.

Wei Hu can come up with a lot of persuasive thoughts, and Wang Lang can rush to him and ask him what he wants. Naturally, there are a lot of eyes in the shadows, staring at Li Fan from behind, and even falling on him. On the girl with 'somewhat similar eyebrows and eyes'.

So could it be, by accident, that someone saw some kind of 'opportunity'?

Finally, there is the question of Nangong Wushuang.

Seriously, what is wrong with Nangong Wushuang?Of course Li Fan is not belittling his food, food is an irrefutable fact, but people can eat food at least not stupid, but what about Nangong Wushuang's performance?
Dressed up beautifully, domineering, at first glance it looks like a cock with high fighting spirit, did not try to 'contain' and 'communicate' at all, and did not even mention legitimate requests such as "return my sister" during the whole process, come up directly One sentence, "Marquis of Guannei! I want to crush you!"...Where are you bad high school students...

So Li Fan subconsciously suspected that Nangong Wushuang might be true, and he didn't even know that Li Fan had tied up the Nangong family.

Of course, this is probably not the first time that the Nangong family has been used as a gun.

In fact, Li Fan is now very suspicious that the meaning of the existence of the Nangong family is to be used as a gun.

If there's anything better than an idiot who commits all kinds of crimes, it can only be a family of idiots who do all kinds of evil, right?

After all, it's understandable that Mo Zhushan wanted to sign a non-war agreement with the Nangong family to avoid multi-line battles, but why did the Nangong family agree?Why let go of this great opportunity to attack Black Bamboo Mountain?Does the mentally retarded family really have the same forbearance and overall situation as Mo Zhushan?

Passing by the foot of Peach Blossom Mountain ahead, I also saw that the Nangong on the ground floor is single-minded, and a mere golden core is sharpening its sword and eager to attack the city!But the staff generals at the top were very restrained, Wei Hu was so persuasive, he just gave in a step, and had no intention of tearing face with Mo Zhushan at all.

Therefore, Li Fan speculated that the allies of the Nangong family or the backers of the Nangong family, in short, there must be someone who does not want to directly fight with Mo Zhushan now.

Is it Hengshan?Or the religion?

Li Fan is not sure, but the reality is that under their pressure, the Nangong family really ceased fighting.

So this group of people must have a reason to maintain the 'no war'. Li Fan doesn't need to know what the reason is, but he also knows that the enemies of this group of people must have a reason to destroy the 'no war'.

Xuantian, "So you think something happened."

Li Fan thought about it, "Nangong Wushuang didn't leave the camp recently, someone arranged for him to block me long ago.

Well, I think their goal is 'Li Qingyue', most likely, they want to prevent 'Li Qingyue' from interfering in the change of Liguo's position.But 'Li Qingyue' is a disciple of Mozhushan, a Taoist disciple, so ordinary people can't make a move.

But because of the relationship between 'Li Yi' and Prince Guangling, and because of the enmity between Prince Guangling and Nangong Wushuang, Nangong Wushuang has the qualification to deal with 'Li Qingyue' in person.

Some people may want to fish in troubled waters and kill 'Li Qingyue' in the chaos, stirring up the struggle between the Nangong family and Mo Zhushan, or maybe Nangong Wushuang will really make three moves to save the life of 'Li Qingyue', so as to avoid the dispute between the two families.

In short, even if someone is really dead, it is 'Li Qingyue' who seeks revenge from Nangong Wushuang.

It's just that the other party didn't expect that 'Li Qingyue' didn't come back with Yao Jianyuan's silk boat, and carried one more person on her back.

Tang Yuan's identity should not be in the other party's calculations, so they wanted to rob people just in case, or on a temporary basis. After investigating, they naturally had to clean up and kill everyone on the flying boat.

but……"

Xuantian, "But Nangong Wushuang lost."

Yes, Nangong Wushuang was defeated, so that's the end of it.

In the final analysis, this world still respects the strong, and there are a lot of calculations, and it is useless if you can't win.

Probably, even if Li Fan really beat Nangong Wushuang to death on the spot, he can also play the scene of "Li Yi avenges his father" in reverse. The non-war agreement between Nangong and Mozhushan broke down.Maybe it can be sung all over the world and become famous all over the world.

But Li Fan didn't want to avenge that Guangling prince.

That's not a good thing either.

In short, this catastrophe is over, temporarily.

However, considering that there would be such a murderous plot waiting ahead once he left the country, Li Fan was also upset for a while.

He decided not to go to Changsi City at all, lest some smart guys set him up again, and when the time comes, they will kill all the people and cause trouble for the teacher, so he just detours directly.Anyway, when we reach the territory of Liguo, we won't get lost. After all, we just need to follow the grain team that transports the luggage, find the Lijiang River, and then go westward against the river until we reach the Louguan Pagoda.

Li Fan didn't have an intuitive concept of the wealth and prosperity of Liguo before, but he couldn't help but be amazed when he looked at the endlessly busy commercial roads on the ground as he flew across the clouds in the sky.

Population, too many people.

All the way to the south, there are villages and towns everywhere, between the adjacent fields, there are cattle and sheep everywhere, farmers, caravans and refugees, no matter where you fly, you can see people.The cooking smoke has become a piece, looking down from a high position, it is almost like a colony of ants.

This is actually nothing abnormal, because although the Li country is fine, the world has long been in chaos. Thousands of refugees from Kun and Xun countries, the turbulent waves of the turbulent world, finally conveyed the voice of the troubled times When they arrived at Liguo in southern Xinjiang, they poured into Bianzhou continuously.

Of course Taiwei Wang E did not allow these refugees to stay in Nanzhen to disrupt the military plane, and the elites from Liguo could not afford so many servants, so the destination of these people was actually the same as Li Fan, Mozhu Mountain.

When there are too many people, there will be chaos. Li Fante followed the large group of refugees for a while, and found that... the situation is actually okay?
After all, the refugee groups that have been able to go all the way to leave the country have roughly formed a certain civil organization, with a refugee commander as the leader to deal with the government.It is unlikely that there will be a conflict with the local residents.

There are endless bastards in the court of Liguo, but it cannot be denied that there are also some advantages, because this is the forefront of the fairy palace to open up wasteland to the south, and there has always been a policy of attracting refugees to open up new lands, so there will be no expulsion. Crusade against refugees and things like that.

Moreover, seeing Liguo with their own eyes, people in the Central Plains can intuitively see the difference between the 'Southern Man' and the Central Plains.

There are many boats.

On the waterway of the river and water transportation, there are dense fleets coming and going, and the agency airships fly by from time to time, and there are ships everywhere!
Cough, after all, southern borders don't have much animal power. Cattle and horses are precious resources for farming and warfare. Therefore, Liguo usually uses all kinds of machine boats and boats improved by Tiangong Peak...

Of course, there is another reason, these ships are for the army of Bianzhou to transport food.

It is conservatively estimated that 20 soldiers and horses will eat 15 stone rice and 20 stone beans a month. This is not considered meat and game, and there are also worn-out bows, horses, armor, flags, camps, and various materials, except for spells and magic tools. Some of them were brought in by flying boat, while other supplies, food and salaries had to be transported by the imperial court.

Considering that Wang E's army has been going out for several years, it almost killed Li You. This is more than a huge financial burden, and it is probably unsustainable for any vassal state.

But Li Guo supported him, and there seemed to be no problem.

Li Fan saw that on the Lijiang River, the large cabin ship with a thousand stones was reinforced with magic spells, driven by mechanisms, and loaded and unloaded by wooden hands. The trains seemed to be trained in a long train. The grain was transported to Bianzhou in a steady stream, and then replaced by locomotives such as wooden oxen and horses to load it. There was an endless stream, and it had to be transported to Daying, Nanzhen day and night.

Li Fan also specifically asked the boatman, and said that this is called "Jingbian Gang", that is, a fleet of 240 ships is called a gang, and it is for Jingbian to support the army. Mozhushan Tiangong Peak assisted in the supervision of 20 gangs. The new ship of Qianshi, which travels between the north and the south day and night, transports military supplies. It can transport [-] million shi per month, which is actually far more than the current [-] troops in Nanzhen need.

But there is no way around this, after all, the original plan was a seven-way crusade, and a considerable part of the supplies of the Immortal Palace army had to be transported by Li Guo.Therefore, in order to carry out the "Jingbian Gang" matter, Mo Zhushan was exempted from enshrining in Liguo over the years, and incidentally used part of his income to subsidize the imperial court, coupled with the donations from the powerful and powerful and the treasury appropriation of military expenditures, it was both shipbuilding and military expenditure. Kaihe finally maintained the supply line that runs through the Lijiang River Basin and reaches Bianzhou.

In the end, who the hell knew that Kun Kingdom could actually lose in the first battle...

In short, the situation in the north is getting worse now, and the Nangong family and Mo Zhushan have started to confront each other again, so the 'Jing Bian Gang' has been maintaining its combat readiness for almost five years. Moreover, Taiwei Wang is also arranging rotation training for various armies, training troops and stationing the fields, and the army station has been taken in several times, as if I plan to live here for the elderly.

It's not worthwhile to go back with an empty ship when the warehouse is full of things, so quite a few refugees took the boat directly and went straight to the southern border of Mozhu Mountain for resettlement.

There are old grains in stock that can be eaten, and there are even boats to sit on. For a while, they can even use work as relief to help Nanzhen dig trenches and repair the city wall to make a little money. The refugees in the Central Plains expressed that they were greatly shocked by the national power .It's all pretty safe.There was also no brain damage who dared to gather a crowd and grab food with an army of 20.

It stands to reason that such large-scale supplies must have been pocketed. Li Fan sneaked in to check at random, but he didn't see any major quality problems with the military rations and armaments. On the contrary... it seems a bit too good...

Well, mainly in terms of armaments, there are a lot of armor, a lot, it can be seen that they are mass-produced pieces of armor, the quality is not as good as that of Asgard, but armor is armor after all, thousands of armors are shipped for each class, and the armor is worn out It's not that powerful, so the armor rate is a bit exaggerated...

There are also crossbows, all kinds of crossbows, big and small, and bundles of arrows. Well, Li Fan remembers that he was also a crossbow that broke the fairy party back then. I am very happy to see Wang Taiwei in this regard. Similar to what other heroes see.After all, the proportion of practitioners in the Li Kingdom Army is too small, it's a shame to fight in the field, it's better to defend the city and shoot arrows...

But having said that, isn't it a bit too much for such a large-scale preparation to be used to fight Nangong...

Xuantian, "Mozhu Mountain probably has plans to swallow Kun Kingdom."

This can't be... Isn't Guanzhu a pacifist...

Xuantian, "With this kind of strength, it doesn't matter what you think in your heart. The people around you will naturally push you to move. But it's really strange, the group of illiterates in Moshan is nothing more than that, this Lou Guan Dao Feng Qing Niu, practice enlightenment, talisman alchemy, and even know how to govern the country... Why have I never heard of such an all-round talent..."

Li Fan, "...Hey, Xuantian is too much! Remember that jellyfish head! The world is so big, there are always sages hiding in the countryside, and you need to visit the thatched cottage to invite them out, you know!"

Xuantian, "Where did I mention the head of the jellyfish...you should be careful, kid, the viewer doesn't look right."

Li Fan was taken aback, something is wrong with the viewer?Just kidding, Guanzhu is such a nice person, what's wrong?

Xuan Tian, ​​"Of course something is wrong, do you really believe that there will be good people in this world?"

Li Fan, "..."

Xuantian, "I am not saying that he is not a good person, perhaps that Feng Qingniu is indeed merciful. Rare is not uncommon. But such a rare one should be more famous.

To know the three major sects who have been killing and fighting over the years, and which one has what kind of characters, the sect will definitely inquire about them. When the juniors grew up, they have more or less contact with them. Everyone knows everything.

But that green ox was like jumping out of a rock. In a place like Southern Xinjiang, how could a Daoist with amazing aptitude be able to hide it?It’s all right if it’s only in the realm of transforming gods, but the seeds of enlightenment...it’s impossible to hide it so well...this kind of people can be willing to endure it, and staying in such a remote place is the problem..."

Now it's not a backwater, okay... Although it must have been wild before...

Li Fan couldn't help frowning, and I have to say it was a little strange, but maybe the temple master has been practicing in seclusion, with no desires or desires?
Xuantian, "hehe, look at the things he did in Liguo, is this from the Yinxian sect? No desire, no desire, hehe, there is no saint in this world. If there is a heart, there will be selfishness, and if there is desire, there will be selfishness." , Seeing that there is no competition in the world, it's just that what he wants to fight can't be won now, so he can only bear it.

Do you know that Yao Xuanzhou only respects me as a senior, but he has always refused to worship me as a teacher. "

Li Fan also guessed it, and it's not surprising that Lou Guandao's next head, there is no need to undertake such a big cause and effect of Jianzong.

Xuantian, "After he promised to take charge of Black Bamboo Mountain, he can arrange a dojo for my Jianzong to inherit the orthodoxy, and treat him as an ally with those scattered cultivators in Zhushan, and he also promised to protect you as much as possible in exchange for the sword-making skills of my Jianzong. surgery.

Hehe, I am a majestic Beichen Sword Sect, and he treats him as a pitiful remnant of exterminating his family like those casual cultivators. He only cares about my sword-making skills?

Hehehe, you kid didn't know how powerful my Jianzong was, but he knew it all, and he was able to guard Lou Guan Dao Daozang, and he didn't even care about my Jianzong secrets?
Hehehehe, do you really think that I don't know the details of Lou Guandao? If he has some amazing magic skills, why was he forced to come to Nanban?
Hehehehehehe... Yao Xuanzhou is not an arrogant person, he only learned the art of controlling a sword, and only asked for the skill of making a sword, because of other things, he really doesn't like it.

So you understand, the mediocre, the unknown, the one who doesn't compete with the world, can't teach such an arrogant apprentice. "

...However, maybe it was the special skills passed down to Lou Guandao by the Immortal Thousand Faces...

Xuantian, "Forget it soon, is there anyone in this world who is progressing faster than you in the practice of Taisu Dao? Then the thousand-faced immortal is entangled with you!"

uh, this is also...

Xuan Tian, ​​"I only know that those who treat others with the utmost kindness and courtesy must have nothing to ask for, and those who are rewarded too much may have to pay with their lives.

He doesn't need your help to reshape his real body and create another sect, and you are not the direct disciple of Lou Guandao's head, why do you keep saving you like this?
If I knew what he had done before and what his reputation was like, I could remind you a few words, but I don't know his details, alas, anyway, you should be more careful. "

Well, this guy Xuantian has the character of a lone star of the devil, he guesses people and follows evil, and no one will easily believe it, so it's not surprising.

Sometimes, Xuantian's experience is very valuable, but he has been slapped in the face quite a few times, so it can only be used as a reference.

Li Fan is not big-minded, he is really not particularly worried, after all, if a person can pretend occasionally, can he pretend all the time?The fake is also true.Even if the temple master is really blackened, he can't be more sinister than the manifested old thief, right?
But now that Xuantian has mentioned this, Li Fan is indeed a little curious, not knowing what the viewer expects from him.

Is it enough to protect Black Bamboo Mountain and inherit a heart?

Although this is what he is doing now, and even one cruiser has been killed, maybe, there are other things that need his help?

Just like what Xuantian said, the temple master is so mysterious...then there must be an epic mission in hand, right?
In short, when I go back, I will say hello in person.

(End of this chapter)