The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 454

[Chapter 449: Lanruo Temple in Jinhua House]

In order to avoid irritating the Ming Dynasty, it was also to leave the vortex around the imperial capital, so as not to let oneself go deep into it and be completely engulfed.

Zhong Yu’s expansion this time was not toward the northern provinces of Daming, or the central and western provinces, but toward the six southern provinces.

The six southern provinces of the Ming Dynasty bordered the two empires of Great Wei and Great Han. Only one of the six provinces was inland, and the rest were frontiers, and the war had harassed the south for a long time.

However, the six provinces have become much more peaceful in recent years. The reason is that behind the two empires of Great Wei and Great Han, there is a Great Tang Empire that is expanding rapidly. Its strength is so powerful that it cannot be stopped by the power of one country and one place.

In the past 30 years, in order to resist the aggression of the Tang Empire, the five neighboring countries of the Tang Empire, Dahan, Dawei, Daqi, Dawu, and Dayue, formed an offensive and defensive alliance to curb the expansion of the Tang Empire together.

However, although the strength of the offensive and defensive alliance is three times that of the Tang Empire, they are at odds with each other and their strengths are incompatible.

Especially in these years, as the power of the Tang Empire has become stronger, the attack on neighboring countries has become more and more powerful.

Han and Wei were the first to bear the brunt of the attack, and were regarded as the main targets by the Tang Empire. In recent years, they have each lost their territory in the second and third provinces, and their strength has suffered a great loss.

Under such circumstances, he was too busy to take care of himself. How could Han and Wei have the spare energy to invade the seemingly unified and powerful Ming Empire in the north?

Therefore, in the past 30 years, the six southern provinces of the Ming Empire have rarely encountered wars. The economy and people’s livelihood have developed rapidly, and they are almost on the trend of catching up and becoming the five eastern provinces.

The six southern provinces were the largest sources of money and grain for the Ming Empire except for the five eastern provinces. As long as Zhong Yu captured these six provinces, the strength of the Ming court would be weakened by half.

At that time, Daming would really have to struggle with the Jin Empire in the seven northern provinces, and he would no longer have the energy to go south to quell Zhong Yu, the biggest traitor.

Because the Ming Dynasty did not have the money to organize troops and horses to go south to suppress the rebellion, and opened two major fronts at the same time.

The 400,000-strong army was divided into three directions to attack the areas bordering the six southern provinces and the five eastern provinces, trying to take the six southern provinces with the fastest speed and strongest attack strength.

The smoke of gunpowder ignited again in the six southern provinces that have been at peace for 30 years.

This time, all the six southern provinces had an army of only 300,000 people, and the army had been neglected for a long time, and it was unknown whether they could stop Zhong Yu’s aggressive attack.

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Northern Jiangxi Province, as a province bordering Dongjiang Province, where Zhong Yu made his fortune, was his main target this time.

Zhong Yu personally led a main force of 200,000 people, and was ready to wipe out the northern province of Jiangxi in one fell swoop.

Things went very smoothly. Along the way, he won three state capitals, until he came to a place in Jinhuafu, Guobei County, and stopped for a while.

To tell the truth, since Zhong Yu came to the world of Liaozhai, apart from the Yellow Mountain Demon King he met at the beginning, in the following days, he has successively fought in all directions, and the army has been invincible wherever it has passed.

But no matter how many enemies he encountered and how many opponents he defeated, he unexpectedly never encountered a monster, which made Zhong Yu have the illusion that he was not in the world of Liao Zhai, where monsters and monsters are rampant.

In fact, it is quite normal to think about it. Since coming to this world, Zhong Yu has been leading the army to fight, surrounded by tens of thousands of troops.

Even when dealing with government affairs at ordinary times, there are thousands of fourth-order soldiers guarding him.

With such a strong strength, even a sixth-order powerhouse would not dare to say that he could win it and retreat.

This is naturally not to mention the low-strength monsters in the world of Liao Zhai.

Encountering such an aura of fierceness is an army. If it is a ghost, if it is rushed by this evil spirit, it will immediately disperse.

Even demons will be restrained by magical powers and spells, and they will be immediately surrounded and killed by soldiers.

Under such circumstances, how could there be any unsightly demons and ghosts who dared to stand in the way of the army? Runway Zhong Yu, the powerhouse who had killed the Yellow Mountain Demon King, died in front of him.

So it’s no wonder Zhong Yu has such a dreamy feeling.

When the previous demon heard the news of Zhong Yu, they either avoided far away, or found a secret place to hide and refused to show up.

In the face of these demons, as long as they don’t have to come out and seek death, Zhong Li, who is eager to attack the city, naturally ignores it subconsciously and doesn’t care about it.

After all, after the turmoil of the demon king of Huangshan in the Ming Dynasty, more than 99% of the low-level demons in the Ming Dynasty went to Dongjiang Province to follow the banner of the emperor’s demon king and rebelled together.

And some of the remaining monsters in the Ming Dynasty

are all powerful in their own power, with fifth-order or even sixth-order cultivation, and the worst has fourth-order strength.

These people simply disdain to go to the Yellow Mountain Demon King to be his dog’s leg, and they still understand the truth that a chicken’s head is better than a phoenix’s tail.

So I stayed where I was and watched it change.

However, this has also created a status quo, that is, the demons still remaining in various places in the Ming Dynasty are basically powerful, and ordinary people can’t suppress them at all, even the local state guards are powerless.

Ordinary people want to subdue demons and get rid of demons, but they all fall to the ground and kick the iron plate.

I don’t know how many outstanding disciples of famous sects and aristocratic families wanted to show off because they were young, so they went to Slay the Demon and Eliminate the Demon Russia and lost Qingqing’s life.

In Guobei County, Jinhua Prefecture, where Zhong Yu’s army is now, there is a powerful demon, the tree demon grandma.

This tree demon grandmother was transformed from a thousand-year-old locust tree, and has been cultivated for thousands of years. His body has endless roots and branches, forming a large forest with a radius of dozens of miles in Guobei County.

There is a temple in the woods called Lanruo Temple, which was a famous temple in the whole northern Jiangxi province hundreds of years ago.

The eminent monks and great virtues in the temple are like clouds, and the Buddhist Dharma is widely promoted and highly praised by the surrounding believers.

However, this temple with the most incense was destroyed with the rise of the tree demon grandma.

When the dryad grandma had just become a climate and had a little mana, the eminent monks in the temple had already discovered it.

However, in line with the idea of the Buddha’s compassion, they did not directly kill demons and eliminate demons, but recited scriptures day and night, UU reading www.

uukanshu.com attempts to influence the dryad grandma.

Unexpectedly, a demon is a demon, and the nature of murder is difficult to change, especially when the tree demon grandmother found out that swallowing human blood essence and soul can greatly increase her mana and speed up her cultivation, she was even more rampant and wantonly devoured passers-by.

Especially when he couldn’t help but swallowed a little novice with a little mana, and his strength improved for several years, the tree demon grandma even regarded the monks in the temple as fat.

Then the angry monk had a battle with the tree demon, but unfortunately lost, the monks in the temple fled to death, and they were completely deserted.

Lanruo Temple’s reputation for being a monster has also spread, and people in the entire Jinhua Mansion are afraid of it, and they no longer dare to go to the surrounding area for dozens of miles.

The tens of miles of forest transformed by the Dryad’s grandmother became a forbidden area, and the locals mentioned that it would change color.

Only some outsiders who don’t know the situation will run into the woods foolishly and be confused by the female ghosts raised by the Dryad’s grandmother.

He lost his life in the chaos of love, and his essence and soul was swallowed by the tree demon grandma and turned into nourishment for cultivation.

(End of this chapter)

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