Chapter 139 The Next Target Is Changping Prefecture! Is the First Ghost Going to Escape?
Not long after.
Qu Heng left.
And after Qu Heng left.
In the room where Feng Wuzhi was, some crackling sounds could always be heard.
The third prince, Feng Wuzhi.
He had been smooth sailing since he was born.
He took over the Qingcheng Prefecture, a large prefecture with 16 counties.
He was extremely successful.
But now, because of the Liang family of Qingqu County, he suffered the first setback in his life.
Feng Wuzhi was naturally anxious and angry.
However, due to his identity.
He could not lose control of his emotions in front of others at will.
So, he could only wait until Qu Heng left before he could explode.
"Now, Shanghua County and Qingqu County have fallen into the hands of the Guan family and the Luo family respectively."
"The only chance of survival is Luoshan Prefecture."
"Now the door is closed again."
Outside the room, Qu Heng walked with deep worry on his face.
The only chance to enter Luoshan Prefecture.
Now, it has been lost.
They have already missed the best opportunity for expansion.
Even if the output and salt production of Qingcheng Prefecture are more, even if the area of Qingcheng Prefecture is larger, it will be confined here in the future.
As a minister who has followed the third prince Feng for more than ten years.
For a moment, he suddenly felt a little confused.
For a moment, he could not see clearly where the road ahead was.
In a blink of an eye, several days passed.
Qingshi City, the land of the Luo family.
In the room where the head of the Luo family is.
As the current head of the Luo family, Luo Ping is standing next to a huge map at this time.
He frowned, as if thinking about something.
"Head of the Lu family, the land of Luoshan Prefecture is now divided and ruled by my Luo family and the Guan family."
"Do you think we should continue to expand next, or"
"Stop expanding first and vigorously develop the existing four counties under our command?"
Beside the huge map, Luo Ping was silent for a long time, and then he whispered to Lu Jun, the head of the Lu family beside him.
Now, as time goes by.
The situation in the Dafeng Dynasty has gradually become clear.
The strongest in comprehensive strength is Feng Wumian, who owns two prefectures and is the new emperor of the Dafeng Dynasty.
The second strongest in comprehensive strength is the second prince Feng Wuhen, who owns one prefecture.
The third strongest in comprehensive strength is not the third prince Feng Wuzhi.
But the Bailian Mansion, which is located far away and firmly controlled by the Hanging Temple.
The fourth in comprehensive strength is not Feng Wuzhi.
But the Xu family, which is located in Wanshan Prefecture and exclusively controls the Moyu Qilin, one of the three divine horses.
The fifth in comprehensive strength is Feng Wuzhi, who controls one prefecture in Qingcheng Prefecture.
Now, the pattern is like this.
But as time goes by, some smaller family forces will gradually die out.
Those powerful family forces will gradually expand like a snowball.
The Luo family of Huaishui County, which owns four counties.
At this stage, it may be considered as a relatively strong party.
But as time goes by.
One year later, two years later, or three years later.
If the Luo family still only controls four counties, the situation will gradually become more and more unfavorable for the Luo family.
"Development is necessary, and outward expansion is also necessary."
"Qingcheng Prefecture above Luoshan Prefecture is not something we can touch at this stage."
"But Changping Prefecture below Luoshan Prefecture, which is close to us, is a better expansion target."
Lu Jun stretched out his hand, pointed to Changping Prefecture on the map, and said in a low voice.
"Changping Prefecture?"
Luo Ping narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Changping Prefecture below Luoshan Prefecture, which was close to the Luo family's territory.
Changping Prefecture is not a big prefecture.
Among the thirteen prefectures of the Dafeng Dynasty, its area can even be regarded as the bottom.
Changping Prefecture only has six counties under its command.
It is two counties less than Luoshan Prefecture.
And if Luo Ping remembered correctly,
At this time, Changping Prefecture should be in a three-way situation.
One side is the Bai family, which controls two counties.
One side is the Huang family, which controls two counties.
The last side is the Chen family, which also controls two counties.
The comprehensive strength of the three forces is quite close.
There are constant wars between each other, but they can't do anything to each other.
If nothing unexpected happens, this three-way situation.
The land of Changqing Prefecture will continue.
However, in such a chaotic situation now, it is obviously impossible to allow such a three-way situation to continue.
In this chaotic world, whoever can rise as soon as possible.
Resolve the chaos in a prefecture as soon as possible.
Whoever can grow quickly.
Qingcheng Prefecture Feng, who is surrounded by heavy siege and stared at by his elder brother, the emperor, and his second brother, is undoubtedly an exception.
"If you expand towards Changping Prefecture"
"It's a good goal."
Luo Ping narrowed his eyes slightly, and there were bursts of light in his eyes from time to time.
Qingshi City, the land of the Luo family, in the courtyard where the Luo family's ancestors lived.
At this time, Luo Changfeng was sitting quietly under a stone pavilion.
In front of him sat Fu Qiu, the deputy leader of the Luoshan Mansion branch.
And the man in black clothes and a black hat.
The current leader of the Zijin Mansion branch sect, Zhong Mudao, looks a bit strange.
Speaking of Zhong Mudao, we have to mention the photo stone.
Originally, at the beginning.
Zhong Mudao, the current leader of the Zijin Mansion branch sect, did not like the Luoshan Mansion branch sect.
Reform the system?
Cancel the 20% commission of the branch sect directly?
Oh, aren't you courting death?
The Wandan Sect has continued from ancient times to the present, and there have been countless alchemy geniuses who want to reform the Wandan Sect system.
However, everyone failed.
No one can succeed.
This Luoshan Mansion is no exception.
As for the so-called photo stone?
What is that?
Can this thing make money?
And you pay to watch it. Are you crazy or are those alchemists crazy?
Even if there are really a small number of alchemists who are willing to spend spirit stones to pay to watch the images left by the shitty photo stone, how many spirit stones can you earn?
Whether it can support the salaries of the alchemists of the Luoshan Mansion branch sect is probably a problem.
However, when Zhong Mudao went to Luoshan Mansion.
He wanted to persuade his old friend Fu Qiu to give up the Luoshan Mansion branch sect and follow him Zhong Mudao.
He suddenly found that the photo stone was not as simple as he imagined.
He thought that even if the photo stone could leave an image.
It should be extremely blurry and unclear.
However, the image left by the photo stone was not like this.
The image left by the photo stone is not only clear.
Moreover, the most terrifying thing about this thing is that it can also leave the charm of the alchemist refining the elixir.
This situation is incredible.
Watching the photo stone is like asking a high-grade alchemist to refine the elixir in front of you.
Moreover, the cost is pitifully small.
In this way, do you think this photo stone can not make money?
In addition, each time you pay for the image stone, you can only watch the image in the image stone once.
So, such a scene appeared in the Luoshan Mansion branch.
Countless alchemists lined up, holding spirit stones in their hands, to watch the image left by the image stone over and over again.
Every time they watched it, the alchemists would always be eager to pay some more spirit stones to watch it next time.
Until all the spirit stones were exhausted.
The alchemists chose to leave quietly with unsatisfied feelings.
And because the image stone was almost a cost-free business, the Luoshan Mansion branch gradually increased the spirit stone reserves in this period of time.
The monthly salary given to the alchemists has doubled from the initial amount.
This made countless alchemists grateful, and the recognition of the Luoshan Mansion branch directly soared.
The increase in the salary of alchemists on the Luoshan Mansion branch side will not bring much pressure to the branch.
Anyway, it's all from left hand to right hand, so what if they give more?
In the end, it will all return to the pocket of Luoshan Mansion Branch Sect.
"So, Jiangnan Mansion Branch Sect has chosen to join Changqing Mansion Branch Sect?"
In the small courtyard, under the stone pavilion.
While drinking the hot tea in his hand, Luo Changfeng whispered to the two people in front of him.
"Jiangnan Mansion Branch Sect should have chosen to join Changqing Mansion Branch Sect at the beginning."
"And the reason why Jiangnan Mansion Branch Sect gathered all the sect masters of other branches together."
"I think it was for Changqing Mansion Branch Sect that they did this."
Fu Qiu said calmly.
"How many people chose to join us, and how many people joined Changqing Mansion Branch Sect? How many people chose to wait and see?"
After a moment of silence, Luo Changfeng asked again.
This time, Fu Qiu did not answer out loud.
Instead, the man in black clothes and black hat, with small eyes, seemed a bit ordinary.
In fact, he has Zhong Mudao who can refine yellow-grade middle-grade elixirs.
He whispered to Luo Changfeng in front of him: "Brother Luo, there should be three more people who have joined our Luoshan Prefecture branch, in addition to the Zijin Prefecture branch where I am. There are four people who have chosen to join the Changqing Prefecture branch, including the Jiangnan Prefecture branch. There are also two branches that have chosen to remain neutral for the time being."
Under the stone pavilion, Luo Changfeng murmured to himself while drinking tea.
"In this case, there are five major branches on our side, six major branches on the Changqing Prefecture side, and two major branches have chosen to remain neutral."
"The gap between the two sides is not that big."
Soon after.
Fu Qiu and Zhong Mudao, the two old men, left the small courtyard one after another.
In the next period of time.
Many family forces in the Dafeng Dynasty are still fighting endlessly.
And the Wandan Sect branches located in various prefectures of the Dafeng Dynasty.
They are silently supporting the Luoshan Prefecture branch and the Changqing Prefecture branch respectively.
There is no open struggle between these two factions.
However, there are many hidden struggles.
For example, poaching.
Whether it is the Luoshan branch or the Changqing branch, poaching is rampant.
However, under the advantages of various conditions.
The successful poaching is basically on the Luoshan branch.
On the Changqing branch, the number of successful attempts is very few.
In the Luoshan Prefecture branch, not only the alchemist's salary is high, but there is also the image stone that can be viewed for a fee.
What do you have in Changqing Mansion?
Is your salary in Changqing Mansion low?
Or do you think that Changqing Mansion is the holy land for alchemists of the Gale Dynasty and can you compete for the first place?
Oh, right.
Now the branch sect of Luoshan Prefecture is rising strongly.
Whether your Changqing Mansion can win the first place in the end is a matter of speculation.
Gale Dynasty, Evergreen City.
Inside the Changqing Mansion branch, which was the holy place for alchemists of the Gale Dynasty in the past.
At this time, the prosperity is still there.
It’s just the alchemists that can be seen with the naked eye.
There was a look of worry on their faces.
The strong rise of the Luoshan Mansion branch made the alchemists of the Changqing Mansion branch feel an unprecedented pressure.
The first seat, the branch of Changqing Mansion is bound to win.
The branch of Changqing Mansion is also very keen on the authority brought by the first seat.
However, due to the competition among the branch sects of Naluoshan Prefecture.
Whether the Changqing Mansion branch can win the first place in the Dafeng Dynasty branch.
This seems to be gradually becoming an unknown quantity.
"metropolitan"
Changqing Mansion branch, in a palace with slightly dim light.
Nangong Ming is the current sect leader of the branch of Changqing Mansion.
At this time, he was standing silently in front of a yellow-level top-grade furnace.
The top-quality yellow-level furnace was brought from the Nangong family.
As for the Changqing Mansion, Nangong Ming climbed up to the position of sect leader step by step by relying on his own abilities.
Without any help from the family.
Well, Nangong Ming personally thinks so.
"What's the matter?"
In the palace, Nangong Ming glanced at his deputy sect leader Zhuang Hong, and asked him in a low voice.
"The results have come out. There are five major branch sects who chose to **** the Changqing Mansion branch."
"And those who choose to support the Luoshan Prefecture branch sect, there are four major branch sects."
"There are still two major branch sects that remain neutral."
Zhuang Hong lowered his head slightly and whispered.
Hearing this, Nangong Ming couldn't help but frown slightly: "In other words, the gap between us and Naluoshan Mansion is not big?"
Zhuang Hong still lowered his head slightly and did not say anything out loud.
"If the two parties choose a neutral branch, is there any chance to fight for it?"
After a moment of silence.
Nangong Ming asked Zhuang Hong behind him in a low voice.
Zhuang Hong shook his head silently and replied calmly: "It is a bit difficult. If you must win the support of the two branch sects, you may have to pay a certain price."
After the words of the deputy sect master of Changqing Mansion came out.
The atmosphere in this palace gradually became a little depressed and tense.
"Pay a certain price?"
Nangong Ming murmured in a low voice, and his calm and unchanging face gradually became a little ugly: "Then the two neutral parties chose to split the sect, do you want to wait for the price?"
If we say that the two parties chose a neutral branch, their strength would be at the bottom.
Even if you fight for it, it won't actually have much impact on the results.
But the problem is, those two parties chose a neutral branch.
The overall strength is not much worse than the third-seat Jiangnan Mansion branch or the fourth-seat Zijin Mansion branch.
And the reason why those two branch sects chose neutrality
Except after wanting to wait and see first.
Most of them probably want to wait for the price, right?
If the price paid by the Luoshan Mansion branch is high, the two major branch sects will choose to join the Luoshan Mansion branch.
And if the price paid by the Evergreen Mansion branch is high, then the two major branch sects will choose to join the camp of the Evergreen Mansion branch.
But, this idea is quite good.
But if the two parties choose a neutral branch, are they really not afraid of being liquidated in the future?
Even in a short period of time, benefits were obtained.
But in the same way, the two branch sects that choose to wait for the price will also plant a landmine for their branch sect that may explode at any time.
In the beginning, it might be fine.
But as time went by, as Changqing Mansion gradually secured its position as the number one branch of the sect.
Those two branch sects that chose to wait for a price will eventually pay a heavy price for their actions.
"We pay the price."
"The two major branch sects must be brought together."
After a long time, Nangong Ming whispered.
Zhuang Hong, who was behind Nangong Ming, nodded silently.
Then he disappeared into this palace.
After the deputy sect leader of the Changqing Mansion branch left.
Nangong Ming was the only one left in the huge palace.
"Luoshan Prefecture Branch"
After whispering in a low voice.
Nangong Ming then walked silently towards the direction in front of which was a yellow-grade top-grade furnace.
After waving his hand, he directly released the spiritual fire in his body.
The spiritual fire is called Earth Core Flame, and its grade is probably at the lower level of Xuan Grade.
This spiritual fire was nurtured by heaven and earth and was extremely rare.
If compared with the most common Black Crow Flame, even a hundred Black Crow Flames are probably not as good as one Earth Core Flame.
Of course, this is the spiritual fire bred by heaven and earth.
It was also given to him by the Nangong family.
And the reason why Nangong Minghui appeared in the Dafeng Dynasty was that the Changqing Mansion branched out.
The main reason is that he wants to prove himself.
Want to prove your abilities.
He wanted to prove to others that besides his status as a direct descendant of the Nangong family.
With his ability, his talent.
He can still break into a new world.
This Luoshan Mansion branch will be Nangong Ming's first powerful opponent.
Similarly, this Luoshan Prefecture is divided into sects.
It will also become the first branch of the Wandan Sect that is defeated by him and can be called a rival.
In the blink of an eye, several days passed.
Bluestone City, the land of the Luo family.
In a small courtyard exuding ancient aura, there is an extremely mysterious secret room space a hundred meters underground.
At this time, there was a strong feeling that reached the extreme.
It's even enough to condense into substance, a scarlet aura that's enough to corrode everything in the world.
Zheng slowly spread out in Shigui's body.
【Click】
[click click click]
The shackles were corroded and broken, and the sound of falling to the ground slowly sounded.
Shi Gui stood up silently, and circulated the scarlet aura that had accumulated in his body for an unknown amount of time and had the ability to corrode.
He touched the cage made of refined iron in front of him.
Then, Shi Gui's arms exerted force slightly.
The fine iron cage that should have been extremely strong was easily opened.
Seeing this scene, Hajime couldn't help but narrowed his eyes slightly.
The three scarlet pupils couldn't help but rotate rapidly at this time.
Even though the ghost didn't say anything.
But it can be vaguely seen from Shi Gui's expression.
It seems very excited.
In fact, if you think about it the other way around, it’s normal to be a little excited.
He was forcibly captured by a human for no apparent reason, and then imprisoned in a cage a hundred meters underground for several months, or even a year.
During this period, no food or drink was given.
Now that Shigui has broken free from the cage where he is imprisoned by his own abilities, how can he not be excited?
In the small courtyard, in the mysterious space a hundred meters underground.
Waves of strange and slightly exciting calls gradually sounded.
After the excitement, Shi Gui walked out of the prison step by step.
And just when it wanted to escape from this dark cage.
All around, the formations that have been carved out a long time ago, and the accumulation has reached thousands, are quietly operating.
There were tens of thousands of talismans posted nearby.
At this time, it was also trembling slightly.