Tuxing Sun is clueless in military strategy and governance, but Jichang saw through this guy's strengths and weaknesses and treated him as a extraordinary person, offering fine wine and food every day.
Seeing one beautiful girl after another surrounded himself, Tuxing Sun felt that it was not in vain to come. Who are Deng Chanyu and Jiang Ziya? All are idiots! The worldly prosperity is so wonderful, what are you doing to cultivate your spirit!
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Jichang declined to come to Chaoxia, citing old age and poor health. King Zhu was furious and promptly issued an edict to Chonghou and Suhu, ordering them to wage war against Xiqi.
Chong Houhu appointed his younger brother Chong Heihu as the vanguard general, while he and Su Hu led the central army. General Zheng Lun of Su Hu's army was assigned as the supervisor of supplies. With a combined force of one hundred thousand soldiers, they marched resolutely towards Xigqi.
On the side of Xigqi, they were rigorously preparing for battle, using weapons made from the Jiuli ethnic group's smelting technology.
The general Nangong Xi has been practicing his troops, and the old bear suggested that they chant "Hell Roar" "Hell Roar" and other slogans mixed with traditional drumming and gongbeating methods to form an array.
To say the least, although it might look a bit like a savage's way, once they shouted "Hell Roar" "Hell Roar," the morale of the army significantly improved. Seeing the soldiers' faces red and their necks bulging as they loudly shouted, Nangong Shu felt that the army's unity was formidable and believed that defeating Chong Houhu would not be a difficult task!
Jichang was already eighty-five years old, so he couldn't let him swing a big blade to hack people. Boai Kao was the eldest son, and this could not be taken lightly.
Jichang himself oversaw the overall situation, with his eldest son Bo Yi Kao responsible for supplying food and grain in the rear, assisted by San Yi Sheng. His second son, Ji Fa (the King of Wu), led the army in battle, with Nangong Shi as the vanguard. His third son, Ji Xian (Guan Shu), guarded Qishan, and his fourth son, Ji Dan (the Duke of Zhou), guarded the Wei River.
With one old father and four capable sons all fighting on the front line, victory would ensure their immortality as princes and dukes, while defeat would mean that they would all go to hell together with their father.
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Deng Chanyu wasn't particularly interested in the affairs of Xigqi. As long as she was still alive, she preferred to focus on her own safety rather than the matters of others.
In the "Bian Shen," some calamities can be avoided, such as the Ten Absolute Arrays. However, some cannot be evaded, like when Lü Yue descended plague stones.
In the original timeline, Deng Jiugong and Deng Chanyu had just surrendered to Xigqi when Lü Yue, a renowned plague god from Jiulong Island and an alchemist, descended upon them. He unleashed plague stones into the water of Xigqi, infecting Deng family members and the entire city's military and civilians. However, with the help of a third spiritual elixir obtained from Shen Nong, Chang'e saved Wukong's life, saved numerous Hanjiao disciples with another elixir, and used a third one to turn the water into Yang Liu to disperse it and save everyone in the city.
This is just so unfair. Is it that Wu Wang has an especially wide throat, or does he have a special physique? Why does he need an entire pill when he's sick, while the whole city only gets to share one pill?
In the original timeline, Deng family members fall under the category of those who "share" pills. In the end, they are saved, but what if they hadn't been? Do gods know she is a disciple of Nuwa? Would the plague also know about her?
Deng Chanyu has been pondering over Jin Dasheng's bezoar these past few days.
Bezoar from cattle is known for calming, alleviating pain, lowering fever, and detoxification. Whether it can cure Lü Yue's plague is hard to say... Maybe mugwort could do it?
She intends to build a treasure that revolves around bezoar, which can help her detoxify at crucial moments and, at the very least, maintain her basic life vitality.
She can't act as if she knows everything about the whole matter. She can't be too specific in her response, as if she's just waiting for Lü Yue to release the plague powder before revealing her countermeasures. That would definitely not work. Some necessary concealment is needed.
She spent ten days thinking about it and another two weeks working hard.
Using the fabric cut from the Mo Li Hong mixed element umbrella and some of the leftover corners when repairing houses on Lishi Mountain, along with one hundred bamboo sticks as the foundation, she used a fist-sized piece of wutong wood and bezoar from cattle gifted by Jichang earlier as the core of the array. A leaf of mugwort was hung on the beam.
In the end, she set up a somewhat dilapidated two-story small building in the wild outside of Chengtang Pass.
The ground was made of broken stone, the walls were made of purple bamboo, and the outer layer was covered with the fabric of the Mo Li Hong mixed element umbrella. Finally, with the green Yang True Fire tempering it, a two-story small building measuring several ten square meters was born.
This small building can be seen as a treasure, but it has little use. It lacks the ability to trap enemies, kill people, burn or flood, decompose or whatever. It's essentially an experimental work she tried to refine by herself.
It's hard to build a house, and even harder to cover it with tiles, just as it is with refining treasures. It's only when you start to work on them yourself that you realize how difficult they truly are.
She spent two more days repairing it, but she got frustrated in the end. It's fine like this!
She waved her hand on the plaque at the front of the small building, and "Yu Tai Cha Lou" appeared in four large characters.
There were two phrases hanging at the entrance, with "For those with a karmic connection to come" on the left and "Do not discuss state affairs" on the right.
With the unique connection between the Wu Tong wood, the host and its clone, she projected a divine thought into the small building, then opened for business!
Tea! Selling bezoar from cattle mixed with mugwort, as well as some cool tea brewed with roadside jasmine and chrysanthemum.
One reason was to test the detoxifying effects of the bezoar and mugwort, and the other was to take the opportunity to accumulate some merit.
Good merits have been divided up by the big shots, and she can only pick up the leftover corners now.
As long as she earns a little, even if Chang'e can't get the cure from Shen Nong smoothly, she can keep herself alive with the merits and bezoar.
Deng Chanyu made all the necessary preparations and then left everything to fate.
The phrase "let fate decide" in other worlds and "let fate decide" in the World of HongHong are completely different.
Here, just wait, the Dao will arrange everything for you!
Deng Chanyu's body stays in the Cui Guang Liangyi lamp for cultivation. She is very skilled at the skill of splitting her mind for two uses. Now, she can easily split a strand of her divine thought to create a clone with no offensive power.
For three days, the first customer finally came to the Yutai Tea House.
Jiang Ziya descended from Mount Jialong, intending to go to the city of Chaoke, but somehow he found himself in the East Sea. He wanted to see where he was born, but alas, after forty years, the sea had changed and all traces of the past were gone.
"The life is thin from birth, and the path of immortality is hard to achieve." The words of Yuan Shi Tianzun echoed in his ears.
This sentence was very damaging to Jiang Ziya. After dedicating himself for 40 years, he is now an old man, and his entire life's work is reduced to just one sentence.
Jiu Liushun has persuaded Jiang Ziya with phrases like "this is the will of heaven" and "you are the only one who can do it". Still, Jiang Ziya found it hard to accept. His mood was low, and he didn't want to go to places with a lot of people. He just followed his instincts and found himself in a tea house without realizing it.
Deng Chanyu's tea house is not too far from Chengtang Pass, but it's also not close. This is a country path, with occasional woodcutters and village women passing by. They are busy with farm work and have no desire to drink tea. It has been open for three days, and there hasn't been a single customer. At this moment, seeing an old man walk in, she immediately got busy serving him.
"Gentleman, come and try our new tea. It cools the body and clears away heat, removing moisture and fire."
Deng Chanyu's appearance is not as beautiful as her elder sister, but she is still a top beauty. Using her own looks to open a teahouse would just attract trouble, so she transformed into the appearance of an old man to pour tea for the elderly man who had just entered.
