C656 The reason!
Fang Shaobai was very satisfied with this Mountain Bandits. After defeating Chi Baishu with a sword to show off her strength and dividing the treasures to show off her generosity, this Mountain Bandits might not be completely loyal, but they were still happy and convinced of their loyalty.
There was no such thing as absolute loyalty in this world. Even if a contract was signed, it could still be broken.
Fang Shaobai firmly believed that as long as he continued to be strong, these bandits would not betray him. Because the bandits had experienced life with swords in their hands, they understood the principle of respecting the strong better than most martial artists. When one couldn't become an absolute powerhouse, the only way to guarantee their future was to follow a promising powerhouse.
An hour later.
With the help of a drop of the pith of blue sea, Li Shankui and the others began to refine their own Ancient Mystic Soldiers. Although it was just a preliminary refinement, it was actually much more profound than refining normal blood essences. After all, that drop of pith of blue sea was not just for show.
When the Ancient Mystic Soldiers was used like this, it could already effectively display the Ancient Rune on the Mystic Soldiers. Its overall strength was much stronger than before.
The group sat down and started to share the roasted elk.
In the time it takes to eat and drink, Fang Shaobai had already roughly understood the origin of these nine people and the strength they had grasped in their hands. As matters stood, the nine of them had sincerely decided to follow Fang Shaobai, so there was naturally nothing much to hide.
The Broken Dragon Mountain separated the Ice City from the Southern Wasteland. The area was vast, and although there weren't as many demonic beasts as the Misty Forest, there were still quite a few. However, most of them were bandits.
As the danger level of Dragon Breaks Mountain was not as great as the Misty Forest, the Ice City maintained a relatively smooth trading relationship with the Southern Wasteland warriors on the other side of Dragon Breaks Mountain. Some merchants from other cities would even choose to trade with the Southern Wasteland warriors.
As a result, there were many martial arts caravans that traversed across Dragon Mountain every day. This also gave birth to the ancient trade of bandits. Therefore, the number of bandits in Broken Dragon Mountain was not small.
Although the Broken Dragon Mountain's eighteen mountain strongholds were called an empty number, there were more than eighteen strongholds in the Broken Dragon Mountain. It's just that there are 18 villages that are relatively famous, but remember, fame may not mean that you are the strongest.
Chi Baishu, Li Shankui, Zhang Zhenshan and the others all had their own mountain strongholds, and their own territories were all adjacent to each other. The nine great mountain strongholds were all encircled by a circle, forming a four-sided territory.
Logically speaking, in order to increase the territory between the village and the village, the closer the territory was, the easier it would be for them to form enmity with each other. However, Chi Baishu and the others were different. It was unknown if these nine chief s were fated or not, they clearly had different experiences, but they all had similar origins.
Not only did the nine great mountain villages not form any enmity with each other, but because the nine great village chiefs had become good friends, even the bandits below them had become like a family. There was a large group of people who were unable to gain the Dao. Although the eight parties called it the Nine Mountain Village, they were actually as close to one another as if they were a family.
It was precisely because of the Nine Mountain Village that people were wary of them and didn't dare to offend them. After all, offending one family was tantamount to offending nine families. Without absolute confidence, no one would dare to take this risk.
If the invasion failed, they would end up losing troops and losing troops. In the end, they would benefit from others. This kind of foolish thing was not what bandits liked to do. In any case, the ones who rob you and mine are the passers-by and the caravan.
However, there were always exceptions. There were those who liked to measure the risk of the results, while there were others who were greedy.
Among the many villages in Dragon Break Mountain, there was a village called the horned dragon. The chief of the village, horned dragon, was a Ninefall Martial King and he also had three great Martial King s, Huang Quan, Bei Feng and Lie E.
The horned dragon was naturally greedy, adding to its tyrannical strength, it had always assumed an attitude of defying one's will, and whenever it saw a village, it would immediately post a request for allegiance. If it refused to obey, the horned dragon would directly come to its doorstep and kill it.
In the past three years, the Dragon Village had already relied on this kind of strong method to consecutively settle many mountain strongholds. Their power was like snowballs as they became more and more powerful, and their territory also grew closer and closer to Chi Baishu's Tianying Zhai.
With the horned dragon's ambition, it was impossible for it not to fancy the Tianying Zhai.
It was just that because the Dragon Village had continuously used powerful methods to force others to submit and the horned dragon had a tyrannical personality, killing those who were forced to submit to the Dragon Village in a fit of rage, causing the people inside the Dragon Village to become more and more unsettled.
The horned dragon probably also understood that after a long period of time, the instability of the human heart would only cause it to collapse. In the end, no matter how heaven defying his fighting prowess was, he would still end up alone. Thus, it was rare for him to restrain his ambition. He spent quite a bit of time to pacify the people around him, which was why he didn't attack Tianying Zhai right away.
However, good things didn't last long.
Just half a month ago, the horned dragon had heard that the Tianying Zhai's chief was an extremely beautiful woman. This fellow was already ferocious to begin with, and was lustful of flowers and women.
He had actually sent someone to the Tianying Zhai to deliver the order in place of the horned dragon, using an unquestionable tone to directly command Chi Baishu to bring the Tianying Zhai to the Dragon Village, and to become the horned dragon's wife.
If Chi Baishu wanted to marry someone, she would have married his long ago. It wasn't the first day that she found out about the horned dragon. If she really wanted to marry the horned dragon as her wife, how could she wait for the horned dragon to send someone to look for him?
Chi Baishu rejected him without even thinking. However, taking into consideration the Dragon Village's valiant strength, she did not do anything to the person sent by the Dragon Village. She only wanted to get the messenger out of the Tianying Zhai.
He was simply like Boss Tian, who looked like the number two. He actually started to clamor in front of Chi Baishu, saying that Chi Baishu was being disrespectful and did not know what to do, and had to report the horned dragon when he returned. When the time came, the Tianying Zhai experts would come, and even if the Tianying Zhai was about to be annihilated, they would massacre the entire city, regardless of gender or age.
As a bandit, who would have a good temper? Furthermore, Chi Baishu was originally a middle-aged female hero, how could he not be angry after being shouted at by others to slaughter everyone in front of her?0
Moreover, as a bandit, a mountain was his territory. The Broken Dragon Mountain area was huge, and they were all from Dragon Village. At most, he would just abandon his territory and find another territory for his old nest.
In his rage, Chi Baishu set aside his worries and immediately ordered his men to attack the Tianying Zhai.
After that, Chi Baishu decisively informed the other eight strongholds. After some discussion, she determined that the Dragon Village would not let them off, and the nine strongholds were always together like a family, so she decided to abandon the stronghold and escape.
In any case, with the strength of the Nine Stronghold, if they were to move to another place, they would definitely be able to turn the place into a stronghold if they were to join hands. The strength of the four Martial King s and more than ten Top Martial Ancestor s were on the Broken Dragon Mountain, and no one dared to look down on them.
Who would have thought that after the messenger was shot out of the Tianying Zhai, he would disappear without a trace, and the Dragon Village did not show any signs of reaction.
Chi Baishu and the others felt it was strange, at the same time they suspected that the Dragon Village was plotting something, and the plan to abandon the village and escape did not dare to continue, as they were afraid that the Dragon Village's scheme would cause the entire army to perish.
In the end, the nine strongholds discussed and decided to hide the people in the nine strongholds in a secret cave that only they knew of. They, the nine strongholds, would continue to stay outside to scout and plan their next course of action.
Three days ago, Dragon Village finally had a reaction.
It turned out that after the messenger from the Dragon Village was kicked out of the Tianying Zhai by Chi Baishu, she was somehow killed. The corpse was delayed for several days before it was discovered by the people of the Dragon Village.
The horned dragon was furious. It had determined that the people of Tianying Zhai were disobeying orders and had killed the messenger in order to provoke the Dragon Village.
This was the second time Dragon Village had sent someone to the Tianying Zhai.
Things were no longer going well, and the nine great villages had already lost their best opportunity to flee. Chi Baishu decisively made a plan, and immediately refused the order to ask for forgiveness. She then used the person who sent the order to send a message to Dragon Village, and invited the experts of Dragon Village to this forest to settle the grievances.
There was only one reason for doing so, and that was to divert the attention of the Dragon Village, so that he would not focus his attention on the nine great strongholds. This would create some opportunity for the others in the nine great villages to escape.
At the same time, if the Dragon Village goes too far, then we will fight it out in a place far away from Dragon Breaking Mountain. With the strength of the nine great village masters, fighting to the death would naturally cause the Dragon Village to suffer a little loss. Once some of the more important figures in the Dragon Village are severely injured and the roots of the Dragon Village are damaged, there would naturally be people who would go after the Dragon Village.
However, due to this plan, there was nothing they could do. The Nine Great Strongholds all had thoughts of dying. This put a great psychological pressure on them. This was why Li Shankui would have such a huge reaction when he heard Fang Shaobai's wild laughter.
Of course, it was also because the pressure the Dragon Village gave the nine great strongholds was too much, that the nine great strongholds almost without any difficulties chose to rely on Fang Shaobai. If they really had to choose someone to submit to, the nine great clan leaders would rather submit to a young master Wu Zong who could destroy Martial King with a single sword strike and was also generous with a great treasure, than to the arrogant and powerful horned dragon who boasted that she was Ninefall Martial King!
This was truly a coincidence. If the horned dragon knew that his arrogance and greed had pushed the nine great strongholds to the side of someone else, he would probably be so furious that he would burst into blood!
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