Chapter 174: Chapter 110: Protagonist Template? It Seems Like I Misjudged_1
Before one knew it, several days had passed by.
Under the energetic hoeing of that old geezer Fu Qiu.
At last, the Yellow Grade lower-tier alchemist originally belonging to the Jiangnan Prefecture Sub-sect of Wan Dan Sect successfully joined the Luoshan Prefecture Sub-sect.
Soon after the Yellow Grade lower-tier alchemist joined the Luoshan Prefecture Sub-sect,
The Jiangnan Prefecture Sub-sect received word of this development.
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Da Feng Dynasty, Jiangnan Prefecture City, within the Jiangnan Prefecture Sub-sect of Wan Dan Sect.
Inside a hall where the light was slightly dim,
Two people stood in silence at this moment.
One appeared like a young man, standing with his hands behind his back.
The other was a mere one and a half meters tall,
With long white hair and a slightly hunched figure.
Yet, the icy coldness on his face could not be dispersed.
“How is it?”
“Has Li Jingnian really joined the Luoshan Prefecture Sub-sect?”
The man dressed in green, looking like a young man,
Stood with his hands behind his back, silent for a long time,
Then suddenly asked in a low voice to the white-haired, hunched old man behind him.
And that Li Jingnian was the first Yellow Grade lower-tier alchemist lured away by Fu Qiu.
“Sect Master, that Li Jingnian bastard has already joined the Luoshan Prefecture Sub-sect…”
The hunched old man replied in a low voice.
“Luoshan Prefecture Sub-sect, like a clown jumping on the beam, has common low-tier alchemists, but Li Jingnian…”
“Why would he think to jump into the fire pit?”
“Could it be that the Luoshan Prefecture Sub-sect promised Li Jingnian some sort of commitment?”
The white-haired hunched old man shook his head and said in a low voice, “Perhaps, it’s because Li Jingnian has some relationship with the master of that Luoshan Prefecture Sub-sect…”
“No, now it should be said with the Deputy Sect Master of that Luoshan Prefecture Sub-sect, Fu Qiu.”
“So…”
At this, the hunched white-haired old man did not continue speaking.
“Luoshan Prefecture Sub-sect…”
“Sub-sect system reform…”
The young man murmured softly, then he turned around and silently walked toward the outside of the palace.
He wanted to see how long this clown-like Luoshan Prefecture Sub-sect could last.
As for the person appearing as a young man?
That young man-like person was naturally the current Sect Master of the Jiangnan Prefecture Sub-sect of Wan Dan Sect, Cui Zigong.
He was also from the Cui Family, one of the Four Great Families of Jiangnan Prefecture.
And this Cui Family, overall, was much stronger than the Luo Family that had traded with the Luo Family before.
The hunched white-haired old man was the current Deputy Sect Master of the Jiangnan Prefecture Sub-sect, Lu Chang.
This old fellow had grown up from the grassroots, and his path in cultivation and alchemy was quite challenging.
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The Yellow Grade lower-tier alchemist was poached.
The Jiangnan Prefecture Sub-sect did not make any moves in response.
The other sub-sects of Wan Dan Sect, even if they wanted to say something, naturally couldn’t take the lead.
Before long, over half a month had passed by.
During this half a month, the weather outside had gradually become hotter and hotter.
The severity of the drought had also progressively worsened.
The number of refugees within the Da Feng Dynasty had been exploding, and the number of bandits was likewise increasing by the day.
In the northern prefectures, because of the locust disaster, drought, and various calamities appearing together,
The Da Feng Dynasty’s official strength there had almost been completely lost.
Now, those northern prefectures either became paradises for bandits or had been thoroughly subjugated by the local families.
As for the southern prefectures,
Though the situation was somewhat better than in the north,
It was only slightly better, that’s all.
The Da Feng Dynasty’s official power, although not yet completely dissipated, had lost the ability to control the local areas.
Take, for example, Huai Shui County within Luo Mountain Prefecture.
This place had already become a land jointly controlled by the Chen Family, Luo Family, Tang Family, and Feng Family.
However, unlike the other three families,
In this half a month, the Tang Family, one of the four great families of Huai Shui County and possessing a vast stockpile of food reserves, found its situation particularly dire.
The Allied Forces of the Chen and Feng Families were frantically trying to attack Tang territory.
The Tang Family desperately defended, but faced with the combined might of the two families, they were somewhat overpowered.
In the following days, the Luo Family from Qingshi Town joined the war,
Helping the Tang Family, thus giving them a significant reprieve.
But the current situation was still extremely perilous for the Tang Family, one of the four great families of Huai Shui County.
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Qingshi Town, Luo Family Ancestral Land.
In the room where the Luo Family Patriarch resided,
Luo Ping was sitting quietly at the main seat, continuously flipping through a report of the recent battle conditions.
As he read, he couldn’t help but put down the report in his hands,
Lifted his head, and looked in the direction of the Tang Family.
The state of the war was somewhat beyond his expectations.
The determination of the Chen Family and the Feng Family was likewise beyond his expectations.
In just one month’s time, half of Tang territory had already been lost, and the Tang Family’s troops had been sharply reduced from over three hundred thousand armored soldiers to now less than two hundred thousand.
Though the Tang Family also recruited many civilians to boost their army,
Clearly, civilians without proper training, even if clad in iron armor and sent into battle, were of not much use.