Many times, people don’t care about the rigor of the reasoning process - what matters most is whether the result is correct.
For example, when Cao Cao was preparing for the Battle of Guandu, his adviser Guo Jia proposed the theory of ten wins and ten losses. At first glance, each point seemed to make sense, but there was no specific evidence to prove its authenticity.
It’s just that Cao Cao needed this kind of statement to boost morale, and the generals also needed to inspire confidence, so they chose not to question it.
Similarly, Wei Dongliu's analysis is all "in my opinion", but actually lacks sufficient supporting evidence.
But no one had any idea in the first place, and now that the leader has an idea, we might as well give it a try.
In Wei Dongliu's opinion, his reputation in the Six Paths has undoubtedly reached the point of "going with the flow", that is, the monks of various sects have no resistance to his command and are very cooperative without considering whether it is beneficial to themselves.
Everyone arrived at the Jingbei Plain and then quickly dispersed to search for clues.
Not long after, the river where Shushan was located was found.
Since Ling Yunpo had already found the key small statue to enter the secret realm, Wei Dongliu was too lazy to put on a show and directly scanned towards the location of the small statue.
Um, no?
Wei Dongliu was stunned at first, then he reacted quickly.
In other words, the statue was not originally at the bottom of the river.
He pondered for a moment, then called Madam Jiang and Zhenren Youlan to his side and described the appearance of the statue.
"What is the function of this statue?" asked Zhenren Youlan.
"If I'm not mistaken, this is the key to entering the Yunmengze Kingdom." Wei Dongliu replied.
So why is it a statue? Master Youlan was puzzled, but seeing that Jiang Li'an had no doubts, if he was the only one who kept asking questions, it would make him, the deputy, look like an idiot.
So he called the people under his charge and gave them instructions: We need to find a statue, about the size of a palm, with a third eye on its forehead, a green face and fangs, and an extremely ferocious look.
When they heard that it was Wei Dongliu's idea, the Yin Guidao Taoists had no doubts, but quickly dispersed to look for clues, which made Taoist Youlan feel more uneasy.
I can't be the only one who doesn't know why I'm looking for this statue, right?
Thinking of this, he quickly put on a calm, confident and unfathomable expression, as if he had already seen through everything.
By the evening, we finally got the result.
A monk disguised himself as a wealthy mortal businessman and went to a nearby village to inquire. As a result, a villager provided a clue, saying that he had seen a similar statue in a deserted land temple.
The monk did not dare to delay. After going to the land temple to verify, he hurried back to report to his superiors.
Wei Dongliu led everyone and headed towards the mountain temple.
The mountain temple is hidden in a mountain to the north of here, behind a stream waterfall.
Everyone used magic to remove the vines and saw that it was not a mountain temple at all, but just a simple cave.
Perhaps some passers-by had come in to take shelter from the rain. The cave was covered with dirty sheepskin mats, burnt firewood, and empty bamboo baskets. Deeper in the cave, near a pile of rotten wood and rubble, a small idol lay on the ground.
It was exactly the statue that Ling Yunpo had seen before.
Wei Dongliu took the statue away and came to the river again. He handed it to Jiang Li and said to himself:
"Madam, please inject your emotions into it."
Jiang Li'an immediately cast a spell and did as he was told. Sure enough, a purple light flashed in the eyes of the statue, and a suction force emerged out of nowhere, trying to pull everyone to another world.
Soon, the Six Paths cultivators were already in the Yunmeng Lake.
Before anyone could react, they heard a terrifying, sharp cry that almost pierced through the entire sky.
Immediately afterwards, a massive army of demons emerged from the rainforest opposite.
Wei Dongliu looked carefully and identified that the people on the opposite side were all snakes, insects, rats, and ants. Even in the Donghuang Demon Realm, they were the group with the lowest bloodline rank.
There was no need for any command at the moment, as many monks used their magic skills to block the attacking front of these snakes, insects, rats and ants.
Although there were a large number of demons on the opposite side, their ranks did not seem to be very high. There were only about thirty or forty of them who had transformed into human form and formed a golden core, and there were only five or six demon kings in the Cave Yuan Realm. This made Liudao feel relieved.
The two sides fought fiercely for about an incense stick of time. The demons were defeated and fled to the north, leaving behind corpses on the ground and gradually sinking into the mud underground.
"Alliance leader, we've captured a live person." Zhenren Youlan asked for instructions and told his men to bring the little demon up.
The snake demon was about to form a pill, and its body shape was no different from that of a human, except that there were still scales on its face.
"Why did you attack us?" Wei Dongliu asked coldly.
The snake demon was startled at first, then slowly said:
"Lord Bashe said that any human who invades Yunmengze will be killed without mercy."
Wei Dongliu waved his hand, and Zhenren Youlan ordered his men to drag him away to search his soul.
After a while, I finally got most of the information about Yunmengze Country:
It turns out that the Yunmengze Kingdom was indeed built by the Xuanwu clan in the past. The Jiaolong and Xuangui clans lived here, and it was like a paradise, avoiding the crackdown by the human race outside.
But later (around the period of Chanjie), as Yunmengze State's investigation and understanding of the outside world gradually deepened, differences of opinion also occurred within it.
The Jiaolong clan insisted on isolationism, believing that the existence of the Yunmeng Ze Kingdom must not be known to the outside world; but many cultivators of the Black Turtle clan felt that the monsters should help each other and could bring some monsters that were persecuted by humans to the Yunmeng Ze Kingdom to reproduce and thrive.
The demon clan should help the demon clan!
There is no need to tell the story after that. A large number of dragons who could not accept this left, and the remaining ones were unable to compete with the black tortoise, so Yunmengze Country began to secretly immigrate from the outside world.
Among the monster clan, the higher the rank of their bloodline, the lower their reproductive ability.
Therefore, as the years passed, the population proportion of the Xuanwu clan became increasingly diluted, while the number of various snakes, insects, rats and ants increased greatly. As a result, the overall strength comparison between the main body and minority races also changed from a huge disparity to a evenly matched one.
During this period, some changes occurred one after another. For example, reformists appeared in the Dragon Clan and the Black Turtle Clan, attempting to make the Black Tortoise Clan great again, and even radicals proposed to restore the bloodline system and slavery, etc. However, since the Black Tortoise Clan was no longer dominant, none of them came to fruition in the end.
Until about 3,600 years ago, the last dragon clan died due to failure in surviving the calamity, and the power of Yunmengze Kingdom fell into the hands of the Bashe clan.
After everyone understood the situation clearly, they realized that there was no high-level demon clan with powerful bloodline in the Yunmengze Kingdom now.
Considering the abundant resources such as various magic weapons, elixirs, scriptures, etc. left behind by the ancient Xuanwu clan, it is equivalent to saying that there is a piece of unguarded fat meat in front of us, waiting for everyone to start eating!
So Wei Dongliu pretended to think for a moment under everyone's expectant gaze, then nodded and said:
"Before Shushan finds this place, you should act quickly!"
Rob!