Chapter 421 Full Moon (1)
Ji Rong organized the generals and soldiers at the training ground in the Danxue Mountains, then gave them a three-day leave to enjoy time with their families and friends before regrouping and recruiting more soldiers.
This time, each army was expanded to three thousand men. She instructed Qing Guanzi, Zhan Shi, and Shan Wu to promote three lieutenants from their respective armies based on merit and combat strength.
Each lieutenant general led 1,000 soldiers, with ten squad leaders under him.
Each sergeant manages one hundred soldiers, who are further divided into ten squads.
In the army, soldiers, regardless of their background, are all promoted based on their military merits.
in this way,
There are clear ranks and a proper path to advancement.
Veteran soldiers mentoring new recruits makes management easier.
They will split into three groups and sweep towards the Chijian Mountains, Lianyun Mountains, and Fulu Mountains.
The Chijian Mountains already have mountain gods, wild boars, and wild geese;
According to tradition, the Fulushan Mountains should have been governed by the Shan Baishu, who inherited the legacy of the Golden Mother Goddess, but the Di Rong had occupied the middle of the mountain range.
Ji Rong killed Di Rong, so this mountain range now belongs to Ji Rong.
With a larger territory, more composed deities are needed to dredge the earth's veins and become the mountain gods of the Lianyun Mountains and the Fulu Mountains.
Therefore, Ji Rong summoned several bird cultivators to take her letter to Buzhou. In the letter, she also asked the Mountain and Water God to find two more mountain gods to come to the Danxue Mountains for backup.
With the itinerary drawn up, the next step was to discuss who would lead the troops to which mountain range.
Zhan Shi immediately stepped forward, grinning with his honest face, and said, "My lord, I come from the Chijian Mountain Range and am very familiar with it. Many cultivators know me, so let me go to the Chijian Mountain Range."
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong nodded and said, "Alright, Jue Jun, would you like to go with Shi?"
Jiao Jue squinted and chuckled softly, "Of course, we all come from the Chijian Mountain Range. Now that we've prospered, how can we not go back and take a look?"
Shan Wu chose the Lianyun Mountains, so Jiao Jue privately suggested to Ji Rong that Gu Qingqing, who was well-versed in etiquette and quick-witted, accompany Shan Wu to avoid unnecessary conflict between him and the new Lianyun Mountain God. Ji Rong naturally agreed.
Ji Rong also included Shan Zhongfeng in Shan Wu's team, ostensibly to provide them with a royal-level alchemist and increase the survival rate of the injured.
Qing Guanzi, on the other hand, will lead his troops to the Fulushan Mountains alone.
Ji Rong looked at the rare species Qing Guanzi and left him behind until everyone had left. Then she had the servants prepare a new set of food and wine and said, "Senior Brother Guanshan, the Fulu Mountain Range is now unclaimed. Would you consider leaving your bloodline here?"
"No need, no need," Qing Guanzi, who had already picked up a leg of meat and was about to take a big bite, immediately waved his greasy hands and said, "The Jade Void Mountains are enough for me to live in."
Junior sister, even if our Mountain Dragon Clan isn't completely captured by the Ancient God, we will still eat ourselves to death. This is our fate.
If you were to truly give me a mountain range to live in alone, then in the future, what you will see will not be my bloodline, but a great mountain called Guanshan.
Hearing Qing Guanzi refuse, Ji Rong had no choice but to pour him a cup of wine and say, "Since you are so kind, senior brother, I will not say anything more."
Qing Guanzi happily accepted the wine, drank it all in one gulp, and then grinned and said, "Junior sister, you flatter me. I just don't want to end up like our ancestors, unable to move and dying a terrible death."
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Soon, the day of departure arrived.
The three armies marched out, the drums thundered, and countless soldiers' relatives shed tears on the sidelines. But even more so, the cultivators of the mountains longed for another great victory!
After seeing off the soldiers, Ji Rong returned the Shoudao Palace to its original place and then went to the Dragon and Phoenix Hall to tell Qingpingzi about the war against the gods.
She took out the divine meat broth essence she had collected beforehand and happily gave it to Qingpingzi, saying, "Senior brother, quickly try this divine meat broth essence; you've definitely never tasted anything like it before."
Qingpingzi took the jade bottle, opened it, sniffed it, and took several deep breaths. His eyes were full of nostalgia. He looked at Ji Rong with relief and said, "Thank you for your concern, Junior Sister. Now that you have returned, I will return to Yuxu Palace."
After saying that, he got up and left.
Ji Rong quickly stopped him, saying, "Senior brother, don't rush off. I haven't received a reply from Yuanjun yet, and the army has been divided into three groups to collect the land. Now is a critical time. What if you leave and my territory is stolen by some despicable cultivator who is lurking in the shadows?"
Qingpingzi looked at Ji Rong and said, "Junior sister, you can even slay gods. Who in this world would be so foolish as to try to seize your land? At most, they would just take advantage of the emptiness in your mountains and come to secretly sweep it up."
Ji Rong immediately rolled her eyes at Qing Pingzi and said, "Senior brother, do you remember I told you that Da Xiu Yuan also started from Xiao Xiu Yuan?"
The bandits who swept through the area certainly couldn't harm me; they wouldn't even dare to come to Longfeng Mountain. But what about the people I've painstakingly raised?
Senior brother, your Cloud Cliff is freezing cold, what's the point of staying there?
"I'll call my disciples over right now. Senior brother, you can teach them for me in the Dragon and Phoenix Hall, that way you won't be bored."
After saying that, Ji Rong had her brother Ji Zhuang bring Niu Fen, Peng Ze, and the four younger ones over from the fields. She pointed to her apprentices, who had developed muscles from working, and said, "Senior brother, I'll teach them all."
Qingpingzi was very satisfied with the energetic Zepeng. In the past, when this junior disciple lived with him on the cliff, he was as thin as a piece of inferior paper.
Having lived in the Danxue Mountains for only a few months, he has become strong and powerful.
Qingpingzi couldn't help but wonder if the lack of soil support below the cloud cliff and the bad feng shui were the reason why his disciples kept dying young. His desire to return home quickly faded.
Having sold her apprentice, Ji Rong was able to assign all the complicated affairs to Qing Pingzi as she wished. Then she would stay on the third floor of the Shoudao Palace, pinching feathers and repairing the inscriptions on the body of the Great Shaman who was going to war.
After completing the missing inscription, Ji Rong carried the Shoudao Palace and ten saplings towards the Yueyin Mountains.
In the Moonshade Mountains, ever since Ji Rong left for the last time, Yuan Jun has been waiting every day for Ji Rong to come and read to her again.
In fact, this "Treatise on Plants and Trees" mainly contains past legends and some anecdotes. Just hearing a few pages is not enough to make this innately knowledgeable deity praise it as a heavenly book, but Yuanjun sincerely hopes that it can be used.
Due to the special nature of the Yuanjun, there are very few cultivators who remain in the Moonshade Mountains to serve as her ministers and attendants.
Those birds, beasts, fish, insects, and cultivators were mostly greedy. They could not stay long before they succumbed to temptation, became immersed in darkness, and turned into stone sculptures. Yuanjun had long lost interest in a group of marionette beasts whose memories were gradually fading and who lingered in dreams.
Therefore, when Yuanjun heard Ji Rong read the "Treatise on Plants and Trees", he thought that if the methods for enticing flowers and trees to become spirits contained in it were useful, and could allow Him to continuously cultivate plant and tree spirits that were in harmony with the night, then perhaps His life would no longer be boring.
Ji Rong arrived outside the Moon Shadow Mountains and looked at the quiet forest. She waved a sapling and called out, "Senior Yuanjun, Ji Rong has come to plant trees for you again."
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