Chapter 336: Abnormal Situation, a Strong Woman with a Big Secret
"Die!"
"Oh!"
At the Yumen Ferry Fortress, Wan'er suddenly attacked with a hammer, killing the level five mid-stage expert hiding in the Tian family's business. This battle, which lasted for about a quarter of an hour, finally ended.
This is also the strongest enemy Wan'er has ever encountered.
It just so happens that the other party is a woman like herself, and her fighting ability is very similar.
She was even nearly stabbed by the top-grade spiritual spear in the opponent's hand. Fortunately, her natal artifacts, Shura Battle Flag and Jade Purifying Bottle, protected them in time and helped her block the enemy's fatal attack. She was lucky enough to avoid being injured.
This was also the first time that Wan'er was almost killed by the enemy.
She really hadn't expected that the female manager of the large Jin merchant Tian family's business located in Yumen Ferry, a large riverside fortress, would be such a powerful master.
This was beyond Wan'er's imagination.
She also knew that Tian Shenglan, the head of the Tian family, a large Shanxi merchant family, was a business woman whose reputation spread throughout the three northwestern provinces.
This Tian Shenglan can be regarded as one of the business miracles in history.
An ordinary woman single-handedly founded the Tian family, which is as famous as the Fan family. She can be said to have truly started from scratch.
It is impossible to say that she was able to rise against the odds in the end of the dynasty without any miraculous encounter.
Wan'er had heard of the Tian family's rapid rise in the past decade or so, but she had never expected that the Tian family would send such a powerful master to take charge of a business along the Yellow River!
This was the first time that Wan'er, a veteran fighter of the same level, had encountered a master who could pose a fatal threat to her.
The female manager of the Tian family is comparable to Wan'er and Hongmei in terms of qualifications and talent, and she also has super strong fighting power.
Fortunately, the opponent did not have his own divine weapon, but he was simply powerful in combat. After fighting with Wan'er for a quarter of an hour, Wan'er took the opportunity to use the Shura battle flag to sweep away the top-grade spiritual spear in her hand, and then smashed the opponent to death with a hammer in the blink of an eye!
"This Tian family must have a huge secret, and it can be said to be the most hidden among the ten major Shanxi merchants."
After the battle, Wan'er reflected on herself for a moment, and the arrogance that had been growing in her recently completely disappeared. She thought to herself, "Tian Shenglan, the head of the Tian family, must have had a great adventure, and this adventure is extraordinary."
"She was able to create such a huge and wealthy Tian family, and she even has such a talented female manager under her. Tian Shenglan herself is most likely a top-level fifth-level expert, and she has extraordinary treasures."
"This treasure has played a key role in improving the qualifications and combat effectiveness of the core members of the Tian family."
"Otherwise, there is no way to explain why the Tian family's female shopkeeper is so powerful."
Wan'er planned to explain this to Li Dingguo after the war, in case any of their core generals were to fall into the hands of the Tian family in the future, which would be too disastrous.
After finishing the battle here, Wan'er leaped back onto Da Meng's back, reached a height of a hundred feet, and looked around.
At this time, the Yumen Ferry Wharf was filled with deafening shouts of battle.
The number of warriors from the Suzaku Legion and the Black Tortoise Third Battalion was sufficient, a total of 140,000 soldiers. Every 5,000 of them formed a military killing formation, sweeping towards this huge Yellow River pass fortress in all directions, setting off a bloody storm.
Yumen Ferry is the most important fortress pass between Qin and Jin provinces. Almost all the major forces in the three northwestern provinces have built private docks here, stationed businesses, and built a large number of warehouses.
The mighty Yellow River rushes down from north to south. When it reaches Yumen Ferry, the river surface suddenly expands several times and the water surface becomes extremely spacious.
The river, which was originally only two thousand miles wide, has expanded to more than eight thousand miles, which is almost endless.
Since ancient times, the military and commercial value of Yumen Ferry has always occupied an irreplaceable position in the Yellow River Basin.
The only fortress town guarding this river mouth checkpoint is Yumen Ferry.
The origin of the allusion of "Fish Leaping Over Dragon Gate" comes from the Longmen Mountain Grand Canyon not far north of Yumen Ferry.
Such an important place has immeasurable commercial value. The major forces in the three northwestern provinces and even the Central Plains all want to get a piece of the pie.
At Yumen Ferry, a riverside fortress, there are thousands of bluestone docks built by various forces!
In order to successfully capture this extremely important water fortress, Li Dingguo and Wan'er personally rode on golden eagles and led the Suzaku Legion and the Black Tortoise First Battalion soldiers to quietly arrive at the river near the Yumen Ferry in the early hours of this morning. They took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and launched a surprise attack in one fell swoop.
Even Li Dingguo had never seen such a huge dock in his past and present lives. The huge bluestone docks stretched for hundreds of miles!
Although there were no treasure ships docked at most of the large docks, there were still about 30% of the large docks that had at least one or two large treasure ships docked.
These medium and large-scale businesses were not unaware that the Xuanwu Corps of the Renaissance Army had already swept across the Huangliu River Basin in the north, but because the distance was too far, they did not think that the Renaissance Army would be able to reach here so quickly.
Now, a large number of wealthy merchants and aristocratic families in the three northwestern provinces are doing their best to transport various strategic materials to Tongguan City. Yumen Ferry has become the most important transit station.
For a place like Yumen Ferry, which is a strategic location for military strategists, Hong Chengchou sent a group of imperial soldiers to garrison there ten days ago.
This government army, which consisted of 5,000 soldiers, even brought ten psychic cannons and placed them on the artillery platform near the large dock.
The sudden attack of the Restoration Army's large fleet without any warning made the ten psychic cannons useless.
Hundreds of defenders near the artillery position were slaughtered in a matter of moments by the several level five spirit birds brought by Li Dingguo.
The main reason why the enemy was caught off guard was that Li Dingguo personally led a large fleet southward, and ordered two large golden eagles and two large goshawks to clear out all the spiritual birds in the sky along the way.
In order to avoid being discovered by the enemy's scouts along the coast while their large fleet was heading south, their fleet sailed a hundred miles away from the river bank and went downstream at full speed. The speed was so fast that it seemed like flying, and they covered thousands of miles overnight.
After the large fleet arrived at Yumen Ferry this morning, it immediately launched a surprise attack on this huge waterway fortress.
After a wave of attacks from hundreds of psychic cannons shattered the protective shield of the great formation here, the soldiers immediately activated the military killing formations that had been prepared long ago and charged into this huge fortress town.
Just to attack this long pier, the Renaissance Army dispatched 60,000 warriors to attack it, and to seize the large treasure ships moored at the pier.
Li Dingguo and Wan'er each rode a large golden eagle, searching for the enemy's key targets in the air to kill them.
Wan'er discovered in time that there was a mid-level fifth-level master hidden in the Tian family's business.
Before the enemy could attack his own soldiers, he descended from the sky on his horse Da Meng and fought with him.
However, she did not expect that the female manager of the Tian family business had such strong fighting power and was nearly injured by the other party. Fortunately, her life-saving artifact protected her in time and blocked the opponent's fatal blow. She successfully killed the powerful enemy without any danger.
At this time, Li Dingguo also killed a group of caravan guards in a large trading company.
This group of caravan guards were actually the merchant guards of the Prince Qin’s Palace.
The leader was a level five early stage household general of the Prince of Qin's Palace, who was leading nearly ten Qi Refining Realm masters. He was about to command his three large treasure ships to escape from the dock, but was discovered by Li Dingguo, who activated the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell and easily wiped them out.
The business guards of the Qin Palace are quite capable.
Now that Li Dingguo's innate Dharma image has been strengthened twice again, it should not be too easy to destroy hundreds of scattered warriors. A wave of sonic attacks triggered by the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell can do the job.
After destroying this group of enemies with good combat effectiveness, Li Dingguo jumped back onto the back of the golden eagle, let the golden eagle fly to a height of thousands of feet again, and used his powerful spiritual power to check the battlefield below.
Although there are many enemies gathered in Mengmen Pass, and the total number of warriors from all the merchants is tens of thousands, there are only two level five masters.
Just now, Li Dingguo happened to observe that another mid-level fifth-level master was killed by Wan'er with a hammer.
Li Dingguo, who had originally wanted to go over to provide reinforcements, immediately felt relieved.
Li Dingguo was somewhat surprised that this female enemy expert actually had the cultivation level of mid-level fifth level.
This was the first time he had seen a female master of this level, apart from Wan'er and Hongmei.
The Fusion Army currently has several female level five masters, including Wan'er, Hongmei, Chang Liyun, and Wei Jinfan.
Wei Jinfan and Chang Liyun, with the help of the Five-Colored Divine Tree and the Marrow Cleansing Pill, raised their qualifications to the monstrous level. Then the special life energy of the Five-Colored Divine Tree eliminated their bottlenecks, allowing them to successfully break through to the fifth level of cultivation.
In the past two years, the two of them have taken a lot of third-grade top-grade elixirs for their cultivation, and even often stayed on the island in the middle of the lake, meditating and practicing to absorb a large amount of special life energy.
They had such good training conditions to break through to the fifth level. Now Li Dingguo saw a business with a female shopkeeper in the middle stage of the fifth level, so he was naturally a little surprised. Judging from the last battle, Wan'er not only used all her strength, but also used her life artifact, the Shura Battle Flag, to sweep away the top-grade spiritual weapon in the opponent's hand, so that she could kill him.
From this we can see that the fighting power of the female shopkeeper of this business not only exceeds that of Wei Jinfan and Chang Liyun, but also exceeds that of Cao Yongxiang.
However, Cao Yongxiang has a magical weapon on him, so he is not afraid of this female master.
In the Yumendu Fortress, after the enemy's only two level five masters were killed, the remaining enemy warriors from all sides were caught off guard and were like a pile of scattered sand. They were certainly no match for the Fuxing Army soldiers who activated the military killing formations.
Even the nearly 10,000 government troops stationed in the military camp near the big wharf were equally vulnerable.
These government army warriors were attacked jointly by two groups of military killing formations formed by the soldiers of the Restoration Army, and they collapsed in an instant.
The soldiers of the Restoration Army achieved a complete victory without even using their killing power.
The battle was still going on, and Li Dingguo naturally would not just watch from the sky. He immediately flew around and swooped down with the golden eagle, killing the enemy's Qi Refining masters one by one, reducing the pressure on the soldiers and preventing the enemy from escaping in the chaos.
Li Dingguo never had any intention of letting go of the caravan guards of these powerful forces.
Most of these lackeys of the aristocratic families and local tyrants are the kind of people who bully others and do all kinds of bad things. Killing them all would be ridding the people of harm and their deaths are not a pity.
Keeping these people around will be like a cancer to the Chinese people, and will not help the rise of the Chinese people at all.
This type of people, along with their masters, were included in the kill list issued by Li Dingguo.
With strict military rules and discipline, the soldiers of the Fuxing Army will naturally show no mercy. As long as they meet the enemy, they will raise their swords and guns without mercy and kill them all quickly.
With their absolute advantage in military strength and combat effectiveness, the Restoration Army teams swept in all directions, quickly clearing out the enemies one after another.
About half an hour later, the shouting and screaming that were heard everywhere finally subsided completely.
The soldiers of the Restoration Army had no time to rest, but instead began a large-scale cleanup operation.
From time to time, some hiding enemies were discovered and killed on the spot.
Dozens of military secretaries, with the cooperation of a large number of soldiers, began to count and record various spoils of war, and directed the soldiers to carry out the post-cleanup of the battlefield.
"Whoosh!"
After the battle, Wan'er leaped over to Li Dingguo and said, "Brother, the Tian family's female shopkeeper I just met is no ordinary expert. Her fighting ability is no worse than mine, and she may even be a little stronger."
"If I hadn't been protected by my life-defining divine weapon, I would have been seriously injured and defeated."
"It is not normal for a genius of this level, who was born in the Tian family, a large Jin merchant, to be willing to take charge of a business here."
Wan'er just reflected on herself and learned a lesson.
I used to think I was invincible at the same level, but this time I met a strong enemy. There are many masters of the same level in this world who are more powerful than me.
Fortunately, he had a strong foundation, so he managed to survive the crisis and kill the enemy.
But the female shopkeeper of the Tian family just now seemed abnormal no matter how you think about it.
How could there be such a powerful master who would come to such an ordinary business when he has nothing to do?
Even those great aristocratic families with thousands of years of history are not so extravagant as to casually place a mid-level fifth-level master in charge in a business.
There must be something behind this that I am not aware of.
"Well, this is definitely not normal."
Li Dingguo thought about it for a while and made some guesses. He said, "Like the female shopkeeper you just killed, there are definitely not many evil geniuses like her in the Tian family."
"Otherwise, with this powerful background, the Tian family would have already become the most powerful merchant family in the Ming Dynasty."
"It is impossible to do business like we are doing now, and directly swallow up other big Jin merchants with powerful military force."
"Let's go to the Tian family's business and check it out carefully to see if we can find any clues to figure out why the Tian family would send a genius-level expert to sit in an ordinary business."
Li Dingguo would not believe that the level five master from the Jin merchant Tian family would be idle and come to a business in Yumen Ferry to take charge.
The female shopkeeper of the Tian family who was just killed by Wan'er was no worse than Wan'er and Hongmei in every aspect.
It is definitely impossible to say that there are a lot of such genius-level monsters in the Tian family.
The Renaissance Army now has a million combat soldiers, but after his various cheating corpse development, it currently only has three geniuses and masters of his level: himself, Wan'er, and Hongmei.
The great Jin merchant Tian family, no matter how powerful their foundation is, does not have enough luck to support so many geniuses and strong men.
In the world of cultivators, any genius must have great luck in order to rise rapidly through adventures.
It is impossible for it to appear out of nothing, and it is impossible for it to have endless foundation to support the breakthrough of these geniuses and monsters in their cultivation.
This has to be a gradual process and cannot be achieved overnight.
Li Dingguo simply would not believe that the fortune of the great Jin merchant Tian family would be so much greater than his own and the Fuxing Army, and that geniuses and evildoers would emerge in endlessly.
Even though he had so many top-notch trump cards, he could only train a few genius-level generals.
No matter how powerful the Tian family is, can they possess so many innate divine artifacts, or even an innate spiritual root like the Five-Colored Divine Tree?
This is absolutely impossible.
The number of innate divine artifacts and innate spiritual roots is limited, especially the top-level innate divine artifacts and innate spiritual roots, which are extremely rare.
Without great luck, you won’t even be able to see it.
There must be some secret behind the current abnormal situation of the Tian family.
"Okay, big brother, let's go and take a closer look."
Wan'er immediately agreed, and together with Li Dingguo, she leaped towards the location of the Tian family business.
A moment later, the two people arrived at their destination, and with full concentration, they searched the place carefully to see if they could discover some secrets.
The female manager of the Tian family is in charge here, so she must be aware of the secret. That's why she doesn't care about the risk of being exposed and wants to kill Wan'er who comes to kill her.
She must be trying to hide something and doesn't want the enemy to discover the secret of her being in charge here.
Otherwise, even if the offensive of the Renaissance Army came suddenly, with her cultivation level and combat effectiveness, it would not be difficult for her to escape as long as she wanted to.
For example, by diving into the Yellow River, one can easily escape from the Yumen Ferry fortress.
With her powerful fighting ability, it would be difficult to stop her even if Wan'er and Li Dingguo tried their best to stop her.
This means that there must be a secret here that she doesn't want to leave.
With the powerful spiritual power of Li Dingguo and Wan'er, it wouldn't take long to search the place thoroughly.
For level five practitioners, unless something is hidden hundreds of feet underground, or is covered by a powerful formation or treasure, it will not be discovered by their powerful divine sense.
Soon Li Dingguo discovered a wooden box made of special material hidden in a secret room of this business.
He took it out and opened it. He used his divine sense to check the two peach cores and a letter inside. He was stunned for a moment.
There are really not many things that can surprise Li Dingguo nowadays.
It can be imagined that these two peach pits and letters are absolutely extraordinary.
(End of this chapter)
