Chapter 1474 Provocation

Since two months ago, the atmosphere in Wushi City has been very wrong. And it is a change in an unfavorable direction for the old Jing dynasty.

First, someone brought up the matter about the invalidity of Fenghong Villa's housekeeping ability, the blood armor technique, two years ago, and wantonly mocked that Jing Jiuchao is now like a waste who has lost his hands.

Then some people raised a topic about the fact that the various sects in the Jingjiu Dynasty are now undergoing tremendous changes for thousands of years, especially the destruction of the two super sects on the ground in the Jingjiu Dynasty two years ago, which formed a force The vacancy, as well as the vacant massive practice resources, etc., were discussed by many people in taverns and tea houses for a while, and there was even a trend of becoming more and more popular.

Compared with the weakness of the old Jing Dynasty, those vacant cultivation resources, blessed places and caves are undoubtedly more topical and more desirable.

Do you want to know who are the people in the dead city? Evil monks, thugs, thugs, scoundrels... even some hidden sects who were expelled from the Jingjiu sect circle and had to come here to survive. Even if it is the three leaders, it is these desperadoes who slowly grow and form the underlying structure. They have a natural estrangement and even a vague hostility towards the old Jing dynasty.

Digging a little deeper, there are actually two main reasons why the city of vain death survived.

One is the seemingly endless treasures and opportunities in the underground palace of the city of vain death. Here you can get the opportunity to explore the underground palace. Under the bundle of interests, it is natural to be able to work together when it comes to external affairs.

Another reason is the "shelter" nature of the dead city. It has given countless people who have nowhere to go a shelter, and they can fight to the death to protect this shelter, because they have almost no other way out except here.

These two reasons are actually conditions that can only be established if you put yourself in a passive defensive position. It is also the core of the City of Dead Dead that has been unable to shrink for thousands of years.

These things have been repeatedly deliberated and summarized as early as when Heishui first paid attention to the city of the dead, and it has always been the basic positioning of all the forces in the city of the dead by Heishui: the passive defender.

But now this "passive defense" has fundamentally become unnecessary.

It can be seen from the above two rumors that Jingjiu Dynasty has become chaotic on the ground. Although a new pattern has been formed, the overall strength has dropped a lot. Some people say that only 50% is left, while others say 60%.

In fact, this happened more than two years ago, why did it suddenly become so hot?

Heishui's spies in Wushi City quickly noticed this suspicious point, and quickly figured out the origin of the incident. It was the Xueyimen, one of the three leaders in Wushicheng, who was secretly fanning the flames, and the Longevity Gate followed behind. Only the coffin sect, which has always been lifeless, did not participate as usual.

Using Heishui's analysis, the reason why they waited for two full years before starting to stir up cold rice again is not because the city of Wushi didn't react until then, but because their original scruples became weak after more than two years. This is a tentative act.

What are you worried about? Heishui's conclusion is that he is afraid of the peerless powerhouse who destroyed Wanjuan Shushan and Mingshanzong masters by himself, Potian.

The origin of breaking the sky is also recorded in Heishui. Part of it was analyzed by Heishui himself, and part of it was narrated by Commander Shen Daren.

According to Potian's origin, it can be seen that the cultivation base of this super strong man has probably surpassed the Xuanhai Realm and reached the legendary Good Fortune Realm, and he has a good relationship with Jing Jiuchao, otherwise he would not help The Jing old dynasty eliminated two super sects.

Therefore, two years ago, the city of vain death was scruples about the strong breaking the sky, so when faced with the weakness of the Jingjiu Dynasty and the Zongmen circle, it remained silent, fearing that it would bring disaster to itself. After all, no one is sure whether the strong man will follow Jing Jiuchao's request to go to Wushicheng to kill him, so Wushicheng shrank his head and didn't want to ask for trouble.

But now two years have passed, the news about Potian has been hovering between "guess" and "possible". Even if there are some scattered news about this peerless powerhouse, there is never a single one that can be obtained. confirmed. They all fall into the category of "rumours".

Once or twice is fine, a peerless master who wants to hide himself naturally has the ability not to be found, but another explanation is: so hiding from the world, maybe he is really planning to just ask the world and devote himself to cultivation?

With this idea in mind, the various forces in Wushi City couldn't suppress the restlessness in their hearts and began to test Jing Jiuchao's bottom line and confidence bit by bit, and at the same time test the reaction of that peerless powerhouse.

The first temptation was to drive around the city in vain. For the first time in the city of dead dead, it is necessary to levy taxes on the business of carriages and horses, and it is still a high tax. Then he went out of the city and forcibly brought the built wharf in the largest weak water outside the city of Wushi under the jurisdiction of the city of Wushi, and began to tax all ships passing by.

You must know that the carriages and horses running along the line of the dead city are all large-scale carriages and horses, and even the royal family is involved, which belongs to a highly closed business circle. .

Now in vain city is imposing taxes and wharves, which will naturally damage the interests of big commercial firms and even imperial merchants, and what will be fed back to Jing Jiuchao is an "unfriendly" signal.

It's not over yet. Immediately afterwards, the City of Dead Dead began to increase the city gate tax for monks entering the city in the old dynasty of Ji Shijing when the underground palace was opened, which more than doubled.

After several actions, there was only "protest" but no real counterattack, which gave Wushicheng more courage in one fell swoop. Directly start to reduce the share of the dead city order that has been negotiated with Jing Jiuchao and the Zongmen circle for many years. First cut it by 10%, and then this time it was 30%, and threatened to continue to cut it to 50% next time.

If the previous actions were probing and provoking, then the city of vain death is now suppressing the Jingjiu Dynasty and the various sects in the territory of the Jingjiu Dynasty in a disguised form. It means to light a fire first and try to see the reaction.

It was also under such circumstances that Shen Hao, who was the commander of Xuanqingwei and concurrently served as the chief deacon of foreign affairs of Fenghong Villa, wrote to the emperor, asking for a warrant allowing him to visit the city of death in person. At the same time, there is also the power to mobilize the navy in weak waters to block the first-line waterway of Helin at any time.

And the emperor also personally wrote this sentence on the warrant: Teach me a good lesson and teach those ignorant things in the dead city!

The emperor's confidence was surprisingly high, and it was far from being "running around in a hurry" as the city of Wusi thought. The reason is that the emperor knew that Shen Hao, who was leaving for the city of death at this time, was enough to be called the new town of the old Jing Dynasty.