The Book of Troubled Times

November, Puyang.

Wang Zhaoling led his troops to besiege the city for more than three months. From the high days of autumn to the first snowfall, the siege grew bigger and bigger, and today it is almost as big as a goose feather.

November is the severe winter.

Wang Zhaoling raised his head and looked at the snowflakes in the sky, and then looked at the soldiers around him. Everyone was rubbing their hands and surrounding the brazier. When he saw him looking over, they all shrank their eyes.

Such a snowy day is not suitable for fighting, let alone siege. Don't even talk about attacking the city, just talking about setting up camp. They worked hard to camp in the snow, but the city can be sheltered from the wind and snow and feel comfortable. This confrontation is not equitable at all.

In the past, when the Hu people went south, they basically had to retreat in winter. Can they retreat?

The so-called rebellion was blocked in a mere city, and no achievements were made for more than three months. In the snow, they evacuated in embarrassment, which made the world laugh.

It's not as spectacular as the momentum achieved by the Maitreya Sect. Is this what your Wang family, a thousand-year-old family, has achieved?

It's really a dilemma.

But there was nothing Wang Zhaoling could do...

In terms of military strength, they are stronger than the Cui family. After all, they have been preparing for rebellion, which is different from the Cui family's normal operations. Moreover, their soldiers and horses are generally stronger, and many soldiers have been faintly transformed by the Yin Qi of the Sea Clan. On paper, it should be equal, but the reality is that those who defend the city have an advantage over those who attack the city. Cui Yuanyong has actually fought on the battlefield. He is rich in experience and bloody, so he cannot take any advantage.

Moreover, there is also a special army in the city that makes people speechless. Their number is only a few thousand, but each of them is the trumpet Zhao Changhe. They run rampant on the battlefield with red eyes like a group of mad cows on fire. Our troops The formation in front of them didn't seem to be a military formation, but a group of gold ingots. Several times when we rushed to Kaicheng, we were overwhelmed by these guys, and they got stronger every time. They said they could level up through fighting.

Who knows what it's like to meet thousands of Zhao Changhe on the battlefield? Especially the leader, Xue Canghai, isn't it said that it is a shame for a strong man to be overstepped? What's going on with this intensity? It feels like he's almost reaching the level of Earth Ranking strength...

When it comes to money, food and equipment, the Cui family is worthy of the Wang family. The Wang family may be richer through sea trade, but there is no way to kill people directly.

Apart from anything else, the boiling oil in this city has been poured for three months and there is still some left. It’s like the oil can be directly produced underground in Puyang. Forget about the boiling oil and boiled shit, this thing is not an insult. It is extremely potent, and the damage is even more outrageous. Once infected, people will die, and it will also cause plague. What's disgusting is that there are endless strategic materials that can be used as fertilizer. It seems that the entire Puyang City can poop five times a day if they don't do anything.

This is the first time I've seen someone take money to buy shit in large quantities from other places. How could this handsome young man Cui Yuanyong become like this...

In terms of experts, his Wang family has many guest officials, but the Cui family is no less famous than him. In addition, the brothers Cui Yuanyong and Cui Yuanyang are masters themselves, so it will be difficult for the strong one to get there first or to assassinate them.

In terms of top combat power... Wang Zhaoling smiled bitterly to himself.

My father and Cui Wenjing were both injured before, and the injury was relatively minor. I originally expected him to recover early and join the battle, but the first thing he did after he recovered was to go to sea.

Wang Zhaoling also understood that if he came directly to the battlefield, he didn't know how Xia Longyuan would react. It would be better to attack from the side at sea. Of course Wang Daoning knew that Hai Pinglan drove the tiger to devour the wolf. This was one of the plans of Wang Daoning and Hai Pinglan to bring down Xia Longyuan. Going to sea was no less important than the Puyang battlefield.

Results, results! Wang Daoning was actually beaten back by the Xuanwu of the Four Elephants Sect. He just beat him back and let the world know about it!

Wang Zhaoling always felt that the Cui family in Puyang City was laughing wildly, and even the eyes of his own soldiers began to flicker and shrink.

When it comes to conquering the surrounding areas and doing things in a roundabout way, in the past, we could still expect the cooperation of Wan Tianxiong in the south, but as soon as the report about Xuanwu's battle with Wang Daoning came out, Suzaku didn't care who was right and who was wrong. Wrong, it must be you, Wang Daoning, who bullied my Xuanwu family, and our alliance collapsed.

Don't expect Wan Tianxiong to cooperate this time. It would be nice if he doesn't beat you back.

How can we continue to fight this battle?

It seems that he no longer has much to do with Xia Longyuan. Even if Xia Longyuan dies now, it feels like there is still a quagmire ahead and it is difficult to move forward.

Wang Zhaoling didn't even know why it turned out like this. His father had been planning it for so long. Could it be that in addition to the cooperation between the Four Symbols Sect and the Hu people, it all relied on Poseidon? Once Poseidon dies, will he have no backup plan at all?

Not long ago, my uncle Wang Daozhong was here to cooperate with the siege, but did not achieve any results. He has gone back recently to ask his father what else he can do.

Wang Zhaoling looked at the heavy snow in the sky and secretly thought that he would have to wait until the news about his father came. He didn't believe that his father only had this little thing. How could he really place his hope in the so-called Poseidon?

If I am not mistaken, my father had other ideas about the Sea Clan from the beginning...

"Strengthen the defense! Be careful of the attack on the camp on a snowy night in the city!" Wang Zhaoling shouted sternly: "What kind of military appearance do you have? Father didn't let us retreat, which means there must be a back-up plan. We all know that Tianbang is thinking very well, so just defend the camp!"

The soldiers responded sparsely, and now they have changed from attacking the city to "defending the camp". Is this the same strategy that Tianbang Si Mou was beaten back by Xuan Wu's fist?

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Langya Wang family.

Wang Daoning sat cross-legged on the top of a tall building, looking at the sea in the distance.

The snow is falling like flakes, and the mountains and rivers are all white. The distant coast that can usually be clearly seen is now assimilated into a blanket of silver, and it is almost impossible to see what the sea is.

The sound of climbing up the stairs sounded behind him, and his younger brother's voice came: "How is the injury of the eldest brother?"

Wang Daoning said slowly: "It's not like I received a punch from Xuanwu head-on. Most of the force was removed. The injury is not serious. It has been healed over the past few days."

Wang Daozhong breathed a sigh of relief, and then said angrily: "What is going on with the Four Symbols Sect? They talk about forming an alliance, but except for the discussion of opening up the sea, there is almost nothing that allies should do. Instead, they are always against each other!"

"Ha..." Wang Daoning also smiled bitterly: "Xuanwu is Hai Pinglan's daughter, who would have thought of this."

Wang Daozhong: "..."

He was feeling that the world was unstable when he suddenly felt that something was wrong: "This is not right either. Brother, weren't we supposed to join Hai Pinglan in rebelling against Poseidon? This was our original plan to use Hai Ni since we got it. How could you side with Poseidon?" On the other hand, he got into a fight with Xuanwu? Could it be that Poseidon really controlled his mind?"

Wang Daoning sighed softly: "The soul of water is closely connected with our soul. If I rebel in front of Poseidon, I will suffer the backlash and die. That is not the right time at all."

As he spoke, he looked into the distance with a strange expression: "I didn't expect... Poseidon would really fall... At this time, the water soul he left in our bodies has become an ownerless thing. Have you refined it?"

Wang Daozhong said: "I have just been refining, and I am stuck on the threshold of the third level secret treasure...give it some time, maybe there will be a chance to break through. In short, if Zhao Changhe dares to pretend to be me again, I will teach him whether he will come back or not!"

Wang Daoning frowned: "Poseidon has died at the hands of Zhao Changhe, how dare you look down upon him?"

"That's a seriously injured Poseidon. Zhao Changhe just picked it up. The Book of Troubled Times makes it clear that he is only a second-level secret treasure. At this time, even the most talented genius can't be higher than me." Wang Daozhong seemed to Because he didn’t want to talk about this topic, he continued to ask: “Then the eldest brother has also been refined?”

Wang Daoning said "hmm".

The royal road showed a look of ecstasy.

The original Wang Daoning was already in the late stage of the triple secret. During the battle with King Cui, both sides were close to each other. The battle with Xuanwu could have been won without Xia Chichi's sneak attack. Xia Chichi was injured in the sneak attack. This kind of strength can then be used to refine his part of the water soul, and now Wang Daoning is the Yujing!

In fact, the Wang family was gambling at the beginning.

There has never been a Yujing in this era. A few years ago, people didn't know that Xia Longyuan was so perverted. They thought he was just an old man who wanted to break through the Yujing and things went wrong, causing him to faint frequently. How to break through the imperial realm is a question that every Tianbang person is thinking about.

For example, Ying Wu took the road of collecting broken spaces that may never be completed, while Wang Daoning came into contact with the Poseidon while searching for sea mud and felt the invasion of the soul of water.

He knew that it was the ability to control the realm, and it was quite weak. He might swallow it up and use it to break through the realm. So he took advantage of the plan and joined forces with the Poseidon.

Wang Daoning made a lot of preparations for this. For example, his son Wang Zhaoling resolutely refused to let him touch the sea mud. He could die, but the seeds for the next generation must be preserved.

The original plan, apart from being more gambling, didn't have much of a problem, but he didn't expect the Book of Heaven... The Emperor of the Sea quickly recovered through the Book of Heaven and the power of faith. The efficiency of his recovery was astonishing to Wang Daoning, who transformed from a weak god into a Irresistible spiritual infection, almost caught off guard.

Wang Daoning felt more and more desperate, and many things began to happen out of his control. From then on, he showed an "anxiety" that everyone couldn't understand everywhere. It was completely unlike the operations of aristocratic families, and it all stemmed from this. It wasn't him who was anxious, it was Poseidon who was eager to expand his faith. Even Zhao Changhe understood this.

But now his wish has finally come true. The Emperor of the Sea has fallen, and all the remaining enlightenment of Yujing has been fully accepted. Now he may be the second Yujing after Xia Longyuan in this life, and all the gambles have been worth it.

Wang Daozhong said happily: "Brother, could it be that he expected that the Emperor of the Sea would fall?"

Wang Daoning was silent for a moment and said in a low voice: "Ashamed, even though I expected that the Emperor of the Sea would fall, I still placed my hope in Xia Longyuan... The direction of the matter was not under our control at all, we were just taking a big gamble. Fortunately, no matter how the Emperor of the Sea died, Yes, we won the bet. Now that Xia Longyuan is injured, I am the only one left in this world."

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