C1049 Tang Zhuang Yuan
C1049 Tang Zhuang Yuan
Mount Ao was a misty mountain area inside the Exuding Valley Pass. It was very humid, and the forest on the mountain was lush. There were cliffs to the east and a river to the west. The southern region was a low-lying area with the densest fog, and only the northern region, which was close to the Corner of the Corridor Pass, was where the sun shone brightly. The entire Mount Ao wasn't big, in other words, there were three mountain peaks connected together.
All the recent great battles had occurred eight hundred years ago, and the Patriarch Hongjun and the Lu Ya Dao Lord had engaged in great battles on Mount Ao from all three thousand worlds, obtaining a miserable victory in the end.
There was a very long period of time that the Mount Ao was the permanent army of three thousand people with Left Vanguard City, but the nine prefectures' bandits, who had allied with the three thousand world bandits, had always disturbed the Mount Ao. The biggest thing was that the scale of the attack was several times greater than the amount of troops surrounding the Mount Ao, which caused the Left and Right Vanguard City to do its best to reinforce the enemy, however, with the number of reinforcements coming from such a long distance, the Left and Right Vanguard City would not be able to endure.
Because every time there was a large-scale reinforcement, these bandits would hide away or directly leave the Corner of Corner Valley and head towards the territory of the Three Thousand Worlds. And once the armies of Left and Right Vanguard City left, they would attack and disturb the Mount Ao, which continued for over a hundred years, and as the military supplies for the Left and Right Vanguard City were becoming more and more scarce, they could only give up.
Why did he say that Mount Ao was a sacred place in the eyes of the bandits? It was because it was said that Patriarch Hongjun was fighting against several strong enemies here, and his golden body had disappeared here.
A golden body had been destroyed here. To many people who had come, this place was the burial ground of the Patriarch Hongjun, and there were even rumors that the tomb of the Patriarch Hongjun, which was located in the Ancestral Temple of the Leviathan, was empty inside. The place where the Patriarch Hongjun was buried, was located in the Mount Ao.
It was just that after several hundred years of effort, the people of all sorts of places had their Mount Ao searched, yet they could not find the real body of the Patriarch Hongjun.
This was also one of the reasons Weiqing came to the Mount Ao.
Weiqing was summoned by the Ancestral Master of Mixed Kun, and when Weiqing asked him if he recognized those two words, the Ancestral Master of Mixed Kun said that he did not, but before Weiqing said his goodbyes, he said Mount Ao. Weiqing didn't know what the purpose of the word "Mount Ao" was, but it wasn't without reason. This was why Weiqing wanted to make a trip to the Mount Ao;
And at this time, at the peak of the Mount Ao, on a field of several thousand square meters, there was a gathering of eighty bandits, the leader of which was their leader. The rest of the bandits surrounded the area below the flat ground with a heavy killing intent.
It was said that this flat land was created when the Patriarch Hongjun and several experts were battling and the mountain peak that was originally over a hundred meters long was beaten to a pulp.
"Report —"
A bandit mounted on an azure Luan and descended onto the ground. He held a dark yellow flag in his hand, and the surrounding people immediately opened up a path for this black-clothed bandit to enter. In the center of the field, there were 81 stone pillars. Each stone block had a person sitting on it, and the higher the stone block, the taller it was. The ten stone pillars in the middle, covered with tiger skin and hanging with red lanterns, were even more eye-catching.
The leader of the bandits sitting on these ten stone blocks was one of the ten great bandits, known as the Ten Heavenly Kings.
"The conflict between the Qiao and Lin Families has already been resolved. Let's just let it go. No more trouble is allowed. What kind of grudges do the other families have?" His eyebrows were as long as two dragon beards. Everyone called him White Dragon King, and he was a famous bandit from the Three Thousand Worlds. He was also one of the Ten Heavenly Kings.
Another elder snorted, "As long as the Qiao family does not cause trouble for my Lin family, I will give the Old Dragon King some face."
The old man from the Lin Clan also harrumphed, "Fine, it's a deal then."
This was the purpose of the Mount Ao Alliance.
It was a buffer zone between two great powers, and although the area was not small, it was a place where the two great powers could live in peace. These bandits could only survive here if they united as one, so every five years, they would meet once in the Mount Ao to resolve the internal conflicts, resolve the differences, and at the same time, distribute the benefits among the bandits.
It was precisely because of this that this generation of bandits of the Corner of the Correspondence Valley, under the double encirclement of the three thousand worlds and Left and Right Vanguard City, had not only not been eliminated, but instead had become more and more powerful. They had even acted as a fence-sitter, roaming around the Nine Prefectures and the three thousand worlds with ease and obtaining quite a few benefits.
Sitting next to the White Dragon King on a stone block was a middle-aged man dressed in a red robe. He looked very majestic and domineering as he slowly opened his mouth and said, "Everyone's grudges should be put aside for now. Let us listen to what the scouts have to say."
"Reporting, for the ten great heavenly kings, a thousand man army under Weiqing's lead, is already less than a hundred kilometers away from the Mount Ao. They seem to be rushing towards it." The scout spoke out loud. There wasn't much of a commotion in this scene at all. Many people scoffed at him, but only the middle-aged man in red wore a stern expression.
"What, Tang Zhuangyuan is interested in these little shrimps that are courting death?" The Lin Family elder asked with a smile.
Tang Zhuangyuan slightly pinched his chin, his hand pressing down, the scene immediately became quiet, and he slowly said: "Of course I will not stop at the thousand vanguard army, even if ten thousand people were to come, I believe that you all would still have some strength to fight, I am not interested in the numbers of the vanguard army, but I am interested in this Weiqing, he is not simple, everyone should have heard of Rugui Gate battle, right?"
At that moment, many of the bandits' leaders had complex expressions on their faces.
In Rugui Gate battle, there were many famous people, including Tang Shaozu and the other geniuses that became famous, but there were only two winners. One was Weiqing, and the other was Weiqing's little brother, Qin XX. It would be difficult for Qin Creek to become a second Saint Ruler at the age of twenty, and Weiqing was even more monstrous. He had killed Third Saint Ruler Wang Loonghsing, and there was a large trend for him to advance from the young man of the three realms to the young man of the nine prefectures!
A Saint Ruler could easily kill eighty bandits, because there were no less than twenty Saint Rulers and Tang Zhuangyuan and White Dragon King were the seventh generation Saint Rulers!
However, everyone who knew Tang Zhuangyuan knew that this genius who had a eyes higher than the sky would find it even harder to get his attention than to ascend the sky.
Tang Zhuangyuan's real name was something that many people could not remember. However, Tang Zhuangyuan's name was not a form of honorific title, but rather he was really a top scholar who had once participated in the Nine Regions' Literature Examination. He had consecutively taken first place in the examination, becoming the first ever top scorer in the history of the Nine Regions.
Then how did the dignified top scholar get into trouble?