Ye Tianze left the camp and waited on a hillside. After a while, a person came.
"Greetings, City Lord." A short and fat young man wearing a Daoist robe appeared.
"Is there anything important?" Ye Tianze asked.
"Reporting to the City Lord, a lot of things have happened while you were not in Stone City …"
The young man summarized everything that happened at the foot of Buzhou Mountain during his absence.
"Hmm?" Ye Tianze frowned after hearing this.
This person was Wan Tong. He entered the city with Yu Shuang and the others. Ye Tianze knew that he wasn't very strong, but he knew Wan Tong's ability.
Therefore, he handed over the task of connecting with the Jubao Hall's intelligence network to Wan Tong, and Wan Tong became Ye Tianze's eyes.
"Hmm, you're saying that the new leaders were planning to attack the city?" Ye Tianze said.
"Yes, this is the information provided by the Jubao Hall's spies in the Great Five Alliance. It's absolutely reliable."
Wan Tong said, "City Lord, I think that if we keep them, it will be a disaster sooner or later. It's better to take the initiative and dismember the Great Five Alliance. Previously, the Jubao Hall sent people to enter the battlefield, but they were stopped by the Great Five Alliance. They said that they didn't have a quota and weren't allowed to enter the battlefield."
"Quota?" Ye Tianze asked curiously.
"Yes, to enter the Buzhou Mountain battlefield, one needs to be recommended by a sect or the Human Emperor Palace. The Human Emperor Palace took up half of the quota, and the Great Five Alliance took up the other half. I asked Lu Ran, and he said that it was to balance the power of Buzhou Mountain."
Wan Tong said.
"Hmm!" Ye Tianze pondered for a moment before saying, "The Great Five Alliance has deep roots in each of the major cultivation realms. The most talented disciples in each of the major cultivation realms are all cultivating in the forces behind the Great Five Alliance. It's understandable that they'll take half of the spots."
"But without the quota, the people from the Tiannan State can't enter. The Jubao Hall can't break this rule. Although the Human Emperor Palace gave us some quotas, compared to the people sent by the Tiannan State, it's far from enough."
Wan Tong said, "I think the Big Five Alliance wants to stop Stone City's development from here. If they don't use their own people in key positions, the Big Five Alliance will play tricks behind the scenes. If they do something big in the future, I'm afraid the Big Five Alliance will know about it like the back of their hand. It might even evolve into the Big Five Alliance's Stone City!"
"Not everyone will follow the will of Stone City. Although many people have joined Stone City, they are only interested in the benefits of Stone City. They are still loyal to the Great Five Alliance."
Wan Tong said.
Ye Tianze furrowed his brows. He knew that as long as the Great Five Alliance held their spots, Shi Cheng could only use people from the Great Five Alliance in the future.
The White Tiger Legion couldn't provide him with too many spots. Although Lu Xiufu supported him, he was loyal to the Human Emperor.
Lu Xiufu wanted to see him, the City Lord of Shi Cheng, become powerful. However, he didn't want to see Shi Cheng replace the Great Five Alliance.
He wanted to see Shi Cheng contain the Great Five Alliance. This way, the legion could benefit from it.
"We can't completely fall out with the Great Five Alliance now."
Ye Tianze said, "The Great Five Alliance has at least five hundred thousand experts in Mount Buzhou. If we fight them head-on, they will fight us to the death. With our current strength, we are not strong enough to fight them. If we push them too far, they will definitely fight us to the death."
Wan Tong also knew this and said worriedly, "But if we let them do as they please, they will sooner or later stab us in the back. This is a precedent. Moreover, the quota of the Human Emperor Palace is far from enough for us. When the Great Five Alliance places more people in Shi Cheng, I'm afraid …"
"Naturally, we can't let them do as they please."
Ye Tianze said, "Pull one in, suppress one, and slowly disintegrate. As long as Shi Cheng can give them benefits, they can be used by us."
"This subordinate understands." Wan Tong said.
"Go and tell Lee Chao-young to leave this matter to her. I will give her a year. If she can do something, the position of Chief Steward of Shi Cheng will be hers."
Ye Tianze said.
"Lee Chao-young?"
Wan Tong said, "Can this person be trusted? City Lord, why don't you leave this matter to me? I promise that within a year, the Great Five Alliance will have internal strife. When our strength is enough, we will defeat them one by one and take all the spots that the Great Five Alliance has. "
"This matter can't be rushed. Although the Great Five Alliance has been attacked repeatedly and lost their prestige, a starving camel is still bigger than a horse. We can't force them into a corner."
Ye Tianze said, "Moreover, it's not suitable for you to do this. Lee Chao-young is good at being a bad person. She also knows what to do. As for the quota, there's no need to rush. Lu Xiufu still needs to nurture us to hold back the Great Five Alliance. Therefore, the Human Emperor Palace's quota will definitely be given to us. If not, we can find my second brother, Lan Yuheng. The Great Five Alliance and White Tiger Army's military supplies are all in the hands of the Jubao Hall."
"En! This … isn't good. After all, it's an army. Delaying military supplies is a crime punishable by death. "Wan Tong said worriedly.
"Death?"
Ye Tianze said with a smile, "My second brother is very smart. How can he let the army and the Great Five Alliance have something to use against him? We're just delaying the time, not embezzling military supplies."
After Wan Tong left, Ye Tianze went straight to the mountain. Now that the human race had established a foothold on the mountain, they were waiting for the stronghold to be established.
This place could communicate with Stone City. A distance of two hundred li was not far, but it wasn't close either. However, compared to the strange races, it was naturally much closer.
He wasn't worried that the Great Five Alliance would become stronger after entering Buzhou Mountain. Even if they established a stronghold on the mountain, they would still have to go through Stone City.
Moreover, the three races had suffered such a crushing defeat. Even Ao Shuo had been cut down by him. It was impossible for them not to counterattack. However, they definitely couldn't mobilize their large army.
If the three races mobilized their large army, the Wu people would be able to take a breather. The Wu people would be an even greater threat to the three races.
Although the large army couldn't be mobilized, Ye Tianze knew that the hunters on the mountain would definitely come to attack.
In the future, the situation on the mountain would be a good show for all kinds of ambushes. There wouldn't be any large army fighting, so naturally, Ye Tianze wouldn't need to take care of it.
Moreover, after this battle, Ye Tianze discovered that the geniuses had all grown. Even without his leadership, this battle could be said to have been fought beautifully.
Although the decisive blow was his killing of Ao Shuo, causing the hunters of the three races to lose their leader and be defeated one by one, the main plan was still the deployment of Stone City.
Since they could adapt to the battle of an army, their old profession of fighting alone naturally wouldn't be too bad.
Moreover, after the Eastern Alliance and Northern Alliance were allowed to enter the mountain, including the Divine General's Estate, the human race's strength on Buzhou Mountain wouldn't be weak at all.
As expected, during the month after Ye Tianze left and went to the second floor, the new stronghold was attacked by the strange races many times.
Many monstrous experts of the three races came to the new territory of the human race to hunt. Naturally, they didn't hunt spirit beasts, but humans.
On the human side, the Eastern Alliance and Northern Alliance once again organized experts to climb the mountain, but this time, they were smarter. Most of the troops brought enough resources and didn't ask for anything else, just to build a stronghold on the mountain.
For this reason, the people of the two alliances attracted a lot of firepower for Stone City, but they spent a month and finally built their own stronghold on Buzhou Mountain.
The stronghold of the two alliances and the stronghold of Stone City cooperated with each other. This was a kind of secret alliance, although they all knew that each other was enemies.
But when facing a common enemy, they didn't have too many differences. They all knew that if they didn't defeat the strange races, they wouldn't be able to obtain the resources on the mountain in peace in the future.
During this month, the strange races attacked many times, so naturally, they obtained a lot. The human race changed from the initial defense to using the advantage of the stronghold and began to counterattack.
Both sides had victories and losses, but the strange races had difficulties in supplies. Although Buzhou Mountain had a lot of resources, when they fought with the human experts, they had to use pills when they were injured. Their recovery ability couldn't support a high-intensity battle.
Because of Stone City and the stronghold, the human race could directly recuperate in the stronghold if they were injured. Even if they didn't have pills, they could recover more than half in a dozen days.
But the strange races were different. Once the human race found that they hadn't recovered from their injuries, the monstrous experts of the human race wouldn't be stingy and beat them up.
As the stronghold on the mountain stabilized, the resources on the mountain continuously flowed into Stone City, from Stone City to the army and the Jubao Hall, and finally to the entire human race.
Lee Chao-young found that Stone City's income suddenly increased by a lot. Not to mention the hunting income of the army, just the taxes alone were like flowing water.
With money, everything was easy. Lee Chao-young signed another agreement with the people of the Tool Sect and the Alchemy School, asking them to move all their weapon and alchemy workshops in the alliance over.
The conditions given to them were that they would have the priority to obtain the resources obtained from Buzhou Mountain. However, Shi Cheng would have the priority to purchase the refined items at market price.
The Alchemy School and the Tool Sect ignored the objections of the major forces in the Imperial Dragon Alliance and directly moved most of their alchemists and weapon refiners to Stone City.
Weapon refiners needed to refine weapons to improve their cultivation, while alchemists needed to refine pills to improve their cultivation. Everyone wanted better materials to refine pills.
The materials on the mountain were the best, and Stone City was the distribution center from the mountain to the foot of the mountain. The Eastern and Northern Alliances kept most of their hunting and sold in Stone City.
The Western Alliance, the Southern Alliance, and the Imperial Dragon City led by the Heavenly Dao Academy couldn't sit still. If this continued, Stone City would soon become its own closed loop, and then they would become isolated existences.
The most frightening thing was that their own people had begun to waver. Without signing an agreement with Stone City, their people were not allowed to enter Stone City.
Unless they were willing to openly leave the alliance, they were qualified to enter the alliance as lone wolves.
That was what the Lone Ranger Alliance did.
But this time, they didn't dare to use force. In the past, when the five alliances threatened the army together, Lu Xiufu only gave in and turned a blind eye to their actions.
Now the three alliances, the Alchemy School, the Tool Sect, and the Divine General's Estate of the Imperial Dragon Alliance had left, so Lu Xiufu naturally didn't buy it.
Without Lu Xiufu's tacit consent, if they sent out troops, the consequences would be very serious.
However, the three leaders were no fools. They gathered close to fifty thousand experts and went around Stone City, marching into Mount Buzhou in a grandiose manner.
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