"We surrendered!" Zhan Changkong's face was ashen when he said this.
The people behind Zhan Changkong moved their lips, but they didn't say anything in the end.
Ren Baqian's words disintegrated their fighting spirit in several ways.
Firstly, the aboriginals didn't have a tradition of surrendering, so they could only fight to the death.
Secondly, the goal of most of them was to leave Tianjing Basin or simply follow the prefecture chief.
Ren Baqian's words included the former, which reduced their resistance. As for the latter, even the chief had surrendered. Did they really have to court death?
Thirdly, it didn't matter if most of them died, but it would be too cruel if their family members were killed as well. Either all of them lived or all of them died. There wasn't a middle option, which made them cower again.
"That's right! A wise man submits to circumstances! " Ren Baqian nodded. That little girl wouldn't have to wander the world alone and end up being kidnapped and sold to a brothel.
If his only disciple, who was skilled in erhu, ended up playing the erhu in a brothel, how could he bear it?
However, at this moment, someone walked out from the crowd. Everyone was shocked when they saw his actions.
"Deacon Peng? What are you going to do? "
"So be it if you surrender. I don't blame you and won't implicate you. Great Elder has been very kind to me. I'm not capable enough to avenge him, and I don't have the face to live on. I might as well go down to look for Great Elder and serve him by his side! "A person stood 10 meters away from the crowd and looked straight at Ren Baqian. It was the pale-faced deacon from before.
When he said this, everyone immediately revealed a look of shame on their faces. Even Zhan Changkong's face revealed a moved expression.
A few people behind him moved slightly to the side, and then a person walked out from the crowd and stood beside Deacon Peng, saying, "I'm all alone, and I've lived long enough. I'll accompany you on your journey."
"Me too! Great Elder has been good to me. I'll go down to look for him too. "
"Me too!"
Five or six people walked to Deacon Peng's side in succession. There was even an inner deacon among them.
This made more people waver. Even Zhan Changkong looked like he was struggling.
Ren Baqian somewhat admired these people. They risked their lives and shed their blood because of their passion. However, this was also their weakness. They were too easily hot-blooded.
Especially Zhan Changkong. As the leader of a sect, he was actually influenced by others and did not care about his wife and children. He was simply a good-for-nothing.
Originally, he had a good impression of Zhan Changkong. After all, he was the one who sent his daughter over.
However, after this incident, she looked down on him a lot.
Ren Baqian sat on the back of the fork-horned cow and said coldly, "This is a matter of life and death, yet you're being influenced by others. Sometimes, you surrender, and sometimes, you don't. You don't have any opinion of your own. To put it nicely, you people value loyalty and friendship. To put it bluntly, they're just a bunch of brainless boors. "
As soon as Ren Baqian said this, other than those who had stepped forward, everyone else lowered their heads.
Zhan Changkong also sighed and glanced at Deacon Peng and the rest with a guilty gaze.
Deacon Peng said in a carefree manner, "Manor Head, you don't have to be like this. This is my own choice. Brothers, we'll take our leave first. When we meet again in the future, we'll drink and chat merrily. "
Ren Baqian had a look of admiration in his eyes. This Attendant Peng was pretty good. He had a firm grasp of his own heart and was clear about things.
What a pity.
It wasn't only him. Many of the winged cavalry warriors behind her also had a look of admiration in their eyes.
After all, they were men who had fought bloody battles on the battlefield and liked to talk about life and death the most.
Ren Baqian waved his hand and said, "Send them on their way!"
"Sir Ren, I'll go." One of the winged cavalry warriors cupped his hands at Ren Baqian, leaped forward, drew his sword in mid-air, and slashed at Deacon Peng below.
A few rays of sword light flashed, and heads flew into the sky one by one.
"Dig a hole and bury them! Tie up the rest and inform the people from before that those at the foot of the mountain have surrendered. Be more lenient, "Ren Baqian instructed.
After Zhan Changkong and the rest had their hands tied up, Ren Baqian rode his mount toward the Golden Ring Residence.
Before him, ten people had entered the residence to see if there were any ambushes or assassins.
When Ren Baqian entered the residence, he saw that the ground was in a mess. There were also some maids who didn't manage to escape in time and were kneeling and trembling at the side.
He still remembered the location of the main hall of the Golden Ring Residence. Without anyone leading the way, he arrived at the main hall by himself. He looked up and saw that the 17 beads were no longer there.
"Sir, what do we do next?" a winged cavalry captain came in and asked.
"See what else is there. Pack up all the valuable things. Ask those people outside. They know best where the valuable things are. Also, ask them to hand over the 17 beads that were originally here. " Ren Baqian muttered to himself for a while and said, "Ask them if they have a library or something like that. Take out all the secret manuals in the residence. They can make a copy of it as an inheritance and take the original copy with them. "
He had just thought of the secret manuals. After all, he had plagiarized so many sects in Tianjing Basin, especially these big sects, and there might be some good things. Since he couldn't use them, it would be good to take them back to enrich Qingxin Palace Hall. He could also bring them back to Earth and hand them over to the nation. The more secret manuals there were, the better the effect of using a supercomputer to deduce martial arts. After all, a supercomputer wasn't an immortal, and it required sufficient information to make better deductions.
Just like Alpha Dog, it wouldn't be able to reach that level without tens of thousands of chess games recorded in the database.
At night, those who wanted to escape from the mountains were all caught and brought back.
Zhan Changkong had been locked in a room. When he saw Painting Fairy and Zhan Caixian being tied up and thrown in, Zhan Caixian's face was red and swollen, and both of her arms were broken, he immediately smiled bitterly.
When Painting Fairy saw Zhan Changkong in the room, the panic in her eyes quickly subsided. She smiled and asked, "Do I look ugly now?"
"No! You have always been so beautiful! "Zhan Changkong shook his head.
"When I came up the mountain, I wondered if I had forgotten something. Later on, I remembered that I said that if you died, I would accompany you. However, I was worried about Xian 'er and afraid that she wouldn't be able to persevere.
It's fine now. I don't have to think so much. We are a family now, so it doesn't matter if I die, "Painting Fairy said with affection in her eyes.
"I'm sorry," Zhan Changkong said sadly.
"There's nothing to be sorry about. Life and death are all fated." Painting Fairy smiled. "It has been hard on Xian 'er."
"It's not hard on me. I'm very happy being with my parents."
Zhan Changkong saw that his wife and daughter were in such a state and felt even more dejected. He then pulled himself together and said, "However, it seems that I won't die for now."
After that, he repeated what Ren Baqian had said.
"Because of this, I surrendered."
Painting Fairy smiled. "I knew that my husband wasn't someone who was afraid of death. Seeing that you are fine, I knew that there must be a reason."
Zhan Changkong felt even more guilty after hearing this.
…
Ren Baqian spent the whole night checking the treasures and secret manuals that he had plundered.
There were many valuable things. After all, they were accumulated by the Golden Ring Residence over many years. Just the value of the 17 pearls alone was immeasurable.
As for the secret manuals, he simply flipped through them and put them down. He couldn't tell if they were good or bad. He then asked someone to pass the secret manuals and paper to Zhan Changkong so that he could find someone to copy them and leave them as the inheritance of the Golden Ring Residence.
This action also made the people of the Golden Ring Residence feel completely at ease. They knew that Ren Baqian really didn't intend to kill them.
The next day, Ren Baqian asked Zhan Changkong to arrange for people to contact the disciples of the residence in the surrounding cities to surrender.
After all, the Golden Ring Residence had been entrenched here for many years. Apart from the people in the residence, there were also many disciples who were officials in the surrounding cities. Their relationships were complicated and complicated, and they had a huge network of connections.
When the second batch of 5,000 soldiers from the Protectorate of the South entered Tianjing Basin, three of the five cities immediately opened their gates and surrendered.
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