In Taiyuan City.
About half a month had passed since the massacre in the grassland.
During this period of time, Li Wuyou did almost nothing. He hid in the relay station and cultivated. As for the matters outside, he left them to the people of the East Faction Faction.
There was also Zhao Chuanlong.
Originally, Zhao Chuanlong was not from the East Faction, nor was he Li Wuyou's man. Moreover, he had helped Xiong Chengde and brought great trouble to the East Faction.
According to common sense, Li Wuyou should not have put him in such an important position.
This was because even though Zhao Chuanlong and Li Wuyou seemed to be of one mind and had submitted to him, it could be seen that Zhao Chuanlong was forced by the situation.
Once Zhao Chuanlong found an opportunity, he was still qualified to lead the Guanlong Army to maintain their dignity, or to rebel against the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Therefore, the normal thing for ordinary people to do was to seize this opportunity, which was forced by the situation, to seize Zhao Chuanlong's military power.
If they took action at this time, they would have many excuses.
It could be said that Zhao Chuanlong was seriously injured in order to deal with the barbarians on the grassland and needed time to recuperate.
In this way, they could appoint a new person to replace Zhao Chuanlong.
As long as this person entered the Guanlong Army, he could slowly recover the Guanlong Army and completely become the army of the East Faction.
Originally, Qiu Yunhai and Shen Lianxin had the same idea.
They even began to find a suitable candidate for Li Wuyou to cultivate.
After all, the East Faction had been in the Great Zhou Dynasty for so many years, and there were many generals in the army. It was not difficult to find a general who was comparable to Zhao Chuanlong.
In fact, given the current conditions, even if the new general who took over the Guanlong Army did not have any ability and only had some superficial skills, it was enough.
Because the grassland was no longer a threat.
Therefore, as long as Li Wuyou wanted to do this, it was basically very simple.
However, when Qiu Yunhai and Shen Lianxin brought the suitable candidate to Li Wuyou, they received the news that Zhao Chuanlong of the Guanlong Army could continue to be used.
Everyone was puzzled.
Li Wuyou could be magnanimous and let bygones be bygones. However, the current situation was neither of these. If Li Wuyou did not touch Zhao Chuanlong, then he would be a fool.
If he wanted to find another opportunity in the future, he might not have it anymore.
No one knew why Li Wuyou did this.
Why would Li Wuyou, who had always been wise and powerful, have such thoughts? Such a reckless and reckless idea.
Of course, what everyone didn't know was that …
However, Li Wuyou's thoughts were different from others.
Anyone who stood in Li Wuyou's position would think about the future, about how to become the true god of the Zhou Dynasty, the true person at the helm.
However, Li Wuyou did not have such thoughts.
What he really wanted was immortality.
The reason why he took control of the Zhou Dynasty, pacified the southern border, dealt with Gojoseon Zhennan, dealt with Xiong Chengde, and destroyed the grassland, was all for immortality.
It was all for the fate of the people of the Zhou Dynasty, as well as the fate of the Zhou Dynasty.
Therefore, he did not care about the future.
As long as he still belonged to the Great Zhou Dynasty and was still occupying Mei Changxiu's body, the Great Zhou Dynasty was still unified and he could still control everyone, that would be enough.
He did not care what the Zhou Dynasty would become after he left.
Even if everyone died, what did it have to do with him?
As long as he had opened the Gate of Heaven, it was completely enough.
The rest did not matter.
Therefore, he had to use Zhao Chuanlong to control the Guanlong Army.
During this period of time, Zhao Chuanlong definitely wouldn't dare to betray him. He wouldn't dare to rebel, and he definitely wouldn't dare to raise an army for himself.
Then, he could only help Li Wuyou, help Li Wuyou stabilize the Guanlong Army, help Li Wuyou resolve the matters of the northwest, and also help Li Wuyou gather fate.
This was enough.
For Li Wuyou, this was already a perfect ending.
As for what would happen after Li Wuyou ascended the Gate of Heaven, he did not care, nor did he think about it.
Whether the world fell apart or was completely destroyed, it had nothing to do with Li Wuyou.
Because he had already arrived in another world.
The world behind the Gate of Heaven.
He had gone to seek immortality.
Although Li Wuyou's idea of using Zhao Chuanlong was somewhat irrational, given Li Wuyou's current status in the Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern faction, no one would dare to say anything.
This also led to a series of matters being handled particularly smoothly.
At the same time, it also led to another matter, and that was Zhao Chuanlong's gratitude.
Zhao Chuanlong had been in the imperial court and the army for many years, so he was well aware of many things.
After the matter on the grassland was over, Zhao Chuanlong expected that he would definitely be cleaned up by Li Wuyou.
He would either be placed in an unimportant position, or he would find a way to marginalize himself.
This had happened many times in the past.
For example, the imperial court would give him an absolute honor, such as a hereditary Duke or Marquis, and so on, but he would be stripped of his military power.
As a duke, he had become a general with no military power.
This was already the outcome that Zhao Chuanlong had expected.
In fact, he had already accepted it.
He had worked so hard for so long, originally for the sake of his descendants. Now that he had realized it by accident, it was actually not bad. He felt that he should enjoy his old age.
Therefore, he did not make any efforts.
However, after waiting for several days, Zhao Chuanlong did not receive the imperial court's decree. Instead, he received a letter from the East Faction, which was handwritten by Li Wuyou.
The content of the letter said that although seventy to eighty percent of the barbarians on the grassland had been destroyed, as long as the grassland existed, the barbarians would have a chance to make a comeback.
They must be strictly guarded.
Li Wuyou believed that in the entire Guanlong and the entire Guanlong Army, only Zhao Chuanlong was qualified for this task.
Therefore, Li Wuyou decided to let Zhao Chuanlong continue to stay in Guanlong, continue to control the Guanlong Army, and continue to be in charge here. In the next few decades, he would establish a strong enough system.
Thoroughly and slowly, the grassland would be dug out from its roots.
It was similar to letting Zhao Chuanlong carry out a kind of cultural dissemination, the dissemination of beliefs, and let the grassland change dynasties, completely abandon their former beliefs, and completely become the slaves of the Great Zhou Dynasty's culture.
Once this kind of thing was done, it would take ten to twenty years. Basically, it had to be done for a whole generation of people on the grassland, so that they could be completely assimilated.
Therefore, this meant that Zhao Chuanlong would not be able to leave the Guanlong Army for the next ten to twenty years.
Because this kind of thing had to be done by a suitable person, who had to be persistent from the beginning to the end.
Only in this way could there be no trouble.
When Zhao Chuanlong saw the letter, he was also stunned.
He had never thought that it would end like this.
This result simply caught him off guard and even surprised him. It seemed that he had not expected this at all.
Li Wuyou would let him continue to stay in such a critical position, continue to control the Guanlong Army, and continue to develop his own power on the Guanlong Land.
What kind of trust was this?
Was he really not afraid that one day, he would build up a strong enough power and then make the Great Zhou Dynasty fall into chaos?
Or, what kind of confidence did Li Wuyou have?
Did he not take him and the Guanlong Army under his control seriously at all?
If one day, the Guanlong Army really rebelled under his leadership and rebelled against the Great Zhou Dynasty, did he have the absolute power to deal with it?
Zhao Chuanlong thought it was the latter.
Because he had really seen Li Wuyou's strength.
In Taiyuan City, Li Wuyou had massacred almost all the grassland cavalrymen in the city. He had done it alone, not with the entire East Faction Commander.
Tens of thousands of grassland cavalrymen were elites. Although they were scattered in the streets and alleys of Taiyuan City and had lost the impact that cavalry should have, they still had absolute combat strength.
Then, he could kill tens of thousands of people alone, which was enough to show how terrifying he was.
Moreover, Zhao Chuanlong also heard about Li Wuyou's massacre on the grassland.
That massacre was even more shocking.
That place, the blood river that bordered the grassland and Guanlong, was filled with tens of thousands of corpses. They were all elites of the grassland. Countless of them were specially used to protect Hudu, Chanyu, and the tribal leaders of the grassland. Whether in terms of combat strength or equipment, they were incomparable to ordinary cavalrymen.
However, tens of thousands of such troops still died at the hands of Li Wuyou alone.
Some of the generals who were present saw the end of the massacre and were completely shocked by it. They didn't even know how to describe that scene.
Massacre was no longer enough to describe that horror.
Perhaps it was a crushing of humans by a deity.
It was an absolute crushing.
The kind of crushing that did not give you the slightest chance to resist.
At that moment, in the eyes of all the Guanlong Army soldiers who saw this scene, Li Wuyou was no longer a simple person, nor could he be described as a hero. He was really a deity.
An omnipotent and invincible deity.
Because he had done what tens of thousands of Guanlong cavalrymen could not do even if they shed their blood.
This was a deity.
The guardian deity of Guanlong, the guardian deity of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Of course, later, these scenes were transmitted to Zhao Chuanlong through various channels. Zhao Chuanlong seemed to have seen everything through the descriptions of those generals.
At this moment, comprehensive association.
Zhao Chuanlong understood.
Li Wuyou did not trust him, nor did he value him that much. It was just that he had never taken him and the Guanlong Army seriously.
This was Li Wuyou's absolute confidence.
Undeniable confidence.
"Your confidence is deserved. Your strength has brought you confidence."
"That's right. As long as you are in the Great Zhou Dynasty, no one in the Great Zhou Dynasty will dare to rebel. Second, my Guanlong Army will definitely not dare to rebel."
"Even if I, Zhao Chuanlong, eat a bear's heart and leopard's courage and want to rebel, there will be many people in the Guanlong Army who will oppose it. They will not follow me to deal with an almost invincible deity like you."
"You've completely won."
Zhao Chuanlong completely admired Li Wuyou in his heart and completely admitted defeat.
Then, he also decided that in the following days, as long as Li Wuyou was in the Great Zhou Dynasty, he would exhaust all his loyalty and ability to work for the Great Zhou Dynasty at all costs.
To work for Li Wuyou.
This was his only chance to continue to live.
And he lived so that one day, when Li Wuyou left this world, he would have a chance to lead the Guanlong Army to sweep across the Central Plains.
Now he was dormant, but it did not mean that he had completely lost his ambition.
Now he had the control of the entire Guanlong Army. When he followed Li Wuyou's instructions and ran the entire Guanlong Army and the grassland for a few years or even a decade, he would have greater power.
Much greater than the current Guanlong Army.
At that time, once Li Wuyou was gone, he would really have the ability to fight for the Central Plains.
So the safest course of action at present was to live peacefully. Moreover, while doing so, he also had to do his best to work for Li Wuyou.
He had to make the latter feel completely at ease with him.
As long as Li Wuyou was at ease, he should not die.
Li Wuyou was the bottom line.
Once this bottom line was crossed, Zhao Chuanlong believed that he would never be able to escape from Li Wuyou's grasp.
He knew what he should do.
He also knew how to get his subordinates to do it.
… …
Because of Li Wuyou's letter, Zhao Chuanlong and the Guanlong Army quickly got on the right track.
They were completely selfless and had no worries at all. They also began to work for Guanlong and Li Wuyou without reservation.
When these signs began to appear, Li Wuyou's popularity in Guanlong immediately reached its peak.
What made Li Wuyou even more gratified was that the Guanlong Army, the people of Taiyuan City, and almost all the people of Guanlong had joined forces to donate money and people to build a temple for him.
In this temple, there was a golden statue of him, as well as the Eighteen Arhats.
The Eighteen Arhats were all characters in the Guanlong Army, East Faction, and Guanlong's folklore. Now, these people had gathered together to be his personal bodyguards.
On the first day the temple was built, countless people came to pay their respects. And Li Wuyou also immediately felt a great amount of luck and the blessing of the power of faith.
With the blessing of these forces, Li Wuyou's strength increased again in an instant.
His Divine Soul also improved.
His strength had completely reached the peak of the sixth stage of the Vajra Realm.
And his Divine Soul had also directly skyrocketed.
It had reached the peak of the Prying Realm.
He could proceed to the next step, which was to nourish his soul and then devour …
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