Chapter 40 Balancing the Forces and Dividing the Territory
After a short rest, Wu Yi's mind entered the stone tablet he visualized. There were only black and white in the stone tablet, but at a glance, the whole world would be seen as gray, because the black and white were blurred.
In addition to the black and white, there were some erratic black shadows, which were the ghosts Wu Yi visualized. Originally, they should have moved in an orderly manner within a certain range, but now they were running around and screaming.
He was just a little late to come in, and it was already so chaotic. However, in addition to the fight between the two newly promoted spirit ghosts for power, there were more fights between evil ghosts. After realizing what happened, Wu Yi hurriedly expanded his thoughts to all the lands. After all, he visualized it, and Wu Yi quickly took control of the situation.
Wu Yi was shocked at first sight. Originally, there were ten spirit ghosts, each with a hundred evil ghosts, so the total number of evil ghosts was one thousand, but now there are less than five hundred left, and there are four spirit ghosts among them.
In the outside world, he only created two spirit ghosts, which means that the evil ghosts inside killed and devoured each other and also gave birth to two spirit ghosts, two spirit ghosts that were not under his control.
The four spirit ghosts each subdued more than a hundred evil ghosts, fighting endlessly, and the flames of war were everywhere. If Wu Yi came a little later, I am afraid that there would be fewer ghosts left.
The endless fighting between ghosts is actually a good thing for Wu Yi. At least they will not gather into a force, and they may even devour the master at that time. It is like the monarch plays a more balancing role to the subordinates. If there is no fighting between the ministers, the monarch himself will provoke disputes between them behind their backs.
However, fighting is also limited. It is necessary to form a healthy competition. If it wastes the origin and creates divisions, it will be unbearable.
After realizing what happened, the first order Wu Yi issued was to let the evil ghosts subdued by the spirit ghosts turn against the four spirit ghosts. They gained power through their own thoughts, which was beyond Wu Yi's tolerance.
Wu Yi did not forbid his subordinates to strengthen themselves, nor would he be stingy with these, but he did not allow them to obtain them by themselves. In layman's terms, you can not give, but you can not rob.
More than a hundred evil ghosts attacked, and Wu Yi controlled the stone tablet world to suppress the four spirit ghosts. The four spirit ghosts were quickly defeated and swallowed by other evil ghosts. After a hard fight, they got the Yin Qi of the spirit ghosts, and two more evil ghosts were promoted to spirit ghosts. At this time, there were less than 200 evil ghosts left.
But Wu Yi did not care about this. The evil ghosts could be visualized, even if it took some more time, but if the spirit ghosts transcended his control, it would be troublesome.
Seeing that the two newly promoted spirit ghosts crawled respectfully at his feet after waking up, not daring to move, the frost on Wu Yi's face was slightly reduced. After sensing his breath, they did not stop fighting. The four spirit ghosts before were too dismissive of him.
In the final analysis, what Wu Yi can do now is to visualize evil spirits. The spirit ghosts born are not closely related to him. If he does not check the spirit ghosts for a while, they will be beyond his control.
How to solve this hidden danger, Wu Yi stood and thought for a long time, and the ghosts on the ground also knelt for a long time, not daring to move.
Finally, Wu Yi made that decision, secretly calling the 魖 in his heart. He decided to let the 魖 to monitor these ghosts when he was away. In fact, the 魖 wanted to enter the stone tablet after he visualized it. It would be very convenient for the 魖 to practice in the stone tablet. The yin energy is endless. Although the total amount is not much, it is much better than having no yin energy in the outside world.
But Wu Yi was afraid that the 魖 would kill in it and swallow all the ghosts he visualized, and this was not impossible. There was an unconcealable desire in the eyes of the 魖, and Wu Yi's countermeasure was to check and balance.
The strength of the 魖 was enough to swallow any ghost, but it could not swallow all the ghosts in one breath. If it was forced to do so, I am afraid that the 魖 itself would also consume a lot, and there was even a risk of falling.
Wu Yi carefully explained to both parties that he wanted to live in harmony, but the desire in the eyes of the demon was enough to tell him that he would not give up unless he suffered a hard time. The two spirit ghosts of the same origin gradually approached the demon and looked at him warily, as did the large group of evil spirits behind him.
Looking at the looming confrontation between them, Wu Yi smiled secretly and said nothing more. His mind quickly left the stone tablet world, but even if the projection of Wu Yi's mind in the stone tablet world left, Wu Yi did not give up his attention to the upcoming duel. If the result was different from what he imagined, he needed to end the battle as soon as possible.
As Wu Yi expected, the demon with the advantage in strength took the lead and turned into a phantom to shuttle between the ghosts, taking the lives of several evil spirits from time to time.
The evil ghosts hurriedly gathered together, forming two large groups, and launched a counterattack against the evil ghosts. Although they would still be killed by the evil ghosts every time, they would be hit by the attacks of many ghosts when the evil ghosts succeeded. Just looking at the fact that the evil ghosts' illusory body was almost broken up, it can be seen that they were also seriously injured.
The two spirit ghosts were hiding somewhere, and they attacked the evil ghosts from time to time. The two sides temporarily tied at the cost of the evil ghosts' lives.
At this time, Wu Yi also saw that the evil ghosts had the upper hand, so he took sides in secret and unconsciously visualized the evil ghosts. The evil ghosts devoured them faster than Wu Yi visualized them, but Wu Yi's own mental loss was also great.
Not long after, the evil ghost was hit by the attack of one of the spirit ghosts and his body was separated from the illusory state, and he was forced to flee far away. Not only the ghosts were relieved, but Wu Yi was also relieved.
It seems that I have to create a few more spirit ghosts. Wu Yi thought to himself.
Time flies, a month passed quickly, and the sky was covered with white snow, rendering the earth pure white.
In the morning, Wu Yi opened the door and looked down at the Cangwu Mountains from the top of the peak. His heart was inexplicably peaceful, but Lingxiu Peak where he lived was not the main peak after all, and his sight was blocked, just like a mountain pressing on his heart.
Not long after, a series of black shadows came back from the back mountain. They were the ghosts released by Wu Yi. There were many beasts in the back mountain, and some of them even absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and transformed into monsters. Releasing ghosts can not only play the role of training soldiers, but also provide blood food for ghosts. Otherwise, Wu Yi needs to worry about the blood food of the evil ghosts all the time. If the evil ghosts don’t have blood food, they will be scattered sooner or later.
But now that heavy snow has fallen, the beasts are dormant and hibernating, and no longer go out. Looking at the unhappy expressions on the ghosts' faces, we know that they have not gained much. In order to find blood food, they have to offend some powerful monsters. Every time they return, they will lose one or two, but fortunately, no ghosts at the level of spirit ghosts have died so far.
Wu Yi is very careful when sending ghosts, and only sends a part of them each time. He has created three spirit ghosts in the past month to form a balance of power. Five is just right. If there are more, they will overwhelm the demons, and the spirit ghosts will fall into a new internal struggle. Now under the pressure of the demons, the five ghosts have to unite to resist the oppression of the demons. The same is true for the rest of the evil ghosts, and they form a formation to resist the enemy.
Wu Yi sends a spirit ghost to match a hundred evil ghosts each time, and the direction and position are different each time. He is also careful to instruct them not to show up if they meet humans, and not to take humans as blood food.
I thought I was careful enough and would not be discovered so early, but half a month ago, Wang Chuchen called me to Mingdao Peak and reprimanded me. However, he only told Wu Yi not to hurt his disciples, and did not blame him too much. After all, he already knew about it and protected Wu Yi in an enviable way.
It turned out that although Wu Yi asked the ghosts not to show up when there were disciples, accidents still happened. For example, when fighting with monsters, who cares about so many things? It's either you die or I live. I didn't care about hiding my tracks and was seen by a disciple who went to the back mountain to collect herbs.
This disciple wanted to reap the benefits, but after he took action, hundreds of ghosts surrounded him. If Wu Yi hadn't ordered not to hurt humans, how could this disciple save his life?
After the disciple survived by chance, he found out that these ghosts were related to Wu Yi, so he impeached Wu Yi for keeping ghosts and harming disciples. It caused a stir in the sect for a while, and other similar impeachments also flew onto Li Gu's desk like snowflakes. The deacon of the ceremonial department was actually the law enforcement deacon, but Li Gu didn't dare to deal with Wu Yi, who was highly valued by Wang Chuchen, and quickly kicked the ball to Wang Chuchen himself.
Then Wang Chuchen raised the board high and dropped it gently. Although some disciples were still dissatisfied, they did not dare to disobey Wang Chuchen. However, in this way, Wu Yi was completely hated by many disciples.
After knowing the follow-up, although Wu Yi did not take it to heart, he still asked Wang Chuchen to tell the disciples that his ghosts would move in certain specific areas, which was equivalent to occupying that area as his own reserved land. He knew that the reason why so many disciples impeached him together was because of the resource problem in the back mountain.
Although the back mountain is extremely dangerous, it also contains endless resources, such as medicines, and those dangerous monsters are actually resources, the fur, flesh, and bones on their bodies. This is even more true for the strong men. Many of the external medicines they practice are the essence condensed from the blood of monsters.
Wu Yi knew that he couldn't eat too much at one time, so he only occupied a small part of the back mountain closer to the peak, but because there were not many disciples living on the peak, Wu Yi actually occupied a large area compared to other disciples.
After the scope is defined, what needs to be done is to consolidate the territory. For those disciples who broke into the territory drawn by Wu Yi without permission, no matter whether they are senior brothers or junior brothers, in short, as long as they are not building a foundation, it is difficult to resist the joint attack of more than a hundred ghosts. In the following half a month, Wu Yi has severely hit three people who broke into his territory, and almost crippled them.
Wu Yi has already taken a step back. He is not afraid even if he makes trouble to Wang Chuchen. In fact, most of those who come to invade his territory are sent by others to test him. They are all strong men and servants who are forced to come. Wu Yi does not hold back. He does what he should do. He is very domineering and does not care about how people behind the scenes will make up rumors after he does it. There are few fools among the cultivators. How can they be easily instigated? Fake is fake.
It is indeed as Wu Yi expected. After realizing Wu Yi's firm determination, few people dare to offend him. However, Wu Yi's private demarcation of the boundaries has set off a trend of dividing the territory among the disciples, which has caused a series of disputes. For example, if a monster escapes in different territories, it is fine. If it is an ordinary monster, it is fine. If it is extremely precious, don't expect the cultivator to make selfless contributions.
So Li Gu has been busy with affairs during this period, dealing with such disputes, which makes Li Gu hate Wu Yi.
After standing outside the door for a while, a yellow talisman letter flew in from afar. Wu Yi waved his hand to remove the spiritual energy blockade around the yellow talisman, and the yellow talisman spontaneously ignited, leaving a few large words in the air: "Depart for the birthday banquet tomorrow."
Knowing that it was a letter from Wang Chuchen, Wu Yi turned back to the cave house. He needed to prepare some items before leaving.
Leaving Wang Chuchen's wings, he didn't know what conspiracies and tricks were going on along the way, so he had to be on guard.
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