Chapter 202 Shuyun Yangshen
However, despite the great efforts of all the major forces to send spies to Wudang Mountain, the Daming Palace and the Zhao family's residence as quickly as possible, they have yet to receive any news of Zhu Chengwu's arrival at Wudang Mountain, the Daming Palace or the Zhao family's residence.

Because at this time, Zhu Chengwu and his party were still in the Songshan Mountains waiting for Cui Shuyun, who had successfully broken through to the Yang Shen realm, to consolidate her newly achieved Yang Shen realm!
I have to say that Cui Shuyun’s talent for spiritual cultivation is really strong.

It only took Cui Shuyun three days to complete her enlightenment and officially start to strive for the Yang Shen realm.

After that, in just four days, Cui Shuyun successfully reached the Yang Shen realm.

The Golden Crow appeared in the world and two suns appeared in the sky. The vision when Cui Shuyun achieved the Yang God realm was extremely magnificent. It was a vision with the potential to achieve the peak of Yang God.

Warriors focus on cultivating the physical body, while spiritual cultivators focus on cultivating the soul.

When a warrior achieves mastery, there are visions. When a spirit cultivator achieves Yang God, there are also visions. In fact, because the spirit cultivator has a deeper influence and connection with the external heaven and earth energy, the visions when a spirit cultivator achieves Yang God are far more grand and powerful than those when a warrior achieves mastery.

It can easily affect an area of ​​several miles or even dozens of miles!

But even if the range of the strange phenomenon formed by the fluctuation of the vital energy of heaven and earth when achieving the Yang God in the way of spiritual cultivation is wider than when a warrior achieves the master level, the normal range is only several miles or dozens of miles. It is still extremely rare for a situation like Cui Shuyun's, where the Golden Crow shines over an area of ​​nearly a hundred miles and two suns shine in the sky in harmony with each other.

After all, the size and range of the visions when achieving Yang Shen, to a certain extent, represent the amount of foundation of the cultivator, the depth of his perception, and how far he can go within the Yang Shen.

One has already exhausted all his efforts to achieve Yang Shen. How many cultivators have the extra energy to consider the foundation after achieving Yang Shen and how far he can go in Yang Shen?

Moreover, Yang Shen is already the highest achievement in spirit cultivation.

Even if one achieves Yang God and remains in the same place for the rest of his life, that is the final foundation of the nuclear deterrence of all major forces, which is enough to satisfy the inner ambitions of those who practice God cultivation!

Therefore, not many spiritual cultivators can possess the same range of visions and underlying insights as Cui Shuyun when they achieve Yang Shen.

Whether it is martial arts or spiritual cultivation, the more you practice, the more difficult it becomes.

It is just like many warriors who, after achieving the status of Grandmaster, are unable to make further breakthroughs due to their lack of foundation and age limitations, and the realm of the top Grandmaster (Grand Master) that is so close to them seems out of reach.

Many soul cultivators, even if they manage to achieve Yang God, will not be able to take a few more steps forward in the Yang God realm throughout their lives due to insufficient foundation and perception, let alone achieve the peak Yang God that is comparable to the top masters.

According to Wang Taoshan, the range of visions like Cui Shuyun's is enough to be called a peak Yang God seed.

After Cui Shuyun successfully achieved Yang Shen, Zhu Chengwu and his party were chatting while waiting for Cui Shuyun to stabilize her state. Every time Wang Taoshan talked about this, he would look at the place where Zhu Chengwu and Cui Shuyun were in retreat with an inexplicable look in his eyes.

Zhu Chengwu, the supreme grandmaster who surpasses ordinary grandmasters.

The pinnacle Yang God Seed with grand visions-Cui Shuyun.

Once Cui Shuyun achieves the peak Yang God, the combination of Zhu Chengwu and Cui Shuyun will be even more difficult to deal with.

Maybe it is possible to unify the six dynasties.

Although Wang Taoshan is also a Yangshen cultivator, Wang Taoshan has a very clear understanding of himself.

He was just an ordinary Yang God who relied on his age and barely succeeded in reaching the Yang God realm at the age of seventy or eighty. The range of the vision when he achieved Yang God was less than ten miles. It was almost impossible for him to reach the peak Yang God realm in this lifetime.

Zhu Chengwu, the Supreme Grandmaster, is too powerful in martial arts. Ordinary Yang Spirits are simply unable to form any limited cooperation with Zhu Chengwu. The help they can provide to Zhu Chengwu cannot be said to be limited, but it can only be said to be almost non-existent.

But the Peak Yang God is different. In terms of realm, the Peak Yang God is already at the same level as the Grand Master, and can barely keep up with the pace of the Supreme Grand Master Zhu Chengwu.

What's more, Cui Shuyun and Zhu Chengwu have been a couple who have known each other for decades. Although their relationship is one of cooperation for mutual benefit, they should still have the most basic tacit understanding between them.

Zhu Chengwu's purpose in trying every possible means to obtain the high-level rare treasures of heaven and earth, the Earth's Core Fire Lotus and the Yang Thunder True Flame, cannot be hidden from those who are interested.

But Wang Taoshan now feels that there is no need for Zhu Chengwu to take risks.

The martial arts strength of the Supreme Grandmaster is enough to make Zhu Chengwu invincible in a single fight. Even if it is a group fight, it is extremely difficult to gather a lineup that can fight Zhu Chengwu head-on.

Now there is Cui Shujun, the seed of the peak Yang God. If Zhu Chengwu can train Cui Shujun into a peak Yang God, and rely on the assistance of the peak Yang God, it will be extremely difficult to put together a lineup in this world that can face the combination of Zhu Chengwu and Cui Shujun head-on.

Since there is a safer way to become invincible, Wang Taoshan feels that there is no need for Zhu Chengwu to take risks and fight to the death against the martial arts master.

In the thousands of years of martial arts history, no one has ever succeeded in becoming a Grandmaster, including Yin Kui Tianmo, Shaolin Damo, Wudang Sanfeng...

Even though Zhu Chengwu had extraordinary talent and had two high-level treasures of heaven and earth integrated into his body, Wang Taoshan still felt that Zhu Chengwu's chances of successfully reaching the Grandmaster level were not very high.

The risk and return are not proportional at all!
In the past, Wang Taoshan submitted to Zhu Chengwu more out of pressure from reality and the need to survive.

But now Wang Taoshan has a little more sincerity and empathy for Zhu Chengwu.

As the former abbot of Shuoqing Temple and a practitioner of the spirit-refining path, Wang Taoshan has the same ideals in his heart as Cui Shuyun's second sister-in-law and the person who enlightened him about the practice of spirit-refining - Ai Jingxia.

That is to make the art of refining the spirit a popular discipline again.

In other words, Ai Jingxia had such an ideal because she was influenced by her master Wang Taoshan, who was the abbot of Shuoqing Temple at the time.

In Wang Taoshan's expectation, not to mention restoring the spirit refining to its peak and almost monopolizing the situation, at least it should be on par with martial arts and share equal prominence.

Only in this way can one be considered to have lived up to one's life and slightly restored the glory of the spirit refining path.

It’s a pity that due to the limitations of reality and strength, Wang Taoshan had to bury such ideals deep in his heart.

But now the appearance of Cui Shuyun has given Wang Taoshan hope.

Even Wang Taoshan, who witnessed the conversation between Zhu Chengwu and Cui Shujun outside Xuzhou City, understood that there was no love between Zhu Chengwu and Cui Shujun, it was all a transaction.

But husband and wife are husband and wife!
In the eyes of the general public, Zhu Chengwu and Cui Shuyun represent each other.

Moreover, from their interactions over the past few days, Wang Taoshan could feel that Zhu Chengwu had no prejudice against the art of spiritual cultivation.

To be more precise, Zhu Chengwu, the Marquis of Fu'an, can use anything that is beneficial to him, whether it is martial arts or spiritual cultivation.

Zhu Chengwu's ultimate move to destroy Shaolin Temple - Blazing Sun Fiery Palm, after a close observation, Wang Taoshan saw the shadow of the Soul Refining Dao. This reality is extremely beneficial to Wang Taoshan who has the ideal of revitalizing the Soul Refining Dao!

Zhu Chengwu, the supreme grandmaster, has no prejudice against the way of cultivating the spirit. If his wife, Cui Shuyun, can achieve the peak of Yang God, he may even need to rely on his wife's power to maintain his absolute advantage over the warriors in this world in cultivating the spirit...

Wang Taoshan felt that as long as he tried again and acted as a coordinator, it would be very likely that the art of refining the spirit would be revived and become equally famous as martial arts.

So after discovering that the scale of Cui Shuyun's breakthrough to Yang God was extremely large and that it was the seed of the peak Yang God, Wang Taoshan, who had sorted out his thoughts, had already begun to find Zhu Chengwu from time to time during Cui Shuyun's retreat to stabilize her Yang God realm. He vaguely mentioned that the Supreme Grand Master combined with the peak Yang God could still overwhelm the warriors of this world in their spiritual cultivation and that there was no need to argue to the death with the words above the martial arts grandmaster.

However, although Zhu Chengwu heard Wang Taoshan's implicit proposal, he just remained silent and did not express a clear opinion.

However, when Cui Shuyun broke through and stabilized the Yang God realm, because of the huge vision when Cui Shuyun achieved the Yang God, all major forces in the Ming Dynasty soon learned the news that a new Yang God had appeared in the Songshan Mountains.

After all, in recent days, quite a few warriors have come to Songshan Mountain Range to cultivate their spirits.

Many of them were arranged by major forces in order to observe and study the traces left by Zhu Chengwu when he destroyed the Songshan Sect and Shaolin Temple, and to determine Zhu Chengwu's true strength based on the traces left by Zhu Chengwu, thus providing more real and accurate information for the forces behind him to determine their positions.

Many of them are individual visitors from the Ming Dynasty who came to make pilgrimages. With Zhu Chengwu's reappearance, he is even more powerful and invincible. In the martial arts world of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Chengwu has attracted a lot of fans. These fanatical fans worship Zhu Chengwu as a god and a legend.

In addition to the spies from powerful forces and Zhu Chengwu's fanatical fans, there are also many people who come to the Songshan Mountains who are unwilling to be ordinary. They hope to gain something from the "relics" of the Songshan School and Shaolin Temple.

Both Shaolin Temple and Songshan School are well-known major schools in the Ming Dynasty martial arts world, and there are no shortage of martial arts manuals and cultivation resources in their schools.

Many things that Zhu Chengwu looks down upon are great opportunities for ordinary wanderers.

Superior secret manuals, magical manuals, and cultivation resources are all what they hope for. Of course, if they can comprehend Zhu Chengwu's martial arts from the traces of martial arts left by Zhu Chengwu, then for them, the sky is high and the sea is vast.

In the history of martial arts in this world, there are many examples of people with extraordinary talents rising to prominence by learning from the martial arts traces of their predecessors in the wonderful plots described by the storytellers.

As people who are unwilling to be ordinary, who among them does not have a mysterious confidence in themselves and a fluke mentality about getting opportunities?

With these people around, and the huge vision that appeared when the Yang God was achieved, the news that there was a new Yang God in the Songshan Mountains and that the new Yang God had a very solid foundation could not be concealed at all.

Yang God is rare. After receiving the news from the spies sent to Songshan Mountain, the leaders of various major forces began to speculate on the identity of the new Yang God of Songshan Mountain and considered the possibility of winning him over to form an alliance.

As for conquering, no rational major force would have such an overestimating idea.

Yangshen is the last remaining foundation of the top forces. To subdue him? To offend or make an enemy is more like the opposite.

For Master Yangshen, being able to form a limited alliance and maintain good relations with them is already the ultimate goal for all major forces.

The expert spies who stayed in the Songshan Mountains had an unexpected harvest. Although the spies sent by various forces to Wudang Mountain, the Daming Palace and the Zhao family’s residence did not wait for Zhu Chengwu, their efforts were not completely in vain.

As spies from various major forces interweave with each other, some things become difficult to hide.

The plans and actions of some major forces were also exposed under the noses of other major forces.

For example, several fierce battles broke out in the Ming Dynasty Palace. Some experts broke into the Renshou Palace where Empress Dowager Zhao Yushan lived, trying to bring out Zhao Yushan, the legendary woman who had disappeared from the Ming Dynasty court for more than 20 years.

Although almost all the masters who broke into Renshou Palace died due to the conspiracy of the masters in the inner court of the Ming Dynasty, two of them still escaped alive and brought out a news that shocked the world.

That is, there was no Empress Dowager Zhao Yushan in Renshou Palace at all, only dust and countless spider webs everywhere.

In addition to the Ming Palace, spies from various major forces discovered that in the past twenty years, considerable conflicts had also broken out in the Zhao clan’s residence, which had been completely marginalized.

Some experts tried to break into Zhao’s base and take away some of the people there, but were forcefully repelled by Zhao.

It was also at this time that the world discovered that after the disappearance of Fu'an Marquis Zhu Chengwu, although the Zhao family had kept a low profile for more than 20 years, the strength in their hands was not weak at all.

Also!

If the Zhao family was weak, they would have been liquidated by the previous king who ascended the throne!
Everyone knows that more than 20 years ago, Zhao and the former king fought for more than 20 years.

It was not until the final stage that the late king gained the upper hand due to the constant favoritism and scheming of Zhu Xingyu, the late king's father.

Although this advantage did not last long, it disappeared completely due to the sudden rise of Zhu Chengwu, Marquis of Fu'an.

Not only did the late king Zhu Chengzhi fall into a disadvantage again, but even the late king and Marquis Fu'an's father, Zhu Xingyu, the then King Ming, was implicated and had to take action himself.

However, even though the late king's father Zhu Xingyu began to publicly support the late king, the late king was still at a disadvantage to the competitor of Marquis Fu'an.

At that time, the Zhao family was not only the maternal clan of Marquis Fu'an, but also his most solid ally and his most steadfast supporter.

Twenty-five years ago, Marquis Fu'an disappeared, and the power of Marquis Fu'an fell apart. The Marquis Fu'an's Mansion was even destroyed by the previous king who gathered several forces.

If the Zhao family did not have the strength to protect themselves, they would have probably ended up like the Fu'an Marquisate!
Therefore, although the strength displayed by the Zhao family now is unexpected, it is not completely incomprehensible.

However, if we think in this way, another question arises in the minds of the top leaders of various major forces, which cannot be answered.

That is, since the Zhao family still maintains such strength after being marginalized for more than 20 years, when the Fu'an Marquis Mansion was destroyed, the Zhao family's strength would have been even stronger. Why didn't the Zhao family try their best to support the Fu'an Marquis Mansion at that time?

Instead, only the old Marquis Zhao Yuguang arrived in Xuzhou City alone.

You must know that at that time, the late king and Marquis Fu'an's father Zhu Xingyu had passed away. The late king, who had lost his greatest backer, had a greatly reduced influence. Even if Marquis Fu'an Zhu Chengwu disappeared, as long as the Zhao family and Marquis Fu'an's Mansion and other forces of the Marquis Fu'an faction worked together, they might be able to compete with the late king.

Why did the Zhao family sit back and watch the Fu'an Marquisate fall?

Don't say that Zhao's current strength has been developed slowly over the past twenty years. More than 20 years ago, Zhao's strength was not as strong as it is today.

The top leaders of the major forces will not believe this.

The practice of martial arts requires both natural talent and abundant resources. After being marginalized for more than 20 years and without sufficient resources, the Zhao family is now stronger than it was in the past 20 years?
That's not the way to joke!
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