Nominally, Meng Zhang’s move was a positive response to Commander Zhang Weineng’s military order
Privately, Meng Zhang also had dealings with these cultivation forces and promised many benefits.
Although for the sake of confidentiality, Meng Zhang has not disclosed his plans to expand eastward and westward to everyone for the time being.
But Meng Zhang communicated with everyone in advance and asked everyone to actively send troops to buy himself some face.
Meng Zhang believes that most of these local cultivation forces should respond to his orders, whether public or private.
In fact, this is also the case. Huanglian Sect was the first to respond, followed by Changchun Temple and Jiqiao Sect, and then Huolieshan.
From the order in which these sects responded, we can see how close they are to the Taiyi Sect.
After large merchants such as Datong Merchant Alliance entered Jiuqu Province in large numbers, they posed a great threat to the local cultivation forces and caused huge changes here.
In the former Jiuqu League, the production capacity was limited, and some sects were concerned about their own treasures. Even with the spirit stones, they could not buy the needed items.
But at large merchants such as Datong Merchant Alliance, as long as you are willing to spend spiritual stones, there are few things you cannot buy.
Like the Foundation Establishment Pill, it has always been regarded as a strategic item and is rarely sold on the market.
But when it comes to Datong Merchant Alliance, although it is impossible to sell unlimited quantities, at least it can always have goods in stock. As long as there are enough spiritual stones, purchasing them is not very difficult.
In fact, the Dali Dynasty ruled the Jiuqu Province, and after large merchants such as the Datong Merchant Alliance settled in, the cultivation level of the entire Jiuqu Province has been greatly improved.
Not to mention casual cultivators, even cultivators from many small sects and small families, as well as collateral disciples from large sects and big families, can benefit from it.
In these years, the number of foundation-building monks in Jiuqu Province has experienced explosive growth.
As the base of monks in the foundation building period increases, the number of golden elixir monks will naturally increase accordingly.
The real interests that suffer are those large sects and families.
The number of Foundation-Building Pills on the market in Jiuqu Province has increased, and the forces that could originally refine the Foundation-Building Pills can no longer maintain their previous huge profits.
For example, the price of the Small Foundation Establishment Pill refined by Taiyi Sect has plummeted, and almost no one is interested in it.
This kind of elixir has many consequences. If it is not a last resort, there is really no other way. Not many monks are willing to take it.
Meng Zhang himself is not hostile to large merchants such as Datong Merchant Alliance, and even somewhat appreciates their methods.
But as the head of the Taiyi Sect, the sect’s interests were harmed, so he naturally had to stand on the opposite side of the other party.
In any case, these large merchants brought a very rich supply of goods to Jiuqu Province.
Many sect leaders scolded these foreign invaders while purchasing necessary items from them.
Any sect leader with a little bit of brains knows the importance of maintaining a high degree of mobility.
The low-end, high-quality flying boats from large merchants such as Datong Merchant Alliance have become the objects of competition.
The Jiqiao Sect takes the refining of various mechanical creations as the foundation of the sect.
In the past, there were many barriers to selling high-end mechanical artifacts.
For example, third-level warships are only sold in small quantities to a small number of sects. Not only is the price high, there are also some conditions attached to the sale.
Many sects who are jealous of the power of warships are unable to purchase them.
How good it is now, after being heavily impacted by the goods from big merchants such as Datong Merchant Alliance. The Jiqiao Sect’s goods are sold at reduced prices, and they can’t find many buyers.
After Meng Zhang established the small alliance of local cultivation forces, under Meng Zhang’s call, the Jiqiao Sect shamelessly tried their best to sell some goods to their allies.
Because of these changes, most of the cultivation forces in the current Jiuqu Province can have enough flying boats to carry their own monks.
There are many high-end warships among these powerful Yuanshen sects, which are enough to keep the army of monks in the sect moving at a high speed.
After Meng Zhang issued the order, the team of monks from Huanglian Sect, Changchun Temple and Jiqiao Sect all carried flying boats and quickly rushed to the designated assembly point – the endless sea of sand.
Huolieshan was the slowest, but still arrived in time to assemble.
The army of monks from Taiyi Sect had already arrived at the Endless Sand Sea with flying boats and warships.
Zhenjun Wukai of Wurift Valley had promised Meng Zhang a long time ago, but when it came time to send out troops, not only did he not make the slightest move to send troops, he also ignored Meng Zhang’s inquiries in the communication.
This kind of dishonest behavior made Meng Zhang very angry.
As for the Shangguan family, they had already made it clear that if they did not obey Meng Zhang’s orders, they would not send troops at all.
In Meng Zhang’s heart, his resentment towards Wu Rift Valley was still higher than that of the Shangguan family.
Monks from all directions are coming from all directions, and the coalition of monks is gathering.
Before sending troops, Meng Zhang publicly declared that he would lead an army to support Commander Zhang Weineng.
After the monks from all walks of life gathered together, Meng Zhangcai confessed to a group of True Lord Yuanshen from other sects and told the truth.
During the previous discussion, Meng Zhang gathered everyone’s opinions and made some modifications to Sun Pengzhi’s method.
After this army of monks is assembled, it will be led by Xu Mengying of the Huanglian Sect, and they will openly march into the Yuantu Prairie from the border between the Endless Sand Sea and the Yuantu Prairie to attack the barbarians outside the territory.
Before the large army was dispatched, General Meng Zhang led a small team to take the first step, running thousands of miles and heading straight to the barbarian camp.
This small team includes six True Lords of Yuanshen from Taiyi Sect and twelve True Lords of Jindan.
In addition, the three True Lords of the Soul, True Lord Huolie of Huolie Mountain, True Lord Shanhuo, and Xu Daoran of Huanglian Sect, also set out with this team.
True Lord Huolie is a veteran monk who has achieved Yuan Shen for many years. He only advanced to the middle stage of Yuan Shen not long ago.
Shan Huo Zhenjun is the new Yuanshen Zhenjun in Huolie Mountain, and his strength is very good.
Although True Lord Huolie was unforgiving and asked for many benefits from Meng Zhang, he was absolutely unambiguous when it came to delivering what he said.
Xu Daoran was originally in charge of Tiangong, and it was because of this important battle that Xu Mengying temporarily transferred him back to join the war.
Meng Zhang took out the lightning shuttle he bought from Tiangong, let everyone enter, and then drove the shuttle and flew directly to the target.
Zhenjun Changchun and Zhenjun Jiqiao, who were slightly less powerful, assisted Xu Mengying in commanding the army of monks.
Xu Mengying won Meng Zhang’s trust, and her cultivation was enough to be independent and able to convince others, so Meng Zhang entrusted her with the important task of commanding this coalition of monks.
Shortly after Meng Zhang and the others set off, the entire monk coalition was unified, and under the leadership of Xu Mengying, set off on airships and warships.
There are enough flying boats, and the speed of the flying boats is not slow.
As long as the monk coalition led by Xu Mengying does not delay too long on the road, they should be able to reach the barbarian camp in time to participate in the subsequent battle.
Meng Zhang’s announcement of gathering an army to reinforce Zhang Weineng should have played a certain role in confusing people.