To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck

Chapter 779: Chapter 339: Consolidate the Foundation_2

This path was, of course, not easy to walk. Not only was the risk extremely high when refining the physical body with the blood of Different Species, but the time and energy consumed was also more than that of Zhou Qing and the others directly refining their bodies and souls with spiritual energy.

The most simple example.

Take the risk of refining the bloodline with the elixir of the Different Species for example; it is inherently dangerous, so it would be impossible to take too many elixirs at once.

For safety reasons, martial artists would take one elixir a day, so that the power of the Different Species’ bloodline is neither too strong nor too weak, just enough to refine the bloodline without exceeding the martial artist’s control.

To calculate, completing one body and soul metamorphosis would require the support of 500 elixirs.

It means, if a martial artist wants to break through Innate, it will take at least 500 days at the fastest.

In other words.

By the time Chu Wei and the others break through Innate, it would be at the earliest a year and a half later in the eleventh year of Shenwu.

However, now they have Han Hua, Han Hu, and Han Liang, three Feishuang Tao protectors, plus the Great Mohism spiritual woman who is already on her way to get married and can return to the country in less than two months.

Chu State has four more Inborn Grandmasters in a short period of time.

The overall number of Innate is even more than ten.

With such strength, they don’t need to worry about not having Innate available for now.

Even if it comes to extremes, Lu Yuan can issue an order in the name of the King of Chu to mobilize the three grand masters from the three affiliated nations in the southwest.

However, these three Grandmasters are related to the situation in the southwest and are the important force that the Chu country uses as a deterrent against the Dali, Nanzhao, and Su and Song countries.

There is also a mutually restraining and counterbalancing situation among the three countries.

It is not impossible to use the Inborn of the three vassal countries.

But if they are moved, it is easy to break the situation in the southwest, and even cause disputes among the three vassal countries, completely destabilizing the southwest.

Therefore, Lu Yuan did not really want to use the power of these vassal countries unless absolutely necessary.

With these three small vassal countries, the Chu country only needs to maintain two armies in Qianzhong and one Innate, including prefectures and counties, county soldiers, for a total of 70,000 troops, and can maintain the situation in the southwest.

But without them.

To ensure the stability of the southwest as it is now, the Chu country would have to station an Avatar in Hanzhong as well, stationing more than 100,000 heavy troops to have sufficient deterrence.

The input and output of the two are clearly not proportional.

So considering this, Lu Yuan did not have the idea of conscripting the vassals of the southwest in the Southern Expedition next year.

However, this does not mean that the power of these southwestern vassal countries cannot be used in the future.

Once the Southern Expedition is launched next year and the Lingnan nations are destroyed.

The spears and borders of Chu country can go from south to north, surrounding the entire southwestern region from the land of Su and Song countries.

At that time, when the north, east, and south are all under Chu’s control.

For the remaining Nanzhao and Dali nations in the southwest, surrendering to the Chu country and submitting their allegiance will be the only way for them if they don’t want to bring destruction upon themselves.

At that time, Lu Yuan may just send a Messenger to subdue the two countries, making them new vassals of Chu State.

Yes, Lu Yuan had no intentions of attacking Nanzhao and Dali.

Ever since learning that Yangzhou was doomed to be destroyed in the future, Lu Yuan completely dispelled the idea of attacking the southwest.

Instead of spending time and effort to attack the southwest, losing soldiers, it is better to leave these small nations, making them submit and using their resources as the suzerain of the nations.

After all, the southwestern region has been destined for destruction in just over a hundred years.

By that time, these small nations would have to either surrender completely to Chu State and be annexed or have no other way to survive.

And one hundred and several years is enough for Chu State to continue infiltrating, slowly controlling the vassal countries as puppets.

So why bother?

There is no need for war now, just wait for a hundred years, and these small countries will obediently fall into Chu State’s arms without sending a single soldier.

After realizing this, Lu Yuan was no longer obsessed with the southwest.

As long as the other party submits to the Chu country, joins the Chu State tribute system, and allows Chu State to gain the Qi Luck of the southwestern countries, that’s enough.

Whether or not they really rule doesn’t matter.

Right now, the focus is on destroying Lingnan first, and then using the momentum of a great victory to put pressure on the southwest, unifying the western part of Yangzhou in name only.

At that time, the remaining five countries in the southwest will all become Chu State’s servants, and there will be no more enemies around, and no more security threats, so Lu Yuan can rest assured and boldly transfer the military forces of the southwestern countries, making use of them as he wishes.

He is not sure about other things.

But after the destruction of Lingnan, several years later, when launching the Eastern Expedition against Ning Country, the military forces and Innate of these southwestern barbarians and small countries will definitely come in handy.

All is planned inside Lu Yuan’s heart.

…

After personally protecting Chu Wei’s body change and confirming that he had initially mastered control of his own bloodline, Lu Yuan let go after more than a dozen days.

He is the ruler of Chu State. Even if he has now regained his original heart, he has started to let go of the military affairs of the country, focusing on his own freedom and transcendence, and having much more free time than in the past.

But even if he is free, there will still be many things that cannot be avoided, requiring him as the King of Chu to deal with personally.

Moreover, what he seeks is leisure, freedom and spontaneity.

Being obsessed with the affairs of Chu State cannot tie down Lu Yuan, and even less so can his disciples.

So naturally, he cannot spend too much time on watching over a few disciples breaking through Innate.