The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 76 Planning
While Li Miao was killing people outside the city, Tai'an city was already in a state of grief.

The original plan of the Ming Cult was to launch a poison attack during the Five Mountains Alliance Conference, and at the same time, to transform the martial arts people who came to Mount Tai to participate in the Five Mountains Alliance Conference and the common people in Tai'an City into poison soldiers.

This plan has been laid out for many years. The Ming Cult handed over the poisonous insect to Zuo Lishan in advance, which was part of this plan.

Li Miao forced Zuo Lishan to use the poisonous insect in advance, which actually forced the Ming Cult to launch this plan in advance.

In this plan, the importance of the people in Mount Tai is actually far greater than that of the people in Tai'an City.

The "Gu" thing originally had nothing to do with martial arts. In the past ten years since the Ming Cult went underground, most of its energy was spent on modifying the Gu worms. That's why Zuo Lishan became a half-master through the Gu worms and the martial arts modified by Ji Tianrui.

However, no matter how much it improves, there is one limitation that the Ming Cult can never overcome - materials.

The muscles and bones of people in the martial arts world have been tempered by true qi, which makes them much stronger than those of ordinary people. The probability of successful refining is also higher, and the refined Gu soldiers will be stronger.

If both plans succeed, the Ming Cult will be able to obtain thousands of fearless, powerful, tough and thick-skinned Gu soldiers.

With this capital, the Ming Cult can establish its own territory on the frontier and no longer have to continue its current life of hiding from place to place.

The importance attached to this matter can be seen from the number of people sent by the Ming Cult - two left and right envoys, a protector, two flag owners, and almost all the masters below the leader have come out in full force.

Moreover, the Ming Cult had already ascertained the movements of the imperial court's military forces and experts beforehand, and only began to take action after confirming that there was no risk of error.

But despite all the calculations, the Ming Cult still missed two people - Li Miao and Yun Zelin.

Li Miao did ruin the Ming Cult's plan fifteen years ago, and he was a well-known figure in the Ming Cult. But in the past ten years, Li Miao has never left the capital, and has not done anything famous. In recent years, there has been no incident in the capital that required Li Miao to use his full strength, so even Zhu Zai was not clear about Li Miao's martial arts level.

Even if we make the greatest estimate and assume that Li Miao has reached the top, the Ming Cult still has Lan Lechuan and Yun Zelin, who are both at the top and can rival him.

Above the peak, one step further is the martial arts legend, which is the realm reached by Bodhidharma and Sanfeng. Currently, there are three known paths: "Vajra", "Sumeru" and "Mustard Seed".

In the hundreds of years after Sanfeng Zhenren's death, there were geniuses who reached the top in the world, but no one appeared who could catch up with Sanfeng Zhenren.

Because after these geniuses reached the top, they discovered a despairing fact - after the top, it seemed that they had reached the end and there was no way to go anymore.

When the muscles and bones are honed to the extreme, it is "Vajra"; when the true energy is strong to the extreme, it is "Sumeru"; when the moves are performed as one wishes, it is "Mustard Seed".

And then? Nothing!

Some extremely talented geniuses would naturally think: If I can combine these three into one, will that be the condition for overcoming the natural chasm?
Then, these brilliant geniuses, before they even reached the state of unification of the three, met with a desperate end at the same time as they completed the second path - the Five Deteriorations of Heaven and Man.

Your clothes are dirty, your hair is withered, your armpits are sweaty, your body is smelly, and you are not happy with me.

From body to soul, withering together.

The Ming Cult has been passed down for nearly a thousand years, and naturally some masters within the sect have died in this attempt, leaving behind this despairing message.

Therefore, they were not prepared for Li Miao, an anomaly who was at the top of two fields and was still alive and well.

So Lan Lechuan appeared in Mount Tai alone, and ended up dying in vain at the hands of Li Miao.

The second person in the Ming Cult who was off guard was their right-hand man, Yun Zelin.

It's a very simple truth - if you want to turn against someone, you must want something for it, right?

Sitting in the third position of the Ming Cult, he had cut himself off from the imperial court. His martial arts skills had also reached the pinnacle, and there was no possibility of moving forward.

What do you want?

But Yun Zelin did it inexplicably. He first concealed the situation and gave the life of a flag owner to Li Miao.

Then he activated the poison in Tai'an City in advance, so that Mao Yingxia didn't have time to enter the city, and was caught by Li Miao outside the city in a hurry.

Finally, he launched the poison on Mount Tai in advance, releasing the people from the Hengshan, Hengshan and Songshan sects to go down the mountain. Even many disciples of the Mount Tai sect who were not poisoned by Zuo Lishan ran away.

He even used the poisonous insects in Lan Lechuan and Zuo Lishan's bodies, and immediately fell into the Five Degenerations of Heaven and Man, which was like committing suicide.

The poisonous insect in Zuo Lishan's body was the mother poisonous insect prepared for the people in the martial arts world on Mount Tai. It was used by Yun Zelin, and the Ming Cult's plan on Mount Tai naturally collapsed.

So after careful consideration, Mao Yingxia directly gave up the plan on Mount Tai and instead asked all the Ming Cult disciples to focus on the affairs of Tai'an City.

What Li Miao stopped outside the city was only the largest group of people from the Ming Cult.

The leader of the Ming Cult's Flood Banner received the message from Mao Yingxia and was now rushing to Tai'an City with his men.

The eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen, who escaped from the Taishan faction, and the people from the Songshan, Hengshan and Hengshan factions were about to arrive in Tai'an city.

And in Tai'an City.

Mei Qinghe thrust out his sword and pierced the knee of the man in front of him.

She had mastered the swordsmanship and her sword strikes were extremely precise. This sword only penetrated a little bit, avoiding all tendons and joints, and would not leave any disability.

The man staggered and fell forward.

Mei Qinghe stepped forward and pointed a finger at the man's neck, knocking him unconscious.

Then he swept the sword sideways, carefully controlling the force, and knocked away the people who were rushing towards him.

Mei Qinghe flashed forward, pressed the acupoints of several people one by one, then took out a long rope and dragged them towards the provincial government office.

Saving lives is becoming increasingly difficult.

At first, the people were just exhausted but could still barely call for help. Mei Qinghe only had to follow the sound and bring the people to Xiao Si.

Later, most people fell into a coma. Li Miao could hear the faint sounds of breathing and vomiting through the wall, but Mei Qinghe couldn't do that, so she could only search door to door.

Now, some people have been corrupted by the poison, lost their minds, and started attacking others.

Most of Mei Qinghe's martial arts skills are in the sword. If he uses a palm technique that he is not good at, not only will it be difficult to control the strength, but it will also consume extra energy.

Therefore, Mei Qinghe could only rely on the accuracy of his sword to stab the common people's joints, or knock them down with the sword, and then press acupoints to control them and bring them back to Xiao Si.

Although this would consume extra energy, at least it would not exhaust all of your energy and put you in a situation where you could no longer continue.

A moment later, Mei Qinghe entered the provincial government office and dragged the people in his hands to Xiao Si.

At this time, white smoke was coming out of the basin in front of Xiao Si. When the people smelled the smoke, they vomited instinctively. After spitting out a lot of winding poisonous insects, they fell into a coma.

Disciples from the Huashan Sect took these people to the backyard.

Wang Hai saw Mei Qinghe coming back and called out, "Everyone, please stop."

"It will be a drop in the bucket if we continue to save them. We should be prepared to fight to the death."

(End of this chapter)