Meng Zhang personally met with these casual cultivators one by one and used his mind to read their thoughts one by one to ensure that there were no different thoughts.
Those casual cultivators who pass Meng Zhang’s screening will naturally be accepted by the Taiyi Sect.
Meng Zhang did not directly absorb these casual cultivators into the Taiyi Sect. The current Taiyi Sect is no longer the same as before, and there is no need to be hungry and selective. There are higher standards for recruiting disciples.
Taiyimen originally built a Hengyuan Building in Mingshafang City, which was Taiyimen’s main commercial institution in Mingshafang City. It was headed by Zhang Zhanlin, Li Xuan’s adopted son.
Meng Zhang handed over all these casual cultivators to Zhang Zhanlin and asked them to serve Hengyuan Tower.
In Meng Zhang’s conception, Hengyuan Tower is to Taiyi Sect what Feihong Tower is to Feihong Sect. As the commercial institution of Taiyi Sect, Hengyuan Building must continue to develop and expand, and slowly extend its influence outwards.
Meng Zhang’s standards for casual cultivators were very relaxed this time. Those who were not too bad or had hostility towards Taiyi Sect were all absorbed into Hengyuan Tower by him.
These people serve Hengyuan Tower. As long as they are loyal enough and work hard enough, after many tests, they still have the opportunity to join the Taiyi Sect and become the official disciples of the Taiyi Sect.
Now, they can only be regarded as peripheral members of Taiyi Sect.
As for those casual cultivators who were neither willing to be loyal to the Shi family nor to the Taiyi Sect, or who were looked down upon by the Taiyi Sect, Meng Zhang did not make things difficult for them.
The Taiyi Sect has just occupied such a large territory. It needs to appease people’s hearts and it is not appropriate to start killing people rashly.
As long as individual cultivators do not violate the laws of Mingshafang City, they can naturally stay here safely and come and go freely.
Jin Qigu, who returned to Mingshafang City with Meng Zhang, did not stop here, but directly began to patrol this vast territory to ensure the peace around her.
While Meng Zhang and Jin Qigu were busy stabilizing the rear, Shangguan Long Yan, the head of the Dihuo Sect, also received a letter from Taoist Guanghui, the head of Lin Quanguan.
When facing Feihong Sect, Lin Quanguan and Dihuo Sect are natural allies. Now that Lin Quanguan is under siege, it seems that Dihuomen should not just sit idly by. But Shangguan Longyan also has his own difficulties.
With the absence of the Great Elder Lieyan, even if Shangguan Long Yan is the leader of a faction, he cannot make the decision on many things.
Now, neither Dihuo Sect nor Lin Quanguan have publicly broken up with the Feihong Sect.
Of course, Lin Quanguan was besieged by Taiyi Sect and Qiaoshou Sect, and Feihong Sect was secretly instigating this.
What Shangguan Longyan is worried about is whether the Feihong Sect will offend the Feihong Sect if Dihuo Sect assists Lin Quanguan this time, leading to the Feihong Sect’s full suppression.
With the power of the Feihong Sect, if they really want to tear their faces apart, the Earth Fire Sect will never be able to withstand it.
In addition, Dihuo Sect is currently in confrontation with Tu Xing Sect.
Although the Earth Fire Sect has the upper hand for the time being, if a large amount of force is sent to reinforce Lin Quanguan, it might give the Tu Xing Sect an opportunity to take advantage of.
Zhenren Lieyan could not be contacted for the time being, and Shangguan Longyan was unable to make a decision for a long time.
He summoned the elders in the sect to discuss matters. The elders expressed their opinions and quarreled, but they could not reach a unified opinion.
The Earth Fire Sect and the Fire Cloud Sect have a close relationship. However, the Fire Cloud Sect is far away from the endless sand sea and cannot communicate for the time being.
Finally, Shangguan Longyan decided not to rush to reinforce Lin Quanguan, but sent an envoy to get the opinions of the Mobei Qi family.
The Feihong Sect is so powerful that the forces of Dihuo Sect, Lin Quanguan and the Mobei Qi Family need to stay together for warmth.
Although no formal covenant has been reached, everyone should have a certain tacit understanding.
Now that Lin Quanguan is besieged and in crisis, the Mobei Qi family should have a charter.
But when the local Huo Sect envoy rushed all the way to the territory of the Mobei Qi family and asked to see the head of the Mobei Qi family, he was turned away.
The head of the Qi family was unwilling to receive the envoy from the Dihuo Sect and did not explain the reason.
After receiving the information from the messenger, Shangguan Long Yan was a little confused.
What on earth is going on? Could it be that the Mobei Qi family and the Feihong Sect came together?
Putting aside this ridiculous idea in his mind, Shangguan Longyan continued to have a headache and still found it difficult to make a decision.
At this time, after a lot of hard work, Meng Zhang and Jin Qigu had almost settled the newly occupied territory and basically eliminated their worries.
Shi Changqing became a vassal of Taiyi Sect, giving Taiyi Sect one more foundation-building monk.
With Shi Changqing in charge, at least Mingshafang City will have no problems.
After pacifying the rear, Meng Zhang and Jin Qigu returned to the front line again.
The two sects maintained their siege on Lin Quanguan but did not attack rashly. The monks in Linquan Temple also made up their minds not to come out.
In desperation, Meng Zhang had no choice but to use his ability to detect illusions and help General Houtu to survey the geography and detect the surrounding situation.
Houtu God General did not disappoint Meng Zhang. After a long period of investigation, he finally came up with a feasible plan that could weaken or even destroy Lin Quanguan’s mountain-protecting formation.
For the Lin Quan Guan Mountain Protection Array to operate, it requires a large amount of spiritual energy to be consumed every moment.
Linquan Mountain Viewing Gate is located on a second-order spiritual vein. This second-order spiritual vein continuously provides spiritual energy to the mountain-protecting formation and maintains the operation of the mountain-protecting formation.
God General Houtu gave full play to his expertise as an earth master and surveyed the specific direction of the second-order spiritual vein.
Spiritual veins are generally hidden deep underground and distributed along the direction of the earth veins.
An excellent earth master can figure out the specific location of the spiritual veins by simply following the earth veins.
If the earth veins are cut off, God General Houtu can use the earth master’s secret method to affect the flow of spiritual energy in the spiritual veins and stop the spiritual veins from providing spiritual energy to the mountain guarding formation.
Without the spiritual energy provided by this second-level spiritual vein, Lin Quanguan needs to consume a large amount of spiritual stones every moment in order to maintain the operation of the mountain-protecting formation.
Linquan Guan’s inventory of spiritual stones is limited. No matter how wealthy Lin Quan Guan is and how deep his foundation is, he cannot withstand this kind of consumption.
When the spiritual stones are exhausted, the mountain-protecting formation loses its source of spiritual energy and will naturally collapse.
Without the blessing of the mountain-protecting formation, it would be impossible for the group of monks in Linquan Temple to withstand the combined forces of Taiyi Sect and Qiaoshou Sect.
After hearing General Houtu’s plan, Meng Zhang felt very happy. Fortunately, the Earth Master, God General Houtu, was able to come up with such a plan to draw out the firepower.
After Meng Zhang summoned all the foundation-building monks and revealed the plans of God General Houtu, he began to arrange tasks.
The task of the monks in the foundation-building period is to closely monitor the mountain gate of Lin Quanguan to prevent the monks inside from doing bad things.
The Qi Refining Period monks from the two sects here all mobilized and followed the instructions of General Houtu to dig around and cut off the earth veins.
After the arrangements were made, all the monks began to act according to the plan.