Double penetration: This Three Kingdoms has dragon energy

Chapter 113: Inventory of Strength, Development of the Luoyang Situation

After taking in Xu Rong and the Northern Army, Ji Qiu returned to Taishan County and continued to develop his power in seclusion.

Time passed quickly and it was mid-November of the sixth year of Zhongping.

At this time, Ji Qiu's overall strength has been greatly improved.

First of all, it is about personal strength.

Ji Qiu's first secret technique, the Heart-Confusing Technique, has been cultivated to the intermediate level of the sixth grade.

The ninth-grade secret technique is further divided into three levels.

The three grades of nine, eight, and seven are called low-level secret techniques.

The three grades, 6, 5 and 4, are called intermediate secret techniques.

The three grades, 3, 2 and 1, are called high-level secret techniques.

The reason why a third-level system is added to the nine-level system.

This is because every time the level of the secret technique increases, the power will have a qualitative leap.

Taking the Secret Art of Bewitching the Mind as an example, the seventh-grade peak and the sixth-grade primary seem to be only one small level apart.

But its power is almost twice as strong!
At the same time, low-level mind-controlling secret techniques can only forcibly control others and obtain the information one wants from them.

However, the intermediate-level secret technique of confusing the mind has the ability to guide the other party's thoughts without their knowledge and make them make irrational judgments.

It is said that if the secret art of confusing the mind is cultivated to a high level, it can even modify the memory of others. It is truly terrifying!
Ji Qiu's second secret technique, which is also his core secret technique, Dragon Transformation, has been cultivated to the primary level of the seventh grade.

At this time, he had a total of nine dragon seeds.

There are six dragon seeds currently in use.

They respectively control Jia Xu, Yuan Huan, and Lu Bu in the Dragon Qi Three Kingdoms world, and the heads of the three major political factions in the modern world of Annan.

There are three free dragon seeds.

The third secret technique is fanaticism, which is currently at the primary level of the seventh grade.

In fact, this secret technique was practiced relatively late, but it has surpassed the Thunder Summoning Secret Technique and the Essence Replenishing Secret Technique and has been successfully promoted to Ji Qiu's third secret technique.

The reason for this is that the level-up method of the Fanatic Secret Art is different from that of other Secret Arts.

The upgrade speed of the fanatic secret art is determined by the number and quality of its believers.

The greater the quantity and the higher the quality, the faster the upgrade speed.

The ideological system chosen by Ji Qiu is an advanced modern ideological system. Applying it to the world of Longqi Three Kingdoms to develop believers is a complete dimensionality reduction attack.

In addition, he also used government power to force development within his own territory, so the development speed of the believers was naturally faster.

That's why he was able to elevate the fanaticism secret art to such a level in such a short period of time.

However, Ji Qiu's territory is limited, and the population on the territory is also limited.

This method of developing believers through government coercion also has its limits.

Therefore, his fanatical secret technique will not always be in a state of rapid upgrading.

In fact, the current upgrade speed of the fanatic secret technique has already slowed down.

If nothing unexpected happens in the future, it will continue to decline.

There will be no improvement until he can acquire new territories and new populations.

Reaching the seventh-grade primary level of the fanatic secret art allowed Ji Qiu to obtain an additional 1.1 times the dragon energy in the spiritual realm.

This is still quite impressive.

Because at this time Ji Qiu had basically completed the plan to evacuate the people of Luoyang.

It cannot be said that all the millions of Luoyang residents were moved to Taishan County, but 700,000 have already moved there.

With 700,000 people in Luoyang and the 400,000 people already in Taishan County, the total population under his rule has now reached 1.1 million.

At the same time, there are no middlemen such as wealthy families under his command to make a profit from the price difference, and all the population is under his direct control.

Therefore, all these 110 million people must provide him with spiritual dragon energy.

Of course, the specific quantity provided will definitely vary.

His followers would provide more, while the people of Luoyang who had just moved here would provide less.

However, even if the average is calculated, it can reach 0.15%.

Therefore, a population of 110 million provides 1.65 basic spiritual dragon energy and 1.815 basic dragon energy.

This is a scary number.

After all, the imperial seal can harvest the spiritual dragon energy of the whole world, but it can only provide Ji Qiu with 100,000 points of dragon energy.

And Ji Qiu reached one third of this value with the power of only one county!

Of course, one reason for this is that the prestige of the Han Dynasty has declined. Even though it has not completely lost the hearts of the people, it can no longer receive much spiritual energy.

On the other hand, it stems from Ji Qiu’s unique governance model.

Currently, all the people under his rule live in twelve large settlements.

Their elderly people spend their twilight years in the nursing homes in the gathering place.

Their children receive education in schools in the settlement.

Their job is to gather corporate employees in the area and staff from various departments of the prefectural government.

They eat in the collective canteen at the gathering place.

To get dressed, they go to the ready-made clothing stores in the gathering place.

When they are sick, they go to the clinic in the gathering place for treatment.

When they travel, they have to take various public transportation modes.

In short, from birth to death, food, clothing, housing, transportation, education and medical care, every aspect of their lives is under Ji Qiu's control.

This kind of management method is unprecedented in the world of Longqi Three Kingdoms.

The degree of mental impact and physical control it brings is unprecedented.

At present, Ji Qiu’s spiritual dragon energy harvesting ratio has reached the county average of 0.15%.

The proportion of physical dragon energy harvested has reached the county average of 0.2%!
The amount of dragon energy provided by his county even surpassed the amount of dragon energy provided by the continents under the control of other princes!

And this is far from the upper limit of Taishan County.

In the future, as Ji Qiu's construction and management of Taishan County reach a higher level, this place will provide him with even more terrifying dragon energy.

Sure enough, compared to expanding the number of sites, it is actually more important to develop the potential of the sites.

A well-developed county is worth more than several undeveloped states!
Ji Qiu's fourth and fifth secret techniques are the thunder summoning technique and the essence replenishing technique respectively.

Through his daily practice, these two secret arts reached the peak of the eighth level at the same time.

The sixth and seventh secret arts are the hazy secret art and the flying feather secret art respectively.

The Hazy Secret Art was mentioned earlier. It was a secret art that Ji Qiu practiced before meeting Ding Yuan in order not to reveal his identity.

This secret technique can summon a ball of hazy light to cover the face and conceal the identity.

Of course, the effect of the Hazy Secret Art is not just that simple.

In the future, as its level increases, it will be able to summon more hazy light and perform more complex applications.

Ji Qiu felt that this secret technique actually utilized light waves in essence.

Its effects and functions still have great development potential.

In addition, the resources needed to practice this secret technique are not precious to him.

The resources for practicing this secret technique are the seven natural light waves of red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, and violet.

This is very unfriendly to the practitioners of the Dragon Qi Three Kingdoms.

Because in the Three Kingdoms of Dragon Qi, these seven kinds of light waves will only appear in extremely special astronomical phenomena.

But in the modern world it is easier.

Ji Qiu can completely use modern equipment to artificially produce these seven light waves.

This can be said to be the most easily obtained cultivation resource for him.

So Ji Qiu made this secret technique one of the dragon energy secret techniques he practiced in his daily life.

As for the Flying Feather Secret Art, it was a secret art that Ji Qiu carefully selected from the many Qianjintang secret arts he had obtained.

This is a body-related secret technique.

Ji Qiu has always had a special liking for body-related secret arts.

As early as when he first entered Qianjin Hall, he chose the body-related secret technique among the countless secret techniques.

This is mainly due to his extremely deep stereotype of various secret arts.

Other secret techniques are just for use, only body-related secret techniques are essential!
Other types of secret techniques, no matter how high your level of cultivation is, require the consumption of dragon energy to use.

Without the dragon energy, it would be meaningless.

Only the body-related secret techniques can directly improve physical fitness.

And if your physical fitness improves, then it will be improved.

It is impossible for it to descend again because there is no dragon energy.

Therefore, physical secret techniques, especially those that directly improve physical fitness, do not require the consumption of dragon energy.

No matter how much physical fitness you improve through the secret technique, these physical fitness will belong to you forever!

This is extremely important for a time traveler like Ji Qiu who is always thinking that if he can no longer survive in the world of Longqi Three Kingdoms, he will completely abandon the world of Longqi Three Kingdoms and return to the modern world.

If one day, he is really driven back to the modern world and loses all external sources of dragon energy, then other secret techniques will be false to him, and only body-related secret techniques will be the most real!
Therefore, Ji Qiu had long wanted to practice body-related secret techniques. If possible, he would even like to practice all body-related secret techniques with others.

But this is impossible.

Not to mention that there are inherent conflicts between certain body-related secret techniques, and they cannot be practiced together at all.

Even though there were body-related secret techniques that could be practiced together, Ji Qiu could not practice many of them.

Because he simply couldn't find the corresponding cultivation resources.

Most of the body-related secret arts require the flesh and blood of mythical creatures as training resources.

A few body-related secret techniques require the flesh and blood of mythical creatures, as well as special cultivation talents!

For example, the book of the Tyrannosaurus Secret Technique that made Ji Qiu salivate required the heart of the mythical creature Tyrannosaurus Rex and the special talent of double pupils.

The difficulty of cultivation is simply sky-high!
When Ji Qiu was in Qianjin Hall, he finally chose the secret technique of transforming into a dragon.

Is it because the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique is the most powerful?

no.

This is because this is the only body-related secret technique for which he can find relevant training resources, and it does not require any special talent!

But now, he can finally practice the second body-related secret technique.

Because he plundered the granary of Qianjintang and got a small amount of resources from it, but it was basically enough for him to practice the secret body skills!

So he carefully selected the flying feather secret technique from many body-related secret techniques.

This is a secret technique that focuses on acceleration. Strength, speed, physique, and spirit—these four physical qualities are known as the body's four attributes.

Because they are the most basic and important physical qualities.

Improving these four qualities can indirectly affect other qualities!
Therefore, any physical secret technique that can enhance these four attributes is a very powerful physical secret technique.

For example, the Overlord's secret technique that Ji Qiu is obsessed with is mainly used to increase strength.

The secret technique of transforming into a dragon can simultaneously improve the four-dimensional attributes, which seems even more powerful.

However, the improvement of each attribute is very low. Even if it is upgraded to the peak of the first level, the growth of a single attribute is equivalent to the peak of the sixth level of Overlord or Flying Feather Secret Technique.

This is quite useless.

The main material for practicing the Flying Feather Secret Art is the feathered serpent skeleton that Ji Qiu obtained from the granary.

It also requires some auxiliary materials for cultivation that are very rare in the Dragon Rider Three Kingdoms world, but can be found in the modern world.

I think this is probably the reason why no one in Hanting has been able to practice the secret art of flying feathers for so many years.

Even if there are main materials, the auxiliary materials cannot be solved.

A small part of the feathered serpent skeleton in Ji Qiu's hand has been taken to the modern era.

Let’s see if we can use modern genetic cloning technology to create more skeletons.

But the vast majority of it remained in his hands.

This is perfect for practicing the secret art of flying feathers.

Ji Qiu roughly estimated that these bones would allow him to cultivate the Flying Feather Secret Art to the third level or so.

If he wanted to continue practicing, he would have to find more feathered serpent skeletons.

However, the good thing about the Flying Feather Secret Art is that even if you can't find a new feathered serpent skeleton and can't continue to increase your level, it won't decrease your level like the Dragon Transformation Secret Art.

It just stagnates at the current level.

This is very friendly to Ji Qiu, and is also the main reason why he chose to practice the secret art of flying feathers.

At present, Ji Qiu’s Flying Feather Secret Art and Hazy Secret Art have both been cultivated to the peak of the ninth level.

Thanks to the blessing of the Flying Feather Secret Technique, Ji Qiu's moving speed reached one hundred meters in three seconds!

The second is the development of modern world forces.

Ji Qiu's position in Annan became more stable.

He reduced the export volume of dragon steel and other dragon energy materials and instead focused on exporting high-end Chinese herbal medicines.

These high-end Chinese herbal medicines do not need to be sold to other countries in the modern world; they can all be consumed by Annan alone.

Then Ji Qiu used the Annan currency obtained from high-end Chinese herbal medicines to purchase large quantities of grain in Annan and invest in enterprises.

The companies he invested in were all used to produce the modern materials he needed.

So he doesn't have to worry about sales at all, as he can take charge of production and sales himself.

However, these companies have provided a large number of jobs to Annan.

According to conservative estimates, there are currently millions of people in Annan who rely on Ji Qiu for their livelihood!
At this time, Ji Qiu's control over Annan was no longer solely dependent on the leaders of the three political factions.

Instead, they used economic means to infiltrate all classes of Annan and control the country from the bottom up.

This is far more stable than the previous top-down control of Annan by relying on controlling the heads of political factions.

Of course, he cannot withdraw the dragon seeds from the three major political factions now, because there are only a million people who depend on him for their livelihood.

Although eliminating him would cause turmoil in Annan, it was still acceptable.

Until the number of people in Annan who depend on him for their livelihood reaches more than 30 million, accounting for one-third of the total population of Annan.

You can be completely worry-free.

By then, even if the dragon seeds in the three major political factions were taken out, there would be no need to worry about them rebelling.

Because at that time, Ji Qiu was Annan, and Annan was Ji Qiu!

The third is the growth of Ji Qiu’s civil and military officials.

Among the civil and military officials under Ji Qiu, the highest-ranking scholar was finally not Xi Zhong.

The one who replaced him was Xu Rong!
Xu Rong is a very mature commander-type scholar, and his scholar rank has reached the intermediate third grade.

The highest level of secret technique is the innate secret technique, which is exciting and thrilling!
This is a powerful secret technique that can instantly increase the four-dimensional attributes of all soldiers in the army by 30%.

The ninth level primary can bless 10,000 people, each subsequent smaller level can bless an additional 3,000 people, and each subsequent larger level can bless an additional 5,000 people.

After reaching the peak of the first rank, one can bless 13.1 people.

Compared with Xu He's innate secret technique, Wanjun Tongqi, the number of passionate blessings is undoubtedly much less.

But the effect of the passionate blessing is far stronger than the unity of all troops.

After all, the unity of all armies can only improve the coordination of the entire army by 30%, but passion can improve the four-dimensional attributes by 30%, which at least doubles the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the soldiers!
Therefore, Xu Rong is suitable for commanding medium-sized battles with about 100,000 people, and Xu He is suitable for commanding large-scale battles with about 300,000 to 400,000 people.

In addition to possessing powerful innate secret techniques, Xu Rong also possesses a variety of acquired secret techniques. He has actually cultivated all of the Eight Military Formations to the fifth level or above.

He is the perfect commander of a medium-sized battle army!

After Xu Rong, the second highest-ranking subordinate is Lu Bu.

Lu Bu's scholar level is the peak of the fourth rank.

Does it feel a bit strange?
When Dong Zhuo first entered Luoyang City, he met Lu Bu, who single-handedly defeated more than a dozen fierce generals from Xiliang.

Among those fierce generals of Xiliang, there are many high-ranking scholars above the third rank.

Then how could Lu Bu be a mid-level scholar?
But that’s the truth!
This is Lu Bu’s potential!

He is still far from reaching his peak. Only when he becomes a high-level scholar will he truly shock the world!
After Lu Bu, there was Xi Zhong.

However, his innate secret technique, Xingluo Deduction, had not changed from a few months ago and was still at the fifth-grade advanced level.

This is the first time that the scholar's rank has grown since the system joined Ji Qiu.

The same goes for Zhang Zhongjing, Yuan Huan, Zhuge Gui and Zao Zhi, who were under Xi Zhong.

They are all middle-level scholars of the fifth rank.

However, Ren Hongchang's secret technique of confusing the mind was upgraded to the same level as theirs, reaching the fifth-grade intermediate level.

The innate secret technique Jinghong Wu has also reached the peak of the eighth level.

The combined power of the two secret techniques has reached the primary level of the fourth grade!

Below Ren Hongchang, Li Dangzhi, a junior scholar of the fifth rank, was newly added.

He always has innate secret skills and unique elixirs.

This secret technique can greatly improve the success rate and quality of alchemy and medicine making.

It just so happened that Yuan Huan, the head of the Agriculture Department under Ji Qiu, managed a large number of plantations, which produced a large amount of high-quality high-end Chinese herbal medicines every year.

With Yuan Huan and Li Dangzhi joining forces, Ji Qiu felt that Taishan County would soon be able to mass-produce high-end finished drugs.

High-end finished medicines are of great significance both in the Three Kingdoms of Longqi and in the modern world!
Below Li Dangzhi were Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Zhang Ning, Dian Wei and Yu Jin, all of whom were high-ranking scholars of the sixth rank.

Jia Xu, Zhao Lei, Wei Yan, and Gao Shun were all promoted to seventh-rank junior scholars.

The last among all the civil and military officials is Guo Jia, who is currently an eighth-rank peak scholar!

After introducing the changes in my own strength, let’s talk about the changes in the situation in Luoyang City.

The battle between Dong Zhuo and Ding Yuan in Luoyang City lasted for three months and finally came to an end.

Three days ago, Niu Fu, a general under Dong Zhuo, led his personal soldiers and rushed into the camp in the west city of Luoyang.

Then he personally beheaded Ding Yuan and Zhang Yang.

Zhang Liao fled the Xicheng camp in a hurry with his 300 personal guards and his whereabouts are unknown.

The 30,000 Bingzhou Wolf Riders remaining in the Xicheng camp surrendered to Lu Bu.

Luoyang City officially fell into Dong Zhuo's hands.

But unlike in history when Dong Zhuo easily controlled the city of Luoyang, Dong Zhuo at this time was in a miserable state.

Of the 60,000 Xiliang cavalrymen under his command, tens of thousands died in the battle with Ding Yuan, leaving less than 50,000.

Although 30,000 Bingzhou Wolf Riders were recruited by Lu Bu, the total number of troops did not exceed 80,000.

Moreover, the soldiers were all exhausted after fighting for a long time, and many of them were injured.

Historically, he not only took over all of Ding Yuan's troops, but also defeated the Northern Army.

The total number of troops exceeds 130,000, and they are all elite troops!
The current combat effectiveness is probably more than halved.

Now that his strength has been weakened, will Dong Zhuo's behavior be more restrained than in history?
of course not!

Although his strength has been weakened, Dong Zhuo's strength is still unique in Luoyang City, and no force can pose a threat to him!
At the same time, precisely because his strength had been weakened, his soldiers were exhausted from long battles and their morale was low, so he urgently needed to obtain higher power and more wealth to inspire morale and stabilize the military spirit.

So he is destined to be crazier than in history!
As for how he would go crazy, Ji Qiu still had no idea.

Not too interested either.

After all, no matter how crazy Dong Zhuo was, it was impossible for him to be angry at Taishan County or him, who were thousands of miles away.

Even until this point, Dong Zhuo might not have known of his presence in the chaos of Luoyang City!

So, let Dong Zhuo go crazy, he needed to do something more important.

That is to receive Ding Yuan's inheritance.

Ding Yuan's legacy consists of two parts.

The first one is the 30,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry.

The second is Zhang Liao.

The 30,000 Bingzhou Wolf Riders have been accepted by Lu Bu, which is a disguised way of saying they are in his hands.

And now he is going to receive another inheritance, that is Zhang Liao.

In Ji Qiu's mind, Zhang Liao's value is actually greater than the 30,000 Bingzhou Wolf Riders.

After all, this is a fierce man who will be able to chase and chop down the 100,000-strong army of Eastern Wu with only 800 personal guards in the future.

His military talent was fully demonstrated in the three-month battle of Luoyang.

Although the military strength of Dong Zhuo and Ding Yuan seemed to be similar.

But don't forget that most of Ding Yuan's generals were Lu Bu's close associates.

When these generals were fighting against Lu Bu, they were both concerned about their old friendship with Lu Bu and afraid of Lu Bu's strength, so it was definitely difficult for them to exert their full strength.

Ding Yuan's army could only exert 80% of its combat effectiveness at most.

But Dong Zhuo's side, with the addition of Lu Bu, a peerless warrior, can unleash nearly 120% of their combat power!
This increase and decrease means a difference of one third in combat power!

Under normal circumstances, Ding Yuan’s army would not collapse at the first blow, but it would definitely not be able to hold out for such a long time.

The reason why they were able to hold out for so long was, on the one hand, because Lu Bu was secretly letting them win, and on the other hand, because they had the great general Zhang Liao.

It was Zhang Liao who commanded the army and withstood the attacks of Dong Zhuo's generals, which allowed Ding Yuan to hold on for so long!

A thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find!
If Zhang Liao can be subdued, Ji Qiu will have another capable general under his command!

(End of this chapter)