Chapter 388 Arriving in Fuqing City, the Ye Family's Prosperity
"Brother, this huge town that is vaguely visible ahead should be our destination, Fuqing City."
"According to the intelligence department, the next large town along the north bank of the Fuqing River from Zhendongwei City on the coast is Fuqing City."
Wan'er rode on Da Meng's back, pointed at the huge town in front and below, and spoke excitedly to Li Dingguo who was riding on Da Jin on the right.
Because they had to move together with the large fleet heading south, and due to the long journey, it took more than a month for the two men and their fleet to reach the estuary of Fuqing River where Zhendong Weicheng was located.
At present, the Fuxing Army does not have the spare energy to launch an offensive against the Jiangnan area of the Ming Dynasty, so the large fleet did not dock, but went upstream along the central area of the Fuqing River.
The reason for doing this is, of course, not to alarm the various forces along the way.
Although the Fuqing River is not too large, it is not smaller than the Jialu River and its width is over a thousand miles.
Generally speaking, for safety reasons, the various fleets traveling on this river basically sail along the river bank and will not go to the center of the river for no reason to experience the turbulent waves in the river.
Going upstream along the center of the river, if they encounter some unlucky merchant ships, they will be immediately seized by the large fleet of the Restoration Army, and all the warriors on the ship will be killed, and then the captured treasure ship will be used for their own purposes.
The large fleet led by Li Dingguo was heading towards Fuqing City, and secrecy could be guaranteed.
What's more, the source of Fuqing River is not far to the west of Fuqing City. The river is not very long, and there are not many treasure ships traveling on this river.
The vast majority of these merchant ships belong to the Ye family, the only dominant family in Fuqing City.
After their fleet avoided the Zhendong City Wall and began to move upstream along the center of the river, Li Dingguo and Wan'er separated from the fleet as planned and went ahead on two level five golden eagles.
The purpose of the two men is self-evident, which is to use the advantage of their own military force to launch a surprise attack and replicate the battle example of destroying the main residence of the Fan family in Jiexiu City.
Only in this way can the Ye family avoid being alerted and immediately arrange for the core members of the family to escape with the treasures.
Ye Xianggao, who was once the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty for three dynasties, is also the leader of the Donglin Party, the most powerful force in the current Ming Dynasty. It is impossible to say that he has not collected a large number of natural treasures and spiritual herbs and roots over the years.
Since Li Dingguo was determined to wipe out the Ye family in Fuqing, he would naturally not rashly alert the enemy and prevent them from being prepared.
Li Dingguo, who had a similar successful experience, naturally regarded all the property and supplies of the Ye family in Fuqing City as his own, so he wasted so much time and brought a large fleet to transport the huge amount of spoils.
Although the space of his natal artifact, the Human Emperor Cauldron, is not small, at forty-eight feet in radius, it cannot carry so many things.
"Wan'er."
Li Dingguo nodded and said to Wan'er, "The plan for this raid is basically the same as our last raid on the Fan family in Jiexiu City."
"According to the report from Huang Rong, the deputy director of the Intelligence Department on the southeast coast, the entire Nancheng area with a radius of dozens of miles is the Ye family's building complex, which is close to the Fuqing River at the large dock outside the South Gate."
"It seems that the time now has just passed noon. This important town in the south of the Yangtze River, which has been peaceful for a long time, usually does not open the city defense formation during the day. We can directly ride the big golden eagle into it."
"According to the plan we discussed earlier, I will go find the Ye family's most powerful warrior to attack, and you will target the core area of the Ye family's main residence and start a massacre from the inside out."
"Da Jin and Dameng are responsible for patrolling in the sky, killing all the members of the Ye family who want to escape, and try their best to prevent anyone from the Ye family in Fuqing City from escaping."
He and Wan'er are both level six powerhouses, and Da Jin and Dameng are also level six and level five peak spirit birds.
With this kind of strength, destroying the Fuqing Ye family will definitely be easier than destroying the Jiexiu Fan family three years ago.
When they raided the Fan family in Jiexiu City before, Li Dingguo, Wan'er and Hongmei were only at the early stage of level five, while the most powerful was Da Jin who was at the peak of level five.
At that time, the Fan family had three level five masters, among whom the elder Fan Li was a mid-level five master.
That long-range raid was actually quite dangerous. Fortunately, thanks to the unexpected raid tactics, the mission was successfully completed without any danger.
This long-distance attack on the Ye family was completely different.
Although the Ye family in Fuqing is ten times more powerful than the Fan family in Jiexiu City, they do not have any level six strongmen. As long as they do not give the other party a chance to form a formation and counterattack, they will not pose any threat to them.
That's why Li Dingguo feels so relaxed now.
"Brother, don't worry."
Wan'er nodded her head excitedly and said, "The demise of the Fuqing Ye family is certain this time. There won't be any surprises!"
"I just wonder how many treasures are hidden in this rumored most famous family in the Ming Dynasty?"
When this money-grubber thought about the countless money and materials he was about to receive, his face flushed with anticipation as he said, "It would be even better if we could harvest one or two acquired spiritual roots."
"We have both innate and acquired spiritual roots in our hands, but the number of these two types of spiritual roots has not exceeded one handful so far. It's a bit too shabby!"
This girl was so greedy when it came to treasures like spiritual roots, which made Li Dingguo laugh.
She didn't even think about the fact that she and Li Dingguo each had an innate spiritual root, and also obtained the acquired spiritual roots that protected the Wang, Tian, and Kang families of the great Jin merchants.
This kind of foundation is probably unique among all the human forces in this world.
But what she said was right. Whether it was innate or acquired spiritual roots, such extremely precious treasures, the more the better.
"Well, let's get started right away."
Li Dingguo nodded to Wan'er, and then instructed the two golden eagles, "Dajin, Dameng, first fly from a height of ten thousand feet to the sky above the southern city of Fuqing City ahead, and then find the most luxurious and large-scale building complex to land."
"Da Jin, your perception ability is extraordinary now. If you can sense the aura of the fifth-level peak powerhouse in the Ye family mansion, you can directly choose the other party's location and land quickly."
In terms of perception ability, even Li Dingguo today is far inferior to the Great Jin with the same level of cultivation.
Therefore, it is best to let Dajin decide on the first launch of this raid. In order to reduce the difficulty of this long-distance raid, this is a good arrangement.
"Chirp..."
Da Jin, who was slowly circling in the sky thousands of feet high, neighed softly when he heard the words, nodded his big head, and then, together with Da Meng beside him, flapped his big wings and quietly arrived above the South City District of Fuqing City in front of them. While carefully checking the terrain, he tried to sense the breath of the most powerful enemy among them.
After a moment, it discovered something. It turned its head to look at Da Meng beside it, signaling it to follow it, and immediately swooped down towards the center of the large and extremely luxurious building complex below!
“Swoosh!”…
The two golden eagles were as fast as lightning. In the blink of an eye, they arrived above a large building complex covering an area of about a thousand acres, and flew directly to the main entrance of a luxurious palace that was more than ten feet high!
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The main residence of the Ye family, the meeting hall.
Ye Xianggao sat in the main seat, looking left and right in front of him expressionlessly.
Today is the day when the Ye family holds an important meeting. Not only are the two heirs to the family head, Ye Liangzhu and Ye Guodong, present, but also the two clan elders, Ye Liangcai and Ye Meir, who live in seclusion in the backyard.
The chief steward Zhou Leye, who, like Ye Xianggao, had recently broken through to the late fifth level, was also present.
There are also the heads of various branches of the Ye family, all of whom are early level five masters, and there are more than a dozen of them!
This lineup is much stronger than any big Shanxi merchant and is completely on a different level.
With the help of Ye Xianggao's smooth sailing over the past few decades, the Ye family has ushered in a rare golden period of development in recent years and has made rapid progress.
If Li Dingguo had not wiped out half of the Ye family's soldiers and warriors on Lingshan Island, as well as lost half of their treasure ships, the Ye family's foundation would definitely be ranked among the top ten of all the aristocratic families in the Ming Dynasty.
"Master, last year Guodong went to Wuyi Mountain to relax and unwind. He accidentally discovered the Dahongpao tree, which is a top-grade innate spiritual root. Guodong has successfully transplanted it using the unique innate artifact, the Hundred Herbs Map, which he obtained during that adventure."
The chief steward Zhou Leye reported with a look of joy on his face, "Congratulations, Patriarch. The rapid rise of our Ye family is just around the corner!"
No one could have imagined that Ye Guodong, the second young master of the Ye family, who had suffered great losses at the hands of Li Dingguo twice in a row, was worried that he would be punished by his grandfather Ye Xianggao after his failure and that his qualification to inherit the family head would be cut off. He went to Wuyi Mountain to relax in despair. Surprisingly, he turned bad luck into good luck and had an amazing encounter!
Through this adventure, not only did Ye Guodong's own cultivation level break through to the late fifth level in just over a year, but he also gained a true clan artifact and clan spiritual root for the Ye family.
This enabled Ye Guodong, who had originally had no chance of becoming the family head, to make a perfect comeback and secure his position as the next family head heir.
That special lower-grade innate artifact, the Atlas of Herbs, is an extremely magical innate artifact.
It can continuously improve its own grade by absorbing innate and acquired spiritual roots of all levels, and can be regarded as one of the most magical innate artifacts in the world.
Theoretically, its upgrade capability is unlimited.
The prerequisite is that you can harvest a large number of innate and acquired spiritual roots of various levels and store them in the Hundred Herbs Map.
With the strong cooperation of the Ye family, over the past year, various means of robbery and robbery have been used to help Ye Guodong unlock the five seals of this natal artifact, and recently he has achieved the goal of storing the Dahongpao spiritual root in it.
As long as such a precious innate top-grade spiritual root had not been collected into the Hundred Herbs Map, the Ye family would not dare to relax for a moment.
This Dahongpao tea tree that we have just acquired can only produce nine tea leaves every thousand years. Its effect in assisting the practice of any practitioner is far beyond imagination.
However, for some unknown reason, this innate top-grade spiritual root that had already become spiritual was only left with a piece of root when Ye Guodong discovered it, as if it was dying.
There are only eighteen tea leaves on the tree.
It is estimated that this Dahongpao tea tree has only recovered and started growing again in the last two thousand years.
After Ye Guodong recognized it as his master through the methods recorded in the ancient family books, he learned that in order to maintain the vitality of the Da Hong Pao tea tree, at least nine tea leaves must be kept and not picked, otherwise it will lose its vitality again.
This means that only nine leaves can be used.
Unless it can be nourished by the innate spiritual veins, it can only grow and spread rapidly.
The innate artifact, the Hundred Herbs Map, that Ye Guodong obtained was undoubtedly the most suitable innate artifact for his growth and development.
There is an extremely magical innate spiritual vein in that Hundred Herbs Map, which can be upgraded synchronously with the grade of the Hundred Herbs Map. Its value is immeasurable.
There is no doubt that Ye Guodong's ability to have this amazing encounter has a lot to do with the great fortune of the Donglin Party, which is at its peak in the world today.
As Ye Xianggao was the leader of the Donglin Party, it was not surprising that his grandson could have this opportunity.
With the help of the only nine pieces of innate top-grade spiritual root tea leaves that could be picked and used, not only Ye Guodong himself, but also in this short period of one year, by using two pieces of tea leaves in succession to make tea, he miraculously broke through to the late fifth level of cultivation.
Even Ye Xianggao and Zhou Leye, after each using a piece of tea, were able to break through to the late fifth level as they wished.
Even the family's top masters, Ye Liangcai and Ye Meir, both nearly 150 years old, were like dead trees coming back to life after each using a piece of tea. Not only did they recover to their peak condition, but they also broke through to the peak level five realm.
Ye Guodong would not give up any of the remaining three pieces of premium quality tea leaves.
He wanted to keep them so that he and his grandfather Ye Xianggao could use them after they reached the peak of level five and broke through to level six in one fell swoop.
Fortunately, Ye Xianggao had great authority and his words were final in the Ye family, so he suppressed the opinions of all the family members, including Ye Liangzhu, and prevented any major chaos in the Ye family.
After all, in the true sense, Ye Guodong, who possesses a spiritual root and an innate divine weapon, is the current number one master of the Ye family.
With the support of grandfather Ye Xianggao, it is enough to suppress any dissatisfaction among the clan members.
Today's clan meeting is the moment when Ye Xianggao is preparing to officially announce Ye Guodong as the successor to the head of the family, and it is also the reason why all the important figures of the Ye family are gathered here.
The words just spoken by the chief steward Zhou Leye were to deliberately emphasize Ye Guodong's great contribution, in preparation for the announcement of his succession as the head of the family.
(End of this chapter)
