Chapter 60 Cultivating One's Own Subordinates Part 1

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  Continuous news came, and Ku Li did not lead the army to attack Hei Wu Mountain directly. Instead, he ordered his deputy general to seal off all channels between Hei Wu Mountain and the outside world with 10,000 soldiers. He himself led the main force to clear out the power of Mo Ye Cult in the southern part of Chu State town by town. Two months passed, and the political power of Mo Ye Cult in the southern part of Chu State was almost completely eliminated. Ku Li then began to move his main force towards his deputy general who was sealing off Hei Wu Mountain, preparing to make Ye Shen Cult disappear from Chu State at once!

  Of course, this process was extremely lengthy for Luosiqi, but she also knew that the method of retreat was correct. The influence of the Night God Sect in the southern part of Chu State had accumulated over the years to a deep-seated level. If they rashly advanced alone and directly attacked Hei Yun Mountain, all kinds of dangers would follow. For example, the serious bias of information, for example, the huge risk of grain transportation.

  Luosha saw from the process of Qu Li's actions that he was indeed a rare and good general, otherwise the King of Chu would not have given such an important task to someone who was only in his thirties.

  Although the process is long, it does not mean that Luosi will wait like this. If Han Yue were not greedy for the status of the Moon God Cult in Chu State, she would not have come to Chudu. If she had not said that Tang Xiaoxia must be the guardian general outside, he would not have lost his protection. If she had not been afraid to go out when facing Mo Ye with an absolute advantage on her own side, Tang Xiaoxia would not have jumped off the cliff in exhaustion!

  Luosha used the thousand taels of gold awarded to her by King Chu to recruit twelve young men with good martial arts skills and great potential. She gave them a high salary of ten taels of gold per month, and spent another hundred taels of gold to invite the captain of King Chu's guards and some skilled masters to teach and guide them.

  The place of instruction was in the square before the palace of King Chu, and Rosalie told King Chu that this would not only cultivate his defensive strength but also strengthen his guard.

  Actually, the King of Chu was initially worried about recruiting Luosiqi as his subordinate, but after hearing her reasons and arrangements, he put down his mind and praised Luosiqi for being thoughtful and loyal. After all, no matter how powerful Luosiqi is, she is just one person. The King of Chu has been sending his subordinates to collect intelligence on Mo Ye and the Night God Sect during this period. She knows how formidable Mo Ye is, and if he really is as terrifying as the rumors say, if Mo Ye were to personally lead his men to assassinate him, it would still require some powerful warriors to keep Mo Ye's men at bay so that Luosiqi can focus on dealing with him.

  After all, Luosiqi can only live in a place close to himself and cannot watch himself for twelve hours. Some powerful guards nearby can also buy time for Luosiqi to arrive.

  However, for Luosiqi, recruiting these twelve people was actually to deal with Hanshuang.

  The Night God Sect's first attack on the Moon God Sect only had four people, and the second attack on the Chu King also only had four people. Although they lost one person each time due to Luo Siqi's involvement, their goals were almost all achieved. Letting Chen Xing get injured made the Moon God Sect's defense empty after Luo Siqi left for Chu Du, directly leading to Tang Xiaoxia jumping off a cliff. The attack on the Chu King would not have failed and ended in a rout if Luo Siqi had not prepared to kill the Chu King with too much force, causing them to be frightened and flee.

  These two attacks also made Luosi deeply realize that the soldiers were not in the multitude, but in the precision. If used properly, twelve powerful and skilled subordinates would be enough to complete many things for her.

  Moreover, she now knows more and more about how to use her own abilities, and the application is becoming more and more pure. She can almost freely use the power of the moon god, and the time required for casting spells is getting shorter and shorter. It was only through the palm that killed the assassin that made her realize that without the help of her own blood and moonlight, if she was not in a state of violent rage, her palm strength depended on the length of the momentum. Now, when she casually slaps her hand, even if the distance is relatively far, she can't even shatter a flower vase.

  Of course, there was a reason for this. Not long after learning of Tang Xiaoxia's death, she always felt that her Moon God power had begun to decline severely and was now clearly not as powerful as it was when she first fully activated the orange stone. She thought something was wrong and went to look at the stone, only to discover that an unknown time, a thin layer of white frost had formed on the surface of the orange stone. She tried wiping it off with her hand, using various objects to wipe it off, but to no avail. The frost seemed to be growing out of the stone itself and didn't resemble the condensation of water vapor on objects in winter at all.

  She almost immediately realized that this might be due to the resentment in her heart after Tang Xiaoxia's death. She tried to downplay this resentment, as avenging Tang Xiaoxia required the power of this stone, but she couldn't downplay it no matter what. How could Tang Xiaoxia's death be forgotten so easily? If it was that easy to forget, would she still need to think about revenge with such care and deliberation?

  Fortunately, the weakening of her magical powers was not a complete loss, and she became more confident. She thought that if all else failed, she could use the Pi Xue sword to injure herself and use her own blood as a medium, so she wouldn't have to worry about lacking magical power. She began to confidently believe that as long as she trained these twelve trusted subordinates well, she would be able to truly avenge Tang Xiao Xia.

  Two months' time made her more and more satisfied with the growth of the twelve subordinates, and she even gave them special names according to their characteristics.

  She wasn't very good at giving people names, so she thought of using the twelve zodiac signs to name her twelve subordinates. This idea had occurred to her before recruitment, fortunately, there were both men and women among these subordinates, only even if it was a woman, she couldn't call her Virgo or Libra in front of other subordinates because the pronunciation of Libra and widow is very similar, which would be too much of an insult and curse for a woman.

  So she thought for a while, and then called the woman named Chunyan Yunu, Yu has the meaning of white jade without blemish, and in this era that still belongs to feudal society and has not yet begun, no one will use these two words to mess around.

  The term "jade girl" in this era is roughly equivalent to "virgin", and sounds much more pleasant than the latter.

  Thus, Rosetta's Twelve Star Guardians were born, and she even thought of herself as Athena from the anime.

  Unlike Athena, however, she does not need protection; on the contrary, she is the strongest among them.

  The weather started to get cold, and news came from Zheng that the Crown Prince Jian had secretly plotted with Duke Xian of Jin when he was in Jin. The result of the plot was that he returned to Zheng as an internal response for Jin, seemingly because Duke Xian promised to give him part of Zheng's land after destroying Zheng. However, due to a trivial matter, he wanted to kill a servant who had offended him, but unexpectedly, the servant escaped to Duke Ding of Zheng and revealed the plot before being captured. Duke Ding was shocked by the news and conspired with Zichan to assassinate Crown Prince Jian, which led to Wu Zixu barely escaping with Crown Prince Jian's son Sheng after a group of people suddenly appeared on the road and blocked the pursuing soldiers, allowing them to flee to Wu.

  No one knew where the group of people came from, only knowing that their leader was very brave and had occupied a strategic location. They suddenly appeared on that narrow and rugged mountain road, where one man could hold off an entire army. The two sides faced each other for nearly two hours, until the main force of pursuing soldiers arrived to reinforce them from behind. By then, they had already escaped under the cover of night.