When Li Hong arrived at the third hall, a light rain began to fall in the sky again. Chen Gong had already prepared an umbrella and held it for him. The guards followed him, step by step, to the third hall.

In the third hall, there were a total of forty black-clothed assassins, as well as nine tribulations and an elder-level master.

This time, they also did not ambush or sneak attack, but like Monk Xuanzhen, they were also waiting for Li Hong in a dignified manner. Because in the eyes of the Nine Tribulations, since the moment Li Hong stepped into the Great Ci'en Temple, Li Hong was already dead, and there was no need for him to play too much scheming on a dead person. Besides, he is not a person who is good at scheming, otherwise the leader of Liu Ju's traitors in Chang'an City would not have fallen into the hands of Jun Neng so easily.

Li Hong had only twenty guards around him, half as many as the forty assassins around Jiu Yan.

However, as he observed Li Hong, guards continued to pour into the main hall, and when he stood behind Li Hong in twos and threes, his face was no longer as good-looking as it was just now?

In just a moment, the guards behind Li Hong increased by thirty people, although they were covered in blood, obviously they had just experienced a fight.

But the addition of this group of people made Li Hong's number more than the number of Nine Difficulties.

This puts pressure on the nine difficulties.

"Nine difficulties, I didn't expect you to be a traitor to Liu Ju, you disappointed your senior brother too much!" Li Hong saw the Nine Difficulties and reprimanded coldly. He had contact with the Jiujie monk, who was definitely a generation of high monks, and if he was excluded as a Buddhist, Li Hong admired him as a master. Now Jiu Yan, as the junior disciple of Jiujie, is diametrically opposed to Jiujie's style of acting, and even Li Hong sighs for Jiujie. With such a junior brother, it is no wonder that the Great Solemn Temple will not be hit and destroyed.

"Li Hong, shut up, don't mention my senior brother, you are not qualified to mention him." Jiuyan said angrily, what he owes the most in his life is his senior brother Jiujie, his senior brother always protects him, it is this time that the Great Solemn Temple harbors Liu Ju's traitor and the senior brother protects him, so that the Great Solemn Temple will suffer such a heavy loss, and he was forced to agree to Li Hong's suggestion and send a senior monk to Fusang to promote Buddhism. Therefore, in the heart of the Nine Tribulations, the one he felt most guilty about was his senior brother, and it was also his senior brother who he didn't want to mention.

"Last time, the Great Solemn Temple harbored Liu Ju's traitors, and it was the Jiujie monk who protected him, so that others could atone for your crimes, and you were saved from death, but the Great Solemn Temple was also severely punished. Today, you will join forces with Liu Ju traitors to assassinate Lone, think about it, how much disaster you brought to the Great Solemn Temple this time? Li Hong said solemnly, seeing that Jiu Yan's face became very ugly, he continued to sneer, "It is estimated that this time the Great Solemn Temple will not be able to be saved." ”

"Li Hong, you dare!" Nine Tribulations were furious, and fire was about to erupt in their eyes. If the Great Solemn Temple is destroyed because of itself, how can I face the support and senior monks of the Great Solemn Temple, and how can I face my senior brother.

"What do you think Lone wouldn't dare?" Li Hong sneered, "Not only the Great Solemn Temple, but also the Great Mercy and Grace Temple." Also, after tonight, all your Buddhist preaching in Chang'an City will stop, and all your monasteries and monks will leave Chang'an City. ”

"You, why are you doing this?" An elder-level master beside the Nine Tribulations asked.

"Because, Datang wants to establish its own state religion, and in the future, there will be only one sect in Datang, and the people of Datang will have only one faith, which is the state religion." Li Hong smiled, "National Religion, do you understand?" It is a sect that is protected by the Tang Dynasty and can preach anywhere that the Tang Dynasty Battle Banner checks. ”

Jiu Yan and this elder-level master heard Li Hong say this, their whole bodies trembled, if it was really like what Li Hong said, the state religion would inevitably be dominant, and in the end, there would be no room for other sects to survive. It is estimated that there will be one time, don't want the Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that there will only be one sect left in the whole world, which is the state religion.

Because they can hear from Li Hong's words that this so-called state religion must be the sect of the Tang Dynasty historical royal family, and the Li family takes Taoist Li Er as the ancestor, isn't this state religion another manifestation of Taoism?

Thinking about it like this, the mood of the two became even more solemn.

"I didn't expect your ambitions to be so big, it seems that I really can't let you leave alive tonight." Jiu Yan said fiercely.

At this moment, not only the Nine Tribulations, but even the elder-level master beside the Nine Tribulations also made up his mind to kill Li Hong at all costs, not wanting to see Li Hong leave the Great Ci'en Temple alive.

"Haha-" Li Hong smiled arrogantly, "Want to kill Gu?" Do you know what you want to do when you come to the Great Mercy and Grace Temple tonight? They are here to kill you. Lone doesn't want to hide it from you, in addition to the part of the people who entered the Great Ci'en Temple, there are thousands of cavalry waiting outside the temple. Lone broke into the Great Mercy and Grace Temple tonight, and he didn't think about letting you leave alive, and he didn't think about asking Buddhism to continue to deceive people in Chang'an. ”

Seeing that the faces of Jiu Yan and the elders beside him became even more ugly, Li Hong laughed loudly and said, "A little Buddhism, a little Liu Ju, dare to argue with the Tang Dynasty, today I will let you know the fate of going against the country." ”

"You, looking for death!" Jiu Yan squeezed out this sentence from between his teeth, and pounced on Li Hong like a demon.

"Kill-" The elder-level masters around the Nine Tribulations also gave the order to attack.

"Protect Your Highness!" Chen Gong shouted, his people had already handed over the umbrella to others and greeted the monk of the Nine Tribulations. The guards around Li Hong received the order, and thirty people rushed to the enemy with Chen Gong, and ten people quickly stepped forward, surrounded Li Hong in the center, and all took out the crossbow arrows hanging on their waists, aimed at the front, and waited for the battle with a cold expression.

The standard equipment of the guards around Li Hong is embroidered with spring knives, crossbow arrows, spears, bows and arrows, and war horses. This is a decision made by Li Hong, the guards are the capital of his life, and he can't help but spend a lot of money on it.

Even the Embroidered Spring Knife, which was very small in production, was now fully equipped with his eight hundred guards.

It's just that now it's an infantry battle, there are no horses and spears, only embroidered spring knives and crossbow arrows, but this kind of short-handed intersection, against the dead assassins, the crossbow arrows are too late to shoot, so the guards are useless.

But to protect Li Hong, crossbow arrows are still very useful.

This three-shot crossbow bolt is powerful and has a high crosshair, and it is definitely a sharp weapon for the guards. Therefore, when they were protecting Li Hong, they took out crossbow arrows.