It's winter.

Today.

The alternation of the four seasons has no effect on the practitioners, but there are always ordinary people, Xu Lai walked to the streets of Yongle, the original bustling downtown was a little deserted because of the cold weather, but there are still many peddlers and pawns who are forced by life, and the people of merchants are begging for a livelihood at the feet of Fengqi, the son of heaven.

Everyone wants to live, and if they can, they want to live better and live more nourishingly.

The Emperor issued an edict again.

Three days later, the banquet invited practitioners from all over the world who have attainments in Dan Dao to gather in the Golden Horse Gate to grind and encourage, which is a golden boudoir banquet.

Some cultivators couldn't help but think, could it be that the Emperor of the People's invitation to Dan Qiusheng to come to the capital was not a pretense, but that he was really interested in Dan Dao?

Unlikely.

Then there is only one answer left.

Dan Qiusheng's incident is just an introduction, a clue, and a beginning.

The game of chess of the emperor is far from finished.

The second edict that came out of the Ziyang Palace soon proved the conjecture of these people, the Golden Boudoir Banquet is not limited to cultivators who have dabbled in the Dan Dao, all cultivators above the One Realm, or cultivators under the age of sixty and above the Divine Journey Realm, can be qualified to participate in the Golden Boudoir Banquet after three days.

The two edicts were issued, and the world was surging.

It's not over here.

These two edicts are considered "good things".

And one more bad thing.

Lu Qingshan was convicted on the same day and was about to be taken to prison.

This matter seems extremely incredible, the Great Zhou Laws give the Dangkou army extremely high power, but they also have many restrictions, especially when these laws are applied to cultivators. In order for a practitioner to be convicted, he has to go through the Dangkou Army, Dali Temple, and even the Yushitai to participate in it, and the crime can often be determined after many partial verifications and complete processes.

This time is often frighteningly long, even though the practitioner already has a long lifespan.

But now, the process that originally took at least three or five months, or even one or two years to complete, was forcibly completed within a few days, and Lu Qingshan would be imprisoned today.

Even if all of these departments were to be involved at maximum efficiency, it would never have been possible so quickly.

There is no doubt that this is the secret handiwork of the emperor in the Ziyang Palace.

After a long time, there was more room for compromise in the middle, and that emperor was using this way to show the cultivators of the world that it was impossible for the emperor to compromise on this kind of matter.

Nor is it possible for the royal family to compromise.

So Xu Lai thought about it, left the streets of Yongle, and walked towards the mansion where the night was sent off.

Even if a cultivator is cultivating to reach the heavens, it is impossible for him to bow down to everything, which is too troublesome and not conducive to cultivation.

So later there was the appearance of the shadow son and the blue bird.

The night send-off guest had already boiled hot tea, apparently without any surprise at Xu Lai's arrival.

This matter is far from over, no matter who wants to participate in it, or share a hot soup, or stir up the muddy waters, they can't avoid the golden horse gate in the imperial city.

The night send-off guest poured the hot tea and saluted it, then poured a bowl for himself, and sent the original people in the house back, and then said slowly, "There are two things that are more important, do you want to listen to them first?"

The night send-off guest knew that Xu Lai must have come because of the recent situation in the court and the matter of Emperor Xuantian, but since he said so, he thought that these two things were more important than the treacherous clouds in the court.

That's not a trivial matter, of course.

After getting Xu Lai's eyes, the night send-off nodded, "Your Majesty summoned Cui Yushi into the palace the day before yesterday, I don't know what he said." Cui Yushi was supposed to be on duty last night, but Cui Yushi stayed outside for a long time after coming out of Ziyang Palace before returning to the Sword Pavilion. The people below said that Cui Yushi went to the street to warm two bowls of wine, but I later calculated the time, and Cui Yushiwen took almost two hours for these two bowls of wine. ”

"Today, I sent someone to investigate, Cui Yushi Wenjiu has always liked to go to the Changmen Restaurant, this is no surprise, he went straight to the Changmen Restaurant after coming out of the Ziyang Palace, according to Cui Yushi's footsteps, it only takes about half an hour for him to finish warming the wine. But it wasn't until about two hours later that he returned to the Sword Pavilion, and the rest of the people didn't find out where he had gone, who he had come into contact with, or what he had done. ”

Towering?

The appearance of this person was somewhat unexpected.

He hasn't had much contact with Cui Wei, but he knows a little about this person. Cui Wei's family was poor in his early years, and although he was later promoted, his career was quite bumpy, and he didn't start practicing until the year of his establishment, and now his parents and wife have all passed away.

There are very few people in the temple who have any clear water, even those officials who are very obsessed with cultivation, sometimes you have to make some choices, but Cui Wei is a rare clear water among these people.

In fact, Qing Shui is sometimes not a good thing, whether it is for the Human Emperor or for Cui Wei himself, but the water is too muddy and completely invisible, so some Qing Water is needed to neutralize it.

Cui Wei was summoned by the emperor to go to Ziyang Palace, Xu Lai could roughly guess seven, seven, eight or eight, after Lu Qingshan was sent to prison, it was difficult for the emperor to directly do anything on Lu Qingshan without the warrants of those great things, and at that time, Cui Wei's position was likely to have four or two thousand catties.

But apparently, others seem to have thought of it as well.

What is uncertain now is whether those people found Cui Wei because of Lu Qingshan's business, or some other matter, if it was because of Lu Qingshan's business, was it consistent with or contrary to their later practices?

It's a question that you can't figure out just by thinking about it.

So Xu came and said, "What about the second thing?"

"Some time ago, the Wu people on the border pass were quite a little uncontrollable, and they were ready to move, and there were a few fewer generals in the pacification army overnight, thinking that His Majesty was dispatched by the starry night to guard the border pass. It was just surprising that those witch people did not advance again, but retreated more than a hundred miles, spitting out the meat that had been firmly eaten in their mouths. ”

After the two most important things were reported, the night send-off began to settle the old monk.

Collecting intelligence is what he should do, but how to judge after getting the information and how to deal with it after judging is what Xu Lai has to do.

Witches?

Xu Lai's eyes flickered, "Tell me your opinion." ”

The night send-off guest groaned slightly, and then said slowly, "According to the humble opinion of the lower officials, the Wu people have never liked to be flexible, and they like to solve problems through brute force. Over the years, every inch of land I have given up in the Great Zhou, the Wu Clan has eaten a point, and spit out the meat that has been eaten, which is not the style of the Wu people at all. Unless ......"

The two looked at each other.

The land on the border of the Zhou Dynasty was barren and sparsely populated, with almost no grass, and it was rare for ordinary people or cultivators to go to this kind of smoky place. But it was these smoky and miasma places that constituted the gateway to the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Occupying these places may not be of any benefit to the Wu Clan, but the blow to the Terran Dynasty is self-evident.

If the information of the night delivery is correct, then Xu Lai can roughly guess some directions.

He looked at the night send-off, his voice was very low, and his voice was very slow, "There is one thing that you should not know. ”

The night send-off guest showed an inquiring look.

"When Dan Qiusheng and Qu Hongyi returned to Beijing, they were assassinated by Lu Qingshan, originally Dan Qiusheng should have died, and later a Wu clan's Tongxuan Realm cultivator did not hesitate to test his sword, which saved Danqiusheng's life, but he also died in Huangquan because of this. ”

As Xu Lai's words fell, this information poured into the minds of the night delivery guests, and it was only a moment of effort, and the night delivery guests who digested these messages suddenly became enlightened, but their minds couldn't help but tremble and buzz.

I see.

No wonder.

In fact, when he got this information, even if he connected with the things that happened today, he felt that there were many things that he couldn't figure out.

Lu Qingshan's assassination failed and was captured by Qu Hongyi.

The two of them are both in the upper realm of Tongxuan, and Lu Qingshan may not be Qu Hongyi's opponent, but it is impossible to be captured alive. If he is captured alive, it is either Lu Qingshan's will to live and die, or Lu Qingshan's intention is to live in Danqiu, and he doesn't care about his situation at all, so naturally he doesn't care whether he will be arrested or not.

Either way, Dan Qiusheng never had a reason to live.

A sword cultivator who has passed through the Xuan Upper Realm, the sword maker is already a sword venerable who has already made a name for himself in the Great Zhou, and with the advantage of the purple and green double swords, he can't kill a Danqiu Sheng under one sword?

The night send-off guest had even thought many times before, whether this was a game made by the Emperor of People, a game done with Lu Qingshan. It's just that this bureau is also too badly done, which is completely what seems to be full of loopholes.

It turns out that the human emperor actually suppressed the matter of the Wu clan, and Qu Hongyi personally guarded it, unless he was also a cultivator of the Xuan Realm as a shadow, it was impossible for someone to send a message from the blue bird under his nose.

The collection of intelligence by night send-offs was extremely successful, and even Cui Wei was summoned by the emperor to go to the restaurant to warm wine, and even how long he went was dug up by him. But this kind of thing is beyond the scope of intelligence.

In connection with the strange movements of the Wu clan in the past few days, the night send-off suddenly opened, and instantly understood what the problem was.

In order to seek speed, the Pingding Army on the border pass did not use the Blue Bird to transmit the message, and personally dispatched several cultivators of the One Realm, and they ran with all their strength to cross half a week in one day. The price is that after arriving in Fengqi, the cultivator who passed the message passed out immediately with the cultivation of the One Unity Realm, and even the sea of consciousness dried up irreversibly, and the cultivation directly regressed to the Divine Journey Realm.

The Witch Clan began to retreat, this is the latest news, and it was only yesterday.

Dan Qiusheng returned to Fengqi the day before yesterday.

Then the Wu clan's death under Lu Qingshan's sword was before this incident, and also before the Wu clan retreated. A few days ago, it seemed that the Wu clan had been gearing up and sharpening their knives. According to the calculation of time, after the death of the witch cultivator who passed through the Xuan Realm, the Wu clan had enough time to either receive the news or calculate the death, even so, the Wu clan did not take a step back.

Yes, a witch cultivator who passed through the Xuan Upper Realm died, and the witch people on the border did not take a step back.

Now they are beginning to retreat.

No one doubted what kind of conspiracy this was, because the Great Zhou Dynasty did not have cultivators in the Yuan Realm now, so it was impossible for the Wu Clan to use stratagems.

When you think about it, there is only one answer.

The night attendant tried to calm his heart as much as possible, but even so, his voice was trembling, and even his hands were shaking.

"The Witch King...... Chi You?"