Chapter Seventy-Three
The rivers and lakes seem to have become noisy overnight.
In the battle of the Heroes Conference, although in the end, because of Li Xuan's move, hundreds of forbidden troops were killed with a move to cooperate with the Douzhuan Star Shift, so that in the end, the plan of the imperial court to gather and annihilate the high-level martial arts in one fell swoop failed to end perfectly, but in terms of losses, although the people who went to the elite of the forbidden army, the losses of that battle were enough to make some people feel distressed, but as far as the entire Great Song Dynasty is concerned, it can only be described as a drop in the bucket, compared with the huge population and army base of the Song Dynasty, the losses suffered in that battle are far lower than the gains.
For the Great Song Wulin, this battle was a nerve-wracking.
Although the number of people who really participated in the hero conference was only more than 1,000 people, but in the rivers and lakes, those who were qualified to be invited by Shaolin were not simple characters, although the number was small, but they were all masters of the characters, these people were annihilated by the imperial court in one fell swoop, which was enough to make the Great Song Wulin lower several grades in a period of time, even if the real masters such as Fan Yao, Duan Yu, and Shaolin Xuanzi monks did not suffer too many heavy blows, but in this battle, the heads of various factions died a lot, and there were many young heroes, hot-blooded and impulsive, To be invited to Shaolin, itself also has enough ability, although there are not many people standing at the peak of the martial arts, but these people are the real backbone of the martial arts, after this battle, there is a fault in the martial arts, like a huge ravine, and even many sects have broken the inheritance through this battle.
Even Shaolin, with the abbot of Xuanci being killed by a living rod, his reputation has plummeted, and as the host in this battle, he suffered the greatest trauma, and in the end, he chose to close the temple for ten years, and within ten years, he refused any visitors. Even believers who entered the incense also refused.
This is a compromise, a compromise with the imperial court, in the next ten years, the Shaolin Temple will undoubtedly tie its hands and feet, and will never participate in any martial arts affairs, otherwise it will attract an excuse for the imperial court to send troops. At the same time, Shaolin, whose strength and prestige have been brutally attacked, does not have enough strength to continue to occupy the honor of the Beidou status of Wulin Taishan, so it can only preserve the inheritance of Shaolin Temple in this way.
As for the vicissitudes of life ten years later, no one can say what the rivers and lakes will become at that time.
The Song Dynasty court showed unprecedented strength and vigor towards martial arts, and through the influence of this battle, some of them lost their sect heads. The sect gangs that were in a period of internal chaos were suppressed one after another, and when the remaining sects didn't even have time to react, the situation had become irreparable, and in the end, the sects chose to compromise with the imperial court in the way of Shaolin, but this hatred was not eliminated because of this.
Bianliang
The time is in the afternoon
As the imperial capital. Bianliang is definitely the most prosperous city in this era, but only in recent times. This Bianliang City is not peaceful.
"Dog officer, suffer death!"
Outside the Drunken Immortal Building, Liu Ji, who had already turned into Cai Jing, stepped on time to come here as usual, ready to enjoy his free time after work, with a series of actions against the Jianghu people, accompanied by several well-known Jianghu gangs near Kaifeng in his hands. Liu Ji also entered the sight of the imperial court with Cai Jing's identity, and now he has become the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, although he is not a big official in Bianliang, he is already a powerful official, and he is qualified to meddle in the people's livelihood of Kaifeng.
Walk through the crowd. A gray-clothed man suddenly pushed aside the crowd and pulled out a simple knife from his waist, and in the roar, his tower-like burly body burst out with disproportionate speed, pounced on Liu Ji like a giant bear.
Looking at the strong man who flew towards him, Liu Ji's eyes did not show too much emotion, there was just a trace of pity, why bother?
There was a faint fluctuation in the nearby airflow, and a green shadow had appeared in front of Liu Ji, and the palm with green qi passed through the blade of the strong man in an instant, and was silently imprinted on the chest of the strong man, in the strange eyes of the crowd, the original momentum of the move became stiff, and the frost began to spread from the chest to all sides, and in the blink of an eye, a fresh strong man was shrouded in frost, still maintaining a chopping posture, but the Pu knife that stopped in the air lost its last vitality and stayed in the distance forever.
"Are you really hated?" Turning around, Wei Yixiao looked at Liu Ji with a calm and breezy face, and shook off the ice slag remaining in his palm with some dissatisfaction, this is the eighth time in the past three days that a martial artist has come to assassinate, even if Wei Yixiao is one of the four great Dharma kings of Mingjiao, but in the face of assassinations of this frequency, there is still a feeling of being invincible, looking at Liu Ji's gaze with unhappiness.
"I'm afraid I'm going to have to trouble the Bat King these days." For Wei Yixiao's complaints, Liu Ji could only smile bitterly and shake his head, the bloody nature of these Jianghu men was a little beyond his expectations, but this kind of thing will not last long after all, with these lessons from the past, in the case of knowing that it is impossible to do, no matter how big the determination is, there are not many people in this world who can really leave life and death completely behind for revenge.
"It's annoying." Wei Yixiao waved his hand, since he took over this task, naturally there was no reason to retreat, but he knew that this was the case, he shouldn't have agreed to this errand so happily in the first place, compared to now, maybe it would be better to follow Zhao Min's girl, although that girl would come a little yin from time to time and deceive her martial arts, but in addition, it was still very easy to follow Zhao Min, especially in this extraordinary period.
But at this moment, Wei Yixiao was guessing in his heart that he was very likely to be tricked by those two guys who didn't look like humans again, didn't he see that Dai Qisi, the purple-shirted dragon king who was in charge of protecting Liu Ji before, was still sitting in an inconspicuous corner of the restaurant with a look of appreciation at this moment?
"Lord Cai, my son-in-law is invited, please talk upstairs." In the restaurant, a swordsman with extraordinary bearing came to Liu Ji and the others, but he didn't even glance at the strong man who was frozen into an ice sculpture, and bowed to Liu Ji, neither humble nor arrogant.
"Oh?" Cai Jing's eyes swept over Dai Qisi, who was sitting in the corner of the first floor of the Drunken Immortal Building, and the other party also looked at this side with a blank and vigilant look, obviously not knowing, his eyes fell on the young swordsman in front of him, but he didn't ask much: "Please lead the way." ”
The two followed the young swordman to the second floor and came to a private room, and the young man stretched out his hand and said, "Childe is inside, Lord Cai, please." ”
"I'm tired." Cai Jing nodded, and at the moment of turning his head, he exchanged a dark color with Wei Yixiao, and walked towards the private room.
"Sir, it's been a long time." Looking at the completely unfamiliar face in front of him, but he could feel the familiar aura from the other party, Li Xuan smiled slightly, nodded at Wei Yiyi, who was stunned, and said, "Has the Bat King's Ice Palm improved a lot?" ”
"Chen Liu Ji, see Your Majesty." The moment he saw Li Xuan, Liu Ji breathed a sigh of relief, lifted his robe, knelt down and said, Li Xuan has been called the emperor in this world, and this etiquette is not excessive.
"Get up." Stretching out his hand to help, there was an inexplicable force that dragged Liu Ji to stand up.
"Why did the lord come here?" The two sat down at Li Xuan's motion, and Wei Yixiao couldn't help but look at Li Xuan in surprise.
"Yanjing is currently in a period of recuperation, Xiao Feng stayed in the Shaolin Temple, the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha, without this invincible general, the morale of the Liao State will definitely plummet, and it will not pose too much threat to us in a short period of time, take advantage of your leisure to come to the capital of the Song Dynasty to see, maybe there will be an unexpected gain." Li Xuan smiled and said, "Now that the world is peaceful, my reckless man is useless." ”
"The world is peaceful!?" Wei Yi let out a strange scream, his eyes widened, obviously choked by this sentence, where is this too peaceful, thinking about the experience of the past three days, his heart is blocked.
"If Your Majesty is a reckless man, in this world, it may be a little difficult to find someone who is not a reckless man." Liu Ji smiled slightly, now is not the solemn occasion of the court, but to speak casually, with Liu Ji's ability, it is not difficult to grasp the proportion.
"Okay, don't talk about this, but there are some things at the moment, and I want to ask Mr. Liu for advice." Li Xuan was noncommittal, and turned the topic away.
"Your Majesty, please speak." Liu Ji nodded, naturally not believing that Li Xuan was only here to meet them.
"Without Xiao Feng, the morale of the Liao State will inevitably be shaken, I am ready to take this opportunity to capture Shangjing to let the Liao State return to the nomadic era, in addition, the arrangement of the Western Xia has also reached the time to close the net, we can stay in this world for nearly two years, with the current national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, it is not easy to encroach on the Great Song Dynasty in two years, but the meaning of this time is somewhat special, the Liao State is destroyed, the Western Xia is difficult to support alone, and in the Western Xia, there are enough means, after the destruction of the Liao State, the Western Xia side should also close the net, this time to find Mr., I just hope that Mr. can prevent the Great Song Dynasty from sending troops at a critical moment! Li Xuan thought for a while and pondered.
"His Majesty came just in time, but now is a good time to attract all the attention of the Song Dynasty." Liu Ji said with a smile.
"But the Fangla uprising in the south?" Li Xuan raised his eyebrows, since entering the Tianlong plane, this name has been heard many times, and his reputation in the rivers and lakes may still be limited, but in the people, he already has enough influence, enough for him to make a slight modification or change in many things, such as the current use of the court to deal with martial arts, but it is taking advantage of the situation, gathering many masters of the rivers and lakes, and at the same time, he has expanded his influence to the whole of Shandong, and now it is directly revealing the uprising, and its influence is estimated to be not much worse than Zhang Jiao during the Yellow Turban Rebellion. The difference is that Fang La doesn't have the ability of Zhang Jiao, but his demagogic methods are really good. (To be continued......)