At the same time, the residence of the High Priest.

"It's snowing so hard. ”

Li Ji raised her head and muttered, she stretched out her jade hand, and watched as large snowflakes fell on her warm palm, which then melted into water.

This is an overwhelming snowfall, spreading throughout the Middle Wilderness, and most of the races in the Middle Wilderness will enter a period of "hibernation".

The winter of the past years is the most "peaceful" time in the Middle Wilderness, and the same is true for the entire Eight Wilderness.

There is no war, no killing, no fighting...... Only the creatures who are constantly struggling to survive against nature.

Under the shroud of extremely bad weather, this winter, many lives are destined to die and welcome death.

"The hosts. ”

The high priest stood behind Li Ji in a black robe, and said in a hoarse voice: "These days, henchmen continue to report that the Beast King has sent people to spread rumors all over the country, hitting my prestige, and the people everywhere have become dissatisfied with the high priest. ”

"He used the last defeat in the Eastern Xinjiang Army as an excuse to expand his influence, and my prestige continued to decrease, I am afraid it will be difficult to keep the position of high priest......"

There was some guilt and some resentment in the high priest's voice.

Si Long's pit killed millions of orcs, allowing Si Long to gain great prestige and military exploits in the Great Xia Dynasty.

But for the high priest, it was indeed the most humiliating failure, and the biggest fault was because the Beast Lord had done something to the troops, neither sending the domestic Legendary Realm masters to assist, nor the domestic elite troops.

That war operation, on the surface, was to attack the eastern frontier, but in fact, it was to use the hands of the high priest to clean up the disobedient army in the country, solve a group of diehards in the orc empire who are not good to disarm, and at the same time reduce the pressure of military spending.

Moreover, he can use this defeat to greatly deal a blow to the high priest's domestic prestige, and at the same time, through this defeat, he can accumulate the anger of the people within the Orc Empire, and prepare for the war of the Beast King in the spring of the next year.

No matter how hard the High Priest tried in the first place, he couldn't win that war, and the Beast Lord had countless followers to make him fail.

This is a move that the Beast King has planned a long time ago, and it will kill multiple birds with one stone.

The Beast King had already reached this day, and whether or not Li Ji betrayed him, he would do something to the High Priest this winter.

"He's smart?"

Li Ji raised her eyebrows, not surprised, but smiled and said, "I remember, this is Guo Jia's strategy, right? ”

"Master, there is one more thing, very important, not optimistic!"

The High Priest did not smile, his tone was unusually serious.

"Say it. ”

Li Ji spoke, she was still standing in the season of snowflakes, and she didn't feel cold.

Li Ji, who has initially begun to cultivate the inheritance of supernatural powers in her previous life, although her strength is not strong, but the mysterious and powerful inheritance supernatural powers are enough for her to resist the bad weather.

After all, the inheritance of 100,000 years ago is much better than now.

In the winter of that year, there would not be a lot of people dying every year like now.

"Just now, there was news from the inside of the Tiantai that the three new bases of the Dengtiantai in China have been wiped out. ”

The words of the high priest were very heavy, and although the ascending platform was the strength of the Great Xia Dynasty, it was now the most important support force under the high priest and Li Ji.

Originally, the Ascending Platform had only been established for a short time, and there were not too many strongholds in the Orc Empire at all, and now three more strongholds had been exterminated, which was a great blow to the Ascending Terrace.

"How did he know about these strongholds?"

Li Ji frowned, and said softly: "There is an inner ghost?"

"Probably not. ”

The high priest shook his head, a cold glint flashed in his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "I have already eradicated all the eyeliners, it shouldn't be that the people below have internal ghosts, otherwise it would be more than just losing three strongholds." ”

"I think it should be the Beast King's people who touched the traces of the inner Ying of the Ascending Platform, which led to the destruction of the stronghold. ”

The high priest took a deep breath and said with a wry smile: "After all, this is the Orc Empire, it is difficult for humans to show their hands and feet here, the danger factor of ascending to the heavenly platform is extremely high, and according to the previous situation, the Beast Lord has been vigorously guarding against the Great Xia Dynasty, and the cleaning of foreign people and internal personnel in the country has also been strengthened a lot." ”

"What worries me the most is ......"

The High Priest looked at Li Ji and said, "Maybe the Beast Lord has already discovered that we had a close relationship with the Heavenly Platform before, exposing some of our relationship with Great Xia. ”

"Does he have proof?"

Li Ji looked at the high priest, and a look of seriousness appeared on her pretty face.

This matter is not trivial, if the Beast Lord catches the evidence of their connection with the Ascending Terrace, it will be very unfavorable to them.

Even if the Beast King didn't do it himself, just releasing this news would leave the High Priest and Li Ji dead without a place to be buried.

Under the premise that the Orc Empire and the Great Xia Dynasty are now hostile, contacting the Heavenly Ascending Platform is treason and treason! It will lead to the wrath of the orcs across the country!

"Not sure. ”

The High Priest shook his head and said, "But I have received the news, and I suspect that the Beast Lord has evidence of our connection with the Ascending Platform, and even if he doesn't, at least he has this guess. ”

At this time, outside the courtyard, a confidant's voice sounded: "High priest, there is news from the Beast Palace." ”

The high priest was stunned for a moment, put on his hood, covered his face, pushed open the door and asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"

"The Beast King issued an order to invite hundreds of officials to participate in the centennial ceremony of the Seven Princes, among which the High Priest and the Great Prince were on the invitation list. ”

"When?"

"Just this morning, I decreed that the centenary ceremony would be held tonight. ”

"I see, stand down. ”

The high priest returned to the courtyard with an extremely ugly face.

Before he could speak, Li Ji said lightly: "The Beast King can't help it, he's going to do it." ”

Obviously, the beast king deliberately summoned the high priest and the great prince into the palace under the pretext of following the 100-year-old ceremony.

If they don't go to celebrate, it will be unreasonable, and the Beast Lord will also take this opportunity to publicize and attack the prestige of the two of them, and divide their henchmen.

If they went tonight, their lives would be in danger, because the Beast Lord did not notify the two of them in advance, and deliberately gave the order this morning, and his intention was very obvious.

The Beast King didn't want to prepare the layout for the High Priest and Li Ji, so he had to catch them off guard.

"If my guess is correct, there are already a large number of masters gathered in the Beast Palace at this moment, just wait for us to enter, and then kill them in one fell swoop, right?"

Li Ji took a deep breath and said, "This is also in line with the temper of the Beast King. ”

For the brutal and murderous beast king, he is definitely too lazy to play intrigue and tricks if he can kill people directly.

As for the consequences of killing Liji and the High Priest, he had already considered them and made plans accordingly.

"Then we're going to the feast?"

The High Priest looked at Li Ji and asked in a deep voice.

"This ......"

Li Ji hesitated for a while, this is obviously a dead end, most of them are a death, if they don't go, most of them will be used by the beast lord to divide the power and prestige in their hands.

Li Ji and the high priest have not been to the Beast Palace for half a month, because they don't want to meet the Beast King's face-to-face, just to avoid the Beast King's killing.

But now it seems that blind evasion no longer works.

Li Ji had to admit that she underestimated the determination of the Beast King and the strength of the imperial power, and she was full of confidence to compete with the Beast King, but she always fell behind.

"Am I really wrong? Should I have left the Orc Empire half a month ago?"

Li Ji's beautiful eyes are a little confused, her stubbornness does not mean that she is stupid, and now the situation in the Orc Empire is full of dangers for her and the High Priest, and the murderous intention is hidden.

When the high priest saw that Liki did not answer, he did not speak.

The two were silent for a while.

This dilemma is here, how to break it now?

This choice was not easy, as it determined their life and death and the difference between victory and defeat against the Orc Empire's layout.

It was at this time.

The henchman outside the courtyard suddenly disappeared and returned, and he lowered his voice and shouted into the pavilion: "High priest, there are guests here!

(End of chapter)