Outside the council hall, lightning and thunder roared, heavy rain poured in, and the shadows of the trees were wild.

The sound of such a heavy rain covered the footsteps of Xue Qian sneaking into the conference hall.

He hid behind the curtain of a window, and when he saw Chen Changshi lying on the ground with his eyes wide open and a blade stuck in his throat from that angle, and the fragments of steel knives scattered around him, he couldn't help but gasp, and the young man's hands couldn't help but tremble slightly.

On the table at the end of the hall, a bronze Suzaku lamp was lit.

The lamp is dim, and a person wearing black armor with gold trim is writing hard under the lamp.

- It was General Yechen.

The wind blew in from outside, carrying the smell of the torrential rain, and the curtain flew, blowing the white deer paper on his table to the corners of the paper, but he didn't seem to care, still engrossed, and put down the pen quickly.

Xue Qian stabilized his mind, held down his beating heart, took a half-withered branch in the corner of his mouth, dipped it in saliva, and cast a water illusion, and the branch turned green one by one as if it was raining and spring.

Xue Qian put the branch under the curtain again, the branch was facing the Yechen on the seat, silently recited the wood illusion spell in his mouth, and pointed a little towards the branch, and the branch grew inch by inch, the branch grew longer and longer, first sending out several shoots, and then the shoots grew into new green leaves, and in the blink of an eye, the branch quietly grew from under the curtain along the ground, until it grew to Yechen's feet, the green branches rose up, like a snake silently climbed up to his feet.

He used the wood-based illusion technique used by the Phantom Clan Patriarch Liumengying, but it was much lower than her, and he was not very proficient in using it.

Yechen seemed to be unaware, his mind was all attracted by the letter on the table, he wrote a paragraph, stopped writing and thought about it for a while, dipped his eyebrows on the inkstone on the table, and continued to write a paragraph, as if the letter was related to some major event.

Xue Qian saw that the branch had wrapped Yechen's feet, and suddenly pulled out the dagger from the boot, pounced from behind the curtain, and pounced towards Yechen on the seat!

The young man's face was firm, and his blue-green eyes flashed with the light of a moth fighting a fire!

——At this time, Yechen was finishing the letter, unfolding the white deer paper with both hands and reading it under the lamp!

——At this time, Wei Xiao was chasing outside the conference hall and was about to step in!

- At this time, a huge lightning bolt was falling from the sky, illuminating the interior of the council chamber white!

In that snow-white lightning, Wei Xiao saw the figure of the young Xue Qian holding a dagger in his hand and rushing into the air towards Ye Chen!

"Don't kill him——" He didn't have time to rush up, so he could only shout to stop him.

However, a rumbling thunder drowned out all sounds.

Wei Xiao only saw Yechen's body, and a layer of black smoke as thick as ink suddenly rose.

Then the lightning went out, and the hall fell into dead darkness.

The heavy rain is like a note, and it doesn't stop, and between the heaven and the earth, there is a murmuring rain. It is as if the heavens mourn for today, and the tears that have fallen.

The candle flame in the council hall suddenly "clicked" and shone brightly.

It was not only the bronze Suzaku lamp on the table, but the four corners of the hall, lit multiple lamps, one after another, densely burning white candles, as if some kind of sacrifice, illuminating the hall with light.

Wei Xiao saw the young man Xue Qian who fell in front of the table, and the dagger in his hand passed through the white deer paper and inserted it into the heart of the person sitting behind the table.

The person who died at the desk was not Yechen, but Gu Dingchen!

Wei Xiao rushed forward and picked up Xue Qian's body from the edge of the table, seeing that the young man's pupils gradually lost their lustre, and black blood slowly seeped out of his ears and nose.

"Xue Qian! Xue Qian——" He called eagerly, barely regaining a little consciousness of the young man, Xue Qian slowly opened his eyes, and his throat was hoarse...... I just want to learn from you, to be a hero like you, as a phantom clansman, to save my people with my own strength, even if it is at the expense of myself...... You say, am I doing well?"

The young man opened a pair of large, godless eyes and looked at Wei Xiao expectantly.

Wei Xiao glanced at Gu Dingchen, who was dead next to him, and nodded tearfully: "You have done a good job, you are the hero of the Phantom Clan, and you are their pride." ”

The young man smiled contentedly, black blood oozed from the corners of his mouth, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "Brother Wei, if someone from my hometown comes one day, you will give them my ashes...... Bring it back, okay?"

"Good. Wei Xiao choked in his throat, and when he saw Xue Qian's gaze, he suddenly froze and looked somewhere behind him.

His heart trembled, and he slowly reached out and put his hand on the young man's eyes, closing them for him.

Then, he slowly lowered his cold body to the ground.

"It's really a touching parting of life and death!" sparse applause sounded behind him, and Yechen's voice was as indifferent as ever: "Another ant who wanted to assassinate me, but killed Gu Shoufu by mistake, is his eyes blind?"

"He's not blind. Wei Xiao turned around slowly, pointed a finger at him, and said in a cold voice: "It's you!" You put a smoke illusion on Gu Shoufu's body, so that people who see him will see your appearance in their eyes, and that kind of smoke is highly poisonous, once someone pierces the smoke, they will be poisoned to death!"

He stared at Ye Chen with his eyes tight: "Use Xue Qian's hand to kill Gu Dingchen, who is the main advocate of not fighting, so that you can follow your wishes and provoke a war between the Zhenglan Empire and the Phantom Spirit Country, killing two birds with one stone, Ye Chen, you are really a poisonous plan!"

"It's not me!" Yechen said sharply: "I Yechen has always dared to do things, if I want to kill Gu Dingchen, I don't need to borrow the hands of others!"

"Using Xue Qian's identity as a member of the Phantom Clan, firstly, you can provoke a war between the Phantom Clan and the Demon Clan, and secondly, you can shirk your responsibilities and show that this matter has nothing to do with you at all, isn't it?" Wei Xiao was unmoved by him, pressing step by step.

He grabbed the blood-soaked white deer paper on the table, and the middle of the paper was pierced by a dagger, such a piece of paper stained with blood and thorns, but on it was written the article "The world is peaceful":

At the beginning of His Majesty's accession to the throne of the Demon King, Chen's plan to defend against the enemy today was: "The fence must not be solid, and the fence must not be strict." "If the fence is solid, the internal political affairs can be repaired, and if the fence is strict, it will be difficult for the spies outside to enter. The first is to be guarded, and then to be a good rule. In the view of the ministers, the world is peaceful, and the two countries compete with each other, which is based on the victory of the temple. Those who rule the world can be honest and upright, with the court, with hundreds of officials, and with all the people. Use the war to conquer, and use the code to solidify. If the husband fights and defends, he is not here. If he fights, he fights, and when he is peaceful, he defends. Defending the war is not forgetting to defend the war, but it is to delay the division and be autonomous. Therefore, when the patriarch of the Phantom Clan was trapped in Longmen Gorge, the Demon Lord of Fu Qi issued a decree to withdraw the besieging troops to eliminate the war between the two countries.

The ministers bowed down.

This is a piece of music that advises the Demon Lord not to fight.

Wei Xiao's hand holding the chapter trembled, and on the white deer paper, there were waves of trembling, and then, a tear dripped down and fell on Gu Dingchen's word "Ding", the tears slowly melted, and the three words "Gu Dingchen" became blurred.

——Gu Dingchen, an old minister of the empire who came to save him two days ago, despite his serious illness and sat in a carriage day and night, gave Wei Xiao the elixir "Zhihuang Dan" left by the healer to himself, just to save his life for half a day, and before he died, he was still writing a book to discuss not to start a war against the Phantom Spirit Country, and died in the cold and rainy night of the border wasteland.

Just like the name that was melted away by tears, his person has disappeared from this world.

Although Gu Dingchen's original intention was only to do these things for the sake of the demon clan and the Zhenglan Empire that he was assisting.

Ye Chen sneered suddenly.

"It's better to be dead. What does it matter if I killed me or not?" he didn't seem to want to explain any more.

However, when the Haotian Sword was swung and pointed at Gu Dingchen, at the last moment, he had indeed given up.

"I won't kill you!" Ye Chen looked at Gu Dingchen coldly: "You can do whatever you want, even if you use the Soul Suppression Ruler or the Demon Lord to convict me of the crime of 'Demon of the Country', I am not afraid!

He threw the Haotian Sword on the ground with a "clang" and rushed out of the door.

But when he returned, everything that had happened in the council chamber had changed so much that he had not yet expected it.

Now——, Yechen's gaze suddenly condensed, looking at the Haotian Sword lying between him and Wei Xiao.

Both of their eyes were on the sword, and they collided abruptly!

They all understood in an instant—

As soon as Gu Dingchen died, the war had already started!

From the moment Gu Dingchen, the important minister of the two dynasties and the venerable master of the Demon Monarch, who bore the brunt of the brunt and the main peace, died, this battle between the two great powers has already heralded the inevitable arrival!

There is no one who can stop the main battle faction led by the demon lord Jun Tianze, such as Yechen and Huangji, and wave the Southern Expedition!

The wheel of history is rolling forward, and a new chapter will be written on this starfall continent.

And before that, Yechen will also face his last opponent - Wei Xiao.

Divine Sword Haotian was between the two of them, and the sword body jumped, and a line of cold light flowed on it, as if it was ready to fight.

Who will be its owner?

Haotian Sword, the white artifact of the Ten Directions Artifact, is the Sword of the Heavenly Emperor. In the Heavenly War a thousand years ago, the sword that defeated the Western Blue Emperor Shao Hao Xuan Huan has infinite divine power, which can slay demons and subdue demons, and destroy gods and immortals.

Ye Chen's fingers, which had already touched the Haotian Sword on the ground, suddenly paused, and slowly raised up.