Chapter 94: Retreat
Gao Liansheng sent people to search for Lin Lang in the whole city, and after no progress, he decisively terminated the search, since it had been found out that Chen Shu's death was related to Lin Lang, he also had an explanation for Jade Bone Mountain, and let them deal with the follow-up matters by themselves. Gao Lian was promoted to the city lord of Xian'an City, and his most important duty was to defend Xian'an City, Xian'an City was in danger, how could he have extra manpower to waste on Chen Shu.
It's just that there is one thing that makes Gao Liansheng very tricky. As soon as Chen Shu died, the Yuan cultivators of Jade Bone Mountain did not listen to Gao Liansheng's dispatch at all. Without the help of Jade Bone Mountain Yuan Xiu, it would be difficult for Xian'an City to withstand the combined attack of Zheng Guo's army and Fire Lotus Valley, and even if it could resist, it would definitely have to pay a heavy price.
In view of the current situation, Gao Liansheng felt that he could not hope that Zheng Guo's army would not attack Xian'an City, he had to send some information to Zheng Guo's army outside the city, telling Zheng Guo: Xian'an City is not afraid of you attacking!
So, Gao Liansheng took Fang Kui and Fang Qi's father and son to the head of Xian'an City, personally cut off the heads of the two, and hung their heads on the city tower.
The poor father and son of the Fang family could have survived for a few days, but because Lin Yang killed Chen Shu, they set foot on Huangquan Road early.
Gao Liansheng didn't know what the consequences of his actions would be, he just did what he had to do. Because if you don't do this, according to the information of the City Lord's Mansion, Zheng Guo and Fire Lotus Valley will launch an attack on Xian'an City tomorrow at the latest, and as long as Fire Lotus Valley participates in the battle, according to the current situation, it will be difficult to hold Xian'an City!
Gao Liansheng dared to come out like this now, and he naturally knew very well in his heart that Zheng Guo and Fire Lotus Valley would either attack immediately; Either they will be worried and hold back their troops, which can give Xian'an City a few days of maneuver time. As long as Qiu Changji can arrive in the roundabout time of these few days and pacify the Yuan cultivators of Jade Bone Mountain, Xian'an City will be able to survive the current crisis. In the end, when the royal reinforcements arrived, the siege of Xian'an City could be completely lifted.
Lin Yang killed Chen Shu, which was a problem for Gao Liansheng. Of course, Lin Yang also counted this situation, but he still attacked Chen Shu. The reason why Lin Yang did this was because he knew that if Chen Shu did not get rid of him, even if the reinforcements from the Changguo royal family arrived, the war in Xian'an City would not stop immediately, and would even intensify because Chen Shu wanted more dead souls. The long pain is better than the short pain, as long as Chen Shu is eliminated, the war in Xian'an City can really end.
Lin Yang was looking into the distance, and Gao Liansheng was gambling. However, Gao Liansheng was right.
Chen Shu was killed by Lin Yang, Zheng Guo and Huolian Gu didn't even know that Chen Shu was dead, they saw Gao Liansheng's provocative behavior, and thought that Gao Liansheng was deliberately provoking them to lure them into attacking. As a result, the original siege plan was canceled, and Zheng's army chose not to move.
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Twenty miles on the outskirts of Xian'an City, an old man with crane hair and a childish face was hurrying away, he was the elder Qiu Changji of Jade Bone Mountain. Originally, he had already set off from Jade Bone Mountain, but because Chen Shu, who was not dealing with him, was the main person in charge of the battle in Xian'an City, Qiu Changji deliberately slowed down, stopped and stopped, and played while walking. If it weren't for the sudden receipt of a summons from the mountain gate, Qiu Changji estimated that it would take more than ten days to reach Xian'an City.
When Qiu Changji learned that Chen Shu was dead, he didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately rushed to Xian'an City. The reason why he is so anxious is of course not because of Chen Shu, Chen Shu is dead, and he can't be happy. But after all, Chen Shu is the deputy mountain master of Jade Bone Mountain, representing the face of Jade Bone Mountain. If this matter is not handled quickly and properly, Jade Bone Mountain will become a joke in the mouth of others.
"Elder Qiu of Jade Bone Mountain in front?"
Qiu Changji was thinking about how to deal with the incident in Xian'an City, but saw a man with a black beard standing in the middle of the road in front of him.
"The old man is the chief of the Jade Bone Hill, who is Your Excellency, why are you blocking my way?" Qiu Changji stopped, and the body of the black-bearded man in front of him was only fluctuating in the ninefold Yuan Force of the Condensing Yuan Realm, but Qiu Changji could sense a slight dangerous aura from his body.
"It's just a nameless person, Elder Qiu doesn't have to take it to heart, I am waiting for Elder Qiu here, I have something important to discuss with Elder Qiu, and I also ask Elder Qiu to stop for a while." The black-bearded man was none other than Lin Yang, and he arched his hand towards Qiu Changji.
"Humph! No one even dares to report their surnames, why should the old man discuss with you? The old man has something important to do, if you want to stop it, don't blame the old man for turning his face! Qiu Changji snorted coldly, his face was a little unsightly.
After all, Qiu Changji is the number one figure in Jade Bone Mountain, and he has a bit of his own shelf, how can he allow a random person to come out and have to discuss with him.
"It seems that you have to show your means to make Qiu Changji deign to talk!" Lin Yang guessed Qiu Changji's thoughts, he didn't say much, and with a movement of his mind, he summoned the two storm beasts and the spirit cat.
"Beast Magic? Are you from the Imperial Beast Sect? Qiu Changji was quite knowledgeable, and he recognized Lin Yang's methods at a glance.
"Isn't the Imperial Beast Sect already extinct? Who are you? Qiu Changji's face began to become solemn, although he was a cultivator at the peak of the Yuanji Realm, but if he wanted to solve the two Wind Beasts and a Wraith Spirit Cat, it would take a lot of effort, not to mention that there was a Lin Yang who made him unable to see the depth.
"Why should Elder Qiu cling to his name, waiting for Elder Qiu here, for the sake of Chen Shu's business, I don't know if Elder Qiu is interested?" Lin Yang obviously saw that he showed enough strength and threw out the topic of Chen Shu, the arrogance on Qiu Changji's face disappeared.
"Little friend makes a long story short." Qiu Changji changed his name for Lin Yang.
"Has Elder Qiu heard of the Dark Alliance?" Lin Yang went straight in.
"Dark Alliance!" Qiu Changji raised his eyebrows, the Dark Alliance has been famous in Changguo recently, and its methods are cruel, of course he knows.
"Little friend, please speak up." Qiu Changji frowned.
"Chen Shu, the deputy master of Guishan, is a member of the Dark Alliance." Lin Yang spoke slowly.
Qiu Changji changed color and said loudly: "Little friend, please don't talk nonsense about rootless and unfounded things, do you know that your words are disrespectful and slanderous to our entire Jade Bone Mountain!" Qiu Changji's words were already full of anger.
Lin Yang's expression remained unchanged, and he said lightly: "I must know that this matter is related to the thousand-year-old reputation of Jade Bone Mountain, if there is no basis for it, how dare I talk nonsense." Since Elder Qiu had heard of the Dark Alliance, then you must know about the Dark Alliance's soul refining? ”
"So what? What does this have to do with Chen Shu? Qiu Changji quietly operated Yuan Li, as long as Lin Yang couldn't give a reasonable explanation, he was ready to make a direct move.
"Soul Lock Bead, Elder Qiu should know each other, right?" Lin Yang directly threw the Soul Lock Bead he had collected from Chen Shu at Elder Qiu, and said at the same time: "The Soul Lock Bead has Chen Shu's soul breath on it, Elder Qiu must not be unfamiliar. ”
Qiu Changji took the Soul Lock Bead, and after a little probing, his expression immediately changed greatly, because he did sense Chen Shu's residual soul breath on the Soul Lock Bead.
"Chen Shu is the nail of the Dark Alliance into the Jade Bone Mountain, and he is trying his best to promote the war between Changguo and Zheng Guo, the purpose of which is to collect enough dead souls. The Soul Lock Bead has already been given to Elder Qiu, if Elder Qiu doesn't believe it, or doesn't want to believe it. Then I'll use other methods to let both Jeongkook and Changkook know about it! The only evidence in Lin Yang's hand was this Soul Lock Bead, and his remarks were nothing more than deliberately scaring Qiu Changji.
Lin Yang expected that after all, it was about the thousand-year-old reputation of Jade Bone Mountain, and Qiu Changji would definitely not dare to take risks.
"What is Xiaoyou looking for me for?" After thinking about it for a while, Qiu Changji asked slowly, he wanted to find out Lin Yang's purpose first, and then deal with it.
"I killed Chen Shu." Lin Yang said word by word.
Qiu Changji seemed to have guessed the cause of Chen Shu's death at this moment, he didn't speak, he looked at Lin Yang quietly, waiting for Lin Yang's next words.
"I didn't want to or wanted to get involved in the matter between your Jade Bone Mountain and the Dark Alliance, but Xian'an City has some connection with me, and I can't watch Chen Shu put the soldiers and civilians of Xian'an City to death. Therefore, I killed Chen Shu and met with you here in the hope that you could come forward to negotiate with Huolian Valley, so that Zheng Guo and Huolian Gu could withdraw their troops and resolve the military disaster in Xian'an City. In exchange, Chen Shu's identity as a secret alliance, I will hide it for Guishan and never let others know. Lin Yang said his intentions unhurriedly.
"Xiaoyou, you think too highly of me, I'm afraid Fire Lotus Valley is not so easy to convince." Qiu Changji responded lightly, he was actually a little moved by Lin Yang's proposal. Originally, he didn't advocate a war with Huolian Valley, but Chen Shu was in the limelight, and he advocated it as much as he could, and Qiu Changji was also helpless. Now that Chen Shu has been eliminated, he has fulfilled Qiu Changji's intentions, and he can save the reputation of Jade Bone Mountain. However, Qiu Changji didn't tell a lie, the Fire Lotus Valley and the Jade Bone Mountain had officially started a war, but it was not that he could quell the war between the two sects with one mouth. Moreover, if Jade Bone Mountain takes the initiative to sue for peace, Fire Lotus Valley will definitely open its mouth, which will inevitably make Jade Bone Mountain pay a lot of money. The strength of Jade Bone Mountain is not weaker than that of Fire Lotus Valley, and even faintly exceeds a few points, so that Jade Bone Mountain is wronged and sues for peace, and it has to pay a lot of price, and Qiu Changji is a little reluctant in his heart.
"If Elder Qiu brings something like this, he will definitely be able to add a little more certainty." Lin Yang threw a box to Qiu Changji, which contained Chen Shu's head.
Qiu Changji opened the box, glanced at it, and immediately closed it, with a look of obvious joy.
"Little friend, I'll do my best!" Qiu Changji said in a deep voice.
"Elder Qiu, if you can't let Fire Lotus Valley retreat with this head, it can only mean that Elder Qiu has not done his best in this matter. I can only give Elder Qiu three days, if Elder Qiu fails to persuade Fire Lotus Valley to withdraw within three days. The thousand-year-old reputation of the Jade Bone Mountain is about to shatter to pieces! Of course, Elder Qiu had another choice, and that was to kill me here. However, Elder Qiu also has to weigh it clearly, if you can't kill me, then you definitely don't need to wait until three days later, at the latest tomorrow, Jade Bone Mountain will become famous! Lin Yang's voice turned cold, and after finishing his words, he turned around directly, raised his feet and slowly left, two frightened beasts flew to his left and right, and the ghost cat lay lazily on his shoulder.
Qiu Changji looked at Lin Yang's distant figure, his fists clenched, his heart was extremely struggling, and finally he let out a long sigh and let go of his fist. Lin Yang was too mysterious, so Qiu Changji didn't dare to make a rash move.
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Gao Liansheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, because Qiu Changji had arrived.
However, what puzzled Gao Liansheng was that after Qiu Changji arrived in Xian'an City, he didn't mention anything about Chen Shu, but only asked him to send envoys to Zheng Guo's army and Huolian Valley to negotiate with him.
On the second day, reinforcements from the Changguo royal family arrived and set up camp ten miles away on the outskirts of Xian'an City.
Three days later, Zheng Guo's army retreated, and Yuan Xiu of Huolian Valley and Jade Bone Mountain evacuated Xian'an City successively, and Xian'an City survived the crisis.
The whole city of Xian'an rejoiced and became a sea of joy.
Lin Yang stood on the hill opposite Xian'an City, listening to the earth-shattering cheers in Xian'an City, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and he smiled.
Then, he galloped down the mountain and left the city of Xian'an.
Of course, Lin Yang wants to leave Xian'an City, but not now, he has something that needs to be done in his heart for a long time.
After the Yuan Xiu of Jade Bone Mountain left Xian'an City, not all of them followed Qiu Changji back to Jade Bone Mountain, and some of the Yuan Xiu broke away from the large army in the middle of the way, and they were busy with their own affairs, including Ji Chengkang.
Ji Chengkang's right eyelid has been jumping for a while, as the saying goes, the left eye jumps wealth and the right eye jumps disaster, which frightens Ji Chengkang. When he was in Xian'an City, he was always worried that he would die in the hands of Fire Lotus Valley Yuan Xiu, so every time he defended the city and fought against Fire Lotus Valley Yuan Xiu, he always shrank at the end, as long as he could stand two steps back, he would never stand just one step.
Zheng Guo retreated, Huolian Valley withdrew, Ji Chengkang finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he had finally escaped the catastrophe.
However, it has been forty miles since he left Xian'an City, and Ji Chengkang's right eyelid is still jumping, and it is jumping even harder.
Ji Chengkang was upset by the right eyelid that was beating all the time, and even his favorite wine on weekdays tasted dull.
"Boss, is your wine mixed with water? Why is it so bland? Ji Chengkang slapped the table in the wine shop on the side of the official road, and the evil fire in his stomach that was stirred up by his right eyelid was ready to be sprinkled into the wine shop.
"Guest, you have wronged me to death. Xiao Lao'er has been selling wine here for 20 years, Tong Su is not bullied, only the guests think my wine is too strong, and no guest has ever said that my wine is mixed with water. The half-white bearded boss hurriedly ran over and smiled cautiously.
"Why is it so weak without water?" Ji Chengkang rolled his eyes, and he was about to smash the wine bowl and flip the table.
"This son, your wine and this guest officer's wine are scooped out of the same jar, can you help the little old man tell me, is this wine light or not?" There were only two customers in the wine shop, and the boss saw that Ji Chengkang was looking for fault, so he had no choice but to ask another customer for help.
Another guest, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a handsome face, and a small lock of black hair hanging down on his forehead on the right side, it was not Lin Yang who else.