"Qinglan, go and get the platinum sword. Xiao Shizhu turned his head and said to Qinglan.

Qing Lan answered, hurriedly got off the high platform, and after a while, took a long sword made of stainless steel and handed it to Xiao Shizhu.

"This is your father, after the first time he went with me to Sanxing Island, I gave it to him with my own hands, which can be sharpened like clay, and his name is ten thousand. Xiao Shizhu took it, raised his hand and gently stroked the natural lines on the sword-like body, and the past was immediately vivid, he paused, and said: "Now that I have passed it on to you, this must be what your father wants to see the most." ”。

After speaking, Xiao Shizhu raised his eyes and looked at Bai Jin's twelve-year-old son, Bai Qi.

The little ghost didn't know what was going on, but he thought the sword was beautiful, and he didn't take his eyes off the lines on the sword that glowed with cold light. didn't listen to Xiao Shizhu's words.

"Silly boy. In the end, Bai Jin's widow stepped forward, gently knocked Bai Qi's head, and said with a slight annoyance: "Don't take the sword yet." ”。 As he spoke, he raised his eyes and looked at Xiao Shizhu with a sense of feeling.

Only then did Bai Qian react, slowly stretched out his hands to take Wan Ling, bowed his head and saluted, "Thank you, Uncle Xiao." ”。

"I will say the same thing to your father today. After Xiao Shizhu bowed slightly, he said to him solemnly: "May you hold this sword in the future to open up a stable and prosperous world for the ghosts, and I don't want to see you put it in your home to accumulate dust!"

The wind and rain suddenly stopped, and the dark clouds quickly dispersed, and beams of cloudy light shone on the earth.

Holding the long sword in his hand, Bai Qian felt a sense of responsibility in his heart, and nodded heavily, nodding his head without hesitation, with a solemn "um!" on his face, and silently recited Xiao Shizhu's words in his heart several times, keeping it in mind.

"It must be!" Xiao Shizhu, who had expectations on his face, smiled warmly and gave Bai Qian a thumbs up: "Become a hero like your father!" ......

The first spring snow of the year, which fell all night, did not stop until early in the morning, and the whole city was dark. All you can see is black snowflakes piled up.

After the Emperor Xudu got up early, he received a secret report, and hurriedly ordered Gong Mingyi, who had been escorted back to Xudu, and Gong Mingyi, who had been a messenger palace slave after castration, to invite the eight only eight Hades left to come to discuss the matter.

Since Gong Mingyi was castrated, he changed his previous arrogance and Zhang Yang, suddenly calmed down a lot, and became silent.

Do things carefully and carefully, be careful, and do what the boss explains, and no longer deliberately modify the boss's orders, or self-righteous and self-assertive things.

Gradually, even the Emperor Xudu felt that he was well-behaved and easy to use; after several times of anger and killing all his messenger palace slaves to vent his anger, the Emperor Xudu simply left Gong Mingyi by his side and used him as a microphone.

Emperor Xudu didn't wait too long, and Gong Mingyi invited all the remaining eight Hades to come over.

As soon as they entered the main hall, the kings of Hades saw that the Emperor Xudu had a gloomy face, and they were all slightly stunned, and they all bowed their heads and walked to stand under the Emperor Xudu, but no one squeaked, but they just wondered in their hearts what unpleasant things had happened to the bottom?

"Do you know?" Emperor Xudu waved his hand, and after repulsing the left and right palace slaves, his eyes swept over the faces of the Hades kings one by one, and said in a deep voice: "Du Ziren is the opposite, calling himself the Red Emperor, and calling the country Barbarian." ”。

When the Hades heard this, they were all shocked and froze in place, their eyes full of consternation, lingering for a long time.

Gong Mingyi, who had already withdrawn from the main hall, was also standing under the window outside the hall, eavesdropping quietly.

There was silence in the main hall, except for the cold wind that pierced the hall, blowing the yellow curtains hanging from the pillars and the lights in the candlesticks in the hall. A little bit of fire was reflected in the eyes of Emperor Xudu, bringing a little swaying red.

The ghosts present were all high-level officials of the Xudu regime, and they knew that Du Ziren controlled most of the gold mines of the Beiyin Dynasty, which was equivalent to holding half of the economy of the Beiyin Dynasty.

This person's soul suddenly reversed, and the income of the Beiyin Dynasty in the future was directly reduced by half.

"Your Majesty. After a long silence, the Wheel King came out of the ranks, and after saluting, he said thoughtfully: "Why don't you immediately send a large army to pass through the Nine Shadows Kingdom and recover the lost land?"

His idea is indeed good, and it is now more feasible to send a large army to enter the Nanban directly through the Nine Shadows Kingdom, so as to take Du Ziren's gold mine and Nanban's land and take it into his hands again.

At that moment, many Hades nodded after thinking for a moment and agreed with his suggestion.

But Emperor Xudu didn't want to do this, now that the underworld was in chaos, he thought that it would be better except for Yin Lingzi, but he didn't expect that the rebellion was not only not deterred, but instead, it backfired.

Many rebellious countries even put forward the slogan of avenging Yin Lingzi, which made the rebellion more and more intense. The Xudu Army and the Xuandi Army in the hands of Emperor Xudu are brave and good at fighting and have many generals, but there are too many rebellions, which makes him difficult to defeat with two fists and four hands, which is quite stretched.

In his opinion, it is best to let Xiao Shizhu be the pawn of this counterinsurgency.

And outside the hall, Gong Mingyi, who was actually eavesdropping outside the hall under the pretense that Hou was outside the hall, heard everything in the hall clearly, although he still had a humble face after hearing the words, his eyes stared at the ghost willow outside the hall that had fallen leaves, and pretended to be absent-minded about the things in the hall, but he secretly scolded in his heart: "Stupid, let Xiao Shizhu go to replace the dead ghost first, it is the right way." ”。

As everyone knows, it's not that the wheel king is stupid, but the benefits he took from Xiao Shizhu; as the saying goes, eating people with soft mouths and short hands is the same in the underworld.

The King of Reincarnation naturally thought of it, first let Xiao Shizhu go to fight Du Ziren to the death, and then Emperor Xudu was sending troops, so as to minimize the losses of the army of the Northern Yin Dynasty.

But he took the advantage, of course, he can't tell this good idea again.

In addition, he knew that it was best not to be too smart in front of Emperor Xudu, otherwise the smarter he was, the faster he would die, so he chose a medium strategy.

Just when Gong Mingyi was secretly ridiculing them in his heart, the Emperor Xudu in the palace had already taken out a secret report from his sleeve and threw it to the king of Yama who was the leader: "This is the secret report from the secret agent I planted in the Nine Shadows Kingdom. Just over half a month ago, Du Ziren suddenly attacked the Chongshan Pass in the south of the Nine Shadows Kingdom. ”。

The source of the intelligence was naturally Jiang Ziwen, the former king of Qin Guang; when the king of Yama opened the secret report, he saw that it was written that Xiao Shizhu hurriedly transferred troops to the southern border because of this sudden change, resulting in a shortage of troops in the country.

However, what Emperor Xudu and the Hades present did not know was that this information was deliberately arranged by Xiao Shizhu.

If you want to beat Du Ziren heartily, you must get the consent of the Emperor Xudu; after all, Du Ziren was a frontier general of the Northern Yin Dynasty before the rebellion. If you don't declare war, you won't be accused of rebellion by Emperor Xudu, then the Nine Shadows Kingdom will definitely be embattled.

Sending this information can make Emperor Xudu continue to trust Jiang Ziwen, and secondly, it can also arouse the selfishness of Emperor Xudu and use the Nine Shadows Kingdom as a pawn to quell the rebellion against Du Ziren.

In this way, Xiao Shizhu not only has an excuse to send troops, but at the same time that his division is famous, he can use the excuse that his Jiuyou Kingdom is now poor and has no money and cannot afford to send troops and does not move, and by the way, he wants some benefits from Emperor Xudu.

After all, the holy decree of the Emperor Xudu to the King of Jiuyou to conquer at will only said that the Nine Youdu Kingdom expanded its territory privately, and the Xudu regime did not give any support.

didn't say that Xiao Shizhu worked for Emperor Xudu, he could not take wages and give free of charge.

After the Hades passed on the information one by one, they all vaguely guessed the thoughts of the Emperor Xudu, but no one broke the truth, and they all waited for the Emperor Xudu to speak first, so as to show his wisdom as the emperor of the underworld.

"I heard that there is such an ancient story in the world, which says that one day Zhao Guo will go to fight against Yan State, Su Dai said to King Hui for Yan State. Passing by Yishui today, I saw a river mussel coming out of the water to bask in the sun, and a sandpiper flew to peck at its flesh, and the river mussel immediately closed and clamped the sandpiper's beak. The sandpiper said, 'If it doesn't rain today, it won't rain tomorrow, and it will kill you.' The mussels also said to the sandpiper, 'If you don't take your mouth today, tomorrow you will starve to death.' The two brutes would not give up on each other. Emperor Xudu glanced at him at the Hades and said in a calm tone, "As a result, a fisherman captured them both. ”。

"Since Xiao Shizhu's pass has been beaten, he will definitely not be able to swallow this breath, the so-called defense is just because Du Ziren was once my general. The gloom on his face suddenly decreased slightly, and he slowly got up and paced around the Hades: "I'm thinking, why don't you send Xiao Shizhu to quell the rebellion?"

King Yama thought for a while, and suddenly had a plan in his heart, and said in a cut voice: "But this is not an expansion of the country, presumably Xiao Shizhu may not be able to do his best." ”。

"This was the case with the counterinsurgency in various places before. After a pause, King Yama added, "Your Majesty will give Xiao Shizhu some support so that he can be more effective." ”。

When he said this, he was fighting for supplies for the Nine Shadows Country.

Emperor Xudu walked slowly to them and stood still, pondering, the cold wind blowing through the hall and encouraging his robes and the sound of hunting.

"Is he poor?" Suddenly, Emperor Xudu asked rhetorically. He is also a miser at heart, and he tries to pull out a hair as much as he can.

What's more, he has been in a high position for a long time, and he has long been accustomed to the feeling that the ghosts must serve him.

"Perhaps. King Yama didn't squeak, but the Wheel King was the first to speak, and said with an indifferent smile: "I heard that he was selling the Ghost Mother Palace on Shuoyue Island, and at first the minister didn't know why? Now it seems that he must be preparing to take revenge on Du Ziren." ”。

"This Xiao Shizhu is really capable of doing anything. Emperor Xudu was stunned when he heard this, then smiled slightly, and swept away the gloom on his previous face: "For the sake of him being so poor, give him some ghost slaves, but the plan of the clam must be implemented immediately." ”。