Ten days ago, Yong'an City, the capital of the Southern Liang Kingdom, was surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the south side was the Tiger Roaring Mountain, which stood majestically, and the mountains were towering, and from a distance, the large and small peaks of the Tiger Roaring Mountain were undulating and undulating, just like a tiger that opened its mouth and roared and swallowed the world; and the west, north, and east sides of Yong'an City were surrounded by weak water rivers that meandered eastward, just like a giant dragon guarding Yong'an City. If you don't pass through the fine iron suspension bridge laid down by Yong'an City, if you want to swim from the river to the city wall, most of you will be swept away by the undercurrent at the bottom of the river, and your bones will be gone. Ten years ago, Beique invaded all the way to conquer the city, Lianke Yanyun Mansion, Qingzhou Mansion, and even conquered Changqing Mansion, the capital of the Great Liang State at that time, and wiped out the Zhao clan of the Great Liang royal family at that time! The soldiers reached the city of Yong'an, the royal family was wiped out, the world was left without a master, and the Great Liang Dynasty was in danger! Li Tingshu, who was the general of the Great Liang Dynasty at that time, and his 8,000 disciples united with his division, the Shenxiao Dao Sect, and the major Jianghu sects of the Great Liang. Hundreds of disciples of the family defended Yong'an City, and they fought with 200,000 Beique Hu soldiers for 30 days on the bank of this seemingly calm weak water river, killing more than 80,000 Hu soldiers, and the corpses of 80,000 Hu soldiers were thrown into this weak water river, and they were all swept away by the undercurrent under the river, and the weak water river, which was dyed red by blood, still flowed slowly eastward without hurry! In that battle, almost all of Li Tingshu's 8,000 soldiers were damaged, and his only son, Li Tianen, had his legs broken by throwing stones and was disabled for life, but it was that battle that made Li Tingshu change from a general of the Great Liang to the emperor of the Southern Liang Dynasty and laid the foundation of the Southern Liang Dynasty. It was also Li Tingshu's master in that battle, Ling Xiao, the real person Yuan Tianyin, who guarded the north gate of Yong'an City alone with one sword, and killed 100,000 soldiers with one sword, achieving the reputation of the world's martial gods!

After the first war with Beique, Li Tingshu changed the Great Liang to the Southern Liang and moved the capital to Yong'an, and in the next ten years, more than ten battles of the size recovered Yanyun Mansion, Qingzhou Mansion and Changqing Mansion, and sent troops to quell the rebellion of South Vietnam and expand the territory of South Yue Province. Today's Yong'an Mansion of Southern Liang has Changqing Mansion in the east, Yanyun Mansion in the north, Qingzhou Mansion in the west, Nanzhao Mansion in the south, and 36 counties in 13 prefectures in five prefectures. After ten years of expansion, the prosperity of Yong'an City, the capital of the Southern Liang Kingdom, is no longer comparable to the past, the city takes the imperial city under the Tiger Roaring Mountain as the center, and the layers are fan-shaped to the weak water river, outside the imperial city are the official offices at all levels, the official offices are the minister's mansions, and then to the outside are shops, wine shops, large and small residences. The outermost weak water river is moored with thousands of large and small flower boats, after nightfall, the flower boat candles are bright, the river surface is covered with waves, and the three thousand beauties have turned this weak water river that was once a sea of corpses and blood into a place of dogs and horses today, and redefined the weak water three thousand.

After four drums, the long night is deep, but the candles in the Imperial City Qinzheng Hall are still bright, and Li Tingshu, who is wearing a yellow robe and a black cloak in the hall, is sitting in front of the bookcase, reviewing the chapters. He doesn't like bright yellow clothes, every time he goes into battle to kill the enemy when he is young, he is a black black ink shadow horse with black armor under his crotch, and he rushes to the front of the team with a black iron spear, so he prefers black black costumes. But now that he has become the emperor's clothing, what color is the written restriction of the Ministry of Freedom, and in desperation, if it weren't for the fact that he always put on a black cloak over a yellow robe, he could be regarded as recovering some memories of his youth! He has passed the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, but the long-term conquest does not seem to have any impact on his body. His body was still as straight as his black iron spear, and although his well-defined facial features were already the color of wind and dust, his eyes were still as bright as a young man! Only the gray temples and the wrinkles on his forehead, as well as the old wounds that often woke him up from his sleep, reminded him that he was no longer young! At this moment, Li Tingshu was the only one in the Qinzheng Palace, and he had always been afraid of eunuchs interfering in politics, so he had never had eunuchs to serve him when dealing with political affairs! Li Tingshu finished approving the last book and was about to get up and move his muscles! The candle flame in the room suddenly swayed slightly, a very slight chill came from above his head, Li Tingshu stretched out his hand and pushed the bookcase in front of him, and the whole person suddenly retreated backwards with his strength, almost at the same time a long sword had pierced the soft cushion he was sitting on just now, an assassin in a black night suit borrowed the strength of the long sword to the ground, and turned over in the air to stand firm, the long sword stabbed and attacked the vital point of Li Tingshu's chest in the retreat, Li Tingshu in the retreat was about to block, and suddenly felt that there was a sword qi in the back, this sword qi was even more domineering, just a moment of cold air hit his whole body, it turned out that the sword on the top of his head was just a feint, and the sword on his back was a killing moveLi Tingshu was in danger and stepped a little bit, the person jumped up, two sword lights under his feet were staggered, the two assassins saw that the blow could not be struck, they simultaneously picked up the sword flower and jumped up, the sword light was woven into a sword net, chasing Li Tingshu upwards and strangled, however, Li Tingshu had already expected this, and when the vacated body crossed the beam of the roof, he stretched out his hand and pushed it, and the person flew out again, and the person who landed on the ground was already a few feet away!

The two Assassins also fell to the ground and stood side by side, both of them masked in black scarves and black night suits, one of them was a delicate figure and obviously a woman, while the other was burly and stood on the ground like an iron tower. The woman holds the sword in her right hand and the sword body is elongated, while the man holds the sword in his left hand, but the sword body is more than twice as wide as the ordinary sword. And the junction between the hilt and the sword body of the two swords is a yin and yang gossip pattern!

"Positive and negative swordsmanship, you are from the Kunlun Mountain of Northern Yan, who instructed you to assassinate me?" Li Tingshu asked loudly

The man didn't answer, but the woman said, "Traitor, do you remember the royal family of the Liang Zhao clan?" Although the voice was as good as the chirping of a yellow bird, the words contained a slow resentment!

When Li Tingshu heard this, he was like five thunderbolts, and his heart was shocked: "The Zhao royal family, could it be that the Zhao family was not wiped out by Beique ten years ago?" This matter involved an extremely secret thing he had done, and he asked himself that all the people who knew about the Great Liang had been wiped out, and now there were assassins who claimed to be descendants of the Great Liang royal family, so how could he not be shocked! And this woman's voice seemed to be somewhat familiar to him, but he couldn't think of it for a while.

Li Tingshu was stunned in place, and the two sword lights had already hit him head-on, but at this moment, he didn't belong to his mind, so he didn't dodge or retreat, nor waved his hand to block.

Seeing that the two sword lights were about to pass through the body, the door of the Qinzheng Hall was suddenly pushed open, and a purple figure flew from outside the hall, as fast as a meteor! The purple figure rolled up Li Tingshu and swept to the side, and the lightning and flint once again avoided this fatal blow!

The two assassins looked around and saw a middle-aged Taoist priest wearing a purple Taoist robe and holding a dusty sword standing beside the emperor.

The two assassins knew that they were not the opponents of Li Tingshu and this Taoist priest, and they swept out of the hall at the same time! At this time, Li Tingshu, who had already come to his senses, allowed the assassin to escape, and his body was about to cut off the retreat of the two.

But the Taoist priest next to him waved his sleeve in front of him, and the Taoist priest said in a low voice: "The emperor can't easily get into danger, they have helpers outside the palace!"

Li Tingshu heard that the Taoist priest's breath was a little disordered, obviously he had fought with someone just now, and he was afraid that he had suffered some internal injuries! He was about to inquire in detail, but he heard a rough voice from outside the hall from afar! "Niubi, you are self-aware, you didn't fight enough today, let's come back another day!"

The two assassins who swept out of the hall heard this sound, and hurriedly raised their true qi and flew away in the direction of the sound!

At this time, the panicked voices of the Praetorian Guards and eunuchs sounded in the imperial city, "Catch the assassin!"

"A bunch of rice buckets!" Li Tingshu scolded to the Praetorian Guards who hurried to escort him

"Your Majesty, no wonder they, the emperor has a will, and the Qinzheng Palace is not allowed to enter without being summoned, so the Praetorian Guards and the close eunuchs dare not approach!

Li Tingshu grabbed him and said, "Senior brother doesn't have to be like this! I don't blame them!"

This Taoist priest is Li Tingshu's junior brother when he was studying art in the Shenxiao faction, Shen Changsheng, the master of the Southern Liang State Qintian, the Shenxiao faction entered the Tao with martial arts, and the Shenxiao Zhenren Yuan Tianyin has received a total of four disciples since the creation of the faction, namely the eldest disciple Qi Ruohai, the second disciple Li Tingshu, the third disciple Li Luoxue and the fourth disciple Shen Changsheng. After the bloody battle of Yong'an ten years ago, Yuan Tianyin was nowhere to be found! Qi Ruohai was seriously injured, and since then his martial arts have been wasted, and he has returned to Cangshan Yuntianguan to concentrate on cultivation, Li Tingshu succeeded in the first battle and became the Emperor of Southern Liang, and since then he has no chance with Daomen, Yuan Tianyin originally wanted to entrust the inheritance of Shenxiao Daomen to Shen Changsheng, but Shen Changsheng, who had been friendly with the second senior brother since he was a child, broke his arm in the war and was named the head of the national teacher to stay in Yong'an City, and the inheritance of the Shenxiao faction fell to the only female disciple Li Luoxue, Li Luoxue was the youngest of the senior brothers, and was not yet twenty years old ten years ago, but he had to take on the responsibility of the master, and since then he has stayed in Cangshan for a long time, and dedicates himself to training his disciples。 Fortunately, although there is a senior brother whose martial arts are useless, he can also help her take care of some internal affairs. After ten years of painstaking management, the Shenxiao faction has been in the martial arts Taishan Beidou's position is more stable, and the people of Southern Liang often say that "Wen looks at Qingshan and Wu looks at Cangshan". This Qingshan refers to Qingshan Academy, and Cangshan refers to Cangshan Yuntian Shenxiao School.

This Shen Changsheng has been friends with Li Tingshu since he was a child, and his arm was cut off by the master of the Beique Tantric Sect to protect Li Tingshu in the bloody battle of Yong'an. Li Tingshu is naturally different from him. Hearing that his breath was unsteady, he put other things aside for the time being, and cared about his injuries first.

Shen Changsheng adjusted his internal breath and said to Li Tingshu: "Don't get in the way, I met a man in black on the way here, and I made a few moves with him!"

Li Tingshu was surprised: "Who is this person sacred? Can he disrupt your internal breath?" He knew that Shen Changsheng's martial arts were rarely opponents, and he was already one of the top ten masters in the rivers and lakes ten years ago, Shenxiao Zhenren once said that their senior brothers, if the cultivation of Taoist internal strength was naturally the highest Qi Ruohai before the martial arts were abolished, but if it was about martial arts talent, no one could beat Shen Changsheng against the enemy.

"Has the emperor ever heard that the cold ice breaks life and death, and a sword judges yin and yang?" asked Shen Changsheng

"Naturally, I've heard of this, and it's talking about the Kunlun School's cold ice true qi and positive and negative swordsmanship. Li Tingshu replied, and then he asked with a grim expression, "What's the matter?"

"If he is only afraid that I will not be able to come to see Your Majesty!" Shen Changsheng shook his head slowly and continued: "It's just that this person's swordsmanship is high and his internal strength is pure, I'm afraid he is not far from that Xiao Changqing! It's just that my Southern Liang and Northern Yan have always been good friends, and they have no grudges with the Kunlun faction, why would they send someone to assassinate Your Majesty?"

"Senior brother, if I send you to assassinate the Emperor of Beique, will you bring your own sword and use your own martial arts?" Li Tingshu suddenly asked

"Senior brother means that the assassin is not from the Kunlun faction?" Shen Changsheng said

"Whether it is a person from the Kunlun faction or not, I can't say yet, but I can already figure out seven or eight points of the intention of the mastermind behind the scenes! Come and see!" Li Tingshu said as he walked to the bookcase, picked up two copies of the recital, and handed them to Shen Changsheng.

Shen Changsheng opened the chapter, only to see that it was written: "Chen Fan played indefinitely, late at night on the seventh day of the first month of this month, 100 people from the Northern Yan border army attacked the defenders of my Yanyue Pass and killed 47 defenders...... Shen Changsheng opened another copy, which read: "Chen Xiao Wanjin's crime is not forgiven, on the eighth day of the first month of this month, the Northern Yan army robbed my Qingzhou Mansion tribute convoy and plundered Qingzhou Mansion tax silver 2 million taels ......"

Shen Changsheng frowned: "Kill my border army, take my tax money, and now come to assassinate Your Majesty Beiyan, this is trying to start a war with my Southern Liang?"

"If I want to start a war, I will not pick quarrels and provoke trouble, so that the opponent will be vigilant! If I guessed correctly, at this moment, the Emperor of Yan also received a provocative note from my Southern Liang border army," Li Tingshu said

"What does the emperor mean is that someone wants to provoke a war between Southern Liang and Northern Yan? Who could it be? Could it be Beique?" Shen Changsheng frowned.

"I don't have to guess who it is, at this moment I am open to the enemy and secret, if you want to find out the details of the enemy, the only way is to let them come to the light!"

"The emperor has a countermeasure?"

"I have decreed that Fan Wuji, the general of Zhenbian, be promoted to the general of the expedition to the north!

Shen Changsheng exclaimed: "The emperor wants to use troops against Beiyan?"

"You, no wonder Master has said since he was a child that you are the most honest of our senior brothers!" Li Tingshu showed a sly smile on his face, and then said: "But just a will is not enough, tomorrow the palace will announce the will to conquer Beiyan to the students of this Keqiufu High School, just to hear what the scholars have to say." ”

Shen Changsheng suddenly realized: "The minister understands, the emperor wants to lure the snake out of the hole! It's just that if the emperor takes the conquest of Beiyan as the topic during the palace test, he is not afraid of attracting the criticism of the scholars! You must know that the scholars of this dynasty have always been unforgiving!"

"Whoever dares to be presumptuous will punish him of the nine clans, just so that everyone in the world knows what kind of faint monarch I am!" Li Tingshu said seriously.

"Hahaha!" came the heartfelt laughter of the two monarchs and ministers in the Qinzheng Palace.

Outside Yong'an City, on the bank of the weak water river, three black shadows swept into a flower boat on the river like ghosts!

In the main hall of the main cabin of the flower boat, the three of them knelt down through a screen and said: "Young Master Qi, his subordinates are incompetent and failed to kill Li Tingshu, please punish the young master!"

"As expected, if Li Tingshu is so vulnerable, we don't have to plan for many years, the art of war is real, and the truth is false, sending you and others to assassinate Li Tingshu is just a false move, and you don't have to blame yourself for not making meritorious contributions. A young voice inside the screen replied.

The three of them glanced at each other and said together: "My subordinates are ashamed!"

"Kill the border army, seize the tax silver, and stab the son of heaven, although a few moves in the court are false moves, they have already fallen into good shape, and then it is time to be in the rivers and lakes, you don't have to stay in Yong'an City, so let's go to Cangshan to help the master, remember that this time is not a false move, you must succeed in one fell swoop!"

"Yes!" replied the trio

"It's just that if I wait for all to leave, the young master doesn't even have a guard around him, if the young master makes a mistake, his subordinates will die, and I ask the young master to stay and serve the young master. The graceful woman in black among the three said.

"Mengxi is too worried, no one has served me for more than ten years, don't I live well?Besides, as soon as the day passes, I will be the protégé of the Son of Heaven, who dares to touch me except the Son of Heaven?" said the young voice inside the screen with a slight self-deprecation.

The woman in black named Mengxi was about to say something, and the two men in black beside her waved at her, and the three of them bowed their heads and withdrew from the cabin together!

The young voice behind him came through the cabin: "Cangshan Snow, Erhai Moon, if there is no hatred of this country, Mengxi I really want to go with you to step on the snow and enjoy the moon." ”