Li Changzheng died.

There is no need to guess that Li Lingcai also understands that the Ghost Fan Building he has worked so hard to manage is also finished, and he is ready to escape, but as soon as Zhao Lanjiang's eyes widen, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to move.

"Li Changzheng rebelled with the ministers and thieves, disturbed the people, and the city lord of Zhao killed him with a knife and eliminated the harm for the people, which is really a very happy thing, and I admire it very much!" Li Lingcai said, "In the past two years, our Ghost Fan Tower has cooperated well with the City Lord Zhao, and the decree on the City Lord's Mansion is also executed, and now the City Lord is helping to recapture the Lord of the Ghost Fan Building, Li Lingcai is willing to go to the soup for the City Lord!"

Zhao Lanjiang asked, "I killed Li Changzheng, you didn't complain?"

"Li Changzheng should have died!" Li Lingcai looked straight and said: "Originally, I was in Yinyang City, I was a good landlord, and I contributed to the construction of Yinyang, but as soon as he came, he messed around and disturbed Yinyang, in the past half a year, I have worked hard to persuade him, how can he insist on going his own way, let me be a cow and a horse, I dream of eating his flesh raw, how can I have complaints?"

Last year, Li Lingcai returned to Jinling to seize the position of the head of the family, which attracted Li Lingcai, but at this time he deliberately reversed black and white, and he could only talk nonsense in order to save his life. He saw that Zhao Lanjiang didn't speak, and fell into deep thought, his eyes staring left and right, wanting to take the opportunity to run away.

Zhao Lanjiang shouted, "Did I tell you to leave?"

Li Lingcai drooped his face and said: "Kill or kill, and don't let you go, you can't hang me like this, it's better to give me a good time." ”

Zhao Lanjiang was distracted just now because of Li Changzheng's words before he died, if it was really as he said, Yinyang City was afraid that it would be dangerous, but the person had already been killed, and it was useless to regret it, so he had to think of some remedies, so he asked, "Do you know Li Changzheng's words?"

As soon as Li Lingcai heard this, the opportunity to save his life came, and he took the opportunity to perform, "Our Ghost Fan Tower has guarded Hidden Yang City for five hundred years, and no one in the world knows the Hidden Yang Great Array better than me." The city lord must have heard that under this Hidden Yang City, there is a mysterious force imprisoned, before, the Hidden Yang Array was relatively mild, but a few days ago, Li Changzheng went to the Ghost Fan Tower to wake up the power of the Hidden Sun. So, I think ......"

Zhao Lanjiang put the golden knife on his neck and interrupted, "I'm not in the mood to listen to you tell the story, just tell me if there is a way." ”

At that time, the knife was only 0.01 centimeters away from Li Ling's neck, and the desire to save his life made Li Ling have to lie, although he had told countless casual lies in his life, but this time he did put a lot of thought into it, and he was in a hurry and said, "Solution, I have one." ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhao Lanjiang's wrist flipped, and the meaning of the golden knife shattered Li Lingcai's meridians, abolishing his martial arts, "Come back to the city with us." ”

Li Lingcai's face was very embarrassed, "My method has to use my martial arts." ”

When Zhao Lanjiang heard this, how could you blame me for abolishing your martial arts?

"Didn't you say it sooner?"

"You didn't give me a chance to speak. ”

"So, you're of little use to me?"

Li Lingcai, who is useless, has only a dead end.

Li Lingchu said, "No, no, I can think of other ways." ”

The martial arts are gone, but they have survived.

Zhao Lanjiang ordered Li Lingcai's body to be wrapped in a shroud, and then asked him to ride a horse with Li Bufan and slowly drove towards Yinyang City.

The curfew has been lifted, and the news of Zhao Lanjiang's return has already spread throughout Yinyang City. Early in the morning, the people of Yinyang almost spontaneously walked to the street and came to the city gate to welcome Zhao Lanjiang into the city. Chai Gongwang, Xu Yang, Ye Erlang and others led Bai Ma Yicong to wait under the city tower, and when Zhao Lanjiang's cavalry team came to everyone's sight, cheers spread like huge waves, all over the four fields.

After walking so many places and roads, it was only here that Zhao Lanjiang found his home.

"Long live the castle lord!"

"Long live the Hidden Sun!"

Zhao Lanjiang came to the top of the capital, looked at the passionate people of Yinyang under the city tower, and his heart was moved.

The world is so big, how can it be home?

Since the moment the golden knife Li Qiuyi took over the golden knife in his hand, he and the fate of this city have been tied together. Three years, after a big time

There were big winds and waves, there were glory and loss, but in the end he still stood here, together with the 100,000 people of Yinyang, and with the nineteen cities.

What is a hero?

In this troubled era, guarding a corner of a city and protecting the safety of one party is a hero.

Zhao Lanjiang never wanted to be a hero, he was just a Dingzhou boy who was bent on revenge, and fate made him embark on this path. And when the moment came, he was aware of the weight on his shoulders and all that he had endured. The death of his beloved wife, the departure of his friends, and the death of his former comrades-in-arms made him realize that the word "city lord" is the expectation of the people of Yinyang, and the sustenance of countless people who have fought and sacrificed for it.

Zhao Lanjiang raised his hand, and the noise gradually subsided.

"I am an orphan, my father was killed by traitors, I was homeless since I was a child, wandering around, I have fought wolves in the Hengduan Mountains, killed people in the western Xinjiang, and fought bravely in the rivers and lakes. At that time, the only thought in my mind was to survive. I've experienced calculations and betrayals, I've lost my most beloved people, I've been confused, and I've given up on myself. However, I have never been so proud to be standing here and to be able to fight for the Hidden Sun!"

"In the past three years, Yinyang has experienced too much suffering and torture, but our Yinyang City, just like the people of Yinyang, like the white horse righteous servants downstairs, has never succumbed to power and never stopped fighting, and all this is because we have a common belief in our hearts!"

"There is no one who can make us Hidden Yang people succumb!"

"There is nothing that can defeat our people in Yinyang!"

"We are bloody, fighting for the hidden sun. We pay and fight for the hidden sun. From today on, I, Zhao Lanjiang, swear that I will fight side by side with Yinyang in this life, and never let Yinyang become anyone's vassal, we Yinyang people will only fight for Yinyang, all for Yinyang!"

Zhao Lanjiang's words came from the bottom of his heart.

When the people of the city and Bai Ma Yicong heard this, their blood boiled even more, and they shouted in unison, "All for Yinyang!"

......

In less than three days, the traces left by Li Changzheng in Yinyang City were quickly removed, including the inspection team of the Guifan Tower, as well as the various control measures taken to leave the city, all of which became history. The scars he left on Hidden Yang City, and the evil deeds he killed the people of Hidden Yang City, were nailed to the pillar of shame, and these three months are known as the darkest hundred days in the history of Hidden Yang City.

Li Changzheng is dead, but the hidden danger still exists.

That was the Hidden Sun Great Array that could erupt at any time.

It used to be the patron saint of this city, and it was the support of the Hidden Sun from being violated, but now it has become a monster that can engulf the Hidden Sun City at any time, a powder keg that can explode at any time. Only a very small number of people know about this news, and the more people who know about it, the more it will cause panic among the people, and the devastated people of Yinyang can no longer afford this kind of panic.

However, Chai Gongwang had already begun to formulate an evacuation and evacuation plan, and unless it was a last resort, Zhao Lanjiang did not want to give up Yinyang City.

With a history of 500 years and a city of 100,000 people, it is not something that can be given up.

If it is to be rebuilt, human, material, and financial resources will be astronomical.

And the current finances of Yinyang City are not optimistic, and in the past few months, Li Changzheng has squandered the treasury silver that he did not have.

Fortunately, Li Lingcai didn't lie.

This array has a very terrifying destructive power in the second-level form, for hundreds of years, the ghost fan tower guarded the hidden yang array, and also left a lot of files about the formation, Li Lingcai in order to save his life, almost all his thoughts were spent on maintaining the stable form of the formation, and gradually made a breakthrough.

Zhao Lanjiang also sensed that in the recent period, although the crisis of the Hidden Yang Great Array has not been resolved, it has stabilized a lot.

In this case, he didn't dare to use the power of the hidden sun at all.

However, at present, the situation in western Xinjiang tends to be stable, and the Central Plains is full of wars, and there is no time to take care of them for the time being, which gives them sufficient time to buffer.

Half a month later, Zhao Lanjiang held a meeting of the city lords.

At this meeting, Xiangjian County, as the twentieth city, was officially incorporated into Hidden Sun City, and the lord of the city was served by the night owl.

And the military power of the western front of Yinyang and the jurisdiction of the trading base were handed over to Yejiro. The military and political affairs of Yinyang City were separated, the civilian system was in charge of Chai Gongwang, and the military power was led by Li Chenglong.

In this way, Yinyang City starts from Stone City in the west, and reaches Xiangjian County in the east, connecting Baimayi, Sifeng Mountain, and Yinyang Trade Road as a whole, completely opening up the trade routes from Western Chu and Northern Zhou to the Central Plains, and becoming the fourth largest force outside Shuzhong, Henan, and Jiangnan in one fell swoop, and the relatively remote location and steep terrain make them independent of the Central Plains melee, and a good trade foundation makes them the objects of competition among the princes of the Central Plains.

At the same time, a grand and grand wedding was also held in Hidden Sun City.

Concubine Yeyu officially entered the City Lord's Mansion, and the eldest lady of the Night Family became the Princess of Yinyang, marrying the hero in her mind. However, soon the little princess found that Zhao Lanjiang's interest in her was getting lower and lower, and she was busy with government affairs all day long, sometimes she would rather go to the barracks for the night than go back to the house to rest, which made her young lady lose her temper and find Zhao Lanjiang to theorize, but Zhao Lanjiang hid in the study to sleep on the grounds of "unreasonable". The little princess washed her face with tears every night, and her temper became more and more irritable.

......

Ghost Fan Tower.

Back in Hidden Yang City, Li Lingcai returned here.

There were officers and soldiers guarding outside, and it was not easy to get out, but inside the building, he was not restricted from his freedom. He has spent most of his life here, and when he returns here, he doesn't feel much uncomfortable, the only difference is that there are no slaves in the Ghost Fan Building, and there are not so many people from the three sects and nine ranks.

If there is any need, he directly mentioned it to Li Bufan, as long as he does not violate the rules, whether it is a person or a thing, he will basically be satisfied.

The Hidden Sun Great Array has two forms, a first-level stable form and a second-level activation form.

The first form can provide the formation master with a stable hidden sun power. The second form is used to die with the offender in the face of a crisis. After this form was activated by Li Changzheng, he destroyed the pedestal of the six pieces of red essence dark iron, and wanted to reset them, according to the records of the classics in the building, one is to use the red essence dark iron to rebuild the formation core, and the other is to use enough strength to suppress this force, and then replace the formation core, but to do both of these things, it is extremely difficult, so Li Lingcai rummaged through the ancient books and found a compromise method, that is, on the basis of the existing formation, build a mini formation, so as to seal the formation of the Hidden Sun Array.

Li Lingcai was already a genius, especially after his martial arts were abolished, he devoted all his energy to the formation.

First, it was to escape the fact of being imprisoned, and secondly, he was also very interested in the way of formation.

On this day, he was sitting on the desk to design the formation of the Hidden Sun Great Array, and several ideas had been formed in his mind, but after the experiments one by one, he always felt unsatisfactory, but he finally saw the dawn, he believed that it would not take a few days to overcome this difficulty, of course, he would not completely tell Zhao Lanjiang.

He wants to leave a way back for himself.

People must have use value in order to survive.

Before he knew it, three or four hours had passed, and he was hungry, and he wondered in his heart, why hadn't the food come today?

As soon as I thought of this, someone walked in with a food box.

Li Lingcai didn't raise his head and said, "Put it over there." ”

The man put down the food box, but did not leave, but came to his side.

Li Lingcai said, "It's none of your business here." ”

As soon as the words fell, he only felt a tightness in his neck, his throat was tightly strangled by a wire, he wanted to break free, the force in the other party's hand became stronger and stronger, he couldn't breathe, his feet kicked on the ground, and his throat made a gurgling sound, he wanted to open his mouth for help, but he couldn't make a sound at all.

His consciousness gradually blurred.

When he looked back, he saw a face.

A woman's face.

Qingluan.

His adopted daughter.

He adopted her, cultivated her, made her, and destroyed her with his own hands.

Eventually, he died at her hands.

It was the last image he saw on earth.

(There's one more more.) ）