After traveling for a while, Li Xingyun and his party finally arrived at the Hidden Soldier Valley.
Li Xingyun raised his eyes and looked at the majestic building in front of him. The layers of pavilions were like a mountain peak, standing against the mountain. It was like a continuous ancient city, like a giant beast dormant in the world, eager to swallow the world.
Li Xingyun held Tang Dao in his hand and wore black armor in green clothes, looking up at the familiar place again.
Lu Linxuan looked at the building in front of him with some curiosity.
There really is a hidden soldier valley in Zhongnan Mountain.
Shangguan Yunque had a look of understanding on his face.
Ji Ruxue looked at Li Xingyun and then at the nonchalant, carefree Qingguo and Qingcheng beside her, and shook her head.
It seems that this place is the headquarters of a certain sect, but with such a scale, how can it not have any reputation in the world?
Before entering the Valley of Hidden Soldiers, several bad guys wearing red clothes and masks have been waiting in front of the valley for a long time.
When those bad guys saw Li Xingyun and his entourage arriving, one of them said to the person beside him: "Go back quickly and report to the commander that Li Xingyun is here."
“Everyone who has come from afar has encountered something unexpected.
I also invite you to enter the Tibetan Soldier Valley and let us show our friendship as landlords. "The bad guy said to Li Xingyun and the others.
Li Xingyun nodded calmly when he heard this, and then looked at Shangguan Yunque.
"Xingyun?" Shangguan Yunque was about to go to the bad commander to return his life, but Li Xingyun's look made him afraid to move.
"Brother Shangguan, where is the wine I asked you to bring?" Li Xingyun looked at Shangguan Yunque and asked.
"Here it is, here it is." Shangguan Yunque looked at Li Xingyun and said with sudden realization. Then, he handed the wine bottle hanging around his waist to Li Xingyun.
"Everyone, please follow me." The bad guy said, and then he took the lead in walking towards the hidden soldier valley.
"My dear, Xingyun, I, I have to go back to life." Shangguan Yunque looked at Li Xingyun and said with some embarrassment.
He was suspicious of this and that along the way, but in the end, he said goodbye to Li Xingyun first. This makes him feel a little embarrassed for such a shameless person.
"Well, we'll see you when we come out of the valley again." Li Xingyun didn't have any idea about this, he looked at Shangguan Yunque and said.
"With your words like Xingyun, my death is worth it." Shangguan Yunque looked at Li Xingyun in front of him and said. Then, he used Qinggong and rushed towards the Hidden Soldier Valley. In a few breaths, he disappeared from everyone's eyes. .
The rest of the people followed the bad guy who led the way and slowly walked towards the Hidden Soldier Valley.
After several people walked up the stone steps, a bad guy looked at Li Xingyun, bowed his hands to Li Xingyun and said, "Our commander-in-chief invites this young master to speak alone."
"Brother?" Lu Linxuan was stunned when he heard this.
It was the two brothers and sisters' job to come to Tibetan Soldier Valley to deliver the message. Qingguo, Qingcheng, and Ji Ruxue all came with Lu Linxuan. Logically speaking, they should meet them.
"Don't worry." Li Xingyun smiled and said to Lu Linxuan. Seeing that the other party was not too relieved, Li Xingyun added: "Don't worry."
This reassurance was like a magical spell, allowing Lu Linxuan to suppress the anxiety in his heart.
Li Xingyun held Tang Dao and followed the bad guy towards the valley.
"Thank you for your hard work, we have set up a banquet to welcome you." After Li Xingyun followed the bad guy and left, the remaining bad guys looked at Lu Linxuan, Ji Ruxue, Qingguo, and Qingcheng and said.
The commander-in-chief has made it clear that this is the future team of the "Emperor" and cannot be neglected.
However, he still had some doubts, especially when he saw the two phenomenal faces of Qingguo and Qingcheng, he was even more doubtful.
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In the Hidden Soldier Valley, the bad guys led Li Xingyun into a rather luxurious study room.
"Please stay here for a moment. Our commander will be here shortly." The bad guy bowed his hands to Li Xingyun, and then slowly exited the room.
Li Xingyun slowly scanned the room in front of him. He was looking at rows of bamboo slips on the bookshelf facing him. To his right was a screen with a painting of a peerless beauty. Even in the painting, It’s hard to hide its charm.
It can be said that he has a golden hairpin on his head and a green robe on his waist. Pearls are intertwined with jade bodies, but corals are intertwined with each other.
Look at the four lines of the poem on the screen: "Clouds think of clothes, flowers think of faces..."
Li Xingyun didn’t want to read any more.
He turned around and walked to the coffee table, smoothed his skirt and armor, and placed the Dukang wine he bought on the coffee table. Then he sat down on one side of the coffee table, put on his bamboo hat and mask, and quietly closed his eyes to rest, waiting for Yuan Tiangang's arrival.
Soon, a person slowly came from outside the door. When he arrived in front of the door, the door was opened by an inexplicable force. After he entered the door, the door was gently closed by that force.
Li Xingyun raised his eyes and saw the man wearing black armor in green clothes, a bamboo hat on his head, and a black mask with green patterns on his face, walking into the house.
It is Yuan Tiangang.
Yuan Tiangang stepped into the house and paused for a moment when he saw Li Xingyun's outfit, especially the mask on his face.
The boy who once practiced martial arts with him has grown up and is no longer the same as before...
Let’s have a little more experience, eh? His Highness has the ability to achieve great status?
"It seems that you already know a lot of things." The familiar voice that had sounded in Li Xingyun's heart countless times now sounded in reality again, slowly reaching Li Xingyun's ears.
"Well, for example, who am I, and who are you?" Li Xingyun's calm voice came from behind the mask.
"Your Majesty, Bad Commander Yuan Tiangang, please see Your Highness." Yuan Tiangang slowly took off his hat and mask, knelt down on one knee, and saluted Li Xingyun.
"Please get up." Li Xingyun looked at Yuan Tiangang's ghost-like face in front of him and said calmly.
"It seems that Your Highness has realized something. Although I don't know how His Highness knew it, the prosperity of Ziwei is a blessing to our Tang Dynasty. Now that the matter has come to this, I invite Your Highness to take the common people of the world into consideration, raise an army and proclaim yourself emperor, and annihilate Zhu Wen, Restore the Tang Dynasty!" Yuan Tiangang looked at Li Xingyun in front of him and said.
"Yuan Tiangang, actually I have always wanted to ask you a question." Li Xingyun looked at Yuan Tiangang in front of him and asked calmly.
"Your Highness, please speak. I am a minister of the Tang Dynasty, so naturally I will tell you everything I know." Yuan Tiangang looked at Li Xingyun and said.
"Are you really trying to make me the emperor today?
If I really ascend the throne and proclaim myself emperor in this Valley of Hidden Soldiers as you said, I wonder what you would think? Li Xingyun asked as he looked at Yuan Tiangang in front of him.
“What does your Highness mean by this?
In my dream, I still want to revive the Tang Dynasty and create a prosperous Zhenguan era. "Yuan Tiangang stood up slowly, looked at Li Xingyun, and asked in confusion.
“In the second year of Qianfu, there were droughts, locust plagues, and floods year after year. Instead of being considerate of the people, the court increased taxes. If there was no food in one place, the people might beg along the road to make a living elsewhere.
Heh, if you're lucky, maybe there's a way out. "Li Xingyun knew that it was difficult to be a beggar. Then, Li Xingyun continued: "But there is no food in the world, so the people have to wait for death in their hometown.
At that time, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao raised their troops to revolt. The governors of various vassal towns watched the changes, but the court had no soldiers to restrain them. In the first year of Guangming, Huang Chao attacked Luoyang and directed his troops towards Chang'an. Xizong fled in panic.
After entering Chang'an, the streets were filled with murders, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and rivers of blood flowed.
In the first year of Guangqi, less than six years later, Li Keyong and Wang Chongrong jointly approached Chang'an, and Xizong fled again. "
"You and I both know that the chaos today is not what it was back then. Now I have no ground under my feet. In terms of so-called orthodoxy, I am not as good as Xizong.
Even if you can rely on people, they are only bad people. But how can we quell the chaos in the world with bad people alone?
There are still people in the vassal towns who still use the Tang Dynasty title and worship the Tang Dynasty Zhengshuo, but I think you know better than me.
The Tang Dynasty they enshrine is a dragon's chair that no one will ever sit on. When Li Xingyun said this, he calmly took off his mask and hat, and continued: "So what you said today about asking me to become emperor is not really for me to become emperor, but to build momentum for the next plan, right?" "
Li Siyuan taught Li Xingyun a truth. People like Yuan Tiangang don't need his consent at all if they want him to become emperor.
With Yuan Tiangang's domineering attitude, if there was really a chance to revive the Tang Dynasty, he would not be given a choice at all.
Li Xingyun made a gesture of invitation to Yuan Tiangang, took out the Dukang wine bought by Shangguan Yunque, picked up the two tea bowls on the table, poured two bowls, pushed one bowl to the opposite side of him, and took the other bowl. Pick up and place it in front of your lips.
"Your Highness has thought carefully and has become even more regal. It is gratifying to congratulate me and I am very relieved." Yuan Tiangang's unpredictable voice sounded again, neither joy nor anger could be heard.
"What else does Your Highness know? You might as well tell us all." Yuan Tiangang clasped his hands behind his back and looked down at Li Xingyun, who was sitting a few steps away and was pouring a drink.
"I also know that you, Yuan Tiangang, are actually like me, believing that after troubled times, there will be great harmony.
And you are also looking forward to in your heart that in the prosperous age of great harmony, you can take two or three friends and live in a few rooms close to the mountains and rivers, where you can walk and sit in peace, living alone, surrounded by idle clouds and wild cranes, right? "Li Xingyun looked at Yuan Tiangang in front of him and continued to ask.
Yuan Tiangang said nothing at this moment, neither agreeing nor objecting.
"I heard that you have divination and fortune-telling skills, Yuan Tiangang, let me ask you, do you have a certain number in the Tang Dynasty?" Li Xingyun looked at Yuan Tiangang in front of him and continued to ask.
At this moment, he thought of the dragon vein. Li Siyuan set up a trap in Taiyuan to lure him into the game, but behind all this, there was still the shadow of Yuan Tiangang.
"Your Highness is the destiny of this world." Yuan Tiangang replied calmly after hearing this.
"There is no certain number. In fact, Yuan Tiangang, I am the final variable in your hexagram that determines the demise of the Tang Dynasty, right?
It's just that you, Yuan Tiangang, want to go against the will of heaven with "dominance" and make the variables the fixed number you want, right? "Li Xingyun looked at Yuan Tiangang in front of him, drank the Dukang wine in one gulp, and asked.
"Actually, most of what His Highness just said is correct, but this point is wrong." Yuan Tiangang looked at Li Xingyun in front of him and said in a calm and emotionless tone.
From Yuan Tiangang, it is difficult to feel such a thing as emotion.
