The rebels were still digging trenches, and they were not far from the moat. Faced with this kind of attack, the defenders actually had no effective way to stop it.
Lin Ye used his clairvoyance to carefully look at the water of the Guard City River. There was no trace of flow, which meant that the upper reaches had been cut off.
The channel of the moat is much deeper than the trenches dug by the enemy. It is impossible for the enemy to drain all the water.
But they had enough troops to level the rest of the river with sandbags.
But Lin Ye didn't even have the slightest disturbance in his heart. The longer he stayed in contact with the emperor, the more he understood the power of having the situation under his control.
He stood there and looked at the busy enemies outside the city. Most of these people were going to die.
He shouldn't have died, but he died because of his involvement in the rebellion. To the emperor, those lives were not worth caring about at all.
The influence of the people who died here on the emperor may not be as good as...
He also planted some vegetables in the garden, but a sudden frost froze the vegetables to death.
If the food is great, the emperor will say it's a pity.
At this moment, Lin Ye saw the woman in white walking up the ramp to the city wall.
Many people did not recognize her, and the soldiers looked at her curiously.
The woman in white quickly found Lin Ye's location in the crowd.
I don't know why, but Lin Ye is just afraid of her.
She saw Lin Ye and was sure that Lin Ye saw her, so she turned around and walked back without even making a gesture, while Lin Ye seemed to be driven by something and followed her.
When they arrived at the city wall, the woman in white stood under a tree.
She doesn't seem to match this season, or maybe she doesn't match the four seasons. Even in the cold winter weather with white snow, her temperament is not as cool as hers.
"senior."
Lin Ye leaned over and saluted.
The woman in white glanced at him and said calmly: "I just heard that a person named Chen Weiwei wants to establish Shangyang Beizong in Dongbo."
Lin Ye replied: "Yes."
The woman in white said, "Then what do you think about this matter?"
Lin Ye replied: "Your Majesty said that if there is a Shangyang Beizong in Dongbo, it will not be a bad thing for Dayu."
The woman in white frowned slightly: "I'm asking what you think, not what His Majesty thinks."
Lin Ye's heart tightened.
He replied: "Chen Weiwei and I are old acquaintances..."
The woman in white frowned even deeper: "I didn't ask you what your relationship is with him."
Lin Ye took a deep breath subconsciously.
He said: "I don't think it is a bad thing for Chen Weiwei to establish Shangyang Beizong in Dongbo, whether it is for Dayu or himself."
Woman in white: "What if he is using my own technique?"
Lin Ye looked at the woman in white: "Senior, are you saying that he has obtained Chao Xin Sect's Immortal Demonic Skill?"
The woman in white said: "It seems that you are not completely stupid. Since you can deduce it, you should understand that he is not a disciple of our sect and cannot practice our skills."
Lin Ye said: "But he has the foundation of our sect's cultivation, so I can't blame him."
The woman in white: "Yan Beisheng is the uncle you... should respect."
Lin Ye was silent.
The woman in white said: "It would be wrong if the skills he painstakingly created are used for ambition by unrelated people. If that person named Chen Weiwei uses Shangyang cultivation to establish Shangyang Beizong, I will naturally not interfere. , but if he uses your uncle’s skills, and you are the sect leader, you should intervene."
Lin Ye was still silent.
The woman in white said: "When Your Majesty chose you, he said it was because you were right. When Master Qian chose you, he said it was because you were right."
She looked into Lin Ye's eyes: "Then do you think that if you want to be correct, you shouldn't put aside emotions."
Lin Ye remained silent.
The woman in white said: "Your state of mind is not enough."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Lin Ye raised his head and looked at the woman in white: "I don't believe that His Majesty chose me just because he was right, and Master Qian chose me just because he was right."
He said: "My mother-in-law has hundreds of adopted children, and I am definitely not the most correct one."
The woman in white turned around and looked at him: "If she hears your words, she will also be disappointed in you."
After saying this, he walked straight away.
Lin Ye shouted at her: "Who are you to me, and who am I to Sui Qingqu!"
The woman in white didn't even look back this time, and she didn't even change her pace at all.
It looked like she was probably angry.
But for some reason, at this moment, Lin Ye's cold and beautiful face, which Lin Ye couldn't see, was filled with a trace of relief.
She didn't want Lin Ye to be like His Majesty, someone who only did the right things.
But she also understood that Lin Ye could only keep doing the right things.
Lin Ye stood there in a daze for a while, and finally decided to visit someone.
There is a small pavilion, a stone table and stone benches, and two people sitting opposite each other, making tea and plums.
"The general will not come to me for nothing. The fighting outside the city has not stopped. The general should be on the city wall, not here. Besides, I don't have anything good here that is worthy of the general's personal visit."
Shang Qingxu, the priest of Shangyang Palace's great ceremony, put the boiled plums into the tea soup and handed them to Lin Ye.
Lin Ye leaned over and took it.
"Dali Jiao, I'm just curious. When the Chao Xin Sect rebelled in Yunzhou, Yan Beisheng..."
Before he finished speaking, Shang Qing shook his head.
"Chaoxin Sect is not a rebellion. Your Majesty knows it, Shangyang Palace knows it, but only the people in the world don't know it."
Shang Qingyu picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
He said: "But what happened to Chaoxin Sect can only be a rebellion. What is wrong is wrong, and what is right is right."
Correct again.
Lin Ye's brows wrinkled.
Shang Qing finished and said: "At that time, Your Majesty could not do anything to Tuoba Lie, Liu Jigong had died in the battle, and there was no one available in Northern Xinjiang."
Lin Ye: "The person who killed Yan Beisheng was really a great ritual teacher from Shangyang Palace?"
Shang Qingyu replied: "Really."
Lin Ye said: "Since you know that Chaoxin Sect is not considered a rebellion, why do you want to kill him?"
Shang Qingyu: "Because he really killed a priest from Shangyang Palace."
Lin Ye's frown deepened.
Shang Qingwei asked: "Do you know what kind of exercises Yan Beisheng practices?"
Lin Ye said: "I've only heard that it's called the Immortal Demonic Art."
Shang Qing finished and said: "There is no magic power of immortality. It is just a gimmick that has been publicized... What Yan Beisheng practices is called the Triple Cicada."
He looked at Lin Ye and explained: "The Taoist sect has a very deep understanding of cicada sloughing. He feels that the cicada's journey from birth to death can summarize all things in nature, and it can also summarize the practice of cultivation."
He said: "Cicadas are born underground. Are they different from other living creatures?"
Lin Ye nodded.
Shang Qinghui continued: "No one can tell how long it has been underground. Some say two or three years, some say seven or eight years, some say thirteen years, and some say seventeen years."
"The cicadas that can emerge from the ground, in Dao Zong's view, have experienced a life and death disaster, because not every one can emerge from the ground."
"Then cicadas shed their shells, climbing up trees to shed their shells. This is how the word golden cicadas shed their shells comes from."
"This, in Dao Zong's opinion, is the second calamity of life and death, because before and after the cicada sheds, the cicada cannot control its life or death."
He looked at Lin Ye: "Did you catch it when you were a child? Did you eat it?"
Lin Ye replied: "I've caught it, but I haven't eaten it."
Shang Qing said: "Even if you didn't fry them and eat them, did those you captured survive?"
Lin Ye shook his head.
Shang Qing finished: "So, Daozong said that the cicada has experienced double life and death before it emerges and flies. It has double tribulations and triple lives."
He looked at Lin Ye: "What Yan Beisheng has practiced is this kind of skill. It has two levels of magic, one level and one life. He is not immortal, he can only break the earth and shed his shell."
Shang Qing took a breath and then said: "People who are not worldly and have great obsession and concentration cannot practice such a technique."
Speaking of this, his tone was full of regret.
"If Yan Beisheng survives the second calamity of life and death, he will definitely become the first person in the God-endowed Realm..."
He looked at Lin Ye: "Perhaps, at that point, even the master master will no longer be his opponent."
Shang Qing said: "Yan Beisheng has great obsessions, but not enough concentration, so he was taken advantage of by Tuoba Lie."
"Lu Zhongling, the priest in front of Tianshui Cliff, went to persuade him to let go of his obsession and use his magic skills to enter Shangyang to practice."
"Yan Beisheng was already shaken, but for some reason, he suddenly became furious and killed Lu Zhongting."
Shang Qinghuo looked down at the tea cup, his tone becoming deeper and deeper.
"You only know that Ai Youyou is the priest of Tianshuiya, but you don't know that he went to Tianshuiya to replace Lu Zhongling."
"The news was sent back to Shangyang Palace Fengyu Temple, and the real master immediately asked the priest Xu Qingjun of the Dali Sect to deal with it."
"After Dalijiao arrived in Yunzhou, he went alone to meet Yan Beisheng. He is my senior brother... and also the master's favorite disciple."
"I know that Yan Beisheng is being used. Senior brother, he went to Yunzhou not to kill people, but to destroy Yan Beisheng's magic skills and take him back to Shangyang Palace for retreat."
"But at that time, Yan Beisheng was so obsessed that he was half crazy and directly fought against his senior brother."
"Senior brother destroyed his magic power, but what he didn't expect was that only the first stage of earth-breaking was destroyed, and Yan Bei was born into the cicada realm, and he went completely crazy."
"Senior brother fought with him, both of them were exhausted, and there was still no winner. Yan Beisheng forcibly broke through the cicada and transformed into a feather, thus destroying himself."
Speaking of this, Shang Qingwei looked at Lin Ye and said: "You should know that improving one's realm requires long-term accumulation. Only when the internal energy reaches a certain level can one break through the shackles. At that time, Yan Beisheng's internal energy was almost exhausted. I tried to forcefully break the gong, but failed to enter the feather realm."
Lin Ye took a deep breath.
Shang Qing said: "He is dead, my senior brother is dead, no one is the winner."
He stood up and walked outside the pavilion, looked at the sky and said, "Maybe you don't like to hear..."
"Tens of thousands of Chaoxin Sect's disciples were wiped out by the imperial army. More than half of the blame lies with Tuoba Lie, and a small half of the blame lies with the half-crazy Yan Beisheng."
He said: "No one must have told you how many innocent people Yan Beisheng has killed, and no one has told you that when he was half crazy, he was even thirsty for blood."
"Because such a person does not comply with the truth they want to tell you. In order to be correct, a person who is possessed by a devil can only keep the part about why he became a devil and not talk about the part after he became a devil."
Shang Qing said: "You don't believe it."
Lin Ye said: "Letter."
He said: "I know a person who may have cultivated into a triple cicada, at least to the point of breaking ground."
Shang Qingwan asked: "Is that the person named Chen Weiwei?"
Lin Ye nodded: "Yes."
Shang Qingwan asked: "Does he have great concentration?"
Lin Ye shook his head: "No."
Shang Qingwei asked again: "He has a big obsession."
Lin Ye nodded again: "Yes."
Shang Qingwei sighed: "That would be troublesome, I'm afraid there will be another Yan Beisheng."
Speaking of this, he looked at Lin Ye and asked, "Do you know what his obsession is?"
Lin Ye was silent for a moment and replied: "Me."
Shang Qingqing was slightly startled: "That would be even more troublesome."
