With such huge changes happening around them, the battle between the two naturally cannot continue.
After exchanging moves with each other, they each retreated. Chi Yao looked at the earth-shaking scene in the distance and said with emotion: "Such a power of God can be accurately calculated... Is Li Chunfeng still a human?"
Yes, although he has never appeared directly, Li Chunfeng is a key clue throughout the entire plot.
He was a famous warlock in the early Tang Dynasty and a close friend of Yuan Tiangang. However, the two had differences over whether the Li Tang royal family should continue forever.
Li Chunfeng believes that there is a cycle of heaven, and there is no eternal dynasty. Every drink and peck is destiny, so just let nature take its course. But Yuan Tiangang disagrees. He believes that man can conquer nature, and fate is meant to be broken.
The friends have since parted ways.
But despite this, whether it is the Longquan treasure, the Seven Star Jue, or the strange book left to Li Xingyun - Yi Si Zhan, all of these show that although Li Chunfeng has disappeared long ago, he is still secretly playing chess with Yuan Tiangang .
Even their confrontation included Yuan Tiangang's final outcome.
It seemed that it had been a long time since he had heard the name of this old friend from other people. Yuan Tiangang was in a trance for a moment, as if he saw the man with white clothes and white hair in front of his eyes.
"Do you also know Li Chunfeng?"
After calming down, Yuan Tiangang asked.
"I know a little bit, but Li Xingyun was able to calculate the earthquake because of the Yi Si Zhan he left behind, right?"
Chi Yao replied.
Even in modern times where technology is highly developed and thousands of data can be measured as a reference, no one can accurately predict things like earthquakes. And Li Chunfeng wrote a book, Li Xingyun read it, and then just by observing the stars at night, he could calculate it so many days in advance.
If this isn't miraculous, what is?
There is also a tuibei chart that is said to have been made jointly by Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang, and is used to predict prosperity and chaos in future generations.
Because the prophecies contained in it were too accurate and had too many believers, after the Tang Dynasty, it was listed as a banned book by the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties and was not allowed to be disseminated.
Speaking of which, it seems that the two close friends broke up because of the prediction of the demise of the Tang Dynasty in Tuibei Tu.
"Yi Si Zhan...hehe..."
Yuan Tiangang smiled hoarsely. After seeing how difficult Chi Yao was, he was no longer prepared to continue the stalemate here.
But Yuan Tiangang wants to leave now, and it depends on whether Chi Yao is willing.
Now that the offense and defense were in different positions, Chi Yao followed him closely, and after personally exploring Yuan Tiangang's background, his behavior became more and more wanton.
"Lao Yuan, I know that everything you have done is to make Li Xingyun a qualified emperor, but when things have developed to this point, do you know where you went wrong?"
Yuan Tiangang glanced at him and said nothing. Over the years, no one has dared to say to his face that he did anything wrong. This feeling seems a bit novel.
"Your mistake is that you should not have left him to be raised by Uncle Yang since he was a child."
Of course, Yuan Tiangang's little moves could not escape Chi Yao's eyes. He continued, "Perhaps you value his low-level strength that is not eye-catching? Or is it because of his barely superior medical skills?"
Without waiting for the other party to answer, Chi Yao shook his head: "But even if all these things are added up, it will not cause more trouble than his reclusive character. Do you want to cultivate a person who will rejuvenate the Tang Dynasty?" Emperor, then we must follow the emperor’s education model since childhood and hand him over to a hermit..."
He didn't finish the last half of the sentence, but the meaning was self-evident. From the beginning, Yuan Tiangang made the wrong choice in this matter.
Naturally, Yuan Tiangang couldn't accept this kind of denial from the root, so he retorted: "If the Tang Dynasty wants to revive, what it needs is not an ordinary emperor, but someone who can re-establish the country."
The implication is that ordinary imperial education cannot teach such talented people.
"But the problem is... Li Xingyun doesn't show any great talents now, does he?"
Chi Yao spread his hands and looked helpless, "I only saw in him the benevolence of a doctor and the indifferent ambition of not being greedy for power. Although these are very good qualities, if he is an ordinary person, I would even praise you for raising them well, but the problem is that they are not at all in line with the status of an emperor!"
Does an emperor need a benevolent heart?
It cannot be said that it is not necessary at all, but it is indeed not that important. Especially for an emperor who wants to end troubled times, being too kind is sometimes not a good thing.
And what is the best evaluation that an emperor can give to his people?
Love the people like a son.
In other words, treating the common people as sons is enough to be praised.
So how did fathers get along with their sons in the feudal era?
The father is the guide for the son, so you only need to rule him, and you don't need to worry about his reaction.
Then let’s talk about this indifferent heart that is not greedy for power.
A qualified emperor really needs to know how to decentralize power, otherwise sooner or later he will tire himself to death like Qin Shihuang or Zhuge Liang.
But being willing to decentralize power does not mean that he cannot care about the ownership of power.
If the emperor cannot hold power in his hands, then it is nothing new for powerful ministers to appear one after another and evade the royal family.
And this is another source of trouble.
So from these two points of view, apart from his own royal blood, Li Xingyun does not have any characteristics that are very suitable for the position of emperor.
However, in the land of China, the least important thing is blood.
Ever since Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted out the ear-shattering sentence "Princes, generals, ministers, and prime ministers, do you have a seed?", this sentence has been deeply rooted in the hearts of every Chinese people who have heard of it.
The purpose of bloodline is only to increase one's worth after success and to deceive those who have not read the book, making them think that the royal bloodline is noble and the monarchy is given by heaven, nothing more.
For example, after the Li and Tang royal families unified the world, they said that their ancestors were Laozi, a Taoist sage from the Spring and Autumn Period...
In the eyes of knowledgeable people, isn't this just a matter of random speculation?
But why didn't anyone debunk it?
For one thing, the Li family has already won. In the game of competing for the world, the winner takes all, so naturally others can only respond to what they say. If they don't accept it, then they will die.
Secondly, this thing is just to deceive the uneducated people at the bottom. Anyone who has read the book will not believe it, so naturally they are too lazy to refute it.
His remarks directly silenced Yuan Tiangang.
After a long time, Yuan Tiangang said in a very cold voice: "I have my own sense of proportion."
"Pfft~"
Chi Yao even laughed unabashedly, and then continued in Yuan Tiangang's angry eyes, "What you call propriety, could it be that you want to use your own death to kill Li Xingyun in the Longquan treasure?" Forced into a dead end, he has to face that violent era, right? No, right? A handsome and bad man, who has been bullying the world for three hundred years, but in the end he has to resort to death to get things done? "
Bang!
There is no doubt that his strange aura successfully hit Yuan Tiangang's pain point.
Not only did he guess Yuan Tiangang's thoughts, but he also made his act of self-sacrifice, which should have been very tragic, seem worthless.
This made Yuan Tiangang unable to remain calm any longer, so he slapped him hard from the air.
But since Chi Yao could say these words, he was naturally prepared to make the other party angry. If there was a fight, it wasn't like he had never fought before. Who was afraid of whom?
After a fight between the rabbit and the falcon, Yuan Tiangang calmed down again. He stared into Chi Yao's eyes: "What is the purpose of telling me this?"
After being seen through his own thoughts, even Yuan Tiangang was confused for a moment, so he chose to take action against Chi Yao.
But he is Yuan Tiangang after all. After losing control for a moment, he quickly returned to reason. Furthermore, because Chi Yao's appearance changed Li Maozhen's fate, his decision was slightly different from the original timeline.
More importantly, in this world where status is often determined by force, a person as strong as Chi Yao should not be blind and see through, but to say it so carelessly in front of him must be Don't have any plans.
After thinking about this clearly, Yuan Tiangang gave up his desire to continue taking action and decided to communicate in another way.
Of course, the premise of all this is that Chi Yao can stop the angry Yuan Tiangang, otherwise, there will be no consequences the moment he angers the other party.
"That's right,"
Seeing that the other party calmed down, Chi Yao chuckled twice, and before Yuan Tiangang regained his anger, he said, "With my own death as the layout, the pattern has indeed been opened. Your loyalty to the Li Tang Dynasty can be felt day and night. But I personally think it would be a pity if you died like this."
"Feel sorry for me?"
Yuan Tiangang never expected that he would hear such an answer from Chi Yao. After a moment of silence, he replied, "That's not necessary, I am handsome..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard Chi Yao add: "After all, I haven't gotten the formula for the elixir from you, and you should have accumulated a lot of good things in the past three hundred years, right? That's it. He was taken away without saying a word, what a big loss!"
Yuan Tiangang: "..."
The feeling of emotion that just arose in him suddenly disappeared without a trace. If the winner could not be determined in a short time, he would have grabbed Chi Yao and beat him up immediately. Fortunately, just now he thought he had met a close friend!
Give him back his touch! asshole!
Seeing that Yuan Tiangang seemed to be suddenly stunned, Chi Yao burst into laughter. Even the cracking earth and the rolling boulders and trees around him seemed to be full of joy.
Yuan Tiangang took a deep breath, calmed down his mood that was about to go berserk, and continued to use Qinggong to move forward without saying a word.
In a short time, he didn't want to talk to Chi Yao anymore.
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the other side.
Li Maozhen and fake Li Xingyun were very fast, and it didn't take long to get behind Li Xingyun and his party.
Of course, this is also because Li Xingyun and the others deliberately slowed down their speed to seduce.
After all, his plan was to use the complex terrain here to maximize the power of the earthquake, so it was necessary to let the enemy penetrate deep into it.
Li Maozhen may not be ignorant of their thoughts, but his strong self-confidence still drives him to step into them step by step.
Finally, near a swamp, Li Xingyun stopped, turned around and shouted: "Come out, Li Maozhen, I have discovered you a long time ago!"
Although I don't know whether he was shouting or if he really had some special method, Li Maozhen, who was full of confidence in himself, did not choose to hide his head and tail, but walked out openly.
He looked around. Although his own numbers were at an absolute disadvantage, he remained calm and composed: "Is this where the Longquan treasure is? Or, have you prepared any surprises for me?"
Li Maozhen cast her gaze on the Holy Child and successfully made the child run away and hide behind Li Xingyun.
"snort!"
Too much talk leads to mistakes, so Li Xingyun didn't talk nonsense to him. He pulled out a temporary Qingfeng sword and attacked him.
As soon as he moved, Ji Ruxue, Hou Qing, Han Ba and others also took action. Only the Holy Child, who had no force value, ran away and hid.
Seeing this, Li Maozhen threw the Longquan Sword behind her back to the fake Li Xingyun: "Go ahead and let me see which one of you two is the real one!"
The fake Li Xingyun who received the Longquan Sword was trembling with excitement. He used the Tiangang Jue, waved the broad sword in his hand, and struck directly at Li Xingyun!
As for Li Maozhen, the two Corpse Ancestors fought together and firmly had the upper hand. If he hadn't been wary of the explosive paper flowers in the hands of Corpse Ancestor Hanba, his advantage would have been even greater.
However, Li Xingyun and the others had no intention of relying on their own force to win. During the battle, they had been guiding Li Maozhen towards the swamp area, intentionally or unintentionally.
Under this subtle pull, when Li Maozhen finally turned his back to the swamp, Hanbao suddenly threw out all the exploding paper flowers in his hand.
[Tiannu scatters flowers]!
All of a sudden, hundreds of colorful flowers were in full bloom, just like all kinds of species competing for spring.
This extreme beauty also contains a terrifying crisis.
Although Li Maozhen has profound skills, after all, there is still a big gap between Li Maozhen and Liang Shuai who are truly inexhaustible. Therefore, he did not choose to resist forcefully, but naturally flew back.
However, after he slid backwards for a long distance, he noticed something was wrong as soon as he landed.
The ground is too soft!
My feet are sinking deeper and deeper.
Seeing that Li Maozhen fell into the swamp as he wished, Li Xingyun and others immediately breathed a sigh of relief. As for the fake Li Xingyun?
He has been restrained by Li Xingyun and Ji Ruxue.
"Is this the surprise you prepared for me? It's kind of interesting."
Although Li Maozhen was in jail, he did not panic at all, as if the person who was sinking slowly was not him.
"Huh, that's just the first appetizer."
Li Xingyun took back the Longquan Sword again, and then raised his voice and asked, "Do you feel that your inner breath is not flowing smoothly now?"
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