Kangjing five years.
The Gu family courtyard is still calm and peaceful.
But the outside world is very different!
Three more years later, Yuzhou had completely fallen.
The second prince—the brother of the current Emperor Kangjing, a loser who had been deprived of his royal title by Emperor Zongming—led his troops in Yuzhou's last city belonging to Dayue, fought to the death, and died after the city was broken.
This was the second person to be killed in battle besides Zhang Qihan, the god of war in the town, who was enough to alarm the entire Dayue.
The death knell has tolled!
After the fall of Yuzhou, Yangzhou was naturally the unlucky one.
Yangzhou, which had been plagued by the Huang Dynasty for a long time, was now plunged into the quagmire of war, and this time, it was obviously more ruthless and unstoppable.
Huang Tianjun, who was originally being chased by the temple men and horses, kept playing with the enemy and retreating, and just plundered, but this time he was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic. Not only did he not think of a way to evacuate, but he took the initiative to greet them!
The Huang Dynasty, which had brought disaster to Yangzhou for five years, now became the patron saint of Yangzhou.
With a large amount of gold and silver seized from the massacre of wealthy households, he recruited troops and began to fight with the Four Nations Allied Forces with real swords and guns without giving in.
Those who didn’t know thought that Da Yue’s surname was already Huang!
Yuzhou fell, and the Mo family could only retreat again.
Now, Huang Chao and Mo Qiu, Huang Tianjun and Mo Zhe have joined forces.
To be precise, they joined forces to fight against the four-nation coalition.
One is a rebel leader and the other is an emperor-killing fanatic, but they complement each other.
As early as the year when Mo Qiu killed the emperor, the Huang Dynasty had sent people to Yangzhou to promote that they were willing to agree with the Mohist philosophy and invited Mo Qiu to join forces with him to reshape the world. Even if the territory was not really occupied, they dared to say that they would seal Mo Qiu. Qiu is the national teacher.
Mo Qiu had only one attitude towards this: Do you think I care about you?
Of course, Mo Qiu ignored him and took Mo Zhe to Yuzhou to kill Daqing commander Liu Xuanqi. Since then, the Mo family has been helping to defend the city in Yuzhou.
However, martial arts masters are not omnipotent, and the Mohists are not invincible.
After the fall of Yuzhou, Mo Qiu could only lead the remaining Mohists to Yangzhou and once again tried to resist the attack of the Four Nations Allied Forces.
Huang Chao, who chose to guard Yangzhou this time, naturally met Mo Qiu.
Mo Qiu did not join Huang Chao's team, but the Mo family was indeed joining forces with Huang Tianjun to fight against the enemy.
With the addition of a master-level figure and the help of Huang Tianjun, the situation in Yangzhou was no better than in Yuzhou, or it should be said that the rate of defeat was faster.
Because the four countries have increased their troops again!
A Yuzhou wasted nearly five years, which is completely unacceptable to them.
Behind Yuzhou is Yangzhou, behind Yangzhou is Yuzhou, and behind Yuzhou is the imperial capital! In the past five years, the fairy fate has been completely wiped out!
And Otsuki, who was already on the verge of collapse and could not even support his finances, faced the increasingly fierce offensive of the four-nation coalition, and was ultimately stretched thin and unable to make a comeback.
Not to mention that Otsuki's court did not put all its focus on resisting the four-nation coalition.
The temple has indeed realized the seriousness of the matter. In the past three years, it has increased taxes and collected two more crimes. Since it is almost unable to hold on, it does not care whether it is appropriate to fish for all the benefits.
Some of the troops were sent to Yangzhou, but they did not fight against Huang Tianjun. The two sides tacitly blocked the four-nation coalition forces using the city as the boundary, and maintained a certain degree of tacit understanding with each other.
The other part of the army is trying its best to encircle and suppress the White Lotus Sect!
If Huang Chao is the leader of the rebellion, the leader of White Lotus will be the first to disagree!
If the Huang Dynasty was really that powerful, why would the temple encircle and suppress the White Lotus Sect first?
The White Lotus Sect, which was causing trouble in the Central Plains, received the fiercest attack from the temple.
Without him, all the food would have been stolen by the White Lotus Cult, and the people would not be able to resist even if they wanted to!
If the additional taxes and crime money allocated by the temple are all a waste of money, then at least there is still a process.
It would be better for the White Lotus Sect to kill Da Yue directly!
No matter how much the Huang Dynasty made a fuss in Yangzhou, sooner or later another group would be killed if one group of wealthy households were killed. The wealth would only be distributed to the hands of the common people. If Da Yue was still around, sooner or later they would be able to get it back. The impact on the temples was actually Nothing serious enough to involve life and death dangers.
But the White Lotus Sect has robbed Yuzhou of food, and you really can’t do it even if you don’t do it!
The White Lotus Sect seized food and people by carrying packages, and they had a back-and-forth stalemate with the temple for five years. Finally, they could no longer withstand it and had to shrink to a corner of Yuzhou.
Just like the Huang Dynasty was unable to advance or retreat and could only move around Yangzhou, the White Lotus Sect is facing the same problem now.
Under the attack of the Allied Forces of the Four Nations, if he dared to lead the White Lotus Sect to sneak attack Huang Tianjun from behind, he would really lose the support of the people and everyone in the world would be punished.
Besides, Huang Chao and Mo Qiu are not dead people. If he dares to do this, he will never sleep peacefully at night in his life.
Martial arts master, if you can't stand up to ten thousand armies, if you really want to do everything you can to kill people and cause chaos, that will be a big trouble.
According to historical records, there was a period of time known as the "Grandmaster's Disaster", which lasted for more than two hundred years.
The reason is that when the two countries were at war, the weaker party sent an envoy to negotiate a settlement. It turned out that the envoy was actually a fake martial arts master who was extremely good at disguise.
In front of all the officials, he directly attacked and killed the emperor who was on the stronger side and could be said to be a great strategist.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves.
Which country doesn’t have a few grandmasters anymore?
Since you dare to use this method, don't blame him for never-ending revenge.
In the beginning, it was just the two countries sending masters to each other to assassinate each other, and the stronger side continued to retaliate against the masters who could not stand it.
You can stay in the palace without going out, and all officials can stay in the palace?
You can't kill the emperor or the prime minister, you can't kill the prime minister or the minister. Kill them one by one, destroy the family, destroy the chickens and dogs, and kill whoever dares to do something. If you have the ability, there will be thousands of troops to guard you. Otherwise, except for the strength of the same level, see Who can guard against it!
Until another country that had nothing to do with this matter was watching the dogs of the two countries eating dogs with great interest, and then the emperor was assassinated by the martial arts master.
Which country's martial arts master did it?
have no idea.
Then don't live!
This assassination by a martial arts master eventually set off an endless bloodbath among seven countries. It was also the time when the emperor's position was at its highest risk.
During those crazy years, an ordinary citizen might have lived longer than the emperor.
The master of martial arts already has some great power within himself. Although he cannot fly to the sky and escape from the earth like the legendary immortals, burning the sky and boiling the sea, he can still ride a thousand horses.
The madness of a grandmaster is difficult but not impossible to deal with.
If all the masters of the seven kingdoms take action, it will really be a catastrophe in the world.
The world is in ruins. Whoever becomes king will die, whoever becomes emperor will die first. There are no shackles anymore, only madness.
This chaos lasted for more than two hundred years, and even the masters changed for three generations before it finally came to an end.
The two countries that initially caused this disaster have long since perished in the years, leaving sufficient warnings to future generations.
The countries established since then have all signed a covenant common to all under heaven, and anyone who violates it will be punished by everyone.
[The master cannot assassinate the emperor, and those who disobey will not be able to gain a foothold in the world! 】
No matter what the reason is, in order to avoid the recurrence of the "grandmaster's disaster", this covenant has been signed long ago. It is just to give the grandmaster a face, and it has not been fully announced to the world.
Those who can be promoted to Grandmaster will naturally have the ability to see such a history of blood and tears.
This is why Huang Chao immediately thought of recruiting him after hearing that Mo Qiu killed the emperor.
When Emperor Zong Ming was offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, you killed the emperor openly and openly in front of all the civil and military officials and the imperial army. No matter what your reasons were, you just did it, even if you jump into the auspicious water, you can't wash away it!
Although the covenant is useful if you care about it, it is just a piece of waste paper if you don't care.
Simply wanting to rely on covenants to restrict martial arts masters would be a bit of a fantasy.
But in order to avoid the disaster of Grand Master happening again, Mo Qiu will never be able to claim the throne, no matter he wants to or not.
With the lessons of the "Grandmaster's Disaster", any royal family understands the importance of the Grandmaster.
You can use it, but you can’t live without it!
If you don’t think you are a lunatic, if you don’t protect everything, someone else will think of you!
Although there will be others to avenge him in the future, who wants to die?
In that craziest era, there were many grandmasters who died in battle. Since then, the grandmasters have restrained themselves a lot.
Opening the sealed taboo is definitely not a good choice. The White Lotus leader himself does not want to try whether he can resist the joint offensive of Mo Qiu and Huang Chao.
Therefore, the White Lotus Sect could only remain in a stalemate in Yuzhou, being cannibalized step by step by the people of the imperial court.
Anyway, as long as the leader of the White Lotus does not die, the White Lotus inheritance will not be lost, and the White Lotus Sect can continue to pass on. It is nothing more than starting from scratch. The White Lotus Sect has this experience.
The current idea of the imperial court must be to kill the White Lotus Sect first, completely take back Yuzhou, then defeat Huang Tianjun in one go, and finally find a way to negotiate peace with the four-nation coalition.
Judging from the current situation, the war has entered its most heated and intense stage, and it is feared that a winner will be determined in a short time.
After five years of continuous fighting with great intensity, still fighting on two fronts, Otsuki has been drained of flesh and blood and exhausted of bone marrow.
No matter who is the winner in the end, that time must not be far away.
In the small courtyard of the Gu family, Gu Dan had just taken out the last classic that Mr. Ji had prepared for him, "The Theory of True Qi".
Among so many classics, only this last one is pure theoretical knowledge.
This book was written by Mr. Ji himself based on previous statements and his own experience and thinking.
After studying the previous martial arts classics, Mr. Ji had nothing more to teach Gu Dan in terms of martial arts, and the martial arts master did not need anyone to teach him.
When he learns this "True Qi Theory", it means that Gu Dan can fully explore his own martial arts path from then on - and further on, Ji Lao has not reached it, that is his own path. On the way.
Gu Dan was about to open "The Theory of True Qi" to see what happened when he heard the courtyard door open.
Lin Xiaoyi walked in with a not-so-good look on her face. She bit her red lips lightly and said in a trembling voice, "Brother Gu, Mr. Ji called you over. He said he was ready."
Gu felt worried.
He had long known that Mr. Ji would not be able to survive for long, but when this day finally arrived, he still felt that it was too fast.
Before he even had time to read the last book of "True Qi Theory", Mr. Ji was already ready to attack the innate realm.
"I see."
Closing the book in his hand, Gu Dan took a deep breath, stood up from the stone pier, and walked towards the palace.
When my life is over, time will not wait for me.
(End of chapter)
