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In the twenty-fifth year of Rongsheng, Northern Han was defeated at Qinzhou and the Princess of Jiaping retreated to defend Jinyang Using the threat ofarmy forced the Northern Han populace to flee north to escape from the disasters of war Smoke and dust were kicked up on the difficult journey as old and young all wailed Once again, Wudi volunteered to coent pursuit was stopped by Wudi Ulti ar, as a hostage to force the Yong commander-in-chief to let him off Only in this way did Wudi survive

—raphy of Duan Wudi</eyao¹ was an isolated, abandoned village which was co scouts followed the road north in ind fashi+on When they were still several soldiers spurred their horses forward out of the for, these scouts returned to the fore is deserted The buildings are intact and we can pitch camp here”

The officer nodded his head and replied, “We cannot be careless For many days, the scum of Northern Han has repeatedly raided and harassed us Our army is already quite tired Follow e We h the main army will naturally have its own security measures, if they find any mistakes, we likely won’t be able to take the bla soldiers voiced their agreement Aside froe with their sabers drawn on sentry duty, everyone else entered the village to investigate, not letting slip any suspicious points The coated several co the for the olden dragon banner appeared, fluttering in the light of the setting sun as the e Afterwards, the are As for the Yong come to rest Li Xian’s bodyguards had long since cleaned one of the buildings Although it was only a teed to the beautiful bedding used when the Prince of Qi was caht along by the ar the s Quickly, the originally simple, crude, and unadorned farmhouse had been transformed into a cozy and resplendent teenerals, Li Xian and coht to discussalone, was Demonic Shadow Li Shun He see the Prince of Qi because he had no alternative As a result, Li Xian siuard Were this not the case, Xiaoshunzi would probably have found a secluded location to ry, Li Xian declared, “That Duan Wudi is truly stubborn When this Prince ferociously attacks, he relies upon rugged terrain to defend When this Prince relaxes slightly, he either raids and harasses our encampments or attacks this Prince’s supply train These days, this Prince has been harassed enough by hiyao That is one of Northern Han’s strongest fortresses Relying upon its walls to defend, Duan Wudi will likely delay this Prince for several days Do you have any stratagems to have hi as this Prince arrives at Jinyang, I want to see what he can do! At present, General Zhangsun is exter in the conquered parts of Northern Han If this Prince has to rely upon his help to reach Jinyang, it will be quite an eeneral, Xia Ning, rubbed his hands together eagerly and replied, “Your Ih Duan Wudi is difficult to deal with, as long as he’s willing to face us head-on, what do we have to fear about hieneral to assault Pingyao In no more than three days, I will definitely be able to capture it!”

Fan Wencheng scoffed, “Do we need you if we are to use force to assault the city? All of us here can direct the siege What His Ihness wants is to reduce our casualties After all, our Zezhou arh the asse forward plans and ideas, the more he listened, the tauter Li Xian’s brows became Duan Wudi had close to ten thousand troops, and backed by the solid defenses of Pingyao, a direct assault would lead to heavy losses Though he knew Duan Wudi’s weakness was his love for the common people, this plan wasn’t possible If he used the commoners as a shi+eld or other methods, it was possible that Duan Wudi would have no choice but to abandon Pingyao After all, Duan Wudi’s goal was to delay the Yong army’s advance However, practically all of the Northern Han masses had already fled without a trace Even if sufficient co to deepen the hate of the Northern Han population Although he had been able to borrow Jing Chi’s fondness for slaughter to force the population along the way to flee, Li Xian did not truly want to coe by nature If it wasn’t necessary, he had no wish to i in the shadows of the roohtly If the youngalive or his corpse, Li Shun would have gone back to Qinyuan long ago to attend to the young master, not remain here to serve as a coolie under the Prince of Qi Unfortunately, Xuan Song was in Duan Wudi’s hands and Li Shun had no way of rescuing him, with no choice but to remain at Li Xian’s side to wait for the rescue opportunity Seeing the discussion becoly ardent and all kinds of dishonest ested, Li Shun noiselessly floated out of the room to breathe the frosty air The extrereatly He began to wander under the di torches in spite of hi his mind to sublime into the atht

Suddenly, Li Shun felt his heart palpitate As if froazed off into the distance Separated by ht see aura, a kind of atmosphere Li Shun was quite fayi Sect Master, Li Shun had benefited greatly Cultivating painstakingly in the Eastern Sea, he had advanced to the lie, aside from a few individuals, there was no one as his rasped the technique of “Soul Shackling” When a fighter’s e, Li Shun’s spirit could detect the person who entered a certain radius around him The radius was not fixed and was closely related to the differences between the two’s cultivation If the opponent was an ordinary individual, unless he deliberately focused, it would be difficult for his spirit to be alerted If the opponent was an expert who had entered the Xiantian realm, Li Shun would be able to detect that individual if that person had a somewhat fierce fluctuation in their mood even if they were tens of li apart If the opponent was also at the limits of the reater If the opponent’s cultivation was superior or proficient in exercising restraint, it would be difficult for Li Xian to detect the opponent’s existence For exaxiao atteh preparations were made beforehand, Li Shun had not been able to clearly detect Duan Lingxiao’s presence before he had acted If the opponent had only just entered the Xiantian realm and still had relatively shallow cultivation that had not ” technique like the individual currently in the darkness, then Li Shun could detect such an opponent much easier than a common hostile expert

Of course, if it were an expert at the level of the Fengyi Sect Master or Great Master True Compassion, it was impossible for any of them to hide their presence from opponents of the saly detect the changes in the other’s h the two did notcapital back in the day If he were before those two grandmasters, Li Shun ell aware that it would be irandhtly

After thinking it over, Li Shun was able to guess the identity of the individual possessing that somewhat unfah the individual had a killing aura, they had no killing intent, and was directlyhumorlessly, he flew into the darkness In a flash, he had passed through the enca at a deserted hill outside the ca stars, a black-robed youth stood atop the hill with an apathetic expression which contained ster also in black clothes On his back, the youngster had a bundled zither, and wore a so the two of them, Li Shun put a faint s master Qiu who has returned Hoas the scenery in the Eastern Sea?”

Qiu Yufei coldly retorted, “Do you think I’m here to perform an assassination?”

Li Shun shook his head and answered, “You are an intelligent individual and know that it is iet away froazed deeply at Li Shun and replied, “Your youngme naturally means that I am of some use It is only that I inally wanted to gothat you were acco Li Xian, even if I went to see him, he likely would not meet me You also have no need to worry that I will try to assassinate hi probably won’t let ’s cultivation, but even Master ht not be able to defeat hi No one from the Devil Sect will try to assassinate the Marquis of Chu With the backing of Sir Sang, even Master will not dare to lightly act Besides, the situation in Northern Han has fallen to such a state and is impossible to retrieve even if Master intervened My Devil Sect won’t be driven to desperate action”

“Younghis hands “If you had such intelligence and wisdom at the start, it would have been extre master to use you to sow discord”

Qiu Yufei’s expression changed constantly It was some time before he could speak “So it is as expected I fell for a crafty scheme that day When I received the Marquis of Chu’s letter days earlier and saw the regret within, my suspicion was already aroused I repeatedly tried to understand the reason Only after receiving Sir Sang’s guidance did I realize that I had been deceived in the past”

Li Shun s Zhe’s intentions to reveal the truth about shi+ Ying’s innocence to strike psychologically at Duan Wudi Li Shun had anticipated that Jiang Zhe would reveal the truth to Qiu Yufei upon his sudden return to Northern Han After probing, this was indeed the case

Qiu Yufei sighed lightly He turned, wishi+ng to depart However, he paused in his tracks and said, “On that day Suiyun and I h I had malice Was his friendshi+p fake the entire ti master’s mind is profound, if not for Sire’s brilliance and refined character, how could the young ant, Remote Zither Scores</ehypocritical in his friendshi+p, how could he bear to part with such a prized possession? If Sire continues to harbor a grudge against the young master because of national enmity, then you can do as you please However, you cannot doubt youngsilent for a long tister, he was Ling Duan and he closely followed behind It wasn’t long before the two had disappeared into the darkness

A chill flashed across Li Shun’s eyes, as if his eyes could penetrate through the layers of darkness to gaze at Pingyao Now that Su Qing had yao and Jinyang probably circulated with rufei had fallen for the discord ploy, leading to shi+ Ying’s suicide Now that Long Tingfei had died, then all those ere related would face extraordinary pressure Having played a major role in this matter, Duan Wudi would inevitably receive the condeovern and company understood that Duan Wudi was innocent, he would likely find it difficult to forgive his own conduct

Thinking back to the brocade sack that the young master had furtively shoved into his hands when he had received orders, Li Shun could not help being filled with ad master had ordered hi when the Prince of Qi set out In the diht, he took out a small note from within the already opened brocade sack Upon it ritten:

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Li Shun sht hand It wasn’t long before the short note had been ground to dust

The next day, Li Shun began to assault Pingyao adhering wholly to the standard siege th and the continuous, unending assaults, progress was quite smooth When 1 PM arrived, the wall Li Xian was personally cons of collapse Under the violent strikes of catapults, a corner of the wall suddenly cruan to pour into the city using siege ladders and other equip resisted to the death, but could not stop the Yong offensive

At this uard by his side looked at hiuard transle horn, the Northern Han troops defending the opening i ar the pressure before the Northern Han troops shot with ballistae The ballista bolts were covered with black powder, saltpeter, and other flammablear arht after, the previously parted Northern Han ar soldiers