Chapter 330: Letter of War

The next day, early morning.

Shadow plum small pavilion, spacious and luxurious brocade collapse, sleeping floating incense “hmm” a sound, issued a sweet and lazy panting.

Thick, curly eyelashes fluttered as she opened her eyes, and the first thing that appeared in her line of sight was Xu Qi’an’s tall nose and handsome side profile.

He had woken up and was quietly staring at the roof.

“Good morning, Hsu Lang.”

Floating Fragrance poked her arms out from under the covers and hooked them around Xu Qi’an’s neck while pressing down on his disruptive hands.

“What morning, in the morning to say: you were great last night!” Xu Qi’an yawned and asked, “What time is it?”

“Darn, slave can’t say it.”

Floating Fragrance yawned as well, her cheek rubbing against Xu Qi’an’s face as she pouted, “The water is leaking at the foot of the bed, so Xu Lang can see for himself.”

Xu Qi’an’s upper body flung himself out of the bed and looked towards the foot of the bed, the next moment, he jumped up from the bed, “I can’t believe it’s the hour, you abrasive little goblin, I have to go to the Yamen at once, or else I won’t be able to get my monthly salary for the second half of the year.”

Floating Fragrance arm supporting her head, smiled foolishly, “Yesterday it was all Xu Lang grinding people, hitting one rake backward, yuck.”

Xu Qi’an left the Shadow Plum Pavilion and headed for the stables, taking his own filly, and unsurprisingly, Er Lang’s horse was gone, which meant he had already left the Churchyard.

He rode a small mare and returned to the Xu Mansion, looking left and right along the way, but never saw any clementines for sale.

“Zhong Li seems to still be at the Sitian Prison, I should go pick her up.” Xu Qi’an muttered, turning the road to run in the direction of the Sitian Prison.

………..

“ZaZaZaZa ……..”

Xu Qi’an pulled down the gate valve and the stone door leading to the basement of the Sitian Temple opened, and he shouted at the top of his lungs, “Zhong Li, I’ve come to fetch you.”

The sound echoed through the empty earth.

After a few moments, the sound of footsteps came from the steps that led straight down to the ground, the oil lamp burned, and the halo of fire-colored light reflected the silhouette of a figure that gradually became clearer.

The cloaked Zhong Li ascended the steps, her crisp voice coming from her hair with a few leaps, “You’re here.”

“Come on, follow me home.” Xu Qi’an turned around to leave.

Zhong Li turned back around and shouted towards the pitch-black ground, “Senior Brother Yang, shut up properly and don’t make the teacher angry again.”

When she finished, she pulled down the handle and closed the stone door.

Xu Qi’an walked outside while curiously inquiring, “Did Senior Brother Yang do something wrong.”

Zhong Li looked at him and said in a low voice, “Senior Brother Yang went to the noon gate yesterday, stopped the civil and military officials and read that poem of yours.

“The princes and His Majesty were furious and sent someone to denounce the teacher and severely punish Senior Brother Yang. The teacher hung and whipped Senior Brother Yang, and then imprisoned him into the ground to contemplate for a decade. Only then did the princes and His Majesty rest.”

……… Xu Qi an was stunned, his face was stagnant, and he couldn t believe that someone would go this far in order to pretend to be a bully.

Yang Qianyi was hung up and whipped by the Supervisor? It’s such a shame that I wasn’t a spectator at the time!

With regret in his heart, he didn’t forget about business, and looked around the lobby, and since the ninth-ranked healers had run out, he could only ask Zhong Li, who was beside him, and said:

“Is there any powder to cover the odor of your body? I drank some wine last night, and in case you don’t know, my aunt and sister-in-law especially don’t like it when I drink ………”

“Oh.” Zhong Li nodded and said in a good-natured manner, “The way to cover up the smell of lipstick is very simple, wait, I’ll get you smoked incense.”

This is a bit embarrassing …….. The corner of Xu Qi’an’s mouth twitched.

Back at the Xu Mansion, he was at the stone table in the courtyard, and he saw Lina and Su Su playing a game, and Xu Lingyin zipping around not far away.

“Cauldron …….”

The little beanstalker pretended to be happy to welcome him, taking the opportunity to take a lazy break.

Lina, clearly the incompetent master, stared intently at the board, her pretty face full of seriousness and thought.

That’s rare …….. It felt like seeing two school dregs discussing calculus …….. Xu Qi’an curiously walked over and fixed his eyes on them.

Turns out the two were playing backgammon!

Gone gone gone ……..

Because Zhong Li had already been reminded on the way, the Fifth Sister of the Heavenly Superintendent didn’t find it strange to see a ghost sitting in the courtyard playing chess, but only looked at it a few times repeatedly.

“It’s a chimera, it’s rare.” She whispered.

I know, the charm is characterized by its beauty, and it likes to seduce passersby in the deep mountains and old forests, and then drain their essence, well, this essence it is a proper essence ……… Xu Qi an nodded his head, indicating that he knew it in his heart.

Seeing this, Zhong Li said no more.

Afterward, Xu Qi’an realized that Li Miaozhen had disappeared, and was so startled that he ran to the courtyard and asked Su Su, “Where is your master?”

Without lifting her head, Su Su stared intently at the chessboard and replied in a delicate voice, “Going to Spirit Treasure View la.”

…………

Outside the gates of the Imperial City, the Taoist-robed Li Miaozhen was stopped by the Huben guards.

She was not in a hurry, she turned around and walked back for a while, and then with a slap on her back, she sheathed her flying sword with a “clang” sound.

The Huben guards not far away saw this and thought that she was going to force her way into the Imperial City, they were alarmed and drew their blades.

Li Miaozhen leaped onto the spine of the sword, and the flying sword carried her upwards, stagnating at a height of twenty feet. At this height, it was already possible to see the Spirit Treasure View in the extreme distance.

The Huben guards at the city’s head pulled back their bowstrings and turned their bed crossbows and artillery, aiming at Li Miaozhen, and as long as the officer gave an order, it was instantly 10,000 arrows firing.

The Hubenwei Thousand Tenant did not order an attack, he narrowed his eyes and scrutinized Li Miaozhen, and a flash of light appeared in his heart.

Taoist robes, women, to enter the Imperial City …….. It’s Li Miaozhen, the Holy Maiden of the Heavenly Sect? That one of the protagonists of the Heavenly Man Contest?

However, if Li Miaozhen insisted on flying her sword to break into the Imperial City, then what awaited her would be the backlash from the forbidden army experts and the night watchmen.

Of course, Li Miaozhen knew that she was locked, but it wasn’t a big problem, and she didn’t have the idea of forcing her way into the Imperial City.

Gazing at the Spiritual Treasure View in the distance, he sank his Qi into his dantian and his voice was clear: ”Li Miaozhen, a disciple of the Heavenly Sect, has come here on the orders of his master to spar with a disciple of the Human Sect.

“The time, the address, it’s up to the Human Sect.”

The sound was extremely penetrating, not deafening, but spread out far, inside and outside the Imperial City, clearly audible.

In the imperial city living in the dignitaries, clansmen, government officials, at this moment, all heard Li Miaozhen “war letter”.

Outside the Imperial City, the residents of the inner city, which was adjacent to the red city wall, were similarly startled by the sound, pedestrians stopped their footsteps, stall owners stopped their yelling, and all of them turned their heads, looking in the direction of the Imperial City.

Lin’an Province.

Lin An, who was wearing a red layered palace dress and was kicking an embroidered ball with the palace maidens, suddenly stopped, listened with her side ear, and asked:

“Did you guys hear anything?”

A few palace maids sidled their heads and quietly looked in the direction of the Imperial City.

“I heard it, it seems to be some Heavenly Sect disciple Li Miaozhen ………” responded the courtesan who had been patted on the ass by Xu Qi’an.

As the words fell, a cool and pleasant voice came from the opposite direction, “Three days later, at 3:00 am, on the banks of the Wei River on the outskirts of the capital, Chu Yuanzhen, a registered disciple of the Human Sect, will go to battle.”

Framing opened her mouth slightly, her heart floating with the strange and interesting things Xu Qi’an had told her, and among them was one thing – the battle of the celestials!

“Three days later, I want to see it, I want the dog lackey to take me to see it.” The mount’s heart was on fire, and he couldn’t wait for the guards to summon his dog lackey at once.

King Huai’s Mansion.

In the flowery back garden, the woman in the lotus-colored long dress stood in the flower bushes, looking in the direction of the city gates, and whispered, “Three days later, at three o’clock and three o’clock, on the banks of the Weihe River on the outskirts of the capital ……..”

She arched her eyebrows and said joyfully, “Another good show.”

There was no wind, but the yard full of flowers swayed gently as if in response to her.

…………

Li Miaozhen has come to the capital, and is dueling with Chu Yuanzhen, a disciple of the Human Sect, by the Weihe River in three days’ time.

The news traveled without a trace, and in just half a day, it spread throughout almost the entire capital.

The first to boil is those who heard early news into the capital of the jianghu people, they waited for a full month, finally waiting for the heavenly man of the fight.

Wait for the duel between the most outstanding disciples of the Daoist Human Sect and the Heavenly Sect.

Even though many of them were facing the embarrassment of running out of coils, no one complained, and even felt that coming to the capital early was an immensely correct, and celebrated, decision.

It was because before the battle of the celestials, they had seen a fight that was rare in a hundred years.

This was amply proved by the remorseful attitudes of the jungle warriors who had missed the fight because of their late arrival.

Even if there is no subsequent celestial battle, for most of the jianghu people, it is already not a wasted trip.

In a certain restaurant, the soul pinning hand Rong Rong and the beautiful woman, as well as the Duke of Liu and the Duke of Liu’s master, the four of them found an empty seat by the window, and talked about the Heavenly Man Controversy while having their lunch.

The two main characters are rightfully in the spotlight.

Rong Rong poured wine for the beautiful woman, but she twisted her head to look at the middle-aged swordsman and said in a crisp voice, “I’ve heard senior say that this Chu Yuanjian seems to be the Scholar of the 27th year of Yuanjing?”

The middle-aged swordsman sniffed, his face a bit saddened, “Yes, when I traveled in the capital, it happened to be the period of the apricot list, watched him become the Huiyuan, and then the Scholar ……..

“I didn’t expect that he would have resigned from his post and become a named disciple of the Human Sect. Even today, representing the Human Sect in battle.”

“Master, I’ve heard that that Li Miaozhen is a fairy of national beauty, how many ranks do you think she’ll be in the Taoist Sect?”

When Mr. Liu said this, his attention was focused on the words “national color and fragrance”.

In response to his disciple’s question, the middle-aged swordsman shook his head, ”That day, the Sacred Maiden of the Sect hardly walks around in the jianghu, her reputation is not obvious, and the master doesn’t know how many grades she is.

“However, there is another rumor in the jianghu that the Flying Swallow Lady who came out of nowhere the year before last was the Heavenly Sect’s Holy Maiden.”

“Mistress Fei Yan is the Heavenly Sect’s Holy Maiden?” Rong Rong was taken aback.

She had heard a little about the great name of Fei Yan warrior, this woman robbed the rich to help the poor, chivalrous, either doing good or on the way to do good.

His deeds were highly praised and lauded by the jianghu ranger.

However, a year ago, she suddenly went off the grid and didn’t know where she had gone.

The middle-aged swordsman laughed, “They are all jianghu rumors, I don’t know if they are true or not. However, Lady Fei Yan has been extinct since a year ago, and I don’t know where she has gone.”

At this time, a blue-robed jianghu man at the neighboring table interjected, mocking, “Lonely and uninformed, right? Flying Swallow Mistress disappeared for a year after she went to Yunzhou to fight bandits.”

Going to Yunzhou to fight the bandits?

Without waiting for the middle-aged swordsman to ask a question, the surrounding Jianghu people looked over.

“How did Your Excellency know that Mistress Fei Yan had gone to Yunzhou to fight the bandits.”

“Not only do I know that Mistress Fei Yan has gone to Yunzhou, I also know that she is the Heavenly Sect’s Holy Maiden Li Miaozhen.” The blue-robed journeyman took a sip of small wine and spoke eloquently:

“I have a brother, a person from Qingzhou, who suddenly returned to his hometown at the beginning of the year, saying that he was in Yunzhou this year, and that he accompanied the Flying Swallow Mistress around to fight against bandits, and that his cultivation had risen greatly. It was also him who told me that Lady Flying Swallow is the Heavenly Sect’s Holy Maiden.”

The middle-aged swordsman’s eyes flickered, questioning the blue-robed man’s words as he asked, “Since he was fighting bandits in Yunzhou, why did he suddenly return home?”

The blue-robed jianghu guest snorted, ”Naturally, the bandit suppression is over, at the end of last year, the imperial court sent two golden gongs, as well as a group of silver gongs to Yunzhou in person, uprooting the bandits in Yunzhou.

“The one who beat the night watchman’s yamen, Xu Yinluo, was in the middle of it, and is said to have almost died once?”

Immediately, a well-informed jianghu person spoke up and said, “It’s not almost, it’s a real death.”

“Bullshit, you can come back from the dead?”

“Hey, just by looking at you poor guys, you know you can’t afford to go to the Education Department. That Xu Yinluo is a regular visitor to the Education Department, pick any courtyard and ask the girls inside, you can find out a lot about Xu Yinluo.” The jianghu person who was in the know said:

“It is said that at that time, the Yunzhou Prefect led a rebellion, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses besieged the governor and his party. Just as the people were despairing, it was Xu Yinluo who, with one man and one sword, held back the tens of thousands of rebels, just as he had held back the civil and military officials a few days before.

“Killed the sky and the sun and the moon, and finally died of exhaustion. But also delayed until the arrival of reinforcements to reverse the situation.”

The lobby was in an uproar, whether it was the jianghu people or the common people, they were all stunned.

“One man against tens of thousands of people, is there really such an expert in the world?”

“I think it’s possible, didn’t you guys watch the fight? Xu Yinluo is so heavenly that even the Buddhist Luohan was willing to bow to him.”

“But how I heard it was the Supervisor who was helping him.”

“Shut up, it was Xu Yinluo who defeated the Buddhists by his own strength, what business is it of the Supervisor Zheng, I will not allow you to denigrate the heroes of the Great Bong.”

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Ling Bao Guan, a small quiet courtyard.

Emperor Yuan Jing stood at the edge of the pool with his arms folded, gazing at the stunning Daoist nun who was sitting in the air above the pool, her eyes closed as she meditated.

“Alas, State Master, after this battle, in as short as three months, or as long as a year, the Heavenly Sect’s Dao Head will enter the capital. At that time, the State Master will be in danger.”

Emperor Yuan Jing sighed, “The Supervisor will most likely not intervene in this matter.”

If the Supervisor Zheng could step in to shelter him, coupled with Luo Yu Heng’s own strength, it would be more than enough to deal with a Heavenly Sect Dao Head.

Of course, Emperor Yuan Jing knew that this was an extravagant hope; between first grade experts, they would almost never make a move without a special reason. Moreover, the Supervisor Zheng’s attitude towards the Human Sect was cold, and the probability of expecting him to make a move to fend off the Heavenly Sect’s Dao Head was slim.

“If the State Master can’t step into the first rank, even if Chu Yuanjian wins, it won’t mean much.” Emperor Yuanjing shook his head.

The two Celestials had a rule that before the Dao Heads fought, the disciples of the two clans would first compete, and the losing side would have to let the other side have three moves when the real Celestials fought.

However, Luo Yu Heng was only a second rank, and there was too much of a difference between her and the head of the Heavenly Sect Dao, so even if Chu Yuan Zhen won, and she had a three move head start, she would still end up losing just the same.

“Is there any way to postpone this celestial battle?” Emperor Yuan Jing asked.

He didn’t say anything to stop it, because that was impractical. Even if he was the emperor, he couldn’t sway a second-ranked and a first-ranked expert in the battle for the Dao.

Luo Yu Heng opened his eyes, his aura flickered, and he faintly said, “It’s enough to not be able to tell the winner from the loser.”

Can’t tell the difference between victory and defeat …….. Emperor Yuan Jing chewed on these words and said helplessly, “Unless Li Miaozhen agrees.”

Luo Yuheng pondered for a moment and said, “There is a simpler way ………”

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Hsu Mansion.

Xu Dalang, who was teasing Little DouDing in the yard, suddenly heard a shrill cat call and looked sideways to see an orange cat sitting crouched on the wall.

“Suzume, you go and play with your master first, big brother has something to do.” Xu Qi’an stroked his sister’s brain.

“Okay, Cauldron I’m going to eat Gui Yue House’s dishes at night.” Xu Lingyin took her big brother’s finger.

“Alright, I’ll go out and buy it for you later, hurry up and get lost.” Xu Qi’an poked her in the head with her finger.

Xu Jingyin ran away happily, jumping up and down.

The orange cat leapt into the courtyard in a smooth manner, and with graceful steps, came to him, spitting out human words, “Li Miaozhen has placed a war order.”

Xu Qi’an nodded, “I know.”

With a humanized smile, the orange cat said, “There’s something I need to ask you for.”

Xu Qi’an didn’t answer and looked at him silently.

One person and one cat stared at each other for a long time before Xu Qi’an whispered, “Daoist, are you trying to trap me again?”

The orange cat shook its head, “Lord Xu, when has the poor Taoist ever punked you.”

This …….. Xu Qi’an sighed, “I have a bad feeling about you coming to me at this juncture.”