Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

Chapter 514 Why

Outside the city of Dongdu, when Guo Yanfeng took off his disguise, Nan Yingying's face was as gloomy as the dark clouds above her head. Although she had expected Guo Yanfeng to appear, she still couldn't help questioning him when he really stood up.

"Old Guo, why are you here to join in the fun...or rather, you'd better just come to join in the fun."

Guo Yanfeng frowned and made a vague and hoarse sound.

"I came here at the invitation of the Queen Mother."

"Tsk, let me ask you again, Lao Guo, do you really have to join in on this fun?"

After saying this, Nan Yingying locked onto the other party with her spiritual sense, ready to risk her life.

Generally speaking, when a Mahayana master disregards all else and takes such an attitude, he can often ease the conflict temporarily.

No one is willing to fight to the death with a Mahayana practitioner, even if they are both Mahayana practitioners.

Even if it was a battle between the strongest and the weakest, both sides would inevitably pay an extremely heavy price. The loser would be horribly wounded, and the winner would be covered in wounds.

Therefore, no matter how many benefits the Queen Mother promised Guo Yanfeng, he had to consider whether he would live long enough to enjoy them!

Besides, strictly speaking, this is not a battle of the same level.

Although Guo Yanfeng is a well-known Mahayana master in Xinheng, he has the least presence among the five Mahayana masters and is relatively the weakest. He has spent his entire life practicing treasure hunting in the seabed, hoping to find immortality from the relics of the old world sealed by the seabed mud. For this reason, he did not hesitate to transform himself from the inside out into an aquatic creature. Under his thick beard, there is a layer of gills that are constantly opening and closing, and his wide palms and soles are all webbed. The rich water-phase spiritual energy lingering around him is so rich that it is almost manifested.

In the sea, Guo Yanfeng was the number one True Lord and could overpower Yang Zhao. However, on land, his cultivation was almost downgraded to the fusion realm.

Therefore, unless it was an extremely special situation, Guo Yanfeng almost never logged in. That was why Nan Yingying had to question him.

Do you, a person from the sea, have to join in the fun on the surface?
In response, Guo Yanfeng did not answer, but silently deployed a protective formation to resist the oncoming pressure, and then did not retreat even a step. In this way, his position was clear.

Nan Yingying then sneered: "Okay, I will come to burn incense for you next year."

Obviously, although Guo Yanfeng's appearance was somewhat beyond expectations, Nan Yingying was still fully confident about it.

Many years ago, before Zhang Jincheng committed "betrayal" and before there was turmoil in Xinheng, the Duke of Feng had already actively prepared and was ready to face any Mahayana master.

"Your Excellency, please be patient. It will soon become two to one again."

Nan Yingying stared at Guo Yanfeng closely, the murderous intent flowing in her heart like a substance.

However, Wang Luo couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this: "I'm afraid it won't be that smooth."

Because Wang Luo clearly remembered what his senior sister once said.

Your opponent's hole cards are often like cockroaches. When you see an unexpected hole card, it often means there are hundreds or thousands of them behind it.

So, was Guo Yanfeng's trump card expected? Obviously not. All the way from Liuyan City to Fancheng, when Wang Luo and Yang Qijian were discussing how the Yang family would hand over power, Nan Yingying and Yu Gong also took the opportunity to talk in riddles and deduced the possibility of the Hongmen Banquet in Dongdu. They also deeply analyzed the trump cards that Yang Shijun now held...but Guo Yanfeng was not among them.

In their perception, the Mahayana who lived in the sea for many years and had no interest in anything on land also had no interest in the majesty of the royal family, and lacked reverence. In the past fifty years, he had not even attended the imperial ceremony. How could Yang Shijun summon and command such a person?
But now Guo Yanfeng stood on the side of the Queen Mother, and even disguised himself as a court official to deceive others. He cooperated to this extent, and he became a chess piece in the hands of others.

The appearance of this trump card means that Yang Shijun must have more trump cards in his hand.

For example, the abbot of Dasheng Temple who has not spoken a word since arriving in Dongdu.

As expected, as soon as Wang Luo finished speaking, Yu Gong sighed, "Alas, it seems that the envoy has never trusted me. It is really sad."

As he spoke, he floated behind Nan Yingying. The blue and white Taoist robe on his body moved without wind, swelling like a balloon, but contained within was a chilling murderous intent.

"Duke Feng, I'm sorry, please know the situation."

This cold warning indeed shocked Nan Yingying. She glanced at it in disbelief, but when she saw that Yu Gong had indeed stepped into a fatal position, she completely wiped out the luck in her heart.

But I can’t erase the doubts in my heart.

"Old man Yu, what are you trying to do?"

Yu Gong sighed again and said, "Alas, it's hard to explain in one sentence. Even if I explain it in detail, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to understand. It's better not to say it."

Nan Yingying sneered, "Well, there's really no need to waste time talking to a dead person. One against three, isn't that bad!"

After she finished speaking, her aura surged again, her true essence rolled like a deadly storm, and in the eye of the storm, a little true spirit that was almost as good as immortal essence was brewing. With this little true spirit, she directly completed a breakthrough in her practice, stepping over the threshold from the middle stage of Mahayana to the late stage of Mahayana, which was enough to keep pace with Yang Zhao.

Everyone in the game has his or her own trump card. Nan Yingying has been operating in the four southern counties for decades and has a wide range of ambitions, so naturally she has to prepare many trump cards.

However, just when Nan Yingying's aura reached its peak and she was ready to fight three people alone, Yang Shijun suddenly turned his head and asked softly.

"Duke Feng, why do you have to fight a meaningless battle? Since I have arranged the killing of Dongdu, I will naturally not leave room for anyone to struggle. Your immortal path is based on the wishes of all living beings, but can the living beings of the four southern counties really do as you wish?"

After hearing this, Nan Yingying was stunned for a moment, then showed a trace of uncontrollable panic, and then became furious like boiling lava.

"Yang Shijun!!"

The next moment, Yang Shijun raised her hand, and just as she had suppressed an army of 100,000 in an instant before, she issued an unquestionable order to the ambush troops in the four counties far to the south.

Then, everyone clearly saw the dark clouds above their heads, from south to north, dyed with a miserable blood color, which was ten or a hundred times more miserable and terrifying than the blood column rising into the sky in the Fancheng Palace. The clouds seemed to be covered with blood waves, and every wave was mixed with the wailing of thousands of wronged souls.

Even though they had never been to the scene in person, everyone knew that a blood sacrifice of astonishing scale had broken out in the four southern counties, and the only purpose of the blood sacrifice was to break Nan Yingying's wish for all living beings. Those who relied on the four southern counties to achieve Mahayana would naturally be bound by the four southern counties. The moment the blood cloud rolled, Nan Yingying bled from all seven orifices, staggered and almost fell... Although she quickly stood firm with amazing perseverance, the true energy in her body could not be suppressed and fell down.

The storm that was brewing the immortal essence and true spirit came to a halt helplessly, and Nan Yingying's realm also fell all the way from the late Mahayana stage, almost falling to the fusion stage before she was barely able to stop.

Obviously, Nan Yingying was not completely unprepared for the Queen Mother's plan to cut off the source of the problem, and she had made corresponding preparations...but in the end she was still severely damaged by this sudden and ingenious plan, and her strength was greatly reduced. At this time, let alone fighting one against three, even against Guo Yanfeng, her chance of winning was only 60-40.

The more fatal problem is that when she can no longer maintain her realm advantage, the enemies she needs to face are no longer limited to Mahayana - outside Dongdu, there are quite a few masters at the Spirit Transformation and Fusion levels among the 100,000-strong army.

However, despite the severe injury, Nan Yingying simply spat out a mouthful of black blood and raised her head suddenly. Although she was in a desperate situation, the fighting spirit in her heart was not diminished at all.

In response, Yang Shijun simply whispered, "Duke Feng, surrender."

"Ah……"

"I won't persuade you to surrender a second time."

"Then you..."

Before Nan Yingying resolutely chose that dead end, Wang Luo had already spoken: "Duke Feng, please come here first."

Nan Yingying was stunned for a moment and looked at Wang Luo in disbelief.

Wang Luo said: "I have noted your loyalty and courage. When this matter is over, I will give you the due reward on behalf of the Immortal Alliance. So, please make sure to live until that moment, and don't let the commendation ceremony be without a protagonist."

Nan Yingying was silent for a while, then smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll listen to you and sit in the audience for now... to witness the might of the Immortal Alliance's leader overpowering the Mahayana True Lord."

The last sentence sounded a bit sarcastic, but Wang Luo smiled back: "Then I will show my ugliness."

Afterwards, under everyone's vigilant gaze, Wang Luo bowed slightly to Yang Shijun and said, "Queen Mother, you went to so much trouble to set up this trap in Dongdu. I'm afraid it's not just to trap me to death here, but you also have something to say to me."

Yang Shijun smiled and said, "If Master Wang has something to say to me, please speak frankly."

"Okay, then I have a few questions. First, why are you so stubborn? Is it just because of the golden candle in the palace?"

Yang Shijun shook his head: "Even if there is no immortal sign of the golden candle in the high palace, the Yang family and the Gan family will not abandon the heavenly court."

Wang Luo asked, "But you don't seem to feel any burden for abandoning the people of Xinheng?"

Yang Shijun retorted: "If the Immortal Alliance can stop at the east bank of Fenghu Lake and not move west, the people of Xinheng will naturally not be threatened... To develop the wasteland at an aggressive pace, forcing the 200 million people of Xinheng into a desperate situation, but to question whether the country in the wasteland has abandoned the people. Isn't this a bit hypocritical and ridiculous?"

Wang Luo was silent for a while, then nodded and said, "To the locals in the wilderness, the Immortal Alliance is just an invader... This is a good angle, I've made a note of it. When the Immortal Alliance recovers the entire territory of Mingzhou in the future, I will remind the relevant officials to clarify this concept when compiling textbooks. We must not encourage this fallacy."

Yang Shijun sighed and said, "Perhaps in the eyes of Lord Wang, everything in the Immortal Alliance is in line with the truth, which is undoubtedly the will of heaven. However, for us in the small Xinheng, the daily life of the past six hundred years is the truth."

Wang Luo retorted: "The Immortal Alliance inherited the legal orthodoxy that has accumulated for more than ten thousand years since the birth of the old immortal calendar civilization."

Yang Shijun smiled and shook his head: "Since Lord Wang mentioned the word 'immortal calendar', you should know that the old civilization was defined by immortals. I would like to ask that although the Immortal Alliance calls itself immortal, is there still half an immortal?"

Wang Luo replied: "Of course there is. The Immortal Ancestor Chicheng lived in the Great Void Illusionary Realm and was the Great Void Heavenly Venerable. And now the so-called Heavenly Immortals are just a group of rebellious people who go against the trend."

These words left Yang Shijun so stunned that he was speechless for a moment.

After a moment, she shook her head and said, "This kind of logical debate is indeed not my forte, so let me lose. Lord Wang, since you won the debate, you can just stay in Dongdu and witness the final resistance of us Xinheng people."

Wang Luo sighed and said, "Wait a minute, I have another question to ask."

Yang Shijun hesitated for a moment, but still nodded and said, "Okay, go ahead, but please don't bring up those meaningless principles anymore."

"Okay, it's just a trivial question. Before I came to Xinheng, I heard from the surrendered Hunyuan Immortal that the people of Xinheng are civilized and polite. Later, Duke Feng also said that during your reign, Queen Mother, you paid a lot of attention to red tape... So, what kind of etiquette was the casual hello when we just met?"

The next moment, this seemingly insignificant question made Yang Shijun's face change suddenly. The woman's face showed a clear look of shame and anger. Although it was quickly suppressed, it was enough to alarm those who were paying attention.

Wang Luo continued, "You set up a trap in Dongdu, and lured me here by using Yang Qijian's surrender. Theoretically, you have an absolute advantage in power, and the moment I arrived here, you could have used all your strength to kill me. But you chose to go with me in person and send me to Dongdu. Even now, you have no intention of taking my life, but only locked me up in Dongdu. Is this because you want to use me as a hostage to keep a trump card for negotiation with the Immortal Alliance, or because... the late emperor and I are not completely different? You can't bear to see our similarities, and you just want to take this opportunity to say a few more words to me, so as to immerse yourself in the love and affection of the past..."

"presumptuous!"

A loud shout interrupted Wang Luo's endless chatter. General Yang Jiuzhong drew his sword and attacked with all his strength, slashing an extremely sharp sword light at Wang Luo.

However, the sword light was taken away by a pair of bare hands halfway through.

Yang Shijun raised his hand again, and with a seemingly fragile posture, he just blocked Yang Jiuzhong's sword light.

"Don't let him irritate you and make you lose your composure... Besides, what he said was not entirely wrong. I did talk to him more on purpose. However, I didn't do this to indulge in some old feelings. I just wanted to know who wrote this clumsy forgery and what other tricks he used. Now it seems that this is all."

Wang Luo, who was evaluated as nothing special, just shrugged and smiled indifferently, and then asked the last question before the other party ran out of patience.

"Queen Mother, have you ever considered this question? You have a hundred thousand troops in the East Capital, a great master of the Imperial City, and an unknown trump card that was dug out from some corner. How dare I, a mere Nascent Soul, come here? Is it just based on my trust in the two Xinheng Great Masters who I have only known for a day?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Shijun couldn't help but frown.

Wang Luo continued, "Before Yang Zhao's death, which led to a drastic change in the situation, the plan agreed upon by Li Fengxian and I was to use the seal jade as bait to lure you into the trap, and then take the initiative to propose to come to Dongdu... At that time, Li Fengxian asked me, even if I could really reach Dongdu, I would have a total of 100,000 Qingqi soldiers and imperial guards with me. How could I rescue Zhang Jincheng from the 100,000 troops and then restore order and overthrow the rule of the Yang family? I did not give a direct answer at the time. Now, this question is left to you, Queen Mother. Please ask, what do you think I will do?"

(End of this chapter)