I want to embrace the moon for nine days

After the sun rises in the east, it slides across the sky and gradually sets in the west within a few hours.

A tall and thin man in Suzhou City quietly left the city.

Although he was wearing a rough cloth robe and a blue cloth scarf on his head, which did not look eye-catching, one could tell from the collar that he had several layers of silk clothes underneath, and was not an ordinary citizen.

Moreover, after he left the city, he specifically walked on the small paths in the wilderness. The more remote the mountains and forests he went, the faster he walked and his speed became faster and faster.

This man's name was Lu Qing, and he was General Ningyuan, a fifth-rank general in the Jianghuai Army.

Su Yan was ambitious and secretly expanded his military strength. He only recruited talented people. Over the years, he recruited many good men. He found some excuses to report to the court and conferred official positions on them.

Lu Qing was valued by Su Yan because of his excellent skills in light flying and the fact that he had trained a large number of masters of light flying. He was an excellent choice for long-distance raids and gathering information.

Now he walked at full speed and in just a moment he reached an abandoned village on the edge of Taihu Lake.

There are many villages like this in the Jianghuai area.

Although Su Yan's military leadership was well-known, he wanted to expand his military forces secretly without attracting the attention of the court, so naturally he had to come up with the following plan.

In places like those that are rich and prosperous, with many young and strong people, he should manage them carefully and make them work harder.

But in places where there were many old people, the weak, women and children, he would secretly send bandits to rob or kill people to take their essence, blood, bones, souls, and resentment so as to make a batch of evil magical weapons.

If the situation got bigger, he would disperse the thieves, move the elite troops elsewhere, and order the officers and soldiers to take action, burn down a few bandit camps, and confiscate some magic weapons, which would then appear in the government treasury in Jianghuai with legitimate reasons.

As for the matter of dispersing the bandits, with a little embellishment, it can be regarded as a good achievement in eliminating bandits and one can ask for rewards from the court.

However, this abandoned village is not empty.

Lu Qing walked to the depths of the village, took out a piece of talisman paper from his arms, and waved it forward.

I saw a green light flying out and sinking into the air in front. The air gradually began to ripple and the scenery changed.

What was originally a large and dirty pond has been transformed into a bluestone courtyard surrounded by streams.

The yard, inside and outside, was cleaned in an orderly manner. Twenty or thirty beautiful servants and handsome boys were coming and going in the yard, preparing vegetables, wine and meat, and serving dinner to the master.

After Lu Qing walked in, the maze outside closed again. The beautiful servants seemed to recognize him and saluted him one after another, speaking in a soft Wu dialect, "Second Master!"

It turned out that the owner of this yard was Lu Qing's brother Lu Kun.

The two brothers were more than 40 years apart in age. When they were young, they were both active in the East China Sea. Very few people in the Central Plains knew about their brotherly relationship.

At this moment, Lu Kun was sitting on the soft couch in the big house, playing with a large ball of golden sand in his hands.

He was born short, only about three feet tall, so he had a nickname in the martial arts world, called "Three-foot Earth Spirit Demon". However, he was actually a person who had cultivated to become a land-walking immortal, with extraordinary power, and he usually liked to wear a charcoal-colored robe.

As soon as Lu Qing walked in, the colors of gold and red caught his eyes, dazzling him so much that he couldn't stop blinking and couldn't see his brother's face clearly.

"How did you come?"

Lu Kun folded his hands, pressed the ball of yellow sand into the size of a fist, put it into his sleeves, and looked up.

"This is your second visit this month. Su Yan is very alert and very serious. You must be extremely careful and make sure you don't get discovered by him."

Lu Qing swallowed his saliva, sat down next to him, took a cup of fragrant tea and drank it, and said, "Su Yan is dead!"

Lu Kun's eyebrows, which were red in the darkness, twitched. He asked, "Really? What happened? Did you see his body?"

"I didn't find the body, but I did see the fragments of his Five Lords Heavenly Sword. In addition, the ghosts and monsters he raised, such as the Ear-reporting God, were all listless, obviously having lost their master."

When Lu Qing thought about this, his mouth became dry, "It's not just him."

"Jinling King Cao Hong and Tianxian Sect Master Feng Kun were also defeated. The man who killed them called himself Su Hanshan."

"This morning, that man came to the Jianghuai Army camp and announced this matter, saying that the bandits raised by Cao and Su provoked him, and he killed them. He then went to the Jinling Palace and killed Cao Ying. The hatred deepened, and there was a big battle at Hongze Lake last night."

"When he spoke, the wind and thunder shook, the sky was flashing with lightning, and the soldiers were all frightened and dared not move rashly. He also broke into the Grand Commander's Mansion. In a moment, the news had spread throughout the city."

Lu Kun also looked a little surprised and murmured, "Su Hanshan? How come I have never heard of such a person..."

Lu Qing finished a cup of tea, and an excited look appeared on his face: "Brother, no matter where he comes from, this is our chance."

"Your Highness asked you and me to come here and hide in Jianghuai in order to find the right opportunity to cause the Taihu Lake to burst its banks. This would cause unrest in the south of the Yangtze River and even affect the grain transport to Kaifeng."

"If the imperial court sends someone to investigate, the past affairs of Cao and Su will surely be exposed. The only way out is to rebel immediately."

"Then the prince can take advantage of the chaos, build up a powerful situation, and directly change the dynasty."

Lu Qing smacked his lips, stroked his beard, and said, "Although Cao and Su are dead now, the overall chaos can still be stirred up."

Lu Kun's expression changed slightly.

The two brothers were both guest officials secretly hired by the Xiangyang Palace.

The Prince of Xiangyang is the uncle of the current Emperor of the Song Dynasty. He has a closer relationship with the Bixia Palace in Penglai, East China Sea, and has considerable power. He has long wanted to establish his hegemony, so he is more sensitive to the actions of his "colleague" the Prince of Jinling, and wants to use him.

However, the purpose of the Taihu Lake breach was to divert the court's attention and fish in troubled waters. Of course, it was impossible to mobilize the entire Xiangyang Palace to launch a forceful attack.

Therefore, after many consultations, only the Lu Kun brothers were invited to come and act accordingly.

"Let's go to the dam and take a look."

Lu Kun grabbed his brother, flew into the air, and in a flash he was on the Taihu Lake embankment.

The green willows on the shore are arranged in several rows, extending outward, almost surrounding Taihu Lake. The grass is green and the fragrance is fragrant.

The dam is more than ten feet above the water surface. The two brothers stood on the dam, overlooking the water and the waves. They felt it was so vast and boundless, giving them the illusion of being at the seaside.

It turns out that in ancient times during the Qin and Han Dynasties, the water of Taihu Lake flowed into the sea through three major water veins, namely Loujiang River, Dongjiang River and Wusong River.

However, in the late Tang Dynasty, the ice and snow in the Arctic, Rakshasa Kingdom and other places melted, and the cold current moved southward and invaded the Central Plains, which also caused the sea level to rise, the tide to flow back, and the sea sand to block the estuaries of the three rivers.

The Loujiang River and the Dongjiang River were successively blocked and their water veins dispersed and disappeared on land. Only the Wusong River survived.

From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the present, for so many years, Taihu Lake has received water from several counties from the upper reaches, but it only relies on the Wusong River to discharge into the sea. The lower reaches are silted up, the waterway is narrowed, and the flow is not abundant.

The pressure on the embankments along the Taihu Lake system can be said to be increasing.

Winter was about to pass and spring was about to begin. Once Taihu Lake burst its dikes, dozens of counties would be devastated, and the resulting problems such as plague and refugees would be countless.

As Su Yan was in charge of the Jianghuai region, he had to take strict precautions against this.

In addition to continuing the previous officials' waterproofing strategies, he also sent people to build 2,384 "magic needles" and insert them into the Taihu Lake embankment.

If there is any unusual movement in Taihu Lake, Su Yan can rush there in an instant.

With his cultivation as a Pure Land Immortal, even if he cannot take down the destroyer directly, he can immediately repair the dam and prevent the disaster from expanding.

Moreover, he has many soldiers and generals under his command, his treasury is full of magical weapons, and he has three master allies, Cao Hong, Feng Kun and Zhu Liang, who should not be underestimated.

Lu Kun had been troubled by this matter and could not find an opportunity to start. Today, when he came to the dam, the three-foot earth spirit demon sensed it again and indeed found that the more than 2,000 magic needles, which formed a warning method together, had been relaxed.

"Humph!"

Lu Kun snorted and laughed, walked a few steps to the side, stretched out his hand and grabbed, the grass under his feet cracked, and the earth and rocks surged.

After a few breaths, a hint of red copper appeared from the ground.

This "magic needle" is ten feet long and as thick as a goose egg. The outside is engraved with a sacrificial text for Li Bing, the great god of flood control in the Warring States Period, while the inside is engraved with a sacrificial text for Du Kang, the god of wine.

The hollow magic needle was filled with magic wine, which was the product supervised by Su Yan himself.

In the past, these magic needles were vaguely lingering with thoughts projected from Su Yan's pure land.

Today, this connection has disappeared.

"Okay, okay, he really died cleanly."

Lu Kun couldn't help but smile.

Lu Qing said: "Once we accomplish this, we can spread some rumors and put the blame on Su Hanshan."

"Although he made a declaration in the Jianghuai Army camp, it seems that he has no reason to harm Taihu Lake, but rumors are something that can change drastically with a little push."

Lu Qing couldn't help but smack his lips when he said this. "They were just offended by a few bandits, like ants, and they should have been crushed to death. But he went straight to the Jinling Palace and didn't even give the Cao family a chance to apologize. How arrogant and domineering he is."

"Once such a person is listed as a suspect by the Song Dynasty court, there will definitely be chaos again!"

Lu Kun's eyes lit up and he nodded repeatedly.

"Good brother, this is a good idea. Once we accomplish this, we will immediately sneak away. When the disaster becomes serious in the future, no one will be able to find us."

Lu Kun laughed and said, "As the saying goes, those who are good at fighting are not famous for their achievements. Our plan is so secretive that no one can see it. Even if the King of Xiangyang becomes a big shot in the future, he will not take the initiative to take the blame."

“Billions of people today and in the history books of the future will only know about this Taihu disaster, but will never be able to find the real culprit. Hahahaha!!”

Miles away, among the jungle.

Wrapped in inert energy, two invisible people floated quietly in the air.

Su Hanshan scratched his ears and said, "I can understand their excitement about being remembered for generations and being recorded in history, but what's so exciting about doing this?"

Ouyang Chun pondered: "Maybe for them, there is a sense of accomplishment in fooling the whole world?"

Su Hanshan laughed strangely, "When I made the announcement in the military camp, everyone in the camp was shocked and horrified, or confused, and some were sad and angry, and wanted to kill me. He was the only one who was overjoyed. Who could he fool?"

Back then, when Su Hanshan was still in the Qi Sea realm, he had already researched the Seven Emotions Destroying the God Style. Later, he cultivated to multiple extreme realms, using Qi to stimulate the body, using the body to refine the mind, and he created his own Small Five Elements Generation and Restraint Method, all of which were already in detail.

With his current state of mind, although he didn't know what others were thinking specifically, in an instant, anyone who was emotionally excited within a few miles could not escape his perception and identification.

At that time, he secretly paid attention to Lu Qing.

When Lu Qing left the city, he and Ouyang Chun followed all the way. Both of them were masters of calming their minds, and even Lu Kun could not detect any clues.

"Come to think of it, we just dealt with the King of Jinling, and here comes the King of Xiangyang."

Su Hanshan shook his head and said, "There are probably too many princes in your Song Dynasty who want to rebel."

Ouyang Chun smiled and said, "Maybe it's inherited from the old Zhao family's ancestors."

In this world, there are many people who have lived for hundreds of years due to their advanced cultivation.

For these people, they themselves may live longer than a dynasty.

It is not strange to ask the old people who are still alive to the present to recognize that they are Han people, but it is really a joke to ask them to recognize that they are Song people.

The younger disciples of those masters were also influenced to some extent by their way of thinking.

Ouyang Chun joked naturally without any burden.

Su Hanshan's eyes darkened, and he said, "If you want to rebel, that's fine, but if you do things that conflict with me, that's a bit like courting death."

He raised his hand, and his right hand was glowing with a strong silver luster.

Ouyang Chun held the knife in his arms and flicked his thumb, and the knife came out three inches.

A light blue light flashed from the blade and landed on Su Hanshan's right hand.

That was not the Water-Splitting Divine Sword that cut through memories, but a sword force formed by mixing one's own power with demonic energy.

Su Hanshan used the Dharani Fist, gathering all his heart and soul. He suddenly stretched out a finger, and the mental force he emitted was as fast as Bao Yue Jue Kong, and the lethality was extraordinary.

But Lu Xingxian's endurance and vitality are extraordinary after all.

Ouyang Chun was a man of extraordinary talent. When he saw Su Hanshan kill Cao Hong with one finger at Hongze Lake, he recognized the mystery of this move and took the initiative to draw his sword to help.

The sword contained demonic energy, which just matched Su Hanshan's concept of luring and destroying the demon with one finger.

Lu Kun on the Taihu Dam, after crushing a magic needle, clenched his fist and stared at the land below.

When he was in the demon-subduing realm, he trained the invisible demon into a real supernatural power and obtained the method of controlling earth. When he became a land-walking immortal, it was transformed into a magical power that could affect the entire body and mind. He was able to travel underground like a fish in water, and could also affect the movement of earth and rocks over a large area.

The Taihu Dam was extremely well built. Even if Su Hanshan attacked it with all his strength, it would only create a gap of two or three miles at most.

But Lu Kun used his earth-controlling ability to accumulate strength and then punched out. The entire Taihu Dam began to crack and a gap more than five miles long appeared. The earth and rocks were like powder and difficult to fill.

Although the old saying goes that a thousand-mile dam can be breached by a single ant hole, the larger the initial gap, the faster the subsequent collapse will be.

A moment later, the entire Taihu Lake overflowed and burst, and everywhere was about to become a flood area. Even if Su Yan and the other four masters were resurrected and surrounded them at the same time, it would be difficult to save the situation.

However, just when Lu Kun was completely immersed in the earth energy, he suddenly felt a terrifying omen coming from the land several miles away.

"Varied……"

Before he could even think about it, a flash of silver light appeared in the distance behind him.

There was a small hole in Lu Kun's head from back to front, and the inside of the hole was yellow, as if there was neither brain nor flesh.

But the aura of this three-foot earth spirit demon suddenly weakened, and the earth element vitality that had just been sensed suddenly dissipated, and there seemed to be yellow light flowing and flying on the ground.

The pain from the wound was almost soul-shattering, causing him to let out an earth-shattering roar.

"what!!!!!!"

Lu Qing, who was standing nearby, was caught off guard, and his entire body was shaken into a puff of blood-colored dust by the sound waves of severe pain from his brother.

(End of this chapter)