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Chapter 225 Don’t live!
Yan Cui realized that his memory was confused and might affect his judgment, so he stopped interfering in the matter and let Shi Xuanying make the decision.

He thought that a sword cultivator who was used to walking on the edge of a knife would definitely choose to take risks as usual, but she unexpectedly decided to rush to Qu Du.

Originally, Shi Xuanying did not plan to go, but after thinking about it carefully, she changed her mind.

It was obviously unrealistic to bring Xuan Weixing and Caixing directly back to the base camp. Only in Qudu could these two exert greater power. However, they were too deeply tied to the Qu Kingdom. How could they easily abandon their families and careers to come and serve a little-known person like her? It was hard to say whether she even knew there was such a person!

"He doesn't take the initiative, and I don't take the initiative, so how can we have any intersection!" Shi Xuanying stretched out her hand to him, "Spirit Stone."

Yan Cui curled the corners of his mouth, took out a bag of spirit stones and threw it to her.

Shi Xuanying was surprised by the heavy weight in her hand: "Huh? So many?"

"The poor are rich on the road." Yan Cui said coldly, waving his hand, "Go quickly."

Shi Xuanying had no worries about leaving this to him. She put the spirit stone into her storage bag, walked to the door and turned back to remind him: "The training of the archers has begun to show results. It's time to test the front. If there is a chance, you might as well take over the four counties outside the river mouth."

Yan Cui nodded: "Okay."

The straight-line distance between the four counties of Hekou and Tao County is only more than ten miles, but there are mountains in between, making it difficult to travel by land, but the waterway is smooth.

The four counties were the hardest hit areas, suffering from both natural disasters and war. Although the floods have receded now, the plague is raging and there is almost no population. It is easy to occupy them, but the difficulty lies in how to defend them after the southwest recovers from the plague.

The crossbow army is an elite force with a small number of people, and they fight at long distances. If they want to truly occupy the territory, they must first completely bring the Xiao family army into the group, and secondly, they must carry out post-disaster reconstruction.

Shi Xuanying said this lightly and then took on another big job.

The plague prevented the spread of war and brought a brief calm to the situation in the southwest. However, the people continued to suffer.

Wars and natural disasters continued unabated, and it seemed as if God wanted to cut off everyone's chance of survival.

The Restoration Army has been actively preventing and controlling epidemics, taking in refugees, and trying to find ways to solve the problem of food and clothing for so many people. At this time, the Southwestern Army is still constantly launching wars, causing the remnants of the Small Chen Kingdom, who were already loyal to the old country, to become more and more resistant. Under the deliberate instigation of the Restoration Army, they finally condensed into a force that could not be ignored and began a desperate counterattack.

The desire to survive made the originally gentle and weak people burst out with amazing fighting power. They developed unprecedented courage and bloodiness. They dared to confront the battle-hardened cavalry with just a hoe and a sickle, as if they didn't care about life and death.

They wanted to live so badly that they had the courage to fight to the death.

Reality is often so contradictory.

For a time, the southwestern army of Qu State was forced to retreat again and again.

This further emboldened the common people - it turned out that the Qu Kingdom's cavalry was not invincible! It turned out that as long as they dared to fight, they could take back their homeland!

The Restoration Army, which had been beaten to the point of being on the verge of death, suddenly came back to life miraculously, and became even stronger than before, and was still growing rapidly like a snowball.

In Huazhou, Xu Jun received a dream from Master Xuanying and went out of the city to find the medicine in the "ancient well". The epidemic spreading in the army was quickly brought under control.

Just as they were overjoyed and preparing to continue moving eastward, the captives in Huazhou City who had been planning for a long time suddenly jumped up and took the opportunity to open the city gate to get medicine to rush out of the city.

Shi Xuanying watched Xiao Hongfan and General Xiao lead the Xiao family army to successfully provide support before setting off for Qudu.

The State of Xu regretted not slaughtering the 20,000 men earlier, so he learned from his mistakes and when he fought against Qu's army again, he left no prisoners and killed them all.

Upon seeing this, the Great Chen Kingdom realized that the best time to take advantage of the situation had come, and changed its previous cowardly attitude. It directly tore up the peace agreement with the Qu Kingdom and joined the war.

The situation that Xiao Hongfan had carefully balanced and contained was suddenly broken. The Southwestern Army was attacked from three sides like a storm and suffered repeated defeats.

In just a few nights, the situation in the southwest changed drastically.

Xiao Hongfan and his men had already been persuaded by Master Xuanying. Seeing the current situation, they were already eager to make a move. They agreed almost immediately after Yan Cui mentioned it. With the addition of the 20,000 captured Southwestern Army, they now have 50,000 troops. It's not a lot, but it's more than enough to quietly get a taste of the chaos.

The officials from the two counties had just taken a break when they suddenly received the spiritual fruit sent by their legal advisor. For some reason, they felt an inexplicable pain in their livers.

Dark clouds hung low over the city.

Qudu was shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere, the air was filled with moisture, and a rainstorm was brewing.

In the observatory of the imperial palace, Qu Shan stood up from the tea table. Unexpectedly, he had been kneeling for too long and his legs became numb. His body suddenly tilted and he accidentally pushed the tea tray away.

A set of teapots as smooth as jade fell to the ground with a loud bang.

He frowned and looked at the debris on the ground, his heart pounding.

I always feel like something bad is going to happen...

In the past few days, His Majesty summoned him frequently and ordered him to divine the identity of "Shoujun Star" in the palace. However, the grass on Shoujun Star's grave was three feet high. At that time, he was just talking nonsense to protect Chen Jizhi. Therefore, he could only pretend to be submissive and pretend to try hard to divine. He spent six days in the palace.

Qu Shan thought of something and his face changed drastically. He kicked away the palace maid who was squatting on the ground picking up the debris and hurried down the observatory.

When he reached the exit, he was stopped by the guard.

"I want to see the emperor!" Qu Shan said hurriedly, "I have something important to report!"

The guard saw that he looked anxious, so he said, "Please wait a moment, my lord. I will go and inform you right away."

"Go quickly." Qu Shan urged.

When he realized that he was trapped in the palace intentionally, he guessed that it must be that old immortal Liu Shuji who was going to take action against Xuan Weixing!

Only Liu Shuji could influence Emperor Qu's decision, and only Liu Shuji knew that he was forced to "die together" with the Seven Stars! Why else could they deliberately trap him? !

Not long after, the guard returned with bad news: "My Lord, several cabinet ministers are meeting with His Majesty to discuss the war in the southwest."

"The Southwest War is important, but what I want to say is not important?!" Qu Shan roared out of control.

The guard was embarrassed. "I heard that the Southwest Army was losing ground and the emperor was furious. The eunuch in the Imperial Study didn't want to offend him, so he didn't want to pass on the message. There was nothing I could do!"

Qu Shan was so anxious that he turned around in circles: "Go and tell him that I have predicted something that will affect the fate of the Great Qu Kingdom..."

He was halfway through his words when he suddenly asked, "Are Prime Minister Liu and Prime Minister Chen here too?"

"Prime Minister Liu is here," the defender replied, "but Prime Minister Chen is not here."

"Forget it, I'll wait a little longer." Qu Shan knew that he must not alert the enemy. If Liu Laogou knew that he wanted to go out, he would definitely try his best to stop him.

Qu Shan was shaking with hatred: You old bastard! I will make you wish you were dead when I get back!

He ran back to the observatory.

Standing on the towering observatory and watching the low black clouds rolling, I had the illusion that they were within reach. Lightning flashed between the clouds and the rumbling thunder exploded in my ears, which was shocking.

At nightfall, the imperial study was still discussing government affairs, and it looked like it would last until late at night. Qu Shan knew he could not wait any longer.

There is more than one grandmaster guarding the palace, so it is not so easy for him to leave quietly, but if he uses mystical arts to force his way in, no one can stop him!
"Fuck him! If anything happens to me, no one will be alive!" Qu Shan cast a spell as if he was mad.

(End of this chapter)