Chapter 227 The Purpose of Venerable Xu’s Appearance

The soldiers in Lingfeng City cheered. They originally thought they would have a fierce battle today, but unexpectedly the Huanzhou Alliance army retreated. This victory gave the soldiers in Lingfeng City a great encouragement, which was originally a little fearful. There was a surge of confidence that they might not be able to stop the Huanzhou Alliance.

In the city lord's palace, Yuwen Chengdu and others, who had just experienced a battle, were sitting on their seats. On the left were Li Jiang and the others.

Elders Yang Zaitian and Ren Lie were also sitting below, their expressions were as usual, but they glanced at Liu Qingquan from the corner of their eyes from time to time.

Ahem!

Liu Qingquan coughed a few times, his face turned pale, his breath was a little weak, and the battle just now was a bit difficult.

But no one paid attention to them at this time, and everyone's eyes were focused on Li Jiang.

Previously, Li Jiang had dominated the two peak sages alone and had the upper hand. His strength was terrifying.

Anyone who can become a venerable is a very powerful person who is not a prodigy.

Moreover, the intention of Li Jiang and the others' arrival was also very obvious.

"You should be very clear about the purpose of our visit. I will not be secretive." Li Jiang waved his sleeves and looked at the crowd and said: "The King of Chu was attacked and killed. The entire royal family was very angry. We must deal with Huan Huan." These rebellious officials and traitors from the Zhou Alliance are now raising troops everywhere. The imperial court cannot send troops to destroy the Huanzhou Alliance for the time being. Therefore, Emperor Yao specially sent us to support you and guard Lingzhou with you. When the imperial army arrives, we can attack it in one fell swoop. Destroy the Huanzhou Alliance to avenge the King of Chu!"

Li Hai and Li Zhong nodded slightly, but their eyes were focused on Li Si, who was sitting on the main seat with a solemn face, and deep doubts welled up in their hearts.

Who is this Li Si?

After entering Lingfeng City, when Li Si appeared, Yuwen Chengdu, Ma Chao, and Xu Chu looked at him with respect that shocked them.

Yuwen Chengdu, Ma Chao, and Xu Chu were all famous in Lingzhou, but they had never heard of Li Si's name.

Why would these people show respect to an unknown person?

Especially in the battle just now, we have a more intuitive understanding of Yuwen Chengdu's strength. Although it is only the early stage of the Dharma Master Realm, his combat power has surpassed that of one of them. Such a prodigious man actually showed respect to Li Si.

They also knew that Ma Chao and Xu Chu, two fierce generals, were among the key figures in the Chu Palace.

And who is this Li Si, and what ability does he have to command the obedience of high-level generals such as Yuwen Chengdu, Ma Chao, and Xu Chu?

Li Mu, Yuwen Chengdu and others also looked at Li Si, who was now the backbone.

Li Mu, Liu Qingquan, and Liu Chenfeng already know that Li Yuan is not dead. Now that Li Jiang's meaning is obvious, what should they do now?

"We are grateful to the three venerables for coming to help." Li Si looked calm and smiled lightly.

Jia Xu had discussed with him before that Emperor Yao, King Ming and even King Yu might send people to recruit him.

Emperor Yao was impatient, so he sent His Holiness over first.

When Li Jiang saw Li Si replying lightly, he didn't say anything further and frowned.

Is this gone?

They are from the imperial court, don't they express their loyalty and express their gratitude to Emperor Yao and the imperial court?

"Ahem, we are all a little tired from today's battle. Why don't we go back to rest and recover our true energy in preparation for another attack by the Huanzhou Alliance."

Seeing the expressions of Li Jiang and the others, Li Mu quickly calmed down the atmosphere.

"Well, let's take a rest first." Yuwen Chengdu stood up, the residual aura of the battle was extremely strong.

Liu Qingquan and Liu Chenfeng nodded one after another.

A flash of anger flashed in Li Hai's eyes. The people in the Chu Palace made it clear that they did not want to continue the conversation and were trying to shirk Emperor Yao's solicitation.

Li Chong, on the other hand, had a calm face and looked at Li Si from time to time.

When I first arrived, it was normal for the people in Prince Chu's Mansion to be somewhat resistant to me, and now that they hadn't even figured out what was going on in Prince Chu's Mansion, the matter of recruiting them really needed to be slowed down.

"Okay, let's take a rest first." Li Jiang looked at Li Si, who kept smiling, with a normal expression on his face, and nodded heavily.

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Compared to the harmonious departure of everyone in Lingfeng City, the atmosphere in Huanlin City was heavy, and everyone in the lobby was silent.

The heads of the four major forces looked gloomy, and the leaders below shrank their heads and lowered their eyebrows, looking cautious.

Song Kong frowned and looked at Xu Kuang from the corner of his eye.

Xu Kuang's eyes flickered, he raised his head to look at Zhou Chi, then looked at everyone, but stopped talking.

In the end, Xu Kuang could not bear the loneliness the most. Seeing that everyone was silent, he said:

“In today’s battle, we did not expect that the imperial court would directly send His Holiness to support us, which caught us off guard, resulting in our hurried attack and failure today.

Now that there are three more venerables in Lingfeng City, how should we attack Lingzhou? "

After Xu Kuang spoke up, everyone also raised their heads.

"Three venerables suddenly appeared today to support Lingfeng City. No one could have predicted it. But even if Lingfeng City has their support, they will not be our opponents." Zhou Chi's originally depressed expression disappeared and he regained his composure.

"There are only seven venerables in total in Lingfeng City now. Although the peak royal venerable is very strong, we may not be unable to deal with it. If we send two people to block them, the remaining six venerables are no match for us at all.

If there is another fight, send two peak sages to block him, and then the other sages will deal with the other sages before joining forces to defeat him. "

Wang Cheng nodded and said: "That's right, not to mention that we still have an army of one million. How can we be our opponents with only a few hundred thousand on the opposite side? After we started the Battle of the Venerable, you sent the alliance army to attack Lingfeng City directly. First, Winning Lingfeng City is the first step into Lingzhou!"

After hearing the words of the three powerful leaders, the following leaders also regained their confidence.

So what if there are seven venerables on the opposite side? They don’t have an alliance!

After the Venerable was blocked, it was not necessary to rely on the troops below to push the city.

Capture Lingfeng City, force the enemy sages to retreat, and take the city step by step to devour Lingzhou.

"However, Alliance Leader, I still have a question." Xu Kuang looked at Zhou Chi and said in a slightly dissatisfied tone: "Who is the peak sage who suddenly appeared in the alliance today? If you don't know, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep!"

When Song Kong saw Xu Kuang's initiative, his heart moved, his eyes flickered, and he looked at Zhou Chi, waiting for his answer.

When Zhou Chi faced Xu Kuang's inquiry, he also noticed Song Kong's gaze from the corner of his eye and smiled:

"Haha! It's my fault that I didn't tell you about this in advance. Lianzhou Tianlei Pavilion has promised to cooperate with our Huanzhou Alliance. For their sincerity in cooperation, Tianlei Pavilion is willing to send Venerable Xu to help us solve Lingzhou together. He I just arrived today, but I didn’t expect to encounter us fighting, and I took the initiative to reveal my momentum and frightened away the venerable Lingfeng City.”

As he spoke, a figure stepped into the lobby and instantly attracted everyone's attention. This person was none other than Venerable Xu who had gone to attack Li Yuan with Xu Xiong and others.

Venerable Xu came in front of everyone, slightly bowed his hands to the masters of the four major forces, and said with an apologetic smile:

"Today's battle, I arrived suddenly. Because I didn't understand the situation, I could only use my momentum to scare away the enemy troops, but I didn't help. I hope you can forgive me."

"No problem, no problem, thanks to Master Xu this time." Wang Cheng said with a smile on his face.

When Xu Kuang saw Venerable Xu arriving, the dissatisfaction in his eyes disappeared and there was a little more joy.

"It turns out to be Venerable Xu. With your help, why should our Huanzhou Alliance be afraid of the three Venerables sent by the royal family to support us!"

"That's right, that's right." Song Kong also looked happy.

The doubts in the hearts of other leaders of forces were also solved. It is indeed a good thing to have another Venerable.

Some leaders warmly welcomed Venerable Xu's arrival.

However, some leaders looked a little unhappy.

It would be fine if this venerable person was from the four major forces in Huanzhou, but this venerable person is from the major force in Lianzhou. If he comes to help, does he also have to get a share of the pie?

Sure enough, as everyone greeted Venerable Xu warmly, the entire lobby fell into a strange calm.

Everyone's expressions were tangled, but they didn't dare to ask any more questions.

Originally, they had agreed that after the Huanzhou Alliance captured the nine mansions in Lingzhou, the four major forces would take the eight mansions, while the twenty or so small and medium-sized forces could still drink some soup and take the Lingrong mansion together.

For these small and medium-sized forces, despite the small amount of land in one mansion, Lingrong Mansion has nine counties, each county has ten large cities, and each large city is associated with more than a dozen small towns around it.

The force that contributes a lot can get a county, and even the forces with a small contribution can be divided into several cities, which is enough for small and medium-sized forces like them to taste the big benefits.

After all, there are only three Tianwu Realm experts among the two dozen forces combined, and their army is only about 200,000. Without the fighting power of the Venerable, they can share a mansion, which is considered a very conscientious thing for the great power in Huanzhou.

But now that there is another Tianlei Pavilion, how will it be divided then?

These small and medium-sized forces are very worried. They do not believe that the Zhou family and the Song family will be kind enough to share their eight mansions with Tianlei Pavilion. They may very well give up the only Zhongrong mansion to Tianlei Pavilion.

Together, they are not as strong as any of the big forces, and they have no say at all. If the big forces in Huanzhou give up Zhongrong Mansion to Tianlei Pavilion, they will only dare to be angry but dare not speak out.

"Don't worry, our four major forces cannot treat our brothers badly. We promised you that Lingrong Mansion will still be yours after taking Lingzhou!" Zhou Chi, who was in a good mood, saw the sadness on the faces of these leaders and comforted them.

After hearing Zhou Chi's words, these leaders raised their heads and showed joy.

The leader of the alliance said this in public, so he probably wouldn't break his promise.

"Thank you, Alliance Leader!" Everyone felt relieved.

"You guys go down first and prepare for tomorrow's battle." Zhou Chi waved his hand, signaling for everyone to leave.

Everyone's expressions froze, fighting again so soon?

Zhou Chi explained: "As soon as we attacked Lingzhou, the royal family sent three sages to arrive. We must speed up and capture Lingzhou, otherwise something will happen if we wait for a long time."

"yes!"

Everyone was shocked. After saying goodbye, they walked out of the lobby with solemn expressions.

Soon, only the masters of the four major forces and Venerable Xu were left in the lobby.

"Leader, I wonder what the purpose of Tianlei Pavilion is to help our Huanzhou Alliance?"

Xu Xiong seemed to dislike Venerable Xu, and asked directly regardless of Venerable Xu's presence.

And Xu Kuang's expression was a little bad. Just now Zhou Chi said that he would not allocate Lingrong Mansion to Tianlei Pavilion. Doesn't that mean he has to allocate another share of the Eight Mansion Lands predetermined by the four major forces?

Xu Kuang scoffed at the idea that Tianlei Pavilion wanted nothing more than to help them.

Just kidding, there is no benefit, who will help, do you think they are a family? And even sent a Venerable to take action?

Venerable Xu saw Xu Xiong's unceremonious tone. He seemed to be used to Xu Xiong's too much. He smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, you two. Our Tianlei Pavilion does have a purpose, but the purpose is not in Lingzhou."

"That's right, don't worry, everyone, although Tianlei Pavilion helped us win Lingzhou, it will not interfere with our interests in Lingzhou." Zhou Chi saw the dissatisfied expressions of Xu Kuang and Xu Xiong, and the smile on his face did not change. But in my heart, I felt more and more relieved about the Black Dragon Gang.

"Oh? What was the purpose of the Thunder Pavilion that day? Alliance leader, why didn't you discuss it with us?" After Song Kong confirmed that Xu Kuang didn't know about the situation of the Tianlei Pavilion, he looked a little embarrassed and hid the Tianlei Pavilion from Zhou Chi. Expressed dissatisfaction with the cooperation situation.

"I want to know too." Wang Cheng looked at Zhou Chi, his face showing dissatisfaction with the situation being concealed.

Zhou Chi turned to look at Song Kong and Wang Cheng, still maintaining a smile on his face and said:

"Master Song, Gang Leader Xu, and Master Wang, I originally gave you a surprise. I will explain and discuss it with you when Venerable Xu arrives. Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened in Lingfeng City today, so I haven't explained Xu to you yet. Venerable Xu showed up in advance as the Venerable came."

Xu Kuang, Song Kong, and Wang Cheng looked at each other, their eyes continuing to stay on Zhou Chi, and they listened to him quietly.

Zhou Chi stood up, walked slowly to Venerable Xu, and explained:

"Originally, we were sure of winning Lingzhou without any help from any forces. The arrival of Venerable Xu from Tianlei Pavilion is just the icing on the cake."

"Yes, our Tianlei Pavilion knows that the Huanzhou Alliance has no problem in taking Lingzhou, so naturally we will not interfere with Lingzhou's interests." Venerable Xu continued, "Our Tianlei Pavilion cooperates with the Huanzhou Alliance to separate Yizhou’s share!”

"Yizhou?"

Xu Kuang and Song Kong's eyes flashed.

Venerable Xu said: "Yes, our Tianlei Pavilion understands the current situation in Lianzhou. If no changes are made, it will be solved by the court sooner or later. Therefore, our Tianlei Pavilion is willing to cooperate with the Huanzhou Alliance to deal with the imperial family.

Now Tianlei Pavilion has won over half of the forces in Lianzhou, but some forces are still waiting to see the Huanzhou Alliance. In order to make them believe and understand the Huanzhou Alliance, our Tianlei Pavilion plans to send me to observe the Huanzhou Alliance. After that, Lu Let some people from forces come to cooperate with the Huanzhou Alliance for the first time one after another to cultivate mutual trust. After you win Lingzhou, we, Lianzhou, will start real cooperation with your Huanzhou Alliance to deal with King Ming together and share the benefits equally. state! "

"What do you think?" Zhou Chi glanced at everyone.

"I think it's okay. We have discussed it before to cooperate with Lianzhou to resist the coming of the imperial army in the future." Wang Cheng nodded in agreement and looked at Xu Kuang and Song Kong.

"It's no problem to divide Yizhou equally," Song Kong nodded slightly, looked at Venerable Xu and continued: "But given the current situation, I wonder if Venerable Xu is still willing to help us win Lingzhou without interfering with Lingzhou's interests? "

The eyes of everyone present moved, and they all understood what Song Kong meant.

Previously, the Huanzhou Alliance had no problem taking over Lingzhou. It didn't matter whether Venerable Xu took action or not, because Tianlei Pavilion would naturally not interfere with Lingzhou's interests.

But now there are three royal sages supporting them, which creates more troubles and gives the Huanzhou Alliance a sense of urgency. They need to capture Lingzhou quickly, so they need venerable Xu to take action. Do they still need to pay for the action?

"Master Song, don't worry. No matter what difficulties your Huanzhou Alliance encounters in Lingzhou, our Tianlei Pavilion is willing to help you, and the conditions will not change!" Venerable Xu agreed without any hesitation.