Not long after, a group of monks holding swords, guns and sticks rushed out of Qingguang Temple. They looked fierce and surrounded Zhang Beichen and others.
"You are just causing trouble? You are so tired of living!" The abbot of the temple led by the head held a ring knife, with fat heads and big ears. He didn't look like a monk, but he was obviously a bandit!
The moment he saw him, Ci Nian's face changed drastically and she asked in surprise: "Why are you not dead? Didn't the Venerable save you?"
"What are you not dead?" The abbot looked at Ci Nian, and saw that Ci Nian looked beautiful, and immediately felt proud and smiled grimly: "It's really the Buddha's blessing. I gave such a pure girl to me!"
"Go ahead, take them all!" the abbot ordered.
[The monks came here, and they were naturally no match for you. Your subordinates quickly subdued these evil monks!]
Zhang Beichen looked at Ci Nian, and Ci Nian asked the abbot and asked, "Why aren't you dead yet?"
The abbot realized at this time that the group of people on the other side were not something he could afford, so he begged for mercy and said, "Sir, I am only forty years old this year."
"I mean, ten years ago, weren't you killed by the Venerable?" Ci Nian asked again.
At the same time, Zhang Beichen released his own holy realm pressure, and the abbot suddenly collapsed. He looked at Ci Nian with pale face, and a memory surged into his heart and said stammeringly: "You...you are the little one ten years ago, ten years ago
girl!"
"It's me!" Ci Nian continued to ask, "I ask you, why aren't you dead?"
The abbot didn't want to answer, but Zhang Beichen's pressure had already broken his mind's defense line. He said truthfully: "At that time, I was just a little novice monk from Qingguang Temple. At that time, the last Buddhist girl had just ascended, and the Venerable ordered the temples across the country to be together.
Looking for the reincarnated Buddha girl.”
"I discovered you, your wisdom is in line with what the Venerable said, so I reported it to the temple. Soon, the Venerable came here."
"He believes you are the next Buddhist girl."
"What?" Ci Nian's beautiful eyebrows were already frowning.
"Then he told me that the Buddha girl needed to cut off the worldly relationship. I asked me if I would like to be a wicked person, as long as I am a wicked person, I will become the abbot of Qingguang Temple in the future." The abbot said, "I promised him."
"So, I pretended to be a robber with a group of monks and killed your whole family and all those who had something to do with you. At this time, the Venerable appears and rescues you!"
"Impossible!" Ci Nian still didn't want to believe it, and she asked again: "I clearly saw the Venerable killing you!"
The abbot said: "It is easy to use the methods of the Venerable to use illusions. You were just a little girl without any cultivation back then. How could you see through it?"
His words were like a heavy hammer, smashing the heart of compassionate Buddha.
Her face turned pale in an instant, she spit out a mouthful of blood, and murmured: "Impossible, why did the Venerable lie to me? Did the Venerable kill my parents and family?"
Zhang Beichen thought of her kindness a little and made her fall asleep.
"Sir, I have said everything I should say, please spare my life! It was all done by the Venerable!" The abbot of Qingguang Temple and the monks were still pleading for mercy.
Zhang Beichen said coldly: "Kill them all, deal with them cleanly."
"Yes!" The subordinates killed them all directly and pretended to be a scene of killing each other.
...
When Ci Nian woke up again, she seemed to have lost half her life, her cultivation also regressed from the half-step holy realm to the ninth realm, and it was still declining.
"Why?" Ci Nian asked Zhang Beichen with tears in her eyes, "Is this your illusion? Or is it the liar you are looking for?"
Zhang Beichen whispered: "I don't need to tell you whether it is true or not. I must have made a judgment on what you have seen along the way."
Ci Nian's eyes were filled with despair, "Why, why did the Venerable lie to me? What I believe in is nothing more than a scam made up by others?"
"Who can tell the truth and falsehood of the world clearly? Perhaps the world we live in is just a dream." Zhang Beichen sighed, "No matter what, living a good life is enough."
Ci Nian didn't say anything, Zhang Beichen left time for her to think.
A few days later, Ci Nian was finally willing to eat.
But she was still confused.
"I don't know what to do, what should I live for?" Ci Nian no longer recites Buddhist scriptures and no longer abides by the precepts.
Zhang Beichen said: "You don't need to live for anyone, you just need to do what you want to do."
"What do I want to do?" Ci Nian thought carefully about this sentence.
Her former goal was to become a qualified Buddhist girl and to ascend to perfection in merit.
What now? What is she going to do?
Ci Nian thought of the miserable people I met along the way, those monks who did not have to work but were full of oil in their mouths, those who were conservative and tormented, and those who had the same fate as themselves.
"I still want to save those suffering and change this country, but I don't want to be a Buddha girl again!" Ci Nian said.
"That's it!" Zhang Beichen said, "It doesn't have to believe in who is qualified to do good things."
He said: "Once the East, there were countries in the East, and the people were in trouble. I and the King of Yan ended hundreds of years of chaos. Now the people live and work in peace and contentment, and no longer have to suffer from war and famine."
Hearing his words, Ci Nian seemed to think of something. If she could become the king of the Kushan Empire, like Emperor Yan, she could change all this!
As soon as this thought appeared, it continued to grow in her mind.
Zhang Beichen took her to move forward and was about to arrive at the border of the Kushan Empire.
"Ci Nian, you no longer have to 'save' me anymore. Go do whatever you want!" Zhang Beichen said.
Ci Nian was still unwilling to leave, and she said, "If you leave this time, you will soon send troops to attack the Kushan Empire. Do you have to do this?"
Zhang Beichen smiled and said, "I want to ask King Jia Nisega. If he is willing to abdicate and surrender to Dayan, we can naturally withdraw our troops."
Of course, Ci Nian knew that this was impossible.
She asked again: "Do you want to conquer the Kushan Empire?"
"No." Zhang Beichen shook his head, "Dayan does not have the ability to manage such a distant country. We just want to save Queen Lanxiang and her children, and in addition, the Kushan Empire dare not invade Yan again from now on."
Ci Nian thought something, and after a moment, she said, "I can help you!"
Zhang Beichen looked at her and thought to himself, after so long, you finally said this!
Ci Nian looked into his eyes and said, "I will help you save Queen Lanxiang and her children. You will help me kill King Kanasega and help me ascend the throne."
"If I become the queen of the Kushan Empire, the Kushan Empire will be friendly with Dayan forever and will never invade Dayan again!"
Zhang Beichen smiled slightly and said, "Trade is done!"
[You reached a deal with Ci Nian, you returned to the army and began to command the Yan army to launch an attack. Ci Nian returned to the capital of the Kushan Empire alone.]
Zhang Beichen had already learned about the maps and related information from the Kushan Empire, and the attack was naturally much smoother.
...
Maitreya Temple, Ci Nian returns here.
"The Buddha girl is back!" The monks gathered around to check and reported to the Venerable.
Inside the Buddha Light Pagoda, the Venerable looked at the compassionate thoughts.
Although Ci Nian's cultivation level has declined, her body is still holy, and Zhang Beichen did not do anything to her.
"Ci Nian, how did you come back?" asked Venerable Wei.
Ci Nian returned: "Honor, after the devil robbed me, he wanted to get information from the Kushan Empire. I took advantage of his relaxing vigilance and took the opportunity to escape. I was injured by him on the way, and my cultivation level declined."
"Yeah." Venerable Wei was not suspicious, because in his opinion, as long as the tool Ci Nian was still intact, nothing would be a problem.
In this way, Ci Nian was her Buddhist girl in Maitreya Temple again.
The Venerable Wei left the Maitreya Temple.
The war ahead was not going well, and King Kanesega asked Venerable Wei to go to the battlefield to assist in the battle.
As soon as Venerable Wei left, there was more room for the charity to be used.
...
One day, Ci Nian asked someone to come to Zhang Yi and said that he wanted to follow the orders of the Venerable and teach Zhang Yi Buddhism, so naturally there was no doubt about it.
"I will teach Buddhism and practice as a result in the Buddha Light Pagoda these days, and no one will be able to enter without permission." Ci Nian ordered the monks.
"Yes." The monks would not offend her.
In the Buddha Light Tower, Queen Orchid Xiang saw Ci Nian again.
"The little nun is back?" Queen Lanxiang said curiously, "Zhang Beichen is willing to put you back?"
Ci Nian said calmly, "He has never restricted my freedom."
Queen Lanxiang chuckled and said, "His means are still so clever. You little girl have been taken down by him, right?"
Ci Nian's face turned slightly red, and then said, "I'll make a deal with him, I'm here to let you go."
"Is that true?" Queen Lanxiang sighed in her heart. Zhang Beichen is still so powerful!
This little nun was stubborn before and was willing to defend Buddhism with her life. As a result, she went with Zhang Beichen. It was only a few months before, but she had completely forgotten her previous persistence.
"Mom!" A little boy appeared behind Ci Nian, and it was Zhang Yi.
"Son!" Queen Lanxiang asked with concern, "What do they do to you, right?"
Zhang Yi shook his head and said, "No, they just forced me to learn Buddhism."
"What are you doing when you learn that? You will be the King of the Great Yuezhi in the future, don't learn from those bald donkeys!" said Queen Lanxiang.
"I will lead the guard away." Ci Nian said, "When you take advantage of the chaos, Zhang Beichen will send someone to help you."
"Okay!" Lanxiang agreed in one sip.
[Late at night that day, the Buddhist temple behind Maitreya Temple suddenly caught fire, and the monks were alarmed and went to put out the fire.]
Ci Nian came outside the Buddha Light Pagoda and said to the monks who were guarding him: "Hurry up, go and put out the fire! I'll see you here."
"Yes!" The guards all went to put out the fire.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ci Nian released Queen Lanxiang and Zhang Yi.
The Yan Kingdom assassins who came outside to pick them up took them away.
[One hour later, the fire in the temple was extinguished. The guards found that Queen Lanxiang and Zhang Yi were taken away.]
Ci Nian hurt herself in order to do the trick.
"The assassin of Yan State sneaked into me and snatched Queen Lanxiang and Zhang Yi!" Ci Nian said to the guards from the palace.
However, the guards captured her and took her back to the palace to wait for her to fall.
...
"Bastard, can two living people be kidnapped? Or is it in the Maitreya Temple, in the Buddha Light Tower!" King Kanesega was furious when he heard the news.
The defense of Maitreya Temple is no less than that of the royal palace, and it can be robbed. There is only one possibility that an insider will appear!
That Ci Nian is the most suspected!
"Shang Wang, Ci Nian has been caught. I will execute her now?" the guard asked.
"No!" King Kanisega said coldly, "I have great use to put her under house arrest in the palace and let her attack the holy realm as soon as possible!"
"yes!"
...
[The Yan State's army advanced rapidly and soon reached an important city of the Kushan Empire, Huashuzimo.]
The thorn mould is a city built on the desert. A desert river runs through the thorn mould, forming oasis and farmland here.
Huatshuzimo is also a node city on the Silk Road. Before King Jiasega had robbed the merchants of Yan State, all the merchants of Yan State were coming here, bringing prosperity to this place, so Huatshuzimo became
The pearl in the desert!
Because of the importance of Huatshuzimo, this city is like the big cities in the Central Plains, with strong city wall defenses, and even hundreds of thousands of troops may not be able to capture it.
"The edges of the flower thorn mold are deserts, so our army cannot stay here for a long time!" Zhao Yun checked the terrain and said to Zhang Beichen.
"The Venerable Wei has brought people to support him. He has been able to capture the strong attack for less than half a year. Our army's supplies cannot last at that time." Zhang Beichen thought, "I can only use a ruthless move!"
He locked his sight on the desert river.
[You ordered soldiers to go upstream of the Desert River, dig the river channel, and force the river to divert the route.]
In the desert, it is impossible to flood the city.
Zhang Beichen directly changed the river channel.
His army was stationed by the river and had water sources.
The hundreds of thousands of defenders in Huatshuzimo City felt uncomfortable. The weather in the desert was extremely hot. After the river water broke down, the riverbed had dried up for several days, and it was difficult to find water everywhere!
When digging the underground, you can also get some groundwater, but how can you use it for hundreds of thousands of soldiers?
[A week later, the defenders of Huatsama could not bear the hunger and were forced to leave the city to fight.]
The Yan army was naturally not afraid of fighting. Although the Kushan Empire was huge, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was much worse than that of the Yan army.
[After a fierce battle, Huatshuzimo's defenders were defeated, and the Yan army beheaded more than 100,000 people and captured more than 100,000 people. The Venerable Wei led 100,000 remaining soldiers to flee to the Kushan Empire Royal City.]
[After you seize the flower thorn model, you will leave 30,000 soldiers to guard the battle, and the rest of the soldiers will continue to kill to the royal city.]
...
In the palace of the Kushan Empire, King Kanesega was both angry and frightened, "In less than a year, I, Kushan, was defeated so miserably. Why can no one stop the Yan army?"
When fighting the Western Regions, the Kushan Empire's army crushed, making him think that the same was true for the Yan army.
It was not until he really fought with the Yan army that he realized that the reason why Yan State could unify the East and wipe out the Huns was that their soldiers had too strong combat effectiveness!
Without three times the strength, the Kushan soldiers could not compete with the Yan army head-on!
"Shang Wang, we only need to defend the royal city. The Yan army traveled a long distance and lacked supplies. After a long time, we will inevitably withdraw our troops. At that time, we will lead our troops to attack and we will definitely win!" Venerable Wei suggested.