Chapter 99 The dragon fights in the wild, its blood is black and yellow
"The Western Wilderness is going to be destroyed?" In the Nanli Palace, Mang Youzheng laughed with all the generals: "This is really crazy."
Facing the ridicule, Li Qinglin's smile did not change: "In this world, there are not only two countries in the south and the west in the wilderness. There are many big countries in the middle of the country, and their national power is a hundred times better than you and me. I'm afraid you barbarians have forgotten."
The generals of Xihuang were still laughing, but Mang You realized something and his smile gradually faded.
Li Qinglin, as if educating his subordinates, slowly said: "The terrain of our southern Xinjiang is complex and the roads are rugged. If we want to capture the big country in China, the road will be difficult and the transportation will be inconvenient. It will be a waste of manpower and material resources to capture it, and we can only conquer it from afar, and there is a lack of resources.
It’s quite worthless. Once upon a time, a big country came to the city with troops. As a result, we called ourselves ministers and were allowed to govern ourselves and pay tribute. When that big country was destroyed by itself, we were still in Nanli and became an independent country again. This is our Nanli country.
Away from the eternal source.”
Having said this, Li Qinglin looked at Mang You with pity: "You barbarians have just risen less than a hundred years ago, with a poor culture and a shallow history. I'm afraid you don't know the truth behind it. Do you really think that a stronger country does not exist?"
Mang You didn't get angry, and his expression gradually became serious: "Are you... colluding with the great powers of Middle-earth?"
"The north is now the Kingdom of Qian." Li Qinglin held the armrest of the dragon chair with one hand and smiled leisurely: "A month ago, I sent an envoy to proclaim myself a minister... Well, in fact, he is not called a minister. He is still a minister of the Qian Kingdom.
King Nanli, I sent a lot of property to express my condolences."
"I can't believe that you, Li Qinglin, are willing to humble yourself and become a vassal!"
"So you are just a general, and I am the king." Li Qinglin said leisurely: "Politics does not care about face, only about results."
"The result is that even the Qian Kingdom doesn't have a single soldier to protect you?"
"I also think they can come... But the road is inconvenient, and it's snowy and icy, so of course there won't be any big army. Send thousands of elites to guard for me. If they don't want to, there's nothing we can do." Li Qinglin.
He smiled and said: "But it's not that there are no other ways... They don't want to defend the city, but the nature of a vanguard pointing the sword at the Western Wilderness is a little different. Conquering a country is of great interest to you and me.
Of course the emperor is also very interested."
Mang You's expression changed drastically: "Your general's offer of the pass is indeed a trick to drag us to Nanli!"
"Of course it's a trick. Would I, Li Qinglin, be such a foolish king that no one wants to be loyal to? I would actually surrender to the enemy and lead the way. Thinking about it, I know it's not normal. Mang Zhan has no brains, and neither do you Mang You?" Li Qinglin said with a smile: "
Now the whole country is raising troops in the Western Wasteland, and they are going deep into Nanli. I am empty in my belly, and I don’t know what the outcome will be if I join thousands of vanguards..."
The faces of all the generals in Xihuang changed.
Mang You said sternly: "It's alarmist. If that's the case, why didn't you let the Lihuo Army defend this city? Instead, you sent them all to Hengshan County, waiting to die empty-handed."
Li Qinglin shook his head with some regret: "If that's the case, you return to force the army to retreat, or you go to declare yourself a vassal. In the end, the situation remains unchanged and we come back next year. What's the use? I want to settle this situation once and for all."
Before he finished speaking, a hail of arrows flew from nowhere outside the palace gate, turning all the soldiers Mang You had arranged to guard outside the gate into hedgehogs. The palace gate closed suddenly as if there was some mechanism.
At the same time, a fire suddenly broke out in the entire palace. In almost no time to spread, the entire square was turned into a sea of flames, and everyone including Li Qinglin and Mang You were instantly engulfed by the flames.
Li Qinglin laughed loudly in the blazing fire: "Your strongest bloody army in the Western Wilderness and you old generals who are accustomed to fighting have all died here. The fate of the country in the Western Wilderness has been lost. Nanli only died a monk, the eldest princess and Li Huo. All the elites are intact, as long as she is not stupid, of course it will be you, Xihuang, and not me, Nanli, who will destroy the country!"
The Xihuang army couldn't care less about what he was saying. They crowded towards the palace gate in a chaotic manner. How could they break open it in such a short time?
Mangyou felt cold all over.
I am afraid that even if Da Gan sends troops to help him defend the city, he, Li Qinglin, will refuse. He clearly deliberately used his body as a bait, used his own life, and used Nanli Palace as a tomb, dragging the fate of the entire Xihuang country to death!
He roared angrily, and with the fire all over his body, he struck hard at Li Qinglin with his giant axe.
Li Qinglin held the gun horizontally, and both of them were swallowed up by the flames at the same time.
"I don't have long to live. It is a pleasure to have so many Western Wilderness warriors die for me."
In the raging fire, Li Qinglin looked calm and seemed not to feel the pain of the flames burning his body: "I forgot to tell you that this fire is the blazing flame array of your Donghuazi. When searching for blazing flints, the people of Nanli were filled with resentment. , now it can be considered that it has been used appropriately, and it has not failed the people of Nanli."
No one paid attention to him at all, and the fire quickly burned through everyone's body. Everyone rolled upside down, and the screams echoed through the sky, long ago covering up Li Qinglin's words.
Mangyou's giant ax fell to the ground, rolling in pain on the ground. He used his last strength to point at Li Qinglin: "Since you came to the throne, you have been practicing Taoism in a daze. Is it all a scam?"
Li Qinglin silently put the gun on the ground and closed his eyes: "No, at that time... it was true."
"Boom!" The palace collapsed, and the sky was filled with fire that lit up the sky red.
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Minghe looked at the firelight above Lihuo City faintly, and remembered the conversation he had with Li Qinglin a few days ago.
"You really don't want to tell Qingjun about your arrangement?"
"Qingjun knows it, and it's impossible for him to agree. It would be troublesome if he had to die with Lihuo City."
"So... Pindao told you the origin of the jade pendant, why did you never send anyone to look for it, and instead gave the jade pendant to Qingjun?"
Li Qinglin looked at the carved dragon on the beam in ecstasy. After a long time, he slowly said: "I was worried and wavered. I was greedy for power and wanted to live forever... It was not as great as I had imagined. When I discovered When I couldn't cultivate even a trace of immortality according to Qin Yi's techniques, I even became extremely violent, beating and scolding my concubines, and whipping palace servants to death - maybe I'm just a layman, and I still have the potential of a tyrant."
Minghe looked at him quietly and did not answer.
"But Taoist priest, people are so strange... When one day I wake up, I feel clear and clear as never before... I know that not only I am hopeless, but Nanli is also hopeless. It has been rotten to the bone. ...If there is a few years to slowly turn things around, there may still be a chance, but Xihuang will not give us this time, they do not even wait for spring, there will definitely be a thunderous surprise attack this winter."
Minghe still listened quietly.
"In such a short time, let alone Qingjun, even if I was not cursed and worked hard, Nanli would not be able to survive this disaster. The previous heroic ambitions were just wishful thinking and self-deception." Li Qinglin said with a smile: "So we should What are you going to do? Waiting to welcome the invasion of the Western Wilderness, and then perish after a tragic and bloody battle, becoming a lamentable item in the history books?"
Minghe finally said: "What I am asking is why you don't go find the owner of the jade pendant, not about your national policy."
"Because I don't want to look for it anymore." Li Qinglin said with a smile: "If you die, just die. How can people be immortal? I have found my original intention."
"What is it?"
"No matter how much work I do, it will end up being a handful of loess and several feet of tomb. If that's the case, why did I do this work in the first place?"
Minghe shook his head: "I never know why you want this merit."
Li Qinglin's eyes were a little strange: "The Taoist master's sect is extraordinary. Maybe some people live forever? But they can live in caves, hide away from the world, and no one knows about them. Compared with those who shine in the annals of history and are admired by all generations...who is the immortal?
?”
Minghe was startled for a moment, and then he was silent.
"Everyone has their own ambitions. I'm afraid there is no answer to this question." Li Qinglin laughed again: "Qingjun loves to seek immortals. If one day she can let go of the shackles of Nanli, the jade pendant will be her guide. I will not
Go use it. But when Taoist Master sees Qin Yi in the future, he can tell him something for me."
"Please say."
"Well...he is a friend worth keeping with. I feel very sorry that he has to work so hard for nothing this time."
Minghe asked curiously: "That's it?"
"No... I once told him that I would rather believe that the Great Sage is dead than accept that the Monkey King crosses his legs and becomes a Buddha forever." Li Qinglin said slowly: "Please tell my friend, Taoist Master, that although I have been shaken
, but we finally did it.”
Looking at the fire in the sky, Minghe remembered the divination he had calculated when he first met Li Qinglin in Zhangjiazhuang.
The dragon fights in the wild, its blood is black and yellow.
What he was fighting was not Donghuazi, or even Xihuang. From beginning to end, he was fighting Changsheng.