Chapter 1687

"It was your side that acted early." Bai Ziqi looked at the fine wine Yuan Xuan brought to the table, "Brewed with pear blossoms from that old tree demon?" "Exactly. I sent someone to dig it out from underground, and only these two jars were left." The others were all smashed.

Yuan Xuan poured a cup of fine wine for the two sitting opposite each other. Its color was like amber, and the fragrance overflowed.

Closing your eyes and taking a sip, it felt like returning to mid-spring.

That was the taste of spring: warm, sweet, and full of vitality.

Bai Ziqi raised his glass and took a sip, praising it twice: "Good wine, worth all the trouble you went through."

Qingyang swirled her glass and smiled: "Who says it isn't?"

She drank this sip of wine with satisfaction, doubly sweet! Bai Ziqi discovered at a glance that her shoulder was not right: "You are injured; in the past, you wouldn't touch alcohol."

Qingyang was nearly two hundred years old and had always been a model of careful maintenance in Lingxu City.

"I'm old, where is there so much fuss?" Qingyang said slowly, "You seem to be injured, and you lost some men?"

"I went to the Little Peach Shanzhuang to check for clues and was attacked by Lingshan on the way back, with losses on both sides."

The losses were heavy, but Bai Ziqi spoke lightly. "They seem truly afraid of me finding the Thousand Illusion True Person, so they used all their strength to intercept me this time. Hah, I thought the one intercepting me would be He Xiao, after all, he knew my route."

"During the time you went to the Little Peach Shanzhuang, He Xiao didn't leave Tianshui City." Qingyang asked him, "Did you find anything? Is He Xiao the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds?"

Bai Ziqi took another sip of pear blossom wine: "You know too?"

"Just a guess. If he is the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds, then many things make sense."

The old rivals smiled at each other, and Bai Ziqi said softly: "The younger generation is formidable. He played me, and he didn't calculate against you any less."

Qingyang picked up a piece of meat and tasted it slowly:

"He Xiao slipped away. The palace guards left behind at the Yongquan Shanzhuang confessed that before we launched last night, he escaped from the Yongquan Shanzhuang and fled."

Bai Ziqi only had four words in his mind: as expected.

"The King of Yao's palace guards weren't watching him?"

"They were watching, but the palace envoy came to summon him into the palace, and he and his subordinates disappeared after returning to their room. They must have used some kind of escape technique. His nose is truly sharper than a dog's, able to smell the scent of danger." Qingyang said lightly, "Heh heh, he didn't leave early or late, but chose to leave just before I launched!"

She was gritting her teeth a bit.

Bai Ziqi understood: "Your operation was advanced by several days all of a sudden; it was rushed, right?"

"Indeed, several groups of people couldn't get into position in time, and my arrangements weren't completed. Even the south gate of the palace city, which was the most important, had a slip-up, and it actually required the Goddess Fenghe to manifest to help Bai Tan open the gate. The gods were very unhappy." What Qingyang planned was a national change! Even if it was implemented at the last moment, problems could arise, so why advance it so much? The Heavenly God most tabooed intervening directly in a national change, as this would shake the faith of the common people and cause confusion in the believers' consciousness. It was just that Bai Tan was too incompetent at the south gate of the palace city, and the Heavenly God was also in a difficult position, which is why Fenghe manifested.

At that time, many guards were confused, not knowing which side to help when the Heavenly God and the monarch were fighting.

"Also, at that time, I sent someone to Mangzhou to find a notebook written by the person in charge of rebuilding the Jade Spring Palace. It is said that it recorded some strange phenomena. He died after finishing the renovation of the Jade Spring Palace for the previous King of Yao, but the palace didn't know he had the habit of keeping a log. If we could have gotten this book, perhaps our losses in the battle against the Thousand Illusion Dharma body wouldn't have been so heavy!"

The clone of the Goddess Fenghe fell, and the other god's clone was seriously injured. Before it returned to the God Realm, Qingyang heard its full of complaints. Now that the spiritual energy in the human world is recovering, the supply of nightmare energy in the God Realm is tight. If Miaozhantian wants to appease these two, she has to invest more resources.

As for Qingyang, thirty or forty Green Guards died, all of whom were her die-hard confidants, Green Palace disciples who had been by her side for over twenty years! On the Glittering Gold Continent, where could she cultivate so many loyal subordinates again?

Even worse, she herself was seriously injured by the Thousand Illusion's immortal arts. The best thing to do now is to go into closed-door cultivation, see no guests, and recuperate for three to five months. Otherwise, if this delay continues, the hidden injuries will soon turn into chronic illnesses, and her cultivation will regress.

After all, she is nearly two hundred years old, and her life fire is not as vigorous as a young person's.

Unfortunately, it's impossible.

With the King of Yao dead, forces from all sides are coming, and they will all look for her.

Where does she have the opportunity or time for closed-door cultivation?

As for Bai Tan, heh, she is too lazy to say much. This guy thinks that money, land, and people are all in his hands and is still happy, but he forgot that his nephew and elite confidants died in the palace coup. This kind of major hidden danger will definitely explode under the situation of wolves surrounding him later.

Bai Ziqi said without thinking: "He Xiao fled before the chaos; if it wasn't for great luck, then... by the way, why did you launch early?"

Just now he went to the Miaozhantian Temple, and Elder Liang only said that Regent Qingyang suddenly notified them yesterday afternoon that they should act immediately.

Qingyang was the main planner of the operation, and others had to obey her progress.

Over the past night, Qingyang and Bai Tan completed their tasks, but Bai Ziqi was not without complaints. Tianshui City was in turmoil early, He Xiao fled in the chaos, and he hurried and hurried, but was still a step late.

Qingyang told the story of yesterday's change, and then said: "Shi Song Wei was caught, and Bai Tan was immediately at risk of exposure. The King of Yao admitted personally that the informant was He Xiao."

Bai Ziqi subconsciously looked toward the Yongquan Shanzhuang: "He Xiao knows the risks better than you, otherwise the timing of the retreat wouldn't have been just right."

"Just right?" Qingyang chewed on these words repeatedly, not without hatred in her heart.

It really was just right! If He Xiao had reported it in advance, Qingyang and Bai Tan would have been unprepared, and they might have failed; if he had reported it late, the King of Yao would have been unable to resist, and Qingyang and Bai Tan's coup would have been too easy.

Like now, both sides fought to the death, and the King of Yao and the royal family, relatives, and confidants were uprooted. Although the Heavenly God and Qingyang as the attackers won, they were injured. This was the right timing! Bai Ziqi said warmly: "This person He Xiao likes to pull chestnuts from the fire."

Then both fell into silence.

If Qingyang's early rebellion was He Xiao's design, this person would be too terrifying!

Qingyang and the King of Yao's grievances were originally within a controllable range, and both sides intended to control the intensity of the conflict.

Since when did the conflict escalate and become unstoppable?

"The road of no return for the Yao nation started with the death of Xue Zongwu. This was the work of the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds." Qingyang said slowly, "The King of Yao was driven mad, He Xiao took the opportunity to fan the flames, and the situation became uncontrollable. Looking back now, every step of this person can be traced, solidly pushing the Yao nation into the abyss!"

However, at that time, everyone involved, including Qingyang herself, couldn't jump out of this great whirlpool.

(End of chapter)