Chapter 250

Li Linfu's face was gloomy, and he shook his head, saying: "Wait a little longer. Last time you and I thought he was exhausted, this person broke his own zither strings, and with the momentum of the broken strings, unleashed those seven sword lights, killing how many of our people, and even blinding one of your demonic pupils... The time before that, we thought he was exhausted, and in order to save his two companions, he even sent out the swords and blades beside him. As a result, countless storied ships volleyed, were sucked in by the Two-Yi Yuan-Magnetic Divine Light bursting from the magnetic bottle, and then eighty-one Lei Ze Divine Sands and countless Thunder Essence Sands were sprinkled, causing nearly half of the bone storied ships to capsize. Only then did they fail to break the city gate in one go, and instead were counterattacked and slaughtered by the Tang army."

The foreign monk said: "Is he really only at the Core Formation realm?"

Li Linfu said solemnly: "Mostly he borrowed the power of the Chang'an Great Array behind him... His own magic power is not strong!"

"Even so, he can be called a peerless figure!" The foreign monk sighed: "How profound is the foundation of the righteous path, that just a nameless nobody could actually make you and me helpless, and we can only use wheel warfare to exhaust his energy, and even join forces to restrain his mind from afar."

Li Linfu sneered: "Even with such heavenly appearance, isn't he about to die soon? Now the righteous path members in the city who can make a move have already made a move. They have exhausted their magic power and bled dry, and they are only one breath away from collapsing. That breath is this person!"

"Kill him, and Chang'an will surely fall!"

"But we thought this person was going to die three hours ago! Yet this person, time and time again, has given us endless shocks. His methods are endless, and he can hide even better than us in the demonic path. If we drag this out, who knows if he won't drag it out until the righteous path reinforcements arrive?"

Li Linfu pondered for a moment and said: "Let's calculate, if the righteous path's reaction is slightly faster, tonight, I'm afraid someone will come to reinforce!"

"But making a move at this time is not yet a fatal blow!" Li Linfu said: "That person in the city is about to succeed. At that time, the spiritual treasure that suppresses the Chang'an Great Array's eye will disappear, and the array's power will plummet. Only by making him lose his most important reliance and having both of us make a move at the same time can it be considered a situation of ten deaths and no life."

"But it's just the difference between ten deaths and no life and nine deaths and one life... And I don't think that dark hand you have in the city is very reliable either. Today's slaughter was so tragic, yet I haven't seen him make a move at all. Otherwise, just by slightly restraining the garrison's energy, they wouldn't be so difficult to deal with."

The foreign monk said with some dissatisfaction.

Li Linfu had to explain for him: "That person said, when dealing with this person, one must not be impatient. As long as a single flaw is revealed, there is absolutely no possibility of winning."

"Only by hiding and ambushing to the extreme is there a possibility of defeating this person."

The foreign monk gave a cold sneer, his tone extremely disdainful. Looking at Qian Chen, he couldn't help but reach out and touch his own blinded eye, feeling a sense of admiration and fear for this person's resilience, wit, methods, and will. But he was very disdainful of the person hiding in the dark who swore to kill this person.

The foreign monk said: "Then let's wait another hour... If that person still hasn't destroyed the array, we must both make a move!"

Li Linfu pondered for a moment, staring at Qian Chen, who was borrowing the array to skirmish and fight with dozens of demon lords who had at least cultivated life-bound gods and demons, and was occasionally severely injuring or even killing an old demon, and nodded slightly. This was considered agreeing to the foreign monk's proposal.

In Changancheng, Li Mi was guarding the Great Ming Palace. The Xuan Emperor's state had relapses, as if someone was using a highly sophisticated demonic path to manipulate his inner demons and hidden demons. Li Mi had already destroyed several conspiracies against the Xuan Emperor. Setting fires in the palace, murders, curses, various methods were ignored by him, and some were stopped by him. But he knew very well that this chaos and these various methods were all for that Upper Clarity Pearl.

After Qian Chen killed An Lushan but failed to stop the demonic calamity, he organized the defense of Chang'an that night. When he summoned the Daoist and Buddhist sects, mobilized all the righteous forces, and organized the volunteer army, he had a secret talk with Li Mi.

In it, he mentioned that there was a black hand behind the scenes beside the Xuan Emperor and the Crown Prince...

"The defense of Chang'an relies on the Divine Capital Great Array. The key to the Divine Capital Great Array lies in the Upper Clarity Pearl." That night, Qian Chen said to Li Mi: "As long as you guard the Upper Clarity Pearl, you are guarding our last hope!"

The whisk in Li Mi's hand trembled. He had an inconspicuous wound on his hand, which was bitten by a strange poisonous insect during the most recent ambush. Afterward, Li Mi began to suffer from poison attacking his heart. If it hadn't been for Zhong Kui helping to suppress it, and many gods guarding and obeying his deployment, the palace would have been in chaos long ago.

But as waves of nightmare attacks came, Li Mi had gradually lost control of the situation in the palace. Several captains of the Imperial Guard's Ten Thousand Cavalry had already had their hearts waver!

"Even if I die, the Upper Clarity Pearl cannot have the slightest mishap."

Li Mi gripped his whisk, determined in his heart.

Miaokong passed through the corridor of the Great Ming Palace. He walked with his head down, facing the ground, but there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, which was out of tune with the anxious and flustered atmosphere in the palace. In the side hall behind him, the captains of the Imperial Guard left to guard the Great Ming Palace gathered in the hall and said: "Chang'an cannot be held! We are all willing to serve the Crown Prince and escort the Crown Prince out of the capital!"

After saying this, they swore an oath of allegiance to the Crown Prince together with the eunuch Bian Lingcheng.

In the Great Ming Palace, the Imperial Guard began to stir... Bian Lingcheng finally went to meet the Dragon Martial Grand General of the Imperial Guard, Chen Xuanli, and said: "The General is loyal to His Majesty, which is naturally a great righteousness, but now Chang'an is in imminent danger. Is it loyalty to sit and watch His Majesty be killed by the demon army breaking the city? Now the Crown Prince still has filial piety and is willing to ask the General to escort His Majesty away, and kill that treacherous prime minister Yang Guozhong who harmed the country. Even if Chang'an falls, as long as the hearts of the people in the world are still there, it is only a temporary defeat."

"If both His Majesty and the Crown Prince die in Chang'an, the world will have no master. I don't know how many members of the imperial clan will fight for power, how many will claim to be kings, how many will claim to be emperors, indulging the thieves of An and Shi, with the righteous path having no leader, this is the omen of a perished country!"

"I have said all I have to say, please General, think about it!"

Chen Xuanli was silent for this, and he said in a low voice: "Once the Upper Clarity Pearl is shaken, it is equivalent to betraying those volunteer armies who swore to die to guard Chang'an, and betraying the soldiers of Geshu Han and the Twelve Guards of the Six Armies."

Bian Lingcheng sighed: "To die for the Great Tang is to die for a worthy cause, but now the soldiers of the Imperial Guard live in luxury, and no one wants to die. Even if the General refuses to leave, they want to leave. And without the General, do they listen to the Crown Prince? Or do they listen to His Majesty?"

"Without the General's protection, the royal family will inevitably kill each other! In the past, were the various lords of the Lingyan Pavilion at the Xuanwu Gate not the meritorious ministers of the Great Tang?"

Chen Xuanli's face struggled, and there was a long silence in the hall...

A short while later, the Imperial Guard moved, and the soldiers all put on armor and went toward the Great Ming Palace. Li Mi stood in front of the hall, hearing the neat sound of armor rubbing against each other coming from his ears, and couldn't help but show a bitter smile. Zhong Kui said helplessly: "I cannot make a move against the Imperial Guard, otherwise the Divine Path will immediately backlash, unless there is an order from His Majesty!"

Li Mi's hands trembled, and he could barely hold the whisk. He said sadly: "Crown Prince... Crown Prince..."

"Li Heng is originally a person of mediocre talent, and it is okay to be a ruler who guards the achievements. Today, the world has changed greatly, and he cannot shoulder the people of the world and the countless living beings in Chang'an, which is not surprising." Zhong Kui said: "Today, I will die with Chang'an, Li Mi... you go and follow the Crown Prince! At least fight with the demon beside him..."

"Mi, cannot fail what has been entrusted to me!"

Li Mi pushed the magic crown on his head and went to meet the Imperial Guard. Without the protection of the gods, he was ultimately just a Core Formation cultivator who had been poisoned.

"If I die, the Upper Clarity Pearl cannot have any mishap! Prefect, go and invite the Princess and General Pei... I will hold them off here!"

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"Stop right there! Ahead is where His Majesty is, who dares to come forward?"

Li Mi went to meet the Imperial Guard and roared at the hundreds of armored elites: "The Chang'an garrison is fighting to the death, I am guarding His Majesty and the country, what are you all doing?"

Bian Lingcheng, who led the group of Imperial Guards, said: "Li Mi is holding the monarch and father hostage, attempting to rebel, kill!"