Chapter 526: Internal and External Troubles

Wei Yuan walked into the quiet courtyard next to the Medicine Garden and saw Canglongshi and Monk Qiuyue playing chess in the courtyard, with Master Chenzhou watching the game on the side, while Xuanjizi was playing the score alone in the room. The Seventh Elder was talking to Bao Manshan.

Seeing Wei Yuan arrive, the great national masters were exceptionally excited. Monk Qiuyue brushed the chessboard and said: "Little Friend Wei is here, let's stop this game here."

Canglongshi didn't care about Monk Qiuyue's little rascality, waved his sleeves, and the chess pieces returned to the chess box, then said: "I and Daoist Xuanji have studied that remnant chess game of yours, and it is amazing; some of the moves inside are simply unimaginable. Master Chenzhou's claim that you are a chess immortal of the current era is no exaggeration."

Canglongshi waved his sleeves again, and countless black and white pieces fell on the chessboard on their own, setting up Wei Yuan's middle-game chess score.

Xuanjizi also walked over, stood with his hands behind his back, and said: "This game is just beginning, and it is the trend of deer-chasing in the world, so Canglong Daoist and I named it 'Deer-Chasing Score', and have already printed many copies and sent them to fellow enthusiasts in the world. It's just that how to play this 200th move, Canglong Daoist and I have different opinions, and neither can convince the other. These are our respective moves."

Xuanjizi and Canglongshi moved to set up the chess, one playing on the lower left, and the other insisting on the upper left. Both places were battlefields where the fighting was fierce, and the outcome was only a hair's breadth apart, making it difficult to calculate which piece was more important.

Xuanjizi and Canglongshi argued endlessly, not knowing how many games they had dismantled, and both had their own wins and losses, making it difficult to distinguish between them.

Master Chenzhou and Master Qiuyue also had their own solutions, but they were clearly inferior to Xuanjizi and Canglongshi, so they didn't bring them up.

It was just that the two great national masters were playing, and gradually sparks flew. The two refused to give in to each other, and finally simply took out another chessboard, playing two games at the same time, one setting up Xuanjizi's solution, broken by Canglongshi. The other chessboard was exactly the opposite.

The two great national masters were attacking and defending each other at the same time, playing brilliantly, making Master Chenzhou and Master Qiuyue clap and sigh from time to time. The Seventh Elder and Bao Manshan were also exceptionally excited, not knowing why.

As they were playing, a voice suddenly sounded from the side: "You old man, how can you play this move here?"

Everyone turned their heads together and saw Fenhai Zhenjun Xuanyue arrive at some point, stretching his neck to watch the chess, so anxious that his face was flushed red.

Fortunately, Fenhai Zhenjun Xuanyue just couldn't control his mouth out of habit and didn't really lack self-knowledge. He knew very well that in terms of chess, even a hundred of him tied together wouldn't be enough for the two great national masters to fight. So after saying one sentence, he immediately closed his mouth.

The national masters didn't say anything because of Fenhai Zhenjun Xuanyue's cultivation and continued to play.

In a blink of an eye, half a day passed, and both games reached the final endgame stage, but the situation on the board was deadlocked, and each had one game with an advantage, but the overall situation was difficult to distinguish.

Seeing that the game was already clear, Canglongshi stood up and said: "We have embarrassed ourselves, let's listen to Little Friend Wei's solution!"

So everyone restored the game to its original state and waited quietly for Wei Yuan's solution.

This remnant chess game, Wei Yuan had long ago pushed to the endgame stage. At this moment, although his 200th move was unexpected, it was the only optimal move in the earthly fireworks analysis, and there would be other changes only after four or five moves.

At this moment, Wei Yuan picked up a piece and slapped it into the empty space on the right!

This game was fiercely fought on the left, the board was complex, and both sides had each other. On the right, there was still a large piece of empty land, and neither side had played many pieces.

Xuanjizi and Canglongshi never expected that Wei Yuan would actually play elsewhere!

In this way, Wei Yuan indeed gained a huge harvest on the right, but the two pieces of chess on the left were immediately in extreme danger, and could be wiped out at any time. The whole game would also fall into a passive situation everywhere.

At this moment, the great national masters of the world were all fighting for the first move, so how could there be any reason to give up the first move? Therefore, Xuanjizi and Canglongshi didn't consider the right side at all.

Master Chenzhou and Qiuyue had their own solutions, all of which were on the left battlefield. Only the Seventh Elder showed joy; he had once conceived of this move of Wei Yuan, but the position of the piece was off by two squares.

Xuanjizi and Canglongshi stared at this move of Wei Yuan and were silent for a long time. In an instant, they had calculated infinite changes in their minds, but the subsequent trend of the game was still like being in a fog, difficult to see clearly.

Canglongshi suddenly picked up a piece and placed it on the chessboard as a response to Wei Yuan's move. This move was within Wei Yuan's expectations, so he also played a piece.

The two sides went back and forth, playing slower and slower. Canglongshi's methods were fierce, attacking the two pieces on the left, while Wei Yuan responded as if walking on thin ice, at any time on the verge of destruction, but just maintained a breath. In the end, Canglongshi couldn't kill a single piece, while Wei Yuan's move of playing elsewhere showed its effect, and finally took this game with a hair's breadth.

Canglongshi lost, Xuanjizi sat down and began to play against Wei Yuan.

This game was similar to the previous one, but Xuanjizi's fierce attack was slightly inferior, while his overall planning was a line stronger than Canglongshi's.

After playing to the end, Xuanjizi still couldn't kill Wei Yuan's chess, and then lost a step in competing for the big field with Wei Yuan, and couldn't catch up with the last bit of gap, so he also lost narrowly.

After the two games were finished, Wei Yuan said goodbye and let the national masters digest it themselves.

In fact, Wei Yuan didn't dare to stay too long; his own chess skills were a mess, just at the level of steadily winning against Master Xuanyue. Playing chess according to the earthly fireworks, Wei Yuan knew the "what" but not the "why", and as long as he was asked a few more questions by the national masters, he would definitely be exposed.

So Wei Yuan had to take advantage of their shock to get away. Leaving the hidden place of the national masters, Wei Yuan went to the front line again. At the original site of Ding'an City, 100,000 laborers and 20,000 strong Body Forging warriors were working. They dug trenches in the ground to block the Shaman tribe's rapid advance, and also connected the small fortresses together, and then dug tunnels underground to connect all the fortresses with an underground tunnel network.

Wei Yuan walked and watched between the new defense works, occasionally chatting with the laborers. Everyone was working enthusiastically; they all knew that the more fortifications built, the fewer people might die during the war.

The earthly fireworks were still constantly deducing the possible direction of the war. Although the situation seemed to have stabilized by now, and the humans were even slightly superior in the Dharma Form level, the earthly fireworks believed that now was the time when the war risk was highest. The number of refugees imported from outside had decreased significantly, and now less than 10,000 arrived every day, many of whom were dragging their families along.

And in the subsequent battles, the role that Dharma Form experts could play was not much. Only when the humans retreated into Hanyang Pass would the Dharma Form great powers have a place to use their skills.

The earthly fireworks believed that the 500,000 troops hoarded by the Xu family at Hanyang Pass were already a huge threat. Once Azure Void's population dropped below one million, this 500,000-strong army might crush Azure Void in one wave. And with the current war situation, if the Shaman tribe attacked three more times, Azure Void's morale might collapse.

Therefore, the earthly fireworks believed that it was necessary to follow the Shaman tribe's example, suppress morale with Dao techniques, and let Dao Foundation cultivators cast puppet techniques, with each person controlling more than a dozen mortals to go to the battlefield.

Wei Yuan originally wanted to erase this plan directly, but hesitated for a moment, and still let the earthly fireworks continue to improve and plan the details. This might be Azure Void's last means of resistance.

A light rain suddenly drifted in the sky, like mist and clouds. Wei Yuan walked in the rain and mist for a while, and his face and body were wet, sticky and slippery. He wiped his face, left the front line, and returned to his residence.

At this moment, a Taichu Palace cultivator was placing a stack of intelligence on Wei Yuan's desk. Wei Yuan picked them up and read them one by one.

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Today's intelligence was all about some things that happened in the Western Jin imperial court, including official imperial court reports, as well as intelligence sent by Concubine Yuan, Xiang Marquis, Li Li Weisheng, Sun Sun Chaoen, and others.

In the past few days, several articles written by Cai Cai Shizhi had spread widely among the northwestern countries such as Jin and Zhao, mainly accusing Wei Yuan of being cruel and unbenevolent, filling the battle line with ordinary mortals, and disregarding human life.

In the Western Jin imperial court, because the "Zhongzheng Yingchao" (Loyal and Upright Officials Filling the Court) proposed by Li Li Weisheng was highly recognized by the Jin King and the Left Prime Minister, the Jin King had vigorously promoted a group of so-called "Qingliu" (Pure Stream) officials in recent years. This group of scholars was now frantically attacking Wei Yuan in the imperial court every day, and some even said they wanted to send troops to crusade and were willing to lead the troops themselves.

In the stack of intelligence, about two-thirds were impeaching Wei Yuan.

The Crown Prince took the opportunity to make trouble, demanding to send an imperial envoy to Azure Void to investigate whether this was true. With the Crown Prince coming forward, plus the clamor of many civil officials and remonstrating officials, the Jin King had to follow the public opinion and issued an imperial decree to send an imperial envoy to investigate.

The candidate for the imperial envoy had always been Zhao Tong, but how could the Crown Prince let Wei Yuan pass so easily? After some fierce argument, the civil officials also couldn't stand the eunuch faction, and finally decided that the newly appointed Censor Zhu Zhu Xiaocun would serve as the imperial envoy and set off in a few days to go to Azure Void to inspect the people's livelihood.

Wei Yuan put down the last piece of intelligence, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he muttered to himself: "Crown Prince?"

Wei Yuan almost forgot about the Crown Prince.

In several visits to the royal capital, Wei Yuan didn't have much interaction with the Crown Prince, and the Crown Prince didn't show any signs of recruitment. Among the sons of the Jin King, he had the most dealings with the Wei King, and Wei Yuan also felt that the Fu King was quite annoying; there was no reason, he just naturally didn't like this stubborn and perverse child.

As for the Crown Prince, his presence was quite low, and he didn't expect him to jump out at this time. Could it be because of the little Chu King?

The Shaman tribe on the front line had already made Wei Yuan breathless, and now there was chaos in the rear.

Wei Yuan suddenly sneered; those old masters in the imperial court who were far from the front line might still think this was just ordinary party strife. But in Wei Yuan's eyes, dragging his hind legs at this time was a life-and-death hatred.

Wei Yuan felt that it was necessary for him to let those old masters in the imperial court know this.

Wei Yuan came to the map, looked at Azure Void surrounded by wolves, pondered for a long time, and finally had a plan. He first came to the place where the national masters lived in seclusion.

Xuanjizi and Canglongshi didn't expect Wei Yuan to come back so soon. They had only dismantled half of the chess scores of the previous two games, and Master Chenzhou and Qiuyue were busy writing comments. Among them, although Monk Qiuyue's chess skills were slightly inferior, his writing style was the best, so he was naturally the main force in compiling the chess scores.

Seeing the great national masters, Wei Yuan said: "In half a month, or after the next great battle, the junior plans to hold a treasure appreciation conference, and will invite people of virtue and prestige from the vicinity to attend. I also ask several seniors to stay for a few more days and support the junior at the treasure appreciation conference."

"Treasure appreciation conference? What kind of treasure is it that is worth such a great effort?" Several national masters were interested. Anything that could make Wei Yuan hold a treasure appreciation conference must not be an ordinary product.

Wei Yuan took out an object and said: "It is this treasure."

When the national masters saw clearly what was in Wei Yuan's hand, they all gasped!

What Wei Yuan was holding was the Yin Bomb.

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What Wei Yuan held in his hand was precisely the Yin Bomb.

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