Ye Chen glanced at Zhao Zhen, who was prostrate on the ground, and asked quietly, "So, you just took away the benefits of the Fire Worship Sect?"
"The disciple has absolutely no betrayal. The Fire Worshiping Sect is just a nameless little immortal sect. The Tianxu Sect is the first of the nine major immortal sects in Yunzhou. How could the disciple betray the Tianxu Immortal Sect and switch to the Fire Worshiping Immortal Sect."
Zhao Zhen said hurriedly.
Ye Chen was not in the mood to listen to his excuses, "How much benefit did you get from taking over the Fire Worship Sect?"
Zhao Zhen did not dare to hide it and said quickly, "The Fire Worshiping Sect will give me a thousand spiritual stones every month. They said they were worried that the Fire Worshiping Sect's search for spiritual objects in Xingzhou County would cause displeasure to the Tianxu Sect, so they asked the disciples to help
, but don’t ask about their affairs. How did the disciples know that they were heading for Diyan Mountain, let alone that Diyan Mountain was so valuable. If the disciples knew, they would never accept this spiritual stone and turn a blind eye to the actions of the Fire Worship Sect.
."
Ye Chen somewhat understood.
In order to avoid alerting the Tianxu Immortal Sect, the Fire Worshiping Sect spent a lot of money to bribe Zhao Zhen. The Fire Worshiping Sect did not ask Zhao Zhen to do anything, as long as Zhao Zhen closed his eyes and ignored all their actions.
One thousand spiritual stones per month, which is tens of thousands of spiritual stones per year, is already an unimaginable amount of spiritual stones for ordinary monks in the Qi Refining Stage. Even in the Tianxu Immortal Sect, a disciple
After practicing hard to the late stage of Qi refining, the money earned through hard work every month is only tens or hundreds of dollars.
The disciples of the Tianxu Sect stay away from the mountain gate and protect the royal family members of the secular country. This job is very difficult in nature, and it is human nature to find ways to earn some benefits. If it were any ordinary monk in the Qi Refining Stage, I am afraid that he would not be able to do this for free.
It is not surprising that Zhao Zhen is moved by the wealth that comes his way.
"Just because of these more than 10,000 spiritual stones, you almost gave up the large spiritual land of the Ulan Empire's Diyan Mountain to the Fire Worship Sect. If the leader knew about this, I'm afraid they would peel off your skin and extract your soul.
I’m ready to light up the sky lanterns!”
Ye Chen was a little funny and said calmly.
"I beg my uncle to spare my life. As long as my uncle can spare my disciple's life, I will be willing to work hard for my uncle in return."
Zhao Zhen kowtowed desperately and said with a pale face.
"I can't save you, the only one who can save you is yourself. My third order is to wipe out all the spies in Xingzhou County. Now I give you a chance to atone for your sins and kill all the spies and traitors in Xingzhou County."
, and all the spies from the Fire Worship Sect were killed. Either you die or they die, you have to think carefully!"
Ye Chen shook his head and said quietly, writing the secret letter that detailed the information about the Ulan Empire's Diyan Mountain. Then, he copied the information into two copies, sealed the three letters with spiritual power, and stamped the envelope.
He put the seal of the inspector in the sky, put it in his arms, and then walked out of the study, "Let's go to the Yizheng Hall together."
"yes!"
Zhao Zhen looked pale and hurriedly followed behind.
"Uncle Master, what do I need to do?" Wang Lin also followed out of the study with a warm and angry look. She didn't expect that Grand Master Zhao, who had been responsible for protecting her safety, would actually accept the benefits of the Fire Worship Sect.
"You just need to execute the first two orders."
Ye Chen shook his head and said.
Master Kong Xian and Master Wu were guarding outside the study. When they saw the three of them coming out, they quickly followed. The two of them now became Ye Chen's followers and worked for him.
The five of them returned to the meeting hall of the princess's mansion.
Dozens of important ministers and more than ten monks and guests are still in the hall, discussing how to provide disaster relief.
Princess Wang Lin sat back on the chair of the council hall, glanced at the ministers, and said, "I have discussed with Grand Master Zhao and have made two decisions. One is to relocate the people and move all the people in the county to other counties.
Reduce the food burden. Secondly, the whole county is preparing for war, mobilizing troops and horses to go to the border to prepare for the invasion of other big countries."
All the civil and military ministers, monks and guests in the hall were shocked when they heard this.
"Absurd! Absurd! Why did the princess only discuss such an important matter with the Grand Master for a short while before making a decision?" "It's just a temporary famine. Why bother to move hundreds of thousands of people away!"
"Why are we ordering preparations for war? Could it be that other major powers will invade our Ulan Empire! Among the surrounding countries, who dares to go to war with my Ulan Empire!"
"Mobilizing troops and horses will consume a lot of food. There is not much food in the county, and this will make it even more scarce."
Many of the civil and military ministers roared loudly.
Almost all the civil and military ministers here have rich families. Their families own thousands or tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land in Xingzhou County. These fields need tenant farmers to cultivate them. All the people in the county have been moved away in case of drought.
After the drought is alleviated, who will cultivate their fields? The ministers are opposed to relocating the people, otherwise the drought would not have lasted so long, and they have no plans to relocate the people in Xingzhou County.
Princess Wang Lin's decision is simply cutting their flesh.
More than a dozen monks and guests were also surprised, with different expressions on their faces. They seemed not to have expected that Princess Wang Lin would suddenly make such a decision. Several of them secretly exchanged glances.
Ye Chen carefully looked at the faces of every monk and guest.
"No, the princess had no intention of relocating the people before. She made the decision after being out for such a short time. Someone must be deceiving the public with their evil words! It was these demons who bewitched the princess! Master Zhao, kill them quickly.
Got it!"
A burly general among the ministers jumped up from his seat excitedly, pointed at Ye Chen, Kong Xianshi, Wu Zunzhe and others and spat and cursed.
Ye Chen just glanced at Zhao Zhen.
He now wants to see Zhao Zhen's performance and find out all the spies and traitors in Xingzhou County and the Fire Worship Sect spies. If he cannot be satisfied, Zhao Zhen will be the unlucky one today.
Zhao Zhen knew that now was his only chance to survive, so he shouted sharply, "Come here, General Li will not obey the military orders. Take him and kill him immediately!"
The general's face suddenly changed with horror, and he shouted in horror, "Master Zhao, you should arrest these monsters, why do you want to kill me!"
"I am in charge of Xingzhou County, and I have rarely interfered with the county's government affairs. But don't think that I don't know anything. I know exactly who among those ministers has problems, and who is a spy or traitor.
."
"Feng Xiangshu, Qian Taiwei, and Zhou Taifu, the three ministers colluded with other big countries, secretly communicated with each other, and had evil intentions. They will be executed together! If anyone makes noise in the council hall and disobeys the princess's order, they will be executed together."
Zhao Zhen was furious. Now he wanted to take action on these ministers and resolutely implement the order Ye Chen gave him to cleanse the traitors in the princess's palace, so as to satisfy Ye Chen.
Outside the government hall, a group of hundreds of elite soldiers wearing armor and holding powerful crossbows immediately rushed up to the hall like wolves and tigers. They were all top-notch martial arts masters of the princess's palace who were above the sixth level. Li Da
General, Feng, Qian, and four ministers were captured together, pulled out of the meeting hall, and beheaded.
"Pfft!"
In an instant, four bloody heads hung outside the political hall.
There was a dead silence in the council hall. The civil and military ministers who were still making a fuss at this time changed their colors one by one and were astonished. The ministers who were killed were the ones who had just shouted the most powerful objections.
Zhao Zhen then looked at Ye Chen to see if Ye Chen was satisfied.
Ye Chen still shook his head slightly.
not enough!
Just getting rid of the traitorous ministers in the Princess's Mansion is not enough. Among the monks in the Princess's Mansion, there must be spies from the Fire Worship Sect, and these people are dangerous. He wants to place the Fire Worship Sect's spies in the Princess' Mansion as well.
And eradicate them to prevent them from causing trouble in Xingzhou County. Only by killing the spies of the Fire Worship Sect can Zhao Zhen's position be proved.
Zhao Zhen pointed at the three monks in the Qi Refining Stage, Ke Qing, in the hall, "Jin Zhenren, Chu Zhenren, and Luo Zhenren, these three are spies of the Fire Worship Sect, kill them!"
Hundreds of armored elite soldiers immediately surrounded them, pointing their military crossbows at the three men.
What they have in their hands are powerful crossbows of more than five stones, with a force of more than 500 kilograms, and can penetrate an inch of armor at close range. A hundred special crossbows can fire in volleys, which is enough to deal with the weaker low-level monks in the Qi Refining Stage.
Break through weak mana shields.
"Master Zhao, what do you want to do?"
"We give you spiritual stones every month, and now you regret it?"
The faces of the monks and guests suddenly changed. They suddenly stood up, put a protective shield on themselves, pulled out their spiritual swords and faced the powerful crossbow soldiers. One of them was a monk in the middle stage of Qi Refining, and the remaining two were all Qi Refiners.
In the early days, his cultivation level was a bit worse than that of Zhao Zhen.
"killed!"
Zhao Zhen was cruel and waved his hand.
Whoosh, whoosh!
Hundreds of bright black steel crossbow arrows were fired in a frantic volley. The three Qi Refining Stage monks were horrified and waved their hands with their spiritual swords to block. But how could they resist the dense crossbow arrows? More than ten crossbow arrows were shot into the bodies of the two monks, killing them on the spot.
Two people.
There was also a Qi Refining Stage monk who blocked the crossbow arrows and rushed out of the Council Hall.
Zhao Zhen's figure rushed over.
Poof!
Kill with one sword.
In the blink of an eye, three Qi Refining Stage cultivators from the Fire Worship Sect were killed.
Ye Chen gestured towards Kong Wu.
The two of them immediately jumped over and found many spiritual objects from the three dead monks, as well as several Fire Worship Sect tokens. The two of them were delighted and collected these spiritual objects.
"Uncle Master, the three spies of the Fire Worshiping Sect have been killed! The remaining monks in the Princess's Mansion are just ordinary cultivators, not members of the Fire Worshiping Sect. Now everyone in the Princess's Mansion can obey orders."
After Zhao Zhen killed the monks from the Fire Worship Sect, he reported it to Ye Chen.
"You will send this urgent message to the Tianxu Immortal Sect at night and night and hand it over to the headmaster Wang in person. By completing this mission, even though you have derelict in your duties before, you can atone for your sins and forget the past."
Ye Chen nodded and took out a letter from his arms.
He has a Ten Thousand Mile Transmission Note, but it can only send it as far as ten thousand miles. The distance from the Ulan Empire to Tianxu Immortal Sect is far more than tens of thousands of miles. To send this information, a monk must be sent there personally.
Ye Chen really didn't want Zhao Zhen to deliver this important letter, but he had to stay in Xingzhou County to deal with the Fire Worship Sect and couldn't leave.
"Thank you, Master Ye, for sparing me!"
Zhao Zhen was stunned, overjoyed, and excitedly took a secret intelligence letter with both hands.
"In addition, after you met the leader Wang, you verbally reported to the leader that a Tianxu patrol envoy was trapped in Diyan Mountain. Please ask the leader to send someone to rescue him urgently."
Ye Chen thought for a moment and explained.
He was very worried that after the senior leaders of Tianxu Sect received this information, Sect Leader Wang and the Jindan elders spent a lot of time discussing how to deal with it, and even planned how to divide the benefits of Diyan Mountain.
He wasted no time in sending people to Xingzhou County for support.
If Sect Leader Wang knew that a Tianxu patrol envoy was trapped in Diyan Mountain, he would definitely send a group of Tianxu Sect monks over as soon as possible. This is because Sect Leader Wang’s direct descendant Queen Ying was on this patrol envoy.
Within the team.
"Are there other Tianxu patrol envoys coming to the Ulan Empire?"
Zhao Zhen was surprised.
"That's right. It's just that they are not in Xingzhou County in Ulan, otherwise it would not be your turn to send this letter. Go ahead and don't delay your trip!"
Ye Chen said.
"Yes, I will rush to the Immortal Sect now, I will resign!"
Zhao Zhen did not dare to have other thoughts, so he left the Yizheng Hall with the letter, rode a spiritual bird, left Xingzhou City, and headed for the distant Tianxu Immortal Gate.
"Uncle Master, can you safely let Master Zhao take such an important letter to the Immortal Sect? If he did not send this letter to the Tianxu Sect, but switched to the Fire Worship Sect, wouldn't it be a failure?"
Wang Lin came to Ye Chen's side and said with some confusion.
"Of course I don't feel comfortable letting him carry out such an important task alone. Master Kong Xian and Wu Zunzhe, you each carry a secret letter, take my crane, and go to Tianxu Immortal Gate from another route to ensure this important
The information will be sent to Tianxu Sect infallibly. After it is sent to the Immortal Sect, there will naturally be a heavy reward from you. If Zhao Zhen betrays the Immortal Sect and seeks death himself, he can’t blame others."
Ye Chen sneered and took out two other secret letters and a spirit beast bag and handed them to Kong and Wu. Zhao Zhen and Kong and Wu all had double insurance to avoid any accidents that would cause the intelligence letter to not be delivered.
Fairy Gate.
"Brother Ye, the two of us go immediately!"
Kong Xianshi and Wu Zunzhe quickly took the two secret letters and the spirit beast bag. The two of them had no spirit birds and had to ride Ye Chen's spirit crane. The two of them were hanging out in the secular world of Xingzhou County.
Because I don’t have the strength to earn spiritual stones for cultivation, now that I have such an opportunity, I certainly don’t want to refuse it easily.
After Ye Chen dealt with this matter, he and Wang Lin returned to the political hall.
"Report--!"
A rapid sound of horse hooves rushed to the princess's mansion. A light cavalry covered in blood jumped down and rushed into the mansion. He hurried to the government hall, threw himself down and shouted, "Princess! Urgent report from the border, Xingnan Kingdom 200,000
The army is suddenly attacking our important border town! The general guarding the border is calling for help urgently."
"What!?"
"Why did Xingnan Kingdom attack our important border town!?"
All the civil and military ministers were shocked.
Princess Wang Lin looked shocked and looked at Ye Chen.
Ye Chen said before that the Fire Worship Sect would probably control the Xingnan Kingdom and launch a massive attack on Xingzhou County, and now it has indeed come. And it came so fast, and the attack was surprisingly fierce. There was no warning before, and 200,000 troops were suddenly dispatched to attack the border.
.
"This is not the main force, just a vanguard. Xingnan Kingdom still has 800,000 troops, which will be mobilized to attack Xingzhou County within a month. Worshiping Fire Gate is trying to seize Xingzhou County at the expense of Xingnan Kingdom's national destiny.
Earth Flame Mountain!"
Ye Chen shook his head quietly.
Wang Lin nodded. She had already had a complete set of countermeasures. She was not panicking at this moment. A military general wearing golden armor in the court gave the order, "General Hao, please immediately order the 100,000 soldiers and horses in Xingzhou City."
, rush to the border to provide support!”
"I accept your order!"
The golden-armored military general took the command talisman and strode out of the meeting hall.