Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2967 Zhu Di's Strategy of Retreating to Advance
Chapter 2964: Zhu Di's strategy of retreating to advance
"evil creature!"

Lian Chiyan shouted angrily, clenching his fists, his knuckles turning white from the force, his eyes full of murderous intent, but his voice was mixed with a bit of sadness: "I treat you like my own children, but you repay me like this?"

The eldest disciple fell to the ground with serious injuries, blood gushing out of his mouth, but his eyes were flashing with madness: "Master, you are old and have taken the wrong path. The Sea Shark Palace belongs to the Ming Dynasty and can only belong to the Ming Dynasty!"

Upon hearing this, Lian Chiyan immediately understood in his mind—the eldest disciple was Zhu Ming’s man, but when exactly?
A trace of pain flashed in his eyes, and he slowly walked to the eldest disciple, stared down at him, and said in a low and cold voice: "I am indeed old, but it is not your turn to teach me a lesson."

Before he finished his words, Lian Chiyan suddenly raised his foot and crushed his eldest disciple's chest cleanly and neatly.

Blood gushed out of the eldest disciple's mouth and he died soon after.

Lian Chiyan retracted his foot, and his eyes were like knives, sweeping over the disciples around him. He endured the pain of the poison and pretended to be relaxed, "Who else? Come on together."

There was dead silence.

The guilty disciples lowered their heads, not daring to look him in the eye;
The disciples who had a clear conscience were shocked. They couldn't believe that so many of their fellow disciples who had been with them day and night would betray their master.

Lian Chiyan's brutal methods temporarily frightened those disciples with evil intentions, but as the poison deepened, his aura became weaker.

He knew that once he fell, the traitors hiding among these people would surely attack him again.

At this moment, Lian Chiyan could no longer distinguish between friend and foe, and his heart was filled with vigilance.

He knew that the only way to save himself was to force the toxins out of his body. However, the toxins were like taking root and sprouting, and no matter how he used his internal energy, he could not expel them. Instead, the poisoning became worse.

The second and fourth disciples noticed the master's weakness. After looking at each other, they pretended to be concerned and walked forward to ask for instructions, wanting to help the master force out the poison.

Although Lian Chiyan had some doubts in his heart, seeing that the two men looked sincere, and he did not believe that Zhu Ming could bribe all his disciples, he nodded in agreement. However, he did not expect that when the two men were within five steps of each other, he suddenly attacked.

At this time, Lian Chiyan had been poisoned to the point of having purple lips and even having difficulty raising his hands. How could he resist?

A great master died in hatred at the hands of his two disciples, while his young daughter Lian Chixue could only watch the scene helplessly.

After the second and fourth disciples killed their master, they started fighting with their fellow disciples who came to avenge their master. Then the entire Sea Shark Palace fell into chaos in an instant.

At the same time, the Zoroastrian leader Bai Ting, Madam Jinling and other leaders were also attacked by people around them. Even Li Dazui, who had no martial arts skills, was not spared.

Li Dazui covered the wound on his shoulder, blood flowed through his fingers, and his face was as pale as paper.

His eyes were filled with anger and confusion, and he asked, "Why did you attack me? I'm just an ordinary person, and you asked me to be the leader."

The elder who had been pinned down by Bai Zhantang with the Sunflower Point-Acupuncture Technique sneered upon hearing this, and said sarcastically, "Why do you think that is? You are just an ordinary person, and you want to get involved in the position of the head of the sect just by relying on your connections? For this reason alone, you deserve to die!"

As the elder spoke, he secretly practiced his internal energy to try to break through the acupuncture points, but just when he was about to succeed, a figure flashed out like a ghost. It was Bai Zhantang.

"You old thing, you are still not honest even when you are about to die!"

As soon as Bai Zhantang finished speaking, the blade in his hand flashed a cold light and cut the elder's throat cleanly and neatly.

The elder's eyes widened, blood gushing out of his mouth, but because his acupoints were not broken, he could not move. He could only stand there stiffly until he died, and then fell to the ground with a bang.

Bai Zhantang put away his long sword, turned around and supported Li Dazui, with concern in his voice: "Dazui, are you okay?"

"Fortunately it's not poisonous."

Li Dazui shook his head and said with lingering fear: "Lao Bai, you saved your brother's life again."

Li Dazui was lucky, as he didn't know any martial arts, but he managed to save his life in such a chaotic situation. On the other hand, those veteran masters, first the Sea Shark Palace Master Lian Chiyan, and later the Fire Worshiper Bai Ting, all died in the turmoil due to their carelessness.

On the other hand, Zhang Liang, who was under the protection of Ren Qianxing, Shangguan Haitang and others, saw that all the major sects in Qingnan were planted with undercover agents by Zhu Ming without exception. He couldn't help but feel a little surprised at the infiltration ability of Ming Dynasty spies.

Especially in the Sea Shark Palace, among the ten disciples of Lian Chiyan, six of them rebelled and participated in the murder of their master. This is enough to show how strong Zhu Ming's control over Qingnan is.

If they accept Qingnan and these forces without a thorough cleansing, then if the Qin army continues to march southward, it may be that its retreat will be cut off as soon as it reaches Xuzhou.

From this, it is clear that Zhu Di had no good intentions from the very beginning. He took the initiative to give up the three counties of southern Qing. Although on the surface he had to do so, he also wanted to take a gamble and cut off the Qin army's retreat in one fell swoop.

It’s a pity that Zhu Di had a lot of calculations in mind, but no matter who was in power in the Qin Dynasty, as long as they were not crazy, they would not give him this opportunity and turn a blind eye to the hidden dangers in the rear.

The reason why Zhang Liang took the risk of personally entering the game and using himself as bait was just to lure out all of Zhu Di's cards so that he could achieve his goal in one fell swoop.

Only in this way can the chaos in Qingnan be resolved in the shortest time possible, and then the resources of the three counties can be integrated to build it into a bridgehead for the Qin army to attack Xuzhou, thereby reducing the supply pressure in You and Ji states.

From this point of view alone, Zhang Liang's goal was not only achieved, but was about to be exceeded.

It can be predicted that after this battle, southern Qing will see the sun and the moon again, with clear skies and no anti-Qin forces will exist anymore.

After completely cleaning up the three counties of southern Qing, Zhang Liang will hand them over to Fan Zhongyan, the governor of Qingzhou, so that the seven counties of Qingzhou can be integrated into one again, and then he will go south to continue to solve the mess in Xuzhou.

"Fortunately I am cautious enough, otherwise I really won't be able to cope with it." Zhang Liang said secretly in his heart, and then, under the protection of everyone, he quickly retreated to the backyard of Prince Qi's Mansion.

They have to leave. The battle between Ying Xuanyi and the black-hearted old man, Yan Qianling, and Dou Ya is too destructive. Although the Prince Qi's Mansion covers an area of ​​thousands of acres, it can't withstand such a turmoil.

It would be useless for Zhang Liang to stay and he would easily become an innocent victim, making Ying Xuanyi feel constrained. It would be better for him to retreat to a safe place first so that Ying Xuanyi could do what he wanted.

"Zhang Liang wants to run away, we must not let him go."

When the Hehuan Sect's supreme elder Baihu failed in his attack on Madam Jinling, he planned to join forces with his subordinate Qilin to kill her. However, when he was about to succeed, he found that Zhang Liang was trying to escape, so he decisively abandoned Madam Jinling and went to chase and kill Zhang Liang.

Baihu, from "Wu Liuqi: The Twin Dragons", is the female leader of the Shadow Assassin Organization in the prequel to Wu Liuqi. Her name and true identity are unknown. The only thing known is that she is extremely powerful. Baihu is the alias she used to infiltrate the Hehuan Sect after she was born.

Baihu joined the Hehuan Sect several years ago and was regarded as an elder because of her status as a female master, but her true identity is an undercover agent of the Shadow Organization.

Shadow is an assassination organization affiliated with the White Lotus Sect. It has a fixed membership of only eleven people, all of whom are masters of the Demon Sect who are good at assassination. They are specifically responsible for resolving potential threats for the White Lotus Sect. All members are code-named with numbers, and the smaller the number, the stronger the strength.

The white tiger is zero, the unicorn is one, and the following are two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten.

In the Shadow Assassin organization, even the weakest Shi has top-notch strength. Although Zero's White Tiger has not reached the peak, he has the cultivation of a mid-level Grandmaster, and the leaders are generally masters in the late Grandmaster stage or even at the peak.

As for the Grand Master?
Although there is more than one grandmaster in the White Lotus Sect, they are not so extravagant as to use grandmasters as assassins.

Of course, if anyone among the Shadow Assassins can break through to the Grandmaster level, he will automatically leave his assassin status and be directly promoted to an elder of the White Lotus Sect. However, very few people can do it, and only two people have survived and been promoted in the past two hundred years.

Even though Zhu Di invited three great masters, he still turned to the White Lotus Sect for help and invited several other masters such as White Tiger and Qilin, which shows his caution and determination to kill Zhang Liang.

The members of the Shadow Assassins only obey the assassin leader, and the leader only obeys the leader of the White Lotus Sect.

Normally speaking, for a mission of this level to assassinate Zhang Liang, the leader of the Shadow Assassins must have been dispatched. However, the previous leader went to a meeting at Jade Emperor Peak of Mount Tai with the deputy leader, and was dragged into that unprecedented war. He was eventually affected by the war and didn't even know which grandmaster killed him.

Once the leader died, White Tiger, who was Zero, naturally became the next leader of the assassination organization. But her luck was not good. Her first task after taking the throne was to assassinate a big shot like Zhang Liang.

As a shadow assassin, Baihu had long since closed off her emotions, with only the mission in her mind, but she obviously did not want to die in obscurity like the previous leader.

Therefore, even though she was following Madam Jinling and was only ten steps away from Zhang Liang, she did not dare to take action because she was afraid of Ying Xuanyi.

She was stunned when Zi Zhu'er tried to assassinate Zhang Liang. She thought she was reckless enough, but she didn't expect that there was someone more reckless than her who dared to assassinate her in front of the grandmaster.

Who sent this assassin? How could he be so brave?

Zi Zhu'er's failed assassination attempt also confirmed Baihu's guess that if this great guard master was not restrained, no one would be able to touch Zhang Liang under his nose.

Baihu did not participate in the subsequent melee between the four great masters, as that was not something a master could interfere with.

In order to prevent his laziness from being too obvious, Baihu targeted the seemingly weak Madam Jinling, but he did not expect that this woman was also very hidden. Not only was her strength no less than his, but she had also never let down her guard against him.

Madam Jinling's life or death is not important to the overall situation, but if Zhang Liang is allowed to escape, Baihu, who has failed in his mission, will have no way to explain, so he plans to join forces with Qilin to forcibly kill Madam Jinling's Baihu.

But when he saw Zhang Liang suddenly retreat, Baihu had to give up killing Madam Jinling and instead went to chase and kill Zhang Liang.

The White Tiger and the Qilin gave up halfway, which saved Madam Jinling's life. But when she saw that the other party was running towards Zhang Liang, she was frightened and wanted to catch up to rescue them. However, her injuries were too severe, and she stumbled and fell headfirst, but was supported by a girl in Taoist robes.

"You are, Xiaolian?"

"Senior, you are seriously injured. You should withdraw and heal first. My master has already gone to provide support."

After hearing this, Mrs. Jinling finally felt relieved.

On the other hand, among the people who initially hunted down Zhang Liang, there were only the shadow assassins led by Baihu and Qilin. But as the balance gradually tilted, more and more Ming undercover agents joined the ranks of hunting down Zhang Liang.

The strength of these people generally ranges from first-rate to super first-rate, and their influence is growing.

"Shangguan Haitang, you protect the adults and retreat first. I will stay behind to cover you."

Before he could finish his words, the bluestone slab under Ren Qianxing's feet was shattered into pieces by the shock of the incoming true qi.

As Ren Qianxing jumped to dodge, he held his sword across his chest to block the three bone-piercing nails. The huge impact made his throat taste fishy and sweet, but he still focused his energy on the sword and condensed an extremely domineering sword energy.

"One sword separates the worlds."

After Ren Qianxing joined the Black Ice Platform, he also realized that although the move "Sword Across Worlds" was powerful, it had extremely strong side effects. He didn't want to use it unless it was absolutely necessary, but now he obviously took it into consideration.

Baihu did not dare to take Ren Qianxing's strongest sword head-on and quickly retreated to avoid it. However, the others were not so lucky. More than a dozen people who could not stop were directly cut in half by Ren Qianxing's sword, and blood splattered everywhere.

Ren Qianxing alone naturally could not stop many people. His departure weakened the guards around Zhang Liang and also doubled the pressure on Shangguan Haitang.