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Chapter 614 The show begins

Mountain top ashram.

In the pavilion at the edge of the garden, Wang Ping sat in the middle of the pavilion, studying a chess game alone, his mood not affected at all by what happened on Ningzhou Road.

Yu Lian was rarely away from him. It seemed that she had gone to the nearby river to catch fish and shrimp.

Two quarters of an hour later.

Xia Wenyi's figure appeared outside the pavilion.

"Master."

He called out casually, but his tone was affectionate.

Wang Ping looked up at his apprentice, then continued to study the remaining chess pieces and asked, "Do you know what happened on Ningzhou Road?"

"Disciple already knows!"

"I need detailed information about Taoist Priest Li Miaolin. How long can you get it?"

While Wang Ping was speaking, he tried to place a piece on the chessboard, and then thought carefully about the subsequent changes in the game.

Xia Wenyi was silent for a few breaths, then gave an approximate time: "Half a month to a month."

Wang Ping raised his eyelids and glanced at Xia Wenyi, and said seriously: "Do it as soon as possible. If a third-level Taiyan cultivator is allowed to gain a foothold in a place, it will be very difficult to deal with him later."

Just as Xia Wenyi was about to agree, Wang Ping took out a square jade stone from his storage bag and said, "There is a monitoring array carved by me on it. It can monitor the transfer array within a radius of ten kilometers. You secretly send some people to remove the transfer array that Li Miaolin has set up on Ningzhou Road."

"Yes!"

Although Xia Wenyi knew that this was very dangerous, he still agreed without hesitation.

Wang Ping stopped talking.

Half a month passed like this, and the rebellious army of Zhenyang Mountain was successfully blocked ten days ago, forming a confrontation with the governor and demon soldiers of Ningzhou Road on both sides of a river in the northeast.

Pirates still frequently landed and harassed the coastal areas of Nanlin Road, leaving the court with no time to build new warships while consuming soldiers and supplies from various passes and castles. Eventually the court had to move the shipbuilding workshops to the inland rivers and build a training camp a hundred miles west of Zhonghui County to train the soldiers assembled in various cities.

Ten days ago, Wang Ping sent an invitation letter to Li Miaolin in the name of the Taoist Palace Headquarters, inviting him to a gathering at the Taoist Palace Headquarters to elect a new chief host. However, Li Miaolin refused on the grounds that he was busy with Ningzhou Road affairs. However, he also promised to apologize in person after repelling the rebels.

This person really abides by the rules and does not show any malice, but his actions show his stance. He and Wang Ping are both Taiyan third-level cultivators, so there is no possibility of them becoming friends.

On this day, Wang Ping completed his daily practice as usual and planned to build a new puppet in the woodworking room. However, Lu Shan, Ying Qing and others came to his dojo to discuss Taoism and chat. Naturally, Wang Ping would not refuse.

In the past half month, Lu Shan, Ying Qing, Yuan Zheng, Hou Jun and others would gather together to discuss and chat whenever they had the leisure time. Sometimes Wu Fu from the foot of the mountain would come up. They lived a carefree life. During this period, Lu Shan went to Wang Ping alone to ask for some specific tasks. But the situation was not clear at the moment, and it was not the time to take the initiative, so Wang Ping told him to relax and play in the Qianmuguan Mountains for a while.

When they were chatting until noon, Wang Ping felt that there were repeated energy fluctuations emerging from the 'Dongtian Mirror'. He did not avoid everyone and directly summoned the 'Dongtian Mirror'.

The message came from a puppet that he had hidden among the sailors of Linshui Prefecture and had become a brigade commander. After several months of preparation, Linshui Prefecture finally dispatched its main force, claiming to have a thousand warships and three hundred thousand soldiers, heading towards the port of Changwen Prefecture. It would take at most two days to reach the south of Changwen Prefecture. At this moment, many small islands in the sea south of Changwen Prefecture had been occupied by Linshui Prefecture and built into transit stations.

"But what big thing happened?" Yuanzheng asked first.

"The navy of the Seventh Prince of Linshui Prefecture finally couldn't help but take action!" Wang Ping's expression was indifferent, and there was more expectation than worry in his eyes.

"Do you want us to take action?" Hou Jun looked impatient. Among all the people present, he was the one who was most eager to fight.

"There's no need to be so anxious. Let the Chu court deal with it first. We can just watch the show and wait until there is a chance to decide the outcome before taking action." Wang Ping put away the "Dongtian Mirror".

Although he said this, he still took out a communication jade slip, printed his arrangements on it with the wood spirit energy and activated it. This was a message to Xia Wenyi. He asked Xia Wenyi to arrange Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang to secretly command the court army to fight against the sailors of Linshui Prefecture.

He asked Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang to consume as much of the opponent's forces as possible, so that they could find out the opponent's cards as soon as possible and force the person behind the scenes to jump out.

Finally, after thinking about it, he used the communication token to send messages to Dong Can and Ruan Chunzi respectively, asking them to return to Qianmu Temple as soon as possible. After all, this battle will definitely end with a fight between the three-level cultivators of both sides!
Thus a month passed.

The weather in the south is still a bit chilly, but the situation is intense. The Seventh Prince of Linshui Prefecture and the State of Chu have deployed hundreds of thousands of soldiers on a battle line of nearly a thousand kilometers along the coast of Nanlin Road. In addition, there are fights between the Qigong practitioners and the inbound monks on both sides. In just one month, the casualties on both sides have exceeded 100,000.

The murderous aura of death also gave rise to many evil cultivators. The top leaders of both sides tacitly allowed their cultivators to set up sacrificial arrays on each other's positions, offering the spirits of corpses on the battlefield to enhance their own cultivation.

When Xia Wenyi reported this matter, except for Yuan Zhengdao who was a little unhappy, everyone else had an expression of being used to it.

"Can our logistics keep up with the consumption on the front line?" This is all Wang Ping cares about.

"Yes, we have paddy fields in Sanhe Prefecture. Uncle Guangxuan has been storing food in recent years. I have already communicated with him. The food stored in Sanhe Prefecture can supply 300,000 troops for two years of continuous fighting!"

"How is the morale of each unit?" Wang Ping asked again.

"Senior Leng has established a strict merit promotion system in the Chu army. Many low-level soldiers have been promoted in the past month of war. Although we have suffered nearly 40,000 casualties, there has been no serious rout or war-weariness."

Lu Shan was very experienced in military affairs, and upon hearing this, he could not help but say, "Linshui Prefecture took the initiative to initiate this war, and it is definitely not limited to these means. Fellow Daoist, you should be more cautious!"

Wang Ping nodded and responded, "We are not strong enough to counterattack Linshui Prefecture with our current strength, so we can only wait for the other side to make a move. In addition, I have sent disciples to the island under the command of the Third Prince to lobby, and I believe there will be a reply soon."

It was the tenth day after that.

Wang Ping did not receive a reply from the Third Prince of Linshui Prefecture. Instead, he first received a handwritten letter from Qiu Wang, the leader of the Single Blade Sect in Zhenyang Mountain, who sent his disciple to bring it.

The letter was written in the internal affairs code, indicating that some major sects in Zhenyang Mountain were colluding and seemed to be planning to take action against Shandao Sect. However, Qiu Wang guessed that their target was not Shandao Sect, but someone was trying to use the power of Zhenyang Mountain to deal with Qianmu Temple!
(End of this chapter)