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There were no surprises in Wang Ping's deduction.

In the second month, three armies of the Datong court marched towards Qingpu Road at the same time, but the vanguard was defeated by the rebels in just one round, and suffered defeats of varying degrees in the following month.

At this point, the imperial court had to admit the fact that their soldiers were simply unable to participate in high-intensity combat, and the only way they could stabilize the front line at the moment was by relying on the "power pills" sold to them by Qianmu Guan.

If there hadn't been the 'Power Pill', the imperial court would have been completely defeated at the beginning of the war.

As a result, the imperial court could only confront the rebels while training troops on the spot.

Winter arrived in a blink of an eye. The heavy snow made the two armies tacitly stop the war. The drought in Qingpu Road was also alleviated after two years. The rebels were naturally happy, but the court was worried.

The following spring, as soon as the seeds of spring wheat were planted, the imperial court mobilized tens of thousands of imperial troops to attack the rebel strongholds near Xiaguan. When the rebels in Qingpu Road were mobilized, 100,000 elite troops trained in Beiyuan Road and Pingzhou Road simultaneously advanced towards Qingpu Road, attempting to wipe out the rebels in one fell swoop.

The battle lasted until the summer, with both sides suffering heavy losses and monks fighting on battlefields across the country.

Furthermore, the blood sacrifice that had been banned since the Datong court unified Zhongzhou has resurfaced. The Taoist Palace has therefore sent many monks to crack down on this, causing panic among people everywhere.

Time slowly passed and winter came. The biting cold wind forced both sides to stop the war.

At the New Year's court meeting, the issue of the imperial edict was finally mentioned again. Although there were not as many people opposing it as at the beginning, there were still few supporters because the rebels were in a worse situation than them.

However, the situation soon took a turn for the better. On the 22nd day of the first lunar month after the Spring Festival, the Minister of Works Wu Jingcai took out a handwritten letter from the rebel leader Yuan Qin. In the letter, Yuan Qin hinted that he could accept the amnesty on the condition that the three prefectures east of Qingpu Road, including Shangbei Port, would be used to house his soldiers.

This condition was actually not excessive, but it was still unacceptable to many ministers.

However, the imperial court has been struggling in the past two years. The food supplies of hundreds of thousands of soldiers have caused a sharp decline in the national treasury. If the war continues, it may not even be able to pay the salaries of officials in the capital. However, tax revenue has also been sharply reduced due to the rise of aristocratic families.

When the matter was brought to the hands of the Grand Empress Dowager Liu Qing, she said, "Let them present the head of Wei Xian, the former general of Xiaguan, and then we can discuss this matter."

With the help of someone who had ulterior motives, the Empress Dowager's words soon reached the ears of the rebels. Wei Xian originally wanted to summon his confidants to discuss what decision to make, but the first thing his confidants did when they arrived at his residence was to cut off his head.

This was understandable, because his confidants were all former generals of Xiaguan. They had been living a good life, but were forced by Wei Xian to join the rebels. Now they had the opportunity to return to the court, and maybe even get promoted several levels. Why wouldn't they do it?

It’s just a pity that Wei Xian planned for so long but failed to take people’s hearts into account.

Yuan Qin immediately sent Wei Xian's head and a letter to the court. In order not to delay the spring plowing, the court sent an envoy to Qingpu Road in early March to formally discuss the matter of amnesty with Yuan Qin.

Within a month, the matter was settled. The court conferred the title of Marquis of Yong'an on Yuan Qin and gave him three prefectures east of Qingpu Road to house the rebel soldiers.

Things seem to have come to an end here.

The imperial court immediately repatriated all the assembled troops, and after experiencing this war, the new emperor was very dissatisfied with the current huge system of redundant officials. However, as soon as he told the Empress Dowager about this, his two teachers and a dozen tutors were dismissed the next day.

Qianmuguan.

Wang Ping has lived a leisurely life in the past few years. Every day, in addition to refining the consciousness of the star god core in the metal ball, he uses the luck array to deduce the future of the situation in Zhongzhou, and then uses his puppets to silently control the direction of some things to cater to the future he deduced.

Time flies and it is March of the 298th year of the Daogong calendar.

Wang Ping's progress in fusing the 'Heaven-Covering Talisman' finally increased a little, reaching (50/100). The moment the progress was reached, an extra part of memory suddenly appeared in his consciousness.

At the same time, circles of mysterious azure rune lines appeared on the surface of the 'Heaven-Covering Talisman', instinctively combining with Wang Ping's primordial consciousness. Countless mysterious wood spirit patterns suddenly emerged in his primordial spirit, which was filled with wood spirit energy, and the patterns unfolded along the meridians constructed by the primordial spirit.

The next moment, Wang Ping's soul appeared in outer space with an idea, surrounded by four talismans. His ritual passed through the great net of the universe and saw the operating status of the rules of the way of heaven flash by.

But when he tried to recall those rules carefully, he couldn't remember them at all. The only thing he could remember was the extra memory in his consciousness just now, which was the secret method that taught him how to use the "Heaven-Covering Talisman" to block the energy of the entire world.

This is another ability of the 'Heaven-Covering Talisman'. When planning something in the future, you can use this ability to avoid being spied on and calculated by other cultivators.

Wang Ping tried it a few times and immediately understood what was going on. The 'Heaven-Covering Talisman' formed an independent rule, and with the help of the 'Heaven-Connecting Talisman', it constructed an ever-changing illusion, making it impossible for other cultivators to deduce.

If this state is to continue, it will cause serious consumption, so it is necessary to use the "borrowing talisman" and "spiritual talisman" to absorb a large amount of spiritual energy to maintain energy consumption.

If the spiritual energy is consumed, a certain amount of lifespan will be lost, so don't try it lightly unless you have reached a certain level of cultivation, or if the concealed secrets are too complicated.

Wang Ping couldn't help but think of what Xiaoshan Fujun did. Whether it was during the Yongming Port incident or his promotion, the targets he blocked were very clearly directed.

This gave Wang Ping a good inspiration. If he wanted to block certain things in the future, he only needed to block some important targets. Such consumption was within his acceptable range.

After figuring out the new ability of the 'Heaven-Covering Talisman', Wang Ping immediately controlled his soul to return to his physical body, because the consciousness in his physical body told him that someone had come to the dojo on the top of the mountain.

It’s Liu Shuang.

Yu Lian on the old locust tree asked her to wait by the side first, and only let her come over when Wang Ping regained consciousness.

"Is Linshui Prefecture causing trouble again?"

Wang Ping looked at Liu Shuang who was about to report something and took the initiative to ask. Just as he had deduced, Linshui Prefecture, relying on Yuan Qin's territory, was slowly spreading the gospel to the surrounding areas, and many temples dedicated to Ao Bing had already sprung up.

Liu Shuang nodded and reported: "They have extended their hands to the Liangjiang area and have had many conflicts with the disciples of the Zhenyang Sect. The Zhenyang Sect invited us to besiege Linshui Prefecture together. I don't know what to do, so I came to ask Master for advice."

"We are allies with the True Yang Sect. Since our allies have ideas, we can just cooperate with them."

"Yes!"

Liu Shuang came in a hurry and left even faster.

After Liu Shuang left, Yu Lian saw that Wang Ping was fine, so she flew to the outskirts of Shen Xiaozhu's dojo and observed Shen Xiaozhu who was in meditation. After making sure that she was fine, she flew towards Sanhe Prefecture.

Ten days later.

When night fell, Wang Ping took out the second-seat communication token, connected his consciousness and entered the meeting hall.

In the bright virtual hall, some people had already arrived around the familiar round table. They were Ao Bing and Kai Yun. They greeted Wang Ping politely, and Wang Ping also greeted him politely. Today was the second meeting of the two seats after Ao Bing took over as the chairperson.

"I thought you had forgotten about the Second Chair Meeting." After Lord Rongyang showed up, he didn't even say hello, but said to Ao Bing, "You are not fit to be the Second Chair. You don't take the affairs of the Dao Palace seriously at all, and you only care about your own little piece of land."

"Fellow Daoist Rongyang is right!"

When Man Su appeared and heard what Fellow Daoist Rong Yang said, he immediately spoke out in support of him and looked at Ao Bing and said, "Not only do you not support the Dao Palace, you have also repeatedly blocked the alliance's trade routes, almost delaying the delivery of supplies to the front line. Fellow Daoist Ao Bing, what exactly do you think? If you don't want to work with us, you might as well say it directly."

Bu Qiong followed up and said, "I agree. Why don't you let Daoist Fellow Ao Hong take charge of the affairs of Linshui Prefecture? You have made the situation in the southeastern sea a mess."

Ao Bing offended everyone for his selfish desire, but he didn't care. He met everyone's gaze and said calmly: "I didn't plan to be the second host at the beginning. You said it was my turn, so I took the seat reluctantly. If you don't want to, you can take another turn. Who should be the next one?"

"Okay, let's stop arguing and talk about business first."

Kering interrupted the argument.

In fact, there has been no major issues to discuss in the past hundred years, so routine meetings have not been held frequently. The reason for holding a routine meeting today is to deal with the fire spirit aura created by the Sun Cult and the "First Day" in North Continent, which has seriously affected the ecological environment of the entire planet.

Apart from the issue of the Sun Cult, all other matters were unimportant. After Yuxing Fujun, Cangji and Zhigong appeared, those trivial matters were resolved in just a moment.

Then came the matter of the Sun Cult...

"If it were me, I would just drive them out of Zhongzhou and everything would be solved." Ao Bing was the first to express his opinion when discussing this topic.

Wang Ping glanced at him and immediately realized that the affairs of the Sun Cult had nothing to do with him.

Master Kaiyun's eyes fell on Lord Rongyang, "If you nod, we will do it."

He also agreed with Ao Bing's idea.

Then Cangji spoke: "This is indeed a solution."

Wang Ping couldn't help but look at Lord Rongyang, and thought of many questions at once. Lord Yuxing asked, "What's your reason for driving them out?"

Her reaction surprised Wang Ping a little. You know, Lord Yuxing never said anything extra at the second-chair meeting.

What Wang Ping was more concerned about was the attitude of Lord Rongyang. Logically speaking, Ao Bing's proposal was a good thing for the Zhenyang Sect, but he did not agree.

"The duty of the True Yang Sect's School of Numbers is to guard the outer perimeter of the Sun. This is the most important part of the entire outer defense line. Perhaps we should change the topic and discuss how to arrange for Xu Chun to guard the outer perimeter of the Sun."

Bu Qiong expressed this.

Man Su remained silent. He generally had the same attitude as Bu Qiong.

Now only Wang Ping, Zhi Gong and Lord Rongyang were left who had not expressed their opinions, but everyone was looking at Lord Rongyang.

"The problem with Beizhou is the promotion quota for the 'first day'. Why not transfer their promotion quota to my Zhenyang Sect? Everything can be solved then."

Lord Rongyang mentioned this matter again.

Kai Yun didn't wait for Wang Ping and Zhi Gong to express their opinions before saying, "Don't waste everyone's time. If you don't agree with our proposal, then let it be. We don't bother to care!"

He wanted the specific attitude of Lord Rongyang.

Lord Rongyang leaned forward slightly, looked at Kaiyun and smiled, "If you want to use force to drive them away, I fully support you. Do you want to try?"

Wang Ping looked at Lord Rongyang seriously, then he looked at his nose and his mind and entered a trance state, because he knew that the following discussion would be meaningless.

As he expected, after the quarrel lasted for a quarter of an hour, the matter of the Sun Cult came to an end. This time, Kaiyun, Ao Bing and Cangji left first, followed by Yuxing Fujun, Bu Qiong and Mansu.

Wang Ping did not ask Lord Rongyang why he did this. He just bowed to Lord Rongyang and cut off the consciousness connection.

"Isn't the rebellion in Zhongzhou qualified enough to be on your agenda?" Yu Lian, who listened to the entire meeting of the two seats, asked Wang Ping.

"When the Dao Palace was established, it formulated rules for matters related to the replacement of Zhongzhou's divine artifacts. Under these rules, the Dao Palace cannot openly interfere with the decisions of the Datong Dynasty or other princes."

"So they're just doing it in secret? This is obviously a loophole, and a big one at that!"

Wang Ping stood up and looked at the dark starry sky. "The problems of Zhongzhou can be solved by handing them over to the Three-Section Council. No matter how powerful Linshui Prefecture is, it cannot compete with the entire Three-Section Council, not to mention my puppet. Ao Bing played a bad game. What I am really curious about is the reaction of Lord Rongyang just now."

"Yes, he has always hated the 'First Day', but this time he did not agree to drive them out of Zhongzhou Star!"

"And the Yuqing Sect is also helping him."

"Are you trying to say that True Lord Lieyang and True Lord Xuanqing are also involved in this matter?"

Wang Ping did not respond immediately. He remained calm and thought for a while, then used the Qiyun Fazhen to deduce for a while before saying, "It seems that everything here has to start from the two fourth-level Zhenyang secret skills that landed in outer space that day."

Yu Lian tilted her head and thought for a while before saying, "It's useless to guess. You might as well go and ask Lord Rongyang directly. He will definitely help you solve your doubts."

Wang Ping exhaled and shook his head, "Maybe he's just waiting for me to ask him. If I do, I'll be on the wrong ship!"

"We are now attached to Yuanwu Zhenjun, and Yuanwu Zhenjun will obviously stand on the side of Lieyang Zhenjun. Just like Rongyang Mansion Lord said a long time ago, we are destined to be allies, and you will be on the pirate ship sooner or later!"

Wang Ping didn't say anything else. He walked to the old locust tree and meditated. Yu Lian crossed her body and leaned beside him and fell into a deep sleep.

The night passed quickly.

At dawn the next day, Wang Ping summoned Liu Shuang to the mountaintop dojo and instructed him, "I've thought about it. We can't ignore Linshui Prefecture's actions in the Liangjiang area. You secretly mobilize the cultivators from the three routes of Zhenyang Mountain to the Liangjiang area, and then use our influence in the three seats and the files of the Dao Palace to force the disciples of Linshui Prefecture to confront them head-on."

He now wants to force Ao Bing to make his move faster. (End of this chapter)