I am the villain, plundering the destiny of the heroine.

"How does your majesty plan to deal with Lord Li?"

Outside the boudoir, Emperor Yan thought that his beloved wife wanted to discuss with him how to deal with Li Chunfeng, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Over the years, my love for Yu'er has really not been in vain."

"Although Yu'er had a very good impression of Li Xu, after hearing that Li Chunfeng intended to murder me, she still chose to stand with me without hesitation."

Thinking of this, Emperor Yan felt extremely warm and comforted in his heart, and the love and infatuation he had for Luo Meiyu that had accumulated over the years instantly climbed to the most intense peak in history!
Little did he know that at this moment, on the bed in the boudoir, Li Xu, who had just gained the devoted and loyal love of his beautiful master, was also deeply in love with Luo Meiyu. While she was asking Emperor Yan about the strategy to deal with Li Chunfeng, his lips never stopped kissing Luo Meiyu's shoulders and collarbones.

"I have no other choice but to gather all the imperial guards in the capital city and fight Chunfeng to the death."

Emperor Yan pretended to be disappointed and said, "I have known Chunfeng for decades. To be honest, I have no confidence in defeating him in this battle."

"The reason why I told you today, Yu'er, is not to ask you to lend me a helping hand, but to ask you to leave the center of the vortex of Imperial Capital City."

"The Imperial Capital is no longer under my control. It is full of dangers. I do not want Yu'er to be harmed in any way."

...The dog emperor is so cunning!
Li Xu kissed the sweaty snowy neck while exposing Emperor Yan's true face through voice transmission: "Yu'er, don't listen to his lies. He is playing hard to get and wants you to agree to help him!"

Luo Meiyu pursed her crystal red lips, gently embraced Li Xu's head with her fair hands, and nodded tenderly:
"Hmm~"

"I won't leave. I will stay in the Imperial City to help His Majesty..."

"No, Yu'er!"

Emperor Yan interrupted without thinking, but he couldn't suppress the curve at the corner of his mouth.

"If you are implicated by me and are harmed by Chunfeng or Li Xu, I will never forgive myself even if I die at Chunfeng's hands!"

Luo Meiyu's voice was sweet but revealed her unique determination: "Your Majesty, there is no need to say more. I will definitely stay and help you..."

"Your Majesty, tell me directly, how are you going to deal with Lord Li and Xiao Xu next?"

"Yu'er, ah, you make me so touched and yet I can't do anything about you!"

Although Emperor Yan couldn't suppress the smile on his face, what he sighed was the truth. At this moment, he was truly moved by his beloved wife's determination to risk her life for him.

"Chun Feng may not only be colluding with the sect, but also with the northern barbarians."

"Just twelve days ago, Ji Weiming suddenly agreed to sign a ceasefire agreement with Dayan. Despite my repeated attempts to stop him, Li Tianai still led the army back to Imperial Capital regardless of the king's orders, and also brought back news that the heads of the major sects would visit Imperial Capital in half a month."

"Li Tianai said that the purpose of the sect leaders' visit to the Imperial Capital in half a month was to discuss subsequent peace matters with me. In fact, she and Chunfeng must be planning to take advantage of the opportunity of the sect leaders' fair and square visit to the capital to unite with the foreign enemies and start a coup d'état."

...Bullshit! When did my sister say that the heads of the various sects would be coming to Beijing in half a month?

While Li Xu was secretly scolding Emperor Yan, he understood that the heads of those sects must have been brought to the Imperial Capital City by Emperor Yan. He set the time for taking action against his adopted sister and Lao Deng to half a month later.

"So, I cannot be led by Li Tianai and Chunfeng."

Outside the room, Emperor Yan continued to tell Luo Meiyu about his plan:

"We must fight them to the death within half a month. At the same time, I am secretly setting up a powerful magic array in the Imperial Capital City. It will probably take about five days to complete it."

Luo Meiyu didn't know what the so-called powerful magic circle that Emperor Yan mentioned was, but Li Xu knew it clearly and his heart was tense.

"Emperor Yan has indeed set up the Heaven-Sealing Absolute Earth Formation in the Imperial Capital. According to what he just said, he has three trump cards in his hand at this moment. The first is the Imperial Guards who only obey his orders, the second is the heads of the major sects, and the third is the Heaven-Sealing Absolute Earth Formation..."

Li Xu quickly analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of him, his adopted sister and others versus Emperor Yan. Regarding the Heaven-Sealing Jedi Formation, Li Xu had reminded Li Chunfeng to check it out two days ago through the Communication Source Crystal. He believed that Lao Deng would definitely do his utmost to destroy Emperor Yan's secret arrangement.

As for the heads of the major sects, the threat posed by Emperor Yan's trump card is no less than that of the Sealing Heaven and Destroying Earth Formation. As far as Li Xu knows, there are a total of seven first-rate sects in the world. Excluding the leader of Tianfu Sect who has been killed by him, there are still six first-rate sects left, namely: Baihua Valley, Liuyun Sect, Heavenly God Temple, Fenglei Sect, Vajra Temple, and Luohong Sect.

With Li Chunfeng in charge of the Imperial Capital, the six first-rate sects certainly could not secretly send a large number of disciples into the Imperial Capital like they did infiltrating Jinling City. At most, only six sect masters would sneak in secretly.

In other words, including Emperor Yan himself, they have a total of seven first-grade cultivators, while on his side there are only Lao Deng, Yang Jie, Yu'er, plus himself, a half-baked one, and Xian'er, a total of four and a half.

……

"In terms of the number of first-grade cultivators, we are at a disadvantage. We must not let Emperor Yan successfully set up the Heaven-Sealing Absolute Earth Formation!"

As soon as Li Xu had this thought, he heard Yu'er, the soft and fragrant girl in his arms, flattering him and asking Emperor Yan:
"Your Majesty secretly arranged a powerful magic array...where are the bases of the arrays?"

"this."

Emperor Yan hesitated slightly. The array base is the most important foundation of a magic array. Once destroyed, the power of the magic array would be greatly reduced at best, and it might even collapse directly at worst. Therefore, Emperor Yan kept the location of every array base strictly confidential and would never dare to let anyone other than his confidants know about it.

"I have set up five magic array bases in total."

Emperor Yan hesitated for only a moment, then told Luo Meiyu the truth.

After all, she is his beloved queen, and no one in the world is more important to him than her. If he can't even trust his beloved wife, who can he trust?

"The five formation bases are located in the Longmen Tavern on Changshou Street in the east of the city, the Penglai Inn on Taiping Street in the west of the city, and the Treasure House on Zhuque Street in the south of the city..."

Li Xu held his breath and concentrated, carefully writing down the location of every formation base mentioned by Emperor Yan, preparing to teleport to the Secretariat and tell Lao Deng later.

Although he reminded Li Chunfeng two days ago to investigate the Heaven-Sealing and Earth-Defeating Formation set up by Emperor Yan in Dijing City, Dijing City is twice as big as Jinling City. It would be as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack to accurately search for the formation base secretly hidden by Emperor Yan.

Now that Emperor Yan has personally told us the specific location of the array base, the difficulty has dropped sharply to zero, and we don't even have to use our brains.

"There is also the Yihong Courtyard in the north of the city, and the Yangxin Palace where I live every day—"

"boom!!"

A shocking explosion suddenly resounded, and even Li Xu and Luo Meiyu on the bed felt a slight vibration, and they looked at each other in shock and confusion.

"Your Majesty...what's that noise?" Luo Meiyu asked tentatively.

Emperor Yan looked in the direction of the loud noise, but was blocked by doors and windows. He could only roughly guess that the explosion came from the west of the city. He frowned and said, "I don't know either."

As soon as he finished speaking, the communication source crystal he stored in the ring suddenly emitted a spiritual power fluctuation that only he could sense.

Emperor Yan quickly received the spiritual power fluctuations, and his face changed drastically in an instant: "Not good!"

"The formation base I hid in the Penglai Inn in the west of the city was discovered and destroyed by Li Chunfeng!" "What?"

Luo Meiyu and Li Xu were both stunned when they heard this.

Li Xu reacted the fastest. He realized that it must be Li Chunfeng who had received his reminder two days ago and had finally discovered the first base of the Sealing Heaven and Earth Array after searching in the Imperial Capital City for such a long time.

"Yu'er! I have to send someone to guard the other four formation bases. Bye bye!"

The temporary destruction of the formation base was of great importance, and Emperor Yan had no choice but to pay attention to it. He hurriedly left a word to Luo Meiyu, and flew out of Changle Palace with many eunuchs and guards around him.

"Xiao Xu, what should we do now?"

Even Luo Meiyu had a premonition that something big was going to happen next. She was afraid that Emperor Yan would take action against Li Chunfeng in advance because of the destroyed formation base. Not knowing what to do, she subconsciously regarded her disciples as her backbone.

"Don't panic, I'll go to the west of the city to check out the situation."

Li Xu couldn't take care of deepening his relationship with Luo Meiyu at this moment, so he comforted her and said, "Yu'er, you should continue to stay in Changle Palace and pretend to be with Emperor Yan. We'll talk about everything after I come back!"

Luo Meiyu had just learned about Emperor Yan's conspiracy today and didn't know much about the inside story. Naturally, she followed Li Xu's instructions and nodded with concern: "Okay, Xiaoxu, be careful!"

"Don't worry, Yu'er, I'll be back soon!"

Li Xu gave Luo Meiyu's rosy lips a final kiss as a temporary farewell, and then used the Daluo Time and Space Method to teleport out of Changle Palace.

……

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"asshole!"

"How dare you commit a crime in the Imperial Capital? His Majesty will definitely execute you!"

Li Xu grew up in Dijing City since he was a child, so he was certainly familiar with the coordinates of the west of the city. As soon as he appeared out of the void, he heard an angry scolding.

He turned his head and saw in the distance, in a scorched earth ruin with thick smoke billowing, hundreds of soldiers dressed as city defense troops were escorted and subdued by another group of soldiers wearing more heavily armored armor. The ground next to the two groups of people was littered with corpses.

"We suspect that the Penglai Inn is harboring evil cultivators. This is just a routine inspection."

A commander among the group of soldiers with obviously more heavily armored soldiers spoke coldly to the city defense troops who had been detained in front of him. The people around had already been frightened away by this scene.

"Nonsense! You are not conducting a routine inspection, you are plotting treason!"

The detained city defense soldiers were furious: "Don't think you can do whatever you want just by following Li Chunfeng's orders! Li Chunfeng can't cover the sky with one hand in the Imperial Capital City!"

"You are not qualified to judge whether Lord Li can cover the sky with one hand. I just want to ask you, what is the origin of the formation base we found in the inn just now? How many such formation bases are there in the Imperial Capital?"

The city defense soldiers sneered and said, "You want to know? Go ask your Lord Li yourself!"

The commander frowned and was about to order his subordinates to take the group back when he suddenly heard a young man's deep voice:

"I know where the remaining four array bases are. I'll take you there. Just kill these lackeys of Emperor Yan."

As soon as these words were spoken, both the city defense troops and the soldiers in more heavily armored uniforms all turned their heads in shock.

"Are you Mr. Li?!"

The commander of the soldiers obviously knew Li Xu and recognized his identity at a glance.

He knew Li Xu, but Li Xu didn't know him. In fact, this was normal. Li Xu only saw Li Chunfeng a few times throughout the year, so naturally he had no impression of his trusted team.

"Mr. Li has ordered that once you meet Mr. Li, you must obey his orders!"

After a brief moment of shock, a group of heavily armored soldiers followed Li Xu's orders, chopped down the subdued city defense soldiers in front of them with their swords, and then turned around and bowed to Li Xu respectfully.

...Does Lao Deng think I can be of use? This arrangement saves me a lot of trouble.

Li Xu didn't waste any more words and said directly: "The remaining four formation bases are located in the Longmen Tavern on Changshou Street in the east of the city, the Zhenbao Building on Zhuque Street in the south of the city, and the Yihong Courtyard in the north of the city. Go and destroy these three formation bases."

The last formation base was in the Yangxin Hall of the Imperial Palace. It was obviously difficult for Lao Deng's men to break into the palace, so they could only destroy it themselves, so Li Xu did not tell them.

In other words, if this group of generals could successfully destroy the three array bases, the power of the Sealing Heaven and Absolute Earth Array would be weakened to the greatest extent, and it might even collapse directly. There would be no need to destroy the array base in the Yangxin Palace.

"Yes!"

The soldiers obeyed the order, and the leader took the lead and led everyone to fly straight to the nearest south city.

Li Xu was just about to catch up with them when he heard a sudden "bang" in the distance, a loud bang even more shocking than the previous one when the formation base was destroyed.

"That's... Li Tianai's warship!"

Li Xu's eyes fell on the sky outside the west city gate. He vaguely saw a huge warship swooping down from the top of the clouds and crashing heavily into the protective barrier formed at the city gate.

"General Li! How dare you lead the army back to the capital without the emperor's order?!"

At the city gate, a terrified roar of a certain defending officer was heard. With the help of the power of the battle formation, the roar spread throughout the sky above the Imperial Capital City, as if he wanted to convey to Emperor Yan the news that Li Tianai was forcibly attacking the city.

"Go away!"

The ethereal and cold royal sister's voice also sounded like thunder. From Li Xu's perspective, he saw a beam of lightning falling from the sky like a punishment from heaven. After the warship, it also hit the protective barrier outside the city gate. The horrific aftermath shook the ground beneath his feet.

"Li Tianai is acting according to the plan so quickly?"

Li Xu was not surprised by his foster sister's move to break into the city by force, but he was surprised by her quick action.

Before leaving the warship with Zhou Furong yesterday, Li Xu and Li Tianai communicated with Li Chunfeng through the source crystal to discuss the subsequent plan to deal with Emperor Yan.

Now that the two sides are in a situation where the enemy is in the open while we are in the dark, it would be best if we could take the initiative to strike at Emperor Yan. But before that, we must first secretly find out the Heaven-Sealing and Earth-Destroying Formation that Emperor Yan had set up in the Imperial Capital City and destroy it.

The plan that Li Xu and others discussed yesterday was that once Li Chunfeng found the base of the Sealing Heaven and Desperate Earth Formation, Li Tianai would immediately lead the army to break into the city and join forces with him. (End of this chapter)