The gods began by supporting Guo Jing to become emperor

Chapter 334: Cunning Wanwan, the Song Clan Leaves Shu
"You already knew that Song Que was a Grandmaster?"

Wanwan suddenly appeared in front of Xu Ziling like a lively elf, with a sly smile on her lips and a probing look in her eyes.

Xu Ziling had long been accustomed to it, and replied lazily, "I don't know."

She came closer, her black and white eyes were full of affection, her smile bloomed like a poppy, beautiful and dangerous, "Then why do you dare to bet with me? Aren't you afraid of losing to me?"

Xu Ziling looked straight into her eyes and suddenly smiled, "Why would I be afraid? I don't care whether the head of the clan is a grandmaster or not, but I have faith in my master. I firmly believe that I will win this bet from the beginning."

"You want both sides to suffer losses. No matter who wins or loses, you have no time to care about other things. You want to take me away by force. Now, do you still dare?"

Wanwan bit her red lips lightly, revealing a pitiful expression, "Zi Ling, you're overthinking it. How could I have the heart to force you?"

Xu Ziling said nothing, just stared at him. Although he didn't say anything, his words were louder than any argument.

Wanwan stepped back a few steps, her clothes fluttering in the wind, "In your heart, am I that kind of person? Xu Ziling, you have broken my heart." Her voice carried a hint of grievance, but her eyes were like a snake hiding in the grass, full of calculation.

Xu Ziling snorted coldly and turned away from her. "You Yinkui Sect always use whatever means necessary to do things. Otherwise, why would you have pestered me for so long?" He glanced at her again and said, "Since I won, does the previous bet still count?"

There was a trace of resentment in Wanwan's eyes, which then turned into a sly smile, "Of course it counts. If you want the Heavenly Demonic Technique, I'll give it to you."

"It's just that you have taken my Yinkui sect's Heavenly Demonic Art, so we should switch sides and deal with our common enemy. What do you think?"

He rolled his eyes, "Not very good, give me the Heavenly Demon Technique first."

"Okay." Wanwan showed an aggrieved expression on her face. She took out a scroll from her sleeve and handed it to him. "Here, this is the secret method of my Yinkui Sect. It can only be shown to you. Promise me that you will never pass it on to a third person except you."

"Okay!" Xu Ziling nodded heavily and took the scroll from her.

Wanwan lifted the hair beside her ear and said in a casual manner, "Well, I came here today not only to fulfill the bet, but also to say goodbye to you. I should go back now."

She is leaving?

Upon hearing the news, Xu Ziling felt an inexplicable emotion in his heart, which seemed to be relief, regret, and reluctance. In the end, he just stared at her solemnly, "Miss Wanwan, I wish you a safe journey."

"Zi Ling, see you again if we are lucky." Wan Wan seemed to be in a very low mood. Suddenly she looked up and blinked one eye gently. She looked indescribably lively and charming, happy and angry at the same time. "We will see you again, right?"

At this moment, Xu Ziling's calm heart suddenly fluctuated, and his heartbeat even skipped a beat. He stared at her in a daze, and only came back to his senses after a long while, "We will meet again."

Wanwan put her hands behind her back and slowly backed away, her steps light and her skirt fluttering like a beautiful elf, "Goodbye."

Then, her figure disappeared, leaving only her clear and pleasant laughter echoing in the wind.

"call……"

Somehow, Xu Ziling suddenly felt a pressure. He shook his head to dispel his reverie and his eyes fell on the scroll in his hand. When he opened it and read it, he laughed. The scroll only recorded three levels of the Heavenly Demonic Art, and they were not coherent. There was also no basic introductory chapter, so it was impossible to practice it.

She is indeed a witch.

He just found this funny. She obviously didn't want to reveal the Yinkui Sect's secret book, but she had to fulfill the bet, so she came up with this unsound solution. If she were an ordinary person, she wouldn't do this either.

But Wanwan knew very well how terrifying Xu Ziling's talent was, so she didn't dare to reveal even the introductory chapters and could only give him some scattered chapters.

"Well, something is better than nothing. Having it is better than nothing." Xu Ziling shook his head, took the scroll and left.

……

Song clan.

Lu Miaozi stood in the room, his temperament became unrestrained and unrestrained, unlike before, with fewer wrinkles on his face. He felt the vitality and energy in his body, and immediately bowed to Su Ming and the others, "Thank you for your help. If you need me in the future, please let me know. I will repay you even if I have to sacrifice my life."

"My friend, you are too kind. As long as you are alive, it will be my reward."

Shi Zhixuan's face turned slightly pale. He stared at Lu Miaozi and suddenly asked, "Where is Yang Gong's treasure house?"

Lu Miaozi hesitated for a moment. After three days and three nights of healing, he also knew Shi Zhixuan's true identity. In the world, the only one who could master the transformation of the two energies of life and death was the evil king of the Demon Sect. "Underground in Luoyang."

Shi Zhixuan understood. He originally thought that Yang Gong's treasure house was in Chang'an, but he didn't expect it to be in Luoyang. After knowing the exact location, he also had a clue, so he said to Su Ming, "Friend Su, I'm going back first. Goodbye."

After he left, Lu Miaozi reminded him uneasily, "Friend Su, he is from the Demon Sect. Aren't you afraid that he will do something shady and treacherous? People from the Demon Sect must be guarded against."

Obviously, Zhu Yuyan left him with a huge psychological trauma.

Su Ming had only one answer to this, "The Song Clan has me and the Clan Master, so why would they be afraid of an evil king?"

Lu Miaozi smiled awkwardly and said nothing more.

"Fellow Daoist, you must do well in what I have told you to do. Those things are useless now, but they will definitely be of great use in the future. Perhaps you will also be able to go down in history because of them."

Lu Miaozi's spirits lifted, and he once again felt how much Su Ming valued those instruments. "Don't worry, Daoist friend. I will definitely get these things done."

He had old injuries before, but they were just suppressed by Su Ming and he needed the other party to supply him with true energy from time to time. Now, the remaining demonic true energy in his body has been completely dissolved by Shi Zhixuan, and his chronic illness has been cured. Even because he has stayed in that realm for many years, his mind has become transcendent and his realm has loosened, making it possible for him to make further progress.

With his medical skills and methods of maintaining his health, he can live at least a few more decades and easily exceed a hundred years old.

"Okay, then I feel relieved."

……

Just after the first month of the lunar calendar, the Song clan sent out troops again. This time, Song Que led 100,000 troops, with Li Jing as the general to attack Jingnan, Kou Zhong as the general, and he himself went up the Yangtze River to attack the important areas along the river. This was the first time that the Song clan took the initiative to attack after taking over Shu. Everyone thought that Song Que would lead the Shu army to attack Guanzhong and destroy the Yuwen clan, but he turned a blind eye to Guanzhong and focused on attacking Chu.

This move was beyond everyone's expectations. When the Li clan in Hedong and the Yuwen clan in Guanzhong heard the news, they all breathed a sigh of relief. The two families had suffered heavy casualties and were seriously injured. They were at a time of weakness. If the Song clan attacked at this time, the consequences would be disastrous.

The deaths of all the high-ranking Buddhist leaders brought a huge crisis to Buddhism. Instead of shrinking, they ruthlessly abandoned the Li clan and turned to support the Yuwen clan in Guanzhong.

The appearance of Yu Dao Ren has already put great pressure on Buddhism, not to mention the battle in Shu, in which Buddhism lost more than a dozen masters, including the four world-famous monks. After this battle, the power between Buddhism and Taoism has become unbalanced.

Even without Su Ming, the Buddhist sect in the future will not be a match for the Taoist sect. Grandmasters and experts are not cabbages. They are always available and are enough to support a force anywhere.

Let's not talk about the distant past, let's talk about the recent past. The Dugu clan now only has one veteran master, You Chuhong, to support them. The Li clan still has descendants who are both talented in civil and military affairs to carry on the family business. The Dugu clan really has no successors, only one Dugu Feng, but what's the use of that? Anyone who is not a master is an ant, not to mention that now is an era of great contention, and there is no time to wait for you to demonstrate your strength.

Although the Yuwen clan suffered heavy casualties, they still had masters in their clan and controlled Guanzhong, making them an excellent partner. The reason they did not cooperate before was because the Li clan was weak and the Buddhist sect could take the lead.

But the situation is different now. The Taoist sect is coming on strong, and the right to speak is secondary. The most important thing now is to survive. As long as the Yuwen clan can win, Buddhism can also be preserved. It is much easier than supporting the Li clan.

There were even people in the Buddhist sect who colluded and wanted to persuade the Li clan to join the Yuwen clan, but they were rejected by the Li clan because the Li clan was not just the Li clan. In addition to cooperating with the Buddhist sect, they also worked with the Dugu clan. Needless to say, there was a lot of hatred between the Yuwen clan and the Dugu clan, so it was difficult for the two families to cooperate.

At the same time, wars broke out all over the country. Dou Jiande of Hebei, Li Gui of Liangzhou, Liu Wuzhou and others rose up in arms and established their own regimes, while several regimes also emerged in the south.

After Yang Guang committed suicide by burning himself to death, there was no more emperor in the world, and it was a time of scramble among many heroes. Under such circumstances, many separatist regimes took the opportunity to proclaim themselves emperors.

There were two relatively powerful princes in the south. One was Xiao Xin, the great-grandson of Emperor Xuan of Later Liang (also known as Western Liang). His sphere of influence extended from Jiujiang in the east to the Three Gorges in the west, from Jiaozhi in the south to the Han River in the north. He had 400,000 elite troops and dominated the south.

One is Lin Shihong, who proclaimed himself emperor in Yuzhang in the 12th year of Daye, named his country "Chu", made Yuzhang his capital, and called the reign Taiping. He once controlled a vast area stretching from Jiujiang in the north to Panyu in the south.

These separatist regimes were all enemies that the Song Dynasty had to face, and Song Que had long ago decided on a strategy of conquering the south first and then the north, gaining a stable rear base and then unifying the north from the south to restore the Han empire.

……

Returning to the house, Su Ming's mind sank into the sea of ​​consciousness again:

Mirror Owner: Su Ming

World: Twin Dragons
Identity: Song Dynasty military advisor, Xu Ziling's teacher, Jade Taoist, the number one person in the Central Plains

Origin of the World: 433,201
Degree of world collapse: 43.3 percent.

Number of time and space reflections captured: zero
Number of crossings: Zero
Ning Daoqi and Fu Cailin died at his hands one after another. Even the Buddhist sect, a pillar of the white way, could not suppress Su Ming's momentum. Now he has been respected by the martial arts world as the number one person in the Central Plains, and some people even say that he is the best in the world.

However, the Buddhist sect fanned the flames behind the scenes, elevating the Turkic martial arts master Bi Xuan, calling him the number one master on the grassland, wanting to pit the two sides against each other and introduce Turkish forces to intervene. As a result, he is now only the number one person in the Central Plains.

Su Ming just laughed it off and didn't care. He would have to go to the Turks sooner or later. Even if there was no Buddhism, he would still fight against Bi Xuan. A mere foreigner was not worthy of being on par with him.

He has been in this world for more than three years, and the progress has been very fast. The entire timeline of the Tang Dynasty is only more than eight years. His appearance has undoubtedly accelerated the historical process. It took the Li family eight years to unify the world, and the Song family will take even less time.

……

In May of the 15th year of Daye (for the convenience of the timeline, this record is used), Li Jing and Kou Zhong were unstoppable and defeated the Liang army in succession. Finally, they met at the foot of Jiangling City and defeated the 200,000 Liang army. After this battle, Xiao Xin surrendered with his body bared, and the Liang Kingdom was destroyed.

In September of the 15th year of Daye, Song Que defeated Lin Shihong in Poyang Lake and threatened Yuzhang. In October, Lin Shihong came out of the city to surrender and handed over the city.

Song Que himself was an expert in military strategy, and with the help of powerful generals like Li Jing and Kou Zhong, the Liang and Chu states had almost no ability to fight back. The Song clan had been silent for several years, and then took in the remnant troops in Guanlong. It dominated the southwest, and once it raised an army, it shocked the world.

Before the northern princes could even react, the two southern forces were destroyed one after another.

Song Que's strength once again shocked the world and told the world who was the best military commander of the time.

At the same time, in Chengdu Prefecture, Pei Ju presided over the official selection examination, and the poor gentry in Shu area participated in the examination. This examination attracted elite talents from the southwest and south, and in a sense, it also accelerated the rule of the Song clan over the new areas.

After taking these two pieces of territories, Song Que did not send out any more troops. Too much is as bad as too little. The Song clan’s army was old and tired, and if they continued to fight, the losses would be too great.

At the same time, the forces entrenched in the Jianghuai area were in a panic. Everyone knew that the Song clan's next target would be them. So, Li Zitong and Fu Gongju of Jiangdu formed an alliance to help each other in attack and defense.

……

Hedong, Cihang Jingzhai.

Inside the Buddhist hall, a young girl in a white dress clasped her hands together, her beautiful face full of compassion. Anyone who saw her would think that she was very similar to Shi Feixuan.

This woman is Zhao Rumeng, the new successor of Cihang Jingzhai. "Amitabha, uncle, the enemy of Buddha is so powerful. It seems that I can only do what uncle did and feed the demon with my body."

An old monk stood in front of her. He had a haggard appearance, gray eyebrows, and a pair of deep and bright eyes. "Nephew, Song Que is an extraordinary person. Although I have never fought with him, I know him well. He has been sitting in Lingnan for thirty years, plotting with all his heart, and it is difficult to shake him."

"I'm afraid you'll be in danger if you go there."

Zhao Rumeng's big, watery eyes were filled with determination. "Uncle Master, even if I die, I will not regret it. We Buddhists care about the common people. If I don't go to hell, who will? As long as Song Que gives up his hostility towards Buddhism, we Buddhists may lend him a helping hand."

"Here in Luoyang, we still have to rely on Uncle-Master. The South has been settled. If the North continues to fight on its own, the consequences will be disastrous."

"Alas," the old monk sighed and stopped persuading him, "Jingnian Zen Temple wants to hand over the Heshi Bi to the Yuwen clan. With the help of the imperial seal, the Yuwen clan may be able to compete with the Song clan."

In fact, Jingnian Zen Temple was reluctant to give up the Heshi Bi, but the situation was critical and they had no choice but to do so.

Zhao Rumeng nodded, "With the help of the Heshi Bi, I feel relieved."

(End of this chapter)