Doctor Amnesiac, but not completely amnesiac

"Thank you for the compliment."

Qiao Yelan accepted the praise without hesitation.

"So... you agreed?"

The old man asked nervously.

"I'm sorry, not yet - because this chip is not enough."

"not enough?"

The Master was somewhat puzzled.

There are currently eleven Age Phases left. With Qiao Yelan's means, it should be easy to save a few more Age Phases - and this guy has a good relationship with the Age Phases, so he will definitely be able to control these immortals well.

"Yes, it's not enough. Now that we've talked about it, I won't hide it from you - in my plan, the existence of Sui Xiang is mostly to help Da Yan deal with the evil demons. Even if you agree to transfer them to me, they will still be used on Da Yan."

Qiao Yelan said calmly.

"Used on Da Yan's head...what does this mean?"

The Master's face was filled with shock.

"You should understand the source of the evil spirit's power, right?"

Qiao Yelan asked.

"The more they are recognized, the more specific their image will be, and the stronger their power will be. So far, Da Yan has not disclosed what the Tianji Pavilion is fighting in the north. They only say that they are in charge of the Da Yan dragon vein."

"Yes, so when preparing forces to fight against the evil, we must be extremely cautious - it is best to have elite forces with strong individual combat power and a small number. This way, the number of people who recognize the evil will be small, and the strength will be enough to destroy the evil."

Qiao Yelan nodded, confirming what the tutor said.

"Whether it's the Ursus Inner Guard or the Great Flame Heavenly Master, they were all chosen as the force to fight against the evil spirits - otherwise a disaster like the one that happened in Sammy might have happened. If I hadn't sent the Cyclops over there, I'm afraid the entire Sammy would have been destroyed."

"Even so, the power of the evil is still increasing. There should be similar feedback from the Tianji Pavilion, right? There are fewer and fewer Tianshis traveling outside in recent years, and this is also one of the reasons."

The old man nodded solemnly.

"The power of Da Yan can no longer be consumed endlessly, especially with the new threat from the south - so I have been planning to use less power to maintain the battle line against the evil demons."

"You mean...age?"

Qiao Yelan took out two documents.

After the tutor took it, the title alone was enough to attract attention.

Design drawings of Ursus interior guard

《Spirit of the Weapon》

He knew the second one, because it was what [Wang] had been studying, and the internal guards of Ursus... everyone knew it.

"The design of the Ursus Inner Guard is the pinnacle of my strategy for the demons - powerful single-unit combat power, which will not cause the demons' power to increase due to a large number of cognitions, and most importantly, it can be mass-produced on an industrial scale."

"But the Inner Guards are not perfect - not to mention the erosion of the Inner Guards by using the power of the devil itself. Although their mass production is much better than that of the Steam Knights, they are still limited by the quality of the Inner Guards themselves, resulting in a bottleneck in quantity."

The Grand Tutor's face looked a little ugly. This problem actually also existed on the side of the Great Yan Heavenly Master. Although the assembly line factory named [Heavenly Master Academy] had replaced the small workshop at the mountain gate in the past, the number of Heavenly Masters "produced" was still limited by their qualifications.

Even many Heavenly Masters were not good at fighting, and were classified into various disciplines, such as civil engineering or agricultural colleges.

"So I changed my mindset a little bit - maybe I overestimated the perfect weapons. A large number of usable troops are the key to victory."

"But the characteristics of evil..."

"Yes, the characteristics of the demons are a problem that cannot be avoided, so my solution is to make the things that serve as the army unable to even recognize it."

Qiao Yelan chuckled and pointed to the second document.

《Spirit of the Weapon》

“A complete person can think, know, and act—but what if he is incomplete?”

"Stripped of their thoughts and cognition, they are stuffed into a fighting machine, and then the actions are handed over to a certain center - they just have to fight."

The Grand Tutor stared at Qiao Yelan in astonishment.

"you--"

"Of course, I can't use a human soul to cut it. After all, I'm not a demon - so the best way is to use the soul of a giant beast."

The man waved his hand, interrupting the old man's "slander".

"Among the Sui Xiang, Ling and Xi have both shown the ability to bestow spirituality. I think this is the simplest soul cutting. The souls of giant beasts contained in the spirituality bestowed are so few that even if there are tens of thousands of them, the Sui Xiangs will not feel short of it. However, dead things that are endowed with spirituality all have high combat capabilities."

"After that, it was Wang's behavior. He has been committed to cutting his own soul. So I have been encouraging him to do so, with the purpose of studying the toughness of the behemoth's soul - and that is how the weapon spirit technique was born."

Qiao Yelan's words completely opened the Taifu's horizons.

It is obvious that if the fighting machines made by Sui Xiang could be used to replace the Great Yan Heavenly Masters fighting on the front lines, it would save an incredible amount of resources for Great Yan.

"That's why I said, your chips are not enough - I need you to give more."

The master nodded.

"Then what do you need me to do?"

"Keep an eye on the general. Besides that, prepare this plan for me in secret. At least, when the plan is being implemented, don't create any problems for me other than resources and funds."

The old man was stunned.

It’s not that Qiao Yelan’s demands were too exaggerated—it’s that they were too little.

The other party intended to use the Sui Xiang to fight against evil spirits, so he would get even less. Therefore, the Taifu thought that Qiao Yelan wanted to ask for more things for his own use.

The result turned out to be such a request.

Are you a saint?

"All of this, the planning in Dayan—are you doing it just to fight against the evil?"

"if not?"

The tutor opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

In the end, he could only ask a question weakly.

“Then why don’t you explain it to more people?”

"Will they believe it?"

Qiao Yelan asked back.

"I never hide my methods, and I don't mind exposing them to anyone, so I know who I am and what others think of me."

"People are not willing to believe that a person like me aims to save this land. People are more willing to believe that he will use a seemingly noble reason to justify his despicable behavior."

"People are particularly willing to believe that this person who wanders between various forces has disrupted the situation on this land by using such means."

The old man was silent.

Qiao Yelan lifted the lid of the pot, grabbed a handful of green garlic leaves and threw them into the pot.

“I don’t like debates, and I don’t like justifying myself—because if I spend my time explaining my purpose to everyone, I won’t have time to move toward my purpose.”

The man poured himself a bowl of soup, scooped up a piece of tofu, and handed the spoon to the tutor.

"Most people, or rather, the vast majority of people, can neither really hinder me nor become useful pawns - speaking one more word to them would be a waste of my life."

The Taifu added another bowl of soup for himself.

"Do you have any other questions."

"There is indeed another question - were you involved in the incident between Duke Wei and Princess Wenyue?"

The old man drank his soup and asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

"That depends on which part - protecting Princess Wen Yue and encouraging Wei Yanwu to go to Longmen were all my actions."

"What about Duke Wei's love at first sight for Princess Wenyue?"

Qiao Yelan put down his bowl and chopsticks and looked at the tutor.

"Why, you want to verify my bottom line?"

"No, just asking casually."

"Humph, just asking... I've said before that I would never send female subordinates to seduce men, nor would I send assassins to assassinate non-traitors - my bottom line is higher than any of you think, and also lower than any of you think."

Hearing this, the Grand Tutor just paused and continued drinking his soup.

"You do not believe."

Qiao Yelan said it with certainty.

"...It's not that I don't believe it, it's just that no matter what you do, it's not strange, even if it's love at first sight, even if the Princess of the East Country is your pawn, if you say it's true, I will think it's reasonable."

The old man put down the empty bowl.

"After all, this all happened by chance."

"For me, there are no coincidences, everything just happens by chance."

"I believe this - but I am still confused. What happened in 1072?"

This has always been the question that the Master has been wondering about.

Whether it was the bizarre situation in the Great Yan court or Qiao Yelan's layout in the northern border, all of this seemed to originate from the battle for national destiny between Ursus and the Eastern Kingdom.

After entering the 1070s, Da Yan’s condition has actually not been very good.

Emperor Vladimir of Ursus led his army across Terra for forty years without a single defeat. Although he was in his twilight years, his army was still extremely sharp - and the only region left to be fought was Dayan.

The former vassal state, the East Kingdom, is now sharpening its knives, trying to compete with Dayan and get rid of this huge mountain above its head.

In Dayan, although the court was relatively stable, His Majesty was seriously ill and people's hearts were unstable. Fortunately, the crown prince was very talented and was able to maintain the overall situation.

Everything changed after that war.

Ursus lost the ability to threaten Dayan, and Dongguo lost its ability to be independent. However, Dayan's national prestige was recognized by the world, the people cheered, and their patriotic enthusiasm reached an unprecedented high.

This should have been a situation where Da Yan was soaring to the top - but because of someone's love at first sight, Da Yan forcibly tore all the cards in his hand after hearing the cards. It can be said that the whole situation collapsed.

Did you win? Yes.

Did you really win? Yes.

It was not until today that Dayan was heading towards the situation that should have been formed six years ago - for the entire six years, Dayan had been paying off Wei Yanwu's debts.

"I have never betrayed the covenant, and Dayan has never done such a thing - why do we have to bear such a price?"

"I do owe you an apology for that."

To the old man's surprise, Qiao Yelan bowed to him formally to express his apology.

"Because I didn't expect that Vladimir would betray me, causing my plan to fail completely halfway through - and my condition was not very good at the time, so I didn't have time to leave too many tricks. Otherwise, Da Yan shouldn't have been stagnant for so long."

"…What do you mean? What plan?"

The Taifu almost dropped the chopsticks in his hand and asked hurriedly.

"If Vladimir hadn't used the Internal Guards for this war - in fact, I was planning to give the East Country to Ursus, Longmen, and would have allowed Kosice to gain a foothold there."

Qiao Yelan said faintly.

pat.

The Master didn't hold the chopsticks tightly enough.

“…W-why?”

"Because I need the Great Flame to turn from north to south. Let Ursus fight against the evil demons. This will help you reduce one battle line."

Qiao Yelan’s explanations are always so unexpected.

"At that time, Vladimir's serf reform plan was only one step away. He had won so many wars, but they were all for the sake of this last one. Ursus needed to swallow up the entire Eastern Kingdom in one go, and with the help of the Eastern Kingdom's wealth and population, he could completely upgrade the national system and eliminate the hidden dangers that had been accumulating before."

"After this is done, Ursus will become a unified empire, and like the Great Flame, [I am the State] - rather than being like it is now, where the Tsar still rules over a large number of nobles in a scattered empire."

"After annexing the East Country, Ursus will completely occupy the entire northern ice field - this way they can replace Da Yan and go to Tianji Pavilion to support them."

(You can go to the [Geography] at the beginning of this book to find the geographical location of the East Country).

Qiao Yelan sighed softly.

"At that time, the late emperor was seriously ill, the East Kingdom had evil ambitions, and I had just discovered problems in the South. So I planned to promote Ursus and defeat the East Kingdom. At the same time, I used the inner guards to liberate the Heavenly Master and let him go south to deal with the [Sui] who had reached the end of the millennium and was about to return, as well as the threats from the depths of the ocean."

"Under such circumstances, Ursus also needs a large amount of funds to come in. So I will support Kosi to enter Longmen - she is the Grand Duke of Ursus, and Longmen is the city of Dayan. Under such a balance, Ursus and Dayan can share the income of Longmen coins equally, because you are all fighting for this land."