Chapter 278: Chapter 113: Breaking Through with Force, Helping Senior Sister’s Dream

Li Xuan is not bloodthirsty.

But this time, he started choosing and slaughtering Ministry of War high-ranking officials who had no grudges with him, and some even unknown to each other.

Because he felt a crisis.

He acted not because "he knew what the other party did," but because "he knew the other party could do something harmful to him."

A commoner is guiltless, but if harboring a dangerous weapon, it becomes guilt.

From Wei Yao, Li Xuan already knew that a significant portion of people in the Nine Towns were xenophobic.

If these Generals who had grudges with him colluded with the Nine Towns to frame and harm him, fabricating nonsense theories like "the outsider genius conspiracy theory," or uttering lines like "Li Xuan thinks cultivators are fools," or saying "the Divine Martial Monarch’s consort is a beauty beyond compare" then...

He would most likely feud with the Nine Towns.

From Wei Yao, Li Xuan knew that the Lingyi Sect opened because of the increase in Spiritual Qi.

This sect was newly formed, and the people within hadn’t really interacted with the outside.

And those self-proclaimed celestial elders would certainly be arrogant.

The Nine Towns would never consider the people of Great Yin.

By then, there will surely be fools to provoke him, even his family, and after provoking, saying things like "My father is so-and-so, what can you do about it," or "I can bully you, and you can’t retaliate".

By then, he would either endure or have to kill the other party. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

This humiliation, he is unlikely to endure, and would probably crush them to powder on the spot.

Then, things might lead into the phase of "kill the small ones, and the big ones come".

Subsequently, a bigger conflict might erupt.

At that time, he would have to lead his family and flee to his stronghold in Cyan Wood Province under the pursuit of the Lingyi Sect, and then promptly reveal the hidden card "Buddha".

The Divine Martial Monarch joining Buddha’s sect, Buddha’s might fending off the opponent, leading to division between north and south.

But the problem is, Li Xuan doesn’t know the depths of the Lingyi Sect, and Buddha is just a lone troop.

"Calamity often arises in the seed of things.

A thousand-mile dike collapses because of an ant hole."

Since Li Xuan decided to kill.

He killed swiftly, without any hesitation.

Knowing he had to kill, he no longer cared whether the person was good or bad.

The chessboard of grand strategy never carries the individual joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. In Spring and Autumn writing style, not even a word would be wasted describing the emotions of the deceased or defeated.

He didn’t even wait for the next day and directly collected information, identified the approximate location of the target, then quickly investigated, confirmed the location, searched for opportunities to strike, then attacked, killed, and created ghosts again.

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The first day, he killed two subordinate generals of Yunzhou.

These two generals were leading troops for routine patrol, then fell asleep in the tent. Suddenly, a faint golden light arose from beneath the bed, shimmering upward, seeping through the bed board, through the bamboo mat, like roots and tentacles transferring the sleeping generals elsewhere.

That general sensed something was wrong, opened his eyes in fear, and only saw under the moonlight a specter cloaked in gray, wearing a bizarre mask, with indistinct tentacles showing beneath the veil.

In the next instant, the general’s neck was directly twisted.

And a faint ghost-like mist dispersed from the specter’s palm, falling onto the general.

Li Xuan patiently waited over an hour, until the general turned into an evil spirit, then inquired about some arrangements in Yunzhou.

However, what the general knew was limited, only saying that many generals in Yunzhou disliked the Divine Martial Monarch, feeling he obstructed their path.

Li Xuan pointed to Guan Wu and said, "If you have important information in the future, you can convey it to him."

He only has one pair of eyes. Even if "opening a full map of Great Yin," he still needs to look to see. Therefore, he still needs an intelligence agency.

Guan Wu smiled sinisterly and said, "Thanks to the master’s grace, shortly we will open some paper offerings shops across Yunzhou, selling paper money, paper figures, and other small items, named Yinfu Paper Record.

If you come, you may inform the shop owner of important news.

The shop owner will compile and summarize the information and inform the master.

And in each city, the master plans to establish a Ghost Army. These ghosts usually blend into the crowd, reorganizing into families, looking no different from regular people, but once ordered, they immediately act for the master.

This dispersed army in each city is called the Longevity Army.

Yinfu Paper Record, Longevity Army, this is our Fushou Sect.

And you will belong to the Longevity Army."

Subsequently, Guan Wu shared some details with these two; Li Xuan then used the Incense and Candle Path to send the two subordinate generals back to their original place.

These two generals will continue their original patrol duties, but they have now become Li Xuan’s people.

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The second day...

The third day...

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The tenth day...

The twentieth day...

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The weather quickly turned to autumn.

Whereas deep autumn is the time when cultivators from Bronze Plain engage with Great Yin.

At this time, they would receive gold tributes from Great Yin while gifting some medicinal pills that ensure wellness and cure all ailments.

Qu Keshan’s heart raced a little.

In summer, they set the strategy of "using immortals against immortals."

And this time during the engagement, they would find that celestial being who actively seeks wealth and beauty, then start speaking ill of the Divine Martial Monarch, sowing discord.

He was a military strategist adept in employing tactics.

Sowing discord is a common strategy.

This time, he would personally go.

"Must carefully think over the details."

Qu Keshan ignited some incense, rubbed his forehead.

All around was silent, as it was his private mountain cottage.

Whenever there was a major event, he would come to this cottage to nurture some calmness.