"Brother, Chen Jun escaped!" Guan Jie panted as he ran into the house and shouted at Lu Lingzhi, who was playing the flute, "That idiot ran away not long after he left the city. That man has already entered Anhe City with his troops."
Lu Lingzhi's low voice came to a halt.
Mo Rongzhan had led his troops into the city! It was even faster than he had imagined.
"Brother, should we leave this place first?" Guan Jie asked in a low voice.
"No need." Lu Lingzhi placed the jade flute on the table. Wasn't this the moment he was waiting for? "Even if Mo Rongzhan enters the city today, he won't be able to find us.
Guan Jie nodded seriously. It wasn't easy to find them here. It wouldn't be easy for that person to find them. "Brother, are you learning this again?"
Lu Lingzhi picked up the jade flute. "Yes, do you want to learn?"
"No!" Guan Jie immediately shook his head. "It's too unpleasant."
"…" Lu Lingzhi raised his eyebrows and glanced at him. "Do you think I boasted badly?"
Guan Jie nodded honestly. "It doesn't sound good."
"Kids don't know how to appreciate it." Lu Lingzhi was silent for a while. Before he met Qi Ruoshui in the Wilderness, he listened to others playing the flute for him every day. Gradually, he fell in love with the sound of the flute. However, after learning it for so long, it was really not satisfactory. In this aspect, he probably had no talent, but this did not affect his love of playing the flute.
Guan Jie said, "Brother, why are you waiting for that person?"
Lu Lingzhi knew that the person he was talking about was Mo Rongzhan. "Settle the grievances between us."
"He looks very powerful." Guan Jie said worriedly. He felt that his brother was not that person's opponent. Even though they had only exchanged a few moves, he could tell that that person's martial arts were the most powerful he had ever seen.
"I know he's very powerful." Lu Lingzhi smiled faintly. If the master he had once followed wasn't strong, how could he have been willing to use his entire clan to help him. "But … no matter how strong a person is, he still has a weakness."
He knew Mo Rongzhan's weakness the best, so he dared to stay here and face him.
"Weakness?" Guan Jie was unfamiliar with this term. "Does big brother have a weakness?"
Lu Lingzhi chuckled. "Of course humans have weaknesses, unless I'm no longer a human."
His weakness was exactly the same as Mo Rongzhan's.
Guan Jie asked curiously, "What's brother's weakness?"
Ye Zhen's beautiful face appeared in Lu Lingzhi's mind. He smiled faintly, "It's a person."
"What a strange weakness." Guan Jie scratched his head. Even a person could become a weakness.
"Don't go out for the next two days, lest you get discovered." Lu Lingzhi warned him.
"Yes."
…
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After Chen Jun escaped, the morale of the Dark North Kingdom soldiers were reduced to a state of disunity. Ye Chunnan and his men captured all of them without much effort. They captured a total of 10,000 captives. The rest were either killed or escaped. They were utterly defeated.
When Mo Rongzhan led his troops into Anhe City, the citizens all closed their doors and windows, fearing that the Jin soldiers would massacre the entire city.
Mo Rongzhan looked at the empty streets and ordered in a deep voice, "Pass down my order. Any citizen of the Dark North Kingdom who wishes to leave the city can do so before nightfall. If they are willing to become citizens of the Jin Kingdom, I will guarantee that their lives will not change. As long as they pay taxes according to the law, they will be treated as my citizens. There will be no robbing, killing, or plundering!"
"Yes, Your Majesty," Ye Chunnan replied in a low voice.
Very quickly, Mo Rongzhan's decree spread throughout the entire military camp. The streets and alleys were also filled with notices.
Mo Rongzhan came to the General's Residence where Chen Jun lived. The servants were trembling as they knelt in front of the door. The corners of the residence were already filled with Jin Kingdom soldiers.
"Your Majesty, these are the servants of the General's Residence. What should we do with them?" Wang Qu asked.
"Send them out. The servants here must be trustworthy," Mo Rongzhan said in a deep voice. These servants were all citizens of the Dark North Kingdom. He could not be completely at ease. After all, he still wanted to bring Yao Yao over.
Wang Qu immediately agreed. At the same time, he ordered his men to go to Xia State to pick trustworthy servants.
Mo Rongzhan came to the study. When Chen Jun escaped, he did not care about anything. The study was still the same as when he left. On the table were his letters with Hai Gang.
"Your Majesty, look." Ye Chunnan brought in a messenger pigeon. "I saw it outside just now."
Mo Rongzhan took out the letter and sneered after reading it. "A letter from Wan Ziliang."
Ye Chunnan and Murong Ke looked at him. "Wan Ziliang?"
"It seems that if we did not take over Anhe City today, Wan Ziliang would have brought his troops here." Mo Rongzhan snorted. He sat behind the table and picked up a letter to read.
"If we knew this would happen, why didn't we wait for two more days? When Wan Ziliang comes, we can beat him up until he does not dare to fight back." Ye Chunnan said.
Murong Ke said, "Wan Ziliang might not really do what he said."
"Don't worry about Wan Ziliang. We will deal with him sooner or later." Mo Rongzhan said indifferently. "Lu Lingzhi should still be in Anhe City. Find him first."
"Lu Lingzhi should know that Anhe City cannot be defended. Could he have left long ago?" Ye Chunnan said.
Mo Rongzhan snorted. "He will not leave Anhe City. Otherwise, he would not help Chen Jun."
"He did not fight today." Murong Ke said in a low voice.
"Obviously, he wants to lure Your Majesty to Anhe City. This person is cunning. Who knows what he is planning." Ye Chunnan regretted that he did not have the chance to kill Lu Lingzhi in the Wilderness.
Mo Rongzhan's slender fingers lightly tapped on the table. His eyes were dark and deep. "No matter what Lu Lingzhi is planning, I must see him."
Ye Chunnan said. "I will go find him. I will find him even if I have to dig three feet into the ground."
"No, you go and bring Yao Yao here. Let the Sixth Marquis find Lu Lingzhi." Mo Rongzhan said in a low voice. "I am worried about leaving Yao Yao in Xia Zhou."
What if Lu Lingzhi took the opportunity to go to Xia Zhou?
Ye Chunnan originally wanted to ask Murong Ke to go to Xia Zhou. However, he quickly remembered that Murong Ke almost died in the Priest Hall for his sister. He understood the intention of the Emperor's arrangement. "Yes, Your Majesty."
In truth, ever since he knew that Murong Ke had risked his life to save Yaoyao, he would sometimes wish that Murong Ke had appeared earlier. If he had appeared before Yaoyao forgave Mo Rongzhan, then Yaoyao would no longer be an empress who could only live in the palace. He would rather Yaoyao marry an ordinary person than live in a place like the palace.
Murong Ke said, "I will bring people to find Lu Lingzhi now."
"Lu Lingzhi likes to do things the opposite. He will not hide outside the city. He must still be in the city." Mo Rongzhan said.
"Since he stayed in Anhe City, he must not be alone." Murong Ke said faintly. "Although Anhe City is not small, it should not be too difficult to find him."
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(Nine-headed Bird Academy)
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