At night.

Jiang Li heard the sounds of fighting coming from the front, and occasional dull explosions.

She knew that the fighting on the Shura battlefield must have started again.

But her 50,000 imperial guards were still stationed there and did not move.

"Has your marshal not returned yet?"

Jiang Li looked at the deputy commander of the Great Wall Army next to her with some anxiety. Now everything was up to this deputy commander to coordinate with her.

Obviously, the deputy commander also knew what Jiang Li was thinking. He quickly said:

"Your Majesty, the Marshal is still fighting the enemy upstream and has not returned yet. Please give us some more time. We can kill the enemy anytime. The 50,000 Imperial Guards Your Majesty brought are a surprise force, so there should be a chance for a surprise attack. The Marshal has indeed made arrangements, so we just need to wait for him to return."

After hearing this, Jiang Li had no choice but to continue waiting patiently.

Unfortunately, she heard the sounds of fighting in front and knew that her soldiers were sacrificing themselves, but she could only stay in the rear with 50,000 imperial guards.

This feeling is very unpleasant.

"His Majesty."

At this time, Dao Nu also came back.

"How's the investigation going?"

"These four families are very cunning. I'm afraid they knew we would secretly track them down, so they didn't make any unusual moves after returning. They do have some food in their granaries, but it's not much, and it's definitely not enough to last them through the winter... I suspect they must have secretly stored it in their Heavenly Storage Bags."

Dao Nu had just finished speaking when the deputy commander standing next to him gritted his teeth and said:

"They have food! We went there before to buy it and saw mountains of it. But they asked for five times the price at once, so we couldn't buy it."

Jiang Li comforted them, "Don't worry. I promised you that I would put these four families in order. I will not let the Great Wall Army fight on the battlefield with empty stomachs anymore!"

Three days passed in a flash.

The deadline for the four major families to pay grain is approaching.

Finally, more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages set out from the granaries of the four major families. Several old farmers drove the carriages, their faces filled with fear, as if they were walking a path to the underworld. After much difficulty, they finally arrived at the foot of the mountain that protected the fortress.

"Our four great families have collected some food from every household and sent it to the Great Wall Army. This time, the four great families said they won't raise the price. They only hope that after the Great Wall Army has eaten its fill, they can fight the enemy well."

Dao Nu personally went to inspect the grains and found that they were all coarse grains with sand mixed in them.

She angrily grabbed the old farmer who was leading the group and lifted him up.

"How dare you play tricks on His Majesty? You're courting death!!"

"Master, please spare us, please spare us! We dare not do that. We are just following orders. If we don't come to deliver the food, we will be beaten to death..."

These old farmers knelt down one after another and began to kowtow:

"Please, sir. Let us go. We really don't know anything."

Dao Nu was startled, and glanced at the old farmers. He found that their faces were covered with traces of weathering, their eyes were full of fear, their hands and feet were covered with calluses, and there were also cuts from the cold...

This is a real old farmer.

It seems that the four major families deliberately asked them to come and deliver food.

This is disgusting!

They are relying on the imperial edict of the late emperor, relying on the hundreds of thousands of people watching, and relying on the fact that Jiang Li and others cannot produce any evidence, so they are disgusting people here without restraint.

If you want food, there’s no way!

Dao Nu gritted his teeth and said, "Very good. Take your food back. Then tell the four great families that His Majesty has given them a chance. It's them who didn't cherish it!"

After saying this, Dao Nu quickly returned and reported the entire matter to Jiang Li.

After hearing this, Jiang Li just said coldly:

"Since you are so stubborn, don't blame me for being ruthless! Aren't they threatening me with the imperial edict? They will soon find out that there is one person in this world for whom the imperial edict has no effect!"

Without any extra moves, she directly took out the Tianya Haijiao Conch...

…

These days.

Lin Che mostly stayed on Sunflower's ancient ship.

Now that the two have reached a cooperation, they will start looking for the "treasure".

If they found it first, they would most likely be able to practice the ninth-grade technique right away.

But unfortunately, after searching along the defensive wall for so many days, even landing the ancient ship on the surface of the cold pond and going upstream to search carefully, there was still no discovery.

In the end, Lin Che began to suspect that she had been deceived by this little loli.

"Ahua, you're not lying to me, are you? We've been searching for days and we haven't found anything!"

"Hate it, my name is Flower Fairy!"

As Sunflower spoke, she crossed out another spot on the notebook.

She analyzed, "If that place isn't the defensive fortress, then it's either the real Great Wall of Destiny or the Shura Battlefield. But I doubt it's in either of these two places. After all, there are too many Great Wall troops stationed in these two places, and they often collapse in the face of attack. It's impossible to hide!"

Lin Che said simply, "If that's the case, then let's look for it in the Great Wall of Fortune."

"It's not that easy! The Great Wall of Fortune isn't like a defensive fortress. Outsiders are strictly prohibited from entering the front. Marshal Li Zhenjiang has a bad temper. There's a guard every three steps and a sentry every five steps. It's impossible to investigate."

"We are the Eight Gates of the Divine Palace. Don't we even look down on the Emperor? We are the guardians of the country on behalf of the Heaven. Can he, Li Zhenjiang, stop the Eight Gates of the Divine Palace?"

Xiangyanghua was unusually serious. "It's true. This Li Zhenjiang's cultivation has long been at the eighth level, or rather, he has reached the great perfection of the eighth level. The pinnacle of the pinnacle. He even said that the Great Wall of Fortune is a place of military strategy, and if the Eight Gates of the Divine Palace dare to trespass, he will chop them all down with a single blow!"

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