The initial high-level battle plan formulated by the Xuan Qin court was to make a concerted effort to capture Northern Chu before the end of the year.
Unfortunately, Zhao Li encountered Li Zhan's tactic of defending Wuyi City to the death and was unable to take it down for a long time.
He finally had to change his battle plan and capture Wuyi City before the snow fell.
Then, unfortunately, he encountered Li Shiyin again. After he broke through the city regardless of the losses, he had to retreat because of Li Shiyin's sword energy.
Now, the snow was falling, and he was left alone in the territory of Northern Chu with 200,000 Xuan Qin soldiers, confronting Wuyi City.
Zhao Li really didn't want to confront here, but he really couldn't command those cultivators, so he had no way to deal with the star sword energies in front of Wuyi City.
In this war, he had to rely on those monks all the time, so he was controlled by them. If they said not to advance, then he would not advance; if they said not to retreat, then he would not retreat.
From the moment he received Elder Zi Yi's order to withdraw his troops, Zhao Li's anger never subsided. He was extremely dissatisfied with the cultivators in the Xuan Qin Army, but he had no way to deal with it.
The reasons for this are:
Xuan Qin wants to take over Bei Chu, but they don’t care whether they are cultivators from the Wuyin Sword Sect or the Yuntian Sect!
You want to take Beichu, what does it have to do with me? It's just a trivial matter in the mortal kingdom...
Zi Yi didn't know what the Yuntian Sect's top leaders were thinking. He didn't know why the sect wanted to support a mortal kingdom, nor did he want to know. He came here to follow orders and to earn spirit stones.
He is just a bystander. He has no loyalty to the Xuanqin royal family. As a Nascent Soul cultivator, he naturally will not work hard for Xuanqin.
When he found that Li Shiyin was difficult to deal with and might pose a threat to his life, he had already started to back down.
As for the two people from the Infinite Sword Sect, they came to kill Qin Ran, not to help Xuan Qin take down Bei Chu. Now that Qin Ran has not shown up, they will naturally not take action.
But... they all felt that they couldn't retreat. How could they earn spirit stones if they retreated from Zi Yi? How could they kill Qin Ran if they retreated from Wu Yin Jian Zong?
Fortunately, not all Xuanqin cultivators are as heartless and ungrateful as Zi Yi. There are still some who are loyal to the emperor and love the country. Although these cultivators cannot solve the sword energy problem in front of Wuyi City, they can help solve the logistics problems of the Xuanqin army.
The cultivators have Qiankun bags and can fly, so it is not too easy to transport food. This is also the reason why Zhao Li did not choose to forcibly withdraw his troops due to the long logistics supply line from Xuanqin to Beichu.
On the Xuanqin side, Zhao Li was waiting for the beginning of spring and for several senior officers in the army to take action; while on the Beichu side, although the city was defended, it was still lifeless and people were still waiting to die.
Because the people of Wuyi City still see no hope of victory.
This city had actually been conquered by Xuan Qin, but it was only held on by Li Shiyin.
When Xuan Qin launched its next attack, Xuan Qin sent out high-level cultivators to hold back Li Shiyin, but Bei Chu still couldn't withstand it.
So Li Zhan had to deal with the city's political and military affairs while trying to stabilize the people's and the army's morale...
Therefore, everyone in Wuyi City knew that the white tiger squatting on the top of the city wall was a guardian beast that tread on darkness, swallowed the sun and the moon, and used golden elixirs to whet its appetite and Yuanying as food. It would guard Northern Chu and protect Wuyi.
As a result, every day for the past two days, people in the city went to the foot of the city wall to burn incense and pray for Zhuifeng. Zhuifeng's snow-white hair was turned gray by the smoke.
Li Zhan promoted Li Shiyin as a natural swordsman. He said that she could destroy dozens of golden elixirs with one sword and fight three or four Yuanyings alone.
Compared to Zhuifeng who relied entirely on his good appearance to gain the trust of the people of Wuyi City, Li Shiyin relied on the terrifying sword energy in front of Wuyi City that was taller than the city wall.
For the people of Wuyi City, it is a visible and tangible miracle and hope.
There were also rumors in the city that on the night of defending the city, the fireworks that occasionally bloomed in the sky were the enemies killed by Li Jianxian when he was fighting against the enemy's evil monks. Each firework represented a Jindan monk being killed by Li Jianxian.
The fireworks that night were witnessed by everyone, so not only the common people in the city, but even the soldiers in the city knew that there was an unparalleled and invincible swordsman guarding the city, and the morale was finally not so low.
Li Shiyin and Zhuifeng did indeed dispel a lot of the dead air in the city.
In the study room of the City Lord's Mansion, Li Zhan was handling government affairs at his desk, while Li Shiyin moved a chair and sat in front of the bookshelf, picking up a book and flipping through it.
After Li Zhan dealt with the defense affairs in the city, he turned around to look at Li Shiyin under the bookshelf and saw that Li Shiyin was really reading a book.
He found that the child was really different this time when he came back.
This difference not only refers to the fact that she displayed her astonishing power in front of them for the first time, making them fully understand that she is really a very powerful monk, but also means that she is no longer the impetuous little girl. She has become much more restrained and calm.
My daughter has matured and started to behave like a girl.
Li Zhan sighed in his heart, but he knew that whether Northern Chu could survive this disaster depended on her.
"How is your brother?" he asked. He had been so busy these days that he had no time to check on Li Shiwen's condition.
Li Shiyin heard the voice and looked up at Li Zhan. Li Zhan was only fifty years old this year. She remembered that when she went out at the beginning of the year, Li Zhan still had black hair and few wrinkles, as if he was in his prime. But now, wrinkles covered his face and his hair was almost half white.
In just one year, he had aged more than twice.
Li Shiyin sighed in her heart. She finally watched her father grow old. Just like she thought her grandfather would never die, she also thought her father would never grow old. But her grandfather died and her father grew old.
"My brother's injury has healed, but he is overworked and needs to sleep more," she replied.
In fact, Li Shiyin didn't know what Li Shiwen's condition was. She was a sword cultivator, how could she heal injuries and illnesses?
"I've slept for three days..." said Li Zhan.
"I have the elixir!" Li Shiyin comforted her, "Don't worry."
Li Zhan looked at her and decided to believe her.
He turned around and continued to handle his affairs, with his back to Li Shiyin, and said, "You don't have to stay with me all the time. I'm fine."
"What if the cultivators from Xuan Qin come to assassinate us?" Li Shiyin asked.
How could this child have thought of such darkness?
Li Zhan was puzzled and replied, "Actually, there is no need. Because killing me or not killing me will have little impact...it will be more harm than good."
It's not that we can't kill, it's that there's no need to.
"Go see your brother, accompany your sister-in-law, or go to the city to relax..." He said, "Xuan Qin will not attack the city again for a while."
"Okay..." Li Shiyin nodded.
She stayed with Li Zhan for a while longer, finished reading the book on swordsmanship in her hand, then stood up, put the book back on the bookshelf, and walked outside.
Sitting quietly and reading a book has never been her character.
Li Shiyin opened the study door, walked out, stretched, and looked up...
The snow had been falling for three days and was getting heavier. In the gray sky, the snow fell in small pieces like salt.
This sky is so depressing, she thought.
She turned around and walked slowly along the corridor. After just two steps, she found someone at the corner of the corridor. She looked over and her eyes widened instantly. Light burst out of her eyes. She laughed and ran over shouting:
"master!!"
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