After the great defeat in the Hengduan Mountains, all of Li Shiwen's official positions and honors disappeared.
When the war just started, he joined the battle as an ordinary soldier.
But on the one hand, he was extremely brave and had made many contributions since the war; on the other hand, Northern Chu had been losing all the time, and many generals had been killed in battle.
By now, he has become a lieutenant general.
Now that Xuan Qin and Bei Chu have entered a confrontation phase and there are fewer fights, Li Shiwen is responsible for the defense of Wuyi City.
When Qin Ran and Li Shiyin found him, he was patrolling the city wall with a team of soldiers.
...He took Qin Ran's words to heart and personally patrolled every day to prevent anyone from setting up an array near Wuyi City.
Qin Ran called him closer and said, "We went to the Xuan Qin military camp today and stabilized the Yuanying stage cultivators. Xuan Qin will not send troops to attack the city in the short term."
“Did you go to the Xuanqin military camp?” Li Shiwen frowned. He looked at Qin Ran and Li Shiyin. The two masters and apprentices were standing side by side with relaxed expressions. He asked, “Are you injured?”
"How could they be injured?" Li Shiyin came to his side, reached out to brush off the snow on his armor, and said arrogantly, "As powerful as I am, they are the ones who got hurt!"
Li Shiwen glanced at her when she heard that and didn't bother to pay attention.
"I'm indeed not injured. I know what I'm doing." Qin Ran said with a smile.
Li Shiwen understood Qin Ran's words. He nodded and felt relieved.
After a pause, he looked at Qin Ran and asked, "I am only a minor general now and do not participate in military affairs. You can tell the general about this information yourself. Why are you telling me all this? I will report it to the general later."
Qin Ran also told him the important information about Xuan Qin's ambitions to target Bei Chu instead of reporting it directly to Li Zhan.
Li Shiwen was a little confused.
"We are of the same age and generation, so it's easier for us to talk..." Qin Ran coughed dryly and said truthfully, "The general makes me nervous. There's actually no special reason."
"Ah?" Li Shiwen was stunned when he heard that.
In his mind, Qin Ran was a kind of immortal master. At least he was a strategist with good plans and a vision. He had already thought about the dark side of Qin Ran's reluctance to meet Li Zhan.
But he never expected that this was the reason!
He realized that Qin Ran's identity as a monk always made him subconsciously ignore Qin Ran's age. He always thought that Qin Ran was very old. But now he suddenly realized that Qin Ran was only a few years older than him.
Li Shiwen looked at Qin Ran again. He was wearing a green shirt and had his hair tied up. He looked very refined and elegant. He was standing in the snow. He looked like a young scholar.
He didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Oh, Daddy is so fierce, who likes to talk to him?" Li Shiyin said at this time.
When Li Shiwen heard this, he also felt that it made sense. Although he was now married and had children, he still felt that Li Zhan was very scary.
"With Shiyin in charge of Wuyi City, Xuanqin will not attack the city before the beginning of spring." Qin Ran walked to the parapet, leaned against the wall, and said to Li Shiwen, "Because they can never deal with the sword energy with sword intent."
Li Shiwen looked at the purple star sword energy standing in front of the city gate and sighed again. He knew that his sister was very powerful, but every time, she would let him know that she was more powerful than he thought.
"Sword energy and sword intent, these things are very powerful, right!?" he asked.
"Sword Qi is actually very common. Generally, any sword cultivator with a little talent can comprehend it. Sword Intention is relatively rare, but it is not something rare either." Qin Ran said with a smile, "But sword intention plus sword Qi is indeed relatively rare."
Li Shiyin reached out and patted Li Shiwen's shoulder, leaning against him, looking at the sword energy outside the city, and said proudly: "Now you know how powerful I am, right?!"
"Yes, yes, you are the best." Li Shiwen said perfunctorily.
There was fine snow falling from the sky, and the star sword energy was isolated in the snow, giving off a sense of vicissitudes that had lasted for eternity.
Qin Ran looked up at the snow falling from the gray sky and suddenly sighed, "However, no matter how powerful Shi Yin is, she can only guarantee that they will not attack the city before the beginning of spring, but she cannot make them retreat. Even if they come to attack the city in the beginning of next spring, the situation is still not optimistic."
"Your Majesty has already sent people to Dayan and Yanhan to lobby, and they are all very powerful people..." Li Shiwen said, "With the information you provided, I believe they will withdraw their troops soon. Wuyi City will soon receive reinforcements."
"This is just one of the points..." Qin Ran said, "Another key point is that if the stalemate continues and Xuan Qin fails to break the city for too long, then Yuntianmen will definitely send more cultivators, and they will definitely be Yuanying sword cultivators.
“So, we have a time limit.” He sighed, “Before the beginning of spring, before Yuntianmen sends Yuanying sword cultivators, this is actually our time to attack, our time to break through. If we miss this opportunity, Beichu will be in danger.”
Qin Ran had instigated two Nascent Soul cultivators from the Wuyin Sword Sect to rebel. These two cultivators would sabotage Xuan Qin's first two attacks. But when the Yuntian Sect sent more Nascent Soul cultivators, they would definitely evacuate directly.
It would be impossible to defend it at that time, and Qin Ran would most likely use the excuse he had used to deceive the two cultivators of the Infinite Sword Sect to deceive other sects.
He knew that would prompt other sects in Northern Chu to take action. However, by that time, Northern Chu would most likely have already disappeared.
Qin Ran turned around and looked out from the parapet. He sighed, "The seven kingdoms all knew that Qin was ambitious and had the ambition to conquer the world. However, they ultimately failed to stop Qin from destroying their own countries. Qin pushed through one country after another and unified the world.
"Is Qin stronger than the six countries combined? No.
“This can be said to be the general trend of the world and a historical inevitability.
"But, it can also be called dominoes, or an avalanche. Have you ever seen an avalanche? Little by little, the snow piles up and rolls down the mountain, getting bigger and bigger, bigger and more powerful, and finally it's like a monstrous force, unstoppable."
He stretched out his hand to catch the falling snowflakes. "Xuan Qin's destruction of Northern Chu was the first snowflake, the beginning of the avalanche. Once Xuan Qin crosses Wuyi City, the trend will take shape and become a foregone conclusion. The avalanche will not only be stopped by Northern Chu, but also by the other five countries in this immortal land."
"Wuyi City is the key to Emperor Xuanqin's plan. He will definitely do everything for it!" Snowflakes melted in his hands. "And the best thing is that this is something that other people in this immortal land don't know. They don't care about the high and mighty immortal sects now.
"This is a steal card, but it's also an open card."
Li Shiwen suddenly couldn't understand what Qin Ran was saying. He could only roughly understand that Wuyi City was very important.
He frowned and asked, "Are you saying that Wuyi City is doomed to fail?"
“No, I mean, the key to victory lies right now.” Qin Ran turned his palm downward, “There is only one way to win, and that is to pin Xuan Qin to death before he can gain momentum!”
The gray sky was covered with white snow. Qin Ran stood on the top of the city wall, stretched out his hand, opened his palm, and pressed forward. The world was in his hands.
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