Daoist Master Si Tuan looked at Luo Xiuling and the other young officials of Qingluo City. Although they were trembling with fear, Daoist Master Si Tuan knew that he could not punish them.
Luo Xiuling is the Prime Minister of Lingqi Dao Kingdom, the Governor of Fengling Prefecture, and the Lord of Qingluo City. What does this represent in the system of the Da Dao Court?
It means that Luo Xiuling has her own power and foundation, and that her family is a big family in Fenglingzhou, a family that has been deeply rooted here for many years and has basic strength and support.
Even if she was guilty of losing the city this time, a powerful person from the Pure Realm had come to the Heavenly Court, and it was the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady. Could she be blamed for this? It seemed that she could not be blamed entirely.
Therefore, Taoist Master Si Tuan only reprimanded Luo Xiuling, but did not change her position, which was not something that could be changed casually.
Especially when Luo Xiuling reported the loss of the city to Taoist Master Si Tuan, Taoist Master Si Tuan felt heartbroken.
According to the report from Luo Xiuling and others, Qingluo City lost 600 million dust-class points and nearly 200 million dust-class points of precious materials and supplies, so the total loss was about 800 million dust-class points, which is equivalent to the taxes paid by Fenglingzhou in 16 years.
Faced with the losses reported by Luo Xiuling and others, Taoist Master Si Tuan said nothing, but signed an edict to exempt Fengling Prefecture from taxes for the next sixteen years.
Luo Xiuling and others naturally expressed their gratitude to Taoist Master Si Tuan for his great kindness on behalf of the people of Fengling Prefecture. However, they felt relieved in their hearts because fortunately, their losses could be made up.
Did Qingluo City really lose so much? Only they themselves knew. The most the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady could have taken away was around 100 million dust, but they directly reported 800 million dust.
So, apart from the actual loss of 100 million dust, the remaining 700 million dust fell into their own pockets, because Taoist Master Si Tuan exempted taxes for the next 16 years, but this did not mean that the people of Fenglingzhou did not have to pay taxes. It was just that the taxes for these 16 years fell into the hands of Luo Xiuling and others.
After arranging the affairs of Qingluo City as quickly as possible, Taoist Master Si Tuan immediately set off to the west, because according to the report from Luo Xiuling and others, the Queen Mother of the West was heading west with the two thousand heavenly soldiers.
What was west of Qingluo City? It was Yunze City in Mingzhou. Daoist Master Si Tuan immediately headed towards Yunze City.
When he entered the territory of Mingzhou, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. There was no aura of other Qingjing cultivators in Mingzhou, and there was not even any sign of destruction along the way.
Could it be that the people from Heaven haven't arrived yet? Thinking of this, Daoist Master Si Tuan breathed a sigh of relief. This must be the case. The people from Heaven have entered Lingqi Dao Country, and they will definitely not be too arrogant now that they have been exposed.
So they must be hiding and moving at the slowest speed, so they haven't entered Mingzhou yet.
Thinking of this, although Daoist Master Si Tuan felt relieved, he still quickened his pace and arrived at Yunze City in just thirteen hours.
After arriving at Yunze City, Daozun Si Tuan directly summoned the governor of Mingzhou and ordered him to immediately issue an order to mobilize all the state's heroes to assemble in Yunze City to prepare to resist the enemy.
Just three days later, 30,000 soldiers from all over the city of Qiongming gathered in Yunze City, and Taoist Master Si Tuan took charge of Yunze City. He then released his divine consciousness to cover the entire city of Qiongming. As long as Jiu Tian Xuan Nu and others entered the territory of Qiongmingzhou, he could sense it immediately.
However, ten full days passed, and Daoist Master Si Tuan found no signs of the Heavenly Court army entering Mingzhou.
"Are their concealment skills really that powerful?" Daoist Master Si Tuan was puzzled, but he quickly dismissed the idea. "Impossible! Even if they were skilled in flying techniques, I would have been able to detect them entering Mingzhou."
Thinking of this, Taoist Master Si Tuan immediately made a decision. He once again used the 'Five Spirits Mysterious Wind' to cover the entire airspace of Mingzhou, and then sent out 10,000 soldiers to patrol Mingzhou.
Whether it was Wu Ling Xuan Feng or the soldiers sent out, their role wasn't to hold off the Heavenly Court army, but to provide an 'alarm'. If any of them engaged the enemy, if it was Wu Ling Xuan Feng, he would immediately sense it. And if it was these soldiers, once they engaged the Heavenly Court, any movement they made would be detected by his divine sense.
But after another ten days, Taoist Si Tuan still found nothing, as if the group of people in Heaven had suddenly disappeared.
"Could it be that they didn't come to Mingzhou at all?" Taoist Master Si Tuan frowned, and the map of Lingqi Dao Kingdom flashed through his mind. From Qingluo City to the west, there was Yunze City in the middle, Longxi City above, and Shangyuan City below. So if the Queen Mother of the West didn't come to Yunze City, did she go to Longxi City?
However, no news came from Longxi City. If the Heavenly Court army really went to Longxi City, it would be impossible that no news came after twenty days.
Thinking of this, Daoist Master Si Tuan immediately prepared to go to Longxi City to take a look. However, just as he was about to leave, a man with wounds all over his body, tattered clothes and a frightened face rushed into the main hall of the Yunze City Palace.
When he saw Taoist Master Si Tuan sitting in the main hall, he immediately wailed, then rushed forward and knelt in the middle of the hall.
"Uncle!" The man cried out to Taoist Master Si Tuan, then knelt on the ground and kowtowed, crying extremely sadly.
Seeing this scene, Taoist Master Si Tuan was stunned. This man was his elder brother's son, that is, his nephew 'Si Xing', who was now the prime minister in his Lingqi Taoist country.
But...Si Xing shouldn't be here!
Daoist Master Si Tuan suddenly felt his scalp tingle. He stood up abruptly and asked, "Si Xing, aren't you in Zixi City? Why are you here in Yunze City?"
Si Xing raised his head, tears streaming down his face. "Uncle! I went to Shangyuan City first, but the three Dao Masters said you went to Qingluo City, so I went to Qingluo City again. Luo Shangqing of Qingluo City then said you went to Yunze City, so I rushed to Yunze City again."
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