The stolen magic is a bit magical

Yes, once an emperor has tasted the thrill of success, who would be willing to give it up?

With a large sum of money in hand and a major threat eliminated, the entire population of the prefecture felt deeply grateful for His Majesty's great kindness.

This is a perfect blend of the real and the virtual, taken to the extreme.

Each and every one of them was something the emperor desired most.

For this reason alone, no matter how much nonsense Lin Xiaosu does, His Majesty will cooperate with him.

This is the art of imperial rule.

Let a troublemaker run rampant, use him to get what you want, and if things get too out of hand, just kill the troublemaker to appease public anger.
Lin Xiaosu didn't care whether he would become a tool for His Majesty to sacrifice the world in the future. He only cared about one thing: to quickly gain power and strengthen himself!
Linjiang Prefecture almost perfectly replicated the cleanup of Fuyao Prefecture.

The two Jiangnan prefectures, which were originally adjacent, have thus undergone a color transformation. What does this transformation mean? At first, the sky was dark in both prefectures, but now, it's dawn!
This is called transformation.

This change truly alarmed the other prefecture adjacent to Linjiang Prefecture.

This prefecture is called Xijiang Prefecture, and there is also a sect in Xijiang Prefecture called Qingxuan Sect.

It must be said that all crows are black, and the infiltration of sects into the secular world is contagious. As long as the homework is done well, there will always be people copying it.

The Qingxuan Sect is a latecomer, and it really copied the Dongxuan and Bapan Sects.

They infiltrate government offices, use money and women to win over key figures in the bureaucracy, and then keep an eye on their neighbors to see what they're up to, and then just copy them.

Thus, over the course of several centuries, they, like Dongxuan and Bapan, came to control Xijiang Prefecture, and even more so, their exploitation of the people within their jurisdiction surpassed even their predecessors…

However, the more enjoyable it was to copy homework back then, the more panicked they are now.

Because Dongxuan was destroyed, the Bapan Sect was also destroyed.

A foundation built over thousands of years came to an end overnight.

While causing a stir in official circles, it also caused a sensation in the spiritual path.

All the elders of the Qingxuan Sect gathered at the sect's main peak, which led to a serious division.

The division among the elders did not begin at this time, but rather occurred the day after Dongxuan was destroyed.

However, at that time, the pro-peace faction, led by the Second Elder, was only a small group.

Today, with the destruction of the Eight Plates Sect, the peace faction of the Second Elder's group has gained the upper hand for a time.

The elders all spoke up, saying that those who act according to the times are the heroes. The imperial court is so powerful, while Jiangnan Road is a disorganized mess. Dongxuan was the one who took the lead and was eliminated. Bapan didn't believe in evil and was wiped out.

Now it's our turn, and we...we cannot repeat the same mistakes!
We cannot afford to pay the heavy price of annihilation for those few incompetent troublemakers within our sect.

We can use the greater good as an excuse to bind up the thirteen people with case files in the Ministry of Justice, select high-ranking representatives, and deliver them to the Imperial Envoy. This will also tell the whole world that our Qingxuan Sect is a legitimate sect of the Heavenly Dao, and we have zero tolerance for things that violate the Heavenly Dao, such as oppressing the people!

The Grand Elder, a leading figure of the pro-war faction, turned pale with each passing moment.

You bunch of bastards, you speak so righteously and solemnly, as if you represent the will of Heaven.

But this is none of your business!
Hand over the personnel in the Ministry of Justice who have the case files.

Wouldn't that mean the loss of my most promising son?

Wouldn't the sect leader's second son be gone?
Look at the entire group of pro-peace representatives; they are all people who have no direct connection to this matter.

Of all those who have sons or disciples among them, none are the Lord of Peace.

This is what they call "your position determines your perspective"...

Just as the argument was getting heated, a figure appeared out of thin air. This was a person whose arrival could only be sensed by the sect leader, who was at the Enlightenment Realm.

This is someone whose name is known throughout the entire Jiangnan region, but whose background remains a mystery.

This person is none other than Lord Ye.

When Lord Ye arrived, the sect leader personally greeted him.

Ye Jun sighed, "Your sect is shaken by the destruction of Bapan, but I am filled with mixed feelings of pain and hatred! I grieve for the destruction of Bapan, and I hate Li Daxiu's foolishness and stubbornness!"

"Foolish and stubborn?" The sect leader frowned. "What makes you say that, sir?"

"The night before last, I personally went to the Bapan Sect and clearly told Li Daxiu that Su was using a Yin-Yang array, which was extraordinary. I explicitly warned him not to give Su a chance to set up the array. However, Li Daxiu insisted on competing with Su in array formations, relying on Bapan as the master of array formations. As everyone has seen, Su's array was unfathomable, and Su's method of breaking the array was also suspected to be a direct transmission from an ancient array sect, which led to the complete annihilation of the entire Bapan Sect."

Everyone present was shocked.

They actually knew that Ye Jun had visited the Bapan Sect beforehand.

There was also a vague suspicion in his mind that "Night Lord stirred up trouble," and he more or less blamed Night Lord for the destruction of Bapan.

However, once Ye Jun said that, everyone accepted it.

Ye Jun told the sect leader of the Eight Plates Sect that Su Zei was using an array, which could suppress the cultivation of everyone within the array.

This matter had already reached the Qingxuan Sect through certain channels yesterday.

The elders know this.

However, they did not know the specific details.

But now the details have come out.

Ye Jun reminded Li Daxiu to be careful of the opponent's formation.

Li Daxiu, confident in his position as the leader of the Array Sect, disregarded the opponent's grand array and insisted on challenging them to a duel at their strongest point. The result…

Ye Jun's statement was half true and half false.

On the truth, he did indeed remind the Eight Plates Sect that Su Ze was using an array.

The false part is that he didn't provide any countermeasures. The elders of the Eight Plates Sect planned to use the Eight Plates Ancient Formation to deal with Lin Xiaosu's Yin-Yang Reversal Formation, and he agreed to that at the time.

However, important figures are good at shifting blame.

This method didn't work, so he had to find an excuse. The excuse was easy to find: the entire Eight Plates Sect was blindly confident in themselves and rejected his reasonable suggestions as the Night Lord—anyway, everyone who knew the whole story at the time was gone, and there was no way to verify it.

This caused the rhythm to go off track again.

The Grand Elder sighed softly: "Li Daxiu of Bapan has been famous for his array formations for many years, and even incorporated array formations into his own path. Naturally, he doesn't think much of other array formation masters. He was careless for a moment and that's why he came to his end. However, our sect will never be careless!"

"Exactly!" Ye Jun said, "There's a saying in the world that those who drown in ponds are all good swimmers. But is it their swimming ability that drowns them? No, it's overconfidence and blind arrogance! Learning from the past is a guide for the future. Qingxuan only needs to change his strategy and heed my advice, and he will surely wipe out this villain and his mere three thousand troops with a flick of his wrist, raising a great banner for our Jiangnan region..."

All the debates about war and peace gradually shifted towards a different sentiment in Ye Jun's confident narration.

That's excitement!
Su Lin led three thousand officials of the rank of Zhen out of the capital.

The details of the Zhen-level creature have been basically figured out; it's not a dragon rider and doesn't have much combat power.

They relied on a formation that Su Zei obtained from who-knows-where.

Formations were his only reliance.

Li Daxiu is stubborn; he insists on competing with others in this area of ​​martial arts. Should he just be wiped out?
Our Qingxuan Sect isn't stubborn!

Do not use your weaknesses to attack your enemy's strengths!
We're going all in, let's flip the table!

I won't give you a chance to set up your formation!

how to respond?

It's actually quite simple. There are plenty of Qingxuan Enlightenment experts who closely monitor the sky. Let alone their fifty large warships, even fifty flies would find it impossible to complete the array control under their noses.

As long as we pinpoint their location and prevent them from forming a proper formation, what ability does Su Ze have to suppress the Qingxuan Sect based on their true skills?

This is the best solution to the current crisis.

There was also a big pie that made everyone in the Qingxuan Sect, from the sect leader down to the elders, very excited.

Everyone in Jiangnan Road understands this very well.

This is a disorganized mess.

Everyone has their own selfish motives; better to die for a fellow Daoist than for a poor one.

Therefore, when the imperial army pressed on Bapan, Qingxuan did not help Bapan.

Now that the imperial army is pressing on Qingxuan, it's best not to expect other sects to help Qingxuan. After all, there are many taboos against being an enemy of the imperial dynasty. The imperial dynasty has many powerful cultivators, the mysterious and unpredictable Hidden Dragon Guards, and the power of the imperial seal that can make powerful cultivators back down. For the sake of other sects, it would be foolish for a sect to send itself into a life-or-death struggle with the imperial dynasty...

Currently, the only person who has stepped forward to offer advice and solutions to the sect's pressure from outside the sect is probably Ye Jun.

Therefore, what he said was particularly persuasive.

The promise he made to Qingxuan was this: The current situation in the entire Jiangnan region is very delicate. As long as you, Qingxuan, can exert the greatest pressure on the dynasty, you will become the standard-bearer of Jiangnan. You don't need to worry about not having supporters. People may not be able to openly support you, but they will support you secretly. On that day, you will be the ninth banner of Jiangnan.

Why is it the ninth page?

There are already eight sects in Jiangnan Dao – sects that possess the power of the "Zhi" realm are called "Zhi" sects.

The other sects are not at the level of the Enforcer Realm; they are just ordinary sects. But Qingxuan, you can become the standard-bearer of these ordinary sects, thereby gaining influence comparable to that of the Enforcer Realm.

A set of countermeasures that can produce immediate results.

A set of basic theories that everyone will agree with as soon as they hear it.

From the sect leader down to the elders, everyone in the Qingxuan Sect was as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood, so the pro-peace faction had no room to speak.

The pro-war faction has seized control of the discourse.

The sect leader made the final decision: The imperial court's trip to Jiangnan was essentially a test. Those who could not withstand the immense pressure would, from then on, the Jiangnan region would follow His Majesty's lead.

When that day comes, what advantages will any sects still have?

Each of us is just like those peasants!
How can I tolerate this?

For the sake of the sect's future generations and for the sake of the cultivation environment, we must kill that traitor Su!

As night fell, Lin Xiaosu strode through the air and entered the Qingxuan Sect.

The main peak of the Qingxuan Sect was brightly lit.

The Qingxuan Sect Master strode out of the Sect Master Hall, followed by hundreds of high-ranking elders.

Lin Xiaosu strolled over under the moonlight, followed by Zhang Tao, Kuanglang, Fufu, and ten personal guards.

If the pressure from the Qingxuan Sect Master is like the galaxy in the sky...

Lin Xiaosu's faint smile was like the sunshine of spring.

"Su Lin, you brat, I know why you've come!" the Qingxuan Sect Master said coldly.

Lin Xiaosu's smile vanished completely: "So, you've already made your choice?"

As soon as the voice fell, a faint light suddenly appeared in the sky.

This is the harbinger of the activation of the Sky Yin-Yang Reversal Array.

However, the Qingxuan Sect Master let out a long laugh!
As soon as he burst into laughter, dozens of people suddenly appeared in the sky!
They're all enlightened gods!

They appeared simultaneously ahead of fifty warships.

The thousand-foot-tall Dharma body was incredibly refined, just like a real body!
The admiral leading the 50th Fleet suddenly raised the large flag in his hand, accelerating the formation of the great formation.

However, dozens of Enlightened Gods attacked simultaneously, unleashing their full power before the great formation had even fully taken shape.

Boom...

Dozens of loud explosions rang out in one continuous sound. Fifty warships shook simultaneously; although they weren't completely destroyed, all of them were thrown from their positions.

That single golden glimmer in the sky was fleeting.

"Kill!" The Qingxuan Sect Master felt much more at ease.

"Kill!" all the elders roared in unison...

At that moment, they saw hope!
Every formation needs a base and space to set it up. There are fifty top elders in the sky, occupying all the space. Let's see how you set up your formation!

If the battle formation fails, then we can only rely on our own combat strength!
As for their combat strength, what are the mere three thousand men that Su Lin led?

When Lin Xiaosu saw the army of elders coming from all directions, a smile suddenly appeared on his face—a smile that was mocking!
Without a sound, golden patterns spread throughout the void!
The world suddenly turned upside down!

This reversal caused all the realms of enlightenment to fall like dumplings from the sky.

Although all the Enlightened Gods could barely control their figures in the air, their incredibly refined true essence images were shattered, and the vast starry river behind the head of the sect leader and the two Enlightened Rulers beside him was suddenly annihilated.

The sect leader sensed the sudden change in the energy of heaven and earth, and sweat poured out of his back with a soft splatter: "An array..."

Lin Xiaosu laughed loudly: "Directly occupying the sky and the base of the formation, do you think I, the one who set up the formation, can't think of any way to break the formation that you can think of? What a foolish idea!"

Before the words had even faded, Zhang Tao shot into the sky!

His body transformed into countless shadows, and wherever he went, he killed all the enlightened gods. Then, the countless shadows merged into one, and with a single slash, he killed one enlightened monk.

boom!
The cliff beneath Lin Xiaosu's feet collapsed, and Mad Wolf flew up, bursting out from the dense crowd of elders. Amidst the rain of blood, his fist, like a blooming red lotus, struck the sect leader.

A black and white shadow appeared beneath Lin Xiaosu's feet, and with a whoosh!
An enlightened elder died and his cultivation vanished.

He rose straight up from beside the headless elder and suddenly appeared in the sky.

High above the heavens, the seventy top elders tasked with attacking the array base were overjoyed at having accomplished the monumental feat of destroying the array base and rendering it inoperable. Suddenly, the world spun before them, their energy became chaotic, and their hearts were filled with disbelief…

The foundation of the formation has been destroyed, so why can the great formation still be formed?

Just then, a figure stepped on the black and white shadows and ascended into the void. With a wave of his hand, a misty Jiangnan landscape appeared in the void within a hundred miles!
All the flowers have fallen, only one petal flies away!

These are the tears shed by those who parted that day.

The tears shed at this parting, the fallen flowers, were actually the seventy-odd Enlightened Gods, all of whom turned into blood mist and merged into a large blood-red flower!
It formed a flower in flight!

This flower flew towards the Qingxuan Sect Master!

The Qingxuan Sect Master had just clashed head-on with the Mad Wolf, knocking the wolf down into the valley. However, he himself was also propelled high into the sky by the force of the counterattack, directly landing under the shroud of Lin Xiaosu's flower.

This flower, this moment, is a time-space turbulence.

Similar to a moving sky-shattering event!
puff!
With a soft tremor, the sect leader was swept into a spatial-temporal turbulence.

"Spatial Laws, who exactly are you...?"

The sound abruptly stopped, and the entire world fell into an eerie silence.

The mad wolf soared into the sky with an extremely fierce gust of wind. Above, the Qingxuan Sect Master was gone, and only Lin Xiaosu, who was refined and handsome like a philanderer from Jiangnan, was looking down at a valley in the void with the refined demeanor that she used to hate the most. The moonlight came from above his head. This dashing and handsome appearance made Fufu below see stars.

Without a sound, Lin Xiaosu stepped down into the deep valley.

Mad Wolf took a deep breath to clear her mind of any sudden distractions, turned and rushed down a hill, beginning her familiar hunting operation...

All the processes were familiar.

They have already gone through two rounds.

Lin Xiaosu's itinerary was also familiar: she broke into the Qingxuan Sect's treasure vault and collected all the cultivation resources with a wave of her hand.

Faced with those gold, silver, jewels, and jade artifacts...

His heart stirred slightly.

For him, acquiring these worldly treasures was merely a matter of a single thought.

However, he still gave up.

Let's leave this harvest to the warriors. If he takes it and then hands it over, his spatial storage techniques will be exposed, and everyone will probably realize that he also took the cultivation resources from the previous two sects.

The destruction of the three sects may seem identical, but there are ultimately some differences.

The "Dongxuan" technique is purely about catching the opponent off guard and annihilating them completely without their knowledge of the techniques used.

The Eight Plates formation was designed to provoke the opponent's arrogance. They knew they were using a formation, but the Eight Plates formation was the pinnacle of formations, and they were very confident in their ancient Eight Plates formation.

Qingxuan, however, is not a sect specializing in formations. They do not harbor such illusions. Instead, they directly adopt countermeasures against the formation path, occupying the entire sky and preventing your formation foundation from taking root.

If Lin Xiaosu really placed her bet on these warships, she's clearly going to lose today.

However, he has never been one to take a gamble.

He is a person who always has a plan for everything he does.

The fleet can indeed occupy a position and activate the Sky Yin-Yang Reversal Array.

However, it is not only the fleet that can activate the Sky Yin-Yang Reversal Array.

He still had forty-nine personal guards.

He carried ten with him, and there were thirty-nine more.

These 39 people were on another mission: they were deployed on the ground and lay in wait at their designated locations.

With their air fleet thwarted, they took over and completed Plan B.

Who would have thought that such a small group of people would have a Plan B?

Even if they knew, who could stop a master of the Enlightenment Realm whose basic functions are infiltration, assassination, and defense, from a purposeful ambush in the dark?
Everything was successful, and Lin Xiaosu returned to the sect's main peak. Looking at the horrific massacre around him, his heart pounded fiercely.

The third batch of resources has been successfully acquired.

This means that his most important nirvana on his spiritual path has become possible.

What is Nirvana?
Break into enlightenment!

Enlightenment, transforming into a thousand-foot-tall being, destroys a city with a single palm strike...

This was a long time ago, a dreamlike spectacle of cultivation, and the ultimate vision of the cultivation path in that world.

This profound realm of cultivation, this worldly realm of immortals, is finally about to arrive in him!

With the power of the Dongxuan Extinction Sect, his saccharine sea and every cell in his body were opened. He poured the resources of the entire sect into his energy, filling it to eighty percent full.

Next up is the Eight Plates Sect.

He refined all the resources of the Eight Plates Sect, thinking that everything should be full now, and he should be able to break through to the Enlightenment Realm directly.

However, reality once again told him that self-perception was unreliable.

He refined all the resources of the Eight Plates Sect, which indeed filled all his containers to the brim and spontaneously compressed them, forming countless crystals within his body. The area below his Sea of ​​Wheels truly became liquid "water," and there was also liquid "water" in his cells. True essence finally appeared, but this could not be considered a true state of enlightenment; at most, it could only be considered a half-step state of enlightenment.

And now we've acquired another resource.

He estimated that he could truly compress all the true energy in his body into true essence.

Theoretically, enlightenment is within reach tonight!

The combined efforts of three sects were used to help him achieve his level of enlightenment.

What kind of enlightenment would this be?

This is probably what all cultivators in the world are looking forward to, and of course, the one who looks forward to it the most is Lin Xiaosu herself!
Despite conquering three strongholds in quick succession during their journey south of the Yangtze River, the real challenge was yet to come.

The current smooth sailing depends on the ego of practitioners; everyone expects other forces to suffer heavy losses so that they can benefit.

This kind of cultivation dictionary that prioritizes the survival of fellow practitioners over one's own is not an inviolable rule.

When the situation becomes more urgent, and when his journey to Jiangnan truly touches the lifeline of the entire Jiangnan region, all the established rules will be broken.

Various conventional and unconventional methods will be introduced.

It's time for a targeted elimination operation against him personally.

If it were a normal Wu Gui making a move, Zhang Tao might have been able to hold off one wave.

What if it's something unusual?

Zhang Tao is also unreliable.

The only person you can truly rely on is yourself!
Only if he possesses the ability to kill Wu Gui with a single blow, and only if he possesses the ability to withstand a blow from a Zhi Jing, can he truly be safe.

Because the state of being is not so easily changed.

When Zhijing could no longer kill him with a single blow, Zhijing dared not make a move.

Because this realm of power will be exposed, and once exposed, the sect behind him and he himself will be included in the list of key "care" targets of the imperial court. The realm of power cannot afford such a huge price.

If it reaches this stage, that's the kind of pace Lin Xiaosu likes.

This stage represents an equal status between the two sides in the game, where there is no longer a difference between an ant and a celestial being; victory or defeat depends solely on the means of the game itself.

The question now is whether he can truly break through to the realm of enlightenment.

After breaking through to the Enlightenment Realm, will he be able to kill Wu Gui head-on, just as easily as he killed an Enlightenment God?

Even, it could block a single blow from a powerful being!
"My lord! Everything went smoothly!" Zhang Tao landed in the air.

"My lord, the treasure vault has been found. The Qingxuan Sect's wealth is slightly less than the previous two sects; the amount of waste gold is only about three million." Mad Wolf appeared carrying a specially made box.

Looking at the box, Lin Xiaosu almost laughed.

Why?

Because this box looks familiar.

The Dongxuan Sect filled this box with 470 million units of waste gold and presented it to His Majesty. His Majesty kept the gold, but had Zhang Tao bring the empty box back. The second time, after the Bapan Sect was destroyed, Zhang Tao filled the box with another 360 million units of waste gold and presented it to His Majesty. His Majesty happily accepted the gold, but again had Zhang Tao bring the empty box back.

Your Majesty, this blatant love of money and undisguised habit of demanding things have probably become ingrained.

Lin Xiaosu asked, "Have the soldiers' rewards been distributed yet?"

"It's been distributed. According to the adults' standards, it's all been distributed in full." The pockmarks on Mad Wolf's face were now gleaming.

Not every military commander is greedy.

At least Mad Wolf isn't.

She was the illegitimate daughter of Li Yafu, the head of the military guild. From birth, she was never treated as a girl (of course, she treated herself as a girl, but others didn't treat her as a girl either). She didn't care about spending money on cosmetics, jewelry, or any other such things. What would she need money for?

What she loves is going to the battlefield.

But there are times when she can't stand it, for example, when her subordinates feel that there is no future in following her.

Now things are much better. After each battle, the soldiers receive a generous reward of one hundred gold coins. Upon arriving at a prefecture, the soldiers send their newly acquired rewards home through money exchanges. Before the money reaches their families, the remittances for the next batch are already on their way.

The soldiers were all like they'd been injected with chicken blood; their combat skills and fighting spirit surged, far more effective than when she used to whip them.

She was excited. (End of Chapter)