On February 2nd, the dragon raised its head. Today is the day for all candidates in Qin State to take the exam. This scientific examination system, which was founded since Emperor Shengde was around, provides Qin State with a group of outstanding talents every year.

Just as all the candidates were actively taking the exam, Emperor Kaiyuan in the Golden Palace also received his own test paper.

The national teacher Yu Zhan, the emperor guarded Yan Boke, Gao Jing, the minister of the imperial guards and commander of the Black Armor Army, and the leader of the secret guards all stood under the dragon case in the Golden Palace.

Emperor Kaiyuan was holding a letter, and there were only nine words on it. But it was these nine words that made Emperor Kaiyuan fall into extreme anger.

Emperor Kaiyuan walked off the dragon throne and handed the letter in his hand to Gao Jing first and said, "Look at it."

After Gao Jing took it respectfully, he saw the letter with blood written in "The one who killed me, Yongqi, Xiao Zhuijun", and his eyes turned red and said, "This is the handwriting of Emperor Shengde! Where did you get it from?"

As a student who was with Emperor Shengde when he was young, Emperor Shengde's handwriting was very familiar to Gao Jing.

Emperor Kaiyuan said: "It was after the morning court today that the eunuch passing by the Jinluan Palace saw that the door was open, and he felt something was wrong. He asked the guards to come in and check it. They found a standing envelope on the dragon case and then presented it."

Gao Jing knelt down and said, "I deserve to die! I didn't know if someone broke into the palace."

"I have summoned you here to ask you for your crime." Emperor Kaiyuan took the blood letter from Gao Jing's hand and said to the four people in front of him, "You are the four people I trust the most now. I want to confirm the status of Emperor Shengde when he wrote this blood letter."

The leader of the secret guard wearing a black veil hat knelt down and said, "Please let me see you."

Emperor Kaiyuan handed the blood letter in his hand to the leader of the secret guard.

The leader of the secret guard smelled the blood on the paper and touched the nine blood words with his fingers. He said to Emperor Kaiyuan: "Your Majesty, Emperor Shengde was not poisoned when he wrote this letter, and the nine words were evenly powerful, obviously written before being killed. The subordinates speculated that either Emperor Shengde had a premonition of the crisis and left this letter to His Majesty first, or Emperor Shengde was coerced to write this letter. But no matter which possibility, the letter appeared in the Golden Palace, and all pointed to one point. That is, someone wanted His Majesty to start a war against the State of Wei."

As the leader of the secret guard of the Qin royal family, his reconnaissance and reasoning are within his expertise.

Emperor Kaiyuan nodded, looked at Yanboke again and said, "What do you think, Senior Yanboke?"

Yan Boke replied: "I thought something was strange back then. It was logical that it was not difficult for them to kill Emperor Shengde to destroy the body, but they left Emperor Shengde's body there for me to find it and brought it back to Qin. Even if this was regarded as Wei's provocation against Qin, let alone Wei at that time, they were not opponents of Qin now. It is obvious that someone wanted us to know that it was Wei's attack, but that person also knew that Qin's war against Wei needed time to prepare. He was waiting there for an opportunity, an opportunity for both Qin and Wei. This blood letter was a last move left by the man, and he felt that the time was here."

Emperor Kaiyuan gritted his teeth and said, "Who do you think this is the one who does it?"

Yan Boke and others looked at each other, and finally Yu Zhan said, "I don't know what enemies you two have in the past, but this method is very similar to the enemy mentioned by fellow Taoist Feng Nuan, that is, the master of Wugu Valley, Jin Wei."

Emperor Kaiyuan actually had an answer in his heart, but he was puzzled by Jin Wei's journey from secret to openness: "If there was such a person, he would have hidden himself very well, and even Emperor Shengde's death was pushed to Yongshi Jun and Xiao Zhui Jun. Why did he suddenly jump out and let me deal with him together?"

Yu Zhan said: "There is only one possibility. He doesn't need to hide anything anymore. Perhaps in his eyes, Qin State is no longer worth mentioning."

Emperor Kaiyuan laughed and said, "What a worthless one. Then I really want to know him."

Yu Zhan advised: "Your Majesty, if this person uses hundreds of thousands of soldiers from Qin and Wei as pawns, he will either be a madman or a madman. It is obvious that the person who has so many back-up secrets is definitely not a madman. Then what he does must have a great plan."

Emperor Kaiyuan asked: "Is the national master planning to let me bear the burden?"

Yu Zhan said: "I don't mean this. I just thought that Your Majesty, Fellow Daoist Feng Nuan and the Emperor's Agreement, so I might as well believe that Fellow Daoist Feng Nuan can give you a satisfactory reply."

"Satisfied reply? The evidence is conclusive. The revenge of killing my father is irreconcilable, I will definitely come to them to get it back!" Emperor Kaiyuan said angrily.

Gao Jing agreed: "I am willing to lead the black armored iron cavalry to Jia Customs!"

Emperor Kaiyuan saw Yan Boke's face and said in surprise: "Senior Yan Boke, you have experienced life and death with my father. Do you want to persuade me too?"

Yan Boke said: "As the national teacher said, Jin cannot be judged by this person. He sent this blood letter to make the emperor send troops to attack Wei. I also want to help Emperor Shengde take revenge, but how to avenge this revenge is the key."

Emperor Kaiyuan clenched his fist and said, "How else can I repay it? Blood debt and blood payment!"

Everyone present could see that Emperor Kaiyuan was really angry. Jin was so cruel to kill people with this move, especially when Qin was ready to go to war.

The leader of the secret guard knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please calm down. The national master and Yanboke said very much. Jin Wei is the lord of Wuyou Valley, and there are still a group of forces in the world. Now that Wei is the reliance, we should make a long-term plan."

"From the long-term plan?" Emperor Kaiyuan glared at the secret guard leader and said, "I have the power of the rivers and lakes too! Gao Jing, please help me draw a secret decree for Shi Yu, and ask him to summon all the people in the rivers and lakes to go to Jia Customs to help! At that time, they will serve the country, and I will definitely reward you."

Gao Jing knelt down happily and received the order.

Seeing Emperor Kaiyuan mobilizing the heroes of the world with his imperial edict, Yan Boke felt that it was inappropriate: "Your Majesty, there are mixed things in the world. I am afraid that Shi Yu will not be able to suppress them now."

Emperor Kaiyuan sneered: "Didn't he begging me to give him a chance when he attacked Wei? Now the opportunity has come. If Shi Yu can't suppress those people in the world, then he will spend the rest of his life in the Kuangshan Palace."

If Shi Wu was here, he would have seen that Emperor Kaiyuan had already developed a circle of mind, a circle of mind that would not give up until he killed Jin to destroy Wei.

Emperor Kaiyuan continued to issue an order: "Gao Jing, please let a team of black-armored iron cavalry take my secret order to Zhennan Pass, and let Situ Xiong lead 200,000 guardians to Jia Customs. Then you four will go to Jia Customs with me at the end of April. I will wait for Feng Nuanjun to answer there."

Seeing that Emperor Kaiyuan had decided on his will, everyone bowed and retreated no longer dissuadingly.

In the Kuangshan Palace, Shi Yu was shocked when he saw Jin Wei sending a letter. Because Jin Wei clearly stated on it that the Qin State was about to start a war against Wei, Emperor Kaiyuan would ask Shi Yu to summon all the people in the Qin State's Jianghu in the name of the leader of the martial arts world of Qin. What Jin Wei asked him to do this was to obey Emperor Kaiyuan's orders and take the heroes of the rivers and lakes to Jia Customs, and then wait for an opportunity to kill the monarch during the war. In order to ensure that Shi Yu could wear a dragon robe after this battle, the Shi family swallowed the Jiang family of Qin in one fell swoop.

Shi Yu leaned back dizzyly, fortunately there was a wall behind him, otherwise he would have fallen to the ground.

Jin Wei never said anything to Shi Yu, but this time, Jin Wei said too incredible and Shi Yu dared not believe it.

The black spirit obviously knew the content of the letter. Seeing Shi Yu's performance, it turned his head disdainfully.

Shi Yu looked at Hei Ling suspiciously, and always felt that this eagle and falcon seemed to be human.

Hei Ling naturally knew Shi Yu, but Shi Yu had never seen Hei Ling before. Even though Hei Ling was taken to Shi Family by Shi Wu, he was covered with black cloth and had never shown his true body.

Just as Shi Yu was thinking about how to reply to Jin Wei, Gao Jing's voice sounded outside, listening to his attitude being here to pass the order.

Shi Yu's heart tightened: "Although I intend to ask the emperor to ask me to summon a gang of troops from the martial arts state to attack Wei and take revenge on Shi Wu. But Jin Wei took time out of the entire Qin martial arts world like this. What exactly did he want to do? Besides, how could the emperor listen to his order to ask me to summon so many people?"

Shi Yu took everyone in the palace to receive the order in a sceptical manner.

Seeing that Shi Yu was coming, Gao Jing opened the imperial edict and read it.

Shi Yu was very panicked before, but when he heard that Emperor Kaiyuan's imperial edict said nothing more than allocating funds to the Kuangshan Palace, and he asked Gao Jing to bring two hundred-year-old ginseng trees to Mrs. Shi Zhao. Shi Yu's heart suddenly became stable.

When Shi Yu knelt down and thanked him for his gratitude, Gao Jing winked at him. When he handed the imperial edict on his face to Shi Yu, Gao Jing sent another secret edict from his sleeve.

Shi Yu was surprised. He let the imperial edict in his hand be kept for the royal palace to be preserved and then dispersed the people in the royal palace. He originally wanted to find out from Gao Jing, but Gao Jing hurriedly retreated as if there was something urgent.

Shi Yu had to return to the original uninhabited corner, and the black spirit who had been waiting here for a long time seemed to have known that all this would happen.

Shi Yu slowly opened the secret decree and saw it read: "I promised my dear to go on, I hope that my dear will gather all the people in the martial arts world in Qin to go to Jia Customs before the ninth day of the fifth month. At that time, all of you will serve the country, and I will definitely reward you very much."

Shi Yu looked at the contents of the secret decree in disbelief. His previous suspicion of Jin Wei was broken by the facts in front of him like a city wall. Shi Yu believed in Jin Wei's promise again, and he said to Hei Ling: "Wait for a moment, I will write a letter to my senior."

But the black spirit was unwilling to wait any longer and pecked the word "say" on the ground with a long beak.

Shi Yu was shocked and asked, "Can you understand what I said?"

Black Spirit nodded impatiently.

Shi Yu also said, "Go and tell me, I will definitely complete what he asked me to do! But let's not talk about the dragon robe. I hope that the senior can help me avenge the Shi family and kill Shi Wu!"

The black spirit just needs to listen to Shi Yu agree to what Jin said. As for other things, it will not spend more time to repay Jin.

After flying out of the Kaoshan Palace, the black spirit quickly flew away from Qindu and quietly fell in a dense forest twenty miles west of Qindu.

There was already a man in black wearing a hat waiting here.

The black spirit chirped, and the man looked upwards and saw the black spirit on the branch. He said, "Please go back and tell the valley master that I have done what he told me. The agreed time between Emperor Kaiyuan and Feng Nuanjun is the ninth day of the fifth month. Before this, Emperor Kaiyuan will not send troops to Wei. However, Emperor Kaiyuan has mobilized his army to Jia Customs, and he will also personally wait for Feng Nuanjun's reply."

Hearing this sound, it was the leader of the secret guard who had just been in the Golden Palace.

The black spirit pecked the word "Qing" on the trunk with its long beak, then flapped its wings and flew towards the north.

Looking at the crooked and clear words, two lines of tears shed in the black veil and straw hat. He had been waiting for this moment for too long.

In the evening, Jinmen Pass thousands of miles away welcomed a group of special guests. It was Zhou Chong, the special envoy of Qin who was arranged by Emperor Jin to escort back. The guard leader was Guo Zheng, who escorted Yu Jin to Qindu back then.

After reminiscing with Guo Zheng, Jiao Chu, the general of Jinmen Pass, arranged a dinner party in the general's mansion. Guo Zheng and his party also accepted it happily. What was strange was that the soldiers arranged to serve at the dinner were all the soldiers of Jinmen Pass.

Jiao Chu looked at Zhou Chong, a special envoy of Qin who was lying on a stretcher, and he asked Guo Zheng in a low voice: "Brother Guo, what does this emperor mean?"

When Guo Zheng saw Jiao Chu looking at Zhou Chong, he also replied in a low voice: "The emperor said that the Qin envoy could not speak, and no one of his entourages could do the best. Therefore, he asked me to take people to escort them back to Qindu, and then I would bring back the Qin Emperor's will."

Jiao Chu nodded and said, "That's good. Brother Guo can have someone to accompany him on the road."

"Going on the road?" Guo Zheng said inexplicably.

But before Guo Zheng finished drinking the glass of Chinese American wine, he suddenly became dizzy. He pointed at Jiao Chu and threw himself on the table in front of him.

Guo Zheng and his party fainted one after another, and the soldiers of Jinmen Pass who served had put down the wine pot in their hands, replaced by a sharp sword that had been hidden beside them in advance.

Zhou Chong didn't drink here, but the current situation made him feel bad. He would rather be the one who was confused.

Jiao Chu slowly walked to Zhou Chong, and his face, which was like dry wood, became more and more terrifying under the lights. He leaned over to Zhou Chong's ear and said, "If you want to blame, blame your Kaiyuan Emperor for bullying the weak, and want to be unfavorable to me, Northern Wei."

Zhou Chong's eyes widened, and he wanted to shout out loud that this was a spy from Wei. But he was unable to speak now. Under his emotions, the soldiers of Jinmen Pass only thought that he was begging for mercy.

Jiao Chu stretched out his thick palm and grabbed Zhou Chong's neck. In Zhou Chong's hesitant voice, Jiao Chu used his strength to break Zhou Chong's qi.

Jiao Chu slapped his hands and the soldiers of Jinmen Pass slashed Guo Zheng and his party cleanly and neatly silenced dozens of people.

Jiao Chu raised his imperial edict again and said, "You are obeying the order! The emperor has an order. Guo Zheng conspired with Qin to be unfavorable to our Jin State. So he ordered me to kill him and dispatch 300,000 troops to the Qin and Wei border tomorrow to attack the Qin army!"

"Long live my emperor!" Everyone knelt on the ground to receive the order.

"The soldiers have a good rest tonight and will lead the army out of seclusion with me tomorrow." Jiao Chu ordered.

Everyone kowtowed and replied, "As for your order!"

After the soldiers of Jinmen Pass retreated, Jiao Chu came to the hidden secret room alone. The portraits of members of the Jin royal family on the wall of the secret room were pulled off one by one when he walked by, as if he had pulled off his long-term obsession. When he came to the other side of the secret room, he kowtowed to the immortal signs of the kings of Wei and said, "I wish my Great Wei will prosper for generations. As an incoming Wei, Shi Yao lurked in Jin for forty years. Now that Wei is in trouble, I will obey the orders of Yongqiu, leading the Jin army to attack the invading Qin army."

As he said that, Jiao Chu crossed his hands on his shoulders, knocked three times, then put his palms together, and pounded them on his forehead five times, silently chanting the holy name of Yongshi in his heart.

When Shi Wu talked to Scorpion Nu about his encounter with Wangbo Desert, he suspected that there was an internal force from the Wei State in Jinmen Pass. But what Shi Wu did not expect was that this internal force was Jiao Chu, the general guarding the Jinmen Pass. Jiao Chu guarded the Jinmen Pass for many years and had a high prestige in the army. Even when Yu Jin came, he had to commend the Jin Emperor with kind words.

What Jiao Chu was holding was indeed an imperial edict, but it was not an imperial edict from Jin State, but an imperial edict from the leader of the Five Immortals Sect of Wei State brought over by the Black Spirit. This was naturally a dark son of Jin Wei, or obtained through Yongshijun. Jin Wei's actions had gathered all the strongest three forces on this continent on the border of Qin and Wei, and his plans were beyond imagination.

Three days later, the news of Situ Xiong's army coming had already reached here. Everyone understood that Emperor Kaiyuan's war against Wei was already on the verge of arrows.

In a remote courtyard east of Jiahaiguan, Jin Wei, wearing a silver grimace mask, was sitting on a stone bench and watching the rising sun in the air. He rubbed the middle-grade spirit stone given to him by the Black Spirit, as if thinking about his thoughts.
To be continued...