Cui Qing, the Supreme Elder of the Cui family in Dongzhou, is also a famous master of Dharma Image. He became famous even earlier than Xia Cang. He is said to be an expert in the late stage of Dharma Image.

The armies of the two countries fought fiercely, with Xuzhou and Qingzhou as the battlefield.

After the war was half a year, the losses of both sides had reached a surprising point. I won’t talk about the casualties of ordinary monks. In the Nascent Soul Stage, there were already six deaths on both sides. The losses of Qi State were even greater, and four of the dead Nascent Soul Cultivators were from Qi State.

After all these news were summarized, the decisions made by Yan State naturally changed.

Xia Cang obviously couldn't get out of his way. He fought Cui Qing in the east. When both sides fought with real fire, Xia Cang would never leave the battlefield of Qi and Wei. Otherwise, after Cui Qing knew this, he would become unscrupulous, which would cause a devastating blow to the Wei army.

So under this premise, Yan State went south with the trend, which seemed to be an optional decision?

A few months ago, when we first learned that the two countries were fighting, although Yan State had not decided whether to intervene, the corresponding war preparations were essential. Forty thousand Yandu imperial guards gathered for a long time, and 20,000 monks were also gathered in Pingzhou and Jizhou. Feiyunzhou and Xuezhou could provide another 30,000. This alone is 80,000 monks. There would be no problem in launching the same number on the Yunxiao Sect.

The Lu court had very frequent messengers with Yunxiao Sect. Lu Chaoxi used mirror techniques to meet with Yunxiao Sect's sect leader Han Xuzi again and again, just talking about these things and constantly exchanging opinions from both sides.

The final decision-making power for this matter was of course from Yunxiao Sect. When people said they wanted to fight, the Lu court could not say anything, so they could only go with them side by side.

However, no matter how you say, the title of emperor, including the current strength and heritage of the Lu family in Yan State, must be respected. What's more, if the war begins, whether it is logistics or support, the court will have to make efforts. What's more, Yunxiao Sect is not so stable about this matter. Therefore, when making decisions, it is natural to discuss and discuss more.

But before the two giants of Yan State reached an agreement with each other, an incident directly interrupted their discussion.

The State of Wei sent an envoy to Yandu.

This is not the first time that Wei State has sent an envoy here.

Earlier, after the war between Qi and Wei started, the envoys of these two countries, including the Chu and Wu, who were far south, had diplomatic envoys, who went north to Yan.

Wu and Chu were more inclined to make soy sauce. Their envoys came to Yan State, and their main purpose was to find out what Yan State's attitude was.

This is normal, and Yan State itself will do this. Even before, when the West of the cultivation world and the Great Qin Immortal Kingdom began to cause trouble, Yan State also issued its own envoys to other countries - they didn't need to have too important roles, and sent a foundation-building monk to see the situation, and there wouldn't be too big problems. They didn't even need these envoys to go by themselves. There were some commercial and trade exchanges between the immortal countries, so that the envoys would take the caravan's flying boats themselves.

What is really important is the envoys of Qi and Wei.

The envoys of Qi have been coming one after another since a few months ago. Their appeal is very simple, which is to hope that Yan will send troops and put pressure on Wei from the north. They are even willing to pay a lot of things for this, from materials to personnel training, and even things like the quota of Penglai Immortal Palace, which can be discussed.

The conditions that Wei State has always offered are also concessions. Not only does it promise less resources than Qi State, but it is even furthermore willing to ced a county north of the river to Yan State.

Judging from this condition, Wei must be much more generous. But things cannot be calculated like this. What is the use of ceding a county north of the Great River? Yan State wants the Great River as its national border, and it is much more comfortable to defend and attack. Only take a county north of the Great River. Wei State still retains the land of two counties in the north. This is a nail under the nose of Yan State. As long as people want, they can still launch an offensive at any time. The strategic situation between the two sides will not change at any time.

I originally thought that the arrival of envoys from the two countries would still have the same goal as before, and it was just to see how much profit the parties gave. In this matter, the meaning of the Yan court was actually quite obvious: if we decided to join the war, then unless the Wei State promised to ced half of the state north of the river to Yan State, we would definitely stand on the side of Qi State.

However, when Lu Chaoxi received the envoy of Wei as usual, he heard another news from the other party that they had never received before:

"'Ghost-faced God' Chen Man has been promoted to the Dharma image???"

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