Li Jing put away the fairy sword, leaned over and held the little guy in his arms, his eyes becoming extremely gentle.

The lotus withered in an instant, and a ray of spiritual energy merged into the boy's body.

Li Jing was filled with emotion and said warmly: "You are finally willing to die. How about your eldest brother Jin Zha and second brother Mu Zha call you Huo Zha from now on?"

"Yeah!" The boy touched Li Jing's flowing beard.

There were cheers all around.

"The general is happy to have a son!"

"We have a third son!"

Above the clouds, Master Taiyi looked up at the sky, his eyes full of reluctance, as if he had lost an extremely cherished treasure.

Master Yuding said: "Didn't you plan to accept another disciple? Why are you so sad?"

Master Taiyi muttered: "I regret this poor Taoist. If I had known it, I would have found a Taoist companion to have children by myself. Master is still not as good as father and mother."

Huang Long laughed and said: "Hahahaha! It's too late now!"

"Just joking."

Master Taiyi shook his head and laughed, then turned around and said:

"Let's go. It's very disturbing. Come back in two years to accept a disciple!"

Master Yuding said: "Why don't we decide on the title of master and disciple first, Jie Jiao can be here to watch."

Taiyi thought carefully, muttered for a moment, then flew directly down the clouds. The red robe on his body turned into a green Taoist robe, and he held the jade slip unique to the immortals of Yuxu Palace in his hand.

He suddenly became decent.

…

Not mentioning it for the moment, Master Taiyi showed up on his own initiative, explained his intention to Li Jing, talked about the reincarnation of Lingzhuzi, and successfully accepted this disciple, saying that he would come to preach in two years.

Let's say that before Li Ping'an finished watching the scene of Huo Zha's apprenticeship, his real body escaped back to heaven, and his mind returned to Ji Dan's clone.

Nothing else, Ji Fa is already here.

Ji Fa hurriedly found the cave, and under the leadership of an old guard, he saw Ji Dan sleeping in the dark cave.

Compared with a few years ago, Ji Dan has grown up a lot. Although she still looks frail, she is close to an adult.

Ji Fa's eyes suddenly burst into tears.

He walked forward quickly and hugged Ji Dan, who had just woken up, and choked with sobs.

"Fourth! Why are you here? Fourth! Why did dad lock you up! Fourth! Didn't you go away with the gods? Fourth!"

Li Ping'an:......

Isn't it a bit too insensitive for two grown men to act like this?

Li Ping'an smiled and said: "Second brother, don't worry, I have nothing to do. I can study quietly here, which is also a pleasure."

It took Ji Fa a while to calm down, and he frowned and asked, "Why did dad have to lock you up?"

"Maybe they are afraid that I will tip off the King of Shang."

Li Pingan shook his head and smiled bitterly:

"Dad should have told you before he left.

"But a foreign enemy is coming?"

"Well!" Ji Fa said with a solemn expression, "Dad just said that if you encounter something big that you can't decide, come here. I didn't expect... you would be here."

"Tell me about the war in detail."

Li Pingan said slowly:

"I am here also to learn some of my father's divination and calculation methods, and I have achieved some success in my studies in the past few years.

"Let me see if I can communicate with the gods and let them bless us to win."

Ji Fa said sternly: "After seeing you, I am not worried about the war at all. The one who attacked us this time was an allied force, probably soldiers and horses from three or four small vassal states, and there was also a secret force sent by Bei Bohou.

The elite soldiers came, they started fighting without declaring a war, and seemed to want to rob our fields..."

In the dungeon, Ji Fa spoke in detail about the current troubles he was encountering.

Li Ping'an used the sixty-four hexagrams to calculate and quickly gave the corresponding solution.

——Such a trivial matter is certainly not a problem for him as a Taoist master.

While fighting Ge here, Li Ping'an's understanding of the great path of all living beings began to improve again, and he seemed to have found the feeling of following Xuanyuan Huangdi in the Western Continent again.

Two months later.

Zhou State repulsed the coalition forces of the small countries and expanded hundreds of miles eastward, arriving at the gate of a small country's city.

Ji Fa followed the instructions of his fourth brother Ji Dan and did not attack the city by force. He cursed the local princes outside the city and counted them as treacherous and ungrateful.

This incident soon spread throughout the western part of the Shang Kingdom, which enhanced the prestige of Zhou and Ji Fa a lot.

When the news reached Chaoge City, Ji Chang showed embarrassment and took the initiative to enter the palace. He asked Emperor Xin to issue an edict to pardon the small countries that had harassed the Zhou Kingdom. He also cursed these small countries in front of Beibohou Chonghou Hu.

There's a bitch provoking me behind my back.

Ji Chang was calling a bitch, not a traitor.

Chonghou Hu was very loyal to the Shang royal family, and now he was gradually gaining the respect of Emperor Xin. His own children had just suffered a defeat and were feeling bad. How could they bear to hear this?

In the king's palace, Chonghou Hu yelled at Ji Chang, and Ji Chang retorted, and the two princes actually started to fight.

Di Xin's expression was serious, but he felt secretly happy in his heart.

Ji Chang's reputation as a virtuous person has been spread throughout the court, but how is he different from those philistines in his current appearance?

When the two great princes made a fuss and their clothes were in disarray, Di Xin scolded them and asked them to go back to the mansion to reflect.

This is naturally a strategy used by Ji Chang.

Although Ji Chang lost a little face and was said to have no grace, the crisis in Xiqi was temporarily relieved.

At this time, some people in Chaoge City were already panicking.

The Dongyi tribe's rebellion is becoming more and more troublesome. Dongbohou Jiang's family, who was supposed to suppress the Dongyi tribe, has been slowly deploying troops and generals, and is reluctant to send a large army.

The king's order was sent to the Jiang family, who sent the army out of the city. Then they either encountered violent winds and rain, landslides and floods, or there was a sudden heavy fog and strange animals lost their way.

In short, the Jiang family had various reasonable reasons and delayed for more than three years, but did not send troops to attack the Dongyi tribe.

The Dongyi Allied Forces have torn a passage through the merchant territory, defeated dozens of princes, plundered the common people, and left no slaves behind.

Several major passes in the east were either avoided by Dongyi, or they received Wang's order but received no response.

Di Xin finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"I want to conquer Dongyi personally!"

The ministers in the court no longer dared to object. Under the auspices of Wang Shubigan, the royal family tried their best to squeeze out money, money, food and grass, and mobilized elite soldiers and horses from various fiefdoms.

The Shang State mobilized two groups of armies from the north and south, and marched toward the Dongyi tribe at the same time.

Due to the long distance, this battle probably requires hundreds of thousands of exotic beasts. Just the saddles and frames for these exotic beasts are a huge expense.

More than a month later, Di Xin's chariot left Chaoge City, leading a large group of elite merchant troops toward the east.

In this battle, Emperor Xin not only wanted to repel the Dongyi, but also subdued the two hundred princes in the east and promoted the majesty of Shang.

The princes in the east heard the news and took action.

Instead of sending troops to donate food, they hid all their own food and supplies, and each took their legitimate sons and grandsons to kneel down on the roadside to greet the Shang King.

The 'love-hate entanglement' between Di Xin and Dong Yi also began.

Li Ping'an stared at Di Xin from afar, looking at Di Xin's familiar face and unfamiliar eyes, and just sighed softly.

This person has passed away.

Rivers of blood will flow again.

(End of chapter)
Chapter completed!