Qingling Punishing Heart

Chapter 289
Storms, lightning and thunder.

The dark sky seemed about to collapse.

The sound of rain roared together, a bolt of lightning tore through the dark clouds, and a thunderstorm exploded!
Amidst the thunder, Yang went back and forth, and suddenly rushed into the emperor's hall, with a dazzling eye in the sky between his brows!

"Your Majesty!"

Yang Ni's body was guarded, and his three eyes were fixed on Bao Si!
Ji Gongyan waved his hand lightly, and said calmly, "General Yang, she is the one I found."

Yang Ni looked at Bao Si directly, and said, "She is not human, she is..."

Ji Gongyan interrupted: "She is a demon, I know that."

Yang Ni closed his eyes slightly, and said nothing more.

Ji Gongxuan explained: "Baosi worked so hard to enter the palace just to save her adoptive father Baoxuan. She stayed with the widow these days, not only did not hurt the widow at all, but made the widow see the black and white of the world clearly. I thought that demons are ruthless and ungrateful, but unexpectedly they also know how to repay their kindness, which shows that demons, like humans, have good and bad."

Bao Si looked straight at Yang Ni and said expressionlessly, "General Yang, long time no see."

Yang Ni smiled unnaturally, thinking to himself that after leaving Linglong Tower Prison, after many years, he never expected to meet her again here.Seeing Bao Si's current appearance, Yang Ni must have found a way to restore her appearance.

"So you know each other." A pleasant smile appeared on Ji Gongyan's face.

Bao Si said indifferently, "General Yang, you used to be with me..."

Yang Ni was afraid that she would reveal that he and Su Ji, the leader of the Luya sect, were old acquaintances, so he hurriedly said with a smile: "The last general and Miss Baosi once met."

Although Bao Si saw through Yang Ni's thoughts, she didn't point it out face to face, and remained expressionless.

Although hearing what Yang Ni said, Ji Gongyan could still feel that these two people were definitely more than just a one-sided relationship.Looking sideways at Baosi, Ji Gongyan couldn't help wondering why she still had such a cold attitude even when she saw her long-lost friend.Ever since she entered the palace, Ji Gongyan had never seen a smile on her face. Could it be that this beauty never smiled?

Ji Gongyan looked at Yang Ni, and said: "You two are old friends, that's just right. From today onwards, General Yang is responsible for protecting Baosi's safety, and she must not be harmed in the slightest. If there is any mistake, he will be punished with death."

"...The last general takes orders."

Yang Ni reluctantly agreed, knowing clearly in his heart: Bao Si did not act rashly because the Qingling Nightmare Technique was ineffective on Ji Gonglin's pure Yin body, otherwise the current emperor would have already been reduced to Bao Si's puppet.

As a discerning person who is well-versed in the world, although Yang Ni had already seen that Ji Gongzhen was an infertile pure yin body, he hadn't revealed it all these years because he knew that one day he would need to use this matter to restrain Jiang Ling.

Since Ji Gongyan succeeded to the throne, not only natural disasters have been frequent, but also foreign invasions have continued. The five major Rong clans have been eyeing Haojing and harassed the border repeatedly.Facing internal and external troubles, the Zhou dynasty was in danger.Many years ago, the Zhou court had divided their attitude towards the Rong people into two factions, one for war and the other for peace.

The main combat faction, headed by Xibo Jifu and Li Hongxi, supported Chanjiao and insisted on fighting the Rong people.

The main peace faction, headed by Guo Shifu and Yang Ni, supported the Western religion and advocated peace with the Rong people.In the past two years, Father Guoshi has repeatedly slandered, framed and bloodyly massacred the veterans of the former court of the main war faction.

The two factions have been in conflict for many years, until Jiang Ling was named queen and began to increasingly control the government.In this way, in order to gain more rights, the main combat faction and the main peace faction must rely on the empress Jiang Ling. Whichever faction can win over the empress Jiang Ling will be able to promote their own ideas and achieve their goals.

On the surface, Ji Gongzhen seemed to be caught between the two factions, but in fact, he used the intervention of Queen Shen Jiang Ling to gradually control the rights of the main combat faction and the main peace faction, so as to achieve the purpose of checking and balancing the two factions.The reason why he asked Yang Ni to be responsible for protecting Bao Si was to push Yang Ni to the opposite side of Shen Hou Jiang Ling, and prevent the increasingly powerful peace faction from uniting with Shen Hou Jiang Ling, causing the balance of power to tilt.

Only at this moment did Yang Ni fully comprehend Ji Gongyan's original intention, and he couldn't help admiring this seemingly cynical emperor, but he was actually very shrewd in his calculations.

Yang Ni clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, in recent years, the Western Sect has helped the Zhou family resist the Rong people many times, but they have been banned from preaching in Haojing. It is probably inappropriate for the imperial court to continue to act like this to help eliminate demons in the Huai River. In the end, the general will boldly propose to change the Western religion as the state religion of the Great Zhou."

As soon as the words fell, an old voice came from outside the palace gate:

"Your Majesty."

Ji Gongzhen followed the prestige and saw Xibo Jifu standing outside the palace gate in the rain.

"The old minister came to send you back to the bedroom."

While speaking, a gust of wind blew by, and it rained heavily.Thousands of raindrops converge into waterfalls, pouring towards the earth, and there is a boundless curtain of water between the sky and the earth, fluttering and blowing with the wind.The rain is getting heavier.

In the heavy rain, a group of waiters propped up a tall canopy, and thick raindrops scatter violently on the top of the canopy, crackling.

Xi Bo Jifu walked slowly into the palace gate, shaking off the rainwater from his body, glanced at Yang Ni and Bao Si, and silently waited for Ji Gongyan's reply.

Ji Gongyan's attitude was indifferent, and he turned his head to look at Yang Nidao: "Chanjiao has been the state religion of the Great Zhou for more than 200 years, so it should not be easily shaken. However, I will consider what you just said."

Xibo Jifu glanced at Yang Ni, and said: "The current leader of the Chan sect, Niu Zhu, cares about the people of the Li people. As early as two months ago, he took the initiative to send his disciples to capture the Huai Shui Wu Zhiqi. There is no need to wait for your order. However, However, the Western Sect has to go through General Yang before passively going to subdue the demons, and has to trouble General Yang to come here to negotiate conditions. This may be the difference between the Great Zhou State Sect and foreign Sects."

Yang Ni was speechless, he didn't know how to refute for a moment, he knew that Xibo Jifu's going back and forth at such a time was undoubtedly aimed at him.

When the two were confronting each other, Bao Si said, "I have an idea."

Ji Gongzhen said with more interest: "Let's listen."

Bao Si said: "It's better to decide with a game of gamble. Between Chanjiao and Western religion, whoever can catch the great sage Wu Zhiqi first will be qualified as the state religion."

Ji Gongyu felt that this proposal was very interesting, so he couldn't help but nodded.

Xibo Jifu suddenly said: "Your Majesty, this matter has a great deal to do with Zhou's national conditions, how can we just let it go like a joke?"

Seeing that the situation has turned around, Yang Ni couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly, looked directly at Xibo Jifu and said, "Grand Master, do you want to disobey your majesty?"

Xibo Jifu faced Ji Gongyan, bowed and said, "I don't dare."

Ji Gongyan had lost trust in Xibo Jifu many years ago, now he looked down at the former teacher and said indifferently: "Then trouble the Grand Master and General Yang to inform the Chanjiao and Xixijiao of this bet. I can catch the living Wu Zhiqi and show it to everyone, and everyone will be rewarded!"

(End of this chapter)