"What!? Failed again?! And there were heavy casualties! What did Longteng eat? What did Qianlongwei eat?" In the palace of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xingchen was furious when he saw Longteng's report. The entire palace was shaking under the impact of his breath, as if it would collapse at any time.

"I am guilty of being guilty and deserve to die. Please calm down your anger." Liu Jixiang knelt down on the ground when he saw this.

"Stop the anger? How do you calm me down?" Liu Xingchen threw the memorial in front of Liu Jixiang and said unabashedly: "I ordered Qianlong Guard to kill Xia Fan, but what did you do? First, Long Fei was killed, and now Long Teng was defeated. The Qianlong Guard he brought with him suffered heavy losses. Just Xia Fan made you so embarrassed. How can I trust you? Leave more important things to you in the future?"

"I am so frightened that I am so frightened that I am so anxious. Please punish me." Liu Jixiang certainly did not dare to defend Long Teng at this time.

"The punishment is definitely required, but now you still need to serve the soldiers on the grassland. Let's record this matter first. If you make contributions in the future, it would be fine. If you ruin my major affairs, you will be punished with both crimes. Not only Qianlong Guard, but I will never give up on you." Liu Xingchen's voice became more and more severe when he said this.

"Yes, I have recorded it." Liu Jixiang hurriedly said.

"This battle between the Han Dynasty and the grassland is a national war, which is related to the national destiny of the Han Dynasty. It should not be ignored, and Qianlong Guards cannot be left out of it. Not only do you need to collect all kinds of information, but you also need to buy and assassinate some important officials on the grassland. Be sure to make the grassland messy..." Liu Xingchen ordered this in a deep voice.

Liu Jixiang took all the orders of Liu Xingchen in his heart. It was not until Liu Xingchen stopped talking that he asked tentatively: "Where is Xia Fan? Should I send someone to kill him again?"

"No need, now they have already alarmed the snake. No matter how many people are sent, they may not be able to kill him easily." Liu Xingchen's eyes flashed with coldness and said, "But we can't just forget about this matter. Geng Qing, the general who went to wipe out the rebellion, did not have to come back for the time being after quelling the rebellious general, went to Lan Yu Kingdom to wipe out Xia Fan and other traitors, blocked the border, cut off trade with Lan Yu Kingdom, and sent people to incite the Holy Dragon Kingdom and Shenmu Kingdom to strangle Xia Fan's forces. At the same time, he ordered the provinces bordering Lan Yu Kingdom to make an attitude of marching against Xia Fan's forces at any time and put pressure on them."

Liu Xingchen thought for a while and said, "In addition, I will send an order to Long Teng so that he does not have to rush back, and then continue to assassinate the people who follow Xia Fan after he recovers his injuries. I want them to be panic and start to get in trouble first. Then I will order people to investigate Xia Fan's whereabouts. I want to know where he is?"

"Abide by the order."

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"Haha, Xia Fan was assassinated by Qianlong Guards of the Han Dynasty. He is still unknown. It's a good thing." The Holy Dragon Kingdom's lord Long Xiaoshu couldn't help laughing after receiving this information. At the same time, he realized that this was a good opportunity, so he said: "Disse the news of Xia Fan, especially letting the troops under Xia Fan know. When their morale is unstable, they will attack with all their might and drive them out of the territory of the Holy Dragon Kingdom."

Speaking of the last sentence, Long Xiaoshu's face no longer had a smile, but only a stern murderous intent.

Recently, Xia Fan's army has been raging in the Holy Dragon, which really makes Long Xiaoshu a little angry. Now that he has the opportunity to fight back, he will naturally not let it go.

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Shen Zhong, the Divine Eye Kingdom, who has been closely following the movements of Baishi City and Yunhuanhu Lake, also learned about Xia Fan's disappearance, but he did not look happy. Instead, he thought for a moment and said: "Stop blocking this information, especially not letting Lan Haolin know. At the same time, he continued to send troops to reinforce Qingyu City. After defeating Yukongyue, he took Lan Haolin down, and then conquered Yunhuanhu Lake with all his strength under the banner of helping him restore the country."

Shen Zhong had been coveting the land of Lan Yu Kingdom for a long time, but now Xia Fan, Lu Chuan and Lan Haolin are competing for him, so he was not in a hurry to take action. He hoped that when they fought to the point of losing all the money, he could come out to get a bargain, but who knew that Lan Haolin was a disciple of the emperor, but was so unbearable. He was defeated by Xia Fan first, and then he was defeated by Yu Kongyue. If there wasn't a Qingyu City that could be defended, he would have been completely killed.

Shen Zhong looked down on Lan Haolin, but he didn't want to see him die, so he sent troops to help him before. Now he heard that Xia Fan didn't know his life and death, so he thought this was an opportunity. Taking advantage of the unstable attitude of the soldiers and horses under Yu Kongyue, he just happened to defeat him and swept across the clouds and lakes.

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At this time, Lu Chuan, who was leading his troops to fight against the army of the Shenmu Kingdom, also received the information sent by the spies. When he saw Xia Fan missing and the words "life and death are unpredictable", he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then crushed the information and said to himself: "Is it missing? Is it unlikely? I'm afraid that this little fox is digging a pit and planning for someone? The more fierce the jump at this time, the more severe it will be by Xia Fan from now on, so I'm better off being cautious."

Of course, Lu Chuan had not thought about annexing Xia Fan's territory, but he could not fight Xia Fan more than once. He used to be an enemy, but now he was an ally. He suffered more than once in the hands of Xia Fan. He not only knew him but was also quite afraid of him. So when he heard this news, he was not the first thing he thought of was this opportunity, but that he felt that it was probably another big pit.

If Lu Chuan had enough troops, he might have tried it under the banner of helping Xia Fan stabilize the situation. But now the troops in his hands are already a little stretched to deal with the army of the Kingdom of Shenmu, and he really has no way to take care of anything else. In addition, he was really afraid that this was a pit, so he finally suppressed the matter and pretended that he didn't know.

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Yong'an County.

Zhao Wei and Liu Yulinglong also received news of Xia Fan's disappearance, but the two of them were quite calm. First, because they had extraordinary confidence in Xia Fan's strength, they firmly believed that he would definitely not have any problems. Second, Xia Fan's occasional disappearance was not a rare thing, and they were all used to it, so they did not think that there was any difference in this disappearance.

"Although it is normal for the boss to disappear occasionally and we don't think so, others may not think so, especially those who have just defected to us. It is hard to guarantee that they will not think randomly, and it will be bad if they do anything else." Zhao Wei said.

"Don't worry, I will send someone to stare. At this time, whoever dares to jump out of trouble will be killed, then kill me." A sharp murderous aura flashed across Liu Yulinglong's handsome face.

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Xia Fan was taken to an extremely desolate hill by the old man to recover from his wounds.

There are many such remote and rarely visited mountains in Lanyu Kingdom, but the mountain found by the Zhenshu is different from ordinary mountains.

Generally speaking, any place with good mountains and rivers and rich spiritual energy must be occupied by practitioners. Even some poor mountains and rivers with dangerous terrain with fierce beasts and poisonous insects may be occupied by practitioners who practice evil skills. Therefore, it is not easy to find a mountain with rich spiritual energy and uninherited power, but the place brought by the old man of the formation is exactly such a mountain rich in spiritual energy.

But on the surface, the mountain is really not very good. The rocks are steep and there are no lush plants and trees, and even the exposed stones are gray. No matter how you look, they give people an extremely barren feeling. However, after Xia Fan followed the formation elder through a very secretive and almost impossible to discover the crack of the mountain without someone leading the way, and then through three consecutive formations with both offense and defense, Xia Fan entered the abdomen of the mountain, and what was hit in front of him was extremely rich, as if it was a spiritual energy that would liquefy at any time.

"Where is this?" Xia Fan looked at some of the houses standing around and found that the styles were very different. Many of them were quite simple, obviously not built in recent hundreds of years. Some of these houses were built from stone, while others were piled up with soil or even wood. Because they were surrounded by layers of formations, they could withstand the erosion of time and be immortal.

Xia Fan, based on the style of these houses and formations, can be determined that the space inside the mountain belly must have existed a long time ago, and many people have been here before.

"This is where my master's sect is." The old man of the formation led Xia Fan to a house and asked him to sit down before he said, "To be honest, I was a woodcutter in the world before I practiced. There were still many people around the mountain, and I often went to this mountain to collect firewood. One day, I met a hungry wolf in the mountain and ran here to escape. It was also my blessing and fate. It happened that I passed through the three formations at the door and came here. After obtaining the inheritance here, I changed from a woodcutter to a formation master."

"It seems that your master's inheritance has been quite a long time ago. Why have you never heard of it before?" Xia Fan looked at the houses shrouded by formations in the distance and asked with some confusion.

"This is something I have always wanted to figure out." The old man shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Not only has the master never heard of it, even if I have been in the school for so many years, I still don't know where our school is. So when others ask me about my teacher, I either don't say it or claim to be a Shanju School."

"It's okay to live in the mountains." Xia Fan laughed. He was not mocking the old man of the formation, but thought that his name was really interesting.

"Even if it was inappropriate, no one objected to me, because before I accepted the disciples, I was the only one in the Shanju Sect." Zhenshou pointed around and said, "When I came here, there was already no one."

"Then how did you learn the formation?" Xia Fan asked curiously.

He asked this because the way of formation is more profound and it is even more difficult to learn. Without the guidance of the master, it is really difficult to get started. This is why many practitioners in the cultivation world can arrange some formations, but they are all simple and crude. It is not that they are not strong enough, but because they can learn the essence of formations at all. They just take some formation pictures that they don’t know where to get, and of course they are just showing off in the end.

"Although there is no living person here, there is an evil thing imprisoned. It cannot break the formation by its own ability, so it wants to deceive me to help it get out of trouble. But I didn't understand the formation and did not practice at that time, so I naturally couldn't help it. So it became my enlightenment teacher and led me into the Tao." The old man of the formation couldn't help but smile when he said this, but there was a bit of bitterness in his smile.
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