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Chapter 360: Severing the Cause and Effect (asking for monthly ticket)
The Jiuzhou Cauldron roared and vibrated, and Li Guanyi's master's energy surged. He paused and subconsciously raised his palm. With his eyes, he saw that his palm was covered with a misty aura.

The path that Li Guanyi took was the path of one country under heaven and all nine provinces united as one.

He is entrusted with the way of devouring the national destiny with the Dharma, and the way of dominating the battlefield with evil spirit. He can kill the [White Emperor's Destiny] and the Gengjin White Tiger with a sword and a bow, and devour their destiny. Then the national destiny of the Dangxiang State will be at his disposal.

At this moment, when Li Guanyi walked into the royal city, something changed after all.

"…the fate of the Tangut state."

The expression in Li Guan's eyes changed slightly. He felt the activity of his own internal energy and had a vague feeling of it surging like a wave. At this moment, the Dangxiang State was on the verge of destruction. The people in the capital were suffering and the situation was extremely critical.

Under such circumstances, Li Guanyi came here carrying the destiny of the Dangxiang Kingdom.

It's like pouring boiling hot oil into a basin of ice water.

There was an immediate change.

Li Guanyi suppressed the changes in his internal energy and did not show any abnormality. He just led everyone out of here. Hao Yuanxia rushed out first, and Li Guanyi followed closely behind, and then they heard a few shouts.

"Someone!"

Li Guanyi rushed out and saw several soldiers outside. They discovered Hao Yuanxia and were about to attack, but when they saw Li Guanyi and his men coming out, the soldiers' faces changed drastically and they were about to shout. Li Guanyi shook his hands and the energy burst out, hitting the acupuncture points on their bodies.

The soldier fell to the ground and fainted immediately.

Hao Yuanxia pushed away the soldier who had fallen on him, ran out, glanced at a few places, and said, "It's the northwest of the city. It was originally a fortress in ancient times. Later, the city was expanded several times, and this place became a place to store weapons and food."

"food?"

Li Guanyi frowned slightly, he strode over and opened a warehouse door. When soldiers attacked, he easily defeated them. There was a lot of food inside, and the food at the bottom was almost moldy.

Li Guanyi looked out from the fortress again and saw that the entire Dangxiang King's City was gray and his face looked ugly. Hao Yuanxia couldn't find any problems for a while, but he found that Li Guanyi's expression was not right. After asking, Li Guanyi pursed his lips.

Wen He said, "The bark is gone."

Hao Yuanxia was stunned, then he looked again and found that the branches of the trees in the royal city had become much shorter and the bark was gone. Although this prince had experienced a lot of pain, he was still unable to react to this matter immediately.

Wen He said, "The royal city was built near an oasis, with many trees and abundant resources. However, when you look out from here, the branches are shorter, which means that the leaves and twigs have been pruned. The bark is gone, and there are cut marks where the bark was pulled off with a knife."

"The people in the city have eaten up all the food, all the leaves and branches, and have started eating the bark of the trees."

"But the grain in the government warehouse has already been left to rot."

"I heard that when the Wolf King turned his troops around, some Tangut nobles bravely rushed out. It seems that some of the nobles who still had the courage to fight have been crushed by the Wolf King's horses."

"The remaining noble officials in the city at this moment."

Hao Yuanxia's expression changed, and he whispered, "So you have neither bravery nor courage, and you dare not rush forward, but you save your life instead?"

Wen He nodded and said, "If all the elites die, what's left are just scum, right?"

Li Guanyi said in a deep voice: "Let's go."

Yaoguang used magic to conceal the breath of everyone, and then changed into protective armor. She walked forward on the road and saw that the people in the city were extremely thin. It was a gloomy winter day, and the sky was heavy with pressure, and white frost formed everywhere.

The people in the city were wearing thin clothes, but their arms were so thin that their bones were visible. People who had frozen to death or starved to death could be seen on the roads from time to time. Compared with the food in the government warehouses that they had just seen, this formed a silent and violent shock.

Wild dogs roamed the streets in groups of three or five, gnawing at the fallen people.

Hao Yuanxia's eyes turned red, he rushed out with a knife in hand and yelled, startling the wild dogs.

The wild dog stared at him vigilantly, bit a man's arm and ran away. Hao Yuanxia roared and rushed forward. He lowered his head and looked at a woman who died on the road nearby. The woman's clothes were undone, revealing her shriveled chest. There was a child in her arms sucking breast milk, but she had also frozen to death and starved to death.

Hao Yuanxia staggered and knelt on the ground, looking at the corpse of the Dangxiang man. His body trembled and his eyes turned red.

At this moment, he felt an intuitive disgust for the actions of his biological father. The dogs were not afraid of people at all. They gathered in groups, stared at them, opened their mouths and drooled.

These beasts had already eaten humans, and they included the people in front of them as their prey.

Suddenly, the wild dogs whimpered, their bodies trembled, and they lay down, shaking with their tails between their legs.

When Hao Yuanxia saw Li Guan coming, he burst into the air with Qi, and all the wild dogs died. Li Guan said, "Let's go."

Hao Yuanxia wiped his eyes and stood up with gritted teeth.

He took Li Guanyi, Wen He and Yao Guang with him to look for those who had been loyal to him before. The scenes they saw along the way were extremely tragic and shocking. Many people had starved to death. The market was bustling with business, but they were not selling grain or meat, only soil.

It is said that this soil was given by the gods in heaven. If you use water to dig it up, you can make naan bread to fill your stomach. However, Li Guanyi saw that the people around him had haggard faces, but their abdomens were huge and protruding, and their ribs were protruding.

Wen He's eyes changed: "...There are bandits plundering outside, armies approaching, and officials oppressing inside. There is no way to make a living. I'm afraid it will come to that step next, my lord."

People eat each other.

Li Guanyi was silent for a long time, but then said:
"Sir, do you really think it has never come to that?"

Wen He said, "I see that the clothes of these people who buy soil can't even cover their bodies. They are thin, so they must be from poor families. There is no vegetable or meat in the market, so it's not that bad."

Li Guanyi replied, "Sir, please look at the granary where we came from. The grains downstairs are already going moldy. Also, please listen to the laughter and music coming from the mansion in the distance."

"Look at these people in front of you again."

"In times of internal and external danger, some people eat meat and drink wine, some can fill their stomachs, and some can only eat this kind of mud."

"If this isn't cannibalism, then what is?"

"Has it really come to the last step, with people eating each other?"

Wen He remained silent for a long time.

Li Guanyi held the sword and said, "I can see it more clearly today."

"In this world, people are cannibalistic!"

Hao Yuanxia's footsteps became more and more hurried and frantic, and he moved with more and more force. The scene around him was almost like the hell in the Buddhist scriptures, with fear, hideousness, numbness, coldness, death, large groups of black crows resting on the eaves, and wild dogs looking back at the street corners.

There were poor people lying against the wall with bulging bellies, people hurriedly cooking porridge, and the smell of roasted lamb coming from afar. Some wealthy families opened their back doors and threw on the ground the rotten meat that had been gorged because there was too much meat.

Hounds and poor people crowded together to fight for food.

The strong one kicked the thin one down and gobbled the meat like a pig or a dog. The servant who dumped out the rotten meat seemed to have become a nobleman high above everyone else. With a mocking smile on his face, he felt a sense of pride in his heart as he watched people like him competing with animals for food.

This scene is really eye-catching.

Just one word - chaos!

Li Guanyi and his companions found Hao Yuanxia's attendant and asked about the current situation.

When the attendants saw that Hao Yuanxia was still alive, they were all ecstatic and reported the current situation. They replied, "Now the people in the city are divided into different classes. The common people and the upper class are still alive and well and can still hold on for a long time."

"As for the common people, they can only eat some porridge. There is no meat left."

"As for the slaves, in the current situation, as long as we feed them something called [Bodhisattva Soil], they can live a little longer and it can also be considered as saving food."

This was something that the people of the Western Regions were used to saying, but Hao Yuanxia somehow felt a great sense of guilt and shame in his heart. He turned his head to look at Li Guanyi over there and said, "...My Lord."

The attendants and ministers looked at Li Guanyi with different expressions on their faces.

Outside, the wind and snow gradually picked up. Li Guanyi, dressed in a dark felt coat, asked:
"How many people are left in the city?"

An old official frowned and replied, "Who are you?"

Hao Yuanxia simply asked: "How many households are there?!"

The old man had no choice but to bow his head and said, "There are still 80,000 households, about 400,000 people."

How could such a big city have only so few people?
Li Guanyi said: "In addition to the slaves you mentioned."

The old man looked up, puzzled, and asked, "Aren't you asking about people?"

"Slaves are not people."

“So it’s not counted.”

Hao Yuanxia was speechless and just lowered his head. The old man replied, "Including the slaves, there should be more than one million." Li Guanyi held the sword at his waist and said, "Prepare to open the granary and provide relief to the victims."

"Give porridge and rice according to the number of people. If people come, prepare for the next step."

Wen He said, "Yes, my lord."

Li Guanyi planned to move all the people out. When they arrived, they looked down from the back of the Nine-Colored Deer and saw that there were already rebel troops approaching the entire city, and there were signs of burning and looting in the nearby towns.

Li Guanyi has grown a lot and knows that in this situation, only [coercion] and [inducement] can gather such a large number of people in a short period of time.

The old man asked respectfully, but in a flattering way:

“Are slaves also counted as population?”

Hao Yuanxia asked the old man to stop talking.

He felt his heart aching. He grew up in the desert, surrounded by many slave girls and servants who took care of him. But when he was a little over eleven years old, he was sent to the Central Plains. The three most crucial years after that were spent receiving instruction in the Central Plains.

After that, he had many experiences. He had experience of both the Western Regions and the culture of the Central Plains, which led to him being torn between two different ways of thinking, and was extremely distressed.

It was quiet here, the meat porridge was cooking, it was fragrant, it contained quinoa and chopped meat, and the servants were kneeling respectfully beside to take care of it.

Li Guanyi held the sword and did not answer, but said:

"It's decided, Yuan Xia, you and the gentleman will handle this matter together."

Hao Yuanxia asked, "My lord, what about you?"

Li Guanyi said: "I will resolve my karma myself."

He turned around and strode out. The sky was gray and hazy. In the distance, the majestic palace of the Tangut capital could be seen. Wen He and Hao Yuanxia walked out. Li Guanyi held the sword, his heart surging with emotions, and said, "I understand more and more."

"I really didn't come here for the so-called kingdom of the Dangxiang Kingdom, nor for the throne promised by the Wolf King. Such a twisted so-called hegemony is not worth even a glance."

“These two things, for me.”

"Not even as good as shit!"

Wen He said gently, "What do you want to do, my lord?"

Li Guanyi looked into the distance and replied, "I came here."

“It is to turn slaves into human beings.”

The gentle and harmless young strategist paused slightly, slowly opened his smiling eyes, and looked at the profile of the young prince, a little dazed.

Wen He said: "My Lord, this move may offend many people."

"You stood in front of them."

"They won't let us go easily." "Sir, you are wrong."

Li Guan looked at him and replied:

“They were the ones standing in my way.”

Wen He was speechless.

With such a heroic spirit, why would he need the approval of these nobles?

Li Guanyi said: "You two, please get ready."

Wen He asked, "Where are you going, sir?"

Li Guan raised his sword and said cheerfully:

"Go and kill someone!"

It was a cold winter day. White air came out of the young prince's mouth, which was cold and murderous. He raised his sword and strode away. There were low houses all around him and a tall attic in front of him. He walked towards the palace step by step on the ground, with a cold and heroic spirit.

Wen He sighed, looking at Li Guanyi's back, as if complaining a little, and with a hint of pride, he smiled and said, "I knew it. With my lord's temperament, it is impossible for him to do any infiltration operations after seeing such a scene."

"In troubled times, the Western Region, the Royal City, the Demon Sect, were trapped both internally and externally, and the city was besieged for several months."

"I grew up in the Western Regions. These words appearing in a city at the same time, this kind of scene, you can guess what it looks like without even entering. And if you can still hold back after seeing this, then you are no longer my lord."

“The sky above the nobles and lords is the eternal heaven for the common people and slaves.”

The strategist, who came from a poor family and was born in the Western Regions, lowered his eyes slightly.

There seemed to be emotions surging inside, but it was hard to see clearly.

Then he whispered to himself, "However, since I have already guessed your thoughts, how could we not be prepared?"

The innocent young man looked at the cities in the Western Regions.

Dry, anhydrous.

This ancient city was built five hundred years ago. Most of the buildings are made of loess mixed with wood. It has undergone several expansions and constructions. It is known as the shining pearl in the vast desert of the Western Regions.

"Demon Sect, noble."

"And the various Western Regions coalition forces that are about to rush into the Dangxiang King's city."

"If you plan to relocate the people, it would be a waste to leave this city empty..."

"If the Wolf King wants to sit there, he can use the people of the world as his chess pieces, but he should be careful not to get bitten by the chess pieces. Well, the name of Changshengtian will be stained anyway, so it doesn't matter if I stained it for you in advance, Wolf King."

"Let's muddy the water first."

Hao Yuanxia was ready to mobilize the last troops in his hands. He turned around to look at Mr. Wenhe. Mr. Wenhe looked so quiet, gentle, harmless and reliable. However, at this time, the gentleman who was looking at the city lowered his head.

Asked Hao Yuanxia a strange question.

"You know."

"Where is the kerosene storage in the city?"

The young counselor smiled.

His eyes are smiling and he looks simple and gentle.

completely harmless.

.....................

Li Guanyi personally held the sword and broke into the largest granary, then asked Hao Yuanxia to take charge of the grain relief work. After completing all this, Li Guanyi held the sword and walked slowly towards the palace.

When he entered the Dangxiang Kingdom's city, he had already vaguely sensed Xiao Yuxue's location. The last of the Dangxiang Kingdom's luck was now like a poisonous snake, chasing Xiao Yuxue, and Xiao Yuxue seemed to know that she could not leave.

Xiao Yuxue is in this Dangxiang State, or rather——

Sitting in the imperial palace of [the Great Xia Kingdom in the Western Regions].

Behind Li Guanyi, a girl in an astrologer's robe followed him quietly.

Li Guanyi walked in front of the palace, holding a sword. The nobles in the palace had long known that someone dared to break into the granary, so they sent out their private soldiers to stop them. There were also palace guards, some of whom were disciples of the Demon Sect, and hundreds of them gathered there.

They stared at the lone man in a dark felt robe.

Li Guanyi stretched out his hand and took off his hood, revealing his young face. Just this face was enough to make the thousands of guards clench their weapons and feel a huge sense of fear in their hearts.

Standing before them was the hero who had taken the head of the enemy general amidst thousands of troops.

The world-famous general ranked 27th on the God Generals List.

How could he appear here!

Didn’t they say that they were going to surround and kill the hungry thieves who dared to attack the government warehouse?

How did you become this person?

Immediately, these nobles' private soldiers, generals, and disciples of the Demon Sect suddenly thought of the recent rumors - whoever enters the Dangxiang first will be the king. Their breathing stagnated for a moment. Is this young man in front of them the one who will soon have the title of king in the Western Regions?

Li Guanyi stretched out one hand.

The golden light changed and gathered, transforming into a tiger-like spear.

The halberd fell and hit the ground with a loud noise.

Li Guanyi held the halberd in his hand, took a step forward and stepped onto the steps.

Then thousands of armored soldiers retreated together.

Like a surging force following this body, Li Guanyi, holding a halberd, walked up step by step with a graceful and calm demeanor. The thousands of soldiers were forced to retreat backwards as if facing a deep mountain.

Until there was no more room to retreat, someone suddenly shouted: "Kill!!!"

Thousands of palace guards rushed down from great heights. Li Guanyi, holding the halberd, suddenly raised it abruptly, held it with both hands, and chopped down fiercely with the halberd, accompanied by a roar like a tiger!

【Sea Split】!!!
A gust of air surged up, and the dozen people in front were almost instantly swept up by the halberds and thrown down, spitting blood from their mouths. They were all dead. Li Guanyi held the halberd in his hand, his eyes calm and murderous, and strode forward.

He alone almost killed a thousand people.

For the disciples of the Demon Sect, there is only one thought, that is -

kill!

He charged into the battle alone. There were many people here, but no famous generals.

The roar of a tiger rose up, solemn and vast, as if the tiger had fallen into a flock of sheep and was getting closer and closer. At the highest point, Xiao Yuxue in the palace seemed to sense something and slowly opened her eyes. She had a beautiful face and stood up to look outside.

As the stairs went down one by one, blood gathered like flowing water.

The palace guards had all fallen to the ground, without breath. The man in ordinary clothes shook his wrist and swept the halberd suddenly in front of him. The blood on the blade of the halberd fell to the ground and turned into a blood-colored arc of light.

Li Guanyi has the ability of a grandmaster, and is particularly good at explosive battles. The palace guards without a general leading them are not qualified to compete with a grandmaster-level general, and his halberd is pressed against the ground.

Behind him, the White Tiger Dharma Image has been fully revealed.

Li Guanyi, dressed in ordinary robes, walked up the white jade steps step by step.

The huge white tiger that devoured the fate of the Tangut nation slowly moved forward.

It seemed that because he had devoured the national destiny of the Dangxiang Kingdom and personally killed the White Emperor that it had transformed into, Li Guanyi was walking further and further into the palace.

The White Tiger's momentum grew stronger, more fierce and overbearing, until finally, with a majestic and oppressive feeling, the young man was in front, and the White Tiger was behind, moving forward step by step. Xiao Yuxue stood there watching, and in a trance, she realized that this was not a famous general who came alone.

Graceful and solemn.

In a trance, it was as if the king had come to his palace.

Li Guanyi stood in front, holding the halberd, and the silver-haired girl was behind him.

Li Guanyi looked at Xiao Yuxue.

Xiao Yuxue could still smile: "The first time it was a sword, the second time it was a bow, this time, is it a halberd? Qin Wuhou, the first time you destroyed my Dharma image, the second time, you ruined my martial arts, the third time, are you going to take my life?"

"Then come on."

Li Guan was not affected at all. He raised the weapon in his hand, pointed at Xiao Yuxue, and said coldly:
"Come and die..."

But at this moment, a long howl was suddenly heard.

The sound of a long whistle was like the interweaving of metal and iron, rising into the sky. A figure came from afar, wearing a black shirt, with silver hair dancing wildly. The legendary whale fisherman in martial arts arrived in just a moment, passing Li Guanyi and Yaoguang.

The figure of the whale fisherman appeared. He seemed to have come here early and was looking for something. Just when Li Guanyi chiseled into this place, the whale fisherman finally determined his target.

At this moment, with a sweep of his sleeves, the air waves surged like waves. The entire palace and even the entire city were shaking slightly. Li Guanyi felt that layer upon layer of ripples were appearing in the void around him. The ripples flowed and changed, and actually converged into one, turning into a large formation!
This formation seems to have two centers, which are flowing and changing, and one of them is in the direction of Yaoguang.

The silver-haired girl lowered her eyes to look.

Li Guanyi held the halberd and protected Yaoguang.

The whale fisherman was stunned for a long time and sighed:
"So that's how it is. In the end, this formation actually stayed here."

"Okay, okay, okay! It's time to end all the things that have happened over the past ten years!"

"Formation, start!!!"

The entire palace was shrouded in a large formation, shaking slightly. Intricate and boundless tracks appeared on the ground, turning into a blood-red light. Finally, these blood-red lights combined into the remnants of an ancient and complex formation.

The Dajiao formation that stripped away Yaoguang of her many emotions wanted to refine her into a weapon. It also meant that as long as this formation was broken, the part of Yaoguang that was stripped away and that she had lost would be completely taken back!
Return to perfection.

The whale fisherman looked at the remnants of the formation.

The five fingers suddenly clenched together.

All the things of the past have vanished into thin air, and all the causes and effects are resolved in a grand ceremony attended by tens of thousands of people.

He seemed to see again the child who was placed in the center of the great ceremony formation more than a decade ago. The sadness, complexity, pain, and guilt in the whale fisherman's eyes finally turned into a hearty long howl.

This time.

Daddy won't be late.

The most powerful genius in the past thousand years, the leader of the Jianghu formation, uttered the most resolute, firm, painful, yet high-spirited two words:

"The formation is broken!!!"

(End of this chapter)