Three days later, at the last court meeting before the year-end holiday, Li Er threw all the memorials he had submitted before the officials.
He reprimanded the officials who had submitted the memorial for framing King Jing without investigation and sowing discord between the royal family.
After that, the ministers who submitted the letter were demoted, demoted, and dismissed.
Ten-some of the ministers belonging to the great clans had been captured and sent out of the Great Tang.
Faced with the Emperor's anger, the aristocratic families were just testing the waters, so no one said anything. Of course, the most important thing was that these ministers were mostly in important positions and did not hold much real power.
If they were cleaned up, then so be it. The people of the aristocratic families would not take the risk of offending the emperor because of this.
This was not in line with their interests!
……
White Cloud City, within the Pillar of Heavens Mountains.
The five thousand soldiers of the Holy Arrow Army, under the leadership of General Huang Zhong, marched west, expanding the area where they could clear the beasts.
In the forest, a hunting team of more than 200 people was surrounding and killing a group of silver wolves.
This kind of group of fierce beasts was extremely ferocious. If ordinary Xiantian experts encountered them, even if they formed a team of several people, they would have to retreat.
This was because these ferocious beasts were not afraid of death, and their leaders often had the strength equivalent to a human at the Connate Realm.
There were more than 80 wolves in this pack, and there were three Connate realm ferocious beasts. The strongest alpha wolf was equivalent to the early stage of the Connate Marrow Cleansing realm.
However, his combat strength was comparable to the middle stage of the Marrow Cleansing realm or even above.
This team had a total of six Inborn experts.
At this moment, the six of them were attacking three Connate silver wolves, while the remaining 200 or so martial artists were holding swords and axes to surround and kill the rest of the wolves.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Suddenly, a thunderous voice sounded in the forest.
Without waiting for the wolf pack and the hunting team to react, the sky suddenly darkened.
Then, everyone raised their heads and looked up. Their faces instantly turned pale.
Thousands of sharp arrows that glowed with blood light descended from the sky.
At this moment, a loud shout was heard,""The North Manor Army is clearing the beasts. The army is advancing.”
However, the hunting squad did not have the chance to react.
Because the Holy Arrow Army attacked first before shouting.
Whoosh…Chi chi chi…
The 5,000 arrows that had been reinforced by the battle formation were extremely powerful. Although they were scattered, both the hunting team and the wolf pack felt a huge pressure.
Soon after, warriors and beasts were pierced by the arrows and fell to the ground.
"General, don't misunderstand. We will retreat immediately!”
A Connate Marrow Cleansing realm expert immediately shouted and moved at the same time, wanting to escape the coverage of the arrow formation.
However, Huang Zhong had led the Holy Arrow Army here for this group of people. How could he let them escape?
As soon as the warrior finished speaking, more than a hundred sharp arrows rose into the sky and flew over at high speed.
This time, although there were only over a hundred arrows, their aura was dozens of times stronger than before.
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of arrows landed on the Upper Sky warriors and the last three Upper Sky silver wolves.
After being pierced by the arrow formation, the six warriors looked around unwillingly.
A dense group of soldiers of the Holy Arrow Army appeared from the surrounding forest. They were wearing armor, carrying swords and shields, holding longbows, and carrying quivers on their backs.
It was obvious that the Holy Arrow Army had surrounded them.
"Why?"
With a loud shout, this Marrow Cleansing realm expert took his last breath.
The group parted, revealing a passageway.
General Huang Zhong was wearing a black iron scale armor. He pressed his hand on the hilt of the saber and walked forward like a dragon.
After looking at that person, he smiled contemptuously and said in a low voice,"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being reincarnated into the wrong family.”
It turned out that this group of two hundred people was a hunting team formed by six aristocratic families.
And these six aristocratic families reported in the court that King Jing had disloyal intentions.
They even tried to reach out to the North Manor Army in White Cloud City.
This had touched Li Lin's reverse scale.
Since you're looking for trouble, don't blame me for being ruthless.
Thus, Huang Zhong accepted the order and combined the information from the Shadow Secret Guards to find this group of people. He secretly surrounded them and then directly killed them with a battle formation.
The reason why he had to use a battle formation was to ensure that nothing went wrong.
"Clean up the battlefield. Retreat in fifteen minutes!”
"Here!"
The Holy Arrow Army immediately sent out 1,000 soldiers to clean up the battlefield.
All the warriors were searched, and then dozens of silver wolves were carried away.
The corpses left in the mountains would soon be eaten by the ferocious beasts attracted by the smell of blood!
The Holy Arrow Army retreated, leaving behind a mess.
"Young Master."
"Speak." Li Lin was washing his hands and didn't even look at Zhang Han.
"The hunting teams of the six aristocratic families have been cleaned up.”Zhang Han reported.
"Hmm, not bad. Order all the troops to withdraw tomorrow morning and return home in batches for the New Year. The New Year goods that they had prepared before would be distributed after the army returned to the camp.”
"Yes, this subordinate will obey your orders."
"Okay, go ahead."
"This subordinate will take his leave!"
Zhang Han left. Li Lin washed his hands and was about to return to the main hall when Shangguan Yunlan came over.
"Your Highness!"
"Lord Shangguan, is there something you need?"
"Yes, Your Highness. Yun Lan is here to bid farewell.”Shangguan Yunlan, who was still dressed in green, said.
"Farewell? You're going back to the Wei Prefecture?" King Jing frowned and asked.
"No, back to the Divine Capital." Shangguan Yunlan shook his head.
"What are you doing back in the capital?"
"Master is about to come out of seclusion. I have to go back.”
"Your master? Yuan Tiangang?"
"Yes."
"Alright, the next time you come to White Cloud City, just look for me directly.”Li Lin nodded and did not say anything else.
"Thank you for your care during this period of time, Your Highness.”Shangguan Yunlan felt a little wronged when he saw that Li Lin had no intention of asking him to stay.
But he couldn't say it.
“.……I was thinking of letting you stay in the Imperial Residence to celebrate the New Year together.”Li Lin said regretfully as if he had seen through Shangguan Yunlan's thoughts.
After all, it was a happy thing to spend the new year with such a beauty.
"Your Highness, do you want me to stay?" When Shangguan Yunlan heard this, he felt a sweetness in his heart. He looked up at Li Lin with a smile.
"Of course I do. Why wouldn't I?" Li Lin was telling the truth.
"Then, why don't I stay for two more days?”
"Didn't you say that your master had come out of seclusion and was in a hurry to return?”
"Hmph, if you don't want to keep her, then forget it." Hearing Li Lin's words, Shangguan Yunlan's expression changed and he turned to leave.
"Hey, that's not what I meant. Stay for two more days!”Seeing Shangguan Yunlan's actions, Li Lin felt that he had seen similar women's bewitching behavior in a certain song in his previous life.
"Alright then. On account of your pleading, I'll stay for another two days and set off for the Divine Capital on the first day of the month.”
Shangguan Yunlan then left.
“.……”
Looking at Shangguan Yunlan who was skipping away, Li Lin was speechless. Chun Lan and the other two girls covered their mouths and chuckled.
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