bestfiction Chapter 548 The White Lotus Sect's Opportunity
Chapter 548 The White Lotus Sect's Opportunity
Having practiced martial arts for half their lives, they couldn't even beat a teenager, and they felt as if their martial arts training had been for nothing.
"After the boy withstood Xia Yuanying's attack, the rest was quite simple."
Jiang Canghai continued, "Although Xia Yan did his best to delay the beast, the beast was ultimately terrifyingly powerful. About half an hour later, Xia Yan died tragically at the beast's hands! Without Xia Yan's restraint, Xia Yuanying naturally had no chance of winning."
In the end, it was the strange beast that killed all the royal guards, and as for Xia Yuanying… he was brutally beaten to death by the young man in front of the Qing Prince's mansion!
After the story was told, the scene fell silent.
Everyone was immersed in the story, both amazed by the boy's strength and shocked by Xia Yuanying's death.
It's hard to imagine that their greatest enemy, the Azure King, died without their knowledge, and... his death was so simple.
This made everyone feel relaxed, yet also had a dramatic feel to it.
"I never expected that Xia Yuanying, our greatest threat, was already dead. If Elder Jiang hadn't returned in time, we would probably still be in the dark about this."
"Yes! I never dreamed that Xia Yuanying would die so hastily."
"Life is truly unpredictable!"
"..."
Everyone sighed with emotion.
Little Mingwang then asked, "Elder Jiang, do you know the young man's name?"
"I don't know."
Jiang Canghai shook his head: "That young man never gave his name, so I don't know his surname or given name either."
"Well……"
After pondering for a moment, Xiao Mingwang asked again, "Do you know why that young man wanted to kill Xia Yuanying? Could it be that he had a grudge against the Qing King?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Canghai's face showed a strange expression. After considering his words for a moment, he said, "As far as I know, the reason why that young man insisted on killing Xia Yuanying seems to be because... Xia Yuanying had an affair with the barbarians and used women he had abducted to the royal palace to entertain the barbarians, which led to the deaths of the women. And among those dead women, there happened to be someone the young man knew."
"what?"
Everyone exclaimed in unison, their faces filled with astonishment.
They had considered the reasons why countless teenagers killed Xia Yuanying, but they had never imagined such an answer.
Anyone with a brain would know that the woman Xia Yuanying abducted to the palace was definitely not of high status. In other words, the women Xia Yuanying used to entertain the barbarians were just ordinary girls from commoner families.
Killing a prince of the Xia Kingdom because of a commoner girl... Even the well-informed high-ranking members of the White Lotus Sect present had never heard of such a thing!
"This...this is too absurd and bizarre! Just because a commoner girl died, that young man wants to kill a prince?"
"This is the most bizarre thing I've ever heard."
"She's just a commoner, why go to such lengths?"
"Let alone one commoner woman, even the lives of a hundred commoners wouldn't be as valuable as a single hair on Xia Yuanying's head, would they?"
"..."
At that moment, everyone suddenly felt that Xia Yuanying had died unjustly.
Strictly speaking, the high-ranking members of the White Lotus Sect present were no different from Xia Yuanying.
Despite the White Lotus Sect's daily chants of slogans like "the descent of a wise king," "pity for the world," and "salvation of all beings," which seem to indicate a deep compassion for the common people and a strong emphasis on the masses, the sect's actions are misleading.
In reality, the common people were merely tools to be used in their eyes, and even the most humble believers were tools for them to realize their ambitions.
As for the lives of ordinary people and believers... how could they care about the lives of tools?
It was precisely because of this mindset that everyone felt Xia Yuanying died unjustly, that he was killed simply for causing the death of a commoner girl, which was utterly ridiculous.
As for Xia Yuanying's crime of colluding with the barbarians... in the eyes of those present, it was not a crime at all. It was just that they did not have a channel to contact the Manchus, otherwise they might not have been unwilling to collude with the barbarians.
After all... the python blood grass and python bone grass growing on that barbarian territory are quite tempting.
"Because of a commoner girl?"
Xiao Mingwang seemed to find it somewhat amusing: "To impulsively kill Xia Yuanying over such a trivial matter, that young man must not be a man of great composure."
In Xiao Mingwang's mind at this moment, the young man was nothing more than a hothead. As a fourth-rank martial artist, he was of high status, yet he risked everything to kill Xia Yuanying for a commoner girl, even at the cost of offending the imperial court and the Xia family...
This behavior is truly unwise!
"That's true! That boy is really confused."
"I thought he was some kind of hero, but it turns out he's just so clueless."
"That young man's talent is nothing short of monstrous, it's just a pity that he's not very bright!"
"..."
The crowd echoed Xiao Mingwang's sentiments, offering their own evaluations.
Most of them considered Chen Dao's behavior to be foolish!
The lives of a few common women are of no importance. To kill Xia Yuanying and anger the court and the Xia family for the sake of a few common women is simply foolish.
"Although that boy was foolish, what he did was a good thing for us!"
After giving Chen Dao a critique, a square-faced man smiled and said, "Because of the existence of the Qingzhou Army, we have been unable to invade Qiongzhou for a long time. Now that Xia Yuanying is dead, the Qingzhou Army must be in a state of chaos and confusion. As long as our sect takes the opportunity to send troops, we will definitely be able to defeat the Qingzhou Army and then withdraw our troops to march into Qiongzhou."
“That’s right! Xia Yuanying was the backbone of the Qingzhou Army. Now that Xia Yuanying is gone, the Qingzhou Army will inevitably fall into chaos without a leader. This is the perfect opportunity for us to defeat the Qingzhou Army.”
"That young man killing Xia Yuanying is indeed a great thing for our White Lotus Sect."
"Without Xia Yuanying, we will surely be able to defeat the Qingzhou Army!"
"..."
The others also chimed in with shining eyes.
As is well known, Xia Yuanying is the guarantee of the Qingzhou Army's formidable fighting strength, because Xia Yuanying's existence can provide the Qingzhou Army with the greatest support, including sufficient supplies of food, military pay, pensions, and so on.
It can be said that it was precisely because of Xia Yuanying's support that the Qingzhou Army was able to possess such strong combat power and repeatedly win battles against the White Lotus Sect.
Xia Yuanying's importance to the Qingzhou Army is no less than the Emperor's importance to the Xia Kingdom.
Now that Xia Yuanying is dead... Although the Qingzhou Army's discipline means they may not collapse immediately upon hearing this news, there will certainly be some chaos, and even morale will waver, greatly reducing their combat effectiveness.
Thus, the White Lotus Sect's opportunity has arrived!
As long as we can launch an attack while the Qingzhou soldiers are in a state of disarray, the White Lotus Army will surely achieve a great victory and even annihilate the 50,000 Qingzhou soldiers stationed on the border between the two states!