SFS Chapter 1065 The battle between the palace masters
Chapter 1065 The battle between the palace masters
Chapter 1065 The battle between the palace masters
Luo Wuxin exhaled softly: "Choose the lesser of two evils."
Jun Yue: "Weighing the two evils?"
"Today in the Three Heavens, the chess game has come to an end and the trump cards have been revealed. The swords of the holy war have been lit. None of the saints want to see this holy war, so there is a compromise."
Jun Yue looked into the sky and said, "None of the saints want to see this, but why has it come to this?"
Luo Wuxin's eyes flickered slightly: "The saints don't want to see it, and the saints don't want things to get to this point, but Lin Su is willing to see that it was him who pushed the incident to this point step by step."
"Holding all the saints?" Jun Yue was shocked.
Lin Su is good at leveraging forces and taking advantage of situations. Are today's two imperial edicts really what he wanted to achieve by coercing the saints?
What kind of courage does it take to bring all the saints under his control? What kind of means does it take? How did it happen?
Luo Wuxin slowly sat down beside the chessboard, picked up the tea that Jun Yue had poured for him, and smiled faintly: "This is probably the greatest convenience of being the master of the White Pavilion. I can know what is going on in the world. Only by going deeper into it can we truly understand how our Lin Quasi-Sage is taking every step carefully and stepping beyond their predictions. Others think they have seen through his goals, but in fact, his goals are beyond everyone's predictions..."
"Sir, please tell me." Jun Yue was very interested.
Luo Wuxin said: "Okay, I will give you a comprehensive analysis of this unprecedented opponent here in the White Pavilion..."
Lin Su, this time when he entered the Burial State, his starting point was to take over the Burial State.
The reason is very clear, Zangzhou is the front line of the battle between humans and demons, and it is also the rear base for the troops to leave the city. If the rear is unstable, it will be difficult for the front army to move forward. Therefore, Zangzhou must be controlled by military strategists.
According to Lin's usual habit, to take down a dynasty, he would support a new emperor. However, the special situation in Zangzhou prevented him from achieving his goal smoothly.
What's so special about it?
In the land of Zangzhou, the various forces have been in a stalemate for thousands of years and have become extremely complicated. Any heir to the throne is a dye vat and cannot be clean and flawless. This situation is almost the same as the situation in Southeast Buddhist Country. No, it is more complicated than Southeast Buddhist Country. At least Southeast Buddhist Country does not have too many foreign forces, while Zangzhou is the state with the most foreign forces. Why? Because the foreign races also want to control the front line of the battle between humans and demons, so as to increase their own bargaining chips.
Such a complicated situation would be overwhelming for anyone.
Even though Muye Villa was invincible in military strategy, it was actually having a headache.
This can be seen from their choices...
The people of Muye Villa did not like the late emperor, but when the late emperor was facing the regicide of the fourth prince, they still had to protect him. Why? Because in comparison, the late emperor had more bottom line than the fourth prince. For this bottom line, they also had to maintain the shaky Zangzhou Dynasty. This is also called choosing the lesser of two evils.
When Lin Su entered Zangzhou, his initial stage was ten times wilder than that of Muye Villa...
His logic was simple and crude. Since the Dongfang Dynasty itself was not a suitable imperial power, and since there was no suitable successor to the imperial power in Zangzhou, then he would just sweep it aside and overthrow it completely...
His approach was ingenious...
The return of the Military Saint is the best move.
When the Military Sage appears, all the descendants of the military strategists must be present. This is the ancestral law and has unparalleled persuasiveness.
However, objectively speaking, it led to the collective withdrawal of military forces from the court.
This gave Zhuge Qingfeng and the Fourth Prince the opportunity to kill the king!
Speaking of this, Jun Yue's heart was pounding: "The reconstruction of the Military Saint's family, everyone said it was a landmark event for the military family to break through the catastrophe and return, this... is actually just a move by Lin Su?"
Luo Wuxin said: "This is probably the inertia of human thinking. In the eyes of ordinary people, such a landmark event should only be the final chapter of a matter, not a chess piece for others. I'm afraid Zhuge Qingfeng also thinks so. Otherwise, how could the new generation of Zhidao Tianjiao, who is famous for his prudence, fall for his trick?"
Jun Yue exhaled softly: "Sir, please continue..."
Luo Wuxin was venting his anger about this matter...
Lin Su intended to create an opportunity for Zhuge Qingfeng, and he also calculated that Zhuge Qingfeng would not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After arranging everything, Lin Su went far outside the city gate, quietly escaped from the center of the storm, and let the situation develop.
Sure enough, everything was just as he expected...
Zhuge Qingfeng teamed up with the fourth prince to kill the late emperor and the remaining four princes of the late emperor. He also arranged a brilliant move for Lin Su: the person who killed the king turned out to be Yao Chi's senior brother Li Daonian.
This is a brilliant move. Not to mention others, even I, Luo Wuxin, admire it because it is a brilliant strategy, a great move to turn the tables...
However, this move failed to defend Lin Su.
Because Lin Su didn't care about evidence in the beginning, he only cared about the facts. He didn't intend to kill the king directly and waste his brains by manipulating many people. He used the determination to cut off the firewood from under the cauldron...
He activated the card Buried King.
This card was truly the one that caught everyone by surprise.
Because the King of Burial and the Burial Area are outside the imperial system, and the burial area is special and no strangers are allowed to approach it. Such people are naturally incompatible with imperial power. Therefore, no matter how the Burial State plays, no one has ever taken the power of the burial area into account. In fact, no one can influence the power of the burial area.
However, Lin Su can do it!
The Fourth Prince Dongfang Ge took full charge of the coronation ceremony.
Just when the process of Dongfang Pavilion was about to be completed, Lin Su appeared in Xiongzhou Confucian Temple, and the night watchman He Jingzhong had a very exciting game with him...
He Jingzhong misjudged Lin Su from the beginning, thinking that Lin Su's appearance was to prevent the coronation ceremony, so he used the temple's non-interference in imperial power as a lock to lock the legal legitimacy of Lin Su's actions to prevent the fourth prince from ascending the throne.
But he just fell into Lin Su's crotch, and this sentence also locked him up, making him lose the legal legitimacy to stop everything that happened afterwards.
The King of Zang appeared at the coronation ceremony with nine war spirits and the Sword of God Killing. He used the Dongfang family's seizure of power from the orthodox royal family of the Jun family four hundred years ago as the starting point, and beautified this incredible power-grabbing drama at the coronation ceremony into a royal struggle between the Jun and Dongfang families. Then he swept the whole place with absolute strength and successfully took the imperial seal.
With the help of Lin Su, he used the Holy Way to cleanse his heart and tried the high-ranking officials of Dongfang Pavilion and his faction on the spot. In this trial, Dongfang Pavilion and the foreign forces behind him were completely exposed. Yao Chi used this opportunity to clear himself, and the Zang King easily won the support of the world when he took over Zangzhou...
To many people, this is the end of the plan.
However, it is just the real starting point of Lin Su's plan.
In this great change, Lin Su only wanted one thing, an excuse to attack the poets!
If he found this excuse, he could drag the poets into the quagmire, and then drag the saints under his wing, thus truly achieving his desired cause...
What is the great cause?
It means to abolish everything in the Three Heavens!
What are they all?
It’s holy power!
Therefore, the ultimate goal of this competition that started with the imperial power of Zangzhou is to seize the holy power!
Jun Yue's expression changed completely: "Seizing the Holy Power? Did he succeed?"
Did you make it?
At present, the power of the temple, which was controlled by the saints in various capitals, has been transformed into long arms to govern the palaces, so that the saints can only give orders to the palace masters, and the palace masters control the palaces.
At least the saint's power to control the palaces was taken away.
However, the saint's orders to the temple master are still valid.
Luo Wuxin said: "Palace Master, you have now become the focus of the game between all parties. It depends on whether the military faction can find a way to dethrone the current Palace Master and replace him with the Palace Master they want."
Jun Yue nodded gently: "The current Palace Master Cao Xiangdao is a Confucian, and the Confucians will definitely protect him. More than half of the saints in the Three Heavens will also protect him. But for the military strategists, they have to pull him down. It seems that this huge storm that started in Zangzhou and showed its might in the Three Heavens has shifted the battlefield again, from the Three Heavens to the battle for the Palace Master of the Holy Temple."
Yes, all the saints have lost the authority to manage the palaces, and all the holy powers must be reflected through the palace master. The position of the palace master has become the most core point of contention in the battle for the great way.
If it is the current Cao Xiangdao, he is undoubtedly inclined towards Confucianism.
In other words, Confucianism currently has at least an 80% chance of winning in the competition for the best path.
Even more than 80%.
However, is the situation really as they predicted?
Lin Su Changxing was in the center, and the topic entered deep waters.
Ming Tianyan held up the teacup and said, "The most important thing now is the competition for the Palace Master. Cao Xiangdao is a loyal Confucian. Is there really a way to take him down? Replace him with our people?"
Lin Su's face was calm and composed: "Don't worry!"
"Rest assured? Why should I be rest assured?" Ming Tianyan said, "Among the saints in the Third Heaven, 80% are theirs. In the palaces of the Holy Temple, 80% are theirs. The current Palace Master is definitely theirs. No matter what method you use, you can't bring him down, unless you use tricks!"
Lin Su smiled: "In the battle for the master of the Holy Temple, you can't use crooked tactics, you have to do it right!"
That's true. The master of the Holy Temple, according to the next management model, is the true representative of the Holy Way. If he relies on crooked means to get to the top, what will it look like? As long as the inside story spreads, it will be a disaster for the Holy Temple's management of the world's culture...
“I understand the right approach, but what should I do if I don’t see hope on the right path?” Ming Tianyan rubbed his forehead gently.
Lin Su said: "Only by doing the right thing can there be hope!"
“Where is the hope?”
"It's a very common, very correct, and very bullshit-like truth: Evil cannot defeat good!"
"Evil cannot prevail over good, countless people in the world repeat this every day, and anyone can talk about this for three days and three nights, but is it really so? Why is it that during my eight hundred years in Wuyou Mountain, my biggest regret is always that good people don't live long, while evil people live for a thousand years? Why is it that even today, the right path is still difficult to follow, while the wrong path advances by a thousand miles?"
"Your insights are very profound, but you misunderstood what I meant. The so-called righteousness can see the sunlight, and the so-called evil cannot see the sunlight. Now that the situation is not in my favor, perhaps the only thing we can do is to open the window and see the real sunlight..." Lin Su slowly stood up, walked to the window, and gently pushed the window open.
The sunshine of the first day of May shone down warmly, and a layer of flowing light covered his body.
Ming Tianyan's eyes swept across his handsome face, with some unknown thoughts in his mind: "When you killed Le Sheng, I thought about whether you could take over Ledu and become the master of Ledu. In the end, you abolished Ledu. That time was the closest you were to the center of real power."
Lin Su nodded gently: "That's true. If I was like other saints, focusing on my own power, I just needed to work harder that time, and maybe I could have equal power with the people of Qi."
"So what about this time? The Lord of the Holy Temple controls the world's culture and Taoism. Although he is suppressed by the Saint, his power is still ridiculously great. More importantly, he also controls various sects... It is in perfect harmony with your idea of rectifying the Holy Temple."
Lin Su smiled: "You probably think that I facilitated the transfer of the Three Heavens Holy Power to the Palace Master in order to seize the position of Palace Master, right?"
"You don't want to?" Ming Tianyan raised his eyes, somewhat surprised.
"No, I don't want to! I can't! I can't even do it!"
Three no’s, progressive.
Ming Tianyan’s disappointment grew more and more.
At the beginning, she did think that Lin Su's sword was pointed at the Palace Master.
Concentrate all the power of the temple on the position of the temple master, and then take the position of the temple master. As long as Lin Su takes the position of the temple master, he will really have an extremely solid platform. Lin Su has been committed to breaking the ancient convention of one sect and one family in the temple and realizing his ultimate concept of literature and Taoism. Only by taking the position of the temple master can he truly realize this great cause for thousands of years.
But she also knew it was difficult.
The Master of the Temple is currently a position that all the saints in the entire temple or the Three Heavens are paying attention to, and it is truly very popular.
The current Cao Xiangdao definitely wants to stay in office for a few more years and try a different taste.
There are seven or eight deputy hall masters, and they all stretch their necks out. Who doesn’t have some ambition?
Chaoran Pavilion, Eighteen Main Palaces (originally seventeen, now the Military Palace is officially included and becomes eighteen), and Twenty-three Side Palaces, which palace master doesn't want to be the hall master?
The previous palace masters were of little value, but they could still remain calm. Now the palace masters are 10,000 times more valuable, so who doesn’t have a dream?
There are so many opponents, and they are so powerful.
But perhaps because of her absolute trust in Lin Su, she always felt that nothing was impossible with Lin Lang's help.
Therefore, she came here today with another purpose, which was to test the waters and see if this cheap man of hers really intended to become the super man who led the entire temple...
But Lin Su directly answered with three nos.
In no mood!
No!
Can't do it!
Regardless of whether “don’t want to” is pretentious, the key is that “can’t” and “can’t do it” are very real.
Lin's attainments in literature and Taoism are unparalleled in the world, but does this make him the master of the temple? Obviously not entirely, he is the spokesperson of the saint! He is the person closest to the saint! He must faithfully implement the saint's intentions, and he must be someone that the saint seems to be able to control.
In this regard, Mr. Lin is far, far behind.
If we were to vote, who would be the most rebellious person in the world? I'm afraid the little darlings of the Lin family would say in unison: My husband!
How can a person who is rebellious, stubborn, and always points his sword at the saints be the master of the temple?
Then wouldn’t all the saints be screwed?
Therefore, you cannot pass this topmost level!
What about the next one? It also failed. The key is that Lin Su is too strong. If a person who is too strong sits in the position of Palace Master, what power do the palaces have? For the sake of their own power, the palaces will not like him.
What about the elders?
The elders would not be willing to do so. The elders also wanted to have a say. They also wanted the hall master who was also the chief elder to be a relatively weak hall master, so that they could have a sense of existence. Who wanted an insurmountable peak to be erected in the elders? The entire elders group would become a one-man show? Therefore, they would not accept Lin Su as the hall master.
This is the complete interpretation of Lin Su's "Three No's"...
Ming Tianyan replayed all of this in his mind. Whether he was willing or not, he finally accepted it...
"So who do you think is suitable to be the new hall master?"
"It's not immediately apparent, but I think it should emerge after tomorrow's review meeting, right?"
Ming Tianyan pressed his hand to his forehead, somewhat speechless: "What you mean is that our faction has made such a big move, but in fact we don't have a clear goal at all?"
Lin Su sighed: "Things in the world are like this. We have to take one step at a time. People's hearts are hidden in their stomachs. It is difficult for you to see the true heart of the temple masters. Therefore, sometimes, not setting a preset goal is also a gesture."
Ming Tianyan was silent...
Silence because of Lin Su's words...
After a long while, she slowly raised her head and asked, "Is the culture blocked now?"
"Locked!" Lin Su said.
Ming Tianyan said: "I want to ask someone, which side is the Taoist Saint from?"
Many people in the entire temple were guessing where the Taoist Saint would stand.
Even the Confucian saints in the three heavens were probably guessing.
The position of Daosheng is very mysterious...
The relationship with Lin Su is also a mystery...
When Lin Su was in the world of mortals, the Taoist family was his biggest enemy at first. During his trip to Xizhou, the Taoist family even attacked him directly and wanted to chop off his head.
When he stepped into the temple, Taoist Li Xiaoyao, as the "gatekeeper", also showed the strongest hostility towards him.
Lin Su broke the Taoist thirteen-character true realm, which is a matter of opinion.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this was a blasphemy against the Taoist Saint from a distance, because he left the Thirteen-Character Realm to compete with the highest Taoist scriptures, and the object of competition could be Li Xiaoyao or the Taoist Saint - this was the same as when he built another peak in the Music Palace and put it on par with the Holy Peak of the Music Saint.
From this perspective, Dao Sheng has reason to be dissatisfied with Lin Su. If he and Le Sheng are in the same situation...
However, Lin Su visited the Taoist Saint the last time he entered the Third Heaven.
The Taoist Saint even responded by sending Li Guihan into the Lin Mansion - of course, with this move, whether it was the Taoist Palace or the Taoist Saint in Taoist Capital, they could both attack and defend, because Li Guihan could not represent the Taoist Saint, she was someone Lin Su had known for a long time.
The attitude of the Taoist Saint is a bit of a mystery at this point.
This time when Lin Su went to the Third Heaven, the attitude of Dao Sheng continued to be mysterious...
Lin Su pointed his sword at the poet.
The Military Saint said nothing, Wei Yang pointed directly at the Poet Saint and even uttered a harsh word, "This Saint will take your sainthood first, if I kill the wrong person, I will go to the altar of heaven." There is no room for misunderstanding in his support for Lin Su.
The chess master also completely let go and fully supported it.
The Saint of Mo, the Saint of Yin and Yang, and the Saint of Agriculture all had clear attitudes. They supported Lin Su and pointed their swords at the Saint of Poetry.
Only the Taoist Saint's attitude remains unclear.
He is a peacemaker.
His main purpose seemed to be to settle disputes.
However, it was he who proposed to disband the various capitals, and only with the weight of a super saint like him and his neutral position could he maximize the weight of his proposal...
This proposal became a consensus of the oracle.
Dao Sheng thus became the main contributor to resolving this crisis. At the same time, he also became a middle force that both major camps relied on...
Ming Tianyan wanted to ask Lin Su, where does the Taoist Saint stand?
Because the weight of this saint is so heavy.
Lin Su smiled: "Do you think he was the one who proposed this?"
Ming Tianyan's heart was greatly shocked...
"This is the advice I gave him the last time I entered Daodu, and I also set detailed rules."
Ming Tianyan said: "So, the real focus of the big chess game you played with Zangzhou as the board is not the Sage of Poetry, but the fundamental change of the structure of the temple."
"That's natural."
Ming Tianyan asked, "In your mind, is the importance of the temple structure really higher than that of a saint?"
"There are seventeen saints, but only one holy temple! When a great change is about to happen, the holy temple must be united as one. Otherwise, when we are fighting in front of us, the holy temple will surely be in chaos. Once the holy temple is in chaos, the whole world will be in chaos. This is a more terrifying variable than the Southeast Buddhist Kingdom and the demonization of the Burial State."
Ming Tianyan sighed deeply: "A great change is about to happen, a great catastrophe is about to begin, and how many people are really paying attention to this catastrophe? They are always paying attention to their own little piece of land and their own personal interests."
"There are already quite a few people paying attention to this catastrophe!" Lin Su said, "I'm paying attention, you're paying attention, the military strategist, the King of Da Cang, the King of Nanyang, the King of Zang, Yao Chi, Di Shui Guan... there are already quite a few!"
"The Dao Saint is willing to cooperate with you because he is concerned about this catastrophe. The same is true for the Chess Saint, Yin-Yang Saint, Ink Saint, and Agriculture Saint, right?"
"Yes, the road is not lonely! Maybe it seems a little lonely at the beginning, but, in the end, it is always not lonely!"
Ming Tianyan looked up at the sky, watching the clouds rolling in the sunlight: "Tomorrow is a crucial time node. Let's see whether the first fruit of this great plan is what we want!"
She was talking about the dispute over the master of the temple.
Tomorrow will be the meeting to review the palace masters.
This review has been finalized, the process has been finalized, and the participants have also been finalized.
Seventeen saints ascended the altar together.
The masters of each palace arrived.
The temple master and the temple elders are present.
The top elders of each palace and above can attend the meeting, and those with literary rank of Quasi-Saint and above can attend the meeting.
The current agenda of this meeting is to review the Palace Master.
However, almost everyone could foresee that this topic would go off track and eventually turn into a fight for the position of Palace Master.
Theoretically, Cao Xiangdao should still be the Palace Master, because he has a huge advantage.
However, this is just theory.
If Cao Xiangdao simply fails to pass the review, then the Hall Master will be chosen from the current Chaoran Pavilion Master, the eighteen main palace masters, the twenty-three side palace masters, and the top elders above the Quasi-Saint level. The competition will be unprecedentedly fierce.
What about Ming Tianyan himself?
Theoretically she was qualified, but she knew she couldn't succeed.
Lin Su is also qualified in theory, but she has also confirmed that Lin Su is not possible.
So, who else could it be?
(End of this chapter)