298. Sima Yi Request To Lie Fan

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Seeing this reaction, not only Li Jue was afraid but he became more daring and continued to curse and insult both Ma Teng and Han Sui when suddenly a blade from behind beheaded Li Jue shocking everyone and Li Jue's retainer who was loyal to him seeing that it was one of their comrades wanted to retaliate, but the soldiers who were amongst them already on Li Jue's killer side and subdued them all.

Ma Teng and Han Sui didn't expect such development to occur, as they at least expected a desperate fight to the death by Li Jue and his army, of course, it doesn't mean that they didn't like what just happened.

Li Jue's sudden decapitation caused a wave of cheer from Ma Teng and Han Sui's army, while Li JueCS soldiers who weren't aware of the plot, had their morale hit rock bottom and some even abandoned their posts.

Li Jue's former retainers on the other hand had their former comrade be bound and had their men bring them together alongside them as they welcomed Ma Teng and Han Sui to Chang'An, opening Chang'An gate for Ma Teng and Han Sui.

Ma Chao and Pang De alongside Cheng Yin and Hou Xuan, who were put as the vanguard by Ma Teng and Han Sui respectively were the first who were greeted by Li Jue's former retainers who presented Li Jue's head to them.

Pang De received the head which was put in a box and brought them toward Ma Teng and Han Sui, presenting Li Jue's head and also informing them of Li Jue's former retainer surrender and wanted to pledge their allegiance to the two of them, with Li Jue's head and Chang'An as their show of loyalty to them.

Ma Teng and Han Sui accepted all of them into their service, as Li Jue's retainers who were taken captive were given a choice by both Ma Teng and Han Sui, whether they wanted to serve them or join Li Jue.

Many chose to pledge their allegiance to Ma Teng and Han Sui right then and there, while a small amount chose to honor Li Jue and hold their conviction, requesting that their family would not be implicated.

Ma Teng and Han Sui promised them and Pang De was ordered to execute them all right there, Pang De received the border took out his sword from its scabbard at his waist, then began to behead all of them one by one.

It was a bloody sight as many heads were falling, but for everyone there, it was just an ordinary sight maybe a bit repulsive but for people who lived through a battle and have it become part of their life, this kind of sight is a normal one compared what they sometimes saw in battle.

After everything was finished, Ma Teng and Han Sui less his army to enter Chang'An marking the downfall of Li Jue and his force, wiping him out from history, and from here on there's no more Li Jue in the line of Lords competing for hegemony.

Ma Teng and Han Sui celebrated their victory by holding a banquet for themselves and their army for two days nonstop, Chang'An was full of festivity for a while with restaurants, Inns, and Brothels full of Ma Teng and Han Sui's Soldiers.

Of course, the expenses were paid using Li Jue's small private treasury which they managed to uncover in his residence, calling it small was underwhelming as it was chest after chest taken out from a secret room, and after counting the chest there were around 50 of them filled with jewelry and money.

Ma Chao Ma Teng's eldest son becomes one of the guests of honor at the banquet, Tianshui manages to be taken down by him alongside Pang De who showed their prowess and skill, where it began a step for their name to be famous in the land.

Ma Chao was appointed by Ma Teng to lead all of his cavalries and appointed Pang De as Ma Chao's Vice-general, installing him as Ma Chao right hand man causing Han Sui silently lament in his heart as he wanted to bring Pang De to his camp.

What everyone doesn't know is, that Ma Teng and Han Sui have begun to show signs of a crack in their partnership as the two relationships began to show signs of crack due to different opinions.

These differences in opinions were actually a small thing but they became a match that lit the fire, with the oil was the conflict between their retainers as at the end of the day, Liang Province wasn't big enough for the two of them especially with their retainers increasing day by day.

The banquet also alleviated the atmosphere in Chang'An, where the common people felt that Ma Teng and Han Sui were much better than Li Jue, of course in several aspects it was true as they were much smarter than Li Jue.

But their origin was the same, at first rebels then declared themselves warlords, so outlaw essence was full in their army since they could only recruit whoever wanted to join them from any background.

So after those thoughts filled Chang'An's people's minds, on the second day of the banquet Han Sui's men began to cause trouble, and several cases of them raping women and looting stores soon spread in Chang'An.

The people lamented their suffering, while Ma Teng who heard this began to have a shouting match with Han Sui as he told Han Sui to control his soldiers because Chang'An is a special location that could provide them with a large amount of taxes.

Han Sui had a different opinion as he thought it was a small thing compared to what the Han People did due to his people the Qiang, so they begin to butt heads for a while before Ma Chao and Chen Yin separated the two.

What should have been a happy event turned into a sour one, and all of this was transmitted to Lie Fan with Oriole's network slowly being upgraded by Lie Fan with him donating several birds which were ravens to Oriole as carriers for their letters.

Using the flute he gains as a reward from the system, Lie Fan managed to train them to several degrees that they understand word commands and know where to send the letter, and who will receive it, with the same happening if the recoverer wanted to reply to the letter.

At first, Jia Xu who received the birds firsthand was skeptical, even though he knew ravens were very smart but they symbolized bad luck and ill omen, no matter how intelligent and cunning he was, people of this era still believed in spiritual belief strongly.

Lie Fan persuaded Jia Xu for some time before Jia Xu finally agreed, Lie Fan explained to him that because it symbolized those things the chance of them being shot down was very low, and people would stay out of their way which increased the chance of their communication network being raised by several degrees.

So the Oriole at Xiapi nega to incorporate ravens that were received from Lie Fan to send letters Outside of Xiapi, Xu Kai as the Grandmaster after Jia Xu finds the ravens extremely smart and asks for Lie Fan to donate more.

Lie Fan told Xu Kai to be patient as his "supplier" needs to resupply and will send more when he has the ravens, where actually a lie Fan was training the ravens himself in his spare time.

For this time when he was reading the letters about Ma Teng, Han Sui, and Li Jue, he was playing the flute while ravens that he bought or captured with the help of his own Oriole members unit that answered to him only and very loyal to him.

At this time when he was doing so in a secluded location, Sima Yi was watching Lie Fan doing all of that and he admired Lie Fan, thinking that the ravens were attracted to the sound of his flute which was very beautiful.

While humming, he doesn't realize that his sound from a low one turned very loud Lie Fan heard his humming sound and turned toward his direction where he saw Sima Yi, and Sima Yi seeing that Lie Fan found out let out an embarrassed smile.

Lie Fan just smiles and calls for him to approach him while waiting for Sima Yi, Lie Fan tells the ravens to scatter and all of them do so, surprising Sima Yi for a while but then he sits beside Lie Fan.

Lie Fan: "Sima Yi what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be learning from Master Lu Zhi and Master Cai Yong today?"

Sima Yi: "It's boring listening to the two Teachers every day Brother Lie Fan, so I slip out and take the day off for class hehe!"

Lie Fan: "Okay you little brat now dare to be naughty! I shouldn't have let you play with Wannian, she rubs bad influence on you."

Sima Yi: "No Brother Lie Fan! I was very happy to know Sister Wannian, she is also one of the reasons why I came here to find you."

Lie Fan: "Oh? What's wrong with Wannian? Is she being naught again and doing pranks? Or is she bullying Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun again?"

Sima Yi: "It's nothing like that Brother Lie Fan, it's just that I wanted to have your permission to court Sister Wannian! I have fallen in love with her several years ago! I knew that my status wasn't worthy compared to others, but with my intelligence, I can help Brother Lie Fan to achieve your ambition!"

Lie Fan who was smiling at first and teased Sima Yi, was shocked and like thunder striking his mind after hearing that Sima Yi requested his permission to court Wannian, mixed emotions began to play inside of him.

Thinking that he heard it wrong he asked Sima Yi to repeat what he just said, and after Sima Yi repeated all of it again Lie Fan knew that he hadn't heard it wrong, and with that Lie Fan's aura turned from easygoing and friendly to solemn with hints of ferocity.

Seeing the changes in Lie Fan, Sima Yi knew that the Lie Fan he needed to face to gain permission to court Wannian finally showed up, this is the only side of Lie Fan that Sima Yi found very intimidating, not because of the pressure of rejection but he could feel that the aura that Lie Fan gained from killing people in battle and court intrigue began to blend into one entity that could smash anyone who touched his reverse scale.

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Name: Lie Fan

Title: Three Heroes Who Defeat Lu Bu

Age: 28 (195 AD)

Level: 16

Next Level: 2,462,000

Renown: 725

Cultivation: Yin Yang Separation (level 9)

SP: 1,071,700

ATTRIBUTE POINTS

STR: 936 (+20)

VIT: 598 (+20)

AGI: 583 (+10)

INT: 587

CHR: 93

WIS: 509

WILL: 397

ATR Points: 0