In the face of the emperor's anger, no one would like to be the first bird.
"Say it," the emperor said. "When Mengze was in court, didn't all of you have something to say? What's the matter now? Dumb?"
An old nobleman came out and said, "Sir, Shitou was in a hurry and needed to be dispatched. However, such matters must be approved by the Emperor himself. If Princess Mengze acted on behalf of the emperor, it could only be carried out after a lot of discussions. Otherwise, all rules and regulations would be out of order. "
"Discussion?" The emperor narrowed his eyes and looked extremely dangerous. "That's interesting. What's the rule?"
"Chonghua's state system, ancestral rules -"
The emperor suddenly interrupted him, showing his white teeth. "For the sake of our ancestors' rules, we have paid three border cities! Chapter your head!"
The old aristocrat shrunk suddenly, and the old turtle's face wrinkled instantly. At the end of the day, the emperor's rage could not be contained. He was furious at the court meeting and knocked on the table and asked, "What do you want to do? How important are men and women? Love alone, let the right replace the right! Or what? Is it up to you? It's better to go to the backyard and lead a pig to sit in my position!"
"Not to mention Daze City, when Liaoshi's three hundred thousand troops wanted to occupy Fengcheng, they were defeated by our country. Dicheng is the original stone city of great splendor. Since ancient times, the enemy has lost one attack at a time, but in twenty days, it has been completely occupied. Pig town will not allow such absurd things to happen!"
"..."
"Who rejected Mengze's proposal? Not letting her send troops to Shitou? Was that you!?" He pointed to the old nobleman who had just appeared.
The old aristocrat hurriedly said, "Be, of course, not this old minister! How can I decide such a big thing by myself? Yes, yes... "
"What is it?! You're usually smart, now you're stuttering when it comes to accountability? Speak! Ah! Or do you want me to let Mengze point them out for you? Mengze!"
Mengze was a woman who entered the court as an exception. She was wearing a five piece black and gold edged crown and a dark black phoenix patterned python robe. Although the python robe was wide sleeved, it had a neat and upright waist seal, which made her look a little different from her ordinary straight and handsome look.
At this time, her brother called her, her long eyelashes moved gently, and her eyes drooped. "Wang Xiong, please calm down. Now Shitou pass has been lost, and three cities have fallen. I don't know what else Liaoguo will do next. Now is not the time to be held accountable. Please count up Wang Xiong as early as possible. We will transfer troops to the north border area and arrange a counterattack."
The old aristocrat was worried about Mengze's exclusion these days, so he would take advantage of this opportunity to appeal to her brother. But when she said that, he was relieved and couldn't help but applaud Mengze in his heart
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This girl, don't take advantage of the fire, go on!
He hurried up and said, "Yes, sir, you see we were also worried about the country's discipline and principles. Our hearts were good, but the results may not be satisfactory. Please calm down."
Others said, "Yes, your majesty, there are ancestor rules, state-owned national laws, ministers, and so on. Although the three cities and one customs pass were lost, at least the discipline was not disordered, and it is not a good thing."
When the emperor listened to this, the breath he had just pressed down came back in a flash.
Someone even added, "When you were sick for more than twenty days in a row, the worries of the officials were not unreasonable. If there is any serious disease in the royal body of the emperor, it should be made known to the court according to the law. It's hidden and twisted like this, and it's easy for the courtiers to worry."
When the emperor ascended, he was furious. He took a breath. His eyes were red with hate. He clapped the table angrily and said, "You can really bear it! It's not for advice, it's for talking, isn't it!!"
Everyone was silent.
The court officials of the remonstrance believed that they had the red paper and iron coupons left by the founding emperor, and their roots were deep in the court, so they pretended to be frightened. "Don't be angry, Emperor. It's important to take care of your health."
The emperor turned his head in fury. It seemed that he didn't want to see these things any more. He stared at the beams and columns of the main hall for a while without saying a word, but in the end, it was still useless. The raging anger overflowed from his heart, drowning his whole body in invisible hatred.
He closed his eyes.
All of a sudden, the desk table in front of him was overturned with a loud swing of sleeves. Cherry pears rolled all over the floor. The scrolls were even more scattered.
"Get lost!"
"..."
"Get out of here! All of you!"
"... Yes! "
The emperor gasped for breath. His red eyes stared angrily at the hall and he spat out a few words, "Wait a minute."
All the ministers stopped.
Emperor: "Xihe Jun, you stay with me."
There were only two people left in the hall, Mo Xi and the emperor. The emperor inhaled a deep breath. He leaned back to the pole, leaned on the dragon chair, and stared at the red and red golden dome carved with a dragon and phoenix.
"Token granted by the emperor… token granted by the emperor" the emperor spat and cursed. "It's all good things left by our ancestors! Relying on these things, one after another, playing their own wishful thinking. What do I say to raise them? It's better to raise a group of neat and uniform bamboo warriors with no ideas! Let's call the officials and give orders to those bamboo people who have no guts! Save so many disgusting things!"
"... When you have reached this point, don't talk about these whims again."
"What are the whims?" the emperor said cruelly and angrily. "People with ambition and no head will still be inferior to the pig with no ambition and no head!"
Mo Xi pursed his thin lips. The resistance he met was almost unprecedented when he succeed to the throne to reform Chonghua. There were many people who were plainly and darkly contradicting him, so that the emperor would always come up with the idea that "It's better to have a lot of obedient bamboo warriors than to have a lot of civil servants and martial artists in the court".
Mo Xi sighed darkly. He also don't want to continue with him with these meaningless words, but asked, "Emperor, how to fight back next?"
"I'm afraid we have to fight back," said the emperor.
Rubbing his brow with his hand, he said, "Xihe, do you know why I couldn't go out for more than twenty days in a row?"
"The cold."
"Why didn't I ask you to come here as usual to cure the cold?"
"I don't know."
The emperor sat straight, the whole thrown on the golden palace platform cast a shadow. He said, "After so many years, Xihe Jun never wondered how I got this disease?"
Mo Xi said, "You don't say, I don't ask."
"You've always been careful what you say and what you do," the emperor nodded. "It's easy to lose your head on your good brother."
After a while, the emperor said again, "In fact, this matter is not intended to be hidden from you, but I didn't feel like saying it before. Now the situation is in front of you, and I should explain it clearly."
"Please tell me, sir."
The emperor thought about it, sighed, and said, "It's going to start from the old news of Liaoguo's founding."
"I don't want to go into details about that time. I'm afraid no one in Chonghua from an old man and to a suckling child is unclear about it. In that year, the leader of Chen Tang palace accepted the slave Hua as an apprentice, and then was betrayed by Hua Poan. Hua Poan raised his troops to fight against the water. He became king in Chonghua and created this evil country. Now when it comes to Liaoguo, everyone in Kyushu knows that they are bloody and good at black magic - but."
The emperor raised his head. "Have you ever thought about what the origin of Liaoguo was?"
Mo Xi: "Hua Poan was a rare once in a hundred years cultivation genius. Most of the demonic cultivation used in Liaoguo today originated from him."
"Where there were so many initiatives, he used to be a servant who could do nothing. Who enlightened him?"
The answer was obvious: Chen Tang.
Mo Xi frowned and said, "But Chen Tang was never stained with any crooked door heresy…"
"Whoever said that he must be the source of the evil law of the crooked gate," Jun Shang said. "General Gu has been lurking in Liaoguo for five years, during which he had countless books. Official Gu has collected a large number of demonic skills of Liaoguo. In addition to a small part of incantations completely born from the remains of the demon family, I found that in many of them you can see the shadow of Chonghua's techniques."
"Imagine that Hua Poan was a very intelligent person at that time. This kind of person would not like to learn the magic techniques according to the gourd. When he had integrated the magic techniques of Chen Tang, he would definitely think about how to make these magic techniques more special and powerful. Chen Tang's spells may only be used for stability, but Hua Poan would seek danger and wonder."
"For example, this is the nine lotus fireworks technique left by the Shen Palace master, which can dispel the superficial magic breath of ordinary people. You should be familiar with it."
After saying this, his hand suddenly turned over another two incantation marks, and a a golden red flame went out. In his palm was a blue-black whirlpool of miasma.
Mo Xi suddenly opened his eyes. "Falling heart?"
"That's right," the emperor said. "This is the falling heart spell that was cultivated by Official Gu according to the demonic path methods. In the years when you fought with Liaoguo, you must have had a headache from it, because it's just the opposite of the nine lotus fireworks. It's a magic spell that can make ordinary people suffer from the attack of an evil spirit."
The emperor spoke and then waved away the falling heart spell.
"But Xihe Jun, if it wasn't for Gu Mang passing the chart of the falling heart formula, I would never have thought that there were only two knots between the original fireworks technique and the falling heart technique."
Mo Xi was slightly shocked. "Do you mean that there are many spells of Hua Poan which have the shadow of Chen Tang?"
"Yes, most of the black spells in Liaoguo are similar to Chonghua," the emperor said. "He was born in Chonghua and raised under the guidance of Chen Tang. Even if he was reborn later, he could not break away from his roots."
"Then coming back, do you remember how the leader of Shen palace died?"
"... According to the history books, he was called to contain a blood demon beast that Hua Poan cultivated at that time, and finally died with it."
The emperor nodded. "The blood demon beast was ferocious and cruel, and its resentment was astonishing. If it was allowed to develop, it would have the ability to move mountains and fill the sea, swallow the sky, and devour the earth. What's more, it would be able to continuously send out evil breath, affect the minds of more than a hundred people, gradually infect people with violence and make them become violent and bloodthirsty. It's said that it was a monster that couldn't be killed at all. It's like the Phoenix of Nirvana. It can survive. So even if it was sealed by Chen Tang, all the kings of Chonghua still have a deep hatred for the existence of the demon beast. In my father's generation..."
He stopped for a moment and said, "Just in case, he began to conceal the courtiers and secretly made a trial."
Mo Xi said, "Did the first emperor ever want to carve a blood demon beast again?"
"No," said the emperor.
"Then he…"
"In the secret volume of the manual left by Chen Tang, he found a file about the cultivation of spirit beasts. The spirit beast recorded on it is very similar to the demon beast, but the ability was the opposite. It was a pure beast."
"In those days, my father wanted to secretly cultivate this kind of spirit beast that can fight against blood demon beast."
This secret was really unexpected. Mo Xi was speechless for a while. Did Lao Jun want to refine a spirit beast similar to the blood beast for Chonghua?
After digesting this for a long time, Mo Xi said, "But if there are such animals… Why didn't Chen Tang practice it?"
"Because although the spirit beast has the power of purifying the world, the refining process is too cruel and dangerous after all," the emperor said, "So Chen Tang listed it as □. And my father, he also failed in refining it."
"However, I think the reason why my father failed was not only because of the difficulty of the magic itself. Since ancient times, those who have accomplished great events have had a favorable time and a harmonious place. When my father was training the spirit beast, Chen Tang had already passed away for many years. It was difficult to decipher the scroll of the skill completely, which was the difference between heaven and time. At that time, Daze City, the place where Chen Tang sealed the blood demon beast, was still controlled by Liaoguo. Unable to survey the spiritual energy, there was a conflict between land and interest. Finally..."
He stopped and began to habitually turn the bead bracelet on his wrist. "After all, this was too dangerous. My father would not spread it all over the world. However, those who knew that he was testing it had their own opinions from the beginning. The spear shield was sharp and could not be relieved, and the people were in disagreement."
"It was hard to achieve anything because of such discord. Therefore, this plan of my father's failed. No one knew how the spirit body of the immortal beast that he had refined halfway finally came to an end. Maybe it annihilated itself or was destroyed by him. This was always a mystery. The cultivation of the spirit beast has been erased from the history of Chonghua, and the only trace left," the emperor said,"is that the three people who had close contact with the spirit beast in those days, more or less, had some changes."
Mo Xi squinted his eyes slightly. "Who were they?"
"This is a special forbidden secret. It was destroyed in only one generation, so even their descendants can't know completely. At present, only three people can be identified," said the emperor, moving the bead string in his hand one bead at a time.
"First, the Zhou Xiao2."
"Zhou He's father?"
"Yes, Zhou He's father, Zhou Xiao, the former master and elder of Shishu Platform. At that time, he should have been the first skilled master directly responsible for the cultivation of immortals and beasts, but the change in him made him become extremely bloodthirsty."
Mo Xi was silent for a while. There were countless bloody rumors about the Zhou family. It was not a new thing that Zhou He liked to poke people's brains. As for his father, Zhou Xiao, because he passed away earlier, Mo Xi didn't have any impression of him, but he could remember that the elder always loved to eat raw and bloody meat at the end of the year feast… He didn't expect it was for this reason.
"Is Zhou He's cruelty related to this?"
"Yes," the emperor said. "If these changed practitioners had too much contact with their own consanguinity, the impact would unconsciously penetrate into the other's bodies. So Zhou He was really infected by his father, Zhou Xiao."
"... What about the second? Who was the second person?"
"Murong Xuan."
"Murong Lian's father?!"
The emperor nodded. "Murong Xuan, as my father's brother, was directly involved in this conspiracy. However, his situation was somewhat special. Because he had left my father very early, was no longer involved in refining, and soon died in the battlefield, the changes caused by the spirit beast in him were not obvious and there was no infection to Murong Lian. The reason why I am sure that he is the second person is because of his grave."
Speaking of this, the emperor turned several beads in his hand, and then said, "The tomb of heroes on Zhanhun mountain are sealed with white jade. The jade is warm and pure and will not be easily eroded. People who can be buried are like that before they die, but the tomb of Wangshu is an exception."
"The tomb keeper once came to talk with me about an endowment. He said that the jade seal of Wangshu's tomb at first look seemed to be a fake. It had been aging after only twenty years. So he ordered the craftsman to repair the tomb of Wangshu. However, after the stone jade was opened, the craftsman found that the body inside was black… It was completely alienated."
Mo Xi listened to him, frowned, and asked, "Does Murong Lian know the situation?"
"He wasn't in the capital, so he didn't know. And it was so cruel that I didn't tell him later. "
"..."
The emperor sighed. "In fact, there are too many secrets for a person sitting in this position to keep. They would rather not know some things… Forget it. Let's not talk about it. Then I'll tell you the third person."
This time, he didn't need to ask about it. With the first two cases, the third one was clearly on the way. Mo Xi closed his eyes, then he said, "I'm not sure… The third person, if I have not guessed wrong, is the first emperor himself."
The emperor was stunned for a while, then he smiled bitterly. "You are right. The third person is my father. My father's change was -- "
"Extremely cold."
"... Yes."
At that time, the monarch of Chonghua began to be afraid of the cold. Obviously, he was a fire practitioner, but he liked to hold furnaces and gather furs, and the situation was getting worse year by year.
People at that time thought that he was old and not as fit as before, but they didn't think that there was such a truth behind him.
The emperor said, "At that time, my father didn't know that his condition was affected by the spiritual animal cultivation, and he didn't know that this kind of influence would be directly transmitted to his heirs. He still often had contact with his children - he was the oldest of the three people, so his influence on his children was far greater than that of the other two fathers on their children."
He lowered his eyes, stroked the beads with his fingers, and said in a low voice, "The young child was weak, and he belonged to the spiritual energy. He suffered from the penetrating cold disease when he went back and forth." His voice became lighter, his eyes under his long eyelashes were like the dim light flowing in a dark river, and his thin lips opened and closed lightly. "My father unconsciously brought a life-long pain to his child, but because he finally learned about the child's disease, he moved his mind..."
The emperor sighed incomprehensibly and did not continue his words. The water in Jinyu Hall was dripping quietly. The new drops of water fell into the pond shadow, shattering the old peace into sparkling light.
Even a simple individual had several secrets that no one knew. What's more, a state that he had lived in for many years? Mo Xi used to only know that he had this incurable disease, but he never knew what the root of this disease was, let alone that it had something to do with the first emperor at this time.
He didn't know what to say for a moment.
The emperor sighed, "Well, the past is no longer important. Now what is critical is the case of Daze City falling."
"You just heard that Daze city is the place where Chen Tang sealed the blood demon beast. Since the decisive battle between Chen Tang and Liaoguo, it has become an important place for both Liaoguo and Chonghua. Liaoguo is very clear that if they want to revive their demon beast nirvana, Daze is the place they must conquer. As for us… No matter for the sake of defense or for the sake of research, it is also inappropriate to give up Daze."
"So in these hundreds of years, Chonghua and Liaoguo have launched many battles in Daze, each occupying the old land in turn. When the first emperor was in power, Daze was still part of Liaoguo, and after I succeeded to the throne, Daze city was regained under the territory of Chonghua. And the first thing that happened after we received Daze again was that I sent the person who was in charge of the Shishu platform to Daze City to explore the traces of the seal on the blood demon beast."
Mo Xi asked, "What was the result?"
The emperor shook his head. "If I say it publicly, I'm afraid that I can make the whole of Chonghua fall into extreme panic."
He paused and whispered, "The seal of blood demon beast has been removed."
"!"
"In the ten years when Liaoguo controlled Daze, they successfully untied the seal of blood demon beast and rescued it from the abyss of Daze Lake."
Mo Xi's pupils constricted. He said, "Since the blood beast has returned to Liaoguo, why haven't there been any changes in the past ten years?"
"Although the seal was removed, it may be that the blood demon beast was injured too much and the spiritual energy overflowed too much, so it was still in a state of deep sleep, unable to be driven by the practitioners of Liaoguo."
"But you know, now that the most difficult seal has been untied, that which is sleeping will surely be awakened again." The emperor sighed and then said, "When I heard this secret report, I couldn't sleep well for more than ten days. Anxiously, every day and every night I thought - can the blood demon beast really revive? Is there a great magician with excellent skills in Liaoguo who can restore the spirit that has been sealed for hundreds of years? If so, how long will it take?"
"..."
He kneaded his brow with his hand and added in a low voice, "Xihe Jun, now do you know why I am so eager to send an absolutely loyal man to Liaoguo as a spy? We must know every move of the blood demon beast, otherwise there will be no next Chen Tang who can hold Chonghua's national gate." "What is the state of the blood demon beast?" he murmured.
"It took Gu Mang a whole year to find out about it. After the seal was untied, the blood demon beast was taken back and kept in a spiritual storage bag. However, Chen Tang's damage to it was too great in those years, so even if the worship was more careful, its power was still weakening. So far, there is no sign of recovery."
Seeing that Mo Xi's face was a little loose, the emperor said, "But don't be too relieved. I always thought that the threat of blood demon beast was relieved and I didn't need to worry too much. Until later, the cultivator of the division platform in Daze City told me that he found a trace of the spirit of blood demon beast sealed in the lake that year."
After a moment's silence, Mo Xi suddenly responded. He suddenly opened his eyes. "So the blood beast has not come to life, not because it really can't, but because Liaoguo has less of its soul?"
"So it is," the emperor said. "When the blood demon beast was hit by Chen Tang, its soul was broken. A remnant of its soul overflowed from the seal and sank into the lake unconsciously. Because of the lack of this soul, Liaoguo has not been able to wake up their national weapon from its deep sleep for more than ten years."
"So, this soul has become one of the most important things in our competition with Liaoguo."
"Knowing this, I immediately ordered people to search for the spirits of blood demon beast in the lake. However, it took six or seven years as this kind of behavior was like fishing for a needle in the sea. Only a few months ago did he screen the water area to the scope of the investigation."
"It's just that the area is about one hundred li3 of the lake. It will take several months for us to continue the search according to the usual method. We want to relieve our worries as soon as possible, so we have a risk involved."
Mo Xi: "…What? "
The emperor raised the pale finger and pointed it to his own head. "Summoning."
"When I was young, I was infected by the spirit beast and suffered from the cold, but at the same time, I also had some spirit beast breath. The blood demon beast and that spirit beast belong to the same family. As long as I do my best, I can attract it more or less."
Mo Xi pursed his lips, almost wondering, "You are trying to feel the trace of blood demon spirit. You've been unconscious these days?"
"Yes, so what I need is not to relieve the cold disease in time, but to let it develop. The more severe the cold disease is, the heavier the spirit beast breath in me will be, and the more easy it is to perceive the specific location of the blood demon beast."
"And just yesterday, I just determined the specific location of the remnant soul. I wanted to send someone to take it back immediately… But today, as soon as I went to the court, I found out that Daze City has been lost."
The cold air in the hall moved gently with his lips and teeth, and suddenly reached the extreme.
The emperor closed his eyes and held the armrest of the dragon chair. The veins on the back of his hand were violent. He said, "Liaoguo - it must be Liaoguo that has finally discovered the secret that blood demon can't be recovered. Now Daze City is in their hands. Once they succeed in their search, the last soul will fall into Liao's hands. It is not the glue of one or two cities for Chonghua to focus on, but the reprise of the war of Hua Poan."
His eyes were misty with blood.
"Xihe Jun, do you understand the strong relationship? This matter involves the essence of the country. No one who has two minds can tell the truth."
"The loss of Daze is far more serious than what we see on the surface. So I will immediately send my army to recover Daze. You will be responsible for the whole army. But you must be clear that the purpose of this trip is not for the city, but for the blood demon spirit in the lake - you must find it as soon as possible."
After a pause, he said, "If not, when the spirit of blood demon beast gathers and is reborn, don't say it's time to revive… The whole cultivation world will be in chaos. "
"By then… There is bound to be a disaster in Kyushu, and the whole world will be devastated! "
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