On the Jiuling Platform, the sky is full of wind and waves.
Zhao Xiang'er took out a jade seal engraved with the dragon and tiger fighting seals from his sleeve, handed it to Lu Marian, and said, "Sister Lu, could you please place this national seal in the center of the imperial city for the purpose of regulating the country's fortunes, so as not to worry about it?" Later, heaven and earth will move, and this country will not be able to become a country."
Lu Yaoyao took the imperial seal. The jade seal was very heavy in her palm. She looked at the girl in front of her. At this moment, the ancient scroll in Zhao Xianger's hand was almost burning, but she suddenly seemed not to feel the pain, as if afterwards What needs to be done is truly unbearable.
"What exactly do you want to do?"
Zhao Xiang'er stood in front of the Suzaku Stage. The strong wind from a high place made her black hair flutter and her clothes fly.
She turned around. Behind her was the miniature of the imperial city from a bird's eye view. In front of her was a bronze statue of the Suzaku that was several times taller than her. The bronze statue was painted with vermilion lines and its wings were spread high. , the edge of each feather is glowing with blood-red paint that seems to never peel off. Behind it, nine extremely long tail feathers hang high, covering the four long steps leading to Jiulingtai, like nine divergent streams. The waterfall was falling, but its pupils were pale, as if they hadn't even closed their eyes yet.
"My mother once told me before that there is a flying formation in Jiulingtai, but it only needs a pivot to activate it."
Zhao Xiang'er looked at the bronze statue that seemed to be taking off in the sky, stared at the pale eyes, and said slowly: "The center of the Jiulingtai formation... is me."
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In the Imperial Master's Mansion, a rapid knock on the door suddenly sounded.
The Imperial Master pushed open the door, looked at the secret guard in front of him, coughed heavily while covering his chest, and asked feebly: "What big thing happened again?"
The secret guard said: "Your Highness... Your Highness's business!"
The Imperial Master frowned and said, "That old fox is dead, what else can happen to this girl?"
The secret guard raised his head and said: "The Imperial Master previously ordered that if this happened, I must report it to you as soon as possible..."
The old man's body fluttered like a rooster fluttering its feathers, and he said: "Could it be..."
The secret guard said: "It is said that someone saw His Highness...at Jiulingtai."
The old man's hand holding the cane shook suddenly, and the cane fell to the ground with a bang. He suddenly lost his mind: "Why is she so crazy? The empress said that she cannot go to the Jiulingtai to worship the heaven and tie spirits until she is eighteen years old!" She has just turned sixteen today, and if she goes now... she will definitely die!"
The secret guard was horrified. He originally hesitated to disturb the Imperial Master because of this matter, but he never thought that this matter... would be so serious and related to the safety of His Highness.
Before he could ask any questions, the Imperial Master had already stepped out of the threshold and said, "Nine Spirit Towers, I'll go there!"
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On the Jiuling Platform, Zhao Xianger stretched out his hand and pressed it on the chest of the bronze statue.
The snow-white eyes of the Suzaku statue were like ashes of death, and the red paint on each feather seemed to have turned into a real burning flame.
And the nine spirits surrounding Suzaku seemed to have come alive at this moment. The copper body that should have been hard and unshakable actually began to twist as if it had melted.
Some of the nine spirits are shaped like long snakes with fine downy feathers growing on the edges of their bodies, some are like a harpoon with three sharp halberds and spears on their long heads, some are like kites, But they seem to have no skeleton, with curved bodies. Some are shaped like conch shells, with rounded heads and long pointed tails, and fine and complicated lines. Some are like a Ganoderma lucidum, and the curvature of the body is like a swan's neck, with an extremely smooth surface...
The nine completely different spirits came to life the moment Zhao Xiang'er touched the Suzaku statue.
In her other hand, the ancient scroll was burning and destroyed page by page. You can imagine what kind of tremendous pressure the world inside was under at this moment!
In front of him, the red bird statue seemed to be awake. Its snow-white eyes looked at Zhao Xiang'er indifferently, unable to read any emotion.
Then, sparks seemed to splash in, and the flames brightened little by little in the Suzaku God's pupils. However, they were not real pupils, but like a thin-colored mirror, which could detect all the illusions in the world.
It has been sleeping for a hundred years in the imperial city of Zhao State, on the top of Jiulingtai, and now it finally wakes up.
"Are you the one chosen by the master?"
The bronze statue of the Suzaku did not speak, but its voice rang out in Zhao Xianger's heart.
The voice was difficult to distinguish between male and female, but it carried a faint majesty, as if a god had a bird's eye view of everything and occasionally cast its gaze on the world.
"Master?" Zhao Xianger asked, "You mean mother?"
The Zhuque bronze statue asked: "The master told you that you are her daughter?"
Zhao Xianger asked, "Who else am I?"
At this moment, the voice of the bronze statue of Suzaku was silent, and its eyes were equally indifferent. It stared at the girl who had awakened it, shook its head gently, and said: "Let go, you are too young now, and forcibly marrying the acquired spirit will only lead to a tragic death. You at least need to Two years, two years later, you can break into the realm of longevity, come here again, and form an acquired spirit."
Zhao Xiang'er lowered her head slightly and pursed her lips tightly. Her body seemed to be under tremendous pressure and she was kneeling down little by little. She forced herself to shake her head and said, "No... it's too late!"
The bronze statue of Suzaku stared at her and repeated: "Forcibly forming a spirit will only lead to death, let go!"
Zhao Xianger's eyes were firm and she said, "You idiot... If you can survive without a spirit, why should I come to you?"
The bronze statue of Zhuque stared at her, with anger already igniting in his eyes: "If you were not the one chosen by the queen, I would have killed you right here."
"The chosen one..." Zhao Xiang'er said, "In other words, she is not actually my mother?"
The bronze statue of Zhuque was silent for a while and said: "I am just a servant of the empress, and I am not qualified to answer this question."
Zhao Xiang'er's eyes brightened slightly. She sighed lightly and said, "You are not the real Suzaku at all. What qualifications do you have to oppose my choice?"
The voice of the bronze statue of Suzaku still showed no emotion at all: "The real Suzaku God is at the top of the hidden country and has no contact with the world, but the empress has given me divinity. From a hundred years ago to the present, in a sense, I am the Suzaku of Zhao State. god."
Zhao Xiang'er asked: "What else did mother say to you?"
The bronze statue of Suzaku said indifferently: "The empress asked me to wait for a hundred years. When I wake up, I will take the person she chooses to fly across the three thousand worlds and form the nine spirits of the day after tomorrow."
Zhao Xianger said: "Then what are you waiting for?"
The Zhuque bronze statue said: "I am your servant, but I am not stupid. Your current state cannot survive the three thousand worlds at all, let alone the thunder tribulation that will attract the surveillance of the demons. Your Majesty asked me to help you get married. , you can’t form it, why should I help?”
Zhao Xiang'er looked at the ancient scroll in her hand like butterflies flying in the air, and her voice was mixed with a little pain: "The three thousand worlds you talk about... are they in the Western Kingdom?"
The mirror-like eyes of the bronze statue of Suzaku suddenly flashed with a twinkling light, and it asked, "Have you seen it before?"
Zhao Xiang'er suddenly laughed and said: "Since I was five years old... I like to sit on the banyan tree and watch the sunset. It's been eight years at a glance. The three thousand worlds in your mouth... During these eight years, I I watched most of them, and I felt that they couldn’t stop me, let alone kill me.”
The bronze statue folded its wings and looked at her silently, as if to determine whether what she said was true.
Zhao Xianger continued: "In the autumn when I was six years old, I climbed up a big banyan tree for the first time. In the afterglow of the setting sun, I saw a dazzling country... At that time, I thought it was an illusion and never mentioned it to anyone."
"After that, almost every evening, I would climb up to the banyan tree and look west."
"And every day, the world I see is different..."
"For eight years, I was immersed in it, like seeing three thousand hallucinations, not knowing whether it was true or not. It wasn't until three years ago that I suddenly woke up."
There was an unspeakable meaning in Zhao Xiang'er's smile: "Eight years, two months and twenty days, I have already read through all the three thousand worlds in your mouth, why can they trap me and kill me? "
The Suzaku statue sighed: "I suddenly understand why the master chose you."
Zhao Xianger said: "Then what are you waiting for?"
The Suzaku statue said: "Three thousand worlds later, the demon will come again. What should you do?"
Zhao Xiang'er asked: "What is the devil?"
The Suzaku statue said: "Those are dead things floating in the sea of ruins. They were all extremely powerful creatures when they were alive. Now if they are weak, they will live long in the Purple Court, and if they are strong, they will still be on the Purple Court. The nine spirits prepared by the empress for you are the only ones in the sky. One divine object is bound to break the barrier between the human world and the sea of xu, attracting the demons, and the acquired divine spirit is even more contrary to the heaven and earth. Like the two blades of a sword, even if you are truly formed, you may be cut into pieces by a thousand knives. , beheaded to pieces!"
Zhao Xianger shook her head slowly: "I don't care what you said, I only know that if I can't kill that demon fox today, my mother will be really disappointed in me..."
What's more, the scene where the little Taoist priest pulled his junior sister to escape into the ancient scroll was a shadow that she couldn't erase at this moment.
If I don't even dare to bear this risk and seek a perfect solution for everything, then the three-year agreement in the main hall, now that I think about it, wouldn't it be ridiculous
She didn't want to say another word. She stared at the pressure of heaven and earth and straightened up with difficulty. The hand pressing on the Suzaku statue moved up a little, and then she suddenly grabbed its neck.
A chirping sound echoed throughout the imperial city.
The Imperial Master, who had just stepped onto the Jiuling Terrace, turned pale instantly when he heard this chirping sound.
"It's still too late..."
Under the imperial city, the ground started to move like a bull turning over.
The figure of Lu Yujian's sword fell into the city. While the imperial seal fell, hundreds of swords weighing a thousand kilograms guarded the imperial seal around it.
After all, this national seal has lost most of its spiritual power. Even if I use all my sword power to support it, I still can't completely calm down the tremors in the imperial city.
Suddenly, she seemed to sense something and raised her head suddenly.
Suddenly, a huge fire shadow passed low over the imperial city. The blazing flame wave rolled over the imperial city. The space it passed was like a burned canvas, dragging out a very long The black shadow slowly closed, and at the edge, the embers of pitch-black space fell like ashes, then gradually faded in the air, and soon disappeared without a trace.
And the huge flame spread its wings and flew higher in the sky, and the wind whistled magnificently. On the back of the big bird with red wings, a girl in black clothes closed her eyes, facing the west, sitting cross-legged.
"The Suzaku's glimpse burns the sky fire?" Lu Jiaou was shocked.
This is a prophecy that is widely circulated in the Zhao Kingdom. It is not complete, only half a sentence. Even Lu Jiejie, who is practicing outside the world, has heard it.
But today, the bronze statue turned into a bird and flew through the sky. Its wings shattered the sky, and the feathers in the sky became a sea.
It was a sea of fire hanging upside down in the sky.
The clouds above the imperial city also started to burn. They were like bundles of connected straw. After a spark was splashed into them, they instantly turned into a fire that was difficult to extinguish. The evening had not yet come, but the sky was already covered with colorful clouds. Sky.
Zhao Xiang'er was surrounded by the sea of flames. Her dark clothes were like the eternal night in the far north, and her graceful and undulating silhouette was like the soft outline of the mountains in the dim light of dawn on the horizon at the end of the eternal night.
In an instant, the flaming sea of clouds was far behind.
They are so beautiful and colorful, indicating the eternal colors.
In front of me, the bubbles were almost illusory, but they filled the world with all things.
The Suzaku vibrated through the void and flew into the three thousand worlds.
The heaven and earth were punished, and the city-state was sacrificed. That city-state turned out to be the three thousand worlds of the Western Kingdom.
At the same time, at the end of the Western Kingdom, there were thunderous thunders, and a line split open in the center of the huge sea of clouds. It seemed like two invisible hands were working with overwhelming power, tearing apart the entire sky and the sea of clouds bit by bit.
In the center of the imperial city, Lu Marian raised her head and looked at the scene that looked like a miracle. The alluring white clothes seemed to be sad, but the sword Minglan in her hand seemed to sense something, and it kept buzzing and trembling. .
She vaguely guessed something, and was horrified.
According to legend, the twelve hidden kingdoms are located high in the world, and only great practitioners who are above the Five Paths can glimpse the tip of the iceberg.
The Twelve Hidden Kingdoms, together with the Immortal Palace that can be reached by Zhantian Ascension, are the most mysterious places in the world.
The Suzaku statue took Zhao Xiang'er to... Could it be the legendary Hidden Kingdom
Beside her, the national seal suddenly grew larger, and the translucent jade was filled with light, as if something was about to break out of its shell.
As the national seal grew larger, the earthquake in the entire imperial city also subsided.
Under the Jiuling Stage, the Imperial Master's white hair was blown by the strong wind. He raised his head, and his turbid pupils were reflected dark red by the clouds in the sky.
"Your Majesty, although it's two years early, the time has almost arrived." His voice was vicissitudes of life, and he walked towards the top of Jiulingtai.
Many years ago, he was a failed scholar who came to Beijing to take the exam. It was snowing heavily that day. He held his manuscript and waited for a long time outside the residence of the then leader of the literary circle in Zhao State. Finally, he waited until the drunken scholar was chatting and laughing with his old friend. As he walked out, he hurriedly delivered it. The scholar took it and looked at it twice. Without saying anything, he just pressed a piece of silver on the manuscript and handed it back.
When he was about to return home after twenty years of hard study, a crimson sedan passed through the wind and snow and slowly stopped in front of him. A maid in a palace skirt stepped out of the sedan, and she handed He wrote a letter to himself, saying it was a gift from his master.
At that time, he didn't know who the master the maid was talking about was, but since a maid could travel in a sedan chair, the master's status must be extremely noble.
He was extremely excited at first, thinking that this was the appreciation of him by some dignitary. Later, when he opened the letter, he realized that he had underestimated the weight of the letter.
He actually relied on the content of this letter to enter the path of monasticism, and he broke the mirror one after another without any hindrance. In more than ten years, he reached the pinnacle of immortality, and was vaguely about to advance to the long-term path that only immortals in this world possess. The realm of fate.
Practitioners only pick one from thousands of miles away, and there may not be even one practitioner from hundreds of thousands of miles away who can enter the Immortal Realm.
This is something far more attractive than a successful career, because one's life only lasts a hundred years, and the longevity realm can almost double one's lifespan...
Later, by various chances, he entered the capital again, but what was different from before was that he was directly invited to the imperial city by the late emperor.
It was his fifteenth year of practicing Taoism. In that year, he entered Taoism with his literary skills, and his skills in splitting and deciphering characters were the best in the country. He was finally awarded the national seal. In the same year, he was promoted to the realm of longevity, which was more than enough for him to be the master of a country. .
And that year, he finally knew who the god who helped him was.
It turned out that in the same year, this god-like figure also came to the imperial city, and it was her arrangement to enter the capital.
In the end, he never met the empress, but later, he served as the elementary school teacher of a girl who was said to be the empress's daughter.
"Zhao Xiang'er..."
He recalled the scene when he heard the name for the first time. It really... didn't sound like the name of a fairy daughter.
But it wasn't until today that he understood what this name actually meant.
He finally reached the Nine Spirits Platform.
The old man sat withered on the high platform. The national seal that had been disconnected from him after being swallowed by the old fox was reconnected with his body. But for some reason, the national destiny was no longer a sign of death, but was burning like fire under the stone. With.
Time kept passing by, it was an extremely long hour.
Finally, the hourly bell rang.
Although the clouds in the sky have long since faded, they are getting thicker and thicker. It seems as if the clouds from the entire Zhao Kingdom are rushing here, and the sky seems to have become very short. On the top of Jiulingtai, it seems that you can easily hug a sleeve of white clouds. .
The surrounding area of Jiulingtai has been sealed with sword locks by Lu Marian. She has a vague premonition of what will happen next. If those creatures come to the world, ordinary people will be extinguished even if they take a second look.
Above the sea of clouds, a long dark track was once again dragged out, as if there was a vigorous black dragon leaping in the sea of clouds.
The chirping of the Suzaku sounded in the distance.
And on the Nine Spirits Platform, the grotesque nine bronze statues of gods looked like real living creatures at this moment, turning into wisps of white light and flying into the sky like feathered snakes.
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In the ancient scrolls, time seems to flow extremely fast.
The snow-white soul of the demon fox kept struggling in Ning Jiujiu's hands. Every muscle in Ning Jiujiu's right arm seemed to be stretched to the limit. There seemed to be charcoal fire burning between the bones and flesh, and fine beads of sweat kept running down the arm. Dripping down, falling into the bottomless gray void.
"ah… "
Snow Fox suddenly burst out with a scream, and Ning Xiaoling's tender and delicate eyebrows also frowned at this moment.
Ning Jiujiu's fingers were like hooks, tightly clasping the snow fox's body, pulling with all his strength, and his already vigorous momentum reached its highest point at this time.
The branch of the moonlit firefly had already pierced into her body, dissolving and absorbing her spiritual power. But for some reason, Ning Jiujiu could not grasp its power. Although she knew it was a divine object in her hand, she could only use it to perform simple tasks. Slash and pierce...
But enough is enough.
Illusory Taoism enveloped them.
Suddenly, he remembered the back of his senior sister Zhan Qing in Taoist skirts. It was the first time he followed his senior sister down the mountain to slay demons. He followed behind, feeling uneasy.
It was the winter solstice.
The winter solstice is approaching now.
It has been a dream for more than twenty years without even realizing it.
My senior sister said back then that if you look up at the stars, you can see the Kingdom of God.
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(More than five thousand words, it should be considered a big chapter (feeling guilty))