Kong Huai's return to Shao Kingdom with the sacred artifact of incense and fire caused a sensation in the world. Various countries were afraid of Shao Kingdom's power and sent envoys to form private alliances with each other. In front of Shao Kingdom's capital, convoys of envoys from various countries gathered.
What was unexpected was that on the night of the 15th of that month, a melee broke out in the capital of Shao State. The Che family, a member of the royal family of Shao State, suddenly mobilized a large army to surround the Imperial Observatory, and a large number of nobles, officials and ministers were arrested.
First, the high priest Lin Shu was ambushed and seriously injured, and was on the verge of death. He escaped from the altar temple and disappeared.
The entire Imperial Observatory was flattened to protect Kong Huai. Thousands of cleansed Dragon Guards surrounded the place and used forbidden techniques to suppress the magical power of all the cultivators in the Imperial Observatory, intending to kill them all.
King Shao personally took action, bringing with him the royal treasure, the Donglong Ding, and activated the capital's defense formation.
It was at this time that everyone knew that the Donglong Ding, which belonged to the great wizard Yun during the founding period of Dahuan and the Taoist Qingyun in the present age, had actually long since fallen into the hands of the Shao royal family. This divine tripod, which was once famous all over the world, had already been refined to the peak of the third level and merged with the great formation under their feet.
The capital's protective formation rose up, and a barrier invisible to ordinary people enveloped this ancient capital with hundreds of years of history. The sounds of fighting and spell bombardment could be heard everywhere in the city.
The King of Shao still did not show up in the palace, as if he was afraid of the last resort of those behind the scenes who had controlled the Shao Kingdom for hundreds of years.
This young genius, Prince Shao, was said to be the reincarnation of an ancient sage. When he was born, strange signs appeared in the sky.
He ascended the throne forty years ago, and was already at the second level. Everyone thought that Prince Shao was addicted to wine, women, and debauchery, and that his realm had not improved at all over the years. However, no one expected that he had secretly broken through to the third level.
With a roar while holding the Dongyuan Divine Sword, Lin Shu wanted to tear apart the great formation of this ancient capital, but he was suppressed by the Donglong Ding in the sky.
One is an offensive and killing weapon, the other is a divine tripod that protects the country. When the two collide, they emit layers of light.
But King Shao was in full strength at the moment, using the East Dragon Cauldron to connect to the city defense formation, suppressing the energy of all the cultivators in the city, and Lin Shu was seriously injured and dying, so there was no way he could break out of this capital city that was like a deathly place.
The city was in chaos. The City God, who should have been on Lin Shu's side, did not make any movement at this moment.
Inside the tall City God Temple, inside a majestic and tall statue, a golden figure looked into the distance but did not move, as if everything happening outside had nothing to do with itself.
The City God was originally Che Shao, the founding emperor of the former Shao State. However, after being influenced by hundreds of years of worship, he had long forgotten his past and no longer remembered who he was.
He only remembered that he was the City God, the god in charge of the country's harvest. He sat back and watched the winds and clouds rise and the world change, no longer caring about the struggles in the world.
At this time, in the Imperial Observatory which was in a desperate situation, hundreds of monks suddenly sat down and actually sacrificed their own blood to the incense artifact.
One by one, the famous monks of Shao State in the past sat in meditation and their blood, energy and soul were directly invested into the magic bow. The incense money accumulated by the entire Imperial Observatory for hundreds of years was burned instantly, and the rich incense and wish power also poured into the incense space inside the bow.
Kong Huai, who had been trapped in the ruins for more than 20 years, encountered civil strife in Shao State as soon as he came out. The King of Shao wanted to kill them all, and the most important reason for this was the incense artifact in his hand.
In extreme grief and anger, he pulled the divine bow, and a violent red light surged, aiming at the palace.
As an arrow fell, the roaring fire dragon instantly made the entire capital city become hot. The red light spread across the earth, making the capital city at night seem like it had entered dusk.
The entire palace was transformed into a sea of fire under the roar of the fire dragon, and the fire even continued to spread, spreading towards the entire city.
The formation base was broken, and the formation covering the sky instantly collapsed and disintegrated, and exploded directly.
The violent surge of spiritual light allowed ordinary people who could not see the barrier to hear the loud noise.
Lin Shu raised the Dongyuan Sword again and fled outside with Kong Huai in his arms.
At this moment, Prince Shao, who was on the city wall, also showed up. He was not in the palace, but hiding on the city wall to control the formation.
Looking at the capital and the palace burning into a sea of fire, Prince Shao roared angrily. At this point, he could not let Lin Shu and the others escape again.
Prince Shao chased after them holding the Donglong Ding, along with several cultivators at the peak of the third order. The light in the sky broke through the clouds, and the air waves caused by the release of power attracted the attention of all the cities in the Shao Kingdom.
At this time, most of the cities and counties in Shao State were still unaware of what had happened in the capital. A large number of officials, ministers, and even some immortal sects did not know who was being chased in the sky and who was being chased.
They chased for thousands of miles until they reached the seaside. On the way, they were intercepted by the mountain gods and water gods, but more gods joined the ranks to stop King Shao. This was the foundation that Lin Shu and his party had laid in Shao Kingdom for hundreds of years.
But at this point, it can only save their lives.
Finally, a third-order treasure ship broke open outside, and Zhou Yang, who had entered the Mountain and Sea Realm this time, was seen standing on the ship.
Lin Shu's gorgeous high priest robe was stained red with blood, but it made her look even more beautiful. She landed on the big ship with Kong Huai. King Shao and several third-level great monks chased to this place, but ordinary escape lights could never compare to the third-level treasure ship with the fastest escape speed. They could only watch as the treasure ship broke through the clouds, rushed into the sky, and disappeared on the sea.
And the incense artifact also disappeared with them and never appeared in the mountain and sea world again.
Although King Shao was extremely angry, he was able to truly break free from all constraints and became the true king of Shao. Although other countries were searching everywhere for the location of the overseas fairy island, as long as the incense artifact did not fall into the hands of Shao, the situation would be much better than previously expected.
A large number of cultivators and noble families of Shao State began to leave Shao State before the royal family and noble family of Shao State took action.
Most people sailed out to the fairy island overseas, and many people began to drift into various countries and settle down again, either becoming officials in various countries or establishing their own families and spreading out.
Some young people even entered the newly built Bucheng and enrolled in the Shangxian Academy.
Then, the war began.
The Pan State completely annexed the Zheng State and destroyed it, ending the wars of varying sizes that had lasted for decades. The Shao State launched a war against the current Hong State, the former Gao State, in the name of helping Prince Ji Gu to restore his country.
The Shao Kingdom sent out 400,000 soldiers from across the country and entered the territory of the Hong Kingdom, launching the largest and most numerous war in history.
The pages of history have been quietly turned over, with some opening and others closing, and it has never stopped at the will of any one individual.
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The big ship of Youdu passed through the clouds, and more than a dozen immortal-like beings wearing white robes stepped on the clouds and landed on the ship.
Kong Huai was holding a topaz jar tightly in his arms, with a long box wrapped in green cloth on his back. Everyone was standing around him, paying close attention to their surroundings.
Beside him, Lin Shu, with an expressionless face, was holding the rather gorgeous Dongyuan Sword. Even though the wounds on her soul had extended all the way to her body, causing the wounds to bleed continuously, she could not even flinch.
Kong Huai turned around and looked towards the distant Dongzhou: "You know what? When I came here, I was so happy. I thought I had stepped into a paradise!"
"Teacher... Teacher!"
When Kong Huai said this, tears kept flowing from his eyes and he choked up: "He told me! Here is everything we want, it is our hope!"
Lin Shu held the sword, closed his eyes, and leaned against the side of the boat. When the boat broke through the clouds, the thick fog kept passing by him, accompanied by a light breeze.
Then he said calmly: "He didn't tell you that most people who step into this place don't have a good ending."
Zhou Yang patted Kong Huai on the shoulder, but did not comfort him. He just said, "Go home!"
Kong Huai held the topaz jar in his hand and said softly, "Master! We are going home!"
The huge ship, as big as a mountain, headed straight for the end of the sky.