The Shenwu Army blocked the Rong army's southward advance on the banks of the Daha River, preventing them from advancing southward. This finally made the Emperor of the Great Zhou and his ministers in Yangjing breathe a sigh of relief. You know, Kunyang City is less than 500 miles away from Yangjing, and the road is flat and smooth all the way after passing Xiangshan. Previously, the ministers even suggested that Emperor Kong Yan move the capital south to the county or Gaoyang County.
Because of the rumors, many common people and merchants in Kyoto fled to the outside of the city and the south. The bustling Yangjing became deserted in an instant, and is only now slowly recovering.
However, among the ministers, there were still many people who suggested that the emperor move the capital. The Great Zhou had lost eight counties in the north. The former Marquis of Wuwei occupied Pandi and rebelled against the Great Zhou. His intention to establish his own regime was known to the world. The Rong royal court occupied the three counties of Baidi and had no intention of withdrawing. The King of Rong even conferred titles on the original officials of the three counties and promulgated the decrees of the Rong royal court, which seemed to indicate that he wanted to annex China.
Whether the Rong royal court crosses the river and heads south, or Marquis Wuwei leads his army to attack Chang and Gao, both will threaten Yangjing. Yangjing, the divine capital originally located in the heart of the Great Zhou, is no longer safe.
However, Emperor Kong Yan was not willing to listen to the advice of these people. Yangjing had experienced the two dynasties of Dapan and Dazhou, and was a thousand-year-old capital. Among the emperors of the two dynasties, it had never been heard that any emperor was forced to move the capital south because of foreign invasion. Kong Yan did not want to be the first emperor to do so, nor did he have the face to do so.
Moreover, once the capital is moved south, doesn’t it mean that the Great Zhou Dynasty has directly given up the eight northern counties
Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there have been records of emperors expanding territory and attracting tributes from all directions. There has never been a record of such a cowardly emperor who abandoned his own land and fled.
Kong Yan was determined to recover the eight northern counties, so he demoted those officials who proposed moving the capital out of the capital. On the one hand, he ordered the Shendu Army to recover the three Baidi counties, and on the other hand, he ordered the rapid reorganization and training of the new army.
In the palace hall, an eunuch shouted in a shrill voice: "General Wang Che is appointed as the General of Suppressing Bandits, and is given the Heavenly Black Golden Armor, and is ordered to reorganize and train the new army..."
A middle-aged man with a goatee, who looked more like a scholar than a warrior, and was wearing armor, took the imperial edict and became the supreme commander of the new army. After a brief reorganization of the new army, the army will march to Pandi to quell the rebellion and eliminate the bandits.
All the ministers bowed in admiration and congratulated the emperor, saying that this time they would surely be able to pacify the bandits, resist foreign invaders, and recover lost territory.
The emperor sat high on the throne, looking down at his ministers and the newly appointed general who was suppressing the bandits. Amid the cheers, he did not feel the slightest joy, only a chill in his heart.
He looked at everyone in the palace with a scrutinizing gaze. Even the Marquis of Wuwei of the Great Zhou was able to rebel. Although the other two military marquises did not dare to betray the Great Zhou and the emperor, they also had their own plans and schemes and were no longer completely loyal to the Great Zhou. The aristocratic families in various counties across the world, the Taoist families that had been passed down for thousands of years, the gods hidden in various places, and the people in the audience.
How many people are harboring ulterior motives? Who can be trusted? Who is secretly waiting for the collapse of the Great Zhou and then rushing in to divide up the world like a feast for gluttons
The Great Zhou was founded on military power, and the number of warriors from all over the world reached the highest level in all dynasties. Not only were the local troops drawn to the new army, but even when they heard that the court was reorganizing the new army, warriors from all over the country also came to join.
You should know that by joining this new army, not only can you get martial arts resources, but also a large number of top-notch martial arts techniques, which are simply impossible for ordinary people to obtain, not to mention that if you can make military achievements, you can also be ranked as a king or a prince. The Great Zhou can only confer titles of nobility based on military merit, and the world has been peaceful for a long time. Except for the hereditary kings and princes, no one has been conferred a title of nobility based on military merit recently.
At the same time, people with special destinies, because the new army was being reorganized and a great war was about to begin, rushed to join the army due to the influence of fate.
Dou Shuo, who has half of the fate of Sirius, is riding a warhorse with a sword, followed by dozens of elite warriors, heading north. He also has a letter of recommendation from an elder in his arms.
Dongyang Mountain, the Mausoleum of the Great Zhou Emperor, is also the location of the Temple of Dongyang Emperor. At this moment, the Director of the Imperial Observatory, Li Tianxing, is leading a group of people wearing the official uniforms of the Imperial Observatory. Among them, the Director of the Imperial Observatory and several Lingtai Lang of the Imperial Observatory have arrived.
Standing on the dragon vein of the Great Zhou Dynasty, on the imperial tomb where the remains of the Great Zhou Dynasty's founder, Emperor Dongyang, were buried, everyone was re-determining the direction of the dragon vein of the Great Zhou Dynasty to see if anyone had tampered with it.
Li Tianxing sat in the center of the imperial mausoleum. Surrounding the upper palaces and pavilions, practitioners from the Imperial Observatory flew between them and continuously set down formation flags. It was not until night fell that Li Tianxing opened his eyes.
Li Tianxing opened his eyes and looked at the sky full of stars, but finally lowered his head and looked at the mountains covered with dark shadows in the night.
Dozens of practitioners knelt down behind him, and the leaders were all at the immortal realm. "Supervisor! The Nine Heavens and Ten Directions Formation has been set up."
Li Tianxing: "Are you sure there is no problem?"
The chief clerk of the Imperial Observatory stepped forward and said, "Confirmed!"
Li Tianxing sat on the main seat of the formation: "There are nine kinds of dragon energy in the world, following the veins of mountains and rivers, just like the lifeline of the earth."
"When nine dragons gather together, they become the true dragon emperor. When a person with the Purple Star destiny is born, he will seize the luck of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He must be a person with dragon energy. Even if we can't find his destiny, as long as we find the owner of that dragon energy, we can determine who he is."
"The Nine Heavens and Ten Directions Formation was created by Liang Ren, the former leader of the Huangliang Sect. It was originally a formation that used the help of gods to monitor the Nine Heavens and Ten Directions. The Imperial Astronomical Observatory is in charge of the order of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it still uses a lot of the power of this formation. Today, I made a slight change to it and use it to monitor the direction of the dragon veins and dragon energy in the world."
"The stars descended to the mortal world, and the secrets of heaven were in chaos. However, no one could have imagined that I could catch a ray of secrets through the direction of the dragon energy!"
Li Tianxing made hand gestures and a series of talismans spread out from his body, following the flow of the earth. In an instant, the entire top of Dongyang Mountain was covered by the seal. A strong light directly illuminated the earth and spread to the distance, revealing the dragon vein below as if with a perspective.
A huge underground dragon spanned thousands of miles, stretching into the distance, roaring.
The wind was howling at night, and rays of light rose along the earth and continuously rushed into Li Tianxing's body. Li Tianxing slowly floated up from the imperial tomb and hung in the air.
A yellow imperial edict rose from his arms and spread out in the sky, illuminating the area within a hundred miles: "Ten directions of earth gods, eight directions of water masters, I am Li Tianxing, the supervisor of the Imperial Astronomical Observatory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and I am issuing orders to you!"
In an instant, the pupils in Li Tianxing's eyes disappeared little by little, leaving only pure white, while his conscious gaze traveled thousands of miles, following the direction of the dragon veins of the world.
Countless images and scenes came into Li Tianxing's eyes, and Li Tianxing's hair turned gray little by little, as if it had withered. Black spots climbed up Li Tianxing's arms and neck, and finally spread to his face.
He simply couldn't withstand this heaven-defying method. He used his mortal body to spy on the direction of dragon energy in the world, and was instantly devoured by the mortal.
Li Tianxing's body was instantly on the verge of collapse. Even his unrivaled magic power was suddenly exhausted in an instant, but at the last moment, his gaze finally followed the earth veins and came to a place.
It was a spiritual place like a fairy mountain in the world, with several waterfalls flowing down from the peak and gathering into a pool. There were groups of ancient palaces and pavilions on the mountain. On the side of one of the waterfalls, in a big red palace, a young man was standing under a statue of a god with a human body and a snake tail, looking back towards the outside of the palace.
Li Tianxing suddenly fell from the sky, blood spurted out of his mouth, and a large number of wounds appeared on his body. The blood dyed his clothes red, but Li Tianxing couldn't help laughing.
"I found you! The one with the Purple Star Fate!"