Several shadow guards worked day and night to defeat the Siqiong Mountain. It was several days later when the news that the director of the Imperial Observatory, Li Tianxing, had died at the hands of the third-generation Heavenly Master Zhang Yusu reached the capital.
When Emperor Kong Yan learned the news, the entire Zhengzhou began to stir. Thousands of the court's shadow guards and imperial guards suddenly disappeared without a trace when they withdrew from Zhengzhou. Emperor Kong Yan ordered a thorough investigation, but after the imperial edict was issued, all Zhengzhou got was false compliance. At this moment, the situation in Zhengzhou had become a quagmire, and no one could see what was hidden underneath.
After the Great Zhou lost the eight northern counties, various border towns had experienced more or less incidents, but a situation like Zhengzhou, where people from the imperial court disappeared one after another, thousands of shadow guards and imperial guards disappeared overnight, and the emperor issued several imperial decrees in succession but still could not find the cause, had never happened before.
This represented that the deterrence and imperial power of the Great Zhou were facing challenges. Emperor Kong Yan stayed up all night, drove out all the palace servants, and patrolled the hall holding a fire crystal lantern.
"Lord Li! I am so ashamed of you!"
"Damn it! These remnants of the ancient times are still harboring evil intentions!"
"Taoism! Tianshi Sect! Xuanyuan Clan!"
At dawn, Emperor Kong Yan went to the ancestral temple of the Great Zhou to worship in person. He bathed and fasted for three days. After coming out, he summoned the prime minister, the chief censor, and the grand marshal of the Great Zhou.
Kong Yan decided to make the seventeenth prince Kong Qi the crown prince. When he was unwell, the crown prince, who was just twenty years old, would act as regent, intending for him to inherit the throne after his death.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Emperor Kong Yan already knew that his time was running out, that the Great Zhou no longer had the military might it had at the beginning of the dynasty to suppress the world on its own, and that he himself was not as wise and powerful as the Great Zhou Taizu and his ancestors who could turn the tide.
After praying and worshipping his ancestors in the Great Zhou ancestral temple, Kong Yan got in touch with his ancestors in the netherworld, especially Emperor Dongyang, and is now arranging his funeral affairs.
"Since the trend cannot be violated, then let's go with the flow."
The divine decree sent by Emperor Dongyang from the underworld was to appoint the seventeenth prince Kong Qi as the crown prince and allow him to inherit part of the dragon energy to activate his star destiny. In addition, a series of backup plans should be prepared. Once the empire is about to collapse and the situation collapses irreversibly, the star god who is inclined to the Great Zhou will be supported to complete the killing first.
Especially the seventeenth prince who was the reincarnation of Kang Jinlong, he was already a part of the Great Zhou. If he were to ascend to heaven again, the royal family of the Great Zhou would have one more star god. If it were not for the unique status of the human world and Dongzhou, just one star god would be stronger than the Great Zhou Dynasty.
If the Heavenly Court has several star gods from the Great Zhou Dynasty and the status of the Emperor Dongyang in the underworld is consolidated, then the world of Dongzhou and the Central Plains will sooner or later return to the hands of the descendants of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Emperor Dongyang, the newly promoted Emperor of the underworld, was inspired by Emperor Yama and suddenly saw higher and farther after clearing away the fog. He was no longer bound by the constraints of a human dynasty and truly had the aura and heritage of an immortal god.
Emperor Kong Yan issued a series of imperial edicts within a few days. After enthroning the crown prince, he summoned the top two winners of the Jinshi exam this year, made an exception and appointed them as recorders and directors of the Censorate, ordered them to serve as tutors to the crown prince in the Eastern Palace, appointed a new director of the Imperial Observatory, and vigorously promoted newcomers to power.
Emperor Kong Yan took a series of actions one after another, obviously paving the way for Crown Prince Kong Qi. If his son Kong Qi became Kang Jinlong among the twenty-eight constellations, he would also be able to gain status through his father when the heavenly court reopened.
After death, he might be able to ascend to the upper realm with the help of his son's identity. Even if he cannot become an immortal, he can at least gain immortality or become a god in the upper realm.
The county is a palace for the study of the virtuous.
In the forest garden of the Palace of the Sage, Feng Sheng had been dozing off for several months. He sat on the side of the corridor holding a long zither, looking as if he had really become a statue of a god. It was not until the Master Gong Yangli came in and called him several times that he slowly woke up.
It seemed that to him, this killing calamity of the Star God did not have much appeal. He did not take the planning of Gongyang Li and the entire academy, the insidious tricks of the court, the covetous eyes of the Rong people in the north and dozens of Yi countries in the south, as well as the Taoists, demons, and monsters in the world seriously. Or he had already predicted the outcome.
Gong Yangli carefully reported the recent situation, and Feng Shengren nodded: "It seems that the Great Zhou is going to go with the flow and no longer think about going against the flow. In this way, this killing calamity should not collapse, and the people with star destinies will be sent to the position of star lord in the smoothest way, opening up the ancient heaven."
Feng Sheng: "How many people with astrological destiny have already opened their astrological destiny and appeared in the world now."
Master Gong Yangli: "The demon sect in the south has found the Fire Virtue Star Lord. It is said that the major demon sects and King Yama are in a very tense situation. The Buddhist sect has received news from the Paradise in the upper realm. They are currently looking for Luo Xing in the northern border. It has also been confirmed that the demon clan of Tongtian Kingdom in Nanzhou has found the Void Sun Rat. I don't know what they are trying to do."
Feng Sheng then asked, "Anything else?"
Master Gong Yangli pondered for a moment and said, "In addition, there are some rumors that have not been confirmed. It is said that the son of Pingchang Hou of the Yulong Army guarding the south is very likely to be the reincarnation of the eighth star of the Big Dipper, General Jiutian Shatong. In addition, we already know that the four scattered immortals of the Zhenxian Temple appeared in Xianque City with the person of the broom star, and wanted to open the Xianque and completely occupy the land of Xianque."
Feng Sheng raised his head when this was mentioned. Everyone knew that this fairy palace was a corner of the heaven that fell from the upper realm in the past. If one could obtain this fairy palace as a support, it might be more powerful than the blessed land that fell from the upper realm. However, over the past thousand years, countless practitioners have entered this fairy palace, and it has not yet been fully explored.
The four scattered immortals of the True Immortal Temple took the Broom Star to explore the Immortal Palace. I don't know if they wanted to trick others or themselves? However, Fang Xiu felt that they might end up tricking both of them.
"Oh! How did it turn out?"
Master Gong Yangli shook his head: "The opening of the Immortal Palace attracted the arrival of the powerful people from the Demon Sect and the Southern Dao Sect. As a result, the corpses of the 100,000 heavenly soldiers in the Immortal Palace were enraged and rushed out with the supreme killing formation. The bloody clouds of evil spirits could be seen from the south across the Li River. The area within a thousand miles of the Immortal Palace was flattened to the ground."
"Many great men from the Demon Sect and the Taoist Sect were killed or injured. The four scattered immortals from the True Immortal Temple were seriously injured and their whereabouts are unknown. However, it is said that the four scattered immortals from the True Immortal Temple and the reincarnation of the unlucky star really brought something out from the deepest part of the Immortal Palace. Currently, the Taoist and Demon Sects in the world are looking for them everywhere, but no one has been able to get away with them so far."
Feng Sheng suddenly thought of the four men who were running rampant like a jinx, and couldn't help laughing. The three disciples of the White Crane Immortal, Taoist Yunlong, Taoist Fenghu, and Taoist Cang Gou were not simple people either, and Fang Xiu didn't think that anything would go wrong with them.
At this time, Feng Sheng suddenly looked outside the Xundu Academy, and his gaze even passed through the sky of the county and saw a female priest riding a cloud.
"A guest is coming! Please welcome her in for me!"
"Let Li Cang come in too!"