The commander of the Imperial Guards led the army to capture more than a dozen cities in Shaozhou within a month, and occupied the entire Shaozhou. The Zhenwu Army and Dingjun Hou Wuheng huddled in Yongzhou and dared not send troops. They watched the Imperial Guards capture Shaozhou. The whole process was extremely smooth.
When the news of the pacification of Shaozhou reached the new capital Gaoyang, Emperor Kong Yan, who had long been unable to contain himself, began to prepare to command the troops on the battlefield.
One after another, magic weapon ships were released from the inner storehouse, and the dragon ship also floated into the sky.
The guards and soldiers boarded the ship to protect the emperor. A mountain of incense money was thrown into the ship, which activated the magical instruments and pushed them into the distance.
They will accompany the Great Zhou Emperor Kong Qi to inspect Shaozhou, the birthplace of the former Great Zhou Emperor Kong Huai, who drew his sword and swept across the world.
Yongzhou, Tianque County, Zhongyun City.
This is a border military town, but also because of the prosperous trade, in the past, the various Yi countries in the Shiwan Mountains were vassal states of the Great Zhou, and they would pay tribute to the Great Zhou through this city every year. The trade with the Yi countries and the existence of Tianque City made this city a place where merchants and carriages and horses came in an endless stream.
However, after the chaos in the Great Zhou Dynasty and the drought and plague in the south, the number of carriages and horses gradually decreased. However, Zhongyun City was not seriously damaged and the city remained stable.
Because Marquis Dingjun almost ran the city as his base camp, Marquis Dingjun Wu Heng and his family lived in the marquis' mansion in the city. However, after Wu Heng rebelled against the Great Zhou, the mansion was rebuilt to look like a royal palace.
At this moment, inside the mansion, the family of Dingjun Marquis Wu Heng looked extremely panicked. Wu Heng's wife had passed away in his early years, and he never remarried afterwards. He only took concubines from time to time. However, as Wu Heng's cultivation became higher and higher, it became more and more difficult for him to have children, until he became a martial arts immortal, and he had only one child.
Everyone in the mansion was in a panic. At this moment, Wu Heng's only son in the study was also in a panic: "Father! Haven't the demon tribe Tongtian City and Beizhou Qingqiu Country taken action yet? What are these demons waiting for?"
"I said these monsters can't be trusted. They have ulterior motives, but at least they are still human. These monsters are not of my kind."
Wu Heng had been resting with his eyes closed the whole time, and when he finally opened his eyes, the moment his tiger eyes opened, he felt a murderous aura enveloping the entire mansion.
"What are you panicking about?"
"How's the little emperor doing?"
The young man knelt down and said, "Father, Kong Qi has left Gaoyang this morning and has now arrived in Shaonan."
Wu Heng was not surprised but delighted: "This kid is really impatient. He left the imperial city and wants my Zhenwu Army and my head? I will cut off his firewood."
"You must return to the battlefield immediately to command the troops. No one is allowed to advance without my order. There should be news soon. Go back and wait patiently."
Thousands of miles away, a golden dragon magic ship slowly passed through the sea of clouds in the sky, surrounded by large ships to guard and protect it.
Every large ship was filled with armored soldiers. On the wide deck, one could even see huge three-meter-tall black hawks, which were constantly screaming as they were pulled by the warriors. Some warriors flew out on black hawks to investigate military intelligence along the way and in the distance, and some black hawks returned from afar.
The emperor sat on the throne on the deck. Many warriors were performing martial arts in front of him, and the scene was extremely lively.
However, at this time Emperor Kong Qi inexplicably felt a sense of uneasiness. He looked into the depths of the sea of clouds and into the distance, but he didn't know where this uneasiness came from.
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The ancestral temple of the Great Zhou Dynasty is guarded by numerous guards and patrolled by elite soldiers outside, and guarded by shadow guards and powerful hidden men of the Great Zhou Dynasty inside. The entire area around the ancestral temple is guarded openly and secretly, with multiple layers of defense, like an iron barrel.
The tablets and portraits of ancestors of the royal Kong family were placed on it, and on the white altar above these tablets, there was a crystal clear jade seal with nine divine dragons entwined on it. These nine divine dragons were not fixed on it, but kept moving, as if they were alive.
This is the Nine Dragon Emperor's Seal, a treasure of great fortune.
There are many seals of the emperor, including the emperor's official seal, the emperor's seal of authority, and the emperor's seal of trust. Different seals have different uses, but only the Nine Dragon Emperor's seal is different.
The Nine Dragon Emperor Seal symbolizes the Mandate of Heaven and the True Dragon Emperor, and represents the orthodoxy of the human race. It is said that Saint Feng obtained the Nine Dragon Emperor Seal at the same time as he obtained the preaching jade slips. Of course, there is also a legend that the Nine Dragon Emperor Seal was personally refined by Saint Feng, the ancestor of the academy. This kind of rumor was mainstream in ancient times, but it was no longer circulated in the world in later times.
According to various legends, the Nine Dragon Imperial Seal was obtained by the ancient sage Feng Sheng and handed over to the person who was destined to fulfill the will of heaven.
If someone who is good at observing qi looks towards the Great Zhou ancestral temple, he will be able to see that the Dragon Pillar of Fortune rises from the ground with the temple as the center, connecting heaven and earth. In other words, it is centered on the Nine Dragon Imperial Seal and occupies most of the fortune of humanity in the world.
It is precisely because of this that, before the Great Zhou Dynasty, when the situation collapsed to the point that even Yangjing was lost and the whole world was rebellious, the Kong family was still able to keep the Dragon Court of the Great Zhou Dynasty standing.
Even now it seems possible that there is a chance of a resurgence.
At night, at the top of the Moon-Watching Tower, the tallest attic in the west of Gaoyang City, the lights on the top of the Moon-Watching Tower cast two shadows under the moonlight. A force belonging to the law of Taoism twisted in this space, and the shadow actually materialized and became real in an instant.
In the reflection of the flames, two figures walked out from nothingness.
One of them was wearing blue clothes and white sleeves. He was Shu Xu, the prince of Tongtian Kingdom in Nanzhou, and was born under the star of Xu Ri Shu.
The other girl was wearing a fiery red long skirt. Hu Xiuer was from the fox clan and the fox-like lineage. She was originally a fire fox born from a branch of the East Continent Sky Fox. However, she was identified as the Heart Moon Fox Star when she was born. Later, she was identified as the saint of Qingqiu Kingdom in Beizhou and the main inheritor of the fox-like lineage of Youdu Fairy Island. She was considered a favored daughter of heaven with a tremendous background.
Although she has not returned to Beizhou and Youdu Fairy Island yet, she has no idea what the Qingqiu Kingdom is like, and she cannot imagine what the Fox lineage represents in Youdu Fairy Island.
Even though it was not the first time that Xu Ri Shu Xu used Heart Moon Fox's Immortal Escape Technique to travel through time and space, he still felt shocked and amazed every time: "Heart Moon Fox's Moon Fire Escape Technique is indeed a destiny immortal technique. It ignores the blockade of immortal formations such as the National Defense Formation. It is silent and silent. Even the Hun Tian Yi in the Imperial Astronomical Observatory in the city did not sense it at all."
Heart Moon Fox Hu Xiuer seemed to be familiar with the use of this kind of immortal escape technique and looked directly at the Dragon Pillar of Fortune. This was the purpose of their coming to Gaoyang, the new capital of Dazhou, to seize the Nine Dragon Emperor Seal.
The fortune of the Dragon Court of the Great Zhou Dynasty depends entirely on the Nine Dragon Imperial Seal. Once the Nine Dragon Imperial Seal is lost and the Dragon Pillar collapses, it means that the destiny has been lost, and the Nine Dragons will no longer be trapped in the destiny of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The dragon veins will directly abandon the Great Zhou Dynasty and choose others.
By then, no matter how powerful Longting of the Great Zhou Dynasty and Emperor Kong Qi were, they would be unable to turn the tide.
Heart Moon Fox Hu Xiuer showed a cute expression, pouted her lips and said: "Why didn't the Emperor of the Great Zhou take the imperial seal with him when he left?"
"If he runs away with the imperial seal, won't we be helpless?"
Xu Rishu Shu Xu sneered at Hu Xiuer's ignorance: "The Nine Dragons Imperial Seal is the core of the national defense formation, connecting the heaven's destiny above and the earth's dragon below."
"This imperial seal is the foundation of the country. How can it be easily moved?"
"And it is safest to put it here. Once the Nine Dragons Imperial Seal is moved, the luck of the Great Zhou will be shaken, and the entire national defense formation will be backfired. In addition, there are countless masters of the Great Zhou Dragon Court inside and outside this city. If someone else wants to sneak into the imperial city alone to take the Nine Dragons Imperial Seal, hehe!"
"It would be much easier to lead the army from outside to break through Gaoyang City and destroy the Dragon Court of the Great Zhou Dynasty."
Heart Moon Fox Hu Xiuer immediately said: "You said it's so difficult, then didn't we come here for nothing?"
Xu Ri Shu Shu Xu's nose was up in the air: "Stupid fox, why would the Tongtian Kingdom and Qingqiu Kingdom behind us let you listen to me?"
"That is, I, Xu Ri Shu, can cover the sky and change destiny. I can even steal the destiny of heaven, so why can't I steal the Nine Dragon Emperor Seal?"
"Okay, stop talking nonsense. It's late at night. Go in quickly."
At this time, the moonlight spread throughout the entire palace. The flames inside and outside the Great Zhou ancestral temple seemed to absorb the power of the moonlight, becoming brighter, and the flames beat like a heart.
At this time, two strange opaque shadows continued to move forward with the twisting of the fire. Even some cultivators and warriors in the realm of immortality could not see the abnormality of the fire and the specialness of the shadows.
The two sneaky beings, with a special escape technique and strength, actually evaded the supervision of Nei Nei Wai Wai, the national defense formation, the armillary sphere of the Imperial Observatory, and a large number of Nei Nei Wai Wai's cultivators and warriors, and sneaked step by step to the deepest part of the palace.