In the face of the king's anger, Nuo Nuo, no one is willing to be this early bird.
"Tell me." Jun Shang said, "When Mengze replaced the dynasty, couldn't you all be able to say something? What's wrong now? Are you dumb?"
An old old nobleman came out and said: "Your Majesty, the lion and camel are in urgent need of dispatching troops, but such important matters must be approved by your Majesty in person. Execute. Otherwise, everything will be messed up."
"Zhang Fa?" Jun Shang squinted his eyes, his expression was extremely dangerous, "It's really interesting, what kind of regulation?"
"Chonghua's national system, ancestors' rules-"
Junshang interrupted him abruptly, showing his white teeth: "For the sake of our ancestors, we have paid for the three big cities on the border! Chapter your head!!"
The old aristocrat shrank abruptly, and the old turtle-like face instantly shrivelled and wrinkled. The emperor's anger could no longer be contained, and he was furious at the court meeting, knocking on the table and asking: "What do you want to do? Men and women are so important? Whoever Gu Ai lets you do so will do it! Otherwise, what will happen? Like? Let you call the shots? It would be better for Gu to go to the backyard and lead the pig to take the position of Gu!"
"Let's not mention Daze, the army of 300,000 Liao Shi wanted to occupy Fengcheng, but was repelled by our country. Dicheng is the original stone city of Chonghua. Since ancient times, the enemy attacked once and lost once - but in the second All fall within ten days. Pigs will not allow such absurd things to happen!"
"… "
"Who rejected Mengze's proposal? She didn't let her transfer the lions and camels? Is that you?!" The sharp point pointed at the old aristocrat who had just started.
The old aristocrat hurriedly said: "Be, of course not the old minister! How can the old minister be the master of such a big matter? Yes, yes..."
"What is it?! I'm usually eloquent, but I stutter when I'm being held accountable? Say it! Or do you want Mengze to point them out one by one? Mengze!"
Mengze was an exceptional woman who entered the court. She wore a golden-edged five-beam black gauze crown and a black phoenix-bird dark-patterned python robe. Although the python robe had wide sleeves, the girdle was neatly tucked, which made her look more attractive. A bit different from the usual tall and handsome.
At this moment, her brother called her, her long eyelashes moved lightly, and she lowered her eyes and said, "Brother Wang, calm down. Now that Shituoguan has fallen, and the three cities have fallen, I don't know what Liaoguo will do next. It's not about accountability now. At that time, I also asked Brother Wang to make an early inventory, and dispatch troops to the northern border to arrange a counterattack."
The old aristocrat was worried that Mengze had been ostracized all these days, and he would definitely take this opportunity to file a complaint with her brother. But when she heard her say that, she breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but applaud Mengze in her heart—
This girl, don't take advantage of the fire, go to the road!
He hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, Your Majesty, you see that we were also worried about China's national record at the time. We had a good heart, but the result may not be satisfactory, so please calm down."
Another person came out and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, the family has family rules and state laws, and ministers and others act according to the state laws. Although the three cities and one pass are lost, at least the rules and regulations are not disordered, and it is not a good thing."
When Junyi heard this, the breath that was just suppressed came up again in an instant.
Unexpectedly, someone else added: "Your Majesty has been ill for more than 20 days, and the concerns of the ministers and others are not unreasonable. If your Majesty has any serious illness, you should let the elders know as soon as possible. It's easy to make the courtiers worry for nothing."
The king immediately charged with anger, he took a breath, his red eyes raised with hatred, slapped the table and said angrily: "You guys are really capable! The mouth on the face is not used to make plans, but to chew tongue. Yes, isn't it?!"
Everyone was silent.
The courtier who was admonishing himself believed that he had the iron coupons left by the founder of the country, and his roots were deep in the court and the opposition, so he pretended to be in a panic: "Your Majesty, don't get angry, it's important to take care of your health."
Jun Shang turned his head in anger, as if he didn't want to see these things in front of him again. He stared at the pillars of the hall next to him without saying a word for a while, but in the end it was still to no avail. The monstrous anger flooded from his heart, drowning his whole being in invisible hatred.
He closed his eyes.
Suddenly, with a loud clap of sleeves, the case in front of him was overturned, the cherry pears and so on rolled to the ground, and the scroll of the report was scattered.
"roll!"
"… "
"Go go! Go to Gu Go!"
"… Yes!"
The king was panting, his red eyes staring angrily at the hall, and spit out a few words: "Wait."
The ministers stopped.
Jun Shang: "Xi He Jun, you leave it alone."
In the hall, only Mo Xi and Junshang were left. Junshang let out a deep breath, leaned back in exhaustion, leaned back on the dragon chair, and stared blankly at the carved dragon painting. The phoenix's Danzhu falls on the golden dome.
"Pill book iron coupons... Pill book iron coupons!" Jun Shang scolded, "It's all good things left by our ancestors! Relying on these things, one by one, they are making their own wishful thinking. You say orphanage What are they doing? It's better to raise a group of uniform bamboo warriors with no ideas! I'll give those bamboo people who have no good guts to appoint officials! Save so many disgusting things!"
"...It's all over, so don't talk about these whimsical things, Your Majesty."
"What's so whimsical?" Jun Shangyin said angrily, "A person with ambition and no brain is better than a pig without ambition and no brain!"
Mo Xi pursed his thin lips, and they were at the juncture of Chonghua's reform, and the resistance they encountered was almost unprecedented. As soon as there are many people who sing against Junshang openly and secretly, Junshang will always come up with the idea of "it is better to keep a bunch of obedient bamboo warriors than to keep the civil and military affairs of the Manchu dynasty".
Mo Xi sighed secretly, and didn't want to continue talking about this meaningless conversation with him, but asked, "How do you plan to fight back, Your Majesty."
Jun Shang said: "I'm afraid we have to fight back."
After he said that, he raised his forehead with his hand, and rubbed his brow bone vigorously: "Xihe-Jun, do you know why Gu has not been able to leave for more than 20 consecutive days?"
"Cold disease."
"Why didn't the solitary look for you to ward off the cold and heal as usual?"
"I don't know."
The emperor sat upright, and the whole person was caged under the shadow of the hanging plaque in the golden hall. He said, "Xi Hejun has been fighting the cold for Gu for so many years, but have you never wondered how Gu contracted this disease?"
Mo Xi said, "If you don't tell me, I won't ask."
"You have always been cautious in your words and deeds." Jun Shang nodded, "It's easy to get dizzy on your good brother."
After a while, the king said again: "Actually, this matter is not to hide from you alone, but I feel that the time has not yet come to say it. Now that the situation is in front of you, I should explain it to you clearly."
"Sir, please speak."
Your Majesty considered it for a while, sighed and said, "This matter has to start from the old news about the founding of the Liao Kingdom."
"I don't need to go into detail about that past story if I want to come to Gu. From Chonghua to the elderly and down to the children of Huangkou, I am afraid that no one is unclear - back then, Palace Master Shen Tang made an exception to accept the slave Hua Diao as his apprentice. , was later betrayed by Hua Po'an, Hua Po'an turned his army against the water, established himself as the king in the northern border of Chong China, and created this country of all evils. Now when it comes to Liao Kingdom, no one in the Kyushu continent knows that their methods are bloody, and they are good at black magic. technique - but."
The king raised his head, "Have you ever wondered where the origin of the Liaoguo technique is?"
Mo Xi: "Hua Po An is a genius of magic techniques that is rare in a century. Most of the black magic techniques that Liao Kingdom is using today are his first creations."
"Where are there so many pioneers? He used to be a slave who knew nothing. Who enlightened him?"
The answer is obvious: Shen Tang.
Mo Xi frowned and said, "But Shen Tang has never been tainted with any crooked and evil methods."
"Whoever said that the source of the crooked evil law must be the crooked evil law." Jun Shang said, "Gu Shuai has been hiding in the Liao Kingdom for five years, during which time he has written countless books with the solitary, and collected a large number of black magic techniques in the Liao Kingdom. Part of it is completely born out of the spells of the demons, and I found that many of them can see the shadow of Zhonghua magic."
"Just imagine, Hua Po An was an extremely intelligent person back then, and this kind of person would not like to learn spells just like the gourds. After he has mastered Shen Tang's spells, he will definitely study how to use these spells. Become more special and powerful. The spells Shen Tang cast may be just for stability, but Hua Po An will seek danger and wonder."
As the Lord said, he casually twisted a golden red flame in the palm of his hand: "For example, this is the nine lotus fireworks technique left by Palace Lord Shen back then, which can dispel the superficial demonic breath contaminated by mortals. You should be very familiar with it. ."
After saying these words, Jun Shang's hand suddenly turned over to form another two curse marks, and then the golden red flame went out, and in the palm of his hand was a cloud of blue-black vortex-shaped miasma.
Mo Xi suddenly widened his eyes: "The Secret of Falling Heart?"
"That's right." Junshang said, "This is the Falling Heart Technique, which was cultivated according to the records of the black magic law transmitted by the caregiver. You must have suffered from it in the years when you fought against the Liao Kingdom. Because it is just the opposite of Jiulian Fireworks, it is a spell that can make mortals be corroded by demonic energy."
After saying that, Your Majesty dismissed the Falling Heart Art.
"But Xihe-Jun, if it wasn't for Gu Mang who secretly passed down the manual of the Falling Heart Technique to Gu, Gu would never have thought that there were only two seals between the fireworks technique and the Falling Heart Technique. That's it."
Mo Xi was slightly stunned: "... Your Majesty is saying that many of Hua Po An's many spells still can't get rid of Shen Tang's shadow?"
"Yes, most of Liao Kingdom's black magic spells are similar to Chonghua." Jun Shang said, "He studied under Shen Tang and came from Chonghua. Even if he reborn later, he would not be able to break free from his roots."
"Then let's talk about it again. Do you remember how Palace Lord Shen sacrificed?"
"... According to the history books, he was trying to contain a bloody beast that Hua Po An was refining at the time, and he died with it in the end."
Jun Shang nodded: "Blood beasts are violent and cruel, and their resentment is amazing. If they are allowed to develop, they will have the ability to move mountains and reclaim the sea, swallow the sky and devour the earth, and what is even worse is that they can continue to emit magical aura, affecting hundreds of people in the area. The mind of the living beings in Yuli gradually infected people with hostility and became violent and bloodthirsty. The rumors related to it are too shocking. According to legend, it is a monster that cannot be killed at all, like a phoenix nirvana, which can be put to death. Later generations. So even if it was sealed by Shen Tang back then, all the kings of Chonghua dynasties still brooded about the existence of that beast. When it came to my father's generation... "
He paused and said, "Just in case, he started to hide from the courtiers and secretly did a trial."
Mo Xi sneered: "Could it be that the first emperor also wanted to recreate a blood beast?!"
Jun Shang said: "No."
"Then he..."
"He found a dossier on the cultivation of spirit beasts in the secret scrolls left by Shen Tang. The spirit beasts recorded on it are very similar to blood beasts, but their abilities are diametrically opposite. They are beasts of pure world. "
"My father wanted to secretly cultivate this kind of spiritual beast that could fight against blood beasts."
This secret was really unexpected, and Mo Xi was speechless for a while—Old Lord, had he ever wanted to refine a spirit beast similar to a blood beast for Chonghua's use
Mo Xi digested it for a while before he said, "But with such a spirit beast... why didn't Shen Tang practice back then?"
"Because spirit beasts have the ability to purify the world, the refining process is ultimately too cruel and dangerous." Jun Shang said, "So Shen Tang listed it as a forbidden technique, and my father, he also failed to refine it. already."
"However, according to Yi Gu, the reason for my late father's failure is not only because of the difficulty of the spell itself. Since ancient times, people who have achieved great things in the right place and the right place are indispensable. When my late father cultivated spirit beasts, Shen Tang had passed away for many years. It is difficult to fully decipher the scroll of the law, which is due to the incompatibility of the time. And at that time, Daze City, where Shen Tang sealed the blood beasts, was still in the hands of Liaoguo, and it was impossible to survey the spiritual flow.
He stopped and began to habitually turn the dzi bracelet around his wrist: "After all, this is too risky, and my late father will not spread it all over the world, but he knows that he is undergoing a trial. In fact, from the very beginning, the few people in the group had their own opinions, and later the contradictions became more acute and unresolvable, which is a discord between people.
"With such three disagreements, it is difficult to achieve anything. Therefore, my father's plan is a failure. No one knows what happens to his half-refined fairy beast spirit body. It may be annihilated by itself, or it may be destroyed by him. It has always been a mystery. The cultivation of spirit beasts has been erased from the history of Chonghua, and the only traces left—" The king paused and said, "It is the people who had close contact with spirit beasts back then, more or less. , there have been some changes.”
Mo Xi narrowed his eyes slightly: "...Who are they?"
"This is a special forbidden secret. It will be destroyed in just one generation, so even an orphan can't fully know. At present, there are only three people who can be identified." The king said, the beads in his hand stopped for a while, and he plucked a bead.
"First, Zhou Owl."
"Zhou He's father?"
"That's right, Zhou He's father, Zhou Owl, the former elder of the Taishu Taida. He should have been the first master of magic arts who was directly responsible for the cultivation of immortal beasts, and the mutation that appeared in him was that he became abnormally bloodthirsty."
Mo Xi was silent for a while, there were indeed too many bloody rumors about the Zhou family. Zhou He's fondness for poking people's brains is nothing new. As for his father, Zhou Owl, since he passed away early, Mo Xi has no impression of him, but he does remember this great elder at the end of the year. I always like to eat bloody raw meat at banquets... I didn't expect it to be for this reason.
"So does Zhou He's brutality have anything to do with this incident?"
"Yes," said Jun Shang, "As long as these mutated monks have too much contact with their blood relatives, the impact will penetrate into each other's body unknowingly. So Zhou He's love for the smell of blood is indeed affected. The infection of his father Zhou Owl."
"...What about the second? Who is the second person?"
"It's Murong Xuan."
Mo Xi was startled: "Murong Lian's father?!"
Jun Shang nodded: "As his late father's brother, Murong Xuan was also directly involved in this conspiracy back then. But his situation is a bit special, because he had an argument with his late father very early and no longer participated in refining. , and was sacrificed on the battlefield soon after, so the mutation caused by the spirit beast on him is not obvious, and it has not caused any infection to Murong Lian. The reason why Gu determined that he is the second person is because of his cemetery."
Having said this, Jun Shang turned a few more dzi beads on the bracelet, and then said: "The heroic tombs of Zhanhunshan are all sealed with white jade. The burial is as if he was alive, but Xianwangshu's tomb is an exception."
"The mausoleum guardian once came to play with Gu, saying that the jade seal on Xianwangshu's tomb seemed to be a fake, and it had begun to age in just over 20 years. Gu ordered the craftsman to rebuild Xianwangshu's tomb. Repairing, but unexpectedly after opening the sealed stone jade, the craftsman found that the body inside was black all over... It has been completely alienated."
Hearing this, Mo Xi frowned and asked, "Does Murong Lian know about the situation?"
"He wasn't in the imperial capital at the time, so he didn't know. And this matter was so cruel that he didn't tell him later."
"… "
Jun Shang sighed: "Actually, there are so many secrets that people sitting in this position have to keep, and some things I would rather not know. ... Forget it, let's not mention it, I will tell you about the third person. stop."
This time, Mo Xi didn't need to talk about it. With the first two cases, the third one was clearly on the horizon. Mo Xi closed his eyes, and said to himself, "... The third person, if I guessed correctly, is the Xianjun himself."
Jun Shang was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "You are right, the third person is the father. The father's mutation is—"
"Extraordinarily cold."
"… Yes."
The former monarch Chonghua became extremely afraid of the cold from nowhere. Although he was a fire cultivator, he liked to be surrounded by fire, and his condition was getting worse every year.
At that time, people thought that he was getting older and his physique was not as good as before, but they didn't realize that there was such a truth behind it.
Jun Shangdao: "At that time, my father did not know that his condition was affected by the cultivation of spirit beasts, and he did not know that this influence would be directly passed on to his children, and he still kept in touch with Gu—he was one of the three people. The longest-living one, so his influence on orphans far exceeds the influence of the other two fathers on their children."
He lowered his eyes, stroking the beads with his fingers, and said in a low voice: "The solitary young is frail, and he is a yin water spirit, and he suffers from the coldness disease after going back and forth." His voice became lighter and the eyes under the long eyelashes His eyes were like a dark river flowing with uncertain light, and his thin lips opened and closed, "My late father brought the pain that haunted Gu for a lifetime, but he finally learned of Gu's disease because of , moved the waste storage mind... "
Jun Shang sighed incomprehensibly, and did not continue the words. The water leak on the Golden Palace was dripping quietly. New drops of water fell into the shadow of the pool, shattering the old calm into sparkling waves.
Even a simple individual will have a few unknown secrets, let alone a state that has existed for many years? In the past, Mo Xi only knew that Your Majesty suffered from this incurable disease, but he never knew what the root cause of this disease was, and he didn't even know that he was still involved with Lao Junshang at this time.
He didn't know what to say for a moment.
Jun Shang sighed: "...Forget it, the past is no longer important. Now, what makes Gu feel critical now is the case of the fall of Daze City."
"You heard Gu said just now that Daze City is the hometown of Shen Tang's seal of blood beasts. Since Shen Tang and Liaoguo fought a decisive battle, it has become a battleground between Liaoguo and Chonghua. Liaoguo is very clear that if there is any more To resurrect their magical beasts, Daze is what they must master, and as for us... Whether it's out of defense or out of research, we shouldn't surrender Daze."
"So in the past few hundred years, Chonghua and Liao Kingdom have launched many battles in Daze, and took turns to occupy this old land. When the first emperor was in the dynasty, Daze was still the land of Liao Kingdom. Zecheng was reinstated under the territory of Chonghua, and the first thing Gu did after he regained Daze was that he secretly sent the people from the division to go to Daze City to explore the seal traces of the blood beasts. "
Mo Xi asked, "What was the result?"
Junshang shook his head: "If you say it publicly, I'm afraid that the entire Chonghua will fall into extreme panic."
He paused and whispered, "The seal of the blood beast has been lifted."
"!"
"In the more than ten years that the Liao Kingdom ruled Daze, they have successfully unlocked the seal of the blood beast and rescued it from the abyss of Daze Lake."
Mo Xi tightened his pupils and said, "Since the blood beasts have returned to the Liao Kingdom, why hasn't there been any change in the past ten years?!"
"Because the seal has been lifted, it may be that the blood beast was injured too badly, and the soul spirit overflowed too much, so it was still in a state of deep sleep and could not be driven by the monks of the Liao Kingdom."
"But you understand, the most difficult seal has been untied, and Shenmian or something will definitely be awakened again." Jun Shang sighed and continued, "The first time I heard this secret report, I was anxious. I couldn’t sleep well for more than ten days in a row, and I thought every day and every night—is the blood beast really unable to be resurrected at all? Is there a great warlock in Liao Kingdom who can seal it for hundreds of years? The spiritual body returns to normal? If so, how long will it take?"
"… "
The king raised his forehead with his hand, rubbed his brow bone, and said in a low voice, "Xihe-jun, now do you know why Gu is in such a hurry to send an absolutely loyal person to Liao Kingdom as a spy? We must be clear. Blood Warcraft's every move, otherwise there will be no next Shen Tang who can defend Chonghua's gate."
Mo Xi asked in a deep voice, "What is the current state of the blood beast?"
"It took Gu Mang a whole year to find out about it. After the seal was released, the blood beast was taken back into the storage bag, but because Shen Tang's damage to it back then was too great. , so even if it is enshrined carefully, its power is still weakening. There is still no sign of recovery."
Seeing Mo Xi's expression a little relaxed, Jun Shang said: "But don't be too relieved, I always felt that the threat of blood beasts was relieved before, so there is no need to worry too much, until later, the cultivator of Daze City was secretly Played Yu Gu, saying that a trace of the remnant of a blood beast was found in the Sealed Lake."
After Mo Xi was silent for a moment, he suddenly reacted. He suddenly widened his eyes: "So the blood beast has not awakened so far, not because it is really dying, but because the Liao Kingdom has taken away this ray of soul?"
"That's right." Jun Shang said, "Back then, the blood beast was beaten to pieces by Shen Tang, and a strand of remnant soul escaped from the seal and sank unconsciously into the lake. It was precisely because of the lack of this With a wisp of soul, the Liao Kingdom has been unable to awaken their country's weapon from its slumber for more than ten years."
"So, this ray of soul has become a very important thing in the victory or defeat of the Liao Kingdom."
"When Gu learned about this, he immediately ordered people to search for the remnants of the blood beasts in the lake. However, this behavior was like looking for a needle in a haystack. range."
"It's just that the area is about Baili Lake. If we continue to search for it in the usual way, it will take several months. I just want to relieve this worry as soon as possible, so I took a risk."
Mo Xi: "... what?"
Junshang raised his pale fingers and nodded his brain: "Zhaoyin."
"When I was young, I was infected by spirit beasts and suffered from coldness, but at the same time, I also had some spirit beasts on my body. Blood beasts belong to the same family as the spirit beasts. to the effect of summoning."
Mo Xi pursed his lips, almost incredulous: "Your Majesty has been in a coma for the past few days, are you trying to sense the traces of the remnant souls of blood beasts?"
"Yes, so this time the cold disease strikes, what Gu needs is not to relieve it in time, but to let it develop - the more severe the cold disease, the stronger the breath of the spirit beast on Gu's body, and the easier it is to perceive the specific location of the blood beast. ."
"And just yesterday, Gu had just determined the specific location of the remnant soul. I thought of sending someone to take it back immediately... But when Gu went to court today, I learned that Daze City had fallen."
The gloomy and cold air in the hall moved with his lips and teeth, and suddenly pressed to the extreme.
Junshang closed his eyes, held the armrest of the dragon chair, and the meridians on the back of his hands burst violently, he said: "Liao Kingdom - it must be that Liao Kingdom has finally discovered the secret that blood monsters cannot be restored. Now Daze City is in their hands. , once they succeed in their search, the last ray of soul will fall into the hands of Liaoren, and what awaits Zhonghua will not be a stalemate between one city and two cities, but must be a repeat of the battle of Hua Po An."
His eyes were filled with fog-like blood.
"Xi and Jun, do you understand the powerful relationship? This matter involves the fundamentals of the country, and anyone who has two hearts can never tell the truth."
"The loss of Daze is far more serious than what it appears to be. So Gu will immediately send an army to recover Daze, and you will command the entire army. But you must be clear that the purpose of this trip is not for the city, but for For the remnant of the blood beast in Lake Zeli - you must find it as quickly as possible."
After a pause, he said, "If it weren't for this, when the souls of the blood beasts are gathered together and Nirvana is reborn, not to mention Chonghua... The entire cultivation world will fall into chaos."
"By that time... it is bound to be the catastrophe of Kyushu, and the world will be devastated!"