Looking at the black-armored general who bowed in front of him and saluted him, Jiang Chengwan's expression became a little complicated inexplicably.
After a moment, she shook her head, and then said softly: "Brother, there is no need to be polite."
As she spoke, she slowly placed the jade seal in her hand on the table, then stretched out her hand to wipe the sweat off her slightly sluggish face.
The Douzhuan Formation was opened, the space tunnel was opened, and the Xuanwu Guards were summoned from the Cangming Realm thousands of miles away to Ziji City. Although it was with the help of the extremely powerful Ziwei Qi that gathered over Ziji City, the ancient formation was built and maintained. Its operation requires the use of its own Holy Spirit power.
Maintaining the ancient formation until all 30,000 soldiers of the Xuanwu Guard arrived in Ziji City, such a huge consumption was obviously too much for the sixteen-year-old empress.
King Cangming naturally noticed the strange look on the empress's face.
But he didn't say much.
Jiang Chengwan sat on the dragon chair, calmed down for a while, then raised his head, looked at her, and said slowly: "Brother, can you take off your mask?"
"certainly."
King Cangming responded without hesitation, then raised his hand and gently pressed on both sides of the visor.
Click...
There was only a crisp sound of metal interlacing, and the visor that was firmly fixed was taken off.
Ever since he was selected by the Holy Relic and became the King of Cangming who controls millions of soldiers and civilians in Cangming Realm, he has been wearing a mask to hide his identity. His face, which has not been seen in front of people for eight years, is now displayed without reservation. In front of the empress.
It was the face of a man who looked somewhat similar to the empress.
Sword eyebrows, starry eyes, extraordinary handsomeness.
Between the eyebrows, there is an aura of nobility that makes one feel ashamed.
Although he had long known the true identity of King Cangming, who was extremely mysterious in the eyes of the world, Jiang Chengwan couldn't help but feel dazed when he saw his true face.
After a moment, she slowly spoke:
"I haven't seen you for many years. Brother Huang has changed so much compared to before. I can hardly recognize him anymore."
Jiang Chengdao, the real name of King Cangming, is also the name of the fifth prince who is a sibling of her mother and is six years older than her.
Yes, Cangming King Jiang Chengdao is her biological brother.
Eight years ago, Jiang Chengdao suddenly disappeared without warning, as if he had disappeared from the world.
No matter how much manpower was used to search, Xiuyiwei and Zhuxiesi came out in full force, but they could not find even a single trace.
Suffering such a heavy blow suddenly, Jiang Chengwan's mother-in-law fell ill and soon died of depression.
Before she died, she didn't tell Jiang Chengwan anything, she just asked her to take good care of herself.
But Jiang Chengwan still secretly vowed in his heart that no matter what, whether he was alive or dead, he must find his brother and give an explanation to his mother and concubine.
However, what she didn't expect was that after accidentally obtaining the complete inheritance of the holy way in the jade seal, she completed her vow.
At the same time, she also learned the truth behind the disappearance of her brother who had always been filial and respectful in her impression.
A truth about the holy relics, the four holy realms of Central Continent and the holy king that only the Supreme is qualified to know.
Jiang Chengdao was neither kidnapped nor assassinated, but was accidentally selected by the holy relic that had been passed down from generation to generation in the northern holy realm of Central Continent - [Nine Nethers], and was then summoned to the Cangming Realm to become one of the four great holy kings of Central Continent. King Cangming.
The so-called holy realm is the area where the supreme formation built by saints in ancient times was located to suppress evil spirits throughout the ages.
The Holy Realm is filled with all kinds of demons and ghosts that have suppressed most of their power but are able to reincarnate indefinitely. They will try their best to use all their strength to kill the creatures in the Holy Realm and weaken the power of the formation.
The meaning of the Holy King's existence is to protect the people of the Holy Land and prevent evil spirits from breaking through the formation and causing harm to the world.
This is a secret that only the Holy King himself, the Supreme Being, and a very small number of beings know.
The world only knows that the holy relics contain extremely powerful power. Every holy king selected by the holy relics is the strongest person in the world. They are so powerful that even if the most prosperous dynasty uses the power of the whole country to attack the holy realm, it cannot shake its existence. situation.
It's just that this power can basically only be used within the holy territory, otherwise it will be counterattacked by heaven.
So no matter what happens outside the holy realm, they won't care.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a troubled time or a prosperous time.
Peasant uprisings, warlord unrest, and even dynastic changes.
No matter how the outside world changes, the Holy Land will not react and remain indifferent.
Therefore, the Four Realms Land has been an extremely special existence in all dynasties.
Each holy land is equivalent to a completely independent country.
Although nominally a vassal state of the imperial court, in fact they were neither under the jurisdiction of the imperial court nor involved in anything that happened in the outside world. They would only maintain the most basic vassal state policies and interactions.
Moreover, they only recognize the dynasty that holds the Jade Seal. Whoever holds the Jade Seal is orthodox. Changing dynasties will not have any impact on them, and this precisely contributes to the inheritance of the legal system of the unified dynasty in Central Continent.
Over time, the dominant figures no longer cared about this non-threatening piece of bones.
It was precisely because the Holy King was extremely powerful that Jiang Chengwan had a chance to make a comeback.
If it were not for the Holy King, a trump card that no one expected, as a support, if it were not for the fact that King Cangming, one of the four Holy Kings, was her biological brother and was willing to obey her orders unconditionally, no matter how thoughtful and intelligent Jiang Chengwan was, It is absolutely impossible for them to have a chance to make a comeback under the nose of Queen Mother Zhao.
After all, even if you are the Supreme, you must have enough strength if you want to command the Holy King.
The strength in this aspect does not refer to one's own force, skills, and techniques, but the authority, general trend, belief, control, etc. of the ruler.
And she is a puppet emperor with fart authority.
With her current strength, it would be difficult for her to even support the Holy King to exert 10% of his power.
If he doesn't have enough strength, even if he is the Supreme, the Holy King can ignore him, so whether to help her or not depends entirely on the Holy King's own free will.
Or maybe she is really the human emperor destined to be her destiny. When she is in desperate situation, one of the four holy kings who can only save her happens to be her only relative now...
As she thought about it, the brother in her memory who tried his best to protect her gradually overlapped with the bloody and heroic Supreme Saint King in front of her.
Finally the two become one.
At this time, Jiang Chengdao raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said slowly in a magnetic voice: "The feeling that Your Majesty gives to Wei Chen is no longer the little girl who only hid behind Wei Chen and shivered, in every sense. "
Hearing this, Jiang Chengwan's eyes narrowed slightly as he didn't know what he thought of.
"Because I want to live."
As if he could feel the cruelty and weight of these words, the smile on Jiang Chengdao's face gradually faded.
"Feel sorry."
Jiang Chengwan shook his head, "Brother, don't worry, this is not your fault."
Jiang Chengdao smiled slightly, then turned his head and looked at the Xuanwu Guards filing out of the window.
"It's almost time to end things with that woman."
"Um."
Jiang Chengwan nodded, then raised his hands, and quickly transformed his fingers into spells.
Waves of powerful Holy Spirit power continuously surged out of Miaoman's body, and then she quickly sank into the jade seal under the pull of a huge force.
A few breaths later, with the activation of the Holy Spirit Technique, countless light particles suddenly shot out from the jade seal.
Then the light particles continued to gather, and in the blink of an eye they formed nine fist-sized, rotating golden balls of light.
Jiang Chengwan put down his hand and looked around at the golden light balls revolving around the jade seal. Then his eyes suddenly condensed and the Holy Spirit power exploded again. A layer of dense ancient mantras appeared on the surface of all the light balls at the same time.
At the same time, the twenty gates in all directions of Luojing City suddenly trembled strangely.
"what happened?!"
The city gate guards looked around in horror.
However, before they could find anything unusual, several dull and heavy sounds suddenly came from the corridor.
Boom boom boom! !
The seven thick city gates suddenly fell heavily.
Not only that, on every city gate, there is a formation with the word "sealing" in the middle, slowly flowing around.
When the last city gate fell, the tops of the city towers in the four directions suddenly bloomed with light pillars rising into the sky, and then a golden translucent energy shield quickly rose in the middle of each light pillar, completely covering the entire Luojing. , completely isolating it from the outside world.
At this time, Luojing is like a closed small world. Without special means, not even a fly, let alone a bird, can fly in, let alone fly out.
The total number of imperial troops stationed in Luojing, even including the Yulin Guards, is less than 200,000.
