Chapter 217: Many parties conspired before the war between good and evil
Chapter 217: Many parties conspired before the war between good and evil
After the peace of the south. The territory of the Song Dynasty was connected to an area of hundreds of millions of miles, and billions of people and demons retreated. The righteous and prosperous monarch, Zhao Kuangyin, was kind and caring for the people, and courteous to the virtuous people; Water conservancy and road construction were carried out with light corvees and low taxes to reduce the burden on the people; external armaments were strengthened and military power was firmly grasped, many redundant officials and soldiers were abolished, and elite troops were selected to station at the borders to prevent foreign invasions.
Since the civil strife in xizàng in the south has been quelled, Dali's country is weak and its soldiers and people are weak. Therefore, the Song Dynasty was able to mobilize most of its elite troops from the southwest and station several major forces on the northern border to guard against the biggest enemy - the Liao Kingdom established by the Khitan people.
However, it may be due to the Song Dynasty's national strength record and growing power, as well as the losses caused by domestic civil strife, that the Liao Kingdom has never sent large-scale troops to the south. The only two heavy troop gatherings were eventually confirmed to be the emperor of the Liao Kingdom. Just a hunting team.
The Northern Demonic Sect, the backer of the Liao Kingdom, has not taken the initiative to launch attacks on the Song Dynasty due to internal problems (the opposition of the Grand Elder Chang Yuqiu) and concerns about the alliance of multiple sects in the Song Kingdom. However, sporadic small teams were still sent out. Each team was led by an elder in the Return to Void Stage or Divine Transformation Stage. They occasionally sneaked into the Song Kingdom to attack the small and medium-sized sects who had taken refuge in the Song Kingdom. This also caused some chaos and made the Song Dynasty cultivation world in a hurry. It was not until more masters were sent to intercept and also enter the Liao Kingdom to retaliate that it gradually calmed down.
However, these were things that happened secretly in the world of cultivation and had little impact on the mortals of the Song Dynasty. In general, since the pacification of the south, under the leadership of Mingjun Zhao Kuangyin and a group of wise ministers, the Song Dynasty has been governed with prosperity and has quickly ended the chaotic state of nearly a hundred years since the Tang Dynasty. The country's prosperity and people's power spread overseas and it entered the beginning of a prosperous era, becoming the most powerful country in China.
In the 20th year of Jianlong's reign, in the majestic and solemn palace of Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin was sitting on a dragon chair deep in the hall, his eyes wide open and his hands forming a seal, breathing deeply with luck. He was the only one in the hall with a radius of several hundred meters. His chamberlains and ministers all knew that the emperor hated being disturbed by others when he was practicing. If someone bothers him rashly, although the emperor is not bloodthirsty, punishment is unavoidable. There was once a eunuch who relied on Zhao Kuangyin's favor to serve tea while he was practicing. However, he was knocked unconscious by the aura in the hall. When he woke up, he was stripped of his status as an inner chamber of the palace. I went to do a very hard job.
After being the emperor for twenty years, his temperament has undergone earth-shaking changes: the original heroic and majestic aura has become the deep and graceful aura he has today. His sharp and compelling eyes, like unsheathed swords, have become deep and unpredictable. It's as if there are endless secrets hidden in the two bottomless pools, which makes people feel like they're falling in when they look at them.
A bright yellow dragon robe was added to his body, which added a sense of sacredness to him; the uniquely shaped palace refracted the sunlight from the outside and shone on his body in a faint halo, as if the golden dragon on his body Come to life and swim around. If anyone can see this scene, they will definitely sigh that he is really the real dragon emperor.
The only thing that hasn't changed is his sturdy body and powerful limbs. This is the foundation he has laid with Yunlong for many years and will not change easily; even though he is busy with state affairs, he still takes two hours every day to practice martial arts. Since he became the emperor and the country became stronger day by day, his dragon energy became stronger and stronger. He practiced the ancient royal martial arts "Wudi Dragon Fist" and made rapid progress.
As he breathed in and out, a thick stream of golden air spurted out from his mouth and circled around his body before being inhaled through his nose. And his body is constantly stretching and contracting in this breath, tempering the muscles, bones, flesh and blood to make the body stronger. Waves of thunder-like sounds came from his body. Shocking the entire hall, ripples visible to the naked eye appeared in the air. This was the "Inner Palace Thunder Sound" that could only be mastered to a very high level. Practicing this method can continuously activate the blood vessels, exercise the meridians and flesh, reduce the vitality decline of the physical body to an extreme, and have a lifespan of three years (one hundred and eighty years), and can have a combat power equivalent to that of a cultivator in the transformation stage.
Since the Holy Emperor, emperors who have been restricted by heaven cannot cultivate immortality and can only use exercises or elixirs to delay aging and seek immortality. However, there are very few people like Zhao Kuangyin who can live for three years. This has a lot to do with the foundation he laid when he was a child and the royal martial arts such as "Martial Emperor Dragon Fist" that he practiced with the founding ancestor and the strongest dragon energy. The opportunity is rare in the world and can be regarded as a special case and almost impossible to copy.
After a while, Zhao Kuangyin took his last breath, slowly closed his eyes and dispersed the handprints. After a while. He opened his eyes again and two rays of light two feet long shot out from his eyes like lightning. Zhao Kuangyin felt the situation inside and found that his strength had increased slightly and nodded with satisfaction. It is not easy for his cultivation to increase when he has reached this point. The small increase this time has something to do with his diligent management of the country and the prosperity of the country. He is already very satisfied.
Today's two hours of practice have been completed. He stood up, stretched out his body, pondered for a while, and shouted, "Lu Ren!" This was one of his personal eunuchs. He was very knowledgeable and available and would not disturb his practice.
"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor!" A handsome little eunuch in his twenties walked in from outside the door in small steps. He started kowtowing when he was still ten meters away from Zhao Kuangyin. "My Emperor has summoned me. What are your orders?" Lu Ren asked immediately after kowtow.
"Go and summon Prime Minister Liu He for me. He will come as soon as possible." Liu He is old and he was the former leader of the Later Han Dynasty and had great prestige. Even if Zhao Kuangyin is now the emperor, he respects him very much and says "".
"It's your Majesty." Seeing that Zhao Kuangyin had no other instructions, Lu Ren immediately stood up and backed out of the door, then walked to the department where the eunuch who was responsible for delivering messages was located. He was a personal eunuch and needed to be by Zhao Kuangyin's side at all times to accept orders. For such matters as delivering messages, he only needed Just leave it to your subordinates. As he walked, he was still thinking: "This time His Majesty the Emperor actually wanted to summon Old Prime Minister Liu to discuss something important?"
You must know that Liu He has resigned from his post and retired from court and the army since the pacification of the south, leaving matters to his two sons Liu and Liu Wu, while he himself has been cultivating himself at home for a long time and has not actively participated in national affairs. Now that Zhao Kuangyin is so solemn about his coming, this is a signal: something big is going to happen!
After ordering people to go to Liu Heqian, Zhao Kuangyin paced around twice more. I finally made up my mind to circulate my true energy, clapped my hands gently, and just as a gust of wind blew past, a man in black seemed to jump out of his shadow. This man was dressed in black robes, with dark eyebrows, and his face was covered with gauze, only revealing his pair of eyes. The twinkling eyes exuded a dense yin energy, like a seducer from hell.
He faced Zhao Kuangyin without saying anything but bowed his head in silence. Zhao Kuangyin seemed to have become accustomed to it. He threw a gold token to the man in black and said calmly to the man in black: "Dark Arrow holds my token and goes to the branches of the various sects in Kaifeng. Their principals are here. I have something important to do." talk over."
The body of the man in black was shaken, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes. He took the token and asked, "Of course I will try my best to fulfill your Majesty's orders, but does this 'big sect' refer to those sects that have always supported us or those who came later?" Are you starting to support our sect one after another?" His hoarse voice was as if it carried the yin wind of Nine Netherworld, which made people feel chilled all over.
There is a reason why he asked this. When the Song Dynasty was founded, most of the people who supported them were only some small and medium-sized cultivation sects Yunlong and Liu He worked hard to win over, as well as the Yuping Sect and Shenghuo Sect among the casual cultivators. They were already the two strongest sects among them. It's just a medium-sized sect. Although these sects are not the strongest, they have the deepest identification and affection for the Song Dynasty. They can be said to be direct descendants.
When the Song Dynasty began to conquer the world, wipe out all countries one by one, and show the style of a generation of destined emperors, it was either because of the great strength of the Song Dynasty, or because of the potential of the Song Dynasty, or even simply because of Yu Yunlong's bets. Cultivators and cultivation sects continued to come to Kaifeng to express support for them. Among them, there were many large sects such as Tianjian Sect and Zen Sect. These cultivators were latecomers, and their relationship and feelings with the Song Dynasty were naturally not the same as those of the earliest sects and sects. Compared with cultivators. If Zhao Kuangyin wants to discuss something extremely confidential, he must be careful to prevent someone from these sects from leaking the secret. That's why people in black ask this question.
"Well, it's all the sects except those who are enemies of the Song Dynasty, including the two main sects." Zhao Kuangyin said. Naturally, many of the sects that supported the Song Dynasty could not be righteous sects. In addition to the demonic sects, some side sects and neutral sects also expressed support for the Song Dynasty, such as the "Hundred Beasts Sect" who was good at domesticating rare and exotic animals, and the "Gopher Sect" who was good at escaping. They are all sects whose forms are incompatible with the righteous way but have their own unique abilities and specialties, which can be of great help to the Song Dynasty. For example, after taking the special forage from the "Hundred Beasts Sect", the war horses of the Song Dynasty all became vigorous and strong, and could be called top-notch war horses; there were also "Gopher Sect" and "Dunjia Sect" among the communication and espionage personnel of the army and the court. The low-level and outer disciples of these sects are all good at spying on intelligence, traveling thousands of miles, and delivering messages.
Zhao Kuangyin accepted the requests of these cultivators as long as the sect had an extremely bad reputation and was despised by thousands of people, which showed the emperor's broad mind. His attitude also gained the respect of these sects and gave them strong support to the Song Dynasty. The prosperity of the Song Dynasty today is due to the indelible contributions of these sects that later joined the Song Dynasty.
Hearing Zhao Kuangyin's affirmative answer, the man in black said, "Here!" He twisted his body and turned into a black shadow, disappearing into the shadow in the corner and disappearing. Only Zhao Kuangyin was left. He walked out of the palace, looked up at the sky for a while, took a few deep breaths of fresh air, then returned to the throne and began to approve memorials. As the emperor in charge of national affairs, there were endless memorials to approve every day. He was strong and energetic, otherwise most people would really Can't hold on for long.
The man in black is from a small sect from the Western Region called the "Ghost Shadow Sect". The sect is biased towards evil and mainly practices Yin attribute skills. Among its sects there is a unique skill that absorbs the ghost energy of dead souls and ghosts. After mastering this escape technique, one can hide in the shadows and wait for opportunities to assassinate or eavesdrop on intelligence; since this technique does not enter the Five Elements and does not have normal mana fluctuations, it will never be discovered unless the cultivation level of the two parties is too different.
But other than that, there is nothing special about the Ghost Shadow Sect, and there have been no geniuses since the founder of the Self-created Sect, and not even one who has ascended has developed to the present level, and even the cultivation in the declining sect has declined. The highest level is also in the middle stage of becoming a god. Naturally, small evil sects like this cannot settle in the central and southern tribes of China, which are dominated by famous and decent sects. After all, one of the main activities of those famous and decent sects is to "eliminate demons and defend the Tao", such as the Five Directions Demon Sect, the Four Ghost Sects and other sects. Naturally, war cannot be started easily, but it is still very easy to eliminate some small sects.
In the southwest, south and north of China, where the evil forces are rampant, the reality of the law of the jungle is even more vivid. The big fish eats the small fish, and the small fish eats the shrimp. Those small sects have to rely on the big sects to survive, similar to the Ghost Shadow Sect. Small sects have to be on tenterhooks every day for fear that one day they will be swallowed up by other big names and wiped out.
Therefore, the western region, which is a "cultivation desert" in the world of cultivation and is relatively barren in spiritual energy and has a sparse population and various ethnic groups mixed together, is more suitable for the development of the Ghost Shadow Sect. In fact, small evil sects like the Ghost Shadow Sect usually don't do any serious evil deeds. At most, they just dig graves and bully men and women. Those sects also turn a blind eye. After all, they are the most numerous in the world of cultivation. It's this kind of small sect that can't kill anyone; if the summary is not overly detailed and they don't confront each other, it's basically like they didn't see it.
Moreover, due to the existence of two powerful sects, Yuping Sect and Shenghuo Sect, the western region has maintained a relatively stable situation. There are few disputes between each sect and the relationship between each other is not bad. Because the Ghost Shadow Sect has a unique shadow escape technique, he was recommended to Zhao Kuangyin by Taiyan people. Zhao Kuangyin appointed several disciples of the Ghost Shadow Sect for a period of time and found that the efficiency of gathering and transmitting intelligence had increased significantly. He was overjoyed and designated the Ghost Shadow Sect as the designated royal sect. He ordered him to send out elite disciples and disciples from several other sects to form the "Qianlong Shadow Guard", which was directly responsible to the emperor. Some confidential instructions and information were sent by the "Qianlong Shadow Guard".
Two hours later, the cultivators, hosts, practitioners and other cultivators from various sects in Kaifeng City, as well as the old prime minister Liu He, gathered in the Zichen Hall. Emperor Zhao Kuangyin of the Song Dynasty presided over a secret meeting that lasted three days and three nights.
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The damage caused by Yunlong in the "Heaven-Breaking Demonic Array" under the "Heaven-Human Barrier" of the Nine Heavens Tribulation Layer has long since been repaired. The scale of the entire demonic array has expanded tenfold. The "Destruction Demonic Light" ejected has also become ten times thicker. A large gap was torn open in the "barrier between heaven and man". Looking from the gap, you can see the stars in the sky that are ten times bigger and brighter than on the ground; you can also feel countless vague and ever-changing strange auras.
In the central space of the "Heaven-Breaking Demonic Array", there is a seemingly real and illusory platform filled with misty atmosphere. There are nine seats exuding different atmospheres, respectively, sitting on which are the seven demons, ghosts, demons, ghosts, and demons that Ci Yunlong encountered when he came. The demon master and the master of the Zhongyāng Demon Sect, Feng Shidao, a real immortal master; the seat filled with resentment that was originally occupied by Xie Yuanzi is now occupied by a thin woman with a pale face, as if she is seriously ill and can be blown away by a gust of wind. . Her face was bloodless, her eyes were tightly closed, and she was not breathing. Together with her white gauze, her whole body was like a ghost, exuding an aura of resentment and hatred that fit perfectly with the throne of resentment she was sitting on. Obviously this strange woman is the master of the Central Demonic Sect's Void Return Stage who was selected by Feng Shidao to guard the "Grudge Formation Eye".
The seats are either high or low, obviously based on their strength. The eight masters of demons, ghosts, and monsters in the stage of returning to the void are almost half a foot taller than Feng Shidao's seat, and it is much more gorgeous. They were sitting together as if discussing something.
"Everyone, the situation in the world has changed drastically. The rise of the Song Dynasty has annexed all the surrounding countries. It has the potential to dominate the world. This has a great impact on our "big plan". We can no longer allow it to develop." Jingmo. After a while, Master Heisha finally couldn't bear it and said. His clone was dispersed by Yunlong's "Exorcism Talisman". Fortunately, the soul and the spiritual treasure entrusting the soul were not damaged, so it took nine years to recover under the nourishment of the "Evil Formation Eye" Doppelgänger. But his hatred for Yunlong has not diminished at all and has become deeper and deeper as time goes by.
It's just that I rarely appear in front of others, so he never knows who to take revenge on.
(The big scene has begun.)
