God Ancient Star, Dafu Dynasty, Changcheng.
This is the northeastern part of Dafu, nearly a thousand miles away from Hanyue City. It takes a day and a night to reach it by riding a fast horse and driving day and night.
Changcheng is a dangerous place. It is covered by wind and snow all year round, and it snows more than half of the time throughout the year.
Some people think that the reason for this situation is that there is a snow god living near Changcheng, in the Baiya Mountain closest to Changcheng.
Snow falls all year round on Baiya Mountain. The temperature inside the mountain is extremely low, and few creatures can enter it. It is a truly deserted place.
However, no one has mentioned this statement since Emperor Xingxuan ascended the throne in the 14th year.
Everyone in the world knows that Emperor Jingxuan hates Taoists very much. Later, there was news about the abolition of Taoism. No one in the world dared to be born as a Taoist.
Even the rumors about many demons and ghosts disappeared. After all, these demons and ghosts are naturally linked to monasticism. If the government knows about this matter, they will definitely end up in jail.
However, this situation changed when Xuanyang was ten years old.
News came from Hanyue City that the people there encountered a bloody demon massacre. Powerful demonic energy spread throughout the city, and countless demons started to cause chaos. The people suffered heavy casualties and were panic-stricken.
At this critical moment, fortunately, a monk took action, using the power of thunder to summon boundless sky fire, suppressing the blood demon, and killing countless demons with a flying sword. Only then did the city of Hanyue be freed from water and fire, and the people in the city were saved. Everyone celebrated.
There is no airtight wall under the sky. This news quickly spread to the outside world at an incredible speed. Changcheng was not too far from Hanyue City, and they quickly learned everything that happened there.
At first, people were in disbelief after hearing the news, thinking that it was just a foolish talk made by drunken people passing by a business trip. Many people who brought the news regretted it afterwards, saying that what they said was actually true. It's all a joke.
However, I don't know how long it took, and the news suddenly spread in the city with an unstoppable force. This time, the story of what happened was more detailed, and even the people in the Prince's Palace recognized its authenticity.
Prince's Mansion, that is the uncle of His Majesty the current Emperor. Since the Prince has said this, it must not be false.
At this point, many people in Changcheng began to discuss things about the blood monsters and practitioners in Hanyue City.
Everyone has a gossip mentality. How can people who have nothing to do after dinner and tea be indifferent when encountering such strange things? The incident in Hanyue City began to spread in various circles.
At the beginning, everyone was afraid of the imperial ban and did not dare to be too presumptuous.
During the discussion, they were all familiar and trustworthy people. They found a small room with no other people, put out a few glasses of wine and a few plates of side dishes, and gathered together to exchange what they had learned.
That cautious look was very much like an underground spy meeting in secret, which was quite interesting.
Later, after everyone discussed for a while, they found that the court seemed to have no intention of taking care of them. Even if some people were accidentally overheard by the officials, the latter ignored them and looked like they turned a blind eye.
This situation and scene immediately made the discussion louder and louder, and finally it aroused heated discussion in the whole city. The whole Changcheng was in an uproar for a while, and the ban on practitioners issued by the court seemed to be a piece of paper, like a joke.
The reason why the people in these cities are so confident is that, apart from the lack of attention from the government, their greatest source of confidence lies in the ruler of this city, the uncle of the current emperor, Jing Heng.
According to the information revealed by the servants of the palace, Prince Jing Heng was actually a practitioner. Someone had personally seen him exhaling spiritual energy and flying in the sky.
It is said that during a hunting, he was able to kill a herd of deer in the distance with just a wave of his hand. A guard came forward to check the corpses and found that the deer had been drained of their essence at some point and were already cold. one slice.
The rumors became more and more intense, and some people who were unwilling to believe it at the beginning soon gradually changed their views amidst the discussions of others, from disbelief to doubt, to half-belief, and finally to complete belief.
When the time came in the thirteenth year of Xuanyang, a shocking news came, which made the people of Changcheng excited. That is, Prince Jing Heng rebelled against him!
The prince rebelled and the whole city suffered.
Countless people cursed, shouted, and loudly complained about Jing Heng's unfaithful behavior.
Because once the prince rebels, the ordinary people in the city will inevitably suffer in the end.
No matter whether King Jing Heng's rebellion succeeds or fails, there will be no end for them.
After all, there is no benefit to them. The money and food they have saved through hard work will eventually fall into the hands of the rebels. Their wives, children, and children will be affected by the war, and their lives will be turbulent and unsustainable.
If they fail, their ending will be even more miserable.
When the imperial army comes to conquer, in order to serve as a warning, it is very likely that the entire city of Chang will be slaughtered, and the people in the city will be bleeding like rivers.
Even if the imperial court did not anger them, their life would not be easy. The taxes in the city would increase significantly in a few years. For ordinary people, this would not be much different from killing them.
In view of this, many warm-hearted knights began to organize and conspire. They must assassinate the rebel Jing Heng before he becomes powerful, so as to relieve the danger of Changcheng.
It is said that this matter caused quite a stir at the time, and many masters in the arena came forward, including many masters on the Earth Ranking and a master on the Heavenly Ranking.
After all, this is a world with martial arts, and people are naturally accustomed to this way of survival. Many people place their hopes on these martial arts people.
Some martial arts figures relied on their own influence and strength to speak out and advise King Jing Heng from the brink.
Some martial arts people sneaked into the palace at night, intending to shoot men first and horses first, and capture the thieves first. If they could kill the mastermind of the rebel thieves, then the rest of the rebel army would definitely do the same. Followed by collapse.
However, whether they were celebrities who entered head-on or martial arts knights who sneaked in at night, they never responded after entering the deep Prince Jingheng's palace.
These people seemed to have disappeared from the world, no one was seen alive, and no corpses were seen after death.
Over and over again, even the passionate Jianghu people gradually regained their consciousness, as if their heads were poured with cold water and their bodies became cold.
It turns out that there are experts in the palace.
Everyone said that they had underestimated the prince. If he could commit treason, he must have been fully prepared, and the government must have hidden the masters of martial arts in advance, so that these people would never come back.
When things have reached this point, few people in the world have taken action anymore.
Everyone is a gangster, and if they are filled with righteous indignation about the court affairs, they just help out. If they really risk their own lives for this, it is not worth it.
After all, for the vast majority of people in the world, it doesn't actually make much difference to them who becomes the emperor. Anyway, their happy lives are still the same, and there will basically be no impact on the relationship between the two parties.
However, things took a huge turn after an assassinated martial artist finally escaped from the palace.
The only martial arts figure who was able to escape from the palace was none other than Duan Ping'an, a master at the bottom of today's rankings who was known as the "One-Armed Stone Crusher".
This man is a tall and thick man. Although he was born with a deformity and only had one arm, it is said that this man's one arm is extremely powerful and can break rocks with his bare hands. The power of a single palm is something that few people in the world can resist.
Then, even such a ruthless man was already in a dying state when he escaped from the palace.
I heard that when he was discovered, he couldn't even speak clearly.
Everyone saw that he was bleeding from all his orifices, his lips were pale, and his eyes were lifeless. He kept muttering words like "monsters and monsters" in his mouth, and he soon lost his breath.
Seeing this scene, everyone immediately thought of the incident that had been rumored for two years and had happened in Hanyue City.
Is it possible that there is really a demon at work?
King Jingheng has actually been killed by a demon. The person sitting in the palace now is a man-eating demon! ?
Everyone looked shocked, but otherwise, it would be difficult to explain.
The masters on the Heavenly Ranking had never taken down the prince, and even after he came back, he still looked like he was greatly frightened. How could this scene not make people suspicious.
"How about we go find the immortal master in Hanyue City?"
Someone made an opinion.
As we all know, there are immortal masters in Hanyue City. In the past two years, the Immortal Fate Conference has been held to attract people with cultivation qualifications from all over the world.
In this era of closed news, although the Immortal Fate Conference has not spread all over the world, Changcheng is not too far away. From the mouths of traveling merchants, many people also know some things about it.
However, some people also raised questions at the same time. It is said that the immortal masters in Hanyue City never care about worldly affairs. It seems that they have no need to pay attention to King Jingheng's rebellion.
"That's not necessarily true. The current situation is no longer as simple as the prince's rebellion. Didn't Brother Duan just say that there are monsters in the palace? If you look at Brother Duan's appearance, even those demons in the world can't do it. With such behavior, I guess there must be something strange hidden in the palace. For this reason, we ask the Immortal Master to take action, and I believe the Immortal Master will not refuse us."
Someone immediately thought of rhetoric.
After everyone put it all together, they felt that this was indeed the case. Even if they planned to leave this place, they would go to Hanyue City to ask the Tianyuan Sect's immortal master to take action.
However, the plan could not keep up with the changes. At this moment, Changcheng was suddenly sealed off. All people were only allowed in and out. People were asked to stay in their houses. If they wanted to go out, they had to report to the patrol in advance. If they were on the streets, Anyone found walking around without permission will be shot on the spot.
As soon as this ban was issued, all the people complained endlessly, but their necks were not as strong as swords. After several hard-headed people died, no one dared to go out at will.
Some people in the martial arts world relied on their own lightness skills and planned to climb over the city wall several feet high and leave in style.
Although he was no match for the monsters in the palace, it shouldn't be a problem if he wanted to escape from these ordinary defenders.
It is a pity that these people overestimated their own strength. The defenders guarded every inch of the city wall. Under the strong bows and crossbows, it was difficult for even these Jianghu people to escape.
Even if someone successfully breaks away from the defense, the woods outside the city wall have long been cut down, and the ground is covered with snow. People running among them are extremely conspicuous, and they will be shot and killed in a short time.
However, there are also real masters among the people in the world. After all the hard work, they escaped from the death zone outside the city. Just when they were about to rush to Hanyue City, they were attacked and killed by a strange demon.
Those powerful martial arts figures had almost no resistance under Yaoying's attack, and were quickly slaughtered.
In the thirteenth year of Xuanyang, the entire city of Changcheng was sealed off, and people were in a state of panic all day long.
The time has come for the fourteenth year of the Propaganda, that is, this year, King Jing Heng led the army southward, attacking the city and the stronghold all the way, and the momentum was overwhelming.
Emperor Jingxuan sent out elite troops to fight against his uncle in Yangping County, east of the Li River.
In this battle, the imperial city sent millions of troops, but King Jing Heng's rebel army had less than 100,000 people, so there was no chance of winning.
But the strange thing is that the battle only lasted for one day. News of the defeat of the rebels came one after another on the frontline battlefield, which dealt a heavy blow to His Majesty the Emperor on the throne.
At this point, the situation of the entire war began to change. For various reasons, the city lords of some nearby cities actually gave up resistance and opened the city gates to welcome the rebels into the city.
The defeat of Pingyang County greatly weakened the vitality of the imperial court. Millions of troops were killed in one day. This was indeed extremely strange, and few people were willing to believe it.
But no matter how much people didn't believe it, the facts were before their eyes, which led to a series of rumors among the people that Emperor Jing Xuan was unorthodox and that Prince Jing Heng seemed to be the destined man.
Of course, such rumors must have been deliberately spread by the rebels, and really smart people would hardly believe them.
However, when the war has reached this level, what does it matter whether you believe it or not? If necessary, even if Jing Heng is said to be a god descending to earth, they will turn a blind eye.
The time is now, about a month has passed since the battle of Pingyang County.
In the river valley of Pingyang County, corpses were everywhere. Not a single living creature could be seen within a hundred miles, and even birds were unwilling to pass through this area.
In a month, even after experiencing several winds and rains, the bloody smell that remained on this land could not be washed away.
