Su Ming looked up at the sky, his eyes seemed to penetrate through the layers of space, and saw the thirty-sixth level of the palace above the starry sky. With his consciousness, he could not stay in the palace for long. If he hadn't ascended to the Yuan Shen I'm afraid it will still be like last time, and I can't even get in.
But I don’t know when the next time I’ll go in will be.
Thinking of these two experiences, even he did not find a way to enter. The only thing that was the same was that before entering, he had not touched the national destiny of the Great Zhou Dynasty. However, the destiny of the country has its spirit and cannot be shaken easily. Even he cannot shake it.
Therefore, he could only think about it.
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In the Yangxin Hall, Empress Dowager Chen was leaning on the phoenix couch with a lazy expression. The royal eucalyptus in front of her was filled with memorials. Cao Yuchen, the chief chamberlain, was waiting on one side.
Since Emperor Yong'an Li Waner succeeded to the throne, Cao Yuchen took the initiative to retreat to the second line and gave up his seat to Qin An, the young eunuch serving beside Emperor Yong'an.
Cao Yuchen has served Emperor Shenwu for too long and knows too many secrets of the royal family. However, he has been deeply rooted in the palace for decades and has countless disciples and grandsons. Since he is so sensible and can retreat bravely, Empress Dowager Chen has taken him as a confidant.
It is said that power can make a man rejuvenate. This sentence is also applicable to women. In the past few months, Empress Dowager Chen has replaced Li Waner in power, and she has made her final decision with a single word, which makes her look younger. A lot.
But after all, her age is here. No matter how young she looks, she will only have more gray hair on her head, not less.
"Has the French Open in Beijing been completed?" Empress Chen seemed tired for some reason and yawned. The moment she raised her palm, the red nails on her slender fingers were particularly eye-catching.
"I would like to inform you that the imperial master has rearranged all the formations in the capital. From now on, no one like me will dare to invade the capital, so I can rest easy." Cao Yuchen, who was waiting on one side, replied in a deep voice.
"Sit back and relax? Eunuch Cao, your Majesty is young now, and there are ambitious people everywhere in the world. The old ministers in the court are relying on their old age. Sometimes what I say doesn't work."
"Huh, it's too early to sit back and relax now!" Empress Dowager Chen snorted coldly, a ruthless look flashed in her slender eyes.
Cao Yuchen quickly slapped himself and knelt on the ground, "What I'm teaching you is that I made a mistake."
"Get up, what has Your Majesty been busy with recently?" She picked at her nails and asked casually.
Cao Yuchen stood up and replied, "Back to your Majesty, your Majesty has been studying behind closed doors to study government affairs recently."
"Really?" She smiled softly, with a nice curve at the corner of her mouth, "She is only so young, but she is so calm. She is worthy of being the late emperor's child."
"However, the Ai family also hopes that she will grow up quickly. The Ai family will be old in two years, and the world will be handed over to her sooner or later. We cannot let her lose all the foundation laid by the late emperor."
At this moment, a chamberlain walked in from outside the main hall and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty is coming soon."
"Step back." Queen Mother Chen did not say anything. Cao Yuchen stepped forward and waved her hand to signal him to leave. After the chamberlain left, Queen Mother Chen gently closed her eyes and said, "The Ai family is exhausted, and the rest of the memorial will be left to Your Majesty." Well, I won’t see her.”
"Yes, empress." After hearing Queen Mother Chen's instructions, Cao Yuchen nodded and asked the chamberlain guarding the door to come in and carry the royal eucalyptus here to the outer hall.
Outside the Yangxin Hall, Emperor Yong'an was slowly walking in. After being informed by the chamberlain, he entered the hall. Unexpectedly, after entering the hall, he did not see the Queen Mother. Instead, he saw the former chief steward Cao Yuchen waiting here.
"Eunuch Cao? Where is your mother? I've come to say hello." Li Waner looked a little surprised when she saw him.
"Back to Your Majesty, I am tired and taking a rest now."
"Has your mother rested? Then I'll come back in the evening to say hello to your mother." With that, she was about to leave.
At this time, Cao Yuchen took a step forward and stopped her, "Your Majesty, please be patient. Your Majesty has also given oral instructions. She is tired and needs to rest. Your Majesty will review these memorials on her behalf."
"..." Hearing this sentence, Li Waner was so shocked that she was speechless, but after thinking about it in the blink of an eye, she understood that this was a test for her.
To put it bluntly, they were afraid that she would be young and energetic, lose her composure, and secretly seize power. However, Li Waner had no intention of doing so now. Although she was the second empress of Zhou Dynasty, she still knew it very well.
With her current prestige, she is simply not enough to hold the power. None of the veterans in the court will obey her, so why should she bring trouble to herself? Therefore, she really has no intention of doing so now.
But what she didn't expect was that she didn't have this intention, but there were many tricks for women who couldn't stand up to the palace, and even those who were as close as mother and daughter still had to test them.
Originally, she wanted to turn around and leave, but she thought that it would be bad to leave like this, so she stayed again. But this time the result was beyond Queen Mother Chen's expectation, but it also surprised her.
Because, throughout the afternoon, Li Waner was reviewing the memorial in the Yangxin Hall, but the difference was that she did not use a pen. She only carefully studied the part that Empress Dowager Chen Zhu had approved. She did not even read the part that Zhu had not approved.
At night, Queen Mother Chen finally walked out of the inner hall.
The moment she saw Empress Dowager Chen, Li Waner quickly stood up and greeted her, her attitude was extremely respectful and she couldn't fault her at all.
"Your Majesty, you are interested."
Although Queen Mother Chen did not show up all afternoon, she had already known about it through Cao Yuchen's mouth before she came out, so her attitude towards Li Waner also changed accordingly.
In fact, since Li Waner came to the throne, the relationship between mother and daughter has quietly changed. It is no longer as harmonious as before. Now after this experience, Queen Mother Chen is more at ease with her and is no longer as defensive as before.
"Your Majesty, please stay for dinner tonight."
"My son, thank you, Queen Mother." Li Waner was keenly aware of the change in Queen Mother Chen's attitude and agreed smoothly.
Later, Cao Yuchen went to send someone to pass the meal, and Queen Mother Chen also came to the imperial edict and began to review the memorial. While reviewing, she guided Li Waner. At this time, she also took the opportunity to ask questions that she did not understand.
For a time, mother and daughter got along very harmoniously.
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Northwest land, deep in the grassland.
Various tents have been set up on the endless prairie. By the river, there are groups of war horses, cattle and sheep. The long river is like a jade belt winding around the grassland.
In the tall tent, the young Tuogu Khan sat on the main seat, and the tribal leaders of the major tribes in the grassland gathered again in the big tent.
Last time, they led their troops to invade the south and invaded the northwest land, but they were severely blocked by the northwest border town and had to retreat in the end. But although they didn't gain much that time, the treasures, livestock, and women they robbed made the warriors of the major tribes jealous.
On the main seat, Tuogu Khan was shirtless, revealing his well-developed muscles and chest covered with hair. His loud voice was like a bell, "Haha, what a joke. The southern court actually allowed a man of less than ten An eight-year-old girl became the emperor, which really made me laugh to death.”
"What the Great Khan said is true. The southern court is really empty of people, and they actually let a woman become the emperor. It can be seen that those people are all eggless, and they can actually allow a woman to climb on top of them!" A middle-aged man wearing a leather skirt and shorts drank a glass of milk wine in one gulp and laughed disdainfully.
"Humph, this time we must fight to the Central Plains, capture the emperor of their southerners alive, and let her sleep with the Great Khan." A thin old man's eyes flashed and he laughed endlessly.
"The Immortal God will bless us, go south and capture the little emperor alive!"
"Capture the little emperor alive!"
"Capture the little emperor alive!"
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Immediately, the sounds in the big tent became louder and louder, and gradually spread outside. The men who were resting in the tent or grazing outside were stunned for a moment, and then their faces showed fanaticism, shouting loudly, "Capture the little ones alive." emperor!"
"Rebirth of the Great Era of Fighting Waves"
The sound grew louder and louder, boiling and filling the sky.
That night, Tuogu Khan's tribe slaughtered cattle and sheep to reward warriors from various tribes. Soon, they would go south again and invade the Great Zhou Dynasty.
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In the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion, Su Ming woke up from trance. The jade slips in his hand had long been turned into powder. After re-establishing the legal network in the capital, he began to meditate on the scriptures he had obtained from the emperor's inner treasury.
After he entered the realm of Yuanshen, his cultivation slowly stagnated and no longer made rapid progress like before. Now he has entered the middle stage of the realm of Yuanshen.
Most of the Yuanshen monks will stay here for a long time when they enter the Yuanshen Realm. Su Ming can reach this point not only because he has accumulated a lot of experience in the Yuanshen Realm, but also because he and the inner demons have gone through the heavenly tribulation with other monks. It’s related to the accumulation in the world, but at this point, his accumulated foundation has been exhausted. If he wants to go further, he must understand the great path.
And the scriptures he obtained in the emperor's inner treasury are all methods that directly point to the avenue of the soul, which is of great reference significance to him. After all, the avenue leads to the same destination through different paths. By drawing parallels, there will always be gains.
Suddenly, Su Ming had a thought in his mind, his eyes shrank, and his expression was very shocked. Just now, his formless demon incarnation sent a piece of news that shocked him.
There is the real reason why the great Zhou Dynasty in the past was able to rise at the end of the world and finally swept the world and unified the nine states. Su Ming had been pursuing this matter all along, but he rummaged through the Great Zhou Library and couldn't find any clues, so he finally dropped the matter.
But during the war in southern Xinjiang, he planted a secret among the three sects. As early as after the five Yuanshen monks of the Kunlun Taoist Sect entered southern Xinjiang, this secret had been quietly buried.
Later, Xue Buhan fought against the incarnation of the inner demon, and this dark child fully blossomed. At first, he secretly sent the phaseless demon to sneak into the body of Taoist Qingxu. Four Yuan Shen monks fell, and one Yuan Shen monk was injured and lost his life. physical body.
It can be said that in the battle in southern Xinjiang, monks of the Xuan generation of the Kunlun Taoist Sect suffered heavy losses, but Taoist Qingxu, as the direct descendant of the leader, did not make much achievements in this battle, and was even hindered.
Not to mention, later he heard that Su Ming had a head-on confrontation with the leader of the Demon Sect in front of the Kunlun Mountains, and he was instantly beaten to a pulp.
The teacher died tragically, but the people who were once on par with him directly surpassed him, and he could not fall behind in a head-on confrontation with the masters of the three sects. The comparison between the two made him even more devastated. Under this situation, the Demon without Phase gradually invaded his consciousness.
As mentioned before, the formless demon has no form and form. Although it is formed later, it can seize others. Unlike the internal demon, the formless demon can essentially seize a person.
He twisted his consciousness and took away his basic qualifications, bloodline and luck. Later, in the battle of Southern Xinjiang, although Su Ming did not participate in the battle, he secretly commanded the formless demon to accelerate the erosion of Taoist Qingxu.
After experiencing those two wars, Master Xuanming seemed to be disappointed with him. He no longer valued Taoist Qingxu as much as before, and he was not ready to train him to become the next head of Kunlun Tao.
Until not long ago, when Taoist Qingxu was in retreat, he took advantage of the moment when he went crazy and took him down completely. After that, the formless demon directly took over his identity, and even his master Xuan Ming didn't notice anything strange.
However, Su Ming didn't let the phaseless demon do anything else. He just asked him to look up the classics in the Kunlun Taoist Sect and trace what happened that year.
In the memory of Taoist Qingxu, the Kunlun Taoist Sect also encountered changes decades ago and suffered heavy casualties. It was only in recent years that it recovered. Not only the Kunlun Taoist Sect, but also the Shaolin Temple and the Demon Sect also suffered heavy losses.
Regarding what happened that year, the elders in the sect were very secretive and did not dare to talk about it. Later, the phaseless demon searched for the records of that year in the library.
However, Kunlun's ancient books are vast. Even though he is the direct descendant of the sect leader, he cannot blatantly check such things, he can only look for them bit by bit.
In the end, he finally found the records from that year.
It turns out that as early as a hundred years ago, the world of immortality had predicted the current great decline of spiritual energy and the evil world of the five turbidities. At that time, the world of immortality was unprecedentedly prosperous, with many sects and soul monks not as few as now. A hundred years ago, although the Great Zhou Dynasty was weak and its territory was not large, the weather was smooth and the country was peaceful and the people were safe.
With the advent of the weakening of spiritual energy, the gods of the heaven took the lead in taking action. They gave up this world one after another. Although the impact on the heaven was less at that time, the evil world of the five turbidities had a great impact on them, because the five turbid worlds had a great impact on them. The chaotic and evil age will soon affect the world's evolution into the age of the end of the Dharma. If they do not do well, their incarnations left in this world will be completely destroyed.
Therefore, the gods in the heavens have withdrawn their projection incarnations, and at the same time packed away their tens of millions of years of accumulation in this world. As soon as the gods in the heaven moved, the gods in the underworld also started to think about it, and they also left a lot one after another.
However, not all gods are ready to leave. Facing the great decline of spiritual energy, the world of immortal cultivators was not prepared to sit still and wait for death. For this reason, they prepared a plan that lasted for more than a hundred years. The core of this plan was the Zhou Dynasty.
