Chapter 125, Lingguang Palace Appears
Chapter 125, Lingguang Palace Appears
The River Styx was ignited, and six great demons attacked at the same time, causing the entire Genmen Pass to shake.
The nine major checkpoints of Jiuyou are connected to each other. Once the Genmen Checkpoint moves, the other eight checkpoints will move as well.
As the nine major checkpoints shook, the Medical Department in the northeast of the capital, the Blacksmith Shop in the southeast, the thousand-year-old Dixiu Temple in the southwest, the Nine Bends and Eighteen Turns Stone Forest in the northwest, and the Heavenly Department in the center, all shook at the same time.
In the Medical Department, Gu Xing, who had been sitting on a recliner with his eyes closed practicing, suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the shaking ground, and walked out of the yard quickly with a serious expression. He walked to the stone tripod in the square, used all his strength to lift the stone tripod up, and then put it down heavily.
"Bang!"
As soon as the stone tripod fell, a green halo spread out rapidly. As the green halo radiated, the vibrating ground immediately stabilized.
Blacksmith shop.
The moment the ground was felt shaking, the sound of hammering iron with uniform rhythm and frequency could be heard simultaneously throughout the market town.
With each blow of the hammer, the vibration of the ground disappeared.
The nine bends and eighteen turns of the stone forest.
At the moment the ground shook, the Bagua stone platform in the center of the stone forest, which was so dilapidated that no marks could be seen, suddenly began to rotate. The stone platform rotated faster and faster, and light began to flash. When the stone platform stopped rotating, the ground stopped shaking.
Heaven Department.
Wei Zhenjie, the Minister of Heaven, had originally planned to personally lead a team of demon-suppressing soldiers to Nanxiang County. The magistrate of Nanxiang County submitted a memorial saying that a palace had suddenly appeared there. He guessed that it might be a relic, and just as he was about to go there in person, he felt the Heaven Department shaking.
"Not good, Jiuyou is making unusual movements!"
Wei Zhenjie's expression changed, and he flew up and hovered above the sky with a "whoosh". Then, a wooden staff engraved with the four spirits of Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise appeared in his hand.
"boom!"
Wei Zhenjie held the wooden staff in his hand and struck the ground fiercely. Circles of spiritual light emerged, and the celestial body, which was still shaking, immediately regained stability.
Wei Zhenjie just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the ground stopped shaking, and then he saw a flash of light passing in the southwest direction.
Emperor Xiu Temple.
A young monk in his twenties fell from the sky in a panic and landed in the temple. He didn't care about the pain on his body, and quickly took out a black and white "brush" with only a pen holder but no bristles, and began to draw talismans in the air.
Soon, five-colored spiritual light gathered under the black and white pen, and the word "Ding" emerged.
The young monk waved his brush and the word "Ding" sank into the ground. Then, the shaking ground stabilized.
Seeing that the ground stopped shaking, the young monk's expression relaxed. Then, he closed his eyes and fainted.
At the same time, spiritual lights flew out from more than ten alleys in the capital and spread in all directions.
"Bang~"
In an alley next to the land temple near the west gate of the outer city of the capital, Hua Changxi, wearing a black robe, fell to the ground with a red cassock underneath him.
After flying over the River Styx, Hua Changxi controlled the cassock to sink into the dark and eerie long corridor. Then the other people on the cassock disappeared one after another. Hua Changxi guessed that they must have been pulled out by the Ghost Market Token.
Hua Changxi lay on the ground motionless. After several minutes, she finally stood up with difficulty, holding on to the wall.
At this moment, her face was as pale as paper and her body was stiff.
The big monsters that appeared behind attacked at the same time. Although most of the attacks were blocked by the Long-browed Arhat, she still suffered some serious injuries.
Hua Changxi could feel that her soul was extremely weak and on the verge of leaving her body at any time. She had to quickly find a place to replenish her soul power and repair her soul.
Fighting the green dragon, she had almost exhausted all her spiritual power. Now, she didn't even have the strength to go to the Five Finger Mountain. She looked around and saw the city gate. She didn't care about anything else and flew out on the cloud, heading straight for the Lingguang Palace.
Lingguang Palace is the only place she can think of to heal her wounds.
On this day, people in the capital saw dozens of light shadows passing through the sky.
The people in the capital city were better informed and they knew that those lights and shadows were all monks.
When the people saw the monks who could fly and hide in the ground for the first time, they were shocked and excited, envious and yearning.
Of course, not only the common people were alarmed, but also the royal family and dignitaries were alarmed.
Although the recovery of spiritual energy was almost exposed after the earth-shaking battle at Wuzhi Mountain, in order to grab more cultivation resources, those who had already embarked on the path of cultivation all chose not to expose it in front of others.
"Notify the Ministry of Heaven and have them investigate immediately to see what happened?"
In the Taiji Palace behind the imperial palace, the retired emperor looked extremely unhappy.
In the capital, even the royal family had to refrain from using spiritual power. Now someone had broken this rule, which made the retired emperor very dissatisfied.
The powerful and wealthy families have many channels of information, and the revival of spiritual energy cannot be hidden from them. This has already caused the royal family to allocate a lot of resources. If even the people of Dajin are to get involved, the cultivation resources that the royal family can collect will become less and less.
Heaven Department.
"Master, what happened?"
Everyone in the Tianbu Department was shocked by the shock just now and ran out one after another. The person leading them was Wei Zhenjie's most proud disciple Chu Junyi.
Wei Zhenjie flew down from the sky, his face solemn: "There is something wrong with Jiuyou, I have to go down to take a look. Jun Yi, you will lead a team of demon-suppressing soldiers to investigate Nanxiang County."
"Remember, if what the county magistrate said is true, that palace is a relic. But no matter if someone from the royal family or other dignitaries wants to grab it, you must not give it up."
Chu Junyi nodded: "Disciple understands."
Afterwards, the master and his disciple, one led people down to Jiuyou, and the other led people to Nanxiang County.
Pharmaceutical Department.
Gu Jinfan, who was refining medicine in the room, also noticed the tremor in the Medical Bureau at the first time. She was the first person to rush to the old courtyard in the square, even faster than the director.
Both of them saw Gu Xing lift up the stone tripod and then throw it to the ground.
"Senior Gu, you."
Gu Qiming looked at Gu Xing in stupefaction. The stone tripod standing in the square was somewhat out of place. He and many other people had thought of moving the stone tripod away. Unfortunately, no one had ever moved it.
But at this moment, the stone tripod was actually lifted up by a dying old man.
Gu Jinfan was also looking at Gu Xing: "Senior, is there any change in the Nine Nether Demon Prison?"
Gu Xing glanced at the two of them, said nothing, and returned to the old courtyard with a bent back and trembling.
Seeing that he didn't reveal anything, Gu Qiming and Gu Jinfan were very helpless. Gu Qiming looked at Gu Jinfan: "How do you know about Jiuyou?"
Gu Jinfan looked at him and said, "Director, as more and more relics appear in various places, many things are no longer secrets." After saying that, he bowed, turned around and left.
The Dan Sheng Temple is the core of the formation that suppresses the Demon Prison. There was a vibration. Something must have happened to Jiuyou. She had to go down and take a look.
At this moment, the people who came to the square included not only the director and Gu Jinfan, but also many other people. They all came because of the shock just now.
"What happened just now?"
"There must have been an earthquake."
In the southern suburbs of the capital, Nanxiang County, Lingguang Palace.
After the magistrate of Nanxiang County reported the incident in Lingguang Palace yesterday, many people in the court received the news. When Hua Changxi came over, he saw several groups of people gathered here.
The most important thing is that she saw her father Hua Minghe outside the hall.
There were countless soldiers guarding outside the hall, and seven or eight people gathered inside the hall. Those people wanted to take over Lingguang Hall and were arguing inside.
Hua Changxi could no longer hold on. Seeing that the Suzaku jade pendant floating in the hall had not been taken away by anyone, he was sure that the people inside did not have strong spiritual power. He tightened his black robe and flew directly into the hall on a cloud.
"Bang~"
Hua Changxi directly used his spiritual power to knock down the people in the hall, and then snatched the Suzaku jade pendant.
"Boom~"
The moment the Vermillion Bird Jade Pendant was taken away, the Lingguang Hall was filled with red light. Except for the cultivator with fire spirit root, everyone inside or outside the hall was flung away.
Hua Changxi didn't care about the strangeness in Lingguang Hall. He directly waved away the cultivators in the hall. Then he sent another stream of spiritual power to close the door of the hall and quickly went underground.
When they arrived at the Suzaku Monument Square, Hua Changxi could no longer hold on and fell directly to the ground. She took out the Soul-Eating Tree branch from the Shennong Ding, lay on the branch, and fell into a coma.
At the same time, outside Lingguang Palace.
When Chu Junyi arrived with the Demon-Suppressing Army, they just happened to see a man in black rushing into the hall. Before they arrived, everyone in the hall was beaten out.
When he rushed in with the Demon-Suppressing Army, the palace door was closed. He wanted to force his way in, but was blown away by the red light that appeared on the palace door.
Not only that, outside the Lingguang Palace, the ground was shaking violently, accompanied by a large amount of red light emerging.
The red light was too bright and no one could look directly at it.
When the ground stopped shaking and the red light faded away, everyone present was stunned by what they saw.
The Lingguang Hall, which originally had only one hall, has become a majestic and magnificent palace complex. The palace complex is in the shape of a pyramid, with the main hall located at the highest point and the other halls located below. The palace at the bottom is dozens of meters from the ground and looks like a mountain from a distance.
Before, everyone was standing outside the palace gate. At this moment, they were standing under a memorial archway that was dozens of meters high. On the plaque of the gate was written three large characters "Lingguang Palace".
The gate tower was at least several hundred meters away from the palace complex. Looking at the mountain-like palace complex, these nobles who were used to being high and mighty in their daily lives felt for the first time how small and insignificant they were like ants.
After a long period of shock, the current emperor's younger brother, Prince Fu, was the first to come to his senses. After coming to his senses, he was furious: "Who was that black-robed man just now? How dare he rob the royal palace!"
The black-robed man appeared so suddenly that no one was prepared for it, especially those present, who were either officials from the six ministries or princes and dukes. They really didn't expect that someone would come out and snatch their things.
The most important thing is that this is the southern suburbs of the capital, the territory of the capital, and the royal family has absolute control over it. Even the most ambitious dignitaries will not compete with the royal family for these areas.
Haven't you seen that whether it's the aristocratic families or the Taoist sects, they all only go to places outside Zhongzhou to seize territory? Even in the areas of Zhongzhou close to the capital, everyone tacitly agrees not to get involved.
Seizing the capital's territory is a clear sign of rebellion against the royal family!
This time, when suspected ruins appeared in Nanxiang County, the dignitaries who received the news did not show up, and officials from six ministries came to scramble for them.
why?
Isn't it just difficult to compete with the royal family?
Although they were not private property after being taken over by the imperial court, people from powerful and noble families served in the six ministries. The bulk of the benefits went to the royal family, so they could still get some benefits.
I didn't expect that someone who doesn't follow the rules would appear.
"Who is that black-robed man? How dare he snatch the opportunity from the imperial court!"
Hua Minghe came here with people from the Six Gates. The Ministry of Justice not only brought people from the Six Gates, but also brought officers and soldiers from the Heavenly Prison. The purpose was to build up their momentum and compete with other government offices for the ruins here.
Unfortunately, things have now completely gone beyond everyone's expectations, and everyone can only gather together and discuss in a low voice.
"Sir Shangshu and his men clearly entered the palace first, so why was their opportunity taken away by the black-robed man who came later?"
After hearing Hua Minghe's question, the chief constable of the Six Gates explained in a low voice: "Opportunities are very strange things. They are not based on first come first served."
"The Suzaku jade pendant in the hall should be the token of control over Lingguang Hall, but after the Shangshu and his men entered, no one was able to take off the jade pendant."
After hearing this, Hua Minghe had a new doubt: "The man in black robe rushed directly into the hall. How could he be sure that he could take off the jade pendant? Did he come here beforehand?"
The chief constable immediately signaled Hua Minghe to stop talking, but he didn't know that his words had already been heard by many people.
Someone even told this directly to Prince Fu.
After hearing this, Prince Fu started to speculate on the conspiracy theory and snorted coldly, "After the magistrate of Nanxiang County reported this relic, the six ministries and the cabinet knew about it. I don't care who sent people here to check it out in advance. As long as this relic is returned to the royal family, I promise to plead with the emperor and forgive the past."
"If anyone insists on eating alone, don't blame me for being cruel when the court finds out."
Seeing that everyone was silent, Prince Fu's face darkened again. He walked towards Chu Junyi and asked in a somewhat reproachful manner, "Where is Minister Wei? Why didn't he come?"
Chu Junyi said calmly, "Something happened to Jiuyou, Master went down to investigate."
After hearing this, Prince Fu frowned and asked, "When did this happen?"
Chu Junyi: "Just before we got here."
At this time, Chu Junyi's storage ring vibrated. Chu Junyi moved away from the crowd, took out the communication stone, and soon heard Wei Zhenjie's anxious voice.
"Jun Yi, don't worry about Nanxiang County. Hurry up and bring the Demon Suppression Army to the Gen Gate of Jiuyou. Minglong, Huang Mang of Niutou Mountain, and Madam Baigu of Baigu Mountain have all been seriously injured. Hurry up and bring people down to capture their territory."
After hearing this, Chu Junyi was shocked. Something really happened to Jiuyou. Even the Nether Dragon was seriously injured!
Thinking of the dozen or so spiritual lights flying in all directions that he had seen before, Chu Junyi's eyes flashed. Could it be that they were the ones who caused the huge changes in Genmen?
"Your Majesty, something has happened in Jiuyou. We have to go support Master. I'll take my leave now."
Chu Junyi said something to Prince Fu, then left quickly with the Demon-Suppressing Army without hesitation.
This Lingguang Palace is indeed a rare relic, but compared with Jiuyou, it is not as urgent.
Looking at the Demon-Suppressing Army who hurriedly left, everyone present had different expressions. They didn't even care about such a large relic. What big thing had happened?
There are some changes in the previous chapter.