Volume 398 Sunset
In the eyes of the stargazers of the Qin Heavenly Prison of the Kingdoms, the trajectory of the stars in the sky is the future direction of the countries.
In the existence of the Tianxia Dynasty for nearly 3,000 years, the nine stars of the Heavenly Disk were scattered in the airspace of the dynasties, and these stars constituted the awakening and death of the kings, and also symbolized the fate and future of the Tianxia Dynasty.
It is said that when every king dies, a red meteor will pass across the sky, glowing with a red and visible glow.
Stargazers of all countries hope to use this fallen star to judge the distribution of the stars in the sky, and speculate on what changes will occur in the world in the future.
But in the past two years, they have observed more red meteors than in the past fifty years combined, which is due to the iron cavalry of the Yin country, they once saw that the star representing the war loomed in the airspace of the Yin country, and the stars occupied the north and faced south, like the grass snake gray line veins for thousands of miles, and eventually all the stars in the northern region and the southern continent would be hedged by touch.
Now the location opposite this star is Sunset City.
Sunset City is the capital of the Southern Continent Kingdoms, located in the middle of the Central Plains of the world, leading to the south and north, Sunset City is very densely populated, but it is more orderly than the capitals of other dynasties, even though the city has suffered several wars in history that have almost been reduced to ruins.
During the Battle of the Fall of the Dragons, the civil war launched by Long Xuance almost destroyed the city, and during the entire civil war, more than one-fifth of the people in the city were killed by Dragon Flame, and the entire sky was dyed red like blood.
In the end, after this civil war was won by Zhao Yao, Zhao Yao moved all the dragons in Falling Sun City to a desert island called Long Yuan, where he established the root base of the Dragon King's Nine Generals, except for the members of the royal family, without special circumstances, the dragon emperor was not allowed to fly the flying dragon to the sky above Falling Sun City.
The city has a population of nearly 1.3 million, divided into the inner city and the outer city, with perfect planning and perfect urban structure, superior geographical environment and abundant products, merchants and pawns, and many warriors in the rivers and lakes, where you can find rare things from the entire world dynasty.
Since it is the imperial capital of Daqing, the people living in the inner city are naturally princes and nobles, you never know that the bald old man who squatted on the side of the road and basked in the sun has ever entered the imperial court in this city to talk to the king, and the people in the city have a sense of arrogance born in the sunset, and the intertwined interpersonal relationships inside and outside the city make this royal city a huge consumer capital.
The Jin Wuwei in the city is the main military force of Luoyang City, numbering about 8,000 people, most of whom are children of the family responsible for maintaining the city and patrolling the surrounding areas. The city is closer to a square than the circle of the city of Dayin Lin'an, with high walls standing every few miles inside, dotted with houses and houses, and wide streets with trees on both sides, and the whole city is twenty miles long from east to west and twenty-five miles from north to south.
The dragon's lair, once used by the Zhao royal family to raise dragons, is now in ruins, the alleys inside are like a labyrinth, filled with murderers and rapists, and the view from the sky is as delicate as gazing at a delicate jade held in the palm of your hand.
Compared with Daqing Luoyang City and Lin'an City, Lin'an City is stingy more than one and a half minutes, those who are not sharp enough to walk in this city for a day and do not walk in front of the palace gate, but the area of Daqing Palace has accounted for one-third of Luoyang City.
Today, the eunuch Sun Yaoke, who secretly took a man with a burden and a young man with a sword on his back, walked out of breath, but he didn't dare to complain, just silently took the two of them to continue walking in the palace, but the man with a broken palm looked at the gorgeous scenery in the palace and took the initiative to speak: "This Sunset City is the largest and most magnificent city I have ever seen, and I feel that I can put Yan Mang's Rest City and Shuyue's Li Jingcheng City together in this!"
These words made the old eunuch nod slightly, he didn't know these two people, it was only because they had Her Royal Highness the princess on their hands that he let him go out of the city to meet the two.
Although he himself is not a very human right in the palace, he is also an important figure among the eunuchs, serving by the emperor's side many times when the emperor was alive, and kneeling on the ground in the deep winter when the emperor reviewed the folds, he knelt on the ground and personally put the emperor's feet in the palm of his hand to warm him, which can be regarded as loyal to the Zhao royal family.
Now that he received an order from Empress Zhao to pick up the two of them and go to the palace, he was even more careful to serve these two people who made Her Royal Highness the princess so attentive, and replied to them in the eunuch's unique duck voice: "This is our honor, the sunset is the hard work of countless people in our Qingguo, if Her Royal Highness the princess knows your mood at this time, she will be very pleased." β
The man laughed and said, "Master Xie is accompanying you all the way, and I will definitely say a few kind words for you in front of the princess." β
The old eunuch nodded and said, "Thank you, thank you, go left here, and you will soon reach the palace." β
The three of them quickened their pace slightly, and in the old eunuch's opinion, it was now more important to take them to the palace than anything else.
The man no longer greets the old eunuch, but squints
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Looking at this extremely strange city, thinking of the time when the city of rest fell into flames, I wonder if the way this city burns will be much more beautiful than the city of rest.
The three of them came to the gate of the palace and climbed the stairs, walked through one after another Zhu Gate, and stepped on the white jade bricks under their feet.
The man turned his head to look at the taciturn young man with the sword on his back and asked, "We have come a long way, do we miss your hometown in the West?"
"I don't want to, because it's already the land of Yinguo, not the west in my memory. β
"We have suffered a lot along the way, do you regret following the teacher? β
The young man said in a loud voice: "Of course I don't regret it, if it weren't for the teacher, I would be dead now, even if I am asked to die for the teacher now, I don't care, my life is in the hands of the teacher." β
"The teacher told you a lot about the past, but did he tell you about the origin of the flying dragon?"
"As I said, legend has it that the Wyvern came from the far south of the world, where there was an endless ocean, and no ship could reach that ocean, and it was from that ocean that the Wyvern flew out to the land of the Heavenly Dynasty. β
The man said in a calm tone: " Yes, there is indeed such an ocean in the extreme south of the world, that ocean is endless, why human ships cannot reach that ocean, because the ocean is boiling, the color of the sea is also red, the sea is always full of fog, as for the bottom of the sea is full of volcanoes, like a huge sea of fire under the seabed, when all the volcanoes erupt, the whole ocean is penetrated by the red pillar of fire, together with the stars will be shattered by the pillar of fire, the high heat set off a huge wave up to a hundred feet on the sea surface, and then is penetrated by the pillar of fire, forming a large cloud like a mushroomγ Countless strange creatures were born from the ground of the ocean, and died the next moment, only the dragon could endure such high heat, but as the temperature of the ocean became higher and higher, the dragon chose to leave this sea area and fly to the north, and came to this land to breed, and now most of their descendants have been tamed by the Zhao royal family, and there is very little chance to see wild flying dragons.
"Teacher, I have a question, we can't reach the south of the Far South, because it is a sea of fire with no end in sight, so what is the place north of the Far North?"
Having spent too much time with this teacher, Helian had gained too much terrifying and unknown knowledge in the first year, and he was no longer surprised by what the teacher said.
"The Far North is the end of the world, and like the Far South, it is a place that is inaccessible to mortals, once a battlefield, now covered in frost and snow, and all the past is buried and forgotten. β
When Ge Ping talked about these things, his tone was long and had a certain dark meaning, which made people puzzled.
But he didn't explain to Helian Yuannian why it was a battlefield, there were some things Helian Yuannian didn't ask, he didn't say, but Helian didn't need to know too much, he just needed to listen to this man's words.
As long as he is alive, he will not die in this world.
But living like this makes me feel lonely, but I feel that life is precious.
Under the leadership of the old eunuch, they finally saw the beautiful woman standing on the steps in front of the inner hall of the Daqing Palace.
Dressed in red, embroidered with a golden dragon.
In front of the most noble woman in the entire Qingguo, the three of them stood at the foot of the steps and looked up at her demeanor, no longer taking a step forward.
After the old eunuch knelt down and saluted Empress Zhao, he silently turned around and left.
But at this moment, Empress Zhao didn't take a step down, just looked at Ge Ping.
To be precise, looking at the green bamboo box behind him, it contained a divine weapon with the power of destroying the world and the earth, and the residual breath on the divine soldier made her feel scared.
Ge Ping raised his head and looked at her, the two were silent for a long time, and the plain-looking man smiled: "You are even more beautiful than what I saw in my dreams, Yan Mang has been destroyed, and I have brought what you want, now can we start talking." β
"Please come with Hongu, Mr. Geping. β
Empress Zhao didn't say hello, turned around and left, Ge Ping and Helian walked up the stairs in the first year, followed Empress Zhao to a quaint and beautiful round water pavilion, and there was water on all sides at a glance, leaving only a long passage leading to the water pavilion.
The pavilion is surrounded by delicate pink lotus flowers, and is located in the middle of the lake.
Empress Zhao lifted a plain white curtain and let them in, there was no better place to talk alone than here.
Ge Ping sat directly on the bamboo mat without restraint, and Helian was a little away from the two of them in the first year, so he stood in the aisle of the water pavilion and looked into the distance, looking at a row of white doves standing on a certain palace silently.
Zhao
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The queen sat upright in front of him, with a majesty from the royal family.
On the bamboo table in front of them was a map embroidered with brocade, small and complete, and the map encompassed the entire country of the Tianxia Dynasty in detail, including the military towns and the Dachuan Mountains in each of the states above.
There is a feeling that the dynasty of the world is in full view.
This map was embroidered by Empress Zhao herself, from the southernmost Dayue Kingdom to the northernmost Beiban Dynasty, but her ambition is not as simple as embroidering a map?
Now on this map, the terrain representing the west, the northern barbarians, Yan Mang, and Shuyue was embroidered by her with black threads.
Those were the lands that had been trampled by the Yinguo Railway, and their area was larger than their entire southern continent.
She didn't want the black line to touch the edge of Kyungkook.
Ge Ping looked at the map with great interest, and Empress Zhao smiled: "Mr. Ge Ping, obviously we are meeting for the first time, why do we feel like old friends." β
Ge Ping also smiled slightly: "Maybe because we have met, in each other's dreams, but I still remember Her Royal Highness the Princess, but Her Royal Highness the Princess forgot me." β
"Mr. Ge Ping has seen me many times in his dreams?"
"I saw Her Royal Highness the princess riding a flying dragon to rain dragon flames from the sky above the iron cavalry of the Yin Kingdom, completely destroying their army, the territory of the Daqing Dynasty spread to the end of the world, your rule is truly thousands of generations, as solid as a city wall, now it seems that Her Royal Highness the princess is the person in my dream, it is a revelation from the future. β
"Mr. Ge Ping also said this to the emperor of Yan Mang, saying that their rule will last for thousands of generations, until now the people of the Yin Kingdom have thrown all their flags under the city wall and replaced them with the white background flying eagle flag of the Yin Kingdom?"
Empress Zhao's voice raised slightly: " Now the Yin country has occupied the whole territory of Yan Mang, Shu Yue has become an ally of the Yin country, let their army gallop on the land of Shu Yue, we are not familiar with the terrain and mountains of Shu Yue, and they can be led by the Shu Yue people through the Tiannan Road, easily come to the land of the southern continent, on the contrary, our army can only cross the Sunset Strait by boat to reach the northern region, the dominance of the war has fallen into the hands of the Yin people, and now they have shocked the entire world dynasty, even the deterrence of the dragoon army against them has become weaker, how can we defeat this armyοΌβ
Ge Ping looked at her calmly and said, "Her Royal Highness thinks that Ge Ping is a liar? After deceiving the king of Yan Mang and witnessing their destruction, now he is conveying similar words to Her Royal Highness, hoping that Her Royal Highness will trust me?"
Empress Zhao smiled lightly, seduced all beings, and said: "I have never trusted anyone, Yan Mang's destruction is something you and I saw in the "Revelation", and I also saw that when you held the Eastern Emperor Bell and fought with the people of Yinguo, you and I both saw Yan Mang's destruction...... The reason why I sent troops to aid Tantai Ninghua was just that he could intercept the army of Yinguo on the side of Shuyue and not let them bring the flames of war to the land of Qingguo, but he failed, and Yan Mang was the same, I don't want to find too many people who have failed to be my allies, I hope that Mr. Ge Ping will not feel embarrassed because of the words of this palace, and I also hope that we can be honest with each other. Since I let Mr. Ge Ping come in here, I also believe that Mr. Ge Ping has brought me the strength I want. β
"It seems that Her Royal Highness the princess saw the "revelation" is a little different from mine, I saw that after I destroyed the Yinguo Iron Horse, the voices of the gods appeared in my ears, allowing me to use the power of the Eastern Emperor Bell to turn Yan Mang's resting city into a ruin, although the final result was somewhat unsatisfactory, but the resting city still became a ruin, but the people of Yinguo won the war. β
"The content of the revelation seems to be true and false, and the false is true, and I wonder what their intention is in doing so?"
Ge Ping said: "No matter what, since Her Royal Highness the Princess can see those "revelations" from the future, then we are all people who have been chosen by the gods, and Her Royal Highness the Princess is different, I am just a servant who acts on orders, and Her Royal Highness the Princess is the hero who holds the sword of the gods, since the gods have chosen Her Royal Highness, then I am also a servant of Her Royal Highness the Princess, and I will not hesitate to let Her Royal Highness the Princess drive, so I brought the Eastern Emperor Bell to Her Royal Highness the Princess." β
He pushed the bookcase in front of Empress Zhao with his only hand, and Empress Zhao did not rush to open the bookcase, but covered her mouth and said with a low smile: "Since Mr. Ge Ping can bring the Donghuang Bell to us alive under the attack of the Yinguo Iron Cavalry, then Mr. Ge Ping's strength is no different from that of a god, and choosing a god to be his ally is much more stable than choosing a blind king and a usurper." β
Empress Zhao stretched out her white and slender jade hand and slowly poured tea for Ge Ping.
Ge Ping kept looking at her and laughing, and the content of this smile could not be guessed.
After he drank the hot tea, he said softly, "I have some questions for Her Royal Highness the princess about the situation in Nanlu. β
"I know everything. β
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