Chapter 20: The Bridge Keepers

After the nine adults finished their congratulatory gifts to the high priest, the two priests who held the wine and kept the sun pulled them aside according to the eyes of the high priest, and more than a dozen people discussed for a while, and immediately decided: immediately block the section from the bluestone bridge of the Luoshen River to the priest's court, without the permission of the priest's house, no one is allowed to pass, and appoint Ji Buyun as the deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard, and take office immediately, fully responsible for this matter, under the dual command of the priest's house and the senate.

After Lord Nezhiyue announced his decision to Ji Buyun, he added with a serious expression: "If there is an trespasser, there will be no mercy." ”

Then the nine adults collectively said goodbye to the high priest, and the high priest said to them quietly: "Haotian has given the spiritual energy peak, I want to go to the peak to practice, and I will take a month off from the Senate." ”

The nine adults shouted "How dare you, how dare you", and Lord Nazhiyue said to the high priest: "Queen, Haotian has shown miracles and given the Spiritual Qi Peak again, and the divine will of Watts as the king cannot be violated, I will go back to the Senate now to discuss your accession to the throne." ”

The high priest waved his hand and said, "No, let's follow the procedure agreed upon with you before." ”

Then the high priest glanced at Ji Buyun and said, "Praetorian Guard, you take someone to block the bluestone bridge immediately, and the priest of the sun watch, you go with him." ”

Ji Buyun replied respectfully "yes", and the priest of the day guard came out.

The two of them came to the gate of the priest's courtyard, and the two hundred Praetorian Guards were all craned their necks to watch the aura peak descending from the sky. Ji Buyun ordered the leader of the Praetorian Guard squadron to lead a hundred brothers to escort the nine adults, gathered another hundred Praetorian Guards, and went straight to the bluestone bridge.

On the road, there were already many bold spectators from Haotian City to see the excitement, Ji Buyun sent fifty people to the Sun Keeper to direct the drive back to drive the spectators, and personally took the Ji brothers and the other fifty Praetorian Guards to the bluestone bridge.

I saw that on the bluestone road, there was an endless stream of spectators who came to join in the fun. Ji Buyun immediately ordered the Praetorian Guards to set up three blockade lines at the bridgehead on the side of Haotian City, and everyone was allowed to leave.

The spectators gathered at the bridge, looking at the five suspended peaks on the mountain behind the priest's courtyard from afar, and there were many discussions, two of them who usually boasted of having some face wanted to break through the Praetorian Guard blockade, the Ji brothers went up and knocked them to the ground with a punch, and the four Praetorian Guards pulled their hands and legs and threw them aside.

Ji Buyun ordered all the brothers to draw their swords at their waists, stepped forward on their horses, and said aloud to the spectators: "By the order of the five-member ruling committee, this road will be blocked immediately, and those who violate it will be killed." ”

The bright sword suddenly shocked all the spectators.

After a while, hundreds of bold spectators were driven back by the priest of the day watchman with fifty Praetorian Guards, and the spectators behind the bridge hurried up to inquire, so the articulate ones immediately described the aura peak seen from a distance vividly and vividly to the crowd.

After fifty Janissaries joined the blockade, the blockade was further expanded, and even the bluestone road was cleared.

When the nine adults came down to the bluestone bridge under the escort of another hundred Praetorian Guards, they were very satisfied with what they saw.

The super-master of Da Si Nong Nazhi is the brother-in-law of Lord Nezhiyue, who is headed by the five rulers, and the two came over together, holding Ji Buyun's hand in front of other adults, and praised him greatly.

Lord Ao Zhiwu, the commander of the standing army, interjected: "Lord Ne, there will be more and more onlookers, and the Praetorian Guard headquarters should be sent to support immediately." ”

Lord Na Zhiyue thought so, and after praising Lord Ao with the sentence "worthy of being a standing commander and insightful", he immediately arranged for someone to go to the headquarters of the Praetorian Guard to deliver the order and transfer 1,000 Praetorian Guards.

The adults left another twenty Praetorian Guards to help them maintain order, and then returned to Haotian City. Ji Buyun followed the advice of the priest of the watch, sent all twenty Praetorian Guards out to search for the spectators who had slipped through the net, and then stood with her in the shade of the bridge on this side of the priest's courtyard to avoid the scorching midday sun.

After a while, Priest Woyue came over with two small priests, who actually brought food to Ji Buyun, and only sent it to him.

The priest of the sun watchman glanced at the food box with rich contents, chuckled, and whispered to Ji Buyun: "This is a food box for adults. ”

The spectators, starving in the scorching sun, discussed the high priest's accession to the throne, a taboo that had forbidden anyone to discuss the king, but now that the creation had blossomed, this taboo had now been broken.

Those with rich imagination, referring to the model of the Central Plains Empire, began to plan the bureaucratic composition of the Highland Kingdom, and whoever served as the third prince and the prime minister of the Nine Masters almost declared themselves to be the official ministers.

From adults to colleagues of the Praetorian Guard to priests, everyone is now currying favor with Ji Buyun. This confirms in a way that the highlanders have accepted the high priest as king.

A thousand Praetorian Guards soon arrived, led by the Praetorian Guard commander Xitu Xiao, who came from the Xitu tribe that had intermarried and allied with the Buyun clan for generations, and was now vying for the position of the patriarch.

Commander Xitu and Ji Buyun are old acquaintances, the two met the commander-in-chief was very polite, he introduced Ji Buyun to the two captains and five squadron leaders who followed him After introducing Ji Buyun as the new deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard, he waved his hand and said: "Everything is up to Commander Ji, just when I don't exist." ”

Ji Buyun hurriedly spoke politely to the commander, and asked him to command in person, but the commander pulled him aside and said, "We are our own brothers, and my brother knows that no matter what you do now, the high priest and the senate will think that you are doing the right thing, and my brother will not follow him." ”

Turning his head, he saw a food box with the emblem of the priest's court on the ground, and he attached it to Ji Buyun's ear and smiled: "Brother, this treatment is really not good, even the nine adults only have envy." ”

The commander-in-chief of Xitu said that he let Ji Buyun have full command, but in fact, he was not idle for a moment, he regarded himself as Ji Buyun's deputy, commanding the Praetorian Guards to line up the cordon, set up sentry posts, assign patrols, and set up temporary military camps.

After the ten cordons, fifty double sentry posts, and twenty five-man cavalry patrols were all arranged, three temporary military camps were also set up on both sides of the bluestone bridge and in front of the priest's courtyard.

A deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard rushed to take over the shift, and the commander-in-chief of Xitu and Ji Buyun said goodbye and returned to Haotian City with a few personal guards.

The deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard, who came to hand over, couldn't help but say, and directly drove Ji Buyun to the barracks in front of the priest's courtyard, and he assumed the command responsibility of the position of the bluestone bridge.

It seems that everyone knows the purpose of the five-person ruling arrangement for Ji Buyun to command and guard, and everyone wants to be beautiful.

The barracks department set up a separate headquarters and bedroom for Ji Buyun, and even arranged two cooks to serve him. Eating the boiled meat carefully concocted by the cook, Ji Buyun couldn't cry or laugh, these two guys must have been taught by the same master as the cook in his uncle's house.

A bright moon had just hung on the treetops, Ji Meng came in to report that a priest was visiting, Ji Buyun greeted him out, and it turned out to be the priest of Woyue, she moved the lotus step lightly, came to Ji Buyun's side and whispered to him: "The high priest summons." ”

Ji Buyun and the captain on duty and the Ji brothers briefly explained two sentences, and followed the Voyue priest into the priest's courtyard in the admiring eyes of everyone. The Priest of the Fertile Moon led him all the way to the depths of the back mountain.

Under the five hanging peaks, the high priest was waiting for him in the company of the pure lake, palm wine, jade offerings, and the priest of the sun watch. Behind them, hundreds of priests, large and small, stood neatly.

Ji Buyun walked over and just wanted to say hello to the high priest, but the high priest said in a low voice: "No, it's all my own people." Then he pointed to the five hanging peaks in mid-air and said, "Are you sure to go up?"

Ji Buyun looked up, the five hanging peaks were about fifty zhang away from the highest point on the ground, he groaned slightly, and said, "Yes." ”

"Take me with you?"

Ji Buyun thought for a while and said, "It's okay." ”

The two of them came to the highest place of the terrain, their intentions moved at will, their bodies moved at will, and when Ji Buyun jumped up towards the mountain peak in the middle, he gently took the high priest, and the two flew up in the air.

Under the moonlight, a blue figure swayed up with a white figure, stretching like a swimming dragon and fluttering like a swift. All the priests exclaimed in unison.

The priest of Jinghu couldn't help but praise the three priests beside him: "Haotian Shengming, Ji Gongzi and our adults are really a fairy couple and a perfect match in the world. ”

Ji Buyun took the high priest all the way up to a height a few feet higher than the foot of the Hanging Peak, and saw the footing clearly, the aura was running all over the body, and the two of them gently landed on a piece of grass.

As soon as they landed, the two of them felt that the air here was exceptionally fresh, with a faint sweetness in the freshness, and the aura naturally poured into the sea of qi, and the aura here was much more abundant than the secret realm, and the aura peak really lived up to its name.

The high priest cheered and pulled him up and ran towards the majestic red palace.

The palace gate is lightly covered, there is a faint pearl shining between the cracks of the door, the two of them glanced at each other, stretched out their hands together, and pushed the gate open, the palace was full of pearles, and the bright light stimulated the two people who couldn't open their eyes.

After the eyes of the two of them adapted to the pearl light in the palace, Ji Buyun couldn't help but let out an "ah", and then he let out an "ah" again.

The first "ah" was because of surprise, and the second time because the high priest pinched his arm.

"Is this the same as hers?" asked the High Priestess, staring at him with sparkling eyes.

"Yes. ”

The high priest snorted and said, "Every day from now on, you must think of me first, and then you can think of her." ”

Ji Buyun was in a trance for a while, this sentence the queen once said to him, and he couldn't help asking, "Why?"

The high priest turned his head and snorted, stomped his foot slightly, and said with a red face: "Because we met first, hum, it's all your fault." ”

The jealous high priest was also so gentle, Ji Buyun pulled her over, kissed her lightly on the face, and then walked into the palace hand in hand.

This is an incomparably wide hall, the highest point is about a dozen zhang, the center of the hall is a red marble platform, the platform is regularly distributed around the eight stone pillars, the top of the stone pillars are carved into the shape of petals, decorated with a variety of unknown gems, the highest part of the hall is regularly hung with nine wheel-sized pearls, exuding dazzling light.

The inner wall of the palace is opposite the gate is an arched door, Ji Buyun knows that inside is the living room and the sleeping palace, compared with the queen's cave palace, there are six fewer afterlife doors. He took the high priest's hand and climbed up to a high platform, the center of which was a petal-shaped independent platform, on which were engraved the words "the flower of earth and water" in the shape of an arc.

Ji Buyun couldn't wait to pull the high priest through the waiting room and came to the wine storage room of the dormitory, the wine storage rack was still empty, and the whole piece of jade relief on the wall opposite the wine rack was still inlaid with that jade relief, the mountains were vast and the water was murmuring, which made people feel that they were boating between the mountains and rivers.

Ji Buyun handed the endless bottle to the high priest and asked, "Will you use it?"

The High Priest snorted and gave him a blank look, this was the conversation between the two in the secret wine room.

The High Priestess pressed the Endless Bottle with her hand against the smoke of the relief, muttering a few words in her mouth, and when her hand was withdrawn in a moment, the Endless Bottle disappeared and the water on the relief flowed.

The two returned to the hall, there was a faint flash of water on the high platform, and the fountain began to spew water.

"This is where the Infinity Bottle should be. Ji Buyun whispered to the high priest, thinking of the queen sleeping in his heart, he couldn't help but feel a little sentimental.

The high priest gently shook his hand and asked softly, "Is that okay?"

Ji Buyun smiled bitterly and said, "What if you can't, what can you do? ”

This time the high priest was not jealous, she took the initiative to kiss Ji Buyun on the face for the first time, and then looked up at him bravely, and said in a voice that only Ji Buyun could hear: "I also brewed Baihua wine, if you don't dislike it, you can drink mine." ”

"Okay, Doer, I want to drink it now. ”

The high priest let out a "hmm", his eyes looked around, and he didn't dare to look at Ji Buyun again.

Ji Buyun took the high priest's hand, and the two walked towards the place where they came, he just wanted to tease her a few more words, when the high priest suddenly exclaimed, and pulled Ji Buyun to the back of the palace.

Behind the palace is a lake. Under the bright moonlight, the lake water is a different kind of blue. The lake is full of white lotus flowers, and the faintly visible bottom of the lake has the shadow of swimming fish playing.

This lake is very similar to the lake of divine consciousness where the high priest cultivates his divine sense, but there is no red stone engraved with the creation flower on the edge of the lake.

The high priest hugged Ji Buyun's arm tightly and asked softly, "Did Haotian hear my prayer?"

She once told Ji Buyun that she wanted to live with him in such a fairyland for the rest of her life, and now Haotian has fulfilled her wish.

A gentle bird's call interrupted their affectionate gaze, and a fish flew out of the bottom of the lake, waving its golden wings, and its silver scales glittered in the bright moonlight.

Winning the fish, Ji Buyun's heart moved.

He hurriedly said to the high priest, "Quick, the first form of the water control technique." ”

The high priest did as he was told, and the distant winning fish flew towards the high priest, and the lake swelled up in front of them.

"The second formula. ”

The winning fish flew off into the distance, and the waves on the lake followed them.

"The third type. ”

The winning fish soared into the sky, and the waves rose upward.

"Fourth formula. ”

The winning fish hovers over the water, and the lake is calm.

"Haha, I see, I see. Ji Buyun hugged the high priest who was stunned by everything in front of him, hugged her and smiled at the sky.

The high priest waited for him to finish laughing and asked, "What do you understand?"

Ji Buyun smiled in her ear: "If I tell you what I understand, can I think about her first?"

The high priest pushed him away, looked into his eyes, and said, "No matter who you think about first, you should concentrate on me when you are with me." ”

Ji Buyun saw that the high priest was really angry, and knew that his words had touched her bottom line, and he regretted it in his heart. Although the high priest is as tender as water, she has a strong sense of self-esteem, and when she and Ji Buyun expressed their hearts, they once made it clear that if Ji Buyun didn't like him, she would rather be a superficial couple with him according to God's will than persecute him.

Seeing Ji Buyun stunned with an embarrassed face, the high priest smiled gently, came over to take his hand, and said, "I'm sorry, my words are heavy, don't be angry, okay?

Ji Buyun said: "I'm sorry, Duo'er, I was wrong. ”

The high priest buried his head in his chest and said softly, "Be with me in the future and concentrate on me, okay?"

Ji Buyun stroked her hair and said, "Okay." ”

The two of them warmed up for a while, and the high priest said, "Let's go back." She no longer mentioned the Queen, nor did she ask Ji Buyun what she had figured out, even if it involved a secret Highlander spell.

Ji Buyun grabbed her and said, "Although she taught me, it is a spell that belongs to your highland royal family, and only you can use it, Duo'er, you must learn it." ”

The high priest looked up and thought for a moment, and said, "Okay, but this is what you taught me." The implication is that it has nothing to do with the Queen.

Ji Buyun said: "Okay." ”

The high priest said, "Teach me tomorrow, we have to hurry over, Jinghu and they are waiting below, there are still many things to do." ”

The two of them held hands and came to the foot of the peak, and the priests below who were looking forward to it saw that the two figures appeared again and cheered.

The high priest threw a bundle of silk threads to the ground, and the priest of Jinghu was the first to pull the silk thread and climb up, she carried a bundle of ropes, and when she came up, she threw down the ropes, and pulled up the sun and wine, and the jade was offered in turn, and then the four of them pulled together a bundle of thick ropes.

One by one, the priests climbed up to the hanging peak, and at last they set up a hanger at the foot of the peak, lowered the hanging basket, and pulled up all the priests waiting below.

After the priests came up, they immediately lined up in an orderly manner into five square formations, and the four priests of Jinghu, Zhangjiu, Offering Jade, and Keeping the Sun each led a square team to the other four hanging peaks.

The high priest walked up to Ji Buyun and said in a low voice, "Thank you for your hard work, Ji Buyun." ”

Ji Buyun understood, and said in a low voice: "I'll go back first." ”

The high priest let out a "hmm" and said, "Okay, I'll take them to the palace." ”

After speaking, he smiled at Ji Buyun, the smile that began to bloom from the depths of his eyes was like a white lotus, blooming in Ji Buyun's heart, and even his mood bloomed with it.

This is a laugh that Ji Buyun can't resist at all, and the high priest laughs from the heart.

When Ji Buyun came down from the hanging peak, he unexpectedly found that the priest of Woyue was waiting for him below with two small priests. They sent him to the gate of the priest's courtyard and hurriedly ran back, Ji Buyun knew that they were in a hurry to go to the hanging peak.

Early the next morning, the sleeping Ji Buyun was awakened by bursts of cheers and shouts, and when he went out, hundreds of Praetorian Guards were looking at the hanging peak intently, and they couldn't help but exclaim.

On the lush hanging peak, where the human body could not reach at all, there were hundreds of white priest figures.

A Praetorian Guard captain looked at this scene in great surprise beside Ji Buyun, and muttered, "Haotian, the priests really know how to spell. ”

Hearing this, Ji Buyun remembered the scene in the middle of the night when the priests used hanging baskets to pull their companions on the hanging peak, and couldn't cry or laugh. It seems that this is what the priests wanted.

At this time, the Praetorian Guards let out another exclamation, and Ji Buyun followed their gaze, and in the western sky, more than a dozen flying horses appeared among a few careless clouds.