Hidden Palace, Golden Cinnamon Pavilion.

The lingering sound lingered, Ji Le was drunk, lazily leaning on the soft skin of the tiger, looking at Mei Ji playing the piano in the hall. From time to time, he grabbed a handful of silver melon seeds from the side and threw them on the copper plate next to Mei Ji, following the example of the other guests in the hall to give rewards.

"Here we go again. Seeing the extra silver melon seeds on the copper plate, Zhang Feiyan's heart trembled, and she almost stopped playing in fright.

The Golden Gui Pavilion is one of the best among the eighteen female Lu in the Hidden Palace, and is named after the century-old golden cinnamon that grows in the hall. There are many people who come here on weekdays to listen to music and music. Zhang Feiyan plays the piano and music here, and gets a lot of rewards every day. But for some reason these days, there are always some silver melon seeds that appear on the copper plate out of thin air. I asked the familiar guests around me, and they all said that it had nothing to do with them.

Come to think of it, things with fine workmanship such as silver melon seeds are generally exclusive to the royal court. Except for King Xia and Zhu Qing, others can't get it if they want it. In the past, Zhang Feiyan only knew one person who was so generous with rewards.

"The king went out to fight, hasn't he come back yet?" Zhang Feiyan muttered in her heart, and secretly looked at the VIP seat on the second floor. It was empty, just an empty tiger skin.

"It's not a gift from the king, could it be that which god came stealthily?" Zhang Feiyan speculated in his heart, and was uneasy: "These gods have the weirdest temper, if they provoke which god, the lord of the country is not in the city, I am afraid that if I am not careful, my Xia Kingdom will be destroyed!"

Suddenly, a light breeze blew, and Lao Gui behind him sprinkled golden petals, rolling up the fragrance of flowers and filling the hall. But Zhang Feiyan somehow felt a chill inexplicably.

On the second floor, Ji Le, the initiator, did not have any psychological burden, and he lay on the soft collapse that Xia Jun used most often.

"I can't see it. The young man sighed, grabbed another handful of silver melon seeds and threw them away. However, no one has seen this move.

"Crossing is crossing, dressing as an existence that no one else can see, how is it different from a lonely soul?" Ji Le couldn't help shaking his head, and drank it all in one gulp.

Thousands of cups are not poured, drinking alone for three nights, Ji Le has been in Jingui Pavilion for three days, and there are hundreds of wine jars around him, but he is not drunk.

In terms of the amount of alcohol alone, he is much stronger than these Eastern Han ancestors. In the final analysis, the craftsmanship of these ancestors is not as good as that of later generations, and the purity is low, which is not enough to see in front of Ji Le.

Until he drank this jar of wine, Ji Le was still not satisfied, and his fingers moved slightly: "Pour wine!"

Fluorescence suddenly rose on both sides, and two tall beauties appeared with wine jars in their hands and stepped forward to pour wine for him. While the two beauties were pouring wine, Ji Le observed the stiff movements of the two beauties.

Sure enough, the summoning was still not complete. ”

Ji Le crossed half a month ago, and no one could see him after the crossing. The only fortunate thing is that Ji Le can use his own power to summon some servants to serve him. These servants have no thoughts, they are like puppets, and they only know how to fulfill Ji Le's orders. Moreover, these servants are also invisible to outsiders.

"But good-looking is better than nothing. Ji Le's hand holding the ear cup suddenly became unstable, and his face changed drastically.

Poof-

A wound opened in Ji Le's neck, and blood flowed down his face.

"Again?" After the initial surprise, Ji Le regained his composure, not surprised by the scene. As soon as his eyes moved, the beauties around him immediately wiped the blood for him.

Ji Le pulled his mouth, endured the pain, muttered to himself, and recorded and observed his own situation: "I was cut out of my artery, but I still can't die, this is the most special point of the incarnation of the country." At this moment, Ji Le also had to pray for King Xia, who was fighting far away. I hope that the other party can win a big victory as soon as possible, and it is best to have fewer people on my side.

For Ji Le, crossing is not something difficult to accept. But he didn't expect that he would become a country after crossing over!

Even if you become a plant or an animal, you are still a living thing, and it is a big deal to slowly struggle from a goblin!

However, Ji Le's situation at this moment is extremely bad, and he is not an independent life form at all.

He is Xia Guo, the embodiment of the concept of the country, and his every move is closely related to the country.

The land is his body, and the people are his blood. If the people die normally, it will be like metabolism, and there will be no major problems in the body. But if there is a war and the people die at the hands of foreign enemy swordsmen, there will be wounds on Ji Le's body. The more valuable his status, the more tragic the casualties, and the more serious his injuries became.

At present, the king of Xia is personally leading the army to fight outside. Those generals and warriors were all important figures to the Xia Kingdom. Whenever something happens to them, Ji Le reacts.

"But the major arteries bleed, this battle is a bit too tragic, right?" Ji Le grinned, muttering in his heart while enjoying the beauty healing.

"It can't be Xia Jun's accident, right? No, no, Xia Jun is the head of a country and an important leader. He's going to have an accident, I should have a cerebral hemorrhage or angina, right?"

After thinking about it, Ji Le couldn't figure out the battle situation in the distance, so he could only sigh: "I'm still not familiar with it! My current sensing ability is still poor, and I can't perceive the situation outside." Otherwise, you might be able to help. ”

After all, just a few days after becoming a national spirit, Ji Le became familiar with his body, and only explored two abilities.

One is "national sensing", in which a national can perceive his thinking and memory when he is letting go of his spirit. The reason why I have been living in Nülu for the past few days is to collect information in this crowded place.

It's not because the young lady here sings well and the service is first-class!

The other is to summon minions. The servants he summoned were all necromancy belonging to the Xia Kingdom.

Ji Le is the incarnation of Xia Guo, the living is his flowing blood, and the soul of the dead also returns to his arms.

What's more, according to Ji Le's investigation, the origin of this Xia Kingdom is in the same vein as Huaxia. It is said that a hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Eastern Han Dynasty strayed into another world to establish a city-state. Therefore, after Ji Le crossed, he could merge with the Xia Kingdom and become the embodiment of the entire kingdom.

While thinking about it, Ji Le had another wound on his body.

"Why are there wounds again?"

And this time, although it was not as fierce as the battle on King Xia's side, it was just a small incision on the fingertips that could be seen deeply, but the stinging sensation was far better than the battle of King Xia, and at the same time, Ji Le could clearly sense the panic of the people.

Outside the window, there were bursts of gongs and drums on the street, and some people shouted in the street: "Everyone go home quickly, close the doors and windows, and don't move!"

On the first floor, Zhang Feiyan's piano sound came to an abrupt end. A maid hurriedly came and whispered in her ear, her face was solemn, she got up and said to everyone: "Everyone, there is an invasion of flying beasts, and now the whole city is under martial law, please rest in the Golden Gui Pavilion for the time being." ”

Flying beast invasion?

Ji Le immediately cheered up and observed the people listening to the music downstairs. Those guests were accustomed to this, and when two guests heard about the situation, they immediately said: "Although the two of us are resting today, how can we watch such a major event? Hurry up, hurry back and report!"

The two hurriedly sobered up and went out to help with their swords.

As for the other guests in the hall, they got up to help clean the room and prepare for evacuation. Although Zhang Feiyan is only the Le Ji of Jingui Pavilion, he also has the demeanor of everyone, ordering people to close the door and windows, and sending wrestler slaves to guard the door and guard the situation outside. At the same time, he also ordered the maid to prepare meals and bedding for many guests to share.

After looking at it, Ji Le went out decisively. As the spirit of the nation, he resembles a spirit, an illusory body that can walk through walls. Except for some special areas in Jiugong City, other places come and go freely.

When I came to the street, I saw that the citizens were in good order, and although many of them showed panicked expressions, they quickly cleaned up their stalls and pulled the children in the neighborhood to hide in the houses on both sides of the street. Even though it is not his own house, he is also running in to take refuge at the beckoning of the owner of the house.

"It seems that Xia Guo often encounters this situation. ”

Half a pillar of incense, the street was empty, and it was cold in an instant.

Ji Le looked up at the sky, and dozens of huge strange birds flew in the sky. The strange bird is several feet long, with two heads and four wings, and its coat color is messy, and it frequently emits a piercing call.

Seeing these strangely shaped birds, Ji Le deeply felt that he was currently in another world.

"This kind of strange bird, I'm afraid you can't see it until the age of dinosaurs. His expression was complicated: sure enough, he not only crossed over to become a country, but even came to the barbaric era of alien beasts?

Experiencing it in person and listening to others talk about it is not the same. From time to time, the strange bird swooped down, setting off a strong wind around Ji Le.

Whoosh –

On the city wall not far away, soldiers armed with bows and arrows shot into the sky with arrows entwined with various runes.

The strange bird chirps in the air, snapping its wings to dodge and move, avoiding the arrows below. But the arrows rose in the wind, exploding in the air in a torrent of fireworks, and the pungent smell forced the birds to leave the city.

"This is Xia Guo's stream rocket?" Ji Le stood quietly in the middle of the street. Neither the soldiers of Los Angeles nor the strange birds in the sky were aware of his presence. He was like a lonely ghost, watching it all indifferently.

It's just that as the strange bird fights the soldiers, there are more and more wounds on his body.

"Come on. Ji Le muttered to himself, as the wound appeared, he had deeply understood that he had an inseparable bond with this country.

If the country exists, it is there. If this kingdom is broken, how will your wandering spirit survive?

Soon after the archers restrained the strange birds, a group of shrine maidens dressed in red arrived in the distance. They waved their wands and chanted loudly. Loud singing echoed in the sky, and several strange birds were forcibly pulled to the ground, and then besieged by soldiers armed with spears.

Los Angeles seems to be very experienced in monster sieges, everyone cooperates tacitly, is orderly, and soon gains the upper hand, killing several strange birds. Among them, a three-zhang long strange bird threw off its wings, narrowly brushed past Ji Le, and slammed into the roof of the house next to it.

"Not good!" Seeing that the roof of the Minjun was lifted off by the wings, and several children who had taken refuge inside were about to be hit by the beams, Ji Le subconsciously raised his hand.

A burst of red light shot out of his palm, knocking the beam apart.

"Come out!" the fluorescent light flickered at Ji Le's feet, and several samurai-like puppets appeared, stepped forward to take a few children away, and sent them to the shrine maidens.

"Huh?"

In the group of shrine maidens chanting spells in the distance, the great shrine maiden led by the group seemed to feel something. Yu Yuan looked at the collapsed house.

Indeed, they could not see the existence of Ji Le and the puppet minions. But they can see children coming to them under the guidance of some invisible force.

"It's ...... No, the gods sacrificed in the Spirit Palace are not so merciful. Yu Yu pondered: "And this power does not have the characteristics of divinity, but has the same origin as the essence of my Xia Kingdom, and there is a faint sense of intimacy?"

But soon, Yu Yuan didn't have time to think.

Even if a companion died in the city, and a pungent smell filled the sky, the flock of strange birds would not disperse. They hovered around the city and screamed as if they were waiting for something.

"Your Excellency, something is wrong. The officer in charge of defending the city frowned and said to Yu Yuan, "It stands to reason that these flat-haired beasts should be scared off after we kill our companions. But they refused to leave, and seemed to ......"

"It seems that there are higher-level beings secretly coercing them to fight us. Yu Yuan looked at the "Tianyi Bird" in the air, in the Xia Kingdom Illustrated Book, the Tianyi Bird is a kind of fierce bird that they deal with a lot. However, in the Alien Beast Rank, it is only classified as the lower fifth rank.

With a worried face, the Great Witch whispered to the officer, "In my spiritual perception, I vaguely perceive the divine aura that pervades the sky. ”

The officer was startled: "Divine beast?" He closed his mouth and looked around. Seeing that the other soldiers did not hear, he breathed a sigh of relief.

If it was really a divine beast that descended on Los Angeles, it would be a huge blow to morale!

"Are you sure, Your Excellency?"

"Sure. But...... It doesn't look like a high-ranking divine beast, but it looks like a monster cultivated by an evil god? After all, when the monarch went out of the city to fight, he was targeting the seven evil gods of the south. This time it should be the other party's revenge, and it is also to force the monarch to return. Hmm, in the words of our ancestors of the Xia Kingdom, it is 'encircling Wei to save Zhao'. ”

"That kind of allusion to the homeland, I don't understand this rough person. The officer said, "I only know that if there is a fierce bird at the level of a divine beast rushing in, unless His Highness returns, everyone will have an accident." ”

Yes, if it's really a divine beast attacking, then it's going to be troublesome.

Yu Yuan's heart was heavy, as the highest-ranking witch in the Xia Kingdom, her magic power barely competed with a median third-rank divine beast. When it comes to birds that fly nimbly in the sky, it is even more insufficient.

"But the king is not here, and the person with the strongest magic power in the city is me. At this time, there is absolutely no retreat. ”

Suddenly, the surrounding atmosphere changed, the sky was covered by hazy dark clouds, and a ten-foot-long cyan snake bird slowly appeared. Beneath the slender snake's body are sharp eagle claws and wild goose wings, and there is a red sarcoma like a cockscomb on the top of its head.

Yu Yuan's expression changed, and finally she sighed faintly: "The Book of Ten Thousand Beasts of the Mountains and Seas is loaded; Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a snake mythical beast that could fly. ”

The officer was a little dazed, although he knew that his Xia Kingdom had revised the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" according to the inheritance of his homeland, according to the style of another world, but he didn't know much about the so-called Yu Luan.

"Your Excellency, this monster is very powerful, and what is the level?"

"According to the three grades and twenty-four ranks, it should be the second rank among the median divine beasts, after all, this is a divine beast created by the Earth Mother God. ”

Moreover, the lethality of the flying beast should be increased by one level.

Looking at the chirping in the sky like a baby's cry, Yu Yu felt pressured. She hesitated, and after thinking about it, she took out a copper bell, which was embroidered with animal heads, peaches and other patterns, which was a magic weapon created by the Xia Kingdom in accordance with the civilization of her homeland.

Rubbing the bronze bell, the witch's expression slowly became firm from the initial hesitation: "I hope I can get through this level smoothly." As Yu Yuan's spiritual power was injected into the magic weapon, the beast head on it slowly became hideous, and the momentum on Yu Yuan's body also rose step by step.

"Your Excellency?" Officer Zhang Le's face changed: "Your Excellency Witch, why did you take out the 'Bronze Hammer'?"

Zhang Le can't recite the entire "A Guide to Mountains and Seas and Ten Thousand Beasts", which doesn't mean that he doesn't know this bell.

Legend has it that the last generation of witches in the Xia Kingdom imitated the magic weapon made by the myth of the Queen Mother of the West in their homeland, and burned their own life span in exchange for an increase in spiritual power. Since the production of this "Ximu Bronze Gilt Head", two generations of great witches have been martyred to repel the invading beasts.

"Yu Yuan, you step down!" Ji Le stood aside and listened for a while, and saw that Zhang Le reacted violently, and the situation was not right. silently used his own ability to read information from Zhang Le's memory, and decisively stepped forward to interrupt Yu Yuan's actions.

Wisps of life force flowed into the bronze gilt to re-replenish Yu Yu herself.

What's going on? I haven't heard that the bronze gilt has the effect of replenishing life!

Yu Yuan was a little panicked in her heart, and there was a whisper in her ears: "Such a beautiful face, if you can't see it in the future, what a pity?"

Ji Le stepped forward and snatched the bronze gilt, threw it in his sleeve at will, and then slapped Yu Yuan on the shoulder: "You continue to preside over the overall situation with Zhang Le, leave it to me here!"

"This—" Before she could react, the ebony staff in her other hand was taken away. In a trance, the shrine maiden saw a man in a dark pale robe walk past her.

Who is this person?

This thought flashed through Yu Yuan's mind, and then she saw Ji Le holding an ebony staff and gently knocking on the ground below: "Stand down!"

Centered on the point where the wooden staff struck the earth, layers of golden aura spread out around the man. Dense light and shadow covered the city from the streets, and the majestic light of faith erupted from the man, knocking the sky into the sky ready to fall!

The other strange birds that did not flee were killed on the spot under the light of this majestic and sacred light.