Chapter 41: Once Upon a Time in the Old Country: The Emperor's Chronicles
The former kingdom is long gone, and the only thing that remains unchanged is the heart of the emperor.
In a trance, Ying Zheng fell into the same silence as the night, not trembling, silent, just like a lifelike statue, growing on this stone step, becoming a part of the eternal millennium of Xianyang Palace.
Yingzheng's people were as quiet as if they were dead, but their consciousness was slight, just like the shallow spring pool in the Origin Spiritual Land, quiet and restless.
The dragon's bright pupil, which symbolizes the sign of fate, is also silent, looking at the silent palace and the silent night in the silence.
Ying Zheng's consciousness is rippling like a spring, he has been on the throne for three years, and his imperial plan has also traveled for three years.
In fact, in order to become a real king, Ying Zheng has been planning and preparing for a long time, as early as he didn't know how big the boundary of Xianyang Palace was, he was thinking, thinking about how to get out of his imperial road in this starry but dead world.
And everything started on that night three years ago, that night, outside this main palace, before the origin spiritual land, that night, it was also the same dead silence, the same darkness, that night......
-- Three years ago--
The whale bell sounded, and the long bell rang in the ancient palace city, and it didn't stop.
Legend has it that the bell of the whale bell is derived from the sacred beast Kiss, and the roar of the Kiss that lives in the deep sea can penetrate the abyss and enter the sky. And the bell of this whale bell also spread through countless palaces, countless corridors, and spread throughout the entire huge palace city, telling the people in the palace that the time has come.
However, in this silent midnight, the main palace of Xianyang Palace is still lit, and the dim light shines through the palace, trembling and hesitating in the darkness of the night, which seems inexplicably weird.
In the palace, the emperor in an imperial robe with a decaying face sat on the throne with a gilded dragon seal, trembling incessantly.
His eyes were stagnant, his expression was withered, and he was holding a cloud dragon jade seal in both hands, but his body was trembling uncontrollably, and he did not have the aura of a king that matched the throne of the imperial robe and jade seal.
The palace is only half-lit with candles, and the lights are slightly dim. That's fine, he, doesn't like too bright light.
He, the tall man, stood in the middle of the palace, dressed in a red-striped black robe, revealing only a vulture and pale face, combing his long dark red hair, and staring quietly at the trembling old emperor on the throne with blood-red eyes.
"It seems that the medicinal properties of the Immortal Pill have accumulated too much, and the side effects have become irreversible." Xu Fu secretly thought in his heart, but his blood-red eyes were always looking at the emperor who looked like a waste, however, it was this emperor who issued a secret order for Xu Fu not long ago, sending 300,000 imperial city guards to Qin Chuling City to meet Yingzheng's 100,000 rebels.
Ying Zheng ...... As soon as he thought of this person, Xu Fu couldn't help but feel a trace of coldness, this man with the dragon's bright pupils was the biggest surprise in his entire plan!
As a imperial doctor, Xu Funeng has come to the point where he is secretly controlling the regime and causing chaos to the court, all thanks to two people, the queen Miyue and the old emperor. Empress Miyue's desire for youth and beauty allowed Xu Fu, who was proficient in medicine and magic, to enter the palace, and the old emperor's pursuit of a long life gave Xu Fu the opportunity to invade the country's politics......
Eternal youth, this is still a bit of a way, Xu Fu refined a blood elixir for Miyue, and Miyue, who took this medicine, can keep her youth and beauty as long as she ingests human blood regularly every month. And eternal longevity, heh! Xu Fu only smiled in his heart, how could there be any eternal longevity? If he had, he would have lived a long life first!
Life has an end.
Of course, Xu Fu would not say this to the old emperor, he firmly agreed to the old emperor and refine the Immortal Pill for him. But the truth is that Xu Fu took this opportunity to add a small amount of medicine to the old emperor's elixir.
Over time, the old emperor's sanity gradually deteriorated, and at the same time he began to become obedient to Xu Fu. So, Xu Fu took advantage of this hot opportunity to secretly manipulate this puppet emperor and began the road of chaos in Qin and Chu for more than ten years.
And now, Xu Fu knew that this emperor was no longer needed. The long-term accumulation of drug toxicity has long distorted the physiology of the old emperor, and now that the medicinal properties have exploded, his life has fallen on the bottom of the cliff, and he is only a moment away from death.
The dark red eyebrows like the long hair moved lightly, and Xu Fu's blood-red gaze gradually fell on the cloud dragon jade seal that the emperor was holding in his hand, and suddenly he felt the jade carved dragon staring at him with round pupils.
Xu Fu blinked subconsciously, and then glanced at a piece of paper in his hand - a withered hand leaned out of the black robe around him, and tightly squeezed a piece of white paper, which was densely filled with words, but the most conspicuous thing was the vermilion seal in the right corner of the paper, and above the seal were eight square characters with imperial qi - "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity." "ββThis is the seal of the jade seal, the seal of the cloud dragon jade seal held by the old emperor on the throne!
The paper with the jade seal seal is the imperial decree of the saint, and it is the holy decree that can edict the world! And what was densely written on the paper was the secret text of the secret order of the imperial physician Xu Fu as the new emperor's equalizer.
Xu Fu had long known that the old emperor and the old emperor would not live long, and he had already secretly planned for his future. If the new emperor is to follow the tradition, just follow the tradition and assist the eldest prince to ascend the throne, anyway, the eldest prince is just a cowardly and mediocre waste, and it is better to be the new puppet emperor. And if Xu Furuo becomes the new emperor's equalizer, it will be even more comfortable to control the government and the opposition.
Everything, Xu Fu has already planned, the only thing to worry about is the battle that happened in Lingcheng tonight, but he used the old emperor to send 300,000 Praetorian Guards, and it should be a smooth thing to defeat Yingzheng's 100,000 rebels...... The rest will depend on the good news in a few days.
At this moment, there were several light calls from the high platform of the throne, and I saw a colorful and charming little fox lurking under the throne of the gilded dragon seal, and the little fox looked at this magnificent palace with a pair of royal blue pupils, and called softly.
"So you're here......" Xu Fu looked at the gorgeous little fox and said softly, his voice unusually hoarse: "Come here......"
The little fox crouched quietly under the throne, and didn't seem to hear Xu Fu's call.
"Come here......" Xu Fu said again, a bit of strength in his hoarse voice.
This time, the little fox reacted, blinked his eyes, got up, and walked slowly towards Xu Fu in the center of the hall.
Xu Fu put away the holy decree in his hand and reached out to pick up the little fox who walked in front of him. Then, he raised his eyes and looked at the old emperor who was sitting on the throne and couldn't stop trembling, then he turned around and walked away with the little fox in his arms, and walked out of the main palace of Xianyang Palace, leaving the old emperor who was depraved to sit on the throne alone, trembling and waiting for death.
This night, the stars were shining, but the Xianyang Palace at night was immersed in a strange silence and darkness. And Xu Fu walked alone in the night with the little fox in his arms, his steps were very light, so light that he was silent.
Suddenly, at some point, Xu Fu raised his head and looked at the night dome, only to see the stars in the sky shining in his blood-red eyes, and he felt that there was something wrong, there was indeed something wrong - he suddenly felt that there were a pair of eyes looking at him!
Xu Fu's eyebrows furrowed slightly, his expression became nervous, his steps stopped unnaturally, his keen eyes scanned around, searching in the dead darkness, suddenly, Xu Fu's eyes froze, and his blood-red gaze fell directly on the Origin Spirit Land on the left side of the court.
Under the dead night, on the origin spiritual ground where the stone dragon stood proudly and the spring pool was faintly rippling, there was a pair of dragon-like bright pupils staring at Xu Fu in a black robe from afar.
The bright pupil's gaze restrained the king's breath, and the moment he touched it, Xu Fu's expression changed greatly. The blood-red pupils kept contracting, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing!
How could it be him? How did he end up here? The battle of Lingcheng has just begun, why did he not defend the battlefield but appeared in Xianyang Palace?
That's right, it must be him, in this era, at least in the entire Qin and Chu, only he has the dragon's bright pupil that symbolizes the breath of the emperor - Yingzheng!
That's right, just by that pair of bright eyes, Xu Fu could be sure that the person standing on the Origin Spirit Land was Ying Zheng, the person who had the biggest surprise in all his plans!
"Ying Zheng ......" Xu Fu looked at him slightly, and said in a slow and deep voice.
"Long time no see...... Ying Zheng, who was isolated in the night, said softly, "Should I say that?" Dr. Xu......"
"The Battle of Lingcheng broke out tonight, and your 100,000 generals are withstanding the frontal onslaught of my 300,000 Praetorian Guards. How dare you get out and go back to Xianyang Palace? In a few days, you will lose all your troops, and you will be alone, and what do you want to do now? Xu Fu said sharply, even through the thick night, he could see the shallow smile on Ying Zheng's face, the smile that made him disgusted and jealous!
"Your Praetorian Guard? It seems that you have a high sense of your identity......" Ying Zheng chuckled.
Xu Fu didn't say anything, and Ying Zheng continued.
"War is inevitable, and casualties are inevitable. However, the death of a few thousand, or the death of tens of thousands, or the death of the entire army is not the key to solving the problem - the death of one person is the key. Ying Zheng stared into Xu Fu's eyes from afar, and said word by word, "For example, you, and me!" β
Hearing Ying Zheng's words, Xu Fu couldn't help but be stunned, Ying Zheng's tone was completely abandoning all his soldiers to settle the overall situation with him, he was completely using the lives of those 100,000 soldiers to delay the situation, and took the opportunity to return to Xianyang Palace with the origin of the spirit......
"That'...... Are you going to die with me? Xu Fu also stared at Ying Zheng, and the breath in his blood-red pupils suddenly became thin, if he wanted to fight a decisive battle, he was not afraid of Ying Zheng!
Xu Fu put the colorful little fox in his hand on the ground and let him run away, and then he stretched out his hands, and an invisible huge shock force suddenly appeared, instantly tearing the red-veined black robe around him to pieces. Between the fluttering fragments, Xu Fu finally revealed his true appearance.
The dim moonlight faintly fell, sprinkled on the evil and terrifying reality - the four blood demon wings spread out in the sky, the claws of the eight evil spirits bent and stretched and danced at his side, his lower body had no feet, just a cloud of crimson demon flames, but the most terrifying thing was that there were still two ghostly and vicious faces under his neck, blood-red pupils blooming with evil light, and the rolling demon blue energy surging out - this is Xu Fu's true appearance, he is not a human at all, he is completely a living demon born in blood!
"You've seen me for who I am, now...... Do you still want to die with me? Xu Fu stared at Yingzheng with a strong momentum, and his hoarse voice was even more infused with a bit of demonic charm.
"It's not a life and death ......" Looking at Xu Fu's true face as evil as Si, Ying Zheng still looked calm, "It's to kill you." And, it's not me, it's us! β
Ying Zheng slowly raised his right hand, and a dark golden halo suddenly appeared on his arm, and quickly circulated, extending into a dark golden lightsaber.
Ying Zheng clenched the dark golden light sword in his hand, and the light of the blade illuminated his cold face, and also illuminated the people standing quietly behind him - the killing god Bai Qi, the ghost doctor Bian Que, the stone refining warrior Zhong Wuyan, and the sword saint Miyamoto Musashi!
In an instant, a powerful aura condensed with all kinds of aura surged from Ying Zhengwei's heart, suppressing the blood demon Xu Fu with a powerful force.
Xu Fu's gaze couldn't help but stagnate, and a deep fear appeared in the depths of his heart, Ying Zheng, this terrifying man really came prepared, and now he has fallen into a life-and-death crisis. A big war will inevitably break out!
ββThe ancient court was filled with a solemn and solemn aura, and the delicate and pitiful little fox stood in it, and under the agitation of the heavy demon blue energy, it issued a continuous light call in horror.
Ying Zheng leaned down and gently picked up the little fox on the ground. At this time, the night was still dark, and the quiet night breeze blew Yingzheng's purple and silver hair, and also blew the gorgeous fine hair of the little fox.
"You're really interested...... Ying Zheng gently stroked the soft fur on the little fox's back with his hand, and said with an unscanning gaze, "This is the spirit fox...... Xu Fu? β
Ying Zheng's voice was very calm, but behind him, half of the ground of the palace land was all shattered, cracks of different thicknesses were densely covered in the ground, and there were three huge pits protruding from it, and the two Chinese-style palace pavilions near the left end of the palace land also collapsed, and the broken stones and broken trees were scattered all over the place, and this vast palace land had become a huge ruin, everything was destroyed, but the strange thing was that the Origin Spirit Land in the center of the ruins was unscathed, as before.
In one of the huge pits, Xu Fu's demonic body collapsed to the ground, the four huge blood demon wings had been shattered, and his whole body was covered with scattered scars, and the blood was not only flowing - after a shocking battle broke out, Xu Fu was finally defeated on the ground, and his life was about to be exhausted.
Bai raised his hand and held the long sickle, standing silently in the ruins, Bian Que and Zhong Wuyan stood beside the pit, looking down at the scene inside the cave mercilessly.
At this moment, in the pit, dozens of dark golden lightsabers were inserting into Xu Fu's body, nailing him to the bottom of the pit, while Miyamoto Musashi was holding the short sword in his right hand, and the blade of the sword was tightly touching Xu Fu's breathing neck.
"Ahem...... cough ......" Xu Fu grimatized his blood-red pupils and gasped out a few more mouthfuls of blood. He didn't expect that Ying Zheng would completely abandon the soldiers and take all the strong men under him to attack and kill him desperately.
Xu Fu knew that his fate was about to end here, but when he heard Ying Zheng talk about the "Spirit Fox", a deeper fear gradually spread from his heart. He stared at his eyes that were about to dissipate, and asked in a trembling voice, "Ying Zheng...... What the hell do you want to do? β
Ying Zheng stood quietly, the smile on his face gradually became a little colder, and then, I saw him raise his head slightly, and look directly at the stars that had shone in the sky for thousands of years with the dragon's bright pupils.
"I want to reign over the world."