In the candle flame, Sun Youwei squinted his eyes peacefully.

But she was clearly awake.

Under the lamp, Du Weifeng was kneeling and sitting not far away, and when he heard the footsteps of Wei Xingzhen and Feng Yan, he looked sideways.

Fuguang whispered in Sun Youwei's ear, "Your Majesty, it's here." ”

Sun Youwei slowly opened her eyes, she did not look in the direction of Feng Wei, but like a god statue, she stared at the ground not far in front of her with a flat expression.

"Your Majesty." Wei Xingzhen and Feng Yan saluted at the same time.

Fuguang bowed down at this moment, and with a gesture of a look, he took away all the palace people in the Taichu Palace.

Feng Yan stared at Sun Youwei's figure with her residual vision, and vaguely felt some surprise: His Majesty didn't seem to be worried about Cen Lingju's affairs at the moment.

There was a long-lost relaxation in her, as if a long-held burden had been lifted—something good was clearly happening.

"It's a good time." Sun Youwei said in a low voice, "Master Du, let's talk to them."

Du mocked up for a moment, "This is going to ...... Where to start? ”

"I'll tell you." Wei Xingzhen said.

Sun Youwei didn't make a sound, which can be regarded as acquiescence.

Feng Yan looked at Wei Xingzhen—it seemed that among the four people in the current temple, she was the only one who didn't know anything about something.

"Your Majesty has moved the capital from Chang'an to Luoyang because of the lack of a shadow on the summer solstice, Ah Yan already knows."

Feng Yan held her breath and stared, "Hmm." ”

"But there is no shadow on the summer solstice, it's just a coincidental celestial phenomenon that I deduced from the ephemeris."

Oh, where is the coincidental celestial phenomenon, it is clearly an illusion created by you, Lord Wei.

But Feng Yan remained silent—since Lord Wei said so, then it was.

"The reason why I used this excuse was because the matter of moving the capital was already imminent at that time, and if we could not find a reasonable reason to promote it, the consequences would be unimaginable."

“…… What does Master Wei mean by 'consequences'? ”

"Ah Yan, do you remember when you fell asleep last year?"

Feng Yan immediately replied, "Of course I do." ”

"That's the same group of people who used Nie Xiaojun to set fire to the Ming Hall this year with the intention of stealing the collection of the underground palace."

Feng Yan frowned, "...... What does Lord Wei mean that I fell asleep last year because I fell into the Wild Spirit Puppet Technique? ”

Wei Xingzhen nodded.

Feng Yan's thoughts flew, and she suddenly remembered the night when Wei Xingzhen took Ji Ran back to her house not long ago, and Ji Ran was quite concerned about "how did Wei Xingzhen know that there were traitors who cast spells and harmed people in the house of Chunhefang".

At that time, the reason given by Wei Xingzhen was Di Yang - because Di Yang entrusted the mansion to him to take care of, he "accidentally" found some clues in the basement.

Now it seems that the rhetoric at that time was really just a façade!

His Majesty made a big move to order the Dali Temple and the Ping Demon Department to thoroughly investigate the matter, and the teachers searched various mansions and interrogated relevant personnel, but in fact, they were covering up another case in one case......

Ji Ran was indeed keenly aware of Wei Xingzhen's strangeness, but this young man was just a small Shaoqing of Dali Temple, where could he penetrate these fogs and reach the center of the truth......

Feng Yan said softly, "What do these people want to do?" ”

"Subvert the Society." Wei Xingzhen replied in a low voice.

"How to subvert?"

"This is going to talk about moving back to the capital," Wei Xingzhen said in a low voice, "In the case of 'first-line involvement' not long ago, someone opened up the waterway under Luoyang City, attracted wild spirits from Daizong Mountain, and invaded the hinterland of Luoyang, so that the Taiwei and the eldest princess fell into a coma.

"But this incident is not new, it happened in Chang'an a few years ago, and it is more thorough."

Feng Yan looked sideways, "Oh...... How so? ”

Wei Xingzhen continued, "In the eighteenth year of Tianfu, Shen Qian, a merchant of Wuwei Pavilion, received the emperor's order to build a pagoda on the outskirts of Chang'an.

This incident almost immediately alarmed the Ping Demon Department and Si Tiantai, and at that time, it was Du Tianshi who was in charge of this matter.

After the initial exploration, Du Tianshi soon discovered that the entire underground of Chang'an City had been eaten up by countless ravines, and the people in the city did not know it.

"Those ravines are intertwined underground, running through almost every prosperous place in Chang'an City, but no one knows what they are used for.

"At that time, I had been a school manager in Wenyuan Pavilion for two years, and I happened to see Lord Shen's report, and it happened that during that time, I was reading the records related to wild spirits in ancient books, so I took the initiative to ask Your Majesty for help, and went to find and read the relevant files."

Feng Yan listened, lowering her eyes slightly.

Is it "accidental" and "exact" again?

Feng Yan had already guessed a few points, and she said softly, "...... So those ravines under Chang'an City, just like the ones found in Chunhefang not long ago, are they all prepared to attract wild spirits? ”

"Yes." Wei Xingzhen said softly, "After realizing that the ravine might be used to attract spirits, I immediately entered the palace, intending to present to the Holy Lord what I saw in the ancient books. ”

Sun Youwei on the throne suddenly laughed, "If it weren't for that, you and Ah Yan probably wouldn't have become acquainted." ”

Feng Yan was stunned, could it be that the meeting in the Taichu Palace that day......

"yes." Wei Xingzhen bowed lightly to Sun Youwei, "Maybe in the dark, there is a providence." ”

"Providence, ......" Feng Yan repeated the word.

Her eyes were half-open, she looked at the hem of her clothes spread out in front of her, and said in a low voice, "Then what did Lord Wei see in the ancient books?" ”

"I have seen a method of living sacrifice to the gods of the wilderness."

Feng Yan's eyes were slightly cold, "Living sacrifice ......?" ”

"Yes, although wild spirits rarely appear in crowded places on weekdays, if some method is used to gather wild spirits far away from the surface to form a 'spirit river', then the situation will be different immediately.

"Once the Spirit River is formed, it will never dry up. The newly-born Spirit River will plunder everything—whether it is people, birds, beasts, flowers and plants, all living beings in this world will be assimilated and annihilated as part of the Spirit River the moment they touch the river.

"Chang'an is the residence of His Majesty, and the people are 800,000 people, this matter is not trivial. It's just that I couldn't figure out why anyone would do such a thing. ”

Feng Yan listened from the sidelines, these things were so appalling that she couldn't accept them for a while.

She frowned, "......What is the reason why Lord Wei can't figure it out?" ”

Wei Xingzhen looked at Feng Yan, "Because the living sacrifice to the wild spirit will not only not give the sacrificer any benefit, but the sacrificer himself will often not escape the fate of being sacrificed.

"The only purpose of this sacrifice is to make the wild spirits more ferocious and prosperous."

Feng Yan was stunned for a moment.

"I don't understand......," she blinked, "if the Spirit River is such a dangerous and never-ending thing, why haven't I heard of a calamity caused by it before?" ”

Du Weifeng suddenly opened his mouth at this time, "Because since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, in the past four hundred years, there has been no new Spirit River. ”

"What about the old ones?"

"After each newborn Spirit River floods for a period of time, it will sink back and return to the ground, and it will never come back again. But this does not mean that it does not exist, it is the evaporation and dispersion of the spiritual river underground, and there are wild spirits floating like fireflies in the mountains and wilderness. ”

Feng Yan's breathing was a little faster, and she pondered carefully.

“…… Since, this kind of living sacrifice will not give the sacrificer any benefit, why do such a sacrifice? ”

"This is also something that has only begun to rise in the past twenty years," Du Weifeng said in a low voice, "There is such a group of people who believe that the reason why there are all kinds of evils in the world is because there has been no new spiritual river born again for a long time. Therefore, they are willing to give their lives to be the 'dust sweepers' of this world. ”

“…… Dustsweeper? ”

"This is their self-proclaimed name," Du mocked up as he looked at Feng Yan, "and we called them another name: Martyrs." ”