Chapter 03: The Legend of the Sun
A full moon jumped over the majestic palace wall, and the silver moonlight sprinkled wantonly on the red glazed tiles and blue brick floor of the palace, the moonlight reflected the tall canopies on both sides, and the shadow half enveloped the gorgeous and solemn palace. A breeze blows through the big red lanterns hanging high in front of the gates of the palaces, and the lanterns rise and fall with the breeze like rolling red waves.
The palace lamp was lit in the main hall, the candle flame was flickering, the lamp shadow was heavy, Xuan Huaiyu sat on the main hall and discussed with the ministers, the news of the failure of the third competition in the trial ground during the day quickly spread throughout Xuanguo, and the plan to attack Jingguo this autumn was not yet released, and the morale plummeted.
Many conservative ministers suggested that the plan to attack Jingguo be postponed to ten years later, and that Prince Xuan Huaiyu would be crowned monarch in person.
There are also ministers who hold opposing views who believe that now Xuanguo is strong and the people are rich, the armament is sufficient, and the soldiers are strong and strong, it is the best time to go north to attack Jingguo, and there is no shortage of generals and brave cavalry who lead troops to fight in Xuanguo, and this time they will definitely be able to win a big victory in the north, and the plan to find the whereabouts of the five generals who have returned to the country can be put aside for the time being.
The ministers were like a river of mouths, their tongues were full of lotus flowers, and the two sides of different opinions were fighting for each other.
"Your Royal Highness, Imperial Physician Zhang has an urgent matter to see."
Xuan Huaiyu was a little headache from the arguing ministers, rubbed his sore temples, and nodded to the guards of Tongchuan.
Imperial Physician Zhang is the most experienced and oldest pharmacist in Xuanguo, good at treating all kinds of incurable diseases, good at alchemy, extracting its essence from various rare medicinal materials and refining it into medicine, is the head of Xuanguo Imperial Doctor, but it is a pity that he is over sixty years old and cannot go out with the army.
"See Your Highness, it is related to the illness of the king, and the minister has important things to report."
"Today's deliberation is that the prince has a plan in his heart, and the ministers will disperse first, if there is a clever plan to attack Jingguo, we will discuss it tomorrow."
The ministers withdrew from the main hall one after another, and left the palace gate in twos and threes, and hurried back to their respective mansions, walking in a hurry, as if they were about to crush the silver moonlight all over the ground.
"Imperial Doctor Zhang, has my father's condition improved?"
"Back to His Royal Highness, the minister is here for this matter, the minister uses a thousand years of ginseng, healing holy grass holy snow grass, and the essence of the ice lotus to refine into a potion for Wang Jun to take every day, but ten years ago Wang Jun was injured by the ice pick technique of Master Jingguo, and the injury was too serious and contracted a cold disease, and now the cold disease has recurred, I am afraid that my life will be endangered, the minister is incompetent, please forgive your Highness!"
"How much time does Father have left?"
"Half a year at most."
Before Xuan Huaiyu could change his armor, he hurried to King Xuan's bedroom and knelt in front of the collapse.
King Xuan fell asleep after taking the medicine refined by Taiyi Zhang, and suddenly felt that his body was like falling into an ice cellar, the blood around his body was frozen by ice, and he coughed violently.
"Come on, pass on Imperial Doctor Zhang!"
After Imperial Physician Zhang applied the needle to King Xuan and dispersed the two opposing breaths of ice and fire in his body, King Xuan's consciousness came to his senses.
"Father, my son will avenge you! It is bound to destroy Jingguo. ”
King Xuan breathed a sigh of relief from the severe pain, layers of sweat oozed from his forehead, and said slowly:
"Yu'er, I already know about the trial ground today, but it is necessary to find the whereabouts of these five generals when we go north, and the matter of leading the troops to the north must not be the five of them, and we must not risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of troops of Xuanguo and the people in the city, remember."
"Erchen is incompetent......" Xuan Huaiyu felt guilty and blamed himself.
King Xuan seemed to have exhausted all his strength, and after speaking, he fell on the couch, and half a sound seemed to remember something, so he endured the pain as if he was struggling to get up, and Xuan Huaiyu helped him to sit up.
"Yu'er, you have now reached the age of marriage, the daughter of the national teacher, Bai Shuangran, grew up with you since she was a child, since the war ten years ago, the national teacher has exhausted his life's mana to save me, and now Xuanguo is only left with her as an archmage, for the sake of Xuanguo's plan, you have to marry her as soon as possible and win the support of the mage in the city."
Xuan Huaiyu returned to the council hall after coming out of King Xuan's bedroom, he looked at the topographic map hanging in the main hall to attack Jingguo, remembered everything that happened in the trial ground today, he obviously had a chance to get the map of the five generals to retreat; Obviously, he could lead the army north to attack Jingguo before his father's death, and fulfill his wish; Obviously, he could avenge the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died ten years ago and the people in the city who died tragically, and give an explanation to the dead souls, but he was destroyed by the woman who suddenly appeared.
Su Moyan sat in the small and dark cell, suddenly felt a chill behind her, and couldn't help but shiver, she scratched her ears and cheeks, meditated, and tried to find a way to escape from death row, and suddenly had an idea.
When she cast the teleportation spell again, she wanted to leave this cage but was bounced back by a powerful force, there was an enchantment outside the death row, she tried more than ten times, all of them hit the enchantment and bounced back, until she found that the skin on her hand was translucent, she didn't dare to try again, this is a symptom of excessive consumption of mana, if you try again before she is executed on the torture table tomorrow, she has exhausted her mana and died.
She regretted that she didn't learn the high-level spells when she learned spells from the trainer, and when the guild organized a group to attack the dungeon, she relied on the half-hung spells and a mouse flurry operation to get through, her superb equipment and top staff were bought by her male best friend Peng Peng for a thousand gold, thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh: It's good to have a loser as a friend!
Although Su Morou is a waste priest, she wasted this superb equipment in vain, and she can only use some superficial spells, but she has an extraordinary ability, where she has been, the dungeons she has attacked, and all the tasks she has done, she remembers it, and she has the ability to never forget.
"I have a solution! Haha, I don't have to die! Su Morou suddenly jumped down from the narrow bed on death row, and instantly swept away the haze of being about to be executed, and could not hide the joy in his heart.
"Xuan Huaiyu, you wait and see, I am a top student in the Chinese department of a key university, how can I be killed by the prince in your little game, don't worry, I will definitely live longer than you!" Haha......"
Su Moyan slept on death row for the first time in three days, until he was woken up by the jailer at noon the next day and escorted to the execution ground.
The jailers were stunned when they looked at Su Moyan, who was snoring, drooling, and sleeping calmly, there were thousands of death row prisoners on death row, most of them said that they were not afraid of death, but when they were escorted to the execution ground and were executed, they couldn't suppress the fear in their hearts and showed fear on their faces, like Su Moyan, who was escorted to the execution ground with a calm face, they had never seen her, and they had regarded her as a hero in their hearts, and admired her courage from the bottom of their hearts not afraid of death.
The execution ground was set up in the middle of the city market, and the warden was already sitting on the prison beheading platform waiting for the execution, and the people in the city heard that the execution was carried out today by the demon girl who destroyed the trial ground yesterday, and they all came here with a curious heart to wait to see the true face of this demon girl, what kind of ability did she have to reach the sky.
Suddenly, a wide avenue was given way in the bustling crowd, and a woman wearing a golden crown and a white robe with gold silk on her head held a staff inlaid with the light of the stars and moon in her right hand, her long hair was scattered behind her like ink, her eyes drooped slightly, and she slowly walked to the prison platform, and the people in the audience knelt down one after another:
"Meet the Archmage."
The woman in white stood on a high platform, accepting the bows of the people, and the light of the stars and moon above the staff shone brightly.
Su Moyan, who was kneeling on the torture platform, looked up at the woman in white and the staff standing beside him, and recognized that the owner of this staff was the archmage Bai Shuangran, the future princess of Xuan Huaiyu, and the most talented and powerful archmage in the history of Xuan Guo.
Unexpectedly, Archmage Bai Shuang Zhan would be present at the execution site, and immediately got up and gave her the seat in the center of the prison beheading platform, and stood beside her respectfully.
"Your Highness has a decree to burn the demon girl at the stake, and I will use the sun burning technique to burn this demon girl to the ground."
"Sun Burning Technique? The archmage's highest-level spell, the Sun Burning Technique? Su Moyan's mind was blank when he encountered thunder. I think that in the guild where Su Moyan was at the beginning, only the president had learned this spell, and I heard the president mention that to practice this spell, you need to search the entire Xuan Kingdom to find hundreds of red flame grasses, open the Dan furnace alchemy, and only have a 1 in 10,000 chance to refine the best elixir, hand it over to the mage's trainer, and after completing the first task, you can only learn this high-level spell after hitting 10,000 points of damage on the training pile.
If an ordinary person is scorched by the sun, he will not be able to move, and the fire will spread to the blood around his body, burning the meridians around him, and then burning his body, which will be consumed by the fire from the inside out, and finally burned to the ground.
Su Moyan heard the three words of the Yang Burning Technique like a huge thunderbolt, and hurriedly shouted: "I want to see Xuan Huaiyu, I know where the five generals are!" ”
"Archmage, she said that she knows the whereabouts of the five generals, and she will not allow her subordinate Prince Ming to make another decision!" The warden whispered beside Froststain.
"Evil words confuse the public, even the most skilled divination mage in Xuanguo has failed to divinate the whereabouts of the five generals, how can she know!"
After the woman in white finished speaking, she made an execution gesture, and Su Morou had already been firmly tied to the execution pile.
The stars and moon above the staff beside the woman in white shone with dazzling and scorching light, and a beam of fire rushed up to the dry pile of materials, instantly igniting the pile of materials under Su Morou's body, igniting a raging flame.
"White frost, I really know the whereabouts of the five generals." Su Moyan saw that the fire was about to burn the hem of her white robe, and the next second she was about to die in the raging fire, the smoke billowing out, choking her throat with a burning pain.