Chapter 8: Breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly

Emperor Tuoba Tao suddenly had a thrill, and finally woke up from a nightmare.

But he was in a cold sweat, almost soaking wet.

"Your Majesty, you have finally woken up, but you have scared the minions to death." The emperor's close servant Zong, often serving Zongai, was worried.

He looked at the emperor who had finally woken up and was surprised and delighted, wiping the tears that hung on his face.

Emperor Taiwu, who has passed the age of knowing his fate, is resolute and mighty, and is powerful and domineering.

The emperor took the brocade towel handed over by Zong Ai, wiped his sweat, and recalled the scene of last night.

As soon as night fell, the Star-Picking Tower suddenly shone red, reflecting the entire Star-Picking Tower almost red, and the blood light in the sky shrouded the entire palace.

The wind and clouds between heaven and earth change color, the sand flies and the stones go, the wind rolls the leaves and falls, and it is boiling.

The Xuanyuan sword on Tuobatao's waist began to buzz, and the sword body in the sheath kept colliding with the inner wall, as if he couldn't wait to be born and drink blood.

Urn...... Urn...... Urn!

Boom!

A soft whistle!

The sword of the sun and the moon unsheathed itself, turned into a dark light and shadow, rushed out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, passed through the imperial garden, and swept away with the wind splitting the leaves, silently and coldly, and shot straight into the Nine Heavens of the Star Picking Tower.

Fifteen years ago, on that summer day, the scorching heat changed and suddenly fell all over the sky, and the silver-white snowflakes fluttered one after another, accompanied by the snowflakes were full of locusts, buzzing and whirling in the palace.

The sky mutated, and the emperor was shocked, so he hurriedly summoned the Qingxu real person to come over.

The palace guards all went out to fight the locusts, and the locusts crackled and exploded, and they sprayed out pools of blood flowers, and the blood flowers and snowflakes were intertwined, like a demonic and weird smile, which was particularly terrifying.

Everyone was shocked!

Qingxu Zhenren led his eight junior disciples, and his face changed suddenly.

Among the locusts, there is a huge locust king, comparable to a giant python, swords, swords, halberds cannot be inserted, and even the Xuanyuan sword on the emperor's body is helpless.

Later, the Locust King was caught up to the top of the Star Picking Tower, the Nine Heavens, and was trapped by Qingxu Zhenren and his eight junior disciples with the Nine Palaces Exquisite Array, and he was trapped for fifteen years.

In June of that year, the appearance of flying snow and blood locusts caused rumors among the people that the Great Wei Emperor killed innocents in vain and caused the wrath of the heavens.

The rebels such as Gai Wu used this to incite more riots, and it took nearly a year for Emperor Tuoba Tao to lead a large army to quell the trouble.

Emperor Tuoba Tao thought about the terrible past, and his heart couldn't help but sink straight down.

"Let's go, let's see!" Tuoba Tao drank heavily, and followed the Xuanyuan Sword and rushed out of the Heart Cultivation Palace.

The locust king is like a white and fat baby sleeping dormantly, fifteen years have been peaceful, and now the wind and clouds have changed color, and the nine heavens of the Star Picking Tower are full of blood.

At this moment, Mu Cheng, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, had already rushed over with the Imperial Forest Army and the emperor's guards.

"Your Majesty, the Nine Heavens of the Star Picking Tower have faintly begun to shake, and there are many dangers, why don't you sit in the Heart Cultivation Hall and let the last general take someone up to take a look first?" Mu Cheng looked a little anxious and said.

"I am the true son of heaven, the incarnation of a true dragon, just a big worm, how can I be afraid of a worm?"

After Tuoba Tao finished speaking, with Mu Cheng and his personal guards of the Imperial Forest Army, everyone went straight to the commanding heights of the entire palace and even Pingcheng to pick up the top of the Star Tower, the Nine Heavens.

The star-picking building is nine floors high, just like the nine-fold sky, so the emperor will order the top of the nine-story floor as the nine-fold sky, climb on it, you can overlook the heaven, earth, rivers and mountains, you can pick the stars and the moon.

The construction process is even more ingenious, especially at night, when lanterns are hung layer by layer, and the lights are bright, like a delicate pagoda.

At this moment, on the ninefold heaven at the top of the Star Tower, the locust king who originally had a snow-white skin seemed to be a melting pot in his body at this moment, revealing red light, and then illuminating the heavens and the earth through its snow-white skin.

The locust king's skin appears white and red, and it is incomprehensibly beautiful.

The blood-red light and shadow make it impossible to get closer.

The thin and old Qingxu Zhenren and his eight junior disciples, they stood in the direction of the Nine Palaces, one by one with sword tricks in their hands, pointing directly at the Locust King, and their mouths were quickly chanting.

The locust king's huge body was already full and swollen to the peak realm, and it shook violently.

A few Qingxu real people breathed heavily, their faces were already pale, and their robes were blown by the strong wind.

And the Xuanyuan Sword swirled around the sky above, as if it was ready to fight at any time, in order to wash away the shame of being defeated by the Locust King.

The shaking became more and more violent, and the entire Star-Picking Tower was trembling, and the heavens and the earth were shaking.

"Stay!" Mu Cheng snorted.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ……”

A series of dense blades unsheathed sounded continuously, and eighteen janissaries formed a sword net array, ready to stand by at any time.

The Imperial Guards stood guard at the Emperor's side.

The locusts shook even more violently, as if the earth were shaking.

Crimson blood gushed out from the facial features of all the Daoists, as if an invisible air flow was squeezing them, and they seemed to be unable to control the locust any longer.

Qingxu Zhenren's face was already flushed at this moment, and the blood-soaked Dao robe on his body suddenly swelled sharply, as if he had exhausted his last strength to stop the Locust King's awakening.

"Accept heaven and earth in Gangqi!"

Qingxu Zhenren burst into applause, and all his juniors and disciples slapped their palms with him, and the qi was overwhelming, hitting the locust king in the air.

The locust king's blood light was like an iron wall, but all their qi was devoured back.

Pure and void real people, how much anger they played, how much damage they received.

All at once, they were all in pieces.

I could only hear a muffled snort from the real person, and finally spit out a mouthful of blood with a "poof", the whole person collapsed and fell to his knees, and his junior disciples fell to the ground even more in response.

Seeing this thrilling scene, Tuoba Tao suddenly changed color, looked at the locust king and scolded: "Evil obstacles, dare to cause harm to the world?!" ”

At this moment, a sudden change occurred, or as everyone expected.

"Jump! Jump! Jump! ”

"Whew! Shout! Shout! ”

I saw that the body of the locust king that shook violently suddenly burst like an earth-shattering explosion, and the blood arrows that burst out of the body were like delicate and crystal clear rubies, shooting towards everyone in the Nine Heavens.

The ruby in the sky is dazzling and dazzlingly beautiful.

"Escort!" Mu Cheng broke off with a snort.

Mu Cheng and more than a dozen Imperial Forest Soldiers had already drawn their swords and blocked the blood arrows in front of Tuoba Tao.

And the Xuanyuan Sword that was flying in the air also flew and sneered in the air, shooting down those blood arrows that shot towards Tuoba Tao.

But there were still guards and pure void real people, and they fell to the ground with blood arrows.

After a rain of blood arrows, the Locust King did not move for the time being, time seemed to stop, the air seemed to stop flowing, the heavens and the earth were silent, and even everyone's breath was closed, like the dead silence before the hurricane.

At this moment, everyone shuddered and was terrified, although they were frightened, the guards holding swords and the guards holding swords, there was no timidity on their faces, only absolute emotion.

"Slash!" Mu Cheng suddenly broke off and broke the dead silence.

With the determination to go back, accompanied by the sound of the guards' full exhalation, more than a dozen sharp blades slashed towards the locust king in front of him.

Brush Brush Brush Brush!

Every sword light was so fierce and powerful, cutting through the air, rushing into the blood light and slashing at the Locust King.

And the Royal Forest Army behind is ready for the next wave of sword net assassinations at any time.

Seeing that the blade of the Praetorian Guard was about to fall, the blood in the locust king's body suddenly churned rapidly, turning into a blood shadow stone that roared out like a shock, like lightning and flint through the guard's knife net, piercing directly into Tuoba Tao's face door!

"Escort!" Mu Cheng, who was guarding Tuoba Tao's side, and the Imperial Forest Army formed a sword net to protect Tuoba Tao in it.

The Blood Shadow shook its body, and the ruby arrows of blood shot at the Imperial Foresters, knocking out all the swords in their hands.

Tuobatao's Xuanyuan Sword also flew to resist, but it was also shot down by the indestructible strength of the blood shadow.

The guards in front of him suddenly turned around and formed a densely woven sword net to intercept the blood shadow.

The swirling blood shadow spewed thin gem blood arrows and shot down all the guards' swords, including Mu Cheng's remnant red sword.

The Blood Shadow shot down all the sharp weapons and didn't hurt anyone's lives, but it still stood in the air in front of Tuobatao.

Around it, blood arrows as dazzling as rubies were erected, densely packed like hedgehogs shaking thorns, ready to burst out anytime and anywhere.

The gemstone blood arrow is beautiful but creepy.

At this moment, everyone was left without weapons, staring at the bloody shadow in the air in horror.

"What the hell do you want?" Seeing that the blood shadow did not harm them, Tuoba Tao asked sharply, and then said, "As long as you don't bring disaster to the world, even if you want to die, what if you want to die?" ”

The blood shadow listened to Tuobatao's words, as if he was no longer angry, and the blood arrow that was as hard as a jewel stopped in the air, slowly softened, soft into blood beads, and the blood beads slowly fell in the air, and the blood shadow shook vigorously again, flapping its wings, and shaking off all the remaining blood on its body.

Everyone suddenly felt that their eyes lit up, and it was a huge silver-white butterfly.

The silver-white butterfly is light in color, with slender antennae, and the tiny scales of the butterfly's wings shimmer with dreamlike light, shining, and the beautiful thin shell on its head is like a little girl draped in a thin cicada feather scarf.

"Breaking out of the cocoon into a butterfly?" Tuoba Tao muttered, looking at the beautiful butterfly in front of him, he couldn't put it down.

In the Nine Heavens, except for the Qingxu Zhenren and all his junior disciples, he went all out to attack just now, and was shattered and vomited blood and died, and all the guards with blood arrows actually did not hit the vital point, but knocked them down.

Everyone looked at the silver butterfly in shock.

I saw the butterflies dancing, circling around the Nine Heavens, looking back at everyone, and then swaying their beautiful wings, flying out of the Nine Heavens and flying to the starry sky.

Peace returned to heaven and earth, as if nothing had ever happened.

"Your Majesty, that silver-white butterfly has no malice, otherwise we would not be spared." Mu Cheng bowed and said happily.

"Yes, it turns out that it has no malice, but it just wants to break out of its cocoon and become a butterfly." Tuoba Tao looked at the night sky with some nostalgia.

"Nothing you see tonight, not a word is leaked, lest the world spread false rumors, and the people's hearts are unstable, if there are any rumors about tonight, everyone, etc., will destroy the five tribes!" Tuoba Tao then said to all the humanity in the Nine Heavens.

"No, Your Majesty!" Everyone knelt down in fear and said yes.

In the second half of the night, Tuoba Tao dreamed of the silver-white butterfly again, dreaming that he turned into a black dragon and danced with the shining, sparkling silver-white butterfly in the nine heavens.

When he woke up the next day, he wiped off his cold sweat, walked out to look at the Star Picking Tower, and muttered:

"Zhuang Zhou dreams of butterflies, I don't know if he turned into a butterfly, or if the butterfly became himself."

Tuoba Tao pondered for a long time, and then passed on Mu Cheng, the commander of the Royal Forest Army, to come over and ask him to send someone to find two people to enter the palace.