As Duan Feng expected, the dark curtain that originally existed between the Extreme North Domain and the Human Realm had disappeared, and the death rate in the Extreme North Domain was much faster than he had imagined.

Everything in the human world has changed, although this was expected by Duan Feng, but it was beyond his expectations, and what shocked him the most was that the origin of all this came from his father.

Duan Feng stood on the wall of the imperial capital, looking outside the city, thousands of refugees poured into the imperial capital, and the double-layer city wall that stretched for three hundred miles was already covered with fire, thunder, wood and stone, and 200,000 city defense troops were fully armed and ready to fight.

"Actually, he is not your father at all, your father died ten years ago. Han Qing looked at Duan Feng and said.

This was another piece of news that Duan Feng had heard since returning from the Far North Domain, but it could not surprise him anymore, because the resurrection from his father's death to the rebellion of his army was enough to shock him.

He couldn't understand why his father, who was originally upright and loyal, would embark on the path of rebellion.

Immediately afterward, Han Qing told him his story, as well as the information he had heard these days.

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Ten years ago, on an autumn night, the cold rain washed over Xicheng, a small town eight hundred miles southeast of Phoenix, and people were immersed in the dream of a rainy night.

Suddenly, a thunderbolt swept through the sky above the town, Han Qing turned over, drilled into his mother's arms, and continued to sleep, although there was a small group of beasts outside, but the city lord of Phoenix City personally led the army to sit in southern Xinjiang this time, and had driven most of the beasts out of Nanhai County, leaving only some stragglers, which was not enough to pose a threat to the town.

Xicheng is a commercial town, and it is also prosperous because of commerce, thirty miles southwest of Xicheng is a gold mine, and the Han family, as the owner of the gold mine, naturally became the richest family in Xicheng and even the entire Nanhai County.

In the past, the base camp of every counterinsurgency was set up in Han Mansion, because of his meritorious contribution to assisting in counterinsurgency, and Han Qing's father Han Tong naturally became the new city lord of Xicheng as he wished, and the Han family gradually entered the political arena from the original business start, and this time is no exception.

"Click!"

There was another louder thunderclap, and the whole earth trembled, and the lightning lit up the night sky, and the beasts in the mountains and forests outside the city began to roar and roar out of their caverns, tearing and struggling at each other as if the end of the world.

The continuous lightning and thunder outside made the young Han Qing unable to fall asleep anymore, looking at his sleeping parents, Han Qing crept out of bed.

"Qing'er, why are you going?" Han Qing's mother sat up, rubbing her misty eyes and asked gently.

"Mother, I'm going to pee. Han Qing replied in a childish voice.

"Go and come back, it's cold outside, don't catch a cold. ”

"Hmm!"

Han Qing opened the door gently, a gust of cold wind mixed with damp water vapor rushed to his face, a thunderbolt flashed, and Han Qing suddenly shivered.

Han Qing stood on the steps of the door and was ready to pee, although he was only a hundred steps away from the latrine, he was used to standing at the door to pee, especially on a rainy day.

Suddenly, he noticed that there was a burst of white light coming from the backyard, and there was no thunder at this time, and the white light was not generated by lightning.

Han Qing covered his pajamas, looked in the room, his parents were asleep, he put on his robe, gently closed the door, and walked along the corridor towards the backyard.

The door of the backyard has been locked these days, because that is where Duan Tiande lives, and if you want to enter it, you can only go through the back door, but tonight, maybe it was the negligence of the staff on duty, and the gate was not locked.

Han Qing looked left and right, but there was no one guarding him, so he sneaked in.

There are seven houses in the entire backyard, three of the main house are inhabited by Duan Tiande's extremely personal guards, and the side rooms on both sides are inhabited by his cronies and generals.

At this time, it was pitch black in the side rooms on both sides, and the sound of snoring could be heard from inside through the sound of the rushing rain.

Although there were faint lights in the ear rooms on both sides of the main house, it was also silent, and Duan Tiande's personal guards were already asleep, and they were also indifferent to the rolling thunder outside.

There was only one room where Duan Tiande lived in the main room, and it was as bright as day, and Han Qing curiously approached the main house along the corridor on the right.

"Boom!"

A muffled thunder suddenly exploded directly above, followed by a dazzling lightning, Han Qing looked up at the sky with half-closed eyes, and several power grids crossed the thick dark clouds, which appeared unusually bright in the night sky.

Suddenly, Han Qing noticed that a bright cloud was slowly forming above the main house, and gradually the cloud formed a whirlpool that was spinning rapidly in the sky.

The white light in the house began to flicker with the melody of the whirlpool, and Han Qing leaned on the window of the main house with curiosity and stood on tiptoe to look in.

Duan Tiande was sitting cross-legged on the bed, his upper body was naked, although he was already sixty years old, the strong muscles on his body were beyond the reach of countless young people.

As the rotation speed of the vortex in the air accelerated, a white aura slowly appeared above Duan Tiande's head, and Han Qing looked at everything that happened in surprise.

"Whoosh!"

A black pillar of smoke shot out from the center of the vortex, passing through the roof and hitting Duan Tiande's head directly, completely shattering the white aura above his head.

"Poof!"

Duan Tiande suddenly vomited blood from his mouth and fell off the bed.

Han Qing screamed in surprise and immediately covered his mouth, he looked around in horror, fortunately the cry just now was covered by thunder.

Duan Tiande struggled to get up from the ground, but suddenly a puff of black smoke floated out from above his head, and the black smoke slowly transformed into a human form in front of him, and the person was covered in a layer of blood mist.

Duan Tiande struggled and stretched out his right hand to point at the man and tried to ask something, but the man didn't give him a chance to speak, but grabbed his heavenly spirit cover with his right hand, and then Duan Tiande only felt that the aura in his body was quickly absorbed, and he wanted to struggle and resist, but in that person's eyes, his little aura was insignificant, and he didn't even have the strength to struggle.

Han Qing watched everything silently, he wanted to escape, but his legs seemed to be filled with lead powder, and he couldn't move, he was glad that he had finished urinating just now, otherwise he would have to pee his pants now.

After a few seconds, Duan Tiande lay upright on the ground motionless, he was dead!Han Qing thought to himself, but he still couldn't move.

The man in the room stretched his muscles and bones, his eyes slightly closed, as if enjoying the aura he had just absorbed.

"It's been a million years, and it's finally out!" the man whispered to himself, "I'm back again!"

Han Qing stood motionless outside watching everything, suddenly the man looked back at the window, Han Qing squatted down violently and leaned against the wallboard, he could feel that he had seen himself, the man smiled wickedly at the window, and suddenly turned into a puff of black smoke and drilled into Duan Tiande's body.

The whirlpool in the sky had disappeared, leaving only a bright dark cloud, and the rain had gradually stopped, and the eastern sky had turned white, and the sound of five wooden sticks could be heard outside.

Han Qing stood up tremblingly and prepared to leave.

At this time, the door was suddenly opened, and Duan Tiande walked out of it, Han Qing didn't know how to face Duan Tiande at this time, but he looked like nothing had happened.

"Your name is Han Qing, right?" Duan Tiande was as kind as ever.

This made Han Qing suddenly feel that everything just now seemed to be a dream, and he nodded at a loss.

"What are you doing here?" Duan Tiande looked at the direction of the gate, smiled, and said angrily: "These minions, they forgot to lock the door again!"

"I'm going to pee. Han Qing said in a hurry.

"Peeing?" Duan Tiande laughed a few times, "Then are you done sprinkling?"

"Hmm!"

"Then go back to bed, see that you are so thinly dressed, don't catch a cold. ”

Han Qing seemed to get a life-saving straw, and escaped from Duan Tiande's clutches as if flying, he ran all the way, returned to his house, tied the door, and got into his mother's arms.

"Why has it been so long?" asked the mother gently, reaching out to hold him tight in her arms.

Han Qing was a little puzzled and a little scared, he didn't know whether to tell his mother what had just happened, maybe everything just now was really just a dream.

In the end, he still didn't tell his mother about it, because in the next few days of contact, he found that Duan Tiande was more kind than before, and as time went by, he felt more and more that what happened that night was a dream.

Duan Feng opened his slightly closed eyes, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke wafting from the battlefield in the distance.

"I always thought that my father's change in temperament was due to the sudden death of my mother ten years ago, and it seems that I was wrong. ”

Since ten years ago, Duan Feng has noticed that his father's temperament has begun to change slightly, and he is hot and cold to the relatives around him, especially in recent years.

"Who the hell is that person?" Duan Feng asked.

"According to my secret investigation over the years, I only know that it is an evil spirit from the ancient period, named the Evil Emperor, who was defeated by the Three Ancient Sages back then, and then disappeared, as for more information, I don't know. ”

"Ancient Evil Emperor?" Duan Feng nodded thoughtfully, "Does my eldest brother know about this?"

"I don't think I know, otherwise he wouldn't be alive today, and based on what I know about the Evil Emperor, he won't allow his secrets to be known to outsiders. If he hadn't erased my memory back then, I'm afraid I wouldn't be alive today. ”

"Then why did he lead the rebellion, and what good did it do him? If it is true, as you say, his target should be in the heavenly realm, which is where he hates. ”

"I think his purpose for launching a rebellion is the same as that of the Demon Venerable, both of them are coming to the Emperor's Tomb. ”

"Imperial Tomb?"

"Because the Emperor's Tomb is connected to the earth's veins of the human race, the aura of the human world comes from here, and there are hundreds of pure yang qi elements of the previous emperors placed in the emperor's tomb, if he can absorb these qi elements, coupled with the power of the earth's veins, he is fully capable of fighting against the gods of the heavenly realm. ”

"In this case, the Imperial Tomb is our last line of defense. ”

"That's why the emperor sent Ouyang Zhen to personally lead people to guard the emperor's mausoleum, but depending on the situation, it was difficult for him to defend it. ”

"You mean the Guards will be defeated?"

"This is an obvious thing, although the official army still has more than 800,000 troops, but more than 500,000 troops are pinned down in various battlefields, and 200,000 horses are consumed to defend the imperial capital, and only about 100,000 people really participate in the defense of the imperial tomb, how can they face the rebels and demon armies that are several times their own?"

"Can't you move the imperial tomb to the imperial capital?"

"It's too late, we don't have that time, the emperor has already ordered that once the situation is critical, the imperial capital will be abandoned, and every effort will be made to ensure the safety of the imperial tomb, as long as the emperor is still there, the veins of the earth will not be harmed, and the human race will still have hope of turning the tables. ”

"But once the imperial capital is abandoned, then the millions of people here will inevitably die. ”

"There is no way, everything can only depend on the will of God. ”

The two looked at the city together, there was a layer of dark clouds over the imperial capital, it was going to rain again, and millions of people were crowded in the narrow alleys, looking at the gray sky in confusion, their eyes were full of longing for life.