The imperial capital Tianji Pavilion stands on the small Purple Mountain.

The Little Purple Mountain is the highest place in the imperial capital, standing on the nine-story white jade stone steps of the Tianji Pavilion and looking at it, the entire Apocalypse City spreads out in all directions at the foot, with avenues and energy towers, stretching blocks until the end of the horizon.

Brilliant and prosperous.

Weiyang Palace is located in the south, like a horizontal heavy sniper, lying quietly in the center of the city. Looking down from the air, the palace pavilions are undulating, the flowers and trees are sparse, and it is like a snake swimming in the fog.

Tianji Pavilion is an important place in the empire, and when there is no ceremony, the top of the mountain and Tianji Pavilion are completely closed. Even those who served the imperial family only lived in the halls at the foot of the mountain.

The afternoon sun shone on the long stairs leading to the top of the mountain, the square that housed the grand festival ceremony of all the gate valve families of the empire, and the nine-story and twenty-seven-story Tianji Pavilion, which was as silent as a picture of frozen time.

On the seventh ground floor is a spacious hall with no partitions and floor-to-ceiling windows on all sides. Except for a set of sofas at the exit of the central elevator, there is no other furniture, which shows that this floor is mostly used for temporary rest.

There is a reclining chair by the long window on the south side, made of bamboo, and the style is ordinary, which is the kind used by ordinary people to enjoy the cool in summer, which is incompatible with the layout of the whole hall.

At this moment, the sun is the most abundant time of the day, and a faint layer of light is reflected on the white hair of the man on the chaise longue, but if you look closely, it can't hide the gray between the hair. The decay under the peak is even more shocking.

Suddenly, a ray of sunlight flickered, and a virtual image slowly rose in the shadows cast on the ground, slowly condensing the form of Habs.

The portrait was lifelike, standing a few meters away, quietly looking at Lin Xitang sleeping on a recliner.

The inside and outside of the Tianji Pavilion are still silent.

It wasn't until the Force sundial skipped two squares that Lin Xitang opened his eyes, and there was still a tiredness between his eyebrows that had not been completely smoothed. He first looked at the scenery outside the long window, and suddenly he realized that his eyes moved to meet Habs.

Habs bowed slightly and said, "Marshal Lin, good afternoon." ”

Lin Xitang leaned on the recliner and didn't move, and said with a cold expression: "Don't dare to be, His Royal Highness the Blood Prince...... Or already a courtesy of His Majesty the Maharaja. ”

Habs smiled and shook his finger, "It's just a high-dimensional projection, and it can only be positioned ten meters around the medium. Far from being comparable to the power of Her Majesty Lilith, Queen of the Night. ”

The so-called medium used for positioning should refer to the old blood wound in Lin Xitang's body, but Habs said it lightly, and the level of power contained in it has surpassed the understanding of most people.

This kind of doppelganger, even if it is only a splitting technique, only exists in legends, and the two-way interaction in front of you means that there are more profound spatial laws and manipulations inside. Compared to Wei Guogong's Infinite Heaven Determination and other transcendent insight techniques, the difference between the two is as big as the difference between a land block and an enclave.

Lin Xitang had no intention of arguing, for a long time, the depth of this blood prince's power had never been clarified even within the Blood Clan and the Eternal Night Council. "This is the capital of the Great Qin Emperor, the source of dawn, and even the Queen of Night has never set foot in it. ”

Habs laughed and said, "Isn't the Heavenly Machine still the dawn of eternal night? If it weren't for the Void Force here, I wouldn't have been able to appear." ”

Lin Xitang lowered his eyes slightly, and a trace of imperceptible coldness flashed in his eyes. There is a special Force Circle on the top of the Heavenly Machine Pavilion, and it is indeed the Void Force. However, the Heavenly Machine Pavilion is the foundation of the Empire's Heavenly Machine Technique, and the situation here is not only top secret, but also limited to a few Heavenly Machine Masters, how did Habs know about it? Even if he guessed, how could he be so risky before he confirmed it?

Habs is a smart person, and he knows what Lin Xitang may have thought of, he has no intention of conflicting with Lin Xitang on this matter, and changes the topic, "You should already know a piece of news, and there will be an opportunity to open the door to a new world in the near future." The pattern of the Council of Eternal Night may have changed dramatically, and the jihad was originally on the verge of breaking out, but it was also stopped indefinitely because of this matter. ”

Lin Xitang listened quietly, his expression was still cold, and he had no expression.

Habs paused suddenly, frowned, and said, "You don't feel the new world." He used an affirmative sentence.

Lin Xitang said lightly: "The strength is less than ......"

Habs interrupted him very abruptly, "The prophets of the eternal night have never had a king, and the celestial warriors of the human race have no kings, if the time of your race for a thousand years is too short, but the demons were born with this world, and even the born prophet Nightmare of Radiance does not have a king. You have never broken through, are you unable to break through, or will you lose your ability once you become a Heavenly King? So, you are not willing to break through?"

Lin Xitang stared, looked at Habs for a while, and said, "Your Highness Habs, this is what you are here today?"

Habs's gentle expression retracted at some point, and in the shadows of the sun, his typical appearance of an ancient clan of blood was particularly angular.

He let out a long sigh of relief and said, "I'm here to say goodbye to you." When the doors of the new world are opened, I will go, and it will be a call from the Source that cannot be resisted. ”

Lin Xitang nodded and said, "Goodbye." "He will not give blessings to the enemy, even if it is just hypocrisy.

Habs's gaze returned to calm, and the figure slowly blurred, finally merging into the light and disappearing.

The short conversation seemed to make Lin Xitang very tired, he closed his eyes, but he couldn't fake sleep.

Habs's three or two sentences reveal a lot of information. The Holy War has never stopped within the Eternal Night camp, and this is a limited number of explicit stops, which is definitely not a good thing for the Empire, which means that the Terrans will be fully contained again. And that mysterious new world is not sure what kind of changes will bring, and when Habs speaks of summoning, he uses the word origin rather than blood.

In the void, a small, bloodline-style high-speed boat is slowly moving in a circular motion around an anchor point, with no recognizable markings on the exterior of the hull. The captain stood in the control room, staring incessantly at the Force instruments, his expression almost nervous. This location is too close to Qin Lu, the central land of the Great Qin Empire.

The hatch door was pulled open from the outside, and a voice came in, "Back to the mothership." The captain recognized it as the Marquis Linnard, a close attendant of Prince Habs, and set sail as fast as he could, if he had been granted amnesty.

Linald made a cup of coffee and brought it into the main cabin. Habs sat in a large and comfortable armchair, flipped through a few pieces of secret documents in crystal in his hand, and ordinary parchment documents were piled up in the corner of the table, which should have been all processed.

The captain and crew didn't know why His Royal Highness the Prince had a whim and stayed in the outer skies of Qinlu for two hours, but Linnad knew. Yet even he could not see when Habs's consciousness had left and when it had returned. However, they stayed in this place for a bit longer, and it was already slightly longer than the scheduled time.

Linald put the coffee cup in Habs's hand, "Your Highness, when we get back to the mothership, we'll go straight back?"

"You go back to the Twilight Continent with the mothership. ”

"Yes. Linald was a little surprised, but didn't ask much.

"Where is the latest location of Zhang Boqian, the king of Qingyang?"

"I just know that I am not in the empire at the moment. Linnard explained in embarrassment: "In the latest round of mobilization on the floating land, there is no Maharaja to participate in the war, so I don't know much about Zhang Tianwang's whereabouts. "The traces of the Heavenly King are extremely difficult to trace, Zhang Boqian has no fixed land area to sit in, and if he does not go to war, even the Great Qin Military Department may not know where he is.

The Habs were unconcerned about the situation on the land, and the Sbork clan, like Nana's Mammon clan, rarely participated in faction warfare, and spent most of their time on the battlefield of jihad. He nodded in understanding.

Seeing that he had no more orders, Lynard bowed and bowed, and exited the door.

In the Tianji Pavilion, the sunlight moved slowly, and finally gathered into a small point of light at the end of the chaise longue, and dusk was approaching.

The central elevator emits the gentle roar of the tracks, followed by the sound of a group of well-trained footsteps, lifting tables and chairs, placing objects, and so on.

Lin Xitang didn't look back, his eyes still stayed outside the floor-to-ceiling window for a long time, watching the twilight render the city. The person who came was the imperial palace attendant who was in charge of his diet and daily life, three times a day, and it had been repeated for many days, so familiar that he didn't need to pay attention to it at all.

The elevator started again, making a downward roar, and the attendants, as usual, left after setting up their meals, without saying a word.

Lin Xitang raised his right palm, which had been on the armrest, to his eyes, this simple action, he did very slowly and hard, like holding a heavy object. If you look closely, your pale skin is covered with an almost transparent blue glow, and your fingertips are slightly purple, like the ice of the permafrost.

He grasped it with his five fingers, stretched it out again, and then pressed the armrest to try to stand. A pair of hands suddenly stretched out next to him, supporting Lin Xitang's arms and back, and slowly helped him up from the recliner.

"Your Majesty?" Lin Xitang was taken aback.

"Lin Qing is not in good health, and this place is not the outside world, so all etiquette is waived. ”

Lin Xitang turned his head to look at it, the supreme of the Great Qin Empire was wearing a samurai uniform with materials and styles that were all from the road, and his aura was almost empty, looking no different from the civilians walking on the streets of the imperial capital.

The two sat down facing each other at the small dining table.

Emperor Hao said: "Today, Xiao Nineteen came to ask for homework, and he was talking about astronomical training, the fall of the Void Valley Star. I suddenly remembered that Lin Qing was the first prince to speak, and this was what he said in the first lesson. ”

Lin Xitang glanced at the contents of the dishes and the regulations of the tableware on the table, and did not make a sound.

The meal was used quickly, the two of them turned to the sofa next to them, and Emperor Hao cooked tea by himself, which was a compulsory course for all the children of the family. After a while, the aroma lingers, and the blue tea soup is as clear as the azure sky.

"The ginkgo seeds of the whirlpool and the lotus seeds of the sea are boiled together, and the effect is not easy to say, but the taste is excellent. ”

Lin Xitang took a sip, and sure enough, a breath of fresh air penetrated the top of his head, and then there were wisps of hot air in all his limbs, and his hands and feet, which had been stiff all day, seemed to begin to slowly soften.

He warmed the teacup in his palm, and suddenly asked: "The boss of the East Road in that plan, Your Majesty has finally decided whether the king of Linjiang or the eldest princess of Haimi." ”

Emperor Hao watched the tea soup pour into the cup, and replied flatly: "Sister Haimi Emperor." Then he went on to say, "The war has begun." ”

Lin Xitang's hand holding the teacup trembled obviously, and Emperor Hao put a new cup of tea in front of him.

"Minister, please go back to Beifu. ”

"The court has been in a mess lately, and no one can come here, so it's just the right time to recuperate. ”

"Tianji Pavilion is an important place in the empire, and the minister has been here for nearly a month, so it's not appropriate to break the rules too much. ”

"Lin Qing doesn't know here.

There was silence in the room.

Emperor Hao didn't move, concentrated on tasting tea, drank a lamp, put down the empty cup and stood up before saying: "Even if it is only for the interests of the empire, Lin Qing has to live." As for the war, it is a battle at one time and one place, and the gains and losses are only a number. ”

He bent down and stretched out his hand to Lin Xitang and said, "I'll send the teacher upstairs to rest." ”