Chapter 1 Drizzle in the Clouds

As soon as it gets dark, it's time for every family to make a fire to cook, drink around the fire, and wrap their children around their knees.

However, at this time, the clouds in the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty were roaring angrily, and the black clouds were overwhelming. The leaves of the camphor trees on both sides of Qinglong Street were blown to the ground, and the candles in front of the windows of Wanjia were blown to pieces under the strong wind.

For a time, the strong wind emptied the alleys of the capital.

Rainstorm is coming......

"Boom-" An explosion sounded, illuminating the towering Zixiao Palace, the highest point in the clouds.

The entire palace complex, which looks peaceful on weekdays, is lonely at this time, like a wooden boat floating in the ocean.

After a while, the various parts of the "wooden boat" - Qiankun Palace, Jingtai Palace, Longlin Palace, Wanshou Garden, Imperial Garden, Splendid Palace, Longshen Palace...... All of them were immersed in the torrential rain, and even more violent invasions appeared one after another, so that the wind lifted the beams, the rain poured into the courtyard, and the hail slaughtered the flowers......

Zixiao Palace was in shambles.

The moat, which is known as one of the nine views of the capital, is not calm at all, and the moat is urged by the heavy rain as if it is blooming.

On the walls of the moat, the Golden Armor Imperial Forest Army stood in line in the rain, drenched in a row of towering statues.

"Click-" Another lightning bolt exploded.

The lightning split the sky. Seeing the clouds and the moon, the sound of prayer was heard in mid-air.

The sound of prayer and the screaming of torrential rain and wind came to the eardrums of the people......

The entire capital was kept in the dark. In midair, there were many ghosts, but no one could see them on the ground. The monotonous, high-pitched prayer is so brainwashed that no one on the ground can hear it......

Except for one person.

Queen Xi Nan moved her bulky body and looked up from the window of the Splendid Palace, and in addition to the sound, she also saw images in mid-air......

Where the thunderstorm went, between the high clouds, the wildfires were gaining momentum, and circles of believers knelt on the clouds. The sound of prayer came and went, and the sound continued to grow, forming a huge vortex of energy that was surging higher than the other.

In the center of the whirlpool, a huge fire phoenix was perched on a pile of crackling pine trees, and in the midst of the fireworks, the flaming fire phoenix flapped its wings and struggled, scuffled and tore, and let out a scream......

A girl was naked, perched on another pile of pine trees next to her, looking desperately at the burning phoenix next to her. The girl's eyes were burning, and she showed a look of compassion for solidarity.

At this moment, a white-haired old man stood in front of the fire in mid-air.

His facial tattoos and age spots add a gloomy complexity to his already hideous face. The long shadow of the old man on the clouds was like a mirror reflecting a bottomless hole, and when it shone in the bleak sky, it made people shudder, and they did not know what to do, and fell into it at once.

He is the "God of Fire" back to Wu......

This time, Wu's chanting was like a mantra, which made the queen's heart palpitate and her brain exploded......

He staggered, step by step, to the high platform opposite the fire. With the blessing of the believers, Hui Wu sucked and tore off one of the bare wings of the phoenix from the fire.

The wings were dripping with blood and sparking, gradually burning into a cluster of large torches.

On the high platform, under the gaze of the crowd, Hui Wu raised a "bare wing" high above his head.

As the incantation became more and more wild, he raised his hand to the heavens, and loudly invited the power in the sky, and called for the coming of the power with a voice of prayer.

In the clouds, for a time, the sound of prayer was confusing, and the light thunder shook the mountain...... The sound dispelled the clouds and mist higher in the sky, revealing a blood-like glow at the zenith.

Against the backdrop of the glow, the sky that had been washed changed abnormally.

It turned out that in the depths of the glow, the "power" fruit was really awakened little by little......

The phoenix light wings in Hui Wu's hand pointed straight into the sky, and in the darkness, the light emitted by the light wings actually polished the edge of the universe.

The wind is fierce, the prayer is intensified, and the wave of sorrow has no beginning and no end...... At the end of the zenith, the "might" is bubbling in because of this call.

In the clouds, the circle formed by the devotees began to shrink and shrink again by the activation of the "great power" of the zenith, and slowly moved closer to the light wings in Hui Wu's hand.

The arms of the believers were all placed on Hui Wu, and all hands raised Hui Wu high.

At this time, the bare wings raised by Hui Wu were all burning due to the sound of prayers. It seems that this mysterious and powerful prayer array is emitting scorching "wings of fire".

In the center of the Wings of Fire, the light wings in Hui Wu's hand hissed violently, and with the energy of prayer, they rushed into the sky.

High in the sky, the wings of light met the "great power" that was rushing towards the zenith, and the "great power" absorbed the scorching light of the wings and formed an arrow of fire.

Faced with this magnificent scene in the sky, the believers gathered in a circle in the clouds knelt down and buckled their heads.

The mighty arrow of fire grows and descends, roaring and greedily picking its favorite target, and then, mercilessly, projecting a "waterfall of light" downward, instantly burning the chosen believer into a skeleton.

The mighty arrow of fire swelled with satisfaction from the sacrifice of its victims, and the dying screams of the chosen believers did not deter the believers, but encouraged them to worship and pray more frantically.

The believer who turned into a skeleton in an instant condensed into a stream of light, and the energy of this light slowly rose with the waterfall of light projected by the arrow of fire, and was swallowed by the arrow of mighty fire.

As a result, the arrows of fire continued to descend from the waterfall of light, constantly sucking the light and shadow of the believers, and then growing and growing again......

As the shattered skeleton flew in the air, the mighty sword of fire rolled and roared in the air, picking up new objects among the faithful, and in a moment it began to fly over the fire where the naked girl was.

The waterfall of light launched by the arrow of fire also followed......

"Stop-"

In a hurry, she forgot that she was pregnant with a weak body, and she didn't care whether this was a virtual image or a real existence, so she resolutely drank out the sword technique, and in an instant, the sword flew into the sky, trying to prevent the powerful light from moving towards the girl.

As soon as the sword light touched the light waterfall, the light waterfall followed the sword light and chased directly to the sword body in the queen's hand, and the sword body suddenly collapsed and shattered, and was burned into a stream of sword water.

The sword water fell to the ground, smashing the entire outside the window of the Splendid Palace into a small pool.

Hui Wu above the clouds was furious.

He pointed to the queen on the ground, and although the incantation he recited was incomprehensible, it made the listener worse than dead at the moment it reached his ears.

Under the guidance of the god of fire, all the believers chanted in unison, and the prayer of the queen to death was maliciously struck......

The mighty Arrow of Fire was enraged, and it did not like to be stopped from being devoured.

The waterfall of light of the mighty arrow of fire turned to chase after the queen, and the arrow of fire emitted a strong pillar of light. As soon as the waterfall shone on, the torrential rain above the Splendid Palace turned into a heat wave, and all the doors and windows of the Splendid Palace were burned into glass for a while, and the maids who sheltered from the rain, cooked, and sprinkled all turned into pieces of hot ash.

Ji Nan rolled over and hid under the bed, however, the waterfall of the fire arrow still accurately penetrated the big bed and hit her......

"Ah——" In the burning pain, Xinan gradually began to melt......

She was unwilling to let her baby die with it, and before she died, the queen stubbornly looked at the mid-air Hui Wu.

Just as Ji Nan was about to close his eyes and enter the realm of yin and yang, the girl who was tied to the fire in the clouds had been caught by the light waterfall of the fire arrow, and the girl's bones turned into a drop of amber directly in the flames.

Without waiting for the mighty fire arrow to digest this crystal amber tear, when the fire arrow tried to refine the queen, this tear actually wrapped the fire phoenix's remaining bare wings in the fire, and then flew directly.

The girl's amber tears fell straight into the clouds with bare wings.

Amber tears passed through the clouds, through the air waves, and drilled into Nan's navel as she was dying.

In the body, the fetus, which has been pregnant for several months, seems to be awakened. She trembled as she was struck, and the last of her senses seemed to hear the fetal heartbeat, which was becoming stronger and more powerful because of the amber tears that flowed into the fetus.

From then on, the queen held her breath and left......

"Whew-"

A figure like a crane came from the road of heaven.

The old man's long sleeves were like the wind, he waved hard, and immediately, above the rainstorm, between the clouds, there were no shadows!

Queen Xi Nan was awakened by the light of the old man's jade bottle. She struggled to see that everything around her was empty, and everything was silent.

The torrential rain was still pouring down, and the trees in the city in the clouds had been watered and the houses had collapsed. However, it seemed that no one but the queen saw or heard the scene above the clouds.

At this time, even Ji Nan himself couldn't believe the scene just now, look! Above the clouds, where is there any fire god Hui Wu and his followers, there are no sacrificed girls at all, let alone fire arrows and light waterfalls......

The old man's voice came from high in the sky: "Where is the Taoist priest who planted peaches, Liu Lang came again in the past and ...... today."

"Heavenly Master!" Ji Nan sighed.

"Today's events have not ended, and the fragments of the 'Primal Light' have been captured and imprisoned by the dark forces, and are being changed to 'Maniac Power' by the evil thoughts of prayer. ”

The old man pondered for a long time, his face was worried, and he said, "At this time, the dark forces are still pouring in from the windows of the past, searching for the 'Primal Light' everywhere. What you just saw was that they came through the eye of the sea and caught the fragments of the 'First Light'...... Alas, what a menacing menacing!"

"So, what are we going to do?" asked Nan weakly and eagerly.

"I used my thousand-year-old soul power to send them back to the dark abyss at the edge of the universe today, but that doesn't mean that the matter has been resolved. ”

"Heavenly Master, haven't you been to the Upper Realm for a long time?" said Yinan with a painful salute.

"It's good to die before you can go to the other side of the upper realm. I am not going to die well. What's more, I have unfinished business in my heart, and it is inconvenient for me to go to the other side. Besides, is there really a place in the universe that can be pinned on? I only want to be uncrowned, to be a wandering spirit, to guard one side, and to guard against the invasion of dark forces at all times. ”

"Why is the image of the Celestial Master dissipating?" said Nan unbearably.

"Every time I fight, it will shorten the time limit for me to stay in the Gengming Continent. Eventually, I will be as silent as a bubble, ignorant and ignorant...... However, don't panic, you know, I have you, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves......"

"Heavenly Master—please forgive me for offering the Divine Pill. Ji Nan pouted sadly.

"What am I doing, what am I doing? The tassels are scattered and the grass is gone. "The Celestial Master didn't take the Divine Pill, and his shadow continued to fade......

"Don't dissipate—" pleaded the queen sadly.

A sharp pain that cracked his heart and lungs interrupted Xi Nan's words......

When she opened her eyes again, it was already early in the morning.

The rainstorm has stopped, but there is a mess in Zixiao City. For some reason, there are fewer maids, fewer doors and windows. What's even worse is the imperial garden in front of the palace, which has now become a large pond with scattered objects.

However, the major events in Zixiao Palace today are not in flood control and renovation of the palace, but in waiting for the production of Queen Yinan.

In the splendid palace, at this time, the palace maids and imperial doctors lined up outside the window.

The queen looked tired, and she said weakly, "Go and tell the king, there are signs." ”

"No. ”

......

Heavy rain overnight caught a city in the clouds off guard.

Early in the morning, officials from the Ministry of Rites personally visited and inspected Qinglong Avenue, the north and south city gates, and the shops and markets, and assisted in the work related to road leveling, repairing private houses, dredging waterways, and rectifying shipping affairs......

Now, as soon as the sun comes out, Cloudsdale is like a pretty girl who has just woken up, just combing her hair slightly and washing her face, and she will immediately become bright and beautiful again.

A middle-aged man wearing a short dress with a round neck embroidered golden dragon on the right side, a sword tied around his waist, and a snow leopard leather boot with a thousand layers of auspicious cloud pattern was riding a fast horse, accompanied by several attendants. His forehead was quite high, his face was slightly dark, his eyes were blazing, and there was a hint of fortitude between his eyebrows.

This group of people and horses walked lightly from the south gate into Beijing and went straight to the direction of Qinglong Street.

The sky was changeable, the sun was cloudy, and it had just cleared up for a morning, when the drizzle began to fall again.

The middle-aged man and his entourage passed through the Hong Kong Transport Mansion and the Zhigen Hall, passed through the Xiande Academy, and then passed through Tianhe City, where the shops were densely packed, but they saw that along the way, the Liyang Zhumadian, the century-old tailor shop, the Cultivation and Reading Bureau, and the Mao'er Hutong shops and residences were all covered with a layer of light mist.

In the drizzle, there are not many pedestrians on the street, and the fallen flowers of last night have not been swept away.

The middle-aged man walked around looking at the flowers, his mood was extremely happy, and his expression was flying.