Spring and autumn, alternating.

I didn't realize that three years had passed since the emperor came out of the mountain.

Three years,

Mirror Lake has not changed,

On the contrary, it has become a pure land,

Many people who seek peace of mind come to settle here.

A stone monument was erected in front of the Mirror Lake.

The inscription contains a poem.

At this time, the old man was caressing the stone tablet and reciting softly:

"There are immortals in Jiangnan, who are independent and left behind. Blowing the wind and calming the tsunami, waving the demons. Ten steps to slaughter a Jiao, red blood and white crane clothes. After the dust, it is hidden in the west of the mirror lake. ”

After reciting, he was silent for a long time, wiped his tears, and obviously felt something.

Then, the old man turned and walked towards the Immortal Temple by the lake.

There is a jade statue in the shrine.

The jade statue is a young man's appearance, carved very mighty, and his eyes are as calm as the deep sea.

The long hair was green and white and hung down behind him, tied with his hair, and he stood with a black and white sword in both hands.

In the Ancestral Hall of Eternal Life, there are many people who bow to the incense.

The first is a person who has received favor like an old man, the second is a person who has read the Ten Thousand Dharma Scrolls and happens to pass by here, and the third is a person who prays for peace.

The old man trembled and lit three pillars of incense, inserted it in the bronze tripod in front of the jade statue, and bowed three times.

As he moved, the fragrance curled, rising upward, bathing in the body of the jade statue, and it was even more set off by the immortal as in the clouds, out of the dust and mighty.

After the old man worshiped the jade statue, he was full of gloom in addition to the Immortal Temple.

He was worried that now that the chaos had broken out, the war between the north and the south was in full swing.

And the northern army is far more powerful than you can imagine, ordinary northland soldiers can use their knives to cut out flames, cut out wind blades, and walk on water...

These things that used to be extraordinary now seem to have become commonplace.

It's simply unimaginable.

And half a year ago, the first large-scale battle between the north and the south, the "Battle of Hengjiang", broke out.

In this battle, the Southern Dynasty, as the "Great Zhou", was defeated by the "Northern Shang".

The old man heard that he said,

In the Battle of the Hengjiang River,

Suddenly it didn't look like the battle of the past.

The water of a hundred miles in the middle of the river rose into the air, drifted for thousands of miles, and then fell from the sky, directly drowning the army on the side of the Great Zhou.

And in the midst of this flowing water, three giant shadows covering the sky came from the north, wielding a devastating attack, directly killing the 200,000 troops on the front line of the Great Zhou.

On the side of Da Zhou, of course, there were fierce generals, but they were defeated in the end.

The old man sighed.

Yokoe Castle was the largest castle in Omi in the Southern Dynasties.

The loss of this city means that the northern army can no longer be limited by the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, and can cross the river to garrison troops, and then wave the army south.

...

...

Zongdong City.

It is the second big city of the Southern Dynasties more than 1,000 miles away from Hengjiang City, and it is also an important hub for military and commerce.

At this point,

The city was a little chaotic and solemn.

The sound of patrols and the noise of scales colliding with armor rang out from time to time, making it impossible for people to sleep peacefully.

Just lie down for a while, and you can hear the dense sound of horses' hooves coming from afar.

And if you go to the streets for a short while, you will hear many sighs and sighs from the people, and even your mood will become depressed.

Maybe the situation is not so bad, but the defeat of Hengjiang Castle obviously really hit the hearts of the people.

However, the presence of the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty has aroused the hearts of the people.

Otherwise, it may have been a complete failure.

At this point...

The palace, the side hall study.

Lu Miaomiao wore a bear-eared cloak and added some oil to the green lantern.

The flames jumped, casting a figure, a bear shadow on the wall, flickering and dimming.

"Uncle..."

Lu Miaomiao ran behind Xia Ji and grabbed the more and more gray hairs in his green silk with her hand, but she didn't count them.

Xia Ji said: "There are more gray hairs, right?"

Lu Miaomiao said: "No, no, it's a lot less." ”

Xia Ji said: "Miaoyu, why don't you go to the south or go back to the family by yourself, the enemy in the north is much stronger than you imagined, and it is really turbulent, I am afraid that I will not be able to protect you." Although the uncle has some skills, he is not invincible in the world. ”

Lu Miaomiao said: "Are you driving me away?" or do you think I'm useless?"

Xia Jiqi said: "Don't you like to play outside, there's nothing fun here." ”

Lu Miaomiao said: "I'm not a child anymore, I'm nineteen years old." ”

She was a little reluctant to give up this uncle.

Over the years, I have really had feelings.

If there were other people around the uncle, she might have left, but now that the uncle is alone, how could she abandon him?

Xia Ji didn't persuade anymore, he continued to look at the books in front of him, only by constantly reading books, constantly absorbing skill beads, and then fusing these skill beads with great understanding, he would become stronger and stronger.

Hundreds of rivers return to the sea, and finally come because there is living water in this river.

If you are complacent, you will stagnate.

No matter how things change in the world, it is enough for you to keep getting stronger as fast as you can.

Therefore, although he was stationed in this city with the army, the books of the Jinghu study were carried by dozens of cars and transported with the army.

Wherever he goes, the books go.

Xia Ji looked at the book, pondering from time to time, from time to time with words in his mouth, and from time to time he raised his pen and put down the pen, as if adding some annotations, and then turned the next page.

Lu Miaomiao leaned over to look at it, only to see that the words on the book were obscure, just a glance, and she determined that "this is a book that will make people sleepy", maybe when she has insomnia, she can ask her uncle to borrow two books to read.

Suddenly, the candle flame flickered without warning.

Xia Ji shook his head, "Miaoyu, you come with me, there are assassins." ”

Lu Miaomiao let out an "oh" and went with Xia Ji.

In the distance, in the lights.

The palace guards were carefully patrolling.

In the palace lives the current "Emperor of the Great Zhou" Ji Xuan, as well as the "Emperor" Feng Nanbei.

the battle between the North and the South,

The Great General, the Hidden Monarch, the National Teacher, and the Wen Capital clashed with the north from different levels.

However, the emperor is always by the emperor's side, one is for teaching, and the other is for protection.

Although there is an emperor, these guards are also extremely careful.

As for the careless soldiers, they have long since died.

The Assassins of the Northland possess strange abilities, even ordinary soldiers can suddenly burst out with a strength far beyond the soldiers, let alone the Assassins?

At this time, a team of patrol guards was passing through the north gate with their swords in hand, and just around the corner,

Before he could react, he saw some black shadows in the shadows of the blind corner of the lights.

Those dark shadows are very secretive, and they come very suddenly.

And the moment it appeared, the cold light also appeared.

With a flash of luster, the dagger poked straight into the guards' foreheads, so as not to stain the guards' uniforms, after all, they would have to wear them later, lurking deeper to poison and so on.

But they couldn't do it.

A wind came from afar, blowing the Assassins away from their place.

The Assassins couldn't even control their shape, staggering a few steps further before stopping.

The assassins knew that a master was coming, and they didn't stay long, and one of them plunged into the shadows.

But the wind struck again, this time sucking the Assassins out of the shadows and landing on the light, seven in all.

The seven men tried to move again, but they felt a terrifying power coming from a distance, enveloping the place, making them like unarmed children being targeted by a beast, and did not dare to move.

The guards walked around the gate before the gate closed, and finally reacted, each grabbing a torch and a long sword in hand, and hurriedly surrounded the seven assassins.

At the same time, one of the guards shouted, "Someone, there are assassins!!"

More and more guards rushed to the area, encircling the seven Assassins on three floors inside and three on the outside.

The Assassins apparently agreed, looking into the distance, but they couldn't see anything, much less who had struck.

Suddenly, the assassin at the head shouted, "But the Great Zhou Emperor?!"

No one responded.

The assassin roared: "The unification of the north and the south can fight against the demon robbery, my lord is wise, wielding six million troops, if the emperor has a merciful heart, why not promote unification?"

Still no one responded.

The seven assassins had obviously awakened the bloodline that could get close to the shadows, and without the shadows, they were only a little stronger than the guards, but they were not much stronger, not to mention that in the case of a large number of people, the speed of the attack was no longer important.

The guards quickly confronted the seven Assassins, killing them one by one.

Distance

Xia Ji had already waved his sleeves and left, and he had already solved too many assassinations like this.

Lu Miaomiao followed behind him.

The two returned to the study in the side hall, and Lu Miaomiao yawned.

Xia Ji said: "You go to sleep." ”

Lu Miaomiao: "Uncle, don't stay up late." You're forty years old. ”

Although he is forty, this emperor has not yet broken through the eleventh realm, nor has he awakened any bloodline, even if the Lu family has sent fire and helped him in various ways, he still can't awaken.

If you can't awaken the bloodline, you can't break through the eleventh realm, let alone enter the peak of the eleventh realm, and break free from the mortal life wheel.

In other words, the uncle's longevity is still more than 100 years old.

Forty, it's really not young anymore.

Xia Ji said: "I'll sleep in a while." ”

"What a bad uncle. Lu Miaomiao was helpless and ran over to sleep.

Xia Ji sat in the study.

Slowly,

The books I have read are piled up in mountains and cast into shadows.

After a little thought, he took out a blank scroll, thought about it carefully, and wrote four big characters on the scroll: "Confucianism and Taoism in the World".

Confucianism and Taoism are the law of governing the world and the law of using soldiers.

What he has learned now is unbridled, and the methods of Confucianism are also stacked with more than 10,000 people, and at this time, he has a feeling in his heart, and he has decided to write a third exercise and spread it to the world.

In this world, the strongest thing about Confucianism and Taoism lies in the method of using soldiers.

Therefore, this "Confucianism and Taoism in the World" is biased towards the way of using soldiers.

But after he finished writing these four words, he seemed to be very dissatisfied, so he added four words at the end: The benevolent are invincible.

In the distance, there was a movement of the guards changing shifts.

He wrote for a while, pushed the door and looked, the bright moon had passed the middle of the day, and now it was early in the morning.

The night of the heavenly steps is as cool as water, and the white hair shines on 3,000 zhang.

...

...

Spring goes and autumn comes.

The forces on the side of the Southern Dynasties were actually not weak, but they were stunned at first.

The generals of the Shen family, the national teachers of the Zhou family, the Yinjun of the Wu family, and the head of the Lu family quickly brought the situation into balance.

Both sides, soldier against soldier, general against general.

On both sides of Zongdong City and Hengjiang City, I don't know how many roads and how many cities have been divided, and the attacks are endless.

The family also reacted, and in addition to being shocked, they sent someone to the north to directly take down Na Lu Xian.

But they soon find out that something is wrong...

Because their people couldn't even get close to Lu Xian.

It has been more than 20 years since the fire disaster.

It has been nearly ten years since the publication of the "Ten Thousand Law Scrolls".

And these two things bring about change, and that's earth-shattering.

This is a vast general trend, rolling from the north, although the family has magic weapons, but it can no longer interfere too much.

So, the Lu family wanted to question the teacher of the Confucian Eight Wonders why he tried his best to help Lu Xian.

But they failed again, the old man was hiding in the barracks of a million soldiers, with eight disciples to help, and it was impossible for any spies to infiltrate the Chinese army.

The family is not even seen.

At this time, the family finally thought of asking the ancestor for help.

But the Ancestor...

No response.

The family panicked a little.

...

...

Xia Ji didn't panic at all.

At this point, he sat firmly in the carriage.

The carriages were lined up in a convoy, surrounded by soldiers, and headed for Xiaowan City, three hundred miles north of Zongdong City.

The carriage headed by Ji Xuan naturally sat on it.

Ji Xuan decided to go to the cities on the front line to reward the three armies before the onset of deep winter.

The sound of the wheels and the feeling of bumps make people drowsy on this autumn afternoon.

Lu Miaomiao had already tilted over, lying on the leather chair in a rather casual manner.

Xia Ji covered her with a thin blanket, after all, the wind that came in through the window was already very cold.

The cold wind blows, and the dead grass that catches the eye is like a yellow ocean, turning into waves with the west wind, galloping endlessly.

Suddenly, the wind changed a little.

It seems to have frozen.

The cold personal general beside Ji Xuan suddenly moved, his eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a look of vigilance.

"What's the matter, Ding Cheng?" Ji Xuan's voice came from the carriage.

"Lord, something is wrong. ”

Ji Xuan said in a deep voice: "Lone trusts you." ”

"Thank you, Lord. ”

Ding Cheng let go of his divine sense and swept around, this summer, he had used his abundant resources, as well as the power of his own bloodline, and the book "Imagery of the World" to break through to the eleventh realm, and condensed his own law body.

Although he doesn't say anything now, he has a faint sense of pride that has replaced the emperor and become the first shield on the side of the emperor of the Great Zhou.

After all, the Emperor Master had not yet broken through the Eleventh Realm, but he already had a Law Body.

Once he had the Dharma Body, he felt the power of the Dharma Body bound in this skin.

He hasn't had a chance to show it, maybe it's time today.

Sou!!

Suddenly, the weather changed suddenly.

This change drove the west wind to roll into the east wind.

The wind blew the withered yellow grass, completely reversed the direction and was violently frenzied.

This strange sight immediately made the accompanying soldiers exclaim in amazement.

The sound of shields and swords is endless.

All of a sudden, the atmosphere became tense.

Ding Cheng stood still like a stone sculpture, and after two seconds, his slightly narrowed eyes suddenly opened.

"East!!"

He burst into a shout, and the whole person suddenly dismounted,

A little on the ground, a tumbling wave of air on the ground, and the figure has already shot out a distance of more than 20 zhang between the electric light and flint.

Between the raised hands, the surging blood hit the embankment like a flood, and the sound of the blood hitting the skin affected the people around them, causing their hearts to beat with it.

The slightly weaker ordinary soldiers couldn't help but speed up their qi and blood, their faces were red and their ears were red, and they felt a little dizzy and irritable in their hearts.

The eleventh realm has already stepped into the door of becoming a higher level of life.

In mid-air, Ding Cheng's body shape had begun to change, breaking free from the shackles of his original skin, and becoming a giant of more than ten meters tall three or four feet tall.

The giant threw his fist out of his head.

A punch was thrown to the east.

The air exploded.

Obviously, there was also a Dharmakaya-level force in the east.

The two forces converged in mid-air, sending out powerful energy waves that stirred up thunder in the clear sky.

Ding Cheng only felt that the qi and blood in his abdomen were rolling, and the other party was not weak.

The thought flashed through him, and he saw a dazzling glare that flickered with all his might, and then came from the east.

That brilliance came in an instant, but it was not shot at him, but at the carriage at the front of the convoy, which was where the Great Zhou Emperor was.

"Hmph!" Ding Cheng burst out and punched again, and the waves of anger rolled out suddenly,

But... But he couldn't touch the dazzling brilliance.

"No!!"

Ding Cheng yelled, but there was nothing he could do.