"Everyone, please."

The prince made a gesture of send-off, calm and polite, and his attitude was not to be ignored.

The envoys of the four countries suddenly felt in their hearts, and those who were still about to speak suddenly closed their mouths, and they all felt that they were locked by a consciousness, powerful and dangerous, terrifying, and there was no doubt that if there were any more doubts and objections, they would be forced to coma and sent back to the embassy.

"I wish His Majesty the King a speedy peace and well."

The envoys of the four kingdoms left the palace with their own thoughts, and the tough attitude of Prince Arestole represented the position of the kingdom and the priesthood of the temple of Gaia, and did not retreat in the face of the four empires, which inevitably made people suspect that the king was really seriously injured by the assassination, or the kingdom had the backing to support - for example, colluding with one or two of the four empires to jointly create this "assassination".

Count von Karen and General Mattim were more suspicious of the latter, and it was likely that this was a "double reed" performed by the Kingdom of Crete and the Tang Mission.

But what about the purpose?

This question was asked by an official of the mission.

Trapping the four imperial missions in the royal capital? This did not do any harm to Euroton and the Great Food Mission, but was beneficial, because their main purpose was to sabotage the alliance negotiations between the Tang envoys and the reactionary organizations in Xizhou, and the periphery of the kingdom had been blocked by the fleets of Euroton and Great Food, and the leaders of the reactionary forces in Xizhou would not risk entering Crete, and Xiao Yan was trapped in the king and could not get out, so he could not contact the reactionary forces in Xizhou, wouldn't this be exactly what they wanted?

"It's not that simple."

"There must be a conspiracy in this."

Neither von Karen nor Mattim believed that Xiao Yan would really be trapped in the royal capital.

"There is an idiom in the Tang Dynasty that calls Ming Xiu Plank Road and secretly cross Chen Cang."

Earl von Karen is proficient in the Tang Dynasty language and is familiar with the allusions of each idiom, "On the surface, the missions of the four empires are trapped in the royal capital, attracting the attention of our empire; In fact, he secretly sent the Tang envoy out of Crete to achieve the goal of negotiating an alliance with the leaders of the anti-imperial forces."

"Shall we stop it, then?"

"No, why stop it."

"This is our chance, too."

"The best envoy is the one who dies."

"Since Xiao Yan, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, is in the royal capital of Crete, it is not Xiao Yan who dies outside." Madeem said with a sneer.

In the middle of the night, Xiao Yan was meditating in her bedding, and suddenly heard a wisp of ethereal singing, resounding in her purple mansion, like the legendary siren song, mysterious, ethereal, and infinitely charming, people can't help but indulge in it......

Zhihai Liantai suddenly trembled slightly, as if there was a Sanskrit voice singing out, Xiao Yan suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were clear and clear.

[Who?] Her divine sense asked lightly in the Purple Mansion, but there was a hidden guess in her heart.

- Come with me.

This is conveyed in the song.

Xiao Yan didn't hear the lyrics, nor could he hear the mysterious and ethereal tune, but he inexplicably understood the meaning.

She also heard this voice—a strange voice hidden in the song, just like the pulse of the earth, naturally hidden in the undulating mountains, rivers, lakes and seas.

- The Iliad.

She said silently in her heart.

There seemed to be an invisible song note opening a door in the middle of the dormitory.

Xiao Yan got up and dressed, and without hesitation, he stepped forward, and his long figure disappeared in an instant.

The water wave gate disappears.

The dormitory was calm as usual, except that there was one less person.

Stepping out the door, she appeared inside a tall, majestic temple.

The reason why it is said to be a shrine is because in the center stands an obvious altar, tall, heavy, and solemn.

Xiao Yan felt a familiar aura, gentle and broad, like the breath of the aqua blue star she felt in the Star Temple of the Temple of Oghuz, but there was less emptiness and more heaviness here, which made her think of the Iliad's gaze, silent and soft, heavy and distant, this is the breath of the Iliad, the breath from the earth.

She had a guess about the temple.

Really......

"This is the Earth Temple."

The voice of the Iliad was gentle and broad in the lofty and magnificent temple, the long black hair fell naturally, the natural curl was like the calm waves of the sea, the black pupils were thick and far, and there was a reassuring gentleness, which made people close and trusted, but the gorgeous and complicated long dress made people dare not look directly - not dazzling, but Sinnoh could not look directly, this is the power of the laws of the earth.

Xiao Yan lowered his eyes and saluted respectfully, and saluted by the name given by the will of the earth: "Iliad."

The Iliad, the Favored of the Earth, the Walker of the Earth.

The Iliad's gentle and distant voice echoed like the wind from a distant time, "This is the first temple of the earth, beginning in the First Age, sinking at the end of the Second Age, the twilight of the gods."

Xiao Yan raised his eyes in astonishment, "This is ...... The First Temple of the Earth!?"

Daomen Record: The Wu Civil War destroyed at the end of the Second Age, and then disappeared in the Era, without a trace...... Actually, here?

Sink in? Is this underground or underseabed?

She looked around, but her divine sense could not penetrate the outside of the temple, the earth temple was isolated from everything, and she couldn't perceive the outside, I didn't know if it was in the abyss or the abyss.

The Iliad beckoned slightly, Xiao Yan walked closer, and the Iliad said, "This is the high mountain of the sea abyss, and the name is: Buzhou."

Two ancient Chinese inscriptions flashed in front of Xiao Yan's eyes, rippling like water ripples, disappearing without a trace.

Xiao Yan's eyes widened, "...... Isn't it thoughtful?"

Thoughtless! Not Zhoushan?

The legendary Heavenly Pillar, the highest mountain range in the Pangea Continent, was destroyed at the beginning of the Second Age by the battle between the Wu Clan and the Demon Clan, the mountain collapsed, and its peak sank in the "Northwest Sea......

Where is the northwest sea of Pangea, the Daomen records do not describe it in detail, and it is up to later generations to guess and speculate. Xiao Yan speculated that the "Northwest Sea" may be within the large range of the northern latitudes of the two continents today, and muttered in his heart that he may have been at the bottom of the Arctic Sea and the West Sea somewhere, and was tens of thousands of miles away from the Aegean Sea of the Cretan Kingdom.

But the Iliad said, "This is not in any continent, but in any continent."

Xiao Yan was stunned.

The Iliad said, "Buzhou Mountain, from the myth of the Daomen, it is not the incarnation of Pangu, but it is indeed the Earth Dimension Heavenly Pillar, this pillar is not an entity, it is the road to heaven. Mythology is a real change, it can be called a boat, it can be called a building, it can also be called the Tower of Babel, it is the void passage that leads to the outside of this universe. No, it is incomplete in the ancient Chinese language, a disaster, and the first era ended when the Wu clan and the demon clan expelled the Protoss from the universe and sealed the Void Passage, which is the source of the myth that the Gonggong knocked down Buzhou Mountain, the building wood disappeared, and the Tower of Babel collapsed."

"......," Xiao Yan was silent for a while, and said, "So, it's actually moving?" Buzhou Mountain, Jianmu, and the Tower of Babel are all it, appearing in different locations at different times.

The Iliad smiled slightly, "To be exact, you can understand that it is an Void Realm, or a Secret Realm."

The Void? Secret realm? Xiao Yan understood, no wonder it "disappeared" into the epoch, unless it was willing to appear in the world again, or had the key to access, the power of the clouds could not find it.

"Is this still the road to heaven?"

Xiao Yan looked up at the altar in the center, it was very high, forty-nine high, but no matter how high it was, there were several layers, but it was like climbing the ladder to give people the feeling of going up endlessly, as if it had been leading to the dark and deep universe.

"The path to heaven no longer exists." The Iliad muttered lightly, "The Second Age was shattered, and the surviving Wu clan power was killed by the Heavenly Dao, and its strength was greatly reduced, and it was no longer able to strengthen the seal of the Void Channel, and the "seal" was actually broken, led by the strongest Nuwa power at that time, and gathered the power of the Witch Department of the Continents to shatter the Void Channel, which was swallowed by the Void Turbulence."

Xiao Yan's complicated emotions floated again, the glory of the era was shattered again, and the human race created its peak, but it forgot its original intention, to be strong for survival and to live with dignity, and after becoming the most powerful existence, it was self-destructive for interests and desires, becoming strong and ruined by being strong. It is not a strong sin, but the loss of reverence for life, the strong brings

is destruction. Walking with the right heart and not losing my way, Xiao Yan once again reminded himself that he should pursue strength without being fascinated by it, and he should not despise ordinary creatures after becoming a powerful life.

Pressing these emotions, Xiao Yan thought of the "door" she stepped into, she had personally experienced the spatial passage constructed by the teleportation of the innate grandmaster, the spatial law of this "door" was more complex and mysterious, it should be the spatial teleportation channel of the first hall of the earth, perhaps it was part of the road to heaven that once belonged to it. The road to heaven is broken, and it is the passage of the extrastellar void that is broken, and the passage on the earth star is supposed to be preserved, and perhaps the passage from the earth star to the nearby galaxy, that is, "This is the beginning of the way to the end of the sky. Dot?"

The Iliad sighed and said, "This is the beginning. Point is not. The path to heaven has been shattered, and if you want to go to the end of the world, you will be involved in the turbulence of space wherever you break through the barrier and enter the void, and that is the way to the end of the world." She glanced at Xiao Yan slightly, "So far, there is only one person, and it is from here that the road to the end of the world begins."

Xiao Yan was curious, "Who?"

"Li Jiansu."

Xiao Yan was surprised, Li Jiansu, the eldest princess of Chu State? "What's so special about this?"

"It's special." The Iliad chuckled and sighed, "Only special for some people."

She turned her face to look at the altar, her gentle and distant eyes were filled with remembrance, nostalgia, and exclamation, and her voice was leisurely, "Few people know that your Emperor Gaowu has a quarter of his essence blood left here."

「…… What?!" Xiao Yan was shocked.

Essence blood is where a cultivator's life and essence reside, and it takes a few years of cultivation to recover if a drop of essence blood is lost, let alone a quarter? "When is this?" Xiao Yan blurted out, ...... Why? Why did Emperor Gaozong's essence and blood be left to the First Hall of the Earth? Gojong's lifespan could have been longer......

"yes, she could live longer." The Iliad sighed gently, with a smile and respect, this is the choice of a close friend, she will not regret her heartache, she will only pray for her, and the way will be long.

"She doesn't need it anymore." The Iliad said gently, "Her world has been founded, her ideas have been passed down, and the heirs she has cultivated have matured to lead the empire forward in her way, and it is not meaningful for life to continue to exist, it is better to completely let go of her heirs and her descendants at the right time."