The disgraced Xingtian walked for ten days with his remnants of the defeated army, and finally came to a seaside forest on the southwest border of the Headless Ghost Country, which was adjacent to the Mashou Kingdom.

When these 20,000 headless ghosts quietly came to this dense forest in the morning light, they have been standing quietly in this dark and silent wood, their eyes passing through the gaps between the tree trunks, staring at the vast and weak water with high wind and waves in front of them without saying a word, and suddenly a blank feeling in their hearts.

Along the way, they have relied on the food and water that they have taken from the pursuers after an ambush to survive until now.

The white waves roared and rolled from the edge of the sky, surging and chasing to the shore, slamming against the smooth rocks with a roaring sound like thousands of horses carrying thunder. In an instant, there was a splash of water three or four feet high, leaving patches of white foam.

"There's no boat here?" After a moment of silence, Xia Geng looked around at the uneven size of the trees around him, and asked the Xingtian beside him.

Although this area is the border of the headless ghost country, and there are rare towering trees in the headless ghost country, it is not a military important place, and there is no danger to defend within a radius of fifty miles, so the headless ghost country has never fortified here, let alone built a town here.

Over time, this forest became a buffer zone between the Kingdom of Ashou, and the Kingdom of Headless Ghosts, and while the two countries were jointly administered, neither side's troops could enter the area.

It is precisely because of this that Xing Tiancai brought the army here, so that he could not be blocked by Qixing on the coast, and led the army to quietly cross south by boat to the Nine Shadows Country.

But in this deserted place, even if Xing Tianjun wanted to rob a few warships to cross the sea, there was no chance.

"Are we going to swim over?" Xia Geng asked after a pause, then turned his head and looked directly at the endless turbulent waves in front of him.

Xingtian, who had been silent for a long time, still didn't speak, but slowly turned his head to look to the west.

As far as his eye could see, there were several wide ships made of strong wood on the coastline of Mashou Country, with long pointed heads and narrow bodies at the top and narrow at the bottom, thin pointed bottoms and small beam arches, and low ridges on the decks, which were sailing towards them.

"The ship is coming. Looking at the warships that were getting closer and closer, Xing Tian said slowly.

Xingtian can not borrow troops from Ma Shouguo, it is for the sake of his friends, but it is still okay to borrow four or five fully equipped warships and a few ghosts who are good at sailing, as well as some supplies such as water, food, and medicine.

As early as after ambushing Qixing's pursuers from Wangou and making the decision to flee south, Xingtian quietly sent a letter to the major of Mashou Guoguo, and quietly sent a few loyal soldiers to Mashou Guoguo to ask King Mashou to give him some assistance.

They were already in a rout, and they were so busy fleeing that they had exhausted most of their energy, and suddenly two or three ghost soldiers disappeared from the huge procession, and they did not attract the attention of his ghosts.

The reason why all this was done quietly was because Xing Tian expected that Qixing would definitely chase after him. In the contest with the pursuers, the sergeants under his command will inevitably have ghosts captured by the pursuers, and once they inform their subordinates of the plan, it will be known to everyone that it is tantamount to invisibly collaborating with the enemy.

So at this time, he has been doing it quietly, and even Xia Geng has hidden it.

In less than a light of hot tea, the ships had already sailed to the shore, and after putting down the gangplank connecting to the coast, a blue-faced human soul with a neck and legs twice as long as ordinary human souls, strode off the warship.

The ghost is a long-necked ghost, a sailor overseer of the country of Mashou, named Changfu. Human souls like him were born with slender necks and legs, so at the beginning, Emperor Xudu gathered them all together to form a vassal state called the Changshin Kingdom, which was in charge of the land west of Chishui for Emperor Xudu. But later, this Changshin Kingdom was destroyed by Ji Xuanyuan, who came to the underworld, and Chishui was also occupied by the Youxiong Kingdom, and this vassal state disappeared from the underworld.

As for these long-necked ghosts, most of them have become ghost slaves of the bear country, and the rest have been exiled to the countries of Fenglin Continent.

Changfu, who did not want to be a ghost slave, went into exile in the country of Mashou, and because he was good at water warfare and navigation, he was appointed by King Mashou as the overseer of the water division.

Chang Fu greeted Xingtian, who was also walking towards him, and shouted, "Headless King, the boat and supplies you want are ready for you." ”。

"Are you really not thinking about going to our country?" At the end, without waiting for Xingtian to thank him, Chang Fu said bitterly: "Our king sincerely invites you to take refuge in our country, and the palace and other things in the capital are ready for you." ”。

"Thank you. Xing Tian showed gratitude, gritted his teeth, and then resolutely said: "You are being invaded by the bear country, and if I go over, I will definitely lead this little bastard Qixing over, causing your country to fall into the disadvantage of fighting on two fronts, so forget it." ”。

Yubi gestured to Xia Geng, signaling him to quickly command the army to board the ship.

"And I will go to the Nine Shadows Kingdom to persuade the Nine Shadows King to attack the Bear Country, so that I can also help you take revenge. After a pause, Xing Tian smiled indifferently with a firm look in his eyes. It's just that there is no joy in this smile, but a little more bitterness.

Chang Fu didn't say anything else, but said lightly: "Then you go and take a look first, if the Nine Shadows Kingdom chooses to be silent, then you will come back, our king will welcome you to take refuge in the Mashou Kingdom at any time." ”。

"Thank you. Xingtian, who still had a thousand words, stopped talking for a moment, and finally only squeezed these two words out of his mouth.

"Say no thanks, this is what we should do, otherwise it will be ruthless and unjust. Chang Fu said disapprerovingly.

"By the way, how is the situation on your northern border?" after a moment of thought, Xing Tian asked with concern.

"Alas, don't mention it. Chang Fu was slightly stunned and sighed. Then he shook his head with a little regret on his face, and said softly: "You have just left, and Li Mu will kill a horse pistol and link the three passes and seven cities in the north of our country." Now that the female lu is teaching with him again, the Lord is just mobilizing the men of the whole country to go north to fight against the bear army. ”。

"What?" Xing Tian's heart suddenly flashed with a trace of uneasiness that widened his eyes, and his eyes that stared straight at Chang Fu gradually revealed an incredible color, and after opening his lips and being stunned for a long time, he said in a trembling voice: "Ji Xuanyuan actually sent a female wolf." ”......

The cloudy day had just risen completely from the horizon, and after sprinkling a hint of warm red light in the Yuque City, the civil and military officials of the court were all dressed neatly, and came to the front of the Mystic Gate with five arched gates directly south of the Yuque Palace.

About half an hour ago, Xiao Shizhu walked out of the Yuque Palace from this palace gate and headed towards the south.

At present, the generals on duty in the court, the captains and the forbidden army, and the ghosts holding the spirit flags stand in front of the two gates on both sides of the imperial road in front of the gate in the middle, and the other civil and military officials are also standing in order in front of the left and right gates on both sides of the gate, waiting in two long lines, whispering something in twos and threes.

After a while, when the palace people in charge of the bells and drums upstairs struck the third drum of the day, the crisp and melodious bell rang out. In addition to the main gate, the other four gates were slowly opened in the morning bell, and the officers and soldiers of the flag school and the generals on duty, as well as the civil and military officials who lined up in a line, entered the palace along the four gates in order.

They lined up and stood in front of the square north of Yushu, and then stood in line according to their ranks. The honor guards holding the spirit flags entered the main hall one step ahead of them, and formed two teams on both sides of the hall, holding the spirit flags in their hands and standing quietly in front of the wall.

Immediately afterwards, the two guards in front of the Tianquan Hall in the middle of the square raised the golden whip in their hands and slammed it to the ground in front of them.

A crisp sound of "pop" resounded between the heavens and the earth in front of the Tianquan Palace. The civil and military officials walked up to the square in order, until the Dan Majesty in front of the Tianquan Hall was engraved with different auspicious cloud patterns and mythological stories and other patterns, and stood quietly on both sides of the royal road in front of the Dan Majesty.

On the main hall, wearing a white and red jacket skirt, a silk nailed with white jade butterfly ornaments was tied around her waist, the skirt was tied with a bean green jasper palace silk, and Xiao Fuling, who was supported by a beaded bun with gold thread and inlaid with eight treasures of jasper, was sitting on the small treasure chair specially designed for her in front of the throne where her parents used to sit.

She wore an aqua blue tulle jacket with a straight collar and a cuff embroidered with several stamens of elegant orchids inlaid with pearls.

Hanging around her neck, hanging straight to her chest, is a silver-edged jade ornament shaped like a cleat. makes her graceful and luxurious, but also innocent and lovely.

Today is the first time she is in charge of the court, although she has managed to maintain her usual complexion, but the palms of her pink palms at her knees are full of sweat beads due to nervousness.

The palace people set up a bead curtain behind the throne, and asked Lai Yueqi to sit down behind the hanging bead curtain and leave. This is unanimously agreed by Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother, but whenever Xiao Fuling is in the court and supervises the country, Lai Yueqi can listen to the government.

In case some ministers rely on Xiao Fuling and sell the old.

In fact, it was Xiao Shizhu's strategy, using Lai Yueqi to contain most of the ministers in the DPRK and the central government as Xiao Fuling to establish a prestige, and then using Lu Wu Chunyun and Hu Hui to contain Lai Yueqi with loyal ministers like them, so as to prevent Lai Yueqi from leaving Xiao Fuling and taking charge of the government alone.

Although Xiao Shizhu also knew that Lai Yueqi would not do this, instinct still drove him to finally make up his mind and make such an arrangement;

In the words of the world, there are always people who want to harm me!

Lai Yueqi, who had just sat down, couldn't help but look back at Xiao Fuling, and after her eyes were still a little nervous, Lai Yueqi smiled and said softly: "Go to the prison country boldly, Yueniang will always be behind you." ”。

Such a simple sentence gave Xiao Lingling infinite confidence, and also made the tension in her body dissipate a lot. She chuckled slightly, smiled lightly at Lai Yueqi, and then turned her head and stared intently at the Honglu Temple official standing outside the main hall.

After the sound of the golden whip sounded again, the officials of the Honglu Temple immediately pulled their throats and sang in a long voice: "Enter the class." After that, the ministers of the left and right groups lined up and walked into the main hall, and stood under Xiao Poria after performing three bows to Xiao Poria and Lai Yueqi.

Xiao Lingling looked around, the audience was crowded, and the curious gazes that burst out of countless pairs of eyes fell on her.

She still knows many ministers, but there are also many faces that are unfamiliar to her. These unfamiliar faces made Xiao Fuling a little overwhelmed and restless.

But her personality is very similar to Xiao Shizhu, everything is either not done or done, although she is apprehensive, she still looks around at the ghosts on the stage as usual.

It's just that in this hall, which was instantly quiet as the ministers stood still, Xiao Fuling could even clearly hear the pounding heartbeat in her chest.

"If there is something to play early, there is nothing to retreat. Chenruo, the female official standing in front of her, immediately shouted loudly to the ministers.

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Fuling's heart rose with the expectation that the ministers would have nothing to do.