Chapter 16: The Five Old Gentlemen

【Guiyuan City】

Mu Pu took Jiao Qi and Jiao Ba together and teleported to [Guiyuan City]. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Jiao Qi is still in a state of unconsciousness, and Jiao Ba has changed back to the size of the original puppy, also with his eyes closed. As soon as he recovered from the discomfort after teleportation, Mu Pu was dumbfounded, and the thousands of Mu Clan soldiers next to the teleportation circle of [Guiyuan City] were already lined up in a neat phalanx and ready. Not only the Mu Clan, but also the guards of the Ming Hall [Four Elephant Garden] with silver armor all over their bodies are also bright, and everyone is ready to go.

Mupo's sudden appearance attracted all the eyes of the teleportation circle, and the spears of several guards were already pointed at him in an instant, as if he was facing a great enemy. Seeing this, Mupu hurriedly took out the wooden card in his arms, and when the guard saw him move, he immediately shouted: "Don't move!" A few spears got a little closer to him again. Mu Pu hurriedly raised the wooden sign and loudly reported to his home: "Seven Bird City trainee cavalry, senior soldier Mu Pu, is on the order of Jiao Er's master to carry out the escort mission. Hearing his words, the vigilant soldiers still did not lay down their weapons, the spears in their hands were firmly aimed at Jiao Qi, and another guard next to the teleportation array stepped forward to check Mokpo's identity card. After handing the badge to the guard, Mokpo obediently raised his hands, not daring to make any extra movements.

An old man heard Mokpo's voice and walked forward with the guards aside. Mu Pu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the old man, but he didn't expect that the person who came was a gentleman he had when he was practicing in the [Shangling Temple], and it was also the old man of the Fire Clan who had assisted Jiao Er in the inheritance ceremony before-Jiao Wu. The old man waved his hand at the guards and motioned for them to stand aside. When the gun finally stopped pointing at Mokpo, he breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his hands, and retrieved his badge from the guard's hand. He thought to himself, "Fortunately, there are five old gentlemen waiting here, otherwise I don't know how much trouble there will be, presumably Mr. Jiao Er should be the person who answered in [Guiyuan City] as Lord Jiao Er", so he hurriedly bowed to the old man: "Five old gentlemen." ”

The fifth old gentleman is the oldest of the fire envoys in the world, and he is well-informed and respected. But he has a taboo, he never accepts others to call him Jiao Wu, and he only recognizes the name of Yan Wu from beginning to end, so everyone will call him Mr. Wu in order to avoid his taboo.

And the reason why he rejected the name Jiao Wu has to start from nine years ago.

One day nine years ago, the world was plunged into endless darkness like a solar eclipse, and this phenomenon lasted for a whole day, and people everywhere were panicked. In the end, under the full salvation of the three bishops of the [Ming Palace], at the expense of the two bishops, the whole world was able to see the light again, which was called [Dark Starfall] by later generations.

And in this short period of one day, the former patriarch of the Fire Clan took advantage of the [Ming Palace] to be distracted, and seized this opportunity to privately lead several fire envoys to openly seize the [Empty Ant] that had just been captured by the [Ming Palace]. Later, he used the ability of [Sky Ant] to control the Holy Turtle of the Fire Clan, and teleported to the Water Envoy's settlement [Fengning Peak] to carry out a surprise attack.

No one could have imagined how terrible the battle had been, as neither of the two sides survived.

The former Fire Clan patriarch controlled the Fire Clan's Holy Turtle and the [Sky Ant], and only led five Fire Envoys to attack [Fengning Peak] in one fell swoop, fighting with the people of the Water Envoy Clan. The water envoy tried his best to resist desperately, but he still could not stop the fate of the exterminated clan, and there was no one alive in the clan, all of them were slaughtered and wiped out directly from the world. And the fifth old gentleman was stunned to see the [Fire Life Stones] of several fire envoys, including the previous patriarch, shatter one after another in the Fire Clan's Temple. In the end, only the Holy Turtle of the Fire Clan was transformed into a [Fire Spirit] by the five old gentlemen, and he was lucky enough to keep his soul alive, and he was newly appointed as the Fire Envoy [Yan Yi]. But because of the forcible control by the [Sky Ant], the Fire Clan Holy Turtle [Yan Yi] also lost all memories of this earth-shattering battle.

Afterwards, the Ming Hall cooperated with the Mu Clan to conduct an inventory of the fire envoys, and confirmed that the fire envoys who knew and participated in the massacre were all dead, and the remaining three fire envoys except for the holy turtle [Yan Yi] did not know about this. But even so, the fire envoy was finally identified as guilty, and the whole clan changed their surname to Jiao. Yan Si and Yan Wu appealed and protested many times, unwilling to accept the rulings made by the Ming Palace and the envoys, but the tragic traces of the battle between the two clans on the [Empty Ant] and the [Fengning Peak] were indisputable facts, making them speechless.

After this battle, there were only four people left, and since then they have been in a state of collapse, and they will never be able to regain their former glory.

And it is for this reason that the surname Jiao has since become a heart disease of the five old gentlemen.

The fifth old gentleman looked at the unconscious man and dog in front of him, and muttered to himself, "Is this the child brought back from Xiao Si?"

Mu Pu thought to himself, "Who is the little four, obviously Master Jiao Er asked me to bring them over", but he didn't know whether to make it clear to the fifth old man, because the fifth old man didn't seem to say this to him.

The fifth old gentleman just glanced at Jiao Qijiao and Jiao Ba and didn't look any more, and said to Mu Pu: "Carry the two of them into the carriage behind, and let's go back to the [Shangling Courtyard] first." With that, he turned straight and walked back.

Only then did Mokpo see that behind the five old gentlemen, a four-wheeled carriage had stopped there, and the coachman was sitting at the front of the carriage, waiting for them to get on the carriage and leave.

Mu Pu carried the thin Jiao Qi behind him, don't look at Jiao Qi's small size, he felt quite heavy on his back. You must know that Jiao Qi has never stopped talking in the past few days, and he was still eating non-stop before they had an accident, so it was strange that he was not sinking. Not far away, a five-year-old and three-thick officer of the Wood Clan pointed at them and shouted anxiously to his subordinates: "Someone can teleport over, why can't we teleport over!"

His subordinates were covered in sweat, and their faces were helpless: "My lord, we have tested it several times, and there is no damage to the teleportation circle here in [Guiyuan City], it should be that there is a problem on the side of Seven Birds City." Unless they fix the circle, there's nothing we can do on our side. ”

"Hey!" the Wood Clan officer sighed fiercely when he heard that there was still no way, and stomped his feet in a hurry, as if he wished that he could fly directly to the Seven Birds City to repair.

Mupu hurriedly got Jiao Qi into the carriage, turned around and went back to hug the puppy. Completely different from Jiao Qi, the puppy was as light as a piece of tissue paper, and Mokpo held the puppy in his arms, and the flames all over his body still exuded a soft temperature. There was a hint of wonder in Mokpo's mind as to how it could control the temperature of its flames even though it was unconscious. With this question in mind, he also got into the carriage with the puppy in his arms, and then the carriage slowly drove towards the [Upper Spiritual Courtyard].

【Ming Palace】

A magnificent palace, made entirely of jade-white stone, lies quietly at the top of the highest peak of the mountain range. The vast sea of clouds drowned out the traces of the mountains crisscrossing it beneath it, and the golden light of the sun reflected everything in a divine luster. This building, which floats above the sea of clouds like a heavenly palace, is the main hall of the [Ming Palace] - the [Yongyang Palace].

At this moment, a Ming Hall guard wearing heavy armor was slowly entering the [Yongyang Palace]. Dressed in heavy and solid silver armor with a solar pattern, the guard wore a white cloak emblazoned with a huge sun crest, and carried a broad-bladed greatsword behind him, making a "click" sound with every step forward.

The periphery of the [Yongyang Palace] is a colonnade of the outer hall composed of a circle of giant stone pillars arranged in a circle, and the simple reliefs are all over all corners of the circular outer hall of the [Yongyang Palace], which is elegant and solemn. As the oldest religious organization in the world, even earlier than the appearance of the envoys, the Ming Hall has witnessed the vicissitudes of the world again and again, and faithfully fulfilled its duty as a spectator, recording the major events that have happened in history on these reliefs. The sun's rays shone into the outer hall from different angles, as if they were also looking through this long-sealed history.

Walking through the outer hall of light and shadow, I saw an old man with his eyes closed and an indifferent expression, sitting in the middle of the inner hall in the open air, the sun shining directly on his body, this old man is known as "the person closest to the sun" The current hall master Yongzheng. The heavily armored guard knelt down on one knee, clasped his hands into fists, and said: "Hall Master, our [Four Elephant Court] has sent a garrison to support the Wood Clan, but due to the failure of the Seven Bird City Teleportation Array, we are trapped in the [Guiyuan City] together with the reinforcements of the Wood Clan, and we still can't know the current situation in the Seven Birds City for the time being. In addition, according to the report of the people of the Wood Clan, not only the Seven Birds City, but also the teleportation circle in the Wood Clan's [Sacred Mountain] has also been completely invalidated. After speaking, the Ming Palace guard bowed his head and was silent, waiting for the old man's reply, his armor also reflected a bright light under the sunlight, which was very dazzling.

In the shadows at the edge of the inner sanctum, a piece of air shook gently like the surface of the water, and another obedient figure gradually revealed. Unlike the heavily armored guards who carried the greatsword, this man was dressed in a loose silver robe, his hands were empty, and his broad hat covered his head, making it impossible to see his face clearly. The coat of arms on his back is also very different from the heavily armored guard, a bright crescent moon.

Yongzheng, the hall master of the Ming Palace, who was sitting in front of the two of them, didn't say anything, nor did he make any movements. The two of them nodded at the same time as if they had heard the reply, "Yes." ”

Only then did I realize that the person hidden under the silver robe in the shadows was actually a woman.

Then the heavily armored guard stood up and retreated, and the woman's figure vanished again in a sway.