Chapter 22: The Priesthood

Over the years, in addition to establishing Taoist temples in the major feudal cities, Daomen has excavated artificial lakes and served as landing places for flying boats.

The key to flying boats is water, and the key to firearms lies in fire, both of which are inseparable from gold.

Half of the area of the entire Omi Province is Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Horinju, and there are also Omi Eight Scenic Spots, of which Hikone Castle itself is one of the eight scenic spots and is known as the "Bright Moon". This saves the effort of excavating an artificial lake, and the huge "Yingryu" can land directly in Lake Biwa.

With the huge size of "Yinglong", it is impossible for the castle to be ignorant, and as early as when "Yinglong" just appeared at the end of the line of sight, the samurai on the watchtower had already discovered and reported Lord Ishishusai and His Royal Highness Hidemao.

Yanagi Zongyan personally escorted Toyotomi Hideshige to the outside of the city, accompanied by Hidemao's guards, all of whom have been loyal to the family for generations, and their realm cultivation is quite good, and the leader of them is even more celestial. Xiumao himself is not an ordinary person who is powerless, and has a cultivation equivalent to the stage of returning to the truth. After all, he was born in the three royal families, and he did not lack resources, and he had Zongzheng, a swordsmanship teacher. Such a realm of cultivation is quite good at his age????????????????, at his age.

"Ying Long" descended the gangway, and the newly established five-person group came down in turn, Xiumao was deeply influenced by the Central Plains, and could speak fluent Central Plains official dialect, with a pure accent, and he couldn't even hear that he was from Fenglinzhou when he communicated.

After a brief greeting and introduction, Li Tiangang said: "Time is urgent, the situation is urgent, we won't go into the city, please ask Prince Xiumao to board the boat." ”

Toyotomi Hideshige looked up at the towering "Yinglong" like a castle tower, sighed softly, and stepped up the gangway.

Yanagi Zong was standing in place, watching Xiumao board the "Ying Long", and said to Li Tiangang: "I want to stay in Yangen City, and I can't escort His Royal Highness Xiumao to Beijing, so the safety of His Highness Xiumao is up to you." ”

Li Tiangang said: "The safety of Prince Xiumao is related to the situation of the entire Fenglinzhou, Xingying and the Daofu attach great importance to it, and Qingwei Zhenren personally arranges the escort, we will not be careless, please rest assured Shizhouzhai." ”

Yagyu said no more.

Li Tiangang was the last to climb the gangway.

Ding Weilingguan, who was in charge of commanding the spirit officer, ordered the lift-off, and the huge "Ying Long" left the lake with a strong water vapor, and in the process of rising, the water vapor continued to turn into clouds and mist, surrounding the surroundings.

The dragon is from the clouds.

It was the first time that Toyotomi Hideshige had climbed the "Onryu" and looked down on the earth from the sky, and its magnificence was indescribable, and he was naturally greatly shocked, and even slightly offset some of the unease in his heart.

Li Tiangang came to Toyotomi Hidemao's side: "Hidemao Gongzi, the outside deck is not safe, please come with me." ”

Toyotomi Hideshige nodded slightly, no objection.

Under the leadership of Li Tiangang, Toyotomi Hideshige came to a special room. If it is the ship of the Heavenly Master and the National Teacher, then this is the location of the study of the Heavenly Master and the National Teacher. However, this "Ying Long" is not a ship, but a warship, so it is empty.

Without a doubt, this is one of the safest places in Yinglong.

Li Tiangang said: "Prince Xiumao, I want to confirm again, are your guards credible enough?" ”

Toyotomi Hideshige is not a stupid person, and he understands the meaning of Li Tiangang's question. Kogaryu's ninja is pervasive and adept at all kinds of disguises and disguises, and if a ninja lurks in his guards, it is likely that he will be killed at a critical moment.

After all, it was a matter of his own life and death, and Toyotomi Hideshige also had to be cautious, and replied: "I can make sure that there are no disguised ninjas in my guards, this is confirmed by Ishishusai." As for their loyalty, there is no doubt about it, not only are they my retainers, but their fathers and their sons are also my retainers. If I unfortunately die, then not only will they have to cut their stomach, but their fathers, sons, mothers, and wives will not be spared. ”

Li Tiangang nodded: "It's very barbaric and cruel, but it's undeniable and useful." ”

Toyotomi Hidemao said: "The lord humiliates the ministers to death, this is the spirit of the Central Plains Shi clan, and then it was transmitted to Fenglin Continent, and we have carried this forward very well." ”

Li Tiangang said noncommittally: "It's all tomorrow's yellow flowers, and now is the era of Daomen." The way of the world can only progress in continuous change, and conformism and self-containment will not open the peace of eternity. ”

However, Li Tiangang didn't dwell too much on this issue, and instead said: "From now on, until you arrive at the Xiujing camp, please don't leave this place for a single step." ”

Toyotomi Hideshige nodded earnestly.

On the other side, Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu stayed in the bow of the boat and stood against the wind.

Qi Xuansu said: "Qingxiao, this is ???????????????? In the last chance to assassinate Toyotomi Hideshige, how do you say the 'Venerable Faction' will choose to do it? ”

Zhang Yuelu said: "I'm not very familiar with Fenglinzhou's methods, but the theory is the same, after the 'Ying Long' is completely closed, they don't have the strength of Wu Luo's incarnation, they can't enter, they can only attack from the front, so it must be a fair and righteous attack." ”

Qi Xuansu didn't speak, and some memories came back to his heart.

He has experienced two flying boat falls, some people may want to say that "Ying Long" is not comparable to ordinary flying boats, but Qi Xuansu has witnessed the scene after the fall of "Ying Long", except for Cihang Zhenren and the parties, he is the first witness.

Could it be that he really clashes with things like flying boats?

But then again, it's a pity that the number of spirit officers and Taoist priests is seriously insufficient, and if there are enough manpower to open all the formations of "Ying Long", it will be more secure.

Four hundred spirit officers are still too few.

The speed of "Ying Long" was extremely fast, and while the two were talking, they were about to leave the territory of Omi.

At this moment, Qi Xuansu suddenly felt that the sky had become brighter, and Zhang Yuelu, the railing, and the deck around him were dyed with a layer of red light.

Qi Xuansu looked up sharply.

The whole sky was turning fiery red at some point, and the clouds were burning wildly, even more brilliant than the fiery clouds at dusk.

And in the middle of the clouds, a large hole was broken, like an inverted crater, in which there was only a crimson glow that was so thick that it was about to overflow.

A huge meteorite burning with raging flames passed through this big hole, fell from the sky, dragging a long flame tail, cutting through the sky, leaving a long-lasting trace behind it, and swept towards "Ying Long".

The meteorite clearly reflected Qi Xuansu's pupils, and the blood-like light illuminated Qi Xuansu like a "blood man".

"This is ......" Qi Xuansu saw such a scene for the first time.

Li Tiangang's voice sounded at the right time: "Don't panic, this is just a trick of the Tianmen Divine Officials, Ding Weiling will solve it." As for the Priest Regiment, it is probably equivalent to our Fang Shi Battalion, through some means, gathering the strength of everyone and casting spells far beyond their own strength. ”

Since ancient times, there has been a saying of "opening the altar", which requires burning incense for bathing, opening the altar for incense, requiring a very cumbersome set of rituals and a long time, so as to use some kind of spell. This is the usual method used by the monks, although this method has almost no effect when the hand-to-hand combat, and if the monks do not wait for the monks to set up the altar, they will be killed by the martial arts with three punches and two kicks, which makes the monks extremely weak, but if they are placed on the battlefield and given enough time to prepare carefully, they can burst out with extremely terrifying power.

That's it, the alchemist camp is like armor, the armor can increase the defense by increasing the number of armor leaves, and the alchemist camp can also increase the power of the spell by increasing the number of alchemists who can cast spells together, the more people there are, the more powerful it is.

This is something that the Qi Refiner cannot imitate, and the strength of the Qi Refiner is to form a large formation, but the formation can generally defend and trap people, but it cannot take the initiative to attack, and it is not flexible.

Immortals can be imitated, but where are there so many immortals in the world?

And then there is Wu Zhu, Wu Zhu can also follow this kind of move, in fact, the secret association of the gods is similar to the joint casting of the Fang Shi Battalion, the number of Daomen Wu Zhu is indeed more than the number of immortals, but it is also quite limited, after all, the Daomen does not attach importance to the attitude of Wu Zhu, and the limited divine power is more willing to be used to cultivate spirit officials.

This is the reason why there is only a Fang Shi camp in the Dao Gate, but there is no Qi Refiner Camp, Qi Immortal Camp, and Wu Zhu Camp.

As for the martial artists, most of them are in the army of the black-clothed people, and the black-clothed men themselves are large legions of combat, such as connecting the blood and qi of many martial artists together to create an area where spells are forbidden, and the steel torrent of the Xuanjia heavy horse is the pinnacle of the joint operation of the martial artists.

There are two groups in Fenglin Continent, the Divine Officer and the Onmyoji, who are good at joint spellcasting. The priests are subordinate to the Gate of Heaven and are loyal to the royal family. The Onmyoji is subordinate to the Onmyoji Liao and is loyal to the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Mansion.

Therefore, it must be the priesthood who attacked "Ying Long".

At this time, in the Asahi Shrine on Asahi Mountain, hundreds of priests are gathering together, and under the leadership of the palace priest and the god lord, they are doing things collectively.

In the main hall of the shrine, countless incense candles are burned, each candle is the thickness of a baby's arm, and the candles are jumping and brightly lit. The incense sticks are the thickness of an adult's fingers, and the blue-red incense head flickers on and off, and the smoke is swirling.

There are also various scripture sounds and ritual instrument sounds intertwined, as grand as a bell.

In the sky above the Divine Palace, the golden clouds converged, and an old face was conjured up, it was the palace priest himself of the Divine Palace, and his gaze looked at the end of the sky.

It was clear that it was not yet dusk, but it was already dyed with a rich red color, and from a distance, it seemed as if the sunset had crept into the sky.

The meteorite is getting closer and closer to "Yinglong".

At this moment, the main gun of "Ying Long" began to move up slowly, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the meteorite.

This cannon is called "Broken Star", the caliber is three feet, the barrel is more than ten zhang long, and it can fire the "Longyan Jiaer" weighing up to 14,000 jin and the "Fengyan Jiajia" weighing 9,600 jin, and the longest firing range is 150 miles.

The number of four hundred spirit officers is not enough to control the main cannon, but Ding Wei spirit officer can. At the beginning of Yuhuatai, Qi Niang had manually bombarded Si Ming Zhenjun.

In an instant, countless Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi began to converge towards the artillery, like a whirlpool, constantly swallowing the surrounding Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi.

A fiery red glow erupted from the depths of the muzzle.

The next moment, there was a bang.

The entire "Ying Long" seemed to tremble, and a circle of air waves spread out in all directions, even more violent than Gangfeng.

A "Dragon's Eye Armor Three" that had been calculated in advance shot out of the barrel of the cannon and fell right in the middle of the meteorite.

The meteorite exploded directly, and countless fragments of burning embers fell in all directions, like a meteor shower, and like a grand firework.