Chapter Forty-Four: Exorcising Adultery and Evil Spirits

The Middle-earth Plain stretches for thousands of miles, with endless grasslands rolling and undulating, and if a huge mountain peak appears on the Middle-earth Plain, it would seem so out of place. Now there is such a one in front of Chenguang and the others.

Following the lord of Berg from Dresden, he walked for more than ten days, passing through three towns on the way, all of which were similar to Dresden, and the team of his companions grew stronger and stronger. At first, the city lord of Berg led seven or eight hundred people, and by now, the team has reached a full three thousand, stretching along the steppe to the end of the line of sight, which is quite spectacular.

Berg told the crowd that this was the first time that the eight kingdoms of Middle-earth had interacted with the other countries of Namphanaburi, so they attached great importance to it, and almost every country had such two groups of men and horses advancing towards the holy capital, and only the northernmost Duchy of Saxony in Middle-earth did not send people, but went directly to the northernmost border with Belen to assemble.

Berg also told everyone that although this time it was ostensibly to discuss sending troops, in fact, the eight countries had reached a consensus and would definitely send troops to help, and the content to be discussed was actually who would lead the troops. The eight nations all hoped to take this opportunity to become the leader of Middle-earth, but they were all worried that if they led the team, the other countries would not go all out, so they asked each country to gather their troops and horses in the Holy Capital, and as soon as the results were discussed, they would immediately lead all the horses to Belém.

Chenguang wasn't too interested in these, but he was very interested in the Holy Capital, the Divine Envoy, and the Holy Sword, and the heir Shaojun was also interested in him. The two men grabbed Niu Er and surrounded Berg and kept asking questions about the three.

Berg was very kind and answered the questions of the two. He said that the Holy Capital was built by the Iron and Blood Emperor of the Middle-earth Empire. In fact, the Holy Capital is not a city, but there are some strange buildings, and he can't accurately describe the shape of these buildings, so he can only know when he talks about them.

Because the holy capital is not a city, there are no people living in it, only the five hundred guards of the Iron and Blood Emperor are stationed here.

The eight kingdoms of Middle-earth all recognized the status of the Holy Capital and offered supplies on time, so that the guards of the Holy Capital could always be stationed. These guards are not always in the Holy Capital, they are divided into several teams, take turns to leave the Holy Capital to live an ordinary life, and intermarry with the people of the Eight Kingdoms of Middle-earth, and then train their heirs to be successors, continue to guard the Holy Capital, because the heirs of these guards will not reveal the news that they are the heirs of the guards until they go to the Holy Capital, so no one in the Eight Kingdoms of Middle-earth can say how many children of the guards there are until now, but the leader of the guards of the Holy Capital, the oracle, knows.

When Chenguang and his heir heard the divine envoy, they were shocked, and their eyes widened to listen. Berg told them that there were originally two oracles and three mages in the Middle-earth Empire, but because the Iron Emperor insisted on hunting down his rebels, two of them and one of them were killed. After the war, the Iron Blood Emperor soon returned to the earth, and the Middle-earth Empire fell apart, and the remaining one of the magicians did not want to kill anymore and lived in seclusion alone, only the divine envoy led five hundred guards to protect the holy capital according to the Iron Blood Emperor's last wish.

As the years passed, the world began to forget about this oracle, so much so that more than forty years ago, the five nations west of Namchanaburi conspired to invade Middle-earth. It is said that the five countries are united, but in fact, the two great powers in the west, the kingdom of Feresi and Silev, are the leaders. At that time, the Eight Kingdoms of Middle-earth were evenly matched on the battlefield, and even had a slight upper hand, until a divine envoy and a magician appeared in the opposing camp, and the Eight Kingdoms of Middle-earth had no one to fight against at that time, and the two super masters led the alliance of the Five Nations to almost invade the entire territory of the three kingdoms of Salian, Riplian, and Kati in the west of Middle-earth. When Middle-earth was about to be destroyed, an oracle and a magician appeared on the battlefield with an elite army that almost single-handedly saved the entire world of Middle-earth. After repelling the alliance of the Five Kingdoms and inflicting heavy losses on the oracles and wizards of the Five Kingdoms, the oracles of Middle-earth announced to the fleeing forces of the Five Nations that Middle-earth would not be invaded by foreign enemies, and that the Holy Capital could fight for Middle-earth at any time. At the same time, he also said that he and the sorcerer already had heirs, and even if the two of them were gone, Middle-earth would be inviolable.

Chenguang Yao thought about the demeanor of these two peerless masters back then, and he was a little distracted.

Berg goes on to say that after the war, Middle-earth sent the heroic guardians back to the Holy Capital, but the Magus was not among them, but from then on Middle-earth remembered the Holy Capital and the Guardians stationed in it.

Chenguang asked about the holy sword again. Berg said that the holy sword was the sword of the Iron and Blood Emperor back then, and legend has it that this sword was made of fragments of meteors outside the sky, and because the fragments were so hard that even the best craftsmen of the time could not refine them, and could only roughly modify them according to the shape of the sword. Even so, the sword was so heavy that legend has it that if you hold it in your hand and let it fall, you can easily plunge into the rock, and almost no one can handle it.

With the might of a holy knight, the Iron and Blood Emperor holds the Meteor Holy Sword in his hand, slashes countless enemies, and is recognized as the first Shenwu Emperor in ancient and modern times by the countries of Nanchanaburi. For this reason, this sacred sword is also regarded as a symbol of the Middle-earth Empire and is worshipped by the countries of Middle-earth.

When Chenguang heard this, he came to his senses again, and explored the meaning of the Holy Knight of the Iron and Blood Emperor and the samurai who Zweig had talked about guarding the Holy Capital.

The city lord of Berg said that there are two kinds of cultivators in the North and South Bizhou Continent, one is magicians, and they mainly practice magic power, that is, control the power of nature with spiritual power. Chenguang Heart Dao, I know this, the magician is similar to the cultivators in our Divine Continent, and what he cultivates is the power of the five elements.

The city lord of Berg said again, but the other kind of cultivators are different, they mainly cultivate their own bodies and use their own strength to resist the power of nature, this kind of cultivator is called a warrior in the North and South Bizhou Continent. Chenguang said again in his heart, isn't this our martial arts cultivator in the Shenzhou Continent?

Warriors are the initial stage of self-cultivation, and when they reach a certain level, their physique is already far stronger than that of ordinary people, and at this time they already have the strength of a soldier, but they can also enter an academy dedicated to training warriors. There are not many such academies, basically there is only one in each country, for example, the Carolingian warrior academy is called the Hill Academy. Because soldiers can already be called qualified soldiers, the soldiers who enter the academy for further study are all trained as elites, and the number is not too many, and there are even fewer people who practice on their own.

Soldiers who enter the academy for further training are roughly divided into two directions, one is to major in the use of various weapons and the training of skills, and the other is to strengthen their bodies. When the cultivation reaches a certain level, you can participate in the promotion assessment of each academy, and those who pass the assessment can get a higher title, and those who have strengthened their bodies to a certain extent are called samurai, and those who have considerable attainments in weapons and skills are called knights.

Both of them are already quite powerful, but it doesn't take long for many talented people to reach such strength, such as the Iron Emperor, who is said to have attained the title of knight at the age of eighteen. These people are not satisfied with their own strength, and continue to pursue stronger strength, which is already difficult to obtain by relying only on **, so they have strengthened their spiritual strength and focused more on their own cultivation, resulting in a higher level of ability, according to the difference between the main attack and the main defense, one is called berserker, and the other is called paladin. They have surpassed the heights that ordinary people can reach, berserkers can crack mountains and rocks with their bare hands, and paladins are invulnerable. Both of these types of people are the backbone of a country, and the strongest corps of the Carolingian Principality has dozens of these two types of warriors.

However, the Iron Emperor was too talented, and he was awarded the title of Paladin before he was twenty-five years old. But he was still not satisfied with his cultivation, and started as a samurai, and finally combined the abilities of berserkers and paladins. As a result, the world gave him a unique title of Holy Knight. It's just that since then, the title of Holy Knight has never been used again.

Chenguang was a little puzzled, what is the meaning of the titles of warrior and knight, including magicians and gods, why do they have to distinguish so carefully?

The city lord of Berg said with a smile that there are two reasons for this, one is that obtaining these titles can be more respected, and the other is that every country and union will provide better remuneration for those who have obtained higher titles, and many countries will also regularly send money and goods to people above the samurai and knights, in order to have enough combat power in time of war. Therefore, many civilians will also work hard to cultivate, striving to obtain the title.

Chenguang then understood. He asked, "How powerful are the envoys stationed in the Holy Capital?" Are there berserkers or knights?

The city lord of Berg just looked at the heir and shook his head and said, the divine envoy and the warriors of the holy capital have not appeared for forty years, and he has not seen it at all.

The group of people just said and entered the confines of the Holy Capital.

When the Holy Capital really appeared in front of him, Chenguang understood the indescribable meaning of what the City Lord of Berg said.

I saw a huge mountain peak standing abruptly on the plain, and the morning light vaguely felt that it was somewhat similar to Mount Kilimanjaro in the Golden Fire Continent, as if a huge sea bowl was upside down on the ground, but this mountain peak was more than twice as large, and the middle of the mountain peak was split in two by a crack from top to bottom, which made people can't help but think that it was split by someone.

The long procession came to the foot of the mountain, and the morning light felt the enormity of the crack. The whole team slowly entered along the crack, like ants entering a large cave, and disappeared.

Xu Bu entered the crack, as he gradually deepened, the sunlight could not reach the crack, and the surroundings began to gradually darken, just when the morning light felt that he was about to lose sight, a light came out from the depths of the crack, and then went deeper, but only to see a bright light in the depths of the crack.

It turned out that in the depths of the crack, the glowing Illusory Sky Yao Jin that had been seen in Dresden Castle was all over the four walls, shining the entire crack as if it were day.

The more the crack went in, the more open it became, and the more and more glowing Phantom Sky Yao Jin became, and finally it seemed to have walked into a huge plain, and countless five-colored flowers bloomed on the plain, reflecting the entire plain in the five-colored light.

After walking another mile on this plain, a palace appeared before everyone's eyes. This palace is very different from the castles of Middle-earth that have been seen before.

The front of the palace looks very square, more than ten pieces of one person thick, more than ten zhang high huge columns stand in a row, above the column is the roof of the palace, the eaves slightly float outward, forming a cornices like a crown. Under the column, a piece protrudes outward in the center, and a row of stone stairs more than a foot wide extends from this protrusion to the ground. There are about ten steps of stone stairs, and each ladder is more than a foot high. And in the protruding part, a huge dark blue sword was inserted diagonally into the ground, and only the blade and hilt of the sword were exposed, which should be the holy sword worn by the Iron and Blood Emperor back then. Behind the column, it was dark, and it was impossible to see the inside clearly. The most surprising thing is that the foundation of this palace has no place to contact the ground except for the stone staircase on the front, and the whole palace seems to be supported in the air by those small stone stairs.

Chenguang wanted to go around the palace to see the truth, but found that in addition to his own team, there were many other people and horses around the square. It seems that the armies of other Middle-earth countries have also arrived.

At this time, everyone only heard the sound of a gust of wind overhead, and when they looked up, they saw more than a dozen huge figures floating over the square, and Chenguang recognized at a glance that this was the guardian dragon rider that he had seen in Guaira. But on that day in Guaira, a city was only one ride, and it was amazing that there were more than a dozen rides here at once. However, he immediately denied his idea, because through the light of the four walls and the five colors, the morning light found that the cracks and cliffs on all sides of the square were filled with countless huge nests, and in each nest there were such dragons riding in them. Chenguang could only sigh, no wonder this place was worshiped as a holy capital by the countries of Middle-earth, just these Wyvern Riders were enough to fight against the army of an ordinary country.

As the people and horses from all sides gradually converged, eight people slowly walked out of the central palace, these eight people were tall, short, fat and thin, but they all wore similar crowns, and they were the kings of the eight kingdoms of Middle-earth. The eight men stood behind the sword, and then one more came out of the palace. The man was draped in a wide mage robe and a large cloak on his head, and his face was not visible at all. Chenguang guessed that this should be the oracle of the Holy Capital.

I only listened to what the god said in a deep voice, and although it was a hundred feet away, the morning light could still hear it clearly, but I didn't understand what he meant. Niu Er next to him quietly translated, this person calls himself the Guardian of the Holy Capital Links, all the subjects of Middle-earth, please pay tribute to the Ancestor Holy Sword.

At this moment, all the people around him clenched their right hands into fists across their chests, bowed their heads and saluted the holy sword, and some even fell to their knees. Chenguang and the others didn't dare to offend, and learned to cross their chests with their right hand, bowing their heads to salute.

After a while, the divine envoy spoke a few words again, Niu Er translated, and the divine envoy said that those who have already paid tribute to the ancestral holy sword can retreat outside the holy capital, but the city lord and above, please stay, and the eight monarchs still have matters to explain.

So the dense crowd began to retreat outside the crack again, in an orderly manner, and no one made a sound, which made Chenguang and other people from the Shenzhou Continent admire.

Half a day later, as the crowd receded to the morning light outside the holy capital, it was pulled aside by Guo Xinzhu, and Amytis, Xu Xun and Peng Mu were also there.

Chenguang looked at Guo Xinzhu in some surprise and said, "What are you going to do?"

Guo Xinzhu said: "Do you remember what happened to Guairah?"

Chenguang nodded.

"Now is the best time to get that traitor out. ”

"How?"