Chapter Fifty-Six: The Star Maiden
Xiao Qianye got up and walked towards the military pavilion, and the empty sword was quiet, not noticing anything abnormal.
However, when he reached the door of the military pavilion, his eyes were immediately attracted by the gray-brown moth on the door—the moth's eyes shone with a faint red light, as if someone was secretly observing him.
Xiao Qianye didn't startle the snake, he walked into the inside of the military pavilion and carefully inspected it, and there was an identical moth in the place where he usually handled the papers.
He was shocked, but he still calmly drove away the moths in his hands, sat down quietly in his usual position, and flipped through the thick papers on the table alone.
Is it an insect control technique? I really remember that the Jialuo Bai Sect has this kind of mysterious technique, which can drive poisonous insects to detect and even assassinate, just now Gongsun Yan reminded himself that there is something to follow, it should be this kind of imperceptible little insects, right?
Could it be the remnants of the White Sect? Xiao Qianye couldn't help frowning and pondering, no, if it was a member of the White Sect, wouldn't it be better to ambush him while he was in the territory of Jia Luo every year? There was no need to sneak into the Heavenly Imperial City at such a time, and then sneak into the military pavilion to sneak up on him, right?
The insect control technique on the flying wall is not only the Bai Sect, but there are also slight differences between the various sects, the Bai Sect's insect control is mostly to control the surrounding insects, and this moth is more like an artificial breeding deliberately placed next to him.
He put down the paperwork in his hand, got up and left the military pavilion directly, and in the open space at the door, the forbidden army was still dealing with the collapsed competition platform and viewing platform.
Xiao Qianye took a closer look, only to find that it was not only the military pavilion, but also the doors of the Ink Pavilion and the Mirror Pavilion next door were also pasted with this kind of small moth, and even in the ruins of the residue that was swept out, there were many of the same moths, they maintained the same posture and did not move at all, and the size and pattern were also the same.
He secretly raised his vigilance, left the inner city directly, and returned to the Tianzheng Mansion in advance.
Sure enough, there was also a moth parked at the main door, and he silently pushed the door open, his eyes sank—one on the cloister, two on the lantern, and a total of fifty-six moths on the gate, window, and blue brick floor, all of which were moths with the power of insects!
"It's too ostentatious. Xiao Qianye finally spoke coldly, and the long sword in his hand suddenly struck, and the sword wind swept by, directly splitting the dozens of moths in half.
He picked up the corpse of the moth on the ground, his expression awe-inspiring, his red pupils still flickering slightly, as if someone was looking at him through the eyes of the moth.
The moment the line of sight was cut off, the star saintess on the top of the star building sneered and shook off the female moth in her hand, she took out a shrine again, and opened the lid on it tremblingly, only to see that there was a female ant in the center of the shrine, and tens of thousands of small ants were crawling densely around.
The black cat jumped up and licked its master's hand, and the Star Saintess touched the sleeping female ant, and finally re-covered the shrine.
It's not time yet...... She has worked so hard to raise her children for so many years, and she can't do it easily at such a time.
"Sister?" On the other side, Emperor Tianquan's voice rang out, "What did those moths find?"
The Star Saintess shook her head, and the black cat spoke: "The Military Pavilion, the Mirror Pavilion, and the Ink Pavilion don't seem to be abnormal, but there are some difficult spells in the Tianzheng Mansion, and I have been blocked several times when I remotely control the insects, this time I finally hid a few of them through Haoyue's body, and I was discovered by the military pavilion master so quickly, and all the swords were cut down, hum, it's a pity that the moths that I have carefully raised for three years are useless at all." ”
"Sure enough, it still doesn't work. Emperor Tianquan was a little disappointed, and the black cat raised his tone, "Fourth brother, there must be something wrong with the Tianzheng Mansion, don't protect Mingxi too much, no one dares to touch the Tianzheng Mansion with him." ”
"Oh. Emperor Tianquan was faint and unfazed, "Sister, I said a long time ago that I don't care what Mingxi wants, and what I'm doing now, as long as he doesn't hinder me, I won't care about him." ”
"You're too partial to him, it's not good to spoil him. The Star Saintess sneered, "If this kindness can be shared a little bit among other princes, Mingxi will not cover the sky with one hand like today." ”
"He deserves this doting because he is Wen Yi's child. Emperor Tianquan made no secret of it, and the Star Saintess Nuo Nuo moved her lips, but she couldn't refute it.
"Okay, let's not mention Mingxi, has my sister observed the origin of that person in the autumn election just now?" Emperor Tianquan returned to his words, he also had this year's roster in his hand, and said, "Huangyan, it's a bit of a special name." ”
The Star Saintess dipped some tea with a dead wood prosthetic, drew a star position on the ground, and dotted a large drop of water in the center, and Zhengse explained: "The technique he used when he left, he walked against the wind, and the actinization disappeared, if nothing else, it should be the martial arts of the heavenly realm, but I don't know which one it is." ”
Emperor Tianquan looked indifferently at the star map drawn by the Star Saintess, his gaze was a little stern.
"This is the Emperor Star, it is the Emperor Star outside the Ming Dynasty, it is even older than the Ming Dynasty," the Star Saintess grinned, looked at her younger brother, continued to dip the tea and nodded it twice, and continued: "It has two very dim auxiliary stars, hehe...... It's two. ”
"Where did the Emperor Star come from?" Emperor Tianquan finally became serious, and the Star Saintess muttered in a low voice, "It only appeared for a moment and disappeared, but such an ancient Emperor Star is probably from the Heavenly Realm." ”
Emperor Tianquan let out a long sigh and closed his eyes.
Is the Heavenly Realm really credible?
Not necessarily.
The purpose of the Night King is nothing more than to find the fierce beast Qi Qi who devoured his body back then, for this he also needs the help of the three demons to recover his divine power, and now he has successfully regained the power of the sea demons, but he does not continue to pursue the victory, but wants to be calm for a while, and then suddenly returned to the heavenly realm, and even specially sent Feng Jiuqing over to repair the cracks in the mirror of the moon, the Night King's move is more like a purposeful delay, what can make him so distracted?
The Night King and Xiao Qianye had fought in the Biluohai, and now this Huangyan of unknown origin also came to Xiao Qianye in the name of the Autumn Election, why did the Heavenly Realm care so much about the Military Pavilion Lord?
Emperor Tianquan was terrified—was there any other secret between the Heavenly Realm and the Heavenly Expeditionary Mansion?Was that Emperor Star that disappeared in a flash from the Heavenly Realm, or was it ...... Tianzheng Mansion?
"Fourth brother, you can't be so indulgent. The Star Saintess silently reminded and wiped off the star map, "Mingxi really has no problem protecting the Tianzheng Mansion three or four times? Don't you also believe those rumors in the market, right? Those things are divine, but Mingxi deliberately ignores them, this is obviously a deliberate attempt to cover up the real reason through rumors, right......?"
Regarding the rumors that the crown prince has a habit of breaking sleeves, Emperor Tianquan actually knew about it for a long time, but he never asked about it.
Eight years ago, the Tianzheng Mansion extermination case is still full of suspicions, and the secret department of the forbidden army has been investigating for many years, and in the end they can only put all the responsibility on Feng Ji of the Lingfeng clan, and no one can find her anyway, so this matter can only be stopped.
Now that I think about it, if I can attract the head of the hundred spirits to appear in person, there must be a big problem in the Tianzheng Mansion, right?
"Hey, my sister is taught. Emperor Tianquan thought slightly, "It's time to investigate the Tianzheng Mansion......"
Before the words fell, the door of the Star Picking Tower was pushed open, Gao Chengchuan strode in, unceremoniously found a chair to sit down, he put the Yan Emperor Sword in his hand, and muttered: "Your Majesty summoned the old minister privately, is he finally planning to investigate the Tianzheng Mansion?"
"Governor Gao has heard it. Emperor Tianquan was not surprised, Gao Chengchuan snorted coldly, "The old minister has been with you for more than fifty years, and I have mentioned these things to you a long time ago, but you have never taken it to heart, and today I finally found out that something was wrong, did you remember the old minister?"
"Governor Gao, you're blaming me. "Emperor Tianquan is helpless, his road to the throne can be said to be twists and turns, before he met Wen Yi, he and his eldest brother Prince Minglu-for-tat, the two often clash, and the governor of the forbidden army Gao Chengchuan is the biggest supporter of his own faction, and later he was in distress on the Weeping Snow Plateau, and fell in love with the god Shou Wenyi at first sight, when he did not hesitate to give up the throne to marry her, Governor Gao was seriously ill, and almost resigned!
Later, he got his wish to marry Wen Yi as his wife, but he never expected that his wife was still looked down upon by the imperial nobles of the imperial capital, and was often verbally attacked, and even secretly tried to force her to leave the imperial city on her own initiative.
The four princes of that year may have really been carried away by anger, he found Gao Chengchuan again, planned the earth-shattering killing of his brother and father together, and finally sat on the throne of Feiyuan.
After that, the status of the Gao family was in full swing, and even blatantly changed the forbidden army to a hereditary system, together with the Gongsun family and Ye Zhuang, and called the three powerful people.
Gao Chengchuan knew what he was thinking, he grew up watching Emperor Tianquan, and the real change in this person actually started after the death of Empress Wen Yi, and before that, even the usurpation was in his own expectations.
"Explain all your purposes. Gao Chengchuan took a deep breath, turned his gaze to the Star Saintess, and said, "This one should also show his true face, right?"
"Heh......" The Star Saintess took off her mask and took off her robe, Gao Chengchuan was startled, the purple palace robe was embroidered with a phoenix totem, which was clearly the totem of the royal woman!
"Oh...... Should you be ......" He immediately understood, still questioned in disbelief, the Star Saintess raised her head, obviously her face was completely ruined, but it still made people feel a penetrating smile, the black cat said in a strange way on the side: "Yes, I am the person that the Governor is thinking about, thanks to the fourth brother still thinking that I am his sister, I entered the Star Sacrifice Palace after escaping from the death of the King of Water Prison, in order to hide people's eyes, I have been showing people as the Star Saintess, and pretending to be a completely delirious puppet person." ”
"Oh......" Gao Chengchuan was surprised and sighed, "No wonder there has been no news of the eldest princess for so many years, it turned out that it was far away in front of her, but the eldest princess revealed her identity at this time, and even took the initiative to ask to investigate the Tianzheng Mansion, the old minister was very curious about the reason?"
Gao Chengchuan narrowed his eyes, and the Star Saintess touched her face and sneered: "The reason for this is really a bit of a coincidence, the military pavilion master has a fellow door who happens to have some relationship with me, and this fellow door now happens to be in the territory of Feiyuan." ”
The black cat suddenly jumped on Gao Chengchuan's knee and patted his hand with his paws, Gao Chengchuan looked at the black cat's round green eyes suspiciously, and was a little frightened for some reason.
"The cat's eyes are fake. The Star Saintess was triumphant, "I was deceived by that person into taking away the symbol of imperial power 'Shen Yue', do you really think that I will not do anything at all? Shen Yue has a spell I left behind, it is a royal secret art, no one can easily find it, and I have always known its whereabouts......"
"Then why don't you say it?" Gao Chengchuan asked in surprise, "As long as you tell the truth, as the eldest princess of your empire, you will not be punished like this!"
"Can you get it back after I said it?" the Star Saintess asked rhetorically, Gao Chengchuan closed her mouth in amusement, and the Star Saintess continued, "Which of you can be sure that you can take Shen Yue back from the King of Garan? Or take it back from Kunlun Mountain? I just can't let you interfere, he deceived me so badly, no one can retaliate against him except me! So I don't say it, even if the King of Water Prison uses to cut off my hands and feet, even if they bite my face with poisonous insects, I can't say it! Because I want to ...... Take revenge on him personally!"
Gao Chengchuan glanced at Emperor Tianquan with his spare eyes, and sure enough, that person was also like himself, and was shocked by such a vicious tone.
"I'm waiting for an opportunity, and since I entered the Star Worship Palace, I've been studying the art of astrology, and the astrological signs show ...... I will one day succeed in revenge, haha, hahahaha!" The Star Saintess's broken face was disgusting, and it was even more crazy at this time, and the black cat was affected by the owner's emotions, and even stood on tiptoe in place, "Fourth brother, do you know?The day the Night King found you, he took King Garan with him...... Hahaha, the day I returned to the imperial capital with Feng Jiuqing, I knew that the day indicated by the stars would not be too far away, he recognized me, I was frightened at the time, for fear that he would see that I was a puppeteer, but fortunately, fortunately, he didn't find out. ”
Emperor Tianquan's lips moved slightly, but he still didn't speak—did Feng Jiuqing really not know?
He wasn't sure.
"Night King ......" Gao Chengchuan obviously paid more attention to these two words, and Emperor Tianquan waved his hand, signaling him to be restless.
The Star Saintess's emotions were very excited, and she said tremblingly: "Sure enough, it didn't take long for me to find out that Shen Yue had returned to the Feiyuan Territory, and it was on the body of a young woman, this woman happened to be the same disciple of the military pavilion master Xiao Qianye, she was Feng Jiuqing's daughter, called Yun Xiao. ”
"The Pavilion Master didn't report this matter, did he?" Gao Chengchuan heard the clue, and Emperor Tianquan nodded, "Indeed, the things he reported are half-true, but he just concealed the most important things, and I didn't care about these things originally, but if my sister has any other ideas, you can also tell me." ”
"What's the use of telling you? You're not going to get revenge on me. The Star Saintess snorted coldly and unceremoniously replied to her fourth brother, "If it weren't for the fact that you are suspicious of the Tianzheng Mansion now, what's the use of me telling you this? You don't care at all, you only care about Wen Yi alone from beginning to end!"
"The First Queen...... Are you still alive?" Gao Chengchuan asked meaningfully, neither of them answered directly, and the Star Saintess continued, "You have to investigate the Tianzheng Mansion, but you can't be too extravagant, otherwise with the current power of the prince, it will be too simple to save him, Mingxi has different intentions, in case it is self-defeating and the gains outweigh the losses, fourth brother, why don't I give you an idea?"
"My sister said it was okay. Emperor Tianquan looked at her with interest, women's revenge was always so complicated, which made him a little interested for a while.
The Star Saint Maiden trembled and took out the map that had been prepared a long time ago, spread it on the ground and motioned for the two of them to come over and see: "Isn't the military pavilion master going to the Weeping Snow Plateau? Shen Yue's current location is in the fine snow valley not far from there, you said that if the fine snow valley is invaded at this time, will he Xiao Qianye go to the rescue? hehe, it's interesting to think about, right?"
"It's kind of interesting. Gao Chengchuan looked at the place where she pointed and said, "From the Weeping Snow Plateau to the Fine Snow Valley, you will definitely pass by the Glacier Forest and the Glacier River, where the military pavilion was ambushed and disappeared...... Fair and reasonable. ”
"But he has the Celestial Bird and the Imperial Sword Technique, and he won't go to the ground. Emperor Tianquan silently reminded him, and the Star Saintess had already thought of a countermeasure, and said, "Then if there is another danger on the ground, will he die and not be saved?"
"What does Sister mean......" Emperor Tianquan frowned, he didn't expect that this eldest sister had already made all the plans, just waiting for his order, the Star Saintess smiled, "The three legions of the White Tiger, the White Wolf, and the Heavenly Horse in the territory of Jialuo are all on land, and if there is a situation on the land, I don't believe that he will not come down as the master of the military pavilion!"
"There is some truth in what the eldest princess said, these situations ...... Let the shadows take care of it. Gao Chengchuan smiled and continued, such a thing as a woman is really a gentle sword, if you don't come out, it will be fatal.
"Governor Gao is worthy of being a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and it is really easy to talk to you. The eldest princess praised appreciatively, suddenly lowered her voice, and said viciously, "Xiao Qianye, you take it away, but you have to leave that woman to me! I want to see if Feng Jiuqing, a person who is affectionate and righteous to his wife and unkind to me, will come to save his daughter this time, hahahaha......"
Gao Chengchuan ignored the Star Saintess's crazy laughter this time, and just said worriedly: "Speaking of which, doesn't the military pavilion master still have a twin brother? If you want to investigate the Tianzheng Mansion, shouldn't that person also be together? Where did he run away after leaving office, it doesn't seem that he is in Tianyu City, right?"
"Indeed, he is still the only survivor of the murder case that year, so it is necessary to investigate it together. Thinking of that person, Emperor Tianquan shuddered suddenly, and said, "Has the Star Sacrifice Palace never observed Xiao Yibai's star position? He has never even entered the academy of the imperial capital, but he is quite an inconspicuous person." ”
"Inconspicuous?" Gao Chengchuan reminded in a cold voice, "Your Majesty, don't forget, where did His Royal Highness the Prince's gossip come from." ”
"Come one by one, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. The Star Saintess didn't care, and persuaded, "When you catch Xiao Qianye, won't he come out to save his own brother? ”
Emperor Tianquan rubbed his head, and there was a strange premonition in the dark, this person might be the most tricky one.
Gao Chengchuan tapped the table with his index finger lightly, and secretly reminded: "Before that, should Your Majesty and the eldest princess explain the matter of the Night King and the first queen to the old minister first?"
"That's right, it's time to tell you, sister, let's bother to open the mirror. Emperor Tianquan took out the jade-faced divine mirror and gave it to the Star Saintess, and suddenly restrained his tone, "Sister, I know you are vengeful, but you can't let Feng Jiuqing know everything you said today, do you understand?"
"Of course, I'm not the stupid person I used to be. The Star Saintess took the mirror and kowtowed.
The mirror was full of light, and a door appeared.
"Governor Gao, please. Emperor Tianquan was the first to stand up, Gao Chengchuan held back his surprise, and followed him into the unknown mirror world.