Volume 5 [Blood Moon Demon Sorrow] 371: Condensation incense is powerful
In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu. On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, farewell to the old and welcome the new, the whole world celebrates in the Ming Dynasty.
There are no vendors selling on the streets of Xingyang, and groups of dolls on both sides of the wide road are playing together with lanterns; on the side of the snowy street, thousands of households are lined up with lanterns; outside the pavilions, Luo Qixiang is all over Jiumo.
Damuti rested for two days and her strength improved, but the injury on her foot still made it difficult for her to walk. The sisters had to spend this extraordinary Chinese New Year's Eve in Xingyang. Nan Yu also arranged a Chinese New Year's Eve banquet in Xingyang, and many disciples died in the Battle of Dragon and Tiger Gate, so this time the banquet was a little low-key, but it was warm.
Xingyun couldn't help but sigh: In peacetime, the government and the opposition are happy. Minkangfu, gather with the good points. With such a scene, how can you imagine that thousands of miles away, someone is plotting to rebel? Her face was full of gloom, and she said to Lu Feiyan beside her: "Hey, in the past, sisters drank together. But this year, we can't go back to home; the fourth sister is scarred and wears filial piety; the second sister jumps into the blue spring, life and death are uncertain; Li laughs at him and ....... β
"Sister, don't think about it anymore. Maybe this is God's arrangement, what we can do is to try to make the fourth sister forget the pain. Even though I know it's impossible, I can't just bask in the sadness. β
Xingyun nodded: "You're right! It's easy to heal the sick and it's hard to heal the heart! We have to let the fourth sister go ββ happy and have a Chinese New Year's Eve meal!" The two sisters entered the house and prepared to take their seats.
During the dinner, everyone tried to avoid mentioning unhappy things. In order to create a happy atmosphere, Zi Mo asked Xian'er: "Sixth sister, you will be one year older tomorrow, should you marry Zhu Zifeng?"
Xian'er's face turned red and denied: "Who wants to get married? That's the marriage that the emperor refers to, and it's not something I want to marry! I'm just looking at him as the third brother-in-law, and I'm just giving him face." Whether to marry or not, I haven't decided yet!"
"βwhat? do you want to resist the decree?" Zimo continued to tease.
"What's wrong with the rebellion? Sister, I'm happy to resist the decree, what can he do to me?"
Nan Yu said with a smile on the side: "A few days ago, when I went to face the saint, I saw Zhu Zifeng asking the emperor to help him choose an auspicious day for the zodiac and prepare for the marriage!"
When Xian'er heard this, she immediately became anxious: "-Then, what did the emperor say?"
Nan Yu smiled: "Hehe, it's nothing! The emperor said, 'That's your business, I'll help you get married, is it possible that I have to help you get married?'" Nan Yu pretended to be Longsan's tone, and he couldn't help laughing after speaking.
"That's good, that's goodββ scare me to death!" Xian'er pinched a cold sweat.
Zi Mo deliberately taunted again: "Huh, Sixth Sister, what are you nervous about? Aren't you afraid of the emperor?"
"Who said I'm afraid? I'm just appreciating the emperor's decision!"
Xingyun said: "I don't think that's 'appreciation', it's our fairy who is in a hurry to get married!"
"Who is in a hurry to get married? I don't agree to this family affair at all! It's you who mess with the mandarin duck score, what does it have to do with me? You like Zhu Zifeng so much, you should marry him!" Xian'er tried her best to hide her embarrassment.
A young general walked in and said to Nan Yu: "Helper, the imperial court has sent a secret letter!"
Nan Yu took it apart and took a look, and his face changed abruptly. Without waiting for the sisters to ask, he put away the secret letter and announced to you: "Aunts, the emperor wants me to return to Beijing immediately, this Chinese New Year's Eve wine...... I'm afraid I won't be able to drink it!"
"What's wrong?Nanyu?" Xian'er got up and asked, "What Chinese New Year's Eve this...... , the emperor won't let you go, what happened?"
Nan Yu said in the dialect of the disciple who was sent to deliver the letter: "--Mobei has made a move! The emperor said in the secret letter that Mobei has gathered troops in the northern border of the Ming Dynasty, and may offend my Daming at any time, so let me go back and prepare for war as soon as possible!"
"-What?"
When the sisters heard this, they immediately couldn't sit still, and Xian'er said, "Why is it so fast? Aren't they attacking the Western Regions?"
Xingyun said, "As I expected, this must have been made by condensation incense again." She knew that the end of the year was the weakest time for Daming's defense. Therefore, he instigated Mobei to harass the Ming Dynasty in order to test the strength of the imperial court. Once they are sure, they will send troops from the west and attack on both sides of Mobei. β
"Then, what should we do? Shengjie Mountain has not been taken back, once the condensation incense commits a mess, we have no one to use. With a few of us, how can we help the imperial court tide over the crisis? If we fight alone, it's okay, but to deal with the invasion of the Western Regions and Mobei at the same time, it's like a grasshopper shaking a tree, and a mantis arm is a car!" Lu Feiyan said worriedly.
"Yes! There are not a few troops on both sides. If the west and north sides attack at the same time, the imperial court may not be able to do it. How many troops are available to the DPRK and China now?" Xingyun asked.
"The previous Pingbei army, which numbered more than 200,000 people, was allocated to the commanders of Guangning and Suining a few months ago to fight floods and provide disaster relief. Now the available troops are less than 50,000, plus the Royal Forest Army is almost 100,000. β
When everyone heard this, they fell into a silent ...... for a moment.
Bai Zimo sat down on the chair and said passively: "Oh my God! This little force can't even resist the Western Regions, let alone Mobei!
"Let's go back to Beijing!" Damuti said: "It's okay not to eat this Chinese New Year's Eve! When I first attacked the desert, I was kind to King Mobei, this time I will see if I can explain him and let him withdraw from the army!"
"Fourth sister, it won't work! At that time, the king of Mobei was indeed favored by you, but now that time has passed, people's hearts will change! If he really remembers your goodness, he will not attack the Western Regions with the instigation of Condensing Incense. The condensation incense must have given him a lot of benefits, or it gave him infinite temptation. If you negotiate in this way, you are tantamount to falling into a trap. β
"Then what should I do? I can't watch Condensation Incense use the soldiers of the Western Regions to attack the Ming Dynasty! Since ancient times, the Ming Dynasty has been the most powerful barrier in the Western Regions, and once the Ming Dynasty is shaken, the Western Regions will inevitably be doomed. β
"You make me think about ......!" Nebula fell into deep thought. After a while, she got up and said, "Let's go! Let's go back to Daming Palace immediately, and I will face the saint in person." β
As soon as Nan Yu heard that everyone was going back to Beijing together, of course he was happy, so he immediately prepared the frame and rushed to Beijing overnight. (Due to Damuti's injuries, they can only walk slowly, and the rocking path will not be detailed for the time being.) οΌ
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A few days ago, in order to find the dragon's eye, phoenix eggs and tiger guts, Mo Na jumped into the blue water whirlpool under the pagoda of Dayang Huanshan. There is no bottomless fantasy world under the whirlpool, and there is no immortal mansion that leads to the ghost/cave spirits. It was just a teleportation portal, and the turbulent water inside swept through Morna's red silk, causing her to spin and drift with the current. When he broke through the water, he realized that he had arrived in a world of ice and snow, in a crystal ice cave.
She twisted the water on her skirt, brushed her hair and looked around, the jade frost was like a mirror, and the tiger spirit was frozen and hidden. The ice hammer is not broken, and the bright frost stars are green. The thick walls of ice are convex and uneven, stretching infinitely into the dark depths of the ice cave.
The extremely cold hinterland is full of cold air. The red dress, which had just been soaked, turned into ice before it could breathe. Clusters of ice flowers shimmered on Morna's skin like countless silver stars. The biting chill spreads from the surface of the body to the depths of the bone marrow. Fortunately, she can cultivate both yin and yang, and the yin blood in her body is not afraid of cold. And the frost nail made of thousand-year-old cold iron hidden in her body also made her not afraid of the cold at all, like a red plum blooming on a frosty branch, and the red crisp was willing to let Qiongbud break.
She swallowed the white mist and cautiously walked into the depths of darkness. Ice picks hung upside down from the top, like countless jagged wolf teeth, densely arranged on the roof of the cave. It's like being in the middle of a huge wolf's mouth, which makes people involuntarily timid.
She cautiously stepped inside, and when the ice under her feet was trampled, it made a 'gurgling' sound, like the whispers of the spirits, faintly echoing in the ice cave. In the darkness, Mona lit up a pair of ink phoenix eyes, emitting an emerald green light.
Suddenly, she saw two 'moons' appear not far ahead, a pair of yellow moons glowing and disappearing in the darkness. She curiously discerned the moon's surroundings, and had just spotted a pile of scale-like things. With a roar, a living thing opened its bloody jaws and swooped towards Morna......
The thing smashed through the ice wall, shattered the ice pick, and struck with speed. Mo Na didn't have time to take a closer look, hurriedly made a divine move, withdrew ten zhang, pulled out the frost nail and stabbed it at the ice wall, and climbed the eaves in the cave with the traction of the dagger, dodging the attack of the unknown object, and fell to the ground to take a closer look: a huge frost dragon was showing off its ferocity in front of him with its mouth wide open.
Mona was pleasantly surprised, and thought to herself, 'This must be the dragon, just take off its dragon eye, and the second holy relic will be in your hands!' She flew up, put her feet on the dragon's nose, and flew up to the cave with her strength. Graceful, it spun around the ice pick and fell quickly, riding the ice armor frost dragon under its crotch.
The frost dragon sensed that she was clutching her horns, and in a panic, she let out an earth-shattering roar, shook her head and tail desperately, and rolled around in the hole, stumbling and stumbling. For a while, all kinds of ice blades rained down, and the snow was shaking and shaking. Frost splashed in the cave, and ice and stones flew on the ground.
Mona seized the opportunity to stab into the dragon's eye, gouging out a dragon's eye and throwing it out of the cave. The red shadow flew out of the cave in a flash, spun around in the air a few times, copied the dragon's eye in his hand, and landed lightly.
In a fit of rage, the frost dragon crashed into the ice cave, smashed the rocks, and opened its bloody jaws to devour the ...... of Mona.
Seeing that Baoding was nearby, Mo Na slid on the ice with the dragon's eye in her arms and jumped into Baoding. The blue water stirred wildly, whirlpooled, and quickly drowned Mona's shadow in the treasure ding, and took her away from the ice and snow realm.
'......Whoa!'
She Fleur dehydrated, jumped out of Baoding, and came to a verdant world. The emerald moss is blue, the white clouds are floating jade, and the light shakes the pieces of smoke. The snake wood is cross-necked, the long vine is hanging, and the branches are full of fairy leaves. Clusters of low trees cover the roots, and dense green bushes cover the black soil. The waist-high bushes made it impossible for her to see the road clearly, so she could only step on the dead branches and leaves and grope her way carefully.
From time to time, there are various 'hissing' strange sounds in the forest, as if a group of pythons are spitting poison. She took two steps and looked back, carefully remembering where she had come. Fortunately, she grew up in the mountains and has a strong experience of survival in the wild. She began to search around Baoding, expanding the search area one by one, trying to find clues to the remaining two holy relics.
Suddenly, the branches of the trees not far in front of her moved! She stopped to watch, and saw a white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes walking towards her.......
The white tiger's flowery face is like a face with black and white makeup. The markings on the body are like a drop of thick ink dripping onto the surface of the lake, stirring up a thousand waves. The waves twisted and writhed with its body, constantly changing its posture. There is a little white on the forehead, like a ray of light opening the lines on the facial features.
Mo Na smiled at the tiger, she knew that she was about to succeed smoothly again! The white tiger opened its mouth, revealing its yellow and white fangs, and roared towards the sky, showing its majesty and domineering. As it approached step by step, the sound of the 'cat chanting Buddha' became clearer and ......clearer.
Suddenly, the white tiger swooped down from the bushes. Mona wielded a frost spike and slashed at the white tiger's chest. Unexpectedly, the white tiger swung its tiger palm violently, and the two slaps knocked off Mo Na's mask aside, and the frost nail in his hand also fell to the ground. The White Tiger opened its mouth and roared at Morna, as if to mock her weak form.
And Mona hooked the fire of the demon world from her forehead, and with a 'poof' it blinded its eyes, causing it to roar in pain, shaking its head and retreating.
Mona picked up the frost nail again, pounced on it and plunged it into the white tiger's abdomen. The moment the warm blood water was frozen into ice slag, Mo Na reached into the tiger's belly with her left hand along the knife edge and grabbed a bloody object. The tiger opened its teeth and claws in pain, and fell into the grass with a heart-rending scream, and began to convuls...... before dying.
With a green tiger gall, Mona picked up the white bone mask from the ground, put it on the peach blossom face, and jumped into the treasure .......