Chapter Forty-Three: Someone Comes in the Stars
On the way to Sword Mountain for the young man, Tai'an City was a succession of several terrifying things.
The first is that Shen Jiuxiong, the uncle of the general of Dingguo, actually drove the flying boat away from Tai'an City with dozens of henchmen privately, no one knew where to go, and some people secretly committed treason.
The people of the imperial city and even the civil and military officials were all panicked, and there was an old Taoist priest who gave up his life to cultivate as a great supernatural power to calculate this act of adding fuel to the fire, and only said when he was dying, "I am no longer in Chongyang Kingdom." β
Second, late one night, there was an old Taoist in Tsing Yi who claimed to be from Wangyue Mountain in Xingshen Country, and came under the stars at night.
Completely put aside the so-called rule that Tai'an City cannot be three feet above the ground, step on the imperial city with both feet, and overlook it with a sword in one hand.
Then, after the old Taoist in Tsing Yi pointed to the sky with a long sword and whispered "pick the stars", not only a group of thunder rolled down like ten thousand snakes, but also a round of stars falling rapidly.
Not like but really stars.
Tai'an City was shrouded in shadows in an instant, and thousands of long figures under the sky and sun were all spells, and their momentum was as great as daylight.
After the new emperor Zhou Xun, who had just ascended the throne for only dozens of days, gently pressed the glass jade seal carved with the Nine Dragons Swallowing Pearls in horror, with the imperial city as the center, a thick light curtain overlapped and rose, and the people in it were all in good spirits, like heavenly help.
There is also a rickety old man who has just returned to Tai'an waist and said goodbye to the vermilion ring ruler, with a small courtyard as his heels, he rose from the ground, rushed out of the golden light curtain, and faced the huge stars entwined with fireworks, his hands went up, and a wooden ruler came out.
The white-haired old man named Wu Sheng from Shangde Academy who pressed his hands to his knees pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Who dares to do so?"
From that academy, there was a majestic aura rushing into the sky, like a giant dragon raising its head, angry and hideous.
If you look closely, there is only one page of gold paper, fluttering, but there is a vast sea.
In an instant, the stars were split in two and then into four by this page of golden paper.
The golden waves stacked on top of each other, and four boulders thundered down.
A wooden ruler overflowing with a hundred feet of golden light, a load of four stones, and then slapped away horizontally in an instant, turning into a sky full of sand and dust sprinkled on the world.
And half of the rolling thunder was blocked in front of the golden light curtain, and half was smashed into pieces by everyone, turning into nothing.
The old Taoist in Tsing Yi who picked up the stars with a sword was not surprised, and quickly turned around and fled with only one sword, dissipating under the scorching gaze of thousands of people.
But there was a word that rang out in everyone's ears.
"Next time, I won't be the only one here. β
Ding Qiu, the man with the sword on his back, was also in Tai'an, but he didn't make a move, but a man with an extremely handsome appearance and a wine gourd at his waist was leaning under a tree, watching the strange scene like fireworks and annihilating the stars.
After that, the handsome man lifted the wine gourd and replied, "In troubled times, how to be alone." β
Ding Qiu held his head in his hands and breathed a long sigh of relief, and said a secret that undoubtedly touched the handsome man's heart, "I have seen the paper fan with the word Merry that you are looking for, and I almost helped you get it back." β
The handsome man named He Siqi changed his lazy appearance in the past, turned over and sat up, and said with a straight face: "Where is it?" β
The small gourd full of wine around his waist trembled instantly, and the wine evaporated from the mouth of the bottle like a mist, and a rolling golden flood poured into it, churning in it.
But the man just shook his head, but he didn't really break the mystery, and he still pretended to be smiling after a long time, without saying a word.
And the handsome man had already nodded sensitively, looked out of the sky, his eyes were wrinkled, and he said indifferently: "I'm not afraid of death." β
There was only one sentence that answered him, which contained words of playfulness and sarcasm.
The man sneered: "Lao Tzu won't tell you, what can you do!"
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In the imperial city, Zhou Xun, who wore an imperial crown and a dragon-patterned robe, paced back and forth within a few feet of the imperial study.
He turned around and hammered his fist on the rosewood table, and said angrily: "This week, the mother and mother are really fools in the world, isn't it, then Shen Jiuxiong's defection really has nothing to do with her Empress Shen? Now that he is unwell, he is closed to the palace and does not see outsiders, but he is really from my Zhou family!"
A white-haired old eunuch beside him shook his head and said nothing.
Zhou Xun sighed and asked, "That old man in Tsing Yi can find out who he is, why did he make this move, and when did I provoke such an existence in Chongyang Kingdom." β
The old eunuch nodded and said: "That person is the lord of Wangyue Mountain in the Xingshen Kingdom, an old monk who has returned to one realm of ten realms, his name is the old man who picks stars, and the sword in his hand is extraordinary, it doesn't seem to be an ordinary half-immortal soldier." β
The man in the dragon robe said angrily: "I'm not listening to you praising others!"
turned to be shocked in his heart, and hurriedly apologized: "It's really that the situation is too grim now, Grandpa Zhou, don't be surprised." β
The old eunuch shook his head and said hoarsely: "The old slave is just a subordinate, Emperor Zhou doesn't need to worry about whether the old slave is angry because of this, let alone take another move." β
Zhou Xun rubbed his eyebrows, and finally sighed.
The old eunuch said: "From the old slave's point of view, the old man's move to pick up the stars undoubtedly shows on the side that the role of my Huaiyuan Army and the Tiger Wolf Army on the northern battlefield has exceeded imagination, so Emperor Zhou can not withdraw the two armies to protect Tai'an now, so he can only survive." β
Zhou Xun sighed: "Now that there is no Dingguo Army to suppress the formation, if it is not one who comes next time, but two or even three so-called lords of the mountain, what else will I do in Chongyang Kingdom?"
The old eunuch smiled: " Naturally, there is an academy on top, even if those scholars are alone, they will not sit idly by at such a point, and as far as the old slave knows, there are only two mountains and two sects in the Xingshen Kingdom as a place of great trouble, namely the Moon Mountain, the Enlightenment Mountain, the Great River Sword Sect and the Fulu Sect, but the Enlightenment Mountain has always been ignorant of foreign affairs, and those monks only take becoming immortals as the foundation, and they should not make a move, even if they add the Yin and Yang Dao Sect of the Wuyuan Kingdom, but the Longwu Kingdom is not all about eating soft rice, so Emperor Zhou does not need to worry, this move must be intimidating, intended to make you withdraw from the army, and it is also destroying your heartγ β
Zhou Xun sighed: "But..."
The old eunuch immediately said in a deep voice: "I still hope that Emperor Zhou must survive, I still have the suppression of the Pingtian Sword Palace in the north of Chongyang Kingdom, if a catastrophe comes, it is a big deal to let go of the northern border, those guys with swords are not easy to talk to, and when the time comes, they will be cut out." β
The man with the imperial crown on his head nodded, "That's all there is to it." β
Then he asked: "If I let Taishi Zhang personally take action, will I have the opportunity to recruit those mountains or some idlers and wild cranes like those mountains of the Shangqing Sect in Chongyang Kingdom?"
The old eunuch neither shook nor nodded, but only bent down to one side.
And this move is nothing more than a statement that there is not much chance.
And in the Taiping Sword Palace thousands of miles away, there was a gray-clothed man with snow-white hair and starry sword eyebrows, leaning on the majestic mountain whose top had been hidden in the clouds and mist with one hand on the hilt of the sword.
From the foot of the mountain, there are dense long swords dotted on it, looking from low to high, and the hilt of the sword is becoming more and more scarce as far as the eye can see.
And this thousand-footed sword mountain, in the misty clouds, there is a figure standing in the wind, dressed in a white cotton robe, with a deep chill hidden in clear eyes, and gestures are like the integration of heaven and earth.
No matter how powerful and mighty the sword intent of the ten thousand long swords under the mountain was, they all didn't dare to make a sound under the slight frown of this man, let alone shake any dissatisfaction.
The gray-clothed sword cultivator named Qing Wuji, who fell down at the foot of the mountain, raised his eyebrows, and quipped: "Old friend, if you are willing to help me, what kind of sword to cut the stars, one sword to cut the four seas, and even those chattering old Wang Ba, after all, it's a fart." β
But the white-clothed cotton robe just shook his head, and his face was very kind.
If you look around from a high place, in the misty clouds, a large circle of dozens of zhang is faintly separated, and it seems that they are avoiding the edge of the white cotton robe.
Moreover, with a slight wave of the man's hand, the sea of clouds instantly receded more than a thousand feet, and it couldn't be closed for a long time.
Qing Wuer was a little regretful, and laughed at himself: "Hundreds of years ago, you were also like this, after all, how can there be any saying that you don't go all the way, if it weren't for that little bit of hope, I would have already opened the sky with a sword and soared away, what Chongyang Kingdom, Xingshen Kingdom, has a fart relationship with me, do you really think I'm the old guy who reads stupidly?"
The man laughed and said, "Aren't you also an old fellow?"
At this time, a young man from the Sword Palace touched this mold, and happened to walk in front of the man.
was grabbed in front of him by the white-haired handsome man named Qing Wuji and asked, "Am I chic?"
The young man was stunned for a moment, then nodded hurriedly and said, "The palace master deserves to be the most chic person in the world." β
"Am I good at swordsmanship?"
"The palace master is the second, who dares to be respected?"
The man was satisfied with the words that this was not sycophancy, kicked the young man out of dozens of meters, raised his eyebrows and said: "Do you hear, I am the most chic in the world, and I have the highest swordsmanship in the world." β
He said proudly: "Who am I?
The man then stood up, covered his ears with his hands, and strode away, repeating the words in his mouth.
said loudly: "I am Qing Wuji, the only one here!"
Although he didn't want to listen, some people were still relieved and said, "You, you're an old naughty boy!"
The man stumbled and fell directly to the ground, and then hundreds of golden waves sloped towards the city tower of the Dragon Martial Kingdom, like a flood, earth-shattering!