Chapter 183: Chang'an Undercurrent
No one knows why the Holy Emperor summoned Yu Xuanji, and even what happened during the summons, no one knows what he said between him and Yu Xuanji, but soon a news that was not noticed by people came out, that is, Yu Xuanji collided with the Holy Emperor and was scheduled to be beheaded in three days, and the person who supervised the beheading was Yu Chaoen.
Not much attention was paid to the execution of a female crown, and even if the female crown was famous, it could not cause any waves.
The Southwest Sword Pavilion of the Tang Dynasty is already full of troops, not only the Beidou general Ge Shuhan, but also the imperial double-walled Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, this is the real place where the eyes of the world gather.
On the tower of Jianmen Pass, Guo Ziyi was in the center, Li Guangbi and Ge Shuhan were separated, and dozens of Taiyi Xuanxian-level generals stood in a row behind them.
Under the Guan Tower, in addition to the 200,000 Beidou Army, there were also the Longwu Army, which numbered only 15,000 people, and the Shenwu Army, which numbered even less than 10,000 people.
When the flood was reunited, the Holy Emperor had already issued an order to let Wang Zhongsi lead the Shence army to guard the southeast border, and let Feng Changqing lead the Tiance army to garrison Yuyang and guard the northwest border.
These two armies were originally the main forces stationed in Gyeonggi, but now that the southwest is in an emergency, the Holy Emperor has to send the last two ace troops to defend Chang'an, and now there are only 20,000 left and right Yulin troops guarding the palace in the entire Chang'an.
The Longwu Army is the only cavalry unit in the entire Chang'an, and the mounts of this cavalry unit are all dragon horses with dragon blood, and every soldier of the Longwu Army is at least a monk who gave birth to the Divine Thought, and the entire army is extremely strong in combat.
And the Shenwu Army is also a great army, this is an elite army selected from the hundreds of millions of border troops in the entire Tang Dynasty, although this army is the smallest in number, but the strength of individual soldiers is the strongest, and the Shenwu Army not only has the people of the Tang Dynasty, but also includes the people of hundreds of vassal states in Dongsheng Shenzhou.
"Report ...... Guogong, there is an official document transmitted from the capital. Suddenly, a herald rushed out of the Sword Pavilion and landed directly in front of Guo Ziyi.
Guo Ziyi was knighted as the Duke of Guo, Li Guangbi's title is the Duke of Jijun, and Ge Shuhan only has a military position but no title, so Guo Ziyi's status is the highest among the three, and the entire southwest is now headed by him.
Now the Tang Dynasty only has the prince of the clan, and there is no precedent for a different surname to be crowned a king, so Guo Ziyi's acting prince is already the highest title.
Guo Ziyi took the document in the soldier's hand, this is the document that was directly transmitted from Chang'an to the Sword Pavilion by the teleportation array, usually only very formal and important news will be transmitted in this way, and at this moment, everyone's eyes are focused on the document in Guo Ziyi's hand.
Quickly opened the paperwork, Guo Ziyi quickly browsed, now in his early forties, Guo Ziyi has always been known for his stability, he read the document with the same expression, and then said lightly: "Your Majesty has newly appointed a Zhongshu Sect Pingzhangshi, that is, our former poet immortal in the Tang Dynasty, and now the famous Taibai Sword Immortal Li Qinglian." ”
Guo Ziyi said lightly, and handed the official document to the general behind him.
"It's strange, this Li Qinglian used to be appreciated by Concubine Taizhen just by showing off her literary talents, why did Your Majesty suddenly use him so much?
"Could it be that Chang'an has changed?" Almost as soon as Ge Shuhan's voice fell, Li Guangbi spoke with some concern.
"This is Your Majesty's will, there is no doubt about it, we can't speculate on guarding the frontier, as long as the Holy Emperor is in Chang'an, there will be no chaos, we just need to guard this sword gate. The young master of Yuntai has already arrived,......" Guo Ziyi hurriedly spoke to stabilize people's hearts, and his eyes looked at Jianmen Pass, a marching camp that stretched for hundreds of miles.
There are countless halos of light intertwined in the sky above this camp, which seems to have evolved into formations, and there is even a boundless murderous aura that rushes straight into the sky, as if there is a peerless fierce beast lurking in the camp.
There are only two armies in the entire Middle Earth Dao Gate that can have such a weather, one is the Xingchen Guard who is fighting against the Buddha Gate, and the other is the Beifu Dao soldiers commanded by Xie Xuan.
These two armies have been born for hundreds of years, as early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and have experienced countless wars. Its overall strength was stronger than Li Tang's Dragon Martial Shenwu Second Army, and it was enough to rank in the top five in the entire Honghuang army.
In the handsome tent of the Daomen camp, the handsome position in the middle is empty, and the sisters and brothers of Xie Daoyun and Xie Xuan are ranked first on both sides, followed by Nandou and Beidou Daoren, and then behind is the Jade Rakshasa holding the Abi Divine Sword, and the opposite of the Jade Rakshasa is Zu Chongzhi.
After these people, there are several Yuntai Dao people at the peak of Taiyi, and almost half of the Yuntai core disciples have gathered in the entire big tent.
"Greetings (Senior Sister) Young Master!" As a crisp sound sounded in the void, everyone saluted the vacant handsome seats.
Suddenly, a faint light and shadow appeared on the handsome seat, the light and shadow were transparent, and there was only a humanoid outline, but soon Su Ruolan's voice came from the light and shadow.
"My body has arrived in Chang'an, and I deliberately revealed my aura just now to let Guo Ziyi perceive it, and Li Tang's army will not act rashly in a short time. However, I felt a very threatening aura in the Sword Pavilion, thinking that Guo Ziyi and the others had brought some treasure from Chang'an, if they used this thing, Senior Sister Dao Yun and Jade Rakshasa would work together to sacrifice the two swords of Yuan Tu Abi. ”
Su Ruolan's voice stopped, and the light and shadow also dissipated.
"This Tang Chang'an is really prosperous, have you inquired clearly? When will Yu Xuanji be killed?" On Chang'an Suzaku Street, a delicate and beautiful girl walked on the street casually, and behind her, a woman in green with the same outstanding appearance followed closely, it was Su Ruolan and Su Lianqing.
"Tomorrow at noon, it's outside the noon gate. In addition, Yu Chaoen, in the name of transcendence, invited several monks from the Temple of Mercy and Grace. Su Lianqing said as if no one was around, and it seemed that passers-by automatically ignored these two fairy-like girls.
"Ci'en Temple, is this a temple belonging to Lingshan Buddhism, or is it a temple of other Buddhism?" asked Su Ruolan thoughtfully.
In fact, Buddhism is not monolithic, the two saints set up Buddhism in that year, and became the two major existences that coexisted with the Taoism, and later the three friends of the Taoism set up their own teachings, although they still regard themselves as the Taoism, but the concept has been different. Buddhism has also divided many Buddhisms, such as Lingshan Buddhism, Lamp-Burning Buddhism, and Maitreya's Maitreya Religion.
It is precisely because of this that Su Ruolan asked.
"On the surface, the Temple of Mercy and Grace belongs to Lingshan Buddhism, and it is also the only Buddhist temple in Chang'an, the capital of Li and Tang Dynasties. Su Lianqing had already done her homework on this, and immediately told what she had found.
Su Ruolan didn't say anything when she heard this, and continued to tour Chang'an with great interest.
At the same time, in Chang'an Qingyi Fang, a huge ancient mansion was filled with endless sword qi, and these sword qi crisscrossed and crisscrossed into substance, but these sword qi were all bound in the mansion, and the sword qi that was supposed to be violent looked extremely docile.
The old mansion has a brand-new plaque with only two simple words on it.
And there are only three people in the house, one of them a man and a woman are guarding outside the largest bedroom, and inside the bedroom is Li Qinglian, who is dressed in a green robe and has a little gray hair.
"Brother Taibai has cultivated the sword into silk to the extreme, and then it is the condensation sword domain that only exists in legends, if Brother Taibai can successfully condense the sword domain today, he can enter the ranks of the Great Luo Golden Immortals. Outside the house, Xu Changqing looked at the sword qi floating in front of him, and said with some envy.
On the side, Tang Zixuan was also curious to look at the sword qi like water at her fingertips, in her perception, it seemed that these sword qi had life, and could turn into anything at any time with the owner's thoughts.
"Once Brother Taibai condenses the Sword Domain, doesn't it mean that he has the strength of a quasi-saint in the Great Luo Golden Immortal?" Tang Zixuan suddenly thought about it, and his face looked even more surprised.
"The sword cultivation journey is already extremely heavy, as far as I know, there are really a lot of sword immortals who challenge the quasi-saint with the Da Luo Dao Xing, many years ago Yuding, and not long ago Yuntai Daojun, they all used the Golden Immortal Cultivation as a challenge to the quasi-saint. Xu Changqing has a wide range of knowledge, and he quickly thought of Yuding and Zhou Cheng.
Just as the two were talking, suddenly the sword qi of the entire mansion suddenly became violent, as if a pool of calm lake water had set off huge waves, and the sword qi that was originally like a gossamer began to entangle with each other, and the sword qi of the entire mansion instantly merged into one.
"It's going to be?" Xu Changqing and Tang Zixuan glanced at each other.
On Suzaku Street, Su Ruolan, who was looking at various masks at a mask stall, suddenly turned her head to look at Qing Yifang, and almost at the same time, a brocade flew in her eyes.
"Miss, what's wrong?" asked Su Lianqing in a whisper beside her.
The change in Su Ruolan's eyes was fleeting, but the change just now seemed to make her lose interest, she put down her mask and turned to leave the stall, saying as she walked: "I feel a familiar atmosphere, maybe I will have another junior brother soon." ”
In the Li Mansion, just when Xu Changqing and Tang Zixuan thought that Li Qinglian was about to succeed in attacking Da Luo, the endless sword qi seemed to have lost its source, and it was dissipating between heaven and earth little by little.
A moment later, the door opened, and Li Qinglian walked out as usual.
"Hehe, let the two of you bother. After all, I don't have enough background, and I'm still a little bit short of Da Luo. Li Qinglian had a faint smile on his face, and he bluntly said that the impact on Da Luo failed, but this didn't seem to affect his state of mind, as if it was just an extremely ordinary thing.
The two couldn't help but admire even more in their hearts, and with Li Qinglian's open-minded state of mind, Xu Changqing and Tang Zixuan believed that it was only a matter of time before he became Da Luo.
Hanyuan Hall of Daming Palace, here is the place where Li Xuanzong deals with government affairs and approves the recitals, and at this moment he is holding a red pen to reply to a letter from all over the Tang Dynasty.
The door of Hanyuan Hall was gently pushed open a gap, and then a figure was carefully squeezed into the gap, and the figure took extremely light steps, and soon appeared on Li Xuanzong's side.
"Your Majesty, Pingzhang's attack on Da Luo failed!" The person who came was the most intimate attendant of the Tang Holy Emperor, and also the head of the entire inner palace, Gao Lishi Gao Gonggong.
"I know, I immediately ordered the prince to be the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and immediately went out of the city to Yuyang to reward the soldiers of the Tiance army. Li Xuanzong said without raising his head, and he still kept replying to the folds in his hand, as if he was afraid that he would not have enough time.
"Old slave....... Obey the order!" Gao Lishi's body shook violently, as if he wanted to say something, but after looking up at the Holy Empress, he still said the word "obey" and turned away.
Gao Lishi knew that this was a decree of great significance, and if the Holy Emperor only wanted the crown prince to work in the army, there was no need to add the title of generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses.
And the Tiance Army has another unusual significance, that is, this army is the descendant of Li Tang Taizong, and Taizong was also the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses at that time.
The crown prince Li Heng went out of the city in a low-key manner before dark in the name of the labor army, and the people of Chang'an were still asleep in the night as before, and the lights of the entire Chang'an City were extinguished.
Daming Palace is next to the Taimiao, the Taimiao is still illuminated by the lights like the sun at night, and suddenly the main gate of the Taimiao that is difficult to be opened is slowly opened, and a golden chariot carried by eight people slowly walks into the main gate, and the official Tang Dynasty Holy Emperor Li Xuanzong on the chariot.
Li Xuanzong entered the main hall of the Taimiao alone, but there was already an old man in the hall with white hair and an apricot yellow dragon robe standing in front of a row of tablets.
Except for the two of them and a row of lonely tablets, there was nothing else in the Taimiao Hall, and it looked unusually empty.
In fact, the original Taimiao Hall is not like this, in addition to the tablets of the Holy Emperors of the Tang Dynasty in the past dynasties, all the artifact spirit treasures of Li Tang are also enshrined here, but now the artifact spirit treasure is gone.
The style of the dragon robe on the old man's body is the same as what Li Xuanzong wears on weekdays, except that the color is not bright yellow but apricot yellow, that is, there are only eight golden dragons on the dragon robe.
"I've seen the Ancestor. Li Xuanzong first saluted the old man.
Li Xuanzong closed his salute, and the old man also bowed slightly, and also saluted Li Xuanzong: "I have seen Your Majesty"
"Your Majesty has really thought about it, this is a bet on the fortune of the entire Li Tang Kingdom!" The old man's voice was majestic and heavy, and almost everyone thought that he was dead except for a few Li Tang royal family members.
This old man's name is Li Yuanying, the last son of Li Tang Gaozu, and the youngest brother of Taizong, and the only quasi-saint of Li Tang except for the Holy Emperor Li Xuanzong, and the guardian of Taimiao.
"The real Epoch Tribulation has begun, and we have no choice, please ask the Ancestor to help me. Li Xuanzong bowed slightly, and his voice was sonorous and powerful.
"Okay, you go in!" Li Yuanying seemed to be infected by Li Xuanzong's determination, slightly sideways to get out of the way, and then casually waved his hand at the tablet behind him, and a light and shadow portal appeared between the tablets, revealing the breath of a special space.
Li Xuanzong stepped in, and the next moment he appeared in a space full of golden light, the space was not known how big, there were dazzling golden lights everywhere, but in the center of the space, a huge golden dragon was entrenched, and the golden light of the entire space was emitted from it.
Li Xuanzong took another step, and the next moment he appeared on the side of the golden dragon, and the huge golden dragon felt Li Xuanzong slowly open his eyes, as if it could communicate with Li Xuanzong, just glanced at Li Xuanzong, and slowly closed it again.
The next moment, Li Xuanzong caressed the golden dragon's head with one hand, and then Li Xuanzong's primordial spirit flew into the golden dragon's body along his palm.
When the primordial spirit was gone, the golden dragon opened his eyes again.
However, this time the golden dragon's eyes changed greatly, and those eyes seemed to have been replaced by Li Xuanzong's eyes, and Li Xuanzong, who was standing next to the golden dragon, became weak, and there was no trace of the breath of a saintly powerhouse, and he completely became an ordinary mortal.