Chapter 397: Stunned
Leaving Changhui City, Ye Guan took Xu Bao and galloped away, and ran on the empty official road of the enclave for two hours, until the sky began to shine, and then slowed down.
Pulling the reins, Ye Guan turned over and dismounted, the war horse under the crotch after a long gallop, the breath has been a little disordered, the solid color of the horse's back is full of sweat, if you continue to run, there is a possibility of violent death.
handed the reins to Xu Bao behind him, and then walked slowly forward along the official road of the enclave.
This time he deliberately did not choose the direction of Zongqiu Mountain, but walked along a road outside the collar to the direction of the Black Stone Bridge, and when he left, he wanted to go back to the East Palace, look at the buildings of the palace again, and see Yuanwu and Yuchen again.
The East Wangfu is no longer the place of official career for Ye Guan. He regards the Dongwang Mansion as his home, the children of the Dongwang as his sons and nephews, and the foundation of the Dongwang Mansion as his foundation. For the sake of the East Palace, he is willing to do anything.
The road under your feet is much wider than the previous path, the surrounding mountains are also gentle, becoming no longer towering, and the trees on the left and right are also much sparse.
Ye Guan's face was calm, and he walked forward slowly, in fact, he didn't need to rest at all, but he was a little depressed in his heart, and he didn't know what he should say when he saw Huang Yuanwu.
There are still two days left in the agreed time with Shui Yiyuan, and he doesn't know how the people in Tianqing City will find him after two days, but he understands that no matter where he goes, the other party will definitely find him.
He had also thought that Tianqing City had such a force, and if he wanted to take Qitian in one fell swoop, it would be absolutely impossible to resist it with the ability of Qitian alone, unless all the sects in Qitian territory united. But Tianqing City has never done this, there must be something hidden in it.
Looking at Tianqing City's recent actions, Ye Guan thought a lot. Tianqing City has existed in the enclave for thousands of years, and no one is more familiar with this land than them, and all the secrets here are also related to Tianqing City, but recently they have made frequent moves, intending to point directly at the Qitian Empire, which may be something unknown to everyone. Moreover, Tianqing City did not cross the Black Stone Bridge to enter the territory of Qitian before, so there may be some restrictions.
Naturally, Ye Guan also thought about going straight back to the East Palace, but if he did this, the high-ranking generals of the East Palace, such as Huang Yongning, Yu Sheng and Liu Yuan, who stayed in the enclave, might not have such good luck. What Ye Guan is most afraid of is that in the future, on the battlefield, he will see his former comrades-in-arms, and they are dead, but he will have to fight with their corpses.
Two days is enough time for him to return to the Dongwang Mansion and make everything clear, this part of the territory of the enclave is under the control of the Dongwang Mansion at the moment, and no one will stop him, he can travel unhindered.
Ye Guan said that he didn't show up in what kind of mood he was, a little heavy, and a little relieved. In the early morning in the wilderness, the air is as cold as ever, but it is refreshing. As the sun continued to rise, the mist in the forest slowly dissipated, and the sunlight shrouded the earth, sprinkling on the two people in the group, driving away the cold of Ye Guan.
Ye Guan stopped on a gentle slope, sat down cross-legged under a big tree, and Xu Bao on the side settled the war horse, took out some dry food from the package on the horse's back, gave it to Ye Guan, and handed it water together.
Ye Guan looked back at Xu Bao, smiled and shook his head. He didn't want to eat anything, he just wanted to be quiet and feel everything around him. The rest of the story is unknown, but the time for now still belongs to him.
Xu Bao didn't speak, Ye Guan sitting, he stood quietly on the side, Ye Guan didn't eat, he packed everything up. He had already made up his mind, wherever Ye Guan went, he would go, life and death had nothing to do with it.
It wasn't until the sun was rising and the sun began to get hot that Ye Guan stood up, smiled at Xu Bao, and the two turned over again and went straight to the Black Rock Bridge.
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General Sha Shaoyuan has been bored lately.
Since the Emperor Yuan Wu transferred all the captives of the enclave back to the palace and the army entered the enclave, he had nothing to do, and a month had passed, and there was no one visiting the Blackstone Bridge except for the supply team that regularly came from the East Palace.
Although he knew the importance of the Blackstone Bridge, the long-term boredom still made Sha Shaoyuan feel a little depressed.
When he followed Yu Sheng on the expedition together, Sha Shaoyuan thought that he might also go on the field to kill the enemy and show his strength again, but in fact, he was rooted on the Black Rock Bridge, except for the initial confrontation, there was nothing to do, and even after entering the enclave, he didn't even fight a decent battle, which made him feel a little aggrieved.
In order to relieve the boredom of himself and the sergeants, Sha Shaoyuan ordered the city defense of the Black Rock Bridge to be strengthened.
Originally, the occupied Blackstone Bridge was facing the defense of the Dongwangfu, and after being occupied by the Dongwangfu, the focus of the defense became the enclave, Sha Shaoyuan ordered his sergeants to remove the green bricks at the head of the city and build them on the other side, focusing the center of gravity of the defense on the inside of the enclave. If it weren't for the fact that there was a bridge behind the Blackstone City Wall and a rushing river below, Sha Shaoyuan would even want to move the steps of the entire Blackstone City Wall to the back, so that the entire city wall would look like a defensive enclave.
There have been a few things that have happened recently that have made him feel better.
First of all, the triumph of the third prince Huang Yanghui in the north is now a class teacher, and he will be able to return soon, and then the defense of the palace will be strengthened again, and in the face of the chaos of praying for heaven, he will also have the means to control it.
The training of recruits in Pingjincheng is also underway, and soon 50,000 recruits will be able to officially enlist in the army, once again strengthening the combat power of the palace.
Then, the war in the enclave was also coming to an end, and it wouldn't take long for me to continue to defend the black stone city wall, and I felt a lot more comfortable when I thought of this.
It's boring, and there has been no order from the palace recently, and the sergeants in charge of defending the city walls have nothing else to do except for daily training. But Sha Shaoyuan is a veteran of the palace, although he is a little bored in his heart, he is still very careful about the defense of the city wall.
Until today, Sha Shaoyuan received news that Huang Yuanwu wanted to go to the Black Stone City Wall to see the territory of the enclave. After receiving this news, Sha Shaoyuan was immediately shocked, and finally came to something decent.
He immediately ordered the fortifications of the city to be strengthened, the walls of the Black Stone City were cleared, and he personally inspected them, and saw that everything was in order, and then he was at ease.
It is said that in the East Wangfu these days, it is also very calm.
Since Huang Yuchen returned to the palace, he has lived a quiet and peaceful life for a few more days, but he has been thinking about Xu Feng's affairs in his heart, which has added some troubles to this peaceful life.
According to Xu Feng's statement, it seems that the civil strife in Qitian is not a problem at all, as long as Huang Yuanwu nods, the civil strife in Qitian will quickly subside, but Huang Yuanwu feels that there is fraud in it and refuses to speak easily.
Huang Yuchen didn't think much about this matter, in his opinion, what Xu Feng said about being close to the East Palace, and hoping that the East Palace would be in charge of praying for heaven, was all said in order to get closer to the East Palace. If it did, it wouldn't be that simple. The unification of an enclave is so troublesome, not to mention the Qitian Empire, which is several times the size of an enclave, and there are so many complicated things that can be solved by a few palaces.
Most of what Huang Yuchen was thinking about now was the secret of the Gate of Time and Space. Since he entered the gate of time and space, he felt that a new world had been opened, and he looked at things from a different perspective.
In fact, if someone else's time is slower than yours, but they live in the same world as you, after learning such a true thought, it will make people feel very grotesque, and their own life may not be meaningless at all.
The Gate of Time and Space gave Huang Yuchen such a feeling, Xu Feng could use the Gate of Time and Space to easily control time, and he could travel through time and space to wherever he wanted. With such ability, it is no wonder that his subordinates can gather so many Venerable powers. When they reach the cultivation level of Venerable, it is difficult for the temptations of the world to sway them, and the vast majority of Venerable Beings have only one idea in their hearts, that is, to impact the ethereal Supreme Realm and control everything in the world. The function of the Gate of Time and Space is exactly what they dreamed of, the speed of time flow inside can be left to Xu Feng's influence, and cultivating in it is equivalent to several times that of the outside world.
It's just that there is one thing that Huang Yuchen hasn't figured out yet, Xu Feng said before that he and he are the same kind and have known each other before, and he also has this ability to manipulate time. In fact, when he encountered a life-and-death crisis before, such a thing did happen, and within the Sun Chasing Sect, he did exert such an ability, making the flow of time around him many times fuller. Xu Feng said that this is a basic ability, and he has already opened such an ability, but after a few days of exploration, he has no clue at all, this weird, ability to control the flow of time, I'm afraid it is not so easy to master.
After a few days of quiet in the ancestral hall, Huang Yuchen didn't wait for Xu Feng, but waited for his eldest brother.
Huang Yuanwu has been in a good mood these days, the northern border has won a great victory, and the situation in the imperial capital has also stabilized, and the northern palace has suppressed the other two palaces on the frontal battlefield, but the other two palaces have joined forces, and there is no intention to retreat easily, which undoubtedly gives the eastern palace more time. Huang Yanghui's return will bring back a large number of elite soldiers from the East Palace, and when the dust settles on the enclave, it will be the time for the East Palace to counterattack.
It's time to avenge the revenge of the king of the east.
Huang Yuanwu proposed to go to the black stone city wall in the enclave, he wanted to see the territory of the enclave, he had been busy before, and there was no time to go there, now that the matter was over, he could finally spare a few days to go to the enclave to have a look.
Huang Yuchen has no opinion on this idea of the eldest brother, anyway, he is an idler, his two elder brothers and elders are responsible for the affairs on the battlefield, and his eldest brother is responsible for the palace.
Huang Yuchen readily agreed, and Huang Yuanwu set a trip to the Black Stone City Wall.
As the actual controller of the current Dongwang Mansion, Huang Yuanwu's actions are a signal, if he goes to the Black Stone Bridge, it will be a booster for the entire sergeants fighting in the enclave, and it will be a very morale-boosting thing.
In the early morning of the next day, Huang Yuanwu did not bring too many people, except for Huang Yuchen, who became a captain, he only brought his own escort team, a total of fourteen people, each of whom was a good hand in the army, and his combat power was superb.
Dongwangfu was originally not far from the Blackstone Bridge, and the group passed through the army station, stepped on the Blackstone Bridge, and entered the enclave in less than half a day.
Through the passage of the black stone city wall, Huang Yuchen suddenly had a feeling of loss, and returned to this place again, as if something had changed.
Sha Shaoyuan smiled and took Huang Yuanwu and his party to the camp, Huang Yuanwu was in a good mood, and without any rest, he asked to climb the city wall.
Since after climbing the city wall, the time has just reached the afternoon, the sun shines on everything a little dazzling, in front of the black stone city wall, there is a wide meadow, in the distance, Song Mountain, there is the hinterland of the enclave.
Huang Yuchen stood beside Huang Yuanwu, he could feel that Huang Yuanwu was in a good mood, looking at the vast grassland in front of him, it really made his heart feel refreshed.
When Huang Yuanwu looked into the distance, at the end of the grassland, he saw two fast horses, galloping in the direction of the Black Stone Bridge.