Ying Jianran stared at the paper for a long time, and remained silent.

He is now in the back hall. Four candles are lit in the house, which is not bright. Although the back hall is called the hall, it can only be regarded as a slightly larger room. In fact, part of the Rongcheng Yamen was converted from the main hall in the past.

The Rong Kingdom was established in just one year. Although the territory had expanded nearly a hundred times, it had not been possible to build a new imperial residence. It could have been used to use the palaces in the Kyoto of Yu Kingdom. However, when the Kyoto was captured, the Yu army fought stubbornly and the war was extremely fierce. The final battle not only invested nearly 100,000 total troops on both sides, but also monks and demons took action.

If a person with supernatural powers takes action, it will be extremely difficult to control the damage to the war. Most of the Kyoto has been ruined, and the palace has been razed to the ground. The alchemist in Munan believes that there are too many dead souls in Kyoto, which is a very bad appearance, so he abandoned Kyoto City and designated Rongcheng as the place of Longxing.

Fortunately, the hall was small, but it was extremely quiet. The Zhongguan, who was standing in the dark, concentrated his breath and did not dare to let his breath disturb the tranquility. He saw a faint shadow on Ying Jueran's face. Although he knew it was a projection of candlelight, he also felt that this should represent a certain emotion in his heart.

That Li Yunxin is coming... Your Majesty shouldn't feel very happy.

Because even he is a senior official, he doesn't feel very happy.

They are humans. Many people in this world have been suppressed for too long. In the past, there was a high Xuanmen. Xuanmen controlled everything in the world, and even the emperor had to bow their heads. Later, Xuanmen was destroyed, but demons emerged and still had to be above others. Now, after difficult wars, the threat of demons has gradually faded, and it seems that people can finally be proud.

But this middle-level official knew that there was still a shadow on this Majesty.

It is the master behind the scenes.

This kind of thing... ordinary people don't know much. Only his confidant knows the details. His Majesty was a bandit, but with the help of Li Yunxin, he embarked on the road to hegemony and began to compete for the world.

Although Li Yunxin has never appeared, her influence cannot be eliminated.

For example, the "Shenlong Sect" in the country.

Since the collapse of Xuanmen, the sacred light of the monks faded away. For a time, cults in China were rampant, and each advocated that "they are the real destiny." They gathered many poor people who were dissatisfied with the war, and there was a hidden turmoil. Fortunately, this momentum was discovered in time, and Rong Jun quickly suppressed the sects one by one. He also issued a law to clearly not call himself a saint and cause trouble to the hearts of others.

The only exception is the Dragon Sect.

The Shenlong Sect believes in the Great Saint Dragon King Weishui Lord, one of the incarnations of Li Yunxin. At the beginning of the Rongjun's uprising, this Sect made great contributions. Many "Immortal Chiefs" in the Sect went on war with the army, and recruited "strange people" from various places to display various magical powers. The Rongjun attacked the city and captured the village because many people could do all the things that many people could not do.

But this middle-aged official knew that those so-called immortals were actually demons.

The leader worshipped by the Shenlong Sect, which is a respected status in Rong Kingdom, is also a demon.

Your Majesty wants to rule the world... He will soon have unrivaled power. However, even then he still has to bow to an existence that is beyond the world. Even if he thinks about it, he feels unwilling to accept it.

Then Li Yunxin came to Rongcheng... What attitude should His Majesty welcome him? As an emperor? Or as a church member or a subordinate?

These thoughts twitched in my mind, and then I heard the emperor before the case let out a sigh of relief. The Zhongguan immediately raised his eyes and looked at him.

"How has the matter of clearing the rest of Munanju's party been done recently?"

The Zhongguan thought carefully for a very short time and whispered: "Go back to Your Majesty. Follow Your Majesty's instructions, arrest and not kill. Now 340 suspects have been imprisoned. One hundred and nineteen people have been confirmed. Some are still being interrogated. Munanju rebellion in the capital has disappeared, and some people are still active in the northwest and southeast areas. But it is inevitable that the war will be put to rest. After careful searching for the first half of the year, it will be pacified soon."

The middle-aged official also knows Munanju better than ordinary people.

The people in Munanju also made great contributions at the beginning of the uprising. They were even more outstanding than the immortals in the Dragon Sect. They were all ordinary people, but they were also the most terrifying assassins. But later, it was said that Li Yunxin and Munanju's master turned against each other, and His Majesty announced that all those people had become rebellious and began to clean up and search.

However, thinking of the past achievements, he only caught but not killed. He felt that His Majesty did this because he couldn't bear it, but he had to follow Li Yunxin's will. This kind of thing...it really makes people hold their breath after thinking about it.

Now I ask what this is for? Should I give it to Li Yunxin when he came? I will leave it to him? Let him know that the people of Rong are loyal to him?

But he didn't expect his Majesty to ask another irrelevant thing.

"Does the art of immortals have any flaws?"

The Zhongguan was stunned and immediately replied: "I recently found four cultivators from the former Xuanmen. But their realm is not high. I asked someone to ask, but they said they had never heard of that method."

Ying Ren did not speak, stared at the paper on the desk and became silent.

The Zhongguan's heart tightened. After thinking about it, he said something he had been hiding in his heart for a long time: "Your Majesty, old minister..."

"You want to say that thing doesn't exist. Hum?" Ying Ran said resolutely and slowly carried his hands on his back.

Zhongguan took a deep breath: "After all... it's just barbarian words."

The barbarian in his mouth refers to a Rakshasa native who should have been slowed down by a hundred times.

Rongjun destroyed the country of Tochara two months ago. The Tochara and Rakshasa people had different appearances from those of the Central Plains. They had high noses and deep eyes, and their hair color was also very interesting. They mainly engaged in business, and were not very common in the heart of the Central Plains. There were also many legends that were very different from those of the Central Plains. After conquering Tochar, the captured Tocharian royal family was escorted to Beijing.

One of the Tochar princes was pardoned by His Majesty because he was proficient in Central Plains culture and stayed in Rongcheng as an editor, asking him to write some strange stories about the countries in the Western Regions, so that he could compile them into the "Classic of the Customs of All Nations".

As a result, a legend written by the prince happened to appear in Ying Jue Ran's sight and aroused his great interest.

That legend tells

A long time ago, the Rakshasa people also had a powerful emperor named "Daidalus". This emperor liked to cultivate immortals and wanted to become a monk. But just like now, not everyone has the talent for cultivation, so they cannot practice. But he really wanted to gain powerful power like an immortal, so he asked for help from a female alchemist.

The female alchemist practiced a "Immortal Practice" and engraved the talisman on the bones of the emperor, and really made him possess the power and magical powers of an immortal.

It is said that this happened a long time ago. At that time, the Central Land was not a big piece that was completed like this today, but was divided into two parts. Later, the heavens and men became angry because of this power, destroyed everything and recast the world, and then they became what they are today.

Ying Jue Ran was concerned about this legend. He was originally focused on the war, but after fighting, he began to study it. He seemed to want to gain the same power as the emperor.

The Zhongguan was worried about this. What he cared about was not the authenticity of the story, but his own Majesty's pursuit of divine power.

He knew that after a person like His Majesty had unparalleled power, he would definitely want more. He wanted to... completely erase the shadow on his head. But he could not practice. Even if he could practice, it would be difficult to compete with those monks who had practiced for hundreds or thousands of years. He would not be willing to start anew in the path of practice. He was an emperor, so how could he bow to others again?

That's why he wants a shortcut.

This shortcut... besides the legendary method, there is actually another one.

It's death.

Didn’t the former Emperor Li, Emperor Qing, and Emperor Yu all died? He died and became a demon with powerful power!

Once this is the case, what can I do now?

Isn’t that the powerful Li Kingdom because of the death of Emperor Li, the prince’s internal struggle, which greatly damaged its national strength, so that it has been conquered by the Rong army now!

It was precisely because of this that he said two words. This was an extremely risky thing. You should know that Emperor Rong did not have a good temper, or... his temper was hard to figure out. Even if he had been with him day and night for more than half a year, he often couldn't figure out what his Majesty would do next.

But Ying Jue was not angry. Instead, he shook his head: "You don't understand. Forget it, don't talk about this."

He raised his hand and pointed it on the paper, as if he had thought about something, and then said, "You go and draw an order. Prepare to welcome the leader of the Dragon."

"I ordered all the troops, including those who were fighting outside, to stop military affairs for one day, and sacrifice to the Dragon King of Weishui. Then I asked the city to prepare a ceremony and asked the people of the Shenlong Sect to open the altar. Then I built bluestone bricks on the roads from the six city gates to the palace, washed them clean, and no one was allowed to step on. Then I laid a red carpet and covered the ground with flowers. Aren't there any monks? I asked them to think about the flowers."

"Hold a banquet in the city and release grain for three days. Every household gives cotton cloth to the inner warehouse, and everyone must have new clothes and smile on their faces."

The official took these things into his mind one by one and said, "This is..."

"Liu Gongzan said that he likes beautiful scenery and characters." Ying Jianran said, "People in Munanju should also change into new clothes and leave them to him at that time."

The Zhongguan sighed in his heart: "Yes."

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...

On the same day, Li Yunxin appeared on a small hill.

In ten days, he traveled thousands of miles. The scenery around him also changed drastically.

When I met the black chicken essence, the mountains and fields were still green. But now the hillside is covered with heavy snow. The scenery of the southern and northern countries is different in the same season.

He came to the current Rong Kingdom, which was once the territory of Qing Kingdom. Looking down from here, there was a flat land. There should have been some people on that flat land. Now it should be that smoke from cooking is curling, and they each make fires and cook.

But now there is no house, only a piece of ruins left. The ruins are buried in snow and are covered with white and clean, as if no one has ever lived here, nor has anyone ever called here to leave.

The small village where he had lived for more than ten years had been destroyed.

Li Yunxin walked down the snow without leaving any footprints. He picked his fingers at the entrance of the original village. So a broken small flag jumped out of the snow and spread out in front of him.

The flag was burned by fire, leaving only half of it. It reads: The Darong Dragon Scale Army unified the two-system swords...

After walking a few more steps forward, he raised his hand again. Then another small flag jumped up from the snow and spread out. There were traces of knife and axe chopping on the flag, and it had become one by one. It was stuck together by dried blood and turned into a dirty dumpling. Now that it was unfolded, the handwriting was even more blurred. But it could be seen clearly that it was Xu, the commander of Dingzhou, Daqing.

Xue couldn't stop his sight. He swept around and saw some armored soldiers. Most of them were slightly familiar in style, they should be from Qingjun. A few of them were unfamiliar, they should be from Rongjun.

There was a fierce battle here. The Qing army and Rong army fought here, and the war destroyed the village.

He stood in the snow for a while, waved his hand. The snow disappeared in an instant, and the broken soldiers under it also turned into ashes. This place became a wasteland again.

In fact, no one except Lao Liu knew that this was his hometown. Lao Liu had a high status when he was in Rongjun. He only appeared during a war. After a brief calculation, Li Yunxin knew that it was just a small battle with a total number of people not exceeding 500.

Lao Liu should not know that this happened here. Ying Jueran, nor should he know that. It was just that fate was a mess. Perhaps a small group of Qing army fled into the village in the deep mountains and Rong army pursued it. Then fierce battles broke out here, destroying the place.

Maybe God will do so.

But it is also God's will.

Li Yunxin sighed softly and said softly: "Then, your fate will be over."

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...

The Feng Guanzeng kept coming from news. Li Yunxin was more than a hundred miles away from Rongcheng and killed three more demons.

When the news arrived, Emperor Rong was on the stage.

For two days, when the morning light was dim to the bright moon, he was wearing thick imperial dresses and stood quietly on the ritual platform built with pine, dragon cypress, gold and silver.

Below the stage are all the immortals and chiefs of the Dragon Sect, and civil and military ministers in the city. They are even more outward, and are devout people. The golden thread and incense and jade candle are lit up and are not extinguished all day long. The layers of tributes are piled up half of the platform.

On the afternoon of the first day, there was a strong wind and heavy snow. The Zhongguan and Empress Lan advised the emperor to return to the palace to rest for a while. When there was news that the Dragon King of Wei River was about to arrive, they would come on stage to welcome him. But the emperor was silent and still stood in the snow.

Although it did not fall on the second day, it was colder than the first day. The emperor's naked face was frozen purple with Qixiang's hands. The Blue Queen burst into tears with tears in her heart. The emperor agreed to the official to serve the greenhouse.

People were moved by the emperor's piety, and many people cried loudly. But when the moon rose, Li Yunxin still did not appear.

By noon on the third day, another report from the wind-watching commander arrived.

Li Yunxin has gone to Rongcheng, one thousand and four hundred miles.

The emperor held the tissue and was silent for a long time. But he still stood in the snow until night and then until dawn.
Chapter completed!