With a belly full of tea and a little swollen and painful, Lu Qian rode a curly-haired galloping horse and followed Yinyuan into the Dayin Palace.
Ten thousand Yulin troops lined up in ten long lines, protecting him on the left and right.
Thousands of palace guards and eunuchs were fully armed and surrounded tightly.
Behind Lu Qian was a group of carriages.
On the four-wheeled carriage is a large water tank with an astonishing capacity, heated by a small charcoal stove underneath.
The air is filled with a subtle smell.
In the water tank was the urine of children that Yinxing had collected during the day.
In the huge Haojing, although there is only one such strange flower like Lu Qian, there are still many young boys with low cultivation levels. It is actually not difficult to collect the urine of these boys.
If it weren't for this to be done with too much fanfare, and if too much urine was brought into the palace, it might have some negative effects, Yin Ping could prepare thousands of jars of urine.
Even so, the urine was roasted in the small charcoal stove and kept warm without freezing, giving off a rich smell.
Lu Qian was a little broken.
This was completely different from the life he had expected after joining the Palace Guard.
In fact, he was mentally prepared to act as a "eunuch", pretend to be powerful, do evil, severely harm those cultural and educational officials, and be infamy for thousands of years under their verbal and written criticism.
He just wants to make progress in his visualization practice, to be able to see for a long time, and to be at ease in the world. He doesn't care about a little notoriety.
It stinks right now.
Under the control of the Bai family, he has become a new national thief, and his reputation is bad enough.
Then, there was this rich 'fragrance' of child urine surrounding him... Lu Qian lowered his head and sniffed the sleeves of his robe, feeling that his clothes had already been soaked in the smell.
Lu Qian sighed silently.
The palace passage ahead is extremely dark and gloomy. The palace passage is ten feet wide and paved with huge stones. On both sides are thick palace walls that are dozens of feet high.
The high palace walls were covered with butter lamps and torches, illuminating the palace passages.
In the palace road, every hundred feet, an overpass stretched out across the palace wall halfway up the palace wall. There were arrow towers, watchtowers, and even huge wolf-tooth nail plates and other armor hung on it.
The palace walls and the overpass were filled with soldiers wearing heavy armor.
Lu Qian looked up at the soldiers, the corners of his mouth twitching violently.
The way these soldiers guarding the palace were dressed tonight made Lu Qian almost laugh. On each soldier's belt and breastplate, there were talismans drawn on yellow paper affixed to them.
The three-foot-long yellow paper talisman is made of cinnabar or mixed with some special blood, and messy ghost-drawing talismans are drawn on it.
I don't know if these talismans are useful.
But Lu Qian looked at these heroic soldiers with talismans all over their bodies and felt that this was ridiculous.
"Your Majesty, Dayin can't find a few experts who can deal with these... ghosts?" Lu Qian felt that this shouldn't be the case.
The way of heaven and earth is orderly, and since there are ghosts, there must be someone who can restrain them.
Otherwise, wouldn't these ghosts and ghosts be able to run amok?
Yinyuan covered his nose with a thick brocade handkerchief and hummed feebly: "Maybe there is? There are some relevant records in the fragments of the ancient secret archives of the Secret History Prison."
"For example, during the previous Dynasty of the Great Wu Dynasty, at a place called the Big Buddha Head, eight thousand miles west of Haojing City, some people had seen powerful beings who could fly in the sky and surround themselves with golden light."
"That's a record from more than five thousand years ago."
"Three thousand years ago, in the troubled times when the seven kings of the Great Wu Dynasty rebelled, there were records of giant snakes emerging from underground lairs and devouring millions of people in three cities and two counties day and night... That big snake was later dropped from the sky by a handle.
With his huge sword, he cut through seven inches and escaped."
"Don't talk about the events of the previous dynasty, let's just say that when Dayin was founded, there were still powerful people who broke into the founding imperial city, overthrew two hundred thousand imperial guards with one person's strength, broke into Taizu Long's case, and said that Taizu and Taizu were
He was destined to ask Taizu to worship him as his teacher and follow him in the world to practice cultivation. After Taizu rejected him, he disappeared without a trace."
"These strong men are powerful, they must be able to deal with ghosts."
Yinyuan sighed: "But one generation is not as good as the other, and each generation is not as good as the last... It is probably difficult for Dayin to find that kind of expert now."
"Isn't it true that the emperor was deceived? Priest Wuyou of Wuyou Pavilion and Liudao General of Liudao Temple were led by the emperor to break down the mountain gate the day before yesterday. The two deceitful guys were almost beaten to death by the emperor.
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"But it is recorded in the secret files of the Secret History Supervisor that there were experts in Wuyou Pavilion back then, and there were real people in Liudao Temple. But now, the host of Wuyou Pavilion and the master of Liudao Temple are all so arrogant.
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"Of course, let's not talk about them, let's talk about the martial arts nobles in Haojing. How many of them are still practicing martial arts diligently?"
Yinyuan glanced at Lu Qian with a haggard look: "How else could I search all over Haojing City and find a boy like you who is in the Pulse-Tuning Realm?"
Lu Qian smiled awkwardly.
The large group of people walked quickly along the palace road. An hour later, the group passed through the triple palace gate and arrived at the back garden of the imperial city.
Dayin's totem is Kunpeng.
The Kunpeng Primarch is a big fish.
Therefore, the Dayin royal family was naturally fond of water, and most of their palace buildings were built around natural water systems. A large area of water was added the day after tomorrow.
The back garden of the imperial city, its core area, is a vast lake that is now three feet frozen in the winter.
In the large lake, there are three or five islands in the middle of the lake.
There is a nine-winding corridor that connects the island in the center of the lake, and also connects the exquisite pavilions and waterside pavilions in the lake.
One of the waterside pavilions is called "Xianyu Pavilion". It is shaped like a flying geese crawling on the water. There is a three-story main attic in the middle, with one-story-high auxiliary pavilions extending to the left and right to the east and west respectively.
Xianyu Pavilion occupies a small area. The main and auxiliary pavilions combined cover just over an acre of land. There is only a trestle to the north that connects it to the outside world.
Now on this trestle, every ten feet, there is a great monk sitting cross-legged, wearing a bright red cassock, with a clean shaven scalp, no matter how old or young, his whole face is twitching, looking extremely sad.
To the left and right of the trestle, there are rafts several feet long and wide.
On each raft, there is an altar.
There are all kinds of tokens, flags, swords, talismans and other props on the altar.
On the raft, there were also old Taoist priests and young Taoist priests sitting cross-legged, all wearing apricot or bright red Taoist robes, with sad faces but trying to be calm.
To the south of Xianyu Pavilion, across the vast ice surface, there is a fish viewing platform made of white jade on the shore.
The fish viewing platform, which covers several acres of land, is now covered with a wind-blocking curtain made of brocade, surrounded by countless eunuchs and maids. Behind the curtain, among the trees, you can see the shaking figures and the reflection of the armor. There is at least an ambush there.
Fifty to sixty thousand heavily armored warriors.
What made Lu Qian inexplicably amazed was that the wind-blocking curtain was surrounded by densely packed piles of various Buddha and deity statues.
Looking at the texture of the gold and jade inlays of those Buddha statues and gods, as well as the charred and mottled surfaces of the fireworks, it is obvious that these are all 'old objects' that have been worshiped devoutly on the altar and have enjoyed fireworks for at least hundreds of years.
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There were so many Buddha statues and statues that the fish viewing platform with a size of several acres was not enough, so they were densely arranged on both sides along the lake shore.
Next to each Buddha statue, there are three or five great monks sitting cross-legged.
Next to each statue, there are five or six old Taoist priests sitting cross-legged.
In addition, all kinds of magical instruments such as umbrellas and flags used daily by monks and Taoists are also densely packed in this pile of statues.
There are also a large number of incense burners, incense cauldrons and other objects around, which are lit with the best incense. A large number of incense smoke is swirling, and the aroma spreads for dozens of miles with the wind, giving a complete picture of the majestic scene of the Kingdom of God on earth.
However, according to Lu Qian, 90% of the monks and Taoists present were trembling with fear, and their foreheads were covered with cold sweat.
Obviously, everyone has a guilty conscience and everyone has confidence.
At Yinyuan's request, Lu Qian followed Yinyuan closely and did not leave within three feet of him.
Yu Changle was accompanied by a group of eunuch masters. The group walked along the lake shore, past the densely packed piles of Buddha statues and gods, and came to the curtain of the fish viewing platform.
Dozens of jars of children's urine were heated with small charcoal stoves, and the "smell-scented" urine was also transported to the curtain.
Behind the wind-shielding curtain, Queen Mother Leshi, who looked like a young beauty of eighteen or nineteen years old, was wrapped in brocade and sitting on the throne with a faint expression. She was surrounded by master eunuchs from the inner court.
Le Wu, who was wearing heavy armor and looked like a metal ball, sat on the big chair next to Le Shi. His face was tense and he was pretending to be calm, but his cheeks were twitching, obviously he was quite nervous.
In addition to Leshi and Lewu, there are more than a dozen young men wearing armor in the curtain, including Leshan and Leshui.
Seeing Yinyuan and his men walking in, Leshi's face relaxed slightly: "It will be good if your Majesty is here."
Yinyuan rolled his eyes, walked up to Leshi, and bowed to her in an extremely perfunctory manner: "Actually, this matter has nothing to do with me at all. The Queen Mother can definitely handle it, so why bother?"
Want me to come over?"
Le Shi sighed, her pretty face twitched, and she squeezed out a smile: "I want to let His Majesty gain some experience, right? Your Majesty, hasn't he often been shouting in the past few days that he wants to see female ghosts?
What does it look like?"
Yinyuan rolled his eyes and shouted loudly: "Yeah? Which damn little eunuch in Jiuquyuan leaked this? Old Yu, go back and find out."
With a flick of his sleeves, Yinyuan sat down on the Kunpeng-patterned throne next to the Queen Mother, crossed his legs, and shouted loudly: "Okay, let's start? Die early, reincarnate early...right, General?"
Le Wu smiled dryly: "What did your Majesty say? Queen Mother, Your Majesty, you are filled with great blessings, but only evil spirits..."
He puffed up his chest and said loudly: "Not to mention the skills of these masters outside, let's talk about the tens of thousands of elites prepared by me behind. What kind of evil spirits can withstand the impact of tens of thousands of troops?"
Lewu patted his chest hard: "It's better if they don't come. If they come, I guarantee that they will never come back. I will kill them with my own hands. I will also give Dayin a bright future and block it."
The mouths of those civil servants!"
As soon as Lewu finished speaking, countless lanterns and torches were lit around the entire lake, including the candles and oil lamps on the altar, etc., and all the flames turned into a blood-red red at the same time.
The entire lake and a small half of the back garden suddenly turned into a bloody color, and everyone was shrouded in this ominous red light.
Lu Qian's eyes bulged and his heart beat rapidly.
The great sense of danger almost made him suffocate, and he roared: "They are coming!"
In the imperial city, in the direction of Leng Palace, suddenly there was a loud cry that shook the sky.
An extremely rich blood-colored cold air rose from the direction of Leng Palace, sweeping towards this side as fast as a strong wind.
Wherever the blood-colored cold air passed, Buddha statues and statues of gods were all broken into pieces.