At this time, the towering sky gate was covered with traces like knives and fire, and there was a strange smell in the air. In the dark red pool of blood outside the wall, there were faint shadows moving.
In the first level of Tianguan, at the center.
This is a huge building that resembles lotus petals. Among the twelve petals, there are pavilions and squares, and in the center is a nine-story tower.
This is the Yuhou Mansion, the Yuhou Mansion in Tianguan.
The Yangchao realm is both a crisis and an opportunity.
The Yuhou Mansion has been guarding Tianguan for generations. There is a Hou Mansion outside Luojia Mountain, as well as inside the mountain.
The former monitors Huaizhou and enjoys worldly pleasures, while the latter sits at Tianguan and seizes resources.
And as long as the inner palace does not collapse, nothing will happen to the outer palace outside the mountain.
Just like a flower withered but its roots are still there, the flower will eventually bloom.
But at this time, the atmosphere in Yuhou's inner palace was extremely depressing.
Outside the Tianguan on the last level, the elite Zhou Shengjun in black armor was patrolling back and forth, adjusting a specially made eight-oxen crossbow with thunder rockets set up.
All of them had gloomy faces and an indelible hesitation in their eyes.
At this time, in the tower, on the ninth floor, in the backyard.
The bamboo tube is dripping with water, and when I remember it, I tap it lightly on the bluestone every twelve breaths, making a clicking sound.
It caused ripples, causing the dragons and carp in the pond to swim around in shock.
"Grandpa, is this...really going to come to this?"
A man in rich clothes stood under the Bodhi tree in the courtyard. His fists were clenched in his sleeves until veins popped out. He looked at the person in front of him and said in a trembling voice.
"One step away, one step away, the situation is certain, and there is only one way left."
The person in front of me is an old man dressed in black
The large robe was embroidered with gold thread and engraved with a four-clawed dragon, as well as various patterns and embroideries, and all kinds of pearls and jade. It could be said that it was extremely luxurious, but the old man was as skinny as a stick of wood.
Whether it's the face or the arms, they seem to be just a layer of skin wrapped around the bones, as if a gust of wind could blow them over, making them look extremely old.
But his eyes are extremely bright and his eyes are extremely peaceful.
"Heng'er, you have to know that being born in the Yuhou Mansion and having the surname Yu, we can get a lot, have more choices than other people in the world, and have the confidence to endure everything.
But we must also bear in mind that when we make a move calmly, we must also make a move without regrets.”
The old man said, looking into the distance.
Leaning on a tall building, you can see far away.
From this distance, one can even see the juncture of the Thirteenth Heaven Pass.
But at this moment, what I saw out of the corner of my eye was darkness.
"Grandpa... We still have a chance. We really still have a chance. I have made an agreement with the eldest prince of the Wanxiang Immortal Dynasty. After the martial arts in Huaizhou dies, he will share Huaizhou with us... It's true, we have an agreement.
..." Yu Tianheng said in a low voice, his voice a little urgent.
"They even helped me break through to the True Lord. They will definitely not lie to me...Grandpa, believe me again..."
At the end of the sentence, there was more of a plea in the trembling voice.
"Idiot, haven't you realized it yet? Cooperation has always been based on reciprocity. Even if you agree on the effect and the object of the agreement, it will not be the Yuhou Mansion today."
When Old Yuhou mentioned the three words "Yuhou Mansion", his voice paused, but his eyes remained calm and he continued:
"So if the other party really wants to cooperate, they won't choose us... As for sharing Huaizhou, haha, hasn't the matter of Gao Zuo been explained?
What the Qianyu Realm wants to share is not Huaizhou, but the three states of Huai, Yu, and Tai, and the one they choose is not the Yuhou Mansion, but Emperor Wu of Zhou."
"..." Yu Tianheng was speechless and opened his mouth, wanting to argue, but he didn't know where to start.
He could only open his lips slightly and tremble all over.
He knew that what the other party said was true.
During the Sitong War, Yu Tianheng was aware of it.
At that time, he was planning with the Wanxiang Immortal Dynasty. The two parties were in a stalemate in Sitong County, and gradually gathered forces from both sides. Finally, Qianyu Realm sent troops to defeat the Qianshan Sect, Lingtai Sect, and other disobedient martial arts sects.
After that, the two sides used Sitong as the boundary to divide Huaizhou.
In exchange, the Qianyu Realm of Mount Luojia retreated thousands of miles, and the Wanxiang Immortal Dynasty also gave him the elixir to help him break through to the True King.
It can be said to be full of sincerity.
And it's not like he has never doubted the other party.
They even followed it and made many arrangements, such as sending additional troops to Sitong County, allowing Li Yuanqian to lead eight thousand unparalleled troops to suppress the border.
But in the end, it was still a bad move.
Although every possibility has been considered, things will always happen in an even more incredible direction.
The reinforcements from Wangjing turned out to be the internal agents of the Black Buddhism and Qianyu Realm, and ensnared the entire Sitong Alliance Army in one fell swoop.
Li Yuanqian and Yin Shengshi, whom he relied on as trump cards, were both injured and missing.
If everything is different from what they negotiated, everything will fail.
"The world is vast and treacherous. Who can predict a hundred steps in one step? I once thought that in my generation, I could cross the barriers and make the Yu family take a step forward...
Unexpectedly...I lost my son in old age, Huaizhou suffered a great loss,...the foundation of the Yu family was all lost in my hands..." Old Yuhou stretched out his hand, gently landed on Yu Tianheng's head, and gently stroked his hair,
Sigh softly.
With this sigh, the wrinkles on his face wrinkled together, making him look even more dry and old, as if autumn had suddenly arrived.
"Grandpa, it's my fault... I made a lot of mistakes, it's all my fault... I shouldn't have colluded with that side, I shouldn't have had my own way, it's all my fault...!"
After hearing about the loss of his son in old age and the great loss of Huaizhou, Yu Tianheng collapsed immediately, his eyes welled up, and his face burst into tears in the blink of an eye. He lowered his head and sobbed.
I felt like my heart was being clenched tightly by a big hand, and my breathing became rapid.
Yes, if he hadn't caused trouble, his father Yu Yuantong would not have died.
If he hadn't caused trouble, Qianshan Sect and Lingtai Sect would not have been attacked, and the situation would not have been so bad.
If he hadn't been messing around, Lao Yuhou wouldn't have left the prison in a hurry, and was eventually beaten and attacked in a sneak attack and seriously injured.
It's all because of him!
The more Yu Tianheng thought about it, the more he regretted it. He was holding back a breath in his heart, rushing around, and tears flowed into his mouth, all with a bitter taste.
The burly body was shaking like chaff.
"Idiot..."
When the old man saw this, there was a look of pity in his eyes, and his hand stroking the jade scale was trembling.
"It's not so much your fault as it is my fault. Ambition grows with strength, and everything you gain is lost with ambition... The fault is actually mine..."
For the first time, regret appeared in the old man's eyes.
He originally thought that he would never regret in this life. He originally thought that the word regret was only applicable to cowards and weaklings.
He thought... Yes, he thought.
Boom!
Suddenly, there was a thunder in the sky.
The sky suddenly darkened.
The sun above our heads is missing a piece, the temperature is rising, and a feeling of hot and depressing is floating in everyone's heart.
Old Yuhou breathed out lightly, looked away, and lowered his hand to caress Yu Tianheng's face.
It was as if he had seen the other person calling him grandpa when he was a child, seeing the other person being beaten by Yu Yuantong and looking for him with tears in his eyes, and seeing the other person holding his head and smiling at him.
There is nostalgia in the eyes that is no longer hidden.
"Heng'er, grandpa once told you when you were a child that as long as grandpa is here and behind you, you don't need to think too much and just move forward..."
His curved back slowly straightened, his old, withered face became plump, and his thin body became stronger.
It's like rejuvenating old age and rejuvenating dead trees.
Although his body was strong, his eyes were on the contrary. His divine light began to dim, becoming as muddy as an ordinary old man's and lost its brilliance.
"Grandpa didn't lie, he really didn't lie. I believe grandpa, this time... just keep going forward, keep going forward, but in the future, you have to rely on yourself, Heng'er..."
After saying this, the old man seemed to have returned to his thirty-year-old self and said in a deep voice
Hearing this, Yu Tianheng seemed to understand something. His crying became softer, too small to be heard, but there were more tears, each drop falling on the ground.
The sound even overshadowed the bamboo tube that kept time.
His body was shaking constantly.
"Good boy, you are a good boy of the Yu family. You have grown up to be my grandson." Seeing this, the old man burst into laughter and let out a thunderous laugh.
He patted the person in front of him gently and turned around to look at the black sun falling above his head.
"It's a pity... Grandpa is old."
The sad voice continued, and the voice became weaker and weaker, until it was finally inaudible.
Wow!
The next moment, a powerful aura rose into the sky.
In Luojia Mountain Tianguan City, everyone could see a ball of golden light exploding and spreading loudly.
In just an instant, a huge shadow like a golden black bird was seen, rapidly expanding and flying out.
In the blink of an eye, it turned into a giant object tens of meters tall and rushed towards the black sun above its head.
Half a day later, the solar eclipse dissipated and Luojia Mountain appeared.
Half a day later, Luojia Mountain was there and the sky was empty.
The Yuhou Mansion retreated from Luojia Mountain.
August, the forty-ninth year of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
In the Luojia Mountain in Huaizhou, there was a battle between the True Lord of the Sun and Lao Yuhou. The Lord of the Sun was seriously injured and the old Yuhou fell.
The Yuhou Mansion evacuated Luojia Mountain and issued a funeral order.
Yu Tianheng, the eldest son of Yuhou Mansion, succeeded Yuhou, and continued to write a confession, accusing the people of Yuzhou, and then retreated to Huaizhou and disappeared.
The commander-in-chief of Zhou Sheng's army in Huaizhou was shocked thousands of miles away. Zhou Puyi temporarily served as the prefectural pastor of Huaizhou, and Zhou Bigan was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Zhou Sheng's army. The two gathered the remaining troops and competed with the black Buddhists outside Huaiping, on the Huaiping plain and Mengyue Mountain.
The two sides fought fiercely for seven days, inflicting injuries on each other.
On the eighth day, Dahuai led his army to cross the Taihuai River, cross the border, and join the battle.
The Ten Immortals of Thousand Feather Realm, Eternal Buddha Damo, and Taoist Jiutian Yuanyi Guangmiao appeared in Mengyue Mountain.
The remnant army in Huaizhou was defeated, Zhou Pu died, and Zhou Bigan was seriously injured.
In the end, he was rescued by Song Shiji, the leader of Huangtian Sect.
Black Buddhism, Dahuai, took over Huaiping.
At this point, it was declared that the power of the Huaizhou imperial court was destroyed.
After Taizhou and Yuzhou, Huaizhou fell to Luchen.
At the same time, the three northern states of Chi County fell one after another.
the other side.
While the Lingtai Sect planned to evacuate, it secretly gathered the disciples from outside the mountain.
Especially the missing disciples who were defeated in the battle of Sitong County.
After waiting for more than a month, I got very little.
Less than a thousand people returned alive.
Nine hundred and twenty-three people were confirmed dead.
The number of missing persons totaled 2,837.
Among them, the person with the highest death status was the abbot of Wuyou Temple of the Lingtai lineage, the commoner saint monk Yixin, and the Taoist nun Jing'an of the Cihang lineage.
The person with the highest missing status is the Taoist disciple of Lingtai Sect, the master of Longhu Temple, and Qi Sun.
After this battle, the Lingtai Sect's vitality was severely damaged.
The entire sect, wearing white clothes and hanging white cages, recited the Purana Sutra for a day and paid homage to the disciples who died in battle.
On the second day, there was no longer any cover-up, and after leaving a secret signal, the entire sect evacuated.
After being chased and intercepted six times by black Buddhists on the way, we arrived at Chongming Island.
At this time, the sect finally received news about Tianzun Li Shenxiu.
Hoo ho ho.
The sea breeze is different from the mountain breeze, blowing on the face, giving people a different feeling.
The endless blue sea, with the wind and waves of breathing, rolls up the waves, one layer higher than the other, and each layer is broken.
Crush all the waves below and suppress them in the deepest darkness.
Chongming Island.
Chongming Island lies outside the Chongming Mountains, which is a branch of the Taihuai Mountains.
After landing on the island, if you go south along the Taihuai Mountains and cross the dense forests of mountains and rivers, you will reach the Huaiping Plain and see the Taihuai River.
At this time, on Chongming Island, disciples of the Lingtai Sect were busy expanding their houses as temporary residences.
On the shore of the island, there is a large tree that is more than 20 meters high, similar to a coconut tree. Standing on the top of the tree, looking at the endless sea, I feel a little uneasy.
"Senior brother Lei Zhang, you said that since Tianzun is here and said everything is fine, why didn't he come back? Don't you know that now is the time of life and death for our Lingtai Sect?"
He sighed softly.
As he spoke, he slapped open a coconut that was as big as a human head, and drank like a guzzling drink.
To be honest, it is not easy to move from Lingtai Sect to this wilderness place.
There are many evil beasts in the deep mountains and old forests.
Ordinary martial arts masters who want to go deep into it must be careful to avoid accidents.
Even though there are many experts in the Lingtai Sect, and even though someone has explored the path before, there are still troubles.
What's more, there are black Buddhist people who are chasing after me like dog-skin plaster.
It was extremely difficult along the way.
And just when we finally arrived at our destination, just after we arrived, Tianzun Li Shenxiu sent a message that everything was fine, as if everything was fine.
However, they were told by Li Shenxiu that they would not be able to come back for the time being.
There is only a scroll of sea route map of Thuja Island left, which is hard to understand.
"The sect master is very powerful. At that level, he must have deep plans and foresight. How can ordinary people see through it? What's more, my junior brother doesn't know about it. How can I be an exception, senior brother?"
Taoist Lei Zhan on the side did not drink coconuts, and his breath had recovered a lot. There was a scar on his handsome face, which made him look more fierce than before. He said calmly at this time.
"There must be something important, but I can't figure out what is more important than the survival of the sect." Lin Mo felt helpless and sighed softly.
"No matter what, since people are here, there is hope. At this time, Huaizhou is gone, and even the Yuhou Mansion has fallen. The sect master is still there, which is the greatest blessing.
What we need to do now is to recuperate..." Speaking of this, Lei Zhan couldn't help but have a complex look on his face.
Yes, Li Shenxiu, Jue'an and others are not dead, but it does not mean that the Lingtai Sect's losses will not be great.
Compared with before, if we ignore the sudden rise of Lin Mo, the Lingtai Sect has lost roughly one-third of its combat power.
What's even worse is that most of the people who lost their lives are young disciples, which means there is a disconnect and a lack of continuity.