At the highest point of Yangdu City, there stands a tall tower that reaches straight into the sky. There is a large metal ball floating in the air, and the spiritual flame around it is burning brightly, as if it will never be extinguished.
Legend has it that this is the first sun star ignited by the Hao clan, which symbolizes that the Hao clan has risen from the sun and will live in the sky forever. Of course, it has already undergone certain transformations, and just one can provide the creation of the entire Yangdu.
Sufficient spiritual power, which represents the current creation skills of the Hao clan.
In the ring of the high platform, more than a dozen old men in golden robes are discussing something here. They are the main authority personnel of the elders.
The entire group of elders actually has as many as a hundred people. These people maintain the tradition of internal rotation. When Emperor Hao is still there, they are responsible for making suggestions to Emperor Hao, assisting in governing, and are mainly responsible for safeguarding the interests of the clan.
The members of the Elders Group are selected from the Hao clan with higher reputation or knowledge to join. Each elder who joins the Elders Group will have his own land, population, and creation factory during his term of office.
In theory, every elder has a lifelong tenure, but there will be an internal examination every ten years, and those who fail will be eliminated. However, the new elders are almost always selected from the families that make up the elder board.
Occasionally, it will absorb some fresh blood to keep itself from falling into rigidity.
When the Hao Clan was first established, the Council of Elders functioned quite well. After all, it safeguarded the interests of the core class of the Hao Clan. However, in recent hundreds of years, due to the frequent replacement of Emperor Hao, the Council of Elders gradually took control of all the political power in the Central Region.
It is equivalent to elevating Emperor Hao.
But this is actually nothing, because Emperor Hao controls the Yingyao Institute and the Zhenji Institute, the highest military force of the Hao clan, which makes it impossible for the elders to go further.
However, the current Emperor Hao fell into a coma not long after he seized the throne. Unfortunately, he was not dead yet, and no one else was qualified to succeed him. This created a huge power vacuum. The Council of Elders used its name to modify many laws.
Now the Hao Clan's highest military force has been indirectly obtained.
Over the past few decades, the Council of Elders has become accustomed to the fact that Emperor Hao only exists in name only, and that they govern and control the political structure of the Hao clan. It is absolutely impossible for them to go back to the past.
The elder sitting in the middle position is Zhu Shi, the uncle of Emperor Hao now. His position is called "Yuan Shou", which is the chief elder of the elders group.
His face had deep wrinkles, hard lines, and a majestic expression. At this moment, he said with a strong and powerful voice: "Everyone, King Lie's attack method has not changed for many days. This situation is very abnormal. King Xi is preparing to attack Yangdu, so he is preparing his strength."
It definitely shouldn't be just these, he must be waiting for something."
The elders do not object to this view. They are all the most elite people selected from the clan. If they are not good enough, they will be squeezed out soon. In fact, many elders themselves have mastered superb creation skills.
Creator.
At the moment, they all agree with Zhu Shi's judgment and smell the danger, but they can't tell what it is yet.
Due to the cover of the formation restrictions in the previous battle, they all thought that all the monks and creation alchemists they sent out had been lost in that battle, but they never expected that all of these people had been transformed into King Xi.
People on that side.
Zhu Shi said: "We cannot wait for changes to occur. We must proactively try to change the current deadlock and disrupt King Xi's possible deployment."
An elder said: "Dividing from within will undoubtedly cost the least."
This statement aroused opposition from some people: "We previously recognized the titles of the clansmen under King Xi, but it proved to be useless. King Xi's army is unprecedentedly united, and internal disintegration will not work."
Everyone also fell into silence. This was the most incredible thing for them. They didn't understand how King Xi could unite these people with different ideas into one place.
An elder whose seat was second only to Zhu Shi looked at the chairperson and said, "Does Yuan Shou have any ideas?" All the elders looked over together. Yuan Shou made this conclusion, which means he has a certain idea.
Zhu Shi looked at everyone and said slowly: "I think the only one who can change the current predicament is King Lie."
"The Lie King?"
Zhu Shi said: "To be precise, they are the six factions behind King Lie. We need them to help us. We can give them more benefits. I believe this is what they need."
An elder said: "But we have given them enough."
Zhu Shi said: "If we cannot defeat King Xi, then there is nothing," he emphasized, "The same is true for us."
Seeing what he said, the elders had to consider this matter carefully. Now they have very few chips in their hands, especially after suffering a big defeat earlier. The upper-level forces suffered extremely heavy losses and have lost the ability to take the initiative.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be so passive.
Before accumulating more strength, they really have no choice but to try their best to win over King Lie and the six major factions. This is the only thing they can hope for now.
Although doing this will lead to an unprecedented increase in the strength of the monks, there is a disadvantage for the monks. Upper-level monks need to practice year after year to achieve success. The improvement of their overall strength will have to wait at least hundreds of thousands of years. This is so
In a long span of time, the skills of the Hao clan have long been improved to the point where they can overwhelm the monks.
At this time, an elder hesitated and said: "Yuan Shu, actually we might be able to..."
While they were talking, everyone suddenly felt that something was wrong. When they looked up, they were shocked to find that the body of Hao Shen, who was guarding the entire Yang City, slowly fell down, and his whole body was shining with crystal light.
The light fell upside down like the sea water, and was extinguished one after another in the process.
For the elders of the Council of Elders, this change came without any warning.
At this moment, the long-lasting light on the top of Yangdu seemed to dim, but the light of spirituality and mana filled every corner of the sky. Then the elders showed unbelievable looks. In that light, one by one seemed to
The familiar figures appeared there, looking down at them and the entire Yangdu with expressionless faces.
In the palace of King Lie of Huangdu, King Lie was feeding a gorgeous colorful bird that he raised in the back hall. This bird was very lively and intelligent. Every time it fed, it would emit a sweet cry of joy.
Counselor Wu entered the palace at this time. Before he could get close, he said hurriedly: "Your Highness, Yangdu is reporting urgently."
King Lie picked up a handkerchief, wiped his hands, took the jade plate and looked at it. He looked surprised at first, and then shook his head. King Xi is really King Xi. He can do this, which is really surprising.
I can't think of it anyway.
In just a few days, the situation was greatly reversed, and the original balance of power in Yangdu had been broken. The reason was that the upper-level forces that were suspected to be trapped in the formation during the war completely fell to King Xi's side, including
The manpower originally belonged to his side.
Fortunately, the elders still have the two major forces of "Yingyao Institute" and "Zhenji Institute", and they can still maintain their prestige.
Councilor Wu said: "Your Highness, although Yangdu can still hold on, and it seems that it can last for a long time, the strength of the upper levels is indeed insufficient now. Without foreign aid, Yangdu may not be able to hold on."
King Lie was a man who made up his mind very quickly at critical moments. He just thought about it for a while and then said: "Counsellor Wu, please invite Yu Shangzun here."
Counselor Wu knew what he wanted to do, but at this time he had no words to dissuade him. He sighed, said yes, and left as ordered.
Yu Daoren has been staying in Huangdu these days. At this time, he has already learned the news about Yangdu. He is also waiting for King Lie's response. If there is no news, then the six major factions will try to contact King Lie.
Pressured.
There is no choice. Compared with dealing with the unidentified tyrannical monk guarding Guangdu, it seems that Liewang is easier to deal with here. Needless to say, Liewang relies on their cultivators to prosper.
, it is impossible to ignore their opinions.
When he heard that King Lie was going to summon him, he couldn't help but feel a little bit hopeful. He followed Counselor Wu to King Lie's palace. After seeing King Lie, he tried to ask the latter where he was looking for him.
The purpose of coming.
Lie Wang did not beat around the bush this time, but directly admitted that he had the magic weapon to promote the power of the spell. However, he could not say that he deliberately deceived him last time, so Councilor Wu used another set of excuses.
It is said that after hearing the news from the Taoist, they were also looking for the whereabouts of the person who cast the spell, and finally succeeded in finding it, and also found this thing.
Both parties knew each other well about this matter, and as long as they had a decent appearance, it would be fine, and Taoist Yu would not expose it. Therefore, after hearing this, he thanked him in turn: "Then I still have to thank Your Highness.
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King Lie said: "If I hand this thing over to you, can you guarantee that the matter of King Xi will be solved?"
Taoist Yu thought for a while and said seriously: "Yu cannot give a guarantee, but this is also a matter of life and death involving the six sects and His Highness. We will definitely try our best, and this is also the most feasible way at the moment."
Lie Wang didn't ask any more questions, but raised his hand.
As footsteps sounded, a servant came over holding a jade plate. When he got close, he lifted up the silk cloth and saw a flat golden and bronze bird about a foot long placed on the plate.
It looked like it was about to fly, but its head was tilted to one side, and its eyes were holes pecked out. Just looking at it made him feel a chill in his heart.
He took a breath and said, "Is this the thing?"
Before Lie Wang could answer, the servant holding the jade plate fell to his knees, and then started to tremble all over. It could be seen that his skin and flesh were quickly withered and charred, and in just a few breaths, his whole body was completely destroyed.
It transformed into a skeletal body wearing clothes, but kept the appearance of kneeling and sitting on a tray.
Taoist Yu couldn't help but feel a shiver in his heart. He had just felt an all-pervasive evil aura. It seemed like another misunderstanding to discern it now.
King Lie was not surprised and said: "This thing needs to swallow the flesh and blood of a stranger every day in order to maintain the power of the curse on King Xi. You should also pay attention to it after you take it."
Taoist Yu nodded cautiously, not caring about this loss. He added: "Your Highness, I need to return to the sky with the object. Only by joining forces with all the factions can we find a way to promote the power of the curse."
At this point, Lie Wang also waved his hand generously and said: "Just take this, Your Majesty. I am looking forward to the news you will come down and bring me."