Chapter 103: Refining weapons from the gods, Liangzhou is defeated
Du Kang was lying on his side on a large bed, which was placed on an exposed root of an ancestral tree that was as dark as ink and knotted like a dragon.
Around Du Kang, several gods did not join in the looting of the inner treasures, but gathered around the two stoves and were busy.
The gods were divided into two piles for the furnace fire. In one pile, Taiqing built the furnace, Yuqing added materials, Shangqing fanned the fire, and the three Qings jointly took care of it.
In the lick of pure cyan fire, there is a small red flag floating up and down. On the flag woven with fire phoenix feathers, there is a shadow of a big bird with spread wings that appears and disappears.
The other furnace is Du Kang's furnace of heaven and earth. Beside it is the Ziwei Emperor of the North Pole, who attracts the stars in the sky, the Changsheng Emperor of the South Pole, who attracts the thunder of the nine heavens, and the Emperor of the Shang Palace, who summons the spirit of war and killing.
With strong earth energy, the four emperors are working together to refine a hammer-shaped weapon.
The four powers of stars, thunder, killing, and earth turned into swords, axes, and chisels, and they beat repeatedly on a rough lava block that could only be barely seen to be in the shape of a short-handled melon hammer.
An khaki-colored unicorn phantom appeared above the hammer, roaring in pain as it endured the forging of external forces.
Not far from the two furnaces, the Jade Emperor and Tathagata Buddha were respectively chanting words. Two strings of octagonal hanging talismans and Buddhist mantras came out of their mouths, fluttering and falling on the two magic weapons. They were beaten during the continuous forging.
Inside two magic weapons.
This Qionghua inner treasury is indeed the place where Daliang's national treasures are located. Under the continuous search of the gods, Du Kang actually gathered the embryos needed for the Zhurong Burning Sky Flag and the Houtu Shaking Yue Hammer. Now they are
Let your men refine them.
Just like Du Kang's Yaju clone and Ankylosaurus clone after going through the Dragon Palace son-in-law recruitment ceremony, after being created, the two masters, the three pure and the four emperors, although they were not fully promoted to high-level, already possessed part of the high-level power.
If they work together, they are fully capable of forging high-grade and low-grade magic weapons. It is said that if something happens, the subordinates will do their work. As the noble master of a line of Shinto, Du Kang can now even entrust the production of high-grade magic weapons to his subordinates.
Done.
On the crown of the ancestral tree above Du Kang's head, Sun Wukong was using Jumang's ability to create life seeds, trying hard to search for the collection on the branches.
On the dark ground near the roots of the trees, the gods who had taken the temple back into their bodies all looked up eagerly at the thick fog above them that could not see anything clearly, wishing that they were the ones carrying out the search mission now.
But there was no other way. Apart from Du Kang, Sun Wukong was the most experienced person present when it came to stealing. No god could compete with her.
Although there are many items hanging on Zumu Mountain, most of the gods want only the divine weapons and divine edicts.
It goes without saying that the role of divine orders goes without saying. As long as they can possess divine orders that are similar to their own priesthood, it can help them break through the original settings more easily, master more abilities, and advance to a higher rank.
The reason for wanting to obtain a divine weapon is understandable. It is nothing more than the huge improvement in the combat effectiveness of high-grade divine weapons.
As for the Buddha's slough, ghosts, demons, stars, spells, pills, demon materials and other items left on the ancestral tree, although they are all treasures, there are not many of them useful to the gods.
They are not interested in these.
Fortunately, unlike the ordinary treasures hanging randomly in the inner treasury, which the Mao gods can take at will, all harvests from the ancestral trees must be distributed according to Du Kang's will. This will make the gods feel happy.
Feel better.
The hundreds of gods surrounding Du Kang are the most powerful group of subordinate gods in the Shinto system. The weakest are at the peak of mid-level, and the strongest dozens are between high-level and mid-level.
, belong to the group of gods with the most potential.
Once they obtain these divine orders and weapons, their strength will skyrocket.
Time is passing slowly, the sun in the sky is deflecting a little bit, the fires of the two weapon refining furnaces are getting stronger and stronger, the surrounding gods are staring at the canopy above their heads, and more gods are scattered in the vast inner treasury.
Here, I wantonly search for the items I like...
In such a peaceful time, Emperor Houtu, who was standing not far from Du Kang, suddenly trembled, stopped his movements to attract earth energy, stood up in front of the copper furnace of heaven and earth, turned around and walked towards Du Kang.
After tempering Hou Tu, one of the four gods was missing from the Yue Hammer. Although the other three heavenly emperors were a little surprised, they quickly increased the input of divine power to take over the vacancy left by Hou Tu.
Du Kang's men were all very smart, and they were completely indifferent to the changes that were happening in front of them, and they were still burning fire and refining the weapons.
Obviously, he had expected this kind of thing to happen.
Hou Tu wears a phoenix crown and Xia pei, white triangular cloud shoulders on the shoulders, a red phoenix gown with spread wings and wide sleeves, a colorful scarf on the chest, and a huge bow tied on the drooping skirt, dragging a floor-length green skirt, looking stylish.
Du Kang came.
Houtu is one of the four emperors in the Dukang Shinto system. In the setting of "The Legend of Gods and Demons", her full name is Chengtian, Imitate Houde and Guangda Houtu Emperor, she is in charge of yin and yang fertility, and the mountain in Shinto.
The changes in the land, the gods of the mountains, the gods of the earth and the emperors of the three mountains and five mountains, and the mother of the earth who controls disasters.
A trace of sadness appeared on her face, which was full of love and compassion, and she said quietly to Du Kang.
"Du Lang, why did you attack me just now? Could it be that all the affection between you and me before was fake?"
With just one sentence, the broken demonic thoughts in Du Kang's heart began to vibrate slightly, triggering a series of beautiful memories, and his heart was filled with a mixture of bitterness and sweetness.
Du Kang suppressed the strange emotions in his heart, and the wheel of law slowly turned in his eyes. He looked at Xie Wanqing who had usurped Hou Tu's will in front of him, and said with the same feeling.
"The Empress Dowager can easily twist the minds of my subordinates. It seems that you have left a lot of backup plans for me.
People all over the world say that demons appear to be sentimental, but are actually ruthless. I didn’t believe these rumors before, but now I have to believe them.”
Seeing that Xie Wanqing did not lead the ministers to besiege him, but chose to meet with him alone, Du Kang already had confidence in his heart.
Knowing this woman, there is a high probability that she would not want to fall out with her during a time when the situation of the prince's struggle for the throne is still unclear and the ministers' thoughts are unpredictable.
Not to mention that Du Kang holds the Taifu Seal and is qualified to control the use of dragon energy, but his current Renjie strength, in the entire Daliang Kingdom, only Lu Shengdao and Granny Nianci can compare with him.
Princess Xuanhuang's status as heir apparent was only managed by Xie Wanqing and the Three Dukes to suppress the opposition in the court. However, before Ji Xuanhuang officially ascended the throne, an assassination could happen at any time.
Such an unstable situation in the court did not allow Xie Wanqing to add such a powerful enemy as Du Kang. She could only endure the resentment of suffering a big loss and said softly.
"Du Lang, I was wrong before. For the sake of me bringing you into the inner treasury, letting you get the Mortal Pot, and successfully improving your magic, how about you write off all the previous things?"
The experience of being choked to death by a demon clone made Xie Wanqing know that Du Kang was a man of firm mind and would not return to the old relationship just because of his soft words. Instead, he directly mentioned favors and interests.
The facts are indeed as Xie Wanqing said, Du Kang was brought into the inner treasury by her, and she agreed to give Du Kang the water of wish.
This is an undeniable fact. Even if Xie Wanqing did this just to turn Du Kang into a demon, he still admitted it.
"Write it off in one stroke? Can the other things I took from Zumu be included in it?"
While Du Kang was speaking, a blue aura suddenly rose from the black tree roots and bloomed next to his bed.
Peng——
The green light shattered like a bubble, and a hairy-headed monkey wearing chain-locked gold armor, a purple-gold crown with phoenix wings on its head, holding a Jumang seed in hand, and carrying a bulging yellow human seed bag on its shoulders jumped out.
It turned out that at this time, Sun Wukong, who was searching for loot on the ancestral tree, finally came back.
"Tianzun, I am lucky to have fulfilled my destiny and got everything back."
The Lingming Stone Monkey is one of the four monkeys in the world who can understand changes, know the time of the sky, and know the location. As soon as Sun Wukong returned, he noticed the strange atmosphere at the scene.
But he was a man with a quick mind, and when he saw that there was no dissatisfaction in Du Kang's eyes when he looked at him, he took the human race bag and dumped it on the ground while talking, and poured out a bunch of shimmering items.
After a "clashing" sound of gold and iron clashing, a large number of divine edicts and divine weapons scattered and floated in the mid-air.
Even if no one activates them, the powerful force they activate still mixes a colorful divine light in the void, releasing the mighty divine power unbridled.
A divine edict without spiritual control can stop fairly safely, but the same cannot be said for divine weapons with varying levels of spiritual intelligence.
Flame, light, wind and thunder, ice, time, space...many power attributes conflict with each other and magical weapons pile up together. They are constantly colliding and stirring under the control of their own will, stirring the surrounding aura into a chaotic whirlpool.
These magical weapons that have been born for a long time have a level of spiritual intelligence that is not comparable to the five-element magical weapons just forged by Du Kang. After venting the joy of regaining their freedom, they immediately turned into a spiritual light and shot out in all directions.
Escape from the area where the tribe tree is.
It seems that after being sealed away by the Daliang royal family for a long time, these twenty-odd magic weapons neither want to stay here nor be mastered and used by others anymore.
The surrounding gods watched this scene happening. Although some gods looked at the flying magic soldiers and were eager to try, most of them looked expectantly at the gods who stayed in place.
Facing the escape of the divine soldiers, Du Kang was fully capable of stopping him, but in the end he did not choose to take action.
Because the entire inner treasury is in a closed cave, they cannot escape, Du Kang said to the gods after taking a look at Xie Wanqing who was occupying Houtu's body next to him.
"Why are you all standing there in a daze? If you want God's decree, stay here. If you want weapons, go chase them."
After receiving Du Kang's approval, a dozen figures from the gods immediately used various means to ride on clouds, turn into light, or ride on the wind... and they all jumped into the sky to pursue their goals.
Regarding what Du Kang did, Xie Wanqing said with a worried expression.
"I haven't agreed to Taifu's request yet. Does Taifu regard himself as the master of these magic weapons?"
"What?"
Du Kang frowned and made a move with his big hand, Tathagata Buddha's special magic - Wuzhishan. Xie Wanqing's body automatically turned into the size of an ant and fell into his palm.
"With a few weapons and such an ugly look on his face, could it be that the words of cancellation that the Empress Dowager just said were a lie to coax me?"
Perhaps it was still because of the arrival of the clone that even though he was in Du Kang's palm, Xie Wanqing still looked calm.
"My apology is of course true, but is the gift the Master wants to give you too much?
This monkey took a total of twenty-two high- and low-grade divine weapons, three high- and medium-grade divine weapons, sixty-two golden divine edicts, twelve gold-green divine edicts, and one cyan divine edict from the ancestral tree.
If you include the water of wish consumed in the earthly pot, what the Taifu will get this time will be nearly half of the wealth in Daliang's inner treasury, are you too greedy?"
From Xie Wanqing's perspective, he could see Du Kang, who was like a giant spirit god, shaking his head indifferently and humming like thunder.
“I, Du Kang, am able to achieve what I have achieved today only because I am brave enough.
The Empress Dowager feels that I have taken too many things, but these things are all obtained by me sleeping on your bed at night, risking losing my head after being discovered by others, and being transformed into a demon clone by you.
The so-called winner takes all, why can’t I get so much?”
Du Kang's words made Xie Wanqing shake her head. She pointed at the sky and said bluntly.
"It seems that the master wants to tell me the principle of winner takes all.
Logically speaking, the spoils in this world should indeed belong to the winner, but has the Tutor really won completely?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! You must know that Qionghua Cave, where the inner treasury is located, is a completely closed world, and only I have the right to enter and exit freely.
If the Tutor is greedy, the worst I can do is seal the inner treasury and reopen the inner treasury after Xuanhuang ascends the throne.
At that time, will Taifu still feel that he is a winner?"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible..."
Du Kang subconsciously wanted to deny Xie Wanqing's words.
"I am in charge of Taifu Baoyin. Now the internal and external troubles in Daliang have not been eliminated. You obviously need to work with me to control the dragon energy in order to stabilize the situation."
Although Du Kang had a 'Qi' and could open the Qionghua Cave Heaven's membrane of heaven and earth at any time and leave this cage, he still deliberately acted nervous.
Because only when Xie Wanqing thought he had mastered Du Kang's weaknesses, could the two sides return to their previous state of exploiting each other.
The way to make a wary person feel at ease is never to gain the other party's trust, but to proactively deliver a fatal weakness into the other party's hands.
This is a very effective gambling method.
"We, Daliang, have been inherited for four hundred years and have experienced six generations of emperors. Of course, it is impossible to place all our hopes of protecting the country on foreign ministers like Sangong.
I have other ways to control the dragon energy, Tai Tu should not take myself too seriously."
Du Kang thought for a moment and quickly discovered the flaw in Xie Wanqing's words.
"Since the Queen Mother considers herself a winner, why do you need to come to the inner treasury to find me? Is it possible that you really have feelings for me?"
"Du Lang may not believe it, but even though I am the King of the Five Yun Demons, I claim to be able to play with sentient beings in the palm of my hand.
But the devil himself is also one of the sentient beings, so how can he truly cut off love and love? You are one of the most important men in my life, so how can I say that I don't have any affection at all.
If the world hadn't caused trouble, we wouldn't have come to the point where we were facing each other with swords.
Therefore, when I entered the inner treasury this time, I wanted to negotiate a deal with Du Lang that would truly erase the past misunderstandings between us."
When Xie Wanqing thought she had a chance of winning, she still lowered her stance and actively asked for peace. This made Du Kang think a lot.
"It seems that Wan Qing has encountered some difficulties outside. Let me guess, is it the Great Sima who is leading the army to fight against the unfavorable situation in the war?
Or are you facing an endless stream of assassinations and finding it difficult to deal with them, so do you need my help?"
Xie Wanqing immediately smiled, raised his head and said to Du Kang.
"Du Lang really has an exquisite heart, and I can't hide anything from you.
Just half an hour ago, news came from Liangzhou that Fan Haiyi, our chief minister, was confronting the rebels led by Mu Qian Junru of Liangzhou.
He was suddenly attacked by the four lieutenants behind him, namely the front, rear, Zhengbei, and Zhengxi, and coupled with the fierce attack by the Liangzhou rebels, he finally died on the battlefield.
After this battle, the generals Zuo and Zhengnan who accompanied the army were killed, the right generals and Zhengdong generals were captured, and the other four generals rebelled against the country. Liangzhou actually had the tendency to separate itself.
If Du Lang can help suppress this rebellion, I can make the decision. Not only can I give you all the golden divine edicts in the inner treasury, but you can also choose six of the top-grade divine weapons to take away."
After hearing this situation, Du Kang looked embarrassed.
"I am not trying to shirk this. Such a national war cannot be controlled by one person's force. The Queen Mother should convene the ministers to discuss the war and select new generals as soon as possible."
But unexpectedly, Xie Wanqing suddenly said with a cunning look on his face.
"Facing a state rebel army with nearly ten high-level monks in total, this is certainly not something that one person can do.
But just a few hours ago, when I was severely hacked to death with an ax in a certain man's heart, I clearly sensed several powerful auras.
If my perception of the devil's thoughts is correct, those should be Du Lang's clones..."