The breeze in the early morning was slightly chilly, and a faint light appeared in the sky.
Outside a secluded palace, a figure wearing long clothes and long sleeves could be vaguely seen, holding a long sword and flying freely in the open space.
The sword edge is sharp, the sword light is hidden, and the sword energy is flowing.
I don’t know why.
It is obviously just the most ordinary sword dance, but it makes people feel an aura of inner peace, as if they have finally seen through everything after many hardships.
Look closely.
The person dancing the sword is a young man. He looks about seventeen or eighteen years old. He is wearing a long black dress. He looks ethereal, lofty and majestic.
He is very handsome, literally handsome.
His handsome face looks very young, but it has a maturity that does not match his age, which makes people feel sorry for his past experience.
Coupled with the faint sadness that inadvertently radiates between this young man's eyebrows, even the most beautiful woman in the world cannot accuse him of being ugly without conscience.
I don’t know how long has passed.
When a ray of golden morning sun shone on the young man's face, the long sword in his hand made an extremely clear sword cry, and the surrounding flowers and plants were wiped away by an invisible sword intent.
"Senior Brother...your Qinglian Sword Song may have surpassed Master."
A voice sounded soft and waxy, but very nice.
Hear the sound and move.
The young man slowly turned around and looked at the elf-like girl beside him. He put down the long sword in his hand and gently rubbed the girl's forehead.
"So what, after the battle in Jianlu, the master is no longer here."
The young man is none other than Li Xingyun, the current Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
Half a month has passed.
Not many changes have taken place on him. Except for the fact that his clothes have become more elegant, he has not undergone any major changes.
"But I'm still here."
This elf-like girl is Lu Linxuan, Li Xingyun’s only junior sister, and one of the people he wants to protect throughout his life.
"Yes, junior sister, you are still here, otherwise, besides me, who else would remember Master."
Li Xingyun stretched out his hand to brush away the hair hanging around Lu Linxuan's ears, just like a brother taking care of his sister, tying up the messy hair behind her head with skill.
"My father is gone, my master is gone, and now I am the only one left with my senior brother."
Lu Linxuan hugged Li Xingyun's arm, and his words revealed a sense of nostalgia.
"Don't worry, in this life, I will never let you and Xue'er wander around, accompanying me through life and death. I can't even guarantee my own tomorrow." Li Xingyun's eyes were firm.
"This life? So... Senior brother, do you know what happened in the previous life?" Lu Linxuan asked curiously.
"Know a little bit."
"Tell me more about it!"
"In my last life, I refused to ascend the throne and proclaim myself emperor. I naively thought that from then on, I could be free and happy, but I didn't know that unless I really died, I would never be at peace."
"Brother, you are so smart, you will not die if anyone dies."
"It's just different. Your senior brother is not smart. He lived and died several times, and the last time he really died."
"Oh, you damn thing, don't say such unlucky words. If someone accidentally hears it, they will think that I am deliberately cursing Brother Master, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty."
That's it.
Li Xingyun and Lu Linxuan chatted for a while. The former seemed to have thought of something and asked the latter the question in his mind.
"Junior sister, we are leaving today. If you don't take the opportunity to sleep a little longer, why are you getting up so early?" Li Xingyun asked in a puzzled tone.
In his impression.
At this time, Lu Linxuan was not such a diligent person.
Today, she has not gone through many hardships with her. She is lazy by nature and is a woman who does not want to get up until midnight.
"Go? Want to go? Senior brother, where are we going?"
Lu Linxuan looked confused. She didn't understand why she and others were having a good time in Luoyang City, so they suddenly had to leave again, but she didn't know anything.
"Junior sister, you didn't listen to me at all last night, did you?"
Li Xingyun narrowed his eyes slightly, he really wanted to hit someone.
"Don't worry about this detail, senior brother, where are we going?"
Lu Linxuan lowered her head in embarrassment. Perhaps it was the shame in her heart that made her dare not look directly into the eyes of her senior brother Li Xingyun.
But the good thing is.
Li Xingyun didn't bother to worry about this, he directly stated the purpose of his trip.
"The Capital Chang'an."
"Brother, are we going to Chang'an?" Lu Linxuan's eyes widened.
"Yeah." Li Xingyun nodded.
"Why?" Lu Linxuan asked puzzledly.
"Speak to the world, ascend the throne and proclaim yourself emperor." Li Xingyun said these eight words calmly.
Ascension to the throne and proclaiming himself emperor is extraordinary. It is definitely not as simple as just nodding at the Jiao Lan Palace of the former Tang Dynasty and the world will recognize him as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
"Ah, but...but Chang'an, the capital, was destroyed by war during Huang Chao's rebellion and turned into a pile of ruins." Lu Linxuan's doubts deepened.
"Junior Sister, think about it seriously, Senior Brother, I am not re-building the Tang Dynasty on top of the ruins." Li Xingyun sighed with a heavy tone.
"No, Senior Brother, although the capital Chang'an has been turned into ruins, that is where the Qi Kingdom is now. Do you want to officially ascend the throne and proclaim yourself emperor there?"
Lu Linxuan raised a question again, and it was still a very fatal question.
"So what? The purpose of my trip is to tell Li Maozhen that I, Li Xingyun, am the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. This world is ultimately the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. It is not something that Li Maozhen, a vassal king, can occupy by establishing the Qi Kingdom.
."
Li Xingyun's words are full of domineering and absolutely unquestionable belief.
Just five days ago.
Wang Yanzhang, the former famous general of Daliang, formally surrendered to him, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, with one hundred thousand cavalry.
It stands to reason.
If Wang Yanzhang was a bit ambitious, he would not surrender so happily. However, bad people were everywhere in the Tang Dynasty, even among his personal guards.
From the thirty-year plan of the bad commander Yuan Tiangang, and the sacrifices of countless bad people of the Tang Dynasty from generation to generation, how can he, a former famous general of the Liang Dynasty, decide whether to surrender or not?
If you don’t surrender, you will die!
In the end, between life and death, Wang Yanzhang, the former famous general of Daliang, wisely chose to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.
Thanks to his knowledge and ability in leading troops in war, Li Xingyun did not deprive him of his military power, but just arranged for hundreds of millions of bad people to enter.
So far.
With 350,000 divine warriors, 50,000 palace forbidden troops, and 100,000 cavalry, the army under Li Xingyun's direct control has reached more than 500,000.
This is a miracle that has never been done before or since. Under the thirty-year plan of the evil commander Yuan Tiangang, he finally ate up the entire Daliang army.
But this miracle only happens once, and it will never happen again, or even only once.
If you miss it, you really missed it. Even if you regret it later, it is just a useless effort.
Thirty years have indeed passed by in the blink of an eye for the delinquent handsome Yuan Tiangang. He was so immersed in restoring the Tang Dynasty that he did not even notice the passage of time.
But for many bad people in the Tang Dynasty, thirty years have passed as a generation. They have no extra time and no ability to persist for another thirty years.
.......
Time passes quietly.
"By the way, junior sister, you haven't told me yet, why are you up so early?" Li Xingyun asked.
"Who would have thought that it was not Ji Ruxue who knocked on the door so early in the morning..."
Don’t wait for Lu Linxuan to finish.
She felt her arm being shaken open by an internal force, and then Li Xingyun's figure seemed to flash out, leaving her sight in a few breaths.
When she discovered Li Xingyun's figure, she also discovered Ji Ruxue beside him.
"Can you not go?" Ji Ruxue said softly.
"No." Li Xingyun shook his head.
"That's the Qi Kingdom, not to mention that the capital Chang'an has been turned into ruins. Why do we have to go to such a place now?"
Ji Ruxue also asked the same question as Lu Linxuan, but compared to Lu Linxuan, the question she asked was far more important.
It's not that Li Xingyun is partial in her heart, it's mainly because she is the personal maid of Empress Huanyinfang, and she is also a citizen of the Tang Dynasty who grew up in Qi Kingdom.
Nowadays, the entire Central Plains is divided into warlords and vassal towns, each establishing its own country.
But on the surface, whether it is Li Maozhen of Qi State, Li Keyong of Jin State, Wu State, Chu State, or Shu State, they all follow the Tang Empire as the supreme kingdom of heaven.
But now.
Li Xingyun wants to formally restore the Tang Dynasty in Qi Kingdom...