After discovering that three members of the previous generation of the Xiao family were expelled from the ancestral temple, Li Mu knew that the queen was serious.
Therefore, in the very long days to come, Li Mu only needs to do one thing, which is to help the Queen govern the Great Zhou, ensure that the Great Zhou is internally stable, has no strong external enemies, and the people's moral support can always be maintained or continue to grow.
This is not for anyone, but for himself and the people he loves.
In Zhongshu Province, Liu Yi had a bunch of memorials delivered to Li Mu's office, leaned on his chair, and breathed a long sigh of relief.
The familiar Mr. Li is finally back.
In the government office, Li Mu sat behind the table, looking at the two envelopes placed in front of him, frowning, and slowly tapping the table with his index finger.
In the past period of time, the greatest threat faced by the Great Zhou Dynasty was the Demon Kingdom, and there was no time to care about anything else. Whether it was Shen Kingdom taking advantage of the chaos to provoke a fight on the border between the two countries, or the mental power of the people of Nanjun being greatly reduced, it did not attract too much attention from the court.
Now that the chaos in the Demon Kingdom has been temporarily suspended, and the imperial court and the Thousand Fox Kingdom are inseparable, these two matters need to be brought to the forefront.
These seem to be two things, but they are actually just one.
Since the last tribulation and the falling out with the Zhou Dynasty, the State of Shen has been uneasy. It has banned the entry of merchants from the Zhou Dynasty and destroyed the commodities of the Zhou Dynasty. The anti-Zhou sentiment in the country has been serious and it has repeatedly disrupted the border. Nanjun and the State of Shen have
The border has greatly affected the people's thinking and thinking.
Li Muxian asked the queen to go to the ancestral temple to check out the cauldron of telepathy in Nanjun.
But the Queen took Liu Hanyan, Li Qing and Zhong Ling on a spring outing outside the city. She was not in Changle Palace, leaving Li Mu to take care of things by herself.
She did not take Master Mei and Shangguanli with her on this trip, so Li Mu asked them to accompany him to the ancestral temple. The ancestral temple is an important place in the Zhou Dynasty. It is a place where imperial aura is nurtured and is related to the future of a country. The Xiao family is not optimistic about the emperor.
He lost his throne because of his anger. In order to avoid suspicion, Li Mu could not go there alone.
Li Mu hasn't told them yet that the Queen plans to give each of them an imperial energy in the future. Zhou Wu is like this. One person attains enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven, and she can't wait to give all the good things to those around her.
In the ancestral temple, the three old men were no longer there, and even the futon queen on the ground was thrown away.
In the big cauldron in the center of the ancestral temple, a golden dragon was swimming. Li Mu looked at the thirty-six small cauldrons. The brightness of these small cauldrons varied, but except for the capital city, the differences between the other small cauldrons were not too big.
, only one of them is extremely dim.
Li Mu stepped forward and saw the word "南" on the tripod.
After a visit to the ancestral temple, Li Mu confirmed that something had indeed happened in Nanjun. He then went to the Enshrinement Department and sent several Fifth Realm enshriners to Nanjun to investigate and deal with the matter.
When they left the palace and returned home, Liu Hanyan and the Queen had already returned from their trip.
He had dealt with too many issues in the past two days, so he rested on a stone chair in the yard, relaxing and falling asleep soon after.
Wanwan was helping Liu Hanyan wash the vegetables. She turned back to look at Li Mu and said, "My uncle must have dreamed of something good. Miss, look at how happy he is smiling."
Liu Hanyan's face turned red when he thought of what happened last night, and said, "He must be thinking about something inappropriate again."
Zhou Wu walked to sit opposite Li Mu and secretly pinched a seal with her hand hidden in her sleeve.
Li Mu had never been as happy as last night in his life, which led him to relive it once in his dream. After waking up from the dream, he opened his eyes and saw the Queen sitting opposite him, her face covered with a light pink
color.
Li Mu asked in confusion: "What's wrong, Your Majesty?"
Zhou Wu stood up and said, "No, it's nothing."
Li Mu watched her leave as if running away, and said speechlessly: "It's weird, inexplicable..."
Because of his caution last night, Liu Hanyan and Li Qing did not let Li Mu enter the room tonight. He slept alone in the study and thought about spiritual issues.
The last trip to Dongjun made him realize one of his weaknesses.
With his sudden advancement in cultivation, he is no longer afraid of the ordinary sixth realm, whether on land or in the air, but in the water, the strength he can display is greatly reduced, and it takes a lot of effort to deal with an Ao Run.
effort.
This is not Li Mu's shortcoming. Human beings are inherently inferior to the aquatic tribe in water fighting. Except for a few amphibious demon tribes, only the dragon tribe is good at both land and water combat.
When the worship department encounters trouble from the Shui Tribe, there is usually nothing that can be done except pumping out water.
Although Ao Run is now available as a tool, it is unrealistic to ask him to deal with it every time. Li Mu searched in his mind and found a medicine called water-avoiding pill.
It is said to be an elixir, but it is actually a magic weapon made from the essence and blood of the aquatic tribe. If it is held in the mouth, a mortal can avoid drowning in water. Practitioners carry it with them. It has a certain water-proof effect and reduces the weakening of strength when fighting in the water.
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With the water-avoiding elixir on his body, human practitioners can exert 70% to 80% of their strength in the water.
It is said that if you can swallow a dragon inner elixir, you will have the abilities of the aquatic people in the water. Not only will your magic power not be weakened, but it will also increase significantly and even restrain low-level aquatic people. It is the most ideal magic weapon to avoid water.
However, dragons are generally not seen on the mainland, let alone getting a dragon inner elixir. It is better to get some blood essence from Ao Run, refine some water-avoiding elixirs, and distribute them to the county officials so that they can prepare them next time.
When the water tribe encounters trouble, they can handle it themselves without asking the gods for help.
This was originally what the Queen should do, but Li Mu would completely worry about her from now on.
He didn't plan to call Ao Run over this time. This evil dragon was too talkative, so it was better to find him in person to feel relieved.
If he talks too much and reveals Ting Xin's joke, Li Mu will have to explain it to them.
Zhongjun, a lake somewhere.
Li Mu was suspended above the lake, and Ao Run's voice begging for mercy came from the bottom of the lake: "Master, I was wrong. I won't talk anymore. Don't worry, I will never tell the master about you raising two snakes outside."
mother!"
Li Mu said calmly: "I'm not here to settle accounts with you. Give me some of your blood essence and blood. I'll use it."
Ao Run hesitated for a while and said: "The second one is okay, the first one..., can you wait until tomorrow? It's gone today..."
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Li Mu drew a bucket of dragon blood from Ao Run's body, threw two pills to the pale Ao Run, and then flew back to the capital of the gods.
There were still some materials missing for refining the Water-Repelling Pill. Li Mu spent several days collecting it and refining the Water-Repelling Pill ten days later.
He came to the Enshrinement Department and handed dozens of blood-red elixirs to the person in charge of the enshrinement department, saying: "These water-avoiding elixirs will be distributed to the thirty-six counties. In the future, when encountering incidents related to the Shui Tribe, there will be no need to turn to the Divine Capital for help."
Already."
After leaving the water-avoiding pill, Li Mu asked him: "How is the situation in Nanjun?"
Speaking of Nanjun, the minister showed helplessness and said: "Sir, the State of Shen is extremely hostile to me, the Great Zhou Dynasty. Although they have not taken any official action, the practitioners of the State of Shen have been causing trouble at the border of Nanjun. Yesterday, the minister of worship was
We just received the news that our colleagues who were sent to Nanjun to investigate were all injured by practitioners from the Shen Kingdom..."
Li Mu frowned and asked: "Aren't there troops stationed in Nanjun? Are they just sitting back and watching the Shen people invade the border?"
The worshiper said: "Lord Li, you don't know. The imperial court has deployed most of its troops outside the Demon Kingdom and Ghost Realm. Among the four armies of Zhenbei, Pingxi, Annan and Dingdong, the Southern Army and the Eastern Army are the strongest.
Weak, what's more, the shameless Shen people don't invade in large numbers. They usually come in one or two, secretly crossing the border of Nanjun, and the Southern army is unable to guard against it. These days, many Southern soldiers have been injured in their hands..."
After leaving the Enshrinement Department, Li Mu came to the ancestral temple and found that the telepathy delivered by Nanjun's telepathy cauldron not only did not increase, but also became dimmer than before.
A person from the Shen Kingdom can do anything, except his mind.
Whether he can have a few ladies in the seventh realm in the future who can eat soft food with peace of mind depends on the people's telepathy in the thirty-six counties.
Several Fifth Realm priests were injured in Nanjun, and the result would be the same if others were sent there. There is a tacit understanding between the countries in Zuzhou. In order to avoid escalating the war and hurting both sides, border friction should be limited to those below the Sixth Realm cultivation level. The two great
Once Feng Feng intervenes, it means that the Great Zhou Dynasty and the State of Shen will officially go to war.
The war brings only killing and death, which is contrary to the national policy of peaceful coexistence that Zhou Dynasty has always pursued. Even if they win, the two years of hard work of Li Mu and the Queen may be in vain.
This step should never be taken unless absolutely necessary.
Sometimes, low cultivation is not always a bad thing. The two great priests couldn't take action, so Li Mu planned to go and see for himself.
After reporting the itinerary to Queen Liu Hanyan and the others, Li Mu summoned Ao Run and set off immediately.
Among the four counties in the east, west, south and north, Nanjun is the closest to the divine capital. With Ao Run's extreme speed, it can be reached in less than three days.
South County.
The Southern County of Da Zhou borders the State of Shen. Since the founding of the country, an army has been stationed here, called the Annan Army. At its peak, the Annan Army once penetrated into the hinterland of the State of Shen in the face of the provocation of the State of Shen and almost defeated the State of Shen.
Since then, the State of Shen has been in ruins and never dared to invade the Zhou Dynasty again.
After the south was stabilized, the imperial court began to continuously transfer the strongest members of the Annan Army to the northwest. Now, the Annan Army, which was once the strongest, has become the last of the four armies.
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The national border of Nanjun is extremely long. Unlike the Zhenbei Army, the Annan Army stationed in Nanjun has ten sentries and is stationed scattered throughout the border to guard the most frontier of the Zhou Dynasty.
In recent days, due to Shen's continuous border incursions, various Southern Army posts have clashed with Shen's practitioners many times, but both sides have been able to restrain themselves and only suffer no casualties.
Nanhu is a large lake on the border between Dazhou and Shen. For a hundred years, the two countries have never let go of their disputes over the ownership of this lake, and there have been many frictions. Later, in order to calm down the dispute, the two countries reached an agreement.
Taking the small island in the center of Nanhu Lake as the boundary, the north of the small island is the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the south of the small island is the territory of the Shen Kingdom. A forbidden air formation has been cast on the Nanhu Lake. Practitioners cannot fly. The soldiers and common people of the two countries,
Crossing the island's boundaries is also not allowed.
However, at this moment, the north bank of the South Lake was frequently flashing with the light of magic.
Ten soldiers of the Southern Army were fighting hard with more than 20 practitioners of the Shen Kingdom. This was the north bank of the South Lake and the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It was obviously the practitioners of the Shen Kingdom who crossed the border to provoke them. They were outnumbered and the Southern Army soldiers were retreating steadily.
A young pawn felt timid and couldn't help but said: "There are many of them and we are no match. Why don't we retreat first and find reinforcements..."
Another older man looked resolute and said in a deep voice: "This is my territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and behind us are the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. We cannot retreat even one step!"
The pawn took a deep breath and looked at the people fighting hard around him. His expression gradually became resolute, and the spells in his hands changed faster.
However, although their opponents were not very strong, their numbers far exceeded them. Soon, everyone was seriously injured. The practitioners of the Shen Kingdom all spoke with a joking look on their faces.
"Is this the strongest Annan army in the Great Zhou Dynasty?"
"What is the strongest? Our weakest soldiers in Dashen are stronger than them."
"How did they break into our big application before? They couldn't have made it up themselves, right?"
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The ten Zhou generals looked humiliated and angry, but could not resist. Just when they were about to fight to the death, a stream of light actually appeared on the horizon behind them, speeding towards Nanhu.
In the stream of light, there are two powerful auras.
These two breaths came from the direction of Da Zhou. Everyone in the Southern Army looked happy and said excitedly: "The reinforcements are here!"
However, the expressions of the practitioners of Shen State changed. These two auras were extremely strong and they could not defeat them. They jumped into the Nanhu Lake behind them and fled in the direction of Shen State.
The speed of the stream of light was extremely fast. Everyone in the Southern Army looked at the stream of light with great anticipation, and the expressions on their faces gradually changed from surprise to shock.
As the stream of light got closer, they saw clearly that in the stream of light, there was actually a dragon. The dragon was all white, with a figure standing above its head. A young man came riding on the dragon and landed on the north bank of the South Lake.
A middle-aged man hurriedly stepped forward, clasped his fists and said respectfully: "See you, senior. May I ask if you are sent by the imperial court to reinforce Nanjun?"
Li Mu nodded and said, "I'm from the Enshrinement Department, what happened here?"
The middle-aged man pointed at Nanhu behind him and gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, it is the practitioners from the Shen Kingdom who forcibly crossed the border of our country and provoked our garrison. They had just escaped before our seniors arrived."
Li Mu felt the many auras in Nanhu, glanced at Ao Run, and said, "Catch them up."
Ao Run heard this and jumped into the lake without hesitation. The man was about to stop him, but it was already too late.
Under the lake, two white shadows loomed, and huge waves rolled up on the lake. Li Mu unexpectedly discovered another powerful aura at the bottom of the lake. Judging from the aura alone, his strength was still higher than that of Ao Run.
The middle-aged man said in a panic: "Sir, let your mount come up quickly. At the bottom of Nanhu Lake, there is a giant dragon that helps the Shen people. It is very powerful..."
He didn't need to remind him. The next moment, Ao Run let out a roar of pain, broke out of the water, and stood beside Li Mu in embarrassment.
He pointed to the bottom of the lake and said to Li Mu through gritted teeth: "Master, there is a dragon in this lake. I can't beat it. Let's pump the water. We can't spoil her!"
