Lingting is divided into three parts: the inner city, the outer city, two major protective cities.
The inner city is commonly known as the Imperial City, and the palace complex is here.
The entire Daling royal family is not large in number, and they all live in the palace complex of the imperial city.
There are streets and shops here, and all the services and goods that the outside world can think of can be found here.
The only difference is that everything here does not require spending money, but is all publicly maintained by Lingting.
At this time, the snow melted, and spring gardens from various places began to be arranged in the miniature neighborhoods inside the palace.
People from the royal family came here to enjoy the scenery and spend spring.
In a shop selling spring bud milk tea.
Ye Bai played with the white jade phoenix pattern cup in his hand with a blank expression. It was just an ordinary cup of spring bud milk tea, but he used nineteen kinds of spring bud new tea produced in different places.
The milk is made by selecting the thickest and mellowest milk from Shan Province, boiling it and thickening it, and adding petals, honey and other additional ingredients.
Just the cost of this cup of milk tea would cost hundreds of people at least half a year's income to make it.
"After the Imperial Master took office, he listed a lot of restrictions on us. Life is much worse now than before."
The luxurious woman in red dress sitting opposite her had a hint of helplessness on her delicate little face.
She is a descendant of the Snow Deer branch of the royal family.
There are more than two hundred people in the Lingren royal family, divided into four branches: Snow Deer, Canglang, Shenshan and Yuchi.
And these four branches are nominally protected by the four great generals.
Three of the divine generals are leading troops outside, while there is another who hides in the dark all year round to protect the entire royal family.
This is the fundamental foundation of the entire Great Spirit. No one is allowed to shake it.
Ye Bai is also one of them.
She had never felt anything was wrong before, but since the National Preceptor Yue Dewen came to power, he began to restrict many royal family benefits, and life began to become simpler.
But at the same time, the restrictions on their welfare have also been lifted more on the freedom of the royal family.
"Actually, it's good to think about it carefully. Although the benefits are gradually decreasing now, we can be more free than before, right?" Ye Bai retorted softly.
"Having said that, what's so good outside? It's not as comfortable to go out as here. There are untouchables everywhere, disgusting bitches everywhere, and they come running over with saliva and licking their faces." The woman opposite said with disgust.
"Last time, didn't I just kill a random kid? Those untouchables rushed up to fight me. They really didn't know whether to live or die. I ordered people to kill them all, but the Imperial Master actually sent people to hold me accountable? Seriously?
Not happy!"
"..." Ye Bai was speechless. She used to go out often, but she had already understood in her heart that these people in the Lingting royal family had become two classes of people completely separated from the outside world.
In their eyes, all living creatures in the outside world are slaves and livestock that depend on them for food and survival.
If you're in a good mood, you'll give it a reward, just like a pet. If you're in a bad mood, you'll beat it and kill it if you want.
Anyway, there are warriors who worship the gods to protect you, and anyone who resists will be killed. When you are safe, you really look at the people outside like insects.
Ye Bai knew this was wrong, but...
"Guo Shi Guo Shi, it sounds majestic, but it is not a product that works hard to give money to the royal family like me. I just want to take advantage of the favor of the superiors and be proud of it for a few years. Look, the adults in our branch are all waiting.
Well, last time I actually dared to fight with the Lord God General, I will suffer from him in the future."
The woman opposite is still talking.
But at this moment, Ye Bai's expression became stern, and he faintly felt some aura spreading from a distance.
Her beautiful eyes trembled, and she turned to look outside the store.
There are still people coming and going outside, and the sparse royal family and subordinate disciples are still enjoying life here like a fairyland on earth.
No one noticed that not far from them, a confrontation that was about to determine the fate of all of them was taking place.
Ye Bai's heart moved and he stood up quickly.
"Excuse me, I suddenly remembered that something fell in the palace, I will go back.
"Princess, you..." The woman in the red dress opposite wanted to speak, but then she saw a figure flashing, and Ye Bai had disappeared.
She is just an ordinary person and can't see how the other person left.
On the block, Ye Bai's figure is like a swallow, flying lightly and silently through the streets.
Soon, they stopped in front of a square open-air theater built for performing dramas.
The theater door is open.
There were many royal masters and palace guard generals who came as quickly as she did.
But at this moment, everyone is standing outside the door, afraid to enter
Enter, just look inside with concentration.
A round stage for drama was built on the square field inside the theater.
At this time, on the stage, a black-haired woman wearing a green gown and a gold jade dragon-patterned belt around her waist was sitting cross-legged on the ground, with a guqin placed on her knees and playing softly with her ten fingers.
The sound of the piano is like a clear spring, like a wind chime, or like a mountain bird. It is sometimes rapid and sometimes soothing, making people's hearts change involuntarily.
Black-haired woman plays the piano.
And under the stage, a fat and round old man was sitting on a small bench with a calm expression, his eyes half-closed quietly, listening to the sweet music of the piano, motionless.
"National Master...and Lord Oduna!?" Ye Bai instantly recognized the identity of the woman on the stage.
As for Yue Dewen in the audience, his iconic figure is unique among many spiritual generals.
As long as people see it once, they will be deeply impressed.
Among the onlookers around, Ye Bai has a high status, and among the royal family, she is also one of the few people who has experience in managing affairs and joining the army.
Seeing her coming, a general immediately came forward to report the situation.
"His Royal Highness Chiba, the Imperial Preceptor paid a private visit incognito to the theater to watch a performance. He discovered that the theater secretly purchased children from the outside world to feed the snow deer in the palace... The Imperial Preceptor became furious and wanted to ban the entire theater. Later.
We were stopped by Lord Alduna who came later, and now the rest of us have been evacuated. What happens next depends on the decision of the Imperial Master and Lord Alduna..."
The palace general who protected the theater had no expression on his face, and in a few words he finished the whole story.
After hearing this, Ye Bai didn't say anything, but the surrounding royal family who came after hearing the news exploded.
"Things about the theater are my royal family's business. Does Yue Dewen interfere too much?"
"Ever since Yue Dewen came to power, my life has been getting worse every day. Now he still dares to confront Lady Oduna. I am simply desperate!"
"The Taoist Cult is just a dog belonging to my royal family. Now the dog actually climbs on top of its owner and dominates. It is the most ridiculous thing in the world!"
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"Isn't it just to play with the untouchables? What? Adults can play, but villains can't? I used to like to steam children, but now I'm just tired of it, what's the matter? Could it be that Yue Dewen still dared to accuse me back then!?
A royal man with a beard, dressed in black and purple clothes, with long hair covered with jingling silver bells, stood up and said angrily.
Hearing his words, Ye Bai frowned slightly and immediately wanted to refute.
laugh!!
Unfortunately, she had just opened her lips when she saw a white light flying towards her, like lightning or a shadow.
The speed was so fast that even she could only see an afterimage.
With a bang, the head of the royal man who spoke exploded.
Behind him, a delicate black jade pendant penetrated his forehead and fell gently, intact.
Everyone around them fell silent, and then after a few seconds of silence, there was an explosion of loud screams.
The royal family were just like ordinary people outside, fleeing in all directions and looking for places to hide.
The brave ones stood there and yelled and cursed, and ordered the masters to stand in front of them.
But then he was forced to find a place to hide by the guards.
The royal family is dead...
Ye Bai and everyone present, at this moment, the shock and panic rising in their hearts was like a flood, almost drowning all their thoughts and worldviews.
Since the founding of Daling, the royal family has been at the top and enjoyed all the best things.
But now... someone actually dares to kill the royal family!?
And the person who takes action...
Everyone looked in the direction of the source of the jade pendant flying out. There, it was the Grand Master of the Great Dao Jiao, Yue Dewen, who had been sitting in the audience.
"You are so brave!" The sound of the piano on the stage suddenly stopped.
The black-haired woman stared down at Yue Dewen with cold eyes.
"What dare I not do?" Yue Dewen smiled, "Now I have become a popular figure, but it is no longer the same as it used to be... Lord Oduna..."
He stood up slowly.
"The royal family has long deviated from the expectations of Emperor Lingzhi. They have been corrupted and maliciously guided. Since Pindao is the national teacher, he should take it as his own responsibility to eliminate the country Zuo."
"Interesting..." Oduna gently put the guqin aside and stood up.
"I thought you were on the side of the royal family, but it turned out that you were doing it to revive the sect. I thought you were acting for the agreement made by Emperor Lingzhi, but you turned out to be dismissive of the royal branch he left behind and didn't care. Now, don't you do it What you should do is to face us and Xuehong Pavilion head-on. Yue Dewen, what do you want to do? What do you want?"
"Pindao has never changed, it's just that you always think of people too complicatedly." Yue Dewen sighed.
"Do you know what the Great Dao is? If the royal family can still be like when Brother Lingzhi was alive, the poor Dao will naturally take care of it. But now... the roots are rotten, so it is easy to shovel them out and plant them again."
"So among the four royal families, you chose Lingzhi and me?" Oduna asked.
"Pindao didn't choose you, but you chose Pindao..." Yue Dewen sighed again and walked forward slowly.
He raised his feet and landed lightly on the first step of the stage steps.
"What Damir failed to overcome back then, today, Pindao will try again.
Raising his head, Yue Dewen's eyes suddenly turned pure white.
"Lord General God, things are different this time. If you lose, you will die."
"You have no idea what you are going to face." Alduna said coldly, with contempt in her eyes.
"Yue Dewen killed the third divine general Oduna in the imperial city, and at the same time announced the abolition of all privileges of the royal family's Snow Deer Branch."
In Yuannu Gorge, when Zhang Rongfang heard the news, his hand holding the chess piece paused slightly.
He was currently sitting upright in the cave, with Xue Tong sitting cross-legged opposite him.
The old man who also claimed to be Yue Dewen put down a letter in his hand and allowed it to turn into ashes and disappear.
"Interesting, it seems that I'm doing a pretty good job as a substitute." He smiled, seemingly not affected by Dadu's news at all.