Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Feng Zhuoyi was trembling all over. He immediately realized that this was the “Northern Barbarian witchcraft” that Zhu Xingli said. He gritted his teeth and said: “The imperial teacher Zhu Xingli must be brought back to the palace urgently. Hurry!”
“Father Emperor!” The crown prince walked out from behind the Panlong Pillar and looked at the emperor with concern, but his steps stopped under the high steps and did not step forward.
Feng Zhong shrank into the corner without saying a word.
The guards outside the palace gate immediately ran to find the imperial physician. Six Golden guards on the jade steps quickly walked in and protected the emperor. There was chaos in the main hall, and the crown prince ordered the emperor’s palace to be sealed off, and no one was allowed to step out of the palace.
“The traitor!” Emperor Yuanshuo tightly grasped the golden faucet on the armrest, his voice was hoarse, and his eyes were staring at the ground with red eyes. They didn’t know who he was talking about.
“Sixth Brother, what’s going on?” The crown prince also looked angry. He turned to look at Feng Zhong, only to find that the place where Feng Zhong had been standing was empty. He asked loudly, “Where is the King of England?”
Feng Zhong had already slipped out of the palace, hid in the shadows, and changed clothes with a guard who was knocked unconscious by him. He hid the spiritual sword behind his back, hung up the guard’s broadsword, walked out, blended into the group of guards looking for the King of England like headless flies, and ran out of the palace amid the chaos.
Today’s events were obviously arranged by Prince Feng Zhang. He didn’t fall into the trap and brought the fake Ren Liu to claim credit, so the prince took the initiative to find trouble and called the man to come to the main hall. Now that the emperor had been attacked, he could not protect himself, and the situation was very bad.
The sound of uniform footsteps was heard on the palace road. Feng Zhong dodged into the alley and saw a large number of Yulin troops wearing silver armor marching towards the emperor’s palace in a mighty manner. The emperor did not order the Yulin Army to be sent to escort him. It was self-evident who gave the order.
Feng Zhong firmly remembered his master’s teachings.
“Do you know why people who cultivate immortality live longer than ordinary people? Because immortals can wield swords, and they can run away if they can’t beat their enemy.”
In the southern region, the Tumi Festival was approaching, and the weather was already very hot. The waterwheel behind Qingliang Hall was constantly transporting mountain spring water to the roof, and the rain curtain separated the inner and outer halls into two worlds.
Mrs. Jing had just had enough sleep and ran to Lin Xin energetically to play with him. Lin Xin sat on the floor, holding a mouse made of hemp rope, playing with the cat and talking to Zhu Yangai.
“There is no solution for the soul devourer. I hope my uncle will be careful. If a barbarian comes, don’t let him get close to you, and don’t pick up what he hands over with your bare hands.”
Zhu Yangai fiddled with the little spirit in his hand without saying a word. He didn’t know if he heard it or not.
“Uncle, there is something that this nephew would like to ask you for confirmation.” Lin Xin hugged Mrs. Jing, approached Zhu Yangai, and asked in a low voice, “Does our Zhu family have an ancient formation?”
“Crack”, Zhu Yangai broke off the small object in his hand with a strong force, frowned and threw it aside, “How do you know?”
This Yinian Palace was an ancient immortal mansion in the early days, and the owner of the immortal mansion was no longer known. It was said that the Zhu family had thousands of volumes of ancient books and countless spiritual treasures as numerous as the sands of the Ganges River. This was indeed a bit exaggerated, because most of the treasures had been lost long ago. But there were also some very powerful things that had survived, such as the ancient formation.
This was a secret that only successive family heads knew, not even Zhu Xingli knew.
“Because someone passed through this formation and came back.” Lin Xin looked into his uncle’s eyes and said word by word.
The hall fell into silence for an instant, with only the sound of rain outside the window. The three rice-sized Luli beads on Zhu Yangai’s forehead flickered brightly and dimly against the sunlight interrupted by the rain curtain.
“Meow.” Mrs. Jing ran up to the shorter table and stretched out her paws to fiddle with the forehead pendant.
“He said that the formation is behind the stone wall and the door is ten feet high.” To prove his words, Lin Xin added one more sentence.
Zhu Yangai pinched the cat’s paw and said, “Follow me.”
The library cave was cool and deep, and countless books, calligraphy and paintings were neatly arranged on the stone walls. Not all ancient books were isolated, there were all kinds of books including the Four Books and Five Classics, legendary travel notes, poems and medical books.
The world of cultivating immortals had experienced a period of decline and decadence, and it had relied on the fragments of ancient books to restore it to its current state. After the Zhu family inherited this immortal mansion, they followed the practices of their ancestors and collected current books here to benefit future generations.
“Someday, you should also bring in your Full Moon Sword Technique.” Lin Xin was shocked as he looked at the dazzling array of books.
“Future generations should be more interested in knowing the method of absorbing souls.” Zhu Yangai glanced at him, lit the candle in the distance with a snap of her fingers, and walked directly to a stone wall.
The stone wall was intact and there was no echo when he knocked on it. It was basically solid. Zhu Yangai dipped his fingertips in cinnabar and drew a pattern on the stone wall so quickly that Lin Xin couldn’t tell the difference.
There was a loud “boom”, and the stone wall without any cracks suddenly shattered, revealing a small room measuring one foot square. It was just like what Shen Lou described, with the ten-foot-high door covered with moss.
Zhu Yangai pushed open the stone door without hesitation, and Luli‘s spiritual light instantly overflowed, making people unable to open their eyes.
Lin Xin closed his eyes. After his eyes adapted to the light, he could see clearly the appearance of the room. He couldn’t help but exclaim, “How could this be?”
This stone room was used to have a formation drawn on it, and the ground should have been as flat as an altar. But now, there were mountains of jagged rocks and craters on the walls. All the Luli on the dome that was supposed to be wrapped in raw stone was exposed, glowing with fluorescent light.
Zhu Yangai raised his hand, and his spiritual power stirred up the strong wind to push away the gravel and dust, revealing the array pattern that had lost its color. The time-traveling formation could only be used once, and it was gone after it was used.
Like those dissipated souls, they were fixed in the moment of destruction and would never return.
Standing here, Lin Xin suddenly felt a sense of confusion, as if what was locked in this stone chamber was the world of his previous life.
“No wonder,” Zhu Yangai looked around with deep eyes, quickly closed the stone room, and looked at Lin Xin with stern eyes, “Is the person who came back Shen Lou?”
Lin Xin stopped looking at it and said, startled, “Uncle…”
“Oh, he said that someone in the north died after eating too much flame fish in one meal. However, flame fish is a specialty of the southern region and is expensive. It is impossible for an ordinary restaurant to make so many in a day. Gu sent someone to verify, there is no such thing.” Zhu Yangai snorted and led Lin Xin out of the book cave.
Mrs. Jing, who was locked out, was scratching at the door with her butt stuck out. When she saw Lin Xin coming out, she immediately grabbed his clothes and climbed up, squatting on his shoulders and licking her paws condescendingly.
Zhu Yangai stretched out his hand to touch the cat’s head. Mrs. Jing twisted, opened her mouth and pretended to bite him, then scared her away with her paw. “Madam, was she already gone at that time?”
“Yes.” Lin Xin deeply admired his uncle’s insight and did not hide it from him. “It is said that at that time, the Devouring Souls were rampant and everything was ruined. The uncle then activated the grand formation.”
“The Shen family boy…” Zhu Yangai sneered unintelligibly, “Then he has the responsibility of all the people in the world, so he can’t mess up this matter.”
Because the grand formation had been destroyed, there was no more possibility of a do-over.
Xuan Wang Shen Qingque, the model for the world and the leader of the four realms, was elected as the person who should go back in time and save the immortal way. From the beginning of his rebirth, Shen Lou was destined not to live just for himself.
Lin Xin suddenly felt a little worried.
While they were talking, Zhu Jiangchun came quickly to report, “His Royal Highness is here, with injuries all over his body!”
Zhu Jiangchun’s two younger brothers, Zhu Jiangxia and Zhu Jiangqiu, walked in while supporting Feng Zhong.
“What’s going on?” Lin Xin ran over in two steps and supported Feng Zhong to check.
“Hiss – it’s okay, it’s just a skin injury. Don’t let anyone know that I am in Yinian Palace…” When Feng Zhong saw Lin Xin here, his tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and he rolled his eyes and passed out.
When he woke up again, he was already lying on the bamboo mat in Qingliang. And the news that “the emperor was seriously injured in an assassination, and the crown prince is in charge of the country” had also spread to the southern region.
Zhu Yangai looked at the crown prince’s handwriting sent by Golden Guards and frowned slightly.
As expected, Feng Zhang blamed Feng Zhong for the incident, saying that he colluded with the barbarians in an attempt to usurp the throne. He ordered the princes not to take him in, and immediately send him to Yongdu upon seeing him.
“This bastard!” Feng Zhong was so angry that his heart ached.
“When the emperor is in trouble, all the princes should help the emperor.” Zhu Yangai picked up the spiritual sword on the sword stand.
“Uncle,” Feng Zhong quickly grabbed Zhu Yangai, “Now the emperor has not lighted the beacon fire, and the crown prince is supervising the country. The princes are not allowed to tamper with it! If troops are sent from the southern region, we will be labelled rebellious ministers and traitors.”
Rebellious ministers and traitors, other princes could raise troops to stop him and if they failed to stop him, it would plunge Dayong into war.
“The top priority is to deliver Luli to the Northern Territory as soon as possible!” Lin Xin clenched his fists.
Since the soul-devouring spirit could be obtained, there must be an agreement between the crown prince and the barbarian. Feng Zhang strongly opposed Shen Lou’s attack on Beimo. Now that he was in power, the first thing he did was to order the withdrawal of troops. If Shen Lou insisted on not withdrawing, the supply of food, grass and Luli would be cut off.
The army had been fighting with the barbarians for three days, and both sides were burning.
Shen Yingying walked into the tent carrying the Sanghu big bow and said while touching the blood on her face, “Why hasn’t Luli arrived yet? There is no more Luli available for the archers!”
“Luli won’t be coming,” Shen Lou said sitting on the commander’s seat, he held the imperial edict that had just been sent to him with a frosty face, “The crown prince is now supervising the country and has ordered the withdrawal of the troops.”
They had already reached the foot of Yin Mountain, and further forward was the royal court. Uluolun Heruo would definitely send someone to negotiate for peace. At that time, as long as the barbarians handed over the great witch and the spirit devourer, it would be done. However, Wen Shilan suddenly returned a few days ago. But Dayong’s side did not have enough Luli and suffered several defeats. Now they had retreated to the south of the Huyan River.
“Zhang Zhang, that bastard!” Shen Yingying was so angry that she smashed the table with her fist. How could tens of thousands of immortals and hundreds of thousands of mortal troops withdraw at the drop of a hat? Even if there was to be a truce, there had to be a process. If Luli was suddenly cut off, did he want them to hand over their necks to the barbarians to chop them off?
“Report – Luli is insufficient, the bow and arrow can’t keep up, the barbarians have crossed the river!”
Shen Yingying gritted his teeth, “Brother!”
“Huang Ge, go to Huan Xinghai to transfer Luli; Zishu, go to the Western Regions to ask Zhong Youyu to borrow it! Yingying, let’s go!” Shen Lou opened the curtain and strode out. This battle must not stop. Once it stopped, it would be irreversible.
At the gate of the camp, Lin Xin, dressed in smart attire, with Yuan A Jiu Ren and a carriage filled with Luli, stood firm.
“This is the private money I saved over the past six months. I originally planned to use it to marry a wife.” Lin Xin blinked and said half-seriously.
All the Luli he embezzled was hidden in Luqitai. He planned to save up for a few years, which would be enough for Shen Lou to have a good fight. However, now, it could only solve the urgent needs, but it was still a drop in the bucket for this war.
After making a gesture, a soldier immediately came forward, took the Luli and sent it directly to the front line. Shen Yingying only had time to cheer before she got on her horse and ran towards the battlefield without looking back.
Shen Lou rushed over on horseback, grabbed Lin Xin onto his horse and gave him a quick kiss, “I’ll marry you.”
Before Lin Xin could taste the taste, he was thrown off the horse again, quickly turned over in the air, and stood firm on the ground. Marshal Shen had disappeared.
A group of garrison soldiers with their jaws dropped to the ground were left alone, dumbfounded.
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