The relationship between the eight prefectures is not harmonious, and there have always been dissatisfactions between each prefecture.
Long before the founding of the Xuan Kingdom, the Eight Prefectures had each supported their own forces to compete for power and status on the Yuling Continent. At that time, it was the most chaotic Warring States Period.
Until later, the conflict intensified, and people from the Eight Prefectures even ended up personally involved. There had been constant fighting for nearly a hundred years, with each other suffering heavy casualties because of their respective interests.
Among them, the Wen Mansion and the Confucian Mansion were the most tense. The Master of the Confucian Mansion and the Master of the Wen Mansion even fought in person, causing the country to be shattered and almost destroying the Xuan Kingdom.
In order to prevent this situation from deteriorating and leading to a complete rupture of the eight palaces, the first generation of palace masters decided to gather at Ehu in Xihe every hundred years, where the descendants of Xuanling Realm and Huiyang Realm would fight against each other and solve the problem on their behalf.
Some disputes, this is the prototype of the Ehu Club.
After the founding of the Xuan Kingdom, the disputes among the eight prefectures have calmed down a lot compared to the past, and the tragedy of the Ehu Meeting has also been reduced a lot, but it still cannot be compared with the word "peaceful coexistence".
Xihe is the richest place in Yuling Continent, and it is also the flattest. Wenshui flows to the west, and Jishui flows to the east. The two rivers run parallel and have no intersection.
The Confucian Mansion is located in the middle of Wenshui and Jishui. Canals were dug to introduce the two waters into the mansion. Because the first generation of Confucian saints liked geese, they raised many geese in the lake, so it was named Goose Lake.
The Ehu Conference, a century-old war, has finally begun. There are many powerful people in the Eight Palaces, especially those at the Palace Lord level, who are even more unpredictable. In order to prevent them from secretly interfering, people from the Eight Palaces will not be arranged to go to Ehu.
, but took them to an attic a few hundred meters away from E Lake.
Moreover, each mansion has its own attic, so they are not too close to each other and separated from each other in all directions of Ehu.
There is a viewing platform at the top of the three-story attic, with tea cups and mats for people to sit on. However, there were no people from the Confucian mansion following, so they lay half-ly on the mats.
Lu Daoxuan knelt down in front of the teacup and brewed a pot of fragrant tea.
"Sir, how can we see the battle at Ehuhui from such a distance?" Fu Changlin asked.
Lu Daoxuan waved his sleeves, and the wind and clouds gathered in front of the observation deck, and finally turned into a mirror, showing the scene of E Lake in front of everyone. It was so clear that the feathers of the white geese swimming on the lake could be clearly seen.
"Why should we be separated?"
Jiang Yan originally wanted to catch up with Li Youlang, but he didn't expect that the two of them were no longer in the same place.
"Don't think that Confucian scholars are only rigid. These people have two brains and seven or eight minds. The reason is to prevent the Ehu Association from being interfered by anyone. In fact, it is to prevent us from colluding in private to achieve something that is not good for them.
Good deal.”
Xihe doesn’t have good wine, but it does have the best tea.
"You all come and try it. This is the best tea in Xihe, Yangxian Tea. When the first ray of rising sun rises, the dewy tea leaves are picked and made through various complicated processes."
Lu Daoxuan took a sip, then closed his eyes and enjoyed it, letting the bitter aroma of tea linger in his nose and mouth.
Finally, Hululu rinsed her mouth, sprayed it on the flowers next to her, and took out the wine bottle from the bookcase.
"I'm still suitable for drinking."
Not only Lu Daoxuan, but also other people are like this. How is it possible for a person who has been drinking for decades to taste tea?
"Sure enough, the conflict between scribes and Confucian scholars is irreconcilable," Shui Wuxin also said.
A group of scribes gathered together in the Confucian Mansion and seemed to have nothing else to do but scold the Confucian scholars.
However, the light in the mirror shines brightly, and even from a long distance away, they can feel a terrifying momentum on this viewing platform, like the blazing sun.
"he came"
This is the first person in the world today, the third-generation master in charge of the Confucian Palace, and the restoration of the Confucian Palace to Saint Ji Li!
Even Lu Daoxuan, who stood at the top of Danqing Road, felt great pressure. The white hair on his temples was windless, and his expression was rare and solemn.
The dazzling light in the mirror image is restrained, and a middle-aged man in Tsing Yi with black hair and black beard wearing a turban steps out of the air and stands floating in the sky with his hands behind his back.
"So young?" Jiang Yan was a little surprised.
"Young? In terms of age, he is several years older than Wei Changli. He is the undisputed number one in the entire Eight Prefectures at that time."
Ji Li only showed his sharpness temporarily, and the domineering power of being the only one in the world only appeared for a moment. From then on, he was like an ordinary scholar, with no trace of the aura of being the best in the world.
"Ji is honored to have all of you come from afar, and I would like to express my gratitude.
After the Jiazi Gengxin Year, the Eight Prefectures have become increasingly prosperous and talented people have emerged, which is very gratifying, but you must have also noticed the undercurrents in Yuling Continent, and a big hand has slowly penetrated into the Eight Prefectures."
Ji Li held up his right hand, and a small bell was wrapped in a golden soft light. When Lu Daoxuan saw it, he couldn't help but sit up in shock.
“The rumors are true”
"Sir, what is this?" Jiang Yan asked.
"The Divine Artifact of the Heavens to Control Spirits, the Emperor and Queen's Bell"
These words were unfamiliar to Jiang Yan, but to Zhao Suixian and Fu Changlin, who had strong identity backgrounds, they were like thunder.
"Enlightened people can imbue the objects they create with spirit. Artifacts are the twenty-four ultimate spiritual objects created by skilled craftsmen or the top enlightened people with their lifetime efforts.
The earliest artifacts to control the spirits of the heavens even appeared before the Eight Palaces. It is certain that as long as they are classified as artifacts, each one has mysterious abilities or the power to destroy the heaven and the earth." Lu Daoxuan explained.
"Does our Wenfu have one?"
"Of course, the century-old wonders left by Xiaoyao Gong of Wen Mansion and the Wenchang Brush left by Wen Zhenggong are both among the twenty-four great spiritual artifacts.
Even the Wonders of the Century were ranked among the top three at the beginning, but now they are severely damaged, and the Wenchang Pen is also ranked at the bottom due to its lack of combat effectiveness."
Not only Lu Daoxuan, but all the powerful men in the Eight Palaces were shocked by the sudden appearance of Empress Ling. Most of them didn't even know that Empress Ling had been in Confucianism Mansion all along.
"In order to encourage the younger generations to forge ahead, the Confucian Mansion will use the occasionally obtained spirit-controlling artifact as the reward for being the first among the eight mansions of the Ehu Society. It can also be regarded as a good opportunity to find a good master for it."
The bell in Ji Li's hand swayed gently, and the sound spread to all directions like a bell, and the vast spiritual power fluctuations spread thousands of miles away.
"To be able to take such a valuable treasure as a reward, it seems that the people in the Confucian Mansion are not so bad." Fu Changlin's eyes lit up, and he obviously had an idea.
Not only Fu Changlin, but also any enlightened person cannot resist the temptation of the spirit-controlling artifact.
"Don't think of him so simply. Most of the twenty-four spirit-controlling artifacts have their own owners. Only a few of them are ownerless and their whereabouts are unknown.
What Confucianism cares most about is reputation. Ji Li didn't know how he got the artifact, and he wanted to use this method to silence everyone, and he was sure that the final winner would be Confucianism.
In this way, everyone can stop talking about it, and secondly, it can be successfully cleared and the Confucian government can legitimately own it."
People in the Wen Mansion also discovered a problem. There will be two people in Xuanling Realm and Huiyang Realm who have the last laugh, so who will get the ownership of the Empress Bell in the end.
"The Emperor's Bell is a spiritual artifact that possesses the will of its creator. I guess that the Emperor's Bell will make its own decision in the end."