At dusk at night, Lu Buwei looked at the cyan light pillar rising into the sky from Xianyang Palace.
"With this weather, what happened in the palace?"
Lu Buwei sensed the direction of Xianyang Palace from the air and ordered his followers: "Prepare the carriage, I want to enter the palace to see the king."
At the same moment, thousands of miles away to the west of Xianyang, the terrain is getting higher and higher. In the vast mountainous area, there is a palace, surrounded by strange peaks and beautiful water.
At this time, on the top of the mountain next to the palace, a gorgeous young woman wearing a green dress and a white jade belt around her waist was also looking at the east.
Although she couldn't see the green light rising in the night sky, she could faintly sense it.
"The black bird fell to Qin!"
The woman's voice was cold, but crisp and sweet, and she said slowly: "My clan has been hiding from the world for a hundred years. Now, the qi and vitality are converging, and the heaven and earth are divided again.
Whoever can seize this opportunity will be the master of all living beings."
The woman's eyes suddenly turned dark red, and she stuck out her tongue and licked her moist lips.
A colorful, strange bird with a snake-like neck flashed between his eyebrows.
She stood on the top of the mountain, her long hair flying, like a demon.
"The time for us to be born has not yet come, the world is in chaos, and the war has not yet started, so we are born too early." Another voice sounded from the top of the mountain, old, thick, and ruthless.
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Xianyang.
In the inner palace, the lights were brightly lit, and all the officials were summoned to the palace overnight.
In the main hall, King Zhuang Xiang sat high with a smile on his face.
The newly born black bird was also brought to the platform.
It grew very quickly, and now it landed on a pillar on the high platform surrounding the throne, with one claw hanging in the air, holding a strange beast.
The strange beast was like a leopard. It was caught under its claws, trembling, but did not dare to resist, desperately waiting for death to come.
King Zhuang Xiang went to find a lot of animal meat and milk before, but it was a pity that black birds did not eat dead things.
After seeing King Zhuang Xiang appear, the monster hiding silently in the wall secretly sent a message to Zhao Huaizhong, saying that the black bird likes to eat poisonous insects and evil beasts, and can hunt and eat at birth.
There was a stable for breeding exotic animals in the Xianyang Palace, and King Zhuang Xiang immediately had a few sent over.
This unlucky leopard possesses demonic powers and is good at eating the ghosts of evil spirits. It is usually very ferocious.
However, he fell under the black bird's claws and had no ability to resist at all.
At this time, the black bird suddenly let out a cry and opened its sharp beak. Suddenly, a stream of essence was stripped from the body of the leopard below, and its body also collapsed, turning into wisps of flesh and blood. The essence was swept into the belly of the black bird, refined and absorbed.
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The ministers were watching below, all looking surprised and amazed.
King Zhuang Xiang was very proud: "Xuanniao came to Qin by the order of heaven when I was the lord of my country. This auspicious sign for our country is a sign of great good fortune."
It was such an obvious hint that if the ministers didn't understand it, there was something wrong with their IQ. The crowd immediately licked it.
"Your Majesty is the Ming Lord of the world. If the black bird falls on Qin, our country, Qin, will be prosperous." All the ministers collectively prostrated themselves and shouted.
Zhao Huaizhong stood between the ministers and King Zhuang Xiang, glanced at his father with a red face, and thought to himself: It is too much for my father to summon the ministers at night just to show off and prevent people from sleeping.
I wonder if dad is satisfied?
Zhao Huaizhong glanced at Xuanniao and winked secretly, meaning to ask Xuanniao to cooperate.
There was a spiritual connection between the two. Xuanniao immediately understood. He tilted his head to look at King Zhuang Xiang. He looked unhappy, but under Zhao Huaizhong's pressure, he still obeyed. He flapped his wings, with black air billowing under his feet and auspicious light lingering.
Slowly flew to the side of King Zhuang Xiang, distributed the auspicious light to King Zhuang Xiang, and helped the master and his father complete the highlight moment of showing off.
King Zhuang Xiang beamed with joy, nodded repeatedly, and after half an hour of praise from the ministers, he finally asked them to leave with satisfaction.
However, Lu Buwei, the second lieutenant, the imperial envoy and other important officials were still left behind and refused to let them go, so they took them to the study to prepare for another conversation.
Zhao Huaizhong almost put his hand on his forehead, but had no choice but to follow his father to the study.
Everyone kept talking until late at night.
The black bird is a mythological totem in this era. Since the Shang Dynasty, it has had a supreme status, symbolizing the orthodoxy of royal power and the submission of the world.
Not only King Zhuang Xiang, but also a profound person like Lu Buwei, his face was full of glory, energetic and excited.
During the conversation, Lu Buwei would occasionally look at Zhao Huaizhong with a strange light in his eyes.
He seemed to see that Xuanniao's real master was Zhao Huaizhong.
In the following conversation, Zhao Huaizhong listened with his left ear and his right ear, secretly stimulating the breath in his body to increase his practice.
King Zhuang Xiang and others chatted until early the next morning, and then went to have a court meeting.
When the court meeting was over, King Zhuang Xiang was truly enjoying himself. He took the step of disowning his relatives and making me a wise king of our time, and said: "Your Majesty, please come with me."
It’s not over yet… Zhao Huaizhong obediently followed King Zhuang Xiang and walked to the back of the main hall of Xianyang Palace.
When he arrived at the apse, Zhao Huaizhong discovered that there was actually a hidden staircase.
King Zhuang Xiang led him up the stairs and came to the top of the main hall, where he stood on a thick beam that was more than a mile wide.
Looking forward, I saw a black-yellow seal hanging there, about five inches square, surrounded by a dark golden halo, with countless mantra symbols appearing and disappearing, flickering and shining.
There is a seal hanging above the main hall of Xianyang?!
"This is our great Qin's national weapon, and it is closely related to the fate of the country.
In recent years, this seal has become brighter and brighter, like a star entering the world, extremely brilliant.
Previously, only a few people could control this weapon to release some of its power. As the Crown Prince of Qin, Wang Er, you can now step forward and drop your own blood on the weapon to leave your mark on it."
Is such an old meme like dripping blood actually true?
King Zhuang Xiang looked serious and asked Lieutenant General Zhao Huai to drop his blood on the seal of the state.
This was second only to the imperial edict to pass the throne to Zhao Huaizhong, establishing his unshakable status as prince.
My father knew that I was the one who created the Black Bird, but he gave up his reputation to him. He reciprocated by asking me to come and leave a mark on the Zhenguo Seal, which meant that Daqin would be mine in the future.
Dad is quite interesting... Zhao Huaizhong stepped forward.
According to what dad said, the inner breath was circulating, and a drop of blood was forced out from the fingertips, and fell on the national seal.
The national seal of the town instantly split into thousands of auspicious colors, lingering around Zhao Huaizhong.
The qi machine incantations around it began to flicker and merge into Zhao Huaizhong's body.
After changing like this for a quarter of an hour, the Zhenguo Seal stabilized again and the light weakened.
The two men then separated, and King Zhuang Xiang hurried to Zhangtai Palace to find Zhao Ji.
"Queen, my son Huai has the appearance of an ancient saint!"
If it were another monarch, it might not be a good thing if his son was so handsome.
There have always been many incidents of children fighting for paternity in ancient times.
But King Zhuang Xiang is a monarch who values loyalty. This can be seen from his treatment of Lu Buwei. Over the years, he has always maintained a close friendship and has never forgotten Lu Buwei's rescue.
Moreover, Zhao Huaizhong was able to bring the black bird to the world, which was enough to be recorded in the annals of history. This was done by his father, which showed his true feelings. King Zhuang Xiang was very happy and full of joy.
Immediately he started talking with Zhao Ji.
Time flies, and more than ten days have passed by in a blink of an eye.
The news of Xuanniao's surrender to Qin quickly spread throughout the world, and the six kingdoms were shocked. Various sects and sects also took action upon hearing the news and discussed it a lot.
For a time, the situation changed, the undercurrent surged, and the general trend of the world was quietly changing.
Things were calm in Xianyang. The people of Qin were all very happy when they heard that the black bird was born. The streets and alleys were far more lively than usual these days.
Zhao Huaizhong traveled between Yeyu Mansion, Xianyang Palace, and Xuangu Academy, and lived a simple and unpretentious life.
This morning, he came to Ye Yu Mansion for duty. Fan Qingzhou came in from outside the palace, bowed and said:
"Crown Prince, there is news that the people of Qi mobilized men from Jixia Academy and the army to form a team of over a hundred people, led by Qingyang Marquis and Jixia Professor Mu Qianshui, and secretly entered Chu in batches. It looks like they are going to take action against the Yue Nu Cult and the Qi Qing Tao."
"Um."
Zhao Huaizhong didn't even raise his head, still looking at a case file on the table.
"We are here to ask the crown prince if we, Ye Yufu, should send someone to participate in this confrontation between Qi Ren and Qi Qing Dao. If the two sides fight fiercely and both sides are injured, we can make a profit by taking action." Fan Qingzhou asked.
Zhao Huaizhong said: "There is no need to focus on small profits, I have other considerations about this matter.
You just watch and don't participate.
But we need to reveal the situation of their confrontation to the Chu people at the right time. After all, this is the place where the Chu people belong, so that they can fight among the three parties."
"promise!"
Fan Qingzhou looked at Zhao Huaizhong. In addition to admiration, there was also a hint of "Your Majesty the Crown Prince, you are too bad" in his eyes.
He hid behind and did not participate in the whole process, avoiding risks and expenses, but he was the mastermind behind the entire incident.
In the evening, Zhao Huaizhong returned to Xianyang Palace and went to the Stone Hall again to start evening practice.
When he finished his practice and walked out of the stone hall, he found a strong old man wearing a black cloth robe with white beard and hair outside the hall.
This old man is dressed in ordinary clothes, but to be able to appear outside the stone hall of the ancestral temple is obviously of unusual origin.
Zhao Huaizhong saw someone outside the palace for the first time, and thought that this could not be the person secretly guarding the stone palace, the "sweeping monk" of the Great Qin Stone Palace.
He was about to leave, but the old man stopped him by calling: "Crown Prince!"