Chapter 217 Multi-party conspiracy before the battle
Chapter 217: Many parties conspired before the war between good and evil
Chapter 217: Many parties conspired before the war between good and evil
After the pacification of the south, the territory of the Song Dynasty was connected to an area of hundreds of millions of miles. The evil spirits of the people retreated to the right path and prospered. The monarch Zhao Kuangyin was benevolent and caring for the people, and he was courteous to the virtuous.
The money earned was used to build water conservancy projects and pave roads, and to reduce the burden of the people with light corvee and small taxes; to strengthen foreign armaments and weapons, firmly grasp military power, eliminate many redundant officials and redundant soldiers, and select elite troops to station at the border to prevent foreign invasion.
Since the civil strife in Xizàng in the south had been quelled, Dali was weak and its soldiers and people were weak. Therefore, the Song Dynasty was able to mobilize most of its elite troops from the southwest and station several main forces to guard the northern border to guard against the biggest enemy, the Liao Kingdom established by the Khitan people.
However, it may be due to the Song Dynasty's national strength record and growing power, as well as the losses caused by domestic civil strife, that the Liao Kingdom has never sent large-scale troops to the south. The only two heavy troop gatherings were eventually confirmed to be the emperor of the Liao Kingdom.
Just a team out on a hunting trip.
The Northern Demonic Sect, the backer of the Liao Kingdom, has not taken the initiative to launch attacks on the Song Dynasty due to internal problems (the opposition of the Grand Elder Chang Yuqiu) and concerns about the alliance of multiple sects in the Song Kingdom. However, it still sent sporadic small groups.
Each team is led by an elder in the Void Return Stage or the Divine Transformation Stage. They occasionally sneak into the territory of the Song Kingdom to attack the small and medium-sized sects who have taken refuge in the Song Kingdom. This has also caused some chaos and made the Song Dynasty cultivation world in a hurry for a while until more masters were dispatched.
After intercepting and also entering the Liao Kingdom to retaliate, it gradually calmed down.
However, these were things that happened secretly in the world of cultivation and had little impact on the ordinary people of the Song Dynasty. In general, since the pacification of the south, under the leadership of Mingjun Zhao Kuangyin and a group of wise ministers, the Song Dynasty has been governed very prosperously.
The state of chaos that had lasted nearly a hundred years since the Tang Dynasty was almost over. The country's prosperity and people's reputation spread overseas, and it entered the beginning of a prosperous age and became the most powerful country in China.
In the 20th year of Jianlong's reign, in the majestic and solemn palace of Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin was sitting on a dragon chair deep in the hall, his eyes wide open and his hands forming a seal, breathing deep luck. He was the only one in the hall with a radius of several hundred meters.
His chamberlains and ministers all knew that the emperor hated to be disturbed when he was practicing. If someone bothered him rashly, although the emperor was not bloodthirsty, a punishment would be inevitable. There was once an eunuch who relied on Zhao Kuangyin's favor to
While practicing, I went to serve tea but was knocked unconscious by the aura in the main hall. When I woke up, I was deprived of my status as an inner chamber of the palace and was relegated to a very miserable job.
After being the emperor for twenty years, his temperament has undergone earth-shaking changes: the original heroic aura has become the current deep and graceful aura, sharp and compelling, and his eyes, like unsheathed swords, have become deep and unpredictable.
It's as if there are endless secrets hidden in the two bottomless pools, which makes people feel trapped when they look at them.
A bright yellow dragon robe was added to his body, which added a sense of sacredness to him; the uniquely shaped palace refracted the sunlight from the outside and shone on his body in a faint halo, as if the golden dragon on his body
Come to life and swim around. If anyone can see this scene, they will definitely sigh that he is really the real dragon emperor.
The only thing that has not changed is his sturdy body and powerful limbs. This is the foundation he has laid for many years of studying with Yunlong and will not change easily. Although he is busy with state affairs now, he still spares two hours every day to
Practicing martial arts. Since he became the emperor and the country became stronger day by day, his dragon energy became stronger and stronger. He practiced the ancient royal martial arts "Wudi Dragon Fist" and became more comfortable and progressed rapidly.
As he breathed in and out, a thick stream of golden air spurted out from his mouth and circled around his body for a week before being inhaled through his nose. And his body was constantly stretching, contracting and tempering his muscles and bones during this breath.
and flesh and blood to make his body stronger. Waves of thunder-like sounds came from his body, shaking the entire hall, and ripples visible to the naked eye appeared in the air. This was only possible after mastering the body to a very high level.
"Neifu Leiyin". Practicing this method can continuously activate the blood vessels, exercise the meridians and flesh, reduce the vitality decline of the physical body to an extreme, and have a lifespan of three years (one hundred and eighty years), and can have the equivalent of transforming into a spirit.
The combat power of early cultivators.
Since the Holy Emperor, emperors have been restricted by heaven and cannot cultivate immortality. They can only use exercises or elixirs to delay aging and seek immortality. However, there are very few people like Zhao Kuangyin who can live for three years. This is mostly due to the achievements he made as a child.
The foundation has a lot to do with the royal martial arts such as the "Martial Emperor Dragon Fist" practiced by the founding ancestor, the most intense dragon energy. The opportunity is rare in the world and can be regarded as a special case and almost impossible to copy.
After a while, Zhao Kuangyin finished his last breath and slowly closed his eyes and dispersed the handprints. After a while, he opened his eyes again and two two-foot-long rays of light shot out from his eyes like lightning. Zhao Kuangyin felt his face.
He found that his strength had increased slightly and nodded with satisfaction. It is not easy for his cultivation to increase at his level. This time, there was a small increase. With his diligent management of the country, the country became prosperous.
It doesn't matter, he is already satisfied.
Today's two hours of practice have been completed. He stood up, moved his body, meditated, and shouted: "Lu Ren!" He was one of his personal eunuchs. He was very knowledgeable and available and would not disturb his practice.
"Long live the Emperor, long live the Emperor!" A young eunuch in his twenties with a delicate face walked in from outside the door in small steps. He started kowtowing when he was still ten meters away from Zhao Kuangyin. "My Emperor summons you."
What are your orders?" Lu Ren asked immediately after kowtow.
"Go and summon Prime Minister Liu He for me. He will come as soon as possible." Liu He is old and he was the former leader of the Later Han Dynasty with great prestige. Even if Zhao Kuangyin is now the emperor, he respects him very much and says "".
"It's Your Majesty." Seeing that Zhao Kuangyin had no other instructions, Lu Ren immediately stood up and walked back to the door, then walked to the department where the eunuch who was responsible for delivering messages was located. He was a personal eunuch and needed to be by Zhao Kuangyin's side at all times to receive instructions. For such matters as delivering messages, he only needed
Just leave it to the subordinates. As he walked, he was still thinking: "This time His Majesty the Emperor actually wanted to summon Old Prime Minister Liu to discuss something important?"
You must know that since the pacification of the south, Liu He has resigned and retired from the court and the army, leaving the affairs of the court and the army to his two sons Liu and Liu Wu. He himself has been cultivating himself at home for a long time and has not directly participated in national affairs. Now Zhao Kuangyin is actually like this
His solemn arrival is a signal: something big is going to happen!
After ordering people to go to Liu He, Zhao Kuangyin walked around in circles twice more. Finally he made up his mind and circulated his true energy. He clapped his hands lightly and just as a yin wind blew by, a man in black seemed to jump out of his shadow.
This man was dressed in a black robe, with dark eyebrows and his face was covered with gauze. Only a pair of twinkling eyes were exposed, and his whole body was exuding a dense yin aura, like a seducer from hell.
He faced Zhao Kuangyin and did not speak. He just lowered his head and remained silent. Zhao Kuangyin seemed to have become accustomed to it. He threw a gold token to the man in black and said calmly to the man in black: "Dark Arrow holds my token and goes to the various sects in Kaifeng."
The principals of their branches have come to discuss important matters with me."
The body of the man in black was shaken, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes. He took the token and asked, "I will naturally try my best to fulfill your Majesty's instructions, but does this 'big sect' refer to those sects that have always supported us or those who came later?"
Are you starting to support our sect one after another?" His voice was hoarse as if it was carrying the yin wind of the Nine Netherworld, making people feel chilled all over.
There is a reason why he asked this. When the Song Dynasty was founded, most of the people who supported them were only some small and medium-sized cultivation sects Yunlong and Liu He worked hard to win over, as well as the Yuping Sect and Shenghuo Sect among the casual cultivators. They were already the two strongest sects among them.
They are just medium-sized sects. Although these sects are not the strongest, they have the deepest identification and affection for the Song Dynasty. They can be said to be direct descendants.
When the Song Dynasty began to conquer the world, wipe out all countries one by one, and reveal the style of a generation of destined human emperors, it was either because of the great strength of the Song Dynasty, or because of the potential of the Song Dynasty, or even simply because Yu Yunlong's bets began to come out one after another.
Cultivators and cultivation sects continued to come to Kaifeng to express support for them, including many large sects such as Tianjian Sect. These cultivators were latecomers, and their relationship and feelings with the Song Dynasty were naturally not the same as those of the earliest sects and Zen sects.
Compared with cultivators, if Zhao Kuangyin wants to discuss something extremely confidential, he must be careful to prevent someone from these sects from leaking the secret. That's why people in black ask this question.
"Well, it's all the sects except those who are enemies of the Song Dynasty, including the two main sects." Zhao Kuangyin said. Of course, many of the sects that support the Song Dynasty cannot be the righteous sects. In addition to the demonic sects, some side sects, heretics and neutral sects also express their feelings towards the Song Dynasty.
In order to support, for example, the "Hundred Beasts Sect" who was good at domesticating rare and exotic animals, and the "Gopher Sect" who was good at escaping arts, these were sects that were incompatible with the orthodox way but each had their own unique skills and specialties, which could be of great help to the Song Dynasty.
For example, the war horses of the Song Dynasty were all vigorous and vigorous after taking the special forage from the "Hundred Beasts Sect", and their bodies were strong and could be called top war horses; there were also "Gopher Sect" and "Dunjia Sect" among the communication and espionage personnel of the army and the court.
The low-level and outer disciples of these sects are all good at spying on intelligence, traveling thousands of miles in an instant, and delivering news.
Zhao Kuangyin accepted the requests of these cultivators as long as the sect had an extremely bad reputation and was despised by thousands of people, which showed the broad mind of the emperor. His attitude also gained the respect of these sects and gave them strong support to the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty could
These sects that later joined us also made indelible contributions to the current prosperity.
Hearing Zhao Kuangyin's affirmative answer, the man in black said "Here!" and his body twisted into a black shadow and disappeared into the shadow in the corner. Only Zhao Kuangyin was left. He walked out of the palace and looked up at the sky for a while.
Take a few deep breaths of fresh air and then return to the throne to start approving memorials. As the emperor in charge of national affairs, there are endless memorials to approve every day. If you are strong and energetic, most people will not be able to persist for long.
The man in black is from a small sect from the Western Region called the "Ghost Shadow Sect". The sect is biased towards evil and mainly practices Yin attribute skills. Among its sects there is a unique skill that absorbs the ghost energy of dead souls and ghosts.
After mastering this escape technique, you can hide in the shadows and wait for opportunities to assassinate or eavesdrop on information; because this method does not enter the Five Elements and does not have normal mana fluctuations, it will never be discovered unless the cultivation level of the two parties is too different.
But other than that, there is nothing special about the Ghost Shadow Sect, and there have been no geniuses since the founder of the Self-created Sect, and not even one who has ascended has developed to the present level, and even the cultivation in the declining sect has declined.
The highest level is also in the middle stage of spiritual transformation. Naturally, small evil sects like this cannot be established in China, which is dominated by famous and decent sects. After all, one of the main activities of those famous and decent sects in the south is to "eliminate demons and defend the way".
Naturally, big sects such as the Four Sects of Ghost Sect cannot start a war easily, but it is still very easy to eliminate some small sects.
In the southwest and south of China, where the demonic forces are rampant, the reality of the predatory nature of the northern demonic path is even more vivid. The big fish eats the small fish, and the small fish eats the shrimp. Those small sects have to rely on the big sects to survive, similar to the Ghost Shadow Sect.
Small sects have to be on tenterhooks every day for fear that one day they will be swallowed up by other big names and the sect will be wiped out.
Therefore, the spiritual energy is relatively poor, the population is sparse, and various ethnic groups are mixed together in the western region of the world of cultivation, which is a "cultivation desert", which is more suitable for the development of the Ghost Shadow Sect. In fact, small evil sects like the Ghost Shadow Sect usually do not commit any serious evil deeds.
That is to say, they are digging graves and bullying men and dominating women. Those big sects also turn a blind eye. After all, the most numerous small sects in the world of cultivation are this kind of small sects who are invincible. If the summary is not excessive and does not confront each other, it will basically be fine.
Pretend you didn't see it.
And because there are two powerful sects, Yuping Sect and Shenghuo Sect, the western region has maintained a relatively stable situation. Each sect has few disputes and the relationship with each other is not bad. Because the Ghost Shadow Sect has a unique shadow escape ability.
The technique was recommended to Zhao Kuangyin by Taiyan people. Zhao Kuangyin appointed several disciples of the Ghost Shadow Sect for a period of time and found that the efficiency of collecting and transmitting information was significantly increased. He was overjoyed and designated the Ghost Shadow Sect as the designated imperial sect. He ordered them to
Elite disciples and disciples from several other sects were sent out to form the "Qianlong Shadow Guard", which was directly responsible to the emperor. Some confidential instructions and information were sent by the "Qianlong Shadow Guard".
Two hours later, the temple masters, hosts, real practitioners and other cultivators from various sects in Kaifeng City, as well as the old prime minister Liu He, gathered in the Zichen Hall. The Emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, presided over a secret meeting that lasted for three days and three nights.
The damage caused by Yunlong in the "Heaven-Breaking Demonic Array" under the "Heaven-Human Barrier" of the Nine Heavens Tribulation Layer has long since been repaired, and the scale of the entire magic array has expanded tenfold. The "Destroying Demonic Light" ejected has also become ten times thicker.
A large gap was torn out in the "barrier between heaven and man". Looking from the gap, one could see the stars in the sky that were even bigger and ten times brighter than the ones on the ground; one could also feel countless vague and ever-changing strange auras.
In the central space of the "Heaven-Breaking Demonic Array", there is a seemingly real and illusory platform filled with misty aura. There are nine seats exuding different auras. The seven demons and ghosts that Ci Yunlong encountered when he came are sitting there.
The demon master and the master of the Zhongyāng Demon Sect, Feng Shidao, a real immortal master; the seat filled with resentment that was originally occupied by Xie Yuanzi is now occupied by a thin woman with a pale face, as if she is seriously ill and can be blown away by a gust of wind.
There was no trace of blood on her face, her eyes were tightly closed, and she was not breathing. With her white gauze, her whole body was like a ghost, exuding a stream of resentment. The aura of hatred and the throne of resentment she sat on were incomparably evil. Obviously, this name was strange.
The woman was selected by Feng Shidao to be the master of the Zhongyāng Demon Sect's Return to Void Stage who could guard the "Resentment Formation Eyes".
The seats are high and low, obviously based on their strength. The eight masters of demons, ghosts, and monsters in the return stage are almost as high as one side. Only Feng Shidao's seat is half a foot higher and much more gorgeous. They are sitting together as if they are
What are they discussing.
"Everyone, the situation in the world has changed drastically. The rise of the Song Dynasty has annexed all the surrounding countries. It has the tendency to dominate the world. This has a great impact on our "big plan". We can no longer allow it to develop." Silence.
After a while, Master Heisha finally couldn't bear it and said. His clone was dispersed by Yunlong's "Expelling Talisman". Fortunately, the soul and the spiritual treasure entrusted to the soul were not damaged, so he was in the "eye of the evil formation"
It took him nine years to regain his clone under the nourishment of Yunlong. However, his hatred for Yunlong did not diminish at all and became deeper and deeper as time went by.
It's just that I rarely appear in front of others, so he never knows who to take revenge on.