The sun rose to mid-air, and the huge imperial capital was empty, without the hustle and bustle of the passing days. Occasionally, cats and dogs ran by on the street, and were frightened by this strange scene. They clamped their tails against the wall, tried to hide in the shadows and dared not scream easily.

The defense system built by tens of thousands of talisman masters and monks in the imperial capital spent more than ten years and had no effect on the defensive system built with a lot of effort. Some paper talismans were still circling silently in the sky. The talisman patterns visible everywhere seemed to mock this grand plan: the catastrophe had arrived, and they did not issue a warning at all, but watched the disaster happen step by step with a calm look like a spectator.

The chief talisman master Xin Youtao flew over the sky above the imperial capital. If he were to be normal, his appearance would bring cheers, especially the children, who would follow him through several streets until he could no longer see him and returned home disappointedly. Today's silence made him very uncomfortable, and he felt like a broken dog. Although the sunlight was bright, he felt that the road ahead was full of fog.

The residents of Huangjing were not all unconscious, and a few were still awake, hiding at home, blocking doors and windows, holding the statue of the ancient god and praying in a low voice, without knowing that it was already dawn outside.

Xin Youtao noticed the existence of these sober people, but did not stay anywhere. He had not figured out the truth, but he knew that the answer was definitely not in these people.

The palace was quieter, and the spell protection here was the strongest in the entire imperial capital and did not play a role. Xin Youtao bypassed the numerous "betrayal talismans" and walked down the last section of the road, carefully avoiding the guards, monks and talisman masters who fell and coma. These people appeared in the inner courtyard. There was only one reason: Emperor Ci felt that he was threatened.

They were the most elite force in the Holy Talisman Dynasty and fell down without any resistance. The sword was still in the sheath, the magic weapon was left on the back, and the waist was not sacrificed.

"I arrived so late." A voice complained, Xiao Qingtao walked out from behind a tree and looked at the comatose all over the ground. Her brows were frowned tightly, "Can it be him? He really came out of Shunbangli?"

Xin Youtao did not respond immediately. The last time they met was a month ago, they had a big fight and said some harsh words to each other. Before the emotions of both sides eased, something like this happened. "You have come long ago?" Xin Youtao said reluctantly, feeling very comfortable as soon as he said it, and even his fear was reduced a little.

"It's not too early." Xiao Qingtao said lightly.

"If it were really Mu Xingqiu, why didn't he come to find us? What's the point of making the entire Huangjing unconscious?"

"Maybe he attracted the enemy, maybe the enemy is waiting for him here. In short, this is a battle, and both sides use illusions."

"Where are the fighters? Is there any result?"

Xiao Qingtao shook his head and said he was unaware of it.

While walking carefully among the comatose, the two asked questions and answered each other, but their eyes refused to intertwined, and they always kept at least twenty steps apart, as if there were spells to separate them.

"Why are we okay?" Xin Youtao stopped and looked at Xiao Qingtao for the first time. "The talisman masters of the Longbin Society were all caught. They fell down in batches and seemed very excited before they were unconscious. I was the only one who was not affected."

Xiao Qingtao also stopped. But he did not look at Xin Youtao, "The situation in the Five Elements Camp is the same... Longbin will be responsible for the current situation."

Xin Youtao's anger suddenly rose again, "Why? Because the talisman master died the most in the Battle of Wangshan, he must be responsible for the safety of the Emperor Jing at any time?"

Xiao Qingtao turned his back to Xin Youtao, looking at a room in the distance, his tone was still slow. "Longbin will be responsible for the warning within 200 miles of the imperial capital and fifty miles away. You know nothing about the strong enemy entering the capital. Shouldn't you be responsible for this?"

"So what can I do if I issue an early warning? Can monks block these spells?"

"It's hard to say, whether you are prepared or not. The results will always be a little different."

"Your fish and dragon formation is not omnipotent." Xin Youtao said disdainfully.

Xiao Qingtao summoned a bronze mirror to look at the room in the distance, "There are still people in Yunliu Palace that are awake."

"I want to go to the Moon Palace to find the queen first."

Xin Youtao was about to fly up, but Xiao Qingtao said: "The Queen is not in the Xiyue Palace. Look, the guards outside Yunliu Palace are the most stringent. Emperor Ci must be here, and the Queen may be there too."

Xin Youtao still rose into the air, bypassed Xiao Qingtao and headed straight for Yunliu Palace.

Xiao Qingtao followed behind and kept alert.

"Sister... you are really here!" Xin Youtao was shocked. Several people were unconscious in the main room of Yunliu Palace, including Emperor Ci, Empress Xun and Zeng Fu, but they were fine. They were sitting side by side on the same chair beside the window, close to each other, like a mother and daughter fleeing.

"I'm so happy to see you, as long as you're fine." Queen Xun seemed very tired, but her voice was calm.

"This, what's going on?" Xin Youtao asked.

Xiao Qingtao also walked in, nodded in Queen Xun and Zeng Fu, without saying a word.

"Mu Xingqiu is here, we launched a coup together, and the result seems to be pretty good." Queen Xun smiled, and then said as concisely as possible about what happened last night.

"He actually went to see Zeng Fu first, but didn't go to find us two?" Xin Youtao was both puzzled and angry.

"He thought you were possessed by demons, and most of the talisman masters and monks in the imperial capital have become demons. You two have fought so hard during this period, and even I thought you had lost your original intention. In order to fight against the demons, Mu Xingqiu could only find ordinary people like us who don't know any magic." Queen Xun said.

Xin Youtao and Xiao Qingtao both blushed a little, especially Xin Youtao, and said embarrassedly: "We don't... where are Mu Xingqiu now?"

"He said he caught the demon seed, but the battle was not over yet. He seemed to have gone to a tavern, and I don't know where it was." Mu Xingqiu left in a hurry, and the words left were all related to the battle, so Queen Xun couldn't quite understand it.

"I'll go find him now." A stone in Xin Youtao's heart finally landed on the ground, and he was even happy. When he spoke to Xiao Qingtao, his tone became cheerful, "Come with me?"

"The Queen and Zeng Fu need protection..."

"We don't need to protect." Zeng Fu stood up and walked to the two of them. "Mu Xingqiu said before leaving that someone was secretly protecting the queen. Since you two are fine, you may have been secretly protected. So, stop fighting, let those who protect you see how bad it is. Your words and deeds are in their eyes."

Xin Youtao and Xiao Qingtao's faces turned redder, and they stumbled for a few words and said goodbye and left.

The two flew side by side to the outside of the palace. After a while, Xin Youtao said first: "Is there really anyone who secretly protects us? I didn't feel it at all. Longbin will..." He wanted to say that Longbin would protect himself tightly, but when he saw the comatose people on the ground, he swallowed the words behind him.

"We two are not entangled or unconscious, so we must not rely on our own strength."

"More than half of the talisman masters and monks have been possessed by the monks? The battle between us was planned by the queen... Alas, I feel so stupid, I don't notice such a big thing, and I am completely kept in the dark."

"I think you too..." Xiao Qingtao's anger suddenly faded and she sighed, "We are both stupid. After practicing for so many years, it is better than the queen to see clearly. I guess who is our protector."

"who?"

"On the beast master, only Yang Qingyin and the others have always been alert to the demon seeds. We didn't believe what she said before, so..."

During the Battle of Wangshan, Mu Xingqiu did not appear as promised. Many humans and demons had doubts about him. Yang Qingyin, Xiao Hao and others were too small, and they appeared suddenly. They were all Mu Xingqiu's close relatives, and they did not gain much trust in what they said.

Xin Youtao and Xiao Qingtao were not immune to the common people. Even if they believed in Yang Qingyin at the beginning, they would gradually develop doubts under the subtle influence of the talisman master and the monks.

Yang Qingyin later broke off contact with them, and had no contact with them, and even had no letter. However, when Zeng Fuyi talked about the protector in secret, Xiao Qingtao immediately thought of her.

"The beast masters are so strong that we can't even notice it? Mu Xingqiu has come out, why haven't they appeared yet?" Xin Youtao looked around and even sacrificed a piece of paper talisman, but found no sign of protectors.

"This means the battle is not over yet." Xiao Qingtao rose higher, looking down at the streets and alleys of Huangjing. "Look, there are many people lying on the streets over there."

Most comatose people are lying in their own houses and courtyards. Occasionally some on the street are soldiers and talisman masters, but the street pointed to by Xiao Qingtao is very different. The comatose people lying on the ground are basically ordinary people, and they are lined up in dense formations, which looks very strange.

"Last night I received a report that someone was distributing gold in the city, and it must be there." Xin Youtao remembered that if there weren't too many strange things happening later, he wouldn't have ignored this report.

The two of them flew quickly to the street. When they were about to fly to their destination, Xin Youtao suddenly stopped, stopped Xiao Qingtao, stared into her eyes, and said, "I have been looking for you last night."

Xin Youtao spent too much time looking for the whereabouts of Xiao Qingtao in the five monk camps, so he entered the city after the sky was bright.

"I know." Xiao Qingtao turned his head and smiled slightly, not saying whether he had found Xin Youtao as well.

Another stone in Xin Youtao's heart fell to the ground, and the imperial capital was sleeping, but it was a lucky day for him.

The unconscious people on the street lined up in a tavern, which was very similar to the place that Queen Xun said, but the two still did not notice any signs of magic. They were about to land and check it, when a series of loud noises came from a distance.

There were eleven sounds in total, and eleven large rocks like hills rolled out from the sky, and the target was Huangjing.

"The battle is indeed not over, and there are reinforcements in the magic seeds." Xin Youtao looked around again, "Where have Mu Xingqiu and the beast masters gone? There is no need to hide their tracks anymore."

"That's a magic trick." Xiao Qingtao looked at the huge rock flying from a distance, with his expression both alert and confused. "Don't worry about where they are hiding, it is our responsibility to protect Huangjing."
Chapter completed!