Chapter 910 Changes in the Imperial Capital
Huangjing has returned to its original state, and it should be said that it has become more magnificent and magnificent. The pavilions are taller, the city walls are thicker, the streets are cleaner, the trees are more lush, and even the wind is softer, neither lukewarm nor hot, and there are people everywhere, with a satisfied look. Strangers nodded with each other with smiles and acquaintances chatted affectionately. It took a long time to walk the short road, but no one was anxious.
The shadow of the talisman is almost impossible to see in the city. Most of the original talismans were sucked away by the light column. Now what supports the entire imperial capital is a more powerful, wider and more hidden magic. From a distance, mortals can see a quiet light, like the lights in the dark night and the green in the desert. The monks see an exciting colorful light, like a flame that attracts insects.
Chen Hao's mana is weaker and he cannot frequently use teleportation techniques. It took him a day and a night to bring Xin Youtao and Xiao Qingtao back to Huangjing. He did not stop any along the way, so he still didn't know what was going on here.
Previously, in order to protect himself, Huangjing set up talismans hundreds of miles away, and flights were prohibited within a hundred miles of the city. Now these measures and bans have been cancelled. The sky is full of talisman masters and monks flying around, and they are exhausted. It seems that they are all coming from thousands of miles away, and people from further afield are still on the road.
The practitioners all had a solemn expression like pilgrimage on their faces, and they were humble in the air, but rarely talked, as if everything was tacit, and the secret of heaven would be revealed as soon as they opened their mouths.
"Go to the palace with us." Entering the sky above the imperial capital, Xin Youtao sent an invitation, and he was actually a little reluctant. He and Chen Hao were once rivals and were once very good friends, but now one is a Taoist priest of the gods and the other is a mortal talisman master. It cannot be said that he is going his separate ways. The distance between them is indeed getting farther and farther away.
Chen Hao shook his head and pointed to a nine-story tower floating above the northeast corner of the city and said, "The Taoist sect is there, I want to go... take a look."
Xin Youtao just thought the tower was very special, but could not detect the existence of Taoism, so he nodded and was about to say goodbye, when Xiao Qingtao suddenly said, "Chen Hao, do you believe in Mu Xingqiu?"
Chen Hao was speechless for a moment. They had never talked about this issue along the way. It was very simple. It was a big problem that determined the fundamental position. "The question now is... Should we believe in ourselves?"
Chen Hao flew away.
Xin Youtao looked at his back blankly and whispered: "Does the Taoist priest have to say this? What does he mean?"
"If Kun Dun is really as powerful as the Demon Soul said, then all the decisions we make may be affected by him." Xiao Qingtao explained.
"Oh, if you stayed in Taoism, you would definitely become a Taoist priest of the Gods earlier than Chen Hao." Xin Youtao said half admiringly and half flatteringly.
Xiao Qingtao smiled slightly. This was once her biggest dream. Since she decided to withdraw from the Taoist throne, the dream has become a distant memory. Suddenly, she understood a little why Kun Dun had to create a new demon clan: the dream never dies, it just turns into ashes, and once it has the corresponding strength, it will rekindle again, and even burn more violently.
Xiao Qingtao's heart trembled and hurriedly removed this thought, "Don't care too much. Any spell requires magic power, and Kun Dun will not cast illusions without restrictions. Look. He rebuilds Huangjing to comfort mortals and casts light to attract monks. This means that he is weakening the influence of illusions, and our decision is still ours for the time being."
The two flew towards the palace. The people on the ground recognized them and waved enthusiastically, but were not as ecstatic as usual. The children no longer ran with them. The sky was full of flying people, and the chief talisman master and Pei Shuai did not appear particularly prominent.
When he was about to reach the sky above the palace, Xin Youtao said, "Let's make an agreement."
"Um?"
"From now on, you and I have any thoughts in our hearts and say to the other party, and judge each other whether the other party is... affected and changed."
"Okay, you come first." Xiao Qingtao said with a smile, thinking that this would be the idea that Xin Youtao came up with.
"To be honest, I think this Taoist priest has stolen our limelight. I miss the feeling of being admired by everyone in the past."
"Haha...well, you're not affected."
After all, the palace is the palace, and there is a circle of guards around it. Unrelated people are forbidden to fly in and out. Most of them are cultivators who lost little magic power in the previous battle. They respectfully saluted Pei Shuai and the Great Talisman Master, and put the two in without a notice.
"This is really a scene of peace in the world. The imperial capital is so relaxed that it seems that there will never be a war." Xin Youtao whispered. After entering the palace, the two of them still walked downstairs to show respect.
Groups of eunuchs and guards came to meet him soon. Although the two of them wanted to see Queen Xun immediately, they were still invited to see Emperor Ci first.
Emperor Ci summoned the two of them in the inner study, looking radiant, completely different from the gloomy appearance of doubts before.
"The Queen and I were worried about the safety of you, but you came back. As soon as I received the notice, I said, 'No need to invite, they will definitely come to the palace first.'" Emperor Ci was so kind and easy-going, but before and after the Battle of Wangshan, he gradually became suspicious by the demon seed, "Nightmare, this is really a nightmare. I slept for more than ten years and finally woke up. Who would have thought that the demon seed actually hid in the dark to control the world? Alas, I couldn't resist it. Fortunately, there was Queen Xun and two important officials from the country who were still awake..."
Emperor Ci said a lot, with remorse, imagination, and advice, as enthusiastic as a teenage boy, with open books everywhere in the room and piles of memorials on the table. It seems that Emperor Ci really wants to make up for the more than ten years of the "nightmare".
Xin Youtao and Xiao Qingtao listened umm, this Ci Emperor is completely different from him in the past ten years, but quite similar to him earlier, so it is hard to say whether he was influenced by Kun Dun.
Xin Youtao finally couldn't help but interrupt Emperor Ci, "Your Majesty, are you very clear about what happened in the past few days? We just came back..."
"Of course I know." Emperor Ci stood up, walked around the wide table, and said as he walked: "The entire Holy Talisman Dynasty was about to perish. At the most critical moment, the Taoist dynasty returned, and the 38th generation of ancestors took action to sweep away the demons, and the world was full of peace. Unfortunately, some demon species still escaped, but they could not become a big climate. Within fifteen years, the demon race will die forever. As for the demon race, another battle is about to begin. After the Battle of Wangshan, the Holy Talisman Dynasty gave the demon race more than ten years of rest. It is time to solve it completely."
"Where is Mu Xingqiu? Does Your Majesty know that he has appeared?"
Emperor Ci's face was slightly dark, "It's really sad. Taoist priests who made such great contributions to the Holy Talisman Dynasty, but at the last moment they were unable to resist the invasion of the demon seeds. We all saw that the light blue woman was a witch. The vine in the child's hand was a magic seed gun. But this cannot be blamed entirely on Mu Xingqiu. Except for the ancestor himself, no one dared to boast that he could block the demon seeds. He could only say that things in the world are impermanent, and I hope he has the opportunity to get rid of the demon seeds and return to the Taoist throne."
This is the image of Mu Xingqiu in the world: a tragic hero who made so many contributions to the Holy Talisman Dynasty, fell into the devil's path when victory was about to come and fled with the last bit of demonic species.
Emperor Ci did not mention the demon soul, nor did the two of them ask.
Seeing the lost expressions of the two, Ci Huang said seriously: "I know you and Mu Xingqiu are good friends. There is no need to be too regretful. The contemporary ancestors have endless magic power, and they may be able to save Mu Xingqiu from the demonic path."
"What does this new ancestor... Your Majesty know?" Xiao Qingtao asked, always feeling that the nagging Emperor Ci had some fundamental changes.
"The new ancestor is named Kun Dun. He is the second generation disciple of the Taoist dynasty. In order to completely eliminate the demon seeds, he endured for more than 100,000 years under the arrangement of the first third ancestor, and was born in one day. The demon seeds are gone... I don't know much about these things. You can ask your friends in the Taoist dynasty, and the Taoist priests are all back. The Holy Talisman Dynasty is about to usher in an unprecedented prosperous era."
Emperor Ci said a lot more, and the general idea was to encourage Xin Youtao and Xiao Qingtao to work hard to rebuild the Longbin Society and the Cultivator Order.
After finally saying goodbye and leaving the inner study room, Xin Youtao breathed a sigh of relief, and returned the eunuch who had returned to the road, whispered: "Mu Xingqiu has become a great evil man, but Emperor Ci didn't doubt us at all, nor did he ask what happened during our time of being taken away."
"Let me tell me what Queen Xun said." Xiao Qingtao was so upset, because neither she nor Xin Youtao defended Mu Xingqiu. Faced with the fierce rumors and powerful spells, simple language was meaningless.
Queen Xun left Zeng Fu by her side and sat lazily on the soft couch, as if she had known that they would come back safely and was not worried at all.
"I thought you wouldn't come back for a while," said Queen Xun.
As soon as this sentence was said, Xin Youtao and Xiao Qingtao knew that Queen Xun still believed in Mu Xingqiu.
Xin Youtao couldn't wait to repeat what Mr. Qin said, "Now I'm completely confused. Most of the words of the Demon Soul are speculations. Mu Xingqiu and Zuo Liuying believe him, but..." Xin Youtao pointed out the window, "I really can explain the situation in Huangjing now. Is it okay to explain it no matter how the new ancestor must be malicious? It may not be."
Xin Youtao turned to Xiao Qingtao, "This is really what I said in my heart. I was not affected by any magic. I had this kind of thought before I arrived in Huangjing. As soon as I saw Huangjing, I thought: How can I prove that a person wants to destroy all living beings in the world before there is no clear sign? Is it because he has this ability?"
Xiao Qingtao shook her head, unable to answer Xin Youtao's questions.
"Have you met Emperor Ci?" Queen Xun asked suddenly.
The two nodded.
"Do you think he is such a credible person?" Queen Xun continued to ask, without waiting for the two of them to answer, "I don't know what ambitions the new ancestor has. I only know one thing. Everything that humans enjoy now comes at a price. If we want to fight an unprecedented battle with the demon clan, the casualties will be extremely heavy, but everyone doesn't seem to care about it. Also, the Taoist Tower stands above the imperial capital, and I don't like it at all."
"Unless Mu Xingqiu and Zuo Liuying can come up with a solution, we... can't do anything." Xin Youtao was a little depressed. He could fight with the demon seed, but he was helpless in the face of Kun Dun.
Queen Xun smiled and said nothing, but turned to Xiao Qingtao, "A group of demons was arrested in the imperial capital. You may know some of them. They will be executed in public at noon tomorrow."
"Pei Zihan and Jincuo!" Xiao Qingtao thought of these two first.
"Well, there is another strange king. It is said that he is the leader of the demon clan and is also among the executions."
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