Chapter 288 Emperor Xia’s Confidence

While speaking, the space fluctuations in Xue Mingzhi's hand flashed, and he slowly handed a red-gold invitation card to Shen Yuan with both hands.

The invitation card was made of the fifth-level spiritual material Taixuan gold. On it, the talisman master drew dragons and phoenixes, cloud patterns and immortal talismans, which were extremely luxurious. The rich dynasty aura lingered on it, and one could feel its extraordinaryness before opening it.

Ordinary people holding this invitation card would not be able to get close to ordinary ghosts.

Shen Yuan raised his eyebrows and looked at the invitation card in front of him, with a bit of uncontrollable surprise in his expression.

Shen Yuan didn't care about the so-called invitation from Emperor Xia.

Re-establishing the city gods and establishing the incense and fire domain is an inevitable result. The human dynasties of all dynasties would use the city god system to supplement their control over the territory. This is not surprising.

What really moved Shen Yuan was the sentence in Xue Mingzhi's words, "The Great Xia court wants to regain control of the world's situation."

The weight of this sentence is far beyond the matter of re-establishing the city gods and establishing the incense and fire domain.

Since the advent of the spiritual energy tide, the major cave heavens and blessed places have begun to recover. The Great Xia court still maintains its influence at the state level, but it has gradually lost control of the counties and prefectures at the lower level.

In the first half a year or so, the high-end combat power in the cave heavens of the major sects was difficult to get out.

It is difficult to shake the millions of modern troops of the Great Xia court by simply cultivating a new generation of sect disciples. The Great Xia court can generally control the situation and plunder most of the cultivation resources in the early stage. It can be said that it has taken advantage.

But as time goes by, the strong period of the Great Xia court gradually began to decline, and the new generation of disciples of the major sects gradually grew up. The combat power of the extraordinary level occupied the mainstream, and the effect of modern thermal weapons in the struggle of practitioners gradually decreased.

When the outstanding disciples of the major sects reach the realm of refining qi and transforming into spirits, they can ignore most of the modern weapons except strategic weapons, and reduce the influence of modern weapons to the extreme.

Not only that, during this period, the major sects spread the Taoism through various platforms among the people to recruit disciples, attracting countless people.

In the past, the matter of cultivating immortals and achieving longevity only existed in myths and legends. Now that they can experience it in person, how many people can resist being tempted?

Although the Imperial Astronomical Observatory of the Great Xia court has been working hard to select the geniuses in various states and counties for training, the loss of talents is still inevitable.

After all, in terms of the inheritance of the Taoism and the level of the strong, the Great Xia court is still in an absolutely weak position compared to the major cave heavens and blessed lands.

This weakness is even expanding with the passage of time.

Especially when the rules of heaven and earth are further restored and can support the end of the strong people in the state of transformation, the situation has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The lifespan of human cultivators is far inferior to that of the demon race. Among the major cave heavens and blessed lands, only the real people who refine the spirit can have a lifespan of three thousand years. There is no strong person who can live from the last spiritual energy tide era to the present.

But after experiencing several spiritual energy tides, the major cave heavens and blessed lands have long had countermeasures for this, and raised many long-lived spirit beasts three thousand years ago.

The strength of these long-lived spirit beasts is not strong among the same level, but they are also full of divine power. In today's world, they can sweep across a region and suppress countless practitioners.

In addition, the blessed land will inevitably grant life-saving magical powers and cherish spiritual treasures. In this case, the role of strategic weapons is also very limited.

The lack of high-end combat power has made the current situation of the Great Xia court extremely embarrassing, and its control over the counties has been continuously weakened.

Especially in some counties where powerful blessed lands are located, as early as the early stage of the spiritual energy tide, local tyrants and court officials were controlled by the blessed lands, and almost became the one-man show of the sect.

The Great Xia court may not have no way to deal with these sects, but it involves the situation in Great Xia, and the Great Xia court can only sit back and watch the actions of the sects before it is completely sure.

When the rules of heaven and earth are further restored in the future, and the present world can support the appearance of the real person of the spirit, those strong people who have truly survived the three thousand years of spiritual energy exhaustion will return to heaven and earth.

By then, the Dongtian Fudi will be restored to its original state, and the Daxia court will completely lose control of these places.

The Daxia court naturally does not want to see such a result, but they can't stop it. They can only compete for a large number of cultivation resources through the orthodox status of the Daxia court, and secretly support the collapsed sects of the Dongtian Fudi to compete with other sects.

These private competitions have intensified the contradictions between the Daxia court and the Dongtian Fudi.

In the underworld turmoil three months ago, the Dongtian Fudi stood aside and watched the turmoil in Taizhou. This was the consensus reached by the Dongtian Fudi to check and balance the Daxia court after the contradictions intensified.

No one thought that the Ten Courts of Hell were behind the turmoil in the underworld. If Shen Yuan hadn't taken action to suppress everything by himself, it would have inevitably caused disasters.

After the turmoil in the underworld, the major Dongtian Fudi began to realize that the current Xuanhuang Realm was not as simple as imagined, and it was much quieter.

But I never thought that the Great Xia court would suddenly stand up during this period of time and openly say such words.

As his thoughts turned, Shen Yuan asked with a little curiosity in his eyes:

"The Great Xia court actually made such a move openly, is there something to rely on?"

Hearing this, Xue Mingzhi explained in a low voice:

"This decision was jointly discussed by Emperor Xia, the Imperial Observatory, the Three Dukes and the Nine Ministers. The level involved is too high, and I am not very clear about it."

Xue Mingzhi paused, frowned slightly, and said with a little speculation in his expression:

"However, at a banquet for the geniuses in the imperial capital a few days ago, the prince personally came to the scene and mentioned the matter of the underworld, revealing that the underworld is no longer what it used to be.

The two seats, White Tiger and Vermillion Bird, made the Emperor of Fengdu appreciate and achieve the position of the god of Luofeng Liutian, and in the future he can ascend to the fairyland and achieve immortality.

The alliance between the Great Xia court and the underworld must have infinite benefits."

Shen Yuan was stunned for a while. He never thought that this matter of the Great Xia court could be related to him.

Before Shen Yuan could speak, Xue Mingzhi said with a serious face:

"Three months ago, the Lord of the Underworld, Emperor Fengdu, suddenly appeared in Taizhou, expelled the ghosts from several states and pacified the Underworld, attracting hundreds of millions of people to worship him with incense.

At that time, the shadow of Emperor Fengdu appeared in the world, and his divine power covered the land of an entire state, which was absolutely incomparable to the ordinary fairyland strongmen.

With such a strong man in the underworld, plus the rumored gods of the six heavens of Luofeng, the ghosts and gods of the underworld, and the various city gods to be established in the future, its strength is already not inferior to the major cave heavens and blessed places.

If the Great Xia court really reaches a consensus with the underworld, with the help of the underworld's power to connect the incense and law domains of various states, it may not be impossible to suppress the major cave heavens and blessed places."

Speaking of this, Xue Mingzhi's expression was full of emotion.

No one would have thought that the Great Xia court, which expected the major cave heavens and blessed places to help suppress the underworld three months ago, could actually unite with the underworld to compete with the cave heavens and blessed places.

The strange change of the situation is enough to make people who don't know the inside story dumbfounded.

Just as Xue Mingzhi was sighing, he didn't notice that Shen Yuan in front of the stone table had a stiff expression and his mouth couldn't help twitching slightly.

"I wonder where Daxia got its confidence from. After all this time, it turned out that I brought it to them.

But I, the Lord of the Underworld, the genuine Emperor Fengdu, was completely unaware of this."

After complaining about himself in his heart, Shen Yuan was also curious about the details behind this matter.

Although he gave Baihu and Zhuque the order to establish contact with the Daxia court, it was not something that the two of them could decide when it came to forming an alliance with the Daxia court. It must require Niutou, the head of the six gods of Luofeng, to nod his head in agreement.

"What price did Daxia give Niutou to make Niutou agree to drag the entire underworld into the water?"

Faintly, Shen Yuan smelled a bit of unusual breath.

Shen Yuan looked at Xue Mingzhi, who looked respectful, and said in a playful tone:

"Emperor Xia has formed an alliance with the underworld to regain control of the situation. Although the invitation to the blessed land of the cave is for discussion, it is actually to use the power of the underworld to establish his authority.

The blessed land of the cave is fine, but Emperor Xia actually wants to invite me. Could it be that I am also among the targets of his authority?"

Xue Mingzhi's expression froze, and cold sweat kept oozing out of his forehead. He quickly said:

"Please rest assured, sir, Emperor Xia has no such intention.

Before this, Emperor Xia and the Imperial Observatory had long known about your existence, but they were afraid of disturbing you, so they did not take the initiative to show up and explain.

In the discussion of the Tao conference and the Beimang Mountain, the Great Xia court had provided considerable help."

Shen Yuan smiled indifferently and did not comment on Xue Mingzhi's words.

In the discussion of the Tao conference and the Beimang Mountain, he helped suppress the water tribe and the ancient forbidden land, and the Great Xia court gained a lot of benefits from this.

Compared to what the Great Xia court had gained, that little help was completely justified.

As for the fact that the Great Xia court had long been eyeing him, Shen Yuan was also very clear about it.

It was just that due to the lack of information, the Great Xia court mistakenly believed that he was a terrestrial immortal walking in the world and had the ability to subvert the overall situation, so he did not dare to act rashly.

Now that the Great Xia court has formed an alliance with the underworld, it has made up for the lack of high-end combat power and can even further establish the incense and fire domain.

In this invitation, Emperor Xia did not have much hostility. The Great Xia emperor could not actively push Shen Yuan to the opposite side.

But letting Xue Mingzhi pass on the invitation may not be without some thoughts of testing Shen Yuan's true intentions.

At least in the eyes of the Great Xia court, with the support of Emperor Fengdu, there is really no need to be too afraid of a mere terrestrial immortal.

Thinking of this, Shen Yuan couldn't help but reveal a bit of a strange smile.

"Emperor Xia's confidence was given to him by Emperor Fengdu and the underworld.

But if he knew that I was Emperor Fengdu, what would he think?"

Thinking of this, Shen Yuan suddenly became interested in Emperor Xia's invitation.

His eyes fell on Xue Mingzhi, and the subtle influence of the will of heaven and earth in his body has not dissipated yet.

According to Shen Yuan's understanding of the will of heaven and earth, it is just an ordinary change of the general trend, which is the internal cycle of Xuanhuang Realm. It will not be noticed by the will of heaven and earth at all, let alone lead Shen Yuan to intervene.

The will of heaven and earth has such a change, which proves that there must be other abnormalities behind the re-establishment of the city gods in Daxia this time.

"An invasion by a strong man from the outside world? Or is it the source of the strange aura?"

Just before, Shen Yuan had made up his mind to establish a connection with the will of heaven and earth in Xuanhuang Realm, so as to avoid the crisis that might be encountered before returning to Wanzai.

Since he had this idea, he must intervene in the things guided by the will of heaven and earth, so that it would be convenient to bargain with the will of heaven and earth.

It's impossible to work for free, not in this life.

Thinking about how to extort money, Shen Yuan reached out and took the invitation from Xue Mingzhi.

"It's the first grand event since the revival of the spiritual energy tide. You can go and see it."

Shen Yuan accepted the invitation, which made Xue Mingzhi completely relieved.

Xue Mingzhi received a lot of benefits from Shen Yuan. His reputation as a genius in the imperial capital was entirely due to Shen Yuan's credit. It can be said to be a rebirth of kindness.

This time Emperor Xia suddenly issued an order regarding Shen Yuan, and he issued it directly to the entire Xue family in the name of the emperor, which completely caught Xue Mingzhi off guard.

Before this, Daxia had never had any contact with Shen Yuan, and it was difficult for Xue Mingzhi to figure out the specific situation.

If the order was issued only to an individual, Xue Mingzhi could have refused without knowing Shen Yuan's specific attitude, or he would suffer the worst.

But when it comes to the family, Xue Mingzhi's refusal is likely to have a bad impact on the Xue family, so he can only bite the bullet and accept the order.

Fortunately, Shen Yuan didn't seem to be dissatisfied, which made Xue Mingzhi feel at ease.

"When will we set off?" Shen Yuan asked casually.

"After receiving the invitation from the Great Xia imperial court, all the major cave heaven paradises set off for the imperial capital as soon as possible, and the sect-protecting spirit beasts of each sect also set off for the imperial capital.

Nowadays, there are many sects in the imperial capital. Even among the Dongtian Holy Land, which has been closed for a long time, three holy places have come to the imperial capital.

If your husband has connections with various major sects, it might be a good choice to go to the imperial capital now.

But if Mr. doesn't want to get involved in these mundane affairs, he can just rush to the imperial capital before the City God Ceremony begins. "

Xue Mingzhi's words made Shen Yuan's eyes light up, and the square-inch secret in his sleeves trembled slightly.

Before, he was still worrying about how to attract all the major cave heaven paradises into Fang Cun Secret Realm. Now that there are so many cave heaven paradises in the imperial capital, it is an excellent opportunity that cannot be missed.

"Among the teams heading to the imperial capital from the major cave heaven paradises, are there any real gods who are refining them?"

Xue Mingzhi was stunned for a moment, shook his head slightly and said:

"Right now, the rules of heaven and earth can only support the arrival of powerful gods. If a real person uses secret methods to refine gods, he can also walk in the world, and his strength can only be at the peak of god transformation.

Under the premise of the intervention of the Yin Division and the spiritual beasts protecting the sects of each sect, the real gods of Lian Shen in various caves and paradises may not choose to take risks. "

Xue Mingzhi's words did not disappoint Shen Yuan.

He just smiled and gently stood up from the stone table.

"The so-called unwillingness to take risks is just that the benefits are not enough."

With his footsteps moving, Shen Yuan slowly walked towards the door of the secret realm of the courtyard.

"Then let's make the water in the imperial capital a little muddier."