Chapter 314 Xia Yunqiu's Crisis

The solar eclipse phenomenon in Fangcun Secret Realm has lasted for seven days.

Throughout the history of Xuanhuang Realm, there has never been such a long solar eclipse.

The people of Xuanhuang Realm also experienced shock at the beginning, panic in the middle, and finally got used to it.

The seemingly terrifying seven-day solar eclipse did not actually bring much serious impact to the people of Xuanhuang Realm.

After experiencing the various changes brought about by the spiritual energy tide, the people of Xuanhuang Realm have already had a strong acceptance of such extraordinary phenomena.

Compared with the monsters attacking the city and the ghosts rampaging, this solar eclipse phenomenon did not bring any real disaster except that the lack of the sun made daily life inconvenient.

The only place in the entire Xuanhuang Realm that was deeply affected by the solar eclipse was the capital of Daxia.

Daxia, the capital.

The black hole sun transformed by the entrance of Fangcun Secret Realm was still hanging high in the sky. Under this round of black sun, tens of thousands of soldiers wearing rune armor patrolled and guarded in the capital.

He Shao, one of the Nine Ministers, rode on a spirit beast mount and led a group of military practitioners to patrol the imperial city.

Seven days ago, with the opening of the Fangcun Secret Realm, thousands of powerful practitioners broke through the blockade of the imperial capital formation and rushed into the Fangcun Secret Realm.

Emperor Xia realized that this was an excellent opportunity, so he decisively ordered the mobilization of the power of the dynasty to complete the re-establishment of the city gods before the end of the secret realm, and in order to ensure that the lighting of the city god incense could proceed smoothly, he took the initiative to cede the position of the city god to the local tyrants.

This crazy move caused a lot of criticism from the court and the public, but in the end it was Emperor Xia who overcame all the opposition and unified the will of the court and the public.

Shortly after Emperor Xia's decree was issued from the imperial city, an unexpected accident happened.

Hundreds of practitioners were eliminated by the Fangcun Secret Realm in the first hour and took the initiative to withdraw from the secret realm trial.

Although most of the practitioners were casual practitioners, the sudden appearance of so many cultivators still had a great impact on the entire imperial capital.

In particular, Emperor Xia wanted to take advantage of the fact that many cultivators went to the secret realm to plan to re-establish the various city gods, but the sudden return of these cultivators destroyed Emperor Xia's original plan.

After all, no one can tell whether there will be sect cultivators and soul-refining masters returning early in the future, which will affect the current situation.

Emperor Xia decisively ordered the eight legions in Jingzhou to enter the imperial capital, and combined with the imperial capital formation to block the exit of the Fangcun secret realm. Once a cultivator escaped from the secret realm, he would be suppressed immediately.

In just one day, nearly half of the cultivators were eliminated and returned to the imperial capital, including sect disciples and aristocratic family disciples. Such a fierce degree far exceeded Emperor Xia's expectations.

Just when everyone thought that the sect masters who returned later would destroy Emperor Xia's plan, no more trialists in the Fangcun secret realm suddenly withdrew.

For six consecutive days, no one escaped from the Fangcun secret realm, which made the Great Xia court quickly relieved and stepped up preparations for the re-establishment of the various city gods.

In the imperial city, a ninety-five-foot-high altar has been built. At the bottom of the altar, there are 3,650 incense burners, which are dedicated to the Mingshen Dao incense, symbolizing the 3,650 city god temples in Daxia.

Most of the Mingshen Dao incense in these incense burners have been lit. Wisps of green smoke rise from the incense burners to the top of the altar. A phantom of a temple that looks like it is made of gold appears and disappears in the incense.

As time goes by, the martial law in the imperial capital continues, and the remaining incense burners are also being lit one by one.

Standing under the altar, Xu Yankuan flipped through the city god book in his hand, and seriously checked the progress of lighting the city god temples one by one.

Pointing to a name on the City God Book, Xu Yankuan said sternly:

"Guyue County in Shangzhou should have lit incense three days ago, why has there been no movement so far?"

The incense order at the side quickly responded:

"Reporting to the Taichang, there are three major families in Guyue County, and the relationships behind them are complicated. They all want to compete for the ownership of the position of City God.

Although the City God Department has ordered them to make a decision three days ago, the three families have refused to give in and have not yet made a decision."

Xu Yankuan glanced at the incense order and said indifferently:

"I remember that Guyue County is only a hundred miles away from the state capital. The three major families ignored the order of His Majesty, so he ordered the state capital army to go to Guyue County to slaughter the three major families.

As for the position of City God, it is left to the state capital army to deal with, and it must be arranged within three hours."

All the incense orders and City God envoys looked at Xu Yankuan in disbelief.

Then he lowered his head and responded respectfully:

"I will obey the order of the Minister of Rites!"

"Except for Guyue County, the same is true for other counties.

No matter what method is used, I need to see all the incense burners on the altar lit in three hours!"

After the voice fell, Xu Yankuan held the City God Book and walked into the depths of the palace.

Walking through the heavily guarded palace, Xu Yankuan stepped into the Yangxin Hall.

There was no light source in the Yangxin Hall. In the dim hall, Emperor Xia sat on the throne, staring at the black sun in the sky, as if thinking about something.

Seeing this, Xu Yankuan bowed and said:

"Your Majesty, a total of 3,597 City God furnaces have been lit, and the remaining 53 City God furnaces are expected to be lit within three hours.

When the incense of the City Gods returns to their positions, Your Majesty only needs to go up to the altar and use incense to worship the position of the City God, so that all the City Gods in Daxia can revive.

At that time, with the grand ceremony as the foundation, we can connect with the incense and law domains of all the city gods and regain control of the world! "

Speaking of this, Xu Yankuan's words carried a rare excitement.

During the seven days of preparation for the grand ceremony, in order to promote the grand ceremony as soon as possible, he and Emperor Xia used many unconventional means.

The three major families in Guyue County are just an insignificant microcosm. In order to promote the incense of the city god, the state and prefecture armies in various places have committed countless killings in just seven days.

There were complaints inside and outside the imperial capital, and the major sects outside the imperial capital reacted even more fiercely.

If the strong men of various sects had not entered the Fangcun Secret Realm, and only a part of the practitioners left in the sects outside the imperial capital, I am afraid that the entire Jingzhou would have fallen into turmoil.

Only Xu Yankuan himself knew the hardships of completing the preparations for the grand ceremony under such internal and external troubles.

On the throne, Xu Yankuan's words seemed to call back Emperor Xia's consciousness, and his deep gaze fell on Taichang, the head of the Nine Ministers.

"Preparations completed? "

Emperor Xia's words were filled with a sense of loss, and his eyes were lost for a moment.

"Xu Qing, do you think I really did something wrong by spending such a huge amount of money just to prepare for the grand ceremony? "

Xu Yankuan was startled when he heard this, and quickly lowered his head.

Emperor Xia had originally made concessions to the underworld and gave up the position of city god to various powerful people in Daxia, which had already caused a lot of criticism from the court officials.

In order to suppress the trialists who might leave the secret realm of Fangcun, the four legions were mobilized to enter the imperial capital to impose martial law, and the state army slaughtered local families, which made the court and the country boiling.

Even the ministers who had always supported Emperor Xia offered advice, but were all beaten back by Emperor Xia.

Even several ministers took a tough attitude and the imperial envoys risked their lives to give advice, but were thrown into the sky prison by Emperor Xia to await their fate, and the court and the country were in turmoil.

And all this was just for the smooth progress of the grand ceremony.

In such an environment, even a proud Emperor Xia couldn't help but have a little doubt.

For this topic , Xu Yankuan naturally did not dare to make rash suggestions.

Even though he is in power now and can decide the life and death of a powerful family with a single word, his prestige is even higher than that of the three dukes.

But Xu Yankuan knows that everything he has is just a castle in the air. Once this matter is over and Emperor Xia's attitude changes, his fate may not be much better than those local powerful families.

In order to protect himself, he must be as cautious as possible and not express any opinions on these matters.

Emperor Xia glanced at Xu Yankuan, who was silent, with a bit of displeasure in his eyes.

He naturally knew what Xu Yankuan was thinking, but he didn't want to force him too much since he still needed this Taichang.

Changing the subject, Emperor Xia asked Xu Yankuan:

"What is the progress of the interrogation of the cultivators from all parties who withdrew from the Fangcun Secret Realm?

Why didn't we see any more trialists leaving the Secret Realm in the next six days?"

Xu Yankuan breathed a sigh of relief and quickly responded:

"After interrogation by all parties, those cultivators did not hide anything about the rules of the Secret Realm.

However, in the past two days, when I was the last batch of cultivators, I confirmed a piece of news from them, that is, the Supreme Daozi was suspected to have fought with an unknown strongman in the secret realm.

During the fight, the Supreme Daozi and the unknown strongman both burst out with powerful strength above the refining spirit. This last batch of cultivators were affected by the fight between the two sides and chose to withdraw from the trial in order to protect themselves. "

Hearing the name of the Supreme Daozi, Emperor Xia's eyes narrowed and said:

"Where did the people who fought with the Supreme Daozi come from? Do they know the result of the fight between the two sides? "

Xu Yankuan shook his head: "The place where the two sides fought, even the refining spirits did not dare to set foot easily, and only some Qi training cultivators were affected, and they did not know the specific details.

However, judging from the feedback from all parties, the unknown strongman should be from the Ten Great Cave Heaven Holy Lands. "

Emperor Xia pondered for a moment and sneered: "Since the last batch of cultivators withdrew voluntarily because of the fight between the Supreme Daozi and the unknown strongman.

Perhaps the fact that no one in the Fang Cun Secret Realm withdrew from the trial later was also related to their fight. "

Speaking of this, Emperor Xia couldn't help showing his joy.

"Well done! The Supreme Taoist finally helped me solve a big problem.

If the Supreme Taoist and the strong men of the Dongtian Holy Land can be killed together, there will be no one to hinder the expansion of the incense domain. "

Xu Yankuan remained silent and did not express any opinions.

Seeing this, Emperor Xia's eyes rose with a bit of boredom.

Waving to Xu Yankuan, Emperor Xia said in a deep voice:

"Since the grand ceremony is about to begin, Xu Qing will go and prepare as soon as possible, and make sure that all the city god furnaces are lit on time. "

"Yes! "

Holding the City God Book, Xu Yankuan turned and walked out of the Yangxin Palace.

As Xu Yankuan left, the light in the entire Yangxin Palace seemed to become a few points darker.

Emperor Xia still sat on the throne, the shadow behind him quietly squirmed with a strange rhythm, and a hoarse voice slowly sounded in the Yangxin Palace.

"Has he discovered something?"

Emperor Xia picked up a secret letter on the table that accused Xu Yankuan and threw it into the brazier, his eyes deep and said:

"Xu Qing is a smart man, things have come to this point and he can no longer withdraw.

No matter what his wishes are, he will follow my will.

What's more, the grand ceremony has not yet begun, and we still need Xu Qing, the Taichang, to open the ceremony. "

The hoarse voice seemed to acquiesce to Emperor Xia's attitude and turned to say:

"There are still several unstable factors in the imperial capital."

"oh?"

"The ghosts and gods left behind in the Yin Si Mansion, the Qintian Supervisor who is unwilling to 'complicit', and your daughter."

Emperor Xia paused for a moment, then said indifferently:

"The ghosts and gods left behind at the Yin Si Mansion are only a few transformed gods. I have already dispatched three captains to guard around the mansion. They can be easily suppressed with just one order."

"Although Jian Zheng is unwilling to participate in this matter, he will not stand against me. After all, he is also one of the causes and effects."

"As for Xia Yunqiu, the Supreme Taoist who secretly supported her, ignited her fire of humanity, and gathered popularity for her, how could I not know his thoughts?

He just wants to replace me with Xia Yunqiu and take charge of this destiny of humanity. "

Emperor Xia's eyes became colder and harsher.

Picking up a blank imperial edict on the desk, Emperor Xia took up writing.

With every word that fell, he could feel a turbulence in the fortune of the dynasty, but the movements in his hands did not stop at all.

"He Shao, the guard, is ordered to appear."

A moment later, He Shao, a guard wearing armor, strode into the Yangxin Hall.

"He Shao pays homage to Your Majesty!"

Emperor Xia casually threw the written edict in front of He Shao, his voice without any emotion:

"Tianxing Princess Xia Yunqiu secretly conspired with the sect to destroy the Capital God's Grand Ceremony, shaking the foundation of the dynasty and the destiny of humanity."

"It is my decree that Xia Yun Qiuxing be deprived of her title as princess and given a glass of poisonous wine.

If there is resistance, kill them on the spot! "

Hearing this, He Shao suddenly raised his head and looked at the cold-looking emperor on the throne.

As a witness to the Yin Division Alliance meeting, He Shaoke had seen with his own eyes how Xia Yunqiu turned the tide and fought for the interests of Daxia.

But for such a princess who had made great contributions to Daxia, she ended up with a glass of poisonous wine, which made He Shao feel a chill in his heart.

"He Weiwei?"

Emperor Xia's voice sounded again, He Shao's body trembled and then he gritted his teeth and said:

"Wei Chen accepts the order!"

Holding the imperial edict respectfully, He Shao turned around and strode away from the Yangxin Hall.

As He Shao left, the hoarse voice sounded again.

"This Weiwei He obviously doesn't want to attack Xia Yunqiu. If you send him there, aren't you afraid of letting Xia Yunqiu go?"

Emperor Xia shook his head.

"He Shao's role is only to convey the imperial edict as Jiuqing and deprive her of her title. Xia Yunqiu possesses the fire of humanity and cannot be easily killed with a piece of imperial edict.

I won't give her any chance to escape, so you will personally take action to kill Xia Yunqiu. "

The husky figure seemed a little surprised, and then let out a sarcastic chuckle.

"I will obey His Majesty's will!"