Chapter 194
If Qiao Shui was an ordinary person who was afraid of death, he would be surprised.
The two did not say much, and hurriedly paid the bill and left.
Qianliyan stopped where he was, reached into his arms, took out the heavy history book of Gucheng, and his mind was full of thoughts.
This history book was given to him by the old man in the armory, and it was compiled by the old man and the disabled in the city.
Since he has walked out of the desert, he should spread the story of Gucheng.
This is not only his old profession as a storyteller of the Qiwen School, but also in line with his wishes.
As a storyteller of Tingchao Tower, Qianliyan is actually not an ordinary person. He has a horizontal eye between his eyebrows, and he actually has half of the blood of the demon clan, so he is considered a half-demon.
His father was actually one of the 100,000 soldiers in the past. He ventured to explore the 100-mile desert, which was actually a search for roots.
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Before Qiao Mu and Hai Duwei left, they planned to borrow two fast horses from Mrs. Bai, the garrison commander of Anxi Pass.
When the two of them found Madam Bai, she was talking about the past with the old man in the armory in front of the Anxi Pass city wall. The two were having a good chat.
The old man in the armory was Li Changge's brother, so Madam Bai was actually his sister-in-law. The two were old acquaintances and had a common relative.
Hearing that Qiao Mu and Hai Duwei were going to the imperial capital, the old man in the armory stopped Qiao Mu before leaving.
"If you want to go to the palace to see the emperor, you might as well take this thing with you."
The old man in the armory flashed in his hand, and a storage bag appeared.
"Storage bags are storage magic tools for immortal cultivators. Almost all of them have restrictions, and it takes a stronger magic power than the original owner to force them open."
"And this storage bag was stolen from the warehouse by Jian Zexian. The restrictions were cracked by him by unknown means, so even non-immortal cultivators can use it, but the internal space of this storage bag is a little small."
"I already have the stone city left by Jian Zexian. Why don't you give this storage bag without restrictions to Old Qiao." The old man in the armory said:
"The things in the storage bag may be useful for you to enter the palace to meet the emperor."
Storage bags are not rare for immortal cultivators, and cultivators from the nine major immortal gates have one each.
But storage bags without restrictions that can be used by ordinary warriors are relatively rare.
All the soldiers and civilians in Gucheng are grateful to the Qiao family.
Therefore, even if it is Qiao Shui who just met, the old man in the armory is willing to give valuable things to him.
Qiao Mu sighed slightly: I have been around for almost two hundred years, and finally I have a storage bag that can be used.
He weighed the storage bag in his hand, and saw that the bag was full, as if it was filled with things.
The old man in the armory explained: "In addition to the things needed to report to the emperor, there are actually many handwritten copies of secret books in the old Gucheng armory in the storage bag, a total of nine soul-refining techniques, and some other secret books collected in the armory, all in it, as a gift to the Qiao family."
Qiao Mu was slightly stunned, this was indeed a generous gift.
Obviously, it was not given to him "Qiao Shui", but to Qiao Shuangsen and other warriors who died for the people of Gucheng.
However, the old man in the armory generously gave him money, so he naturally would not be stingy. He took out another storage bag from his body and handed it to the old man in the armory.
"This was given to me by Qiao Xiaoming. It belonged to a cultivator named Dao Ni."
"I don't know any immortal cultivators. It's better to give it to you so that it can be put to good use."
When the two sides were about to part ways, Qiao Mu also asked a few questions about the old man in the armory's plan.
The Li family, to which the old man from the armory belongs, is not a big family. After returning to Jiuzhou, they are actually homeless and have nowhere to go, so they just sighed slightly:
"I have guarded the city for half my life. Although I can't go to the battlefield now, I have practiced some immortal arts. I also have the stone city left by the sword exiled immortal, which can protect the people of the lonely city to some extent."
"I have nowhere to go. If I can find a place to live for myself and the women, children, disabled and elderly who have walked out of the lonely city, I will have no regrets in my life."
The old man from the armory paused and said:
"I heard that when the Great Qin Mansion was first built, it was a time when everything was in ruins and waiting to be rebuilt. The King of Qin in the Great Qin Mansion is said to be a martial arts practitioner who has taken up the banner of martial arts. I am curious about what martial arts practitioners are..."
"The Great Qin Mansion may also be a place for retirement and settlement."
The old man from the armory has turned to cultivating immortals, but he is still quite interested in the martial arts practitioners who are rumored to have the potential to fight against immortals.
There were 300 old soldiers from the depths of the desert, as well as a large number of women, children, and the disabled. It was natural that so many people suddenly appeared at Anxi Pass. It was impossible to hide it from others.
Besides, no one was hiding it.
Tingchao Tower was probably a listener who followed the tide of the times. When they heard about the old soldiers who appeared outside Anxi Pass, and heard the whole story from Qianliyan, one of the pillars of the Qiwen School, the whole Tingchao Tower was shocked by this matter.
"They have been holding on in the desert for forty years. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, Qianliyan, I wouldn't have believed it."
"This matter may be more likely to make a sensation in Kyushu than the previous 'Death of the Martial Saint'..." Someone immediately made a judgment.
After all.
The Martial Saint was just a martial artist.
Although he was very famous and had slaughtered the martial arts world for thirty or forty years, his reputation was more limited to the martial arts world.
But the matter of the desert city was not the case.
This matter is related to the alien war forty years ago. There are 100,000 soldiers, and there are 100,000 families from all over Kyushu, plus the original residents of the lonely city...
This incident was both true and bizarre, and both factions of Tingchaolou storytellers were moved by the news.
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There is a city to the north of Xi'an Pass, called Dan City.
A few months ago, there was a sudden human disaster in Dancheng. Lightning flashed and thundered like rain in the sky. It was suspected to be a battle between immortal monks. Half of the city was destroyed by thunder, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed or injured.
The city was originally severely damaged by this, but after the rise of King Qin, the Great Yan court renamed the original Dan City and established it as the new "Great Qin Mansion".
The Great Qin Mansion was only initially established, but the nearby Anxi Town and Anxi Pass were also within the jurisdiction of King Qin.
At this time, inside the Qin Prince’s Mansion in Da Qin Mansion City.
After listening to the report from the Xixi Pass envoy sent by Mrs. Bai, King Qin waved his hand to let him go down.
He just looked a little unhappy.
Today, the messenger from Xi'an Pass came to the Prince of Qin's Mansion, and there was also an order from Dao Dao Sect. It was said that it was something that an elder of the sect asked him to do.
"Elder Qingzhuo wants me to deal with his tail?"
King Qin was a little helpless.
Although he became the King of Qin and was one of the hopes of using martial arts to fight against immortality in the eyes of the people, and was famous for a while, he was actually the white glove for the Dao Dao Sect to handle worldly affairs.
He had a good reputation, but in fact, he was a disciple of the Dao Sect who willingly acted as a green leaf and personally built up momentum for him, so he got the name of King Qin and became the king with force.
This matter is related to the Dao Dao Sect's grand plan. With the Dao Dao Sect's monks taking action, it is naturally not difficult to hide it from Emperor Yonghe and pretend to be a "King of Qin" who is expected to defeat the immortals with force.
Emperor Yonghe may come to his senses in the future, but by then it will probably be a done deal.
"There are quite a few people walking out of the desert. How can I deal with this? If dozens of people sneak out, I can easily kill them all. But I can massacre half of the women and children in the city and lock up the entire Xi'an." Can everyone who knows about it be killed?”
King Qin frowned and complained a little.
He is not a womanly person, and if the problem can be solved by slaughtering a city or a pass, he will not hesitate.
But things are not that simple.
Tingchaolou didn't know where he got the news, and was spreading the past events of the lonely city in the surrounding areas.
Therefore, even if the Great Qin Mansion was not far from Xi'an Pass, it was already too late for the King of Qin, who had already entered Taoism through martial arts, to rush there in person and risk his reputation to ruin the city.
"Paper can't contain the fire. I'm afraid this matter can no longer be suppressed. Even if it is the request of the elders of the Immortal Sect, I can't do anything." King Qin said to himself:
"Despite this, doesn't Elder Qingzhuo want to deal with the Qiao family? This matter is not without remedies..."
Speaking of the Qiao family, King Qin's face suddenly turned cold.
The Qiao family is not a person, but a family.
He had suffered losses at the hands of the Qiao family in the past. Although it was a blessing in disguise that he became the first Taoist practitioner in the Dao Dao Sect to practice the "Golden Body Jue" martial arts and the golden body level, but this did not mean that he I have to thank the Qiao family.
"It's a pity that the old man of the Qiao family who fought with me is now dead. Now that I have become golden, I can't take revenge myself." King Qin said to himself:
"However, it is clear that apart from him, there are other elders in the Qiao family, which can give me some comfort."
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Imperial capital.
As the morning light faded, Hai Mansion welcomed several uninvited guests.
Captain Haisi Yuanhai, who has not returned for forty years, Qiao Mu, who is already 210 years old, and the old man Wu Ku who only has half his face left.
Without exception, these three people are all old people, and the youngest among them, Captain Hai, is over sixty years old and in his sixties.
The sixty-year-old Captain Hai has been in the desert for many years and has been fighting for many years. His appearance is not much younger than his father Hai Wuya.
The two of them didn't look like father and son, but more like brothers.
After the Alien War, Hai Wuya entered the Heavenly Prison, while Hai Siyuan was trapped in the desert for forty years. The great formation of the Immortal Sect isolated the inside and outside, and Hai Wuya didn't even know that his eldest son was still alive.
Captain Hai reunited with Hai Wuya and his son. They had not seen each other for forty years, and naturally they burst into tears again.
It's just that Qiao Mu was pressed for time during his trip and wasn't here to see their father and son reunite, so he interrupted their father and son's conversation in an inhumane manner.
"What Mr. Qiao means is that you want me to take you into the palace to pay homage to the Holy Spirit?" Hai Wuya understood what Qiao Mu meant.
"Not bad." Qiao Mu nodded.
What they want to do this time is for the two witnesses, Captain Hai and Old Man Wuku, to tell the story of the lonely city in the desert over the past forty years.
But the palace is not a place that can be entered casually.
If they followed the regular rules and procedures, they would have to wait for Mrs. Bai of Xi'an Pass to report the news. They would have to wait for the news to arrive at the palace, and the day lilies would be cold by then.
And Hai Wuya was also a minister after all. He was a second-rank official in the dynasty and held a high position of authority.
With his status, it was not difficult to bring a few of them to court.
Hai Wuya also knew the priority of the matter. After hearing Captain Hai talk about the past of Gucheng, he immediately agreed.
Just a few days before arriving at the palace, these old men were filled with emotion when they saw this magnificent palace.
Captain Hai and the old man Wu Ku lamented that things had changed after entering the imperial capital forty years ago, and that their hair was already gray.
Not so with Arbor.
What he remembered was the past of his youth and frivolity.
When he was young, he planned to assassinate the emperor all day long. When he was in his sixties, he assassinated the emperor in the Xuantian Sect Taoist Temple. When he was more than a hundred years old, before leaving the imperial capital, he thought about breaking into the palace at night and seeking death.
But now he is two hundred and ten years old, and now he is an old man who is as gentle as light and as gentle as jade. When he entered the palace this time, he entered through the main entrance in a bright and mature manner, without any impulse to kill the emperor. Things, this is probably what is called growth.
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The Golden Palace of the Royal Palace.
The court meeting went on as usual, without incident.
Emperor Yonghe listened to the discussions of the courtiers a little absent-mindedly, and occasionally glanced at the human king sword hanging in front of the Jinluan Palace, a little distracted.
The Human King Sword is no longer a mortal thing, it represents the national destiny of the Great Yan Dynasty.
But for some unknown reason, the light on the Human King Sword has dimmed a bit recently. Does this seem to mean that the national destiny has declined?
But it seems that nothing major has happened in Kyushu recently?
Since the awakening of the Human King Sword, the nine major immortal sects, including the Zhongzhou Dao Sect, have kept a low profile, and there has been little movement recently... Could it be that the decline of the country's destiny has nothing to do with the immortal sects?
While he was thinking, a courtier emerged from the crowd, it was Hai Wuya, the Minister of Rites.
"Your Majesty, I have something important to report to you."
"explain."
"Your Majesty, do you still remember that you mentioned the alien war forty years ago to the old minister after the court meeting?"
"Hai Wuya, why are you bringing up this old thing again?" Emperor Yonghe's face was a little dull.
The Alien War was a shame to Dayan and a turning point in the country's fate from prosperity to decline.
Naturally, such past events should not be mentioned again and again, especially at the court meeting, in front of all the civil and military officials.
"Your Majesty, what if the old minister said that there was another hidden secret in the Alien War forty years ago? The one hundred thousand soldiers in the past were not completely wiped out, but they persisted for forty years. Are they still there today?"
Finished saying this.