In this world, something that was beyond others’ expectations but was reasonable on second thoughts always happened. For example, Huang Jin climbed the Jingkou Mountain and entered the Yanling Confucian Temple, and Qing Huai had countless thousand-mile rings. These days, every time the three cultivators Yanling kept at a high price were about to catch up with the two teenagers, they would find some thousand-mile rings which were split into halves beside a fire, or by a river, or under a tree.
After counting them, they found that they had picked up more than ten thousand-mile rings, at least ten. Even the national treasury of Yanling wouldn’t have much more than those. They even guessed that the temple would have no more than one hundred thousand-mile rings every year as the limit, but why did these teenagers have so many? Moreover, it appeared that they still had some left at hand. The official from the Ministry of Penalty who was sure that the two wouldn’t have too man
It was not easy for Dazhou to win this battle, and in fact, it was extremely difficult. Tens of thousands of soldiers had been killed on the battlefield, and even on top of the city wall in Shaoliang, they could almost see enemies. And Beiyan County was a natural barrier in the north Dazhou was always proud of, but this battle was enough to prove that no matter how perfect the barrier was, in the cultivators’ eyes, it was just a common raised path through fields. They could cross it if they wanted to.If Li Fuyao and Qing Huai hadn’t killed all the cultivators by the Luosang River, Dazhou would have suffered a lot. At best, the cultivator would occupy the imperial palace of Dazhou and force the emperor to write a letter to surrender which would be sent to Yanling. If the emperor of Dazhou was as arrogant as they said, he would be dead now, and Dazhou would be in the territory of the Chen Country in a few days.But both the Chen Country and Dazhou knew who w
The South Army led by Xie Ying drove the main force from the Chen Country to flee in a panic and settled the crisis of Dazhou. After they returned with victory, naturally it should be celebrated. So before dawn, the eunuchs and maids in the Evergreen Palace started to prepare for the banquet to celebrate after the imperial court session this morning. In order to prevent anything wrong, the manager of the Ceremony Department showed up in person to make sure everything was okay. Before the imperial court session, the emperor entered the imperial study to check the reports from the officials. Everybody in the world said that the emperor ruled a country and had the greatest power, but who had seen how the emperor became thinner day after day while working hard to deal with the official documents and getting tired?The imperial study was prepared, and the document on the top was the summary of the battle from the Ministry of War, including the number of the dead soldiers and
Somebody died in the imperial palace of Dazhou, and it was not a trifle although his identity was not important, so as soon as the young eunuch’s dead body was found, the news was reported to the superiors. The imperial guards dealt with it immediately, but it didn’t cause an uproar in the palace. After all, a banquet would be held in the Evergreen Palace at once to reward the generals and soldiers. Something like this happened, and the emperor would naturally feel embarrassed.The vice manager of the Ceremony Department, Tan Bao led the imperial guards walking slowly in the Evergreen Palace. The commander of the imperial guards behind him was a retired warrior with meritorious service from the North Army and wasn’t in awe of the vice manager who was just second to the manager of the eunuchs, Su Jin in the palace. But as he investigated the case, he had to be in direct contact with the people in the imperial palace and should get in touch with the powerful eunuchs.
In Dazhou, it was the fourth year’s spring of Shending.But in fact, in Yanling, it was the sixteenth year of Zhenghe. This spring had no difference from the spring in the past, except that in this spring, Yanling wanted to punish a small country for the first time and sent more than ten cultivators, but it was defeated in the end unexpectedly, and all the cultivators had been killed by the Luosang River. So there was a rare bitter quarrel at the imperial court in Luoyang City. As a result, the Ministry of Penalty sent three officials to capture the two chief criminals who killed a dozen cultivators. However, over ten days after the three officials were dispatched out of Luoyang City, they came back to the city today, empty-handed, the same as when they left.The Ministry of Penalty kept it a secret and didn’t tell the news at the imperial court in front of all the civil and military officials. They just submitted a report to the emperor of Yanling after th
“There are many famous mountains and great rivers in Yanling. This empire owns nearly one third of the world’s land and exists thousands of years. Apart from anything else, only the history book of the historiographer has the records about six thousand years ago. Yanling has one million armed soldiers and countless excellent leaders in the army. In fact, as long as the emperor is willing to, other countries wouldn’t exist in its territory, but such an empire still has to be controlled by the Yanling Confucian Temple. It can be seen that no matter how powerful an empire is, it should bow and listen to cultivators. Even though Dazhou has backbone, it would have a bad ending. Now they can’t destroy Dazhou once, but they would try the second and third time in the future, and it might be unable to resist.”While walking northward, in order to get rid of boredom on the trip, Li Fuyao and Qing Huai would talk about this human world’s current situation occasionally. However, af
When the Star Building was raging like a storm, the letter written by the emperor of Yanling in the imperial study was sent to the Ministry of Penalty soon. The Minister of Penalty, Wang Zhizhang who was always worried these days received it. After opening it, he turned pale. Then under the astonished eyes of all the officials in the Ministry of Penalty, he walked out of the hall and told the guards to prepare a carriage. Afterward, he left the ministry.The coachman invited this big shot, one of the six ministers at the imperial court into the carriage and didn’t forget to ask where he would go. The minster just spoke out an address and then kept silent. The coachman didn’t dare to neglect him and soon waved the horsewhip to drive the horse away, walking slowly along the street in front of the Ministry of Penalty.In the carriage, Wang Zhizhang still held the letter written by the emperor personally with red ink and showed a complicated expression. He was
Walking out of the small courtyard, Wang Zhizhang came to the lane and happened to see the girl selected by the emperor personally to read for Wang Yanqing standing at the entrance to the lane. She was dressed in a blue dress and stood there silently. Only one person could pass this narrow lane, so the girl just waited at the entrance and didn’t walk to the lane in a hurry.When Wang Zhizhang came to the entrance, the girl holding two books bowed to this high official at the imperial court and entered the lane slowly, without saying anything.The common people living in Luoyang City would like to have fun when they were free at ordinary times, and one of their amusements was to say that the housekeeper in an official’s family could compare with another official of a certain rank at the imperial court. However, in fact, the higher position the officials were in, they would restrain the servants in their families more. Otherwise, if the servants put on airs a
Even though Li Fuyao thought Qing Huai was too quiet, he could hardly deny that this teenage girl whose clothes were all the same color of green was a nice person after they walked together for so long. If anyone thought it was improper, and he might say that she was a nice demon.Others didn’t know, but Li Fuyao had no doubt.These days, Li Fuyao finally promoted his cultivation to the peak of the Intent Stage and was close to breakthrough. Then he could enter the second stage, the Focus Stage, but he had paid a huge price. Qing Huai beat him with the green strands all day long when she was bored. She beat him when he made a fire and cooked and even before they went to bed at night.The machete Li Fuyao had grabbed from the scholar Huang Jin was broken into halves in an evening, which meant he had to walk forward with half a machete before he reached the Sword Mountain. A swordsman who had no sword wanted to take a machete as a sword, but late