That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 778 From Fort Augustus

After Xiao Zhinan heard his father's words, his heart was shaken and he couldn't speak.

There are two reasons for this. One is the word "gambling" that the father kept mentioning in his words. Since it is a bet, it means that the father is not fully sure. Open the theory of peace and chaos.

What the father wants to do is to create peace, if it is not done, the result will naturally be chaos in the world, then it is up to the elder brother Xiao Bai to cut the chaotic world, but the father said that this is also a gamble, which shows that the father is not too big for the elder brother. Much confidence, too, if my elder brother is really sure to end the troubled times, why would my father need to make such an unnecessary move today.

Xiao Zhinan's mouth showed a wry smile, now it is impossible to persuade his father to leave this dangerous place, as the saying goes, the arrow has to be fired, and the situation cannot be controlled.

"I didn't come here to die." His Majesty the Emperor turned to look at his daughter, with a gentle smile on his face, "Even if I die here today, the Daoist sect will definitely suffer great damage, so what are you afraid of? Can the court of Qi, the most talented in the world, be inferior to King Wei alone?"

Then His Majesty the Emperor turned his eyes back to the Ten Thousand Stones Garden, and said softly, "Don't worry, Qiu Ye will make a move soon, but before he makes a move, there should be a pathfinding stone."

Xiao Zhinan suddenly remembered something. Back then, Xu Beiyou told her that he accidentally found a mirror world created by his master Gongsun Zhongmou in the Gongsun Mansion, and there was also a letter written by Gongsun Zhongmou to the Taoist head teacher Qiuye.The letter mentioned a past event, saying that there were two visitors from the extreme west who came to Zhongdu through the Mobei grassland, and were taken under the command of the late emperor who was only the king of the northwest at that time. These two visitors from the extreme west were a man and a woman. Later, the man left Zhongdu and returned to the Far West, but the woman stayed behind.Later, the first emperor entered the pass and went south in a big way, attacking the city and uprooting the land. Women are good at casting cannons. The improved Zhongdu cannon can be said to be invincible. The emperor then promoted the woman to be an earl, that is, the famous Ailin Nan.

But in the letter, the important thing is not this Ai Linnan, but the foreign man who returned to the Far West halfway. According to Gongsun Zhongmou, in fact, that man returned to the Central Plains as early as the second year of Huanglong , and traveled back and forth between the Central Plains and the Far West many times in the next few decades, but he never met the first emperor Xiao Yu, but met with Wei Wang Xiao Jin several times, and changed his name to Xiao Lin, hiding In the world, there are many schemes.Over the past few decades, Xiao Lin has accumulated strength secretly, and with Xiao Jin's secret and strong support, it is already difficult to control.

After Gongsun Zhongmou learned of this situation by accident, he thought that Xiao Jin seemed to have lured a wolf into the house, so he wrote this letter, intending to ask Qiu Ye, the head teacher of the Taoist sect, to come forward to find out the matter, and let the leader of the monks in the world Xiao Lin was removed from the Daoist sect.

The letter was signed on the first day of the first month of the tenth year of Taiping, which was the year when Gongsun Zhongmou met Xu Beiyou when he failed to visit Han Xuan in Xiaofangzhai for the first time.But for some unknown reason, Gongsun Zhongmou did not send this letter.

At that time, Xu Beiyou and Xiao Zhinan didn't understand why Gongsun Zhongmou didn't hand over the letter to Qiuye, but now they have completely understood.

Because the Taoist sect and these people from the extreme west are of the same breed.Presumably, Gongsun Zhongmou also discovered this, so he didn't send the letter, and with Gongsun Zhongmou's hasty death, this matter has become a muddled account that no one can explain.

That is, at the next moment, Li Fenggu, who was wearing silver armor, descended from the sky, and smashed the scepter in his hand at the pavilion where His Majesty the Emperor was.

However, since this pavilion is the most heavily guarded place in the Wanshi Great Formation, it is naturally not so easy to break through.

In an instant, lights lit up on countless stones around them. These stones were big or small, sharp-edged, or round and smooth, forming a "bead curtain" that blocked Li Fenggu's sight and blocked him. the way to go.

The scepter in Li Fenggu's hand fell fiercely on the "bead curtain", making a bang, but it failed to hurt the small building in the slightest.

The visitor from the far west was not surprised, but just smiled lightly.

He didn't expect to injure the monarch of the Eastern Empire with this blow, it could only be regarded as throwing stones to ask for directions.

In fact, the first time he came to the East was in the second year of Huanglong, and he came here with his brother. At that time, the monarch of the Eastern Empire was not the current Xiao Xuan, but his father Xiao Yu.

And the place he went to was not the Central Plains, but the State of Wei.

Li Fenggu, the name is separated, Richard von Augustusburg, and his brother's name is Matthews von Augustusburg, this name may be in the East The popularity is not high, only limited to a very few people, but his later name is extraordinary, Xiao Lin.

That's right, Xiao Lin and him are blood brothers, and they used to live under the same roof.The word "Feng" in their names means "from" in the Central Plains dialect. Fort Augustus is the name of a castle resounding in the West. The names of the two brothers can be literally translated as: Richard from Castle Augustus and Matthews from Castle Augustus.

Back then Xiao Lin came to the East at the Pope's will, and returned to the Far West soon after. In the second year of Huanglong, he brought his elder brother to the East again, and visited the people who had just pacified the whole territory of the Wei Kingdom. Xiao Jin, king of Wei, and his group chat happily.

In the following decades, he traveled between the East and the West many times, disguised his own appearance, traveled all over the East, worked as a goods merchant traveling north and south, as a scholar traveling on a study trip, and as a teacher in a temple. A layman who led a practice, a monk who explored and hunted for treasures, and even served several officials with the help of King Wei, starting from the county magistrate of the seventh rank, and has been an inspector of the third rank. This world is so big, He can be regarded as walking once, so he is so familiar with the world situation in the eastern world.

As the saying goes, if you know yourself and your enemy, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles. Li Fenggu knows both himself and the enemy, but the Buddhist and Confucian schools don't know him at all, so the two debates between these two families are difficult to lose and they don't complain at all.

The Jundao incident this time seems to be a matter between the Daoist sect and the imperial court, but in fact it was facilitated by Xiao Jin, the King of Wei who is far away in the Wei Kingdom. There is no three-party confrontation on this chessboard, and there are only two parties who are divided into black and white.

Li Fenggu once again raised the scepter in his hand. At the same time, the templar knights who came with him knelt down on one knee, stabbed their swords into the ground in front of them, held the hilt with one hand, and pressed the other to their chests on, praying aloud in the language of the Far West.

Countless white rays of light emanated from the bodies of these templar knights, then enveloped his body, and finally left their bodies little by little, flew upwards, gathered in the air to form a long river, and poured them all into the scepter in Li Fenggu's hand On top of the silver gemstone.

A moment later, a round of incandescent "sun" was born on the scepter in Li Fenggu's hand, emitting endless light outwards, making it impossible to look directly at it.

Except for the real person in charge, everyone including Fu Zhongtian, Wei Wuji, Qingye, Wuyunsou and others stopped fighting in unison and put on a defensive posture.

Li Fenggu suddenly threw down the "sun".

In an instant, a vast and holy light fell from the sky, as if the Milky Way poured down, there were no gaps, only endless light, almost covering the entire Wanshi Garden.

At the same time, the four words resounded between heaven and earth.

"Purification, redemption."

(End of this chapter)