The Demon Soul is Coming

(On the last day of this month, who still has a monthly pass? Don’t waste it. ^_^)

Xiaomei said: "It must be like this!"

Xiaotian said: "Don't be ridiculous, a man is a man with aspirations in the world, who would run away from home for a woman? Even a cousin-in-law wouldn't do it. How did that sentence come from? Friends are like siblings, women are like clothes. I think my cousin's husband definitely doesn't want to be said to be a softie. My cousin is too powerful. As a man with ambition, of course I don't want to rely on her. My cousin's husband wants to go out alone to make a big career. What about a woman? It's all good, career is more important, um, my cousin's husband left his wife for his career, he really is a role model for men all over the world..."

Xiaomei and Xiaxia squinted at him... They hate this kind of self-righteous boy the most.

Xia Xia asked in Xiaomei's ear: "What's wrong with him? Didn't he always like to pretend to be handsome in the past, and said that as a man, he would rather protect girls than do nothing?"

Xiaomei also leaned over, and whispered in her ear: "Wu Xiaoji is pestering him every day, saying that he will marry him when he grows up, and he is tired of seeing girls now."

Xia Xia said: "But the two of us are girls too?"

Xiaomei said: "That's right, Xiaoji asked him the same way last time, but he said that we are brothers, not women..."

Xia Xia pointed at the lake water: "Should we kick him down?"

Xiaomei said: "What are you going to do? Next time we meet, we will say that Xiaotian is our sister, and that will be fine."

Xia Xia nodded vigorously: "Well, good."

Xiaotian: "..." You two... are so ruthless!

at this time.A voice called from a distance: "Miss Xia Xia."

The three children turned their heads to look, but it was Xiaohuang and Luan'er running over.

Xia Xia responded, "Sister Xiaohuang?"

Xiaohuang rushed to her side and said: "Miss Xia Xia, can you use Yi Xue to do the math to see where the master is now?"

Xiaomei and Xiaotian looked at each other, and Xiaxia said a little uneasy: "This... I don't know if it's accurate!" Xiaohuang said: "My master said before, there are not many people who can compare Miss Xiaxia's Zhouyi. Well, you can't go wrong."

Xia Xia is proficient in Yi learning, but Youyou doesn't have much contact with Xia Xia.Not to mention worrying.She was already in contact with the world of adults. Although she knew that Xia Xia was her father's disciple and her junior sister, she didn't care much.And although Xia Yingchen knew that Xia Xia learned Yi Li from her husband.But my husband didn't use hexagrams much before.He also has no confidence in his own hexagrams.In her mind, her husband's hexagram skills are not very good, so Xia Xia who followed her husband to learn Yili.It is worse than my husband.

Because of this, although both of them were eager to find Liu Sang, they never thought about Xia Xia at all.

But in those days, when Xiaohuang was with Liu Sang, she had to know more. Although Xiao Xia was a disciple of the master, and he had no talent at all in martial arts, but in Yi Xue, the master once said that Xiao Xia Xia’s talent is much higher than his, but more importantly, it’s not just her talent. Grandpa once said that Xiao Xia’s easy-to-learn and "look-a-like" are not so much talent as hers. "Supernatural".

It is precisely because of this that in this clueless situation, Xiaohuang suddenly thought of Xia Xia.

Of course, on the other hand, it is also because, unlike Princess and Youyou who have a lot of resources available, for Xiaohuang, she has no one available, so she has to rely on children like Xiaxia.

Although Master used to praise her often, Xia Xia actually didn't have much confidence in her hexagram skills, but since Miss Xiaohuang had already found her, in desperation, she had no choice but to burn incense and start a class to calculate a hexagram...

***

In the middle of the night, the dark clouds in the sky gathered more and more, and the night was unusually hot.

Xia Yingchen sat alone in the hall, holding a wooden sword in his hand.

She stared at the wooden sword for a while, put it on the table, walked a few steps, turned her head suddenly, and flicked her finger at the wooden sword.

The wooden sword was intact, but there was a crisp sound from inside.Immediately afterwards, a green light and shadow flew out of the sword and rushed out of the window.

The stunning princess sneered: "Want to escape?"

With a wave of his hand, the five-colored sword light flashed past, forcing the green shadow back in an instant.

Lu Ying dashed left and right, unable to escape from the sword light.

With a twist of the princess's hands, the green shadow was pulled over abruptly by her, kneaded into a round shape, and a shrill female voice came from inside.

The princess said sinisterly: "It fell into my hands, do you think you can escape?"

The green shadow made a bitter voice: "Wa Huang, Wa Huang..."

The stunning princess said coldly: "I'm not Emperor Wa...I'm Xia Yingchen."

Lu Ying smiled strangely: "Wa Huang... Wa Huang..."

Daiyu and Baochai stood guard outside the hall, hearing the tingling woman's laughter, looked at each other, but dared not go in.

……

***

Early the next morning.

Xia Yingchen sat in the hall, listening to the reports from the lower steps.

There is no news about my husband until now, although I don't know how he hid it, but if it is him, it is not too surprising.

Down the steps, Qiu Danyang reported: "The repair of Shitian Mansion has been completed. It was originally the largest mansion outside the Dragon Palace of the former Chu Clan. His Royal Highness will be able to move in soon."

Xia Yingchen said indifferently: "I have not given up the Dragon Palace, so does His Highness Wushang have any complaints?"

Qiu Danyang said: "If there were no princess to welcome His Highness into Nanyuan and uphold justice for His Highness, His Highness would not have the momentum of today, so naturally he would not dare to complain. However, in response to the name of the eldest prince, all civil and military officials who entered Nanyuan have their own Some people complained quite a bit. After all, in name, the Eldest Prince is our lord, and even the Lord Hou and the Princess are subordinate to him. But now, the Lord Hou and the Princess live in the Dragon Palace, and His Royal Highness has set up a new residence. If it cannot be justified according to the law..."

Xia Yingchen looked down at him, and said: "That day, you and the son-in-law each had their own plan, and the son-in-law's plan was to welcome His Highness into Nanyuan and make him the new king. But he wants to kill His Highness and blame the Ao family. Taking advantage of the chaos among the princes, we will plan it slowly..."

Qiu Danyang said: "The lower officials are dull, they are not as far-sighted and far-sighted as the son-in-law..."

"Sir, you don't need to be humble," Xia Yingchen said, "I am not good at strategizing, but I also understand that according to the current situation, the master's plan is the safest. As for the current situation in Nanyuan, it is purely accidental."

Qiu Danyang bowed slightly.

at this time.On the general trend.It was indeed following the route that Liu Sang had designed that day, after welcoming the eldest prince into Nanyuan, in the name of the eldest prince, he made an alliance with the princes.Subdue the Ao family.Now Prince Wushang is the de facto heir apparent.As long as they choose a good day and an auspicious day, and appoint the eldest prince as the new king, they can command Hezhou in the name of the new king.

But the reason why there is such a good situation.It's not so much Liu Sang's good design, but it's because of Xia Yingchen's strength.

Killing Jin Jian among thousands of troops, and taking Zeng Ao among thousands of horses, his fame and power shook the world.Strong personal strength, combined with the correct strategic policy, naturally pushed the boat like water, and easily formed a great situation that was beneficial to Nanyuan. If Xia Yingchen hadn't suddenly played a little temper, after the alliance, he would not have taken advantage of the situation to attack Yu As soon as the son-in-law was arrested, his interest in the world dropped greatly, and he brought her husband back to Nanyuan. It can be said that at least half of Hezhou has fallen into their hands at this moment.

Before he disagreed with Liu Sang on the strategic route, Qiu Danyang naturally would not have imagined that the princess had gone to Yushan, and upon her return, she would have such terrifying personal power.From this point of view, although the current situation is developing according to Liu Sang's original design, it is hard to say that his original idea was wrong.

Xia Yingchen said: "Youyou told me that His Highness Wushang has made friends with many people in the world recently, and many of them are masters..."

Qiu Danyang said: "This is also a normal thing. His Highness Wushang is also an outstanding person, but he is good at forbearance. Now he wants to take advantage of the princess's influence, so naturally he dare not offend the princess and follow the princess's wishes in every way. But he is also afraid of the princess's aftermath. , crossing the river and tearing down the bridge, His Highness wants to be the new monarch, but he doesn’t want to be a puppet, now we have the same interests as us, and we cooperate with each other, but secretly, it’s impossible for him not to take precautions.”

Xia Yingchen said: "What can he do?"

Qiu Danyang said: "Princess, don't underestimate him. Your Highness is currently the lord of the feudal lords. Since entering Nanyuan, many people have come to vote from thousands of miles. These people are loyal officials who swear to follow the royal family. Courtier, you can't restrict him blatantly..."

Xia Yingchen sneered and said, "If I kill him with a sword, so what?"

Qiu Danyang said in a low voice: "If the name is not correct, the words will not go well. If the princess kills the prince, she will be a traitor. Then there will be chaos in Hezhou. The whole world will rebel against the princess. Even if it is a princess, it will not be able to suppress it for ten or twenty years. Come down. I know the princess doesn’t care about these things, but if you do this, you will hurt your loved ones and make your enemies quick.” Although he once proposed to assassinate Prince Wushang, but now Prince Wushang is in Nanyuan, which is a treasure in their hands. Naturally, I have to offer it well.

Xia Yingchen said, "Hmph."

Qiu Danyang said: "It's just that although you can't kill, you must guard against it. Among those people from the world who came to vote for His Highness recently, there are at least three sects, which is quite strange."

Xia Yingchen said: "Which three sects?"

Qiu Danyang said: "Originally only in Caobei Town, Wuweimen, who was proficient in all kinds of strange poisonous secret arts, secretly colluded with Lord Zhiyu a few months ago. Now that he has abandoned Lord Yuyu and turned to the Jixiu faction of the eldest prince, there is even a little bit more. The gangsters, who used to only burn, kill and loot in the open sea, suddenly turned to the eldest prince, claiming to abandon the dark and turn to the light, and the eldest prince reorganized them into the "Loyalty Group"..."

Xia Yingchen's eyes flickered: "Wuweimen, Jixuan faction, Loyalty Group? I also know about the establishment of the Loyalty Group by the eldest prince, but I don't know where the members come from, and the Wuweimen, Jixuan faction..." She He sneered and said, "Aren't they... from the Huntian League?"

Qiu Danyang said in a low voice: "That's right." Then he said: "The Huntian League has two great masters, the leader of the alliance, Daoist Xu Wu, and the deputy leader, Mr. Su, and they span the eight continents. It is the largest organization out there, and the Mohists are chivalrous, and everything they do is traceable and feasible. Various sect rules restrict their Mohism, and their actions are restrained, so there is not much real threat. But the Huntian League is No one can know what they can do, it is much more difficult than Momen."

Xia Yingchen said coldly: "They came after me before I troubled them?"

Qiu Danyang said: "Qiu has a guess..."

Just as she was about to continue speaking, Daiyu stood outside the palace gate and said, "Princess..."

Qiu Danyang remained silent.Xia Yingchen said: "What's the matter?"

Daiyu said: "Miss Xiaomei is waiting outside the palace, wishing to see the princess!"

Xia Yingchen had a mocking sneer on the corner of his mouth.Said: "Send the Tianrui sword to the door and tell her that I will give her two choices. The first one is that the Tianrui sword is there, she can take it directly, but she will never see her son-in-law again. The second is , she doesn't care about Tianrui Sword, just come into the palace, I still recognize her as my younger sister, and she can stay with the son-in-law."

Daiyu went away in response.It went on for more than half an hour.Only then did he return to the palace.

Xia Yingchen said: "How?"

Daiyu said: "Miss Xiaomei stood outside the palace for a long time, then she left with the Tianrui sword."

Xia Yingchen laughed nervously: "Thanks to my husband being so kind to her, in her heart, after all, he is not as important as Momen. Hehe...hahahaha...husband, husband. In the end, I am the only one who treats you well." with a wave.Ling Daiyu retreated, her face turned back to her usual coldness.Sitting there, propping his cheeks with his hands: "Say!"

Standing at the bottom of the steps, Qiu Danyang seemed to ignore the princess's sudden maniacal laugh, and continued: "Huntian League's secret assistance to the eldest prince is nothing more than two results. Although there may be two results, the purpose is different." It is one. Either the princess gets angry, kills the eldest prince, loses righteousness, and causes chaos in Hezhou, and the princess has to spend more time unifying Hezhou, or the princess is patient for a while, and quickly unifies Hezhou in the name of the new king. Meng secretly helped Her Highness Wushang to increase her strength until the princess couldn't easily move the eldest prince. No matter what the result was, the purpose was probably to drag Her Highness back and make her have no time to care about things other than Hezhou. "

Xia Yingchen said: "What happened outside of Hezhou?"

Qiu Danyang said in a low voice: "Don't you think it's strange, princess? The Qin army sent a master like Bai Qi, three generals Tulong and hundreds of Qin soldiers in the matter of Yushan this time, but Zhao Gaowei, who was aliased as King Yunji, However, the number of Qin troops revived underground last year was nearly [-], among whom there must be more than the three generals who slaughtered the dragon. On the side of the Huntian Alliance, although Elder Su was dispatched, Elder Su was only the deputy leader of the alliance. Many masters in the Huntian Alliance have not been dispatched either, neither of these two parties dispatched the strongest combat forces."

Continued: "What's even more strange is that the Qin Army side wants to split Hezhou, and the Huntian League side actually wants to split Hezhou. The two parties are obviously enemies, but in this matter, their goals are actually the same. , and what they are going to do, we have not been clear until now. It is conceivable that since Zhao Gao and Taoist Wuwu have not yet arrived at Yushan, the incident at Yushan this time is either just a beginning for both of them. Or it's just a side detail that is important but not a decisive factor. Behind them, there must be a greater purpose, more plans..."

Xia Yingchen said: "So..."

Qiu Danyang said: "No matter what plan they have, those things must be carried out outside Hezhou. With the princess's current strength, it has become a variable in their plan. The lower official guessed that the reason why they secretly supported the eldest prince , I don't really care whose hands Hezhou falls into, I just want to drag the princess to Hezhou..."

Xia Yingchen pondered for a while: "Your guess... has some truth, it's not far from the truth."

Qiu Danyang smiled bitterly and said: "The problem is that we don't know what they are doing at all, and we don't know what will happen to the world if those people achieve their goals. And the essence of Xuzhou is now in the hands of the princess, and no one is sure. Will they come to take it again?"

***

Xia Yingchen leaned on the jade chair, pondered for a long time, and suddenly said: "The essence of Xuzhou... Tianci... Tianzhu... Guixu... Well, I remembered something..."

Qiu Danyang said: "What the princess said is..."

Xia Yingchen said: "Mending the sky...creating a man!!!"

Qiu Danyang was stunned: "Mending the sky? Creating man?" He added: "According to what I know, mending the sky and creating man is just a legend. In fact, there is no such thing..."

Xia Yingchen said indifferently: "It's not a legend... But I'm not sure what those people did is really related to this."

Qiu Danyang stood at the foot of the steps and raised his head in puzzlement.

Xia Yingchen said: "Creating humans... let's not talk about it! As for 'repairing the sky', it was actually a plan of Emperor Fuxi back then. Why did I know about it? It's just an idea of ​​Fuxi, but from the very beginning, it didn't work, so Emperor Fuxi didn't take it seriously." Then his eyes lit up: "But that plan, although it didn't work back then, it doesn't work now. ...Well, it should be impossible to do it.”

Qiu Danyang said: "May I ask the princess to speak clearly?"

Xia Yingchen said: "Do you know that Fuxi was very disappointed with the world back then, thinking that the reason why the world's morals are broken and happy, and do all kinds of evil things is because they have nothing to fear, so they once created gods to make people People in the world are afraid? And "creating gods" goes a step further, that is, "replenishing the sky". Fuxi once imagined that the gods would rule the world with unified laws and measures, punish evil and promote good. These gods should be ruthless, There is no righteousness, far away from the secular world, and only punish the world with the law. The law used by the gods is called "Tian Tiao", also known as "Great Mistake", what good deeds, how to reward, and what evil deeds , how to punish, all in it.”

He continued: "For this reason, he had planned to dig out a piece of the sky and create a world to fill it up. Fuxi called it the 'Heaven World', and the Wuling World is actually the embryonic form of the Heaven World. The gods live high in the Heaven World Above all, the world is only rewarded and punished with divine power, and its real body cannot come to the world, and it will not be affected by human filth. Such a heaven is equivalent to a heavenly court that manages everything in the world, so it is called...the heaven!"

Qiu Danyang was moved: "Heavenly Court?!"

"Well," Xia Yingchen said, "Fuxi originally built the nine pillars of heaven. In fact, he wanted to nail them into the void after he created the heavenly court to make up for the sky that was dug out. But this plan, after making After taking a prototype, it was found that it was not feasible, just because the world was more unstable than Emperor Fuxi originally imagined. If he really wanted to do this, the whole world would be destroyed before the heaven was created. So Fuxi I gave up this idea, but instead changed it to gather the nine deserted islands above the prehistoric desolation into one place, nail them with heavenly pillars, and build the 'Shenzhou', and at the same time seal the Guixu to maintain the stability of this world."

... (To be continued..)