Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Looking at the black armored general who bowed to him in front of him, Jiang Chengwan's expression became a little complicated for no reason.

After a while, she shook her head, and said softly, "Brother Huang, you don't need to be too polite."

As she spoke, she slowly placed the jade seal in her hand on the table, then stretched out her hand to wipe off the sweat from her slightly sluggish face.

Opening the battle formation, opening up the space tunnel, and summoning Xuanwuwei from the Cangming Realm thousands of miles away to Ziji City, although it is with the help of the tyrannical crape myrtle energy gathered above Ziji City, the ancient formation was built and maintained. Its operation requires the use of its own Holy Spirit power.

Maintaining the ancient formation until all the 30,000 soldiers of the Xuanwu Guard came to Ziji City, such a huge consumption was obviously too much for the sixteen-year-old empress.

King Cangming naturally noticed the strange expression on the empress' face.

But he didn't say much.

Jiang Chengwan sat on the dragon chair, relaxed for a while, then raised her head, looked at her, and said slowly: "Brother Huang, can you take off the visor?"

"certainly."

King Cangming replied without hesitation, then raised his hand, and pressed lightly on both sides of the visor.

click

There was only a crisp metal interlacing sound, and the visor that was firmly fixed was taken off like this.

Ever since he was selected by the holy relic and became the king of Cangming who ruled millions of soldiers and civilians in the Cangming Territory, he has been wearing a mask to hide his identity, and his face has not appeared in front of people for eight years. in front of the empress.

It was the face of a man who looked somewhat similar to the Empress.

Sword eyebrows and star eyes, handsome and extraordinary.

Between the brows, there is an air of nobility that makes people feel ashamed.

Although he already knew the true identity of the extremely mysterious King Cangming in the eyes of the world, Jiang Chengwan still felt dazed when he saw his true face.

After a while, she spoke slowly:

"I haven't seen you for many years. Brother Huang has changed so much compared to before that I almost can't recognize him anymore."

Jiang Chengdao, the real name of King Cangming, is also the name of the fifth prince who is a sibling of her mother and six years older than her.

Yes, Cangming King Jiang Chengdao is her biological elder brother.

Eight years ago, Jiang Chengdao suddenly disappeared without warning, as if he had evaporated from the world.

No matter how much manpower was used to search, the Embroidered Yiwei and Zhu Xiesi went out in full force, but they couldn't find even a trace of clues.

Suffering such a heavy blow suddenly, Jiang Chengwan's mother and concubine fell ill, and soon died of depression.

Before dying, she didn't confess anything to Jiang Chengwan, she just asked her to take good care of herself.

But Jiang Chengwan still secretly swore in her heart that no matter what, no matter whether it was life or death, she must find her elder brother and give an explanation to her mother and concubine under the nine springs.

However, what she didn't expect was that after accidentally obtaining the complete inheritance of the holy way in the jade seal, she fulfilled the oath.

At the same time, she also learned the truth about the disappearance of her brother who had always been filial and respectful in her impression.

A truth about the holy relics, the four great holy lands of Central Continent, and the holy king that only the Supreme is qualified to know.

Jiang Chengdao was neither kidnapped nor assassinated, but was accidentally selected by the holy relic passed down from generation to generation in the holy land in the northern part of Central Continent—【Nine Serenity】, and then summoned to Cangming Realm to become one of the four holy kings of Central Continent Cangming King.

The so-called holy land is the area where the supreme formation built by the saints in ancient times to suppress the evil spirits of the ages is located.

The holy land is full of all kinds of demons and monsters who have suppressed most of their power, but can be reborn infinitely. They will try their best to kill the creatures in the holy land and weaken the power of the formation.

The meaning of the existence of the Holy King is to protect the people of the Holy Realm and prevent evil spirits from destroying the formation and causing harm to the world.

This is a secret that only the Holy King himself, the Supreme, and very few existences know.

The world only knows that the holy relic contains extremely powerful power. Every holy king selected by the holy relic is the strongest in the world. It is so powerful that even if a prosperous dynasty uses the power of the whole country to attack the holy land, it cannot shake its existence. the point.

It's just that this power can basically only be used in the holy territory, otherwise it will be backlashed by heaven.

So no matter what happens outside the holy realm, they don't care.

Whether in troubled times or prosperous times.

Peasant uprisings, warlord turmoil, and even dynasty changes.

No matter how the outside world changes, the holy land will not react and remain indifferent.

Therefore, the land of the four realms has been an extremely special existence in all dynasties.

Each holy land is equivalent to a completely independent country.

Although nominally belonging to the imperial court's vassal state, in fact, they are neither under the imperial court's jurisdiction nor involved in anything happening in the outside world, and only maintain the most basic vassal state policies and exchanges.

Moreover, they only recognize the dynasty that holds the jade seal. Whoever holds the jade seal is orthodox, and the change of dynasty will not have any impact on them, and this has precisely contributed to the legal inheritance of the Central Continent unified dynasty.

Over time, the leading figures no longer care about this tough bone that poses no threat.

It is precisely because the power of the Holy King is extremely strong that Jiang Chengwan has a chance to come back.

If it wasn't for the unexpected hole card of the Holy King as a reliance, if it wasn't for the fact that one of the Four Great Holy Kings, Cangming King, was her own brother who was willing to follow her orders unconditionally, no matter how thoughtful and intelligent Jiang Chengwan was, It is absolutely impossible for them to have a chance to come back from the desperate situation under the eyes of the Queen Mother Zhao.

After all, even if it is the supreme being, if he wants to order the holy king, he must have enough strength.

The strength in this aspect does not refer to one's own force, skills, or spells, but the authority, general trend, belief, and control of one's ruler.

And she is a puppet emperor with fart authority.

With her current strength, it would be difficult to even support the Holy King to exert 10% of her strength.

Without enough strength, even if it is Supreme, the Holy King can ignore him, so whether to help her is entirely up to the Holy King voluntarily.

Or maybe she is really the Human Emperor whom destiny belongs to. When she was in a desperate situation, one of the only four holy kings who could save her happened to be her only relative now.

While thinking about it, the elder brother in memory who tried everything to protect her gradually overlapped with the bloody and heroic Supreme Saint King in front of him.

Finally two into one.

At this time, Jiang Chengdao raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and said slowly in a rather magnetic voice: "Your Majesty gave me the feeling that I am not the little girl who only hid behind me and shivered back then, in various senses. "

Hearing this, Jiang Chengwan's eyes froze for some unknown reason.

"Because I want to live."

As if he could feel the cruelty and weight in these words, the smile on Jiang Chengdao's face gradually subsided.

"Feel sorry."

Jiang Chengwan shook her head, "Brother Huang, don't worry about it, it's not your fault."

Jiang Chengdao smiled slightly, then turned his head and looked at Xuanwuwei who filed out of the window.

"It's almost time to finish with that woman."

"Um."

Jiang Chengwan nodded, then raised her hands, and her ten fingers quickly transformed into formulas one by one.

Miaoman's body continuously gushed out bursts of powerful holy spirit power, and then quickly sank into the jade seal under the traction of a huge force.

A few breaths later, with the activation of the holy spirit technique, countless light particles suddenly shot out from the jade seal.

Then the light particles continued to gather, forming nine fist-sized golden light balls that were constantly rotating in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Chengwan put down her hand and looked around at the golden ball of light revolving around Yuxi, then her eyes suddenly narrowed, the power of the Holy Spirit exploded again, and a dense layer of ancient spells appeared on the surface of all the light balls at the same time.

At the same time, the twenty city gates in all directions of Luojing City suddenly trembled strangely.

"what happened?!"

The gate guards looked around in horror.

However, before they could find the abnormality, there were several extremely dull and heavy noises in the corridor.

Boom boom boom! !

The seven thick city gates suddenly fell heavily.

Not only that, but on each city gate, there is a formation with the word "seal" in the middle, which slowly circulates.

The moment the last city gate fell, a pillar of light burst out from the top of the tower in four directions, and then a golden translucent energy shield quickly rose from the middle of each pillar of light, completely enveloping the entire Luojing. , so that it is completely isolated from the outside world.

At this moment, Luo Jing is like a small closed world, if there is no special means, not to mention birds, maybe not even a fly can fly in, let alone fly out.

And the permanent imperial guards stationed in Luojing, even including the Habayashi guards, totaled less than 200,000.