Not everybody knew that the Immortal Tan had arrived.
As Jing Jiu saw him, the Immortal Tan was in the high sky, a black speck in the eyes of the people on the ground.
The Immortal Tan couldn't enter the Empty Realm with Jing Xin, so he didn't travel very fast. As a result, the small green curtain sedan led by Shui Yue Nunnery got ahead of him.
It was also because his Escape Method of Heaven and Earth wasn't famous for its speed, which was similar to Liu Ci's in this aspect.
The Immortal Tan landed on the ground. More and more people noticed his arrival, uttering many surprised screams. Some chancellors walked out of the grand hall hurriedly. The divine crossbows on the city wall changed their direction automatically. The Great Formation of the royal palace reacted the fastest, emitting a deep green glow in an instant, as if it had turned into a solid ceramic piece.
The Great Formation of the royal palace didn't have such a strong reaction even when a dozen cloud boats of the Zhongzhou School pressed forward. It could be imagined how powerful the Great Formation of the royal palace was.
The patch of cloud and fog above the Yintian Gate grew thicker, enshrouding Bai Zhenren completely.
Qing Feng, Chen Guang and the Immortal Tan arrived together.
Standing in the sky and looking at Jing Jiu in front of the grand hall, the Immortal Tan said, "You know who the Great Formation of the royal palace can't stop."
Six hundred years ago, the Aoyama Sect and other major sects in the world built the Great Formation of the royal palace together. If these sects couldn't even break through the Great Formation of the royal palace, it was tantamount to tying up their own hands, and the system of the Plum Meeting would be meaningless. Moreover, the Zhongzhou School played an important role in the design and construction of the Great Formation of the royal palace.
The Immortal Tan took out a jade board and showed it to heaven and earth in all directions. "The Cloud-Dream Decree is issued; heaven and earth receive it," he said with a dull expression.
As this statement spread out in heaven and earth, a powerful and profound energy came out from his body. The light green circle enshrouding the palace halls suddenly grew a few times larger, and the invisible barrier grew thinner and more fragile, quivering slightly with the wind like a bubble that could burst at any moment.
The Immortal Tan intended to break through the Great Formation of the royal palace of Zhaoge City merely by employing the Cloud-Dream Decree!
The Zhongzhou School's cloud ships slowly moved forward again, preparing to take control of the entire Imperial City the moment the formation was broken.
Jing Jiu raised his head and looked at the huge cloud ships in the sky. He flicked his finger and a snap sounded.
Following his movements, the stone pillars that represented holiness in the palace suddenly shot out countless beams of clear light, shooting towards those cloud ships like giant arrows.
Seeing this scene, the ministers and guards were all stunned. They were extremely familiar with the imperial palace, but they never thought that the stone pillars actually hid such power!
In the depths of the royal palace, Master Jin and Master Niu were sitting across from each other, separated by a slowly rotating jade plate. Suddenly, the jade plate emitted an infinite amount of white light, and the powerful Qi sent them flying into the wall. They looked at each other and saw the shock and helplessness in each other's eyes.
It was only now that they realized that someone else was controlling the Imperial City's grand formation. It was pointless for them to stay here and watch.
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The Great Formation of the royal palace was stabilized again. The Cloud-Dream Decree was blocked by the green bamboo board in Jing Jiu's hand. The cloud ships of the Zhongzhou School retreated again.
A few large holes appeared on the belly of one of the cloud ships. A dozen Daoist masters were mending the holes nervously, hovering in midair.
The Immortal Tan exclaimed in surprise, "It turns out that the Emperor has handed over the Great Formation of the royal palace to you."
Jing Jiu stood up and said, "I wasn't in Zhaoge City when the formation was built, but I'm familiar with this palace hall."
It was then that the chancellors in the grand hall and the Cultivation practitioners in the surroundings remembered that Jing Jiu had another identity: he was the uncle of the Emperor. The Immortal Tan was not present at the time, so he didn't know about it. He said while looking at those stone pillars, "As far as I know, these weren't included in the original Great Formation of the royal palace. I think they were hidden by your Big Brother back then."
Jing Jiu said, "I learned about them from his notes. He called them the Twelve Space-Breaking Magic Cannons. It was said that one cannonball could kill a swordsman in the Broken Sea State."
Hearing this, the scholars of Yimaozhai on the Boat of Diligent Study had a strange expression on their faces. The elders of the Zhongzhou School, like Yue Qianmen, who were in the Lianxu State, had terrible expressions on their faces. If what Jing Jiu said was true, how many people would have died when the cloud ships of the Center Sect broke in when the Great Formation of the royal palace was opened?
The Immortal Tan said with a bitter smile, "The sword comes out of Aoyama, and the people respect its straightforwardness. Who would have thought that it has so many tricks up its sleeves?"
Jing Jiu said, "You're right."
What he said was true. The Zhongzhou School also had the Cloud-Dream Decree as a backup, and even the Guocheng Temple and Yimaozhai Cultivation sects had some tricks up their sleeves, but nobody knew about it.
"But they still can't stop me."
Having said this, the Immortal Tan walked down from the sky.
He was really using his feet. He walked down step by step, as if he was walking on an invisible ladder.
His energy had been completely restrained, and he looked like a regular old man, or a part of the sky.
The Great Formation of the royal palace had gradually calmed down, and the green glow had vanished without a trace. The dividing line could no longer be seen.
When the Immortal Tan was only a few thousand feet away from the ground, his gray hair and cloth suddenly tousled backward, as if a gust of wind had blown over his face.
It was very peaceful in the sky. Where did the wind come from?
The place where the wind came from was the edge of the Great Formation of the royal palace.
The Immortal Tan didn't stop there. He took another step in the sky.
The strong wind whipped up, tousling his hair and cloth. The straight lines of his hair gave off a crisp and moving sound, like the fairy music.
In the next moment, the wind stopped. The Immortal Tan had already arrived in the Great Formation of the royal palace, and he brought Jing Xin, a regular person, with him.
The Great Formation of the royal palace couldn't stop him, the same as the Great Formation of Shui Yue Nunnery couldn't stop him.
Six hundred years were enough for the Zhongzhou School, which had countless believers in Zhaoge City, to learn about the Great Formation of the royal palace and the methods employed by other sects; but it was still incredible that the Immortal Tan could stroll into the Great Formation of the royal palace. It was probably the highest state of the magic methods of the Daoist sects.
Seeing the Immortal Tan land on the ground, there was a commotion in the royal palace. Dozens of officials rushed out of the grand hall and knelt down before him, calling him the Immortal Sect Master.
Some old chancellors bowed to Jing Xin from a distance, their old tears streaming down their cheeks; they looked very sad.
Jing Yao got up slowly and left the throne. He came to the outside of the grand hall under the gaze of Prime Minister Qin and the others, looking at Jing Xin in the distance.
The two brothers eyed each other, speechless.
Jing Jiu didn't pay any attention to the chancellors running past him. He said to the Immortal Tan, "Your Heaven and Earth Wrong Steps is indeed the best in the world, and it's the best in the last one thousand years."
"You flatter me, Immortal," said the Immortal Tan. "It's because I like to travel in heaven and earth that I know a thing or two about it."
Jing Jiu said, "Though heaven and earth are vast, it's still too small for you."
The Immortal Tan said, "Though the human world is small, it's already a wonderful place."
There was a deep meaning behind these two sentences, but not many people could fully understand them.
Jing Jiu suggested that he shouldn't focus his attention on the human world and the throne, but should aim for a higher place.
Yet, the Immortal Tan advised Jing Jiu that he shouldn't go against the will of the human world and the throne, and that it was not a good thing to bring chaos to the human world.
A sorrowful cry of a bird broke out in the sky in the west.
The Cold-Signal Bird of the Kunlun Sect had arrived, and so had some other sects; but there were fewer of them than expected. Judging by the situation in Zhaoge City that day, the Zhongzhou School and the Aoyama Sect, the two leaders of the orthodox Cultivation sects, would probably start a war. Many sects who didn't think they were powerful enough didn't even dare watch the battle, for fear of being caught in the crossfire. None of the sects in the south were present. It was customary for the Mirror Sect, the Platanus Sect, and the Ōzawa Sect to be absent from the Cultivation circle. What the people didn't understand was why the Aoyama Sect didn't send anyone here.
According to the rules of the Plum Meeting, the Aoyama Sect couldn't interfere with the succession of the royal family; but who didn't know what the Aoyama Sect had done over the years?
Even if the Sword Boat of Aoyama didn't come, what about Yuan Qijing? What about Fang Jingtian?
At the moment, Jing Jiu was alone in the royal palace.
Some people thought that Jing Jiu, who claimed to be the Immortal Sect Master of Aoyama, had been expelled from Aoyama. Did the Aoyama Sect have no intention of starting a war with the Zhongzhou School?
"You can leave with the Prince Jing Yao and the Royal Concubine Hu, or go to Aoyama or the West Ocean. I swear as the Sect Master of Zhongzhou that I won't pursue them, and I can even guarantee their safety." The Immortal Tan continued calmly while looking at Jing Jiu, "What I can also promise is that the Plum Meeting will remain the same, without any change."
Through these two statements, the Immortal Tan had clearly expressed the intention of the Zhongzhou School, which was to restore the original intention of the Plum Meeting: to control the whole of Chaotian by controlling the Jing Imperial Court, unlike what had happened over the last few years, when the Jing Imperial Court had gradually broken away from the control of the Cloud-Dream Mountain and became a powerful sect on an equal footing with the major Cultivation sects.
"The chaos in the world, the destruction of Zhaoge City, and the lives in misery and suffering are not what I want."
Looking at the Cultivation practitioners around him, the Immortal Tan said, "Please testify for me, Cultivation friends."
His expression was still as dull as before, and his voice was still as dull as before, but he gave off a feeling that he was trustworthy.
The scholars of Yimaozhai on the Boat of Diligent Study said something, but Bu Qiuxiao remained silent.
The Lotus Sedan in the distant morning glow in the south was also quiet.
Though the Guocheng Temple had always been close to the Jing Imperial Court, they had never participated in the fight for the throne, which was a rule of the temple.
The only reason Zen Master came here that day was Jing Jiu. As long as Jing Jiu was fine, he wouldn't have any objection.
It was unclear if the Zhongzhou School had learned its lesson from the last few years, or it was because it was the Immortal Tan who was in charge of the affairs this time instead of Bai Zhenren that the way they handled things had changed.
Like what Tong Yan had predicted, they did things in an aboveboard manner.
In the folk dramas and the common people, what the Zhongzhou School had done could be regarded as a rebellion, an extremely evil and wicked act; but it was not the case for the people in the Cultivation circle. The major Cultivation sects had always been the guardians and masters of the order in Chaotian. The imperial power had never been the highest; but the situation had changed slightly in the last few hundred years. If the Zhongzhou School wished to appoint an emperor, they only needed to discuss it with the Aoyama Sect and other Cultivation sects, no matter in terms of reason or reason.
It was deathly quiet in the Royal Palace.
Countless gazes were fixed on Jing Jiu, waiting for his answer.
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