In the Taoist Palace, Dao Chengzi ordered, "Miao Xuan, arrange a few disciples to help Qing Chengzi's family take over the Yan Kingdom."
A figure walked up and said respectfully, "Yes, Master."
The Xuanzong elders were silent for a moment. One of them couldn't help but say, "First Elder, please reconsider. Our sect is detached from worldly affairs and has never interfered with the affairs of the secular countries. If we interfere with the internal affairs of the Yan Kingdom, we will be criticized."
Dao Chengzi said lightly, "The Yan Kingdom is a small country. They are willing to be the loyal dog of the Zhou Dynasty and look down on the Xuanzong. If we don't punish them as an example, there will be others who don't know what's good for them in the future. I will show my power. No one is allowed to say anything."
Tian Jizi had personally ordered that the Grand Elder would take over after the Sect Master left the sect.
The group of elders couldn't disobey his decision.
The Grand Elder's personality wasn't good before, but it wasn't like this.
Everyone faintly felt that he had lost all face in front of all the cultivators in the world. A demon had already formed in his heart, and it was causing his personality to change from extreme to even more extreme. If this continued, no one knew what would happen to Xuanzong.
The more he wanted to protect the sect's reputation, the more the sect's reputation would be lost.
If he had dealt with it impartially and handed over Qing Chengzi, the sect's reputation would still be slightly damaged, but things wouldn't have turned out this way.
All the dojos were taken back, the outer sect disciples were expelled, and the inner sect disciples were ostracized in the Great Zhou and the Yao Kingdom. In the hearts of all the cultivators, the thousand-year-old sect's reputation was ruined. At this moment, many elders began to doubt whether Tian Jizi's decision was right.
Under the Grand Elder's arrangement, a few elders of the Fifth Realm left the sect quietly and went to the Yan Kingdom.
A few days later, in the Divine Capital of the Great Zhou.
In the morning court, the envoy of the Yan Kingdom knelt in the Ziwei Palace and begged, "The rebels of the Yan Kingdom have surrounded the palace. I am under the orders of the King of Yan to ask for help from the Shangguan Kingdom!"
Li Mu stood in front of the palace, looking surprised.
His original intention was to put pressure on Qing Chengzi's family through the imperial court of the Yan Kingdom, but he didn't expect that the Zhao family of the Yan Kingdom would rebel.
He once asked the envoy of the Yan Kingdom. The Zhao Family was only a mid-level cultivation family and did not have the power to rebel. The power controlled by the royal family of the Yan Kingdom was enough to destroy the Zhao Family ten times over.
To be able to force the royal family of the Yan Kingdom into such a situation, there must be someone behind the Zhao family.
Obviously, Xuanzong was the only one with such strength and a reason to help the Zhao family.
The spies of the imperial court in Xuanzong sent back news that after Li Mu and the others left, the Hierarch of Xuanzong, Miao Yunzi, also went out to travel. At this time, the person in charge of Xuanzong was the Grand Elder Taoist priest, Cheng Zi.
With his personality, who valued face more than anything else, he was capable of doing such a thing.
The request for help from the Yan Kingdom's envoy caused a huge commotion in the imperial court.
After some discussion, a civil official said hesitantly, "Your Majesty, I think that this is the internal affairs of the Yan Kingdom. Great Zhou should not interfere."
The Yan Kingdom was a vassal state of Great Zhou and paid tribute to Great Zhou every year. Great Zhou had the responsibility to protect the Yan Kingdom, but the premise was that the Yan Kingdom was invaded by foreign forces. If someone in the Yan Kingdom rebelled, it was the internal affairs of the Yan Kingdom. Since the founding of the Yan Kingdom, Great Zhou had not interfered in the internal affairs of other countries, except for the Shen Kingdom, which provoked the Yan Kingdom.
This was the important reason why the southern countries had always been at ease with Great Zhou and paid tribute to the Yan Kingdom.
This time, Great Zhou could send troops to help the Yan Kingdom with the reason of bringing order to the chaos. Next time, it might use other reasons to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. Once this rule was broken, the southern countries would be in a state of panic, which was not good for the stability of the Zu Continent.
After some discussion, the officials of Great Zhou unanimously decided that the Great Zhou would not send troops to the Yan Kingdom because of the internal strife.
After the court, the officials of Great Zhou dispersed. The envoy of the Yan Kingdom walked out of the Ziwei Palace in a daze, his face full of sorrow.
This was the sorrow of a small country. Being caught in the middle of the great powers, its fate was no longer in its own control. The Yan Kingdom would soon fall into the hands of the rebels …
At this moment, a figure walked past him. Suddenly, something fell from his sleeve.
The envoy of the Yan Kingdom picked up a stack of yellow paper talismans and called out to the young official of Great Zhou who had plunged the Yan Kingdom into a whirlpool. He said in a hoarse voice, "Sir, you dropped something."
Li Mu turned his head and said lightly, "I didn't drop anything."
The envoy of the Yan Kingdom was stunned for a moment. He looked down at the stack of paper talismans in his hand. The talismans on the Fu-lu were extremely complicated. He felt a little dizzy just by looking at them. The talisman paper seemed to be made of special materials. Each piece of Fu-lu seemed to contain boundless power.
He had clearly dropped it just now. Why did he deny it?
The young official had already walked far away. The envoy of the Yan Kingdom seemed to have realized something. He suddenly raised his head and his breathing began to quicken.
Li Mu left the palace. He didn't go home. Instead, he went outside the city.
Outside the city gate on the west side of the Divine Capital, there was a wide open space. The craftsmen of the Ministry of Works were busy. A super-large cultivation market was about to be built here. The major sects and cultivation families of the Ancestral State were invited to move in. The purpose was to provide convenience for the cultivators of the Ancestral State.
They didn't have to travel thousands of miles to Xuanzong every five years. In the Divine Capital, they could exchange for or buy the cultivation supplies they needed at any time.
The imperial court also wouldn't charge them thirty to fifty percent of their turnover. They only had to pay a certain amount of taxes on time and they could continue to operate here. On the open space, the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works were very busy. This time, the deadline was tight and the task was heavy. They needed to build a super-large market in a month's time. Such a huge project would have taken at least half a year to complete in the past.
However, the imperial court was very fast this time. Within a day, the three provinces passed a resolution on the project. The Ministry of Revenue's funds were also sent in immediately. The craftsmen of the Ministry of Works came overnight to measure the site.
Li Mu checked the progress of the project before returning home.
When he was in Xuanzong, he promised the cultivators three months. Of course, Li Mu's goal wasn't to make a small profit but to attract business. He hoped that when the cultivators of the Zu Continent came to the Divine Capital three months later, they would be attracted by the bigger, more convenient, and cheaper cultivation market. They would completely forget about the Wealth Exchange in Xuanzong.
Although he wanted to immediately let Xiao Bai take revenge, he was still far from being able to face Xuanzong head-on. He could only weaken Xuanzong from the side and look for an opportunity later.
In these three months, Li Mu recruited the heads of the Fu-lu School. They couldn't guarantee a 100% success rate for creating high-level Fu-lu talismans, but they could for low-level Fu-lu talismans. Li Mu kept the Fu-lu talismans above the Earth-level for himself. Those below the Earth-level were handed over to them.
For the next few days, Li Mu stayed at home to draw talismans.
On a flying boat from the Great Zhou to the Yan Kingdom, a man touched the Fu-lu in his arms with an anxious expression. He didn't hesitate to overdraw his mana to increase the flying boat's speed to the maximum.
Yan Kingdom, Yan Capital.
Recently, a major event happened in the Yan Kingdom, causing the citizens of the Yan Kingdom to panic.
The famous Zhao Family of the Yan Kingdom recruited a few powerful cultivators from somewhere and rebelled against the royal family. After defeating the royal family's guards, they forced the royal family into the palace.
Until the royal family activated the protective array, the two sides were in a temporary stalemate.
Several figures floated in the air and attacked the array that covered the palace. The light of spells illuminated the entire sky, but the array didn't show any abnormalities other than shaking slightly.
The head of the Zhao Family flew into the air and said to a middle-aged man, "Elder, the royal family bought this array from the Spirit Array Sect at a high price in the early years. It is said that it can withstand the attacks of powerful cultivators from Dongxuan …"
The middle-aged man looked down at the array outside the Yan Kingdom's palace and said calmly, "It can withstand the attacks of a Sixth Level cultivator, but without a Sixth Level cultivator, it will take a few days to break this array."
The head of the Zhao Family said, "I am worried about the Great Zhou court. The royal family must have asked the Great Zhou court for help. If the Great Zhou court sends troops …"
The middle-aged man said, "Don't worry. This is a matter of the Yan Kingdom. The Great Zhou court will not send troops. If they do, the sect will not sit by and watch."
The head of the Zhao Family breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then I am relieved."
Inside the array, the royal family of the Yan Kingdom looked at the figures floating in the air with bitter expressions.
An elder sighed and said, "I didn't expect Xuanzong to make a move. To deal with a small country like the Yan Kingdom, they sent several Elders. They want to slap the Great Zhou's face, but the Yan Kingdom has suffered an unexpected calamity …"
The middle-aged man in the imperial robe said, "Now, we can only place our hopes on the Great Zhou court."
The elder shook his head and said, "The Great Zhou court will not send troops. When the array is broken, the Yan Kingdom will change hands. We can only hate the fact that the Yan Kingdom is so weak that we can't even control our own destiny …"
Although the array bought by the royal family of the Yan Kingdom from the Spirit Array Sect was strong, it could not withstand the continuous attacks of several Fifth Level cultivators. In just two days, the array was at its limit.
The head of the Zhao Family floated in the air and looked at the array that was trembling violently under the attack of spells. A trace of passion appeared in his eyes.
The Yan Kingdom would soon be under the Zhao Family.
In at most a few hours, the array would be broken.
However, at this moment, a ray of light suddenly approached from afar. It was a flying boat. The head of the Zhao Family was no stranger to the flying boat. He was the Yan Kingdom's permanent envoy to the Great Zhou.
Only the envoy returned. The head of the Zhao Family understood that the Great Zhou must not have sent troops. The smile on his face grew wider.
As the smile appeared on his face, a rolling sound came from the front.
"Die, renegade!"
The envoy stood at the bow of the boat and threw out a few Fu-lu notes. Suddenly, several figures in golden armor appeared in the air. They held huge weapons and exuded an extremely powerful aura.
The head of the Zhao Family was stunned. He said in shock, "What is this?"
Looking at the golden-armored soldiers, the few Xuan Sect elders were also stunned. When they came back to their senses, the elder in the lead immediately said in horror, "It's a level-six soldier. Retreat, retreat quickly!"
…
The news from the Yan Kingdom reached the Fairy's Capital five days later.
In the Yan Kingdom, the Zhao Family rebelled and forced the emperor to abdicate. In the end, the Zhao Family was suppressed by the royal family. Because of the serious crime of rebellion, the entire Zhao Family was executed. Only the son, Zhao Chengyuan, who was in Xuanzong, escaped.
In the Li Residence, Li Mu peeled an orange and fed Xiao Bai and Wanwan a slice each.
That Qing Chengzi should be able to understand part of the pain that Xiao Bai went through now, right?
In Xuanzong.
Qing Chengzi knelt on the ground with a blank expression. He had yet to recover from the heavy blow.
His family failed to seize power and was executed by the royal family of the Yan Kingdom. Now, he was the only member of the Zhao Family who was still alive.
How could this be? How could this be? The Yan Kingdom was only a small kingdom. The most powerful person in the royal family was only at the Fifth Level. This time, the sect directly sent five Fifth Level elders. How could this fail? How could his family die?
Dao Chengzi's face darkened. He asked, "What happened?"
A Fifth Level elder who came back from the Yan Kingdom said in grief and indignation, "It's the Golden Armor Divine Soldier Seal, a Heaven Level Golden Armor Divine Soldier Seal. The royal family of the Yan Kingdom summoned three Sixth Level Divine Soldiers. We were no match for them at all. If they didn't intend to let us go, all the disciples would have died in the Yan Kingdom …"
Miao Xuanzi gritted his teeth and said, "Fu-lu School. It must be the Fu-lu School's interference. Other than them, who else can draw a Heaven Level Golden Armor Divine Soldier Seal? The Fu-lu School forbids the sale of offensive Heaven Level Golden Armor Divine Soldier Seals. How dare the Fu-lu School break the rules!"
A Golden Armor Talisman could temporarily summon a Sixth Realm Divine Soldier. With such a high level combat power, it could easily annihilate most of the small and medium sects and small and medium countries, causing great chaos. Therefore, none of the Daoist sects were allowed to sell Heaven Tier offensive talismans. This was the consensus of the six sects.
Miao Xuanzi said coldly, "I'll go ask Xuan Jizi and see how he explains it!"
He came to a Taoist palace and sat on a white jade chair. After activating it with his mana, Xuan Jizi, who was preaching to his disciples in the Taoist palace on the main peak of the Fu-lu School in the North Region, felt something and waved his hand. In the center of the Taoist palace, an illusory figure appeared out of thin air.
Xuan Jizi looked at the illusory figure below and asked, "Miao Xuanzi, what brings you here so suddenly?"
Miao Xuanzi asked in a deep voice, "Xuan Jizi, don't play dumb with me. Did your Fu-lu School give the Yan Kingdom a few Golden Armor Divine Soldier Seals? You should know that this kind of Fu-lu is forbidden to be sold!"
Xuan Jizi denied, "Our sect has never sold the Golden Armor Divine Soldier Seals."
Miao Xuanzi snorted, "Do you think you can recognize it? Other than your Fu-lu School, which other sects and families can draw Heaven Level Fu-lu, and Heaven Level Golden Armor Fu-lu at that!"
Xuan Jizi shook his head, "Our sect has never sold the Golden Armor Divine Soldier Seals, but a few days ago, Junior Brother Ling Jizi sent a message saying that the few high level Fu-lu he carried with him were stolen. Perhaps it was the thief who stole them and sold them. It has nothing to do with our Fu-lu School …"
"Lost?"
Miao Xuanzi said angrily, "Xuan Jizi, do you think I'm a three-year-old kid?"
Xuan Jizi looked at him and said lightly, "The runes of the Golden Armor Divine Soldier Seals can be found in any introductory book of Talisman Taoism. The world is so big that there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers. It's normal that a master who is good at Talisman Taoism can draw this kind of talisman. Without any evidence, don't blame our Fu-lu School for everything. Do you think that Xuanzong must be behind someone in the Yan Kingdom's rebel army who used high level Taoist magic arts?"
Miao Xuanzi's lips moved, but he was speechless. Finally, he waved his sleeves and the projection gradually dissipated.
Seeing him disappear, Xuan Jizi took out his Voice-transmitting Celestial Artifact. After activating it, he said, "Junior Brother, next time this kind of thing happens, remember to use a Fu-lu that they have never seen before. Once the Golden Armor Divine Soldier Seals are used, everyone will know it's our Fu-lu School …"
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
