Chapter 246: Recalling the Emperor (2)
In Wuzhou City, a falcon descended from the sky.
Yinyuan's imperial edict arrived, ordering Lu Fu and Lu Yu to lead the army and return to Haojing quickly to protect the emperor.
The wording of the decree was extremely...cautious.
It was precisely because of the caution between the lines that Lu Yi sensed the sinister murderous intent hidden in the city of Haojing.
He immediately reported the imperial edict to Shenzui, and Shenzui's reply was simple - Lu Yi could do as he pleased, and no matter what happened, the Dajingang Temple would be his strongest support.
If Lu Yi wants to return to Haojing, then Shenzui and ten other elders of the Great Vajra Temple will secretly follow him and protect him.
Lu Yi started to get busy.
Lu Yu also obeyed the imperial edict and returned from Dongjie City with the Canglang Cavalry.
Lu Yi and Lu Yu selected mounts with the highest degree of ancestral bloodline and the fastest speed from their soldiers and horses. They could travel more than 20,000 miles in a day. The 80,000 elite cavalry, nearly 30,000 miles, set out from Wuzhou City as soon as possible and rushed back to Haojing.
The brothers Lu Jun and Lu Yi, together with Yu Dianhu and others beside Lu Yi, were commanding a large group of people in the rear, moving slowly along the road.
Naturally, the old monks Shenzui and others followed Lu Fu and Lu Yu as promised.
In Wuzhou City, which is the frontier position where the Jishengtian cultivators and Yuanlingtian invaders fight most frequently and where the Yuanlingtian invaders suffer the greatest losses, old monks such as Shenzui left, and the Wanhuan Sect from Mingzhou in the far east took their place and moved into Wuzhou City.
Wanhuan Sect, one of the orthodox Taoist sects, is good at various illusion arrays. Its most advanced array is said to be able to transform into a real world and make people sink into it forever.
As soon as they entered Wuzhou City, they began to set up various illusion arrays of varying sizes, filling the entire Wuzhou City with traps.
Because of the arrival of Wanhuan Sect, the old monk Shenzui and his party left again. The situation of the three religions in Wuzhou City became unbalanced. The Venerable Corpse Demon, who was a little uneasy, called his friends everywhere.
On the third day after Lu Yi and others led their troops to leave, the current master of the War Demon Palace, who was a close friend of the Corpse Demon Cave, and a group of high-level monks, also secretly entered Wuzhou City.
The two sects, two demonic sects, and the monastic forces in Wuzhou City have reached a delicate balance.
However, what made the Second Sword Master Chong and the Corpse Demon Venerable feel a little disappointed was that they had set up a tight net in Wuzhou City, but the Yuanlingtian cultivators who had suffered heavy losses around Wuzhou City never showed up again.
However, from the nearby Jizhou, news came that almost all the men in Jizhou City had been slaughtered.
However, the Yuan Lingtian cultivators are now causing trouble everywhere in Dayin, and more than one or two cities and counties have been massacred. The Second Sword Master Chong and his men did not pay much attention to this.
They are monks.
And those who were slaughtered were, after all, just mortals.
On August 11th, in the nineteenth year of Jiayou, relying on the return of their ancestral blood and mounts whose speed increased tenfold, the eighty thousand elite cavalrymen commanded by Lu Yi and Lu Yu finally returned to the outside of the east gate of Haojing.
The east gate of Haojing was tightly closed, and countless guards stood on the high city walls, at heights of twenty, fifty, or a hundred feet above the ground. Secret doors in the city walls were opened, and heavy crossbows, countless heavy crossbows, and powerful bows protruded from these secret doors.
Lu Yi rode up quickly on his black cloud beast, stood at the edge of the moat, and shouted at the guards at the east gate: "I am Lu Yi, and I have been ordered to return to the capital. Please open the city gates immediately and let my army enter the city."
At the top of the east gate wall, a sturdy young man wearing a helmet and armor poked his head out and sneered at Lu Yi: "Lord Tianyang, we have not received any news saying that there is an imperial decree for you to return to the army."
After coughing lightly, the young man shook his head and said, "Not to mention, you are a general who is ordered to go to war. The troops under your command are all 'foreign troops'. It is my duty to allow foreign troops to enter the city."
Before Lu Yi could speak, the young man suddenly started to yell in surprise: "Oh no, Lord Tianyang, are you planning to lead your troops into the city and start a rebellion?"
Lu Yi blinked his eyes.
In the army behind him, Lu Yu rode on the Wolf King and slowly moved forward. He suddenly shouted, and the pair of huge wings on the Wolf King's back spread out. With a "whoosh" sound and a strong wind, the Wolf King carried Lu Yu and flew easily to a height of three miles.
The wolf king was so fast that he reached the top of the city wall in an instant.
The strong young man who had been extremely arrogant just now was startled. When he saw the wolf king's head, which was several times larger than the water tank, suddenly appeared in front of him, the strong young man let out a strange cry and jumped back suddenly.
As soon as he jumped up, Lu Yu had already swung out with the whip in his hand.
With a loud 'snap', the armor on the young man's body was shattered by the whip. The whip, like a sharp knife, left a long wound on the young man's body that was deep to the bone. The young man was beaten to the ground, and blood spurted out of the wound like a stream.
"I know you, Lelang. You are one of the most useless bastards among the general's nephews. You are addicted to eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. You have fallen to such a low point that even the general is too lazy to pay attention to you and has thrown you here to guard the city gate. How dare you block my way?"
Lu Yi shook his head and slapped the dark cloud beast's head hard.
Seeing the Wolf King flying into the sky, the Dark Cloud Beast, which had been a little impatient for a long time, roared, and clouds and smoke surrounded its body. It rushed to the city wall in a "swish".
Before Lu Yi could speak, this guy had already raised his front hooves, opened his mouth and roared.
The neighing of the horses caused the wind and clouds on the city wall to change color. The imperial guards guarding the city within dozens of feet screamed in surprise. They were blown away by the roar of the Dark Cloud Beast one by one. The eardrums of many imperial guards who were close to them were shattered, and they saw blood spurting out of their ears.
Lu Yi gently stroked the head of the Dark Cloud Beast and said coldly, "Uncle is right. I am also curious. My relationship with the general is not so bad, right? General, why do you want to stop us from returning to the city? Could it be that the general wants to rebel?"
Le Lang rolled and twitched on the ground. He still had some cultivation. With the status of the Le family in Dayin today, they could easily push him to the tenth level of the Kaijing Realm by just using all their resources.
This level of cultivation was enough for Le Lang to use Yuan Gang to suppress the pain, seal the wound and stop the bleeding.
Seeing Lu Yi and Lu Yu riding their mounts, floating in the air above the city wall so magically, and hearing Lu Yi's malicious words , Le Lang hissed, "Nonsense, don't insult my innocence out of thin air... I, the Le family, am loyal to Dayin..."
Behind Le Lang, a feminine voice came from the city gate tower: "Enough, why are you talking so much nonsense? Since you Le clan have surrendered to our clan, even if you really rebel, what are you afraid of?"
The gate of the city gate tower opened, and dozens of young men and women wearing blood-red robes, with their hair and eyebrows tinged with a faint blood color, their eyes slightly bloodshot, and their lips and skin as white as snow, walked out slowly.
The young man walking in front, who was feminine and handsome with a wisp of blood-colored smoke lingering around him, glanced at the mounts of Lu Yi and Lu Yu, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Huh? I didn't expect that such a decent-quality beast could be seen in Jishengtian."
Shaking his head, the young man said coldly: "Since you are here, don't leave... Since my Blood River Sect is the first to enter this city, according to the Supreme Immortal Order, this city of Gaojing is the territory of my Blood River Sect."
"We are just trying to establish our authority, and you seem to have some skills left, so..."
The young man grinned, and a blood-red flag about three meters long emerged from his right hand out of thin air. He waved the flag lightly, and there was a dull rumbling sound of water, and a blood river ten miles long in the void rolled out from the flag.
The sticky blood river exuded a pungent smell of blood. In the rolling blood waves, men, women, old and young with distorted faces were screaming and struggling. Sometimes they were thrown into the depths of the blood river by the waves, and sometimes they poked their heads out of the blood water wailing, constantly uttering all kinds of hysterical wails, pleas, or painful curses.
On the city wall, countless guardsmen dropped their weapons clanking all over the ground. Many of them trembled, their legs softened, and they just knelt down.
It’s true... Dayin has enjoyed peace for a long time, and these imperial guards haven’t experienced a battle in many years.
Even if they were elite soldiers who had fought in hundreds of battles...who had ever seen such a horrific sight?
The blood river rolled, and the shrill sound spread for hundreds of miles. In particular, the fierce blood light emitted by the blood river illuminated the area within dozens of miles in scarlet red. The void was filled with inexplicable evil power, and many soldiers felt that there was something in their body, which was seeping out from the pores bit by bit uncontrollably.
Such a scene is simply not of this world.
The fact that these imperial guards did not faint from fright proves that they are brave enough.
"Blood River Sect, Luo Qi!"
The young man holding a banner and covered in blood and smoke chuckled: "Do you want to go in by yourself, or do you want me to make more trouble? If you go in by yourself, I will let you die more easily. Of course, you will still suffer a lot after death."
"But if I have to do more, you will have to suffer more before you die."
Lu Yi looked at Luo Qi and asked him curiously, "So, is there any difference between suffering more before death and continuing to suffer after death?"
Luo Qian was stunned for a moment. He turned around and laughed loudly at the group of fellow disciples behind him: "Interesting, interesting, after all these years, this is the first time someone has asked me this question."
After laughing wildly for a while, Luo Qian smiled and said, "Okay, your stupid question makes me very happy, so I will be merciful and answer you - of course there is no difference... Hahahaha, anyway, endless pain is waiting for you!"
Lu Yi patted the big head of the Dark Cloud Beast, slowly jumped off the horse, and stood on the battlement of the city wall.
He stepped hard on the battlements of the city wall and felt that it was strong enough. After all, it was a magical wall that had gone through wind, frost, snow and rain for countless thousands of years without leaving any traces.
After a light cough, Lu Yi took out the Diamond Spear and threw it at Luo Qi.
"Okay, I'll jump into the river... I'll have to ask you to pass on my gun to someone who's destined to have it!"
Lu Yi did not activate the Diamond Spear.
So there was no unusual sign on the Diamond Spear.
He didn't use any magical powers, he just simply threw the Vajra Spear over.
Luo Qian laughed loudly and casually reached for the King Kong Spear: "Interesting, interesting, the shape of this spear..."
As he got the spear, Luo Qian's smile suddenly froze.
The sound of bones breaking was heard continuously as the Diamond Spear smashed into Luo Qian's body, directly smashing him into a meat pie.
With a loud bang, the Diamond Spear bounced off the ground, spun around, and smashed into a group of Blood River Sect disciples.
More than a dozen Blood River Sect disciples screamed and wailed as their limbs were easily smashed by the spear that weighed as much as an elephant.
