Chapter 255: Welcome Back (1)
September 2, the 19th year of Jiayou.
The Queen Mother held a banquet in the imperial city, and the Emperor attended with several of his beloved concubines.
In the Imperial Garden of the Imperial City, the sky was high and the air was fresh, with beautiful scenery everywhere. The emperor played the jade flute at the banquet, which attracted the geese passing by in the sky to sing along.
The Queen Mother wiped away her tears in public and accused the Emperor of "not doing his job properly". She said that the Emperor, with his dignity as an emperor, was "like an actor, serving people with his voice and beauty"!
The emperor was horrified and knelt down to defend himself. The empress dowager turned her sleeves, threw the cup, and scolded the emperor.
The emperor returned to Jiuqu Garden in disgrace with several of his concubines.
The imperial city is like a big sieve, and no news can be concealed. The news that the queen mother denounced the emperor at the banquet quickly spread throughout Haojing, and naturally also reached Lu Yi who was shopping with Qingyou and the other two girls.
Carrying a small cage woven from bamboo skin, listening to the crisp chirping of the green-headed katydid inside, Lu Yi sighed.
"The emperor is filial. He...has been waiting for the queen mother and the general to take the initiative."
"By the way, I now truly believe that there really is such a thing as a 'brother-supporting demon' in the world!"
'The demon who supports her brother'?
The three girls, Qingyou, looked at Lu Yi in astonishment.
"Yes, it is a kind of terrifying creature that regards her younger brother as the most important person in the world. She is willing to give up everything like her husband and son for her younger brother."
"This kind of creature, tsk tsk ..."
Qingyou and the other two girls could not understand the meaning of the "brother-supporting demon", but they roughly knew that Lu Yi's words were full of dissatisfaction with the Queen Mother and the general.
Lu Yi returned to Haojing with tens of thousands of elite cavalry with terrifying combat power.
There are also ten powerful monks including Shenzui, who are now living in Jiuqu Garden.
Given the fact that General Le Wu was having an affair with the monks of the Blood River Sect, it would be easy for Shen Zui and his men to subdue the general in the name of "eliminating demons and defending the Way" and to massacre the entire Queen Mother's family with a thunderous force.
But... these days, despite the turmoil in Haojing, the person who organized Lu Yi, Lu Yu, Shen Zui and others to carry out the purge was none other than Emperor Yinyuan.
This emperor has a bad reputation.
Selling official positions and titles.
Blackmailing court officials.
Arrogant, extravagant and debauched.
Trust and favor treacherous ministers.
The emperor was charged with various notorious crimes and his reputation was ruined by the wind.
In the deepest part of his heart, there was actually such a touch of snow-white softness... He was simply unable to take the initiative to be cruel to his mother and uncle.
Even though he had already smelled something wrong.
Even though he had worked diligently to amass wealth over the years, carefully assembled a trusted army, and deployed countless defensive measures against General Le's family... he was actually too soft-hearted to take the initiative.
"However, a filial emperor is always more lovable than an emperor who is decisive and can kill even his own mother and uncle." Lu Yi shook the katydid cage and muttered in a low voice.
Then, Lu Yi suddenly felt a palpitation.
He raised his head and looked towards the north.
From a very far distance, he felt a slight pull of blood, and a faint sense of crisis loomed over him.
Lu Yu's eyes widened.
In his mind, the image of the three-eyed god lit up, and large areas of light flashed, forming a series of ancient golden texts in his mind.
These days, Shenzui had people take out a lot of Buddhist magic skills from the Sutra Library of the Great Vajra Temple and gave them to Lu Yi one by one. Lu Yi memorized these magic skills in his heart, and when he had time, he would spend some time to comprehend them.
Now, inexplicably, those who have not yet mastered the Buddhist magical powers have naturally accelerated their speed of perception under the stimulation of the Three-Eyed Divine Man Diagram. The essence of the Buddhist magical powers has emerged out of thin air and quickly merged with Lu Yi's soul and aura that has almost condensed into substance.
A faint sense of cause and effect, and destiny, emerged in Lu Yi's mind.
Lu Yi's eyes suddenly turned into a light golden color. He looked towards the north and said in a deep voice, "I'll be back soon... There is someone very important to me over there."
Carrying the katydid cage, Lu Yi took a step toward the north.
In a small Zen forest, one can escape the Dharma with just one thought.
The spiritual light of the soul swayed slightly, and with the consumption of a huge amount of spiritual power, Lu Yi's mind went wherever he wanted, and he took a step to travel 30,000 miles. This is the highest mind escape method of Buddhism. As long as the power of the soul is sufficient, it can break through the air and teleport, which is many times faster than ordinary escape light.
After taking a slight breath, Lu Yi's soul, which was a million times stronger than that of an ordinary cultivator, recovered quickly and returned to its full state in the blink of an eye.
The infinite Guixu body began to operate, and the Guixu immortal energy in the body began to run at full speed along the circulation veins of the five Vajra Dharma images.
Lu Yi's entire body turned light gold, with golden flames spewing out from his body. Large lotus flowers and swastika Buddhist seals appeared under his skin, and there was a faint bright light lingering behind his head. He looked like a real Vajra Arhat.
The Guixu immortal energy in the body quickly transformed into pure and powerful Buddha power.
The one-thought escape technique that Lu Yi launched suddenly became more compatible with his current body and the Buddha's power that filled his body.
He took another step, and with this step, Lu Yi traveled sixty thousand miles.
With just a few steps, he had already walked out of Dayin's direct jurisdiction and entered the territory of Beimingzhou. He took a few more steps and crossed most of Beimingzhou, arriving at the vast grassland tens of thousands of miles south of the White Python River.
Shouts and cries of killing rose to the sky. Countless elite cavalrymen in black clothes and armor whistled and ran back and forth , tightly surrounding a small hill.
On the hill, more than a hundred people piled up corpses into a protective wall, resisting the charge of countless elite cavalrymen from all around. Arrows fell like rain, piercing the corpses with dense "puff puff" sounds.
After a wave of arrows, hundreds of cavalrymen rushed forward howling, fearlessly rushing up the hill and launching a desperate attack on the hundreds of people behind the thick pile of corpses.
A burly man with long gray hair, holding a gun in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, led a hundred men to charge back and forth, killing the cavalrymen who rushed up one by one on the spot.
The sword and the spear in the man's hand all emitted a faint glow, and the spear light and the sword aura whistled and slashed across dozens of feet. Judging from the momentum, it was clearly the strength of the peak of the martial arts acupuncture realm. After practicing to this point, he only needed one step of opportunity. If he had a suitable practice method, he could break through the furnace realm and successfully enter the blazing fire realm.
The man hacked and killed without restraint. Every time he killed dozens of cavalrymen, he would yell at the top of his voice: "Beicuo Hou, you are a coward without balls, a traitor who dares to act but not to take responsibility, come out here and die!"
"Hahaha, you dared to do such a thing back then, why don't you dare to admit it?"
"You are such a coward. You sent these minions here just to take my head?"
"Hehe, hehe, don't let me go back to Haojing... Otherwise, all of you will be implicated and your entire clan will die miserably!"
Swords and spears were wielded together, and broken limbs and arms flew everywhere where the men passed. Blood turned into blood mist and splattered. The elite cavalry were blown to pieces, but horns kept sounding in the distance, and a steady stream of cavalry continued to rush up with gloomy faces, fearlessly.
The man had been leading his men in the fight for a long time. The swords and spears in his hands were already covered with cracks, and the light of the spear and the energy of the sword were constantly weakening at a speed visible to the naked eye.
But the man was still roaring and flying back and forth, leaving behind a trail of afterimages, and his speed was extremely fast.
On the small hill, more than a hundred men, under the command of this man, took advantage of the terrain and struggled to resist the continuous cavalry attacks from all directions.
Looking down from the sky, there were at least 200,000 elite cavalrymen surrounding this small hill within a radius of dozens of miles.
And in the distance, in all directions, within a radius of thousands of miles, more cavalry were gathering here in a mighty force. The colorful armors were dazzling, and at first glance, it seemed as if the entire grassland was in turmoil.
In the high sky, countless falcons of all sizes were flying wildly, constantly communicating with each other and making sharp cries.
Thirty miles away from the hill, next to a small lake, several golden banners with wolf tails were dancing in the wind. Several old men, dressed in gorgeous clothes, plump, pampered and with extraordinary bearing, stood under the banners, shivering, staring blankly in the direction of the hill.
"Why don't you just retire in the Blue Wolf Clan? Why do you want to escape again?"
"That bunch of idiots and losers from the Blue Wolf Clan took so much tribute from us every year, how could they just let him escape with just a hundred people ?"
"The cavalrymen who were chasing us were actually wiped out by more than a hundred of them..."
"Alright, alright , stop complaining... Anyway, we can't let him go back to Gaojing. Otherwise, with the methods he used back then, we... would all be dead without a burial place. What we did back then, hehe, we did it to the extreme."
"That Luxiu... is really scary. Fortunately, we have the help of strangers, otherwise this time, we would all be confiscated and exterminated, and no one would be able to escape!"
Several old men raised their heads and stared blankly into the sky.
Hundreds of feet in the air, Lu Xiu was stepping on a cloud of water, fighting fiercely with hundreds of burly men in golden helmets and armor.
Lu Xiu was bare-chested, with the flesh near his chest and chest strangely translucent. A ball of golden flame was burning in his heart. He swung his iron spear, and with every shot, a golden spear light hundreds of feet long was emitted from the spear tip.
Those burly men were each over 16 feet tall, with a sturdy build, but their movements were nimble and graceful, like butterflies flying through flowers.
Looking closely, these burly men were actually all paper figures made of paper cutting.
They spun and chopped around Lu Xiu frantically, and the paper swords in their hands emitted cold rays that struck down as fast as the wind. The spear rays fired by Lu Xiu collided with these swords, making continuous thunderous noises.
The battle has been going on for quite some time.
The golden flame in Lu Xiu's heart has dimmed.
He gasped loudly, and the sweat on his body was evaporated by the high temperature of his body, turning into a ball of white mist that wrapped around his body.
The gun pierced through the three paper figures, and the three paper figures ignited with pale golden flames. Lu Xiu roared angrily: "How dare you, evil demon, attack and kill the Emperor of Dayin... Are you really not afraid of having your property confiscated and your clan exterminated?"
On the ground, a group of elite heavily armored cavalry surrounded several men in gorgeous robes.
Hearing Lu Xiu's roar, a leading man smiled sinisterly: "The world has changed... Son of Heaven? Hehe, just wait until we understand the supreme avenue passed down by our ancestors, hehe, the Son of Heaven is nothing!"
As soon as the word "fart" came out of his mouth, Lu Yi rushed into the battlefield.
On the hill, the man who was shouting and killing let out a muffled groan as he was suddenly hit by an arrow in the buttocks.
In the air, Lu Xiu screamed and dived towards the hill.
He didn't care about defending himself as several paper figures rushed forward, slashing with swords and knives, making crisp "clang clang" sounds and leaving shallow blood marks on Lu Xiu's body.
