With a belly full of tea and a little swollen and painful in the abdomen, Lu Yi rode a curly-haired horse and followed Yin Yuan into the Dayin Palace.

Ten thousand Yulin soldiers formed ten long rows to provide protection on the left and right.

Thousands of palace guards and eunuchs were fully armed and surrounded them tightly.

Behind Lu Yi was a team of horse-drawn carriages.

On the four-wheeled carriage were large water vats with astonishing capacity, heated by a small charcoal stove underneath.

There is a subtle scent in the air.

In the water jar was the boys' urine that Yinqi had people collect during the day.

Although there was only one rare talent like Lu Yi in the huge city of Haojing, there were still many young boys with low cultivation. It was not difficult to collect the urine of these boys.

If it weren't for the fact that this matter should not be done in a big way, and that bringing too much urine into the palace might have some bad effects, Yinqi could have prepared thousands of jars of urine.

Even so, the urine, kept warm by the small charcoal stove and not freezing, gave off a rich smell.

Lu Yi was a little overwhelmed.

This was completely different from what he had expected, the life after joining the Guardian Prison.

In fact, he had already made up his mind to act as a "eunuch party", to take advantage of the power of others to do evil, to severely harm those cultural and educational officials, and to be infamous for eunuchs under their verbal and written condemnation.

He only hoped that his practice of visualization would make progress, so that he could live a long and healthy life and enjoy a carefree life. He did not care about a little notoriety.

It stinks now.

Under the manipulation of the Bai family, he has become a new traitor to the country, and his reputation is bad enough.

Then, there was the rich 'fragrance' of boy's urine... Lu Yi lowered his head and sniffed the sleeves of his robe, feeling that his clothes had been marinated with the flavor.

Lu Yi sighed silently.

The palace road ahead was extremely gloomy. The ten-zhang-wide road was paved with huge stones, and on both sides were thick palace walls that were dozens of zhang high.

The high palace walls were hung with tallow lamps and torches, illuminating the entire palace corridor.

In the palace road, every hundred feet, there is a sky bridge extending across the palace road from the middle of the palace wall. There are arrow towers, watchtowers, and even huge wolf-tooth nail plates and other protective gear hanging on it.

The palace walls and the overpass were filled with soldiers wearing heavy armor.

Lu Yi looked up at the soldiers, the corners of his mouth twitching violently.

The way these soldiers guarding the imperial palace were dressed tonight almost made Lu Yi laugh out loud - on each soldier's belt and breastplate were talismans drawn on yellow paper.

The three-foot-long yellow paper talisman was painted with cinnabar or some special blood plasma, and had messy, ghostly talismans drawn on it.

I don’t know whether these talismans are useful.

But when Lu Yi looked at these heroic soldiers with talismans stuck all over their bodies, he thought it was too ridiculous.

"Your Majesty, can't Dayin find a few experts who can deal with these...ghosts?" Lu Yi felt that this was not right.

The way of heaven and earth is that there is an order of generation and restraint. Since there are ghosts, there must be something that can restrain them.

Otherwise, wouldn't these ghosts be able to run rampant?

Yinyuan covered his nose with a thick brocade handkerchief and hummed weakly, "Maybe there is? There are some relevant records in the fragments of ancient secret files of the Secret History Bureau."

"For example, during the previous dynasty, during the Great Noon Dynasty, 8,000 miles west of Gaojing City, in a place called Dafotou, some people saw a powerful being that could fly in the air and be surrounded by golden light."

"That was recorded more than 5,000 years ago."

"And three thousand years ago, during the turbulent times when the seven kings of the Great Noon Dynasty rebelled, there was a record of a giant snake that sprang out of its underground lair and devoured a million people in three cities and two counties in one day and one night... The snake was later slashed in half by a giant sword that fell from the sky and escaped."

"Let's not talk about the past dynasties. When Dayin was first established, there was a great man who broke into the imperial city. He defeated 200,000 guards and came to the case of Taizu. He said that Taizu had a connection with him and wanted Taizu to worship him as his master and practice with him. After Taizu refused, he disappeared."

"These strong and powerful people must be able to deal with ghosts."

Yin Yuan sighed, "But each generation is worse than the previous one, and each generation is worse than the previous one... I'm afraid it will be difficult to find such a master in Dayin now."

"Didn't the emperor's uncle get fooled? The Taoist priest Wuyou of Wuyou Pavilion and General Liudao of Liudao Temple had their gates broken down by the emperor's uncle and his men the day before yesterday. The two cheating guys were almost beaten to death by the emperor's uncle on the spot."

"But it is recorded in the secret files of the Secret History Bureau that Wuyou Pavilion had masters in the past, and Liudao Temple also had real skills. But now the abbot of Wuyou Pavilion and the master of Liudao Temple are all like this..."

"Of course. Let's not talk about them. Let's talk about the nobles of Gaojing who have won military honors. How many of them are still diligently practicing martial arts?"

Yin Yuan looked at Lu Yi with a haggard face and said, "How come I searched all over Gaojing City and only found a boy like you who is at the Tuomai realm?"

Lu Yi smiled awkwardly.

The large group of people walked quickly along the palace road. An hour later, the team passed through the three palace gates and arrived at the back garden of the imperial city.

Dayin’s totem is Kunpeng.
The original form of Kunpeng is a big fish.

Therefore, the Dayin royal family naturally loves water, and most of the palace buildings were built around natural water systems, and large areas of water were added later.

The core area of ​​the imperial city's back garden is a vast lake that is now frozen three feet thick in the winter.

There are three or five islands in the lake.

There are nine winding corridors connecting the island in the middle of the lake, and also connecting the exquisite pavilions and waterside terraces in the lake.

One of the water pavilions is named "Xianyu Pavilion". It is shaped like a flying goose crawling on the water. In the middle is a three-story main pavilion, and on the left and right sides of the east and west are one-story auxiliary pavilions.

Xianyu Pavilion does not occupy a large area. The main and secondary pavilions together occupy only about one acre of land. It is only connected to the outside world by a pier on the north side.

Now, on this pier, every ten feet, there is a big monk sitting cross-legged, wearing a bright red cassock and with a shaved head. Regardless of age, all of them have twitching faces and look extremely sad.

On both sides of the pier, there are densely packed rafts that are several meters long and wide.

There is an altar on each raft.

The altar is fully equipped with various props including tokens, flags, swords, talismans, etc.

On the raft, there were also old and young Taoist priests sitting cross-legged, wearing apricot-yellow and bright red Taoist robes, with sad faces but trying to remain calm.

To the south of Xianyu Pavilion, across the vast ice surface, there is a fish-watching platform made of white jade on the shore.

On the fish-watching platform, which is several acres in size, there is a windproof curtain made of brocade, surrounded by countless eunuchs and palace maids. Behind the curtain, in the bushes, one can see swaying figures and the reflection of armor. There are at least 50,000 to 60,000 heavily armored soldiers ambushed there.

What made Lu Yi inexplicably amazed was that the windbreak curtain was surrounded by various Buddha statues and god statues.

Looking at the gold and jade inlaid textures of those Buddha statues and deities, as well as their charred and mottled surfaces smoked by fireworks, it is obvious that these are "old objects" that have been placed on the altar, worshipped and worshipped devoutly, and have enjoyed the fireworks for at least hundreds of years.

There were so many Buddha and god statues that the fish-watching platform of several acres was not enough, so they were densely arranged on both sides along the lakeshore.

Next to each Buddha statue, there are three to five big monks sitting cross-legged.

Next to each statue, there are five or six old Taoist priests sitting cross-legged.

In addition, various instruments used by monks and Taoists in their daily lives, such as umbrellas and large flags, are also densely packed among the statues.

There are a large number of incense burners, incense tripods and other objects around, with the best incense sticks lit in them. A large amount of smoke is curling around, and the fragrance spreads for dozens of miles with the wind, creating a majestic scene of the kingdom of God on earth.

However, from what Lu Yi saw, ninety-nine percent of the monks and Taoists present were trembling with fear, with cold sweat on their foreheads.

Obviously, they all have guilty consciences, and each one of them has confidence.

At Yinyuan's request, Lu Yi followed Yinyuan closely and did not leave within three feet of him.

Yu Changle was accompanied by a group of eunuch masters. They walked along the lakeshore, through the dense piles of Buddha and god statues, and came to the curtain of the Fish-Watching Terrace.

Dozens of jars of fragrant boys' urine, heated in small charcoal stoves, were also brought to the curtain.

In the windproof curtain, Empress Dowager Le, who looked like a young beauty of eighteen or nineteen years old, was wrapped in brocade and sat on the throne with a gloomy expression. She was surrounded by the eunuch masters of the inner court.

Le Wu, wearing heavy armor and looking like a metal ball, sat on a big chair next to Le. His fleshy face was tense. He tried to remain calm, but his cheeks were twitching and he was obviously quite nervous.

In addition to Le Shi and Le Wu, there were more than a dozen young men in armor behind the curtain, including Le Shan and Le Shui.

Seeing Yinyuan and his men coming in, Le's face relaxed slightly: "It's good that your Majesty is here."

Yin Yuan rolled his eyes, walked up to Le, and bowed to her in a very perfunctory manner: "Actually, this matter has nothing to do with me. The Queen Mother will definitely be able to handle it properly. Why do you have to ask me to come?"

Le sighed, her beautiful face twitched, and she forced out a smile: "I thought, let your Majesty learn something new, right? Your Majesty has been clamoring these days to see what a female ghost looks like, hasn't he?"

Yin Yuan rolled his eyes and shouted, "Huh? Which damn eunuch in Jiuqu Garden let this slip? Old Yu, go back and find him."

With a flick of his sleeves, Yin Yuan sat down on the throne with the Kunpeng pattern beside the empress dowager, crossed his legs, and shouted, "Okay, let's get started? The sooner you die, the sooner you will be reincarnated...right, general?"

Le Wu smiled dryly: "Your Majesty, what are you talking about? Queen Mother, Your Majesty, you are blessed with great fortune, but a mere evil spirit..."

Le Wu puffed out his chest and said loudly, "Let's not talk about the abilities of the masters outside. Just look at the tens of thousands of elite soldiers I have prepared in the back. What evil spirit can withstand the attack of tens of thousands of troops?"

Le Wu patted his chest vigorously and said, "It would be better if they didn't come. If they come, I guarantee that they will never come back. I will kill them with my own hands, restore order to Dayin, and shut up those civil officials!"

As soon as Le Wu finished speaking, the countless lanterns and torches that were lit around the lake, including the candles and oil lamps on the altar, all turned blood-red at the same time.

The entire lake and half of the back garden turned blood red in an instant, and everyone was shrouded in this ominous red light.

Lu Yu's eyes bulged and his heart beat wildly.

The great sense of danger almost suffocated him, and he shouted hoarsely: "They are coming!"

In the imperial city, from the direction of the cold palace, there was a sudden deafening cry of grief.

An extremely dense, blood-red chill rose from the direction of the cold palace and swept towards this side as fast as a hurricane.

Wherever the bloody cold air passed, the Buddha statues and god statues all shattered with a "crackling" sound.