Chapter 691: The truth about the Divine Palace, the foreign python swallows the dragon
Li Zhi looked at his broken nail in disbelief. Although it could heal quickly, it was a huge blow to his confidence.
"In fact, whether you are a mortal or a drought demon, it doesn't make much difference to me."
"Why spend so much time on this?"
Li Daoxuan's voice sounded slowly, seeming so calm and relaxed.
Li Zhi was instantly enraged. After becoming the Hanba, his personality became more violent and bloodthirsty. Moreover, he was facing the nightmare that had troubled him for decades. How could he endure it?
whoosh!
He stepped on the evil wind and bit towards Li Daoxuan, fighting completely on instinct.
However, the next moment, Li Daoxuan looked down from above and pulled it out casually.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang…
In full view of everyone, a figure fell like a cannonball, falling continuously from the top of the Universal Palace, passing through layer after layer of towers, and finally crashing into the ground with a loud bang.
Cracks were everywhere and smoke and dust were billowing.
The falling figure was naturally the arrogant Li Zhi who had just become the drought demon.
Li Daoxuan floated down, his figure ethereal and extraordinary.
He lowered his eyes, gave a playful smile, and said, "Want to run?"
The power of the earth veins surged, and a figure was desperately escaping underground.
In addition to its extremely yang power, Hanba is also the darling of the earth. It has absorbed infinite earth energy and has a unique ability to escape underground, which is faster than riding on clouds.
Obviously, the slap from Li Daoxuan just now completely woke him up, and made Li Zhi discover something in despair.
Even after becoming the Demon of Han, he still had no power to fight back in front of Li Daoxuan?
"If I let you escape underground, I would rather not cultivate in this earthly fairyland."
Li Daoxuan shook his head and smiled, then stepped forward.
Boom!
The power of the earth veins within a radius of thousands of miles was vibrating wildly, as if dragons were rolling underground, repelling Li Zhi's body.
After three breaths.
boom!
A figure flew out from the ground, or rather, was forcibly spit out by the earth veins. His hair was disheveled and his dragon robe was torn, and he looked extremely embarrassed.
Li Daoxuan's eyes were deep, and his voice was in harmony with the Tao, echoing throughout the Daming Palace, as majestic as a mountain and as exciting as thunder.
"kneel."
The energies of earth, water, wind and fire surged, and under the great magical power of mediating creation, the world around Li Zhi suddenly became extremely heavy. In the words of later generations, the gravity increased countless times.
Li Zhi resisted desperately, his whole body tensed, his blood like magma boiling in his body, making a sound like a river, his skin turned red like jade, emitting rolling heat waves.
For a Hanba in its prime, he has infinite divine power. He can tear a dragon apart with his bare hands and kick a giant whale with his feet. His physical strength is enough to dominate the world of immortals.
If you stand on the ground, you can mobilize endless earth energy, and the power will be endless.
But unfortunately, the person he met happened to be Li Daoxuan.
A genuine earthly immortal, the successor of the Eight-Nine Profound Arts, and possessing all kinds of incredible supernatural powers.
Li Zhi's knees bent inch by inch, and he let out roars like a trapped beast, but in the end he was unable to defy the power of heaven and earth, and fell to his knees in the direction of Zhaoling.
Below the knees, cracks continued to spread, leaving the entire earth riddled with holes.
Li Daoxuan walked up to him leisurely and sighed softly.
"Li Zhi, are you still stubborn?"
Li Zhi suddenly raised his head, looked at him with great hatred, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "I did nothing wrong, Li Daoxuan, you did something wrong!"
"I am the Son of Heaven, why can't I live forever? On the contrary, you keep building up your own prestige. In another hundred years, who knows which Li in Li Tang is the real Li?"
Faced with humiliation and frustration, Li Zhi simply let go completely and spoke out everything in his heart.
"Li Daoxuan, don't forget that all your glory was given by the late emperor!"
"Without the Li Tang royal family, you are nothing more than a Taoist priest!"
Li Daoxuan was not angry. He just sighed softly with a hint of sadness in his eyes.
In fact, he had not unexpected this scene.
When Taizong passed away and Li Zhi ascended the throne, Li Daoxuan had a vague premonition that his prestige was too high. The succeeding emperors of the Li Tang Dynasty would respect him on the surface, but he didn't know what they would actually be thinking in their hearts.
There are very few wise rulers like Taizong who can trust him and even regard him as a confidant.
Therefore, he did not even attend Li Zhi's coronation ceremony, nor did he invite Li Zhi to his wedding, just to gradually distance himself from the Li Tang royal family so that future kings would feel at ease.
But it turned out that no matter what he did, he could not completely dispel the emperor's suspicion.
A big tree attracts the wind and a tree stands out in the forest.
"Without the Li Tang royal family, I am just a Taoist priest."
Li Daoxuan's voice was calm as he continued, "With the Li Tang royal family, I am still just a Taoist priest."
Dynasties pass in the mist and rain, a thousand years are just a moment. On the long journey of seeking the truth, what does the rise and fall of an empire count for?
It's just a small part of the scenery on the journey.
He just stopped to look, but didn't stay for long.
"Li Zhi, your biggest mistake was not misunderstanding me, but being bewitched by the evil ways without knowing it. Not only have you killed countless people, but you are also about to overthrow the Li Tang dynasty and hand over our Chinese land to foreign countries."
Hearing this, Li Zhi was stunned and subconsciously retorted: "This is impossible, you are talking nonsense!"
"If what I said is false, then why hasn't Ming Chongyan, the man you rely on, shown up to save you?"
Li Zhi was shocked and unable to refute for a moment.
In fact, he was also wondering before, why Ming Chongyan did not appear when he turned into Hanba and woke up?
Ming Chongyan's cultivation is unfathomable, and he also has magical powers from the three books of heaven, earth and man. If he were here, the two of them working together might be able to fight against Li Daoxuan.
But at this point in the battle, with such a big commotion, Ming Chongyan seemed to have disappeared.
Li Daoxuan shook his head and said, "It's too early for you to tell Wu Ruyi that Ming Chongyan is your man."
As he spoke, he flicked his sleeves, and the words were as light as drifting clouds, without a trace of worldly air.
Everyone looked up at the sky, and saw that under his sleeve, the corpse qi dissipated one after another, like melting ice and snow. That was not the end, the stars and the bright moon in the sky were also swept away by his sleeve, leaving only a clean night sky.
It’s like using the sky as a canvas, erasing the ink, leaving only white space.
But everyone could see clearly that the surroundings were not plunged into darkness.
"Li Zhi, take a good look at it yourself."
As soon as Li Daoxuan finished speaking, a picture began to emerge in the night, divided into two worlds, east and west. The east was the mountains and rivers of the Tang Dynasty, and the west was the Tibetan Plateau.
In the Tang Dynasty, there stands a tall tower, surrounded by dragons, majestic and magnificent.
Unfortunately, the dragon was chained by countless iron chains and there was a golden phoenix suppressing it from the top, making it look extremely weak.
It is the Vientiane Temple.
On the Tubo Plateau, there is a magnificent temple with a golden roof and white walls. It has an extraordinary . Like a deep valley, it gathers the national destiny of the entire Tubo, transforming into a python and peeking at the east.
The two buildings are like the black and white poles of the Tai Chi diagram, vaguely opposing each other.
As the Tibetan army won victory after victory, the giant python of destiny continued to move eastward, and finally discovered the celestial dragon that symbolized the destiny of the Li Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty was a great country with vast territory, abundant resources, and strong national strength. Its Qiyun Tianlong was also mighty and powerful, enough to easily bite the giant python to death, but unfortunately, Tianlong was entangled in iron chains and bitten by the golden phoenix. He was already very weak and could only watch himself being swallowed by the giant python.
The foreign python swallows the dragon!
As a result, the Tai Chi diagram was gradually dyed black, and the national fortune of the Tang Dynasty continued to flow to Tubo, making the python grow stronger and stronger, and even grew dragon horns and dragon scales.
“This…this…”
Li Zhi was stunned, as if struck by lightning.
"Ming Chongyan... is he from Tibet?"
He really couldn't understand why Ming Chongyan did this.
He also sent people to investigate many times and confirmed that Ming Chongyan was a Han Chinese, and his ancestors had lived on Chinese soil for generations and had no connection with foreign countries.
What's more, what Tubo can give him, the Tang Dynasty can only give more, so why should he help Tubo?
"I don't know who he is, but I am sure that he has been harboring evil intentions towards the Tang Dynasty for a long time."
Li Daoxuan discovered the secret in the Wanxiang Tower when he first entered the Daming Palace.
Ming Chongyan's methods were very advanced, but they still could not hide from his divine eyes. He not only saw Li Zhi transforming into a drought demon, but also realized that this Wanxiang Temple was essentially the core of a shocking formation.
Another eye of the formation is in Tubo, thousands of miles away. It is called the Jokhang Temple. It was built when Princess Wencheng entered Tibet. There was nothing wrong with it originally, but after years of repairs, it has been quietly transformed into a eye of the formation.
Taking the national destiny of the Tang Dynasty and Tubo as the core, spanning hundreds of millions of miles of mountains and rivers and consuming decades of time, this amazing feat was so impressive that even Li Daoxuan, who had just entered the palace, was impressed by the tactics and said that Emperor Taizong owed him another favor.
Unfortunately, when he discovered it, it was just one step too late. Tianlong had already been swallowed, and the scene at this moment was just a replay.
The human book paints skin and cuts bones, the earth book drives ghosts and gods. I think what is recorded in the book is this astonishing formation that changes the world and stirs up the fate of the universe.
Li Zhi stared blankly at the dragon being swallowed, his heart suddenly aching, inexplicably sad. This was the empathy of the Li Tang royal bloodline, and it could not be faked.
"National Master... the luck is devoured... what ?"
His voice was a little hoarse.
Li Daoxuan shook his head and said, "You will know soon."
Before long, the sound of horse hooves was heard and a voice shouted.
"Battle report!"
"Eight hundred miles in a hurry!"
A moment later, Wu Zetian ordered someone to bring the battle report. Her pupils shocked as she opened it.
She did not dare to delay and read to Li Daoxuan: "On July 14, at midnight, Qin Ling led tens of thousands of foreign soldiers to attack the border again. General Xue Rengui was well prepared and led his troops to fight, but..."
Her voice trembled slightly.
"A meteorite fell from the sky and landed on our army. Countless Tang soldiers were killed or wounded. The formation was broken and Qin Ling took advantage of the situation to defeat them. General Xue Rengui disappeared... His whereabouts are unknown!"
Li Zhi's whole body trembled, and he knelt there dejectedly, as if his spine had been pulled out all of a sudden.
