The Supreme First Heaven.
The Highest Heaven.
Above the thick dark clouds, the heavenly palaces with iron as the main color are stacked one upon another, stretching for countless miles.
Groups of clouds, each according to their grade, with completely uniform styles and exactly the same flying speeds, follow fixed trajectories at high, medium and low altitudes, carrying varying numbers of heavenly soldiers and generals, patrolling around the entire heaven.
The luckier of these patrolling heavenly soldiers and generals were only able to patrol three or five important palaces and towers. Their clouds flew at the lowest altitude and could only travel a few hundred miles back and forth.
As for the heavenly soldiers and generals with the worst luck, their clouds are patrolling in the extremely high sky. They are responsible for patrolling not only the periphery of the entire Heavenly Palace, but also various star palaces, various void gardens, etc. surrounding the Heavenly Palace…The longest time for them to complete a standard daily patrol is a full 108 years!
Across the core building of the Heavenly Palace, located at the most central position of the central axis, is the 'Taichu Chengyuan Palace' where the Great Emperor occasionally receives star officials and gods and handles the affairs of the Zhoutian period. Opposite to the Thunder Pool, the headquarters of the Patrol God Guards, are large tracts of starlight and clouds falling like waterfalls, and the entire Heavenly Palace Five Military Office is shrouded in a large area of ​​strong light.
The five huge palace complexes were arranged according to the five elements, and were separated by 360,000 miles. They were densely populated with countless barracks and tents of all sizes, and housed hundreds of millions of heavenly soldiers and generals.
There was no one in sight and no sound in the densely packed, uniformly styled tent barracks. All the heavenly soldiers and generals who were not on duty, regardless of their status, squatted in their own barracks, silently absorbing the spiritual ideas of heaven and earth, and feeling the rare and precious rhythm of the Tao that accompanied the falling starlight and mist.
As soldiers and generals of the Supreme Heaven who "eat the emperor's food", in addition to the military pay and imperial money issued every twelve years, the greatest benefit for the heavenly soldiers and generals is the starry sky that illuminates the entire Five Military Prefecture.
In the entire Supreme Primordial Heaven, only the falling starlight of the Five Military Mansion contains a trace of "free" Dao rhyme that can be absorbed and comprehended. Practicing , you can continuously improve your cultivation without spending any imperial money.
That being said, there are of course differences!
The higher your status, the closer your tent is to the five huge palaces, and the greater the concentration and quantity of the free Dao rhyme in the starlight that falls every day. If you are a low-level soldier who has just been recruited, stationed in the barracks at the edge of the corner, then in the starlight that falls on you, the traces of the Dao rhyme... cannot be said to be absent, but it is like a delicate spring rain of apricot blossoms in the desert, which is extremely thin.
Even so, this is also the great Dao rhythm of 'no money needed'!
Thanks to this benefit, the Five Armies of Heaven never lacked suitable soldiers. The Heavenly Armies under the command of the five great Heavenly Lords of the Five Armies, and the Heavenly Lords and Star Lords, were always fully staffed, and the reserve barracks were always filled with cannon fodder recruits that could be replenished and adjusted at any time.
Three patrol warships, hundreds of miles long and filled with heavenly soldiers, slowly passed over the Five Army Headquarters.
On the three giant ships, hundreds of celestial generals sat cross-legged on the ground in an orderly manner, silently practicing profound skills and swallowing the starlight in big gulps. They were so hardworking and diligent that through their skin, which became translucent in the starlight, one could see tens of thousands of acupoints in their bodies that flickered brightly and darkly.
These celestial generals practiced so hard that the starlight and clouds descending from the sky turned into small whirlpools above their heads, and occasionally the roar of waves could be heard. From time to time, a celestial general would gain some enlightenment, and a large area of ​​light and clouds would surge behind him, and various celestial wonders would emerge.
The three huge ships were like three silent giant whales, silently passing through the deep sea formed by the starry sky, bringing up a large vortex of starlight, and flew far away.
On the ground, in the Front Army Mansion located due south of the Five Army Mansion, Sima Yaomu, the Palace Army of the Front Army Mansion, was standing on the corridor of a hall, wearing a dark green official robe, a two-foot-four-inch high green jade crown on his head, and a dragon belt inlaid with hundreds of small gems and emitting dazzling light around his waist. He had his hands in his sleeves and squinted at the three huge ships going away.
The huge former military government office was completely silent.
The former military chief, the Great Lord of Heaven, had personally commanded the army a hundred years ago to patrol the Zhoutian and suppress the rebels.
In fact, everyone knows that even the powerful Great Lord of Heaven, Yan Yao, is tired of the overly strict and harsh rules and regulations of the Heavenly Court... Here, to put it bluntly, if you fart, you will be pinned down on the spot by the Inspector General of Heaven, and no matter who you are, you will be beaten with a stick in the court!
Instead of being depressed and abiding by the rules here, it would be better to sign an official document for yourself, find a plausible excuse, and go out with a large group of people to patrol the sky and have fun!
With the power and strength of Yan Xuan, no matter where he went in the Supreme Taichu Heaven, he would drink the best wine, eat the best delicacies, and hug the best fairies at will... What kind of happiness is this?
Therefore, the great Heavenly Lord, Xun Yang, took his people and left for a hundred years without returning. Now no one knows where he is, enjoying himself and forgetting about Shu.
The Great Lord of Heaven ran away, and naturally, the twelve Lords of Heaven in the former military mansion also found an excuse and disappeared without a trace.
Under the twelve Heavenly Lords, there are the standard thirty-six Star Lords... Well, except for two unlucky guys who had important responsibilities and had to stay behind at the front military mansion, the other thirty-four Star Lords, such as the Star Lord of Sorrow and Punishment, also ran away without a trace to be found.
These top bosses have all fled, and even though the many middle and lower-level officials and generals of the former military government are bound by strict heavenly rules and regulations, they are inevitably...
At least for Yao Yan, it's a good thing that those guys ran away.
"It's really relaxing and enjoyable!" Yao Yan smiled. As the former military commander of the former military mansion, he didn't have many things to worry about, just some daily official correspondence and some ordinary inspections.
Nothing major happened in the Heavenly Palace these days, so Yao Yan had a lot of free time to do what he wanted, liked, and had to do.
For example... a few months ago, a group of newcomers without rank came to the Patrol Guards, and there were quite a few cute young ladies among them. Thinking of their graceful figures, fresh faces, their current and future identities, and the important responsibilities they would bear in the future, Yao Yan felt an inexplicable surge of evil fire in his lower abdomen, and two streams of blood almost spurted out of his nose.
With a muffled groan, Yao Yan urged his magic power to suppress the evil fire surging in his heart, and muttered in a low voice: "Not good, not good, the consequences of this technique are a bit serious... Haha, I have to find a new way to dissipate it quickly. Haha!"
A strange scarlet color flashed across his face. Yao Yan exhaled a breath of hot air, turned around, put his hands in his sleeves, and walked with steady steps towards the secret military hall behind the main hall of the former military government.
Judging from his appearance, Yao Yan is a young man in his early twenties, tall, handsome, and even a little immature and shy.
But he had a kind of decadent air about him that a young man shouldn't have.
Perhaps it was a problem common to people who had stayed in the heaven for a long time, but when Yao Yan walked, his steps were extremely steady, one step at a time, giving people a sense of caution as if he "dared not step even a single step beyond the line".
Judging from his expression and actions alone, Yao Yan is a cautious person who is afraid of even a falling leaf breaking his head!
Silently, a team of patrolling heavenly soldiers, armed with long spears and wearing heavy armor, slowly floated along the corridor.
There were blurred starlight flickering in the eyes of these heavenly soldiers. Obviously, although they were on patrol, their attention had long since drifted away - they were just rigidly following a fixed patrol route and moving at a standard patrol speed using magic, and that was all.
This is the Supreme Heaven, and this is the headquarters of the Five Military Forces where the Heaven’s troops are stationed.
No one dares to come here to cause trouble.
No one is stupid enough to cause trouble here.
Things like daily patrols... if it weren't for the constraints of heavenly rules, there would actually be no need!
A trace of sneer flashed across Yao Yan's face, and he dodged this team of mechanical floating heavenly soldiers - the heavenly rules are strict, and the heavenly soldiers on duty have extremely high priority. Even if Yao Yan is more than ten or twenty levels higher than them in rank, he cannot interfere with their 'diligent deacons'.
However, the young officer leading the team still had some thoughts in his mind.
He noticed Yao Yan, raised his right hand, and tapped his chest lightly - the hundreds of heavenly soldiers behind him, like puppets, followed their captain, raised their right hands in unison, and tapped their chests lightly.
As for who Yao Yan is...I'm afraid even the junior officer who took the initiative to salute didn't notice him.
Yao Yan stopped and watched the group of heavenly soldiers float past silently, like ghosts. He shook his head slightly and curled his lips slightly.
Such a heaven!
Such a heaven... is wonderful!
He walked slowly and steadily to the door of the Military Secret Palace, formed seals with his hands, and a ray of starlight fell on the palace door made of gold and bronze with a relief of the Vermillion Bird's claws.
The ferocious and ferocious golden-red Suzaku relief was lit up with stars. On the huge palace door that was twelve feet wide and nearly a hundred feet high, stars lit up one by one in the heavy cloud pattern. Large star patterns flickered, and in the eyes of the Suzaku relief, two scarlet orbs the size of a human head emitted brilliant light, slowly and heavily sweeping towards Yao Yan.
The jade plaque and the golden seal hanging on the dragon belt around Yao Yan's waist flashed a ray of light at the same time. The precious light from Zhuque's eyes touched the ray of light slightly, and the precious light went out. The three-meter-thick hall door slid silently to the left and right, and a large cloud of light gushed out from the hall.
Yao Yan rose into the air with an expressionless face, stepped on a cloud, and floated into the secret military hall.
The former military secret hall of the army mansion is an independent space cut out. It is vast and empty, with a radius of tens of millions of miles. In the middle stands a jade tablet one hundred and eighty feet high. The vermilion jade tablet glows brightly, like the sun, illuminating the entire starry sky.
This jade stele represents the former Great Lord of the Military Mansion, Yan Yao.
The jade stele is intact, shining brightly, and emitting infinite pressure, which means that the old man is having a great time wandering outside, is free of illness and disaster, and is in very good health.
Around the jade tablet, twelve jade tablets, each thirty-six feet high, were suspended, also glowing with brilliant light and rising mist.
This represents the twelve Heavenly Lords of the former Military Government who hold great power and control the army.
Looking at the smooth, crystal-clear and radiant appearance of this jade stele, it is obvious that they are living a very comfortable life outside.
Near each of the thirty-six jade tablets, there are three six-zhang-high jade tablets floating on carriers. These thirty-six jade tablets are also dazzling and brilliant. These are the natal tablets of the thirty-six star gods who served in various positions in the former military mansion.
Two unlucky guys who stayed behind in the former military headquarters, and thirty-four lucky guys who were living a happy life with the army.
It can be seen that they are in good physical condition.
Near these jade steles of various sizes, jade plaques and jade talismans of various sizes and specifications were circling and dancing. The glittering jade plaques and jade talismans were glowing with light, causing countless nearby jade talismans ranging in size from thumb to palm to dance in unison.
Hundreds of billions of jade talismans emitted faint starlight, and with the hundred-foot jade stele in the center as the core, they rotated slowly or quickly, forming a magnificent star array.
The Five Military Headquarters of Heaven have a huge organization. Not to mention the many independent elite military camps directly under the Great Heavenly Lord and the Heavenly Lord, there are ten guards under the star gods who command the troops, namely, front, back, left, right, southeast, northwest, north, and up and down.
Each guard army is divided into five camps: vanguard, center, rear, left and right wing.
In each of the three military camps, there are a number of vanguards with the main seal, a number of vanguards with the deputy seal, a number of generals with the main seal, a number of generals with the deputy seal, as well as a number of feather generals and wing generals with the main seal and deputy seal.
This is an extremely large organization.
In this secret military hall, all the soldiers under the command of the former military office, even a newly recruited soldier, have a natal talisman kept here. The core leaders of the former military office can grasp the status of these soldiers at any time... and even control their life and death through some restrictions in these talismans.
Yao Yan gently calculated with his left hand inside his sleeve, and stars twinkled on his fingertips.
He muttered to himself in a low voice: "Under the rule of Feiling Heavenly King, there are the Pingfeng Heavenly Realm, the Miying Star Realm, the Tiemenguan Pass... Where are the people of Sangxing Star Lord? Ha, Sangxing, this guy is a bit shameless..."
Yao Yan muttered in a low voice: "Ten years ago, I invited him to a banquet with good intentions, but he turned his back on me... Ha, just because I am the illegitimate son of the Great Lord? Hey!"
"Bastard... so what?"
"Um?"
Yao Yan's eyes suddenly lit up and his pupils shrank sharply. He saw that near the six-zhang jade stele representing the Star Lord of Sang Xing, a jade plaque with occasional flashes of light from a giant axe on its surface suddenly burst out with a dazzling blood-red light. Near this jade talisman, there were more than 300,000 thin jade talismans, of which more than 100,000 were originally dim, and now they all exploded and turned into a ball of tiny light dust and dissipated.
Yao Yan's eyes widened. He grabbed the blurry light dust, caught a handful of breath, and put it to his nose to take a sniff.
"Huh? Interesting, interesting. It turns out that a month ago, about 100,000 heavenly soldiers were killed, but someone used forbidden magic to delay the military operation... But Luo Xiong is so incompetent that all 360,000 regular soldiers under his command died!"
"You've lost many soldiers and generals, and delayed military operations... Ha, let me see how you die!"
Yao Yan waved his sleeves, the clouds under his feet moved, and he rushed out of the hall with a ray of starlight.
At the entrance of the hall, there was a hazy cloud. A middle-aged man wearing the same robe as Yao Yan quietly emerged from the cloud. He waved his right hand and a ban was blasted out. The light dust formed by the 360,000 jade pieces suddenly gathered inwards and condensed into jade pieces again, but the light was dimmed by 90%, and he looked sickly.
Although the light was dim, under the strong light emitted by countless jade tablets, jade plaques, and jade talismans around, how could anyone notice these 360,000 or so dim jade talismans if they were not screened carefully?
This forbidden technique is what Yao Yan called "delaying military affairs"!
It was obvious that Sang Xingjun had suffered heavy casualties outside, but someone helped him delay the spread of the news, giving Sang Xingjun enough time to maneuver and reverse the situation.
This... is undoubtedly a felony.
In the Supreme Heaven, if such behavior is reported, it will definitely be a serious crime that will lead to the extermination of nine generations of the clan!
Yao Yan stopped the cloud light and looked at the middle-aged man with a smile: "Sima Zhao, you are so brave!"
The middle-aged man, Sima Zhao, coughed lightly. A brilliant light flashed behind him, and a forbidden spell was activated, isolating the inside and outside of the hall. He bowed to Yao Yan and said calmly, "Master Yao Yan, just pretend you don't know about this matter?"
Yao Yan raised his eyebrows: "Oh?"
Sima Zhao said calmly: "The rules of heaven are strict. Delaying military affairs is a capital crime. I have been working in heaven for half a great tribulation period, so of course I understand the reason. However, since I dare to do it, Lord Yao Yan should know it well."
Yao Yan laughed and said, "Is Sang Xing my eldest brother's man?"
Sima Zhao narrowed his eyes: "So, Lord Yao Yan knows what to do?"
Yao Yan coughed lightly and was about to speak when Sima Zhao clapped his hands. Behind him, four heavenly generals wearing heavy armor, with no flesh exposed on their bodies and more than two meters tall, appeared silently, stretched out their arms, and grabbed Yao Yan.
"Master Yaoyang, please find a place to rest for a while." Sima Zhao said calmly: "Master Yaoyang, this is for your own good... There are some things that you... can't get involved in with your status... So please, Master Yaoyang, be honest and do your duty as always, so that everyone will benefit, right?"
Yao Yan looked at Zhao Sima in horror: "How dare you put me under house arrest? Even if I have my elder brother to back you up, how dare you?"
Sima Zhao looked at Yao Yan with a smile, waved his hand lightly, and then his figure sank into the smoke behind him, disappearing without a trace in an instant.
The four heavenly generals grabbed Yao Yan's shoulders, and starlight chains covered with countless patterns and forbidden spells stretched out from the void, like spirit snakes, silently wrapping around Yao Yan's body.
An extremely thin thread of light, like a long needle, emerged from the chain and lightly penetrated into Yao Yan's acupoints, sealing his magic power and body strength.
A heavenly general grabbed Yao Yan, and the four of them used their escape skills to transform into large patches of starlight that spread out on the ground, disappearing without a trace in an instant.
The son of the Great Lord of the Front Military Mansion of the Five Military Mansions in Heaven, although he was a bastard, he was still the son of Ling Ling after all... He was actually tied up and placed under house arrest by the direct order of a Palace Army Sima who had the same rank as himself in the base camp of the Front Military Mansion controlled by Ling Ling.
The reason was that Sima Zhao was trying to cover up the military losses and defeat of the Sorrowful Star Lord...
One by one, one by one...
Across the Taichu Chengyuan Hall is the headquarters of the Sky Patrol Divine Guards, which is surrounded by a pool of thunder.
In a palace wrapped in thick thunderclouds and blocked in all directions by overlapping thunder prohibitions, which made it impossible for outsiders to invade, countless young girls dressed in black, with black belts around their waists, black boots on their feet, and pointed black hats on their heads, without any makeup and with simple and elegant faces, were sitting cross-legged in a neat row in the huge square, silently practicing the unique skills of the Sky Patrol Forbidden Divine Guards.
Wisps of lightning mixed with strange rhythms of the Tao, silently descended from the sky, and went straight into the eyebrows and eyes of these girls, directly inputting the Tao, the secret techniques, and the skillful use of various thunders into their bodies, opening their innate "Heavenly Eyes", and passing on the skills to them while "awakening their spirits" at the same time.
These girls were all "suitable seedlings" that the Sky Patrol Guards had collected from countless celestial regions and star regions in the Supreme Primordial Heaven .
Their affairs before and after death, their relatives and clansmen, and other involvements have all been dealt with thoroughly, without any worries or karma. They are absolutely "clean" and "good materials" that can be "used with confidence".
They will receive special training in the 'recruit camp' of the Sky Patrol Forbidden Divine Guards. Under the secret training of the Sky Patrol Forbidden Divine Guards, they will become proficient a hundred or a thousand times more efficient than ordinary people and reach the realm of the weakest celestial warrior or the strongest celestial general.
They also learn various acrobatics.
Such as spying, poisoning and assassination.
Like the harmony of yin and yang, flirting and cuteness.
Such as intrigue and secret affairs in the harem.
They will learn all kinds of strange ways of survival here, and then be sent to the Blood-Clothes Division, Iron-Clothes Division or Black-Clothes Division according to the special skills they have demonstrated in the special training. They will work hard and risk their lives for the supreme authority of the Supreme Heaven and the supreme power of Taichu Emperor.
In the huge square, more than three million people were lined up in neat rows.
Wisps of lightning fell and wisps of smoke rose.
Suddenly, in a square formation of ten thousand people, a pretty girl with a tall stature, sword-like eyebrows and a heroic air swayed, and a breeze picked her up and dragged her directly to a small pavilion beside the square that was completely black and surrounded by countless restrictions.
There were the sounds of clothes being torn, women crying and struggling, flesh hitting flesh, and tables and chairs falling over...
The strange noises and shrill cries lasted for several hours.
After a long, long time, all the strange sounds disappeared, and a faint light flickered in the pavilion. The girl who had just been dragged into the pavilion was lying naked on the ground in the pavilion, with her body covered in bruises and blood, teeth marks and scratches everywhere, and two dark blue claw marks on her neck. She was almost dead.
A 18-foot-tall, bearded man with a body full of flesh and as strong as an iron stake, laughed strangely and squatted beside the girl, staring straight at her distorted face.
"You are a blessed young lady... Hehe, in consideration of your capable service just now, I will grant you a great fortune... an immortal body. Are you happy or not? Are you happy or not?"
“Hee, even those high and mighty Star Lords, Heaven Lords, and Great Heaven Lords, they too will fall, and also suffer the Five Decays of Heaven and Man… and you, hey, just used this lowly body to make me happy, and you have such a great blessing… Tsk tsk, to use the words of those thieves, you must have accumulated good deeds in your previous life!”
The big man laughed strangely and reached out to the air with his right hand.
Strands of purple-black rays of light appeared out of thin air, with countless fine Dao patterns like ants wriggling rapidly, making piercing chirping sounds like living things. The big man gently pressed the twisted and wriggling octopus-like rays of light on the girl's forehead. The rays of light instantly invaded the girl's eyebrows and eyes, and flowed through her body as fast as lightning as her blood flowed.
A layer of faint glow grew on the girl's skin.
The wounds and bruises on the girl's body disappeared in the blink of an eye. A strange power slowly flowed out of her body. In her pores, there were silent flashes of electricity, and occasionally a fist-sized electric explosion would splash out.
"Hey, okay, I'll give you the benefit... From now on, you should work hard for me with kindness and sincerity."
"laugh!"
"After some time, I'll choose a good position for you and help you achieve some merits, and you can also..."
The big man's face suddenly twitched, and a hazy light and shadow flickered under his face. The shadow of Yao Yan's pretty boy flashed across his bearded black face like a flash of lightning.
“Hmph, hmph!”
"Sima Zhao, you are so brave... Hey!"
The big man scratched the girl's body vigorously for a few times, stood up, and shouted sternly: "Who's out there? Come and breathe?"
Two girls dressed in black, with blood-red belts around their waists, blood-red boots on their feet, and blood-red jade masks on their faces walked into the pavilion quietly. They didn't even look at the girl lying on the ground - this was something they had experienced before, exactly the same, no difference.
They bowed to the bearded man and then stared at him.
"You two, go outside and pick out thirty good ones and send them to Deputy Director Qian of the Blood Robe Division... Well, tell him that the former Army General Zhao Xinglei has committed a serious crime. Ask Deputy Director Qian to investigate carefully and meticulously... I want him and his entire family to die!"
"Also, tell Yinghuang that her sister Yingque is at the Iron Gate Pass ... There might be something wrong there. Ask her to bring a group of good people to investigate."
The bearded man rubbed his face vigorously and muttered in a low voice: "Tell her to be careful. I have a vague feeling that something interesting seems to be happening... Maybe this time, I can get a big advantage from it."
At the same time, in that place in the world, a trillion-dollar magic array surrounded Luo Xiong, whose body was almost burning.
Countless Yuan Demons were like dream bubbles, constantly shuttling in and out of Luo Xiong's body. Luo Xiong sacrificed many of his subordinates, and the tremendous power accumulated was swallowed up by these Yuan Demons before it could even break out.
Luo Xiong roared, cursed, and rushed towards Lu Yi with all his might, but his steps staggered. When he was still several miles away from Lu Yi, he was swallowed up by countless Yuan Demons and turned into a wisp of flying ash.