Witch Wind

Chapter 128: Empress Dongyun (Part )

The hall where the contract was signed was as silent as death.

Ying Xi smiled, raised the imperial seal, and stamped it heavily on the contract that had just been signed with his own name.

Crown Prince Ying'e of Dongyun, who was bloated, obese, with acne-pimples all over his face, and had dull and stiff eyes, and looked as stupid and honest as a big fat pig, started clapping when he saw his father using the seal.

"Hahaha, long live father. With the assistance of the Amy Federation, Dongyun will surely sweep across the East Country and counterattack Shenzhou. Those Western Continent devils who dare to invade Dongyun's territory will all die!" Ying E smiled brightly: "I heard that the emperor of Yingjishi is a woman? After defeating them, can I ask the Queen of Yingjishi to warm my bed?"

In front of many princes and ministers, and in front of the Amy Federation's special envoys, Ying E openly stated that he wanted Queen Yingji to sleep with him.

Ying Zhe clapped his hands and laughed: "My son is mighty!"

Ollie and his entourage stared at Yinge in amazement - good appetite, good appetite. The Queen of the Kingdom of Yingjishi, although well maintained, was an old lady over seventy years old.

This woman is different from the Empress Dowager of the Dayu Dynasty. White-skinned women in Western Land tend to look older more easily. It is common for a white-skinned woman in her thirties to look as old as an old woman in her fifties of the Dayu Dynasty.

Her Majesty the Queen of England, who is over seventy years old, has white hair and chicken skin all over her body, no matter how well she takes care of herself... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is indeed mighty, indeed brave, and indeed, has extraordinary taste!

Ollie exhaled heavily, smiled, and clapped softly.

'Pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah, pah
Just as everyone was cheering and Ying Zhe was jokingly asking the eunuchs to serve wine, a roar suddenly made the boiling hall return to silence.

Beihe Cangming, the current head of the Beihe family, drew his sword and chopped off the corner of the large table where the contract was signed. He pointed at Ying Zhe and shouted, "Your Majesty, the treaty you signed is simply insane. Do you think you can live up to the ancestors of Dongyun by doing this?"

Ying Zhe looked at Beihe Cangming coldly. A flash of murderous intent flashed in his eyes. His face suddenly fell. He smiled bitterly and said, "Cangming Palace, in terms of seniority, you are my uncle. Among all the families in Dongyun, your talent, knowledge, and political ability are the best in Dongyun."

"Can you tell me, now that the coalition forces of various countries have invaded Dayunmen, if we refuse the assistance of the Aimee Federation, how can we resist the fleet of those devils from the Western Continent?"

Ying Zhe sighed and said, "If it weren't for the insistence of Cangming Palace and Kaguya Palace, the main force of Dongyun's local fleet and the main force of the Black Borneo Expeditionary Fleet had not gone to Pinghai City and had not been sunk by the Yingjishi fleet, with the combat power of the two fleets, those Western Continental demons would never have been able to break through Dayun Gate."

Ying Xi drooped his eyelids and said with a sad face, "Due to the obstruction of Cangming Palace and Guanlu Palace, the contract was delayed and the Dayun Gate was breached. I have not yet asked you two to explain this responsibility. How can you suddenly attack us when the two countries are celebrating?"

Beihe Cangming remained silent.

Nanshan's eyes flashed with ferocity.

The two family heads gnashed their teeth and looked at Ying Zhe. After a long silence, Nanshan Luo said solemnly, "You have sold out all the foundation of our ancestors. I want to see how you will explain this to them."

Ying Zhe smiled and said nothing.

Ying E suddenly spoke up, staring at the two family heads with his dull, rigid eyes, like those of a dead pig, and said in a soft voice, "But, my two great uncles, Shuangyu Island is being massacred... But this is a good thing, hahaha, when all your highnesses' belongings are massacred, the territories of the Beihe Family and the Nanshan Family will be able to expand again, right?"

Ying E’s words are very heartbreaking.

Among the many princes and ministers present, nearly half of them had bloodshot eyes when they looked at the two family heads.

Beihe Cangming and Nanshan Xuanlu were furious. They were breathing heavily and wanted to do something.

Outside the hall, nearly a thousand soldiers wearing fully enclosed metal armor and holding strange-shaped long swords, together with thousands of Black Dragon Guards, were confronting thousands of secret guards from the Beihe Family and the Nanshan Family.

The secret guards of Beihe and Nanshan families are all top elites they have carefully trained. Each of them is over five feet tall. In Dongyun, they are all called "tall and mighty men". They have all practiced hard since childhood, cultivated with secret methods, and are proficient in various killing methods. They are also as strong as iron and skin, and cannot be hurt by ordinary swords and knives.

They were all wearing fish-scale heavy armor in the style of the Qin and Han dynasties, holding large Mo Dao in the style of the Tang and Song dynasties, and wearing thin iron chains on their waists, which connected them together. Once the army started charging, the crisscrossing formation looked like a small steel fortress.

This is the strongest force of the two families, the 'Iron Pagoda Secret Guard'!
Their individual combat power is still a little inferior to the Black Dragon Guards directly under the royal family. However, the Black Dragon Guards must be pure-blooded Qin people, and in terms of numbers, they are far less than these Iron Pagoda Secret Guards.

Therefore, over the years, the Black Dragon Guards could only guard the Black Dragon Terrace. Outside the Black Dragon Terrace, the Iron Pagoda Secret Guards had a much more vicious reputation than the Black Dragon Guards.

However, today, the Amy Federation sent nearly a thousand soldiers, which made the Iron Pagoda Secret Guards, who were usually domineering and arrogant, and would kill people at will even on the streets of Black Dragon City, hesitate to act.

In the hall, Ying Zhe said slowly: "Okay, Ying E, shut up, he is your great uncle after all. Anyway, the covenant has been signed, and the army of the Aime Federation will soon 'friendly enter' our country to assist in defense... From now on, we are all family, and I hope that all the ministers will work together and contribute to our great plan!"

Beihe Cangming said coldly: "Forget it, we can't betray our ancestors. Yingzhi, you can do whatever you want!"

Nanshan Luo was too lazy to say anything and just turned around and left.

When the heads of the Beihe and Nanshan families left, more than 60% of the princes and nobles in the hall followed them out.

Ying Zhe and Ying E, father and son, looked at each other. Ying Zhe sighed faintly, "How arrogant!"

Ying E grinned and asked Ying Zhe softly, "We have been arguing since this morning. Are you hungry? How about going to the Mountain and River Palace for a banquet? Today is a big happy event. Hasn't it been like this for so many years for those two families? Are you hungry?"

Shanhe Hall is located beside the Yueying Lake in Heilongtai. It is majestic and surrounded by mountains and water.

In front of the main hall, there are three high platforms, and on each platform there are three huge bronze tripods several meters high. There are nine large tripods in total, with relief carvings of rivers, mountains, the country, the sun, the moon, and the stars on them. They were made by Dongyun in imitation of the "Nine Tripods" in the legend of the Eastern Kingdom of Shenzhou.

Today, green smoke rises from the nine large cauldrons, and a rich fragrance fills the air.

Many Dongyun girls in Tang Dynasty costumes held pipa and performed the "Dunhuang Flying Dance" on the three-tiered high platform. In the melodious sound of stringed instruments, some girls in Hu costumes led camels along the winding path. In the winter, Dongyun people got a lot of peony petals from somewhere and ordered people to pour them down from a high place. The petals were flying all over the sky, and the camels raised their heads and neighed. It was as if everyone had returned to the busiest season of the ancient Silk Road during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.

The Dongyun royal family spent a lot of money on this banquet. Just the silk and satin cost for the Tang Dynasty palace skirts worn by the dancing Dongyun girls amounted to a huge sum of money.

However, this prosperous Tang Dynasty scenery is just like flirting with a blind eye - Ollie, a group of "barbarians" from the Aime Federation, don't understand the prosperous Tang Dynasty culture at all. They don't even know the lofty status of the word "prosperous Tang Dynasty" in the hearts of Dongyun people.

Well, apart from the Qin Dynasty, it’s the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

However, Ying Zhe, Ying E, and the successive generations of Dongyun royal family above them, did not dare to mention the word "Da Qin". They did not dare to perform "Qin style and Qin rhythm" on their own turf, for fear of being visited by certain people.

As a last resort, since they couldn't deal with Qin Feng, they could only deal with Tang Feng.

Beihe Cangming and Nanshan Chuanlu left the Black Dragon Terrace with a large group of Iron Pagodas. The moment they walked out of the palace gate, surrounded by heavy soldiers, Beihe Cangming and Nanshan Chuanlu subconsciously wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads, and turned around to look at the towering palace gate of the Black Dragon Terrace, and the Black Dragon Guards standing on the palace wall, staring at them with cold eyes.

"Ha, okay, okay, okay, he is Ying Zhe. After all, he doesn't have the courage to really break up with him." Beihe Cangming sneered.

"But he has succeeded." Nanshan Kaguya said coldly: "He used the invasion of the demon beasts to win over so many people. He forced them to sign a contract with the Aimee Federation. He has already obtained the fleet aided by the Aimee Federation."

Nanshan Luo stomped his feet fiercely.

There was a low roar, and dust flew under his feet. On the square in front of the palace, which was paved with thick stone slabs, he left a half-foot deep footprint - the edge of the footprint was smooth, as if it was carefully carved by a craftsman.

"The Dongyun army has always been under our control." Nanshan Kaguya said coldly, "But once the Aime Federation fleet was acquired, the high-end military force in the hands of the royal family overwhelmed us. From now on, who has the final say in Dongyun?"

Beihe Cangming gritted his teeth and said, "How could this happen? Why would those evil beasts attack us like crazy?"

The Nanshan tree was staring straight at the Beihe dusk.

Beihe Cangming was silent for a while, and suddenly sneered: "Do you really think that my son, Beihe Cangyi, has the ability to wipe out 400,000 Saint Ross demons overnight?" Nanshan Cangming frowned.

He thought for a moment and shook his head slowly: "Don't even mention that little bastard. Even if you and I join forces, overnight? Four hundred thousand Saint Ross devils? Ha!"

Nanshan Luo looked at Beihe Cangming coldly: "However, the one who led the troops and declared war on Feiyun Port was Beihe Mingzhai, who is also from your Beihe family. These days, I have been wondering, what exactly does your Beihe family want to do?"

Beihe Cangming shook his head vigorously: "He is dead."

Nanshan Luo's eyes widened: "He? Master Mingzhai, dead?"

Beihe Cangming sighed softly: "He's dead. The rebel leader who was pushed out now, 'Beihe Mingzhai', should be his 'shadow warrior', damn bastard."

Beihe Cangming and Nanshan Jianlu looked at each other and remained silent for a long time.

These days, things were turbulent in Dongyun, and this was the first time the two of them had met formally in these days - if Ying Zhe hadn't forced the contract with the Aime Federation through, they might not have been able to discuss things face to face so 'calmly'.

A large group of warriors came over with two extremely gorgeous carriages - each carriage was pulled by six horses.

Obviously, this is an overstepping of authority.

Dongyun used the ancient rituals of the East Country everywhere, and the ancient rituals of the East Country clearly stated that the "Six Horses of the Emperor" meant that the emperor used six horses. When the Holy Emperor of Dongyun traveled, he also used six horses. And the heads of the Beihe and Nanshan families also used six horses to travel!

Beihe Cangming walked to his own carriage, suddenly turned around, and said to Nanshan Cangming in a deep voice: "Get in my carriage? Let's talk together? The contract he signed not only lost the money of the Beihe family, but also the army of your Nanshan family. Let's talk?"

Nanshan Luoluo pondered for a moment, took off the sword at his waist, handed it to the guard beside him, put his hands on the belt, and walked slowly to Beihe Cangming.

The two of them got into Beihe Cangming's car, one after the other.

A large group of warriors and thousands of Iron Pagoda secret guards surrounded the carriage as it left. On the palace wall, an eunuch in a dark blue robe looked over here for a while, then ran straight to the Shanhe Palace.

Late at night, the feast in the Black Dragon Terrace was still going on, but the atmosphere had changed. In the Mountain and River Palace, Oli and the others were all stripped naked, like a group of mad wild boars, chasing the screaming Dongyun palace maids around. The imperial palace of the Dongyun Island Union had become as messy as a breeding pig farm.

The thick clouds in the sky dispersed, and the blue moonlight illuminated the world.

The Moon Shadow Lake was sparkling. A large group of koi were startled by the strange cries coming from the Mountain and River Palace and were jumping restlessly on the lake.

On the north bank of Moon Shadow Lake, at the southwest corner of the huge active volcano, a convoy of light vehicles and few followers, led by two six-horse carriages, quietly arrived at the foot of the mountain.

Beihe Cangming, Nanshan Luoluo, and dozens of elders from the Beihe and Nanshan families, dressed in full sacrificial robes, quietly got off the carriage, and followed the ancient and colorful stone winding mountain road, holding lit incense sticks, climbing to the top of the mountain three steps at a time.

Along the way, strange noises could be heard faintly in the dense forest.

There were priests and shrine maidens wearing black hunting clothes, with three or five phosphorescent lights floating around them, moving back and forth in the dense forest like ghosts. Their figures were erratic, and they almost walked with the wind without touching the ground. Occasionally, they would stop for a moment by the winding mountain road and look coldly at these top dignitaries who were in awe.

This took a long time, and the group finally reached the halfway point of the mountain. They turned around and looked across the Moon Shadow Lake. They could just see the Shanhe Palace, which was brightly lit and guarded by a large army.

Beihe Cangming and Nanshan Hanluo cursed at the same time with extremely vulgar words. Beihe Cangming greeted the current Empress Dowager of Dongyun in a low voice - she was a clan member of Nanshan family; while Nanshan Hanluo greeted the current Grand Concubine of Dongyun in a low voice - she was a clan member of Beihe family.

The two cursed, looked at each other, and shut up angrily.

The three families are of the same origin. It is ugly to insult them, even insulting their own ancestors, which is really unpleasant.

They replaced the almost burnt incense sticks in their hands and continued to climb up with all their might. Fortunately, the active volcano was not very high and the stone road along the way was quite flat. It took them more than two hours to finally climb to the top of the mountain.

Behind the eighteen black torii gates, a shrine with three entrances stands tall.

A shrine maiden whose hair had turned yellow but whose complexion was kept fair and delicate, and whose every pore seemed to be glowing. Judging from her appearance, she was probably only fifteen or sixteen years old. She was holding a spirit-calling banner and standing quietly in front of the shrine.

Seeing Beihe Cangming and the others, the witch's eyes turned cold, and she turned around and left without saying a word: "You're here? Just in time. It's been delayed for more than a month, and you haven't given the shrine an explanation. How did the children sent to Dayunmen fail? How did they die? Why didn't any of them escape back?"

"We are old now, so our words are useless. You hold great power and are so majestic that you can fool us."

"But today, you guys can't fool me anymore!"

Beihe Cangming and Nanshan Luo looked at each other, their eyes full of confusion - in the battle of Dayunmen, the priests and priestesses of Penglai Shrine suffered heavy losses, so of course they knew about this.

However, these days they have been busy fighting with Ying Zhe and signing that damn contract with the Aime Federation, which has exhausted their energy and spirit. They really have no time, energy or intention to fight with the shrine.

And to be honest, the influence of the shrine over the years is just like this, right?

The world has entered the end of the law era of giant ships and cannons. Even if your shrine has a little foundation, those priests and priestesses cannot withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery. The Beihe family and the Nanshan family, who hold the power of Dongyun, really have no need to argue with the shrine.

Tonight, if it weren't for the intention to win over the shrine and jointly attack Ying Ci, the top leaders of the two companies would not appear here.

Beihe Cangming and Nanshan Luoluo snorted coldly at the same time. They followed the old witch and said coldly as they walked: "The responsibility for the battle of Dayunmen does not lie with our two families, but with that stubborn bastard."

"We have no intention of disrespecting the shrine."

"We came here tonight precisely to request to see the Great Divine Sect and explain to him the reasons behind this."

The old witch just led the way in front without saying a word.

Beihe Cangming and Nanshan Luoluo explained a few words, but seeing how indifferent the other party was, they snorted coldly and were too lazy to talk anymore - she was just an old witch, even if she had a lot of experience, in their opinion, that was all, right?

They passed through the torii gate, entered the shrine, and then walked straight through the shrine.

Beihe Cangming and Nanshan Xuanlu's faces changed.

The old witch led a group of people along a bluestone island all the way to the crater of this active volcano. Then, they followed the winding path carved into the inner wall of the crater and came to a platform above the magma lake in the crater, less than ten feet above the magma.

An old man, who was very tall, more than six feet tall, but extremely skinny, was standing quietly at the edge of the platform, muttering spells in a low voice.

At the moment when Beihe Cangming, Nanshan Luoluo and their group stepped onto the platform, the huge magma lake "puffed" a few times and spurted out pillars of fire that were dozens of feet high and about a foot thick.

Faint laughter echoed in the huge crater.

A lava pillar several meters thick rose silently from the center of the lava lake. On the top of the lava pillar, there was a glass ball with a diameter of about ten meters and was completely crystal clear.

In the glass ball that was burned red by the high temperature, a beautiful woman with long hair and naked body was yawning lazily.

The skinny old man, the old witch who led the way, as well as Beihe Cangming, Nanshan Xuanluo and others all knelt on the ground.

"The Most High, the Most Holy, the Holy Queen, how come you woke up?" Beihe Cangming and Nanshan Luogao prostrated themselves on the ground and exclaimed in surprise.

(End of this chapter)