Travel through the heavens

A few days later, three pieces of news quickly spread throughout Tianqi.

The first piece of news is related to the Red King Xiao Yu.

It is said that Red Prince Xiao Yu was summoned to the palace, but was suddenly convicted by Emperor Mingde and thrown directly into the Heavenly Prison.

Marquis Lan Yue led eight hundred Tiger Guards and two thousand imperial guards to surround Prince Chi's Palace. Soon, the sound of fierce fighting was heard in the palace, which lasted for about two incense sticks of time.

The second piece of news is about the Dragon Seal Scroll.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Emperor Mingde finally bestowed the Dragon Seal Scroll.

Originally, on the day of the annual sacrificial ceremony, one copy of the Dragon Seal Scroll should have been handed over to the Five Great Supervisors for safekeeping, and the other should have been sealed and preserved in the Imperial Observatory.

However, Emperor Mingde never bestowed the Dragon Seal Scroll on the Five Great Observatories and the Imperial Observatory. The civil and military officials in the court waited for the annual sacrificial ceremonies again and again, but unfortunately they were all in vain every year.

In fact, the Dragon Seal Scroll can be replaced. Emperor Tai'an of the previous dynasty changed it three times. Emperor Mingde's delay in writing has attracted a lot of criticism in the court.

Unexpectedly, this year, with only a few days left before the annual sacrificial ceremony at the end of the year, Emperor Mingde bestowed the Dragon Seal Scroll in advance.

The first two pieces of news only made the officials in the court more concerned, and ordinary people in the city just treated them as a topic of conversation after dinner. However, the third piece of news made the entire Tianqi boil, causing panic among the people for a while.

It was all because the general of the central army, Ye Xiaoying, led the Double-Sword Ye Camp, assembled with the old Langya army, and welcomed back the new Langya King, Xiao Ruofeng's only son, Xiao Lingchen, and launched a rebellion.

The Langya Army was advancing with great momentum, as if they were in an empty space, and were now approaching the Tianqi City.

In the warm room of Xueluo Villa, Lei Wujie was like a storyteller, talking eloquently about what happened in the Chiwang Mansion.

"At that time, Marquis Lan Yue sealed the Red Prince's Mansion, and no one could enter or leave. Then he ordered Hubenlang to search carefully, and finally found a gloomy house in the backyard. As expected, Night Crow was hiding here."

"We were about to capture Night Crow, but he summoned out four medicine men holding different weapons, swords, spears, and halberds, saying that Xiao Se had the Four Guardians of Apocalypse, so he made four for himself. He also said that they were masters selected from tens of thousands of people and were stronger than the four of us."

"When Senior Sister Qianluo heard this, she couldn't bear it anymore. She raised her Silver Moon Spear and rushed towards the one using the spear. When Senior Brother and I saw this, we also rushed forward. Although Miss Ji Xue wasn't there at the time, fortunately, we had the help of Senior Brother Minghou. We each got one. I went after the one using the sword, Senior Brother went after the one using the halberd, and Senior Brother Minghou went after the one using the knife."

"We fought those four for hundreds of rounds, and were about to kill them, but unexpectedly, Night Crow suddenly used some kind of 'Stone Heart Gu', and the bodies of the four medicine men suddenly became extremely hard, like stone and iron. They were much more difficult to deal with than the last few medicine men who raided Snowfall Villa that night. We were in a stalemate with them for a while, alas..."

Having said that, Lei Wujie sighed, clenched his right fist and hit his left palm heavily, but stopped talking. His eyes looked at this and that with anticipation.

How could everyone not see his intention? They couldn't help but smile knowingly, but they didn't say anything. In the end, Xiao Se couldn't stand it anymore, so he coughed and asked lazily, "So, how did you deal with those four medicine men?"

Lei Wujie chuckled and continued, "Mr. Xie said that the four of them were drug poisoners, and that they were more difficult to deal with than ordinary drug poisoners, so he asked us to retreat."

"After we retreated, Mr. Xie leaped into the middle of the four medicine men, and the four weapons of swords, spears, swords and halberds were immediately swung at Mr. Xie."

"It happened so fast that Mr. Xie's sword spun around, and his whole body was like a butterfly flying through flowers, floating between the four medicine men. No matter how fiercely the swords, spears, and halberds were swung, they could only touch Mr. Xie's sleeves. Mr. Xie's steps suddenly changed, no longer light and soft, but became fierce and agile, as if a god was flying on a dragon."

"As the saying goes, 'Once upon a time, a swordsman rode the wind and frightened a dragon three thousand miles away with one strike of his sword.' Mr. Xie's body suddenly stopped. He raised his sword, and suddenly there was a thunderclap, like a thunderbolt. He put away his sword, and in an instant, the wind and the sea were calm, like the rippling waves on the river. I saw four heads flying up to the sky, and four corpses fell to the ground. With just one move, Mr. Xie killed the four medicine men with his sword."

Lei Wujie was beaming with joy as he described this passage vividly. His tone was passionate, and the sword fingers of his right hand kept waving, as if he was imitating Xie Xuan's swordsmanship at the time. Fang Muye, Ye Ruoyi and the others who did not go there also felt as if they were there themselves.

Xie Xuan shook his head: "I didn't expect that I would be so powerful in the eyes of Brother Lei. I am really ashamed."

Fang Muye smiled slightly: "Thank you, brother, you are too modest."

Ye Ruoyi asked curiously, "What happened next? How was Night Crow killed?"

Lei Wujie hesitated for a moment and said, "What happened next? When Night Crow saw Mr. Xie's demeanor, his face turned even paler and he actually behaved abnormally. Guess what? Night Crow said that it was his honor to die under the sword of the Confucian Sword Immortal, but he pulled out a dagger from his sleeve and stabbed it into his heart. He twisted it with his hand, and blood immediately stained the ground."

Xiao Se frowned: "Ye Ya committed suicide?"

Lei Wujie clapped his hands and said, "We thought Night Crow had committed suicide, but just as we were walking towards the door, the already dead Night Crow suddenly stood up and pounced towards Mr. Xie. At that time, Night Crow's pupils had collapsed, and the hole in his chest was still bleeding. There was no doubt that he was already dead, but he seemed to be still alive."

When Sikong Qianluo recalled the scene at that moment, a trace of fear flashed in her eyes and she couldn't help but shudder. At that time, she really thought it was haunted.

Xin Baicao said in a deep voice: "Before committing suicide, Night Crow had already transformed himself into a medicine man."

Lei Wujie nodded: "Senior Xin is right, that Night Crow is indeed crazy, he actually turned himself into a medicine man. When he pounced on Mr. Xie, his body became bigger, stone patterns seemed to appear on his surface, and his nails became sharp, like a demon."

"We all couldn't help but gasp at that moment, and saw the ten thousand books leave his hands in an instant, extremely fast and ethereal, like the clouds in the sky, and Mr. Xie's figure flashed and appeared behind Night Crow. Just as Mr. Xie reached out to catch the long sword and recited a poem softly, Night Crow's body finally fell down."

Ji Ruofeng praised: "Xianyun Ox-Horse Killing Blade, Brother Xie's 'Xianyun' is still so amazing."

Xie Xuan smiled and said, "Brother Ji, please stop flattering me."

Ji Ruofeng asked: "What poem did Brother Xie recite at that time?"

"It's a poem to mourn my deceased wife." Xie Xuan chanted again: "Thirty years of life and death, two hundred miles away, watching over her lonely grave. At night, her remaining soul suddenly returns home. Who is dressing in front of the bronze mirror?"

Xin Baicao sighed and said slowly: "In fact, my junior brother Ye Ya is a passionate man. When he was young, his medical skills were well-known in the world, not inferior to mine. But later his wife fell seriously ill and no one could cure her. As a result, she died in Medicine King Valley. From that day on, he began to be obsessed with some medical skills that could reverse life and death, and even the art of medicine. In the end, he was expelled from the sect by the master."

Fang Muye sighed softly, "Resurrection from the dead is actually just an obsession. There is no possibility of reversal between life and death. Even if a person can stand up again, he has already become a walking corpse."

Ye Ruoyi asked in confusion: "Why did Night Crow want to turn himself into a medicine man?"

Fang Muye thought for a moment and replied, "Maybe he also wants to know if a person dies and then becomes a medicine man, then whether such a medicine man will have some consciousness, and whether he can still be considered truly alive. But dead is dead. Night Crow has studied the art of medicine man for so many years, he would not fail to think of this. Maybe he just doesn't want to accept it."

After a pause, Fang Muye sighed and said, "A person's obsession can really trap him for his entire life."