deltrittennovels #447 - Chang'an City Mutation (2 in 1 order required)
#447 - Chang'an City Mutation (2 in 1 order required)
As dusk approached, a scene of peace and tranquility settled under the darkening sky.
However, somewhere in the city, undercurrents were quietly stirring.
Large numbers of people from the Luli Troupe and the Golden Cicada Thieves were secretly gathering in a secluded temple, and the small room was immediately crowded.
Zhong Wuye closed her eyes slightly, meditating and adjusting her breathing alone, with a calm and dignified demeanor. Princess Tana wore a black veil, twirling her sleeves with her slender hands, her face slowly dazed. Qin Huan stood at the door, whispering with several veterans, looking serious.
At this moment, a scout hurried over and whispered a few words in Qin Huan's ear. Qin Huan's expression froze and he looked at Zhong Wuye.
Zhong Wuye opened her eyes, looked around, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, listen quietly, remember to do your own thing later."
The crowd responded, and the atmosphere became solemn immediately.
Zhong Wuye continued: "The scout has just scouted all the guard points of the Grand Tutor's Mansion, and the most difficult to cross is the triple mechanism array on the west wall."
After saying that, she looked at Tana: "Princess, that mechanism array needs you to unlock it, only a special aura can activate it."
Tana took a deep breath and nodded slowly: "Don't worry, I will do my best." A touch of determination gradually appeared on her fair and jade-like face.
...
Night had fallen, and the operation was about to begin.
Zhong Wuye, Tana, and Qin Huan each led a small team and set off for the Grand Tutor's Mansion in three routes. The crowd left silently, leaving only the dim lights flickering in the ancient temple.
Following the previously surveyed alleyways, Zhong Wuye reached out and left a secret signal on the wall every so often to prevent getting lost.
Those following behind were all veterans who had experienced many battles, walking silently like foxes and ghosts. As they approached the Grand Tutor's Mansion, Zhong Wuye made another gesture, and the crowd immediately split into three teams and disappeared into the dark night.
Immediately, a whistle sounded from the southeast walls at the same time. The west side was quiet.
Two guards heard the sound and looked over, and immediately saw a group of masked men holding short sticks rushing up the city wall.
One of them covered his face, constantly making strange hand seals. A dazzling golden light shot out from his palm in mid-air, directly towards the two guards! Miserable screams followed.
The west wall was silent, and no one appeared at all.
In the dark night, a masked man walked by quickly. He came straight to the base of the city wall, and with a hand seal, thousands of blue lights surged from the ground.
Princess Tana stepped out of the blue light, with a body full of celestial energy, pinching strange hand seals with her hands.
On the city wall, a triple mechanism array suddenly appeared, flashing layers of blades, like dazzling light. Tana 운기(운기: mobilized) her whole body's celestial mansion, and countless green threads bloomed from her fingertips, quietly breaking into the mechanism array, secretly operating. It was so laborious that the triple array was cracked one by one.
At the same time, fierce battles had already begun on the southeast sides.
The guards displayed amazing martial arts, and for a while, they suppressed the masked men, forcing them to retreat. Just as this group of people was gradually seeing no room for maneuver, two strong men suddenly appeared, waving treasures shrouded in smoke, releasing an unspeakable fierce aura.
Those two were Zhong Wuye and Qin Huan!
The long sword in Zhong Wuye's hand burst out with dazzling dragon power. Wherever she passed, the sword turned into ten thousand coiling and punishing spirit snakes, making people shudder. Qin Huan's hand was an old mace, but once swung out, monstrous clouds would rise from it, waiting for an opportunity to surround.
With the appearance of two world-shocking weapons, coupled with the heroic and desperate fighting of many veterans, the situation was reversed, forcing the Grand Tutor's guards to be at a loss, overwhelmed.
Seeing that the situation had been reversed, Zhong Wuye waved his hand, signaling that the western mechanism array had been destroyed. The troops on the southeast sides immediately rushed over and plunged into the Grand Tutor's Mansion!
...
At the same time, The Cardinal Academy.
A sudden cold rain poured down, extinguishing the surrounding lights. Under the cover of the rain, the Blood Rose and her men sneaked in without anyone knowing. They held hidden weapons, divided into several routes, and pressed in all directions. Fierce battles broke out with the guards of the Cardinal Academy cultivator!
In the fierce battle, a thunder suddenly rose, but it was Elder Cang Li of the Cardinal Academy who took the lead, and the Thunder Staff in his hand conjured ten thousand jun of thunder power. In the midst of the storm, thunder and lightning blazed, and the Blood Rose's subordinates were overwhelmed.
Although the battle entered a stalemate, a deep look of solemnity appeared in Cang Li's eyes.
Originally, they had already glimpsed the Blood Rose's base camp, and it was imperative to arrest them. But the number of people who appeared now was far less than they had expected. It seemed that the Blood Rose's trump card was yet to come, and there would be more big battles ahead!
...
At the same time, Zhong Wuye and others fought all the way in and had already broken into the Grand Tutor's Mansion.
Strangely, they couldn't find the Grand Tutor's whereabouts. All they saw before them was a tall pavilion burning with raging flames. Under the firelight, a woman in luxurious clothes stood proudly.
When Tana saw her, she was immediately furious: "You fake princess, how dare you swindle money and things, wantonly harass the people, bring disaster to the people! What are you?!"
The woman sneered, her eyes as cold as ice, and when she glanced over, she actually reflected angry sharp light.
She glared angrily, pointed her finger at Tana, and said angrily: "How do I know that you are the real princess? Today, you claim to be orthodox with just a mouth? In my opinion, it is more like you are pretending to be a good person!"
In fact, although Princess Tana was kidnapped, she naturally had a natural noble posture and extraordinary temperament. At the moment, she was even more impassioned, and said proudly:
"I have the blessing of national essence and blood, so I am naturally qualified to be called crown prince! And you, who swindle people of money, have nothing, and only rely on greed to make a living! The true ruling bloodline has the world in mind, how can they swindle money and food and oppress the people?! I will give you another chance to wake up now. If you don't bow your head, don't blame me for fighting!"
The fake princess laughed angrily and said: "What a cliche! Even if you are the real princess, so what? In my opinion, blood is confused, and a mere populace is just nothing! It's just that I haven't touched higher levels of power and wealth yet. Otherwise, my temperament may not necessarily lose to you."
Saying that, she took a deep look at Zhong Wuye, and then was taken down.
Zhong Wuye found that there seemed to be a separate world after the room. Looking naturally, she saw a huge dried skeleton in the firelight around the pavilion!
The skeleton was hundreds of zhang tall, as grand as an ancient dragon, and countless skin had been completely剥离(剥离: stripped off, leaving only the grim skeleton!
The skeleton was covered with mysterious divine runes, starlight blooming, as if containing some unparalleled divine power!
Zhong Wuye suddenly realized, this is not the remains of the Dragonborn of Xuantian Dragon Region?
...
The next day at dawn, Zhong Wuye and others were summoned by Cang Li to the imperial palace.
In the vast hall, Buddha niche hung high, incense smoke lingering.
A group of Cardinal Academy elders had already arrived first been waiting here. Cang Li's robes fluttered, and spoke passionately:
"Your Majesty, last night's Chang'an City was thrilling, a real unexpected event. What exactly was the Grand Tutor Ouyang Xing planning that day? I sincerely invite you and Miss Zhong to clarify this."
Zhong Wuye nodded in agreement and stepped forward.
She turned her palm over and took out a few exhibits obtained in the ruins of the Grand Tutor's Mansion. One of them was a black-purple hairpin, which was the valuable hair ornament left by the woman who pretended to be Princess Tana. The hairpin had a faint sandalwood scent, was very delicate and unique, presumably made by a famous artist.
The second was a stack of secret documents from Ouyang Xing, the cover was made of obsidian, carved with a skull, which was extremely weird and terrifying.
Zhong Wuye opened a few pages, only to see densely recorded Ouyang Xing's many years in high positions in the imperial camp, decadent life, various evidences of greed.
The last was a dragon bone, the whole body was green, covered with array纹理(纹理: patterns), presumably出自远古龙族某尊龙身(presumably出自远古龙族某尊龙身: presumably from the body of a dragon of the ancient dragon race).
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Zhong Wuye pointed to the dragon bone and said: "This is what I obtained in a Ancestral Dragon Mausoleum in the Grand Tutor's Mansion. Judging from the hidden array纹理(纹理: patterns) on it, it may be related to the unknown formation set up by Ouyang Xing yesterday."
After saying that, Zhong Wuye escorted out the woman who pretended to be the princess. The woman was wearing gold-embroidered heavy gauze, and the beautiful clothes were graceful, but at the moment she was a mess with heavy makeup, and her expression was gloomy.
Sima Ru saw this, and also took out a stack of documents from his sleeve, first looked at Zhong Wuye, and then said loudly:
" Ouyang Xing's crime, has its own proof! Here I have various evidences collected by Qin, over the years." Saying that, Sima Ru opened the documents and read them out slowly, one by one, the content was really shocking.
This included Ouyang Xing placed under house arrest Zhao, Li and other famous generals of the former dynasty, forcibly seizing their troops, and taking a large number of military salaries and property.
What's more, in order to win in the power struggle, Ouyang Xing actually extorted huge sums of money from wealthy businessmen as campaign funds, and secretly ordered the killing of several loyal and good people with different voices.
The most shocking was that Ouyang Xing had a private army composed of remnants of the demonic path, specially used to kidnap and murder dissidents!
Emperor Yongping closed his eyes slightly, and remained silent after listening, but silently picked up the jade cup, took a sip of the fragrant Longjing tea, as if in thought.
Although Sima Ru silenced when he saw this, there was anger flowing in his eyes. Things had come to this point, but His Majesty was still hesitant, the Dayuan Dynasty was going to perish!
At this moment, an old man walked in, staggering, with a panicked expression, directly to whispered a few words in Emperor Yongping's ear. Emperor Yongping's expression froze after listening, and said to Sima Ru: "Today the Grand Tutor reported a sudden illness, I am planning to visit first, to clarify the various things that have happened…"
Just as he said this, a Imperial City Guard wearing heavy armor suddenly stomped his feet and rushed in, rushed to Emperor Yongping, and reported loudly: " Reporting to Your Majesty, something bad has happened! Chang'an City has been plagued by nightmares!"
In his words, this guard was out of breath, and cold sweat was streaming on his forehead.
Emperor Yongping was shocked and quickly waved his hand to signal the guard to continue speaking.
The guard trembled and said: " A large number of nightmares have suddenly appeared in the suburbs, and the epidemic has rapidly spread among the guarding people. Blood is surging, and wails are endless! Too many royals and nobles have been infected and turned into nightmares, fighting against our army, and not long ago, the garrison was also suffered a nightmare invasion, tens of thousands of soldiers all defected, turning into monsters like zombie demons and wolf demons, and the guard in the city is is just a formality"
Emperor Yongping's expression changed suddenly upon hearing this, and the words reached his mouth, he could not say them.
A earth-shattering loud noise suddenly came from outside!
Cang Li hurriedly took people out to take a look, only to see hundreds of zhang away, the Imperial City East Gate had been completely destroyed, and a a rolling black fog surged in from the breach!
On the broken wall, there stood impressively one with blood-stained fangs and a fierce ghost, and extremely ferocious. The Imperial City soldiers were constantly transforming in the black fog, becoming只只爪牙森森( becoming只只爪牙森森: only sharp claws) and fangs exposed zombie demons!
Seeing Cang Li and others, this group of nightmare demons immediately laughed wildly and and rushed forward. Seeing the urgent situation, Cang Li shouted loudly, and the Thunder Staff in his hand flashed out ten thousand zhang of thunder, illuminating the surroundings, and repelling those zombie nightmare wolves all back.
At the same time, Qin Huan had already prepared for defense in the back compartment, and operated the city protection formation, preventing the black fog from continuing to spread.
But, he looked at the black qi rolling imperial city streets, and his brows could not help but furrow. Here it was already corpses everywhere, and a sea of blood, and even top experts of the Cardinal Academy could not completely contain it.
And at the same time, Zhong Wuye and Cang Li had also seen from the high platform of the imperial city, only to see the entire Chang'an City hundreds of miles around, and an endless black smoke filled the air.
And these black fogs seemed to be without source or origin, but seemed to be spreading out from a center. Following the gaze, that was the location of Ouyang Xing's Grand Tutor's Mansion!
Zhong Wuye心中一凛(Zhong Wuye心中一凛: Zhong Wuye's heart shuddered), and suddenly realized that the dragon bone she had seen in the ruins of the Grand Tutor's Mansion a few days ago, and the Ancestral Dragon Mausoleum covered with array纹理(纹理: patterns), were connected, could it be that that was the location of the array eye of the great formation seen at the moment?!
Cang Li stared at the dilapidated street scene of the imperial city, suddenly let out a long roar, with a voice like a bell: " Ouyang Xing, you traitor, do you know why犯下如此滔天大罪(do you know why犯下如此滔天大罪: you have committed such a heinous crime)? Are you not afraid of the Emperor's great favor, public anger, and still want to take this opportunity to seize the throne, and continue to wield power for tyranny?!" The tone was filled with burning anger, and aggressive.
Zhong Wuye also suddenly realized, and immediately said to Cang Li: " I'm afraid it's not just that. If I guess correctly, Ouyang Xing has set up this shocking formation, is not just to seize power, but also为了彻底掌控住整个人族命脉生死根源(but also为了彻底掌控住整个人族命脉生死根源: but also to completely control the source of life and death of the entire human race). After all, the Dragonborn remains and other treasures are not随手就能驱策的(随手就能驱策的: something he can use at will."
Thinking of that dragon bone was closely related to the great formation, Zhong Wuye不由打了个冷战(Zhong Wuye不由打了个冷战: Zhong Wuye could not help but shiver).
Cang Li's body shook, and also understood the key point. He sneered repeatedly and shouted:
" It seems that this dog thief is really bold! It turned out that the collective defection of the Blood Rose back then, was actually led by him to such a vicious scheme! On the one hand, he used a fake princess to deceive people, leading the students of the樞机院(枢机院: Cardinal Academy out of the city), and on the other hand, he set up this great formation with a desperate gamble, not hesitating to destroy the human race, and use the power of the distant ancestors of the dragon family to control the life and death of our human race, so as to claim hegemony! Detestable, hateful, If this kind of sin is not eradicated, wouldn't it ruin the entire human foundation!"
At this time, only tens of miles away, at the array eye of the Grand Tutor's Mansion, the smoke and dust were billowing, as if凝聚(凝聚: gathering the final power). It seems that Ouyang Xing is now using the power of the dragon to鎮族(鎮族: suppress the clan), setting up an array to absorb all the vitality of the human race, intending to reshape a new order where nightmare demons are永驻(永驻: permanently reside)!
Zhong Wuye眉头紧锁(Zhong Wuye眉头紧锁: Zhong Wuye frowned), watching the court and the public fall into a滔天魇浪(滔天魇浪: monstrous nightmare wave), and muttered: " In this way, not only will Chang'an City be completely沦陷(沦陷: occupied), and the entire human race lifeline will also因此染上魇劫(will also因此染上魇劫: be infected with nightmare), and never be解脱(解脱: freed). Even so, we must not let Ouyang Xing act arbitrarily! While the formation is not fully formed, we must try our best to break the formation, only by cutting off the Grand Tutor's Mansion array eye, can we avoid the life and death of the entire human race from being controlled by others!"
Having said that, with a flick of her long sleeve, she retrieved the Dragonkin tailbone from her bosom. Cang Li and Qin Huan, along with several other veterans, upon seeing this, also took out their respective magical artifacts. Instantly, golden light shone brilliantly, and inner force radiated with majestic power! The final regret and righteousness of all the Cardinal Students transformed into a raging fire of justice, burning fiercely in their hearts!
Cang Li roared in a loud and resonant voice, "Everyone, follow me! We must fight our way out of this oppressive gloom with unwavering resolve! We must not allow Ouyang Xing's wickedness to shroud this vast sky, and we must flatten the Nightmare Array he has laid down to save our people from this calamity! This is our last chance! This matter is of utmost importance, and there is no turning back!" As soon as his words fell, dazzling golden light burst forth from within everyone's body.
The heroes bravely set off towards the array's core in the Grand Preceptor's mansion! Although beset by layers of nightmares and surging waves of darkness, there was still a glimmer of hope to reverse the situation! And the human orthodoxy they were upholding was the last hope under this vast sky!