nyslfriends Chapter 1197 Imperial Court Secret Realm
Chapter 1197 Imperial Court Secret Realm
Chapter 1197 Imperial Court Secret Realm
In the past, Jiang Zongheng discovered a mysterious corpse in a cave in the State of Zhao. Beside it, besides a jade book recording the Scripture of Riding Six Dragons to Control the Sky, there was also a small dragon-catching tripod.
After Chen Mobai mastered the art of refining weapons, he refined the cauldron again with the Tushita Fire and integrated it into the Dragon Vein of the Eastern Wasteland.
This happened a long time ago, so Chen Mobai didn’t think about it at first.
【We’ll talk about this later.】
Chen Mobai sent a message to Jiang Zongheng. Now Shenxi and Dakong were nearby, so it would be difficult to delve into why the cauldron was acting strangely. However, after thinking about it, he realized that it must be because of Guangwu Immortal City.
I don’t know if it’s the remaining power of the Eastern Land Imperial Court or some other reason.
After listening to this, Jiang Zongheng nodded silently, followed Chen Mobai, and brought Duan Shuyu and Jin Ling'er to the sky above the ruins of the imperial city.
It was like a small fairy city, still surrounded by tall and solid walls made of huge bluestones. However, there were many places covered with deep claw marks, which were obviously left by the demon spirits who had fought for the Dragon-Catching Cauldron. The walls here were more dilapidated than those of Guangwu Fairy City, and one corner had even collapsed.
It was precisely because the imperial city was breached that the whole world knew that the Eastern Land Imperial Court was already strong on the outside but weak on the inside. In the end, all places only obeyed orders and not announcements, and ultimately the orders of the Emperor could not leave Guangwu Immortal City.
Shenxi led Chen Mobai and the others down towards the city gate on the east side of the imperial city's wall. This city gate had one large gate and two small ones.
"Although most of the restrictions here have been invalidated, the ban on flying for those who are not of the Eastern Land Imperial Court bloodline still exists. They can only enter through the city gate."
Shenxi began to introduce that there were some monks in armor guarding the city gate. The leading one was a general in golden armor who should know Shenxi. After seeing him, he immediately opened the city gate and then led the monks under his command to salute them with their right hands on their chests.
"This is a nephew of my Daode Sect. After the disintegration of the Eastern Land Imperial Court, several of our original holy places took over this place together. As time passed, only my sect and the Jiutian Dangmo Sect are left."
After hearing Shenxi's words, Chen Mobai couldn't help but look at Dakong Zhenjun. Theoretically, Taixu Piaomiao Palace should also be able to get a share of the pie.
"My sect is not interested in these things. We only like to do business."
When Dakong saw Chen Mobai's gaze, he instantly understood what the latter meant and began to explain.
Taixu Piaomiao Palace had already opened the Chamber of Commerce in Dongzhou during the Eastern Land Imperial Court period, but at that time they had made some promises to the Human Emperor, so they are still abiding by them. But for them, this is fine.
As they were talking, they had already passed through the city gate and entered the imperial city.
What came into view was a magnificent palace complex. Shenxi led them to the main hall in the middle. The glazed tiles on the roof sparkled with golden light in the sun. Chen Mobai listened to the sound of the empty valley and could hear the powerful restriction that had not yet dissipated. Until now, it was still at the fifth level.
It is conceivable how powerful the Eastern Land Imperial Court was during its peak period.
"Eastern Heaven Palace"!
Chen Mobai looked at the plaque hanging in the hall and couldn't help but read it aloud.
"This was where the Emperor of Man used to work. There is actually a hidden secret world here, similar to the shipyard on the other side of Wandering Mountain..."
Shenxi continued to introduce, of course he did not say that this small world hid most of the Eastern Land Imperial Court's heritage, which was divided among several holy places in the distant past.
Only some broken, undistributable and worthless things were left here, such as the fifth-level puppet golden-armored god.
Chen Mobai stepped into the hall, walked through the spacious space supported by vermilion pillars, looked at the walls on both sides depicting the country and emperors of all dynasties, and came to the throne in the center.
Shenxi took out a talisman, and Chen Mobai's eyebrows jumped involuntarily, because he felt threatened in this talisman.
This is a sixth-level talisman.
Moreover, the talisman this time was different from the one Shenxi used when dealing with the old dragon.
All we can say is that the heritage of this ancient holy land is profound.
While Chen Mobai was amazed, Shenxi had already activated the talisman, and then everything in front of him suddenly changed.
The exquisite floor tiles under their feet turned into soft soil, and the walls on both sides disappeared. The place became empty and fragrant, as if they had come to a garden. Looking up, they saw colorful flowers blooming on the ground all around, and in the distance there were pavilions and towers scattered around, with gurgling water surrounding those buildings, as if they had come to a fairyland on earth.
"The Golden Armored God is considered the most powerful emperor of the Eastern Land Imperial Court. He is the power left behind to protect the descendants of future generations. Only those with royal blood and those who have mastered the Six Dragons Heavenly Controlling Scripture can activate it..."
While Shenxi was speaking, the talisman in his hand flew out and transformed into a golden dragon, breathing towards the earth.
Rumble!
As the dragon exhaled, the earth suddenly trembled, and then three humanoid puppets wearing golden armor emerged, half-kneeling towards the real dragon in the sky.
"The one in my hand is the Six Dragon Talisman, which can imitate the Qi of the Six Dragons to Control the Sky Scripture, so I can use it to enter and exit the various secret places in the Eastern Land Imperial Court."
Shenxi explained briefly that one of their ancient ancestors of the Daode Sect, Wuwei Zhenjun, cultivated to the realm of Lianxu after obtaining the resources left by the Eastern Land Imperial Court.
Before ascending to heaven, the talisman maker Wuwei Zhenjun left behind many sixth-level talismans as his foundation, and this six-dragon talisman was one of them. It is precisely because of this that the Daode Sect has a deep foundation, because no one knows how many sixth-level talismans they have.
However, Chen Mobai felt that it would not be too much.
Moreover, even if one wants to activate a powerful sixth-order talisman, one needs to pay a huge price.
"When the Eastern Land Imperial Court was at its peak, there were twelve golden-armored gods, who guarded the major immortal cities and borders in the Eastern Land. Guangwu Immortal City is the imperial city, so there are three of them. My sect helped the Nine Heavens Demon Sect and other holy places to refine the Tongsheng Zhenling Pill, which was considered to be the management right of this secret realm. These three golden-armored gods are also under the name of my sect. However, these puppets were damaged when fighting with the demon clan's true spirits, and without a puppeteer to repair them, they have remained here."
Shenxi brought Chen Mobai and the others to the three half-kneeling golden-armored gods. Chen Mobai saw that these lifelike puppets were covered with deep claw marks.
One of them was even torn into pieces and then put together again, with cracks all over its body.
The most intact one was broken in half.
After Chen Mobai checked it, he looked regretful, because all the core parts of the puppets had been completely destroyed. If he wanted to repair them, he might as well make a new one. No wonder Daode Sect allowed these three golden armored gods to stay here.
“At the beginning, I didn’t know where those true spirits came from. Their strength is at least at the level of the old dragon.”
Lord Dakong obviously knew about the battle that led to the complete downfall of the Eastern Land Imperial Court. Not only was the imperial city ravaged by the demon spirits, but even the Dragon Capturing Cauldron was stolen.
The only force that can possess such strength is at least a force like their Taixu Piaomiao Palace.
However, after investigating for a long time, they still couldn't find out the reason.
"In that battle, there must have been a force at the Lianxu level involved. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to break the imperial city's defense formation."
Shenxi also revealed some things that the Daode Sect knew. Their ancestor, Wuwei Zhenjun, had served as the imperial teacher of the Eastern Land Imperial Court. He had some understanding of the defense formation of Guangwu Immortal City and knew that even if an ordinary Lianxu came here, he would not be able to cause such damage.
It was for this reason that after that incident, all the major holy places in Dongzhou remained silent.
"Alas, what a pity, it definitely cannot be repaired." At this time, True Lord Dakong had already finished inspecting the three severely damaged golden-armored gods, sighed, stood up and said.
"My master said that Master Chen and Senior can each choose one."
Shenxi spoke, with a somewhat embarrassed look on his face. After all, True Lord Wuchen had used this in exchange for him knowing the secret of Longyuan Cave, but the item was badly damaged.
"My friend, you choose first."
When Master Dakong saw Chen Mobai concentrating on disassembling the pieced-together golden-armored celestial god, as if he was checking the materials and so on, he couldn't help but speak.
"Then let's do this."
Chen Mobai pointed at the statue he had demolished and said gracefully.
He had already examined this one, and even the fragments were all made of fifth-level materials, with some remaining sixth-level ones.
"Hey, this puppet is a little strange."
Just when Master Dakong was about to take away the puppet that was broken in half, he discovered something strange.
Chen Mobai immediately went over to check, and his pupils couldn't help but shrink when he saw the broken wound.
"Human puppet!?"
He looked at the wound on the spine and his expression became solemn.
The raw material of this golden-armored god is actually human.
Is it a corpse or a living monk?
Is the Eastern Land Imperial Court so cruel?
Chen Mobai and Dakong looked at Shenxi, who seemed a little embarrassed, and then explained the reason.
"This was a golden-armored corpse that was about to advance to a flying yaksha when the Ten Directions Palace was exterminating the Corpse Reincarnation Demon Sect. It was later refined into a golden-armored celestial god by the puppet master of the imperial court. In fact, this is also the origin of the golden-armored celestial god. However, my sect was also insignificant at that time..."
Shenxi sighed and said, as a holy place of the righteous way, it was definitely wrong for them to not stop the Eastern Land Imperial Court from using the secret magic method to refine puppets.
However, Daode Zong was indeed not qualified to criticize the Human Emperor in person at that time.
"Then I'll change one."
After hearing this, Master Dakong very gracefully chose another one. Among the three, only one was made from the golden armored corpse.
Shenxi didn't say much.
"What's over there?" After choosing the puppet, Chen Mobai had also used the turtle treasure to set the coordinates of this place, and then pointed to the pavilions not far away and asked.
"It can be regarded as the place where the previous emperors practiced in seclusion. It originally had a seventh-order spiritual vein that led directly to the upper realm, but it has been cut off after the Jiedi Tiantong. Now it is barely maintained at the level of the lower sixth order."
Shenxi answered, then activated the Six Dragon Talisman and led them inside.
It was naturally extremely luxurious inside, but what Chen Mobai was most interested in was an attic filled with jade slips.
"These are the files of the successive emperors of the Eastern Land Imperial Court governing the world. They can also be considered as the Imperial Court's history. They are divided according to each generation of emperors. At the beginning, several of our major holy places sent people to copy a copy. The ones here are the originals."
After Shenxi finished speaking, Chen Mobai's eyes lit up.
These things are not available in the Yiyuan Taoist Palace. After all, Yiyuan Zhenjun is too young, and the Daode Sect and Jiutian Dangmo Sect will not tell them about this matter at all.
If the Five Elements Sect could complete these, then at least they would have a direct understanding of the Eastern Imperial Court that ruled the entire East Continent after the ancient times, instead of having to ask Yuan Zhen for advice when they encountered something they didn't understand as before.
"Can I make a copy?"
Chen Mobai asked politely, and Shenxi naturally agreed.
"Zong Heng, I will leave this matter to you."
After getting permission, Chen Mobai spoke to Jiang Zongheng and the other two who had remained silent. The latter immediately understood what he meant and nodded in understanding.
"I'll put this Six Dragon Talisman here, and I'll take it back when Junior Brother Jiang finishes copying it."
Shenxi gave Chen Mobai a lot of face and placed a sixth-level talisman in the sky to protect Jiang Zongheng in this secret realm of the Eastern Imperial Court.
"Thank you, Brother Dao. Let's go have some tea instead of waiting for these youngsters here."
Chen Mobai's words made Shenxi and Dakong have no doubts. After the three gods left here, Dakong directly activated the secret art of the void and returned to the mountain gate of Daode Sect.
"You two stay here and copy. I'll go take a look."
Seeing the three gods leaving, Jiang Zongheng immediately directed Duan Shuyu and Jin Ling'er to do things, and then he went towards the direction of the Small Dragon-Catching Cauldron's sensing.
After a while, he came to a rockery in the secret realm.
Jiang Zongheng walked around, then stopped at one place and took out his tripod. Suddenly, the rockery lit up with a barely perceptible light.
But perhaps there was no secret method to activate it, so no matter what he did, the rockery did not react any further.
He did not get discouraged and walked around the secret realm again, writing down all the places where the Dragon-Catching Cauldron reacted. Then he returned to the attic and copied the jade slips with Duan Shuyu and the others.
The mountain gate of Daode Sect.
Chen Mobai and other righteous gods from Dongzhou were drinking Shoumei together. It happened that he used the Chaos Energy Cannon to destroy Pluto and lost 300 years of his lifespan. He was wondering if he could make it up by drinking Shoumei.
What he was thinking about was to help Daode Sect refine a fifth-tier magic weapon, or to exchange it with the remaining materials from the old dragon's corpse.
"My friend, you are being polite. Although the production of Shoumei is not large, as the oldest in the Daode Sect, I have saved up a lot of quota. There is just enough for one more year, so you can take it."
Who would have thought that True Lord Wuchen was very generous this time and directly gave 360 cups. If these were drunk in one year, it would be just enough to extend one's life by 360 years.
Chen Mobai had already drunk more than a dozen cups and was still able to save some for Qingnv.
"How embarrassing."
However, Chen Mobai didn't want to owe anyone a favor. True Lord Wuchen saw what he meant and simply asked for an equal amount of Enlightenment Tea.
Wudao Tea is of the fourth grade, while Shoumei is of the fifth grade. In terms of grade, Chen Mobai definitely made a profit.
However, Daode Zong felt that he had made no loss, and in fact, had earned money.
After all, there are plenty of Shoumei and the like.
With both parties feeling that they have gained something, both the host and the guests are very happy.
After drinking tea, Master Dakong said goodbye. He was anxious to go back to comprehend the puppet technique and wanted to create a fifth-level puppet to explore the depths of Longyuan Cave. But before leaving, he remembered something and said to Chen Mobai, "My friend, Pankong said before that the ore you asked him to collect has been collected and he is coming back from Zhongzhou. I will ask him to come to you directly when the time comes."
When Chen Mobai heard this, his face lit up with joy.
This is another good thing.
It just so happens that Zhuo Ming is about to conceive a baby, so he can upgrade the Cauldron of All Things' Virtue to the fifth level.
A month later, Chen Mobai, who drank Shoumei every day in Daode Sect, received a message from Jiang Zongheng and immediately took Shenxi with him to Guangwu Fairy City again.
After they left the imperial city, Chen Mobai, along with the Five Elements Sect's entourage, also bid farewell to the Daode Sect.
Shenxi tried to keep him for a while and personally sent him to the teleportation array.
After returning to the Five Elements Sect, Chen Mobai kept Jiang Zongheng. Seeing that the master and disciple had something to discuss, Qingnv immediately took Jin Ling'er and others and left first.
"Master..." Jiang Zongheng took out pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and was about to draw the map and annotations of the secret realm that he had memorized, but Chen Mobai raised his hand to stop him.
"I'll tell you more about it when we get to the scene."
Chen Mobai's words made Jiang Zongheng look confused.