Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 678: Snake and Insect Repellent in February

"Why is it called this name?"

"After ten years, I returned to the old capital. The people are not new, but the snakes and insects are still the same." Li Xizhou said, "I haven't been home for a long time. The old house is overgrown with weeds, snake nests and rat holes. I have to clean it carefully."

Then he asked, "Do you think this name is bad?"

"I don't think it's wrong. Anyway, you didn't agree when I married her before." Pei Ye said. The two of them followed the water flow upwards. Countless wood peaches were like their servants. These countless elves had been growing quietly here for who knows how many years, and it seemed like they were encountering disturbances for the first time.

Did Wei Qingju plant them? Or did they grow here all along? In any case, the light silks swayed in the water, as if they were walking towards a dream.

The two people's voices unconsciously became softer, and the sound of rain had long since disappeared. In such a quiet place, it seemed that no matter how small the sound was, it could reach each other's ears.

"What names did you get before... Forget it, just try it this time." Li Xizhou smiled and looked back at him.

Pei Ye murmured, "In October, weave ropes; in the first month, bend wood; in the twelfth month, tie colors; in the first month, choose trees; in the second month, in the second month... in the second month... never mind, your name is pretty good too."

Li Xizhou expected it.

"What is this chapter about?" Pei Ye changed the subject.

"In a chaotic world, military power gives you the most solid foundation, but it doesn't mean you have everything." Li Xizhou said, "When Li Yao and Zhao Baibi returned to the old capital, they had the entire north as their backing. They stood in the capital and looked in the remaining three directions. Poisonous insects and giant snakes were lying on the land of Qianyu, and vultures were weaving nests in the capital below. Pick up and wash the national seal covered in dust, stand at the highest place in the capital and hold it high. As long as you are not dead, you will gather the forgotten glory of the Li royal family again."

"You speak like poetry."

"For the scenes that I don't intend to describe in detail but must explain, I will capture your impressions and feelings about them, and then create them with images." Li Xizhou said, "Save me from telling you about the situation in Qianyu at that time, how many obstacles there were, and how many confrontations there were."

Pei Ye was slightly surprised: "Aren't you going to write these?"

"Do not write."

"So what do you write?"

Li Xizhou turned around and glanced at him, and said softly, "Have you forgotten that what we wrote is a love affair?"

"..."

Li Xizhou turned his head and stopped.

There were no twists and turns in Luoshen Palace. They walked a little further and arrived at the end of this dream. It was beautiful and peaceful. Luoshen peach trees were planted one after another, flowing everywhere like water poured from the center.

In the center of the water flow, ribbons and petals, a swing hung by a vine is suspended in the water flow.

Pei Ye was behind her, and for a moment he had forgotten what he had just said. He felt inexplicably emotional and his throat was choked for a moment, but in the end he just stood there in a daze.

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The horse's hooves hit the wet street like iron.

The light of the torches was like a torrent, whistling through the streets and leaving a flash of dazzling light in the puddles. People's windows were all closed, the sharp sound of arrows piercing the air and the fierce shouts of killing echoed in the streets, and blood flowed into the people's homes through the cracks in the doors.

Since the rebellion of the general twenty years ago, although the city is dilapidated, there has been no such military disaster.

The Jin, Chun, Kai and Tong gates were breached at the same time. The two rushing torrents broke through all obstacles and met in front of the Suzaku Gate, leaving behind countless corpses of Jinwu soldiers along the way. There was no chance to surrender, only death and escape.

Those entering the city will gather in front of the three gates of the imperial city, and the remnants of the defeated army will kill and loot tonight, fearing that they will be liquidated in the future, and will flee the capital before dawn.

The other two intersecting iron streams blocked the imperial city and the palace city. These two iron streams were not as fierce, but they were thin and long, with steady and orderly steps. They surrounded the nine gates of the entire palace city from a distance, holding torches, and looking from the sky, it was like a circle of fire ring on the palace city.

Only two groups of soldiers broke into the palace.

They only advanced from the front, a total of 600 people, and more than 100 were killed when they entered the gate. Then they were caught in the most bitter and fierce resistance of the night.

Today's capital is like a walnut, not the kind that is dried, but the kind that grows on a tree. Its outer layer is extremely soft, and birds and insects can eat it at will, but the core is suddenly hard. The people living inside still think it is not enough, so they cover it with iron sheets and nail it. They have been working on it for 20 years without stopping for a moment, until it is truly solid and airtight, and only then can they feel at ease.

There are three thousand personal guards in front of the palace. These people are very different from the Jinwu in the city. For the past twenty years, the palace has been constantly looking for various cultivators with rare talents, and incorporated them into the formation when they were young. They were given the most arduous and elite training. In the palace city shrouded by heaven's will, all mysterious and forbidden things are prohibited, and this team is almost invincible.

The warriors who were selected from the battlefields in the north fell like straw here. They indeed rarely fought such battles in a small area or under high palace walls. They often fought against the barbarians on the vast wilderness, riding on their thundering horses.

"If we send these 3,000 men to the north, we can exchange them for 30,000 heavy cavalry."

On the first palace wall that had just been captured, two men stood there and looked down, one of them holding a halberd and the other carrying a gun.

"We could have defeated the barbarians half a year earlier." The man holding the halberd, his armor stained with blood, continued, "But we have been working here for twenty years."

The man with the gun didn't say anything. He looked down with no expression and said, "Send two more teams in."

"Too many people died." Another person sighed.

But the military order was still carried out.

“Rebel Li Yao!” Three thousand men behind, the golden-armored general’s mighty voice shook the entire battlefield. “You have been repeatedly impeached by the court, but His Majesty pardoned you several times out of consideration for our family ties. Yet, you are so ignorant and arrogant that you dare to offend the Heavenly Palace! Where are you?! Are you too afraid to show up?!”

The two people on the wall looked at him, expressionless and speechless.

"Even if I give you another thirty days, you still won't be able to capture the Heavenly Palace! The main camp is only thirty miles outside the city. You are already trapped in a dilemma!"

The general in golden armor raised his head and stared coldly at the two people on the wall. He did not see Li Yao, and the other party did not reply. Only the general in golden armor suppressed the invading black force and annihilated it bit by bit.

The man on the wall with the spear on his back seemed to have heard nothing. He just turned his head and looked down at the battlefield: "People are coming. Give me the spear."

He stretched out his hand to the left, and the other man handed him the halberd.

Just as he was saying this, a bolt of lightning crashed through the main gate!

The ant colony in golden armor was almost scattered in an instant, and the dense formation suddenly had a terrifying gap, and those who were knocked away were either dead or injured. The man was covered in blood, and he knocked away at least 30 people in front of him in an instant, and smashed the head of a deputy general in the enemy formation from his horse to the ground, and cut his neck with a slash of the sword in his hand.

Blood splashed onto his neck like a hot spring. He raised his hand to the air and shouted, "Halberd!"

The man on the wall who took the halberd had already fallen down like a wild goose. He drew out the iron spear on his back and held it in one hand, and with his other hand, he swung and threw the halberd over. The man raised his hand to take it, shouted and swung it, and the dozen or so golden armors that surrounded him were split into two at the same time.

It simply makes people lose their understanding of the concepts of "hardness" and "fragility". These guards who have been carefully trained and invested in for more than ten years are shattered like pieces of paper.

He raised his eyes and glanced, locking his eyes directly on the golden-armored general behind the formation.

With just a glance, he once again broke through the golden armor blocking the way in front of him like a thunderbolt. In four breaths, just four breaths, he was flying in the air and had already forced his way onto the horse's head of the golden-armored general.

"Are you looking for me?" Li Yao stared at the eyes under his armor.

The four deputy generals from all four directions leaped over here in an instant, but they bumped into a heavy iron spear first. The gunman following behind Li Yao was very silent, but he took in all four people in one glance, raised his spear and drew his sword, and at this moment he simultaneously broke four moves.

But Li Yao did not even look back. In this one move, the long halberd in his hand had already hit the horizontal spear of the golden-armored general. With the first halberd, the four hooves of the famous horse under his crotch broke, and he died on the ground like a pulp. With the second halberd, blood gushed out of the golden-armored general's mouth and nose, the long spear in his hand twisted and deformed, the armor pieces shattered, and the whole person fell to the front of the hall, breaking seven or eight steps. With the third halberd, Li Yao pierced his throat with the halberd, turning him into a broken corpse.

It took them half the night to break into the depths of the palace.

Li Yao carried the head of the current crown prince and climbed the imperial steps. The shadow of the man wearing a crown was as huge as a mountain or a pig monster.

"Li-Yao?" He was so lazy that he seemed to have just woken up from drunkenness. "I'm here to kill you."

"I know." The man on the throne seemed to be too lazy to speak these years. "I know that you wanted to rush into this palace as soon as you entered the city, and you have been preparing for a long time... but I am too lazy to care."

Li Yao threw the prince's head to the ground. It rolled twice and was stopped by its own nose.

"You want to be the crown prince... OK. You've already killed him, so there will be less trouble." The man on the throne said lazily, "You are ten times stronger than him... I will give you all the power, the same as him, no, more than him. Military power, government affairs, martial arts... You can make all the decisions by yourself."

He glanced at Li Yao, and seemed a little annoyed that the coldness on his face had not yet dissipated, and added: "When I die, you will be the emperor."

"When will you die?"

"Well... I'm ninety-two this year. The Taoist priest said that my life span is about one hundred and forty-three. So... fifty-one years, I guess."

"I want it sooner."

The man on the throne laughed like a pig: "I am also nearly sixty years old and have only been on the throne for a short time... But you have the talent to govern the country, and it is not unreasonable to ask for an early start. I will give you ten years. Before I die, I want to travel all over the world and seek the way to become an immortal."

"Not early enough."

"Hmm..." The throne made some deep and dissatisfied sounds, "Twenty years?"

"not enough."

"Haha, then, how early do you want?"

"Tonight." Li Yao slowly drew his sword, "I want you to die tonight."

"..."

There was a frightening rustling sound from the throne.

"Do you know where this is?" he said.

"Royal Palace."

"You know, what hangs over it?"

"God willing."

The rustling sound became clearer. It was the sound of the flesh blanket rubbing against the seat when the body stood up. "Then you know that among all living beings, the mysterious and strange are forbidden. Who is the only one who can freely practice here?"

"emperor."

"Very good..." The body stood up completely. He had no clothes on, but hundreds of things like silk ribbons hung from the sky and wrapped around his body. No one knew what material those silk ribbons were made of, but one glance at it made people breathless, as if there were strange symbols hidden on them.

"Then you die."

He fell like a mountain.

Li Yao took a step back, held the halberd to the ground, and stabbed the tip of the halberd into his body.

But it seemed to have no effect. The old emperor raised his fist high up like a chariot and smashed it towards Li Yao. His true energy, spiritual power, and the power of heaven and earth were all in parallel, and one punch was enough to crush him into meat paste.

But Li Yao did not die. He stood where he was, raised his hand, and caught the punch with one arm without even moving a step.

"The national seal has been lost for twenty years. Are you still the emperor?" A smiling voice of a woman came from the throne behind him. "Twenty years ago, the will of heaven has already told me that a new emperor will be born."

No one knew how the fight went. Everyone waited outside the palace. After a day and two nights, Li Yao, covered in blood, holding a halberd, threw out a terrifyingly large head.

The host cheered.

It was the most direct and bloody change of throne, and the birth of a new emperor.

Under the rising sun in the morning, Li Yao stood silently in the hall covered with blood and flesh. The silk ribbons of God were not stained with blood, but they were wrapped around him.

He looked up and pulled, but there was no obstruction; he looked up, but he couldn't see the source. With them, his free movement was not affected in any way.

But infinite worry arose in his heart, and he looked at the woman beside him with some sadness.

"Now, it's our turn." Zhao Baibi smiled and looked up at the dilapidated palace. "We need to repair what needs to be repaired."

"Too many people died." Li Yao said softly, "In a few years, the north will definitely take advantage of the situation and the four directions will be unstable. The five families will also ask for an explanation... Apart from this position, we have nothing."

Zhao Baibi stretched out two index fingers, touched the corners of his mouth, and pushed out a fake smile: "Don't worry so much, everything depends on human efforts. Do you still remember the bold words you made when I stole buns for you twenty years ago?"

"...I want to achieve great things and change this world." Li Yao's thoughts seemed to fly away, so he put on a fake smile with some real smile.

"That's right! Now, you are one step closer to your ambition."

"Also, I will always be Baibi's little brother." Li Yao pretended to reminisce, "I like Baibi the most. When I conquer the world, I will give everything to Baibi."

"... annoying." Zhao Baibi turned her head, then gently opened her arms and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll worry about it tomorrow. Come on, sister, give me a hug."

Li Yao smiled slightly, walked forward, and gently held the woman in his arms.

In the silence that lasted for an unknown amount of time, he heard her whisper, "Once we're here, we can't escape anymore."

"These things have entangled you, and I can't take you away. Either you succeed, or we die here together."

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Pei Ye and Li Xizhou stood here quietly.

On the swing that had been quiet for twenty-three years, Pei Ye saw a woman's face for the first time. She looked very much like the childish and agile part of Li Xizhou, but with more spirit and beauty.

She sat quietly on the swing, her head leaning against the vine, her skirt fluttering like gauze and mist.

She has been dead for a long time.

With closed eyes, long silky hair and faint traces of delicate scales on her face, the fins on her elbows were like floating colorful mist, and a long scaly tail stretched out and fell into the flowers of the Roselle Peach.

This appearance must have been rarely or never seen by anyone, and this body was about to disappear, but it did not decay, but turned into a flower.

There was no corpse-like thing to be seen, she seemed to be made entirely of spiritual energy, and dissolved in the water after death. From her hair and skirt, there were roselle peach blossoms, and then spreading down to every scale on her tail, like a stream of flowers flowing out in clusters.

All the roselle flowers in the entire palace mirage finally gathered here.

"The deep dwellers built their houses at the bottom of the rocks, and the mermaids built their pavilions on the overhanging streams."

This is her Nagaha, where she was born and died.

Everyone who arrives here should repent for disturbing this sleep that seems to never end.

(End of this chapter)