After the Skyfall

Chapter 574 Gathering
Li Yi has been practicing quietly in Wuji Palace for the ninth day.

His strength has reached the third level of the Five Qi Realm, and all of the twelve major acupoints are filled. His current strength has reached a peak state, and forty-eight acupoints have been opened up. This shows that he is expected to reach the fourth level of the Five Qi Realm, but time is limited, and the outside environment seems to no longer allow him to continue practicing like this.

"Golden Eye Guard Wang Ning wants to see Master Taiyi for something important."

A woman wearing armor, with a sword hanging from her waist and eyes glowing with light gold, walked into the Wuji Palace at this moment. Her strength was not weak. She had actually passed that level during this period of time and became a soul realm evolver.

You should know that Li Yi is only at the spiritual power realm.

To be able to achieve such success in this world, this woman has unlimited potential.

Golden-eyed Guard Wang Ning was feeling the changes in the energy of heaven and earth around her at this moment. She was a little surprised, because the energy of heaven and earth that had been covering the entire Wuji Palace was slowly dissipating today for some unknown reason. It was as if Master Taiyi had known that something was going to happen today and had stopped practicing on his own initiative.

However, there was no one in the empty hall.

After waiting for a moment, Golden Eye Guard Wang Ning shouted again: "Golden Eye Guard Wang Ning, I am here to see Master Taiyi in compliance with His Majesty's order."

As soon as the words are finished.

However, at some point in the entire Wuji Palace, golden auspicious clouds began to fill the air. These auspicious clouds soon covered the ground, reflecting the golden splendor all around. It was as if one had suddenly entered a palace in the sky, giving people an unreal feeling. Moreover, the auspicious clouds were not empty things, but something that could be stepped on. They were soft and comfortable, yet extremely tough.

Amid the auspicious clouds that covered the ground, there was a man wearing red jade and purple gold armor, his eyes were shining, he was covered in lightning, and he had the aura of a dragon and a tiger. He strode towards them on the golden auspicious clouds.

Just the breath made Wang Ning, a Golden Eyed Guard, tremble all over. His soul seemed to be leaving his body. He felt awe from the bottom of his heart, as if the person in front of him was not a human at all, but was born sacred and definitely not an ordinary person. The essence of his life was different from that of ordinary people.

Unless you see it with your own eyes.

She absolutely did not believe that there were such people in the world.

"Golden Eye Guard Wang Ning, I pay my respects to Master Taiyi."

Golden-eyed Guard Wang Ning suddenly came to his senses and knelt down involuntarily, as if kneeling down to this person was a matter of course, without any dissatisfaction or hesitation, as if it was supposed to be so.

The levels of life are too vast, and the mysteries contained therein cannot be explained in a few words.

"Get up." Li Yi's voice was calm, as if it had the power to soothe people. He asked, "Why did your majesty come to see me?"

The Golden Eyed Guard did not stand up, but continued to kneel. She took out a letter from her bosom and held it with both hands: "Your Majesty's letter is here, please read it yourself, Master Taiyi."

Li Yi took it and opened it. There was no extra words on it, only one sentence: "Xiao Yi, we will destroy the mountain and the temple tonight."

Tonight?
He remembered that tomorrow was only the tenth day. If he took action tonight, it would obviously mean that he would have to leave the capital in advance to avoid being involved in the court and disrupting the operation of destroying the mountains and temples.

"I know about this matter. You can go back and report." Li Yi said.

"Replying to Master Taiyi, His Majesty has ordered that I and the other 19 Golden Pupil Guards are under his command." Golden Pupil Guard Wang Ning said.

Li Yi asked: "What's your name?"

"Your subordinate Wang Ning."

"Twenty Golden Eyed Guards? How many Jinyi Guards are there?" Li Yi said.

Wang Ning, the Golden Eye Guard, said: "I don't know about this matter, but Yang Ling, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, should know about it."

"Then let Yang Ling come over." Li Yi said.

"Yes, sir." After receiving the order, Golden Eye Guard Wang Ning immediately stood up and left respectfully.

After a while, a man in a flying fish suit walked into the hall. His heart trembled as he came in, and then he took a few quick steps and knelt on one knee: "Jinyiwei Commander Yang Ling pays homage to Master Taiyi."

"How many Jinyiwei have you prepared for me, Your Majesty?" Li Yi went straight to the point.

"Master, there are a total of 3,000 Jinyiwei including me," Yang Ling said immediately.

Li Yi said: "Do you have any plans?"

"Here is a map, please take a look at it." Yang Ling hurriedly presented a map.

Li Yi took it and opened it. The map was very large, covering all the mountains and rivers in the world. In addition, each place was marked with some powerful incense gods and monsters entrenched in the local area. Even some locations of Yin Tianzi were reminded. It was obvious that as a father, he had collected a lot of intelligence and done homework for today's event.

"Very good. I will give you two hours to prepare. Once it gets dark, set out immediately. Follow me out of the capital and start destroying mountains and temples."

He closed the map and knew its contents by heart.

The evolvers have always had the ability to remember everything they see.

"I will follow your orders." Jinyiwei commander Yang Ling said respectfully.

"After you've made all the preparations, come to the main hall of Wuji Palace and wait for orders." Li Yi said.

Golden Eye Guard Wang Ning also took the order and left. The two of them breathed a sigh of relief after leaving the hall. Although Master Taiyi had not shown his divine power from beginning to end, it was inevitable that they would feel terrified standing in front of such a person.

The two did not communicate with each other, but left and went to do their own things.

About an hour later, teams of Jinyiwei gathered from all over the imperial city and assembled in front of the Wuji Palace. Although their numbers were small, they were all elites trained by the Shenwu Emperor, and their strength had basically reached the spiritual perception realm.

As an evolver who has reached nearly three thousand spiritual perception realms, it must be said that the difficulty and courage required to achieve this are not something that ordinary people can possess.

As long as time passes, these Jinyiwei continue to break through and evolve, condense their souls, and enjoy the incense offerings, then the incense gods of the world will have a nightmare.

However, to achieve this, a few will have to lie dormant for seven or eight years.

The Shenwu Emperor Li Jiye couldn't wait any longer, and neither could Li Yi.

When the Jinyiwei moved in large numbers, it naturally could not be hidden from the eyes of many people. The one who discovered the abnormality the fastest was the Crown Prince Zhao Jing of the Eastern Palace. He was shocked when he heard the guards on duty come to report. However, when he walked out of the palace, he saw teams of Jinyiwei passing by the Eastern Palace.

"So many Jinyiwei went to Wuji Palace?" Zhao Jing now felt inexplicably panicked.

He recently felt that his father and Master Taiyi were planning something big, so everything had been calm and nothing had happened in the past nine days. Until today, when he saw so many Jinyiwei, he was sure of it.

Something big is really going to happen.

"Could it be related to Emperor Yin's order to kill Master Taiyi?" Zhao Jing also received similar news, saying that Emperor Yin was dissatisfied with Master Taiyi and planned to deprive Master Taiyi of his title of Imperial Master and deal with him at the court meeting tomorrow.

I thought that Master Taiyi was about to die, and even my father couldn't save him, but I never expected that something unexpected would happen today.

"Get the ladder, I want to go to the roof and take a look." Zhao Jing gave the order immediately.

Soon a servant brought a ladder.

Zhao Jing hurriedly climbed onto the roof of the palace and looked towards the direction of Wuji Palace again, but his eyes suddenly narrowed.

Teams of Jinyiwei, with cloth bags on their backs and precious swords hanging from their waists, stood in neat rows in front of the Wuji Palace. A careful count revealed that there were actually three thousand of them. Moreover, from the patterns embroidered on the bodies of these Jinyiwei, it was not difficult to see that these were elite soldiers at the centurion level, each of them was good at fighting. Let alone three thousand, even a hundred of them could immediately break the formation and kill the enemy, behead the generals and seize the flags, and determine the victory of a great battle.

There are now three thousand people in front of Wuji Palace. I’m afraid that my father has revealed all his secrets. What is he going to do?
Zhao Jing couldn't imagine it, but he had already felt it, that the storm was about to come, and it would happen today.

He was panicked at this moment, and his heart felt cold.

It was not because of the three thousand elite Jinyiwei, but because he, the prince, did not know about such a big thing, and his father did not leak any information to him. Was he really not worthy of his father's trust? Or was he just a decoration, and the real hidden prince was the Taiyi Zhenren?

Zhao Jing couldn't help but recall what his fourth brother Zhao Rui said that day.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Zhao Jing's face turned pale and he gritted his teeth. He immediately got off the roof and shouted, "Eastern Palace guards, are they all here?"

"Yes." The guards responded hurriedly.

"Everyone follow me." Zhao Jing suppressed his anger.

He wanted to find Master Taiyi to find out what was going on.

Soon, a team of fifty soldiers escorted Crown Prince Zhao Jing towards Wuji Palace.

But before he could get close, he was stopped by the Jinyiwei.

"Your Highness, please stay. His Majesty has ordered that no one is allowed to enter the Wuji Palace." Two Jinyiwei guards were guarding the road and stopped Crown Prince Zhao Jing.

"This prince wants to pay a visit to Master Taiyi. Can't even I go to Wuji Palace?" Zhao Jing asked seriously.

The Royal Guard said expressionlessly, "Yes, His Majesty has ordered that no one is allowed to approach the Wuji Palace, including the Crown Prince. Please go back, Crown Prince, and do not disobey His Majesty's order."

The corner of Zhao Jing's mouth twitched. He didn't expect that he didn't even have the qualifications to enter Wuji Palace.

Looking at the palace where the Jinyiwei gathered not far away, he felt for the first time that he was not important in this palace, and could even be said to be dispensable. He was not qualified to participate in the real affairs of the court.

Just why.

Why is it that Master Taiyi?

"Let's go." Feeling full of humiliation, Zhao Jing didn't dare to force his way in and could only turn around and leave.

He had no doubt that if he forced his way in, he would definitely be captured by the Embroidered Uniform Guards and escorted before the Emperor within half an hour. Not only would he lose face, but he would also anger his father and be severely punished.

At this critical juncture, Zhao Jing did not dare to cause trouble.

Although he was unwilling, he was not stupid and knew what he could do and what he could not do.

"Write a memorial and report to the Emperor. This prince must find out what is going on." Zhao Jing said to himself.

(End of this chapter)