Mortal Mage

"Dong dong dong dong dong!"

Bursts of rapid and intense drum beats were heard from the Wumen Tower of the Taihe Palace.

"swish swish"

Large groups of red-clad soldiers holding swords rushed into the palace.

"Imperial decree! Feathered Guards are to enter the palace with swords immediately! No mistakes!"

Waves of "wooo wooo" horns resounded through the heavens and earth and echoed in the palace.

"General Yulong has issued an order! Close the outer city gates immediately! All defenders must enter the palace immediately!"

A soldier riding a fast horse shouted loudly and rushed towards the city gate.

"The commander of the Western Factory has given orders!"

"From daytime on, all citizens in the city are prohibited from leaving their homes. Anyone walking or wandering during the day will be executed immediately if discovered!"

Large numbers of Feathered Guards dressed in bright red official uniforms poured out from the government offices in the east and west cities, running around in the streets, loudly shouting at the pedestrians in the city to go home and for the vendors to close their stalls immediately.

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Taihe Palace, the sleeping palace behind the main palace.

The midday sun made the golden tiles and glazed tiles on the palace shine brightly.

Floating in the sky above the golden tiles, there was a graceful figure sitting on a jade sword.

She is Hua Yu.

She was looking at the large groups of soldiers rushing down below with doubt, and at the same time, she said to the jade slip in her hand in a relaxed tone; "Sister Shi, there is no problem with the teleportation array. I seem to have arrived at the Canglang Palace. Please come quickly."

As soon as he finished speaking, the jade tablet turned into starlight and disappeared.

She lowered her head and looked over. The large groups of soldiers, some wearing red clothes or golden armor, all looked ferocious and it seemed that none of them were easy to talk to.

"Hey, hey, hey, I asked your manager to come, why did you call so many archers?"

Large groups of soldiers carrying bows and arrows began to emerge below, shocking her so much that she hurriedly used her spiritual power to rebuke them.

There were at least five or six thousand soldiers in this huge crowd. The rumbling footsteps outside the palace resounded through the heaven and earth, and it seemed that large groups of people were on their way.

"Array up!"

A rough voice roared out from the crowd.

A large number of soldiers in golden armor raised their spears and aimed at the rain of flowers floating in the air. It seemed that they were ready to throw them up.

Behind the golden-armored soldiers, seven or eight hundred archers lay on their backs, their feet on the bow shaft, hooks on their waists to hook the strings, and combining the strength of their waists, hands and feet to pull the bows to full string, just waiting for the "order" to be given.

This is a crossbow, not a bow.

"I'm going to, I didn't provoke you."

Hua Yu hurriedly lifted the jade sword under his buttocks upwards another ten feet.

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa"

A large group of people dressed in official uniforms of various colors began to pour into the palace.

"Is your emperor called Zhang Mingxuan? Can anyone answer me?"

Hua Yu's voice was wrapped in spiritual power as she shouted at the people under her feet, her mood somewhat flustered.

According to her idea, when these mortals saw that she could fly, they should be so shocked that they would fall to their knees and call her an immortal.

I never expected these people to just pick up weapons.

The many soldiers under her feet continued to look at her coldly with ferocious eyes, and no one responded.

The truth lies only on the edge of the sword, even for immortals.

After a long time, a path was cleared among the crowd.

An old eunuch in turquoise official uniform and with a wrinkled face came out. He was Liu Zhong, the chief steward of the Imperial Guard Bureau.

"Who are you? Why do you call yourself this palace?"

Liu Zhong raised his head and looked at the beautiful figure floating in the air.

"Answer my question first. Is your emperor called Zhang Mingxuan?"

"How dare you! How dare you call the emperor by his name?"

Liu Zhong looked dignified and shouted harshly into the air.

In fact, his crotch was already soaked and his legs were shaking wildly.

At this moment, he had already cursed the six ministers a thousand times in his heart.

He could not mobilize any of the imperial guards in the city, the feathered guards, or the new army outside the city. All military orders came from the six ministries and the east and west factories.

Liu Zhong seemed to whisper something to a young eunuch beside him, and the young eunuch hurried away.

"Oh, that's it?"

Hua Yu turned over and stood on the flying sword, looking down at the soldiers under her feet, and said to Liu Zhong in a voice full of spiritual power; "I am Zhang Mingxuan's Taoist partner, and I am your queen."

"What's the evidence?"

After Liu Zhong finished speaking, he slightly turned his head and asked a middle-aged general in golden armor standing beside him in a low and trembling voice, "Can the Ministry of War determine the power of this woman?"

"My Lord, according to the historical records of Emperor Huang, after reaching the Spiritual Transformation Stage, one can fly without a sword. Seeing that this girl needs to fly a sword, her cultivation should be within the Nascent Soul Stage."

"I don't understand your skills, just tell me if you can subdue her with just your hands."

"Eunuch, I'm afraid there's little chance of winning."

The general shook his head slightly, then seemed to think of something, and whispered to Liu Zhong again, "Eunuch, let's ask her what she wants to do first."

"Wait a moment, the sound transmission jade slip is back, I'll let Zhang Mingxuan talk to you."

Hua Yu's spiritual energy was rapidly depleting, and he found it difficult to control the sword. "Don't shoot, I'm coming down!"

There is no trace of spiritual energy in the Canglang Continent. She relies entirely on the spiritual power in her body for support. For every quarter of an hour she stays in the sky, her spiritual power will decrease by two points. If she keeps flying the sword, it won't be long before she will fall from the sky due to exhaustion of spiritual power and unable to fly the sword.

If there was no spiritual energy left in her body, she wouldn't even be able to activate the sound transmission jade slip.

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The stars are twinkling, the nebulae are interweaving, and the light is flowing.

The starlight of the sound-transmitting jade slip traveled through the dark universe. It seemed to gradually lose energy, began to dim, and then slowly went out and dissipated.

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Xijun Demon Sea, interface wind belt.

The icicles sank into the high waves, then rose up and melted.

After the huge wave passed, a huge vortex of water appeared on the sea surface, and huge bubbles gurgled out on the sea surface like a fountain.

Following the huge bubbles, we searched towards the deep seabed, but our vision gradually became blurred.

The bubbles are getting smaller and denser.

First there were all kinds of strange fish, then a giant sea turtle swam slowly by, and then, from deeper to shallower, a huge sea snake covered with fiery red scales swam by.

Under the belly of the sea snake, a brown octopus exuded a hot breath and spewed blood-ink with a bloody smell from its mouth, which lured a giant hard-shell crab. The octopus's tentacles pierced the crab shell in an instant like arrows, and then wrapped the crab in its mouth.

After an unknown amount of time, the fighting in the sea gradually calmed down.

A huge ocean giant with a dark green back, exuding a calm aura. Its broad fin-like limbs swim like rolling waves, creating thousands of undercurrents. Its wide, flat mouth is full of sharp teeth, tearing apart all creatures that are unfortunate enough to fall into its mouth.

It cruises leisurely, as if it is the overlord of the seabed.

As it swam past, a faint outline appeared below.

A spectacular deep-sea city, like a huge underwater dragon palace, is covered by a huge transparent dome barrier.

This dome barrier flickered with a faint blue light.

This is the flying boat fairy city that sank to the bottom of the sea.

The city was in a mess, with various mahogany houses collapsing and exploding, and broken mahogany scattered all over the city. There was no trace of vitality or prosperity.

The streets were littered with rubble, debris and broken pieces, and buildings collapsed in all directions.

Beneath the huge mahogany main keel of Zhoucheng, there is a row of houses.

The huge mahogany main keel lost the support of the buoyancy of sea water and made a loud "bang". The row of houses below were crushed in an instant, and wet wood chips flew everywhere.

The house where Zhang Mingxuan lived was also pressed down by the dragon bones, but because of the fire escape formation, only a red light curtain flashed.

Drops of water are falling outside the window.

He stood by the window in the house, holding two jade slips in his hands, looking at Shi Manman who was flying towards him on a sword.

Shi Manman had the diagrams of the Zhou City defensive formation and the flying formation. After looking at them, he found that the Xianzhou City defensive formation was extremely similar to the Taihe Palace defensive formation. He then simply designed a few spiritual power veins to allow the formation to skip the center and start.

But there are two disadvantages. First, since it is forced to start, the Zhoucheng City Defense Array will always run at full load. Second, since the array eye has been integrated, the array cannot be controlled.

To maintain this fully loaded formation, three thousand low-grade spirit stones, or three mid-grade spirit stones, are needed every month.

He still had at least 90,000 mid-grade spirit stones in his hand, enough to maintain Zhou City's defense formation for 2,500 years.

When Shi Manman gave him the formation diagram, she just wanted him to try it, but she didn't expect it to work.

As for Zhoucheng's flying formation, it was full of new runes he had never seen before, and he couldn't understand it for a while.

"Are you in danger?"

Zhang Mingxuan looked at Shi Manman outside the window.

Shi Manman shook her head lightly, picked up the sword and controlled a huge redwood to support the keel of the boat city that was pressing down on the room, then waved her hand to signal Zhang Mingxuan to come out.

Zhang Mingxuan raised his hand and drew a rune in the air in front of him, and the Fire Escape Formation was immediately closed.

"Buzz, creak"

At the same time, a slight sound of wood squeezing was heard in the house.

There are rooms above and below the main keel of Zhou City, and the room he is in is under the main keel.

Zhang Mingxuan climbed out of the window and felt a cool breeze rush over his body, followed by a fresh and slightly salty smell.

He looked up.

The dome above Zhoucheng is like a transparent glass cover, protecting the interior firmly.

He felt like he was in a huge urban aquarium.

"My dear husband, I have sent more than a dozen sound transmission jade slips in the past three hours. Hua Yu should have replied by now."

Shi Manman stretched out her jade hand to support Zhang Mingxuan, as if she didn't care about Zhoucheng at all, and as if Zhang Mingxuan should be able to repair Zhoucheng's defense formation. She held Zhang Mingxuan's hand and climbed to the top of the dilapidated main keel deck of Zhoucheng, and continued to explain; "The sound transmission jade slip can only track a million miles. If it exceeds a million miles, the jade slip will have difficulty transmitting sound. It is very likely that the Canglang interface is a million miles away from this boundary."

"What should I do?"

"Hua Yu is in the middle stage of foundation building. It should be fine for you to be alone in Canglang. Moreover, the spiritual energy at the bottom of the sea is abundant. You and I should use the spirit gathering formation to practice dual cultivation. I can quickly help you reach the ninth level of Qi Refining. Only then can I let you go out to sea alone without worry."

After Shi Manman finished speaking, she pulled Zhang Mingxuan in front of her with one hand.

"No, no, double cultivation is too painful."

"The last time was because I poured the thousand-year-old chaotic spiritual energy in my body into you." Shi Manman put her arms around Zhang Mingxuan's waist and held him against her chest, then lowered her head and looked at Zhang Mingxuan carefully; "This time, it doesn't hurt."

"No! Absolutely not!"

Zhang Mingxuan grabbed the dragon robe on Shi Manman and tried to break free, but with his strength at the third level of Qi training, he couldn't push Shi Manman at all. However, this force caused a "hiss" sound to be heard.

He actually tore a big hole in the dragon robe that Shi Manman was wearing, revealing her fair and delicate waist and pearl-like belly button.

This dragon robe naturally belongs to Zhang Mingxuan, but now it is worn by Shi Manman.

Shi Manman is very beautiful. There is no Jindan stage cultivator who is not good-looking.

Moreover, Shi Manman was very tall, so he needed to hold his head up, which in itself gave him an invisible sense of oppression.

"My dear husband, I won't force you, but you have to decide for yourself whether you are prepared to waste fifty years cultivating to the fourth level of Qi Refining alone, or to cultivate with me for two days and directly reach the Great Perfection of Qi Refining."

Shi Manman hugged Zhang Mingxuan and looked down at him. This time she did not continue to use her cultivation to lock Zhang Mingxuan.

The two looked at each other.

"It really doesn't hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt, don't worry."

Shi Manman's tone was like coaxing a child.