The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Autumn of the 30th year of Qiyuan.

When the emperor and empress were on tour in the northern border, the ethnic minorities on the grassland regained their rebelliousness and gathered their tribes to attack the northernmost city of Dasheng. The cavalry army besieged the city for several days, causing the emperor, empress, and nobles to lose contact for a time, and turmoil broke out in the government and the country.

at the same time.

The news that Princess Lu Weiyuan, the fifth daughter of Emperor Qiyuan and highly valued by the emperor and empress, had died in Tongzhou caused a sensation.

In the imperial capital, the seventeenth daughter of the late emperor, Princess Rongle Lu Dengting, raised the flag to gather troops to support the king. Amid the chaos, many people responded.

However, in Tongzhou, a small water town built along the river far to the south of Dasheng, the miraculous phenomena of gods and men happened at the right time.

"Sister Xiaochuan, when the Red Sun Cult...needs a divine intervention, what do you usually do?"

At the still cold bottom of the lake, in the cave surrounded by a curtain of water, Lu Weiyuan asked Mi Nian curiously.

Mi Nian's expression changed, and he said uncomfortably, "Generally speaking, you only need to use mechanical tricks to deceive the public. If it is not so easy to deceive... The leader once traveled to the deep mountains of the southwest, identified various drugs that can cause hallucinations, and then prepared them into spices and smoke, and used them with mechanical tricks, it can be mistaken for the real thing."

"He has many people who are proficient in this field secretly under his command. Your Highness should have seen them."

Lu Weiyuan recalled the person who was forced to "look back" by him, and he highly recognized their professional level: "It is indeed very wonderful. It is enough to scare ordinary people's eyes."

"No matter how carefully it is arranged, it is still fake." Mi Nian sighed, "How can it compare to His Highness..."

"Hmm?" Lu Weiyuan tilted his head.

A slightly bitter smile appeared on Mi Nian's face: "They have never seen the magic of Your Highness, so they think they can pretend to be gods in this world. Only when they really see Your Highness will they understand how ridiculous it is to claim to be the true God in the eyes of the believers. Isn't it sad?"

"Don't be sad, Sister Xiaochuan." Lu Weiyuan's expression remained unchanged. She pointed her right hand upwards and shook it gently.

Everyone saw the water curtain around the cave begin to rotate rapidly.

There were gravel, water plants, broken buildings, many newly drowned corpses, and schools of fish that habitually gathered around human corpses in the water.

These things were carried by the water flow, circling and circling continuously, roaring like dragons at the bottom of the silent lake.

The earth began to shake.

On this day, all the passers-by who passed through the water city of Tongzhou saw a scene that was far beyond their imagination.

The surface of the large lake outside the water city was churning as if it was boiling, and then there were waves of violent shaking that made people unable to stand steadily.

Just when everyone thought it was a dragon turning over, the noise suddenly stopped. Then, a roar like that of a beast, but not a beast, and like that of a human, came from the depths of the lake and came quickly towards them.

The sky, which had been covered with dark clouds for a long time, suddenly tore a hole in it at this moment, and the golden sunlight penetrated through the gap in the clouds and sprinkled on the world covered with drizzling rain.

The golden sunlight, like silk, thread, fog and gauze, falls on the roaring lake, creating a lake scene that doesn't seem like something from the human world.

The water mist rises, creating blue waves.

The surging waves are like a lotus suddenly blooming, layer upon layer, one platform after another, the clear lake water piles up against the norm.

Facing the brightest rising sun, a mighty dragon made entirely of lake water roared out from the bottom of the lake, circling up like a pillar and rushing straight into the blue sky.

The huge water dragon broke up the thick clouds that had covered the lake and the top of the small town all year round, allowing the sunlight that divided the clouds to connect into one piece, falling on the land and city-states that had been plagued by wind and rain, melting the long-dormant rain, snow, wind and frost. Countless white wisps rose from the muddy swamps and rivers, and the mist danced upwards following the guidance of the skylight.

It was as if they were pieces of white skirts, no longer bound by the red silk, and turned into a group of fluttering and transparent butterflies, flapping their wings and flying towards the distant sky, dancing with the dragon that tore through the clouds and brought the warm sun.

Outside the water city.

Bai Queci, who urgently led people to the lake, looked up at Tenglong flying happily under the clear sky. Somehow, she felt a sour, swollen and hot feeling in her eyes, and soon her eyes were filled with tears. She didn't even react when Hu Ziyi walked up to her.

Most of those who came with Bai Queci were local female soldiers and a few spies of the Xie family. They all looked up at the same time, while others - whether they were fishermen who made a living by fishing on the lake, outsiders who passed by, or people from the water city who walked out of their homes to bask in the rare sunshine... were all deeply shocked by the sight of the soaring dragon. Many of them even knelt down and shouted the name of the Dragon God.

The dragon was in no hurry to fly away.

It flew from the bottom of the lake to the sky, and then danced under the sunlight, sometimes swooping down towards the crowd and the roofs of the small town, gliding past, and sometimes spraying a stream of water towards certain places, washing away the long-buried bones of the innocent.

After a long period of shock, Bai Que Ci could not calm down for a long time.

She looked at Hu Ziyi who was patting her shoulder in a daze: "Where is His Highness?!"

Following behind Hu Ziyi were the poor people who had survived in the cave. Although they had been shocked once by Lu Weiyuan's miraculous magic when they were in the cave, when they found themselves being automatically carried to the shore by the lake water without any harm, and Lu Weiyuan turning into a dragon and soaring into the sky, they still could not calm down for a long time. For a moment, they lost the ability to think.

Hu Ziyi, who had accompanied Lu Weiyuan the longest, had the same empty eyes as before. However, her slightly trembling voice showed that this expressionless young man was also in a state of shock: "Up there."

"what?"

"On the dragon head."

With his sleeves fluttering, Lu Weiyuan stood between the two horns of the giant dragon.

Looking at the transparent water dragon under his feet, and the people and scenery that were quickly passing by and shrunk countless times, Lu Weiyuan felt for the first time in his life what kind of pleasure it was to have his heart beating fast.

"No wonder everyone wants to step on others. No wonder there has never been a shortage of people seeking immortality from generation to generation. It turns out that it is so refreshing to overlook all living things from the blue sky."

A translucent mist butterfly fluttered its wings and flew past Lu Weiyuan's ears. She smiled and raised her sleeves: "Go, tell mother that I have found the path I want to take."

She smiled arrogantly and controlled the water dragon under her feet to dive towards the lake.

The wind was howling, like a knife cutting, but it couldn't shake the corners of Lu Weiyuan's clothes and the ends of his hair.

On this day, a fairy in the form of a young girl came to the world riding a giant dragon.

At the moment when the water-colored dragon met the azure lake, the dragon's body turned from virtual to real, dyed with the color of mountains, rivers and grass. Vines twisted around the dragon's scales and claws, and fruits hung from its forked horns.

At this moment, the large lake beneath the Azure Dragon was filled with green trees, flowers and vines, and there was no trace of the lake water anymore.

Just then, the goddess rode a dragon, the mountains and the sea changed, the water city disappeared, the haze dissipated, the sun shone through, and spring returned to the earth.