Chapter 254: Light up the whole city, hold on for me
“Boom.”
Above the sky, endless ghost soldiers fell from the sky like a black waterfall.
They fell on the ground of the imperial mausoleum, gathered into an unstoppable torrent, and charged towards Xiao Yu and Ajiu.
"Hahaha, feel this despair, Xiao Yu." The high priest laughed crazily. "How long can your ancestral dragon energy last against this endless army of undead? A quarter of an hour, or half an hour?"
Xiao Yu ignored his shouting.
He protected Ajiu tightly behind him, and the long sword in his hand shone brightly with golden light.
"Ajiu, close your eyes."
"No," Ajiu stubbornly stuck half of his head out from behind him, "I want to be with Xiong Xiong brother."
Xiao Yu glanced at her, slowly raised his sword, and pointed the tip of the sword at the ghost soldiers who were coming like a tide.
"Then... kill."
The five-clawed golden dragon shadow behind him roared and pounced forward.
The golden dragon breath was like a flood that broke through the dam, instantly evaporating the hundreds of ghost soldiers who were rushing in the front.
At the same time, in the capital.
The moment the gate to the underworld opened, a gust of cold wind swept towards the capital like a plague.
The originally bustling night market suddenly became dead silent.
On the street, the flames of all the lanterns were inexplicably shorter, and their color changed from warm orange to an eerie blue.
"It's... so cold."
A vendor who was packing up his stall couldn't help but shiver. He rubbed his arms and looked up at the sky in confusion.
"It's almost summer, why is it suddenly like entering an ice cellar?"
As soon as he finished speaking, an old man selling candied haws next to him suddenly pointed at the corner of the street and screamed in horror.
"Ghost... ghost."
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and saw a translucent figure of a woman dressed in the clothing of the previous dynasty slowly emerging from the empty corner of the wall. Her face was blurred, her body was constantly twisting, and she let out a silent wail.
As the cold wind continued to erode, more and more illusory ghosts began to appear everywhere on the streets, under the eaves, and in the bridge holes.
Most of them have no intelligence and just wander around the world based on instinct, looking for yang energy to absorb.
For a moment, screams broke out throughout the capital, and people ran home in panic, closing their doors and windows tightly.
The once prosperous city that never sleeps turned into a dead city in just half a cup of tea.
National Master's Mansion, Observatory.
"Xiao Yu, hold His Majesty steady." Chu Xuanyi's voice was calm and somewhat frightening.
Xiao Yu beside him was already so frightened that his face turned pale. He held on to the railing tightly to prevent himself from collapsing to the ground.
"Xuan Yi...my cousin...what happened to them?" Xiao Yu's voice was trembling. "How did these...these things end up in the capital?"
"The gate to the underworld has been opened, and the leakage of evil energy is just the beginning." Chu Xuanyi stared at the terrifying crack in the direction of the imperial mausoleum, and a hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.
"I will never let them turn this into a second imperial mausoleum."
He turned around suddenly and knelt on one knee.
"Your Majesty, please give me the Imperial Seal."
"Imperial Seal?" The emperor was stunned.
"There's no time to explain." Chu Xuanyi shouted in a deep voice, "If you're a moment later, millions of lives in the capital will become food for those evil soldiers."
The emperor shuddered and dared not hesitate any longer. He immediately sent his trusted eunuch to get the imperial seal.
"Here you go." A quarter of an hour later, the emperor handed the jade seal to Chu Xuanyi.
Chu Xuanyi took the jade seal, turned around and walked to the huge feng shui map of the capital city in the center of the observatory.
On the picture, dozens of light spots are densely marked with cinnabar and gold powder. If you look closely, you will find that these light spots are all the most popular temples and Taoist temples in the capital.
Chu Xuanyi bit his tongue hard and sprayed a mouthful of blood onto the feng shui map.
The blood that fell on the picture did not disperse, but turned into wandering blood threads, instantly connecting all the dozens of light spots together.
"The destiny of the country is the foundation, and the country is the foundation."
Chu Xuanyi's hands began to quickly make hand gestures and he muttered something.
"Take the people as fire, and take the gods and Buddhas as names."
He pressed the imperial seal heavily on the center of the feng shui map, where the imperial city was located.
"The dragon veins of the Great Zhou, obey my command."
"Ten thousand lights are on, and the demon-suppressing formation... is rising."
With his last angry roar, the entire observatory suddenly burst into a golden light that shot up into the sky.
The next moment, an incredible scene happened.
In the capital city, dozens of temples and Taoist temples connected by the feng shui map, regardless of size, Buddhist or Taoist, all lit up with golden light at the same time.
Golden beams of light shot up from these temples and Taoist temples into the sky, interweaving into a huge golden magic net in the sky above the capital.
As the French Open took shape, every household in the city, the candles, lanterns, oil lamps... no matter what kind of light source, seemed to have received some kind of inspiration at this moment.
Wisps of faint, warm yellow light, carrying the flavor of everyday life, shone through the cracks in their doors and windows, slowly rising into the sky and merging into the golden net.
One household, ten households, a hundred households, a thousand households, ten thousand households...
After absorbing the power of "thousands of lights", the golden magic net suddenly sank downwards and then expanded rapidly.
A huge, semicircular golden light shield rose from the ground like an inverted giant bowl, tightly protecting the entire capital city.
“Sizzle…”
Those illusory ghosts that were just wandering the streets let out a shrill scream the moment they came into contact with the golden light shield, and were instantly purified.
The evil wind that spread from the direction of the imperial mausoleum was also completely blocked outside by this indestructible golden barrier.
Inside the light shield, it is warm as spring, and that is the human world.
Outside the light shield, there is a biting cold wind, it is a den of ghosts.
On the observatory, Chu Xuanyi's face was as pale as paper. Activating such a large-scale formation was also a huge drain on him.
He looked at the golden light shield that successfully protected the capital and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Xuan Yi...you..." The emperor's younger brother Xiao Yu, who was standing beside him, was so shocked by the miraculous scene that he was speechless.
"Your Majesty, this is all I can do." Chu Xuanyi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his voice a little weak. "This formation is based on the destiny of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Although it can temporarily protect the capital, if the Nether Gate is not closed, the evil energy will continue to erode the formation. It... can't hold out for much longer."
His gaze once again turned to the distant imperial tomb.
"The rest depends on the prince."
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