The sound of hooves was like thunder, and dozens of horses equipped exclusively for the Jin army rushed along the official road, foaming at the mouth.

At the end of the official road, an ancient and majestic city was lazily crawling on the ground. The setting sun shone on the blue-gray city walls, creating a reflection unique to ancient bronze ware.

Da Jin, Jinzhou, the imperial capital Jincheng!

This team of blood-fighting dragon horses came extremely quickly. Before the city defense troops stationed at the west gate could react, a sharp sound of breaking through the air was heard, and a blood-colored token cut through the void of hundreds of feet and embedded itself heavily in the brick wall on one side of the city gate.

With a ding sound, sparks flew everywhere, and the blood-red token was embedded half a foot deep into the city wall. The hideous head of the demon god on the token was clearly visible. A sharp voice came from afar: "Dayu Temple is in trouble, make way!"

The city defense troops gathered at the gate hurriedly dispersed to both sides, and the soldiers leaned against the walls of the city gate corridor, leaving the wide road in the middle. Dozens of blood-fighting dragon horses galloped past, and one of them flicked his wrist, and a horse whip flew out like a spirit snake, and rolled the token hidden in the brick wall back into his hand.

"Sir?" A deep and powerful voice came from the group of knights galloping on their horses.

"Let's go to Jinyang Palace!" Lu Gu, who was leading the way, shouted softly, "We want to see the prince. Let him take us into the palace to meet... the emperor!"

After thousands of years of expansion and renovation, Jincheng has become magnificent and huge in scale. A group of people rode wildly in the city for more than an hour, passed through six inner city walls, and finally arrived outside the Dajin Palace.

He went around to the south gate of the palace and sent his token in. A quarter of an hour later, a dozen young eunuchs came running out, swinging the lotus-headed whisks in their hands left and right, making the eunuchs and palace maids who were blocking the way run away in panic.

"Your Highness invites Master Du Qing, invites Master Du Qing!" These young eunuchs ran to Lu Gu as fast as a galloping horse, leaving a trail of light smoke under their feet. They panted slightly and bowed deeply to Lu Gu: "Hey, Master Du Qing, you haven't been to Jinyang Palace for many years. Your Highness has missed you so much these years!"

Lu Gu snorted softly, threw the reins in her hand to the knight behind her, and strode into Jinyang Palace shoulder to shoulder with Hong Gu.

Outside the main hall of Jinyang Palace, on the high steps, Prince Cao Xian of Jin, wearing a bright red robe with nine phoenixes pattern, stood quietly at the end of the steps with his hands behind his back, smiling as he watched Lu Gu and Hong Gu walking quickly towards him.

"Du Qing, do you hate Jincheng so much? You'll be gone for ten years!" When Cao Xian saw Lu Gu, a hint of deep admiration flashed across his eyes. He subconsciously walked down a few steps and stretched out his hand to Lu Gu.

"Your Highness, please maintain the dignity that a prince should have." Lu Gu shouted softly. Cao Xian's hands trembled slightly. He looked left and right, and saw that at the edge of the square outside Jinyang Palace, many eunuchs and palace maids were looking over here intentionally or unintentionally. He immediately frowned and put on the majestic and solemn attitude that a prince of the Great Jin should have.

With his hands behind his back, Cao Xian looked at Lu Gu and whispered, "These years..."

Lu Gu interrupted Cao Xian rudely: "Your Highness, stop talking nonsense. I have a matter concerning my life and I need to see the emperor."

Cao Xian was stunned. He gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "Is it because of the riots caused by refugees in Qizhou, Minzhou, Mangzhou and other places?"

Lu Gu raised her head suddenly and shouted, "The court has already known about this? Why has there been no action so far? I have been returning to Jincheng from Qizhou, and all the prefectures along the way were full of singing and dancing... Do you know that Qizhou, Minzhou, Mangzhou and other places have almost become wastelands?"

Cao Xian's pupils suddenly shrank. He walked down two steps abruptly, looked at Lu Gu and said sternly, "Bai Di? Why do you say that? According to reports, it was just some insignificant refugees and bandits causing trouble. Father has already ordered the surrounding states to dispatch troops to suppress them. It's definitely not going to come to this!"

Lu Gu took a deep breath, she looked at Cao Xian and murmured: "Your Highness, I would like to see the Emperor."

Cao Xian looked at Lu Gu deeply, then he turned around abruptly and shouted at the eunuchs behind him, "Where is the emperor? There is no need to spread such trouble. I will bring Lord Du Qing to see the emperor right away."

In the northwest corner of the palace city of Dajin, in a palace garden that is so gorgeous and rich that it is beyond description, bursts of pleasant string and wind music sounds and waves of laughter come from under the flowers, in the grass, in the streams and in the lakes like waves.

The current emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, the supreme ruler of eight thousand states and countless people, Emperor Cao Yan of Jin, was bare-chested, wearing a small pair of cow-nose shorts, with his thighs full of spears exposed, a wine jug in one hand and a long spear in the other, and he was crookedly confronting a wild wolf with its claws plucked out.

The wild wolf, which was about ten feet long, howled angrily and madly. It was covered with wounds and curled up slightly, staring at Cao Yan.

Cao Yan continued to gulp down wine, stabbing the wolf with the long spear in his hand crookedly, and muttered incoherently: "Come, come, come, watch my supreme martial arts that will sweep the world and pacify the world!"

With a "ha" sound, Cao Yan staggered forward two quick steps and thrust the long spear forward crookedly.

The wolf slapped the spear in Cao Yan's hand with its claws. Cao Yan's body tilted and he staggered forward a few steps. The spear flashed with a cold light and pierced into a big, white and flawless butt!

Sima Ru, the current head of the Sima family of the Great Jin Dynasty, one of the Three Dukes of the Great Jin Dynasty and the current Grand Marshal, screamed in pain. He had taken an excessive amount of Five-Stone Pills and gulped down three bowls of strong liquor to stimulate his mood. He had already stripped himself naked and was walking around the arena where Cao Yan was fighting beasts like a newborn baby.

Disaster struck unexpectedly. The long spear covered with copper rust in Cao Yan's hand pierced into his buttocks three inches deep, and blood oozed out along the blood groove!

Especially since Sima Ru had just taken the Five Stones Pill, his blood was surging like a tide, and blood spurted out from the blood trough with a "hissing" sound more than three feet high, instantly dyeing the long handle of the long spear red, and flowed down the long handle, dyeing Cao Yan's hands red.

Cao Yan stared blankly at the blood on the spear. Suddenly he laughed wildly: "Haha, my fellow ministers, please look, what a blood-stained white jade-cushion!"

Hundreds of civil and military officials, as well as famous scholars from academies, who were watching the "wise and mighty" Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty "bravely fighting the ferocious beast", laughed wildly at the same time. These guys had all taken the Five Stone Pills, and were dizzy from the effects of the medicine. When they saw Sima Ru's hip being broken by the long spear, they laughed like crazy and couldn't control themselves!

For a while, there was constant laughter. Many important officials of the Jin Dynasty, who were filled with enthusiasm, stripped off their clothes and jumped around.