The Heavenly Court was defeated, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King was captured, more than a dozen heavenly generals died, and only 190,000 of the 300,000 heavenly soldiers were left and retreated to Xihua Province. Together with the previous 100,000 thunder soldiers, only 290,000 heavenly soldiers were left.
Tonghe Tianjun of Beitianfu personally went to Xihuazhou to take charge and personally commanded 190,000 heavenly soldiers and 100,000 thunder soldiers to be stationed along the border between Xihuazhou and Dingqingzhou.
With the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King being captured, there are only two people in the entire Uttarakuru Continent who can command these heavenly soldiers and generals.
One is the Great Emperor Zhenwu, and the other is the Lord of Beitian Palace.
But the Great Emperor Zhenwu will not show up easily, as he wants to guard the entire Uttarakuru Continent.
Therefore, only Tonghe Tianjun had to come forward, but Hongyun did not take advantage of the victory to attack Xihuazhou, but began to establish a foothold in Dingqingzhou. Looking from the sky area of Xihuazhou, he saw that the Taoist soldiers in Dingqingzhou began to set up a large formation and build a Taoist altar in Dingqingzhou.
"They want to occupy Dingqingzhou." Master Jinyu, the Minister of Beitian Prefecture, said to Tonghe Tianjun with a worried look on his face.
Tonghe Tianjun looked at the scene in Dingqing Prefecture, which was enveloped by the Fire Cloud Formation. After a moment's hesitation, he asked, "Have you sent anyone to Taixuandu Province and Xuantian Dao Palace to report?"
Upon hearing this, Master Jin Yu immediately said, "We've sent people there, but there's still no news."
"Isn't there any in Taixuan Province?" Tonghe Tianjun frowned.
Master Jinyu shook his head and said, "No."
Tonghe Tianjun felt something was wrong after hearing this. How come the Heavenly Court has not responded to such a big thing yet?
But he didn't dare to speculate about the thoughts of the Taixuan Province, especially the Grand Envoy, so he said, "Then wait a moment. The most important thing right now is to stabilize the morale of the army and arrange defenses."
"Your Majesty is wise." Master Jin Yu nodded and said.
As they were talking, a divine general suddenly came up from behind them and said, "Your Majesty, Minister, the head of the Jianyang Court of the Heavenly Court wishes to see you."
"Please." Tonghe Tianjun turned around and said.
Afterwards, the head of Jianyang Academy and Bai Suzhen came over one after another. As for Lei Zhenzi, he had already gone to lead the 100,000 thunder soldiers.
"Greetings to the Lord of Heaven, Tonghe." The head of Jianyang Court and Bai Suzhen bowed in unison.
Tonghe Tianjun nodded slightly and said, "No need to be so polite, both of you."
Master Jianyang stood up straight and immediately asked Tonghe Tianjun, "Tianjun, what should we do about today's situation?"
Tonghe Tianjun looked at Master Jianyang and said, "Today's matter is beyond the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Court. We must wait for the Heavenly Court's order."
Master Jianyang nodded helplessly. At this point, the situation was beyond the control of the Heavenly Court or himself. So he asked, "Is there anything I can do for you?"
Tonghe Tianjun thought for a moment and said, "Yes, then please ask Jianyang Yuanzhang to use his authority as the Yuanzhang of the Heavenly Court to supervise the immortal officials of Northern Julu Continent and prevent the thieves from taking advantage of the situation."
"I obey the command of the law." Master Jianyang bowed and said.
After Master Jianyang finished speaking, Bai Suzhen immediately hurried forward and asked, "Excuse me, Heavenly Lord, has my sister Cen Biqing also been captured?"
Upon hearing this, Tonghe Tianjun glanced at Master Jinyu. Master Jinyu nodded to Bai Suzhen and said, "Fellow Daoist Cen was captured while trying to cover the retreat of the heavenly soldiers and generals. His merits have been recorded."
Bai Suzhen's face darkened when she heard this. She didn't care about the merit book, she only cared about Cen Biqing's safety.
Thinking of this, Bai Suzhen immediately bowed to Tonghe Tianjun and Jianyang Shangren and said, "Tianjun, Master, Bai Suzhen will take her leave first."
"Where are you going?" Master Jianyang asked Bai Suzhen who turned around.
Bai Suzhen looked at Master Jianyang and said, "I will go back to the Lishan Palace to find my master."
Master Jianyang said, "Your destiny with Xu Xian has already been activated. Returning to the Lishan Palace now might lead to important events."
Upon hearing this, Bai Suzhen immediately pointed in the direction of Dingqing Prefecture and said to Master Jianyang, "If I don't go back, will the academy master be able to lead me to repel these people and find Xu Lang?"
"This..." Master Jianyang was stunned and then speechless.
"Goodbye." Bai Suzhen bowed very decisively, then turned around and rode on the clouds, immediately flying towards the south of Uttarakuru.
Because there is an obstruction in the direction of Dingqingzhou, Bai Suzhen has to go south to Jambuzhou first, and then go east to Dongsheng Shenzhou.
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Heavenly Palace, Taixuan Province.
Xun Kuang, who had just taken office as the Supervisor of Taixuandu Province, had not had a few days of peace when he encountered the first major event since taking office.
He was sitting in the office hall just now, but soon he received an imperial edict from the Taixuan Province, asking him to go to the Taixuan Hall immediately to discuss matters.
The content of the imperial edict was about the situation in Dingqing Prefecture. To be honest, Xunzi was very surprised after reading it. It was not his fault that he was delayed in receiving news, because he was a Wenlin official. Therefore, unless Taixuandu Province told him, it would take two days for him to know about these things.
Compared to him, the martial arts immortal officials of Taixuandu Province learned about this matter very quickly, and knew it in more detail than the literary immortal officials.
When Xun Kuang arrived outside the Taixuan Palace, he found that the other fourteen first-rank immortal officials of the Taixuan Province had all arrived and were standing outside waiting for him.
"Ah, Supervisor, you're finally here." Taixuan Envoy Pinghan Zhenren hurried over and said to Xun Kuang, "Something big has happened."
Xunzi looked up and saw that all his colleagues had serious faces. Even Youyuan Zhenren, who usually treated him coldly, had a solemn face and even bowed to him when he saw him.
Xun Kuang asked, "What happened? Why was even the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King captured?"
Zuo Xunyan, a Taixuan official, said, "I heard it was the ancient great immortal, Red Cloud Patriarch, who took action. The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King was no match for him. He was put into a gourd and captured after just a few rounds."
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