Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 134 Empress
The sound of heavy hammers colliding and rock walls collapsing rang out simultaneously.

When Xu Yunfan dragged the headless corpse to the ground, the head of the Thunder Fire Hammer was still dripping brain matter.

Half a minute later, Yan Yuwei killed the last of the believers and burned the entire place down with fire.

"Let's go, we need to get back to Tiangong Cave immediately."

Although it takes a detour to get to Guniu Mountain from here, the journey is only about ten minutes long with two people running at full speed.

The two of them no longer hesitated and headed towards Guniu Mountain.

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Yujing Road, Yujing Prefecture, Yujing City, the Great Zhou Imperial Palace.

Above the nine-story palaces of Yujing City, lead-gray clouds hung very low.

In the center corner of the palace, a 533-foot-tall observatory pierced through the sea of ​​clouds. A gilded bronze armillary sphere slowly rotated in the clouds, and the twenty-eight constellations glowed faintly in the darkness.

The platform is carved from a whole piece of Kunlun black jade. On every night of a thunderstorm, the entire tower will reveal densely packed talismans in the lightning. These are the spirit-suppressing talismans carved with blood as ink by 800 alchemists of the previous dynasty.

Although it had no special powers at the beginning, it was baptized by thunder and rain day and night, and swallowed the luck of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and finally revealed a bit of strange brilliance.

In the main hall, the empress's skinny fingers slid across the armrests of the dragon throne. The five-clawed golden dragon on the thousand-year-old rosewood had been rubbed so hard that the scales were blurred.

In the hall supported by twelve golden pillars with coiled dragons, bronze crane lamps spewed out wisps of green smoke, but they could not dispel the stench of decay lingering under the steps.

The aura of decadence emanating from this empress could no longer be contained and filled the entire hall.

"Your Majesty, the Incense and Fire Sect has already set up the Blood Lotus Formation in the six key prefectures according to the instructions in the Tianyan Atlas."

Guo Lang, the director of the Imperial Observatory, knelt on the ice-cracked gold brick, cold sweat seeping from the back of his neck and soaking the peacock patch.

"Since the ice and snow melted and spring arrived, the total number of people offering sacrifices to the Incense Sect in Wuzhou, Cangzhou, and Qingzhou in Yanbei Road, Jianzhou and Yangzhou in Jiangnan Road, Yizhou and Kuizhou in Jiannan Road, Yongzhou and Yazhou in Lingnan Road, and Shengzhou and Fengzhou in Monan Road..."

At this point, Guo Lang suddenly lost his voice and could not utter the last few words from his throat.
"number."

The empress's voice seemed to be filtered out from bronze chimes, with the hoarseness of metal scraping against each other. The heavy and dusky atmosphere seemed to disturb the entire hall and accelerate its decay.

Guo Lang's Adam's apple rolled: "More than 12 million people."

The sound of fingernails scratching against jade disks could be heard from behind the mica screen.

The empress leaned against a soft pillow inlaid with oriental pearls, and the nine-tasseled crown hanging among her white hair swayed slightly. The sound of the tassels colliding was mixed with a hurried and anxious sound, mixed with a bit of impatience.

"Not enough, not enough."

These words coming out of the empress's mouth made Guo Lang couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

He didn't dare to look up. All he could see was the wave pattern on the hem of the empress's dragon robe. A very old face could be vaguely seen in those waves embroidered with gold thread.

"The progress of the sacrifice in Shengzhou, Mo Nan Dao, has slowed down by 70%."

The empress suddenly leaned forward, her face, as dry as bark, revealed through the gaps in her tiara. "Does Mr. Guo know why?"

Guo Lang was shocked and reacted instantly. He realized that the empress had other channels to get the news, and he quickly replied.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Governor of Shengzhou died suddenly last month. The new Governor has gathered the government troops to fight against the incense."

"deliver an imperial order."

The Empress' voice suddenly shrill, interrupting the report, "All males over seventeen years old in Shengzhou will be used as blood sacrifices. The Black Armor Guards will oversee the construction of mass graves."

Her voice suddenly slowed, and she said calmly, "The people of Shengzhou are of mixed races, inherently different from our Great Zhou. We can kill them all." The rhythm of her knuckles tapping the armrest resonated with the bronze bells ringing from the Astronomical Observatory outside the hall. "Tell the Master of the Incense Sect that if he doesn't gather 36 million souls by the seventh day of next month, I will use the National Stabilization Cauldron to refine his Incense Golden Body."

Guo Lang's forehead was pressed against the ground.

The chill seeping from the cracks in the gold bricks crept up his nose and into his skull. He suddenly remembered how three years ago in the secret room of the observatory he had personally arranged for 300 boys and girls to be cast alive into the base of the armillary sphere. Their screams and the boiling sound of molten bronze mixed into an eerie Buddhist chant.

Guo Lang couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

But at this point, he couldn't back down.

"Your Majesty, the blood sacrifice method was used in the previous dynasty..."

"Those rubbish from the previous dynasty couldn't even sever the dormant dragon veins! His Dali Dynasty failed in the blood sacrifice, so why can't my Great Zhou do it?"

The empress stood up suddenly, and the twelve pieces of gold-woven skirt swept the teacup on the table. The remaining tea in the broken Yue kiln secret color porcelain was actually emitting a scarlet red color.

She walked out from behind the screen, staring at Guo Lang with her dry eyes.

"What I want is the complete awakening of the Yuanling of Heaven and Earth, the reopening of the spiritual axis that was sealed eight hundred years ago! Don't those martial arts sects prefer to sit on the sidelines and watch? Send a message to the Xianghuo Sect, and find a way to blow up the Taiyi Cave in Longhu Mountain and the Bodhidharma Cave in Mituo Temple! Infuse them with the aura of blood sacrifice, and let them experience the sight of the Yuanling of Heaven and Earth reappearing. They will naturally know how to do it."

Suddenly there was a loud thunder outside the hall.

When the empress said this, a strange and inexplicable smile suddenly appeared on her face.

"Those old guys are even more anxious than I am."

Guo Lang, trembling with fear, caught a glimpse of the faint scaly patterns emerging under the empress's dragon robe.

Symptoms of alienation caused by taking the elixir of immortality.

His heart skipped a beat, and after hearing the empress's words, his heart trembled even more.

"Your Majesty, please think twice!" Guo Lang finally looked up, only to see the empress stroking her cheek in front of a bronze mirror behind the screen.

The reflection in the mirror clearly showed a young woman, but when he blinked, she turned back into her wrinkled and gray-haired appearance.

"Taiyi Cave and Bodhidharma Cave are the places where the ancestors of the two sects have been offering sacrifices. They have long been home to gods, such as the Mingzun. If the six major sects join forces to counterattack..."

"You do not understand……"

The empress's hand dropped from her cheek, a pure white essence clearly visible to the naked eye lingering on her fingertips, absorbing the energy from the scarlet blood basin beside the bronze mirror into her body.

Guo Lang saw it clearly, and his heart was in a mess.

when?
The empress actually became a supreme master of the ninth level of Qi training.

The Empress continued, "Once they get a taste of what's to come, those dying old bastards won't stop them, but will instead secretly fan the flames. Do you think that when the Incense Cult started trouble in Wuzhou, the six top sects didn't ask me about it? They did, and they knew. The moment they spoke of benevolence and morality, but chose to stand by and watch, I knew...

They are the same kind of people as me!"

She turned her head to look at Guo Lang who was kneeling below, and Guo Lang quickly lowered his head.

"Mr. Guo." The empress's voice suddenly became ethereal, and her white hair turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"What I want is never the kingdom."

The Empress's wrinkles were fading, but her voice was growing older. "When those cultivators sealed the remaining spiritual veins eight hundred years ago, they should have thought of this day. If I don't do it, someone else will."

Looking at the trembling Guo Lang, the empress said calmly, "Today's illness is just a minor one. When the Yuanling of Heaven and Earth is awakened and I am able to live again, the Great Zhou will naturally be at its peak. Everything I do now is just a minor pain."

(Today is still 10,000 words, I will update one chapter first. I saw that many friends were arguing about the previous plot, so I had to release it first.)
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