Fairies Are Fierce

Chapter 129 The Bird in the Cage

Linyuan City is located in the middle of the Dayan Dynasty, and it got its name from the 'Luohunyuan' near the capital.

Luohunyuan is a large rift valley, the narrowest part is only half a mile, and the widest part has turned into a basin, running across Yuyaozhou from east to west, almost tearing Yuyaozhou into two pieces; and the originator of this rift valley, It is the Lord of the South who broke free from the shackles of heaven, 'Stealing Pill'.

With the concerted efforts of all the Jade Yaozhou monks, the world-destroying natural disaster has long been put down, and the Soul-falling Abyss has also stabilized, turning into a secret realm similar to the barren mountain; although the Law Treasure Immortal Soldiers left behind during the war have long been looted by the Nine Sects However, there will always be two leftovers, waiting for the good Lord in some places that no one has ever set foot before, attracting monks from all over the world.

The Luohun Abyss is too long. The location of Linyuan City is in the middle of the Luohun Abyss, hundreds of miles away from the rift valley. There are many ferocious beasts and spiritual beasts in the Luohun Abyss. A checkpoint was built in between. People were prohibited from entering to avoid accidents. Only practitioners could enter. As time went by, the name of the checkpoint became "Linyuan Port".

Compared to Linyuan Port, where immortals are flying all over the sky, Linyuan City, which is not too far away, looks much calmer. Except for its huge size, it is no different from a mortal city.

There are 108 squares built in Linyuan City. There are eight main streets across the city, about 16 feet wide, with 3,000 willows planted along the banks; there are three long vertical streets, the Azure Dragon Street in the middle, which leads directly to the south of the city. The majestic imperial city.

The population of such a large city is no less than one million. Whenever the sun sets over the mountains and the lights of thousands of houses light up, Linyuan City is like a giant beast entrenched in the vast world - the criss-crossing streets and lanes are the blood vessels of the giant beast, and the flow is endless. The pedestrians are the blood of a giant beast, and the heart of this giant beast is the Dayan Imperial City at the top of the mortal world.

At the end of Azure Dragon Street, there are layers of pavilions and palaces, forming the largest imperial city in Yuyaozhou.

On the east side of the imperial city, there is also a smaller palace called Xingyan Palace. It was originally the site of Dayan Imperial City before it was expanded, and was later changed to the East Palace. Nowadays, the immortals and mortals in the imperial capital generally call this place. 'Taufei Palace' or 'Taufei Hall', the 'Second Sage' of the Dayan Dynasty, Shangguan Lingye, the empress dowager, lived here.

Although it is the former site of the Imperial City, the Taifei Palace is still very large. Without the various internal affairs agencies of the Imperial City, only one person lives there, making the huge palace seem sparsely populated, with only a few lights on.

On the branch of the moon, in the main hall in the middle of the Taifei Palace, four huge pillars of coiling dragons support the resplendent dome.

A beautiful woman in palace attire sat on a carved soft couch in the middle of the main hall, looking through the beaded curtain in front of her, looking at Yinheng Mountain, which could not be seen at the end of her field of vision.

The beautiful woman in palace attire can't tell her age from her appearance. Her long black hair hangs down from her shoulders and is spread over the gorgeous palace skirt. Her face is as crystal clear as jade. She has a pale golden waistcoat draped over her shoulders and a belt embroidered with auspicious patterns, which connects her waist. Bunched up, wearing a golden beaded hairpin, elegant and elegant, she looks like just a glamorous secular concubine.

But the eyes of the beautiful woman in palace attire are different from those of ordinary women. There is no smoke or smoke in them. The clear pupils seem to contain the vast sea of ​​stars. They are empty and lonely, as if they are looking at all kinds of things in front of them from the nine heavens. So close, it feels like thousands of miles away.

This look is very similar to that of the woman in the golden skirt at the top of Mount Yinheng, but if someone looks closely, they can still see the difference between the two - the woman in the golden skirt at Mount Yinheng has eyes of the sea of ​​stars in the sky and mountains and rivers at her feet; while the eyes of the beauty in palace attire are , can only see the vastness of the sky, but not the thickness of the earth.

Unfortunately, there are very few people in the world who can see these two women at the same time, and no one can put two women who are aloof from the world side by side to observe sexual intercourse. Naturally, no one has discovered this.

The clear and beautiful eyes that hint at the Galaxy make the beautiful woman in palace clothes live in the imperial city, but isolated from the world. Against the background of the palace lanterns on the eaves, she is like a pear tree among three thousand palaces.

This innate detachment, coupled with the makeup of an earthly imperial concubine, is like a fairy from the nine heavens accidentally falling into the mortal world, with a bit of desolation like a bird in a cage amidst the beauty.

The beautiful woman in palace attire is Shangguan Lingye, who is also the owner of this palace. The reason why she was called the "Second Sage" was not because she relied on the transcendent background of the Tiezhu Mansion to evade the King of Yan from taking power, but because of her hard work and her seniority, she got such an honorable title.

Shangguan Lingye has lived in this palace for eighty years and has been emperor for three times. The current Emperor of Dayan has to call her grandma.

Eighty years is also a long time for practitioners.

Shangguan Lingye was the Qingkui of the Tiedong Mansion at that time. He was born as an immortal and had outstanding talent, ranking among the nine sects. At that time, she had a special title called "Little Shangguan". Everyone in the world regarded her as the successor of Shangguan Ancestor, even she herself thought so.

But suddenly one day, the man sitting on the top of Yinheng Mountain threw her a secular marriage letter, asking her to enter the palace and become the concubine of the Emperor of the Yan Dynasty. There was no reason, and he did not even show up in person.

Shangguan Lingye felt that his ancestor's arrangement must have deep meaning, so he left the Iron Mansion and entered this huge cage.

This is eighty years.

At the turn of spring and autumn in the eighty years, Shangguan Lingye watched his nominal husband go from being in the prime of life, to becoming very old, and finally died on the bed; then to a new monarch, repeating the same cycle of life and death; and then again Watching a child who is babbling and babbling, once again becomes a monarch who reigns over thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, life and death seem to have no end.

And she stayed in this mortal city, dealing with unimportant mundane things all day long; practicing a path was like sailing on land, retreating if she didn't advance. Shangguan Lingye watched helplessly as the weaklings who once looked down upon became the weaklings of all kinds. The core figure of Zong; watching the newcomers one after another, catching up from behind and walking in front of her.

In eighty years, Shangguan Lingye was confident that she could reach the top of the world, even in front of her ancestors. However, she stayed in a worldly cage without making any progress for eighty years.

Shangguan Lingye thought at first that the ancestor was tempering her, but after eighty years, even the best jade has been polished away. What's the point of such tempering?

…

There were no attendants in the main hall, only a few bronze cranes burning incense. On the incense table on the side, there was a portrait of a woman in a gold skirt, with three sticks of incense burning.

The silence lasted for an unknown amount of time. A curtain of water slowly emerged from outside the bead curtain and gradually condensed into a picture - on the vast river, a ferry was speeding against the current. On the top of the ship's building, squatting was a burly man with long cheeks. Hu Hanzi.

"Uncle? Can you see it? Hello?..."

The rough voice echoed in the hall.

The beautiful woman in palace clothes put her mind away and leaned on the soft couch. Her soft but cold voice came out from the emerald bead curtain:

"how?"

Situ was stunned behind the water curtain, squatting behind the emblem of the Hidden Moon Sect on the top of the ferry, and carefully paying attention to his surroundings:

"The Young Mansion Master has already boarded the boat. He will arrive at Linyuan City in ten days. The little mortal girl incarnated by the ancestor has been in front of him and will not leave him. I originally didn't want to take a boat, but if I don't take this boat, I will take the next one. I have to wait half a month, I don’t know if my ancestor has found me yet..."

The beautiful woman in palace clothes gently raised her hand, and the water curtain dissipated in the palace, returning to the dead silence of the past.

She stood up from the soft couch, opened the bead curtain, came to the scroll with three sticks of incense burning, and looked up at the woman above. The emotions in her clear eyes are constantly changing, and occasionally she will show anger, dissatisfaction and other negative emotions without concealment. After all, the person in the painting has not seen her for many years and may have forgotten her long ago.

She didn't understand how the ancestor, who used to live above the Nine Heavens and was almost omnipotent, would choose such an ordinary mortal to become the Qingkui of the Iron Head Mansion, and even lowered his status to personally protect the man.

She didn't see anything about that person who was stronger than her. The only highlight from the beginning to the end was probably his ability to wield the 'Sword One'.

But this bright spot is completely different from what she was back then; she was born as an immortal, and she has been completely different from ordinary people since she was born. There is only something she doesn't want to do, and there is nothing she can't do. If she were to follow the path of swordsmanship , will not be half worse than that ordinary person, and will even do better than him.

But the person chosen by the ancestor put her in this deep palace of the earthly world, where she lived for eighty years. She was not convinced, but she was not even qualified to talk to the ancestor...

The beautiful woman in palace attire stood in front of the portrait for a long time, her eyes changing emotions. Finally, she couldn't hold it back and asked:

"In what way is that wild boy from the Southern Wilderness better than me?"

There was silence in the main hall, with an angry and unfair tone, but it was like a man talking to himself slightly crazy when he was alone.

After receiving no response for a long time, the beautiful woman in palace clothes raised her hand, pulled out three sticks of incense from the incense altar that had been enshrined for decades, and smashed it on the portrait of the woman in the gold skirt:

"I have been in Linyuan City for eighty years. I have worked hard to assist the king and supervise the courtiers. I have never slacked off for a day or missed a thing. What did I do wrong?"

"You have locked me up here for eighty years, at least give me an explanation, what did I do wrong?! I am also your apprentice, why do you treat me like this?"

"I know, you are afraid of me. You are afraid that I will surpass you and take your place, so you banish me to the mortal world, right?"

"Please speak!"

…

The gradually hysterical words are a one-man show from beginning to end. The only thing that can be heard from the beautiful woman in palace attire is the shadow that is dragged far away on the ground under the illumination of the palace lantern.

Shadow's shoulders were shaking slightly.

The beautiful woman in palace clothes clenched her hands tightly, her eyes were red, and after staring at the portrait woman for a long time, she picked up the incense altar and smashed it over.

Dong Dong——

The copper incense altar bounced a few times in the hall and made a few muffled sounds.

The beautiful woman in palace clothes tried hard to control her emotions, but she couldn't restrain the grievance and injustice in her heart. She gritted her teeth and said:

"Okay, if you cut off my path, I won't let others live easily. Believe it or not, I will take that kid..."

The words stopped abruptly.

Even though the woman in the portrait had no reaction and was just a dead thing, the beautiful woman in palace clothes did not dare to say the angry words behind her.

Because she knew that the person must have heard it, but he just didn't want to respond to her.

Gululu——

The incense burner rolled several times and finally stopped in the center of the hall.

The beautiful woman in palace attire stood blankly for a long time, waiting for the portrait to respond, even if it was a scolding.

Unfortunately, the result was the same as in previous decades.

As time went by, the mood of the beautiful woman in palace clothes gradually calmed down.

She took a breath, turned around, picked up the incense burner, placed it again under the portrait, took three more incense sticks, lit them and inserted them.

When the green smoke curled up, the beautiful woman in palace clothes returned to the graceful and luxurious concubine just now, and she bowed seriously:

"My disciple has lost his composure. Master, please don't blame me."

But this sentence is also just for myself...

(end of this chapter)