In the winter of the second year of Ganming, on November 26th, on the 26th of November, Empress Dowager Xiaowen of Jimao, the emperor led the ministers to Bao'en Temple to pay tribute, and was assassinated, and the mountain tomb collapsed.

——"Records of Emperor Xuanmin"

In the winter moon in the north, the north wind is like a knife, the grass and trees wither, the mountains are covered with frost, and the sky and the earth are full of solemn death.

In such bad weather, the people hide at home regardless of their wealth and wealth. There is no one on the mountain road. Only the whistling sound of the northwest wind blowing across the rocks is like howling and angry, which makes people desperate!

Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves broke the dead silence of the mountain road. A group of knights in armor and blood surrounded a double-horse carriage and rushed from the north.

The horses they rode were all magical, but they kept running down all night, and the horses were foaming and exhausted!

The leader of the knight had a sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, and was extremely handsome. While controlling the horse, he turned around and looked back with anxiety on his face.

Smoke and dust rose not far behind him, and you could clearly see a team of black-armored cavalry chasing them, almost catching up with them!

"Damn it!" The knight made a quick decision and shouted: "Welcome to the enemy!"

The soldiers knew very well what it meant to turn around to meet the enemy at this time! But in order to buy some time for the people in the carriage, they all tied the reins without hesitation and turned around!

In a moment, the pursuers had already arrived in front of them, but were blocked by the soldiers at the entrance of the valley and could not move forward in an instant!

On the carriage that was gone, the curtain was lifted, and a pale and beautiful face appeared. She was wearing a golden and green hairpin, wearing a red shirt, and hugged a little boy who was five or six years old. The little boy looked fearful, and his young heart could not understand why his life fell from heaven to hell overnight.

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The cavalry were wearing black iron armor, with helmets like hideous tigers, and the words "Xiahou" in seal script engraved on their left arm armor, indicating their identity - the generals of the Xiahou clan, and the elite Xuan armored cavalry in the world!

The leader was a general wearing a golden crown with a tied hair, a black cloak, a wolf-eyed and eagle-eyed look, looking at himself and his courageous spirit! He rode a black giant horse, like the demon god of Jiuyou, looking down at the guards blocking the road.

Even though the guards were ready to die, they still looked like earth when they saw this person! In order to hunt down the queen, Xiahou fence actually dispatched a great master of the heavenly level! Those are the top masters in the world, how could they stop them?!

The knight in the leader also became extremely solemn. He was worried that he would not be able to stop the other party for long, and the Empress and His Royal Highness of the Crown Prince would still not escape!

The other party spoke first, and his tone was even more bitter than the cold wind: "Du Mao, the emperor has died in Bao'en Temple. If you don't want to implicate the nine tribes, you should dismount and surrender!"

"Xiahou is unbeaten!" The knight in charge, originally named Du Mao. He looked cold and said with a cold face, and hated him: "You Xiahou family have been deeply favored by the emperor, but they kill the king and harm the country. They deserve to die! Today I will avenge the emperor!"

"Overbial overestimate one's own abilities!" Xiahou Bubai, who had a golden crown and black cloak, snorted coldly, waved his ape's arm, and the black armored cavalry rushed towards Du Mao and others.

Du Mao pulled out his swords behind him and roared angrily: "The Imperial Guards will fight to the death!" Then he took the lead in facing the enemy!

The guards also roared: "Fight to death and never retreat!" This sound seemed to have magic, which made them abandon all distracting thoughts, leaving only one thought in their minds - kill the enemy!

With a bang, the two sides collided together and fought to the death! Although the Xuan Armored Cavalry was numerous, they were unable to exert their advantages due to the terrain restrictions. Moreover, the soldiers of the Imperial Guard were all skilled in martial arts, especially Du Mao, who was already an extremely powerful earth-level master. A pair of iron-filled swords filled with true energy danced like snow, cutting countless weapons, killing and injuring the enemy soldiers! There was a big opportunity for a man to pass the pass and ten thousand men to open up!

After a cup of tea, Xiahou Bubai saw that the Xuanjia cavalry still could not defeat the enemy, so he couldn't help but brow, and he had no time to waste!

Du Mao slashed out with a knife, chopping an enemy soldier and his horse into two pieces! As the blood and internal organs splattered, he suddenly felt a warning sign, and he caught a glimpse of a dark shadow pounced on him in the air, and he quickly slashed his sword without thinking!

The black shadow was Xiahou Bubai. Seeing the sword light sweeping towards him, he stretched out his slender fingers without panic, and just flashed lightly! It was bounced on Du Mao's back! Du Mao's powerful and incomprehensible knife was interrupted by this effortless finger!

Du Mao's right hand was bleeding from the tiger's mouth, and the long sword also came out! Half of his body was paralyzed, and before he could even raise another long sword, Xiahou Bubai's palm was printed on his chest!

Du Mao was immediately struck by lightning, vomiting blood and flying out several feet away, and his body hit the rocks hard, splashing countless gravel!

The combat power is so different. This is the incomparable heavenly master who is invincible!

Xiahou Bubai killed Du Mao with a wave of his hand, and his body turned incredibly in the air. His legs seemed to be kicking out in a series of times, but each kick hit the chest of an imperial guard! No matter how those imperial guards dodge and block it will be futile.

All the guards who were kicked collapsed in their chests and their mouths were sprayed with blood, and they would definitely be dead and dead!

Xiahou Bubai took advantage of this force and floated back to his horse's back. He glanced at Du Mao who fell to the ground like a rag bag, and sighed in a relaxed mood: "Du Mao, two swords, but that's it."

Seeing this, the Xuan Armored Cavalry of the Xiahou Far saw this and was filled with fanatical worship. He shouted in unison: "The world is invincible when the striking oars in the middle of the river!" He slashed and killed the remaining guards wildly!

Without Du Mao's Dinghai Needle, the remaining guards were completely robbed of their courage by Xiahou's unbeaten terrifying strength. Without long resistance, they were surrounded and killed by the Xuanjia cavalry...

Looking at the corpses of the guards all over the ground, Xiahou Bubai said with a gloomy expression: "It's been dragging it for too long."

The Xuanjia Cavalry immediately said with guilt: "We are willing to be punished!"

"Give up the military power and calm down." The deputy quickly persuaded carefully: "His highness Ping's army has surrounded Luofeng Mountain, and they can't escape!"

"The Xiahou family never depends on others' help." Xiahou Bubai snorted coldly, "If you can't catch up with them, you can just apologize!"

"Yes!" All the black armored cavalry looked tight, and they tried their best to urge the war horses to continue chasing at full speed!

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Luofeng Mountain is gentle and continuous, like a phoenix with its head facing west and its tail facing north. The name of the mountain comes from this. The mountain road here is not difficult to walk, and it saves a lot of distance than the official road. On weekdays, as long as the business travelers passing by do not carry heavy loads, many people will copy this shortcut.

Even though it was cold and cold, a small group of people appeared on the mountain road. These people, including guards, servants, and maids, all of them were bitter, surrounded by a small carriage and slowly moved forward.

There was a family of four sitting in the carriage. A pair of six or seven-year-old children were wrapped in thick furs and curled up beside their mother. Although there was a charcoal basin, the north wind came in through the crack of the car, and the car was still very cold.

The mother of two children is a woman in her twenties. She looks dignified and beautiful, and her temperament is gentle and peaceful. She looks like a big family. But when she sees the child suffers, she can't help but complain in a low voice: "Those people are too much. They are just small county magistrates. Can't let you take office after the warmth is warm?"

The person she spoke was a man in a green robe with a restrained and calm temperament. He was holding a book and reading it on the bumpy mountain road with relish. He sighed and said, "Actually, there is no such strong wind at the foot of the mountain, but you insist on burning incense on the mountain."

"I heard that the incense of Phoenix Temple in Luofeng Mountain is very effective." The woman glanced at the man with a little embarrassed look and said, "It's not for you, I ask the ancestor of Dao to bless you and let you get transferred back to the capital as soon as possible."

"Mom," the little girl's delicate voice interrupted the couple's conversation, "I want to pee..."

The little boy next to him also followed and said, "I want to pee too..."

The woman couldn't help laughing, scratched the little boy's nose and said, "You have to learn everything from my sister."

The man also smiled, touched his son's head in a doting way, put the book down and got up and went down the lane: "Dad brings you a chamber pot."

The man got out of the car, stomped his sore feet, and sent the chamber pot into the car. Seeing that the Phoenix Temple was about to arrive, he walked slowly as the car.

Breathing the cold air, the man's mind was clear, but his mood was still heavy. His wife always thought that he was excluded by the family's direct line and hurriedly left Beijing. But this was not the case. He chose to go on the road at this time. Although others were humble, he still had a foreseeable sense that a major change was about to happen in the capital.

The emperor abolished the Ninth-rank official law, issued the equalization order, and re-counted the national household registration, and cut everything on the foundation of the aristocratic families. How could those people not oppose him? The emperor has only been two years since he ascended the throne, and his foundation is still too unsolid. Too hurry is a way to cause chaos!

The man himself is a child of one of the seven major clans, so he is naturally very aware that those clans join forces will be far better than the royal family. What's more, there is also a seemingly loyal but actually ambitious His Highness Ping Wang...

The man walked along the way, sighing all the way, worried about the fate of the emperor and the country, and sad about his current weakness. He foreseeed that the capital would be changing, he could only avoid it from afar, so as not to make mistakes and implicate his wife and children...

'This is not the life I want...' The man sighed long and was about to calm down and speed up his pace. Suddenly, he heard the sound of a carriage galloping behind him. He couldn't help but look in the sound and saw a double-horse carriage of ordinary style running wildly on the mountain road. The coachman seemed to think it was not fast enough and was still beating the horses desperately.

The man couldn't help frowning. The mountain road was very narrow, allowing only two cars to run in parallel, but the other party was running and chasing, and it was a double-horse carriage. How could it be possible to get by?!

The man asked the guard to stop the car, but the other party ignored it! The carriage did not slow down at all and still rushed straight towards him! The man's carriage tried hard to avoid it, but the road was still not enough for the other party to pass. One side of the wheel rolled out of the road and hit a raised rock heavily, and then overturned the car! The coachman was directly lifted out and hit the rock with his head on it, and there was still little hope of survival.

"Save people quickly!" The man hurriedly took his servants to the overturned carriage and wanted to open the carriage. However, he was surprised to find that the carriage door was extremely heavy, and it was made of expensive iron pear wood! Such a large carriage was made of iron pear wood, and even the seven major sects would not be so extravagant!

What surprised him even more was behind him. When he opened the car door and saw the mother and son inside, he couldn't help but shout: "Empress!"

The woman's forehead was bleeding, but the little boy in her arms was unharmed. She looked at the other party in surprise. "You are..."

"When Lu Xin was in the Mei family, he had attended the Queen's poetry meeting with his brother." The man who asked Lu Xin to resist the storm and asked the maid to help the queen out of the carriage.

"Lu Xin, I remembered it!" The queen came out of the carriage, hugged the boy in her arms, and knelt in front of Lu Xin, begging mournfully: "Please save the prince! He is the emperor's only blood!"

"Emperor..." Lu Xin was shocked when he heard this: "What happened?!"

"Emperor," the queen's tears rolled, her hair was flying in the cold wind, and she cried helplessly: "I have been killed..."

"Ah!" Lu Xin was frozen there immediately. Although he had expected something big, he didn't expect it to come so quickly!

The screams of his subordinates brought him back to his senses. Lu Xin looked around in a daze and found that the mountain was covered with shadows and the entire Fengshan Mountain was surrounded!

"Please, save the prince..." The queen kept begging, and kept lingering in his ears.

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The Xuanjia Cavalry chased him to the front of the Phoenix Temple and saw a man wearing a green official robe waiting beside the mountain road.

"Who are you!" a cavalryman asked coldly. They didn't take such low-level officials seriously.

"Lu Xin, the new magistrate of Qiantang, is here to wait for the Xiahou army." Lu Xin was not angry and said politely: "Are you all tracking the queen and the prince?"

"Wow!" The Xuan Armored Cavalry clamped the reins one after another when they heard the sound. A leader asked sternly: "Where is the person?!"

"I was trapped in the Phoenix Temple by my subordinates, waiting for the fall of your family!" Lu Xin pointed ahead, and his dozen servants, all holding weapons, guarding the small Taoist temple with a vigilant look on their faces.

The Xuanjia Cavalry immediately stepped forward and surrounded the Taoist temple. The subordinates went to check the true feelings. Xiahou Bubai looked at Lu Xin and said, "Are you a Lu Jiao?"

"Go back to General Xiahou, that's exactly." Lu Xin replied respectfully.

Xiahou Bubai thought about it, shook his head slowly and said, "I don't remember... Who is Duke An Guo who is you?"

"I am the uncle of the lower government." Lu Xin replied.

"Oh..." I heard that he was a side-sect of the land-valley, Xiahou Bubai was interested and said: "The direct descendants of your family performed too poorly this time, and they were not as good as your side-sect."

At this time, the leader came back to report: "The leader is indeed the mother and son."

"Why are you still standing there?" Xiahou Bubai glanced at him coldly.

"They were filled with firewood and sprinkled with lamp oil..." The leader replied with some difficulty: "It is difficult for the subordinates to make a decision..." Before he finished speaking, thick smoke rose from the sight.

"Baoshi!" Xiahou Bubai finally changed his face, angrily scolded, and jumped into Phoenix Temple!

During the sight, a raging fire ignited in the small Sanqing Palace. The wind took advantage of the fire and in a blink of an eye, the wooden palace was burned into a sea of ​​fire. Even though Xiahou had undefeated magical skills, he did not dare to rush in, so he could only order his subordinates to put out the fire.

In the sea of ​​fire, the Empress looked like a ghost, disheveled her head and pointed at Xiahou Bubai and Lu Xin who followed him in, and cursed with a shrill curse: "Xiahou clan killed the king and the country, and this palace is your tomorrow! Lu Xin sells his owner for honor and will not die well..."

Amid the queen's scolding, the fire burning, and the black armored cavalry extinguished the fire, there was clearly a child's crying!

Lu Xin looked at the scene expressionlessly, his face was reflected by the flames, and his hands in his sleeves couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Xiahou Bubai calmed down, looked at the fire with great care and said, "Lufeng Mountain, the Empress should be buried here." After saying that, he glanced at Lu Xin and said, "I was scared?"
To be continued...