"Where is your Majesty?"

"Where is your Majesty?"

"You haven't returned yet, why don't you send someone into the mountains to look for him?"

"What, the mountain can't be entered?"

"So many people can't just disappear out of thin air, right?"

In the temple, a purple-robed official asked sternly. Even in the dead of winter, he was already sweating profusely.

The entire temple was brightly lit, with soldiers in silver armor coming in and out. More soldiers outside the temple held torches high, seeming to light up the sky.

Facing the question from the purple-robed official, the general below hesitated. Logically speaking, he was not under the other party's control and could ignore the other party's question. However, at this moment, he was obviously a little panicked.

The sound of the urn said: "Perhaps the Dragon King is hospitable and left His Majesty as a guest in the Dragon Palace. He will be back in two days."

The purple-robed official asked again: "What about the people guarding the mountain road? How come they were invited together without even having any information?"

The emperor entered the mountain, and then disappeared together with the officials, monks, and the emperor's personal guards who had been brought in.

This immediately frightened the officials and guards waiting outside.

He hurriedly sent people into the mountains to search for them, but it turned out that they seemed to have seen a ghost. After entering the mountains, those people would only wander around in the mountains. Instead of looking for them, they fell into the mountains themselves.

It's useless for so many people to enter this vast mountain.

Especially in the middle of the night, seeing people disappear into the mountains like this, all the soldiers were so frightened that they refused to enter the mountains again.

The general could not answer. At this time, there was someone beside the official to offer advice.

"Since His Majesty disappeared in Xingkong Mountain, why not ask the temple priest at Xingkong Mountain? He might be able to learn something from the god."

When talking about this, the general immediately spoke.

"Tell me, could it be that the mountain god was angry and left His Majesty in the mountain?"

"If not, how could such weird things happen in this mountain? No one who went in came out."

When everyone thought about it, they felt that it was indeed possible.

After all, although the emperor Wen Changxing came in the name of worshiping the god of Xingkong Mountain, it was just a pretense and a formality.

After Wen Changxing put on a show under the statue of the god on the mountain in front of the temple, he went to the mountains to find the real dragon, and then lived in a Buddhist temple, far away from the social temple controlled by the Taoist sect.

Will this kind of behavior offend the empty-hearted mountain god?

After all, he is still a god, and if he is treated so poorly, it doesn't matter if he is the emperor.

After all, Wen Changxing is only the emperor of the world and has no control over this mountain god.

Everyone suddenly had this idea.

"Let's go to the mountain temple immediately."

There is a newly built temple on another hill not far from the temple, which is the newly built social temple, or it can also be called the mountain temple.

Both mountain gods and earth gods can be called social gods, gods in charge of the land.

In the dark night.

The crowd came to the foot of the temple in great force, and torches gathered like dragons on the road. The Taoist priests on the mountain naturally saw it.

The Taoist priest immediately ran down and found out after asking.

"What, His Majesty has not been heard from since he entered the mountain?"

Of course, the purple-robed official would not say anything about the suspicion that the God of Xingkong Mountain had left His Majesty and the officials in the mountain, but just said to the temple blessing.

"I would also like to ask the Taoist priest to ask the mountain god to find out what happened in the mountain and why Your Majesty has not returned yet."

The temple blessing is a bit awkward: "Pindao is not the real temple blessing, but is only temporarily in charge of this mountain temple. Whether the mountain god can respond to Pindao is still unknown."

This Xingkong Mountain is not a famous mountain, it is just a little famous in the surrounding area.

Even if these small mountains were originally to be enshrined with shrines or shrines, they would usually be ranked very low in the list. The Imperial Prefecture would generally give priority to counties and counties with dense populations. Generally, only large mountains with important mineral resources or other reasons would be enshrined with mountain gods.

Therefore, Xingkong Mountain was enshrined as a mountain god because of the opening of the underground network project. Although Xingkong Mountain is not very important geographically, it is the hub center of the underground network and requires the central dispatching and control of the temple.

The purple-robed official had no choice: "Now there is no other way. I would like to ask the Taoist Priest to give it a try. I'd like to thank the Taoist Priest for your help."

The priest of the temple nodded and refused no longer.

There are torches like dragons at the bottom of the mountain, and officials and guards at the gate are waiting anxiously.

In the mountain temple, people burn incense, pray, and ask the gods to perform rituals.

After fussing for a long time, I only came up with one answer.

"The mountain god has closed the mountain. No one can enter the mountain now."

The purple-robed official stepped forward. Whether the mountain was closed or not was no longer important. What was important was that the emperor was still well.

"What about Your Majesty? Is there any news about Your Majesty?"

Miao Zhu just replied: "I don't know."

Everyone immediately lowered their heads and said: "What should we do?"

But Miao Zhu then added: "The Mountain God can control some places, but there are some places he cannot."

The implication is that the reason for the emperor's disappearance has nothing to do with the mountain god of Xingkong Mountain. The specific reason has to be found elsewhere.

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately looked into the depths of Xingkong Mountain.

"Perhaps it was really the Dragon Prince who invited His Majesty?"

"Isn't it true that Master Nianhua Monk is accompanying us? It should be no big deal!"

"Are you just waiting like this?"

Finally, it was the purple-robed official who made up his mind.

"Hurry and report to the Imperial Master."

What he said was like calling Wukong to save me.

——

In fact, before the messenger arrived in Hua Jing, the national teacher Linghua Jun had already made preparations. She even knew what he would encounter when he went there.

It's just a near miss.

Yunzhong Palace Temple.

Early in the morning, before dawn, Lord Linghua got up and started to make preparations. He ordered the entire Yunzhong Palace Temple to prepare offerings, rituals and music to be presented to Lord Yunzhong.

The shamans, waiters, and servants in the Yunzhong Palace Temple were all a little strange, because the order came so suddenly, without any preparation in advance, and today was not an important day.

Only the miko who was following Lord Linghua probably knew why.

The witch put on the cloud-patterned robe and walked through the corridor connecting the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion and the Yunzhong Palace Temple. The witch beside him wanted to ask several times, but she still kept her mouth shut.

Lord Linghua had already noticed it: "If you have anything to say, just say it!"

The witch finally asked: "Witch, why didn't you tell the emperor in advance that there was no real dragon in the hollow mountain?"

Lord Linghua said: "The emperor Wen Changxing is afraid of power but not virtuous. He has no ambition but thinks very highly of himself. He is very jealous and revengeful. Now that he has ascended to the position of the Nine-Fifth Emperor, he should look down on the world and rule the nine states to give and take. He is worried about someone vying for his throne day and night, and is afraid that the little devil is secretly seeking his life."

If we say that the emperor Wen Zhao of the previous generation was extremely arrogant and dominated the world with his own desires, he wanted to live forever when he became emperor, and to achieve immortality he had to go to the sky.

So the emperor of this generation, Wen Changxing, is a collection of arrogance and low self-esteem to the extreme. On the one hand, he feels that he is the emperor who can do anything with just one order, and everything in the world should be used by him. On the other hand, he only needs to encounter some difficulties and problems. , and immediately acted like a turtle.

When the sun came out in the morning, he still felt that he was a real dragon emperor. When the wind blew at night, he suddenly remembered that he was a mortal with five kinds of decay.

Lord Linghua walked and finally walked from the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion to Yunzhong Palace Temple. It was not yet completely bright, and many people were waiting in the forest garden of Yunzhong Palace Temple with lanterns.

The witch beside Lord Linghua took one of the lamps and listened to Lord Linghua continue to speak.

"If a person like this doesn't bump into Nanshan a few times, he will reach the nine heavens and embrace the moon in a few days."

"At that time, it will be another sign of warmth."

"If you suffer a little at this time, you will be able to be more at ease in the future and it will not cause a big mess."

The witch nodded: "Indeed, the witch can see it clearly."

National Master Linghua Jun: "It's not that I can see it clearly, but after experiencing what happened to the previous generation of Emperor Wen Zhao, I naturally learned to see some things clearly. If I could have dealt with some things properly at the time, I might not have ended up like this. .”

Since Wen Changxing had gone through trouble twice and suffered losses twice, he should have understood something. The emperor on earth should do what the emperor on earth should do.

Let Wen Changxing govern the states and counties of the Southern Dynasties well, and then assist her in fulfilling her duties as the Lord of the Gods of Mountains, Rivers and Earth.

As for other things, look at Wen Changxing's appearance.

Mr. Linghua didn’t think too much about it.

Halfway through, someone immediately caught up with him and reported the matter.

"National Preceptor, Your Majesty has sent someone to see you. It seems that you have an urgent message to deliver to the Imperial Preceptor."

The people nearby who were preparing to worship the gods also heard it, and they all started talking. They thought it was a bit strange that Lord Linghua, the national master, suddenly wanted the entire Yunzhong Palace Temple to hold a ceremony to worship the gods. At this time, they heard that the emperor Wen Changxing, who had just left Beijing, sent someone

When I came to deliver the letter, I was even more surprised.
To be continued...