Prologue
PS: In order not to cause misunderstandings between the two protagonists, a paragraph was deleted from the prologue.
On the third day of the seventh month of the 19th year of Wanlie, Leng Muya, the Imperial Sky Supervisor, looked at the celestial phenomena and was frightened. He had been following the former Imperial Sky Supervisor, Shui Xintao, for no less than forty years, but he had never seen such a strange landscape. Near the Purple Star in the north, a star that was originally dim suddenly fell, turned into a meteor, crossing the entire sky, and falling straight to the east. Just as he was calculating the reason, he was stunned to find that there was another dazzling star in his original position. This sudden change caught him off guard. However, everything was not over. A similar bright star appeared in the originally messy eastern sky. The two stars complemented each other, embellishing the night sky extremely strangely.
The stars in the sky were shrouded in a silver-white light. The stars that were originally quite dazzling next to the Ziwei of Emperor Star seemed to be completely restrained. The twenty-eight constellations, which represent the intention of the servant, also lost their former glory. At this moment, the vast starry sky belonged only to the two strange bright stars that appeared out of thin air.
"The celestial phenomena are in chaos, the celestial phenomena are in chaos!" Leng Muya kept murmuring to himself. After a while, he could no longer hold it back and spurted out a mouthful of blood. He knew that he had suffered a considerable internal injury when he tried to break through this nameless secret. He sat down slowly with his chest against the wall, and his heart was filled with endless depression. Could it be that he really didn't know what it predicted? Then what should he, the Imperial Heaven Supervisor, do? Thinking of the great emperor's kindness he suffered
, He finally made up his mind. Leng Muya bit his finger and drew it on the ground with the blood. The degree of obsession and fanaticism seemed to have returned to the day when he first learned the astrological sign in his childhood. After a long time, he raised his head blankly, without results, and such a long period of calculations did not work. With a tragic smile, Leng Muya knew that it was impossible for him to understand the unknown. He inadvertently glanced at the sky again, and his pupils shrank violently.
"Impossible!" His shrill cry pierced the night sky. The strange scene just now was gone. What a bright star, everything was still as ordinary as I saw before. If it weren't for the astrological map on the ground, he would have doubted whether he was crazy. "Why, why did I let me see these, God, why do you tease me?" After a heart-wrenching shout, Leng Muya finally fainted.
The news of the Imperial Heaven Superintendent's madness overnight really caused a sensation in the capital. However, as the emperor appointed a new supervisor, the matter calmed down. The courtiers naturally would not bet too much about the madness of a small fifth-rank official. Moreover, the new supervisor did not report any astrological abnormalities. These big figures quickly put this matter behind their minds, and the emperor gradually forgot about the middle-aged man named Leng Muya. After all, he still had too many things to worry about. Only a madman was added on the streets of the capital.
"Demon Star, I saw the Demon Star!" Leng Muya, in ragged clothes, looked dull and walked on the street. Behind him, a group of naughty children were following, constantly throwing stones and various rotten vegetables at the madman. The adults silently stared at the person who had looked up with a complex look of sympathy, pity and contempt. They didn't know that this person had seen the spectacular that was about to affect the dynasty for the rest of his life.
The scene will be widely sung by later generations, and the name Leng Muya will always leave a brilliant stroke in the history books. But at this time, he was just an ordinary madman. Although the astrological wonders in that moment were not only seen by Leng Muya, most ordinary people deceived themselves by the grounds of dazzling eyes, while most hermits or outsiders kept silent about it. High officials and nobles rarely used to watch stars in the middle of the night, so this matter was obscured in time.
Ming Fang Zhenren, with white hair, stared at the strange scene in the sky and sighed long. Since he was young, he has liked to look up at the starry sky and listened to his master telling one mysterious story after another. After growing up, although he was extremely talented, he has learned most of the Taoist techniques of Luoying Sect, but he only has a special liking for this stargazing technique that can see through the secrets of heaven, which is also fate.
He smiled and slowly turned around. There was a record of "demon stars appear, the world changes" in the classics passed down from ancient times. The habit of watching stars by the leaders of all generations came from this. However, Zhenren Ming Fang did not believe in such a mysterious thing, but at this moment, the wonder seemed to be present in front of him, and he could not believe it. However, with God's will, what else can he do?
"Master!" A thick voice came from behind, "It's so late, aren't you sleeping yet?"
Even if he didn't look back, Ming Fang Zhenren knew that it was his eldest disciple Yan Xiu. He was lazy by nature, and the Luoying Sect had high requirements for inheriting the Taoist dynasty, so he did not find Yan Xiu until he was 60 years old. The scene at that time was still unforgettable. The village that turned into ruins, the bodies of corpses with eyes closed, and the boy hiding in the corner of the wall that was still blasting with thick smoke. A tragedy on earth made his strong and hard-to-break heart appear in his strong heart. He was truly angry when he was always peaceful. In the thirteenth year of Wanlie, there were neither military disasters nor thieves. In the prosperous era of harvest in the world, who dared to take the world's greatest danger and not violate such a crime?
From the boy's mouth, Ming Fang Zhenren learned the truth intermittently, just because the people in this village were unwilling to pay the three-point increase in fire consumption by the prefect of the Nalanzhou Prefecture, and for this, they had a conflict with the tax collectors and injured three soldiers. The cruel and ruthless prefect Qian Mu actually imposed the crime of colluding with bandits on the heads of the whole village and ordered the slaughter of the village. The boy escaped the disaster because he hid under the bed at that time, but his relatives had been killed.
The furious Ming Fang Zhenren broke into Lanzhou Prefecture without saying a word, and angrily criticized Qian Mucao for his atrocities of resenting human lives. Qian Mu, who was angry, denied the matter and accused him of accusing the imperial court of apology and ordered him to be arrested in prison. Seeing this, Ming Fang Zhenren said lightly, "Be careful of the Nine Thunder Heavenly Condemnation" and floated away, no one could stop him.
That night, Tianlei razed the Lanzhou government yamen to the ground. The ruling Qian Muhe, who was usually evil, were all struck to death by lightning. The bodies were charred and difficult to tell, while some minor officials with good reputations were safe and sound. Then, Lanzhou, which had always been rainy for a few days, rose three feet, and this incident shocked the entire court and the people were also talking. In the end, the emperor, who knew it, suppressed the matter, but Tianlei's warning still made many officials restrain a lot.
"If the variables that the demon star can bring can make the people of the world live and work in peace, then I would rather lose my Taoist practice in the past few decades and re-enter the world!" Ming Fang Zhenren's eyes, which were dull just now, suddenly burst into sharp light, and he cut off the railway.
Chapter completed!