Chapter 2044: The Rise and Fall, as Expected

Time goes back to when Guo Jia and others jumped into the unfathomable pit.

Guo Jia and others found that they were pressed by a strange sense of oppression. Although they were not injured, they were very depressed and uncomfortable, as if they were walking in a narrow path.

I don’t know how long it took, there was a strange feeling of reversal, and the next moment Guo Jia and others felt as if they had passed through the narrow path and came to a huge space.

As soon as they opened their eyes, they saw the auspicious golden sky.

In the air, there was also a huge tree-shaped shadow slowly dissipating...

They returned to Shenzhou!

"Swoosh!~~~~" After that, they felt and found themselves falling from mid-air.

Adjusting their body shape, they landed easily.

"Are you all Lin Mubo's soldiers?" At this moment, a majestic voice sounded in everyone's ears.

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a middle-aged man with a woman dressed as a lady standing not far away.

The man who spoke was wearing a golden costume with a red dragon embroidered on it, a crown with beads on his head, and golden shoes on his feet. Although he was a little fat, his strange aura made Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai dare not look down on him.

No need to ask, everyone knows that this man is the supreme emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Hong!!

"Your Majesty!" Whether it was Guo Jia, Xun You, Dian Wei, Huang Zhong, etc., they all knelt on one knee and saluted him willingly.

At this moment, they were the soldiers of the Han Dynasty who had returned victorious from the expedition, and they had to kneel down and kowtow, not bow in the temple.

Liu Hong looked at everyone kneeling on one knee, but did not immediately ask them to stand up. Instead, he raised his eyebrows slightly and observed carefully. When he saw a person, he was slightly startled: "Gongda, I didn't expect you to be here too."

"Your Majesty, the General of the Eastern Expedition went to a foreign country. Because he lacked a military advisor, he invited me to join the army temporarily for the sake of your majesty's great cause." Xun You immediately responded respectfully.

"Oh... only you were called? Where is Xun Wenruo?" Liu Hong smiled meaningfully and asked casually.

When the General of the Eastern Expedition went to war, he could recruit the governors of various counties or even the soldiers of the government. It was normal for Xun You, who was a governor of a county, to recruit him.

In wartime, there was even the right to dismiss and kill the governor.

"General of the Eastern Expedition Lin Mu also visited Wenruo, but he refused." Xun You shook his head regretfully.

There was a trace that Lin Mu went to the Xun family. Liu Hong actually knew about this situation, so Xun You's words also confirmed this situation.

"Rejected too? Haha..." Liu Hong smiled playfully.

Compared with Xun You's calmness and modesty, Xun Yu, in addition to being somewhat modest, seemed more aloof and indifferent, like a cold and arrogant academic master. For Liu Hong, he didn't like Xun Yu very much, but he had a good impression of Xun You.

"Bingzhou is long and far away, poor and bad, are you not adapting to being there?" Liu Hong only greeted Xun You, as if other people were not important.

In fact, he had not seen other people much, and they were not the children of a great aristocratic family. He was the emperor, so why should he care...

While Liu Hong and Xun You were talking, Guo Jia, Taishi Ci and others not only restrained their breath, but also observed the current emperor.

In the past, they had only heard about Liu Hong and had never met him. This was their first time seeing the emperor.

"Isn't Chilong here?" After observing for a while, Guo Jia lowered his head, and a hint of doubt emerged in his heart. Then he looked at Xi Zhicai next to him.

The two actually had some speculations about this mysterious space, and even predicted the benefits that the Han Dynasty would gain after the veins of gods and demons entered Shenzhou.

Now, there are only the emperor Liu Hong and the noble lady.

The noble lady should be the current queen mother, not the queen. Generally, the queen and concubines will not appear or participate in such occasions, and only the queen mother, as the mother of the emperor, may appear.

"Swish!~~~"

"Bang!~~~"

After that, soldiers kept falling from the air, and tens of thousands of soldiers returned safely.

If there is no resurrection in this trip to heaven (soldiers killed in heaven can still be resurrected, and the resurrection rules of heaven are more active.), the losses of the Great Wilderness Territory must be very heavy, after all, those are the elite of the elite.

"Yes, it is an elite division!" Suddenly, a voice of praise shook out from the air.

In an instant, the golden auspicious light in the sky shook wildly.

"Yin!~~~~" A strange dragon roar shook open.

Everyone looked up, and at some point, a huge red dragon of unknown size was rolling in the auspicious clouds!

This... should be the guardian beast of the Han Dynasty, the red dragon!!!

Unlike the red dragon that appeared in the previous battle of Luoyang, it was now full of vigor and vitality, as if it had lost its old age.

"Buzz!!!!" After rolling for a while, the huge dragon head suddenly emerged from the clouds and rushed straight to the earth.

"Bang!!!" After a loud noise, the earth was filled with a golden mist. When it dissipated, an old man suddenly appeared with two children.

Ordinary soldiers could not see it, but Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai, Xun You and other military advisors with special skills saw a different scene:

The strange giant tree that had disappeared in the sky turned into a strange shadow, covering the two children.

Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai shook their bodies imperceptibly at the same time: "That special opportunity was split into two!"

These two children, no need to guess, are the only two princes in the world.

"What a pity..." Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai looked at each other again, shaking their heads to express regret.

After that, the two of them lowered their heads and looked at the emperor and the queen mother, and they had already guessed what was going on.

"Where is that senior?" Liu Hong hurried over and asked in a low voice after seeing Chilong and Liu Bian and the others coming back.

"The senior didn't want to see these people, so he just left." Chilong responded in a concentrated voice. At this moment, the old man who was transformed by Chilong, his pupils recovered, and the hideous scars on his face seemed to disappear...

Liu Hong said to Liu Bian and Liu Xie with regret: "You missed an opportunity in your life."

A hint of helplessness appeared in his eyes, and that sentence was actually said to himself.

The two princes were confused and didn't know what opportunity they missed.

The national guardian beast was restored, the prince won the opportunity, and the dragon luck increased so much, why didn't they catch the eye of that person?

"Your Majesty, before he left, he asked Lao Long to tell you a message: 'Within a year, the ancestral veins will enter Shenzhou. It is a blessing and a disaster. Take care of yourself.'"

Liu Hong frowned when he heard this: "It's still a disaster? What's going on?"

Although the Liu Dynasty has been passed down for hundreds of years and has accumulated countless secrets, there are not many things about the ancestral veins.

"I don't know the specific situation. If I want to ask more, the senior has left."

Liu Hong's heart jumped when he heard this. He always felt that something bad happened in Shenzhou.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion had accumulated some family assets, but the current Xiliang Rebellion has been constantly consuming the family assets. In addition, with the construction of the Xiyuan Army, there is not much money left. If there are any monsters and demons appear, it will be even more difficult.

"Could it be Lin Mu?" Liu Hong didn't know why, and the figure of Lin Mu suddenly flashed in his mind.

Lin Mu, who was in the American area, didn't know if he would sneeze at this moment, because Liu Hong was thinking about him, and he was innocently shot.

The spirit of Mount Tai did not expect that Liu Hong's brain hole actually connected to people, even Lin Mu.

The ancestral vein is the vein of heaven and earth. To integrate into Shenzhou, one must absorb the essence of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon. At the beginning, it is absorption, and then it is feeding back. This is in line with the rules of the rotation of heaven and earth. The spirit of Mount Tai asked him to pay attention to the changes in the earth to prevent civil unrest. This suspicious and self-willed guy directly involved Lin Mu.

There is even a more alienating detail: Liu Hong and Chilong did not ask about Lin Mu's situation from beginning to end!

Instead, when they felt bad, Lin Mu's figure appeared and they wanted to suppress him.

"Maybe I have to suppress him after this triumph." Liu Hong made a secret decision in his heart.

Afterwards, Liu Hong encouraged the soldiers on the surface and let them go. Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai, Huang Zhong, Taishi Ci and other peerless generals did not cause him a ripple...

And Xun You was called over by Liu Hong alone.

After a night, Xun You walked out of the hall with a tired face. Without resting, he rushed directly to a temporary barracks outside the palace, where Guo Jia, Huang Zhong and others were temporarily placed.

This barracks is close to the West Garden, but it has been neglected for a long time. Many infrastructures are very old, and even the houses where soldiers rest are so old that they seem to collapse at any time.

Xun You walked along the way and just glanced at the barracks casually. Anyway, it was just a temporary residence, and the conditions were not important.

However, from another perspective, it can be seen that Liu Hong did not seem to attach importance to these meritorious officials...

Not attaching importance means...suppression!

"It is a great achievement, but he did not even do the superficial work. It is really chilling, alas!" Xun You murmured as he walked, and shook his head repeatedly.

Soon, he came to the meeting hall of the barracks.

When he walked into the hall, a strong smell of wine and meat came to his nose.

At this moment, Guo Jia and others were sitting in the hall, eating meat and drinking wine.

In addition to them, other soldiers in the barracks also drank and ate meat, but they did not make a fuss. Instead, they enjoyed the joy and peace of the moment in a low-key manner.

"Gongda is back... Come, drink! Drink!" Guo Jia was very proud at this moment, his face flushed.

"Tsk tsk, this is the good wine robbed from the city of Heaven. It's called [Heavenly Wine]. It's a heavenly wine. This is the good wine I left behind." Yu Jin raised his glass, and after a look of satisfaction appeared on his face, he drank it.

"Yes, Wen Ze and the others robbed a total of 60 barrels of this wine, handed over 55 barrels, and the remaining five barrels, we will enjoy it during this time."

These good wines were collected from Michael's city.

According to the rules of the Great Wilderness Territory, the soldiers can have the right to share part of the spoils, and Yu Jin did not want other items, but asked for five barrels of [Heavenly Wine].

Unlike strong liquor, this kind of wine is more mellow and has a different taste in the heart.

Xun You came to Guo Jia, and he drank the wine glass he handed over. Then he said gloomily: "This is no different from killing the donkey after it has done its job... It's ridiculous."

"Haha... I expected it. The lord said long ago that if he is a wise leader, we will continue to assist him. If not, we will make the world prosperous." Guo Jia laughed. After drinking, he seemed to have lost his wisdom and was as heroic as a hero.

In fact, everyone saw Xun You's expression and knew that there was bad news on this trip, but no one asked further. They all drank and ate meat, and the whole hall was cheerful and harmonious.

"Did our real plan succeed?" Xi Zhicai asked.

"As expected."