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Lou Lan's Palace.

Dan Yu Wu returned with her two children. Helian Shan placed the children at Xing Qing Palace and found a few wet nurses. He told them to take good care of the little prince and princess.

"Your Majesty, your highness and princess can leave it to this old servant. This old servant will definitely take good care of them." Zhao Chengde looked at the infant that was still in its cradle, and his old face actually looked like he was about to cry.

"Yes, tomorrow I will be leaving for Red Mountain City alone. I'll leave the child in the care of you and the Vermillion Bird. If you have any other questions, please ask for Yu Wu." Helian Lie held a child in each hand. Looking at their lovely sleeping appearance, his heart was filled with pain.

Back then, he had actually suspected that they were not his flesh and blood, and he had even forcefully forced Cen Xue to drink the birth control medicine. Luckily, that day, Yu Wu's arrival had stopped this tragedy.

He had no time to stay here with them. He had been leaving with the army for three days, and if he hadn't been waiting for the child to return, he would have personally led the army to assist them three days ago.

As the ruler of a country, he could not stay in the palace to enjoy the blessings of peace. The situation in Red Mountain City in the southeast was the most dangerous, so he should hurry to Red Mountain City as soon as possible.

"Vermillion Bird, stay in the palace. I alone want you to protect the little prince and Princess Ming Zhu day and night!" Helian Zhang was worried that someone would harbor malicious intent and take advantage of his absence to attack his two children.

"This subordinate obeys the decree and will definitely protect him from every inch of the way!" The Vermillion Bird kneeled down and said.

"Good …" Remember your words. If you can't do it, don't blame Gu Wuqing! " Helian Zhang took one last look at the infant in the nurse's hand before leaving in a hurry.

"Respectfully sending off your majesty, I wish your majesty a triumphant return!" The servants behind him all kneeled down.

Helian Shan handed over the country's capital to the old Prime Minister, Duo Xiong, and took the Azure Dragon, Black Turtle, and ten Dark Guards to the Red Mountain City.

At this time, Helian Jue had already traveled more than half the distance. In three days, the army would arrive at Red Mountain City.

Ever since the last time that Xing Ao Tian's army had failed to attack Red Mountain City, he hadn't moved an inch, waiting for the army of Dong Wu to gather.

Nangong Lie was the great general while Nangong Jin was the deputy general. The father and son duo both went up to the battlefield. However, the Nangong father and son did not let the army meet up overnight.

"General Minamiya, your speed seems to be a bit slow, right?" Xing AoTian angrily glared at his father and son. If they had arrived three days ago, they wouldn't have suffered such heavy casualties.

"Your Majesty, you don't understand the rugged terrain on the mountain path from Dong Wu to Lou Lan. That's why we were delayed for a few days when we arrived." Nan Gong Lie brought his son into his tent, and said politely.

Long before the Dongwu army left, Nangong Jin had already sent someone to come to Red Mountain City and ask for news. Therefore, every move of Xing Ao Tian was in our hands.

He had deliberately delayed the situation so that Xing Ao Tian could take the lead in launching an attack and find out just what was going on in Lou Lan's country.

From this conclusion, although there were only 20,000 soldiers stationed in Red Mountain City, the army, food, equipment, and gunpowder were all very plentiful. Wanting to take over Red Mountain City in a single breath wasn't that easy.

Red Mountain City was equivalent to the gateway of Lou Lan's country. Breaking through this gate would not be an easy task. Otherwise, how could Lou Lan not be worried?

"Hmph …" Xing Ao Tian coldly snorted. It seemed like he completely disagreed with what the Nangong father and son said.

The mountain roads were rugged, and it was a huge joke. What kind of relationship did Dong Wu Country have with Lou Lan? Could it be that Xing AoTian was blind?

"Let's not talk too much. We should discuss how to attack the city. Since Lou Lan's reinforcements have yet to arrive, we should make use of this opportunity." Xing Ao Tian looked at the cunning father and son pair. In truth, his meaning was very simple, he wanted the Eastern Wugou army to attack the city.

How could Nangong Lie not know what he meant? Since they wanted to attack the city, they had to send out troops from both sides. How could they let the Eastern Wu Country send out troops this time?

"This is indeed a good opportunity, may I ask what ideas you have?" Nangong Lie deliberately asked.

Xing Ao took up a jug of wine and ordered the rest of the people in the tent to leave, leaving behind only the Nangong father and son duo to have a private discussion with each other.

The three of them were cunning foxes, and it was unknown what kind of schemes they would come up with to deal with Lou Lan.

Everlasting Mountain...

The night breeze gently blew into the room. Ever since Helian Qi brought the Phoenix back from the blood pool yesterday, he had been in a coma. Even after inviting the Ghost Valley, she was unable to find the slightest flaw.

"Phoenix, when will you wake up?" Mu Yue sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her worriedly.

She had been in a coma for such a long time, so why hadn't she woken up yet? Her heart was in turmoil because of this. As long as she didn't wake up, her heart would never be at peace.

Sigh … Sighing silently, Mu Yue could only constantly stay by her side.

"Li …" Where are you, son? "Where's the child …" Mu Yue leaned powerlessly against the bed. Just as she was about to close her eyes to rest, she heard the phoenix shout something?

She looked at Phoenix who was still lying on the bed. Her eyes were tightly shut, but her mouth seemed to be mumbling something?

"Phoenix, Phoenix, quickly wake up, I'm Elder Mu Yue!" Mu Yue shook her body as she called out her name by her ear.

"Elder Mu Yue …" The unconscious Phoenix seemed to have heard Elder Mu Yue's shout and also whispered her name.

"Phoenix … "Phoenix …" Mu Yue didn't stop and continued to call out to her.

Looking at Elder Mu Yue who was sitting on the side of the bed, she immediately sat up, her eyes filled with surprise and excitement, as if time had stopped at this moment. After a long while, Phoenix opened her mouth and said, "Elder Mu Yue, I'm not Phoenix, I'm Cen Xue."

Mu Yue looked at the face that she was most familiar with, but her eyes told her that even though the person in front of her had the exact same appearance as Phoenix, she was definitely not the Phoenix that she had watched grow up.

"Really? Are you really that little girl Cen Xue?" Mu Yue asked again in disbelief.

"En, I am Cen Xue. Do you still remember that dream? It is the book that is actually helping me, helping me carry what I am about to tell you into your dreams. " At this moment, there were two people's souls within the phoenix's body. However, the phoenix's soul had been temporarily sealed with mana. Once Cen Xue's soul left the body, the seal would naturally be removed.

If her corpse was placed in a forbidden area, it would make the books at the bottom of the blood pool sense the Nuwa blood essence within her body. Even though Cen Xue's body had already died, the Nuwa blood essence would never be reborn, which was why Cen Xue had a chance of being reborn!

"There is one more thing I do not understand. Why did you allow your body to soak in the blood pool for forty-nine days?" This pool of blood was not some ordinary pool water. With the condensed spirit energy from the blood of the Sacred Moon Sect's High Priestess, if it accidentally fell into the pool water, it would be devoured by the spirit energy and completely disappear from this world.

Cen Xue lowered her head to look at herself. Even though she wasn't used to it, she had a body.

"Actually, I'm not too clear about this issue either. It's just that I feel that there is a power controlling my thoughts, allowing me to clearly know what to do. Simply speaking, perhaps because my body has already died, it will definitely not be easy for me to be revived and come back to life again. I will need sufficient spirit energy to recover, and the large amount of spirit energy in the blood pool is enough for me to repair myself, so I need to become stronger! " Cen Xue herself didn't explain it too clearly, but it should be like that.

After listening to her explanation, Mu Yue roughly understood what was going on. Since her body was already dead, and required spirit energy to replenish her true essence, and the blood pool was filled with the spirit energy of the Sacred Moon Sect's High Priestess, then Cen Xue's body would be soaked in the spirit energy for forty-nine days.

"This old man understands all of this. As expected of the ancient divine scripture, its power is truly limitless!" Mu Yue held her hand. When the 49th day arrived, she would truly come back to life.

Thinking of this, Mu Yue couldn't help but think of the king. If the king knew about this, the most excited person would be the king, right?

"This matter is too unimaginable, so Cen Xue wanted to ask you to temporarily not inform anyone about it, especially the King." Cen Xue wanted to surprise him while at the same time, she wanted to use her identity as Phoenix to test him.

"This... "Fine!" Mu Yue didn't understand why she didn't want to tell the king about this. If the king knew about this, he would definitely be very happy.

However, looking at the emotions in her eyes, Mu Yue roughly guessed why she was doing this.

The next day, when Cen Xue appeared in front of Helian Qi as a phoenix, he could not believe that such an unbelievable thing existed in this world.

"It is truly a blessing for me, Lou Lan, to have the Queen bring the dead back to life!" Helian Qi's phoenix eyes were fixed on Cen Xue's face.

His body belonged to a phoenix, so naturally his face belonged to a phoenix as well. No matter how he looked at it, he could not see any trace of doubt.

"I'll be counting on Your Highness's blessings. Tomorrow, Prince Yu's army will pass through Everlasting Mountain. At that time, I want to go down the mountain and follow the army to Red Mountain City!" In any case, she had the face of a phoenix, so she definitely would not be found out.

"That won't do. Right now, there's a war going on in Red Mountain City. How can you go there?" As soon as Mu Yue heard her plan, she was the first to oppose it.

"Elder Mu Yue is right, the Empress should stay in the sect with peace of mind." Helian Qi agreed with Mu Yue's opinion. He did not dare to forget the words that his brother Wang had told him.

"You don't need to say that. I've already decided to use my identity as the Holy Maiden of the Sacred Moon Sect to head to Red Mountain City. If you're really doing this for my own good, then don't stop me from making this decision." Cen Xue was very decisive. She had to go on this trip.

Mu Yue didn't know how to persuade her, but looking at the resolution in her eyes, it seemed that she had already made up her mind to go.