Eternal Immortal Clan: It All Started When I Married My Junior Sister!

95: Three years later, the demon army pressed in!In the blink of an eye, three years had passed.

Over these three years, under Chen Xu’s iron fist and the benevolent rule of the new emperor, Qin Zhe, the Great Feng Dynasty was no longer the tattered mess it once was.

Within the capital, merchants came and went, and traffic flowed like a river.

The common people, who had been displaced by war, now wore stable smiles on their faces.

In the teahouses in the streets and alleys, the storytellers’ favorite tales were no longer the romantic exploits of princes and generals.

Instead, they spoke of the elusive Imperial Preceptor, who, three years prior, had turned the tide at the Heaven-Reaching Altar, saving an entire city’s population.

Whenever the story reached the part where the Imperial Preceptor settled the world with a single sword stroke, deposing Prince Yu and establishing the new emperor, the audience below would applaud enthusiastically.

They were filled with awe and gratitude for the Imperial Preceptor they had never met.

And the Chen Family, too, during these three years,

had completely grown into an unshakeable towering tree of the Great Feng Dynasty.

Chen Daoxuan and other Chen Family disciples held high positions, yet remained incorruptible and self-disciplined.

They managed the imperial court with meticulous order.

Within the Family, the population flourished; Bu Yifan, Su Xiaoyue, and several other wives and concubines had given birth to several Qilin children for Chen Xu over the three years, adding to the Chen Family’s lineage.

Chen Xu’s cultivation had also become increasingly unfathomable after three years of tempering.

The Aura around him had long since returned to its original simplicity, with not a trace leaking out.

To ordinary people, he appeared like a common scholar in green robes, gentle as jade.

But only by truly standing before him could one feel that boundless, ocean-like pressure,

a terrifying might that seemed capable of devouring heaven and earth.

His cultivation Realm still remained at the Peak of Early Golden Core Stage.

But this was merely a disguise of the Grandmist Golden Core.

His true strength had long since reached Golden Core Peak.

However, just as the Great Feng Dynasty was flourishing,

the dark clouds in the north grew increasingly heavy.

The Four Demonic Path Sects, which Chen Xu had glimpsed in Heavenly Corpse Venerable’s memories, revealed their ferocious fangs after years of dormancy.

The war in the northern borders intensified.

On this day, in the Golden Imperial Hall,

the new emperor, Qin Zhe, wearing a Dragon robe, sat upon the Dragon throne.

Three years of imperial life had long since stripped him of his former weakness and sickness.

Between his brows was a steady composure that commanded respect without anger.

Below, the civil and military officials, led by Chen Ping, stood solemnly.

They were orderly reporting on various government affairs.

The entire court was solemn.

Just at this moment!

”Report—!!”

A shout suddenly came from outside the hall, breaking the tranquility of the court.

Everyone was startled and looked towards the hall entrance.

A messenger, covered in blood and with shattered armor, stumbled and crawled in.

Each step left a bloody footprint on the polished golden bricks.

He rushed to the center of the great hall, then could no longer support himself and collapsed to his knees.

”North... 800-li urgent bloody report from the northern border!!”

The messenger raised a blood-stained face and roared hoarsely.

”Blackwater Pass... is broken!”

”Yanmen Pass... is also broken!”

”The Divine Strategy Three Passes... completely lost!”

”Marquis Zhenbei led a hundred thousand strong army... defeated! The Marquis... he, the old man, is severely wounded and is being desperately escorted by the remaining troops, currently besieged by a million Demon Army at Heavenly Wolf Pass!”

”Heavenly Wolf Pass... is in mortal peril! The northern border... is in mortal peril!”

”I implore Your Majesty... quickly send reinforcements!!”

After speaking the last sentence, the messenger could no longer hold on.

He tilted his head and fainted directly.

Boom!!!

The news was like a thunderbolt from the Nine Heavens, exploding in the silent Golden Imperial Hall!

The entire court of civil and military officials erupted in an uproar!

”What?!”

”Blackwater, Yanmen, and Divine Strategy Three Passes are our Great Feng Dynasty’s northern barrier, how could they all fall overnight?”