Tai sui

At that time, there were actually several concubines who were implicated in the downfall of the Li family, but they were all gone, and they had no offspring—some of them never gave birth at all, and some of their mothers died of shock and shock after accidents.

Only the Empress Dowager Zhang, who stayed in the cold palace for most of her life, retained her honor strangely. Once her son succeeded to the throne, she regained her glory.

"I've always wondered why the late emperor didn't just kill her?"

In the cold wind and snow at the top of Feiqiong Peak, Zhi Xiu rebuilt the hut that was easily crushed by the snow and placed it next to Xi Yue's resting place.

The outer shell is made casually, and the inside is mustard seeds. There is no light, cold or heat in the mustard seeds. After many years, the furnishings have not changed, and the teapot seems to be still warm.

Xi Ping proficiently poked two times into the extinguished fire, then casually took out a small wooden cabinet next to it, and sure enough, he took out a handful of 14-year-old chestnuts.It was still fresh, so he buried the chestnuts in the sparkling embers, sat on the ground, and talked about bandits and rebels on the stage.

"Anyway, Xuanyin Mountain is in our hands, and we have a map. If Lao Pang really can't hold back the Tianji Pavilion under his command, he can ban the spirits of the whole country. So if it's me, I want to spread the news as quickly and directly as possible. , it must be the South Mine that is connected to the Land of Chaos—who in their department is in the South Mine?"

Zhou Ying didn't pick on his gift, stepped over his stretched legs, and replied, "Yao Ziming."

Xi Ping frowned when he heard the words: "The queen's younger brother? What about their father, Master Yao, don't you care?"

"Master Yao passed away three or four years ago."

No wonder.

When Xi Ping was young, he heard all kinds of anecdotes about Tai Shi Ling Master Yao, and felt that this sad old man was not in his right mind and always thought that others were trying to harm him.Now that he has reached his age, he realizes that Mr. Yao is not thinking too much. The elders do have their own reasons. Takagi" was no luck.If it was the Third Highness who succeeded to the throne and the crown prince was deposed, then that's fine, otherwise, they are called in-laws, but they are actually a disgrace to the Zhang family.

Not only would those nobles from the old family not take them seriously, but they might still harbor hidden malice in their hearts.

The Yao family siblings are still messing with them. It's true that their hometown is gone, and no one understands them.

Xi Ping thought for a while, stretched out his hand and pinched "Wen Tian", a spiritual energy hit it, and formed the two characters "Hurry Up", flying southward... It depends on Yao Qi's fate whether he listens or not.

Zhixiu's spiritual sense swept around the Xuanyin Mountains, confirmed that the lives of Su Zhunluo Qingshi and others in Qianxiu Temple were safe, and forced the foundation builders who were affected by the "Tianyu" into meditation, so that they could calm down and settle down. The little disciple who established the foundation repaired the main hall of the main peak, and asked about the damage to the Moon Peak.

After taking care of the trivial matters, he came in. When he saw the rebel sitting or not, his eyelids twitched slightly——Zhixiu himself was usually quite casual, but no matter what, there were outsiders, so when he passed by Xi Ping, he calmly gave Give him a kick: "serve tea."

Xi Ping didn't budge: "Master, our tea leaves are from the previous dynasty, and they are about to become fine. It would be cruel to drink them."

Zhixiu: "..."

Only you have a mouth.

"Feiqiongfeng'Fairyland Ice Dew' is enough. If you're thirsty, go out and dig a spoonful. What kind of tea should you serve? That's a red tape invented by ordinary fools to prevent embarrassment when they have nothing to say. How do we talk next, who really wants to drink water?" Xi Ping said lazily, "His Royal Highness Zhuang, does Qingjingdao also know how to be embarrassed?"

Called "Third Brother", Zhou Ying nodded lightly, and called "His Royal Highness Zhuang Wang", but he did not see any special reaction.

Zhou Ying glanced at Xi Ping, ignored the faint provocation in his voice, turned to Zhi Xiu and said, "General Zhi, what do you want to tell me?"

"Don't dare," Zhi Xiuke said politely, "It's just that I practice swordsmanship, and I'm not good at miscellaneous knowledge. I just checked Jinping. I saw the queen mother commit suicide, Guangyun Palace was in chaos, and the other party didn't know what secret method was used. I can no longer track down your majesty." s position."

"Let's be chaotic in the palace. General Zhi doesn't have to worry about people's livelihood." Zhou Ying knew what he cared about. Each has its own system, so you don’t need to ask Jinping for everything. As long as the supply of spirit stones is available, the Enlightenment Departments from all over the country will watch over the internal affairs and they will be able to handle them in a while. If there are some major issues that are difficult to decide, Xuanyin Mountain can directly cross Guangyun Palace, order Kaiming Division and Tianji Pavilion, don't worry, there won't be too many."

Xi Ping interjected and asked, "Although there is no doubt whether he is there or not, but... just let him run away like this?"

Zhou Ying nodded: "He is just a mortal, and his surname is Zhou no matter what. Once the Queen Mother dies, Li Zhang Yunei will save his life at most, and will not take him too seriously. Heaven still has a front line, and it is ominous to kill everything."

Xi Ping: "Your Highness, would you like to try translating into adult language?"

Zhi Xiu felt that his attitude was getting worse and worse: "Shi Yong."

Xi Ping made a not-so-sincere gesture of closing his mouth.

As soon as Zhou Ying stretched out her hand, the hand turned into a cloud of mist and scattered in the air without a trace. Before anyone could see clearly, she flicked the long sleeve, and the hand grew back to its original position intact: "This is the hand that came with my spirit bone. My body, hair, skin, and any part of my body can disappear in mist. I haven't used it much before, so few people guard against it. I went to the holy mountain in front of Lingshan, and put a hair on your majesty. As a person, Zhou Huan, this time The mastermind must be the Empress Dowager Zhang, and it’s not easy to deal with him if he is brought back, so it’s better to let him go and find out about Li Zhang’s remnants.”

Zhou Ying may be the only strange monk in the world who has to take a car for the two steps from Zhuangwang's Mansion to Yongninghou's Mansion. Even Xi Ping often forgets that he can control the sword and has his own supernatural powers. ? Where did he put it? Won’t it fall? Won’t the things on his body be replaced by others?”

"Normally not," Zhou Ying thought for a while, and said quite rigorously, "It's normal for him to change his clothes when he fled, but it's unlikely that he shaved his bald head—I planted that hair into His Majesty's scalp inside."

Xi Ping: "..."

Zhixiu: "..."

Cicada, who only knows swords, and his apprentice, who knows everything but swords, have never heard of it, and they are speechless together.

Xi Ping: "It's no wonder that Zhuo Ming has been fascinated by you for a long time. Third brother, if you fall into the pure way, maybe you can create a 'bald-headed savior way'."

Zhi Xiu: "Xi Shiyong!"

Xi Ping smiled pretendingly: "Qingjing Dao is not angry, how could third brother know as much as me, right?"

He just wanted to see where the boundary of "being neither happy nor angry" was.

Zhi Xiu sighed, pretending not to notice the subtle tension between the two brothers, and only asked: "Your Highness always knew?"

"I guessed some," Zhou Ying said, "the Li family has been the first family in Dawan since ancient times, and they are centipedes, dead but not stiff. What's more, a decent place like Xuanyin Mountain has retained most of their peak chairmen. They will not really kill them all. I know that they have been waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, but I didn't expect that they would start activities under the guidance of the "Tianyu" of the same origin and Taoism as early as after Li Fengshan's death—if it wasn't for The Huawai Furnace burned the star stones on the seabed of the stars, and now I am afraid that I can't even say the word 'same source Dao Xin'."

With Zhixiu's cultivation base, he can see the magic pupil hidden in his eyes: "But you still have a lot to say."

"Yes, the sources of those haven't been found yet," Zhou Ying nodded as if not in a hurry, "The law cannot be broken, and it cannot be sealed."

Zhi Xiu looked at him for a moment, then suddenly said: "Your Highness, the natal supernatural powers of ordinary monks will mature with the maturity of their spiritual bones, which is inseparable from the monk's own experience and background. For the Dao Heart that is far from the original mind, the natal supernatural powers in the awakening period will gradually fade with the improvement of the cultivation base, and the natal magic tools will also be deformed with the predecessors."

Xi Ping, who was taking chestnuts out of the fire, was taken aback, and burned a hole in his cuff with the chestnuts from the fire.

Zhi Xiu said: "But I heard from you that your natal supernatural powers have not faded, on the contrary, they have become stronger than before foundation establishment."

Zhou Ying nodded: "Not bad."

Zhi Xiu said in a deep voice: "Your Highness's way of practicing the Pure Way is very special."

Zhou Ying: "Follow your heart and let nature take its course."

Zhi Xiu was silent for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "In this chaotic situation, only Qingjing Dao can follow his heart—since the news has been leaked, it will be a matter of time before it spreads across the four countries, and what should come will always come. Each has its own difficulties, but I’m not even thinking about it. What I’m most worried about right now is Northern Li. Fortunately, the North has been unwilling to meddle with the Southern Continent for so many years. Even if they get news, they will mostly just sit on the sidelines and may not respond quickly. .”

From Mianlong Sea to Hongjiang, the entire continent is divided into two. The northern and southern continents are actually about the same size, but the southern continent is cohabited by four countries, while the northern continent has only one country in the north.

The southern part of Beili is dominated by plains and grasslands, and there are high mountains in the northwest, separating the vast uninhabited snowfields. The Tianze River comes from the snow-capped mountains, and its downstream branches into two major tributaries, the Hongjiang River and the Xiajiang River.The land is vast and sparsely populated, and the hard and barren land is cultivated with horseshoes. The herdsmen at the foot of Beijue Mountain still continue the ancient tradition of living in no fixed place.

The northerners only maintain basic exchanges with the south, exchanging fur and crude agricultural and pasture products for cheap food and cheap industrial products.The Nine Swords of Kunlun are the best in the world, and [-]% of the "Night Returners" in the inner and outer sects are sword cultivators, and even the evil spirits are a specialty of the country-foreign folk monks dare not enter casually without contacting the corresponding people in advance.However, Jianxiu's dependence on pills and utensils is already low. The resources produced by Lingshan itself are sufficient, and they will not go all the way to Nanshu to buy them.

The moon-plated gold has been down to earth for hundreds of years, and the countries have been turned upside down in the smoky steam: the workers in Nanwan openly rebelled, and they just squeezed an enlightened division in Xuanmen, and now even the emperor is gone; Chu also has all kinds of land snakes privately raised for "worship". Once the Xiang family fails, they will immediately show their fangs and prepare to fight back; even Nanshu has accepted the transnational Tengyunjiao and grass newspapers, thinking that the products made by Wan people are high-end products, and gradually become civilized... ...although the direction of the drive is a bit off.

Only Beili remained unmoved. The common people lived a life of unchanging poverty at the foot of Kunlun Mountain, not daring to think about everything.

"Master, you want to form an alliance with Beili first, so that they will not interfere in the affairs of the Southern Continent." Xi Ping put away his ambiguity and frowned, "It's very xenophobic over there. I took people in for a walk a few times, but I couldn't get in." root."

Generally speaking, in places with vast land and few people, it would be very interesting to encounter exotic creatures occasionally, so the people of Beili are known for their generous hospitality.

But "guests" are "guests" after all. Northerners generally have broad foreheads, broad faces, and big bones. They can tell the difference from southerners at a glance. They don't understand the language. The three languages ​​of Chu, Shu, and Wan borrow words from each other. Translate, you can communicate even if you guess again.Calendar language is a completely different matter. If you don't work hard to learn it for a few years, you can't understand those bird language at all.

But Zhou Ying interjected, "I do have a connection and have been in touch with him all the time, but it's not with Kunlun, but with the Blind Wolf King of Beijue Mountain."

Zhi Xiu: "The Lost Sword?"

Zhou Ying said: "The Blind Wolf King left Kunlun because of a disagreement in his sword intent. Although he is evil, his relationship with Kunlun orthodox is far less mortal than that between good and evil in other countries. It has almost always been a semi-public existence. If the general can trust me, I can take a trip and contact Reincarnation Wood."

Xi Ping was taken aback: "Huh? Me?"

Zhou Ying: "The Blind Wolf King has an old relationship with the Marquis of Yongning, and there is a thread that Lu Wu got through him. You didn't understand it when you were young, and the Marquis probably didn't have time to mention it to you. Now that you can go back, why not?" Dare to stay in the Hou Mansion for a while longer?"

Xi Ping's expression changed a few times, and then he smiled wryly and said, "Hey, isn't it the same as when you dared not enter the Marquis Mansion for five years?"

Zhou Ying was still not irritated by him, just nodded to him, as if to mean "you understand, I won't talk about it", looked away, and said to Zhi Xiu: "Kunlun is known as the oldest spiritual mountain in the world, and Kunlun sword repair has always been As the ancestor of Taoism, I really want to see what is in the oldest place - but General Zhi, I say it is not difficult to move Bei Li to stand by and watch, sword cultivators seldom pay attention to other ways, and most of them don't bother to participate in this There is only one kind of battle, and during this period, you don't want to touch the South Mine of the Chaotic Land."

Zhi Xiu frowned.

"Lingshi is the lifeblood of Lingshan Mountain. The four countries of the South Mine share it. The Northern Li and the Land of Chaos do not border each other. They have always been sensitive to the matter of the South Mine." Zhou Ying said, "I know you have a hard time feeling about the Land of Chaos, but 200 Many years have passed, not for a while. Once the South Mine is activated, Kunlun Wanshuang will definitely go south, and you are not the only cicada-sloughing sword cultivator in the world."

Zhi Xiu seemed to be clasping something in his sleeve, and after a long time, he sighed softly: "Thank you for reminding me, I know the priorities."

The two had a brief discussion without Xi Ping interrupting, and the efficiency was very high - after all, they were neither familiar with each other nor accustomed to each other, so they had nothing to chat about.

Zhou Ying got up to say goodbye. When he got to the door, if he felt something, his spiritual sense penetrated into the mustard seeds with him, and saw that the note box, which he destroyed most of the boxes, was silent for a long time, and suddenly "lived" again, so he got out of the room. A new note said: "If Xi Shiyong is presumptuous, hit him."

Zhou Ying paused, and evaluated according to the notes for a moment: Xingchen Haidi, called his brother by his first and last names, satirized him for not knowing how to be embarrassed, not speaking human words, and even made him a "bald savior"...

So I came to the conclusion: Xi Shiyong is extremely rude.

Seeing him stop suddenly, Xi Ping, who sent him out, thought he was thinking of something again, so he leaned against the door with his hips slanted: "Does Your Highness have any orders? I'll convey them."

Zhou Ying glanced at him: the standing posture is very indecent.

Then he stretched out his hand and pointed at him.

Xi Ping: "Me? How can I..."

Before the question was finished, a talisman hit him in the chest. Even though Xi Ping was a lot taller than him, he never expected this to happen. He was hit by the talisman and took half a step back, tripping his foot on the threshold , he sat down on the spot.

I only heard Zhou Ying state the reason for doing it objectively: "You are presumptuous."

After speaking, he nodded politely, and the mist disappeared.