Behind Song Douyuan stood the Heavenly Que Realm, which was recognized as the First Divine Sect in the Northern Territory.

The Tianque Realm has always been good friends with Dayan's Purple Cloud Palace, and Wei Liufang, the true master of the Purple Cloud Palace, only took the Fifth Prince Yuan Yu under his door a few days ago and became his closed disciple.

This is a line with an obvious trajectory, although the Tianque Realm is outside the territory of Great Yan, there is no reason or excuse to meddle in Great Yan's internal affairs. But the rules on the surface and the way in the secret are never things that can go hand in hand. Just like more than half a month ago, the Tianque Realm suddenly announced that in the name of exchanging cultivation experiences, it would accept several disciples of the Ziyun Palace into its door, and as soon as such news came out, it immediately stunned those who were secretly thinking about the battle for the succession in Dayan. The battle for the heir of Dayan is intensifying, and naturally he can't wait for those disciples who went to the Tianque Realm to return from their studies and then use them for the Jin family, but such an attitude and position are enough to make subtle changes in the minds of those who are wavering - after all, such a behemoth has chosen to stand behind the Jin family, does it mean that it is the general trend to abolish the crown prince and establish the five princes?

And now, strange things have happened.

Song Douyuan in the Tianque Realm actually walked with Yuan Sleevechun, and Yuan Sleevechun opened his mouth to ask for the right to use the Tianzi-level Spirit Gathering Array in the White Horse Academy for this Song Douyuan, if the two just met in Pingshui, I'm afraid no one could believe it.

The old man named Xu Tong was obviously quite surprised that the prince and the disciples of the Tianque Realm came together, he thought slightly, and after a few breaths, he replied respectfully: "It's really not that the old man intends to embarrass His Highness, it's just that this Tianzi-level Spirit Gathering Array is the treasure of my White Horse Academy, and the operation of this array requires a special method to guide it, and this method is only known to the head of my Xu family, and the old man is really powerless, and it is difficult to help His Highness." ”

"Hmph. A mere Heaven-level Spirit Gathering Array is worth your great effort, it is really a wild place, uneducated. When the old man said this, Song Douyuan, who was standing beside Yuan Sleevechun, snorted coldly and said disdainfully.

Such words are naturally rude at all, Yuan Zhichun's heart is extraordinary and he can still maintain a calm face, but the orange-clothed girl who followed him couldn't help frowning and looking displeased.

"Then can the old hall master tell me where Commander Xu is now, and I can talk to him about the borrowing battle. Yuan Zhichun asked again, his attitude was still gentle.

"The head of the family should be in the Chixiao camp outside the city at this moment, and the prince can temporarily enter my pavilion to rest, and I will send someone to find the head of the family to return. Xu Tong hurriedly responded.

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"That girl in the orange shirt is the widow of Chu Hou back then, right?" Wei Lai stared at the scene in front of the school hall, and he also had some doubts about how Yuan Sleeve Chun and Song Douyuan came together. At this time, Chu Qi, who was following him, finally squeezed into the crowd, he came to Wei Lai's side and looked up at the orange-clothed woman standing behind Yuan Zhichun, and asked in a mocking tone.

But seeing that Wei Lai didn't pay attention to him after hearing this, Chu Qi was not discouraged, and then said: "I heard that old guy from Jiang Huanshui say, you seem to be quite interested in girls?"

"It's really good-looking, but it's a pity that she is the prince's woman......"

The seventh day of the first month was about to rise, but Wei Lai suddenly stepped away at this time, lined up the few remaining crowds in front of him, and walked straight to the door of the school hall.

"I'm going, is this going to fight for the wind and be jealous? This kid has such a short temper?" Halfway through the words, Chu Qi, who was interrupted by Wei Lai's move, was stunned in place for a while, and after reacting, he stared at the back of the young man who stepped forward, and couldn't help muttering to himself.

At this time, Wei Lai had already walked to the door of the White Horse Academy. Several halberds crossed in front of him at that time, blocking his way.

"The prince is here in person, and idlers are not allowed to enter. One of the Black Wolf Army armorers muttered.

"It's convenient for the military master, and there is something important to find the old hall owner in the next place. Wei Lai replied respectfully.

The conversation between the two reached the ears of Yuan Sleevechun and others, who were about to enter the White Horse Academy under the guidance of Xu Tong, and everyone subconsciously looked back, and when they saw Wei Lai's appearance clearly, everyone's faces changed at that time - Yuan Sleevechun's expression was surprised, Ah Cheng's eyebrows were slightly raised, and as for the Song Shizi, his face was even more stagnant, and then he became iron blue in an instant, as if he was caught in the throat by a fist-sized peach pit.

"Are you?" the old man never remembered to know Your Excellency...... Xu Tong didn't know Wei Lai's identity, he stepped forward and stared at Wei for a while, and said with a frown.

"It's not strange that the old owner doesn't recognize the juniors, but he thinks he should recognize it. Wei Lai arched his hand, and then took out the bronze medal given by Xu Yue from his arms, and stretched out his hands to present it.

Xu Tong, who caught a glimpse of this thing, stared at it, turned his head to look at Yuan Sleeve Chunyan and said: "Your Highness, this thing is the token of the Xu family, only the head of the family and the young lady each hold one, and they will not be given easily, and I also ask Your Highness to let the generals let the little brother in, and the old man will ask what is the matter." ”

Yuan Zhichun nodded when he heard this, and looked at Wei Lai's eyes filled with a heartfelt smile, it seemed that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not have the slightest bit of a problem with Wei Lai because of yesterday's incident, he stretched out his hand towards those black wolf soldiers, and said unhappily: "Wei Gongzi is my best friend, what are you doing to stop it, hurry up and invite Gongzi in." ”

When those black wolf armorers heard this, they dared to stop them in the slightest, so they hurriedly put away their blades and respectfully retreated to the sides.

Wei Lai, who had to go forward, also thanked the prince very politely, and after glancing at Ah Cheng and Song Shizi, who had a blue face and had been keeping his head down since Wei Lai appeared, Wei Lai walked up to Xu Tong and handed the token to the old man. The old man took the object, carefully looked at the situation, and then looked at Wei Laiyan and said, "This is the one in the hand of the young lady, but the son is the son of Mr. Wei, the son of Wei Lai?"

The old gentleman's age seems to be past his prime, but his brain is surprisingly bright, and when he caught a glimpse of the token, he revealed Wei Lai's identity in one word.

Wei Lai naturally didn't hide it, he nodded: "It's the junior." ”

"Then the young lady entrusted this thing to Gongzi, what do you want to tell the old man?" Xu Tong is also a person who understands, since he can reveal Wei Lai's identity through Xu Yue's token, then he should know everything about Wei Lai and Xu Yue. But the old man didn't ask too much, but asked directly about the purpose of Wei Lai's trip, which saved Wei Lai a lot of trouble.

"The owner of the tired pavilion opened the earth-level spirit gathering array in the hall for the younger generations. Since the old man is so straightforward, Wei Lai will naturally not do more hypocrisy and wrongdoing, he arched his hand towards the old man, and then said bluntly about his intentions.

"Huh?" Xu Tong was stunned when he heard this, he heard Xu Yu come to the museum yesterday to complain to him, the guy named Wei Lai didn't know what to do, and he refused the marriage contract with Xu Yue, and he was embarrassed to let Xu Yue help, and forced his friends into the Tianzi class of the White Horse Academy. Xu Tong was sleek, realizing that this was an opportunity for the Xu family to show favor to the state pastor, he laughed at Xu Yunian's complaints, and then carefully arranged the place for Sun Daren and others to go, and even stuffed the drunkard from Tiangang Mountain, who was half of his old friend, to Sun Daren and others. With the temperament of that drunkard, it is difficult for ordinary people to get benefits from him, and those friends who are stuffed into Wei Lai are treated as a favor, and whether they succeed or not depends on their own creation.

But whether it is to stuff a few students into the Tianzi class, or to give Cao Tongyun to a few people as a teacher, the bargaining chips that need to be paid for the White Horse Academy and the Xu family behind the academy are very small. And now this earth-level spirit gathering array is different, although this earth-level spirit gathering array is not as good as that heaven-level divine object, but the consumption required is also expensive, whether it is appropriate to use such a price on the young man in front of him, Xu Tong is not sure. But after all, Wei Lai was holding Xu Yue's token in his hand, and he had no reason to be embarrassed, and after being slightly stunned, the old man asked again: "Since Miss has an order, the old man will naturally obey it, but I don't know how long the son will use this spirit gathering array? ”

"Well...... this" Wei Lai heard the words and glanced sideways at the Song Shizi from the Tianque Realm behind him, he paused, and then said, "I can't say for sure." ”

"Probably, you need to use it until the Xu family master comes to open that Tianzi-level Spirit Gathering Array in the next place......"

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When these words came out, Yuan Zhichun and Song Douyuan behind Wei Lai both changed their faces, but the former quickly suppressed this sudden change in expression, while the latter made matters worse, the already ugly face became more and more iron blue with the sound of Wei Lai's words, if someone looked closely, it was not even difficult to find that the body of this prince from the Tianque realm began to tremble faintly, and the murderous intent in his eyes surged, but he was strangled by him.

Yuan Sleeve Chun on the side naturally felt the change in the person next to him, but he didn't break it, just stood quietly in place, looking at Wei Lai and Xu Tong who were talking with a smile.

Xu Tong probably didn't expect that the purpose of Wei Lai's coming was so coincidental, he was already secretly distressed by His Royal Highness the Prince's request, and Wei Lai's arrival undoubtedly deepened his distress. His eyes rolled, and he had a plan, and then said with a smile: "This is a bit unfortunate, His Royal Highness the Prince also asked the old man for the use of this Tianzi-level Spirit Gathering Array, there is only one Tianzi-level Spirit Gathering Array in my White Horse Academy, who will use it first, and I will send someone to report to the head of the family, don't embarrass the old bones?"

When Yuan Zhichun heard this, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and his gaze at the old man became a little sharper. And the Song Shizi beside him could no longer hold back the anger in his heart, and he was about to step forward. But as soon as he took a step, Yuan Zhichun stretched out his hand to stop him, and then he stared at the Tianque Realm prince with a look of resentment, and after handing a slightly calm look to the other party, he looked at Wei Lai again.

Since the death of his mother, Yuan Zhichun has to try to face the wind and rain of this world alone.

Those things will not restrain him because he is the prince of these four states, but it is precisely because of this identity that Yuan Zhichun needs to face a bigger and more urgent storm than ordinary people.

And in the process of crawling and rolling in this way, Yuan Sleeve Chun learned the first useful ability is to observe words and looks, he has to think about to guess his high father, a certain sentence said, the meaning and purpose behind a certain thing given to him, to think more and do less to say, in order to live longer in this Longxiang Palace, this is the last sentence that his mother pulled him to say before she died, Yuan Sleeve Chun kept it firmly in his heart, and also pursued it in the days to come. So the moment the old man in front of him said those words, he understood the other party's thoughts, and he just wanted to kick this ball to them, so that he could struggle out of the quagmire that he would eventually offend. This kind of behavior is very similar to many civil and military officials in the Great Yan Court, and it stands to reason that Yuan Zhichun should be surprised by this, but at this moment, the heart of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is uncontrollably angry- He is Yuan Zhichun, and he is the rightful and righteous Prince of Dayan, and the guy named Wei Lai in front of him is just a criminal minister, and he is nothing more than a grandfather who is a state pastor, but the old man in front of him kicked the ball out because he didn't want to offend the other party, which shows how worthless his Royal Highness the Prince is in the hearts of the people of Dayan.

But no matter how angry he was in his heart, on the surface, Yuan Sleevechun still put on an approachable and warm appearance.

"Brother Wei, Song Shizi is a senior disciple of the Tianque Realm, and this time I came to Ningzhou to select people with natural qualifications among the disciples of Ningzhou and send them to the Tianque Realm to practice. I know that Brother Wei understands the righteousness and will definitely understand the priorities, and I hope that Brother Wei will make it convenient, and Sleeve Spring will definitely remember Brother Xu's kindness today. Yuan Zhichun said this, but he didn't notice that Song Douyuan beside him became strange and ugly as he said this.

Of course, it was not only the Song Shizi, but also the people around him, or Ah Cheng behind him, and even the owner of the White Horse Academy who was playing the ball, all had extremely strange expressions after hearing Yuan Zhichun's righteous Ling Ran's statement. Yuan Zhichun noticed this abnormality somewhat, he thought about it carefully, but he didn't understand where he had gone wrong.

"His Royal Highness only came to this Ningxiao City yesterday, and I don't know that this villain in the mouth of the Song Shizi is here. Wei Lai looked at Yuan Zhichun with a smile, and was extremely "empathetic" to solve the doubts in his heart for His Royal Highness the Prince.

Yuan Zhichun obviously didn't expect that there was such a relationship in this, his body trembled at that time, and the look on his face became a little ugly.

Ah Cheng behind him also frowned at that time, she did know about it, but the encounter between the prince and this Song Douyuan early this morning was too coincidental, and the two talked happily all the way, so that she didn't have a chance to tell the prince about it at all.

"The old hall master doesn't have to be embarrassed, please open the earth-level spirit gathering array for me first, as for who the heaven-word level spirit gathering array will end up with, I think Commander Xu will have his own conclusion when he arrives. And Wei Lai, who said this, didn't even glance at Yuan Zhichun and Song Douyuan, turned around and walked towards the White Horse Academy.

Seeing this, the old hall owner hesitated for a while, saluted Yuan Sleevechun and his party, and called the steward to lead Yuan Sleevechun and the others into the hall to sit for a while, and then hurriedly followed Wei Lai's footsteps and went to the place where the spirit gathering array in the hall was located.

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Outside the Zhixian Building used by the White Horse Academy to meet guests, Yuan Sleevechun, who temporarily left Song Douyuan alone in the hall and came to a corner with Ah Cheng, frowned and looked at the girl in the orange shirt, frowned and asked: "Then Wei Lai actually had a bad relationship with the disciples of this Tianque Realm, why didn't you mention such an important matter to me?"

The girl lowered her head and said: "After His Royal Highness came to Ningxiao City yesterday, he first met with Wei Gongzi, and then had a secret meeting with Ning Luyuan, and only returned to his place of stay until Hai Shi, I am afraid that His Royal Highness is too tired, so I want to report the recent situation of all parties in Ningzhou to His Highness today, but I don't want His Highness to meet the prince of the Que Realm that day early this morning, and I don't want His Highness to ......."

The girl who said this suddenly stopped, as if she was worried and wanted to stop talking.

"But you don't want me to be so eager to win over that guy surnamed Song, right?" instead, Yuan Sleevechun raised his eyebrows, took Ah Cheng's words, and continued.

Ah Cheng hurriedly lowered his head when he heard this: "Ah Cheng doesn't dare to talk about His Highness's decision-making, it is Ah Cheng's responsibility to make His Highness lose face today, and Ah Cheng is willing to be punished." ”

Seeing the girl like this, Yuan Sleeve Chun sighed and said with a wry smile: "You, when my mother was alive, she often said that loyalty is good for deeds. ”

"What does Orange want is it? Will I ascend to heaven after I ascend the throne and succeed to the throne? Or do I hope I can bring something different to our Dayan world?"

Yuan Zhichun's eyes were clear and sincere when he said this, and it was already a moving thing for most ordinary people for a prince to ask such a question. But what made Ah Cheng feel a little guilty was that after she heard this question, it sounded very inopportunely, and just yesterday, the young man asked her the same question.

And her stunned look at this moment fell in Yuan Zhichun's eyes, and it was natural that the prince would be mistaken. Yuan Zhichun was very satisfied with Ah Cheng's appearance at this moment, he continued with a smile: "I received the news before I came, among which Yuan Yu got the inheritance of the divine pattern of the Yin Dragon in Gutong City, his cultivation has skyrocketed, and Wei Liufang, who is the Great Sage of the Eight Gates, is afraid that within five years, he will be able to achieve something, and I don't mean to criticize Orange, but I didn't go to the inheritance of Guan Shan Lance to make me fall behind, and this matter fell into the ears of my father, and my father was afraid that he was biased towards Yuan Yu in his heart. I don't have as much time left as I thought I could be......"

"Therefore, when I met the disciples of the Heavenly Que Realm today, I was a little anxious and lost my bearings, and I wanted to take this opportunity to try to resolve the pressure brought to us by the Jin family in terms of the forces of the Heavenly Que Realm......"

When Ah Cheng heard this, he couldn't help but be a little moved in his heart, and he also understood a lot about Yuan Sleevechun's abrupt actions today.

"His Highness's concerns Ah Cheng is very clear, His Highness can rest assured, Ah Cheng will definitely do his best to help His Highness. His Royal Highness also has to remember that the matter of the community can not be left to external forces, when the Qi civil strife, also asked the monks of the Nine Lotus Golden Temple to take action, now the Qi country is deeply restricted by the Nine Lotus Living Buddha, His Royal Highness keeps in mind the lessons of the previous car, in order to seek a peaceful and prosperous era for the people of Dayan. Ah Cheng said respectfully.

But at this time, the girl's eyebrows and eyes were still indifferent, and Yuan Zhichun couldn't remember how long it had been since he had seen this woman show a look that was slightly different from this stagnant silence.

Yuan Zhichun was accustomed to this, he pondered for a while and then said: "There is another matter, I think about it and think that it is still necessary to talk to Cheng'er. ”

Seeing that Yuan Sleevechun's face was different and seemed to be quite embarrassed, Ah Cheng said, "Your Highness, please speak." ”

"Orange should know that compared to the Golden Queen, even if there is Mangzhou for our use, our strength is still extremely weak in front of the Golden Queen, so it is not a bad thing for us to win over Ningzhou. But that Wei Gongzi's attitude should have been seen, before coming Zhou Lao told me a way, I didn't want to do it, but today, I can't help myself......"

"What does Your Highness want to say, what is the strategy that Old Zhou said?" Yuan Zhichun's attitude of wanting to speak and stopping was naturally strange to the extreme, Ah Cheng heard it in a fog, frowned and asked.

Yuan Zhichun still hesitated at this time, he lowered his head and muttered for a while, before he looked up at Ah Cheng, and then gritted his teeth and said.

"If necessary, Mr. Zhou can ask His Majesty for me to invite a decree to hand-pick the marriage between the daughter of the Xu family and me......"