18. Secrets

King Rui's tone sank in vain, "After so many years, you still think about the slightest grievance, and you don't hesitate to risk letting Yili's righteous sister show up and provoke him." If you want to get ten strategies, alien blood people, sacrifices, Fuxi gossip, and extreme yin days are all indispensable, I ask you, if she is robbed, even if Fuxi gossip is in hand, what can she do? If you want to achieve great things, you give up your love and desires, but you blindly remember the love of that child, and you have to repay it, so short-sighted, what if you get the world? How can this world last long in your hands? ”

Yan Xu knew that King Rui had misunderstood, and he admitted that although it had been many years, he still hated Yili to the bone, but this kind of love and grievances and the world were familiar with each other, and he would not be so hot-headed that he couldn't figure it out, and there was a reason why he deliberately provoked Yili to appear. He explained unhurriedly: "The father misunderstood, and the child has no intention of taking the opportunity to retaliate. Fuxi gossip is hidden in the secret place of the Great Compassion Temple, and it is extremely difficult for outsiders to find it even if they break in. Please rest assured that the child has a plan, and within a few months, he will be able to obtain Fuxi gossip. ”

Seeing his calm expression and calm tone, King Rui stretched his brows, for this son, he is still quite relieved, after several years of tempering, he has become more and more meticulous and cautious, and has long had the ability to take charge of himself. If it weren't for his outstanding intelligence, he would have found the approximate location of Shifang from many clues, and he and Tong Mo's people would not have been able to find that place in Shunlì last year.

"Jinyun, don't blame your father for being strict, the secret of the Ten Directions is not only known to my Yan family, the royal families and Jianghu sects of various countries, I don't know how many people are secretly coveting it, so I really have to be cautious. During the reign of the first emperor, after several hardships and how much manpower and material resources were spent, he was able to get a glimpse of one or two. I want to be conscientious and diligent in political affairs for my father back then, and I always want to do better, but your imperial grandfather chose me to pass on this secret to me, not today, nor your other two uncles, not because of how good I am......"

King Rui looked directly at Yan Xu, his eyes burning, "It's because of Jinyun you." When you were a child, you entered the palace every month to ask for peace, the first emperor would leave you in the palace for a few days to personally raise you, he often told me that this grandson is the most outstanding and unique one of the children he has ever seen, he is a brilliant person, he can do things, and he must learn to be subtle in literature and martial arts, and he told me to cultivate you well. He asked me to look for the Ten Directions, not that he was partial to me, he just stood higher than ordinary people and saw farther, he was afraid that the heir he had chosen, in case he would not get the Ten Directions in his lifetime, there would be no successor, so when he chose people, he had to count a few more steps. ”

After King Rui left, Yan Xu's heart was turbulent, and he couldn't calm down for a long time, and he gradually learned about the events of that year when he grew up, but tonight the first emperor chose King Rui as the inheritor because of his own words, King Rui had never mentioned it before.

For thousands of years, there has been a proverb on the rivers and lakes: there are ten directions in heaven and earth, and one strategy is to paint all spirits.

No one knows the specific meaning of this sentence, but there is no doubt that whoever gets the legendary Ten Directions will get the whole world and become the master of the world. However, no one can say clearly what the "Ten Directions" is, whether it is round or flat, and where it is hidden. Some people say that the Ten Directions is a book of martial arts secrets, and after the success, they will practice the immortal body, and some people say that it is a collection of the world's most exquisite military arts, so it is said that it can be obtained in the world. What's more, legend has it that the Ten Directions are a mysterious ancient power that can deceive people's minds and make people completely obey the orders of those who have received them.

But after all, these are just legends, no one knows whether they are true or false, for thousands of years, this world is still divided, except for the Jin Kingdom, the Qi State in the north, the Qin State in the west, the Chu State in the south, and countless small countries in the east to survive, no one has ever been able to dominate the world. At the beginning of his succession, the first emperor began to send people from the Ming Yan Division to secretly investigate, and it took decades and countless manpower and material resources to invest, and finally gradually got some clues.

According to legend, the Ten Directions is the artifact left by the Fuxi Emperor to the descendants of the Fuxi Clan, and it is called the Ten Directions because the hiding place is called the Ten Directions. To find the Ten Directions, you must first find the place called the Ten Directions. Secondly, to enter the Ten Directions and obtain the Ten Directions, there must be four elements that are indispensable, the alien blood, the sacrifice, the Fuxi gossip, and the day of the extreme yin. When the Emperor discovered this, he was already in his last years, and he knew that he would not be able to fulfill his long-cherished wish in his lifetime, so he decided to leave this secret to the best of his descendants.

At that time, King Rui was still the crown prince, and he was quite popular with the people in everything and prudence in everything, but it took a lot of energy and time to find ten strategies, so King Rui was not the first choice. In addition, the people who are looking for the ten strategies, they are not the only ones in the world, so while they are secretly searching, they also have to guard against others, in case the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch behind, the hardships and energy spent can be imagined, and the selection must be cautious.

So in order to avoid delaying the government due to the search for ten strategies, the first emperor originally planned to choose one of the remaining three sons, but in the end, he still tried his best to disagree with the others, and did not hesitate to mess up the court and insisted on demoting the original prince to King Rui, so that he could stay away from the court and concentrate on searching. He found out that the location of the ten directions was about Shuo'an, and deliberately pointed out the fief of King Rui to the remote and barren Shuo'an, and assigned Tong Mo, the head of the Ming Yan Division, who was originally left to the next Emperor of Jin, to King Rui. Today's Ming Yan Si is still obedient to the orders of today's saints, but in fact, King Rui is their real master.

As soon as King Rui arrived in the fiefdom of Shuo'an, he set out to find the specific location of the ten directions, but he did not know the essentials until Yan Xu consulted the maps and ancient books left by the first emperor, which narrowed the scope of the search, and finally succeeded in finding the location of the ten directions last year. After finding the location of the ten directions, it is imminent to get those four elements. Alien bloods, sacrifices, and Fuxi gossip are all reliable and artificially obtained, but the last day of extreme yin is a celestial statue, and it can only be left to fate.

The so-called extreme yin day, that is, the day of the total lunar eclipse, but not all lunar eclipses are extremely yin days, the lunar eclipse generally occurs once every few years, but the real extreme yin day, only once a jiazi. Fortunately, as early as a few years ago, the monks of the Rui Wangfu had calculated that September 15 next year would be the day of the extreme yin, and if they missed it, the next day of the extreme yin would be sixty years later. So, before the day comes, he must prepare three other things.

The blood of the alien can open the entrance to the secret realm of the ten directions, and the sacrifice is used to sacrifice to the Fuxi Heavenly Emperor, and the Fuxi gossip is the key to activating the ten directions. Now that the alien blood and sacrifices are in their hands, only Fuxi gossip is missing.

When he was getting older, his father, King Rui, had already organized and purposefully let him know. He especially remembered the day when he was eighteen years old, his father said to him proudly: "When I was the crown prince, but I was deposed by the first emperor overnight, he handed over the Yan family to the second brother, everyone thought that I would be resentful, in fact, on the contrary, I am grateful to my father, and sincerely admire his foresight, what he handed over to the second brother is just a great Jin country, but he handed over to me, but the whole world is ......"

Yan Xu only thought that the emperor's grandfather chose his father as the person who inherited the secret of the Ten Directions because his father had the talent to help the world and the country, but listening to his father's words, the emperor's grandfather chose his father, in addition to his father's talent, the biggest reason was because he valued himself. Recalling that year, the emperor's grandfather taught him to write hand-in-hand, and did not shy away from him when he reviewed the folds, and sometimes even explained carefully, that kind of earnest care and love, when he left his family to live alone in the palace for a long time, still filled his mind, so that he would not be too lonely.

In the past, what he carried was only the responsibility imposed on him by his father, but now he knows that when he didn't know it, he still carried the ardent expectations of his imperial grandfather. He closed his eyes, too many expectations and responsibilities made him feel a sense of oppression that he couldn't get rid of, and he couldn't breathe in an instant.

But he asked himself, wasn't that what he wanted? The world in the sense of integrity, the submission of all the people, the worship of the four directions, these are his dreams, he will be like a transformed eagle, rushing out of the small mountain col, spreading his wings and flying high, soaring in the boundless world, his talent and ambition will eventually have the opportunity to show the economy, his name, Yan Xu, will be forever famous.

There is an irrepressible pride and ambition that is about to erupt in his chest, and finding ten strategies to dominate the world is the seed planted in his blood, which has already quietly sprouted, grows vigorously, and is deeply rooted, and has grown into an unshakable belief in his life.

Heterogeneous people, sacrifices, and Fuxi gossip, these three things, he has already gotten two, and only owes the last Fuxi gossip. He looked at the brightly lit palace in the distance, and his deep eyes were obscure, and when he got a foreigner, he was like a heavenly help, and it was effortless, compared to the original sacrifice...... As soon as he thought of the sacrifice that was going to be sacrificed to Emperor Fuxi, the pain of his skin hit his heart again.

He took a deep breath, and when the pain had subsided, he didn't want to go back to the hustle and bustle of the court. He suddenly missed the figure in his palace that was waiting for him all the time, as well as the hands that were always warm, he hesitated a little, and walked in the direction of Jiyue Palace.

It's approaching, but Yun Wen came to report that Yueji came out of Jiyue Palace at dusk, and she should be inviting Sendai at this time. Yan Xujian's eyebrows frowned slightly, at this hour, on this cold day, what was she doing in Sendai?

Yan Xu turned to invite Sendai, and saw Yunzhu guarding the stage from a distance, and when he saw him coming, he stepped forward and bowed and quietly retreated. He looked up, and a red coat was flying in the cold wind. He paused, but walked slowly up the winding stone steps to the top.

At the top of the platform, there is a large and flat circular stone platform, and on the edge of the stone platform, the slender red figure is standing in the wind, looking out at the brightly lit court in the distance. The wind was strong tonight, the flaming skirt was fluttering in the wind, and her long hair was also swept up by the wind, and it was messy, she was so thin, standing on the edge of the stone platform, and it seemed that she would be swept away by the wind at any moment.