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The hour is approaching, and there are no visitors to the palace.

The sky was already bright, but the light was cut off from the rain, and the lightning and thunder were still there, but not as frequent as they had been at the beginning. Occasionally, it pierced the sky and fell, and the thunder shook the ground slightly, like ripples on the surface of the water where small stones fell. The rain curtain has not weakened slightly, but has become a little bigger, covering the sky, standing on the veranda and looking out, the eyes will soon be swallowed by the rain and mist, and there is no trace.

Du Rui stood on the verandah, Mo Chou behind him was wearing a hat, hanging down his veil, and holding a sheathed long sword in his arms.

Nie Yuan stood a little farther away, looking at the rain curtain expressionlessly, Hua Chong and the other guards put down their face armor, their bodies were covered by a Xuan armor, and the face armor was put down to cover most of their cheeks, revealing only a pair of eyes.

The sound of a carriage sounded from the rain, accompanied by a burst of neighing of horses, which was originally clear and high-pitched, with an echo, but at this moment, it was swallowed up by the sound of rain, faint and a little dull.

Yue Chong wore a robe, wearing a hat, sitting in the position of the emperor, and drove a carriage with a carved five-clawed golden dragon to the front of the eaves corridor, and he didn't see how he behaved, and he didn't even wave the whip, and the four tall and handsome royal horses stopped in front of the eaves, and then, Yue Chong waved his hand lightly, and the carriage door on one side opened gently.

"Your Highness!"

Wei Yue stood in front of the carriage, held on to the open door, bent over, hunched over, and motioned for Du Rui to get on the car first.

Du Rui was not polite, and gently lifted the hem of his shirt, which was different from what he usually wears, he is now wearing a red robe embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon, as a prince, the regular court dress is like this, and the emperor's dragon robe is embroidered with a seven-clawed golden dragon, and the regular robe is a red robe, or a black robe, if it is a formal dragon robe of the previous dynasty, it must be golden, and the dragon is a red dragon.

After Du Rui got into the car, Mo Chou behind him followed into the carriage.

Unlike in the past, at that time, Mo Chou would help Du Rui, but now, he no longer did that, but let Du Rui get into the carriage alone, she got into the carriage with a long sword in both hands, and her posture was very free and easy, without any caution.

This is the carriage that Queen Guo rewarded Du Rui, among them, there is a mystery.

It's just that Du Rui rarely uses this carriage when he travels, and the royal man who likes gossip was also sent back to the imperial horse prison by Wei Yue, and he has been parked there, but now, it comes in handy.

A quasi-innate martial artist became a royal master, which is actually normal.

If Du Tao, the king of Zhao, travels in a carriage, the coachman is a congenital warrior.

"Ouch!"

Wei Yue did not close the door, but sighed and went around to the back of the carriage, there was a slightly raised groove at the bottom of the carriage, and the four sides of the groove were engraved with strange runes, extending in all directions, walking along the bottom of the carriage of the carriage, repeating and endlessly, those runes looked like children's graffiti, no effect, and no beauty.

Wei Yue sighed, and took out a wooden box from his sleeve with a painful face.

The hand trembled and opened the lid of the wooden box, the box was covered with a layer of yellow, yellow thick wrapped with a blue-blue stone, the stone itself has no color, it is so deep that it is almost transparent, the blue-blue luster, flowing in the stone, like a blue-blue electric light, want to rush away from the stone, a thousand miles, but is firmly blocked by the transparent stone, can not leak.

"This piece of rune jade is worth a thousand gold!"

Wei Yue turned his head and said to Nie Yuan behind him.

Nie Yuan's gaze fell on Fu Yu, his eyes changed slightly, but he did not covet his greed, he quickly looked away, swept back towards the rain curtain, and lifted his true qi to the acupoint in the middle of the body, once he found that something was wrong, this true qi would also be stimulated.

Wei Yue put the Fu Yu into the groove.

The strange thing is that in everyone's sight, this rune jade is obviously much larger than the groove, but after putting it down, it naturally falls into the groove, like a ball of jelly that can change size, once it falls into the groove, there is no gap that fits perfectly.

Then, the blue-blue light broke through the blockade of the stone, like a river that broke the embankment, and in an instant, it poured thousands of miles, and it rushed violently along the rune passages engraved at the bottom of the carriage, and in an instant, it returned to the original point. At that moment, the carriage suddenly lit up, shining blue, and the rain curtain seemed to have stopped for a moment, never falling.

Then, the blue-blue luster dissipated and the raindrops continued to fall.

Wei Yue sighed and got into the carriage and closed the door.

Even if it is the royal family, there are not many runes like that, and the mages raised in the palace do not know how to intercept a wisp of the aura of heaven and earth, and use the rune array to block it in the special water jade. And these runes of the carriage were originally a rune array, but if there was no aura conversion, it was just some innocuous graffiti, once the rune jade was put into it, with the aura provided, it would also have energy and activate the rune array.

Du Rui's carriage only needs to be put into the rune jade, and the rune array will automatically operate, before the energy in the rune jade is not exhausted, this carriage made of iron and wood weighs a thousand gold, and even the four horses want to pull it It is very difficult to pull it will become a lot lighter, its weight is only a few tenths of its own weight, for the four horses, this weight is almost negligible, and the speed is naturally extremely fast.

This is a royal carriage, and the rune array is extremely advanced.

Replaced by a folk boat, boat and carriage, its rune array is also varied, like this, there are not many runes that can be automatically started by putting down the rune jade, most of them need to be injected with true qi by a warrior, so that the aura in the rune jade can be used for the rune array, which is more or less troublesome.

Wei Yue got into the carriage, and after closing the door, the carriage slowly drove away from the eaves corridor and slowly walked towards the rain curtain.

On this side, Nie Yuan and the others rode on their respective mounts that had been waiting for a long time, and like these Xuanjia knights, their war horses were wearing black armor, even in the rain curtain, even if they were hit by the heavy rain, the mounts still did not make the slightest neigh, and when the master got on the saddle and drove himself, he made a short neigh, and followed the carriage.

The wind was stormy, and there were almost no pedestrians on the road.

Xuanzhen Guan was originally on the outskirts of Wannian County, located on the edge of Weishui, located at the foot of Peach Mountain, specially built a gallop road to the outside, a few miles later connected to the official road, after the carriage came to the three forks, turned to the left.

Along the official road to the right more than ten miles is Wannian County, through the Wannian County without the protection of the city wall, through several bridges erected on the Weishui River, you can enter Chang'an City, through the city gate into Chang'an. Shanglin Garden is located in the southwest suburbs of Chang'an City, a radius of thousands of miles is the scope of Shanglin Garden, this is the royal territory, there are palaces in it, and there are many pavilions and pavilions.

Last night, Yingzong Du Zhen and his entourage had already entered the palace of Shanglin Yuan.

Go left along the official road, less than thirty miles is where the palace is located, and it is also the destination that Du Rui and the others will arrive.

Xuanzhen Temple is actually located in the middle of Shanglin Yuan and Wannian County, to the left is the boundary of Shanglin Garden, to the right is the boundary of Wannian County, strictly speaking, Xuanzhen Temple, the royal Taoist temple, is actually located on the edge of Shanglin Garden.

The official road is very wide and can accommodate several four-wheeled carriages side by side, however, under the heavy rain, the road surface is actually a little uneven, after all, in Du Rui's previous life, even if a lot of machinery was used to build a road, it often didn't take much time to have problems, the ground collapsed, uneven and the like can be seen everywhere, and you have to spend money to repair the seams again.

Of course, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the reason why the project is like that is nothing more than the wealth that moves people's hearts.

Now the reason why this official road is uneven is purely because of the lack of strength, even if there are warriors to participate in the construction of the official road, after all, there is still no mechanical convenience, and the road surface will naturally not be able to avoid problems over time.

In the past, the Tang Empire was powerful, the Silk Road was still there, and the government had the money to repair the road.

Since the Hebei Rebellion, although the Tang Empire has avoided the loss of the country, the country's situation is declining, and it will never return, Hebei Shandong and other places are de facto independent secession, coupled with the Silk Road was cut off, and the northern Hulu is eyeing the tiger, and will ride south at any time, all relying on the transportation of grain in the south of the Yangtze River, Chang'an City has a trace of face, which is nothing more than a lingering breath.

Small problems such as the damage of official roads are completely ignored.

The road is bumpy but still passable, so why spend more money?

Inside the carriage, Du Rui couldn't feel the bumps in the road, this talisman array can not only reduce the weight of the carriage, but also has the function of shock absorption, speaking of which, everything is good, the only problem is that it is too expensive.

Just a piece of Fu jade, in exchange for money, you can buy a three-entry courtyard in Wannian County.

Moreover, don't be too expensive, if you don't have an identity, if you don't have that channel, you can't buy it even if you have money, Fu Yu is actually a strategic resource, most of which are controlled by the government and the gate lord family and the sect, and only these forces can cultivate a mage, you know, when the mage is not a mage, but only an introductory apprentice, a lot of resources and money must be consumed.

The resources consumed to train one mage are enough to train seven or eight warriors of the same level.

Of course, once the cultivation is successful, the benefits that this mage brings to the family and the sect are innumerable.

This is the case with the so-called big investment and big return.

It's a pity that among the ten apprentices, only one or two can successfully communicate with the bridge of heaven and earth to be promoted to official mages, and the rest can only be reduced to craftsmen and the like, giving a hand to real mages.

All the investment has also been in vain.

This is the case with the so-called big investment and big risk.

The wind and rain did not stop in the slightest, Yue Chong drove wildly, Nie Yuan and other guards drove horses to guard the surroundings, and after a while, they came to a three-way road, and from a branch road, a convoy rushed in.

At the center of the convoy was a huge carriage drawn by eight dragons, like a ship on land, like a moving courtyard, and the rain fell from the sky, but it evaporated over the carriage and never fell on the roof of the carriage. In the carriage, there was a faint sound of silk and bamboo, and there were singers singing in Miaoman, which was not covered by the sound of wind and rain.