In the main hall at the entrance of the Valley of Trials, An Lingsu frowned slightly when he received the bulky broadsword from a young teacher.

It had been a long time since she had seen the grim old man here.

That teacher, where did he go?

An hour later, the girl who broke through the greedy wolf array alone suddenly had the figure of another young man in her mind.

An Lingsu shook her head with a smile, and after driving the cold young man out of her mind, she walked into the hinterland of the Valley of Trials alone and began her cultivation path.

In the Milky Way Valley, Zhou Zechen lowered his head slightly with an indifferent expression, and stood alone in place and pondered for a long, long time.

Until noon, the sun fell straight on his body, gilding this indifferent young man with a faint golden light.

Zhou Zechen raised his head and looked indifferently at the girls around him who were pointing at him.

Facing the girls' curious, nervous, or shy and timid eyes, Zhou Zechen finally made a decision.

After returning to his room, Zhou Zechen took a deep breath, took a pen and solemnly wrote a letter to his grandfather in the capital, and then began to deal with the thick stack of official documents on the desk.

The situation in the court became more and more tense, and there were more and more things that his grandfather sent to the academy to deal with for him.

In this way, the girl was immersed in spiritual practice, and the young man was busy with various official duties all day long.

In the next few days, the most famous boy and girl of Qingyi Academy seemed to be like strangers because of the dissolved marriage contract, and they never got along.

The days seem to have passed peacefully, however, anyone with a discerning eye knows that whether it is in the court or in the academy, there is actually an undercurrent surging.

In the Imperial City of Zhongzhou, in the splendid palace, the palace maids and eunuchs carefully shuttled among them, but they held their breath and didn't even dare to take a breath. ---- because of the Son of Heaven on the dragon chair, for some reason, his temper has become more and more irritable recently.

Under a nameless cliff in the Four Seasons Mountains, two thin girls said goodbye to a white-haired old woman, but without saying a word, they walked back to Qingyi Academy separately, as if they didn't know each other.

The calm in the court, the anomalies in the academy, seemed to be waiting for something.

In the past few days, apart from going to the Valley of Trials to practice, the place that An Lingsu has gone to the most is this nameless grove deep in the mountains behind the academy.

Here, in addition to practicing, Dean Chen also put more and more news from the capital and even all over the mainland in front of her.

In this regard, Professor An, Professor Zhou and others have different views. They all believed that the most important thing for Su Su was to work hard to improve his strength, rather than to get bogged down in the strife of the world.

However, Dean Chen shook his head with a smile, and still sent more news to An Lingsu in a timely manner.

"Where don't you practice?"

Thinking of Dean Chen's words, An Lingsu calmly accepted the arrangement of the academy, and faced all this peacefully.

Dean Chen is right, dealing with these worldly affairs, for himself, how can it not be another kind of practice?

However, as more and more news came in, An Lingsu felt more and more the weight on her shoulders, it was so heavy.

She put down the flying pigeon book she had just received in her hand and looked up at the somewhat gloomy sky.

The sky was frighteningly low, and it was frighteningly quiet. It's the peace before the storm.

An Lingsu sighed.

Now, the forces of all parties in the court have suppressed that hint of imminent movement, and the wind and waves have calmed down for the time being, but they seem to be waiting for something?

And Dean Chen's various arrangements seem to be in response to this waiting.

However, what exactly are the imperial courts and academies waiting for?

An Lingsu pursed her lower lip.

Judging from the itinerary, Zhu Yuncheng is about to return to Beijing, right?

This storm in the imperial court finally came suddenly on the morning of one day, and a thunder exploded on the ground. Before the ---- emperor retreated, he suddenly issued an edict, led by Zhou Cheng, and hundreds of officials went outside the city to welcome the prince back to the palace!

This edict shocked the world and caused an uproar.

As we all know, now the former harem is fighting openly and secretly for the battle of the prince, and His Majesty has never set up a prince at all.

But now, he wants to order Prime Minister Zhou Cheng to lead a hundred officials and personally go out of the city to greet the prince?

Where did this prince come from?

The forces behind the various princes were even more shocked. They have been fighting for so long, why did a prince suddenly appear?

Who is it, who was the first to be made the crown prince by the emperor?

At this moment, the matter of the prince finally gradually exhaled out of the water. ---- it turned out that when the eldest grandson queen had a difficult birth, she gave birth to a boy, not the death of both mother and child. Later, in order to protect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who had just been born, the emperor and the eldest grandson secretly sent the prince out of the capital, until now......

The son of Empress Changsun is still alive!

In addition to the shock, everyone looked at Zhou Xingxing and the eldest grandson Wujiang's eyes, and they couldn't help but change.

I have to say, this ginger is still old and spicy.

Several princes have been fighting for so many years, fighting to the death, but in the end, they have cheapened these two old foxes for nothing.

However, the more shocking news is yet to come.

On the second day after the prince Yunzhu returned to the palace, the emperor once again issued an edict in public, personally appointing the prince as the governor of the northern capital, leading 500,000 troops, and the northern expedition to the barbarians shocked the national prestige!

As soon as this edict came out, many people in the court silently shut their mouths.

His Majesty first welcomed back the crown prince with great fanfare, and then handed over 500,000 elite soldiers, including the Yanbei army, to the hands of His Royal Highness the crown prince, who was born out of nowhere;

The position of the prince is stable, and it is obvious that His Majesty has already made up his mind to let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince inherit the throne of the Yunzhou Empire.

More and more old ministers and families became silent because of the emperor's attitude. However, how can those princes and the forces behind them be willing to give up?

For that position, they have worked hard for so many years, and now they naturally will not give up because of the sudden appearance of this brother.

While the entire state apparatus was busy with the northern expedition against the barbarians, there was once again an undercurrent in the imperial court, brewing an even bigger storm.

And all of this, at the fastest speed, was passed to the Qingyi Academy, and passed to the hands of two equally outstanding young men and women.

The difference is that after An Lingsu received the news, he became more and more focused on cultivation. In order to practice, she even missed a lot of classes and stayed in the Valley of Trials all day. And Zhou Zechen also became more and more silent and calm. In order to deal with the increasing number of official documents sent from the capital, he had to suspend his practice.