On the top floor of Tianji Building, in a secret room, two young people are sitting and drinking tea, this tea is brewed by forgetting worries grass, and it is refreshing after drinking. On the top floor of this Tianji Building, it is not full of goods for sale like downstairs, but a secret room like this, which is specially designed for distinguished guests to talk about. In addition to the fragrance of tea, there is a faint fragrance in the secret room, which is burning with precious ambergris. Ambergris and forgetful tea, which also shows how noble the guests in this secret room are.

"Brother Xing Miao, tell me, what price does it take to cut that Neidan to me?" one of the young men in green clothes asked.

"Your Highness's news is really well-informed, but this Neidan was obtained by killing a friend snake after spending a lot of effort, and it is also of great use to stay in the next, and I hope Your Highness will forgive your sins. The young man named Xing Miao was wearing a robe embroidered with stars in the sky, but he was neither humble nor arrogant, and he refused directly in the face of the prince's request.

The prince's eyes flashed when he heard this, but he was not annoyed or angry, and then smiled:

"Haha, Brother Xingmiao is quick to talk, I like it. Since Brother Xingmiao can't bear to cut his love, it's okay, but I still have a treasure here, look at Brother Xingmiao. ”

After that, the prince took out a jade pendant, the jade pendant is black throughout, about three inches in diameter, round and hollow, no matter how you look at it, it only looks like an ordinary jade pendant. But Xing Miao was taken aback when she saw it, carefully took the jade pendant, and muttered, "This is..."

Then he used his divine power to inject it into it, and a little light appeared on the pure black jade pendant, like stars twinkling in the night sky. Xing Miao was a little sure, but she still asked tentatively, "Is this the Star Soul Jade?"

"Haha, Brother Xingmiao really has good eyesight, that's right, this is the Star Soul Jade used by my Great Xia Divination Great Witch for astrological divination, I took a lot of effort to ask for a piece from the Great Witch, and I will give it to Brother Xing Miao!" ”

Xing Miao struggled in his heart for a long time, obviously this so-called "Star Soul Jade" was too tempting for him, but he knew the truth of being useless, so he finally resisted the temptation and refused: "His Royal Highness the prince is very kind, and I have received it in my heart, but this gift is too precious and I can't afford it." ”

"Huh?" A trace of displeasure flashed in the prince's eyes, but it was only for a moment, and he was not discovered, and he still insisted: "Brother Xingmiao, you don't know the importance of this jade pendant, this has been used by several generations of great witches, and it has absorbed I don't know how many star essences, and it is the most suitable for the cultivation of people of your Star Clan." ”

"Your Highness, I naturally know the preciousness of this thing, but it is exactly like this, and I can't ask for it even more. Xing Miao continued to refuse, "This jade pendant is more precious than the Nanedan I obtained. He knew that this prince had been wooing him, but the people of the Star clan had always been detached from the world and would never get involved in the temple dispute, so he had to refuse again and again.

"Then how about exchanging my jade pendant with your Nanedan, and let's make friends. "The prince continues to be a corporal, for him, what Neidan is actually useless, what can't he get? This is just an excuse, just to win over Xing Miao, Xing Miao, as the son of the patriarch of the Xing clan now, if he can win over, it will be very useful for planning big things in the future.

While the two were talking, someone suddenly knocked on the door, "Report to Your Highness, someone wants to see you." ”

"Well, who is it? Didn't you say that I was talking about something, and no one saw me. "The prince is a little annoyed, he dares to disturb himself at this juncture, it's really damned, how does Tianjilou do business?

"Yes......" Before the waiter could say who it was, he heard a hearty laugh.

"Hahaha, second brother, why is it such a big shelf, even I am gone?"

Before the words fell, the door was pushed open, and two young men strode in, and the second prince stood up from the chair in shock when he saw one of them, but he immediately calmed down, and a smile appeared on his face, "It turned out to be my good brother, why are you here, I haven't seen you for a few days, I thought it was ......"

"I thought I was dead. Xia Huai immediately took over his second brother's words, with the same smile on his face, "That really disappointed my good second brother, this is indeed damn as a younger brother." ”

"What nonsense! I can see that you are safe and sound, let alone how happy I am to be a brother, why should I be disappointed?"

Seeing these two brothers singing and harmonizing here, I don't know, I thought how "brotherly" the two of them were.

The second prince didn't want to be too entangled with Xia Huai, looked at Yi Ming, and asked knowingly, "Who is this?"

"Huh?" Xia Huai pretended to be puzzled, "This is my sworn brother Yi Ming, didn't the second brother's guards tell you?"

The second prince had a question mark on his face, "Guards, what guards?"

Xia Huai knew that he was pretending to be stupid, and asked with a smile: "I went to Fushan five days ago to investigate the four guards who exploded, didn't they come back to ask for credit?"

"Five days ago?" The second prince wouldn't admit it when he was killed, so he simply pretended to be stupid to the end, "Oh, you're talking about the explosion five days ago, and the forbidden army in the outer city I was in charge of did have four people to check, but they found that they had not come back, and later sent a team to search, but they didn't find it." I guess it's a lot of bad luck. ”

At this time, the second prince was scolding his mother in his heart: "These four wastes came to me proudly to ask for credit at that time, and I knew that it seemed that those four people could not stay." ”

Yi Ming and Xingmiao have been watching coldly from the sidelines, but one is aware of it, and the other feels foggy and ignorant of the performance of these two people.

Yi Ming had been observing the second prince, Xia Yang, who controlled all the forbidden armies in the outer city. This prince is different from Xia Huai, he has short flat hair, although his eyes are enthusiastic, but Yi Ming can feel the cold chill in the depths of his eyes, his thin lips are pursed, his knife-like facial lines are fierce and cold, and his eyebrows and eyes are indeed somewhat similar to his father, His Majesty today. Although he was smiling at this time, Yi Ming could feel his deep scheming and decisiveness from his words. If those four guards died, he wouldn't believe anything, but he believed that after the second prince Xia Yang saw the two of them today, those four people would not survive, and such a person was not suitable to be a king.

Seeing that his two brothers had been "reminiscing" endlessly, he was also deeply moved by this "brotherly love", and couldn't help but interrupt: "There is the son of Yi Yuan, the leader of the Yi family, and Yi Ming has seen His Royal Highness the Second Prince." Then he bowed his hand to Xingmiao, but there was a little more sincerity in his eyes, "Yi Ming has seen this brother. ”

Xing Miao stood up when the two of them came in, and only then did she find an opportunity to interject, and she also bowed back: "In the son of Xing Han, the patriarch of the Xia Xing clan, Xing Miao has seen His Royal Highness the prince and Brother Yi Ming. ”

"It turned out to be Yi Ming's son," the second prince Xia Yang of course knew this person, and the four guards reported to him that day, his younger brother was shot off the cliff with a person named Yi Ming, and the two sides were already mortal enemies at this time, and he didn't have to make a polite corporal appearance to Yi Ming, "It's a blessing that the fourth brother can worship Yi Ming Gongzi as a brother." ”

"The second prince has an overreputation, thanks to the fourth highness, he can afford to recognize me as a sworn brother, although my brothers may be unreliable these years, but I will be closer to him than my own brothers. Yi Ming retorted mockingly.

Sure enough, these words made the second prince very angry, and what was even more angry was that Xia Huai's kid was still echoing on the side.

"Brother Yi Ming, look at what you said, didn't my second brother treat me very well. Isn't it, second brother. ”

The second prince forcibly maintained his demeanor in front of Xing Miao, and his face was the color of pig's liver, but he still squeezed out a smile and said to Xing Miao: "I will leave first if I have something, Brother Xing Miao, if you have time in the future, you can come to my house to talk again." After speaking, he said goodbye to Xing Miao, and for Yi Ming and Xia Huai, he only left the word "hum", and then shook his hand and left.

Faced with the sudden resignation of the second prince, Xing Miao was not surprised, as the young master of the Xing clan, he naturally knew that the dispute in this royal family was even more cruel and ruthless, of course he didn't believe the brother, friend and brother Gong that the two brothers had just performed, which was also the reason why he had been refusing the second prince just now. More importantly, he could see the ambitious flame in the eyes of the second prince, and knew that this prince was far from being as polite and virtuous as he appeared on the surface, and he was able to convince people with virtue.

Xia Huai was very happy when he saw his brother finally leaving, especially when he saw his expression when he left, and it was finally quiet. Then he looked at Xing Miao and said solemnly: "Brother Xing Miao, I always feel that there is something in you that attracts me, to be precise, something behind you." ”

"What's behind me?" Xing Miao was also puzzled, but seeing that the fourth prince was so serious, not like a joke, he took out a package from behind him, opened the package, and inside was a bead the size of a person's head, red.

"This is the snake's Neidan?" Yi Ming was also surprised, smelling like a snake's Neidan, but how could it be so big.

"Brother Yi Ming has good eyesight," Xing Miao exclaimed, (but Yi Ming relied on smelling) "To be precise, this is the Neidan of a snake." ”

Peng Snake, it is considered an ancient beast, naked and white-headed, generally the big ones are more than ten zhang long, if it appears anywhere, where there will be a big drought, before Yi Ming and Xia Huai met that in Fushan, it is just that there is a blood of the Peng snake. If you encounter a pure-blooded snake at that time, you don't know who is exploiting whom.

"Brother Xingmiao, did you kill it yourself?" Xia Huai also knew the power of this kind of guy, and asked curiously.

"Well, this snake is ferocious and abnormal, and it can breathe fire, I killed it in nine lifetimes, and took its inner dan, not long after entering the summer, the second prince came to the door, saying that he wanted this inner dan. ”

"Wow, Brother Xing Miao, you are too powerful, right!" Xia Huai couldn't help but exclaim, even Yi Ming admired, such a big Neidan's friend snake, if it was himself, I am afraid it would not be easy to clean it up, at most defeated, it may be escaped by it, it can be seen that this Xing Miao may be better than himself.

"As for my second brother, hehe, he just wants to recruit you, what's the use of him asking for this Neidan. ”

Xing Miao smiled and said nothing.

"By the way, didn't you say that this thing attracts you?" Yi Ming hurriedly reminded Xia Huai, who had already digressed.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Xia Huai remembered, and hurriedly took out a bead from his body, which was the bead full of thunder, "To be precise, it is to attract this thing." ”

After saying that, Xia Huai slowly leaned the bead and Neidan together, only to see that suddenly a thunderbolt came out from the bead and hit Neidan, so fast that Yi Ming and Xing Miao didn't have time to stop it.

"Smack!"

With a crisp sound, the inner dan was actually shattered, Xia Huai's face was embarrassed, and he didn't know how to explain it, but he saw a fiery red light from the broken inner dan, and finally a crystal clear, red bead appeared, the same size as Xia Huai's bead.