Jiang Guo, once the first power, was also expanding, and successively destroyed several small countries such as Wu, Yan, and Liang.

In order to protect themselves, the states of Jiang, Tang, and Song formed an alliance to fight against the invasion of the Yi kingdom.

In terms of territorial area, the territory of Yi has exceeded that of the three allies combined.

However, the power of the Jiang, Tang and Song Kingdoms should not be underestimated, especially the Jiang State, whose overall strength is still the most powerful among the countries.

Jiang Country is not only vast and rich in resources, but also has the most strong cultivators.

The best alchemists, refiners, and array mages on the continent are all in Jiang Country, and the largest spirit stone vein is also in Jiang Country.

In addition to these three kingdoms, Qi was also a big country at this time, but it was only alone and no longer used troops abroad.

In the past five years, Yi Guo has grown vigorously day by day, and gradually stands at the peak of the mainland, which is comparable to Jiang Guo.

But the lord of the country, Qi Qingru, was not happy, and this unhappiness was getting worse day by day.

Since receiving Yi Jiuxiao's entrustment to King An Yuan, she has been a little puzzled, Yi Jiuxiao has always spoken to her directly.

It's just that I didn't think too much about it at the time, thinking that Yi Jiuxiao was busy with something, so I did it.

In the first year, she didn't feel much, Yi Jiuxiao had been fighting all these years, and parting had become the norm.

In the second year, she felt that something was wrong, because Yi Jiuxiao's news was slim.

In the past, although Yi Jiuxiao did not return to Gyeongju City, she kept coming with all kinds of news, but she did not receive a single piece of paper in the past two years.

She also asked her father about Yi Jiuxiao's information, but King An Yuan actually didn't know, so he could only say that he had gone out to practice.

Three years have passed, what kind of experience takes so long?

Qi Qingru began to be anxious, she really wanted to give up the throne to find it in person and get Yi Jiuxiao back.

But who can it be handed over? In her heart, this throne belongs to Yi Jiuxiao, and she just sits on her behalf.

She didn't dare to announce the news of Yi Jiuxiao's disappearance to the public, which would make the entire Yi country panic.

Yi Jiuxiao has been invincible for so many years, and many people and many things rely on Yi Jiuxiao's divine might.

If this god falls, will everyone have the confidence to continue fighting?

Time flies, and in five years, Qi Qingru has successively ascended to the ancestral platform of Xu, Chu, and Han.

Not only has he obtained the exercises of the three families, but his cultivation has also been greatly improved, and he may advance to the Yuan Infant at any time.

But she didn't want to advance to the Yuan Infant, and even she had stopped cultivating because she was waiting.

She had to wait for Yi Jiuxiao to come back, and he would protect the Fa, just like the night when she first advanced to Jindan.

Tens of thousands of miles away from Gyeongju City, there is a small hotel in the west of the city.

The hotel is really small, with only five or six dilapidated houses, and the owners are an elderly mortal couple.

The first three rooms are used as a hotel, and the back three rooms are used as a mortal inn for people.

A year ago, there was a customer in the store, a middle-aged man with scars on his face and a weak body.

This man lived for a long time, drank every day, and when he was drunk, he would say some verses.

The hotel shopkeeper also participated in the state city when he was young, and only started to do business after he failed to make the list, so he is a person who knows Wenmo.

Seeing that all the young men said were good sentences, he secretly found a pen and paper and recorded them.

In his guess, this man must be a scholar, and after falling off the list, he will have no interest in it, and will only use alcohol to kill his sorrows.

So I respect him very much from the bottom of my heart, and I give him a lot of care on weekdays.

In this world dominated by cultivators, there are many men like this, and reading is a way out, but in fact, there is no way out.

The county exam is just the beginning, and the state exam can come out, but a few people can pass the state exam every time, not to mention the national exam.

A mortal is destined to be a mortal, and once he becomes a mortal, he can only be a mortal forever.

In his spare time, the shopkeeper also wanted to lean over and say a few words to the scar-faced man.

But the man obviously didn't want to say anything, just drank to himself, and occasionally smiled kindly.

It was a good-natured smile, but on his scarred face, it was so ugly.

Learning is learning, but people are too ugly, otherwise it is okay to be a teacher in a rich family.

In private, the hotel shopkeeper made an evaluation of this scar-faced man, which is actually pertinent.

One way out for scholars is to be an official, and another way out is to be a teacher, but no one wants a teacher who is too ugly.

This scar-faced man is Yi Jiuxiao, who came to Caozhou City in the Tang Kingdom after wandering around for three years.

On that day he went out of the city through the west gate of the city of Jinzhou, and rode forward on horseback, and walked many places.

He has experienced the State of Chu, the State of Yan, and the State of Jiang, and has stayed in many places.

He has visited many famous doctors and consulted many people, and the result is the same, the poison of the broken tendon wood is incurable.

Even most people don't know what broken rib wood is, and broken rib wood is scarce in the first place.

In Jiang Country, the largest country on the continent, no one knows the detoxification method of Broken Muscle Wood.

It's just that during the Jiang Kingdom, someone said that the Tang Kingdom or there was a method of detoxification of broken tendons, but he didn't say it anymore.

It is better to believe it than to believe it, with this attitude, Yi Jiuxiao came from Jiang Country to the adjacent Tang Kingdom.

He searched almost half of the Tang Kingdom, but did not find a way to detoxify the broken tendon wood.

It wasn't until he walked to Caozhou City that he was sure that the person in Jiang Guo was lying to him, so he stopped doing useless work.

That's it, I'll live in this Caozhou City in the future, and I'll be in this old age for the rest of my life.

It's not easy to really want to end your life, although the broken tendon wood is poisonous, it only makes people's meridians blocked, and it can't promote death.

Therefore, he can only wait slowly, waiting for the torment of the years.

He has a lot of money in his storage ring, but he doesn't want to buy a house in Caozhou City, maybe he is afraid of being lonely.

By chance, he came across this mortal hotel and stayed there.

Drinking became almost the whole pleasure of his life, because he couldn't practice, not even the simplest martial arts.

Every time he was in front of him, he wanted to say a few words, but he didn't know what to say.

Talking from person to person is nothing more than talking about the past and the future, and there is only a familiar third person.

He couldn't tell the old shopkeeper about his past, because he was afraid to mention it, and no one would believe it.

In the bottom of his heart, he wanted to forget the past, forget Yi Guo, and forget Qi Qingru.

So he didn't dare to think about it, for fear that once he thought about it, he wouldn't be able to forget, and forgetting was a difficult thing.

He couldn't tell the old man about the future, because he had no future, no so-called tomorrow.

A third party who is familiar with each other, let alone not. I haven't known anyone since I stayed in a small hotel.

There are not many customers in the small shop, it is dilapidated, the poor cannot afford to live, and the rich do not come to live.

Most days, only Yi Jiuxiao sat alone at the table in the lobby and drank to support the hotel's business.

Until one day, there were suddenly more customers in the small shop, and not the usual number.

Dozens of people, men and women, young and old, came intermittently, and they weren't regular customers.

For a while, all the tables and chairs in the small shop were occupied, which made the shopkeeper a little panicked.

Almost all of the people who came were cultivators, and in addition to the Qi Refining Cultivators, there were also two or three Foundation Building Cultivators.

Although Yi Jiuxiao's meridians were completely broken, his divine thoughts were still there, and he could see at a glance the cultivation of the cultivators.

The table where he drinks on weekdays has been occupied by others, and he can only sit at the counter with a pot of wine and drink slowly.

The shopkeeper wanted to deliver his wine and food to the guest room, Yi Jiuxiao shook his head, he didn't like to eat in the room very much.

Those dozens of guests were eating and talking, and the eating habits of Qi Refining Stage cultivators were not much different from those of mortals.

Yi Jiuxiao was familiar with multi-national accents, and he could hear that not all of these guests were from the Tang Kingdom, most of them were not.

The topic of conversation is talking about a secret realm, a secret realm that only appears once in a thousand years.

The location where this secret realm appears seems to be within the range of Caozhou, and these people are all here for the secret realm.

One of them said: "Actually, let's just come here to see the excitement, those are the things of the strong."

"Yes, let's just take a look, follow up if we have a chance, and it's important to save our lives if we don't have a chance. The other chimed in.

However, there is one person who has a different opinion, this person is a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building, and he is considered a strong person among all people.

I saw him say: "This may not be, the secret realm has always been open to those who are blessed, and it has little to do with cultivation, you must not give up on yourself." ”

When he said this, everyone's faces showed anticipation.

In fact, everyone has worked tirelessly to come here, wanting to get a chance in the secret realm.

Very few people really watch the excitement, and most of those Qi refining cultivators are very poor, so how can they have the money to watch the excitement everywhere.

Yi Jiuxiao heard it in his ears, and there was not even a ripple in his heart, which had nothing to do with him.

He still drank wine by himself, occasionally watching the shopkeeper busy with his work, and after a while he went down to half a pot.

At that moment, another customer entered the store and walked straight to the counter.

Because he was close, Yi Jiuxiao raised his eyes to take a look, but he couldn't see his face clearly, nor could he see Xiu Wei clearly.

After being poisoned, although his meridians were completely broken and his strength was completely lost, his divine thoughts were no different from before.

It can be said that he can also see clearly the cultivation of Yuanying Monk, and Yuanying is already the strongest in this world.

Still, he was sure that the man was a monk, because his aura was somewhat similar to that of the angler.

Yi Jiuxiao only felt it slightly, and did not dare to explore it with divine thoughts, he didn't want to seek humiliation for himself now.

When the shopkeeper sees a guest coming, even if he is busy, he has to come forward to greet him, which is etiquette.

"Guest officer, are you here to eat or stay in the hotel, if there are two rooms in the hotel, there will be no seats for dinner. ”

The old man in charge was telling the truth, there was indeed no seat for dinner, and the old patron Yi Jiuxiao was already sitting at the counter drinking.

There are guest rooms, and Yi Jiuxiao is currently living alone in the three guest rooms, and he only lives in one.

When the man saw the shopkeeper say this, he did not say anything, and seemed to check the situation in the store.