Li Mengzhou looked at Guan Muyun's dejected appearance, and his brows furrowed deeply.

The mighty sword intent trend unabated and blasted towards Guan Muyun.

However, as he approached his front door, the majestic aura was still, and the sword intent slowly dissipated.

Only the dark blue tip of the sword was left between Guan Muyun's eyebrows.

The spectators watched the scene silently.

Some people can't understand it, but some people look at Guan Muyun with some complicated emotions in their eyes.

Ping Po was also looking at Guan Muyun, who was standing in place stupidly, her brows frowned slightly, and then she shook her head and sighed softly.

Others may not understand, but she knows very well that Guan Muyun still has a trace of residual strength, that is, some kind of hole card is useless, but he was shocked by Li Mengzhou's strength, completely lost his will, and actually stood there motionless.

In a sense, Guan Muyun is a failure.

Not only in the battle, but in terms of mood, he was also defeated.

This is a very bad thing on the path of cultivation.

Li Mengzhou also understood this, he was already prepared to deal with Guan Muyun's counterattack, but Guan Muyun did not fight back, but directly admitted defeat in another way.

Although he was a little disappointed, Li Mengzhou didn't care much.

What Guan Muyun was thinking, he didn't want to know.

Because he never set his eyes on Guan Muyun's body from beginning to end.

In this battle, of course, Li Mengzhou won.

Just when everyone thought that Li Mengzhou would challenge Lu Jiuge next, he slowly put his sword into the sheath, looked at Lu Jiuge who had already stood up with a smile, and said, "Senior Sister Lu, I'm very tired now, so I won't fight the next battle." ”

Lu Jiuge was surprised.

The people on the fifth floor were also amazed.

After all, Li Mengzhou has a record of defeating Lu Changge across the border, no matter what means are used, in a sense, he does have the strength to fight with the monks of the lower grades of the four realms, although many people think that Li Mengzhou cannot win Lu Jiuge, but the other party chose not to fight, which is still very surprising.

Jiang Zihua in the Sword Courtyard of the Palace has taken the initiative to admit defeat to Lu Jiuge, and now Li Mengzhou is like this, the atmosphere at this moment is inevitably a little weird.

Lu Jiuge looked at Li Mengzhou very seriously and said, "I can wait for Senior Brother Li to recuperate before coming to fight." ”

Li Mengzhou smiled and said: "Thank you Senior Sister Lu for your kindness, but it was a fluke for me to win Lu Changge, even if I recovered the state, I couldn't beat Senior Sister Lu." ”

There is also half truth in these words.

And even if he wins Lu Jiuge, the two of them are tied for the first place, but there is only one person in the first place, and there will definitely be other arrangements later, Li Mengzhou doesn't think it makes much sense.

The most important thing is that Jiang Tingyu once said clearly that he wanted him to win at least the second place at the Panlong Banquet, and now that he is in the second place, there is no need to hit the first place.

He has fulfilled his promise to Jiang Tingyu, and everything else has nothing to do with him.

Lu Jiuge could see the firmness in Li Mengzhou's eyes, so he didn't continue to say anything, although the position of the first place was won by Li Mengzhou and Jiang Zihua without fighting, but even according to the rules, she had to win at least one of them in order to sit firmly in the first place, once defeated, the first place would be lost with her.

Regardless of whether Li Mengzhou and Jiang Zihua can win against Lu Jiuge, Jiang Zihua will definitely lose, in a sense, Lu Jiuge's first position is worthy of the name.

At this point, the Panlong Banquet officially ended.

Pujia Garden, represented by Lu Jiuge, is the first place in this year's Panlong Banquet.

The Imperial Palace Sword Academy, represented by Jiang Zi's paintings, is in second place.

The Star Picking Mansion, represented by Yang Zhao, only won the third place.

However, the college has no ranking.

Because the academy only sent Guan Muyun to the banquet alone, and only participated in the first battle, he lost to Li Mengzhou, and unfortunately lost the election at this year's Panlong banquet, which has never happened in the past years.

The biennial Panlong Banquet, whenever there are academy disciples to the banquet, they are basically the first or second place, and this year they are not even in the top three, Guan Muyun, who goes to the banquet as a representative, is bound to be discussed again by the people in the capital.

Some people may say that the academy is not as good as before, but some people will say that because the academy only sends a new disciple, it is not a fuss if it can't get into the top three, and the academy is still the same academy.

But no matter what people say, the name Guan Muyun will be the focus of discussion around the academy, with mixed reviews.

The genius who once stood in the clouds faintly showed signs of falling into the abyss.

However, compared to this, Li Mengzhou's crossing of the border to defeat the monks of the Four Realms must have been the most discussed.

The reason for the poor is that Li Mengzhou has been on the path of cultivation for a short time, but he has done many things that his predecessors can't do.

This makes people no longer able to ignore Li Mengzhou, a little monster who has gone from an ordinary person to the pinnacle of Chengyi in less than half a year.

......

In the palace late at night.

Jiang Tingyu held an umbrella and walked under the night sky when the heavy rain had disappeared and the light rain was still fluttering.

The main hall of the deep palace is very quiet.

Patrolling janissaries emerge one after another, sealing the palace impenetrable.

His Majesty the Emperor is still reviewing the recitals.

His brow furrowed slightly, and the contents of the letter spread out on the table were somewhat unusual.

Jiang Tingyu quietly entered the imperial study, and the chamberlain did not stop him or report it.

There are very few people who can enter and exit the imperial study so easily.

"Your Majesty, the Panlong Feast has ended. ”

Jiang Tingyu patted some raindrops on his sleeves a little and said softly.

He then told His Majesty the Emperor in detail about some important things that happened in the Panlong Banquet.

"I didn't expect that the girl who won the first place would be the girl from Pujiayuan. ”

His Majesty the Emperor took his eyes off the letter on the table, poured two cups of silent mountain tea, and raised his hand to signal Jiang Tingyu.

Jiang Tingyu thanked him and said: "Lu Jiuge, as the heir of the mountain lord of Pujiayuan, has very high qualifications, and is extremely calm, in the case of similar strength to Yang Zhao, he ended the battle almost quickly, he has a very good grasp of the battle situation, and knows how to contain the opponent's strengths in the first time, and put himself in a favorable situation as quickly as possible." ”

His Majesty the Emperor smiled and said, "It seems that these young people in my Jiang Country are very good, and they are worth vigorously cultivating, and they will become the pillars of my Jiang Country in the future." ”

Then he frowned slightly, and said: "Li Mengzhou's performance is expected by me, and it is unexpected, his rise is very fast, which is a good thing, but sometimes too fast is not necessarily a good thing." ”

"It is a well-known thing in the cultivation world that in addition to the basic stage of the initial realm, the crossing of the three realms through the four realms is a major bottleneck period in cultivation that is difficult to easily cross, and countless cultivators are blocked in that threshold and cannot be crossed in their lifetimes. ”

"And as long as he crosses the threshold of the four realms, his cultivation speed will decrease, and he can't continue to break through the realm by just relying on penance, if Li Mengzhou can't break through this bottleneck period as soon as possible, then even if he breaks through the realm faster before, he may only be able to stay in the three realms for the rest of his life, even if he crosses that threshold one day, his achievements will be limited. ”

Jiang Tingyu was silent for a moment, and said softly: "Your Majesty's worries are not unreasonable, but if Li Mengzhou is really that person's apprentice, the threshold of the Four Realms will definitely not be his bottleneck period, even the poorest qualified disciple in the Fuji Cave has almost stood at the peak of the Four Realms before the age of thirty, and Li Mengzhou has no reason to be even worse." ”

Hearing this, His Majesty the Emperor looked down at the letter on the table, tapped his index finger on the table, raised his eyes and said, "Liu Feiyu brought back news from Beiyan. ”

Jiang Tingyu's eyes condensed slightly.

After receiving the signal from His Majesty the Emperor, he stepped forward quickly, picked up the letter, and read it carefully.

Although the letters from the outside world could not escape the eyes of the Heavenly Lord's Court, this letter did not reach Jiang Tingyu for the first time, but was directly delivered to the palace, which undoubtedly shows that the content of this letter is very important, and it must be seen by His Majesty the Emperor as soon as possible.

The content of the letter was simple, with only a few sentences.

The approximate meaning is that Liu Feiyu lurked near the Northern Yan Capital, and through the assistance of the secret agents of the Heavenly Council outside, he infiltrated the various cultivation mountain gates within the radius of the Northern Yan Capital, and discovered some secrets that were not known to outsiders.

The white-robed swordsman Han Yi once appeared in the territory of Beiyan, and this news was confirmed.

And Han Yi destroyed a cultivation mountain gate in Beiyan overnight, when that incident happened, the capital of Beiyan did not notice anything unusual, and by the time a large number of soldiers and gathered cultivation powerhouses rushed over, the mountain gate had already become a ruin.

According to Liu Feiyu's secret investigation, the cultivation mountain gate was about to break away from the scope of the four realms and win the Five Realms Sect, just because the sect master of that mountain gate was about to break through the realm and cross the threshold of the five realms, as for whether the sect master had successfully broken through the realm, it is unknown, because on that night, the entire mountain gate was destroyed by the white-robed swordsman with one person and one sword.

This tragic incident caused a great sensation in the Northern Yan court.

But Emperor Beiyan decisively blocked the news as soon as possible, so there are not many people who know the truth of that matter.

However, judging from the situation investigated by Liu Feiyu, not long after the fall of that mountain gate, other cultivation mountain gates sent disciples of the Four Realms of cultivation and even deacons to personally lead the team, and cooperated with the elite armor of Northern Yan to secretly sweep many cities, and its purpose was self-evident, that is, to track down the murderer.

It is rumored that at that time, a large number of cultivators and armies appeared in the plains near the snow-capped mountains, and in the middle of the night, the sky presented an extremely gorgeous light curtain, which lasted for three days and three nights, and was praised as a wonder by many ordinary people in the local area, and even prostrated and prayed for peace.

However, Liu Feiyu guessed that that scene was an abnormal change in the aura of heaven and earth formed by the battles of countless Great Cultivators of the Four Realms, and on the plain near the snow-capped mountain, there must be the figure of Han Yi, a white-robed swordsman.

Beiyan exerted all his strength to encircle and suppress the white-robed swordsmen, although that battle did not involve the powerhouses of the Five Realms, but hundreds of Great Monks of the Four Realms had the cooperation of elite armorers, even if they were strong people who had just entered the threshold of the Five Realms, they had to temporarily avoid the edge.

Whether Han Yi was attacked or arrested by the Northern Yan cultivators is unknown, Liu Feiyu's investigation was interrupted here, and the follow-up matter was completely unclear.

But at least what can be determined is that Han Yi did appear in the territory of Beiyan, and he also did a lot of great things, which made many cultivators in the territory of Beiyan panic in a short period of time.

His Majesty the Emperor looked at Jiang Tingyu, who was reading the letter carefully, and said slowly: "Regardless of whether there is a big thing in that mountain gate that has crossed the threshold of the Five Realms, even if it is in the opportunity to break through the realm, it is far from being something that ordinary monks at the peak of the Four Realms can kill, even Han Yi back then can't do it, not to mention that there are still many disciples and deacons of the Four Realms in that mountain gate. ”

Jiang Tingyu silently closed the letter in his hand and said, "Unless Han Yi's cultivation has become stronger than he used to be, if not, he would not be able to fight for three days and three nights in the Snow Mountain Plain with such a huge force summoned by Beiyan. ”

His Majesty the Emperor was slightly moved and said, "Han Yi is really the most demonic person in the world. ”

Jiang Tingyu was silent for a moment, and said: "Liu Feiyu still needs to continue to investigate in Beiyan, with his cultivation in the Five Realms, as long as he doesn't meet those old monsters in Beiyan, few people can help him, not to mention that there is another god general of ours sitting on the border." Whether Han Yi is dead or alive, but he always has to live to see people, and to see corpses when he dies, he is a citizen of my Jiang country after all, and there is no reason to die in other countries, and his bones are not cold. ”

His Majesty the Emperor said in a deep voice: "Since it is certain that Han Yi was once alive, then it is impossible for me to sit back and admit that he is in danger, even if I only get a corpse, I must bring him back. ”

......

After the Panlong Banquet, many of the disciples of the Mountain Sect who were far away from the capital were ready to return.

Some people plan to stay overnight and then leave tomorrow morning.

Others plan to leave the capital tonight.

Jiang Zihua and Lu Jiuge and other Pujiayuan disciples walked towards the Ligong Sword Courtyard outside the southern city.

In the middle of the road, Chen Zidu clenched his fists slightly, and said with a smile: "The green mountains do not change, the green water flows forever, wait for me to go back and practice well, and then come to the capital to ask you for advice." ”

Jiang Zihua patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "There will be a period later." ”

After bidding farewell to Chen Zidu and the disciples of the Tianhu Dao Mansion, they continued to walk along the mountain road.

Li Mengzhou, who was at the back, frowned and looked at He Zhengrong, who looked a little indifferent, and said, "You seem to have some things to do." ”

He Zhengrong glanced at him and said, "Do you want to meddle again?"

Li Mengzhou said with some displeasure: "When did I ever meddle in my affairs? When I was in Taiqing Building, it wasn't that I was looking for trouble on purpose, it was Ni Zhenchun who bumped into it himself." ”

He Zhengrong sneered: "That Taoye girl can see that you are a fool, if you want to go with me, you will definitely see her again, are you sure you want to go with you?"

Li Mengzhou's face suddenly became a little ugly, and he said depressedly: "I know what you want to do, but Cangnan Mountain is also a big sect after all, if you don't want to be troubled, what you do can't be seen by a third party." ”

He Zhengrong frowned and remained silent.

Li Mengzhou patted him on the shoulder and said: "Although you have never called me so much, but according to the rules of the mountain gate, we will be admitted to the hospital together, I am older than you, I am your senior brother, and the purpose of the palace sword academy is that the same door is a brother, since this matter is known, there is no reason not to ask." ”

He thought that the fourth senior brother had unconditionally trusted him and helped him stop Jian Shuxuan, which was as a senior brother's care for his junior brother, and it was also a shelter, so now he, as a senior brother, should also take care of the young He Zhengrong.

Thinking of this, he suddenly had a strong sense of honor.

When he was in Shuning Town, he was willing to kill the meditation cultivator for Cui Debt, so changing places, changing people, as a fellow disciple who gets along day and night, there is no reason why he shouldn't do that.

He Zhengrong looked at Li Mengzhou with a very strange expression, thinking that the so-called fellow disciples were brothers, which should have been a very ridiculous thing in his opinion, but for some reason, he actually felt a little moved.

Growing up, he never understood what the word brother meant.

Those brothers who have a close blood relationship with him have fists and feet against him, and they have insulted him to the fullest, except for his mother, how can there be anyone in the world who really cares about him?

Even if there was someone he thought was good to him, but in the end it was just to tease him.

That feeling was far more unbearable for him than being humiliated and scolded by his own brother.

He paid absolutely sincerely, but in exchange for a disdainful look.

He never wanted to go through it a second time.

Staring at Li Mengzhou tightly, He Zhengrong sighed lightly and said, "Sometimes I think you're quite annoying. ”

Li Mengzhou chuckled and said, "That's just your illusion. ”

He looked in the direction of Shuning Town in the northwest, thinking about his former self and his current self, there were indeed some changes, because this was the capital, and because he felt something here that he had not felt before.

As long as his heart doesn't change.

The two of them quietly left the path to the mountain gate of the palace.

Hidden in the bamboo forest next to the official road, he ran with all his might, chasing after those mountain sect disciples who had just left not long ago.

And almost at the same time, Xu Hexian, who returned to the Xuanzheng Division, saw the corpse of Wang Zhong, who was covered in blood.

Zhu Zaitian stood aside with a somewhat pale face, his head lowered.

Xu Hexian's expression did not change, he looked at Zhu Zaitian indifferently, and said, "Who made you act without permission?"

Although the voice was very light, it was like a heavy hammer hitting Zhu Zaitian's heart, making his body tremble uncontrollably, and he said in a trembling voice: "My subordinates know their mistakes, I think I can take advantage of Li Mengzhou's absence in the capital to kill him outside the city......

Xu Hexian retracted his gaze, interrupted Zhu Zaitian's words in a deep voice, and said coldly: "Go and get the punishment." ”

Zhu Zaitian's body was still trembling, even more fierce than before, but he knelt down in surprise and said, "Thank you Lord Si Shou for not killing!"

Although the punishment was extremely terrifying, as long as he could not die, it was already a blessing, and the joy even outweighed the fear.

As Zhu Zaitian retreated, within a moment, a terrible scream rang out in the dim Xuanzheng Division, dispelling the fog in the night sky, revealing the bright moon behind him.