"Array, judging from your superb attainments in the formation and your age, you must already have an apprentice, right?" Xia Fan chatted casually while taking the array to check the terrain around the Yunhuan Lake in order to determine where the large formation nodes need to be arranged when arranging the formation in the future.

"In front of the Daoyou, where can the old man's little bit of formation level dare to be called superb, but after living a handful of years, there are still some disciples and grandchildren, originally the old man had the intention to bring them to work for you, and he was afraid that the Daoist friend would not look down on him, so he was still hesitating...... "The formation didn't know what Xia Fan's intention was in provoking this, so he was quite cautious in what he said.

"This is your modesty, the apprentices and grandchildren you trained, of course I can trust, as long as you are willing, you can also call them to help when you arrange the formation here, after all, what we want to arrange is not the kind of small fight, and I may not always be able to help you here in person, if you are busy here, I can't bear it, with the help of your apprentices and grandchildren, I can rest assured that I can be lazy boldly." Xia Fan said with a smile.

"If you can participate in the arrangement of such a big formation, it will also be of great help to improve their formation level, and the old decay will have to trust and cultivate them on their behalf. Jinsu was very happy and excited. These words are not all words, but sincere gratitude. After all, even he had never had the opportunity to arrange such a large-scale formation before, and his apprentices and apprentices naturally had no chance. If you can really get involved, you can certainly benefit a lot from it.

However, in this way, it also means that Jinsuo and his apprentices and grandchildren are completely tied to Xia Fan. After all, this formation is too important, and if there is anything wrong in the future, it will naturally be the responsibility of the formation. He didn't care about this formation, for him, being able to arrange such a big formation with his own hands was definitely the greatest achievement in his life, and he would definitely do his best to strive for perfection. If something goes wrong, he won't forgive himself without Xia Fan looking for him.

Of course, although the formation is obsessed with the formation, it is not unfamiliar with the world, and when he thanked Xia Fan, he also secretly considered in his heart that he should let those apprentices come over to help him. Those who are not very reliable will definitely be excluded, lest they will have no face in front of Xia Fan if they cause trouble in the future.

"What kind of temple is it, it must be demolished later. Xia Fan pointed to a temple built inside the lake. This temple covers a large area, built by the water, and the incense looks quite vigorous.

"Well, it's located at one node, and it can't be dismantled without demolition. The array glanced at the location of the temple, and soon realized why it was demolished, and at the same time not only secretly admired Xia Fan, after all, he only realized that this was a node of the formation after listening to his words and thinking about it, but Xia Fan saw the importance of this place at a glance, which shows that he has already thought about how to arrange the entire large array in his heart, which can be said to be a bamboo in his chest, which can also be seen that there is still a big gap between himself and his attainments in the formation.

"Returning to the little prince, this is a dragon king temple, it has been more than 100 years, I heard that the fishermen near Yunhuan Lake must come here to burn incense and worship before entering the lake to fish, you can get the protection of the dragon king, according to legend, it is very effective. The guards who followed Xia Fan told the origin of this temple.

With Xia Fan's current identity, it is naturally indispensable for personal guards to follow him around, even if he doesn't actually need it, he still has to have what he should have. In this regard, Xia Fan didn't feel unaccustomed, and not to mention the strength of these new guards, at least they were quite clever, and Xia Fan was quite easy to use.

"Dragon King, it's a bit interesting, but what should be dismantled still has to be dismantled. Xia Fan looked at the temple, but finally did not change his mind.

Deploying a formation on the Cloud Ring Lake is his established grand strategy, and it will definitely not be changed easily, not to mention that it is just a dragon king temple, even if there is really a dragon king here, he will let it make way for the big array.

"Report ......" At this time, suddenly a herald rushed towards Xia Fan.

"No need to be polite, just say anything. Xia Fan waved his hand to stop the herald who was about to bow and salute.

"Report to the little prince, although the battle ahead was blocked by the enemy, but on the whole it was quite smooth, but just now there was a monster in the Yunhuan Lake, which destroyed our three ships in a row and devoured our soldiers who fell into the water, General Ge has gone to kill this monster. The herald reported respectfully.

"Monster! It seems that there is really everything in this cloud-ring lake, and I want to go and see what kind of soldiers dare to eat my soldiers. At the end of the words, Xia Fan was already murderous, and he directly set up the Great Five Elements Sword and soared into the air, already heading towards the depths of the Cloud Ring Lake.

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Hanjing City, as the capital of the Imperial City of the Han Dynasty, has not had a major war for more than ten years since the Rebellion of the Demon Kingdom, and there are occasional small-scale conflicts and battles, including many conflicts and battles between Xia Fan, who has become famous in the past year or so, and the battles, for the people of Hanjing City, it is more just a conversation after dinner.

Although the king of the town has been saying the opposite for more than ten years, after all, after more than ten years, people have become accustomed to it and even numb.

Especially with the news that the king of the town was assassinated some time ago, many people have a feeling that there is no war in the world, even if there are occasional battles, it is also a battle for the outside world, the frontier. After all, although there are many countries around the Han Dynasty, the strongest is only the grassland. As for the existence of the Great Sun Demon Kingdom and the Tianyu Empire, for the vast majority of people, they have never heard of it, there are hundreds of small countries around, and now that there is no town king, maybe the Han Dynasty will soon expand its territory again.

Although this kind of thinking is only the understanding of most ordinary people, even for the vast majority of high-level people in the Han Dynasty, everything is developing in a good direction, and there are not many people who can perceive that the situation is different, even if some people see it more far-reaching, but the change in the situation is beyond their imagination.

Huang Longyu defected to the enemy, the southeast rebellion, internal contradictions were frequent, the sons of the king of Zhen competed for the throne, and the emperor and the crown prince could not come forward at the critical moment, which suddenly plunged the Han Dynasty into chaos and fragmentation.

It was only at this time that the people of Hanjing City were horrified to find that the peace they thought they thought did not exist in the world, but it was originally suppressed, but now it finally erupted like a volcano that could no longer be suppressed.

"Xiangye, the southeast rebels are strong, if you don't hurry up and find a way, it will really not work......"

"Xiangye, where are Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, there is a matter of great urgency......"

"Hey, Shiping, the civil strife in the grassland has subsided, and Huang Longyu killed the messenger we sent......"

"Zuo Xiang, the blockade of Western Xinjiang, although we have contacted Xia Feng, but Xia Lu and Xia Hu have completely blocked Western Xinjiang, Xia Feng asks us for support......"

"Cao Xiangye, the children of the royal family in Hanjing City petitioned, and you are going to give an answer......

............

Cao Shiping, who has always wanted to control the power, to be under that one person, above tens of thousands of people, and to control the absolute power, has a desire to die at the moment.

He was working on things almost sleeplessly, but there were more and more things, if only he was busy. The most important thing is that there are constantly new changes in some things, and it is difficult to be good at all, such as the southeast rebellion, the invasion of the grassland, the betrayal of Huang Longyu, the war of many surrounding vassal states, the chaos in the western Xinjiang, and many internal contradictions......

But at this moment, even if the matter is delayed, he has to continue to give some judgments, although at this moment the officials of the entire Hanjing City are all mobilized, but Cao Shiping can feel the restlessness and uneasiness, when the wind and rain are shaking, people's hearts are fluctuating......

It was busy until late at night, and Hanjing City was completely quiet, but Cao Shiping's location was still the same. At this time, Cao Shiping raised his head and looked at Sun Haoran, who had been sitting here for a day.

This old guy who has been against him for decades and usually looks down on him arrogantly, originally thought that with his temperament, if he didn't take care of him, he would leave soon.

"Xiangye, this is the transfer of grain and grass, and the grain and grass in two counties have been robbed...... At this time, there are still people coming in, handing over some things that cannot be handled below and are difficult to decide. But at this time, Cao Shiping waved his hand directly, didn't listen to the next words at all, and let the person leave.

"All of them go out, and they are not allowed to come in without the command of their own appearance. Although Cao Shiping is now the temporary highest decision-making place of the Han Dynasty, it is impossible to be like the emperor and the crown prince, he is surrounded by many staff members, and there are six ministries and dozens of other people to help, with his order, these people are also secretly relieved, and they have bowed down and withdrew.

"Taifu, you have also seen that now when the country is in danger and survival, although your Sun family's fiefdom in the south has been attacked...... "The southeast rebellion is getting bigger and bigger, and it has affected many provinces in the south, and even the area of the Sun family's fief has been attacked, Cao Shiping has long known about this matter, thinking that Sun Haoran is here for this, but what Cao Shiping can do at present is only to concentrate on temporarily trapping the rebels, and there is nothing he can do to send troops alone in order to take care of anyone.

The people of the southern faction have been making continuous efforts recently, so when Sun Haoran, the biggest boss of the southern faction, came forward, Cao Shiping naturally thought that Sun Haoran was still here for this matter.

It's just that Cao Shiping just said it, but he found that Sun Haoran had an incomprehensible smile on his face, which made him slightly stunned, because the smile was too strange. In fact, Cao Shiping calmed down a little and didn't think about it with emotion, and when he saw Sun Haoran's smile again, he suddenly felt that things would not be so simple.

In fact, in his opinion, it is impossible for Sun Haoran not to know the current situation of the imperial court, and the fiefdom of the Sun family in his southern province has just been attacked in a few counties, so he will not be so unable to sit still......

No, it's definitely not that simple. Suddenly, looking at Sun Haoran's seemingly righteous and indescribable smile, Cao Shiping's thoughts turned.

"Since Xiangye has said so, this Taifu has to ask for it, after all, it is the fundamental place of the Sun family, hum ......" It's just that when Cao Shiping thought that something was wrong, Sun Haoran directly admitted that while speaking, the bracelet he had been playing with suddenly flashed, and in an instant, the bracelet engraved with twelve special ancient characters flashed, and Cao Shiping suddenly found that the two of them seemed to be in the sky, but under their feet was Hanjing City.

(End of chapter)