As the capital of the Longhua Empire, the Imperial Capital Star has a beautiful environment, pleasant scenery, and a warm climate like spring in all seasons. Coupled with the blessing of the halo of the political, military and cultural center of the empire, it is natural that the imperial capital star has become a tourist attraction.

Xiuyuan Mountain is located fifty miles southeast of the Imperial Palace, and is loved by the majority of tourists because of its unique geographical location and fresh and pleasant scenery. Many people like to climb high and look far away here, just enough to take photos with the Imperial Palace, and by the way, you can also touch the royal luxury.

However, although there are many people here, very few people know that Xiuyuan Mountain is a place for Emperor Ye Xuan to cultivate his body.

Speaking of Ye Xuan, he is definitely a legendary figure in the Longhua Empire. When he was a teenager, his grades were average, and after graduating from university, he returned to his hometown and became a junior high school teacher. At the age of thirty, he unexpectedly awakened his talent, but never showed half of it. At the age of thirty-seven, when the Zerg invaded, he was forced to show his amazing combat ability after helping the defenders repel a Zerg legion, and after killing the Zerg Queen in the tide of thousands of insects, he became famous in a battle!

Since then, Ye Xuan has started the road of a strong man against the sky. At the age of forty, he entered the Demon Realm to fight against the five demon kings alone, at the age of forty-two, he entered the Heavenly Yuan Realm to face the ancestors of the Mahayana period of the Wuji Sword Sect, at the age of forty-six, he entered hell and killed thirty-six great lords in a row, and at the age of fifty, he entered Heaven to fight with the primeval archangel for three days and three nights, and finally made a thousand-year covenant. At the age of fifty-four, he re-entered the insect world alone, and the killing was turned upside down. Entering the spirit realm at the age of sixty, no one in the five major spirit clans dared to fight.

It can be said that it was an era when one person alone suppressed the heavens, and Ye Xuan only relied on one name to protect the Longhua Empire for a hundred years.

However, Ye Xuan was indifferent to fame and fortune by nature, did not like power, and refused all the high-ranking officials granted by the imperial family, and lived alone in the mountains, not asking about the world.

Another ten years later, His Majesty the then Emperor personally led His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to stand at the foot of the mountain for ten days, and Ye Xuan had no choice but to accept the Prince as his disciple. Since then, the three generations of emperors have all been under the name of Ye Xuan, and the name of the emperor has spread.

This mountain was formerly called Longting Mountain, but it was renamed Xiuyuan after being given to Ye Xuan by the royal family. Originally, according to the royal family's intention, this mountain was completely banned, so as not to let outsiders disturb the emperor's cultivation. But Ye Xuan didn't like to be public, so he only sealed the back mountain and set aside the front mountain for the world to play and watch.

And at this moment, halfway up the back mountain, in front of a simple wooden house, a little girl was struggling to swing an axe to chop wood. The girl is not very old, twelve or thirteen years old, wearing a coarse cloth dress, her figure is thin and small, but her small face looks very energetic, especially the eyes against the white hair, smart and expressive. Needless to say, this is Her Royal Highness Yang Xiaoyao, the most popular princess of the Longhua Empire.

Since the last poisoning and assassination, the royal family is no longer worried about Yang Xiaoyao's personal safety. So according to the original plan, she was sent to Xiuyuan Mountain to apprentice Ye Xuan half a year in advance. If there is one place in this world that can make the royal family feel safe, it must be Xiuyuan Mountain. As long as the emperor is still in the sky, no one can hurt Yang Xiaoyao in the slightest.

In the early years, Ye Xuan also received many disciples. It can be said that he is a real teacher, he teaches without class, never looks at his background, whether it is a child of the royal family, or ordinary people or even non-human creatures in other planes, as long as he has talent and is willing to work hard, he is willing to teach.

But in the last hundred years, he has rarely accepted any more apprentices. In his own words, in the past, it was the original intention to accept apprentices, but now it is fate to accept apprentices. He now only accepts people who are destined.

This definition is very arbitrary, and in the eyes of outsiders, if you want to receive it, even if you look at each other in the vast sea of people, it is called fate. If you don't want to accept it, even if you kneel at the foot of the mountain for a year, you won't have a chance!

The vast majority of people feel that this is just Ye Xuan's excuse. But no matter what, no one in the empire dared to force him to do anything. Therefore, in the past hundred years, he has only accepted two apprentices: one is a commoner child who lives at the foot of Xiuyuan Mountain. The other is the current supreme commander of the Imperial Military Department, Generalissimo Lin Haifeng.

And now the emperor has one more disciple, and it is Yang Xiaoyao.

It has been almost two months since she went up to the mountain to apprentice, and Ye Xuan is also full of love for Yang Xiaoyao and taught her a secret way of meditation. Yang Xiaoyao was also competitive, revealing extremely high spiritual power and magical talent, coupled with the open supply of countless elixirs backed by the imperial family, allowing her to condense eight third-level mana crystals in less than two months. In other words, now she has reached the level of a third-order profession in terms of the reserve of magic elements alone.

Of course, it was only from the aspect of mana crystals, and from the perspective of application, Ye Xuan had not taught her any magic so far.

Why did the Imperial Ministry of Education stipulate that junior high school could only lay the foundation, and high school should only formally teach magic skills? First, because magic skills are difficult to control, and it is too difficult for junior high school children. The second reason is that if the child is too young, he has not yet formed a correct outlook on life and values, and it is too dangerous to master the lethal force alone.

Ye Xuan himself is a junior high school teacher and has deep experience in educating students, so he is not in a hurry to teach Yang Xiaoyao any magic, just let her blindly lay a good foundation.

So what Yang Xiaoyao has to do every day now is to meditate without moving, then chop wood and dive. It's not that he is ruthless, letting a thin little girl do rough work every day. Rather, chopping wood and carrying water are also a form of exercise.

Take the chopping wood that Yang Xiaoyao is doing now. First of all, the axe she uses is not the iron axe used in the house, but an axe composed entirely of ice. Secondly, she wasn't holding an axe in her hand. If you look closely, you will find that her hand is always just holding the axe, and it has not touched the axe at all.

It is undoubtedly difficult for a twelve- or thirteen-year-old child to maintain the state of condensing the ice axe and control it with mental power all the time. Yang Xiaoyao was tired every time she cut down with an axe, she was sweating profusely, and her small arms couldn't help but tremble. But she has never cried out bitterly, shouted tired, and can complete the task on time every time.

Now the status of the royal princess has not made her forget who she is, and every bite of exquisite food can remind her of how she came over in the cold winter. Now that she has the opportunity to learn from Master, she must seize every opportunity and never relax.

"Good apprentice, don't practice yet, come over and eat!"

A doting voice suddenly came and interrupted Yang Xiaoyao's concentrated spirit, and the ice axe in his hand suddenly lost control, and with a 'whew', it turned into a flame battle axe, scorching all the wood below.

"Master-" Yang Xiaoyao's face was cold, and she turned around to look at Ye Xuan, who was serving the dish, and couldn't help but complain for a while: "Master, I told you, don't disturb me when I'm concentrating!"

"Yes, yes, yes, I know! I'm not doing this for you? I've been practicing all morning, I haven't even drunk my saliva, what should I do if I'm tired? In life, trying to enjoy every minute of my life is the most important thing!" Ye Xuan looked like an emperor at this time, he was completely an old man who doted on his granddaughter, and pinched her little face with great love.

"If I had your strength, I could say the same," Yang Xiaoyao pouted and snorted. Just like only rich people will say that I never care about money, and only a strong person like Ye Xuan will say that enjoying life is the most important thing. Yang Xiaoyao has always scoffed at this kind of talk.

"Don't worry, sooner or later you will be like me! Come, try this fish soup, this fish is newly caught by the master. Ye Xuan smiled and gave Yang Xiaoyao a bowl of fish soup.

Yang Xiaoyao just picked up the fish soup and was about to take a sip, then suddenly thought of something, immediately put down the bowl and ran to Ye Xuan's side, and said flatteringly: "Master, last time you promised that you had time to tell me what talent is?

"It's a little too early for you!" Ye Xuan excused.

"It's not early, I've already learned to transform the three elemental forms, you see!" Yang Xiaoyao was coquettish for a while. Then, in order to prove herself, she spread out a hand and condensed an ice ball on the palm of her hand, but in the blink of an eye, the ice ball suddenly turned into a fireball, and then the fireball turned into an iron ingot, with no gaps and flaws in the middle, it looked like a magic trick.

But Ye Xuan knew that this was not magic, nor any kind of magic, but Yang Xiaoyao's innate ability.

"I didn't expect you to have mastered it to this extent?" Ye Xuan nodded affirmatively, and after a little hesitation, he said, "Since you must want to know, I can also tell you some now." First of all, tell me, how much do you know about your natural abilities?"

This question stumped Yang Xiaoyao. She could feel that she had a special ability. But what this ability is, she has not yet fully figured out. It was only after an inadvertent encounter that she discovered that she seemed to be able to transform between magical elements at will. For example, the water element is transformed into the ice element, then into the fire element, and finally into the metal element.

But with her knowledge of magic, she knew that such a transformation should be absolutely impossible. Whether it is the water element or the fire element, although they are both magical elements, there is the most essential difference between them. That's why she became more and more confused, wanting to know what kind of existence talent is?

If you want to say who knows the most about talent in the world today, it must be Ye Xuan himself. So after listening to Yang Xiaoyao's cognition of his talent, he shook his head with a smile and said, "You are still too young, and what you have learned and recognized is limited, which also limits your cognition of talent."

If you want to know your talent, you must know what talent is. The growth, cycle, end and reincarnation of all things in this world have their own strict internal rules, just like a set of incomparably complex programs running with precision from moment to moment. But after a long time, no matter how strict the rules are, there will be some problems, and our so-called talent is actually a loophole in these rules. I say that, do you understand?"

"A little bit!" Yang Xiaoyao shook her head, still a little as if she didn't understand. For a child her age, it seems a little difficult to understand what a loophole in the rules is.

"It's all said, it's too early to tell you this. Remember my words, and you will understand in the future!" Ye Xuan said.

"Oh!" Yang Xiaoyao nodded, and suddenly her eyes lit up and she asked, "Master, what is your talent?"

"Do you want to know? That master will show you two hands today!" Ye Xuan really doted on Yang Xiaoyao and patted her little head melon seeds.

The hands drew a circle in mid-air, and an image appeared in it like a mirror, a little girl practicing chopping wood with an ice axe, sweating profusely. Who is Yang Xiaoyao if it's not her?

Looking at Yang Xiaoyao's puzzled gaze, Ye Xuan explained: "This is yesterday's you, and this is tomorrow's you." ”

As he spoke, he drew a circle in mid-air, and what appeared inside was the picture of Yang Xiaoyao who had just come out of the wooden house in the morning.

"Do you want to see you tomorrow?" Ye Xuan laughed like a naughty child, and then reached out to grab tomorrow's picture, and directly grabbed tomorrow's Yang Xiaoyao out of it.

As soon as the two Yang Xiaoyao met, they were completely stunned, not knowing what was going on. After waiting for a long time, today's Yang Xiaoyao came back to her senses in disbelief, pointed to her tomorrow self and asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm ...... Tomorrow's you, you are ...... Yesterday's me!" Tomorrow's Yang Xiaoyao seems to understand a little, but as soon as she finished speaking, she was grabbed by Ye Xuan and thrown into yesterday, then yesterday she caught now, and finally grabbed her today and threw her into tomorrow.

After a series of dazzling operations, Ye Xuan asked with a smile, "Do you understand?"

Yang Xiaoyao was completely stunned. She doesn't know who she is now.

"When tomorrow becomes yesterday, yesterday becomes today, and today becomes tomorrow, then at this moment, is the me you see yesterday, the me of today, or the me of tomorrow? Or do you think what just happened, did it happen today, or yesterday, or tomorrow?" Ye Xuan smoothed out all the time mirrors, and said, "You are what I want to teach you." We Awakened are the loopholes in the rules of this world, and if you want to learn to use your talents, you must first learn to understand the rules, find the rules, and finally use the rules. ”

"Oh, I'll study hard, Master!" Although Yang Xiaoyao was still dizzy now, she also understood that Ye Xuan was teaching her something very profound, even if she didn't understand it for the time being, she must remember it word for word.

"Master, Senior Brother Lin is here!" a figure came from the bottom of the mountain, interrupting the lecture between them. The person who came was a middle-aged man, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a simple face, and at first glance, he only knew that he was a loyal person.

This person is the commoner child that Ye Xuan accepted before, named Liang Sheng. Because he was loyal and honest, he didn't have any big ideals and ambitions, so he stayed by Ye Xuan's side. And the senior brother Lin in his mouth is Lin Haifeng, the generalissimo of the three armies.

"Got it, let him wait!" Ye Xuan said indifferently. When laughing with Yang Xiaoyao, the complete waist gradually straightened up, and every gesture contained a bearing that was beyond the vulgar world. This is the real style of a one-man emperor who suppresses the heavens!