Chapter 166: Qi State
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The state of Qi is afraid of the eastern region of Dongchang, close to the Huo people, the territory is vast, the mountains and rivers are harvested, and the land is vast and rich. Moreover, the soldiers are strong and strong, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and its history and culture are long and difficult to trace back to the source. It seems to have existed in the world since the beginning of the world, and it has been passed down from generation to generation, and it is eternal and immortal.
Qidu
The ten-mile long street is full of people. The streets are full of traffic.
The area of this city is about the same size as the Immortal King Heavenly City, and the people who come in and out are rich businessmen or cultivators who are powerful monks, and there are very few ordinary civilians, not that they are not allowed to enter the imperial city but they can't survive here at all, the prices here are ridiculously high, and if they don't have a certain status and strength in the imperial city, it is difficult to survive.
Of course, the financial merchants who can be the masters here are naturally also human beings, they do not have strong cultivation, but they can manipulate the monks to work for themselves, and there are masters who secretly protect them, ordinary monks can't afford to provoke them at all, even the elders of the big sects are respectful.
The palace of Qi is located in the capital of Qi. The city wall is towering, golden and brilliant, the forbidden army guards on the city wall, they hold their heads high, gold armor and red robes, majestic, everyone has a strong cultivation, otherwise it is difficult to take this position.
Within the palace walls, the imperial palace is splendid, it is relatively deserted here, only the forbidden army patrols, and the whole palace exudes the majesty of the royal family.
Outside the palace walls, it is difficult to get in the hustle and bustle. However, in the past few days, the flow of people in Qidu has increased significantly, from all sides of the scattered cultivators, as well as the disciples of the Immortal Great Clan Sect on the mainland.
Emperor Qi distributed heroic posts, recruited heroes from all over the world to gather, there will be a lot of magic weapons, Xuangong, secrets for people to see, the most outstanding of which is the "fairy copper fragment", it is said that the above records the experience of the immortals, if someone can understand the understanding, will benefit a lot.
Of course, as everyone knows, not everyone can view the immortal copper fragments, only a few extremely strong people can have this opportunity, and those monks who have no background or mediocre cultivation will not have such a good chance.
However, there are ten rings in front of the Imperial City of Qi, as long as those who pass the level can have the opportunity to be appreciated by the Emperor of Qi, and even be recruited into the subordinates of the Qi State, this will be a turning point for many loose cultivators.
This is a young man's ring, and the defender will also be a young master of the Qi country, and if he is defeated, he will be recruited to the palace and treated differently. However, the ring is not so easy to fight, so that many young people are discouraged, the south gate of the palace is actually the prince of Qi State guarding, this year is turning eighteen years old eight princes, not very old, but there are a lot of amazing deeds, the conditions for passing the customs are relatively simple, over fifty moves undefeated.
Qidu was already crowded, and now it is recruiting masters from all over the world, making the streets even more crowded.
Xu Sheng and others entered the city, he and Chen Zheng were dressed ordinary, but Shen Gongzi was dressed in expensive clothes, he was dressed decently, quite a rich man's posture, and played with a piece of jade and jade in his hand.
After they experienced the prosperity of Qidu, they found Qing Yao and Lin Yizhen, the two of them came here to recruit members in order to expand the alliance, and they had registered a mercenary group in Dongcheng, and their name was changed to the Unjust Alliance.
Qing Yao.
When Xu Sheng first saw her, she was still frozen in a large block of ice to heal her injuries, at that time she was severely injured by Huo Xiangtian, and her life was in danger, and it took months of treatment to stabilize.
Now that she has recovered from her injuries, she is wearing a long dress with light blue water ripples, and has rented a large mansion.
"Xu Sheng!"
Lin Yizhen's face showed joy after seeing Xu Sheng, although he knew that Xu Sheng was still alive, but he still couldn't suppress the joy in his heart when he saw it after two years.
"Young heroes, heaven and earth are hard to take!"
Qing Yao is slender, she also greeted Xu Sheng with a smile when she saw her, although they had only met once, but they hated to see each other late, and they were very close to each other.
"Qing Yao, how are you feeling these days?" Shen Gongzi put away his past temperament after seeing Qing Yao, and asked with concern.
"It's not very good, there is only one person, the man is dumbfounded, his cultivation is mediocre, but he has a hammer in his hand is very peculiar. Qing Yao said.
"Anyway, let's celebrate tonight, two years have passed, and you are a lot taller!" Lin Yizhen smiled.
At this moment, the door of the house was pushed open. A man walked out inside, and everyone turned their heads to look, Xu Sheng was the same, but he felt that the other party seemed to be a little familiar, but he couldn't remember what he looked like.
The man looks ordinary, ordinary, and has no special temperament, if he walks in the crowd, no one will notice, he stood at the door and saw that everyone turned their eyes to himself and couldn't help but be stunned.
"You're Xu Sheng, right? I've heard of the name for a long time!" the ordinary-looking man walked down the steps of the door, and bowed in front of Xu Sheng.
"Hello!" Xu Sheng hurriedly replied, he couldn't help but look up and down, "Brother Tai, why do I seem to have seen you somewhere?"
"Haha~~"
Hearing Xu Sheng say this, everyone laughed inadvertently, and Qing Yao hurriedly introduced, "He is a ghost with a thousand faces, and he has a thousand faces, so you will naturally feel a little familiar!"
The ghost with a thousand faces is also smiling, he covers his face with his sleeves, and when he puts down his sleeves, he looks different, handsome and handsome, with his edge exposed.
The first time Xu Sheng saw this kind of disguise technique, he couldn't help but open his mouth wide and admired again and again.
Several people gathered in the capital, and it was inevitable to go to the place of the wind and moon at night, and the capital at night was brightly lit, which was brighter than the bright moon. But Qing Yao is a woman, she naturally won't go to those places, and Shen Gongzi is rarely "tight", everyone saw that he didn't go, and half of their interest was swept away, and finally they decided to get together and enjoy the wine and the moon, eliminating those singing and dancing geisha.
They gathered to talk, Xu Sheng was too strong to drink, a few glasses of wine were a little drunk and hazy, tonight the moon was full, he looked up, and looked at it for a long time.
"Brother Xu, what are you thinking?" At this time, the Thousand-Faced Ghost sat down with a wine glass and said.
"The bad boy must be thinking about the princess of the Qi Kingdom!" Chen Zheng teased.
"Oh, the princess of the Qi Kingdom, which princess, could it be Qi Xiaoxuan?" Qing Yao also had a few glasses of wine, and wondered.
"No, it's the Empress Qi Ruoyan!" Chen Zheng took a sip of wine and corrected.
"Don't talk nonsense, it's just that the moonlit night is beautiful!" Xu Sheng hurriedly covered up.
"Could it be that Xu has a rich history of brotherhood, and there are too many women to count?" the Thousand-Faced Ghost also quipped.
"If you talk about love history, no one here is as good as Brother Chen!" Lin Yizhen saw that Xu Sheng couldn't resist, so he hurriedly helped him speak.
"Haha~~ I, Chen Zheng, have been debauched and uninhibited in my life, how can I have fewer women!" Chen Zheng did not hide it, but felt that it was glory.
"Brothers, women, wine. Nothing less. This is a well-known saying. Lin Yizhen continued.
"I Chen Zheng only want three things in this life, brothers, women, and wine. Nothing less!" Chen Zheng stood on the rockery, raised the wine jug and smiled at the night sky, "God, do you hear clearly?
"Haha! What a pride adverb!" Shen Gongzi sighed with a smile.
"Senior brother, you're drunk!" Xu Sheng looked at Chen Zheng's appearance, although he was giggling and not serious, but Xu Sheng knew that in fact Chen Zheng was not like this before, he drank every day, presumably just to use alcohol to kill his sorrows.
On this night, everyone was drunk, and Lin Yizhen, who had always been steady and taciturn, also chanted poems to the moon, and finally danced a sword in the courtyard.
Xu Sheng also forgot his troubles, he and the old turtle grew a lot of alcohol together, but there was still a big gap compared to these people, and finally looked at the bright moon and smirked, I don't know who I was thinking about.
The next day, they all sobered up. Xu Sheng's body is full of strong wine, and it only takes half an hour to be sober as before.
He came to find Qi Ruoyan on this trip, but the imperial city of Qi was heavily guarded, and now is a special period, and even a fly can't fly in without permission.
"I've inquired about it, and there's a chance to enter the Qi Imperial Palace. "Shen Gongzi is rich enough to rival the country, he knows a lot of rich businessmen, and the news comes quickly.
"Qi Guo Guangluo is a hero in the world, as long as you win the ring, you can go in, so you can find the princess!" Shen Gongzi said the method.
"Is this reliable?" Chen Zheng was more concerned about the consequences of the matter, because he knew that Qi Guo was trying to recruit talents this time, and if he took a fancy to Xu Sheng, he might force him to stay, and if he was too dazzling, he might be seen by the masters of the Huo family and the Xu family.
"Do you need another way?" Xu Sheng also felt that this method was not feasible.
"No more. Shen Gongzi's face was a little unhappy, he thought Xu Shengli was verbose, he didn't have such good patience, and said, "I heard that the Xu family seems to have the idea of marrying this princess of Qi State, and I don't know if it's accurate." ā
"What did you say? Qi Ruoyan and the Xu family married?"
Outsiders don't know about this, and Shen Gongzi also got gossip from a top wealthy businessman.
Xu Sheng frowned, he heard Qi Ruoyan mention it when he was in the Immortal Spirit Clan's Pure Land, and he thought it was relatively far away, and he didn't want the matter to come out so quickly.
"Ring match, I'll go!" Xu Sheng stood up, his tone firm.
"Very good! There are a total of ten rings, as long as you win any of them, you may enter the palace, but before that, you have to enter three trial selections!" Shen Gongzi already knew the rules.
"Brother Xu, come on, for true love!" Qing Yao was about to go out, but before that, she still cheered for him.
"Do you want me to come with you?" Shen Gongzi was moved by Qing Yao and asked with concern.
"No need, I can do it alone!" Qing Yao was full of confidence and left without looking back.
This time, the capital of Qi gathered a large number of masters, including famous and decent people, as well as casual cultivators. Most people come thousands of miles in order to be appreciated by Qi State, the trial competition has already begun, every day a large number of people are screened out, and some people are successfully promoted, here are mixed, there are young and strong, there are mediocre people.
"Brother Xu, I have entrusted the relationship to help you find a number. The trial match is in the afternoon, and after three games, you will be randomly assigned to one of the rings, and whether you can meet your lover or not depends on your ability. Shen Gongzi smiled and patted Xu Sheng's shoulder.