In the palace of the Great Chu State, there is a secret tunnel, which is heavily guarded, except for a few people, the rest of the people dare to approach it is guilty, and trespassing without permission is even more killing.

Since half a year ago, the security at the entrance of the tunnel has been higher than usual, and today it has reached an unbelievable level.

The Seven Sect Leaders of the Praetorian Guard gathered here, and there were three innate martial arts masters such as Tiger Wing Hou Zhangyu, Tianguan Ning Feng, and An Shihou Shen Yi guarding it, and for a while, this place was like an iron wall - no, it was far more solid than the iron wall!

"Senior Zhang, do you know what is inside this tunnel? For what, Your Majesty, please take turns to guard it? Even though he has been named the Hou Ye, Shen Yi still maintains a simple style of rivers and lakes, and considers himself a junior in the rivers and lakes rather than an official at the same level.

Marquis Zhang, who had white hair but was still in good spirits, carried his usual Tiger Wing Treasure Knife, squinted his eyes and glanced at the tunnel, and then sighed: "Isn't it a dragon vein transplanted back then...... Before the death of the emperors, they would invite us, the innate masters who are loyal to the country, to Tuo Gu and explain this matter - recall, I have heard this from the mouths of four generations of emperors, and I hope I don't hear it for the fifth time......"

Shen Yi was stunned for a moment, looking at the swarthy entrance of the tunnel with some confusion, and couldn't help but be a little curious.

He had heard of the so-called "dragon vein" in the world since he was a child, but he had never really seen what the dragon vein looked like.

"When the new emperor ascends the throne, he will take us to the place where the dragon vein is located to meet the old ancestor who has guarded the Great Chu Kingdom for hundreds of years." Ning Feng smiled and said, "With Brother Shen's cultivation, there will be no problem in living for another hundred years, and you will see it then." ”

"Hundreds of years?!" Shen Yi was taken aback, and even his voice couldn't help but be a little higher, "Isn't that a land immortal?" ”

"In the eyes of ordinary people, aren't we land immortals?" Zhang Yu smiled and said, "Actually, the so-called land immortals are nothing more than that. There is no end to learning, and there will always be awe-inspiring seniors standing there, waiting for you to catch up with them. ”

"Ning Hun Tian, Shen Anshi, I'm old, probably I don't have a chance to go further. But you are still young, as long as you continue to work hard, there may be no chance to go further...... I hope that hundreds of years later, you will also become the ancestors who protect the Great Chu Kingdom. ”

The two hurriedly humbled themselves, but they couldn't help but secretly yearn for it.

Guarding a country for hundreds of years, he became an ancestor that even the emperor had to visit...... Thinking about such a future does make them yearn for it.

And at this time, His Majesty Xiong, the contemporary emperor of the Great Chu State, had come to the deepest part of the tunnel.

The precious pearl of the night was embedded in the cave wall, illuminated with a soft, steady light, but even brighter was the pool of water deep in the cave wall, which glowed blue-white, and there was a golden shadow swimming as if it were alive.

Next to the pond is a small field no more than a foot in circumference, and there are a few sparse herbs growing in the field, the most conspicuous of which is the ginseng that is blooming and blooming brilliantly.

On the other side of the pond is a huge piece of ice, through which a figure can be faintly seen. Next to Jian Bing, a girl in a green dress and white shirt was kneeling down on one knee to greet the inspection of His Majesty the Emperor.

"Aiqing, please get up! You and I are called Junchen, like brothers and sisters, why be so polite! ”

"Etiquette cannot be abolished, please act in accordance with the etiquette law." The girl didn't appreciate it at all, and still knelt there, saying something that made the emperor sigh.

"Alas...... I don't understand how my sister usually gets along with you...... Although there are many innate grandmasters, it is unheard of to be as serious as you...... I always feel a lot of pressure! The forty-year-old bear, whose hair had turned gray, looked far older than his actual age, and he wore thick clothes to protect against the cold in the cave, but because of his weak body, even if he squeezed out a smile, he still shivered a little.

"How's the situation with the Old Ancestor?"

"The situation is not good, although Wanzai Xuan Ice can effectively alleviate the speed of physical aging, but the master's soul has also aged...... It may not be far off. ”

Xiong Du lowered his head, his face full of regret and sentimentality: "Since the establishment of my Great Chu State, the ancestors have guarded the country, no matter how many ups and downs, as long as he is there, the Son of Heaven will be able to govern the country with peace of mind...... I still remember when my father made me the crown prince and brought me to meet him......"

The girl was silent and did not interrupt the emperor's self-talk.

"Later, my father died, and I came here to meet the ancestor accompanied by Zhang Yihou and Ning Huntian, and he looked gloomy and said, 'What's so good about living a long time?' Generations of white-haired people send black-haired people ......'Although he is not from our Xiong family, he is as close to us as a grandfather! ”

"I always feel that the old ancestor will always sit in Changning City, guarding our Great Chu Kingdom for thousands of generations like a god, and guarding the children and grandchildren of Taizu...... But I didn't expect that he would actually be tired and ...... old."

Speaking of this, he looked at the figure in the ice who did not know whether he was asleep or awake, and there were already tears in his eyes.

I remember when the old man found him and told him that his life was over and he was going to die soon, he really felt that it was dark in front of him, as if the sky was falling!

Although with the help of Changchun Zhenren, the old man hid in this dragon vein secret cave isolated from the Three Realms, and with the help of Wanzai Xuanbing to slow down the speed of aging, he may be able to drag on for a while, but he knew that the invincible heroes who had always supported the Great Chu Kingdom no longer had the strength to protect the country.

The Great Chu State is not without a new generation of masters, and there are many loyal and reliable people, but no one can give him the feeling of reliability like an ancestor. This is the trust of relatives accumulated over the years.

Just like the girl in front of him, although he said "love brother and sister", but he will say this, but it proves that the relationship between them is not as close as that of real brother and sister.

At a critical juncture, he can entrust his life and the future of the country to his ancestors, or to his sister, without hesitation, but he can't trust the girl in front of him wholeheartedly - even though he knows that the other party is an honest and loyal person who is loyal to the country and risked his life, but feelings and reason are always two different things.

In the past six months, he has been worried all night, often hiding his face and sighing, coupled with the hard work of state affairs, he has aged faster and faster...... Maybe before the old ancestor died, he himself would not be able to hold on and fall first, right?

The emperor of the Great Chu State sighed silently, wrapped his leather robe tightly, and walked out of the tunnel lonely.

There are still many things to do, and he still has a lot of things to do.

Let's say, the upcoming imperial examination.

The crimson flames jumped in the desert, like elves, and surrounded Xiao Buyi from all directions. No matter how much he moved and changed positions, he couldn't get out of the encirclement.

Not only that, but these flames also increased under Wu Jie's manipulation, gradually covering the ground in a radius of hundreds of feet, so that Xiao Buyi had fewer and fewer places to dodge.

But even so, Xiao Buyi did not take off to dodge, but would rather run on the ground in embarrassment, resolutely refusing to fly.

Of course, this is not because he lacks combat experience, but because he has already suffered losses in the last time he sparred.

Although these flames manipulated by Wu Xie are full of spirituality, they are actually not very powerful, when they run on the ground, they can only come from all directions, even if they occasionally receive a few shots, they can also be blocked with true qi protective bodies. But if they fly into the sky, they will hula and bang all over the place......

Last time, he was beaten like this, even if Wu Xie stopped in time, he was blown away by his true qi, and he rested for almost a day before he recovered his breath.

So this time, he didn't dare to vacate again anyway.

But there is no way to go on like this, Wu Jie's true qi is far more vigorous than him, and if it is consumed, his true qi will definitely be consumed first.

"Let's try that!" He made a secret decision, and then stopped suddenly, and while defending with his true qi, he took out a yellow silk that was a foot long, and used his finger as a pen to draw a mysterious charm on it.

Ordinary rune paper is three inches short and half a foot long, and his yellow silk is much larger than them, and it can hold much more talismans and true qi.

…… The consumption is also much greater.

As a result, before he finished painting the yellow silk, Wu Jie's flames had already burned through his protective true qi.

"You've lost." Wu Xie smiled, took back the flames, looked at the unfinished yellow silk talisman in his hand, and asked curiously, "What is this?" ”

"This is the big talisman I've been imagining." Xiao Buyi sighed and put the yellow silk away, "Because there are more charms to contain, the power is greater." ”

“…… Although I'm not very good at talismans, the art of talismans is not just 'big' and 'many', right? ”

Xiao Buyi smiled, raised his hand and drew three charms in the air in one breath.

Wu Xie also knew these charms, but he never thought that they could be arranged like this - I saw that these charms were not lined up from top to bottom like ordinary runes, but were layered from the inside to the outside, and finally combined into a larger charm.

This is easy to say, but it actually completely violates the existing principles of spells - each spell is a separate spell unit, like ready-made parts that can only be combined to make various things, but there is no way to shoehorn one part into another.

In that case, it will destroy the integrity and stability of the talisman itself, and either you can't make the talisman, or the talisman explodes in your hand, and it's all in vain.

But Xiao Buyi really did it! He really put three charms together!

Wu Xie engraved the appearance of the three charms layered in his mind, racked his brains and pondered for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out how Xiao Buyi did it.

He raised his hand, harnessed his mana, and tried to outline them in the air.

The first spell was easily completed, but when he drew the second spell into the middle of the first spell, it immediately destroyed the mana circulation of the first spell itself, and the spell was immediately like a soap bubble poked by a needle, and the "wave" burst with a sound, turned into a small point of light, and disappeared without a trace.

"That's right! Why is this happening? Wu Xie was puzzled, raised his hand and sketched again, and the result was still the same.

If he hadn't seen what Xiao Buyi had done with his own eyes, he wouldn't have had any doubts at all, because the result of the spell was supposed to be like this. But after witnessing the scene of Xiao Buyi putting together the three-layer charm, he had to wonder and wonder.

This completely subverted his perception of runes!

In the next period of time, he tried hundreds of times in a row, but each time it was the same as the first time, not to mention the three-layer spell set, the two-layer spell set couldn't be done.

"Jasmine, do you have a way to do it?"

"I can forcibly bind those spells with mana so that they don't disintegrate or explode. But that's brute force, not only does it not increase their power, but on the contrary, it weakens each other...... But you see, Master, the close combination of his three charms means that not only do they not contradict each other, but they are reinforcing each other. Jasmine had apparently been pondering the question, and immediately replied, "It contradicts the principles of the talisman I know, and I don't understand what is going on. ”

"That's ...... Can the Divine Monarch do it? ”

"Back then, you could do anything, master, this little thing must be a problem!"

“…… Did he do it? ”

"Like...... Seem...... Maybe it's because I've been with you for too short a time to get a chance to see it. ”

Wu Xie frowned, he didn't expect that even the Supreme Divine Monarch had never done such a thing.

Perhaps, as Jasmine said, he could do it, but he didn't show it to Jasmine; But it's more likely...... Xiao Buyi's invention subverted the laws that have always been in the cultivation realm, and he created an original one!

Although he knew that it was not good for Lu Dao to do this, he hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't help but ask.

"I learned the essence of Patriarch Li's Taoism in the land of inheritance." Xiao Buyi didn't keep it a secret, and said with a smile, "His Taoism lies in 'spying on fate' and 'distorting fate', fate is fate, and luck is luck." By manipulating the fate of others, he can play with others in the palm of his hand; And through the manipulation of his own destiny, he can make his way smooth and unfavorable. ”

"Then why did he still have his whole family killed?"

"Heaven and earth have a way, how can fate be distorted casually! Every time he manipulates the fate of others or himself, he will accumulate a little 'distortion', and the 'distortion' accumulates to a certain extent, which leads to a 'catastrophe'. He tried his best and avoided many catastrophes, but he finally ran out of his strength and couldn't escape anymore. ”

"Then why are you still using this method?" Wu Xie was taken aback, and hurriedly persuaded, "What we cultivate is to seek immortality, don't joke with our own lives!" ”

Xiao Buyi smiled when he heard this, and said with a smile on his face: "Don't worry, how can I repeat the mistakes of the past?" Although there are shortcomings such as short effective time, poor stability, and too large consumption of true qi, I can avoid the accumulation of 'distortions' through these consumptions...... In the final analysis, the degree of protection of the Heavenly Dao for 'spirited things' is completely different from the protection of 'spiritless things'. ”

Wu Xie was relieved, and then thought of a question.

"This spell doesn't mean much in actual combat - is there anyone else who will give you time to cast a spell slowly when you are fighting to the death?"

Xiao Buyi's originally confident face suddenly collapsed, and his face was sad.

As Wu Xie said, this kind of trick that cannot be used in actual combat, no matter how powerful it is, it is of little significance.

There is no other way to solve this problem than to practice repeatedly. Maybe practice makes perfect, and the speed of spell casting can be faster.

Looking at the vast desert around him, he couldn't help but sigh.

Cultivating with peace of mind in this sparsely populated desert can only be done by a natural cultivation seed like Wu Jie, even if he himself knows that Lu Dao should work hard, he can't mind the harsh environment at all.

The quality of the disciples of the famous sects is really far above that of their own casual cultivation!