The pavilion master took the big white goose and walked away leisurely.

A gust of wind passed, and the bamboo leaves rustled. Xiao Yan stood in the bamboo forest, for a long time, then turned back to the Shuxin Pond, sat on the stone bridge and listened to the sound of bronze water, swept his heart, looked down at the pool, like a statue sitting and thinking.

Knowing the path, it is not easy to walk through it.

The truth of the world is always easier said than done.

To bear the two words is to carry blood, tears and pain, the heart is tormented, broken, and then nirvana in pain. This blood, tears, and pain always have to be endured before they can be inherited. If you don't really experience the pain and fear, if you don't have that kind of pain and destruction, you won't have the most painful suffering, and you won't have the inheritance to stand up again after experiencing it.

The phoenix nirvana, that is also after the burning, there is a new life.

Just like a thousand mountains, in order to cultivate the Tao of love, pour out all your heart and affection, experience the pain of the unbearable, into the hatred and killing of the desire to destroy, accept it, and thus the Tao has been completed.

is also like Zhaohua, although he does not love for the Tao, but he has also endured unbearable pain and the destruction of the Dao heart, so that he will break and stand up, and bear the road and recast.

But this does not apply to Xiao Yan.

She was never willing to really experience the pain of losing Shen Qingyi.

So how can she sharpen the most vulnerable part of her heart?

Maybe...... Dreamland?

Xiao Yan thought of the "Dream Hui Yaotai", Li Yuzhen had used it on her, in fact, it was a very serious elixir, it was the Illusion Barrier Breaking Pill of Tiance Academy, helping the Grandmaster of the Great Perfection of the Cave True Realm to enter the spiritual illusion realm, and discover the most desired and fearful in the depths of the subconscious, so as to discover the inner demons, and fight against desire and fear in the illusion, and finally break through the barrier.

This is what A-Niang told her, the real effect of the Dream Club Yaotai. Xiao Yan was very surprised at the time, didn't Tiance Academy have a lot of innate talents? A-Niang said, how can it be so easy. After all, the illusion is just an illusion, not a reality, and breaking the obstacles in the illusion is not really breaking the demons, it is just a kind of "experienced" simulation situation; And when you advance to the level, the heart of the demon will be deep in the heart of the desire. Looking at the fear of magnifying thousands of times, the Barrier Breaking Pill is just a rehearsal, how can the performance be compared to the real promotion situation? …… The Barrier Breaker only increases the chance by 30% - of course, this is also quite rare.

And the innate calamity encountered by the advancement level of the Cave True Realm is different, the stronger the strength and the stronger the talent potential, the stronger the robbery and killing power, the heart demon tribulation may be magnified by ten million times, and the possibility of crossing the tribulation is even greater. After all, extermination, killing and robbery is the protection rule of this world's own generation, and the greater the threat to the world, the more Heavenly Dao must be killed. Xiao Yan felt that he belonged to the scope of "the more you want to kill", and she couldn't put all the endurance of tempering her heart on the simulation of the illusion.

But...... She thought that it might also be beneficial to experience the obstacle breaking in the illusion.

She thought about it, and asked the master's opinion first.

Xiao Yan stood up, her true anger swept away the dust on her clothes like a breeze, and when she got off the bridge, her eyes looked west.

Outside the bamboo forest in the west of the pond, Rong Chi has been waiting for two quarters of an hour, she is wearing a purple ground round-necked robe of a high-grade palace attendant, wearing a hairpin flower palace head, but the waist is tied with a military attache belt, wearing a Qianniu Wei Jin wrong knife, revealing her identity as a waiter in the East Palace and Qianniu Wei, her appearance is not very good, her eyebrows and eyes are simple, giving people a feeling of heaviness and few words, seeing Xiao Yan go down the bridge and go forward, raise her hand and perform a military salute, calling Xiao Yan's official position: "Rong Chi has seen General Xiao." ”

Xiao Yan knew that she was Rong Chi.

The deputy director of the Guangtian Hall of the Prince's Bedroom, and the head of the East Palace, Qianniu Weizuo, led the mansion history.

is one of the eight big maids around Li Yuzhen, Xiao Yan has met her in the princess's mansion of Qin State before, and her cultivation is the highest among the eight maids. The long history of the East Palace Qianniu Wei Mansion is second only to the main and deputy guard rates, and the judges of the Wei Mansion Zhu Cao and the government affairs, compared to the main and deputy guards who are responsible for the guards and soldiers, the long history is the deacon of the Qianniu Wei Mansion, and can serve this ministry, in addition to martial arts cultivation, the ability to command affairs must also be extremely strong. Xiao Yan had only met her two or three times, and they were not familiar with each other, so they were not as casual as Lian Cheng and Guan Xia, so he raised his hand and saluted back, and also called her with a martial title: "Rong Changshi, is there something wrong?" ”

Rong Chi said solemnly: "General Xiao, there is a message from the palace: Your Highness asks you to go to the Zichen Hall immediately and consult the military. ”

Consult the military?

Xiao Yan raised his eyebrows.

Li Yuzhen probably wanted to ask her about the military details of Yanzhou's northwest of Yanzhou. Although the military report is detailed, she is in the position of a general of the military cavalry, and seeing and stating is another angle, as a prince, she must understand the front line from many aspects and angles, which is the proper meaning. However, she thought that Li Yuzhen would ask her in the East Palace, but she didn't expect that this would summon the palace to ask - could it be that there is any military situation in the northwest?

Xiao Yan was concerned in his heart, and said, "I'll enter the palace in my clothes", saying that the figure was already more than ten feet away.

Rong Chi immediately followed.

Xiao Yan returned to Langyu Courtyard and changed into the official uniform of the general of the martial arts, and went to Daming Palace.

Rong Chi held the Inner Garden Pass Talisman and sent Xiao Yan to the gate of the West Palace of the Zichen Hall before returning.

Xiao Yan was led in by the palace guards, passed through the Zichen Palace Square through the colonnade, climbed the carved fence jade steps to the white marble pedestal of the central hall, entered the corridor in the hall through the door colonnade, and then stepped into the north corridor.

Xiao Yan raised his eyebrows from afar.

Is this a consultation on the military?

"Let's go—go to the racecourse." Li Yuzhen said "I'm not fooling you", and walked over the corridor with a sound of boots, glanced at the official uniform she was wearing, and looked disgusted, "You are so-so." Xiao Yan squinted at her, "Consult the military?" ”

Li Yuzhen turned around and pulled a rattan-handled Yanyue rod from the bag carried by the inner attendant, swung it twice in the air, and said while walking out of the corridor: "I get up earlier than the chicken every day, rest later than the dog, and work more than the donkey," Xiao Yan heard a puff, and the palace attendant holding the ball also bowed his head and smiled, "I am still commenting on the chapter after the hundred officials have left the ya, and the imperial couch of the Dongnuan Pavilion will be worn by me, and I will not be allowed to be loose and loose?" - You see, when you play polo, you have to tell you the right thing. Tell me, am I easy? Li Yuzhen condemned with a face.

Xiao Yan immediately raised his eyebrows and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sleeps at night, and he has every opportunity every day, it's really not easy!" Covering his chest with a sincere sigh, he was serious and sincere, "It's about to be the time of Shen, hundreds of officials will go down, and of course the prince will have to rest!" Reaching out and taking the stick, he swung it, "It's good to play polo, and it can also strengthen your body." Walk around, see the high and low on the court. looked anxious, lest Li Yuzhen would think of her companionship or something and throw a ministry to her, so that she would also fall into the bitter life of "working more than a donkey".

Li Yuzhen smiled and threw a look at her - count you as acquaintances!

The group went out of the north palace gate of the Zichen Palace, crossed the horizontal street, and went to the Qingsi Palace in the northeast.

There are seven or eight polo fields in the palace, and Li Yuzhen chose the polo field in the Qingsi Palace. Here is the place where the emperor and his concubines play polo and juju, the north is the long hall, surrounded by a long corridor on all sides, the court is very wide, the ground is poured with oil, it is extremely solid, and the horse is not dusty. Before the Midyear Festival, there was still a summer heat, and no concubine came to play, and the corridor was very quiet.

The attendant of the Imperial Horse Prison led the horse over, and the two jumped on the horse, and when their eyes touched, sparks flew everywhere.

Anyway, Lian Cheng looked at it from afar, and his body shook.

Alas, don't come to a blood-spattered polo field......

The polo match between the two is simple and intense, the two are not only competing skills, but also the clash of martial arts, only the sound of horses' hooves can be heard outside the field like drums and rain, and the fist-sized lacquer ball is like a flying star in the air, and only a flying black spot can be seen, and the staff of His Royal Highness the Prince and General Xiao is so fast that he can only see the shadow, and he pulls out the afterimage of the Dao in the air, and he feels dizzy after watching it for a while.

Lian Cheng saw it fluttering, and muttered vigorously in his heart, only play ball, don't hurt people; Just play, don't hurt......

After the first encounter, Li Yuzhen scored, and Xiao Yan lost.

Two more games were played, and Xiao Yan won one and lost one.

With an expressionless click, she straightened the two broken ribs on the left.

When Lian Cheng heard the voice, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he thought with some sorrow: If you continue to fight, will you break more than your ribs? …… Alas!

Xiao Yan's cane fell down and said, "I lost." ”

always felt that if she continued to fight, Li Yuzhen would break her arms and legs.

The look of that smile makes people hairy......

Xiao Yan felt the cold wind blowing.

She is not good at playing polo, although this is a necessary skill for the children of the family, and it has become a kind of scholar culture like qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she has not actually played many polo games, and she has suffered a little from Li Yuzhen's skills; Although the horse under the crotch is a very good race horse, it is obviously impossible to keep up with the speed of her and Li Yuzhen...... This made Xiao Yan feel that although this confrontation was fierce, it was not hearty. She is not afraid of being injured, but even if she is injured in a confrontation with Li Yuzhen, it should be a hearty confrontation, not like now, and she is tied up.

She simply threw in the towel.

If we want to fight, let's find another venue.

Li Yuzhen raised an eyebrow, hehe, count you as quick to see the opportunity.

The two rode out of the court, threw the sticks to the chamberlain, took the hot towel to wipe their faces and hands, and entered the Qingsi Palace.

Qingsi Hall is the east and west long hall, separated by more than 30 pavilions, no wooden door, only hanging curtains, Li Yuzhen and Xiao Yan sat on the couch in the east pavilion, the curtains have been hung, the two of them are talking while watching the palace attendant competition on the field.

Li Yuzhen forked a few slices of Gaochang melon and ate them, and snatched a piece of nectarine from Xiao Yancha, and said casually: "Do you know Crete?" ”

Xiao Yan forked another piece of nectarine, and raised his eyes, "Huh?" With a sound, knowing that Li Yuzhen would not mention it casually, he picked up the towel in the porcelain plate and wiped his mouth, and said: "Are you talking about Crete in the Mediterranean, an independent island country sandwiched between two empires?" ”

Xiao Yan knew Crete, because this kingdom was very small, but it remained independent in the gap between the two empires of the Great Western Continent, and was not annexed or became a vassal, Xiao Yan felt quite strong, and remembered this country when he read world history.

"Well, this is the Sandwich Country."

Li Yuzhen leaned on his arm and said, "At this moment, the envoys of the Emperor of Euroton, the Great Food Caliphate, and the Holy Pope are meeting in Crete to discuss how to form an alliance to deal with our Tang Dynasty. Her tone paused slightly, and the silver fork in her hand poked at the honey-colored Gaochang melon, "By the way, I divided the Cretan melon." ”

Xiao Yan: "Huh?!" ”

It was not surprising that the tripartite meeting was not surprising that as the war continued, the allies on both sides would have to deepen their cooperation, otherwise they would face defeat in the war; The Tang-Ukraine alliance is already ahead of the curve, and if the alliance of Dashi and Euroton is only superficial and still does their own thing, then their defeat will be faster.

In the face of the survival of the empire, the question of faith can also be put aside for the time being. When faith becomes a benefit, it becomes politics, negotiable, compromised.

Xiao Yan had a map of Xizhou in his mind, thinking about the location of the Cretan Kingdom, which was in the center of the eastern Mediterranean, and the main island and the northern island were connected like a "Shang" character, and the west and north of the "Shang" were Euroton; To the east and south of the "upper" side is the Great Eclipse.

Crete's position in this position of being sandwiched on all sides, and still being able to maintain its independence, was the result of the struggle between Euroton and the Great Eclipse, neither of whom wanted Crete to be annexed by the other, so that it controlled the transportation arteries of the Eastern Mediterranean, so under mutual containment, Crete became a neutral country.

Now that the two empires sit down to talk about unity, then there will be no more mutual containment, which is equivalent to dividing the two sides, cut a slice for you, cut a slice for me, as long as you don't think about me swallowing it all, then this melon can be divided, and the difference is only in the quarrel of how many slices of melon each person is divided and cut unevenly.

"Then Crete is in danger." Xiao Yan said, "Then are we going to sit back and watch the partition, or do we intervene in the sabotage?" He sighed again and said suspiciously, "We Datang won't have intervened before, right?" "How do you think about it, how do you feel that just relying on the mutual struggle between the two empires to get respite is a bit like walking on a high cable, unreliable, who knows if it will suddenly turn over the rope? If you want to stand firm, you have to rely on yourself.

Li Yuzhen ate a piece of melon, bent one leg and stretched out the other, sat very lazy, and his voice was lazy, "The Mediterranean Sea is too far away from us, sandwiched between the continents, which is equivalent to the inland sea of Xizhou, no matter how strong our navy is, it can't enter the inland sea of other people, it is equivalent to the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which is boiled by Bao Yuan." ”

Xiao Yan nodded, what she said was also the "cloud" interference on Datang's side.

Only the power of the Innate Grandmaster can ignore the distance.

"But there are rules for innate meddling, right?" Xiao Yan said suspiciously, "Crete used to belong to the Greek Empire, the Greek Empire was replaced by the Roman Empire, and it belonged to Rome, and the Roman Empire was replaced by the Euroton Empire. But Crete's refusal to recognize Euroton as the successor of the Roman Empire is an internal problem in the Western Continent, and our innate meddling in Middle-earth is crossing the line, right? ”

Li Yuzhen said: "Haven't you heard a word in Daomen? ”

"What?"

"There is one family in the world."

Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment and repeated: "There is one family in the world? ”

This Dao Gate refers to the cultivators who have inherited and inherited the ancient Dao system, and they all belong to the "Dao Gate People".

She raised her finger and tapped her forehead lightly, understanding, "Crete also has a witch heritage?" ”

That makes sense.

"The Kukai Hermitage Order," Li Yuzhen said, "the current High Priest is the Dharma Dao Innate who inherited the bloodline of the ancient Kunwu. ”

"Kun Wu ......" Xiao Yan blinked, "The hybrid of the Wu Clan and Kunpeng? ”

"There is a fish in the North Underworld, and its name is Kun. The Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is. Xiao Yan groaned. Zhuangzi's aria is actually not an exaggeration, when Xiao Yan was reading ancient books in the Sword Pavilion, he had read the "Ancient Great Demon Chronicles" recorded from the jade slips of divine consciousness, which said that when Kun went out to sea, it was its body for thousands of miles.

Her eyes flashed, "You say, how can Kun and Wu get together?" ”

Li Yuzhen: "......" What is the focus of your concern?

……

The two discussed with great interest the question of how the ancient demon and the witch clan intersected, Xiao Yan is academic spirit, Li Yuzhen is concerned about the position, Xiao Yan saw that this topic slipped to the unspeakable direction, and immediately pulled the horse reins, if you believe in the horse reins, Li Yuzhen's discipline can be crooked to the edge of the sky.

Xiao Yan raised her hand and wiped the non-existent sweat on her forehead, and by the way, wiped off all Li Yuzhen's undisciplined conjectures, well, she has to keep her pure heart and can't be poisoned by Li Yuzhen......

"Speaking of Crete." She knocked on the couch, "The Kukai Hermitage is all descendants of the Kunwu Clan?" And what about the Cretans? Is it an ordinary descendant without a bloodline? Their relationship is like that of the Maya and the Eagle Feather Thian people in Dongzhou? - Kukai Hermitage, I haven't said it before, Kukai...... Kukai, is it a retreat in the sea? It can't be in the sky, this kun hasn't turned into a peng yet. Hey, is it a deep-sea retreat in the Aegean Sea? She asked, pulling the conversation back.

Li Yuzhen sneered at her, her eyelids twitched, and she suddenly looked her up and down, Xiao Yan was seen by her hair standing on end, her eyes were full of vigilance, Li Yuzhen raised her eyebrows, and said slowly, "You are so evasive - position...... Could it be that you and Shen Zhiyuan only have one position? Xiao Yuezhi, you won't be so bad! ”

“……！”

Xiao Yan's face turned red.

How to answer this?

Say she has more than one position? Phew, this is the privacy of the bed, how can you tell people!

Silence is only one position by default? …… How is that possible! How could she and Qingyi "not work"?!

This must not be said to be no!

Xiao Yan angrily threw a nectarine over, "Li! Illustrious! Chinese! ”

Li Yuzhen stretched out his hand to catch the nectarines, leaning on the table and laughing.

This laugh broke the true qi barrier of the conversation between the two, and the laughter of haha spread to the polo field, followed by a nectarine flying out, accompanied by Li Yuzhen's cool and pleasant voice, "Good hit!" This is General Xiao's reward! The waiter who had just entered the door of a flying star took the nectarine, picked up the polo stick and slapped it on his left chest, and said loudly: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your praise!" Thank you, General, for the reward! ”

Xiao Yan: ......

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On the field, the palace attendants changed horses to continue the next quarter of the game.

Xiao Yan glared at Li Yuzhen with horizontal eyebrows, enduring the itching of her hand.

Li Yuzhen turned his gaze back, raised an eyebrow at her, and said slowly: "The sun is at the end of the mountain, and the Yellow River flows into the sea." If you want to be poor, go to the next level. She bit the words clearly, the key words were subdued, and with the smile on the corner of her lips, Xiao Yan's heart was full of alarm, but she didn't know what she meant by chanting this poem, but she heard her say the last sentence with a smile, "Xiao Yuezhi, you can't do it, you have to do it better." ”

“……？”

Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment, and quickly recited this quatrain in his heart, especially the words in Li Yuzhen's accentuated tone, and suddenly understood, and couldn't help but blush, gritted his teeth and said: "Li Zhaohua, you rascal!" ”

Li Yuzhen stomped on the couch and laughed.

Xiao Yan patted his forehead and sighed, looking at the sky with a melancholy expression.

She felt that she would not be able to look directly at Wang Zhilian's poem in the future.

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Thanks to [Amer] for the 5 mines! Thank you to [Rabbit C], [Moy], [Leng Yan], [Shangguan Ningqi], [Yan Returns], [Xia Xia Ren], and [Fungieruan] for the mines! ~~Moda.