"Of course it can't be that they wrote it." Shangguan Jin replied.

"I think so," Zhao Yan said, "this poem is brilliant and magnificent, and it is by no means a mediocre work." ”

Speaking of this, she paused, then looked at Shangguan Jin's eyes seriously and said, "Let me guess...... Is this the work of the owner of the 'Amazing Pen'? ”

"Sister Zhao is really smart!" Shangguan Jin praised with a smile.

"Is he in Yamen today?" Zhao Yan asked.

"Here," Shangguan Jin nodded, "Sister Zhao is interested in him and wants to learn from him?" ”

"No, I'm just asking casually," Zhao Yan shook her head slightly, "You should know that I don't usually bully people who are weaker than me." ”

After a moment of silence, she asked again: "Is Mr. Pang Wanzhen also in the yamen today?" ”

Pang Wanzhen is a guest of the Exorcism Division and a Fifth Realm monk, who is famous for his superb marksmanship.

Ten years ago, he defeated talented opponents from all over the country and successfully won the championship at the "Luoshui Conference", which was highly praised by many big names.

If you want to make a list of monks who specialize in marksmanship in the Great Qi Dynasty, then Pang Wanzhen will definitely be able to rank among the best.

"Mr. Pang has been assigned by the head of the department to go on a mission to the western frontier," Shangguan replied, "I am afraid that you will not have a chance to meet him in the near future." ”

When he spoke, Shangguan Jin's heart was full of emotion.

Because for them, Pang Wanzhen is undoubtedly a senior-level figure.

But now, Zhao Yan has regarded him as an opponent and included him in the list of "whetstones".

After hearing Shangguan Jin's answer, Zhao Yan smiled regretfully, and without even saying a word of "farewell", she jumped on the back of "Da Hong" with a light posture.

With the neighing of her horses, she followed the path she had come from and left the headquarters of the Exorcist Division.

The cool breeze is blowing, and the red dress is hunting.

Long hair fluttered behind her like black flames.

Shangguan Jin stood next to the statue of Shi Qiyi, watching her back disappear from sight.

"This 'Luoshui Conference' is really exciting!" The corners of her mouth turned up, and she muttered to herself.

Then she also turned and climbed the steps and walked into the yamen.

…………

"What are you doing, Gu Daoyou?"

"Draw a talisman."

"But the talisman you drew this time is different from the talisman I've seen before."

"This is an improved version of the 'Flame True Talisman', which is slightly more powerful than the original," Gu Xu explained, "Just now I saw the battle between Chu Fengge and the eldest lady of the Zhao family by the window, and a little bit of inspiration about the talisman came to my mind, so I wanted to practice it." I didn't expect this idea to be really feasible. ”

Shangguan Jin sat on a desk next to him, holding his chin with his hand, his arm on his knees, and looking at the rune paper in front of Gu Xu with interest.

I saw Gu Xu use golden ink to outline obscure runes, and finally formed a complex pattern.

From a distance, the shape of this pattern resembles a phoenix with wings spread.

Just looking at it, it seems that you can feel a scorching breath rushing towards your face.

"Gu Daoyou is really extraordinary," she commented with a smile, "Of the officials and officials who are watching the battle today, forty percent are here to see the excitement, forty percent are to see the beauties, and at most two adults can see a little bit of the way from it."

"But Gu Daoyou can not only get a glimpse of the doorway, but also comprehend his own things from it, and he is worthy of being the most important genius monk of the head of the division."

"Shangguan Daoyou has won the award," Gu Xu smiled humbly and responded, "I just got the favor of God by luck and accidentally entered a state of epiphany." ”

As he spoke, he raised his head and saw Shangguan Jin's delicate and elegant face at a glance.

Although Gu Xu is now forced to devote himself to the Tao due to the problem of lifespan, he is still a layman who likes money and beautiful girls in his bones, and he once quietly evaluated the appearance and temperament of women in the world in his heart like ordinary men.

If you take 100 as a perfect score and 50 points as an average, then Lu Shiyao from Qingzhou can get 90 points - she has a very fairy beauty, like a hibiscus out of the water, independent in the world, and almost can't find any flaws.

Princess Xiao Wanjun of Zhaoning and Miss Zhao Yan can get eighty-five points. They have beautiful faces, beautiful postures, and are extremely eye-catching and unique in the crowd, and belong to the great beauties that cannot be forgotten at a glance - the former is graceful and noble like a peony blooming, and the latter is untamed like a phoenix for nine days.

Like Shi Xiaohan and Shangguan Hibiscus, they have about seventy-five points and belong to the category of "little beauties".

Shi Xiaohan's girl, although she is no more than one meter five tall, and her figure is not convex in front or back, she has a young and childish face, and a pair of beautiful almond eyes that seem to be able to speak.

If the beauty of Princess Zhaoning and Zhao Yan is oppressive and aggressive, it will make many people inadvertently stay away.

Then Shi Xiaohan is like a neighbor's little sister, easy to make people feel close, want to bully her, and want to take care of her in the palm of her hand.

As for Shangguan Hibiscus, it can be regarded as a typical "light-faced" beauty - a palm-sized melon seed face, smoky eyebrows, willow leaf eyes, a small nose, and pale lips. It doesn't look stunning at first glance, but it's intriguing when you look closely.

And she also knows how to use makeup, play to her strengths, and make up for her shortcomings.

In addition, she has a high emotional intelligence and is very good at observing words and praising others, and getting along with her will have a spring breeze-like experience.

After talking to her, many people feel that she is a "confidant", an "empathetic friend", and even an "ideal gentle and virtuous lover".

However, the first time Gu Xu met Shangguan Jin in the "Realm of Taoism", he was tragically attacked by her "not speaking of martial virtues", so naturally he would not be confused by her appearance.

"By the way, Gu Daoyou, Lord Si Shou gave me a task early this morning," After a short silence, Shangguan Jian restrained his smile and said with a serious attitude, "He said that there are signs of ghosts and monsters near the north gate of Luojing, and he hopes that I will go there to find out the situation." ”

"Luojing North City Gate? Isn't this the scope of the 'Heavenly Dragon Great Array'? Gu Xu frowned slightly, "Could it be that a ghost broke into the formation?" ”

"It's sneaking in," Shangguan replied, "but maybe because that goblin has some techniques to conceal itself, the head of the department can't see the details clearly."

"Master Si Shou also said, Gu Daoyou, you have mastered a very special divination technique, and you can calculate some things that he can't see—he suggested that I come and ask for your help."

"How much is the merit reward for this mission?" Gu Xu pondered for a moment and asked lightly.

He asked such a question, not because he was greedy for that little merit, but because he wanted to estimate the difficulty of the task through meritorious rewards.

"It's not certain yet, because the strength of the ghost hasn't been calculated yet," Shangguan Jin said, "but Lord Si said that it should be roughly equivalent to the reward that can be obtained by killing an 'evil spirit' level ghost." ”

Gu Xu nodded.

Since this was the task that Luo Si asked him to do by name, it was not convenient for him to refuse.

In addition, his cultivation has grown rapidly recently, and he has also researched and improved some talismans, and he really wants to find a lucky ghost to be his guinea pig.

"And when are we leaving?" He put away the pen and paper on the table, stood up and spoke.

"Is that okay now?" Shangguan Jin jumped lightly from the desk.

She is very tall, at least 1.7 meters, standing next to Gu Xu, she can reach his ears.

There was a faint refreshing fragrance on her body - Gu Xu knew that this fragrance was not the so-called women's body fragrance, but from the small sachet she hung around her waist, and its ingredients were carefully blended by her, and the smell was fresh and not greasy.

"Please allow me to go to the kitchen and buy two steamed buns first."

Gu Xu suddenly realized at this time that he was so busy watching the battle and drawing the talisman seal just now that he forgot to go to the public kitchen for breakfast.

It's just that the battle of the Fifth Realm Monk is too exciting.

And the epiphany thing, it's too delayed!

So he performed the "Meteor Walking the Moon" method and disappeared into the library in an instant.

Shangguan Jin couldn't help but sneer at the way he left in a hurry, and then also used his body technique to leave this place.

…………

After leaving the Yamen of the Exorcism Division, Zhao Yan did not delay for a moment, and galloped on Luojing Street to find his next opponent.

Soon she arrived at a crimson gate on the south bank of the Lo River.

The roof of this gate is covered with green glazed tiles, and the roof ridge is covered with a kissing beast used to ward off evil spirits and ward off evil spirits. There is also a pair of stone lions in front of the door, one male and one female, looking majestic.

This place is the residence of the eldest prince Xiao Shangyuan.

Three years ago, when Zhao Yan was still in the capital, she challenged the second prince Xiao Shangheng and the third prince Xiao Shangli, the former was beaten by her and lay on the bed for three days and three nights unable to move, and the latter ran to his mother to complain crying.

As for Xiao Shangyuan, since he was already over thirty years old, much older than Zhao Yan, and far ahead in the realm of cultivation, there had been no experience of fighting between the two.

But now, Zhao Yan has finally equaled the eldest prince in the realm.

Naturally, she also included the name "Xiao Shangyuan" in her list of challenges.

Although the Great Prince had been a peak monk of the Fifth Realm for a long time, and he had mastered the "Heavenly Dragon Domain" that could fight across the border, his true combat strength was even higher than that of ordinary Sixth Realm monks.

But Zhao Yan will not be intimidated by this. After all, she also has a lot of powerful hole cards in her hands. In her mind, there is no point in bullying the weak. Only by constantly challenging stronger people can we truly achieve the effect of sharpening ourselves.

When she jumped off her horse, the red gates of the Prince's Mansion opened.

Two soldiers in silver light armor stood on either side of the gate.

They were armed with silver spears and wore silver-white covered helmets, making it impossible to see their faces.

These soldiers were nominally part of the Great Qi Imperial City Praetorian Guard, but they were not real people, but metal puppets made from refining spells.

As far as Zhao Yan knew, at least half of the members of the Praetorian Guard were such puppets. In a sense, they are equivalent to a part of the "Celestial Dragon Great Array".

Although they are also subject to the orders of the Praetorian Guard generals or other members of the royal family, their supreme control is firmly in the hands of the owner of the "Tai'a Sword".

If Luojing City encounters external enemies or internal troubles, these puppets will become a sharp weapon in the hands of the emperor along with the entire "Heavenly Dragon Great Array".

A moment later, the eldest prince Xiao Shangyuan walked out of the mansion.

He was not wearing a fancy dress today, only wearing a blue-gray cloth shirt, holding a book in his arms, and he did not look like a noble prince, but like an ordinary scholar rushing to take the exam.

"Miss Zhao, do you really want to challenge me?" Xiao Shangyuan's face showed a helpless smile.

"Your Highness, is it cowardice before you fight?" Zhao Yan's eyebrows rose slightly, "This is not a good reputation for the Great Qi royal family!" ”

"I just feel that this is very meaningless," Xiao Shangyuan shook his head lightly and replied, "If I can, I still want to be friends with you and in harmony." ”

Zhao Yan didn't speak again.

In her eyes, Luojing City is a dark, cold and cruel place. Here, she never felt like she could find a real friend.

Then the two of them shot in unison.

Xiao Shangyuan took a step forward, and a phantom of a five-clawed golden dragon appeared behind him, and the brilliant golden light shrouded a radius of several meters, exuding an extremely terrifying coercion, as if forcing the people around him to bow their heads and knees to him, and prostrate and worship.

The "Heavenly Dragon Domain" he used had also been used by the fourth prince, Xiao Shangzhen, before.

But Xiao Shangyuan's "Heavenly Dragon Domain" is obviously stronger and more powerful, and the golden dragon looks lifelike. In addition, he has a very precise control over the scope of the field, which can prevent it from harming innocent people and damaging the surrounding objects.

Zhao Yan narrowed her eyes slightly.

With a crisp chirp, the golden phantom of the phoenix was above her head. It proudly held its head high and spread its tender wings.

The feathers at the tip of the wings turned into golden-red flames, which looked scorching and dazzling under the clear blue sky.

is different from the previous multi-round confrontation with Chu Fengge.

This time, the battle was divided in the moment of lightning.

I saw that the golden phoenix flapped its wings and penetrated the "Heavenly Dragon Domain", and collided with the five-clawed golden dragon heavily, turning into a dazzling fire together, and soaring into the sky.

The next moment, both turned into golden shards of light and disappeared without a trace.

Zhao Yan's face was so pale that it was almost transparent.

She only felt that her eyes were a little dark and her legs were weak. Only by reaching out to hold the trunk of the plane tree next to him could he barely stand firm.

Xiao Shangyuan also involuntarily took a few steps back.

But his complexion looked significantly better than Zhao Yan's.

"I lost," Zhao Yan looked at him calmly, "but in three months, I will challenge you again." ”

"Miss Zhao, you're actually pretty good," Xiao Shangyuan said to her with a friendly smile on his face, "Less than a month after entering the Fifth Realm, you can instantly defeat the 'Heavenly Dragon Realm' of me, a peak cultivator of the Fifth Realm, and few people in the entire Great Qi Dynasty can do it-"

"-If you lose, your skills are not as good as others," Zhao Yan interrupted him lightly, "I don't need this kind of comfort like coaxing a child." ”

As soon as she had finished speaking, she jumped on her horse and galloped towards the end of the street, like a scarlet lightning bolt.

Xiao Shangyuan stood quietly outside the door of the mansion for a while.

After Zhao Yan's figure disappeared completely, he suddenly reached out to cover his head, snorted in pain, and sat down on the steps.

The book in his hand also fell to the ground, but he didn't realize it.

Seeing this scene, his cronies, Fan Cheng, a monk of the Great Qi Imperial Family and a Sixth Realm cultivator, immediately hurried to his side, squatted down, and said to him, "Your Highness, are you okay?" ”

Xiao Shangyuan took a deep breath and said slowly: "Uncle Fan, do you think Zhao Yan's divine soul strength really looks like a monk who has just entered the fifth realm?" ”

Fan Cheng had also been hiding by the side just now, quietly watching the battle.

Zhao Yan's spirit in the form of a young phoenix naturally fell into his eyes.

"It's really not," Fan Cheng replied, "'Divine Soul Transformation', that's at least something that only a Sixth Realm cultivator can do. The moment I saw her spirit, I even thought that she had knocked on the 'Xudu Gate' and was about to enter the 'Yama Palace'. ”

"Tell you the truth, Uncle Fan," Xiao Shangyuan laughed at himself after hearing Fan Cheng's response, and continued, "Although I cultivated earlier than her, and my cultivation was slightly higher than hers, my divine soul power was much weaker than hers.

"In order to block her blow just now, I used my own bloodline as a medium to invoke some of the power of the 'Heavenly Dragon Array' in Luojing City...... If it had been in the suburbs, I would have lost.

"It's just that I think that as the prince of Great Qi, I must not embarrass the royal family."

"You are right, Your Highness," Fan Cheng replied, "The Great Qi Imperial Family must not lose to the people of Youzhou, this is a matter of principle. ”

Xiao Shangzhen was silent for a while.

"Actually, I'm curious about why Zhao Yan can have such a strong divine soul power," he thought for a moment and asked again, "In my memory, the Youzhou Zhao clan has always been mainly martial arts, and not good at cultivating divine souls. ”

"There are three possibilities," Fan Cheng replied, "First, the Youzhou Zhao clan actually secretly has a method of cultivating the divine soul, and the level is at least the highest grade, but few people have cultivated it before.

"Second, she had cultivated to the sixth realm before, but for some unknown reason, she fell back to the fifth realm. If this was the case, her Divine Soul would still be able to maintain the strength of the Sixth Realm. ”

"This can't be," Xiao Shangyuan frowned slightly, and said, "She's only in her early twenties now, how can she cultivate the sixth realm?" ”

"I also think it's unlikely," Fan Cheng smiled and said, "But the third possibility is even less probable - she may be the reincarnation of a powerful person in ancient times, or an immortal who has fallen into mortal dust."

"However, the words 'reincarnation' and 'immortal' only exist in legends, and there are no real cases in my memory."

Xiao Shangyuan thought for a moment and felt that the first guess was the most reliable.

"Youzhou Zhao's family, it's really hidden!" He sighed silently.

But suddenly, he remembered the disaster that happened in Qingzhou Mansion last month.

At that time, Xiao Shangyuan and Fan Cheng were trapped by the black altar in the depths of Yishan by the Kongxuansan people, and even if they used the "Broken Sky Bead", they could not escape from there, and could only wait for death silently in despair.

All he remembered was that the Kongxuan Sanren waved his hand lightly, and he fainted without resistance.

When he woke up again, he found himself lying on the soft bed of the Luojing Mansion, with a young and beautiful maid standing beside him, serving him medicine.

Then he learned from the discussions of others that the young man named Gu Xu in Yishui County, who he had tried to recruit, was his life-saving benefactor.

It was Gu Xu who broke the blockade of the heavenly machine of the empty Xuansan people and delivered the news to the saints in the capital in time.

"How did he do it?"

Xiao Shangyuan still hasn't figured out this problem.

If Xiao Shangyuan were to say which person in the world was most like an immortal who had fallen into the mortal world and reincarnated and rebuilt, then the first person he thought of was definitely Gu Xu.

His cultivation talent, his comprehension ability, his talisman attainments, and even his literary talent for writing poems and lyrics once shocked Xiao Shangyuan, and he wanted to recruit him under his command at all costs, so that he could become a help for him to compete for the "Tai'a Sword".

It's just that now, he has complicated feelings about Gu Xu, and deep down he doesn't want to meet him again.

It's not because Gu Xu provoked him.

It's because Gu Xu once witnessed his embarrassed appearance begging for mercy from the Kongxuansan people.

Thinking of this, Xiao Shangyuan leaned on the crimson wall and slowly got up from the ground, preparing to return to the mansion to continue his cultivation.

"Your Highness, your book has dropped."

Fan Cheng said as Xiao Shangyuan picked up the book that had just fallen on the ground and handed it to the latter.

Inadvertently, he caught a glimpse of the title on the cover of the book.

"Your Highness, how have you become interested in a book like "The Records of the Great Qi" recently?"

The Records of the Great Qi Dynasty is a chronicle of the official history of the Great Qi Dynasty, which was used to record the edicts, decrees, and major events during the reign of various emperors.

In fact, it is not a strange thing for a prince to read such a book.

To Fan Cheng's surprise, Xiao Shangyuan was recently in a critical period of breaking the realm.

According to his experience, in the process of ringing the "Xudu Gate" and advancing to the sixth realm, one should concentrate on it and avoid distractions as much as possible.

It stands to reason that the Great Prince should not have the heart to read such books that have nothing to do with cultivation.

"Uncle Fan, I've just been thinking about a strange question lately."

"What's the problem?"

"A question about the longevity of the previous emperors of our Great Qi Dynasty," Xiao Shangzhen hesitated for a moment and then spoke, "Under normal circumstances, after a monk becomes a saint and reshapes his body, he can have at least two hundred years of life, and it is even possible to live to be three hundred years old.

"However, the previous emperors of the Great Qi Dynasty were basically the powerhouses of the Eighth Realm, but their lifespans were almost the same as ordinary people, and almost no one could live to be more than a hundred years old."

Fan Cheng was stunned for a few seconds.

This is indeed a question worth pondering.

But Fan Cheng found that as a royal worshipper, he had never paid attention to this matter before.

ps: 6000 words big chapter, sorry for being late. Recently, it is close to the end of the volume, and the plot is more complicated, and Pudding has no experience in writing million-word long stories before, and his pen power is limited, so it is difficult to master. Yesterday, I stayed up until four or five o'clock in the morning, wrote thousands of words of wasted manuscripts, deleted them because I was not satisfied, and I didn't find an idea until noon today.

But I'll sort out the follow-up plot as soon as possible, and strive to update it on time every day!

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