The city lord of Qiancheng has always been a relatively embarrassing position, because Qiancheng is in Zhoudi, the city lord of Qiancheng is directly ordered by the royal family of the Great Zhou, but the decrees of the Great Zhou cannot be implemented in Qiancheng, and all the affairs of Qiancheng are headed by the Wumeng. But it is such a fictitious position, because it has long-term zero-distance contact with the Wumeng, so it is extremely important in the eyes of the three major powers.

The successive city lords of Qiancheng don't know how many died at the hands of the Great Zhou's swords and axes, and the charges were all foreign countries without exception. It can be seen how much importance all countries attach to Qiancheng and the Wumeng.

After the previous city lord of Qiancheng was beheaded by the Great Zhou, the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty was extremely angry and directly appointed a county king with a different surname to settle in the city lord's mansion, which stopped the infiltration of the other two countries into Qiancheng.

At this time, the city lord's mansion was lit up, and the hall was brightly lit, and there was a young man with five claws and four dragon patterns and an apricot yellow brocade robe sitting at the head of the hall, and his appearance was seven points similar to that Zhou Zhenglin, but it was not as heroic as Zhou Zhenglin, giving people a sense of laziness. This person is Zhou Zhengqi, the crown prince of the Great Zhou. And the next to accompany him was Hu Tai, the king of Jingnan, who was wearing a casual suit and had a slightly fat body. In the huge hall, apart from these two people, there was not even a serving maid.

Zhou Zhengqi's whole person was nested in the wide back of the chair, his face was slightly pale, and he didn't say a word for a long time. And King Jingnan on the side also frowned slightly, silently playing with the jade wrench in his hand.

"Is there still no news from the west?" Zhou Zhengqi broke the silence.

"Yes, according to our scout's report, now that Snow Eagle's black-clothed army has been reduced to zero, as long as that young man named Xu Hao appears, there will definitely be clues to be found. But it's been almost two months, and there is still no news from the west. Hu Tai still played with the wrench in his hand.

Zhou Zhengqi bowed slightly, and then asked, "Uncle Wang, your injury"

The corners of Hu Tai's mouth turned up slightly, the opposition between the two princes of the Great Zhou royal family is almost known to the world, and Hu Tai is just a solid supporter of the second prince. This time, Zhou Zhengqi ordered him to go to the Wumeng to steal the half volume of exercises, but it was not Zhou Zhengqi's plan to kill people with a knife.

"His Royal Highness the Prince of Bulao remembers, a little injured, Weichen's old bones are still holding on! It's just that I never thought that Wumeng still had such characters, but I underestimated them!" Another important reason why Hu Tai was assigned to Qiancheng was that he was a first-class martial artist himself. This secret is known to very few people in the royal family.

"It's all the little nephew who is reckless, and Uncle Wang is injured. Zhou Zhengqi said this, but he didn't even look at Hu Tai.

Hu Tai waved his hand, "It's okay to have a little injury, but this time I scared the snake, Weichen is only afraid that the three old men of the Wumeng will not give up, and it will be difficult to enter the ancient tower in the future." ”

Zhou Zhengqi nodded, "The blame for this matter is on the little nephew, and when I return to the capital, I will definitely ask my father in person! ”

Then he said: "As for the half-volume exercises, it's not bad to keep them by the Wumeng for the time being, as long as Xu Hao has no contact with the Wumeng, this half-volume of exercises is just a few pieces of waste paper." What we have to do now is to step up the search for Xu Hao on the one hand, and on the other hand, we must not relax the surveillance of the Wu Alliance, as long as the Wu Alliance and Xu Hao have no contact, then both parties are not to worry about for the time being. ”

Hu Tai smiled to himself, everyone knew that this half-volume exercise was the most important thing, otherwise how could Zhou Zhengqi personally run to Qiancheng, this defeat could not be all of Zhou Zhengqi's means, and then how the two sides started was the Eight Immortals crossed the sea, each showing their magical powers. As for what he said, the half volume of exercises is temporarily kept by the Wu League, but it is a bit of a desire to cover up.

The two of them thought about each other in the empty hall.

But Zhou Zhengqi didn't expect that Xu Hao, who was in the Wumeng at this time, was only a few streets away from them.

And what Meng Qian guessed was basically not bad, but one thing was wrong, it turned out that Da Zhou did not have a martial artist to inherit the power of the blood moon, and it was only the appearance of Xu Hao that made them plan to snatch the exercises in advance.

At this time, Xu Hao was walking in a dark passage, there were no torches in the passage, but there were egg-sized night pearls inlaid on the walls every ten meters, and the whole body exuded a faint brilliance. Xu Hao followed Meng Qian in this passage and didn't know how far he went, Xu Hao never thought that there would be such a long passage under the ground of the ancient tower. After walking a long time to make tea, Meng Qian stopped, and with the faint brilliance of the night pearl, he saw a stone gate appear in front of the passage.

Meng Qian stepped forward, but he didn't see any movement, and the stone door rolled in. Meng Qian motioned for Xu Hao to go in with him.

Entering the stone door, there is a three-zhang square stone room inside, the wall is still inlaid with night pearls, the number and size are slightly larger than the outside, and the whole stone room is illuminated in detail. The stone chamber was very rudimentary, with nothing but a stone table, a few stone chairs, and a stone bed in the corner. Xu Hao originally thought that this stone room was where the half-scroll exercises were hidden, but the entire stone room had an unobstructed view, and there was no place to hide anything.

Looking at Xu Hao with a questioning face, Meng Qian just asked Xu Hao to wait for a while and walked out of the stone room alone. Meng Qian left, and it took a stick of incense to return to the stone room. He was also holding a one-foot-square camphor box.

Meng Qian put the box on the stone table, and looked at Xu Hao with extremely serious eyes, "From now on, your fate is closely related to the Wumeng, the old man doesn't need you to commit to it now, you already know the current situation and the situation of the Wumeng, I just hope that you can protect the safety of the Wumeng in Qiancheng after practicing this skill, the Wumeng has no ambition, nor does it have the heart to fight, as long as the status quo can be maintained for hundreds of years, we three old men will be satisfied." As for what you do in the world, the Martial Alliance does not interfere. After speaking, Meng Qian picked up the box and handed it to Xu Hao.

Xu Hao cautiously took the box, "If the juniors can really practice this skill, the future affairs of the Wumeng will be my Xu Hao's business, it is useless to say more, and the juniors will definitely prove all this with actions in the future." But there is no chaos to happen, please also ask the seniors to take care of the old departments of the late father, and the younger generations will thank you in advance!"

After receiving Xu Hao's salute, Meng Qian said: "You can rest assured of this, since I promised you, I will never break my word." You only need to cultivate here with peace of mind, and you don't have to worry about the rest. As for your two friends, the second child has already chosen the exercises for them, and now they are cultivating in the fifth layer of the ancient tower, and from today the three of us old men will move into the ancient tower, except for cultivation, you can come up and ask at any time if you have anything. ”

Xu Hao nodded in thanks.

"As for this half-volume exercise, don't expect us to give you anything, because the three of us can't understand this exercise at all, so you can only figure it out on your own. Meng Qian threw down these words and walked out without looking back.

Xu Hao, who left a black line, is there a mistake! You can't understand it at all and conclude that this is the legendary Blood Moon Exercise?

At this point, Xu Hao didn't think much about it, opened the camphor box, and saw a scroll lying in the box that he didn't know what kind of material it was made of, which was smooth and accompanied by a hint of coolness. I saw that on the cover page of the scroll were written three big characters, "Blood Moon Killing". Flipping through the scroll, there is a preface written on the front page in small block letters. The handwriting is dignified and beautiful, and it should come from a woman's hand.

"This method is divided into two volumes, the upper volume is a detailed explanation of the power of the blood moon, and the lower volume is the method of cultivating qi and exhaling. If you don't know the mystery of the blood moon, practicing the next volume will be like a rootless Ping and a source of water. This method adheres to the heavenly way that the sun and the moon complement each other, with the moon as the main and the sun as the supplement. Use the power of the blood moon as a medium to attract the power of the sun and the moon to strengthen your body. Therefore, those who have not inherited the power of the Blood Moon, or those who are too weak in their own Blood Moon power, should not practice this exercise, so as not to make mistakes. ”

Seeing this, Xu Hao had an ominous premonition.

Hurriedly turned the next page, and sure enough, this volume was the next volume.

Xu Hao wanted to cry without tears, "Is there any mistake, haven't a few old men read this book of "Blood Moon Killing"? It is clearly written that the next volume of cultivation must read the first volume, it is obvious that this exercise can only be cultivated with the power of the sun and the moon as the source, but I don't even understand the power of the sun and the moon now, not to mention that this blood moon is not like the blood moon continent, which will have it every night. There is indeed the power of the Blood Moon in the body, but I don't know if these Blood Moon powers are enough for cultivation, in case the power of the Blood Moon is exhausted at a critical time, this will kill people."

After thinking about it for a long time, Xu Hao gritted his teeth and decided to practice first and then say, if he found something wrong, he would stop practicing immediately, anyway, there was no other way to think about it now.