In the wilderness, the branches and leaves of a crooked old tree swayed, and a turquoise gap suddenly appeared at the trunk of the tree.

"The method of Mu Dun is really wonderful, allowing people to travel back and forth between the same trees, without being hindered by mountains and rivers, and not following the leylines of the earth." Zhao Xiao loosened his limbs and said to himself:

"It's a pity, if there is no "Sumai Dan Heart Formula" as the foundation, sensing the grass and trees in Fangyuan, this wood escape method will not be able to be used, and it is not like the Shrinking Earth Divine Movement Method, which can also bring others."

Lingxiao said: "Your immortal body has not yet been completed, and the escape method must always use the tangible and qualitative things in the world to sense each other's orientation in order to perform the escape method." If you achieve the immortal path, you can go directly to it if you think together and sense your vision. ”

"Liang Tao's Great Ming Treasure Mirror seems to have a similar use." Zhao Xiao recalled and said: "The magic mirror takes a certain prescription position, and he can also go directly through the mirror to the other place. ”

"You can't do it now." Ling Xiao said.

"I feel it too." Zhao Xiao sat down and sighed: "This wood escape method consumes more mana than I expected, if it is used as a means of escaping and avoiding robbery, it is not very suitable, no wonder it is not listed as one of the primary techniques to practice in the Xuanpu Jade Book." ”

Previously fighting with Xia Huanggong, it was agreed that the sheep would be defeated and retreat, but Zhao Huang did even better. In the face of the fiery meteor recruited by Xia Huanggong, Zhao Huang took the opportunity to show a doppelganger, with a thousand clever moments in front of everyone, pretending to burn the jade, so that Xia Huanggong could take away the thousand clever moments in public.

And Zhao Huang himself hid his figure, and after landing on the ground, he escaped by the method of Mu Dun, so as to turn light into darkness, so as not to be suspicious and suspicious of the Rising Sun God Sect, and he didn't have to worry about the follow-up things.

After a moment of breathing, Zhao Xiao set off to the pre-agreed place, and found Tao Heling and Chang Liezi in a deserted village that had suffered from floods, and Qian Shaobai had been waiting here for a long time.

"The Thousand Clever Moments have fallen into the hands of Deng Feibao, are you satisfied?" Zhao Xiao asked.

"In the next generation, I will thank you for a few people." Qian Shaobai replied with a smile, he is now appointed by the left minister to be responsible for contacting and answering, and said: "If you can, please move a little, the left minister wants to talk to a few people." ”

This situation was a bit unexpected, Zhao Xiao originally didn't want to have too much contact with the ministers and nobles of the Xiong Kingdom, but considering that in order to open the Cave Heaven Portal in Dunjia Mountain, he took away Tao Heling's Thousand Clever Moments, but he didn't have a completely reliable guarantee, which was really inappropriate.

Compared with himself, an outsider who has no foundation, having the left minister of Xiong Guo is obviously more convincing to Tao Heling.

"Is Lord Zuo Xiang in the imperial capital?" Zhao Xiao still had some suspicion in his heart, after all, his identity and past were too easy to incur hatred and revenge, even if he just made the news of his survival public, it could cause endless trouble to Zhao Huang.

Qian Shaobai replied: "Lord Zuo Xiang is inspecting the Sifang County, and he is temporarily stationed in Puji City at the moment, please come with me." ”

"Patrol the county?" Zhao Xiao asked, "Didn't you say that the Rising Sun Divine Sect was preparing to start an incident?" Isn't Lord Zuo afraid that there will be fanatics who will take the opportunity to assassinate? Just clamoring for the outcasts to surround it can make people unbearable. ”

"The reason why displaced people are displaced is nothing more than displacement due to natural and man-made disasters." Qian Shaobai explained: "If we can provide timely relief and stabilize the displaced people, how can the Rising Sun Cult encourage the people to rebel? ”

"Kind of makes sense." Zhao Xiao nodded and said, "Lead the way, I would like to meet this Lord Zuo Xiang." ”

"But please hide and sneak along the way, don't expose your tracks." Qian Shaobai said.

Zhao Xiao smiled lightly and nodded in agreement, he had already roughly guessed the intentions of this Zuo Xiang.

The group left the deserted village and headed north, to a place where the flooding had eased. Along the way, I saw large and small towns and settlements, sheltering a large number of people affected by the disaster. And there are many middle-aged men who participate in the construction of embankments, digging ditches, and tamping official roads.

In addition, a large number of scribes and scribes reorganized their household registers and announced decrees in various places, and many soldiers galloped on fast horses on official roads, passing news back and forth, and countless chariots and horses brought grain and cloth, which were distributed to local victims under the supervision of the imperial soldiers.

Zhao Xiao knew that there was another flood in the area of Qiangshui before, but he didn't expect the disaster to affect such a vast area, let alone that the Xiong Country could be called complete in sheltering the affected people.

When you follow Qian Shaobai to Puji City, you can hear the sound of the rolling torrent from afar, and there are often flood tides that hit the embankment on the shore and stir up a large number of waves.

However, although the tide was strong, it seemed to be confined to the embankment by an invisible force, and it was evident that some monks used great magic power to suppress the flood tide, forcing it to flow along the established river course and prevent it from bursting the embankment and flooding the city.

Puji City is located on the bank of the big river, and after Qian Shaobai entered the city, he inquired a little, and then led Zhao Xiao and others to the west city wall. He Qingchen, the left minister, looked at the distant river with his hand, and could vaguely see more than ten figures sitting on the embankment, reciting the mystical scriptures in unison, and ambushing the flood tide like a fierce beast.

"Lord Zuo Xiang." Qian Shaobai bowed and saluted: "The disciple brought the person." ”

"Hmm." He Qingchen, the left minister, was an old man with gray hair, but his eyes were bright and his spirit was strong, he recognized Zhao Xiao at a glance, and said: "Presumably this is the real Huaiyu of Xuanpu Hall, I have heard Shaobai mention you before." Whether it is leveling the twelve villages of Shiliang, or destroying the big demon of Lihua County, or cutting off the evil of Qinghe, it is all up to Huaiyu to show his might. ”

"Praise Miao, I just happened to meet such a demon, and I did it easily." Zhao Xiao replied expressionlessly.

"Easy?" He Qingchen didn't delve into it, and looked at the other two: "These two are Tao Heling and Taiyimen's eldest sons?" ”

The two of them bowed their hands separately, He Qingchen looked at Tao Heling, and said: "I guess you already know the arrangement of your own appearance, what is wrong with it now, although it is clear." ”

Tao Heling asked: "Lord Zuo Xiang, I don't understand, since you know that Deng Feibao has bad intentions, why do you want to promote him to the master of the Thousand Machines Pavilion?" ”

"Ill-intentioned?" He Qingchen's tone was gentle: "In my opinion, people with bad intentions abound. I appointed Deng Feibao as the master of the Thousand Machines Pavilion, firstly, because he is quite accomplished in his ingenuity, and he is indeed worthy of a great responsibility, and secondly, he was elected by everyone in the cabinet, which shows his prestige, and it is very suitable for such a person to take over the position of the pavilion master. ”

Tao Heling was speechless for a while in the face of these words, not knowing how to refute them. Zhao Xiao didn't want to speak, but when he saw He Qingchen looking at him, he had to say:

"Lord Zuo Xiang's words are inevitably biased, I don't know much about Karakuri, but recently I have discussed with Brother Tao, and I generally know that Karakuri creations, even if they are according to the map, they are by no means able to be prepared by one person. And only in terms of ingenuity, Deng Feibao is not the only one who is smart.

As for the theory of prestige, from the perspective of the left-hand minister, it should not be uncommon for friends to collude, protect each other's interests, and offer good words, and praise words are the most untrustworthy. What's more, the trust and promotion of Lord Zuo Xiang could not prevent Deng Feibao from obeying the Rising Sun Divine Sect and plotting rebellion. ”

He Qingchen pondered for a moment, did not answer, and turned to look at Changliezi: "I don't know what advice the senior disciples of Taiyi Sect have here." ”

"I'm just a rural villager, how can I advise Lord Zuo Xiang?" Chang Liezi said with a straight face: "I just accompanied Huaiyu Zhenren to come and do some witnessing. ”

"Witness?" He Qingchen looked thoughtful.

Zhao Xiao looked at the monks on the river embankment in the distance and asked, "Who are they?" ”

"Naturally, it's from the Shangjing Sect." He Qingchen replied: "The person at the head is Xuantu Gong, one of the Four Immortal Princes. ”

Zhao Xiao was slightly surprised, looked at the direction of the river embankment, took up the Ying Xuan Illumination Technique, and said after observing it for a long time: "Many people joined forces to form a formation, condensed the great mana to withstand the flood without power, and turned it into a guide to restrain the flow of water. What a clever means, what a subtle mana! ”

This time, Zhao Xiao was really impressed, he thought that his cultivation realm might not be able to compete with the world's masters, but he should have a bit of unique enlightenment in the use of magic, and he might not be much worse than the four immortals.

But when I saw it today, I realized that there is a sky outside the sky and there are people outside the world.

Zhao Huang knew too well how irresistible the rolling flood tide was, and he happened to encounter a flood in the middle of his tour of the opening altar in Huaxu Kingdom. However, at that time, what Zhao Xiao could do was to help break through the last section of the newly dug canal, except to collect the rain, and he did not think about how to restrain the flood at all.

Even if Zhao Huang now has the cultivation realm of guarding the fetal breath, he will never dare to compete with the great power of heaven and earth creation.

If it was in the Tianxia Dynasty, the Praise Officer would not use rituals to forcibly fight against floods, and the best way was to judge the disaster of drought and flood in advance through the changes in the number of qi in heaven and earth, and respond to and prevent it as soon as possible. Otherwise, if the water of the river really overflows, the qi of heaven and earth is likely to be in turmoil, and the ritual and ritual affairs of the praise official will not be able to be contained.

And the genius of Xuan Tugong lies in the fact that he is not blindly trying to resist the flood tide, nor is he strengthening the river embankment with real qi, but reversing the surging torrent, forming an invisible channel along the river and guiding the trend, which can be called a thousand catties.

Even if Xuan Tugong and a group of Shangjing Sect people formed a joint force, they still could not completely eliminate the power of the flood tide, but as long as the river embankment was not broken, it would give the soldiers and civilians on the shore the opportunity to strengthen the embankment.

"I don't know how long Xuan Tugong has been sitting on the embankment?" Zhao Xiao asked.

"Today is the seventh day." He Qingchen said: "At first, it was found that there was a slight leakage in the river embankment, but Xuan Tugong immediately made a decision, and led all the disciples to form a formation to cast spells, and he has been holding the river embankment. The prime minister is here, which is to supervise the construction and reinforcement of the embankment. ”

Zhao Huang felt a little incredible, Xuan Tugong's use of mana was very clever, but it was completely impossible for a master of the world like him to work tirelessly to guard the river embankment in Huaxu Kingdom, and even Zhao Huang had never done such a thing.

Seven days and seven nights does not seem to be a short time, but Zhao Huang knows that dissolving the flood tide and guiding the river like Xuan Tugong is like walking on a mountain suspension with a heavy burden, and the wind is howling endlessly, and if you are not careful, you will be blown down and fall to pieces.

Even if Xuantu Gong cultivates to be profound, but this kind of thing is okay to persist for half a day, and it will not move for seven days and seven nights, even if it is a person who cultivates immortals, it is not much different from being tortured.

"No wonder I can't win ......," Zhao Xiao muttered in a low voice.

When He Qingchen heard this, he showed a meaningful expression, and then said: "This is not the place to talk, let's go elsewhere." ”

Everyone followed He Qingchen to a quiet house in the city, the surrounding guards were either light or dark, and there were also enchantment prohibitions to guard, no matter where He Qingchen went, there were at least three teams of people guarding in the dark, many of them were cultivated deeply, and they should also be the disciples of Shangjing Sect.

After each of them sat down, Qian Shaobai was about to say goodbye and leave, He Qingchen said: "Shaobai, you don't have to go, just listen to it." ”

"The disciple obeys." Qian Shaobai stood respectfully beside him.

Zhao Xiao glanced at Qian Shaobai, and he found that both Han Yuanzi and He Qingchen valued this person a lot, could it be that they wanted to cultivate him as the future head of the family? It's just that Han Yuanzi is hidden and does not appear, He Qingchen is in charge of national affairs, almost two completely opposite sides, aren't you afraid of teaching Qian Shaobai to make a mistake?

"I know you have a grudge and think that I have abandoned Qianji Pavilion and Tao Hongjiu." He Qingchen was the first to say to Tao Heling: "You can read these letters first, but don't disclose them to the public." ”

Tao Heling took the letter, looked at it for a while, and looked suspicious: "This, this is Elder Qi's letter!" He's been in secret contact with you for a long time? ”

"Qianji Pavilion builds telekinetic equipment for the country, how can I, as the left minister, know nothing about you?" He Qingchen said: "Deng Feibao has a different heart, and it was also Elder Qi who informed me after discovering it, originally I also planned to take the lead in taking Deng Feibao before the situation changed, but I found that most of the people in the Thousand Machines Pavilion were following him.

There may not be loyalty in this, and the rest of the people in the cabinet follow Deng Feibao, basically for a small profit, after all, the Thousand Machines Pavilion has always worked hard. He Qingchen said: "In the past, the great grandfather once gave you the name of 'alone in charge of a thousand machines', so he did not include the Thousand Machines Pavilion in the treasury of the imperial court, which can be regarded as a favor to the heroes of Conglong. Over time, the operation of the Thousand Machines Pavilion is self-contained, and it is only in your uncle's generation that the imperial court can interfere in the selection of the pavilion master. ”

Although Tao Heling did not answer, he had to admit that what Lord Zuo Xiang said was true, so he continued: "Deng Feibao did not participate in the rebellion, and I, as the Zuo Minister, wanted to kill him, and there was no real and reliable reason. If you act rashly, you are afraid that if you do it immediately, it will immediately arouse a lot of dissatisfaction, and it will be even more inappropriate to force Qianji Pavilion to rebel at that time. ”

With just these few words, Tao Heling had been persuaded most of the time, and then He Qingchen continued: "How many people do you think are bent on following Deng Feibao to rebel? ”

Tao Heling thought for a moment, and then said: "I'm afraid there won't be too many, more people are just being coerced by the situation." ”

"That's it." He Qingchen said with a smile: "Most people are nothing more than a bystander, and whoever wins will follow them." However, after the imperial court exterminates the evil of the rebel party leader, someone must come out to preside over the situation. In the Thousand Machines Pavilion, I am optimistic about you. ”

When Tao Heling heard this, his heart was depressed and dull, when the power of the left minister was in his hands, who would dare to despise him?

"I, I understand, but in the future, please ask Lord Zuo to command!" Tao Heling felt a buzzing in his ears, and agreed without thinking.