In the imperial city of Weiyang Palace, with the Queen Mother's birthday approaching, Xue Li, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, led many miscellaneous servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are in full swing to prepare, a huge stage was built in the center of the courtyard, which was built by the 100th skilled craftsman for three months, His Majesty was very concerned about the birthday of the Queen Mother, and specially ordered the Ministry of Household to allocate 200,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury, which is to prepare for the highest standards of the Royal Family's birthday, one of which celebrates the seventieth birthday of the Queen Mother, and the other shows the style of the Han Empire.

With the arrival of the imperial court's disaster relief food and silver, the victims in Puyang and other places have been temporarily resettled, but the summer rainy season has not passed, the flood is still flooding, and the most important thing is that the local residents' harvest this year has not landed, which will definitely affect the spring planting next year.

The Yellow River burst its banks not overnight, since the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, there have been more or less floods every year in the downstream stage, and there is a major burst every few decades, and this year it happened to rain heavily for three consecutive months, which is why it is so serious.

In addition to the grain, grass and silver that had been ordered to be transported to the household department, a lot of materials were also prepared to rush to the disaster relief, but now the household department has emptied the treasury, and the next batch of grain will not enter the treasury until the autumn harvest, the Son of Heaven rubbed his forehead and thought to himself, "Do you want to use my private treasury?" That's it, there is still an autumn harvest in February, and there should be no starvation to death for many people. Then he threw it on his desk, turned and disappeared through the back door.

Xu Jianping is fighting against the soul devouring bead in the Tianzi cell of Dali Temple at the moment, only to see the blood stains on the corner of his mouth, sitting on the ground and closing his eyes to breathe, after half a sound, a proud Haoran qi came out of his body, and began to confuse the entire Tianzi cell, slowly compressing the dark red light of the soul devouring bead, with the passage of time, the two sides of the competition from the initial dark red soul devouring bead to the current evenly matched, Haoran Qi is the righteousness of heaven and earth, as long as there is a righteous way in the world, then its root will be endless, three hours later, There was no longer a trace of dark red light in the entire cell, and the soul power of the Soul Devouring Bead was pressed by the mighty human righteous qi in a circle no more than half a meter in diameter, and it resisted stubbornly.

Xu Jianping After more than three hours of luck, he lifted his qi and lost his qi, and at this moment he was already at the end of his strong crossbow, if it weren't for his cultivation of "Haoran Qi" for several years, he had been running day and night non-stop, and he almost tilted his head several times this time, and he was unconscious.

Xu Jianping gritted his teeth and looked at the gradually shrinking dark red circle of light, he knew that he was only one step away from success, at most three or five minutes, and this battle would have a result, and then he was not distracted, and continued to concentrate on approaching the Soul Devouring Bead.

Slowly, slowly, the dark red light of the Soul Devouring Bead completely dissipated, returning to the pure and white form of the Night Pearl in the past, and falling from the scepter on its own, Xu Jianping smiled, "You still dare to fight with me." Then he stretched out his hands, picked up the night pearl from the ground, held it in the palm of his hand, and looked at it quietly, only to see that the pearl was smooth as jade on the outside, and there were some light green lines inside, which could not be seen through at a glance, and he grasped it with his right hand, and found that it was not as hard as he imagined, and he didn't know what it was composed of, etc., the green lines seemed to be moving? Could it be that he was dazzled, Xu Jianping hurriedly took it to his eyes, and carefully stared at the green lines inside, its shape, "Damn, it's a villain?" ”

Xu Jianping's eyes widened and he saw that the pale green lines in the Soul Eater Bead turned out to be a villain, so surprised to find it, he couldn't help but let out an exclamation, and suddenly, in the empty cell, there was a vicissitudes of life but a naughty voice, "I found it for you!" ”

"Who! Who's talking? ”

Xu Jianping thought that there were other people in the cell, and he couldn't help but be frightened.

At this moment, the Soul Eater Bead in his hand exerted his strength in vain, and a dark red light flashed, and the Soul Eater Bead went straight into the throat with a "whoosh" sound along the big mouth that opened when Xu Jianping questioned loudly.

"Gross!"

Xu Jianping vomited for a while, he never expected that the Soul Devouring Bead actually had a soul, although he didn't know whether it was good or bad, but as far as it could devour other people's souls for his own use, it was obvious that it had bad intentions in Xu Jianping's abdomen, and then the vicissitudes of life came again, "Boy, you and I can cooperate well." ”

A strange voice was coming from Xu Jianping's stomach, Xu Jianping heard this, and said fiercely, "How to cooperate?" ”

Soul Devouring Bead said, "With me in your body, don't say seven grades and eight grades, even if it is a nine-rank martial honor, his soul power may not be as good as yours, and with me, your cultivation speed will be greatly increased, and within three years, you will definitely be able to enter the eight grades." ”

Xu Jianping stopped clasping his mouth, because he knew that retching like this obviously couldn't vomit out the soul devouring beads of living creatures, so he replied, "Then what price do I need to pay?" ”

Xu Jianping understood that if he wanted to take this shortcut, he would have to pay a high price, and the Soul Devouring Bead in his body smiled, turning into a childlike voice and replied, "You only need to devour the soul of one person for me every seven days, and it is not difficult for you to do your job!" ”

Sure enough, this guy is uneasy and kind to get into his body, even if he is a murderer in the cell, Xu Jianping has no right to forcibly deprive him of his soul, this bead said it so lightly, it is obvious that he must have cooperated with others so before.

Xu Jianping said fiercely, "It is impossible to forcibly devour the souls of others and go against the sky like this." After finishing speaking, he stopped talking, and began to think about how to take out the soul devouring bead from his body, and now he is in the big man, even if he wants to take it out by disemboweling his stomach, he does not have that condition, so it seems that he can only try to guide the Haoran Qi in his body into the stomach pouch and force it to leave.

Xu Jian calmed down and began to slow down his luck, beginning and repeating, and so on, and found that no matter what, he could not guide the true qi in the dantian to the stomach pouch, and all the true qi operated in the meridians, along the established trajectory, and almost guided the true qi out of the fork several times, causing him to go mad.

At this time, the Soul Eater Bead in his body seemed to be aware of his behavior, and said in a slightly sarcastic tone, "Don't bother, although I am afraid of your heroic aura, but here, what can you endure me, you and I should cooperate." ”

Xu Jianping coughed a few times, stopped his movements, and remembered the conversation he had with Old Man Zhang when he was still in Jiangling, "Master, did you say that there are ghosts at this time?" ”

Old man Zhang replied with an arrogant face, "There are no ghosts in the world, and even if there are, they are also caused by people's hearts." ”

Xu Jianping pointed to the top of the corpse that was examined that day, and said to the master, "Then why did you see this person floating in the air?" ”

Old man Zhang raised his head and waved his hand, and the soul floating above the corpse was disillusioned.

Xu Jianping smiled, a little ghost overnight, he dared to blackmail me, since he couldn't force you out, then he would devour you, Xu Jianping directly turned on the soul power in his mind, and attacked the soul devouring bead in his body, but he never thought that at the moment when the spiritual consciousness in his mind was opened, the soul in the soul devouring bead had already sensed it, and it directly drilled into his mind.

"Ahh