Because the emperor was sick and the world was chaotic, the palace was not lively, and the five years of Zhongping passed in such a deserted place.

The Spring Festival of the sixth year of Zhongping is not special, although the emperor has been in good spirits for the past two days, but he only took a short time to get together with his wife and children, and he didn't say anything at the table, and the tiredness on his face can be seen at a glance, and he didn't even finish a meal, so he went back to rest with the support of the palace maid.

As soon as the emperor left, only Empress He and the three princes were left, at this time, there seemed to be nothing to talk about between the princes, Empress He also thought about taking her son and leaving directly, not wanting Liu Xuan to eat a few bites, so she came to Liu Xuan's side, laughing and laughing, and I don't know what was so happy.

"On weekdays, this kid is always silent, but it's rare to be happy today, so let's call him casual. In a blink of an eye, he glanced at the eldest prince Liu Xuan: "I'm afraid I won't have much chance in the future!"

For the eldest son of the emperor, Queen He has never been clear about the situation, Liu Xuan drank all the poisonous wine in front of her, and there was nothing to do, which made her very jealous, who knows what else Liu Xuan, who is silent on weekdays, can do?

She even asked Shi Daoren to ask how Liu Xuan was not afraid of poisonous wine?

In the early years, when Empress He gave birth to Liu Wei, because the emperor had several sons who died in succession, he was worried that he sent his son to Shi Daoren to raise, hoping to protect this son with his occult skills.

Then her son grew up healthily, and Queen He became more and more respectful to Shi Daoren, only when this old Taoist was really good at Xuanmen magic arts, she protected her son, so whenever there was anything strange, Queen He would call him to ask.

This time it was like this, but after listening to the queen's description, Shi Daoren twisted his eyebrows and finally gave an explanation that couldn't make Queen He happy: "If you don't know metaphysics yourself, you have already practiced the Dao body that is invincible to a hundred poisons, or you have the protection of a strange treasure!"

If Liu Xuan listens to it, I am afraid that he will praise Shi Daoren for his true talent and learning, because he has indeed guessed the facts. But this conclusion made Empress He unhappy - either way, it made her very worried.

If it is the first type, it proves that Liu Xuan himself is also familiar with the mysterious mystic method, and he harmed him with poisonous wine, if he uses occult art to take his own life, how can he parry it? This thing is no better than the poisonous wine of swords and soldiers, and those good things are also tangible things, and they can also be prevented, this occult ......

Fortunately, Shi Daoren heard that the man was only a young man under twenty, so he affirmed: "At such a young age, he definitely won't be a fellow cultivator, so it seems that he should have a strange treasure to protect himself!"

Empress He looked Liu Xuan up and down, and couldn't help but wonder where did this great prince find such a treasure, and he was not afraid of the huge poison in the wine?

Xu was aware of it, Liu Xuan turned his head to look at her, and his gaze was like a sharp sword, stabbing her unconsciously turning her head to dodge and avoiding it.

But then I felt that as a queen, I was frightened by the prince who came out, it was really embarrassing, and I didn't have the heart to eat this meal, so I greeted my son, and the mother and son left together to go back to their own bedroom.

Liu Xuan looked at his second brother and looked back at him unhappily, waved his hand at him with a smile, and then turned his head to look at the third brother who was eating slowly.

After the New Year, the third brother was only nine years old, and in the history he knew, this year was the little guy who was not even ten years old, and became the last emperor in the history of the Han Dynasty.

At the same time, the second brother who had just left would ascend the throne in a few months, but unfortunately he would soon be deposed from the throne by the notorious Dong thief and killed.

"It's a brother after all, and he respects me a lot, so it's not good to watch him die!"

I was thinking about it in my heart, but I saw that my third brother had finished eating, got up and bowed to myself to say goodbye, and went back to the Empress Dowager Dong's bedroom.

After a moment's effort, the person was gone, and only a few palace maids and eunuchs were still waiting, but Liu Xuan noticed that several palace goddesses were quite impatient, and they didn't even cover it up, which showed how unpopular he, the eldest son of the emperor, was in the palace.

Liu Xuan didn't bother to be angry with this kind of person, got up and left directly, and went back to his palace to rest.

In the six years of Zhongping, nothing seems to have changed much.

The old emperor is still bedridden, but good news is not without it.

In February, Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo, who were on the expedition, presented good news, broke the anti-thief kingdom, and now they have returned to Beijing.

When the emperor heard the news, his body seemed to be a little lighter, and he was overjoyed to be rewarded - but he was not sick after all, and took this opportunity to appoint Dong Zhuo as the pastor of the state, hoping to transfer this person out of his hometown Liangzhou, but this one was another prevarication, and he resolutely refused to take up his post in the state, and the matter dragged on.

In addition, the emperor's recovery momentum through that great victory was also consumed, and he lay back on the bed again, so naturally he didn't have the energy to fight with Dong Zhuo anymore, and this matter was over.

At this time, Liu Xuan, in addition to cultivating in the palace, was to refine a long knife.

Cao Bao guards the door every day to watch the wind, but it is just a gesture, if someone comes, Liu Xuan must be aware of it before him, but after looking at it for several days, Cao Bao saw that the long knife in Liu Xuan's hand is getting thinner and thinner, even a little thinner than the long sword, and the blade is straight, so he can't help but ask more curiously: "Is Your Highness refining a long sword?"

Obviously, a month ago, His Royal Highness the prince said to himself that he wanted to refine a long knife, and he wanted to go to the palace to get some good iron, and then these days I saw Liu Xuanpan sitting on the couch, taking the iron and dragging it on his palms, and then the smoke around his body was full of smoke, and it lasted for about an hour every day.

Now more than a month has passed, and the iron in his hand has long since ceased to be the same as it used to be, and it has gradually shown the appearance of a weapon, but as the days of sacrifice and training last, the appearance becomes clearer and clearer, and there are more and more question marks in Cao Bao's head.

At this time, the big knife and so on, not to mention the blade is wide and thick, and the blade is also curved! However, the weapon that is gradually forming in Liu Xuan's hand is not a common style, if you take a cursory look, it is more like a long sword - but it is thinner than the current long sword, if it is not for the close point to see that there is only one blade, Cao Bao really thought that this is a long sword.

He didn't know it, so Liu Xuan naturally wouldn't be surprised, this long knife that he had refined with more than ten years of refined Heavenly Dragon Qi and the trace of true yuan that remained in his divine soul was not a thing of this era at all.

To put it bluntly, this is nothing unusual, Tang Dao is just a knife, if you want to put it in the world where you once lived, if you want to say that you have a Tang knife, you have to be scolded for being old-fashioned, there is nothing new.

However, although he had been practicing for a long time, he had not studied any blade fighting skills, and he estimated that he couldn't play with a long sword or something, but the knife was a weapon that was relatively easy to get started - in Liu Xuan's opinion, although the knife technique was complicated, it was fundamentally simple and clear: hack the enemy to death!

Moreover, chopping is easier to get started than stabbing and picking, so I finally chose a knife.

Since you want to use a knife, you naturally have to use a more famous one, and because of Liu Xuan's personal hobby, it has to be more beautiful.

The Tang sword was very similar to the later long sword in terms of blade and grip, and the blade was so straight that it would even be mistaken for a long sword when inserted into the sheath - of course, it would not be mistaken in this late Han Dynasty, because the blade was too thin.

As for the sturdiness, Liu Xuan believed that this Tang Dao that had been tempered with its own True Yuan could be as hard as any so-called divine weapon in the world at this time without losing a single bit—even if it was really damaged, Liu Xuan could also use the Dragon Qi of the Son of Heaven to make this Tang Dao refined with Dragon Qi recover on its own.

This nearly two-month tempering not only makes the long knife strong enough and can heal itself, but the most important thing is that it can perfectly echo the strength in his body, so that when he uses some tricks, he will not be unable to exert his due power because the weapon is not good.

"It is estimated that the old emperor's Shouyuan is approaching, and Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo have already pulled away!

Reaching out and stroking the bright and straight blade, he saw that where Liu Xuan's palm brushed, there was a faint golden light.

"There will be a lot of chaos in the palace and even this Luoyang, especially the forbidden army in the palace and Yuan Shao's Xiyuan army will have a scuffle, if there is no blade at hand at that time, it is really not very convenient, take advantage of this leisure time, quench this knife in advance, it can be regarded as a preparation in advance!"

He also said these words to Cao Bao, so this personal young eunuch never asked the prince why he wanted to make a weapon, he was more curious about how a large lump of good iron slowly turned into a blade in Liu Xuan's hands?

He didn't know that if Liu Xuan still had half of his cultivation back then, he would be able to make such a long knife at his fingertips. Now it took nearly two months, and at the same time, it was barely made with some magic of the Son of Heaven's dragon qi.

"I didn't know which one to use back then, but now I can only deal with guys who use such a slightly better weapon than ordinary weapons!" Liu Xuan waved his hand casually and got used to it: "However, with my natal true yuan and the dragon qi of the Son of Heaven refining, this knife is not something that can barely cope with the temporary transition for a while, if you can make this knife condense into a trace of dragon qi on its own, and connect with the national situation, this weapon will also become a good divine weapon!"

Although these are just speculations, Liu Xuan was once a generation of immortals with superb cultivation after all, and the speculation made with his knowledge was naturally not outrageous, so he was very satisfied with this long knife.

"Now, it's just a matter of waiting for those chaos to come!"

Thinking of this, he turned his head and asked, "These days, Meng De has any news?"

Cao Bao nodded immediately when he heard this: "Cao Yilang said that although the Xiyuan Army has not been transferred these days, it is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and it is ready to fight at any time, and the general often recruits Yuan Shao, the captain of the division, to discuss matters, and Cao Yilang speculates that something big will happen." ”