The morning light of Yujing City shines on the palace, as well as in the Moon Shadow Palace of this harem...

The emperor was seriously ill, the queen was in power, the crown prince seized the throne, and unknown forces took away the three princes, leaving him to use the golden cicada to shed his shell...

Faced with such a situation, Xia Yan's thoughts were......

Leave!

When he has finished cultivating the exercises and cultivating the light exercises, he will leave the palace.

Although customs clearance is a problem, he has also understood that the world is a little chaotic now, and the management is not so strict.

It's just that his face is a problem, ordinary people may not know the three princes, but there will always be someone in the city gate guards.

So, it's always unsafe.

Therefore, for him, the best time to escape is winter hunting.

Winter hunting, the prince wants to compare with him, and the queen will inevitably let him go, because the prince needs to press him down, but the queen also needs him to press the prince, so ...... The prince is incompetent, and his name is justified.

At the end of next month, the winter hunt before the New Year is the most intense moment in the center of the vortex, and it is also his... The best chance to escape.

The three princes, the crown prince, the queen, and the people behind the scenes love it, and he Xia Yan is not involved.

When the time comes, a fast horse and some silver taels, he will be like a bird out of the cage, the sky and the earth are big, and he can go anywhere.

But if he can't escape, then he will be swept into the center of the most terrifying vortex.

"I'm running out of time..."

Xia Yan's expression drooped slightly, his fists clenched, and in his arms, there were majestic air currents surging, and these breaths lingered between the twelve veins around his body, eager to try to break out of the pores in his body and turn into an air sword that stretched across his body.

Pity... There is no way to do it, and there is no way to do it.

I had to let this top-notch true qi run freely in my body.

"Keep practicing!"

"In addition to practicing true qi, practice this light skill, secret weapon!"

After thinking about it, Xia Yan took the stones in the courtyard, the pen on the table, and continued to practice the secret weapon technique of [Feiyan Returning to the Forest].

After two incense sticks, he paused and rested slightly, and began to practice [Toad Palace Stealing Incense Steps] again.

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Minutes and seconds passed.

Before you know it, twilight has arrived.

It was not Frost Painting who came to deliver the food today, but another palace maid named Hanqin.

Like the frost painting, Hanqin can't resist luck like "Peach Blossom Luck I", so he has a natural affection for Xia Yan, and feels that such a handsome highness doesn't look like a bad person.

She was also very willing to chatter in front of the kind Highness, and tell everything she saw and heard during the day when His Highness was eating.

"Your Highness, it's been strange lately, the water in Taiye Lake has suddenly decreased a lot, and it's a lot of trouble to fetch water and laundry today."

"A few days ago, no one paid attention, but today it's obvious. Why is that? ”

"Taiye Lake is not connected to the moat, this is the lake in the palace...

But according to the palace maids of other palaces, she listened to the good guards of the eunuch next door.

The guard said that he had heard the words of the water warden during his rounds.

The water supervisor suspects that there is a connection between Taiye Lake and Hucheng River, so the water of Taiye Lake will fall... They've already sent someone to investigate. ”

Hanqin said happily while quietly glancing at the side face of His Highness.

In this palace, there has never been a story of a palace maid who was favored by a nobleman and then accepted as a concubine.

She felt that His Royal Highness was not only handsome and elegant, but also good-tempered.

If she can also become a lucky palace maid, even... Even if there is no reputation, even if it is just a night of rain and grace, it seems to be very good.

The palace maid Hanqin's cheeks were slightly red, and she happily continued to talk about the gossip in the palace.

Xia Yan didn't care about the other gossip, but the matter about Taiye Lake was in his ears.

He paused slightly, and said secretly in his heart: It seems that the matter of Taiye Lake has been paid attention to, and after nightfall, I have to be more careful.

After a while, dinner ran out.

Hanqin walked out of the palace gate with a dinner plate.

Xia Yan glanced at the progress of the [Toad Palace Stealing Incense Step] again, and couldn't help but let out a soft sigh.

"It's too slow......"

"I also know that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and I also know that the exercises are not so easy to cultivate, but... I'm running out of time. ”

"What should I do?"

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The night is getting deeper.

Three watches...

The palace was silent.

Xia Yan got up from the bed and put on the gray clothes that he had prepared for the night, although his clothes and pants were wet, and it was winter again.

But Xia Yan didn't feel cold when he wore it, this was the benefit of being really strong.

Not to mention wearing thin wet clothes in winter, even if he took off all his clothes and lay down in the ice and snow, he would not be frozen to death, and even lay down for a while, his hands and feet were still warm.

Dressed in gray, he came to the window of the harem of the Moon Shadow Palace and began to listen.

After his true qi reached the top level, his hearing and hearing were greatly improved, and he could even hear a worm crawling under the tree outside the palace.

After confirming that there was no one, he pushed the window, went out of the window, closed the window quietly, and then, like a little leopard hunting at midnight, bowed and flew swiftly to the edge of the Taiye Lake, and then turned down, and gently touched the lake wall with both hands, and dived into the water silently.

He slowly sank, and after entering the water for two meters, he grabbed the brass ring of the tiger's head on the lake wall with both hands to stabilize his body and control the upward ventilation.

Tonight, he decided to continue devouring the lake.

As for why not eat dirt ...

It's very simple, because the soil is extremely difficult to swallow, and he needs to eat the soil before he can transform, and when the time comes... Not only did he suffer his own crimes, but his efficiency was also low and not worth it.

Xia Yan raised his head and opened his mouth, and at the same time exchanged the water in his abdomen for true qi.

Suddenly, a small hole appeared in the lake, and the surrounding lake water naturally wanted to fill the hole.

In this way, Xia Yan's efficiency will be extremely high.

Two minutes later...

Xia Yan suddenly found that he didn't need to breathe.

He seems to be able to survive in the water like a fish, by grabbing the meager air in the lake.

This is the reincarnation of the water spirit I, this luck has played a role, right?

After Xia Yan confirmed, he let go of the tiger head copper ring on the lake wall with both hands and sank directly to the bottom of the lake.

In this way, it is more efficient.

In the deep midnight lake, a figure stands straight at the bottom of the lake, with its mouth open, and there is an indescribable weirdness in this scene.

The pressure at the bottom of the lake is not small, and the stickiness of the current makes it difficult to move freely.

Minutes and seconds passed...

The young man at the bottom of the lake became more and more peaceful.

Suddenly, a thought was born in this tranquility.

————Why don't you practice [Toad Palace Stealing Incense Steps] here? ————

Just do it, and the boy stepped on the bottom of the lake.

But as soon as he moved, his body was crooked, and his posture was even more crooked, like a lame old man walking.

The boy was not discouraged, he calmed down, ran his true qi, instilled it in his legs, and started to step again...

One step, two steps, three steps...

Slowly, he walked more and more decently.

An hour later...

He's already able to pick things up.

What's even more gratifying is that the cultivation progress of the "[Toad Palace Stealing Incense Step]" in the information in front of him is rising rapidly, dozens of times faster than he didn't know during the day.

Sure enough, if you want to be as light as a swallow and enter the sky, you must first learn to wear shackles and be in the most difficult place... Practice step by step.

As much you give, you will get as much as you get, and God rewards you for your diligence.