Breaking a thumb-thick branch from a dead tree on the side, Xu Yuan walked straight along the dark cave path towards the interior.

The sound of light footsteps echoed in the darkness, and I don't know how long it took, Xu Yuan's bloodshot eyes saw a faint blue-white light at the end of the corridor.

As we walked in, the blue and white light gradually became brighter, accompanied by regular fluctuations in the source qi.

Seeing this scene, Xu Yuan subconsciously paused.

It seems that the tampering of the manipulation of the array pattern here is not as easy as he imagined, and Xu Xinyao's work is still not over.

After a little hesitation, Xu Yuan still stepped forward, but covered up the sound of his footsteps.

At the end of the corridor, the entrance to the cave was cone-shaped, and Xu Yuan saw everything inside.

The light was emitted by the formation patterns on the ground, and the blue-clothed girl sat in the middle of the formation with her eyes closed, and some strange utensils and materials were floating around her, and some blue mysterious formations were quickly engraved on the ground.

These re-engraved patterns and the original white patterns on the ground complement each other, forming a dazzling sea of blue and white.

Standing at the entrance of the cave and looking at it for a long time, Xu Yuan gradually found that these blue formations seemed to be constantly eroding and replacing those original white formations.

Is this breaking the formation?

After continuing to look at it for a while, and after confirming that the other party couldn't solve it for a while, Xu Yuan walked back a distance and sat on the inner wall of the road.

If he continues to read it, he won't be able to understand it, so it's better to take a break now.

Although he was cultivating, two days and two nights of sleepless work had already made Xu Yuan faintly have the feeling of palpitations in the morning after staying up all night in his previous life.

With bursts of dazzling light, sleepiness eroded Xu Yuan like a tidal wave.

It didn't take long for Xu Yuan to smell a familiar scent of lavender flowers, as if it was far away and close at hand.

suddenly

Xu Yuanwu opened his eyes, everything around him was silent at the moment, and the blue and white light before going to bed also returned to darkness.

When he first woke up, Xu Yuan moved his body and found that there seemed to be something covering his body.

A flash of blood swept across his eyes, and everything in the darkness became clearly visible.

This is a mink coat, the style is somewhat familiar, and the lavender flower fragrance I smelled just now should be this.

With a light snort, Xu Yuan looked sideways, and sure enough, he saw a quiet girl in blue beside him.

It's Xu Xinyao.

The cultivation of these four sisters is stronger than Xu Yuan, but they can't hold on to the sleeplessness of a day and two nights.

But she still didn't sleep, and Dai's eyebrows were slightly frowned, and she didn't know what she was thinking with her eyes down.

Hearing the slight noise beside her, she immediately looked towards Xu Yuan.

Eyes meet in the dark corridor.

Look at each other,

Xu Yuan threw back the mink coat he was wearing on his body to her, and asked casually:

"Success?"

Xu Xinyao silently took the coat and nodded lightly, her voice was very soft:

"Hmm"

"How does it feel?"

“.”

There was no reply.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan snorted lightly, exhaled a long breath, and asked instead:

"How long has it been now?"

"About seven hours."

"Looks like I've slept quite a long time."

Xu Yuan muttered in a low voice, turned to look at her lowered eyes and asked, "Little Four, in three days, how many people are left of the 400,000 people in Shengshan County?" ”

“.”

There was no reply.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan laughed lowly twice: "What's the matter, everything related to Shengshan County is ready to be dumb?" ”

"Half."

Her voice was a little hoarse: "Half left." ”

“.”

There was a moment of silence in the corridor.

Although looking at Xu Xinyao's performance, Xu Yuan already had some vague guesses, but the fall of Shengshan County so quickly still made him a little unexpected.

It's too fast.

He originally thought that with the help of the city protection array, Captain Wang would be able to hold out for at least ten years.

Taking a deep breath, Xu Yuan raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, which were a little swollen from his long sleep.

If he hadn't heard the news of the four sisters in Huanglongji, just because his father had issued an order from the imperial capital, ten years had passed, and it was estimated that he would be able to rush over to collect the corpses.

Looking at her depressed look, Xu Yuan said softly:

"200,000 died, and on the other hand, you also saved 200,000, which is good."

"Third brother."

"Wang Xiaowei is really grateful to you, if you know that you solved this matter again, now in the past, under his publicity, the people of Shengshan County should set up another ancestral hall for you."

"Third brother."

"Fortunately, you are also a bit of a brain, and you know that you have to come to Shengshan County to have a look again if the formation is not completed, but if I don't find you, with your speed of traveling, this basin will probably have to be buckled on you, oh no, it's our Xiangguofu."

"Third brother!" Xu Xinyao clenched her fists, and her gentle voice carried a hint of crying.

“.”

Xu Yuan looked at Xiao Si beside him calmly, without any sense of comfort, and said word by word:

"Now, do you know why I'm hitting you?"

Xu Xinyao said in a low voice:

"Yes."

"Why?" Xu Yuan asked.

Xu Xinyao replied in a low voice:

"If only I could be a little more careful and finish the formation before leaving"

"Don't, you're in a hurry to go to Jingjiang Mansion to see me, don't buckle the basin on your brother and me."

Xu Xinyao's little face turned pale: "I didn't mean that."

"I know you didn't mean that."

Xu Yuan leaned his head against the cold stone wall and said: "Actually, I think you should be glad that you left early, if you finish the formation and leave, you will not return to Shengshan County, and the Vientiane Sect is estimated to have to spend a long time studying and transforming your Phantom Mist Array, maybe a few months, maybe a year, and then I will definitely not stay in this Shengshan County anyway, if it becomes like that, Shengshan County is really hopeless." ”

After a pause, Xu Yuan casually glanced in the direction of Shengshan County:

"What did you learn from the old man Jiang He?"

"I researched it myself."

“.”

Hearing this, Xu Yuan raised his hand and patted Xiao Si's slender shoulder:

"Yes, it's very powerful, if the ghost fog of the Vientiane Sect is really created, the demon beasts rush over and send it every year during the spring tide, and it completely saves the effort of the Vientiane Sect to catch nourishment for the ghost fog, it's just too powerful."

The words of the third brother beside her were like a sharp sword stabbing on her wound, Xu Xinyao hugged her shoulders with her hands, and her delicate body trembled slightly:

"I'm just trying to help them."

Xu Yuan stretched out an index finger and tapped her forehead:

"You had a good intention to save them, but this time you were just being taken advantage of. I didn't beat you because of this, my father spent his whole life trying to change this kind of world, but you were playing with a group of crooked melons and bad dates from the sect, which is why I beat you before. ”

"It's not."

"What?"

Xu Xinyao raised her eyes to look at Xu Yuan, with persistence in her soft eyes:

"It's not a family, and many people will die by my father's methods."

Xu Yuan sighed: "Can you stop being so naïve?" How many people can you save when you travel the world? Million? You've exhausted your life for tens of millions of days, but now how many people die every year in the entire Great Yan, I'm sure you should have seen it, right? As long as you want to know, Father won't fail to let you understand. Xiaosi, you are not stupid, on the contrary, you are very smart, I believe that you should not fail to see what the reason for the current situation is. ”

Xu Xinyao sniffed: "I'm trying to change these." ”

Xu Yuan glanced at her:

"With your tricks?"

"It's not a playhouse!"

“.”

Brief silence,

Xu Yuan rubbed his cheeks and exhaled a long breath: "Okay, it's not a playhouse, you think your father's way is not good, then tell me what your way is?" ”

Xu Xinyao's chest rose and fell slightly, and she said quickly and in a low voice:

"I've been to many places, and it's peaceful over there."

"Da Yingzhou?"

Xu Yuan interrupted with a mutter, and asked instead:

"Do you want to promote the model of Da Yingzhou to the entire Great Yan World?"

Xu Xinyao nodded:

"Almost, but not all."

Hearing this, Xu Yuan smiled:

"Just looking at the affairs of Shengshan County, your means of helping the people are not bad, you know how to bind with interests, instead of naively wanting to rely on the good thoughts in the heart of the sect, but why do you start to be whimsical about this kind of thing?

"The calm in Dayingzhou is largely due to the annual tribute of the Heavenly Master Gate of Dayingzhou, so that the local government has enough money to remove demons and do other things that are beneficial to the people's livelihood, and this prosperity is completely based on the thought of the sect."

Xu Xinyao shook her head and replied:

"Third brother, you also saw it before, those people who followed me are all children of the high-level of the sect, all the way around, they are all people with good intentions, as long as our Xiangguo Mansion supports them to take the throne, they can solve the current situation to a great extent, and not necessarily just in this way, you can also reproduce the situation in the south of the Yangtze River, and use the interests to firmly bind the sect and the local people together."

“.”

Xu Yuan listened carefully, groaned slightly, and raised two fingers:

"Two questions."

"Third brother, you ask." Xu Xinyao bowed slightly.

Xu Yuan withdrew a finger:

"First, I don't doubt your eyes on people, but have you ever considered how people change?"

Xu Xinyao said without hesitation:

"They are all screened by me, after so long contact, I know their temperament well, along the way, even if they harm their own interests, they will do something that we think is meaningful, and the dozen or so people who resigned and returned to the sect before are also secretly looking for people similar to us."

Looking at the light in her beautiful eyes, Xu Yuan's eyes had a hint of complexity:

"Then let me change the question, did you ever think that I would change so much?"

“.”

Xu Xinyao's beautiful eyes flashed with a hint of hesitation, and she said in a low voice:

"I've thought about it."

Xu Yuan said in a low voice:

"It's not that you've thought about it, it's hope, right?"

“.”

Silent.

Xu Yuan sighed and said carefully:

"Little Four, even if you don't take me as an example, it won't work.

"You may be passionate about changing things now, but what about later?

"The same now, it doesn't mean that it won't change in the future, according to the current situation in the world, your plan will last at least ten years, twenty years, or even fifty years, this time is too long, so many virtuous monarchs in history worked hard in the early stage, and at the end of the period, they didn't start to indulge in pleasure.

"The reality is much more complicated than I said, and many things cannot be explained in one or two sentences.

"Even if all goes well, when these people you're talking about are really in power, can you stay with them and influence them all the time? After decades of separation, family, friends, disciples, and a large group of people around them will influence their decisions all the time, how can you be sure that they are still the ones you know now? ”

“.”

Xu Xinyao was silent for a long time and retorted in a low voice:

"What about my father, hasn't my father changed?"

Xu Yuan shook his head:

"Father, although he has been working hard for this world for decades, the reasons for supporting him to continue doing these things now may be completely different from the original intention of decades ago.

"Mother, she is most likely to die because of this, and the second brother may be too, this is just our family, my father's friends and subordinates in his life will only die more, these are the reasons why he will continue this matter."

As he spoke, Xu Yuan stretched out his second finger:

"As for what you said, like Jiangnan, you use interests to bind the people and the sect."

Sighing, Xu Yuan continued:

"It's safe and rich over there, but you know what? The price of this wealth is the exhaustion of the imperial court, the local government on the south side of the Yangtze River has been hollowed out by these sects, and they are about to become the base camp of the sects, and the people who attacked me before are related to the Heavenly Imperial Sect on the Jiangnan side, as a result, my father knew this, and he just found a group of scapegoats who disagreed with the politics to kill, one of the reasons is that the hands of the court are almost out of reach. ”

The words fell, and there was silence for a long time.

In the dark corridor, Xu Yuan looked at the girl beside him:

"Are you still holding on to what you think?"

Ruyun's hair parted, and three thousand green silks hung down on his chest, Xu Xinyao said in a low voice:

"But if you don't try, how do you know it won't work?"

“.”

Xu Yuan took a deep breath, and his eyes cooled slightly:

"Xu Xinyao, I have already said a lot of things very tactfully."

"Third brother, I know, but"

"You know bullshit!"

Xu Yuan interrupted, and said in a stern voice:

"The pursuit of ideals must be down-to-earth,

"Do you think that the local sects are the same as our Xiangguo Mansion? Father's words of command down the people below began to operate, their sect is not a word hall at all, all kinds of family forces that have been operating for a hundred years and thousands of years are intertwined in it, there is a family under the sect, and the family is also divided into descendants, and then subdivided, there may be a dispute between the two rooms and three rooms in the lineage, if you want to engage in a word hall, you have to climb all the way up and clean them all up, and if you don't pay attention to it, you have to cause a counterattack, who do you think has this means?

"In terms of means, my father is probably the only person I know now, but do you think there are people like my father among your "friends"? ”

"If you don't believe it, take our Xiangguo Mansion as an example, our family is simple, my mother's collateral relatives have been rectified by my father, so it doesn't count, the second brother has also gone, now there are only you, me, and Xu Changge, and if you remove me, only you and Xu Changge will be left, do you think you can compete for Xu Changge?!"

Xu Xinyao's beautiful eyes were a little misty: "Third brother, I don't want to fight."

In the dark corridor, Xu Yuan exhaled a breath of turbidity, looked into her eyes, and said word by word:

"Xu Xinyao,

"I don't say much, but I can probably hear what you're thinking.

"You can continue to chase your ideals in your own way, or you can continue to do the things that you think are right.

"But if you dare to betray our family because of these things of yours, Xu Changge is reluctant to do anything to you, I will be willing."

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