It was late at night, and in a study in the southeast corner of the Great Xia Palace, the lights were still bright.

Xia Lin crouched in front of the bookcase, and after reading the last book, he closed his eyes and exhaled a long breath.

On the side, the cuckoo hesitated for a long time before he spoke: "Your Majesty! You haven't eaten rice all day, so why don't you eat some. ”

"I ordered the imperial dining room to prepare your favorite osmanthus cake."

Xia Lin waved his hand: "Don't eat, help me pour me a cup of tea." ”

"Yes." Du Juan hurriedly picked up a cup of tea and sent it to Xia Lin: "Your Majesty, please use tea." ”

Xia Lin opened his eyes, picked up the teacup and blew it slightly, and drank the tea in the cup.

The tea is lukewarm, so you don't have to worry if it's hot or not.

Smack!

Putting down the teacup, Xia Lin got up and walked towards the outside of the hall: "I'll go find the national teacher again." ”

"As soon as the cuckoo ......" Before the cuckoo's words fell, he saw Xia Lin wave his hand: "I'll go alone." ”

"Yes!" Looking at Xia Lin's tired back, the cuckoo's eyes were unbearable, but he could only respond.

After leaving the study, the map of the country quietly appeared, only to see a white light flashing.

Xia Lin disappeared outside the study along with the map of the rivers and mountains.

At the same time, the door of the wooden house where the national teacher lived was pushed open, and the dean Zhong walked out of it, his Confucian robe stained with a little blood, and I don't know if it was his or someone else's.

"Your Majesty is here again, you tell Your Majesty on my behalf...... Let's just say that Li Qingshan will not die, and we just need to wait. ”

"Also, I'm going to be in retreat for a while...... During this time, the capital will be delivered to you. ”

Dean Zhong nodded: "Okay, national teacher, please rest in peace......

Bang!

The door of the chalet closes on its own.

The map of the rivers and mountains appeared in the courtyard, and Xia Lin walked out of a curtain of light.

When she saw Dean Zhong, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes: "Why hasn't Dean Zhong returned to the academy yet?" ”

"Blood on your body?"

"It's a long story......," Dean Zhong shook his head helplessly: "The national teacher asked me to tell Your Majesty that Li Qingshan's trip will be fine, so you don't have to worry too much." ”

"In addition, the national teacher needs to retreat for a while...... In the near future, I am afraid that I will have to stay in the capital to prevent small disturbances. ”

Hearing this, Xia Lin nodded thoughtfully and responded: "I understand, since this is the case, I believe in the national teacher...... It's just that Dean Zhong was also asked to send a few great Confucians to Sanqing Mountain to wait for news from Li Qingshan. ”

Dean Zhong responded: "Just do what Your Majesty says." ”

......

In the secret territory of the Three Qing Mountains, Li Qingshan continued to use the wind to move quickly towards the end of the green grassland!

However, there seemed to be no end to this green grassland, and every time he stepped out of the hundreds of zhang, the space of the green grass would extend hundreds of zhang.

When he walked out of the ten thousand feet, he looked back and stared, and the path behind him was blurry and could not be seen clearly.

In desperation, Li Qingshan quickly turned around and galloped back to the path.

Wang Xuanji saw that Li Qingshan was back, and hurriedly asked, "Big brother, can you use spiritual power!" Is there anything to be found at the end of the meadows? ”

Li Qingshan responded: "The streams and green grasslands of this world should be infinitely extended, and it will extend as far as I go...... As for the discovery, it didn't. ”

"It's the same green grass everywhere."

At this time, Ye Qinglong interjected: "Then it seems that if you want to get out of here, you still have to crack the connection between this seeking path and the four seasons." ”

Li Qingshan nodded and said lightly: "From now on, you will wait for me in the spring, and I will walk down and take a look...... There are some doubts that I need to make sure. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was silent.

Although there was no danger here, letting Li Qingshan explore the road alone obviously made everyone present feel a little awkward.

Even though Li Qingshan is a foreign aid from King Daozi of Tianzong, this does not prevent him from being an "outsider" after all.

And as the Daomen disciples of the host, they actually wanted Li Qingshan to be an "outsider" to explore the secret realm, does this seem that they are too useless?

Ye Qinglong shook his head and said, "Let the disciples of the three sects stay, I will go with you." ”

"Yes, big brother, we can't just let you help, right?" Wang Xuanji hurriedly agreed.

Xu Tu said with a straight face: "That's right, taking our junior disciples out of the Sanqing Secret Realm is within the scope of our three Daoists, and we can't be absent." ”

Li Qingshan looked at the three determined Taoists, stretched out his finger and pointed at the people present, and said lightly: "Didn't you notice that your hair and beard have grown a lot?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone checked each other's hair and beards of the men and women next to them.

As Li Qingshan said, almost all of them have a little longer hair than before.

Originally, those women had tied up their hair and made it very regular, but now there were a lot of half-length broken hair hanging down from their foreheads.

Speaking of the beards of male disciples, many of their cheeks were originally clean, but now they are all bearded or have a small beard.

Because of their cultivators, Shou Yuan is different from ordinary people, and the growth rate of his hair is also much slower than that of ordinary people.

Before entering the Sanqing Secret Realm, both men and women were pretending to be self-conscious.

It is impossible to have such a long beard and hair as it is now, and it looks messy.

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Li Qingshan smiled and said, "Just now we have gone through the four seasons, that is, we have spent a year. ”

"It's normal for your hair and beard to grow over the course of a year."

"If I'm not mistaken, this road of the four seasons will quietly take away people's longevity."

Hearing this, everyone was shocked, but after thinking about it carefully, they felt that Li Qingshan's words were very reasonable.

None of them had noticed it before, and they were all immersed in the changing environment nearby.

Second, the road is too small and can only be lined up by two people.

Men and women walk together, and they don't pay attention to each other's beards.

Not to mention why their hair is scattered but not tied up.

Wang Xuanji paused, and said: "Big brother, if it is really as you said, wouldn't it be that if I wait for this industry to make a lot of progress, I will enter the twilight of decline?" ”

Li Qingshan paused and said: "That's right, I have calculated, your highest is only a fourth-grade cultivation, and your longevity is only three hundred years." ”

"If you go up to 100,000 zhang, you can take away more than half of your life."

"If you don't know if this Shouyuan will return, you'd better stay where you are and don't move."

"Otherwise, this Shouyuan can't be returned to you, and even if you get out alive, it's just an old way of longevity and death......"