"This is the imperial capital!"

Chu Yan looked at the map, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he was a little surprised in his heart, he ran all the way along the river and had come to the vicinity of the Great Shang Emperor's capital.

"It's good! Let's go to the Imperial City! ”

Two months later, the Five Sects Great Tournament will be held in Wangcheng, and he is now far away from the Yunyan Sect, so he won't go back.

After drying the clothes on his body, Chu Yan put the mantine kiss in his arms, released a communication paper crane, reported his situation, and then he ran towards the Great Shang Imperial City.

On the big river, Heng Yuan looked at the bifurcated river in front of him with an ugly face, due to the fast flow of the river, he was no longer able to find any breath of Chu Yan through his divine sense.

Hengding took a group of disciples and hugged his fists and said: "Sect Master, we have searched for dozens of miles, and there is no trace left by Chu Yan!" ”

"Then it's trouble!" Hengyuan sighed, a little helpless, now that he had completely lost Chu Yan's direction, he couldn't arrange his disciples to search at all.

Heng Miao coughed lightly and said: "Sect Master, I thought Chu Yan should be fine, he must have fled somewhere along the river, maybe he is cultivating at the moment, and he will return to the sect in a few days." ”

"I hope so!" Hengyuan looked at the Youyou River and said in a deep voice: "Hengding, you guys go back to the sect first, I'm searching for Chu Yan's whereabouts." ”

"Sect Master, I'm with you." Heng Xuan's expression was resolute, he must find Chu Yan's traces, otherwise he would feel uneasy.

"Nope." Hengyuan shook his head: "Senior Brother Hengxuan, I know that you don't want to be with Chu Yan in your heart, but now that your injuries have not healed, it is better to return to the sect to cultivate, Chu Yan and I will personally search for it." ”

"But~"

Heng Xuan just wanted to speak, but Heng Zong hurriedly interrupted: "Senior brother, there is a sect master who personally searches, what else are you worried about, Chu Yan's kid has a big life, and it will be fine." ”

"Yes, junior brother, you haven't recovered from your injuries, don't toss, hurry up and go back to heal, Chu Yan will be fine." Heng Miao also said with relief.

"Alas~" Heng Xuan sighed, helplessly, he was hit hard by the slave, simply took a few pills, and hurriedly returned to the sect for help, just looking for Chu Yan all the way, this back and forth toss, it did make his injury worse again.

"Sect Master, Chu Yan will ask you!"

"Don't worry!"

Hengyuan responded, and then followed by a tributary to track the past, and Hengding returned to the sect with a group of disciples.

Yunyan Sect, Hou Yao, who was guarding the mountain gate, saw that Hengding and the others did not come back with Chu Yan, and his heart was suddenly overjoyed.

He pretended to be concerned and stepped forward to ask, "Elder, why didn't Senior Brother Chu Yan come back?" ”

Hengding glanced at him and said suspiciously, "What are you and I asking for?" ”

"The disciple also cares about Senior Brother Chu Yan!"

"Chu Yan is missing, and now the sect master is searching for his whereabouts, you should be vigilant at the mountain gate, and once there is a summons from Chu Yan, report to us immediately."

"Yes, yes, yes! The disciple understood. ”

"Hmm~"

Seeing Hengding and the others leave, a trace of disappointment flashed in Hou Yao's eyes, he thought that Chu Yan was dead directly, but he didn't expect it to be missing.

"God, let Chu Yan's kid die outside and never come back!" Hou Yao looked at the floating clouds in the sky and cursed babblingly.

As he spoke, he suddenly noticed that in the field of vision ahead, a paper crane was rapidly approaching.

As a disciple on duty, it was his job to catch the paper crane, and Hou Yao didn't think much about it and immediately stepped forward to catch the paper crane.

"Huh?"

The moment he saw the paper crane, Hou Yao's eyes widened suddenly, and he found that the paper crane in front of him actually said that Chu Yan had passed it back.

"Hey, hey! Heaven bless! ”

He smiled coldly, and glanced around, and when he saw that no one else had noticed it, he turned his hand and pinched it, and the whole paper crane suddenly turned into crumbs and drifted away in the wind.

"Humph!" After smiling proudly, Hou Yao stood at the door again pretending to be nothing, pretending to be on duty.

Chu Yan didn't know that the news he sent back had been destroyed by Hou Yao, and he was standing outside the Great Shang Emperor's capital at the moment, waiting in line to enter the city.

The capital of the Great Shang Emperor, the city is nearly 30 zhang high, there are 12 city gates, and each city gate has four armor soldiers who have built a perfect foundation to guard the town, so as to screen the people who enter the city.

"Boy, where did you come from?" The armor man stared at Chu Yan and asked in a cold voice.

"Cloud Smoke Sect!" Chu Yan untied his waist card and shook it in front of the other party.

"Thirty medium-grade spirit stones to enter the city."

Chu Yan frowned, but he still paid the entrance fee according to the rules.

Walking into the imperial capital, Chu Yan felt that he had come to another Yongyang City, and the entire imperial capital was full of monks who were refining qi and building foundation realms, and occasionally a few mortals appeared in the field of vision, but they all had fear on their faces, and they didn't dare to raise their heads, so they hurriedly ran away.

Chu Yan walked around casually, and found that this place was no different from the Yongyang City he had been to, that is, the scale was larger and there were more shops, and after shopping for a while, he didn't find anything interesting, so he found an inn to live in.

After resting for the night, Chu Yan stepped out of the inn and prepared to run towards the palace.

When he was separated from Xia Zhimeng, the other party asked him to visit him when he had free time, but he had never been there in the past few years, and now he has arrived at the emperor and won't go to see it, which is a little inappropriate.

The Great Shang Palace is located in the south of the imperial capital, covering an extremely wide area, and looks magnificent, which is much stronger than the palace of the Yunyan Sect.

"Huh~"

Before he arrived at the main gate of the palace, Chu Yan suddenly found a group of people gathered on the road, not knowing what they were looking at.

He became interested, so he pulled a passer-by who was watching, handed over a few spirit stones and asked, "Fellow Daoist, what are you watching?" ”

The passer-by looked at the spirit stone handed by Chu Yan and immediately smiled, and said enthusiastically: "Fellow Daoist, I don't know, this is a notice, a notice issued by Emperor Xia himself." ”

"Notice? What is said above? ”

"That's right, half a month ago, Emperor Xia's daughter, that is, the princess, was poisoned somehow, and now her life is dying, so Emperor Xia ordered him to rule and reward a powerful alchemist with a lot of money to detoxify the princess."

"The princess is poisoned?" Chu Yan's heart tightened, he didn't want anything to happen to Xia Zhimeng, after all, the relationship between the two was good.

"Yes, if you are an alchemist, you can take the opportunity to try it, in case you cure your son, you will not have to worry about the rest of your life."

"Thank you for telling me!"

Bidding farewell to passers-by, Chu Yan hurriedly came to the gate of the palace.

"Stop, the palace is heavy, idlers are not allowed to enter!" Two guards in gold armor, armed with halberds, blocked the doorway.

Chu Yan stopped, showed his identity jade card and hugged his fist and said: "I am an alchemist, I heard that the princess was poisoned, and I came here to treat it!" ”

"Alchemist!"

The two guards glanced at each other, and there was joy in their eyes: "Please wait for me later!" ”

"Good!"

Not long after, a commander dressed in gold armor and with a sword at his waist came to Chu Yan and asked in a deep voice, "Are you an alchemist?" ”

"Not bad!"

"How many orders of elixir can you refine?"

Chu Yan thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "Third Order! ”

"Third Order?" The Golden Armor Commander's eyes lit up slightly, and his face was filled with joy, but he couldn't help but be a little suspicious when he saw Chu Yan's young age, and for the sake of prudence, he said coldly: "Daoyou, are you serious?" If you open your mouth, it is a crime of deception, and you deserve death! ”

"It's true in the next sentence!"

Seeing that Chu Yan's face was resolute and not like he was lying, the Golden Armor Commander hurriedly said, "In this way, fellow Daoists, please come with me!" ”

"It's hard work!"

After making many turns and turns as the Golden Armor leader made his way through countless corridors, the two finally stopped in an elegant courtyard.

There were many monks in the courtyard, all of whom seemed to be alchemists, and their faces were terrified at the moment, and their expressions were extremely sad.

"Fellow Daoist, please wait in the courtyard later, and wait for Ben General to give a good time!"

Chu Yan looked a little helpless, the rules of this palace are really troublesome, and they have to be polite everywhere, but now is not the time to care about this.

He said softly: "General, please!" ”