Chapter 39: The Wind Rises
Red crisp hands.
Yellow vine wine.
The city is full of spring palace walls and willows...
Half a month later.
Inside the PanthΓ©on.
"Jiang Xuan, how long have you been on the mountain?"
"It's been a year and a half, and it's been the summer of the 150th year of the Shen Guoli calendar when I came, and it's already the early spring of 1502."
"It's been so long."
"Yes, Master, the eradication of the path of peace looks like yesterday, but that was last year."
Silent...
Elder Yue poured a sip of strong wine: "I heard from the real person of the Palm Sect, you have recruited some loose cultivators, the exploration of gods and ghosts in the Manshen Kingdom, and also made a small organization called the Wangxian Society. β
"Playing casually, idle is idle."
When we met for the first time.
Elder Yue was sitting, and Jiang Xuan was standing.
What now.
Elder Yue poured himself a drink, while Jiang Xuan sat aside and ate his fried beans.
As for humility.
This is no longer the case.
Elder Yue is still Elder Yue, but Jiang Xuan is no longer the Jiang Xuan he used to be.
Now that he is first-class and complete, he may break into the Grandmaster Realm at any time and become a Grandmaster Giant who is not weaker than Elder Yue, and there are also two ordinary Grandmasters under him, more than a dozen first- and second-rate players who have been absorbed by heavy money.
And the sect is here.
For more than half a year, the sect has been fighting against the secret agents of the four countries, and there are no less than ten fallen Grandmaster Realm elders alone, and there are even more true legends and elite disciples who have died in battle.
Under the trade-off.
Jiang Xuan, who was originally a sheep, has unknowingly turned into a goat.
Although it is still a sheep.
But anyone who has seen the animal world knows that sheep can only bleat when facing hungry wolves, and goats can stand on the cliff and charge at the hungry wolf, and a bad one can even push the hungry wolf down the cliff.
"Half a month ago, a mysterious master entered the palace at night and went straight to the place where Shen Zu was retreated, although he was finally blocked back by Ouchi's worship, but Shen Zu did not appear or make a move from beginning to end."
Elder Yue knocked off Jiang Xuan's hand with some disgust, and pulled the fried soybeans to his hand: "This is not good news, it means that those people can't wait, and it also shows that Shen Zu is sitting down." β
Nodding.
If Shen Zu hadn't sat down, he wouldn't have let people go to his own retreat to be presumptuous.
Not showing up, or not making a move, is the problem in itself.
Don't say anything about cheating, you're still waiting for the big fish to take the bait or something.
At this point, there is no longer any need, and now only by being strong, no matter how strong, can we deter the Four-Nation Alliance forces outside the border gates.
Otherwise, when the alliance of the four countries begins to attack the border, even if the martial arts celestial people recover, it will be in vain, and they will not be able to hold the border line that is thousands of miles long.
"There's going to be a war."
"The Shen Kingdom may be finished, and the same is true of the Baishou Palace."
Elder Yue's tone was quiet: "But the more time it gets, the more opportunities there are, and many impossible things have become possible, don't you really want to enter the palace and have a glimpse of the royal secrets, now the opportunity has come." β
Jiang Xuan whispered: "How to operate?" β
"The royal family is about to send the prince and the princess to inspect the border defense to boost the morale of the border passes, in addition to the forbidden army and the Ouchi worship, many masters are also needed to accompany them."
"I can tell you for sure that these princes and princesses who went on patrol were themselves bait used to attract assassinations in Shikoku."
"If the four countries don't come to assassinate, this is a normal patrol, and if they come to assassinate, it will be an ambush circle against the masters of the four countries, and its purpose is to eliminate the grandmasters and elites in the four countries as much as possible, so as to relieve the pressure on the border pass."
Elder Yue said bluntly: "The royal family promised to open the library to reward meritorious people, and these royal nobles may also know some secrets that outsiders don't know, if you are really interested in immortals, you may be able to consider it." β
Consider?
What else to consider.
Shen Zu was the last martial arts celestial in the world, and in the last few decades of his life, he must have tried every possible way to prolong his life.
Even the Ten Scattered People left a travel book of the Ten Scattered People.
What about Shen Zu.
He can't leave nothing for posterity, you must know that he is the ancestor of a country, and when he chose to establish a secular dynasty, it shows that he is a person who values blood and inheritance.
"Put my name up."
Jiang Xuan agreed and also made a request: "I can go on this trip on behalf of the sect, but there is one thing, the prince or princess I escort must be more favored." β
"Okay."
Elder Yue agreed: "Do you have any other requirements?" β
"There should be dead soldiers in the sect, right?"
Jiang Xuan had some thoughts in his heart: "Give me ten people, and then transfer the emperor's junior brother to me." β
"Ten is too many, although there are dead soldiers in the sect, it is not easy to cultivate dead soldiers, at most five will be given to you."
Elder Yue calculated carefully: "These dead soldiers are the weakest and second-rate early stage, and the death of one is more distressing than the death of ten sect disciples." β
"Eight..."
Jiang Xuan said categorically: "I am not weaker than ordinary grandmasters, and I am at the point where I can break through at any time, once I break through to the grandmaster realm, ordinary grandmasters will have to walk around when they see me, and I will not fall into the majesty of the master." β
I thought about it.
Elder Yue didn't argue anymore, but said with some regret, "It would be nice if you were a disciple of the Mountain Sect." β
The mountain disciples here refer to the kind of true disciples who grew up on the mountains since childhood.
Jiang Xuan is a halfway monk, and what he said is of course his own person, but in fact, it is almost meaningful.
Otherwise, a quasi-grandmaster like him, who is less than thirty years old, should have been escorted and hidden a long time ago in case the sect would have risen again after the collapse of the sect, and he would not have taken it out in such a chaotic situation at all.
Ten days later.
Shendu...
"Where are the people from the Hundred Shou Palace?"
Reception Division.
An old eunuch came with an orchid finger in his hand.
"We are."
As soon as Jiang Xuanyi stood up, Lime, Huang Fuqi, and the eight dead soldiers also stood up.
"Just a few of you?"
A glance.
Seeing that only eleven people came, and each of them was in their twenties and thirties, the old eunuch was a little displeased: "Baishou Palace is also becoming more and more unusable. β
"It's easy to get things done with fewer people."
Although Jiang Xuan is not here to show off, he doesn't plan to be treated as an errand runner: "We people are enough to besiege the grandmaster." β
"Besiege the Grandmaster!"
The old eunuch's face softened a little: "Come with me, the fourteenth princess is already waiting." β
Fourteenth princess Luo Ling.
Among Emperor Luo's more than 30 children, he is one of the more favored, he is nineteen years old this year, and his mother is Concubine Qu Shu among the four concubines.
If it is in the Taiping period, such a princess is allowed to be the eldest lady of the six Shangshu concubines, or the family of the prince with a foreign surname.
Now.
There are no eggs under the nest, and as a royal armor, it is time to bear the weight of the crown.
"Huh?"
All the way to the princess's mansion.
Before Jiang Xuan and the others saw Luo Ling, they heard a strange sound coming from the palace.
"Princess, the people from Baishou Palace have arrived."
The old eunuch stood outside and whispered
"Hyakuju..."
The beautiful voice in the hall suddenly fell silent, and a beautiful female voice came: "Which real person is the leader?" β
The old eunuch stumbled and said: "Back to the princess, there are two true disciples from Baishou Palace, and there are no real people." β
Silent...
Maybe it's disappointment, or maybe it's resignation.
After a brief silence, another voice came from within the temple: "Come in." β
Crunch...
As soon as the door was opened, a fragrant wind came to my face.
Jiang Xuan and Huang Fuqi strode in.
into the eyes.
On a red bed nine steps wide, seven or eight horizontally and vertically, lay seven or eight teenagers like tuberculosis ghosts.
Look inside.
Princess Luo Ling's clothes were half-undressed, and her hands were holding the special law.