After about a few breaths, Duan Chen heard the Desolate Heaven King then ask, "Duan Chen, are you willing to worship me as a teacher?"

A simple sentence, but it was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, shaking Duan Chen speechless.

The lord of the great wilderness, the king of the wilderness...... Do you want to take yourself as a disciple?

Duan Chen couldn't believe it for a while.

At this time, I only heard the Seven Demon Monarch sneering and said: "Sure enough, as expected by this Demon Lord, boy, don't hurry up and agree to him, as long as you worship him as a teacher, even if your identity is exposed in the future, then the Northern Xia royal family will not dare to do anything to you? At least on the bright side, they will never dare to attack you." ”

Duan Chen's eyes lit up when he heard this, and after a little hesitation, he knelt down and said respectfully: "Duan Chen is willing." ”

The Desolate Heaven King laughed out loud, and seemed to be extremely satisfied: "Very good, from today onwards, you are the sixth disciple of my Desolate Heaven King's sect. Go, in a few days, I will invite friends from all walks of life to hold an apprenticeship banquet for you, and then Grandpa Wei will pick you up. ”

Duan Chen respectfully knelt on the ground, answered yes, and then bowed and exited the main hall.

This time the King of Desolate Heaven summoned him, Duan Chen thought of many possibilities, and even thought about killing the Northern Xia royal family by himself, and his identity had been exposed, but he didn't expect that the King of Desolate Heaven summoned him, and he actually wanted to accept himself as an apprentice.

However, Duan Chen's most important concern was not this.

While he was walking towards the outside of the palace under the guidance of the two little eunuchs, he secretly asked, "Senior, what do you mean when you just said that it is really not what you expected? Could it be that you have long expected that the Desolate Heavenly King will take me as an apprentice?"

The Seven Demon Lords smiled and said, "I did consider this when I asked you to participate in the Royal City Competition. ”

After a slight pause, he continued: "Actually, with your qualifications, Zhuge Qingshan should have been favored and accepted as a disciple by Zhuge Qingshan, but Zhuge Qingshan probably saw that you had cultivated to the ninth level of qi refining at a young age, and suspected that you had a master behind you, so he didn't accept you as an apprentice, after all, robbing other people's disciples is a big taboo in the immortal cultivation world, and Zhuge Qingshan probably doesn't bother to do this kind of thing." ”

Duan Chen suddenly said: "No wonder the Heavenly King of Fang Cai asked me in the palace if I had anyone to worship as a teacher, it turns out that he also has this concern." ”

The Seven Demon Monarch smiled and continued: "This Desolate Heavenly King is actually just suspicious, after all, generally speaking, if you have a master behind your back, you will never be allowed to practice runes, runes, runes, and spear skills at the same time, after all, when manpower is poor, many people teach their disciples, and prefer to let their disciples specialize in one piece, so the Desolate Heavenly King suspects that you may be practicing alone, so he will specially summon you today." ”

Duan Chen was shocked when he heard this: "Senior, you even counted this?"

The Seven Demon Lords said lightly: "For this Demon Lord, this little thing is not a calculation, this Demon Lord really has to be calculated, hum!"

He suddenly stopped talking.

After a long time, the Seven Demon Monarchs changed their words and said: "In short, you have found a talisman by worshipping the Heavenly King of the Desolation as your teacher this time, and you will travel far away in Northern Xia in the future, which can be regarded as a little guaranteed." ”

Duan Chen nodded, thinking of his life experience, his heart was a little heavy.

Just as Duan Chen was leaving the Great Desolate Palace, in the Desolate Palace, the Desolate Heavenly King glanced at Gonggong Wei and said with a light smile: "Wei Xian, what do you think of this son?"

Wei Gonggong said respectfully: "To be able to let the king fancy and personally accept him as a disciple, this Chen's qualifications can naturally be called one in ten thousand, but the slave has no one who knows something, and I don't know whether to ask or not." ”

The King of the Desolate Heaven smiled and said, "You slave, you have served by my side since you were a child, what else do you dare not ask?"

Father-in-law Wei said: "The slave doesn't dare." ”

King Desert said: "I am in a good mood today, if you have anything to ask, just ask." ”

Gonggong Wei bowed down and said, "Thank you for your kindness." ”

After a pause in his voice, he continued: "Although this Chen's qualifications are good, but your lord, you have not accepted an apprentice for nearly a hundred years, and now it is a critical time to break through.

As the closest person to the Desolate Heavenly King, Gonggong Wei understands very well that for the Desolate Heavenly King, the improvement of the cultivation realm is the most important thing, and as for the matter of accepting apprentices, the Desolate Heavenly King will only occasionally do it when he is in a good mood in his spare time.

I only heard the Desolate Heavenly King sigh lightly and said, "Do you think he looks like a person?"

Gonggong Wei was puzzled when he heard this, and couldn't help but ask, "Who does the king think he looks like?"

The Desolate Heaven King was stunned, and suddenly said: "I forgot, you haven't seen the Zhenguo Duke of the Northern Xia Dynasty, no wonder you can't recognize it." ”

Gonggong Wei was shocked in his heart and said, "What the king is talking about is the late Duan Zhengguo, the god of war in Northern Xia?"

The King of the Desolate Heaven sighed with emotion and said, "Yes, eighteen years ago, Duan Zhengguo was accused of colluding with demons and wanted to raise troops to rebel, and was finally ordered to be killed by the monarch of Northern Xia. ”

Gonggong Wei sighed: "The old slave was also very shocked when he heard the news, the dignified Zhenguo Gongfu, three generations of loyalty, that Zhenguo Gong is the god of war of the Northern Xia generation, for many years for the Northern Xia Dynasty to fight in the south and the north, has made a lot of contributions, if others want to raise troops to rebel, the old slave will never doubt it, but only this Zhenguo Gong, the old slave really can't think of why he wants to raise troops to rebel. ”

The King of the Desolate Heaven said lightly: "Everything cannot be arbitrarily determined, if Duan Zhengguo really wants to raise troops to rebel, I will not feel strange, what really makes me suspicious of this matter is Duan Zhengguo's last move to die." ”

"And when I didn't become a golden pill, I had several encounters with this person on the battlefield, and in my opinion, this person was loyal to the Northern Xia royal family, and he was by no means a traitor, and he definitely couldn't do anything to collude with demons. Among them, I am afraid that there is a big conspiracy hidden. ”

Gonggong Wei nodded and said, "The old slave also thinks the same way. ”

After a slight pause, he suddenly asked, "Your Majesty, does that Duan Chen really look very similar to the Duke of Zhenguo?"

The King of the Desolate Heaven seemed to have guessed what he was thinking, shook his head and said: "Eighteen years ago, more than 360 people in the Zhenguo Mansion, including the servants and guards in the mansion, were all beheaded by the Northern Xia royal family, and there was no life left, this matter has been announced to the world by the Northern Xia Dynasty, so you don't have to doubt that this Chen has anything to do with Duan Zhengguo." ”

Wei Gong said fairly: "It's the old slave who thinks too much." ”

The King of the Desolate Heaven looked in the direction of the palace gate, sighed, and said, "Confidants are rare, so why don't I want your dreams to come true." ”

......

At this time, Duan Chen had already left the Northern Xia Palace and returned to the inn.

Zhuge Xuanshuang and Jiang Shaofan, Jiang Yuanchao and his son, as well as Jiang Feng, Liu Qinghe, Xiao Yunshan and others were all sitting in the vestibule of the inn, and everyone was very nervous What happened when the Desolate Heaven King suddenly summoned Duan Chen, and when he saw him coming back, he immediately surrounded him.

Jiang Shaofan coughed lightly and asked, "Duan Chen, what is the matter with the king's summoning of you?"

After that, he seemed to think of something, and advised: "You can say this matter if you can, and it doesn't matter if you can't say it." ”

Zhuge Xuanshuang, Jiang Yuanchao and the others all stared at Duan Chen.

Duan Chen took a deep breath and said with a smile: "It's not something that can't be said, the king summoned me this time to take me as an apprentice." ”

Zhuge Xuanshuang's eyes glared at the avenue: "You said that the king intends to take you as an apprentice?"

Jiang Yuanchao also looked incredulous: "Duan Chen, I heard you right, does the king really plan to take you as an apprentice?"

A trace of chagrin flashed in Jiang Shaofan's eyes, and he asked urgently, "Then did you promise the king?"

Duan Chen nodded and said, "I have already promised the king, but the title of master and apprentice can not be decided until the end of the apprenticeship banquet." ”

Jiang Feng seemed to react at this time, and said to Jiang Shaofan: "Deputy City Lord, this matter must be notified to the City Lord as soon as possible." ”

Jiang Shaofan sighed and said, "It's too late to say anything now." ”

Duan Chen looked at the two of them with a puzzled expression, and asked suspiciously, "What happened?"

Zhuge Xuanshuang said with a strange face: "Let's talk about it, we originally planned to wait for the end of this Wangcheng competition and go back, and then ask my father to take you as an apprentice, but I didn't expect to be preempted by the king." ”

Duan Chen looked stunned.

Zhuge Xuanshuang continued: "But it's no wonder that the king, my father and he are seriously suspicious, and now he has missed a good apprentice, which can only mean that the fate of master and apprentice between you is not enough." ”

Duan Chen's heart moved when he heard this, and he thought of the previous speculation of the Seven Demon Lords.

At this time, I only heard Jiang Shaofan speak: "Actually, Duan Chen can worship under the king's door, and it is also his fate, let's wait for Duan Chen's apprenticeship banquet and then go back to Qingshan City." ”

When the others heard this, they immediately stepped forward to congratulate Duan Chen.

Duan Chen nodded and smiled, but he didn't have much happiness in his heart, because in his heart, he wanted to worship another person as a teacher.

After some greetings, Duan Chen confessed and went back to his room to practice alone.

Soon after, the news that the Desolate Heavenly King was going to accept Duan Chen as an apprentice, as well as the invitations to the apprenticeship banquet that would be held in the Great Desolate King's Palace seven days later, were successively sent to the lords of the cities in the city, and began to spread rapidly throughout the Great Desolate Dynasty, and even Zhuge Qingshan, who was far away in Qingshan City, also received the invitation through the teleportation array.

Zhuge Qingshan sighed with emotion in his heart at the moment, but he needed to sit in Qingshan City, and it was not appropriate to move, so he could only entrust Zhuge Xuanshuang to transfer the congratulatory gift on his behalf, and he would not mention it for the time being.

However, Duan Chen returned to the room, and after hanging a sign in front of the door for retreat and cultivation, he began to draw runes on the ground in the room according to the instructions of the Seven Demon Lords.

When all the runes were linked together and turned into an incomparably complicated formation, he embed all the twenty medium-grade spirit stones harvested from the Wangcheng competition into the rune array according to his words.

The rune array that required twenty medium-grade spirit stones to be activated was naturally not a nameless array.

This array is called the Golden Crow Fu Array, as for who created it, Duan Chen doesn't know, anyway, it was taken out by the Seven Demon Lords, Duan Chen has already seen it, he only feels a little distressed about the twenty medium-grade spirit stones.

Once the Golden Crow Runic Array was activated, these twenty medium-grade spirit stones were gone.

The cost of such a cultivation method was definitely the highest in Duan Chen's cultivation history, but in order to be able to break through the realm of the Nine Yang Demon Body Three Yang as soon as possible, Duan Chen had to let it go.

The Seven Demon Lords didn't feel any distressed about this, and seeing that Duan Chen had finished preparing, he couldn't help but urge, "Let's start quickly." ”

Duan Chen sat in the center of the rune array, nodded, and then began to urge the golden crow rune array under him.

I saw that his face was solemn, his spiritual power was condensed on the ten fingers, and the fingertips suddenly lit up with a faint spiritual light, and the spiritual light outlined a series of seals in mid-air with the pinching of the ten fingers, and constantly integrated into the golden crow rune array under him.