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Capital...... Jingshi Shuntianfu, from the inside to the outside, is composed of 4 cities: the palace city (i.e., the Forbidden City), the imperial city, the inner city, and the outer city, including the city wall, the city gate, the urn city, the corner tower, the enemy platform, the moat and other facilities, and the city defense system.

Because half a year later, the 'Nine Kingdoms' competition related to Sheji will be held in the Forbidden City, and all the Xianmen Taoists and Jianghu sects in the Qing Dynasty have gathered here at the call of His Majesty Emperor Jia.

The top ten sects of Xianmen Taoism were placed in the temple in the city by Emperor Jiadi, so that the monks could concentrate on practice, and the 'Zhengyi Sect' was divided into the Anhua Temple near Guangqumen, and Zhang Lingyun, who was always in a coma, was also sent into it.

"Eldest sister, are you the door god? The person inside is my third senior brother, can't you go in and take a look?"

Zhang Lingzhi, who was holding the steaming exquisite food, kept shaking the tray in his hand while talking, hoping that the beautiful woman in front of him with a paralyzed face could be captured by the fragrant food she made, and let herself in to see the senior brother who had not beaten his teeth for three days.

"The little junior brother is so polite to her, this person is unknown, just tie her up and throw her into the firewood room!"

Zhang Lingfeng, who was passing by with nothing to do, fanned the newly bought anti-fashioned folding fan, took the arrogant steps that the six relatives did not recognize, pretended to come to the phoenix feather and suddenly closed the folding fan, like a gentleman who wanted to use the folding fan to tease the woman in red in front of him.

"Alas...... ，”

The phoenix feather vulture sighed deeply, its eyes staring at the folding fan that was getting closer to her, and when it was about to touch its chin, the phoenix feather vulture suddenly turned sideways... Leg lift... Knee tightening... Kick, a series of actions in the blink of an eye.

"Bang ......!"

And Zhang Lingfeng, who just wanted to tease the stakes in front of him, turned into a white shadow and crossed the void, flying towards the stone pillar not far away, and with the dull impact sound, Zhang Lingfeng's figure slowly slid to the ground.

"Take it, senior brother, how are you, senior brother!?"

Zhang Lingzhi, who was shocked by the vision, kept turning his neck to scan between the two, and he couldn't believe that a woman with no power to restrain a chicken could kick the power of the early stage of Jindan.

It wasn't until he saw Zhang Lingfeng standing up slightly embarrassed, with a murderous aura in his eyes, that Zhang Lingzhi dared to confirm the authenticity of the incident just now.

Zhang Lingzhi hurriedly handed over the tray in his hand to Feng Yu and the vulture, and he ran quickly to Zhang Lingfeng, pulling the angry senior brother to forcibly leave in the name of treating injuries.

"Let go of me, you fat man! This woman follows the third senior brother without a name and no point, she must not be a good person...... ，”

Zhang Lingfeng, who was not much different in the realm level, couldn't break free from the shackles of his junior brother with a lot of strength, and it was not good to use spiritual power to use force because of this matter, so he could only let Zhang Lingzhi carry himself out of the courtyard with his arms in his arms, scolding and scolding people out of anger.

"Sister Feng Yu, he is too worried about the third senior brother, so he will not choose to speak, please don't meet him in general!"

Surrounded by light blue painted hibiscus, she dragged her tail to the waist and long skirt, holding a sleeping porcelain doll in her arms, Zhang Lingshuang, who walked slowly with a slight smile, slightly blessed herself to Feng Yu and the vulture, and made up for her little brother.

"It's just a little kid, it's worth it for me to take it to heart, the girl has nothing to do and can leave, Lingyun kid needs to recuperate,"

The phoenix feather meandered eagle held the tray with one hand, smelled the aroma of the food, picked up a piece of honey and bean bubbles and sent it to her mouth, feeling the crispy, soft, sweet and sour taste, and nodded involuntarily.

Feng Yu didn't look at the comer with a trace of eyes during the whole process, and the words he said didn't put the disciples of the 'Zhengyi Sect' in his eyes, and euphemistically ordered the expulsion of the guests to drive people away.

"It's me who is abrupt, sister uses it slowly!"

Zhang Lingshuang just wanted to say something, but felt the uncomfortable churning of the child in her arms, afraid that the child's crying would affect the senior brother's meditation, so she was very unwilling to take a few steps back and turn to leave.

"Let's go, get up and get something to eat!"

Feng Yu meandered into the room with a tray, placed it on the table, turned to Zhang Lingyun on the bed, and slammed his fist at the opponent's waist and abdomen.

"Don't forget the contract between us, you can't deliberately hurt me!"

Zhang Lingyun suddenly flipped his body and rolled to the side, just right to dodge the retaliatory attack of the phoenix feather vulture, jumped off the bed, and came to the table to have a good meal.

This is Zhang Lingyun's first meal in a few days, and he feels that this delicious food with all the color and fragrance has made him feel a lot more energetic, and the boredom in his heart has also been reduced a lot.

Although Zhang Lingzhi, who is in Anhua Temple, uses vegetarian food, because of his special techniques and novel sauces, this seemingly plain ingredient is not inferior to the deliciousness of those meats, but has a better nourishing effect.

"Who made you deliberately play dead, so that your group of junior brothers and sisters came to me for trouble all day long!"

Feng Yu Condor is now extremely remorseful that he was quick to talk at the beginning, and spread the words he heard at will, causing Zhang Lingyun to have too deep resentment against everyone in the sect, and he suffered an unjustified disaster and followed the pot to burn!

Zhang Lingyun in the village fell into a coma after casting the spell, everything was going on in an orderly manner, and the phoenix feather vulture chatted with the Taoist aunts when he had nothing to do, and happened to hear some secrets about the Forbidden City.

It is said that although this war was hosted by His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, various countries actually wanted to use this battle to make a new plan for the world situation.

In particular, Eastern countries such as Heguo and Russia want to take advantage of this competition to reshuffle the leading position of the Eastern regime, so as to achieve the right to speak in the international world.

Each country will not only send several of its strongest teams, but also use various ways and methods to unite like-minded countries in the way of setting up competitions, and try to favor their own players.

Even if you kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 yourself, even if you can't achieve the final victory, you must consume the backbone of other countries in the competition as much as possible!

Compared with the Qing Dynasty, which prides itself on being a great country, not only His Majesty the Emperor does not allow this kind of incident to happen, but even the various immortal cultivation sects disdain such cheating methods.

So much so that the Qing Dynasty personnel who will participate in the war in the future will be the only one in the 'Nine Kingdoms' who does not know the topic of their own battle, and the danger they face is equivalent to a one-to-nine battle.

"I know that this so-called competitive nine deaths, and I still stick it to death, am I sick?"

"Hehe, unless you burp now, as long as you still have a breath, you can't escape this competition, who made you the one under the age of 100 of the 'Zhengyi Sect' and the one with the highest cultivation among the disciples!!"

Feng Yu looked at the food that was about to be emptied on the table, snatched the chopsticks from Zhang Lingyun's hand, and quickly skewered the last piece of tofu on the plate together, and slowly sent it into the wide open mouth, savoring the deliciousness.

Compared with the special cultivation methods of Chinese immortal cultivators, who can prolong their lifespan by transforming their body functions, not all of them have an extraordinarily long lifespan.

For the sake of fairness and justice throughout the competition, the nine countries jointly set the maximum age for participants...... 100 years old, not only can prohibit some high-ranking people from speculating and condescending to play on behalf of others, but also allow the judges to have the absolute ability to intervene in the excessive ways in the competition.

This move was tantamount to an obstacle for the people of the Qing Dynasty who cultivated with a calm mind, instantly screening out many powerful and experienced immortal cultivators.

And Zhang Lingyun, who has been training for more than a year after going down the mountain, is tantamount to the most suitable candidate among many immortal cultivators, if he wants to escape the competition, I am afraid that His Majesty Emperor Jia will not agree!

"So, forcibly sent me who was seriously injured into the 'Locking Dragon Array', and let me go down the mountain to experience with reason!

Zhang Lingyun's extremely calm voice channeled the long-suppressed dissatisfaction and questions in his heart, and at the same time leaked a wry smile that seemed to have experienced the vicissitudes of life.

"Hmm...... Don't think about the bad in everything, there is a certain number in the dark, you should see what you have gained from it, don't keep grasping other people's mistakes and let yourself be grieved!"

As a divine beast, the phoenix feather meandering vulture craves more than anyone else longs for the bond of family and friendship, even if it is betrayal and exploitation, at least someone will do the act of caring and loving themselves because of this.

Although Zhang Lingyun is now full of eyes, they are all deceived by the same family, but everyone who has been with them for many years must not have a trace of emotion, and Feng Yu meandered his mind that Zhang Lingyun did not want to make a decision that he regretted.

Feng Yu consuming vulture's reasonable words of comfort made Zhang Lingyun fall into deep thought, and the scene of catching fish in the back mountain with everyone and being punished together is vivid.

Now Zhang Lingyun can have such a cultivation, which is also inseparable from the strictness of the original master, after all, he has not been trapped in the mountain stream for a few years, and it is impossible for him to get the opportunity to enter the Morning Curtain Phantom Array to practice, let alone obtain the recognition of the 'Linglong Pagoda'.

If none of this happened, Zhang Lingyun would not have been able to know the self-proclaimed extraordinary Red Flame, the capable and heartfelt poisonous flame centipede, the stubborn and stinky thousand-faced sand cat, the smart and clever Jia Si, and the arrogant and foul-mouthed phoenix feather meandering vulture in front of him.

As the images in the memory slowly flow, the good memories of walking hand in hand with many partners, the inadvertent small frictions, and even the battles are extremely precious.

"I can't hide anyway, I'll report to Shizun,"

Zhang Lingyun, who decided to put aside his worries and accept the status quo for the time being, got up and came to the copper basin in the corner, gently twisted his fingers to take out the hair crown that he had not worn for a long time, washed and tidied up briefly, and pushed the door open.

"This fellow Daoist ...... Ahh

Zhang Lingyun had just come out of the courtyard where he was, and before he could see the surrounding scenery clearly, he found a white figure leaving a sentence of surprise and passing by quickly.

Listening to the other party call himself the third senior brother, thinking that a certain junior brother was too excited and went to inform the master or other fellow disciples, Zhang Lingyun showed a knowing smile and walked slowly in the direction where the white figure disappeared.

Ling ...... Cloud, you're awake!" I read

Zhang Lingyun came to a fork in the road and stopped, and was looking around to see which direction to go, when he heard a messy sound coming, and then a black shadow rushed towards him.

Zhang Lingyun, who was completely defenseless, subconsciously dodged to the side, but felt that the figure also pounced again with his movement, and immediately waved his hand to draw a talisman in the void to attach to himself.

The black shadow's movements were obviously one point faster than Zhang Lingyun's hand speed, and by the time the protective barrier was activated, the black shadow had already thrown Zhang Lingyun to the ground, and both of them looked at each other with extremely embarrassed expressions.

Zhang ...... Insult...... Who are you trying to scare to death?"

Zhang Lingyun, who saw the identity of the person who came, suddenly pushed away the senior brother with a guilty face, slapped the floating ash on his body with a flat mouth, and felt that it was not clean enough, so he pinched his fingers and performed the dust purification technique for the two.

"Hehe, I haven't seen my junior brother for a long time, I miss you!"

Zhang Lingxiao, who felt disgusted, blinked his reddened eyes, took a deep breath, suppressed the sadness in his heart, showed a doting smile, and raised his hand to help the third junior brother tidy up the crown, so as to prevent him from being scolded by the master for a while.

"I miss my brother too!"

Thinking of what Feng Yu Meandering had said, and feeling the true brotherhood of Zhang Lingxiao in front of him, Zhang Lingyun suddenly felt that it was a little too much, so he arrogantly opened his arms and made a gesture of preparing to hug.

"Let's get up! What do two big men do to make their little daughters, so that others will laugh to death when they see them!"

Zhang Lingxiao looked at the sensitive-minded junior brother in front of him, and in order not to make himself sad and do such an embarrassing thing, he patted off the other party's wrist very cooperatively, put his arm around Zhang Lingyun's shoulder, and dragged him towards the inner hall.

The two who reunited after a long time had endless words, but unfortunately the courtyard where everyone lived was very close, and after a few words, they came to the place where the master was in charge and discussed with everyone.

"Disciple Zhang Lingyun, after returning from traveling, I would like to greet my master and all my uncles!"

Zhang Lingyun saw that all the elders in the Taiping Palace were there, so he knelt on his knees and saluted in a proper manner, and then stood up and waited for his master Zhang Shanxing to speak.

"Get up, I've heard a little about what you're doing outside, and Elder Yue also praised you for acting in a moderate way and caring for the world, and you haven't insulted my 'Zhengyi Sect' style of acting, which is very good!"

Zhang Shanxing recalled the reluctant look in Yue Shengying's eyes when he sent this kid back, and couldn't help but suspect that the secret of his bloodline had been discovered.

Now seeing that Zhang Lingyun heard Yue Shengying's name, without any unnatural demeanor such as restraint and fear, Zhang Shanxing's irritable and nervous mood was suddenly relieved a lot.

Zhang Lingyun, who originally wanted to accuse the 'Amaterasu God Sect' of evil deeds, heard that Elder Yue personally sent him back and praised him, thinking that the other party must have publicized the spread of the Yuan Village, so he gave up repeating the accusation of the 'Amaterasu God Sect' and waited quietly.

"Well, this kid's cultivation has improved again, very good, very good!"

The Fifth Elder got up and came to the side of this favorite disciple, slowly took Zhang Lingyun's hand, released a wisp of spiritual consciousness to infiltrate into his body and wandered slowly, feeling the incomparably wide spiritual vein, nodding his head from time to time to express satisfaction.

When he reached the end of Zhang Lingyun's spiritual power, he found that it was surrounded by layers of prohibitions, and there was no intention of letting himself enter with the slightest courtesy, and the fifth elder Zhang Shanyi was very satisfied with the power of spiritual sense.

"When spring blooms next year, it will be the time for the Forbidden War to be held, and you need to be fully prepared!"

The Third Elder had always had a bland relationship with the little disciples in front of him, if it weren't for his cultivation being outstanding among the young disciples, he really wouldn't have bothered to waste his expression to deal with him.

"Each organization or gang is eligible to form a five-member squad, and each nation can nominate five teams to compete in the arena in full view of everyone!"

The second elder, who has always been silent, looked at the smug appearance of the fifth junior brother with a spring breeze on his face, and he was quite satisfied that this kid could cultivate for more than a year, and couldn't help but explain the rules of competition for him.

"The selection activities of the Qing Dynasty are still ongoing, if nothing else, the names will come from Kunlun Xu, Emei Mountain, Xuantian Sect, Tiandaomen, Yixian Valley, Longyin Holy Land, Xinghai Clan and our Taiping Palace,"

Listening to the five elders adding to the list of various election sects, and there were no other two sects in the top three, Zhang Lingyun couldn't help frowning slightly, and his thoughts began to let his development open.

Among them, the closest to Zhang Lingyun's mood at the moment is that the other sect masters cherish the lives of their disciples and are unwilling to let them participate in this brutal competition that is extremely risky and has a lot of cheating!

"The specific reason for the competition has not yet been announced, and now you need to improve your cultivation realm as much as possible to prepare for the Forbidden Battle!"

Sect Leader Zhang Shanxing looked at the disciple with a gloomy face suddenly, and looked at the five elders beside him in surprise, feeling the extremely unnatural expression of the fifth brother, Zhang Shanxing had to let Zhang Lingyun go down to rest first.

"Did this kid hear something outside?"

Looking at Zhang Lingyun who was slowly retreating, there was a sense of loneliness and sadness in his back, and the three elders seemed to feel it, and an inexplicable sense of irritability arose in his heart.

"Of the three most powerful sects in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, only we are forced to participate in this bloody competition, what do you think!?"

The five elders, who had nowhere to vent their grievances, clicked the knuckles of their fingers and lightly slammed the table next to him and left angrily, and as the corners of his clothes brushed over the pear blossom wood square table, the table that was still intact just now instantly turned into fine sawdust and fell to the ground.

Zhang Shanyi ...... When you come back, you lose the table money first!"

The second elder thought that he had accidentally broken a tea bowl before, and he was presided over by Hua'an Temple to claim a thousand taels of silver, and then looked at the pile of garbage on the ground, and suddenly felt that his heart was dripping blood.

Watching the little junior brother express his true thoughts without pretentiousness, Zhang Shanxing had indescribable envy and jealousy, and he didn't know when the 'Zhengyi Sect' began to become more and more defeated.

When it was passed into his hands, there was no longer the glory and glory of the past, and even those superb spell talismans had become the past and memories in his mind, Zhang Shanxing even forgot what year the last retreat was, maybe he should make some changes!

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"Isn't the little junior brother scared?"

Zhang Lingxiao, who felt that his junior brother was in a bad mood, patted Zhang Lingyun on the shoulder, and when the other party turned back, he immediately made a very ugly grimace.

"Ah...... How old are you, brother, and such childish behavior!"

"My name is Zhang Lingxiao, I am twelve years old this year, and I will be your senior brother in the future, no matter who bullies you and tell me...... Senior brother protects you!"

Zhang Lingyun, who was still disgusted just now, listened to the senior brother say what the two said when they met for the first time, and most of the grievances in his heart were instantly dispersed, looking at his funny and funny expression, he couldn't help but show a relieved smile.

"Senior brother, you take this, buy some food and clothing for everyone, and I'm going to retreat!"

Zhang Lingyun twisted his fingers lightly, and took out the Qiankun bag that had been prepared from the storage ring, which contained some of the elixirs given by Baicaotang, as well as tens of thousands of spirit stones the thickness of his arm.

If these things are used well, even if they can't raise everyone's cultivation to a higher level, they can at least ensure that everyone will always be in the best state for the next period of time.

"You just came out, and you haven't seen Senior Sister Lingshuang's little bun yet, and you haven't greeted everyone yet?"

"I miss you too, but that's why I have to hurry up every moment to cultivate and increase everyone's hope of survival!"

At this time, Zhang Lingyun really didn't dare to face his former partner, afraid that he would not be able to help himself and tell the bloody inside story and injustice of this competition.

Since he knew that he could not change the final itinerary, Zhang Lingyun would rather bear the sourness and bear the burden of everyone's survival, at least others could have a leisurely time again.

Looking at the back of the third junior brother in the distance, Zhang Lingxiao suddenly felt that he was protected, obviously he was the eldest disciple of the 'Zhengyi Sect', this inexplicable feeling was really uncomfortable.

"Yo roar, whose child is this coming back! Come, come, give Ye Xiang one!"

Looking at Zhang Lingyun, whose face was full of unhappiness, Feng Yu meandered to deliberately put on a charming posture, learning the appearance of a gentleman in the play, and reaching out his slender jade hand to tease Zhang Lingyun's chin.

"Feng Yu, what do you think with my strength, with four monks in the early stage of the Transformation of God, what are the chances of winning in the Forbidden Battle?"

"If it is in its own country, it should be able to win the top three, if it is the battle of the 'Nine Kingdoms'...... It's hard to say!"

Looking at Zhang Lingyun's extremely serious eyes, Feng Yu Can't bear to tell the truth, for fear of dissipating his already small enthusiasm, or complicating the truth with preconceived ideas.

Although the phoenix feather vulture knows very little about the strength of Fanbang, from the other party's proposal to use 'hundred-year-old' as the benchmark, it must be an in-depth analysis of the current situation of the Qing Dynasty and the checks and balances mechanism proposed for immortal cultivators.

"Alas, I feel that this competition is a life of death, and only the Taiping Palace of the three major sects of immortal cultivation has appeared, so they must have seen some clues!"

I don't know what the strength of the countries of Fanbang is, but the momentum of splitting mountains and seas when transforming from Xiaohuo, the fierce and decisive will to fight of Toyoko Kusunuki, and the many unknown existences of other countries, this competition is by no means simple!!

"Nine times out of ten, life is unsatisfactory, but that doesn't excuse you to be negative!"

Feng Yu meandered to listen to Zhang Lingyun's words, and only felt that this 'Zhengyi Sect' Heavenly Master was too cowardly, and he couldn't even protect his own disciples, so he was really not worthy of being someone else's master.

But the matter has come to this point, if it fanned the flames again, it would only make Zhang Lingyun's mood more and more sluggish, and Feng Yu had to use some high-sounding words to try to calm Zhang Lingyun's grievances at this moment.