After a long time, Li Yuan raised his head, and after waving the maid on the side away, he took a sip of tea and slowly spoke, "The Heavenly God Academy was founded by the royal family of the Wind Country, you should know, right?"

Zhang Heng nodded, this should be a well-known thing to the world.

"Then do you know why the entire imperial capital has not appeared again for so many years, except for the eldest prince after entering the inner courtyard?" Li Yuan said in a low voice.

"This, I really don't know, but there are rumors that the inner courtyard doesn't seem to be within the scope of the Windy Country. Recalling the rumors he had heard before, Zhang Heng said, even in the Tianshen Academy, the inner courtyard was extremely unfamiliar to the students and even the tutors in the outer courtyard.

Li Yuan shook his head, "Wrong, although the outer court is funded by the royal family, the inner court is run by the royal family, that is to say, those who enter the inner court must be loyal to the royal family, and the reason why the people of the inner court have rarely appeared in the Wind Country for so many years seems to be because of the heel problem of the Lord of the Wind Country." ”

"The heel of the lord of the country?" Zhang Heng frowned. What is the origin of the royal family is not to say.

Perhaps seeing Zhang Heng's doubts, Li Yuan smiled and said, "Their surname is Feng"

Wind, Wind Country, is it? Zhang Heng suddenly got up, "Could it be that the Wind Country is a branch of the Wind Clan?" Zhang Heng said in surprise. Cao Dade introduced him to the Wind Clan, the Wind Clan is an ethnic group that has been passed down since ancient times, there has been an emperor, according to historical records, when the Wind Chasing Emperor was called the emperor, he carried the imperial soldier to chase the wind sword, and wiped out a forbidden land entrenched in the Eastern Wilderness, the reason why the Wind Chasing Emperor wanted to do this is that this forbidden land had the face of the Wind Chasing Emperor in the early years, and the Wind Clan was also notoriously domineering and arrogant.

Li Yuan looked at Zhang Heng's surprised expression, and also glanced at him, you must know that the Wind Country is already very remote in the Eastern Wilderness, close to no man's land, close to the Desolate Beast Forest, he didn't expect that someone here would know about the Wind Clan, "Yes, no, the ancestor of the Wind Country is indeed from the Wind Clan, but I heard that it is an abandoned son of the Wind Clan, let's say it's not the Wind Clan, for them to take the wind as the country name, the Wind Clan also acquiesced." ”

Zhang Heng's expression was complicated, if the inner courtyard was controlled by the royal family, he would definitely not participate in this outer courtyard competition, his original idea was very simple, enter the inner courtyard and obtain more cultivation resources, the outer courtyard was just to explain the cultivation, and when he reached the one-yuan realm, he no longer needed these, he had the Mountains and Rivers Sutra, although it was a fragment, but it was also better than many cultivation exercises in the Heavenly God Academy.

And now he has ridden the tiger hard, captured the top three of Dabi, and even used Dabi's reward of a second-level spirit grass. The second-level spirit grass is two hundred years old, and it is also a rare treasure in the Wind Country.

"Brother Zhang doesn't want to enter the inner courtyard?" Li Yuan asked in a deep voice,

Zhang Heng shook his head, even if he didn't want to enter, he couldn't tell others, after all, he and Li Yuan hadn't reached the point where they could have a heart-to-heart.

Li Yuan didn't care about Zhang Heng's denial, he was a businessman, and he knew how to observe words and emotions the most, but he still said to himself, "The lord of the Wind Country is very domineering. ”

With this sentence, Zhang Heng understood that he couldn't help but enter the inner courtyard and be domineering, which meant that he would not tolerate too many changes under his nose, such as a genius, if he couldn't recruit him, he would kill him, this is a common problem of some big forces on the Hengyu Continent, and he can't see that others are stronger than him.

"Steward Li, thank you for your hospitality today, I'll go back to the academy first. Zhang Heng said.

Li Yuan took a sip of the already cold tea with a smile, watched Zhang Heng's departing back at the window, and sighed imperceptibly, for a character like them, there is very little room for choice, otherwise he would not have been sent here from that place.

"Hope you have the best of luck. Li Yuan muttered and turned to leave.

And Zhang Heng walked on the street, towards the feasibility of everything, refusal, it must not be refused, otherwise he refused, maybe the imperial capital would not be able to go out, and loyalty, it would be even more impossible, he would not go against his will, if he ran, it is estimated that it is not realistic, where can he run alone, turned around and walked into an attic on the side of the road, and spent tens of thousands of gold coins to buy a map of the Desolate Beast Forest, be prepared.

Returning to the gate of the academy again, those princes and nobles had almost left, and the place where there was still a lot of people in the morning was already crowded at this moment, walking towards his residence, and the people he saw along the way were all envious eyes on him, as well as respectful looks, which made him smile bitterly, if he let others know how he was thinking now how not to enter the inner courtyard, I am afraid that he would be drowned directly by everyone's saliva.

When he came to the door of the attic, he found that Long Qian was actually standing at his door, Zhang Heng was surprised, what did he come to do with him?

After taking two steps forward, he hugged his fists and said, "Brother Long, is there something wrong?"

"I want to talk to Brother Zhang, can you go in and say it if it's convenient?"

Hearing Long Qian's words, Zhang Heng brought him into the room, and as soon as he entered, Long Qian said straight to the point, "Brother Zhang, do you know the situation in the inner courtyard?"

Zhang Heng nodded, at this moment, he probably guessed what happened to Long Qiansuo. "Know some. He said quietly.

"Brother Zhang must also understand that if you are not loyal to the royal family, you will not be able to enter, and if you don't enter, the royal family may be directly obliterated. Long Qian said bluntly.

"Then what are your brother and sister's plans?"

"No," Long Qian said. Then he continued, "Brother Zhang, I'll tell you the truth, we didn't plan to return to the Heavenly God Academy and travel to the mainland, but the dean wrote to us to come back, asking us to join the inner courtyard, our brother and sister were rescued by the dean, so we can't refuse the dean's request." ”

"I didn't expect such a thing, but if I didn't enter the inner courtyard, would it?" Zhang Heng said suspiciously.

Long Qian sneered, "Definitely, I didn't expect the dean to set us up, you shouldn't have seen the eldest prince." ”

Zhang Heng shook his head, "Indeed, but the fourth prince has indeed met a few times, and looking at him as a person, he doesn't look like an arrogant and unreasonable person." ”

"It's not like an arrogant and unreasonable person? That's because he is not qualified, the mother of the fourth prince is just a commoner, and the mother of the eldest prince was personally selected by the queen mother back then, and the power in the government and the opposition is quite huge, and the domineering of the eldest prince is even greater than that of the lord of the country, which can be seen from the Liyang Palace in the outer courtyard. Long Qian said in a mocking tone, his words full of disdain for the royal family.

He didn't know about the matter of the four princes, but when he heard Long Qian say about Liyang Palace, Zhang Heng also nodded in agreement, and he saw how hateful it was to say that the little scum on the second floor of the Mortal Realm said to him how hateful it was to pay protection money, if it weren't for the fact that she was about to enter the inner courtyard now, and she already had the sight of the dean, I am afraid that the revenge of Liyang Palace would have hit like a storm.

"Brother Long, give me a clear word, what are you going to do?" Zhang Heng asked.

Hearing Zhang Heng's words, Long Qian also stood up in distress, "I can only leave here, if I am alone, it doesn't matter if I go to be loyal to the royal family of his Wind Country, but I can't let Long Yue fall into it, his talent is better than mine, and it shouldn't be wasted in this place." ”

Zhang Heng glanced at Long Qian differently, it was the first time he had seen this arrogant man praise others, although that person was his sister.

"It's easier said than done, I guess we're already being watched now. Zhang Heng walked to the window and looked through the gap at the person in the distance who swept his residence with a blank gaze.

Long Qian may have known it a long time ago, and there was no surprise at Zhang Heng's words, "I didn't expect to have such a thing just after I came back, the dean said that entering the inner courtyard can improve my strength faster, he caught my idea, I want to improve my strength as soon as possible." When he said this, Long Qian's expression was gritted teeth, even with a hideous appearance.

"Wait, I estimate that soon the lord of the country will summon us," Zhang Heng said calmly, "When we come out of the palace, we must be able to find an opportunity." ”

It can only be like this now, Long Qian nodded, and the two discussed martial arts for a while, and Long Qian left again.

Looking at the back of Long Qian leaving, Zhang Heng smiled inexplicably, this young man who was a few years older than him had a stubbornness in his bones, but his weakness was obvious, Long Yue was much more important in his eyes than even his own life.

Shaking his head, he got rid of the thoughts in his mind, in the final analysis, his strength is not strong enough, if he has strong enough strength, how can he be embarrassed by others, I can't help but think of Cao Dade who said a very vulgar but reasonable sentence before, "I am stronger than you, I am your father"

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, she took out the mountains and rivers that she hadn't seen for a long time, and the top wall was still so dusty, if she hadn't seen the power of this tripod, she would even think that this was an ordinary stove.

Carefully staring at the broken lines above, his mood was ethereal again, until this time, he knew that the exercises on the mountains and rivers were incomplete, or the mountains and rivers were all incomplete, although when he was cultivating, the speed of absorbing the yuan force was several times that of others, but when he was fighting, he always felt that there was such a kind of control, and the yuan force running in the meridians had such a subtle and unsmooth feeling.

Wind Country, Imperial Capital......

In a huge hall in the palace, two people are cross-legged, one is a middle-aged man, with a yellow robe, but his long hair is scattered, and the faintly revealed breath makes people unconsciously feel like they are facing heaven and earth, which can be seen from the old eunuch who has been bent over from beginning to end dozens of meters away.

The other person is white-haired and long-bearded, wearing a robe that has been sewn and repaired many times, and his eyes are lifeless, but when he looks at this issue, he occasionally shines, making people dare not look directly, and he is more like a middle-aged man sitting opposite...... Familiar with the general freedom.

"Second brother, you are old," the middle-aged man said with emotion after his son fell.

The old man immediately laughed when he heard this, "You are in the prime of being the eldest brother, but I, the second brother, are old, tsk." There was not a hint of awe in his tone for the current lord.

"You took the initiative to give up the throne back then, can you tell me why?" asked the Lord of the Wind Country.

The old man shook his head, rarely looked directly at the person opposite, but the other party still didn't change his face after a long time, and then said, "I can't fight you, and I'm not as ruthless as you." ”

The first sentence was still very calm, but the second sentence was sarcastic, as if mocking, perhaps self-deprecation was more accurate, the old eunuch standing and bowing in the distance thought to himself.