Nangong Yu walked out of the main hall, with his hands behind his back, slowly walked through the long corridor full of gold and jade, and passed through a wooden door in the east wing.

Behind the wooden door, everything is even more different from the previous one: in the center of an open yellow earth there is a stone altar less than a foot high, and next to the altar is a low grass hut with a wooden chair and a small stove.

In the entire Qingqiu country, few people know that in this magnificent palace, there is such a place like a farmhouse.

After Nangong Yu walked in the door, he carefully tidied up his clothes, hats and shoes, and then gently closed the wooden door and pulled the latch, as if he was afraid of disturbing the owner here, it was hard to imagine what kind of person could make Nangong Yu, who was the king of a country, so respectful.

"The king is a little late today. A young girl's voice came from the grass.

"The people who were sent out to spy on him came back a little late, and Lone had just come from the main hall, so the holy woman is not strange. Nangong Yu explained.

His respectful attitude even made one think that this young girl, who lived in a humble cottage deep in the palace, was the most noble person in the kingdom.

"You've been spying on him for a month. The girl's voice was crisp and calm, and there was no majesty at all that only a person in a high position could have.

"Yes. ”

"He knows where he came from, what has he been doing in the past month?" the girl seemed interested in the man they were discussing.

"It's just that I asked around about the Yun family's past and the origin of that sword, and there is nothing out of the ordinary. ”

"Oh......" the girl seemed to be in deep thought.

Nangong Yu wanted to speak and stopped, hesitated for a while, and still said: "Although Yun Luochen is the son of the sword god Yun Qing back then, but Lone took so much trouble to invite him here, but he let it go, since the holy woman has already spied on the heavenly opportunity, why can't she say it to Lone?"

"The king seems to be in a hurry?"

Nangong Yu's face showed the melancholy expression of an old man in the twilight, and he sighed: "Lonely and old, old ......"

He looked up at the green that pulled out the new shoots on the grass house, and said with emotion: "You see, with the grace of youth and vitality like the saint, even these early spring thatches can be rejuvenated, but a person as old and frail as Lone, every day, can feel the passage of life in the body......"

He shook his head dejectedly and continued: "It is not easy for ordinary people like us to live to be sixty years old, and for an emperor who is about to die, many things must be done as soon as possible, and it is inevitable that he will be anxious. ”

The holy maiden in the grass house was silent, she seemed to hear Nangong Yu's voice, "You want to use his hatred of Nan Chu to do things for you?" The girl's voice froze.

"Doesn't the Holy Maiden want the Qingqiu Kingdom to become stronger and stronger?" Nangong Yu's expression changed subtly, and his tone was not as respectful as before.

He had never really been in awe of this young woman called "Holy Maiden", no one in this country could really stand in the way of his decision, he was the king, the only ruler of Qingqiu Country, he just wanted to take advantage of the special abilities of the Holy Maiden.

"Don't forget, I've never been a saint in Qingqiu Country. The girl reminded.

"But all these years, the Holy Maiden has been receiving offerings from my Qingqiu people, shouldn't she think more about the well-being of my Qingqiu Country?"

Nangong Yu retorted, and smiled secretly in his heart: "The dignified saint of the Great Wilderness, there are times when she eats people with short mouths. ”

When this self-proclaimed "Saint of the Great Wilderness" woman in Tsing Yi suddenly appeared in the main hall of the Qingqiu King's Palace five years ago, all the princes and ministers who were in the court meeting were stunned, not only amazed by this ability that appeared out of thin air, but also amazed by her stunning appearance that was rare in the world.

But this beauty that is rare to see in a thousand years is just a flash in the pan, and the next moment, there is a light veil on her face, and no one has seen her true face again. And those who have been lucky enough to see the beauty of the face, when they meet people, they say that she is a fairy who fell from the sky, and it is impossible to give birth to such a beautiful woman in the world.

But for Nangong Yu, just his beauty and ability to appear out of thin air were not enough to impress him as a monarch, until she told him: "Nangong Yu, haven't you always wanted to dominate Nanguo? I can help you." ”

None of the ministers came out to speak, and they had seen such miracles and world-famous appearances, and they forgot for a moment that a woman had suddenly broken into the palace and called the king by his name, which in itself was a great disrespect to the royal power.

I can't help but say that Nangong Yu, who heard these words, was still touched in his heart, but he still asked quietly: "What can you do?"

"Foreseeing the future. ”

Everyone was in an uproar, and Nangong Yu was finally aroused, but at the same time, he also felt that there was some commotion among the ministers above the main hall.

No emperor could tolerate others challenging his authority in front of his courtiers, so he ordered someone to go to the hunting ground and bring a deer, and he said, "You say that you can predict the future, then you tell Lone, will Lone kill this deer?"

Everyone knows that this is deliberately difficult, answering "kill" or "not kill", Nangong Yu will do the opposite, thus negating her ability to predict the future.

But she didn't answer the question.

As if she had come without warning, she suddenly disappeared out of thin air, leaving only one sentence echoing above the main hall:

"Tomorrow there will be civil strife in the Southern Chu Kingdom, and a month later, Southern Chu will change hands, and the day when the new monarch Gao Qiang ascends the throne, I hope you will leave me a quiet place here, and I will live here. ”

Everyone knew what happened later, the mediocrity and brutality of Xiong Yu, the monarch of Southern Chu, aroused the dissatisfaction of several major clans at that time, and in just one month, the coalition army led by the Gao family, the Zhu family, and the Yan family broke through the national capital Emperor Yun City, Xiong Yu set himself on fire, and Gao Qiang, the head of the Gao family, was elected as the new monarch.

Everything was exactly as the girl had prophesied.

Since then, this girl who can predict the future has been worshiped as a god by Qingqiu Kingdom, and Nangong Yu has also arranged a seclusion for her in the palace hall according to her request.

"I don't object to you wanting Yun Luochen to work for Qingqiu, but he has a more important mission. The voice of the Holy Maiden came out of the grass house again, as if she was compromising with Nangong Yu, she knew very well that she had no real power in Qingqiu Country, and it would not do her any good to anger Nangong Yu.

Nangong Yu said: "Since the saintess does not object, then Lone will arrange some things for the descendants of this great general to do, I don't know where the important mission of the saint is located? If Lone can help, you can take care of it together by the way." ”

"I don't have to worry about this matter," said the holy woman's voice, which softened and calmed again, "his mission is already on his way. ”

Mt. Qingqiu is a mountain full of aura.

There are mountains full of jade, lush trees, and the occasional exotic beast that pokes through the forest, and where the water flows, it evaporates crystal water vapor and forms a soft, dreamy cloud in the mountain wind.

When he reached the halfway point of the mountain, Lin Qianyuan felt as if he had stepped into the clouds, and every time he took a step forward, the clouds in front of him retreated, and the clouds behind him rushed forward, as if he was in a fairyland, and as if he was trapped in this isolated island under his feet by this boundless sea of clouds.

She is not worried about getting lost, as a child who is accustomed to wandering the world, she has been to Qingqiu Mountain many times, and she even knows many strange plants here, as well as some cute little animals.

Different from the Demon Realm Forest, which is calm on the surface but actually treacherous, this is a real paradise where all things live, walking in this quiet and peaceful land, Lin Qianyuan felt that his original restless heart was gradually becoming calmer.

Suddenly, Lin Qianqian felt a strange aura, as if there was suddenly another person beside him.

It was an invisible coercion brought about by the gap in absolute power, and Lin Qianyuan suddenly realized that this stranger was a person of the same level as the group of people in the Demon Realm Forest.

However, unlike that group of people, this time the coercion was only a simple coverage of absolute power, unlike the domineering murderous aura last time, and the people who pressed it were almost out of breath. Therefore, this coercion did not disturb the other creatures in Qingqiu Mountain.

That aura also seemed to notice Lin Qianyuan, so it disappeared without a trace almost instantly.

Lin Qianyuan didn't pay attention to this breath anymore, she knew very well that with the strength of the other party, it was easy not to be noticed by her, and no matter how hard she tried, it was impossible for her to find any traces of the other party.

Through the hazy clouds, Lin Qianyuan seemed to see some animal burrowing into the woods, and her strong curiosity drove her to chase after her.

"Don't run, I won't hurt you!"

Lin Qianyuan chased and called, the unknown animal seemed to understand her words, it jumped gracefully through the trees, as if it just wanted to play with her, not to really escape, but Lin Qianyuan was never able to catch it.

It didn't take long for Lin Qianyuan to unconsciously pass through the woods, and it turned out that through this forest was Yingshui, a mountain stream formed by snow and water on the top of the mountain, meandering from the misty clouds and mist, and the sound of gurgling water was like fairy music.

She looked around and finally found the mysterious figure she had tracked along the banks of the Yingshui River.

It was the most beautiful creature she had ever seen in her life: pure and crystalline hair like snow covered her body, two long and narrow ears like jade carvings, and those big smart eyes seemed to have a mysterious magic, which made people involuntarily fascinated by it and couldn't extricate themselves, and the pupils in these big eyes were like crystal clear gems, and they even showed orange yellow, emerald green, and dark blue with the different strengths and angles of light...... Every change is beautiful.

And at the end of its elegant, slender body is its most striking tail, which extends from the graceful lines of its back, gradually expands into a fluffy shape, and then ends in a small point to form a perfectly curved curve—and the perfect line that seems to be drawn only by the most genius craftsman in the world has been repeated nine times in this single being.

"Nine-Tailed Fox...... This is the legendary spirit beast nine-tailed fox ......"

Although she had heard of this creature before, the first time she saw it with her own eyes, Lin Qianyuan was still fascinated by its shocking beauty.

At this moment, the previous powerful coercion once again filled this space, and Lin Qianyuan's first reaction was that the strong man just now was probably coming for the nine-tailed fox, a rare spirit beast in this world.

But soon, Lin Qianyuan realized that she was wrong.

She had been wrong from the beginning, and there had been no other person around the woods except her.

Lin Qianyuan watched incredulously as the nine-tailed fox by the river was walking towards her step by step, her steps were unhurried, elegant and noble, and her eyes were also blooming with a strange light.

Twilight Notes:

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of the South Mountains": Three hundred miles to the east, it is said that the mountain of Qingqiu has many jades in its yang and many green ducks in its yin. There is a beast, its shape is like a fox and nine tails, its sound is like a baby, it can eat people, and the eater is not Gu.

......

The British water comes out of the Yan, and the south flow is injected into the Ze of the wings.