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This is Banan County, the south of Bashan.

This Bashan has nothing to do with the Bashan of the Cangwu realm, but it just happens to have the same name.

Puyang City is located to the north of Pushui.

Like most castles, Puyang Castle also has no walls or anything like it, and although this world is similar to the medieval era of the Earth world, in fact, it is very different.

The square walls of the earth, or the castles of the European Middle Ages, would not have existed.

This is a world where martial arts are respected, and it is not a problem for ordinary Qi Refining Realm martial artists to leap three or four feet, and even if they borrow tools, they can directly sweep up the cliffs and cliffs that are ninety degrees.

Therefore, the walls are useless.

Since it is useless, there is no need to exist.

It is not the square and tall walls that really protect the safety of the people in the city, but something else.

This thing is a rune.

Every time a city is built, the first thing is to excavate the foundation, and the excavation foundation is not for various buildings, but to bury talismans and other things in the ground, and after all kinds of talismans are buried in accordance with a certain direction and procedure, then invite the people of the Heavenly Temple to activate the talisman array.

Every great city is protected by a rune array.

These talisman arrays all came from the Heavenly Temple, and even the Dripping Water Temple, the Purple Qi Donglai Pavilion, or the Panlong Temple where the royal family was located were not allowed to touch half a point. Local gate valves such as Banan Gu's and Weijia are even more indispensable.

This is a red line that no one should cross.

In normal times, the center of the rune array is managed by the heavenly temple in the city, and once there is a power or aura fluctuation that exceeds the specified upper limit in the city, the rune array will be automatically activated to suppress this power or aura fluctuation.

The power of the cultivator is too strong, and if it breaks out in a crowded place, the calamity caused can be imagined.

At this time, Gu Xiaozhao was looking at Puyang City from afar.

Half a month ago, in Dishui Guanyin Peak, Gu Xiaozhao saw visitors from the capital, those people came from Guanhaijun's mansion and used to be a member of Guanhaiwei, the reason why they said it was because they had been sent out and became Mu Xiaosang's personal guards.

It was a team that appeared in the hidden peak.

The leader of the team is a talisman master, this talisman is also a woman, but is the sister of Aunt Jian, known as Jian Erniang, she will take the place of Aunt Jian and protect Mu Xiaosang.

In addition, there are seven or eight rune armor warriors, all of whom are mid-level or above martial artists in the Qi Refining Realm, combined with the rune armor on their bodies, even if they are mid-level martial artists, their combat effectiveness is not much worse than those high-level martial artists who have visualized their natal life.

In addition, there are still a few maids who are responsible for teaching Mu Xiaosang's court etiquette.

Along with it, there is also a jade plate, on which Mu Xiaosang's name is written, and on it, the seal is engraved with the sigil of the royal family.

In other words, the Yidu royal family recognized Mu Xiaosang's royal status and included him in the clan, no longer an illegitimate daughter, but a descendant of the well-known royal family.

In this way, the status of the Gu family in Banan County will also go up, from the third-class gate valve to the second-class gate valve. After all, Mu Xiaosang's biological mother is a woman of the Gu family, and if Mu Xiaosang is recognized, Mu Xiaosang's biological mother's identity will also be posthumously recognized by the royal family.

Among this group of visitors to the capital, there is an outlier.

This person's surname is Zhanjue, his name is Zhanjue, he is the brother of Gu Xiaozhao's guardian warrior Zhan Jue, unlike his brother, Zhan Jue does not have any martial arts talent, and now, people in their thirties are just martial artists in the Body Refining Realm.

The martial arts path has long been abandoned.

Short and stocky, with a belly like that of an August-pregnant woman, she walked like a wooden barrel rolling over from a distance.

At the beginning, Zhan Duan protected Gu Xiaozhao for himself, but he did a little bit of things for the woman he loved.

Actually, he didn't ask for anything in return.

Gu Xiaozhao's father, Gu Quan, couldn't be blind to anything, so he took care of Zhanduan's family in many ways, of course, the Zhan family, who was born in a commoner, was not even a poor family, even if Gu Quan helped, it was only slightly better than ordinary civilians.

Zhan Jue is the leader of the Zhan family, and he works in the Gu family's firm, to be precise, in the firm controlled by the Gu family's three rooms.

In the past, he stayed in Dishui Guanfang City for a period of time, and he also knew Gu Xiaozhao, and he had a lot of dealings. The resources that Gu Xiaozhao needed, at that time, were often escorted in by him personally.

Later, he was transferred back to Puyang City by Gu Quan and became a steward of the third room, responsible for auditing the affairs.

Because he was familiar with Gu Xiaozhao and was Zhanduan's brother, Gu Quan sent him out so that Gu Xiaozhao could rest assured that this time it would not be someone else who faked the order like last time.

Zhan Jue is here to convey a message.

Gu Quan has reached an agreement with the Liu family, and the Liu family allows Gu Xiaozhao to enter the third room and become the heir.

Gu Quan hoped that Gu Xiaozhao could leave the Dripping View immediately, rush back to Puyang, and inherit the title of Lingyun Jue. This is because the twenty-year Heavenly Election is about to begin, and the Heavenly Temple in Puyang has already sent out its will.

The so-called Heavenly Chosen is that the Heavenly Temple will gather all the new generation of Lingyun Jue, gather in the Yidu Heavenly Temple, select the best of them through layers of selection, and then enter the secret realm of the mountain behind the Heavenly Temple.

If it can be valued by the heavens, it will soar to the sky.

These young people can be regarded as the registered disciples of the celestials, and their status is superficially equivalent to that of the deacons of the Heavenly Temple, but they are just children who serve the celestials, but in fact, they are far higher than those deacons who are already seventy or eighty.

After all, most of the great powers who set foot on the Flying Sendai had traveled this path, and had served a certain celestial in their youth.

Only a handful of guys have gone the other way and haven't taken the shortcut.

Time is limited, the selection of Puyang City will start a year ago, this selection is not difficult, it is said to be a selection, in fact, it is similar to going through the motions, and the Lingyun Jue title of Banan County is originally limited.

All of them combined, they may not be able to make up the quota stipulated by the Heavenly Temple.

The so-called selection is to rush to Puyang Tianmiao to report within the specified time.

Zhan Jue has been through ups and downs all the way, and it has been a while since he came to Dripping Water Temple, but he has not been able to see Gu Xiaozhao, he has been so anxious that he has been like an ant on a hot pot for the past few days, and his mouth is blistering.

Therefore, when he saw Gu Xiaozhao at that time, he got up and shouted impolitely, because he was too anxious.

This time, Mu Xiaosang, like Gu Xiaozhao, also had to participate in the Heavenly Selection, but as a child of the royal family, she was directly selected for the last selection of Yidu Heavenly Temple, so she didn't need to rush back in a hurry like Gu Xiaozhao.

The Chosen One?

Gu Xiaozhao also wanted to see the Heavenly Temple, after all, the more he saw, the greater the harvest of the stone tablet, the faster it recovered, and the faster his strength would increase, so why not.

In this way, half a month later, he appeared on the south bank of Pushui, looking at Puyang City on the other side of the river.