During the New Year, the city of Wangchuan is bustling with activity, with almost every house lit up and festively populated, with children building snowmen, having snowball fights, and children playing with fireworks.

Only in the Li Mansion, the scene is depressed and the atmosphere is lonely, because the owner of the house now has not arranged for his subordinates to prepare anything about the New Year, and even the Spring Festival couplets on the door have not been posted.

For the people of the Li family, they are all going to move from here anyway, and whether they can stay in Wangchuan City in the future has to be said separately, so naturally they don't want to do these useless jobs anymore.

Today's Li Ku got up very early, probably at the end of the year, and the beginning of the morning was already washed.

Because it was the harsh winter season, the sky was still as dark as ink at this time, but he deliberately chose to get up at this time, only in this way could he carry the burden he hastily packed and leave this home that had long existed in name.

He went to the door of his mother's bedroom, pulled out a letter he had written the night before, and slipped it into the crack of the door, and then without hesitation, he left the vast and luxurious mansion and headed for the world that no longer belonged to him.

......

Time flies, especially on the way to the road, and the Lantern Festival has passed in the blink of an eye.

Xu Yan and the others, under the leadership of the envoy Wang Gonggong, were constantly speeding towards Yong'an City, which was said to be the largest capital city in the five states.

Although they were all cultivators, except for Xu Yan, the rest of the team present was actually more or less looking forward to entering that capital, after all, it was not only the most prosperous place in the world, but also had the Sword Martial Arts Academy that cultivators dreamed of entering and learning.

Entering the early spring, the weather has quietly begun to warm up, but Zhongzhou is different from Lingzhou after all, in Zhongzhou, if you want to wait until the snow is really completely melted, and wait for a new green scene, you basically have to be after mid-spring, therefore, in the middle of the first month, whether it is on both sides of the road, or on the black tile roofs in the countryside, there are still a lot of snow.

The time is approaching twilight, the sunset is everywhere, and the golden light shines on the snow, emitting an extremely dazzling bright light, but Xu Yan and the others don't pay much attention to the natural beauty that exudes at this moment, the reason is that they have long been used to traveling along the way, and most of the time they also sit in the warm carriage brought by the envoy, if they don't deliberately lift the curtain to check, they can't see this scene.

And with the constant noise coming from the ears, all the carriages, after more than three hours of noon, finally stopped again.

The number of carriages sent by the DPRK to greet Xu Yan and the others was limited, and there were only three that could be distributed to them, so in the carriage that Xu Yan was riding, there were four people in total, and the remaining three were Chen Qinghe, Gu Xueqing, and Bai Bing in addition to Xu Yan.

As far as the other disciples of the Lotus Sect are concerned, they are categorically unwilling to ride in the same carriage with Bai Bing, and only Gu Xueqing and Chen Qinghe are willing to take the initiative to show closer to Bai Bing, and before, Chen Qinghe had already reached out and pulled Bai Bing from the river to the shore

, and Gu Xueqing has been staying in the same room with her during her recent trip, so she is on the same carriage, so she naturally doesn't see anything else.

After the carriage stopped, Xu Yan and the others got out of the carriage one after another, and then found that their group had come to a rather prosperous downtown area, no wonder there was a lot of noise.

The prince was the last of them to get off the bus, but no one was surprised because he had been the one all the way.

After he got out of the car, he just glanced up at the street scene in front of him, and then turned his head and said to Xu Yan and the others, after resting in this inn tonight, he took the lead in striding into this inn.

When the disciples of the Lotus Sect saw this, they were not surprised by this, and immediately followed him into the inn together, however, when Xu Yan and the others walked into the guest battle, he saw two very familiar faces in this inn.

These two faces are not a good impression on him, and even have a very deep holiday, one is Wu Hao, who has had a big battle with him, and the other is Zhou Xian, who has an almost irresolvable grudge with him.

Zhou Xian was able to mix in Wu Hao's team at this moment, there was no doubt that their Zhou family got a place to participate in the grand event of the dynasty from the hands of the Wu family, otherwise, he would not be qualified to walk with those disciples of the Chenyang Sect at all.

When Zhou Xian saw Xu Yan, there was almost fire in his slender eyes, and the reaction was quite violent, he was far from thinking that Xu Yan, who was beaten by him in the Liuyun Courtyard at the beginning, had no power to fight back, and after just one year, he had grown to the point where even his father could only defeat himself, if it wasn't for his grandfather's timely rescue, even his father might have fallen from it.

And just when Zhou Xian locked his resentful gaze on Xu Yan, Wu Hao, who was the leader of the many disciples of the Chenyang Sect, also looked at Xu Yan at this moment, but he just frowned his thick eyebrows, and he was immediately relieved, after all, the family had solemnly warned him that he was not allowed to touch Xu Yan again before the grand event of the dynasty in February.

Xu Yan didn't pay too much attention to Zhou Xian and Wu Hao, because at this time, they were no longer a threat to him, unless Wu Hao could immediately break through to the seventh-grade realm, but it was obviously impossible, although the other party had reached the late stage of the sixth-grade realm in cultivation, but the last remaining half of the foot could be said to be the most difficult threshold to cross on the way to cultivation, and the other party did not have three or five years, so he couldn't do it at all.

So, Xu Yan only chose a free square table for himself, sat down peacefully, and then sat down with Chen Qinghe, who was in the same car.

Chen Qinghe naturally found Wu Hao and the others, so after sitting down, he whispered to Xu Yan, "I didn't expect that the disciples of the Chenyang Sect would set off at different times with me, and finally meet in this inn, is this considered a ...... The road is narrow?"

After Xu Yan heard this, he smiled indifferently and replied, "Why is this, Senior Brother should not have seen them, and now that we are all in charge of receiving them by different envoys, I don't think they will dare to come to us." ”

When Chen Qinghe heard Xu Yan say this, he not only turned his head to glance at the place where the prince was sitting, but then saw that he was there

At the same table of the latter, there was indeed a eunuch who was also dressed in a luxurious red robe.

There is no doubt that this eunuch, like the prince, was sent by the Son of Heaven to receive them, who participated in the grand event.

Chen Qinghe changed his words and said, "There is only half a month left at present, I am not afraid of your jokes when I say it, as the time gets closer and closer, I am really a little nervous now." ”

Xu Yan replied with a smile, "Do your best, senior brother doesn't have to take it too seriously." ”

Chen Qinghe shook his head in discouragement, sighed and said, "Actually, I can only blame myself, it was too late to step into the cultivation at the beginning, I estimate that in this grand event, there should not be many people who are comparable to my cultivation, I hope I won't be brushed down in the first round." ”

When Xu Yan heard the other party say this, he couldn't help but think in his heart, if he wasn't reborn in this body, with the cultivation foundation of the original body, although it was also excellent, even if he wasn't killed by Zhou Mi at that time, he would be far from reaching his current cultivation.

Xu Yan hesitated for a moment before he said to Chen Qinghe with relief, "Don't worry, since the master can let the senior brother occupy one of the places, then the senior brother should do his best, what the result is, in fact, it is not as important as imagined, the most important thing is to participate in the process." ”

When Chen Qinghe heard Xu Yan say this, he couldn't help but feel a lot better.

......

Ten days later.

The twenty-fifth day of the first month is approaching.

After having lunch at a wine shop on the way, Xu Yan and his entourage got into the carriage in the palace again and headed for Yong'an City. But at this moment, they all had an inexplicable excitement in their hearts, because according to the introduction of the envoy Wang Gonggong, this place was only a short fifty miles away from Yong'an City.

According to the speed of the carriage, they were able to enter Yong'an City smoothly in the evening of this day.

Chen Qinghe was the only one of the four who had ever been to Yong'an City, but that happened to him many years ago, so he couldn't remember a lot of memories of Yong'an City, and a capital city like this often underwent earth-shaking changes in a few years.

The carriage got down from the drive again at about three o'clock, and then someone came to summon Xu Yan and others to get off the carriage, although they were the "distinguished guests" of the palace who participated in the grand event, but they still could not use their privileges, and they had to honestly accept the inspection and verification of the guards of the forbidden army in front of the gate one by one like those people in the city who entered and exited the city.

After Xu Yan and the others got out of the car, the first thing they sighed was not that they still needed to go through a rigorous review when they entered the city, but that they were shocked by the magnificent scene they saw in front of them, which was no exception, even if it was Xu Yan, because the protective wall of Yong'an City looked really spectacular, even the protective wall of Wangchuan City, the largest county city in Lingzhou, could not be compared with it at all.

Later, when they had gone through a review of them one by one and thoroughly entered the capital, they found that the scene inside the protective walls really made them feel impressed.

"Is this Yong'an City?"

Looking at the majestic city in front of him, where he couldn't see the edge at all, Xu Yan muttered to himself in his heart.

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