"Father!" After seeing the imperial physician Xiao Youliang and the great eunuch Wei Xian go out, Su Xuemei put down all the courtesies, her eyes were full of tears, as bright as the stars in the sky, but with a cute smile on the corner of her mouth, she walked to the edge of the bed of the Emperor of the Horizontal Sky, took his hand and sat down, and rested her little head on his shoulder.

"Xue'er is already fourteen years old, how can she still look like a child, this is not good!" After the Emperor saw Su Xuemei, the gloomy color on his face disappeared a lot, although he was slightly pale, he still said with a smile.

"No, it's my fourteenth birthday in a month, but people are still children!" Su Xuemei tilted her head and protested with a small mouth.

"Hahaha...... Okay, okay, okay, we Nian Xue is only thirteen years old, and she is still a child, this is always okay!" Emperor Hengkong's eyes were full of kindness and kindness that a father should have, without the slightest imperial spirit, hugging Su Xuemei's slightly slender shoulders, and said with a smile.

"Hmph, that's pretty much it. By the way, Father, how is your body?" Su Xuemei raised her head resting on Liao Hengkong's shoulder and asked.

"Hehe, it's much better today, Nian Xue came to see his father, and his father was very happy, and his condition improved a lot in an instant. ”

Looking at Liao Hengkong and looking at his kind father, Su Xuemei's eyes suddenly turned red, and her eyes gradually moistened, although he said it lightly, but his suffering, how could Su Xuemei, as a child, not know it.

Behind the father's forced smile is the pain, the pain of feeling his life passing without being able to do anything, if this kind of torture were ordinary people, he might have collapsed long ago.

"Father, it's useless to blame Nianxue!"

"Xue'er, how can I blame you? For the sake of your father's illness, you are willing to make a promise to Zhao Xiuxian to marry at the age of eighteen, even now, your father's condition has not improved, you still have not broken the contract, you have made such a big sacrifice for the Suzaku royal family, you should be ashamed of your father. If your elder brothers can be like you, have responsibilities and responsibilities, think more about the dawn and the common people, and cherish the people and the world, why should I worry that there will be no successor to the Suzaku Empire? Hey, it's just that this group of unfilial sons ......" Speaking of this, Liao Hengkong did not continue, his face was full of anger and began to attack his heart angrily, coughing violently, his eyes were full of disappointment.

"Father, don't worry, it's not good to be in a bad health, I believe that my father's illness will definitely find a cure, it will definitely be possible!" After speaking, two lines of clear tears slipped down, and her petite body hugged Liao Hengkong tightly, her real relative.

Her mother has died since she was born, and she has no maternal love since she was a child, and in the emperor's family, it is already a blessing in misfortune to be able to get this father's love, so the man in front of her has become her only sustenance.

To say that Su Xuemei has never received maternal love at all, it is also false, she has lived with Su Yuqin since she was a child, and she has felt doting, worrying, caring, and endless love in her body, these are all symbols of maternal love, so that when she was a child, she even had an illusion for a certain period of time.

"I know my body, the competition between the two academies will start in five days, are you ready?" asked the Emperor of the Crossing Sky with a light sigh.

"Father, this time I represent the royal family of the Suzaku Empire, I will do my best, and I will definitely not embarrass the royal family. Su Xuemei's eyes flashed with a strange light and unparalleled determination.

"Just do your best, and leave everything else to Providence! There are also your eighteenth, nineteenth, twentyth, and twenty-first imperial brothers participating in this competition, but I don't have much hope for these unfilial sons, so I simply don't mention them. By the way, has the egg of the Divine Beast given by Uncle Sword Shadow already hatched?"

At the mention of the Divine Beast Egg, Su Xuemei smiled, revealing a row of fragrant teeth, and said, "Thank you for the reward from my father, the Divine Beast Egg has hatched three months ago?"

After speaking, the light flashed, and a small divine beast that was only the size of a bowl and exuded a golden light all over its body appeared in Su Xuemei's hand, and as soon as it appeared, it looked around with wide eyes, and then crawled into Su Xuemei's arms at once, covering her round little head under her skirt.

"Hahaha, okay, this little thing is really spiritual, but it's still timid. Did your Uncle Sword Shadow say what kind of divine beast this is?"

Su Xuemei stroked the little guy's head and said, "Back to my father, Uncle Sword Shadow said that it can't be determined yet, at least until a year later." ”

This divine beast was obtained at the Amethyst Chamber of Commerce, and the competitors at that time were the Huangqi family and the royal family, and the final result was obtained by the royal family, that is, the sword shadow, which secretly protected the sword shadow of the Emperor of the Sky.

"Father, I'll tell you good news, my cultivation has broken through to the True Soul Realm, hehe!"

"That's great, there's five days to go, so you're going to have to get in shape during that time. The Emperor looked at his only daughter and said.

"Yes, father, don't worry, I will definitely adjust my state to the best, and I will do my best not to shame the royal family. ”

Hearing this, the Emperor of the Crossing Sky sighed lightly, stretched out his palm and stroked Su Xuemei's green silk sideburns, and said slowly: "For the father, just do your best, and leave everything else to the will of heaven." ”

Speaking of this, the Emperor seemed to show a trace of fatigue, and then said, "Xue'er, you go! I am tired of my father and want to rest for a while." ”

Su Xuemei was a little reluctant in her heart, but she was a sensible child, she glanced at her father with deep meaning, got up to say goodbye, and left slowly.

The moon rises, but the night is cold.

After Su Xuemei walked away, the face of the Emperor of the Crossing Sky changed, he was no longer the loving father before, and in the blink of an eye, he seemed to have become a decisive king, only to hear him say coldly: "Mentor, Sword Shadow, come in!"

As soon as the words fell, two figures had already appeared in front of the Emperor of the Horizontal Sky in unison, one hundred and one black, forming a stark contrast, and the two bowed down at the same time and said, "Knock on the emperor!"

"Both of you are exempt!" The Emperor stood up, walked in front of the two of them, and personally helped them up.

"In recent years, the ambitions of the Huangqi family have become more and more inflated, and the matter of secretly colluding with the three princes has become more and more obvious. ”

The person in white was the senior of the Royal Academy, and he was the first to speak: "The wolf ambition of the Huangqi family is known to everyone, please rest assured that the emperor will not be allowed to do anything wrong with the royal family and the Suzaku Empire one day. ”

Sword Shadow's words were very few, but he still echoed: "Sword Shadow swears allegiance to the royal family!"

"There are two Aiqing in the empire who are loyal and unswerving, and I am very relieved, this is the blessing of the empire, this time I will work for the two Aiqing!"

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When Accra finished meditating, it was already early the next morning, and when he opened his eyes, Zongsini was already standing directly in front of him, looking at the sky, not knowing what he was thinking.

Seeing Accra wake up, he turned around and said, "Wake up!"

Accra nodded lightly and replied, "Yes!"

"In that case, let's go! There is still plenty of time, so let's walk!" After saying that, Zong Sini rushed out like the wind without waiting for Accra's reply.

"Hey, Mentor......"

Accra shook his head slightly, and also launched the glare Tianyin, chasing after him, the two were not in a hurry, one after the other, almost side by side south, when they came, the two of them spent two and a half days just flying, this return, the two have five days, even if they don't fly, at the current speed of the two, five days of time to rub together.

All the way south, Zong Siniri's words have been very few, and the two of them have been walking for about four hours, Zong Sini turned around and glanced at Accra, and said, "If you have anything you want to ask, just ask, you don't need to hold back." ”

Accra breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Mentor, who is participating in this competition between the two academies?"

The reason why he asked this was because three months ago, he learned that Su Xuemei represented the royal family, not the royal academy, which made him curious and at the same time, he couldn't help but think of other possibilities.

"The usual situation is that there are three forces, namely the royal family, the royal academy and the royal academy, which is also the practice in previous years. But if you subdivide it, there will be more forces, the Ning family, the Mu family, the Fang family, and even the Luo family, etc., you know, although these forces all rely on the two academies, but their footholds are different. ”

Accra wondered, what is inconsistency?

And Zong Sini patiently explained: "For example, the Luo family and the Ning family, their descendants have both those who represent the Royal Academy and those who represent the Imperial Qi Academy, so do you understand?"

Accra didn't frown, as if thinking of some possibility, he nodded, and said in response, "I understand the mentor!"

"In addition to these forces, there are also many forces such as Shui Shi Pavilion, Cangfeng Valley, and Yanyu Tower, all of which are mixed in. In addition, this competition between the two academies, because it is hosted by the Huangqi Academy, they have a certain right to speak, and they have already issued a notice three months ago, inviting the White Tiger Empire, the Blue Dragon Empire, and even the people of the Dharami Sect to visit, so this competition is more lively than in previous years. ”

With so many forces, talented people, and there will definitely be many people, the mentor actually requires himself to rank no less than the top four, is it really possible to do this?

There is also the Huangqi family, Accra has not had an in-depth understanding, the competition in previous years was only concentrated between the two houses, this time invited many forces to watch, what is the reason for this? What does the Huangqi family want to do?

"Your individual competition represents the fourteen-year-old age group, so your opponents are mainly concentrated in the Huangqi family, Shui Shi Pavilion, Yanyulou and the Luo family, among which you only need to pay attention to the Huangqi family and Luo Qianyun of the Luo family. ”

"Why?" asked Accra.

"Because the exercises practiced by the Huangqi family are relatively special, ordinary people are mainly cultivating Yuan Xuanli, supplemented by Yuan Shenli, but the Huangqi family takes care of both, and even some of the younger generations have begun to focus on cultivating Yuan Shenli, one of them is Huangqixing, who is known as the Four Great Geniuses, and Luo Qianyun of the Luo family, although he is the cousin of Luo Linan and Luo Linsheng, his cultivation is far more than the two, and his cultivation is also very weird, and the way of fighting is never according to common sense. ”

"Teacher, is there anything special about the Huangqi family's exercises, otherwise why is the cultivation method unusual?"