"Sister, have you heard about it?" Nangong Jie asked mysteriously in the garden.
"What did you hear?" Nangong Ling looked confused and didn't know why.
"The Xiao family sent someone to propose marriage to the Lin family." Nangong Jie's eyes were filled with the fire of gossip.
"Proposing marriage? Which young lady from the Xiao family is it?" Although Nangong Ling was not interested in the Xiao family, he was a little curious about which two young ladies would become victims of political marriages.
"The head of the Xiao family proposed the marriage on behalf of Xiao Wenjian." Nangong Jie shook her head.
"Xiao Wenjian? But aren't there only two young masters in this generation of the Lin family?" Nangong Ling asked doubtfully.
"I heard that there is an eldest lady in the Lin family who joined a cultivator sect to learn martial arts when she was very young, so few people in the imperial capital know about it." Nangong Jie said with great interest, "I met Xiao Wenjian by chance a few days ago.
I was so shocked that I vowed to marry him back home."
"Xiao Wenjian is that piece of wood who is devoted to cultivation?" Nangong Ling was doubtful, "It doesn't look like he would be tempted by a woman. I really don't know what kind of outstanding woman she is, she can break through this stubborn stone."
"I heard that Miss Lin's name was Zhiyun." Nangong Jie recalled the rumors carefully, "It seems that she joined a small sect called Piaohua Palace in her early years."
"What! Master..." Nangong Ling's face changed drastically when he heard this, and there was a rare hint of anxiety in his smart eyes.
"What's wrong?" Nangong Jie said inexplicably.
"No, it's nothing." Nangong Ling realized that he had lost his composure and quickly calmed down, "I thought the name sounded familiar to me just now, but now that I think about it carefully, I must have remembered it wrong."
Nangong Jie looked at her cousin's expression and felt that her words were somewhat untrue.
"If the marriage between the Xiao Lin family is successful, even the Minister of Household Affairs will be married to the Xiao family." Nangong Ling analyzed, "Then the strength of the Xiao family, the first aristocratic family, is not much different from that of the royal family."
"If you, sister, remarry Mr. Xiao Wuqing, who else can do nothing to the Xiao family, including our Nangong family and the entire Daqian Empire." Nangong Jie said sourly.
"Xiaojie, do you like Xiao Qingwu?" Nangong Ling suddenly looked into his cousin's eyes and said seriously.
"What, I, I don't have it." Nangong Jie didn't expect her cousin to ask such a question, and hesitated for a moment, blushing.
"I will not marry Xiao Qingqing. If you like him, just go and chase him." Nangong Ling sighed, "It's just that Xiao Qingqing is too romantic and shows mercy everywhere. If you marry him, you will be in trouble in the future."
He will inevitably have to scheming with the women around him, and he may not be able to live happily."
"Sister, Mr. Xiao is so gentle, so handsome, and so kind to you, why don't you want to marry him?" Nangong Jie couldn't help but asked curiously.
"Silly sister, as long as I am handsome and treat you well, I must marry you." Nangong Ling smiled and shook his head, "You are still young and you don't understand some things, but since the Xiaolin family is getting married, you have recently
You might as well walk around more with the two young masters of the Lin family, maybe you can get closer to Xiao Qingqing."
Nangong Jie nodded, thinking about the possibility between herself and Xiao Qingqing, and fell into deep thought for a moment.
Nangong Ling turned around and left the garden, returned to his room, quickly packed up his luggage, carried his baggage and sword, and went to the backyard.
In the backyard, her exclusive horse "Xiao Hong" was strolling leisurely. When he saw his owner coming, he ran up to her excitedly and kept rubbing his long head against her cheek to show affection.
Nangong Ling led Xiao Hong to the gate, got on his horse, and was about to leave when a figure suddenly appeared in front of him, blocking the way of one person and one horse.
"Where are you going?" The person who came was wearing a green shirt and a green scarf covering her face. The voice sounded like an older woman than her.
"I want to go back to Qingfeng Mountain." Nangong Ling did not hide it.
The woman in green clothes raised her head and looked at Nangong Ling for a moment with her cold eyes: "I can't let you go."
"I don't want to escape from the Nangong family. Someone is dealing with my master. I want to go back and help her." Nangong Ling's eyes as beautiful as the stars and the sea stared back without flinching.
"You can send a messenger to remind her." The woman in Tsing Yi's voice contained no emotion.
"My master is a simple and kind-hearted person, and he can't handle these conspiracies." Nangong Ling shook his head and said, "I want to go back and help her get through this."
"The master of the family has an order, I can't let you go back to the master's gate." The woman in green still stood in front of her.
"I had already discovered the fact that Nangong Tianxing wrote a letter to deceive me into coming back." Nangong Ling actually called his father, Nangong Tianxing, the head of the Nangong family, by his first name. "All he wanted was to bring me back.
It's just a tool for marriage. I promise you that when the matter is over, I will return to the imperial capital. If you don't agree, then take my body to Nangong Tianxing."
The woman in Tsing Yi obviously did not expect Nangong Ling to be so decisive and hesitated for a moment.
"Otherwise, you can go back with me and monitor my whereabouts at any time." Nangong Ling took another step back, and at the same time pulled out the long sword in his hand and placed it across his neck, "As soon as the master's crisis is resolved, I will
Come back with you right away, otherwise if I want to die, even if you are a master of the heavenly wheel, you will not be able to keep an eye on me for a moment."
"Okay." Although the woman in green was cold, she didn't want Nangong Ling to die. She pondered for a long time and finally had to nod in agreement.
"Get on the horse." Nangong Ling raised his hand and said without being verbose.
The woman in green clothes lightly tapped the ground with her toes, but without making any movement, she appeared on the horseback behind Nangong Ling.
As soon as Nangong Ling lifted the reins of the horse, Xiao Hong hissed loudly, his hind legs bent, and his whole body shot forward with a "swish", as fast as lightning, rolling up dust and smoke, and soon disappeared beyond the horizon...
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"Brother Zhong Wen, you always bring a beautiful girl back every time you go down the mountain. No matter how many rooms there are in Piaohua Palace, one day there won't be enough room for you." Shangguan Junyi looked at Ning Jie behind Zhong Wen and said,
He covered his mouth and joked with a smile.
"Sister Shangguan, this sister Ning is whom my younger brother just met on the road. She wanted to go to Qinghai Province, but got lost here, so I brought her back to settle down temporarily," Zhong Wen explained.
"If you want to go to Qinghai Province, you shouldn't pass through the Qingyun Mountains." Lin Zhiyun said after hearing this, "Although you can reach the destination by climbing over the mountains from here, it will take a big detour."
"What, what should I do?" Ning Jie couldn't help but feel a little nervous when she heard that she was going the wrong way. "I have to go to sea to attend an important party. If I don't get to the port on time, won't I miss it?"
Seeing Ning Jie's anxious expression, Zhong Wen comforted her, "Sister Ning, please be patient. It would be better to send out the messenger first and ask your grandpa to come over and join us as soon as possible, and then we can make a long-term plan."
"Well, thank you very much." Ning Jie nodded and thanked Lin Zhiyun and others one by one.
Ning Jie was born beautiful, and she had been immersed in books for many years. She exuded an intellectual beauty that made it easy for people to like her. Lin Zhiyun saw that she was knowledgeable and reasonable, so she comforted her with a few words and arranged for her to go.
Guest room for rest.
After giving Lin Zhiyun a lot of books collected from the Ji Le Gang, Zhong Wen hurried off to prepare dinner, while the gentle and well-behaved Leng Wushuang consciously helped him.
After once again surprising Ning Jie, who had just arrived, with delicious food, Zhong Wen returned to the room and began to refine a new elixir.
Shedding Pill.
The name of this elixir sounds strange, but it is a low-level elixir that can only be used to improve the cultivation level of the human chakra stage. Although the "spiritual ascending elixir" has been refined, this elixir can act on earth chakra practitioners.
, Zhong Wen was reluctant to eat it now. After seeing the power of Xiao Wenjian, he felt a sense of urgency in his heart. He did not dare to waste time anymore and planned to improve his cultivation as soon as possible.
After much searching, he came up with a single recipe mentioned in the Yaowang Valley book.
Practitioners in ancient times were generally much stronger than today. In that era, human wheel practitioners could almost be regarded as "mortals", and this mortal transformation elixir was taken to transform into mortal bodies and step into cultivation.
Improve the strength of cultivators in the human wheel realm and help them escape from the category of "mortal" as soon as possible.
With Zhong Wen's current level of alchemy, refining such a low-level elixir was a piece of cake. Soon, a furnace of "Mortal Transformation Pills" was neatly arranged in the alchemy furnace. The aroma of the medicine overflowed in the room, inhaling it.
After a few mouthfuls, Zhong Wen, who had already reached the peak of the fourth level of the human wheel, actually broke through the cultivation barrier and reached the fifth level of the human wheel.
He was about to swallow a pill to try the effect, but he heard a knock on the door from outside.
Putting away the elixir and the elixir furnace, he stood up and came to the door.
When you open the door, what you see is a graceful figure, her whole body is filled with mature and intellectual beauty, her white clothes are flowing like a fairy in the sky.
"Brother Zhong." Ning Jie's face was slightly red and her voice was soft and sweet, "Can I come in?"
This beautiful sister sneaked into my room late at night with such an ambiguous expression. Could it be that she wanted to have something indescribable happen to me?
Zhong Wen thought shamefully...
This chapter has been completed!