Red crisp hands.

Yellow vine wine.

The city is full of spring scenery and willows on the palace walls...

Half a month later.

Inside the Pantheon.

"Jiang Xuan, how long have you been going up the mountain?"

"Replying to my teacher, it has been a year and a half. It was the summer of the year 150 of the Shen Kingdom when I came, and it is already the early spring of the year 152."

"So long."

"Yes, Master, I think back on the eradication of Heping Dao as if it was yesterday, but that was already last year."

Silence...

Elder Yue took a sip of strong liquor and said, "I heard from the master master that you have recruited some good casual cultivators to explore the gods and ghosts of Shen Kingdom, and you have also set up a small organization called the Wangxian Society."

"Just having fun, is it just idle time?"

When we first met.

Elder Yue is sitting and Jiang Xuan is standing.

Now.

Elder Yue poured himself a drink, while Jiang Xuan sat aside and secretly ate his fried beans.

As for dignity and inferiority.

Today is different from the past.

Elder Yue is still Elder Yue, but Jiang Xuan is no longer the same Jiang Xuan.

Now that he is first-class and perfect, he may break into the Grandmaster realm at any time and become a Grandmaster giant that is no weaker than Elder Yue. Moreover, he also has two ordinary Grandmasters and more than a dozen first- and second-class masters who have been recruited with huge sums of money.

As for the sect.

For more than half a year, the sect has been fighting against spies from the Four Kingdoms. There are no less than ten grandmaster-level elders who have fallen, and even more true disciples and elite disciples have died in battle.

Under the circumstances of one ebb and flow.

Jiang Xuan, who was originally a sheep, unknowingly turned into a goat.

Although still a sheep.

But anyone who has seen the animal world knows that sheep can only bleat when faced with hungry wolves, while goats can stand on cliffs and charge at hungry wolves. One bad move can even push a hungry wolf off the cliff.<

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"Half a month ago, a mysterious master entered the palace at night and rushed straight to Shenzu's retreat. Although he was blocked by Ouchi in the end, Shenzu never showed up or took action from the beginning to the end."

Elder Yue knocked off Jiang Xuan's hand with some disgust, and pulled the fried soybeans to his own: "This is not good news. It means that those people can't wait, and it also means that 90% of Shenzu has passed away."

Nod.

If Shen Zu had not sat down, he would not have allowed people to go to his retreat place to act unruly.

Not showing up or taking action is itself the problem.

Don't talk about cheating to death, waiting for the big fish to take the bait.

It is no longer necessary at this level. Now only strong force, no matter how strong it is, can deter the four-nation coalition forces outside the border.

Otherwise, when the four-nation coalition forces begin to attack the border, even if the martial arts gods are revived, it will be in vain and they will not be able to defend the border that is thousands of miles long.

"There's going to be a war."

"The Kingdom of Shen may be over, and the same goes for Baishou Palace."

Elder Yue's tone was faint: "But as we get closer to this time, there are more opportunities, and many impossible things have become possible. Don't you really want to enter the palace and see the royal family's secrets? Now the opportunity has come."

Jiang Xuan whispered: "How to operate?"

"The royal family is about to send the prince and princess to inspect the border defenses to boost morale at the border. In addition to the imperial army and the imperial consecration, many experts will be needed to accompany them."

"I can tell you for sure that these princes and princesses on patrol are themselves bait to attract assassination from the four countries."

"If the Four Kingdoms don't come to assassinate, this will be a normal patrol. If they come to assassinate, it will be an ambush circle targeting the masters of the Four Kingdoms. The purpose is to eliminate the masters and elites in the Four Kingdoms as much as possible, thereby alleviating the pressure on the border.

”

Elder Yue said bluntly: "The royal family has promised to open the library to reward meritorious people, and these royal nobles may also know some secrets that outsiders don't know. If you are really interested in immortals, maybe you can consider it."

Consider?

What else to consider?

Shenzu is the last martial arts master in the world. In the last few decades of his life, he must have tried every means to extend his life.

Even Shijin Sanren left a travel diary of Shijin Sanren.

Where is Shen Zu?

It is impossible for him to leave nothing to future generations. You must know that he is the founder of a country. When he chose to establish a secular dynasty, it showed that he was a person who valued blood and inheritance.

"Send my name."

While Jiang Xuan agreed, he also had a request: "I can make this trip on behalf of the sect, but there is one thing. The prince or princess I escort must be favored."

"Okay."

Elder Yue agreed immediately: "Do you have any other requests?"

"The sect should have dead soldiers, right?"

Jiang Xuan had some thoughts in his mind: "Give me ten people, and then transfer Junior Brother Huangfu to me."

"Ten is too many. Although the sect has dead soldiers, it is not easy to train dead soldiers. I will give you five at most."

Elder Yue calculated carefully: "These dead warriors are the weakest and second-rate juniors. The death of one of them is more heartbreaking than the death of ten sect disciples."

"Eight..."

Jiang Xuan said categorically: "I am not weaker than ordinary masters, and I am in a position where I can break through at any time. Once I break through to the master realm, ordinary masters will have to walk around when they see me. I will not lose the prestige of the master."

”

Think about it.

Elder Yue did not argue anymore, but said with some regret: "It would be better if you were a disciple of the mountain sect."

The mountain disciples here refer to the kind of true disciples who grew up in the mountains.

Jiang Xuan is a half-way monk, so of course he speaks from his own people, but in fact he doesn’t even mean it.

Otherwise, a quasi-grandmaster like him, who is less than thirty years old, should have been escorted and hidden long ago in preparation for the sect's comeback after its collapse, and would not have been brought out in such a chaotic situation.

Ten days later.

Shendu...

"Where are the people from Baishou Palace?"

In the reception department.

An old eunuch came over holding an orchid finger.

"We are."

As soon as Jiang Xuan stood up, Qing Ning, Huangfu Qi, and the eight dead soldiers also stood up.

"Just a few of you?"

Scan at a glance.

Seeing that only eleven people came, and each of them was in their twenties or thirties, the old eunuch became a little unhappy: "The Baishou Palace is becoming increasingly unusable."

“It’s easier to get things done with fewer people.”

Although Jiang Xuan is not here to show off, he doesn't intend to be treated as a run-of-the-mill errand: "We are enough to surround and kill the Grand Master."

"Surround and kill the Grandmaster!"

The old eunuch's expression softened somewhat: "Come with me, the Fourteenth Princess is already waiting."

Fourteenth Princess Luo Ling.

Among the thirty or so children of Emperor Luo, he is considered to be the most favored one. He is nineteen years old this year, and his mother is Concubine Qu Shu, one of the four concubines.

If it were the Taiping period, such a princess would be promised to be the legitimate son of the Six Ministers, or the eldest wife of a prince whose surname is the family.

Now.

There are no eggs left under the overturned nest. As a royal armor, it’s time to bear the weight of the crown.

"Huh?"

All the way to the princess's mansion.

Before Jiang Xuan and others saw Luo Ling, they heard strange sounds coming from the palace.
To be continued...