"Xuanmiao, do you know who you are?" Taihao concubine suddenly looked at Xuanmiao.
Xuan Miao shuddered under her eyes that seemed to understand everything, "Master Dao, I, who am I?"
Taihao concubine smiled and said, "Your mother is Qi Guohai's Relic, and your father is Jiang Bieri. Therefore, you are the sister of Emperor Ming Jiang Longcheng and the niece of Emperor Qi Haihuan."
What? Little Taoist Sister Xuan Miao was shocked, "I, I am Jiang Yao's sister?"
Luo Hong smiled and said: "That's right. To be precise, you are his sister, and you can be considered his older sister. Because Jiang Longcheng was born three years after his mother's womb."
Xuan Miao felt something was wrong. She was extremely smart, and her heart suddenly brightened.
She looked at Daojun and Master, looking a little panicked, "Master, Daojun..."
Taihao Yousi smiled sweetly, "Xuanmiao, apart from telling you about the relationship between you, I didn't say anything."
Luo Hong stroked his beard and nodded, "Yes, there is no other meaning in becoming a teacher."
Li Shizhen and Zuo Zheng also laughed.
They didn't say anything either.
Only Li Wanqing looked cold. She looked at Xuan Miao and said, "Junior sister, come with me."
Xuan Miao begged and looked at Taihao Yuji and Luo Hong, "Dao Lord, Master..."
But the two of them just bowed their heads and drank tea without saying a word.
She sighed and could only follow Li Wanqing to a mountain peak.
"Sister, please..." As soon as Xuan Miao's words came out, Li Wanqing interrupted her coldly, "No, you must lurk next to Jiang Yao, ready to attack and kill him at any time!"
"You are his sister, and he will know it soon. He is trusting you more and more, and this is an opportunity."
"You know very well who meant this. I gave the order, and you are the one who executes it. It has nothing to do with Daojun and the others."
Xuan Miao's tears immediately came out, "But he is my brother, how could I kill him... wu wu..."
Li Wanqing also sighed and patted Xuan Miao's shoulder, "Junior sister, you have no choice, but you have to do this."
After speaking, she took out a pitch-black bead and said, "This bead is called the Chaos Pill. It is a transcendent elixir. As long as you take it, the bright magical power of Jiang Yao will not be able to sense your murderous intention and malice."
"This way, your attack is more likely to be successful."
Then he took out another sword hilt and said, "This is the ancient treasure Zhuxian Sword. It is a magic weapon of the same level as Fantian Seal and Hunyuan Golden Dou."
"Only when you have murderous intention, the sword blade will appear. This sword can shield the guardian shadow, armor, shield talisman, and protective energy, and directly penetrate into the enemy's body, instantly taking away the enemy's vitality."
She forced the Chaos Pill and the Zhuxian Sword into Xuanmiao's hands, looked at Xuanmiao's dodgey eyes, and said word by word:
"You are a smart person, you should know how to do it, you don't need me to teach you. Remember, all family ties are fake, only your own path is real."
Xuanmiao held the two treasures and choked with tears, "Senior Sister Li, I am his sister after all. It's really..."
"That's enough!" Li Wanqing shouted sternly, her eyebrows raised and her starry eyes filled with evil, "Who raised you? It's your master, it's Tao Lord! Not Hai Yi Zhu, let alone Jiang Bielie!"
"You are so young and you are a powerful Mahayana man. Whose gift is this? Or your master and Taoist master!"
"Jiang Yao is indeed your brother, but has he ever shown any kindness to you? Parents and children can kill each other and poison each other, let alone brothers and sisters!"
"Junior sister, if you disobey, you know exactly what your fate will be. Since you are destined to be unable to resist, you should be obedient. This is your fate and mine..."
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Xuanmiao was even more sad when she heard this, and her tears fell freely.
You are a chess piece! A chess piece like your junior brother Mo Yin!
Mo Yin has been dead for three years. Master and the others didn't even mention it. It seemed that Mo Yin had never been a disciple.
Li Wanqing's eyes were also a little red, and her tone softened, "Junior sister, there is nothing we can do about it. You and I must make a choice as we practice the Dao."
"Besides, I'm not asking you to take action right away. You still have at least a few years. If Jiang Yao doesn't have the unified ability, you don't have to take action."
Xuan Miao felt better now and nodded with tears in her eyes.
………
"Fellow Daoist Luo, it is unlikely that Xuan Miao will succeed. This woman is a person of temperament, not of my way."
Inside the thatched cottage, Li Shizhen said leisurely.
"So what?" Luo Hong looked indifferent, "It's just a chess piece anyway."
Li Shizhen suddenly said: "Senior sister, is there any possibility that Jiang Yin can help the Ming Dynasty?"
Taihao concubine thought for a while and said, "Jiang Yin is afraid of involution, and Concubine Silkworm Yao is the most important person to him. Of course he wants to help the Ming Dynasty, but with Concubine Silkworm Yao here, it is not convenient for him to help."
"Besides, his cultivation has been suppressed and it has changed from what it used to be. Even if he helps the Ming Kingdom, he cannot suppress other earthly immortals."
"The ancient evil spirit of the Charming Tapir Clan is about to awaken. Li Tiemu is waiting all day long at Zhipo Mountain in Beiming. When the time comes, the southern invasion of the Charming Tapir Army will only become more ferocious.
If Jiang Yao and others want to unify, first Li Tiemu will not agree."
The other three people all showed gentle smiles, "In this way, we don't have to take action personally."
………
More than ten years passed by unconsciously.
In the 30th year of Hongwu, in March of Yangchun, Jiang Jing.
In the royal garden deep in the palace, two girls were collecting flowers in the garden full of spring flowers.
In the spring scenery of the garden, the two girls are even more charming and graceful than flowers.
"Qingxue! There are some star-and-moon roses here! Come quickly!" A woman in a yellow shirt shouted crisply.
Not far away, a woman in white also giggled and said: "I have a butterfly here! Lingyun, come here quickly..."
A handsome man holding a feather fan and a snake staff came out from behind the woods and said with a smile: "You have done a great job! It is not easy to practice cultivation, but you come here to enjoy flowers and catch butterflies!"
This man has a leisurely and elegant demeanor, a noble temperament, is calm and intimidating, and is kind and easy-going. He is exactly the Ming Emperor Jiang Yao.
"Daddy!"
"Cousin!"
The two girls flashed and appeared in front of Jiang Yao.
These two girls are, of course, Jiang Lingyun and Mu Qingxue.
Jiang Lingyun is a medicine elf. She is ten years old when she is born, but she grows older every ten years. Therefore, although she has been born for several decades, she still looks like a fifteen or sixteen year old girl.
On the contrary, Mu Qingxue, who is already in her twenties, looks a little older.
Nowadays, Jiang Lingyun has become the Martial God Perfection, and although Mu Qingxue has practiced with Jiang Yao, she has only practiced for more than ten years, and only has the cultivation level of Wu Zong Perfection, which is already an excellent qualification.
Over the years, Jiang Yao was both her cousin and her master, so he had put a lot of effort into her.
"Cousin, I have been practicing, and I just came out to relax today." Mu Qingxue smiled and took Jiang Yao's arm.
Jiang Lingyun also nodded quickly.
Jiang Yao sighed and said, "It's strange that I believe you. You haven't practiced for at least half a month, right?"
Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed, and a large, sleek black dog appeared in front of Jiang Yao, wagging its head and tail around Jiang Yao.
It had been a while since Jiang Yao left the palace, and the dog guard missed his master very much.
"Xiao Hei." When Mu Qingxue and Jiang Lingyun saw Xiao Hei appear, they immediately seemed to have seen a savior. They immediately gave up the ginger medicine and stepped forward to touch Xiao Hei together.
Jiang Yao didn't really blame them for being lazy. At this age, they are indeed the most playful.
The snake on his snake staff suddenly changed in the wind and turned into a woman with a cold aura. The woman's demonic aura has returned to its original state and has not been revealed at all.
On her head, there were nine buns.
"Ajiu, you, are you already an Earth Immortal?" Jiang Lingyun couldn't help but ask.
Ah Jiu nodded, "Master left just to take me to break through the Earth Immortal. Now, I have finally recovered."
Jiang Lingyun stamped her foot, "Stop playing, go practice!"
He turned around and ran towards the cave.
"Wait for me!" Mu Qingxue hurriedly caught up.
Ah Jiu looked at the backs of the two girls and said softly: "My Lord, do you still want to see the Queen Mother?"
Jiang Yao nodded and went directly to Mu Cangyue's Cining Palace.
Mu Cangyue is already a Mahayana practitioner. She has excellent aptitude, and with the Tianke Secret Realm contained in the Lotus Lamp, she can certainly break through to the Mahayana.
In fact, Mu Cangyue is by no means the only powerful person in the Ming Dynasty who has broken through to Mahayana in recent years.
After learning that Jiang Yao was back, several princesses also came to Cining Palace.
Jiang Xiucheng and Jiang Nan were already martial saints, and even Jiang Cai was already a strong martial artist.
Mu Cangyue had a look of perseverance on her face. When she saw Jiang Yao, she said, "Longcheng, your unmarried queen is getting more and more outrageous."
"During your absence, she actually used many place names from the Western and Southern Regions as titles for her ministers, and also secretly refined warships. This is a plot to plot against the Southern Regions."
"Huh, obviously you don't take Daming seriously."
Jiang Yao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said calmly: "It's going to rain, mother...mother, let her go. She is the Lord of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it is normal for her to want to unify the Divine Continent. Everyone is the master of the country, and of course the princess comes first.
private."
Mu Cangyue sighed: "Dragon City, in order to fight for hegemony, your relationship has become increasingly tense. I'm afraid this engagement will be annulled sooner or later."
When Jiang Xiucheng and others heard this, they were also secretly worried.
They were keenly aware that the relationship between Yu Kuan and Jiang Yao had indeed become increasingly cold over the years.
Yu Kuan has not taken the initiative to seek ginger medicine for several years.
In front of the great power of the world, she seems to be no longer the Yu Yan she was before.
But it's not all her fault.
At this time, twelve full years have passed since the signing of the "Shenhua Peace Agreement", and thirteen years have passed since the establishment of the Secret Immortal Alliance of the Lotus Lantern.
Although the Charming Tapir Khanate retreated thousands of miles north and temporarily stopped its march southward, the six kingdoms of the Immortal Realm did not fight against each other, but maintained a strange peace.
The Ming Dynasty, which was fully defensive, was still implementing reforms in an orderly manner.
The reforms in the Eastern Region are all completed.
The Ming Dynasty became more and more powerful.
At the same time, various countries are also training their troops regardless of cost, and their strength has also increased significantly.
All six countries were locked in a military competition, unwilling to lag behind.
Everyone knows that the final decisive battle will break out soon.
The attitude of the Zhou State towards the Ming State became increasingly hostile. It is said that Yu Kuang made it clear in the court that the center of the Divine Continent was in the Central Region, and that the great Zhou Dynasty was the orthodox of the Divine Continent.
She hopes that the Zhou and Ming Dynasties will merge and the Ming Kingdom will be merged into the Zhou Kingdom to complete the unification of Shenzhou.
However, it was rejected by Emperor Ming. Emperor Ming believed that the so-called orthodoxy actually refers to the people's hearts, and it is not the one who occupies the central region that is the orthodoxy of the Divine Continent.
Emperor Zhou wrote a poem: "It is originally a straight branch, but it blooms with different flowers."
Emperor Ming replied to the poem: "The high emotion has chased the dawn clouds, and I will not dream of the pear blossoms."
When Yu Kuan heard this, he once sneered and said to the people around him: "In the eyes of Emperor Ming, I have turned into a pear blossom."
The news spread like wildfire, and a change of scenery seemed inevitable.
However, when Mu Cangyue learned of Yu Yan's actions, she still felt that her son was offended.
"Mom, don't be on the same level as her." Jiang Yao said thoughtfully, "People change. We don't want to blame her for being perfect. Our illusions are too high."
He looked at the people in Cining Palace and said, "Since ancient times, the world has been fought out. I have never heard of a world that was given away by others."
"Of course it's good that she doesn't change, but if she changes, that's normal. We don't need to be harsh. We just have different positions."
Mu Cangyue showed a worried look, "But if you two fall out, it will be difficult for your uncle. He is now a general of the Zhou army. He has been looking forward to the unification of the Divine Continent and does not want the two countries to fight."
Jiang Yao consoled her: "Don't worry, mother. Even if Yu Kan and I break off our engagement, my uncle will not be affected. Yu Kan still has this kind of tolerance."
The family talked for a while in Cining Palace, and Jiang Yao left Cining Palace and returned to his secret palace.
Then, he issued a holy wish to purify the surrounding space, then summoned the lotus lantern with confidence and disappeared into the quiet room of the secret palace.
The next moment, Jiang Yao appeared in the secret realm of Chaos Tianke where the Baolian Lantern was stored.
Under the chaotic sky, there is a man wearing a mask practicing.
This masked man has already reached the perfect level of Mahayana cultivation.
He stood up immediately when he saw Jiang Yao, "Dad..."
It turned out that this man was Yang Jian. He had been cultivating here for ten years. In these ten years, he only returned to the Sui Kingdom twice. He met with the officials and then retreated again.
Nowadays, the Baolian Lantern is the guardian of Chaos Tianke. The secret realm of Tianke has become much larger and can accommodate many people practicing at the same time.
In this secret realm of Tianke, there are other people practicing. But everyone is wearing a mask. All practitioners will be shielded by the lotus lantern and the Taiyi Nine Palaces Heavenly Dao Disk.
For more than ten years, this secret realm of Tianke has been an incubator for the incubation of Mahayana and even earthly immortals.
Nangong Lingyi, Meihua Wuniang, and Xiaoyue, these three people who were originally Earth Immortals, quickly recovered their status as Earth Immortals.
Ah Jiu also returned to Earth Immortal.
Ouyang Feng also broke through.
Qin Yu, Mu Cangyue and dozens of others have all broken through to Mahayana.
Those who can enter here to practice are all those who have been approved and screened by the Lotus Lamp and Jiang Yao. If there is a spy, he will not be able to escape the identification of the Lotus Lamp and the Heavenly Dao Pan in the first place.
Just in case, everyone who comes to practice must be sensed by Jiang Yao's saint's heart lamp.
This has allowed the plan to be carried out in great secrecy for more than ten years.
The people of Zuodaomen did not expect that Jiang Yao would secretly use the cover of the lotus lantern to plan a counterattack against them.
Jiang Yao glanced at Yang Jian and said:
"Jian'er, you have been practicing the least, and now you are the only one who has not made a breakthrough. Luo'er made a breakthrough sixteen years ago, and Feng'er also made a breakthrough three years ago."
"You are also a person with immortal memories and experiences, so it shouldn't be difficult, right?"
Yang Jian said: "Dad, don't worry, with such a good condition and I have ancient memories, it will be broken within a year."
Jiang Yao sighed: "You only have one year. After one year, our light and dark plans will be launched at the same time."
"The day when the world is unified is the time to counterattack Zuodaomen!"
Jiang Yao looked at the huge Chaos Tianke with firm and clear eyes: "If you don't succeed, you will be benevolent! There is absolutely no third way!"
"Jian'er, my father has endured it for more than ten years. He has been walking on thin ice all day long, fearing that the people from the Zuo Dao Sect would do it himself."
"In order to hide my weakness and protect myself, I tried every means to show weakness, suppress Ming's strength, and make Ming look more isolated. Finally, it has been delayed until now."
"Even in front of my own sister Xuan Miao, I have to act to make her really think that the Ming Dynasty does not have the power to unify the world."
"It's for her own good to cover up and pretend so hard, so that she can do business."
"One year! In another year, I won't have to feel so aggrieved anymore."
"You, practice well."
After Jiang Yao finished speaking, he left Tianke's secret realm and appeared in the maze quiet room again.
In the quiet room of the maze, a woman in a pink dress was already sitting.
Yu Yan!
"Kuan'er." Jiang Yao sat down in front of Yu Kan, "We have all the treasures, and the number of Earth Immortals is almost there. We will definitely be able to gather twenty-four of them by then, but the Water Yuan Pearl has never been found."
Yu Kuan frowned, "Who killed Jiang Zhengyi? It's really strange that for such a powerful character as Concubine Canyao, her son's murderer has not been found for more than ten years."
"Without the Water Elemental Pearl, it is very likely that the success will fall short."
Outsiders thought that Yu Kuan had not come to Jiang Yao for many years, and even Empress Dowager Mu and others thought so.
But they didn't expect that Yu Kuan and Jiang Yao would often meet in secret. They had Pisces jade pendants and Phoenix beads, which made it very convenient for them to have private meetings.
The so-called love change between the two is of course just a ploy to deceive the world.
Jiang Yao suddenly said: "I am increasingly suspicious that the person who killed Jiang Zhengyi was Qinglu. If it is really him, then the Water Yuan Pearl is in his hands."
"Qinglu?" The more Yu Kan thought about it, the more likely it seemed, "I heard that some remnants of the Qing Dynasty fled to the Charming Tapir Khanate. Could it be that..."
Jiang Yao nodded: "Qinglu may have fled to the Shanbei world and joined the Charming Tapir Khan."
"You can tell Concubine Silkworm Yao and let her try it out in the Charming Tapir Khanate."