Several guards were slightly startled, with a look of caution on their faces. One of them asked softly:
"Your Excellency and the Crown Prince are..."
"Old friend."
They looked at each other, somewhat understanding in their hearts, and a touch of contempt could not help but appear on their faces.
In the past few years, I have stayed in the Palace of Eclipse Dragon King for a long time, and I have seen many people like this who are relatives.
I remember that when a prince was just adopted as his adopted son by King Eclipse Dragon, more than 900 members of his family moved there.
Originally they were wondering why Xia Ji had no relatives, but now they still saw people who were related to him.
"Your Excellency, later on, we have to send a message. If the prince is willing to meet, then please come in. If not, please don't blame me."
A guard holds his fist.
"That's natural, thank you, brother."
Fang Chen smiled and nodded.
Then he stood aside and waited quietly.
The guards noticed that Fang Chen seemed to have an eye problem, so they looked at each other and looked at Fang Chen from time to time, as if communicating through sound transmission.
Time passed gradually, Fang Chen waited and waited, but inadvertently fiddled with the fairy spirit in his heart.
An invisible "meaning" centered on Fang Chen and surged in all directions to the west. The few guards were also enveloped by the "meaning".
"Oh, I suddenly feel homesick. I think that after more than two hundred years away from home, I don't know if the small village where I was born is still there.
What do you think is the purpose of cultivating immortality? To cultivate immortality, I said goodbye to my parents when I was thirteen years old. I practiced cultivation successfully when I was over sixty years old. When I returned, my two elders had already turned into loess, and there was no one to die with..."
One of the guards suddenly muttered to himself, his eyes turning red as he spoke.
"Cultivation to immortality... is for immortality, right? You still have parents, who are much better than me. I was born without a father or a mother, and I have been begging for sixteen years. If I hadn't been favored by Master and taken to the immortal path, I wouldn't have been there until I was old.
There is no place to stay.”
Another guard smiled and shook his head: "My master only wanted to achieve a Foundation Establishment all his life, but because he was a casual cultivator, he was unable to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill. In the end, he had no choice but to die. If he is still alive,
, with my current abilities, it’s easy to let him live a long life without worrying about elixirs and spiritual stones, right?”
"This is fate. You have a bad background. What about me? The clan I used to belong to also had Xuanxian, but it began to decline in my grandfather's generation. When I was born, the strongest person in the family was only a foundation builder.
.
Aren't you now like you, working in the Eclipse Dragon Palace, being the prince's entourage, and being a little immortal soldier?"
The guard said with a self-deprecating smile: "Cultivation of immortals is the art of changing one's fate against the will of heaven. If you want to seek immortality, seek immortality. If you want to seek peace and happiness, seek peace and happiness. If you want to seek a lifetime of freedom, seek freedom for the rest of your life.
You can be the overlord, you can do evil, become a demon, and become an immortal... Maybe it just gives us the right to choose how to live..."
Fang Chen listened quietly to the conversation between the three of them. The three of them had not realized that they were supposed to be communicating via voice transmission, but now they were talking to themselves in public.
"The right to choose how to live..."
Fang Chen pondered these words, and the ray of immortality in his body grew stronger without realizing it.
"I asked you to stay here, but who asked you to chat here?"
A drake's voice sounded.
As Fang Chen thought, the fairy thoughts around him gradually returned to his body like the ebbing tide.
The guards were stunned for a moment. They had no time to recall the state of mind they had just suddenly fallen into, and they immediately clasped their fists and bowed to the middle-aged man in pink robes in front of them:
"I'll meet Deacon Jiang later."
"snort."
Deacon Jiang held the orchid finger and glanced at the three of them disdainfully, then his eyes fell on Fang Chen, with a look of scrutiny in his eyes.
This inspection lasted five breaths. After five breaths, he said calmly:
"I heard from the people below that you claim to be an old friend of Crown Prince Xia Ji? I don't think Crown Prince Xia Ji has a crippled person like you as an old friend. If you want to have a relationship, you'd better go further away. Don't stay here. It's cool.
Stay tuned."
Several guards looked at each other and did not dare to speak. The identity of Deacon Jiang was unusual. They were actually more afraid of offending him than Crown Prince Xia Ji.
"Have you ever summoned me?"
Fang Chen said calmly.
"Aha!"
Deacon Jiang looked surprised, with one hand on his waist, and the other hand pointed at Fang Chen with his orchid finger:
"You didn't understand when I asked you not to stay here, did you? You would only be happy if I had someone throw you out?"
"Xia Ji is at the mansion, you can just go and summon him."
Fang Chen smiled.
"The prince is not in the house. He has gone out. Even if you are here, you don't want to see him. I hate you guys who are trying to build relationships. You just want to come and eat and drink for free without any skills."
Deacon Jiang had a sneer on his face.
Several guards secretly murmured that if they really wanted to build relationships, wouldn't they themselves be one of them...
"Are you in charge here? Xia Ji is your master, right? A servant can make decisions for the master. It seems that Xia Ji's life is not very easy."
Fang Chen smiled and walked slowly towards the mansion. A faint fairy feeling enveloped him. Everyone felt that their eyes were blurred, and the man disappeared.
He swaggered into the mansion, and even though he occasionally met the servants, they seemed not to see him.
At this moment, Fang Chen completely lost his sense of existence.
Deacon Jiang didn't notice that Fang Chen had entered the house, so he sneered at the guards and said:
"Watch the gate carefully and don't bother anyone. If anyone comes to seek refuge with Prince Xia Ji again, just take action and get rid of him. Don't ask me to take action again, remember."
"This...Deacon Jiang...if it is really the prince's old friend, if we don't report it, the prince will be furious if he finds out, and we can't afford it..."
One of the guards smiled bitterly.
Snapped--
Deacon Jiang retracted his palm, looked at the stunned guard, and said calmly:
"You know what to do now? You can't afford to offend the Crown Prince, but you can't afford to offend me either, huh!"
With a slight snort, he twisted the waist of the water snake, turned around and returned to the house, gradually disappearing in front of several guards.
The guard's face turned red after being slapped, and there was a flash of anger in his eyes from time to time. Fortunately, others saw this and persuaded him to stop.
"Don't be angry. Deacon Jiang has this kind of temper. Who knows that he is a member of the eldest prince's family? With this kind of relationship, even the princes will have to treat him a little less favorably. We pawns will be beaten."
What's the big deal? Just treat it like a mosquito bite."
"I just thought I was bitten by a dog."
"Yes, you are right to think so. Speaking of which, did you feel something was wrong just now? Why do you suddenly think of the past?"
"There's something wrong. I just remembered the past. It's really strange. In the past, I only thought about how to climb up. How could I think about the old things?"
"But...it's not bad. I feel like I've figured out some things. Maybe my cultivation will improve in the near future..."
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Fang Chen walked to a courtyard and saw two figures sitting side by side. From time to time, they threw their food into the lake, attracting a large group of... black dragon fish to fight for it.