Since there was no shortage of anything in the imperial court, Zhou Rui followed Xiao Guizi directly to the imperial court without changing his clothes.
After he left, Princess Ruyi walked out from behind the screen and looked at Zhou Rui's leaving figure, unable to help but fall into deep thought.
"Old Fourteen has only scratched the surface of everything. Now that he enters the palace, he will inevitably be tested by his father. I hope he can muddle through!"
"However, my father actually wants to personally teach the Fourteenth King the art of kingship. It seems that he is determined to pass the throne to the Fourteenth King!"
"Ever since Emperor Wu, after selecting the crown prince, all emperors would personally take him with him to train him and teach him the skills of the emperor. This tradition has been continued."
"My father's governance is actually average, or he doesn't think too much about it at all, but if his tactics can be taught by words and deeds, the fourteenth son will definitely benefit a lot."
"However, I read many classics of the Zhou Dynasty and found that they all have a common feature, that is, emperors of all dynasties would choose to teach the crown prince the art of emperorship before his own death. Is it possible that his father's death is approaching?"
"But I went to the imperial court to see him some time ago, and he was still in good spirits. Looking at him like this, there is no problem in living for another three to five years."
"Is it possible that he is now relying on elixirs to die?"
Zhou Yunxi guessed in her heart.
The deaths of the emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty were like mysteries. There were monks around them who baptized their bodies and used various precious tonics to regulate their bodies.
These monks all have unpredictable methods. Even if her father is to die tomorrow, they can guarantee that he will be alive and kicking today!
Therefore, Princess Ruyi couldn't figure out what the current state of Emperor Yuanchu's body was.
But he is now over eighty years old, so no matter what accident happens tomorrow, she will not find it strange.
However, the amount of time that emperors in the past dynasties taught the crown prince varied. For someone with a middle-class appearance like Lao Shi4, maybe the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty wanted to teach him for a few more years!
This kind of thing should not be speculated randomly. Anyway, the status of the Crown Prince of the Fourteenth is very stable now. Jane is in the emperor's heart. There is no need for her to ask people about the physical condition of the Yuanchu Emperor, so as not to expose herself and incur trouble for the Fourteenth.
Woe!
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Great Zhou Dynasty.
South County.
Jinxiu Mountain.
Chunyang Taoist Temple.
The vortex of heaven and earth vitality above the Taoist temple has lasted for three full months.
Three months later.
The vortex of heaven and earth energy slowly dispersed, Jiang Chen slowly walked out of the room and said in a deep voice:
"Why did you call me?"
This mana transformation was not as simple as Jiang Chen imagined. He had been practicing in the world of immortals for three months, and the conversion rate of mana into fairy power had just reached one-tenth.
Although his mana now has one-tenth of the power of a fairy and is much more powerful than before, it is still not enough for him!
Simply absorbing the energy of heaven and earth to transform, this transformation can take as short as two years or as long as three years to be completely completed. If you want to complete the transformation quickly, you need a large amount of heaven and earth treasures or heaven and earth yuan stones!
However, Chunyang Taoist Temple is very poor at the moment and cannot afford these things. Although he has collected many heavenly materials and earthly treasures on the road of trials, he is still reluctant to part with them.
After all, these heavenly materials and earthly treasures each have their own magical uses, and are not used to replenish energy at all. If they are simply used as things to replenish energy, it would be a waste of natural resources!
Speaking of which, the best way to replenish energy is naturally the Heaven and Earth Yuan Stone. This is the Yuan Qi of Heaven and Earth that first vaporizes, then liquefies, and finally solidifies, and is formed after endless years of evolution.
This is a pure energy stone, best suited for replenishing energy.
However, Xuanzhou and Huangzhou rarely produce Yuan stones. Even if they do, they are all low-level Yuan stones of very low quality. Dizhou and Tianzhou are the major producers of Yuan stones, so if you want to get more Yuan stones in Xuanzhou
It is really too difficult to obtain the Heaven and Earth Essence Stone.
When Jiang Chen destroyed Skull Mountain before, he searched a lot but could not find a few Yuan Stones. In fact, it was not the fault of Venerable Quicksand. It was obvious that all these evil cultivators were poor.
Even after Jiang Chen refined all the Heaven and Earth Essence Stones he had on hand, he was unable to increase the fairy mana much.
Now his retreat has been interrupted and he has no choice but to leave the retreat.
"Senior Brother Chunyang, Sister Zhou is missing!"
"Chang Ming and I went to Huacheng two days ago and packed up the things there. We thought it had been a long time since we had seen Sister Zhou, so we wanted to go to Blackwater Pond to look for her."
"It was only after we arrived at the Blackwater Pond that we discovered that Sister Zhou had disappeared, and we found traces of a fight at the bottom of the Blackwater Pond. The cave where Sister Zhou lived had collapsed a lot, so we suspected that something bad had happened to Sister Zhou."
"We searched in Blackwater Pond and the surrounding areas for a long time but could not find Sister Zhou's whereabouts, so we had no choice but to ask senior brother to come out!"
Chang Yao explained the whole story clearly in one breath.
"Calculating the time, a long time has passed since the end of the thousand-year trial."
"I just heard from you on the trial road that she went to Blackwater Pond to practice in seclusion. It could take as short as ten days and a half, or as long as one or two months before she can leave."
"But now it has been more than two years since she went into seclusion. If you think about it carefully, this is indeed unreasonable. According to her temperament, she will break through the Yang Shen realm and stabilize her realm before coming to Chunyang Dao to watch."
"I didn't expect that she would have an accident!"
"Let's do this. I'll go to the Blackwater Pond first to see if she escaped or was killed. If something happens to her, I will avenge her from heaven to sea!"
A murderous intention flashed in Jiang Chen's eyes. Zhou Motong's Black Water Pond Cave was destroyed, and people didn't know whether they were dead or alive. This made him both shocked and angry!
Not to mention whether Zhou Motong has achieved a breakthrough or not, she is a dragon-turned-dragon existence, and her realm has reached the realm of freedom. Now that she is re-cultivating, even the Yin Shen Dacheng and the ordinary Yang Shen Dacheng monks will definitely not be able to do anything to her.
And according to Chang Yao, she can break through to the Yang Shen level in as little as ten days and a half. By that time, it can be said that any monk in the Visualization Realm will not be able to defeat her unless she is at the Saint Child level.
But looking at the entire Xuanzhou, how many monks in the Visualization Realm can reach the Saint Son level?
This is simply a rare existence. In the entire Zhou Dynasty, Jiang Chen has never heard of anyone who has truly reached the Saint Son level!
It is even more unlikely to be touched by Zhou Motong!
Jiang Chen flew with his sword at extremely fast speeds. Although his cultivation has not reached the true Xiaoyao realm, his own strength has already reached the Xiaoyao realm.
In addition, his magic power has completed its initial transformation, so his flying speed is not weaker than the real Xiaoyaojing!
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Jialing County.
Blackwater pool.
Jiang Chen used the Water Escape Technique of Five Elements Escape to directly enter the depths of the Blackwater Pond. He opened his eyebrows and looked around, finding that Zhou Motong's cave at the bottom of the Blackwater Pond had completely collapsed.
The protective formation around the cave has completely collapsed, which was caused by man-made destruction.
He used the technique of seeing through walls, carefully exploring every corner, feeling the energy fluctuations under the black water pool, and soon he noticed an aura that did not belong to Zhou Motong:
"Extremely evil, extremely bright, could it be that there were two people who took action?"
Jiang Chen felt two completely different breaths. He closed his eyes and felt the breath carefully.
And using the Demon Boy of Six Paths to return to his original origin, these are some of the latest uses he has discovered about the Demon Boy of Six Paths, and they are also methods that he can only use after his strength has improved.