The head of old monster Tianxin rolled to the side. Li Ling stepped on it, and the head suddenly shattered and his brains burst out.
Looking at the brains at Li Ling's feet, Antarctica's heart skipped a beat. After being startled, Antarctica reacted immediately, pointing his hand forward, the ice dragon roared proudly, and twisted the huge blue ice.
body and rushed towards Li Lingfei!
Li Ling handed the Tianquan Sword forward and slashed horizontally with the sword. With a bang, an invisible force from the Tianquan Sword struck out. The ice dragon trembled and instantly shattered into tiny bits and pieces.
As soon as Antarctica's feet were in the air, the ice dragon dissipated. With great fear, Li Ling grabbed his throat. Antarctica looked at Li Ling's half-empty, sober eyes, and his heart was extremely frightened.
"No...no...don't kill me." Nanjiweng squeezed out these words with all his strength.
There was just a click, and Li Ling twisted Nanjiweng's neck, and the Tianquan Sword instantly pierced Nanjiweng's heart!
Dong-dong-dong... Antarctica's heart bounced three times before shattering into pieces, and its body was instantly reduced to nothing.
After Nan Jiweng's death, the jade flute fell into Li Ling's hands and turned into bits of immortal energy that merged into Li Ling's body. Then, the dark clouds over the Imperial City began to dissipate and the weather began to clear up.
After Li Ling was bathed in the sunshine, his body fell straight down and lay comfortably on the ground, enjoying the warmth of the sun's rays high in the sky.
After the war, the entire Heixiao Mansion was almost completely destroyed. Except for a few relatively strong halls, the entire Heixiao Mansion was in ruins.
"Ling..."
"Ling Ling, wake up!"
Li Ling felt someone pushing him. But when he woke up, Li Ling opened his dull and painful eyes, and it was Xiaoxiao lying on Li Ling's belly. He was sleeping heavily, and he was still shouting.
, Lingling, wake up.
Li Ling felt a touch of warmth, smiled slightly, and reached out to touch Xiaoxiao's hair. Xiaoxiao hugged Li Ling's fingers and stretched out her delicate tongue to lick it for a few times before continuing to sleep.
Li Ling felt itchy and couldn't help but want to laugh.
"Could it be that this girl has been waking up with me?" Li Ling thought in his mind.
Li Ling gently took out his hand, stretched, and got out of bed. He gently carried Xiaoxiao to the bed, covered her with the quilt, and opened the door. The sun was shining brightly outside. A ray of sunlight shone in.
Li Ling saw that people outside were rushing to repair the destroyed buildings.
When Hei Xiao saw Li Ling coming out, he was overjoyed to welcome him. He stared at Li Ling for a long time, and Li Ling asked strangely: "Is there something dirty on my face?"
"No, I just saw that you looked good, and I felt relieved." Hei Xiao laughed.
"Don't worry, it's okay. I've been through a lot of battles, big and small. I won't die that easily." Li Ling said with a slight smile.
"Haha, that's good. Ling, thanks to you this time, you are our biggest benefactor as Hei Xiao. If it weren't for you, I would have been defeated long ago." Hei Xiao smiled gratefully.
"It seems too polite to say these words. After the death of Antarctic Weng and Old Monster Tianxin, was there any reaction from Gu Ren?" Li Ling asked.
"After the deaths of Nan Jiweng and Tian Xin, the morale of Gu Ren's side dropped drastically. Many generals came to join me. Gu Ren was already isolated and helpless. After that, he disappeared, maybe he escaped. In fact,
Even if he doesn't escape, I won't do anything to him? After all, we are brothers." Hei Xiao said a little sentimentally.
Li Ling stopped talking. Li Ling had been thinking about a problem. After he was completely absent-minded that day, in that state, he still had half of his consciousness. That half of his consciousness urged Li Ling to fight, but he remembered
Very vague.
But there are some problems that the more Li Ling tries to understand, the more he doesn't understand them. It's better not to think about them.
Three days later, the reconstruction of Heixiao Mansion was completed. With the help of those scattered immortals, it was simply a matter of effort to restore a mansion to its original state.
In the next few days, Hei Xiao was taking care of the affairs of the mansion. Because of Gu Ren's disappearance, there was only one heir of the emperor left in the imperial city, Hei Xiao, so Hei Xiao would be the current emperor.
Therefore, taking over the position of emperor requires a lot of things to be dealt with. In the past few days, Hei Xiao has been busy almost all night. Li Ling rarely sees Hei Xiao, so he continues to think about why he was in such a state in his courtyard in the first place.
state of consciousness.
Just as Li Ling was thinking deeply, Xiaoxiao slapped Li Ling on the back from behind, which shocked Li Ling. Li Ling looked at Xiaoxiao and said, "What are you doing? You almost scared me to death."
"You are so powerful, you don't even know I'm here. What are you thinking about? Are you thinking about a certain girl?" Xiaoxiao said with a mischievous smile.
"How could I have the spare time to think about girls? I was thinking that I could still fight while in a coma. Even I felt scared." Li Ling sighed slightly.
"Well, it's really scary. When you are in that coma, you don't distinguish between friend and foe at all. As long as you are close to you, you will attack, and your attacks are extremely vicious." Xiaoxiao remembered the scene outside the Reincarnation Hall.
Li Ling felt like he was sick, a bit like a mental illness.
A few days later, Hei Xiao came to see Li Ling, and he came to Li Ling alone. This time Hei Xiao came wearing a golden silk robe. He looked majestic, which is what an emperor should look like.
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"Ling, come with me to a place." When Hei Xiao saw Li Ling, he said straight to the point, as if there was something particularly important, which made Li Ling confused.
Li Ling saw Hei Xiao's mysterious appearance and said, "Looking at your mysterious appearance, has something happened?"
Seeing that Li Ling had guessed his thoughts, Hei Xiao said hesitantly: "Ling, here's the thing, after the new emperor succeeds, he has to go to a place to inherit the legacy of thousands of years in the imperial city.
of treasure.”
"This is a good thing. Why are you frowning so tightly?" Li Ling said slowly.
"It's a good thing, but, but... I don't have the key to enter the secret room of the Imperial City." Hei Xiao sighed helplessly.
"Then who always keeps the keys?" Li Ling asked.
"It is kept by the confidants of the previous generation of emperors. As long as one party wins and becomes the emperor, the cronies of the previous generation of emperors will hand over the key to the new generation of emperors." Hei Xiao said.
"Then you can find your father's cronies." Li Ling said.
"That's the problem. My father's cronies disappeared, and I don't even know where he went?" Hei Xiao said depressedly.
"Could it be that he ran away with Gu Ren?" Li Ling said.
"Probably not. Since he is a close confidant of his father, it is absolutely fair. Moreover, it would not be good for him to run away with Gu Ren." Hei Xiao shook his head.
Li Ling pressed his chin and began to think calmly. Then Li Ling said: "Let's go, take me to the secret room of the Imperial City."
Hei Xiao nodded. He immediately stood up and left as soon as he could. Originally, only the new emperor was qualified to enter the secret room. But Li Ling had saved his life many times, and Hei Xiao had already regarded Li Ling as one of his own.
The secret room of the Imperial City was under a stone pillar in the central hall of the Imperial Palace. There was a secret door mechanism. When Hei Xiao knocked, the mechanism rumbled open. Hei Xiao and Li Ling stepped into this dark room.
Inside the passage, as soon as you enter, the lights on the left and right come on.
Under the light, Hei Xiao led Li Ling down the passage. After walking within a hundred meters of the passage, a dark iron door blocked his eyes. Strange textures were carved on the iron door. Li Ling touched it.
.The iron gate is almost ten meters thick.
Li Ling knocked on the iron door and slowly stroked it. He found the keyhole of the mechanism and looked into the hole. Li Ling turned around and said to Hei Xiao: "I'm afraid that if there is no key to this iron door, I will die.
Can't open."
"Well, this iron gate is very strong, and there are some unnamed talismans on it. If the iron gate is broken through forcefully, the entire hall will collapse and everything inside will be destroyed." Hei Xiao said.
Li Ling nodded understandingly and looked around the iron gate to see if there were any strange mechanisms. However, after inspecting for a long time, Li Ling still did not find any mechanism. This was the only thing about the iron gate.
A keyhole.
"When did you find out that your father's cronies disappeared?" Li Ling asked.
"The day before yesterday, after I met him the day before yesterday, he disappeared. Before disappearing, he did not leave the key to the secret room. I had entered the secret room before," Hei Xiao said.
Hei Xiao said that the confidant disappeared suddenly. Li Ling couldn't help but wonder if something unexpected happened to the confidant, or was he captured by Gu Ren?
"Are you sure that your father's cronies were not captured by Gu Ren?" Li Ling asked.
"It shouldn't be possible. Father's cronies are not weak. I think my eldest brother will not be his opponent." Hei Xiao said.
"Strength doesn't mean anything. Sometimes it is a burden. If your elder brother uses any conspiracy, it is not difficult at all to take someone away," Li Ling said.
"You mean, my eldest brother used a trick to lure out my father's cronies and then took him away forcibly. The purpose was to find out the whereabouts of the key?" Hei Xiao could understand what Li Ling wanted to say.
.
"That's probably true." Li Ling nodded slightly.
Hei Xiao began to ponder. If this was the case, then this matter would be too troublesome. If the cronies gave the key to Gu Ren, then Gu Ren might come back at any time and sneak into the secret room secretly.
"It seems that I must send people to guard this secret room strictly from today on to prevent anyone from entering." Hei Xiao said immediately and decisively.
"No one is stupid enough to bring it to the door. If your elder brother can get the key, he will not force his way in. He will probably pretend to be a guard in the palace and sneak in. This kind of disguise is the most difficult thing to do.
It was discovered." Li Ling said.
Hei Xiao nodded and said: "Then I will tell everyone to strictly supervise each other. Will this work?"
"It still doesn't work. Your eldest brother must have placed people in the palace as internal agents. Don't be too defensive. We will just ignore it." Li Ling said.
"Regardless of whether you ask or not, are you waiting for him to steal it?" Hei Xiao said in surprise.
"On the surface, it looks like you don't care, but in fact, you need to do some tricks." Li Ling chuckled.
"What do you mean?" Hei Xiao was surprised again.
"In addition to the mechanism, add another layer of mechanism." Li Ling said with a mysterious smile.
Hei Xiao seemed to understand something and said with a bright look in his eyes: "You mean to set up some mechanisms in this passage. As soon as people come in, the mechanisms will be triggered and my eldest brother will be trapped here."
"That's roughly what it means." Li Ling smiled.
"Then these operations must be carried out in absolute secrecy, otherwise it will be very difficult to do," Hei Xiao said.
"No need, just some simple spells will do." Li Ling had learned some spells and knew how to set up some trap formations.
"Ordinary formations cannot trap my elder brother at all." Hei Xiao shook his head.
"This is not an ordinary formation, but the mind-enchanting talisman of old monster Tianxin! Once a person touches the mind-enchanting talisman, they will fall into the abyss of consciousness and it will be difficult to come out." Li Ling said with a smile.
During the last battle, Li Ling also brought over the old monster Tianxin's magic weapon.
"This is great. If you have this charm, you won't be afraid that my elder brother will come and steal the treasure." Hei Xiao decisively slapped his thigh and burst into laughter.
Li Ling took out the charm. The charm was a piece of paper. A piece of golden paper. Li Ling pasted the charm on the wall, and the charm immediately disappeared into the wall.
"Let's go out and wait for the fish to bite." Li Ling and Hei Xiao left the secret room.
In the next few days, Gu Ren didn't show up, so Hei Xiao couldn't help but come to find Li Ling. At this moment, Li Ling was drinking tea leisurely in the yard, and Xiaoxiao was drinking tea with Li Ling, looking at the afternoon.
scenery.
"Ling, it's been seven days and my eldest brother hasn't come yet." Hei Xiao said a little impatiently.
"What's the rush? What's supposed to come will come eventually. Come sit down and have a cup of tea." Li Ling pulled out a chair for Hei Xiao and invited Hei Xiao to sit down and relax.
"Will there be any changes?" Hei Xiao said.
"No, the tiger will not leave until it catches the prey. We will just wait patiently. Now the two sides are competing for endurance. Whoever has stronger endurance will win." Li Ling picked up a cup of tea and drank it.
When it comes to strategy, Hei Xiao is indeed not as good as Gu Ren. Compared to Chengfu, Hei Xiao is also far behind Gu Ren. The only thing better than Gu Ren is Hei Xiao's personality.
But if a person has a good personality, there will be people to help him, which is better than anything else!
Another three days passed and Gu Ren still didn't show up, which made Hei Xiao wonder whether Gu Ren would come.
"Ling, are you sure Gu Ren will come?" Hei Xiao asked Li Ling countless times.
"Sure." Li Ling replied simply.
"Since you are sure, I will wait a little longer." Hei Xiao seemed a little irritable. Hei Xiao's character was indeed not as stable as Gu Ren's. No one is perfect. This is Hei Xiao's human weakness.
Three nights later, Li Ling suddenly woke up from his sleep. It was because someone had touched the charm.
Li Ling went to find Hei Xiao and went to the secret room with Hei Xiao. When he entered the secret room, Hei Xiao was stunned. In the secret room, a man wearing a palace guard uniform was walking back and forth in a daze.
It's like hitting a ghost.
The man was clearly Gu Ren, and Hei Xiao was overjoyed when he saw Gu Ren. He stepped forward and hugged Gu Ren's arms, saying, "Brother."
Hei Xiao called out, but Gu Ren's eyes were blurred and he couldn't hear what Hei Xiao said.
"It's useless. He is now bewitched by the charm, as if he was sleepwalking." Li Ling searched Gu Ren's body and found a golden key. Li Ling handed the key to Hei Xiao and said:
"Here, the key."
Hei Xiao took the key and said happily: "Yes, this is it. It was the key I used when I saw my father's cronies opening the door."
Hei Xiao put Gu Ren's back against the wall, then walked to the iron door, pointed the key at the keyhole and inserted it in. He heard a click, and the mechanism inside the door started to move. After the door shook for a while,
, some dust fell from the crack in the door, and the door slowly opened.
After the door opened, the environment inside was filled with bursts of faint blue. Li Ling looked inside and couldn't help but feel that there were rare treasures everywhere. It was estimated that the entire imperial city's treasures were inside.
The treasures of past emperors in the Imperial City.
Walking into this secret room, it was full of jewels, with some gold and silver jewelry piled up in mountains. My eyes lit up. The most important thing was that there was a black box in the pile of treasures. The black box seemed to have set extremely powerful restrictions.
Li Ling noticed the black box as soon as he came in, and couldn't help but ask: "What is in the black box?"
"Oh... that black box contains the cultivation experiences of emperors of all ages." Hei Xiao said.
"It turns out it's something like a secret book of martial arts." Li Ling nodded slightly.
"There are many magic weapons here, but they are not as powerful as the three in your hand." Hei Xiao said with a slight smile.
Li Ling knew that Hei Xiao was referring to the golden ring of thunder and lightning, the spell of enchantment and the cold jade flute. These three items were all taken from the hands of the three old monsters.
Li Ling just pursed his lips and smiled, and Hei Xiao led Li Ling towards the inner room.
"I once said that I want to help you overcome the tribulation successfully. So, this is definitely not a joke. I will take you to find the secret to successfully overcome the tribulation." Hei Xiao then led Li Ling into the innermost part of the secret room.
As soon as Li Linggang stepped into the innermost part of the secret room, he suddenly felt an inexplicable feeling, possessing a powerful oppressive force. The concentration of immortal energy in it was more than ten times that of the outside.
Li Ling followed Hei Xiao and entered the room. The door was closed immediately. The room was not big, only about a hundred square meters at most. Inside the room, there was a round circle like a teleportation array.
Sitting in a group.
"This circular sitting group is a magical magic weapon. People who sit on it and practice can practice more than ten times faster than usual. Is this why the emperors of the past dynasties are very powerful?" Hei Xiao said.
"Come on, Ling, go up and feel it." Hei Xiao stepped aside and let Li Ling sit on the group to try.
Li Ling walked up to the sitting group, squatted down slowly and sat down. As soon as his butt touched the sitting group, Li Ling suddenly felt that the blood vessels all over his body were unobstructed, and the immortal energy around him was moving towards him like crazy.
Li Ling's body surged in.
Li Ling almost had the urge to open his mouth and scream, the immortal energy surging in his body almost burst Li Ling's body. The muscles and veins in Li Ling's body were thicker than before. Even the blood vessels were prominent.
"Ah..." Li Ling roared, which was the impulse of the immortal energy in his chest that surged outward, startling Hei Xiao who was watching from the side.
However, Hei Xiao quickly calmed down. After all, Hei Xiao had also sat in that group and knew what it felt like.
"Ling, how do you feel?" Hei Xiao chuckled.
Li Ling slowly exhaled, opened his eyes and said: "What an amazing sitting group. It can actually speed up the absorption of immortal energy in my body. Moreover, the tendons and blood vessels have been strengthened and expanded. It is really rare."
Get a treasure."
"Yes, our imperial clan, in the First Level of Heaven, relies on this group to be called the emperor." Hei Xiao said with a smile.
Hei Xiao was willing to share this secret, and it was obvious that he regarded him as a life-and-death friendship. Li Ling couldn't help but feel a little touched.
Li Ling stood up from the group and said, "Let's go out first and deal with Gu Ren's matter first."
"Well, let's go. My eldest brother's matter really needs to be dealt with. I hope that my eldest brother can stop going against me." Hei Xiao sighed slightly. From the bottom of his heart, Hei Xiao did not want to fight with Gu Ren.
After leaving the secret room and entering the main hall, Li Ling took off the charm. Gu Ren suddenly woke up. When he woke up and saw that he was in the main hall, he saw Hei Xiao sitting on the high chair. He immediately became angry.
Taotian said: "Heixiao, I will cut you into pieces."
"Brother, why are you doing this? We are brothers." A look of pain appeared on Hei Xiao's face.
"There's no need to be hypocritical. You and I are brothers. There is only hatred between us. You took away my position as emperor. You and I are irreconcilable." Gu Ren said angrily.
However, what Gu Ren said was true. Hei Xiao did take away Gu Ren's position as emperor.
"Brother, put down your hatred. I don't have to accept the position of emperor, but please don't hate me so much." Hei Xiao sighed.
"Haha... How can I, Gu Ren, eat the food that I brought to you? You have legitimately defeated me. This senior of the first level of heaven knows that I can't rely on you. You don't have to pretend to give it to me. Even if you give it to me, I
I can't convince the public either, just like that damn crony who refused to even give me the key." Gu Ren said angrily.
"What did you do to him?" Hei Xiao asked hurriedly.
"What can we do? If you don't give me the key, of course I'll kill you." There was a trace of madness and resentment in Gu Ren's eyes.
"He was a close confidant of my father, how could you kill him casually?" Hei Xiao stood up from the high chair and became angry.
"Why not? I dare to kill you, so what's the point of killing a close relative?" Gu Ren became ferocious, like an animal.
Li Ling came over and grabbed Gu Ren's hair and said, "This guy is hopeless."
"Ling, stop." Before Hei Xiao could stop him, Li Ling had already destroyed all the muscles, bones and immortal veins in Gu Ren's body, and he became a useless person from then on.
"Now you are a cripple and will never be able to do evil again." Li Ling said as he looked at Gu Ren who fell to the ground and was cramping in pain.
"You...you are so cruel." Gu Ren slowly spat out these words.
"I'm so ruthless. It seems that I'm not as ruthless as you. You can even kill your own brothers. Is there anyone more ruthless than you?" Li Ling said calmly.
"Brother, you will recuperate in Gu Ren's mansion from now on. From now on, I will take care of you." Hei Xiao carried Gu Ren on his back and walked out of the hall. (To be continued...)
