There is a secret tunnel in the Imperial Palace of the Great Chu Kingdom, which is heavily guarded. Except for a few people, anyone who dares to approach it will be deemed guilty, and anyone who breaks in without permission will be shot to death.
Since half a year ago, the security at the entrance of the tunnel has been higher than usual, and today it has reached an incredible level.
The seven leaders of the Imperial Guard gathered here, and three innate martial arts masters, Tiger Wing Hou Zhangyu, Tianguan Ningfeng, and An Shihou Shen Yi, were guarding the place. For a while, this place seemed like a copper wall and an iron wall - no, it was far stronger than a copper wall and an iron wall!
"Senior Zhang, do you know what is inside this tunnel? Why did Your Majesty ask me to take turns guarding it?" Even though he has been named a Marquis, Shen Yi still maintains a simple Jianghu style, acting as a junior Jianghu rather than an official of the same level. Self-proclaimed.
Zhang Houye, who had white hair and beard but was still energetic, carried his usual tiger-winged sword, glanced sideways at the tunnel, and then sighed: "Isn't it just a dragon vein that was transplanted back then... Emperors of all dynasties Before death, innate masters like us who are loyal to the country will be invited to Tuogu to explain this matter. In retrospect, I have heard this from four generations of emperors. I hope I won’t hear it for the fifth time... "
Shen Yi was stunned and looked at the dark tunnel entrance with some confusion, and couldn't help but be curious.
He had heard about the so-called "dragon veins" in the world since he was a child, but he had never seen what a dragon vein looked like with his own eyes.
"When the new emperor ascends the throne, he will take us to the Dragon Vein to meet the ancestor who has guarded the Chu Kingdom for hundreds of years." Ning Feng smiled and said, "Brother Shen, with your cultivation, you can live for another hundred years. No problem at all, you will see it then."
"Hundreds of years?!" Shen Yi was startled, and even his voice couldn't help but become a little louder, "Isn't that a land god?"
"In the eyes of ordinary people, aren't we people just land gods?" Zhang Yu smiled and said, "Actually, the so-called land gods are nothing more than that. There is no end to learning, and there will always be seniors who make people look up to them. They are standing there, waiting for you to chase them."
"Ning Huntian, Shen Anshi, I'm old, so I probably won't have the chance to go further. But you are still young. As long as you continue to work hard, you may not have the chance to go further... I hope that hundreds of years later, you will too. Become the ancestor who protects the great Chu Kingdom."
The two of them quickly became humble, but they couldn't help but secretly yearn for it.
Protecting a country for hundreds of years, becoming an ancestor that even the emperor would visit... Thinking about such a future really made them yearn for it.
At this time, His Majesty Xiong Du, the contemporary emperor of the Great Chu State, had arrived at the deepest part of the tunnel.
Precious luminous pearls are embedded in the cave wall, providing illumination with soft and stable light, but even brighter is the pool of water located deep in the cave wall. It emits a bluish-white light, and there is a golden shadow inside as if there is something there. Life is generally swimming.
Next to the pond, there is a small field with a radius of no more than one foot. There are several medicinal herbs growing sparsely in the field, the most conspicuous of which is the ginseng tree that is blooming extremely brilliantly.
On the other side of the pool is a huge piece of ice. Through the ice, you can vaguely see a figure inside. Beside the ice, a girl wearing a green skirt and white shirt is kneeling on one knee to welcome His Majesty the Emperor's inspection.
"My beloved, please rise! You and I are called monarchs and ministers, and we love each other as brothers and sisters. Why should we be so polite!"
"Etiquette cannot be abolished, please Xu Chen to act according to the etiquette and law." The girl did not mean to appreciate it at all. She still knelt there and said words that made His Majesty the Emperor sigh.
"Sigh... I really don't understand how my sister gets along with you... Although there are many innate masters, I have never heard of one as serious as you... I always feel a lot of pressure!" Xiong Duo, who is only forty years old, has already lost his hair.
He is gray and looks much older than his actual age. He wears thick clothes to resist the severe cold in the cave, but because of his weak body, even if he smiles, he is still trembling.
"How is the situation of our ancestors?"
"The situation is not good. Although Wanzai Xuanbing can effectively slow down the aging of the physical body, the master's soul has also aged... and may not be far from the end of his life."
Xiong Du lowered his head, his face full of regret and sentimentality: "Since the founding of the Chu Kingdom, our ancestors have been guarding the country. No matter how many storms and dangers there are, as long as he is around, all emperors can rule the country with peace of mind... I still
I remember when my father made me the crown prince and brought me to see him..."
The girl remained silent and did not interrupt the emperor's soliloquy.
"Later, when my father passed away, I came here to pay homage to my ancestors, accompanied by Zhang Yihou and Ning Huntian. He looked sad and said, 'What's the good thing about living a long life? Generations of white-haired people send black-haired people...
'Although he is not from our Xiong family, he is as close to us as grandpa!"
"I always feel that our ancestors will always sit in Changning City, guarding our great Chu country for thousands of generations like gods, and protecting the descendants of Taizu... But I never thought that he would actually be tired and old..."
Having said this, he looked at the figure in the ice who was not sure whether he was sleeping or awake, with tears already shining in his eyes.
Remembering that when the old man found him and told him that his life was over and he would die soon, he felt that his eyesight went dark, as if the sky was falling!
Although with the help of Changchun Master, the old man hid in the secret cave of dragon veins that isolates the three realms, and used the Wanzai Xuanbing to slow down the aging rate, it might be possible to delay it for a while, but he knew that the great Chu Kingdom had been supported.
The invincible hero no longer has the power to protect this country.
It is not that there is no new generation of masters in the Great Chu Kingdom. There are many loyal and reliable people, but no one can give him the same feeling of reliability as his ancestors. This is the trust that has been accumulated over the years and is like family members.
Just like the girl in front of me, although he said that he "feels like brothers and sisters", the fact that he said this outright proves that their relationship is not as close as that of real brothers and sisters.
At a critical moment, he could entrust his life and the country's future to his ancestors or his sister without hesitation, but he could not wholeheartedly trust the girl in front of him - even though he knew that the other party was loyal to the country and was honest and loyal at the risk of his own life.
A wise man, but emotion and reason are always two different things.
In the past six months, he has been worrying day and night, often hiding his face and sighing. Coupled with the hard work of state affairs, he has aged faster and faster... Maybe before the death of his ancestors, he himself will not be able to hold on and collapse?
The emperor of Chu State sighed silently, wrapped his leather robe tightly, and walked out of the tunnel in loneliness.
Life goes on, and he still has many things to be busy with.
For example, the upcoming imperial examination in Beijing.
Red flames jumped in the desert, like little elves, surrounding Xiao Buyi from all directions. No matter how he moved around, he could not escape from the encirclement.
Not only that, the flames continued to increase under Wu Jie's control, gradually covering the ground with a radius of a hundred feet, leaving Xiao Buyi with fewer and fewer places to dodge.
But even so, Xiao Buyi did not escape in the air, but rather ran awkwardly on the ground and refused to fly.
This is of course not because he lacks combat experience, but because he has already suffered a loss in the last sparring session.
Although the flames controlled by Wu Jie are full of spirituality, they are not very powerful. When running on the ground, they can only surround them from all directions. Even if they occasionally get hit by a few shots, they can be blocked by the Zhenqi body protection. But if
When they fly into the sky, they will all roar up...
He was hit like this last time. Even if Wu Jie stopped his attack in time, he was still knocked out of his true energy. It took him almost a day of rest to regain his breath.
So this time, he didn't dare to fly again no matter what.
But there is no way to go on like this. Wu Jie's true energy is far richer than his. If it continues to be used up, his true energy will definitely be exhausted first.
"Try that method!" He secretly made a decision, then stopped suddenly, and while using his true energy to defend himself, he took out a piece of yellow silk about a foot long, and used his finger as a pen to draw mysterious words on it.
Talisman.
Ordinary talisman paper can be as short as three inches and as long as half a foot. His yellow silk is much larger than them, and can naturally hold much more talismans and infuriating energy.
...the consumption is also much greater.
As a result, before he could finish painting the yellow silk, Wu Jie's flames had burned through his protective energy.
"You lost." Wu Jie smiled, took back the flames, looked at the unfinished yellow silk talisman in his hand, and asked curiously, "What is this?"
"This is the large talisman I have been imagining." Xiao Buyi sighed and put the yellow silk away. "Because it can hold more talismans, it is more powerful."
"...Although I'm not very good at talismans, the art of talisman is not just 'big', but 'more' is good, right?"
Xiao Buyi smiled, raised his hand and drew three spells in the air.
Wu Jie also knew these talismans, but he never thought that they could be arranged like this - he saw that these talismans were not arranged in a row from top to bottom like ordinary talismans, but were layered from the inside to the outside, and finally combined.
It became a bigger charm.
This approach is easy to say, but in fact it completely violates the existing principles of spells - each spell is an independent spell unit, just like ready-made parts, which can only be combined to make various spells.
Planting something, but there is no way to force one part into another part.
In that case, the integrity and stability of the talisman itself will be destroyed, and either the talisman cannot be made, or the talisman will explode in one's hand, and all the efforts will be in vain.
But Xiao Buyi really did it! He really combined the three spells together!
Wu Jie engraved the images of the three talismans in his mind, and after racking his brains for a long time, he still couldn't figure out how Xiao Buyi did it.
He raised his hand, used his magic power, and tried to outline them in the air.
The first spell was easily completed, but when he drew the second spell into the middle of the first spell, it immediately destroyed the mana cycle of the first spell itself, and the spell immediately felt like being poked by a needle.
Like a soap bubble, it burst with a "wave" and turned into a small spot of light, disappearing without a trace.
"The technique is correct! Why is this happening?" Wu Jie was extremely puzzled. He raised his hand and sketched it again, but the result was still the same.
If he had not seen what Xiao Buyi did with his own eyes, he would not have any doubts at all, because the result of the combination of the spells should be like this. But after seeing with his own eyes the scene of Xiao Buyi putting together the three layers of spells, he had no choice but to
I don’t have doubts, I have to wonder.
This completely subverted his understanding of talismans!
In the following period, he tried hundreds of times in succession, but every time it was the same as the first time. Not to mention the three-layer spell, the two-layer spell couldn't be matched.
"Jasmine, can you do it?"
"I can forcibly bind those talismans with magic power so that they will not disintegrate or explode. But that is foolhardy. Not only will it not enhance their power, it will instead weaken each other... But look, master, his three talismans are tightly
Being closely combined means that not only do they not conflict with each other, but they strengthen each other." Jasmine had obviously been thinking about this question and immediately replied, "This conflicts with the principles of talismans that I understand, and I don't understand why.
thing."
"Then back then... could the Lord God do it?"
"Master, you were capable of doing everything back then, and this trivial matter is certainly not a problem!"
"...Has he ever done it?"
"It seems... it seems... maybe the time I followed you was too short and I didn't have the chance to see it."
Wu Jie frowned, he didn't expect that even the Supreme God Lord back then had never done such a thing.
Maybe like Jasmine said, he can do it, but he just hasn't shown it to Jasmine; but the greater possibility is... Xiao Buyi's invention subverts the long-standing rules of the world of cultivation and creates a unique one!
Although he knew it was not good to do so, he hesitated for a long time and finally couldn't help but ask what happened.
"I learned the essence of Patriarch Li's Taoism at the place of inheritance." Xiao Buyi did not keep it a secret and said with a smile, "His Taoism lies in 'peeping into fate' and 'distorting fate'. Fate is destiny, and luck is luck.
By manipulating the fate of others, he can manipulate others; and by manipulating his own fate, he can make his journey go smoothly, without any disadvantage."
"Then why was his whole family killed?"
"There is a way in heaven and earth. How can fate be distorted casually? Every time he manipulates the fate of others or himself, he will accumulate a little 'distortion'. When the 'distortion' accumulates to a certain extent, it will trigger a 'catastrophe'. He has exhausted all his mechanisms.
I escaped many disasters, but in the end I tried my best and could no longer escape."
"Then why are you still using this method?" Wu Jie was surprised and hurriedly advised, "What we seek in practicing Taoism is immortality, so don't make fun of your own life!"
Xiao Buyi laughed loudly when he heard this and said with a smile on his face: "Don't worry, how could I make the same mistake again? I am using the method of 'manipulating fate' on inanimate dead objects. Although there are some advantages such as short effective time and stability.
However, through these consumption, we can avoid the accumulation of 'distortion'... In the final analysis, the protection of 'spiritual things' by Heaven is as strong as the protection of 'inanimate things'.
The intensity is completely different."
Wu Jie felt relieved and then thought of a question.
"This spell is of little significance in actual combat - during a life-and-death fight, will anyone give you time to cast the spell slowly?"
Xiao Buyi's originally confident face suddenly fell down, and he frowned.
As Wu Jie said, this kind of trick that cannot be used in actual combat, no matter how powerful it is, has little meaning.
There is no other way to solve this problem but to practice repeatedly. Perhaps after practice makes perfect, the speed of casting spells will become faster.
Looking at the vast desert around him, he couldn't help but sigh.
Practicing peacefully in this sparsely populated desert can only be accomplished by a natural-born cultivator like Wu Jie. Even though he knew he should work hard, he couldn't help but not mind the harsh environment at all.
The quality of disciples from famous sects is indeed far superior to that of casual cultivators like myself!
