Xu Chen and the others followed Yu Gongfeng into the palace.
Emperor Zhao Rui was already waiting at Xianyun Palace to welcome him.
When he saw the three of them, he quickly bowed and saluted and said, "Zhao Rui takes the liberty of inviting you, and I would like to ask my three fellow Taoists to forgive me."
The three of them returned the gift, and the Ninth Senior Brother smiled and said: "Your Majesty, you are serious. I was ordered by my master to come to celebrate your Majesty's birthday. I should have come to visit you in advance, but something happened on the road and I still have some tails to clean up, so I came here."
Please forgive me for being late."
Zhao Rui's face suddenly became serious. He invited the three of them to sit down, served the spiritual tea, and then dismissed the palace maids, eunuchs, and chamberlains, and then asked: "Is there anyone else in the Ziyang Sect who covets that spiritual medicine?"
Brother Ninth nodded slightly and said: "Since Your Majesty already knows, we can't hide it. It's true. On the way to the capital with Princess Xiyun, we encountered a master of the True Yuan Realm from the Ziyang Sect who blocked the road and robbed us. Fortunately,
Fortunately, we were able to kill him, but there are still people following him all the way, and we dare not be careless. We have been searching for clues about him in the capital for the past two days."
Zhao Rui said with a look of hatred on his face: "This Ziyang Sect doesn't take our Great Song Dynasty Immortal Sect seriously enough. It dares to come to the capital to attack."
Brother Ninth smiled slightly and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, we will take care of this matter ourselves and won't cause any trouble to Your Majesty. But now I don't know where Princess Xiyun is?"
Zhao Rui raised his hand to say hello, and soon Princess Xiyun came in from the side door. When she saw the three of them, her eyes were filled with surprise. She knelt down and said, "Zhao Qian thanks the three immortal masters for protecting her all the way, so that she can enter the capital to see His Majesty."
, your great kindness will never be forgotten."
The Ninth Senior Brother nodded and said: "Princess, please rise, this trivial matter is not worth mentioning!"
When Princess Xiyun stood up, Brother Ninth looked at Zhao Rui and said: "As for the peace between the Marquis of Xilu and the Western King, it seems that Your Majesty has already made his own decision."
Zhao Rui sighed and said: "I had doubts about King Pingxi's murder of the Marquis of Xilu from the beginning, but I arranged for the censor to investigate, but no clues were found. All the insiders were silenced by King Pingxi, and the only one who escaped was
Princess Xiyun, if three Taoist friends hadn't sent her to the capital, I might still have been kept in the dark. For so many years, I have really indulged this royal brother too much."
Brother Ninth smiled and said: "These are your Majesty's family affairs. Even if our Immortal Sect knows about it, it is difficult for us to interfere. However, Ziyang Sect is involved in it, and it is indeed difficult for Your Majesty to handle it. Now that Yuqing Palace is helping, Your Majesty has also recruited so many monks.
Help, I think the rebels will be defeated soon, and the Song Dynasty will still be peaceful and peaceful, which is really a blessing for the common people in the world."
Zhao Rui smiled bitterly and said: "Thank you for your good words from three Taoist friends. If this battle is fought, life will be ruined. Hundreds of thousands of people will be killed or injured. Since there are still remnants of the Ziyang Sect active in the capital, we can only bother these three Taoist friends.
If you need my help, I will do my best."
Brother Ninth said seriously: "It is the Taiyuan Sect's duty to deal with the Ziyang Sect, but the elixir brought back by Princess Xiyun..."
"Well, it's just a magical medicine. Why do the three Taoist friends mention it again? I have to thank the three Taoist friends for their generous action. Otherwise, if King Pingxi and the Ziyang Sect collude, I am afraid that our country will not be stable.
, the three fellow Taoists can rest assured that the Taiyuan Sect will never be involved in this matter."
When Xu Chen and the other three heard this, they immediately relaxed with their hearts hanging for a long time.
Of course, I was both surprised and a little scared.
The Blood God Grass is no trivial matter. Fortunately, Princess Xiyun didn't know what it was, and the emperor didn't seem to have any intention of studying it in detail, which made things a lot easier.
So for the next time, the three of them drank and chatted with Zhao Rui, and exchanged a lot about the causes and consequences of King Pingxi's rebellion. After drinking a pot of tea, the three of them got up and left.
Before leaving, Zhao Rui actually gave each person a bottle of Dayuan Dan as a gift to express his gratitude.
"It seems that Yuqing Palace's investment this time is indeed not small!"
After returning to the inn and sitting down in the room, Brother Ninth's face was full of excitement and emotion.
Today, they finally felt the power of the four words "rich and powerful".
Just now, when they successively obtained various rare elixirs and materials in the Liushang Garden, all the monks exclaimed in surprise.
Just yesterday, the three of them were overjoyed with the third-grade Xiao Yuan Dan presented by Zhenbao Pavilion, but in the blink of an eye, they felt like they couldn't finish the Great Yuan Dan.
Including these three bottles, the three of them now have eight bottles of Great Yuan Dan in their hands. It takes the entire Taiyuan Sect almost half a year to refine so many. If more than ten people share it, each person only has a few pills, and they still need more.
Mainly composed of three elders and several brothers and sisters of the True Yuan Realm, there is not a single scum like Xu Chen who is not even in the middle stage of the Kaiyuan Realm.
However, they did not know that most of the elixirs presented by Yuqing Palace and the emperor were just to curry favor with the Great Elder Dan Chenzi because he was about to break through to the spirit transformation realm.
If we look at the reputation of the three of them, I am afraid that the elixir they have obtained will be forcibly taken away by Yuqing Palace.
Zhao Xuan looked a little worried as she said, "Now that things are getting bigger and bigger, I'm worried that the news about the Blood God Grass will eventually get out, and the capital won't be able to stay long."
Xu Chen fed the little fox without making a sound.
The Blood God Grass is a huge opportunity for Taiyuan Sect, but for the three of them, it is a big bomb.
But he couldn't play much role in this matter.
Because after what he had experienced since coming down the mountain, he felt that he was very uncomfortable with the open and secret struggles between the mortal world and the fairy world.
I used to think that the royal power was just mediocre in the eyes of the Immortal Sect, but after real contact, I realized that it was not that weak. At least relying on the big tree of Yuqing Palace, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty was still very powerful, and the Taiyuan Sect was not.
Energy to shake.
The two worlds of immortality and mortals are intricately intertwined, and every move will cause turmoil and unrest in both worlds.
The only thing he has to do now is to improve his strength as soon as possible.
Because no matter in the fairy world or in the mortal world, if you want to live well, you must have strength to speak for itself.
His current strength is too bad and he has no right to speak at all.
Even the Ninth Senior Brother who is in the late stage of Kaiyuan Realm, among the monks coming to celebrate his birthday in the capital, his cultivation level is definitely not outstanding and can only be considered average.
What's more, there is a master of the Ziyang Sect's True Yuan Realm hiding in the darkness.
There was some silence in the room. Xu Chen fed the little fox and drank half a bowl of milk. After slowly cleaning up, he said: "The only good news right now is that all the attention of the Immortal Sect of the Song Kingdom will turn to the Ziyang Sect and the war against the rebellion in a short time.
Maybe not many people will care about this."
Senior Brother Ninth nodded and said: "Junior Brother is right. This is indeed good news. At least until the news about the Blood God Grass is not leaked, we are still safe."
Zhao Xuan said: "The news about the Blood God Grass is not only known to Princess Xiyun and the emperor. I am worried that because of the emperor's actions today, people from the Ziyang Sect will spread the news to disrupt the Song Dynasty and exchange for some money for the Ziyang Sect.
Time to respond.”
However, the Ninth Senior Brother curled his lips and waved his hands and said: "Junior sister, don't worry, the people from Ziyang Sect will never tell anyone, because the bigger they make trouble, the greater the pressure the Song Kingdom's Immortal Sect will put on them. Today, even Longmen, who wants to stay away from the world, will
Shandu can't help but intervene, fearing that he will soon join forces with the Yuqing Palace to put pressure on the Ziyang Sect and force them to hand over the immortal treasures in the ancient tombs."
Xu Chen's eyes lit up and he said: "If the four spiritual realm monks attack together, I'm afraid the Ziyang Sect won't be able to resist!"
Zhao Xuan couldn't help laughing and said: "Junior brother, you are thinking too simply. Before the immortal treasure is clear, these spiritual monks who cherish feathers will not easily start a war. What's more, there are also several spiritual monks in the Ming Dynasty. If Ziyang
Zong can't hold it back, and the other immortal sects will definitely not stand idly by, and it's still unknown who will win and who will lose."
Xu Chen chuckled and said, "Wouldn't it be better? They beat the living to death and beat the brains out, and we just make a fortune in silence. No one will care about us scumbag monks from a small sect."
Brother Ninth patted Xu Chen on the shoulder hard and said with a smile: "Junior brother has really made great progress during this trip down the mountain. You are right to think so. Saving your own life and getting rich silently is the best way to practice. Let's go
Well, let's go out to a few other monk trading places, maybe we can get some good things. Today we were lucky, and we actually got three elixirs for refining Heqi Pills. Maybe with luck, we can get some good things in the capital.
I have collected the remaining elixirs."
Zhao Xuan curled her lips and said: "You look ugly, but you think you are beautiful!"
"Hehe!" Ninth Senior Brother laughed dryly, "The main reason is that I feel very rich today. I have been down the mountain so many times and I have never been so refreshed."
A moment later, in an attic not far from the inn, a young man and woman were watching Xu Chen and the others go out to the north of the city.
"Senior brother, we can't stay in the capital of the Song Dynasty any longer. We have to send the news back as soon as possible!" Lin Qiuya said a little anxiously.
The handsome young man in white frowned and said: "It is too late to spread this matter back now. Since Yuqing Palace knows the news, it must have gone to Ziyang Sect to visit."
Lin Qiuya said anxiously: "Even so, Shanmen still doesn't know that Yuqing Palace would support the Emperor of Song Dynasty in recruiting monks to deal with us in this way."
The young man in white said impatiently: "Junior sister, don't make a big loss out of a small thing. Even if the sect loses some low-level monks this time, as long as we can bring the Blood God Grass back, our Ziyang Sect will produce another Spiritual Transformation True Lord.
The loss is nothing to mention, once we leave, this Blood God Grass will never be available again."
Lin Qiuya thought for a moment and said, "Senior brother is here to deal with the people from the Taiyuan Sect. I will go back and report them alone."
The man in white grabbed Lin Qiuya's arm and said with a stern look on his face: "You are not allowed to go back!"
"Why?" Lin Qiuya asked in shock and anger.
The young man in white felt that he was a little too excited. He let go and forced out a smile: "Junior sister, your level is too low. You still have thousands of miles to go back. In addition, the Song Dynasty has begun to make plans to deal with the Ziyang Sect. I am not worried about you alone."
Only then did Lin Qiuya turn from worry to joy. She leaned gently into the arms of the man in white and whispered softly: "It turns out that senior brother is worried about my safety, but the situation is urgent now and we can't do nothing."
The young man in white thought for a moment and said: "The Taiyuan Sect must be in a hurry to send the Blood God Grass back. When the emperor's birthday banquet is over the day after tomorrow, they will definitely leave in a hurry. That will be our chance to take action. Once we get the Blood God Grass,
Damn it, you and I will go back quickly. We won’t waste more than one day at most. We will definitely not miss anything. Wait for me to see where they are going now. Junior sister will look for opportunities to join them later and try to find out where they left as soon as possible.
time."
After the man in white finished speaking, he turned over his hand and took out a simple bronze mirror. He touched it lightly with his finger and saw a little green light appearing in the bronze mirror.
The green dot is the mark of the soul that Lin Qiuya left in the jade slip given to Xu Chen.
It means that the three of them are heading towards a barren mountain outside the north gate of the city.