Over in Leihuo State, the riot in the forbidden area was the largest after the Blood Sea Demonic Abyss. Compared with the incident with the Heaven-devouring Marquis, it was even more chaotic there.
Leihuo Prefecture is a large prefecture. There are six counties and thirty prefectures in the territory. In fact, in terms of geographical scope, it is almost comparable to two Yun Prefectures. However, the environment there is not good, so the people are sparse. It is normal for there to be no trace of anyone for dozens of miles.
Tang Yun is here to serve as a substitute. Of course, this is only an official statement. In fact, his power is no different from that of the princess. He can even go further due to the issue of acting as a substitute.
You have to leave in two years anyway, no matter how bad the situation is, it doesn't matter to him.
"Zhang Wei, where are we?" Tang Yun squinted and glanced across the crack of the window.
The subordinate who acted as the groom heard this and quickly replied: "Sir, we have just arrived at the boundary of Tianhai County, passed Tianhai County, passed through two counties, and then entered Leihuo State. At the current speed, it will take two months."
Tang Yun thought for a while and told him: "Tianhai County? Drop by the county town and I'll meet someone."
"Yes, sir." Zhang Wei nodded and responded.
He wanted to go to Ouyang, who had written to her before. When Tang Yun set out to pass through Tianhai County, he would go there to meet her. He said that he had something important to discuss, but he did not elaborate on the details.
The carriage creaked and sped along the official road.
At the top of the rock walls on both sides of the road, several people were lying prone, staring intently at the speeding carriage below, their faces full of undisguised malice.
A guy with a deer head and rat eyes asked in a straight line: "Boss, do you want to do something?"
The big man wiped the sword in his hand and said calmly: "You have to take action, but you can't do it now. It's not the right time yet."
"Why?" the subordinate asked.
The big man lowered his voice: "Those people said that Tang Yun is in the ninth level Yunqi realm, and he climbed out of the corpse mountain and sea of bones. He is equally strong in every aspect, so we must not act rashly."
Looking at the carriage that had reached the mouth of the canyon, the men couldn't help but sigh: "But after passing this place, there is no good chance to make a move."
The big man thought for a while and said: "At this level, the so-called geographical advantage does not mean much. With Tang Yun's strength, even if the mountain beneath his feet collapses, nothing will happen to him. It is too risky to take action here.
We are only responsible for monitoring his every move, and we will wait until the boundary of Tianhai County is reached, and we will set up an ambush in advance to avoid any accidents."
"Yes, boss." His subordinates quickly accepted the order, bent over and moved their body skills, and quickly disappeared from here.
"Tang Yun~"
The man squeezed the handle of the knife, and a bit of greed appeared on his face: "If you want to blame it, it's because your head is too valuable. Those people don't want you to live anywhere."
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County town.
Ou Yang was wearing a long white dress, looking like a helpless lady. She stared at the young man in front of her with her beautiful eyes, and couldn't help but sigh: "How long has it been? You are already at the eighth level."
After looking around, Tang Yun chuckled and replied: "Long time no see, Master Ou is even better than before. Judging from your aura, I am afraid he will be able to break through to the seventh level in the near future, right?"
"Not as good as you."
Ouyang turned sideways and entered the mansion with him. As he walked, he said: "I am now this age and have been wandering in the eighth level for such a long time. The acupuncture point realm has reached its limit, but there is no possibility of going further in this life."
Tang Yun stopped talking about the topic and asked casually: "How is Tianhai County recovering now?"
"Everything is in ruins waiting to be revived."
Ouyang sighed: "Fortunately, the academy gave us a head start. Although these aristocratic academies have strong capital, they are either ugly or started too late, and now they can no longer catch up with us."
Speaking of this, she suddenly blinked at him narrowly: "I would like to know what the situation in Xuanyun Palace is like now? I remember that little girl Zhang Chuyu has a lot of affection for you."
Tang Yun laughed: "Young girl Chang Huaichun, she should be much more mature now. When you mention this, is it possible that you want to see my dejected look?"
"Do you really have no feelings for that little girl?" Ouyang stared at him in surprise, as if he wanted to see something wrong.
Tang Yun laughed dumbly, shook his head and said: "There are so many beauties in the world, and I'm not a lustful ghost, so why would I stare at one?"
"well."
Ouyang sighed with some disappointment and said: "I wanted to make fun of you, but I never thought that you really thought this way and that you deserved to rise to the top."
She was saying that Tang Yun understood the importance of things, and that love was the product of lust, but it was just covered with a beautiful and mysterious veil.
Like Tang Yun, if it weren't for the consort who couldn't control such laws, I'm afraid the emperor would have granted marriage to the princess long ago.
Even so, didn't you see that the seventeenth prince still sent his daughter to his door?
love?
At least Tang Yun didn't take this thing seriously.
Tang Yun sighed and smiled a little tiredly: "You only saw me walking smoothly, but you didn't see the dangers on the roadside."
"If you're so tired, why do you still insist?" Ouyang was a little confused and stopped and turned to look at him.
The achievements of this young man in his twenties are enough to dwarf his peers, and even enough for them to look up to him and work hard for his whole life. Logically speaking, this is enough, and at the very least, he should take a break.
But Tang Yun seemed to have a butcher's knife at his back, and had no intention of relaxing at all.
What year was it just now?
Don't make trouble.
What can I do if I have no use for a year?
And Ouyang was very sure that the reason why Tang Yun stayed in Longyang County for a year was because he was secretly preparing to achieve a greater goal.
Ouyang and he came to the lotus pond in the courtyard, took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to him: "I'm calling you here because I haven't seen you for a long time, and on the other hand... take a look at this."
"Why don't you tell me first?" Tang Yun looked at the unnamed letter and played with it in his hand, but made no move to open it.
Ouyang secretly sighed in his heart, but kept a calm expression on his face: "The Leihuo Prefecture and Xianghuo County you are going to are not a good place in the first place. They are at the forefront of the forbidden land, where warriors from all over the world gather, and the power distribution is extremely complex.
I believe that you took the initiative to submit an ultimatum to plead guilty, and you must have a plan to go there as punishment. I don’t want to ask about the details, and even if I ask you, you won’t tell me. This time I just asked you to check on something."
"What's the matter?" Tang Yun raised his eyebrows.
Ouyang lowered his voice: "The former princess of Xianghuo County died in an unknown manner."
While speaking, she stretched out her hand and pointed to the sky quietly: "The reason for your self-punishment is of course partly due to the emperor taking the opportunity to go downhill, but it is also partly the result of the forces behind this person adding fuel to the flames."
"Oh? Tell me carefully." Tang Yun blinked, a little surprised.
Ouyang said: "With all the power in the world today, no one knows your nature, Tang Yun. You have always hated sectarian families and all other powers that do not belong to the imperial court. They suspect that the death of this princess is related to the local power."
Tang Yun turned over the letter in his hand and said calmly: "If you want the horse to run, you have to give it to the horse..."
Before he finished speaking, a bottle of elixir appeared in Ouyang's palm: "This is a gift. If the results are really found and the real culprit is caught, I will give you a generous gift."
Tang Yun did not reach out to take it, but repeated: "Catch the real murderer?"
"They want to live." Ou Yang emphasized his tone, and then his eyes fell on the bottle of pill: "Otherwise, do you think they will take out the Dragon Bone Holy Emperor Pill?"
Tang Yun was stunned, then his eyes widened and he took a breath of cold air: "Dragon Bone Holy Emperor Pill? Is there any more of this stuff? Isn't it used up long ago?"
This thing has a lot of origins. The main material is a real dragon that has reached the realm of the Demon King, extracted from the spine essence, and refined with a total of hundreds of heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
After the Dragon King was killed, the materials were refined into this kind of elixir. A total of one furnace was made, only about twenty pills. Now let alone the Dragon King, there is not even a dragon with pure blood.
There are only a few demons, so this elixir will naturally become extinct.
Ouyang shrugged, curled his lips and said, "It's just that the rewards were given out. Who knows whether the recipients ate them? At least the one in my hand should be real. I've found someone to verify it."
Tang Yun took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice: "Tell me, who is the former princess and who is the owner of the elixir?"
Ouyang did not hide anything and said directly: "Marquis Guiyi, the person who died was the son of Marquis Guiyi, Yuan Fenglong."
"Is it him?" Tang Yun felt his eyelids trembling and his brows furrowed deeply.
Nowadays, there are many princes in the imperial court, and the royal relatives are crawling everywhere in the capital, but most of these are just rice worms. To put it bluntly, they occupy status and are supported by the imperial court. They have no power in themselves.
For example, Wang Xin, to be honest, he is obsessed with getting back what belongs to him, that is, the title of King Tan. In terms of power, he is really not as powerful as an outside princess.
But that's not all, there are always a few standouts.
For example, Marquis Guiyi, this guy is one of the few powerful people who is not in the capital and is stationed outside to suppress the forbidden areas all year round. When the boss's son dies...
its not right.
Tang Yun lowered his voice: "Are you lying to me? Although I don't know much about Yuan Fenglong's origins, his surname is Yuan, and Marquis Guiyi's surname is Cai. Are they related to each other?"
"Illegitimate son." Ouyang shrugged.
Tang Yun reached out and asked with surprise: "So?"
What is an illegitimate child?
Let's put it this way.
Like Gui Yihou, if the first son is not born by the principal wife, he is the eldest son. The first son born by the principal wife is the legitimate eldest son and has the natural right of inheritance, while the eldest son has the second right of inheritance.
In addition to these two special ones, there are also sons and daughters born from other wives and concubines. These are basically useless. If there is no accident, it is impossible to inherit my name.
As for King Xin, it was purely an accident for Wang Xin.
And what happened to the illegitimate child?
To put it bluntly, he is a bastard. His mother has not even been married, so the son he gives birth to will naturally have no status. Even the door of the Guiyi Hou Mansion will not be allowed to enter. You are not qualified today.
Marquis Guiyi didn't have any health problems. As far as Tang Yun knew, he had a son and a daughter, so why would he keep an eye on an illegitimate child? This is unscientific.
Ou Yang rolled up his hair and said: "It is said that when Marquis Guiyi was young, he had a relationship with a woman of high status, but not many people knew about it.
Later, he made a meritorious service and was granted the title of Marquis. He was given a marriage by the emperor and married a princess. He was in a high position and had extraordinary strength. Naturally, no one dared to talk nonsense, so he naturally faded away after so many years."
The corner of Tang Yun's mouth twitched: "You mean that Marquis Guiyi has a deep affection for this woman, or feels that he owes many such bloody reasons, so he pays more attention to the illegitimate child, and even secretly takes care of her?"
"It's very possible." Ouyang nodded, indicating that he agreed with this statement.
Tang Yun sat by the pond and rubbed his forehead: "Since the Marquis of Guiyi is taking care of him secretly, the people in Leihuo Prefecture Zhenwu Pavilion should more or less know the details of that guy Yuan Fenglong. Now he is dead like this.
If Marquis Guiyi didn't go to them, why would he go to me?"
Unless...he suddenly raised his head and looked into Ouyang Shui's filled eyes.
"You are right." Ouyang motioned for him to open the letter.
Tang Yun frowned, took out the letter and shook it out. The content was very small, no more than a few hundred words. He glanced at it a few times and saw a change, his expression was gloomy and uncertain.
After a long time, he suddenly murmured like he was dreaming: "Ouyang, why did he pass you?"
Ouyang was silent for a while, and then said it truthfully: "After I break through, I will leave here. At that time, Marquis Guiyi will write to the emperor to transfer me to a safe place."
Tang Yun asked: "Is Tianhai County not doing well here? Why do you want to leave?"
"Everyone has his or her own ambitions. I'm very tired."
Ou Yang rubbed his forehead and smiled bitterly: "The disaster is about to come, and the world will fall into chaos. In terms of city government and ambition, I am far inferior to you, and I don't have that much drive. It's better to go to a stable place and wait for the disaster.
Finish."
The corners of Tang Yun's lips raised, his eyes flashed, and he suddenly uttered three words: "Longyang County."
Ouyang's pretty face changed slightly and suddenly smiled: "As expected of you."
She should have known and guessed it a long time ago. Once she said these words, Tang Yun could easily guess what followed with his mind.
Tang Yun closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then dropped the letter, picked up the pill bottle in her palm and shook it, then threw it back into her hand and said softly: "Return to the letter to Marquis Gui Yi, this pill alone is not enough, everyone
Stop being in circles and show your chips."
"This is just a deposit." Ouyang's tone was a little hasty. She emphasized this point again. It was definitely not difficult to find out the matter with Tang Yun's methods. Why was he obsessed with it.
"You do not understand."
Tang Yun glanced at her and shook his head with a smile: "Tell him that I want the mid-level earth-level technique of the seventh-level acupuncture level [Tianxing Acupoint Diagram]."
Ouyang opened his mouth, but in the end without saying a word, he quickly returned to the study, obviously to write a letter.
Yes, she really doesn't understand.
This is related to a question of initiative.
Assuming that Tang Yun took over this job and tried his best to find out the truth of the matter, this matter would definitely not be hidden. According to his plan, he would definitely report it to the imperial court to make a further contribution.
The final payment is the stacking of benefits.
Then here comes the problem.
What should we do if Tang Yun finishes the work and the Marquis of Guiyi regrets not paying the balance? Or, after Tang Yun finds out, what should we do if he directly sends someone to intervene and intercept the whole thing in the middle?