January passed in a hurry, and before he knew it, Richard had been living in the Western Xia palace for a month. In this month, the Xixia Palace issued a wide invitation, spreading the news of the Xixia princess Li Qinglu's desire to compete and recruit horses to the entire world of rivers and lakes.

Although the Western Xia is not as good as the Great Song Dynasty, it is the best among the small countries, and its national strength is better than that of the Liao State and other small countries, second only to Tubo. If it weren't for the fact that there was a behemoth of the Western Regions Tantra behind Tubo and an alliance with Mongolia, perhaps the Western Xia would have surpassed Tubo by now.

Because of this, the invitations for this competition were also extremely strict, and a total of twenty-four invitations were issued. As far as Richard knew, eight of the twenty-four invitations were sent to players, but he didn't know which eight players had such a high reputation that Li Qiushui in the Western Xia Palace heard their names.

A few days later, the owners of the twenty-four invitations arrived in Xixia one after another, and stayed around the palace, and after all the twenty-four people arrived, a message was sent to the twenty-four people through the masters of the Xixia Yipintang.

Outside the palace, in the upper room of an inn.

Yan San looked at Linghu and asked softly, "Boss, do you really want to marry that Xixia princess?" ”

Linghu played with the delicate and gorgeous invitation in his hand and said with a smile: "Why not? The Great Song Dynasty currently seems to have many guilds, but it is actually saturated. These guilds are either allied with our Huashan or under the command of Hongyan, and if we want to expand, we can only attack Hongyan. Before the Great Sui Dynasty was too chaotic to settle in, the development of our Huashan in this world of rivers and lakes had actually entered a bottleneck. ”

Linghu suddenly stopped his movements, put the invitation on the table, and said softly: "And this Xixia is our best opportunity." If I can become a Western Xia horse, Huashan can enter Western Xia in a grand manner, and even mobilize the Western Xia army if necessary, and then this Western Xia will be our second guild station, and it is also our outpost to wait and see the Great Sui! ”

Yan San nodded, and was just about to speak when he suddenly saw a figure flash outside the window, and he immediately rushed out of the window, "Who!" ”

There was no one outside the window, and a letter was nailed to the window frame. Yan San took down the letter and handed it to Ling Hu, who spread out the letter and subconsciously read out the contents of the letter.

"Tomorrow at noon, the competition will officially begin, waiting for the big driver."

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"These Tangut people like to play with these tricky things."

Zong Zan sneered, looked at Gu Mozhi who was sitting on the side with his eyes closed, and said, "Master, the Xixia people said that the martial arts competition will officially start at noon tomorrow. ”

Gu Mozhi slowly opened his eyes, and a fine light flashed in his eyes, "It seems that all the people invited by Western Xia have arrived." Prince, I have already practiced the flame knife I taught you. ”

"Don't worry, master, I've learned."

Zong Zan said with a smile, and while swinging his palm into a knife, he saw a raging flame burst out from his palm, turning into a long knife and flying forward, hitting the table and chair in the room with a loud bang.

"How about the master, is this flame knife worthy of your true inheritance?" Zong Zan said triumphantly, and then his face suddenly changed and ran towards the burning table and chairs, "It's broken, my invitation!" ”

Seeing Zong Zan's appearance, Gu Mozhi sighed helplessly in his heart, and he didn't know why he fell in love with this guy's identity as a prince of Tubo and wanted to accept him as an apprentice.

With a wave of his hand, the internal force penetrated the body to help Zong Zan extinguish the fire, Gu Mozhi looked out the window at the Xixia Palace not far away, squinted his eyes, this time he personally followed Zong Zan to Xixia, with his Gu Mozhi, it should not be a problem to help Zong Zan win this competition and recruit relatives.

The next day, the back garden of the palace.

Richard, who was disguised as a guard with a golden mask on his face, looked at the half-burnt invitation that Zong Zan handed him, and was speechless for a long time, what did this guy do to the invitation, did he use it to make a fire?

The text in the invitation had been smoked so that it was too hard to read, and after opening it and taking a symbolic look, Richard handed the invitation back to Zongzan, and said in a loud voice: "Zong Zan, the prince of Tubo, bring the national teacher of Tubo to Jiu Mozhi!" ”

While shouting, Richard stepped out of the way. When he walked past Richard, Zong Zan saw the mask on Richard's face, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he reached out to take off his mask, "Your mask is strange and beautiful, how about giving it to Xiao Wang?" ”

Richard sideways dodged Zong Zan's hand, and said with a smile: "If the prince likes it, this mask can naturally be given to you after the martial arts competition." But not yet. ”

Zong Zan frowned when he heard this, he had never been rejected when he lived in Tubo since he was a child, his brows furrowed and he snorted coldly, and his voice became a little displeased, "Xiao Wang wants it now!" ”

As he spoke, Zong Zan shot at Richard again, this time several times faster than just now, but he was still dodged by Richard lightly.

"So you know kung fu?"

Zong Zan was surprised, and suddenly smiled and said, "Then you take my move, Flame Knife!" ”

Kumachi was shocked and said, "Prince, no! ”

Before he could finish speaking, Zong Zan had already slashed out with a knife in his palm, and a raging flame came out of his palm, and just when he was about to condense and form, a palm suddenly held his hand and extinguished the raging flames.

Richard withdrew his palm and laughed softly: "Prince, this is the palace, it is not appropriate to use force." If the prince wants to fight with someone, there will be a chance to compete with his relatives later. Come in. ”

Zong Zan was also taken aback by Richard's hand, and didn't dare to continue to make a move, so he nodded and turned around and walked towards the back garden. Gu Mozhi followed behind Zong Zan, and looked back at Richard again and again, his eyes were surprised and curious, and there was even a trace of war intent.

He had never seen anyone extinguish the flames of the Flame Knife with his bare hands, which made him feel like he wanted to fight Richard to see.

A moment later, the second and third people holding the invitation came, it was Duan Yu of Dali and Sikong Ba Tianshi of Dali Kingdom, and Xiao Feng representing Liao State came with him.

Although there is no void bamboo, these two are the same as the original book, and they have become sworn brothers. After reading the invitation of the two, Richard let the two in, and when Duan Yu walked by, he felt a breath of the same root and origin from Duan Yu.

This made Richard couldn't help but glance at Duan Yu more, and secretly said in his heart, it seems that he still got the opportunity in Langhuan Jade Cave.

The rest of the people came one after another, and after all the twenty-four people arrived, Richard glanced at the list he had quietly written down, and muttered in a low voice: "The people invited by Uncle Shi this time are really amazing. ”

The Great Sui came Li Jiancheng, the eldest son of Li Valve, Dugu Ce, the nephew of Dugu Feng, the son of Xie Hui, the lord of Duzun Fort, Xie Wenlong, and Song Shidao, the son of Song Que, the lord of Song Valve.

Most of the players in the Great Song Dynasty are players, six of the eight players are from the Great Song Dynasty, and the nameless squad occupies four seats, namely Arrogant Impermanence, Blood Without Cliff, Dongfang Weiming and Huabai Tea, and the other two players are Linghu, the president of the Huashan Guild, and the Hu family's knife heir who has a relationship with Richard.

The remaining two players Richard also knew each other, but their arrival surprised Richard a little, these two people were Ming Dong, and the long-disappeared Yuhuang of the Imperial City Guild President!

Richard thought that Emperor Yu would withdraw from the world of rivers and lakes since the dissolution of the Imperial City Guild, but he didn't expect that this guy had been dormant in the world of rivers and lakes, and he also got an invitation to recruit relatives for this competition, which couldn't help but make him pay more attention to Emperor Yu in his heart.

Richard put away the list and said to himself with a smile: "I hope that among these twenty-four people, there are a few more people who can pass the first three tests." Otherwise, I, the defender, don't even have a challenger, and it's too boring. ”

(End of chapter)