In the middle of the night, the river wind gusted, bringing a chill to the bone, the moon shadow was dim, the shadows of the surrounding trees were misty, quiet and silent, and there was not even the sound of water flowing.

A black shadow fell from the sky, and after it settled, Yu Qingzi led the way, and the flying sword immediately submerged into his body, Xiao Lan and Liu Jun habitually looked around, but Yu Qingzi and Liu Hanqing Ling didn't care at all, and walked straight to a stone tablet, and the two hurriedly followed.

Liu Han drew a few times on the stele, the stele slowly moved to the side, Liu Han turned his head and said to the two of them: "This is the opening formation, not the mechanism, it is the drawing talisman, I will teach you later." ”

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the two of them to answer, he stepped aside, and only after Yu Qingzi and Qing Ling went in did he follow.

After Xiao Lan and Liu Jun entered, they felt that it was a long row of stone steps, the stone steps were a bit steep, Xiao Lan went down carefully, Liu Jun quickly realized that Xiao Lan had not cultivated yet, and no matter how good the secret was, it was impossible for him to succeed in three days, and in these three days, only his injuries were treated.

When he reached the bottom of the cave, Xiao Lan breathed a sigh of relief, this section of the road is not long, but it is not easy to walk, and the others are just down, but he is an ordinary person now, and it is not easy to walk such a road.

"Master, it's too difficult to go up and down like this, besides, there are rocks all around, and you can't grow herbs," Liu Han said: "Can we open an opening, so that the aura can go out from this opening, just like a fountain, let's build a courtyard outside, and then set up a formation in the sect to trap the aura, so that we can avoid going up and down." ”

Yu Qingzi looked around, this up and down is nothing to the cultivator, there is no light and nothing, except for Xiao Lan and Liu Jun who have not reached the realm of dark night vision, the other three have no problem at all.

But the biggest problem is that there is no way to grow medicinal herbs in this cave, medicinal herbs are very important for cultivating immortals, even in the period when the spiritual energy is abundant, the pills are very important auxiliary means, and now it is even more important, without the pills, it is almost impossible to break through.

The pill mainly comes from the herb and the inner pill of the demon beast, now the demon beast is almost invisible, the herb is the main raw material of the pill, therefore, each sect has a special herb, the Qingxu Sect covers an area of hundreds of kilometers, but there are only a dozen people, most of the places are used to grow medicinal herbs.

"Well, let's wait until it's built outside. Yu Qingzi turned his head to look at everyone, and then said to Qing Ling: "This place is yours, how to place it, you can do it yourself." The ban here has been set, and if outsiders want to break in, they must trigger the ban. ”

Speaking of this, Yu Qingzi paused: "After I leave, you can reset the ban." ”

Qing Ling grinned: "No, I don't dare to compare with the master." ”

Yu Qingzi glared at him, Qing Ling hurriedly restrained his smile, nodded solemnly, Yu Qingzi turned his head to look at Liu Han: "The blessed land in the imperial capital, you can deal with it yourself." ”

"Thank you, master. Liu Han bowed down and thanked him, although the blessed land in the imperial capital is not as good as here, but now the blessed land is a scarce resource, and every sect attaches great importance to the blessed land, even if the blessed land is thin, it will not be easily distributed to the disciples.

The Qingxu Sect now has three blessed lands, which are the most blessed lands in the immortal cultivation world.

The blessed land of the imperial capital, Liu Han has been pondering for a long time, although the aura of this blessed land is thin, but it is enough for him, he has never thought of building a foundation and ascending or something, but talisman making requires aura, so this blessed land with some chicken ribs fully meets his requirements.

Qingling chose the cave mansion, Xiao Lan wanted to live here for a while, and also chose a cave mansion, while Liu Han and Liu Jun were at will.

Liu Jun was very curious, but Liu Han instructed him, don't walk around, just practice if you have nothing to do, Liu Jun understands in his heart that these people outside the world behave differently from ordinary people.

"You have to continue to practice the sword beyond the level of your sword, or else you will stay and do not go out. Liu Han said.

Liu Jun's heart froze, he looked up and looked around, he couldn't help but shudder, he lived the rest of his life in this black hole....

He hurriedly found a place to start practicing his sword!

This night, except for Liu Jun practicing swords in the hall, everyone else has never been out of the quiet room, they are all meditating and practicing, Liu Jun has been practicing in the living room for a whole day, and he has not seen anyone come out.

The next day was still night, Liu Han and they sent Yu Qingzi away, and returned to the cave, Qing Ling entered the quiet room without saying anything, Liu Han looked at his back and couldn't help but smile bitterly, called Xiao Lan over, and asked him how he was going?

Xiao Lan told him that he felt that there was aura entering his body, but he was injured some time ago, and his body suffered serious losses, and now he is recuperating and cultivating at the same time, and his progress is extremely slow.

"What about you, don't worry, take your time, normally, you can cultivate to the first level in one year, but I hope you can break through to the first level in the first year. ”

Xiao Lan pondered slightly, looked up at him and asked, "How much time did you spend at the beginning?"

Liu Han smiled and raised a finger, Liu Jun was a little surprised: "Three months!"

"Three years!" Liu Han shook his head and said: "But I am in the Western Regions, I have not found a blessed land, in three years, I only have a slight sense of qi, and then I stumbled into a valley by mistake, and practiced in it for three months, and when I came out, I had reached the peak of the second layer." ”

Xiao Lan gasped, which meant that Liu Han had reached the second-level realm of qi refining within three months, and it was still without any pill support.

"I estimate that I won't be able to return to the imperial capital until next spring at the earliest, so you have at least half a year to improve your cultivation to the second level of qi refining. Liu Han looked at Xiao Lan and said.

"In other words, next spring, I'm going to the imperial capital?" Xiao Lan asked.

"I really hope you can stay in Jiangnan," Liu Han said: "You know the rivers and lakes in Jiangnan, the gate valves, and the scholars very well, and you are the best candidate for the head of the Jiangnan branch of Hanhai Trading Company, but..."

This "but", Liu Han hesitated and did not continue, but looked at Xiao Lan, Xiao Lan smiled bitterly, of course he knew the content behind the word "but".

His family, the Xiao family is in Jiangnan; he killed Fang Zhen, but can he be so ruthless to the Cao Gang; he has many relatives and friends in Jiangnan, can he attack them.

Liu Han lifted the veil he had to face!

Looking at Xiao Lan's helplessness, Liu Han sighed softly: "So, I think you should go to the imperial capital with me, the imperial capital also has a blessed land, although the aura is far inferior to this, but for the disciples in the qi refining period, it can barely meet the needs." ”

Xiao Lan didn't answer, he kept avoiding the question, although he knew that he would have to face it sooner or later!

Now Liu Han is merciless and cruelly tortures him.

"Think about it, you don't need to answer now, it's still early next spring. Liu Han sighed.

Xiao Lan went back with heavy steps, Liu Jun sighed softly, Liu Han turned his head to look at him, Liu Jun smiled bitterly: "My surname is Liu now, what the head of the family orders me to do, I must do it." ”

"What if I let you kill your friend?" Liu Han asked rhetorically.

Liu Jun was silent, raised his head and said, "The order of the head of the family is the order!"

Liu Han stared at him, Liu Jun looked nervous, with a little bitterness, Liu Han sighed softly: "Practice the sword, if you don't practice well, you don't want to go out." ”

"Yes. ”

Liu Jun carried the sword, turned around and went out, and after a while, there were bursts of scolding in the living room, and he couldn't help but shake his head.

There is no need to guess, the palace has already ordered him to be responsible for rectifying the entire Yangzhou internal guard, and at the same time select the head of the Yangzhou internal guard, and also assist Gu Wei to take down Sheng Huai, rectify Yangzhou officialdom, and then achieve the purpose of rectifying Yangzhou's tax revenue;

"Wang Ze?" Liu Han muttered, and then sighed: "I should have fled back to Jizhou." ”

He felt very sorry in his heart, if Wang Ze was still in Yangzhou, he wouldn't mind getting rid of him.

"Cao Gang!" Liu Han lay down on his back, looking at the somewhat bright roof, there was a big night pearl on the roof exuding a hazy light, whenever he saw this night pearl, Liu Han always couldn't help but guess, this Qingxu Sect is still very expected, only this night pearl is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, if it is auctioned in the imperial capital, he is confident that it will be sold for more than 50,000 taels.

"Fang Jie, how will you move?" Liu Han muttered to himself, if Fang Jie insisted on going north, he would have to face the battle, Xiao Yu was already preparing in the imperial capital, Pengcheng, it would be the first battle.

"Maybe it's better to lure the enemy deeper. ”

The old-timers have won countless victories with this trick, and they may be able to borrow it.

"Let them go deeper, maybe they can force the court and let the court take action. ”

Thinking of this, Liu Han nodded and sighed softly: "Blue Butterfly, will you make a move?"

The internal guards of the Cao Gang are all in the hands of Blue Butterfly, if Blue Butterfly refuses, she will definitely be killed.

"Guards?"

"Sheng Huai?"

"Gu Wei?"

Liu Han felt that the affairs of Yangzhou were a mess, and everything was mixed together, so he casually broke off a rock and put a few stones on the stone table.

"Cao Gang. "Internal guard. "Sheng Huai. "Gu Wei. ”

After thinking about it for a while, he put two more pebbles.

"Hanhai Trading Company. "Hundred Workshops. ”

stared blankly at the six stones, and his brows were deeply twisted.

In the middle of the ring, he suddenly got up and wandered back and forth in the house.

"Am I being too passive? ”

"Until now, I've been on passive defense, and when I see the moves, I should take the initiative and take the initiative to attack!"

"Yes, it should be. ”

He sat down and added two more stones to the stone table.

"Jiangnan Meeting," "Huaiyang Meeting." ”

His eyes were fixed on these two stones, first picked up the Jiangnan Society, hesitated to meet the meeting, and then put it down and picked up the Huaiyang Society.

"You smugglers, it's time to do something for the court. ”

A sly smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.

After pondering a good idea in his heart, he sat down cross-legged and gradually entered the realm of forgetting things and me.

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Caoyun gradually came to an end, Yangzhou slowly quieted down, Gufu's gossip spread all over the city, but the heat also slowly passed, only occasionally someone brought news to the house, but they were soon driven out, a few people in the rivers and lakes were not angry, and they started to move, but they were beaten by the Gu Mansion family and thrown out of the house.

The shock caused by Fang Zhen's death also slowly subsided, and the Cao Gang and its allies searched Yangzhou up and down, but did not find half a clue about Xiao Lan.

After Fang Zhen's forty-nine days of funeral, Fang Jie was unanimously supported by the Cao Gang and succeeded to the Cao Gang.

After succeeding to the throne, Fang Jie gave Xiao Lan a long river order, and then personally led heavy troops south to Jiankang to deter Wu County.

A flat boat, galloping against the current, quietly sailed into Yangzhou City in the afterglow of the sunset, the boat stopped in a remote place in the city, a long figure, with a hat of the blue-shirted young man quietly disembarked, the wide hat covered his face, can only see the knife-like jaw, after he got off the boat, without the slightest hesitation jumped on the waiting carriage, the carriage immediately started.

The carriage passed through the streets and alleys that had gradually quieted down, and entered the back door of a house, where the carriage stopped, and the blue-shirted young man jumped out of the carriage, took off his hat, and handed it to a man in sackcloth who was already waiting by the side.

(End of chapter)