208 The two kings contended for succession
Emperor Kunyuan has been on the throne for twenty-four years, but he has not yet determined the candidate for the crown prince, which inevitably arouses too much reverie.
King Xia is the third son of the current Emperor Houtu, although he is younger than the second prince of King Yun, he is more favored than ever. In particular, King Xia has accompanied the emperor since he was a child, almost never left Beijing, and is a popular candidate for the crown prince with the eldest prince. And King Yun has been away from Beijing for a long time, and it is said that he provoked his father when he was five years old, and he was "dispatched" to Jinzhou by the sea, and now it has been 12 years.
King Yun has been good at Confucianism since he was a child. In the first ten years, Jinzhou, which was originally a tidal flat and barren grass, under the governance of a group of Confucian scholars who assisted King Yun, made great efforts to govern and repair the embankment and Zhenhai. He also supported a group of businessmen to build ships and do business, which is no longer what it used to be. Especially the Jinzhou City by the sea, in terms of prosperity, is almost no longer under the thick earth city of the capital. This provoked Emperor Kunyuan Long Yan Dayue, and with a stroke of the pen, the neighboring Yuzhou was also assigned to King Yun, making Jinzhou City renamed Jinyucheng.
As for whether King Yun can return to the sequence of competing for the position of the East Palace, there are different opinions. Some people think that King Yun has been absent from Beijing for a long time, and he has long lost his qualification for the heir, and it is already the limit to be able to keep the position of the feudal official. Some people also say that Emperor Kunyuan's attitude has changed, so he will put King Yun and King Xia together to practice, so that they have the opportunity to compete on the same stage. Only the winner between King Yun and King Xia is qualified to fight with the eldest prince King Hong.
Since King Yun is the lord of the Golden State, he is also especially important to the Jade Palace in the Golden State. That's why Lian Ping took this matter down.
But she doesn't care who can become the crown prince. The only thing she wants to make sure is that this pampered Second Prince, His Royal Highness, must not have an accident in the self-birth monument, otherwise it will all be on her head.
It doesn't matter if it's King Xia. The safety of King Xia is borne by his own ghosts, Xuanyin and other cadres. If something really happened, she couldn't help but push the boat down the river, tie up these people and send them directly to Kunyuan Palace, but get rid of her big enemy.
After everyone finished deliberating, Mu Jia, who had promised a word from beginning to end, was the first to get up, didn't greet anyone, and left without looking back.
Ghost Xuanyin's goal of maintaining the first-level Wuyuan Self-Born Monument Battle has been achieved, and he can also sit down with peace of mind. At this time, he vaguely felt that behind the shadow wall with the word "Xuan" written in the main hall, there seemed to be a divine consciousness sweeping in, as if he had seen through all his thoughts, which made him feel a little uneasy in his heart.
His true qi was confined in the Danyang Pavilion, but he was alone in the council hall on this floor, as the elder of the torture hall, he was in the same column as the head of the house and the guard, and he was not restricted by the small spirit array. He immediately poured the power of his divine sense into his five senses and swept it behind the shadow wall.
With the power of his Purple Mansion Four Qi Divine Sense, the thin layer of wood seemed like nothing to him. Although the wooden plank cut off the light color that mortals see, because of his divine power, his eyesight is very strong, and the light color that is invisible to mortals can see through the wooden plank, and he can see it clearly. Coupled with the gentle breeze flowing and echoing in this building, he could fully perceive the strangeness hidden in the space behind the wall.
But when he looked at it, there was nothing unusual about it as an empty corridor behind the shadow wall. As for the second floor and above, he was restricted by the small spirit array, and he couldn't snoop on it again.
He immediately relented. It's good to be vigilant about things that can't be verified, but it's not necessary to be suspicious. Leaving the council hall, he walked back to the bottom of the Torture Tree Palace, a place hundreds of feet deep.
In fact, this place has already left the Torture Tree Palace, which is an underground secret palace that the Ghost Xuanyin ordered people to dig directly under the roots of the torture tree and dig out of the rocks. He usually draws the earth's qi here to nourish the Xuanyin Ancient Tree. Far from the ground, it is not easy to be snooped on and disturbed.
The Ghost Xuanyin's practice meditation room was not luxurious, but almost all the utensils were cut from black wood, square and orderly, with sharp edges and corners, and there was no roundness. He sat on a wooden couch and closed his eyes. After a while, footsteps sounded, and the disciple was already kneeling in front of the couch.
"Get up and speak. ”
Since Wang Xuanfeng, Chen Xuanfang and others died, he felt deeply that he had lost his arm. Especially Chen Xuanfang. Although in terms of cultivation, he is the most unsuccessful one. As a disciple of the Xuanzi generation, he actually ended up with a Void Dan Three Colors, which was not as good as Su Xuanbi. But when it comes to vertical and horizontal strategies and intrigues, he really has to be.
If he hadn't gone to the Five Elements Sect to carry out activities, it would be impossible for the Five Elements Sect Mude Academy to stand on his side so firmly now. It was also his ability to calculate and offer advice that allowed Wang Xuanfeng and others to sit firmly in the position of elders one by one.
But the Biluo Holy Maiden was so powerful that she actually fell into the trap and did not die, and she also killed almost all his wings, and even his wise man Chen Xuanfang also died.
When it was time to employ people, he found that his disciples such as Du Wenji and others were all rice buckets. Fortunately, he also has a disciple, Gu Wentian, who is useful, no less than Chen Xuanfang back then.
Gu Wentian was already sitting cross-legged on the futon in front of his couch. This person usually does not pretend and does not act in waves, but he grasps the key point step by step, which makes Ghost Xuanyin quite relieved.
Especially the relationship between him and the third prince, King Xia, there is really too much room for imagination.
For many years, Yunwang Haoye, who has guarded the two states of Jinyu, has relied heavily on the Jade Palace. But after all, King Yun is an abandoned son of the Hao family, even if he climbs, what is the use? It is obviously inferior to the background of King Xia. Once King Kasumi ascends the throne, the prospect is unimaginable.
"If the apprentice expected it to be true, this should have been done for the most part. His Royal Highness King Xia also explained everything to his disciples. Gu Wentian is still confident.
"Lian Ping has indeed promised to let the two kings of Yunxia enter the self-born monument to experience. Ghost Xuanyin said in a low voice, "She will definitely escort the Cloud King personally." Although Lian Ping is not as good as Biluo, he is the highest cultivator among the Xudan monks. You want to let King Yun have an accident and trap her, it's not that simple. ”
Gu Wentian smiled gloomily and said, "The failure of the escort of the Lord on behalf of the Lord has led to the fate of the Cloud King—although this matter is big, the crime is not to death." And it will damage the prestige of my Jade Palace. If it is replaced by the self-born monument of the Jade Palace, which was suddenly invaded by foreign enemies, plotting to assassinate the two kings, and the substitute guard Lian Ping died in battle, although he failed to keep the King of Yun, he was fortunate to save the King of Xia - in this way, not only the two birds of King Yun and Lian Ping were eliminated with one stone, but the Jade Palace was in the hands of the master, and the court had rewards and no punishments, would it be better?"
"Foreign enemy?" Ghost Xuanyin frowned, "The Self-Born Monument is an important place for my sect, where did the foreign enemy come from?"
"Since the foreign enemy is going to appear in my ancestral land, it naturally has to be some pervasive ......" Gu Wentian sank down and no longer spoke, but lowered his head and drew the word "corpse" on the ground with his fingers.
"Corpse Soul Sect?" these three words suddenly popped out of Ghost Xuanyin's mind. But he neither asked nor said. The Corpse Soul Sect, an evil sect that everyone in the Houtu Dynasty was punished for, let him, the Torture Hall Elder, know about it, so it would be worth it? But the Corpse Soul Sect is from the Soul Sect, and the magic is ghostly, and it should be combined inside and outside, and it may indeed be able to deceive the heavy vigilance of the Jade Palace.
At this time, Gu Wentian's eyes must have shown a little fierceness, and then he bowed to his master, and said angrily: "This matter can be handed over to the apprentice, and the stele of the Yun King will be killed, even if Lian Ping does not die, he will inevitably be implicated and questioned by the imperial court." Although the master sits high in the palace of torture. If this matter is successful, our ancient clan will form an alliance with the Jade Palace forever, and jointly assist King Xia to inherit the unification. If this matter fails, the disciples will bear it together, and they will definitely not implicate the master in the slightest. ”
Ghost Xuanyin was silent, uncommittal. In fact, he didn't know what Gu Wentian would do, and he didn't want to know. When the time comes, it will really be traced, and it will be a big deal to give up the chess piece of Gu Wentian, and it will definitely not be implicated in his head. But if the overall situation has been decided, when it is his turn to make a move, he will not hesitate at all.
A moment ago, Lian Ling and Gou Zhu were still behind the shadow wall of the council hall.
The Biluo Holy Maiden's physical qi was damaged and difficult to heal, but her five senses and divine consciousness were not lost much. Although she leaned against this wooden wall, she didn't have to look back, she could see that when Ghost Xuanyin was leaving, her eyes changed, and she swept towards this shadow wall inexplicably.
It's just that her body is like the wind, pulling Gou Zhu to move slightly, and in the blink of an eye, she has left the same place and returned to the practice meditation room on the second floor.
She has been clasping the wrist of the hook and is ready to escape at any time. Otherwise, with his ability to seduce him, no matter how powerful his light skills are, it will be impossible for him to escape the awareness of this glance of Ghost Xuanyin.
The holy woman sat cross-legged on the wooden couch and looked at the disciple serving in front of her, her eyes were also faintly surprised.
She has been in a state of deep sleep since the battle between Qingyang Town and Mu Fei. Therefore, he didn't know anything about the experiences of breaking into the Transmission Tower, losing the Dragon Skeleton Valley, and so on. It wasn't until the hook pig entered the Ziyun Hot Spring that the familiar aura fluctuations of the Ziyun Hot Spring woke her up.
It was also because she was originally the lord of Ziyun Hot Spring, so Gou Zhu did not die by the aura explosion in the hot spring.
A few months ago, it was not enough to build a three-fold foundation. Now that I see it, I have actually reached the sixth level of foundation building. If you follow the Jade Palace's step-by-step cultivation method, it will be impossible without three or five years. It seems that this guy has a lot of opportunities in the Transmission Tower.
There are a total of five floors in the tower, which has all the connotations of the Jade Palace.
Among the major sects, the so-called heritage is some masters who have long been out of the world and do not care about the ordinary. These people are enshrined in the sect, do not care about the affairs of the world, are not subject to the control of the head of the sect, and are not called elders. Even if the sect fights infighting, it is often a cold bystander.
But these masters are generally bound by cause and effect, and have a blood contract. If the sect is worried about destroying the sect, or if the sect uses the blood contract, it can drive these masters once or twice. Once the number of promises in the blood pact is exhausted, then they will ascend to the heavenly realm or go into seclusion abroad, and they will be out of the mundane forever.
The more 10,000-year-old the material, the more abundant the heritage.
But Jade Palace is different. After Qin Zunyang established the sect more than five hundred years ago, he had already soared more than ten years later. At that time, this sect had no foundation. But it is said that before Qin Zunyang ascended by himself, he traveled all over the world, specially recruited five masters, and even coaxed and deceived them all to be bound in the transmission tower, and these people were forced to become the foundation of the Jade Palace.
As for the Jade Palace disciples breaking into the Gong Pagoda, whether they can get enlightenment when they meet these masters depends on their respective chances. Like Gou Zhu, the first layer was tempered by the rebirth canyon, and was given a puppet by the heavenly machine god Pu Laojiu, the second layer was inherited by the great demon Wen Ruxue, and the third layer collided with the battle between Huangquan and Xuantie Sanitary Death, how many people can there be throughout the ages?
"Xuan Ming Nine Dead Yin Cultivation Exercises! I didn't expect that Sister Xue would pass on all her box bottom kung fu to you. Lian Ling's divine sense swept over the sea of consciousness and couldn't help but marvel. Back then, she also broke through the Gong Transmission Tower, and she deeply knew the power of Wen Ruxue, the Yuan Infant Demon.
In fact, Wen Ruxue has a gentle and generous personality, regards all external objects as nothing, and will not be stingy with a practice. If she asked for this exercise when she broke through the level back then, Wen Ruxue would definitely pass it on to her. It's just that the Xuanming Nine Dead Yin cultivation is very special, and it can't be cultivated unless it's a bitter cold body, so even if she gets it, it's useless.
But Gou Zhu was passed on by Lan Ruoshuang to part of the bitter cold poisonous mother, and then cultivating the Xuanming Nine Dead Yin Cultivation Skill is a great opportunity. This exercise is not inferior to Aoki Changsheng Gong, but the number of paths is different.