Early in the morning, Ding Ning opened the door of the wine shop at about the same time, and habitually walked out of the shop with a large porcelain bowl, but as soon as he took a step, he thought of something, retreated to the shop, took another big bowl, and then walked to the noodle shop where he ate morning noodles on weekdays.

The eaves on both sides had begun to hang small ice edges, but the bunk was too small to fit a table, so a shed was just built at the door to block some cotton cloth to protect from the wind.

The white vapor swirls around the shed, and although it can't really drive away the cold, it at least makes people look warm.

Ding Ning saw Xue Wangxu sitting in it from a distance, so he trotted all the way over, and when he saw that there was no bowl in front of Xue Wangxu, he couldn't help laughing.

"Boss, a bowl of spicy noodles with red oil." Xue Wangxu also smiled, and then greeted loudly.

Ding Ning also asked for a bowl of identical noodles, and when the noodles were ready, he came out with two bowls and handed a bowl to Xue Wangxu.

After the two finished eating noodles, they glanced at each other's slightly sweaty foreheads, and then Ding Ning asked, "Come so early today, where are you going to go?"

Xue Wangxu thought about it, and still said, "Today I want to go to the Tiger Wolf Army's Northern Army Camp." ”

Ding Ning was silent for a moment and said, "Who are you going to find?"

Xue Wangxu said honestly: "General Liang Lian." ”

Ding Ning's eyebrows trembled slightly.

His gaze unconsciously fell on the last flower sword on his waist.

More and more, he felt that this broken sword was like a thread in the underworld, entangled more and more things with people. Or maybe it's like a spell... When this sword did not appear, it seemed that many things were very far away from him, even if he had been planning certain things and inquiring about certain things, but after this sword appeared, many grievances came one after another, and it seemed that he could not even get rid of it.

Could this be the providence of the underworld?

It's not that I'm in a hurry, but that the time has really come?

Xue Wangxu looked at him with a somewhat strange face and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ding Ning raised his head and asked softly, "Is that what the queen meant?"

Xue Wangxu was slightly stunned, and then he nodded.

"Because I'm looking forward to your performance at the Minshan Sword Meeting, I also think that if you can really win first, it will be a real beauty. Originally, living a few more years and living a few years less was not as important as an old face, but for this... I'll have to hear what she means. ”

After a slight pause, Xue Wangxu continued gently: "Originally, she didn't want you to know that this was her arrangement, and for me, I actually didn't want you to know that this was her arrangement, because she was really right, if you have hatred for her and those people in the court, it will not be a good thing for you to grow up in Changling in the future." But I also know you're so smart that you can guess even if you don't tell you. ”

Ding Ning listened to these words and did not express any opinion about the empress, but said: "No matter what reason she is dissatisfied with Liang Lian, if Liang Lian is just a cultivator of the Six Realms, she will not have to go through such a bother. ”

"So Liang Lian must have also reached the seventh realm. ”

"You're going to die, she wants me to see how you die... What she means is that she probably wants you to find an excuse, find a reason why you have to challenge Liang Lian, so that even if I hate it, at most I hate Liang Lian. It doesn't matter if the courtiers hate each other, after all, it's just the sword of the Great Qin Dynasty, and it's all His Majesty's private property, and they can also contain each other. ”

After saying this, Ding Ning was silent for a moment, and then said: "I knew she was cold, but I didn't expect her to be so cold. ”

Xue Wangxu had been listening calmly, and when he heard this, he shook his head and said, "You are still too smart. ”

"When it comes to the understanding of power, it's not just those mountain disciples in Zhushan County who are inferior to you, but the vast majority of people in Changling are inferior to you. But if you're really smart, you should understand that you're better off pretending not to see these things. ”

He looked at Ding Ning's eyes, accentuated his tone, and admonished very seriously: "Even if you really have a trace of hatred for her and the court in your heart, you must at least pretend not to." ”

Because it at least shows an attitude of bowing down and obeying. Ding Ning said in a slightly cold voice: "Now she and Your Majesty don't care if the cultivators of Great Qin have their own ideas, they only care about whether we obey or disobey sometimes." ”

"A strong dynasty must abandon the interests and ideas of some people, and we are only a very small number of people after all. And to tell the truth, everyone in the current Great Qin Dynasty lives and works in peace and contentment, and His Majesty is indeed the most powerful and wise emperor in the history of Great Qin. Xue Wangxu smiled slightly, and said: "It's good that you can understand, even if her thoughts are very cold, but what we asked for at the beginning, to be able to see the requirements of the Minshan Sword Society, will be fulfilled, from this point of view, in fact, we should be grateful to her." ”

Ding Ning was silent.

Xue Wuxu saw through what he was thinking, laughed, and said gently: "Actually, you should change your mind and really annoy an opponent who can't be matched at all, but this opponent gives me room to choose and leaves me plenty of time." And I can guarantee that I won't have a painful time through it. If you think about it that way, you won't think it's a cruel thing for her to ask you to watch me die slowly. And you will at least be able to see the duel above the True Seven Realms with your own eyes, which may have some effect on your future cultivation. ”

"You're right. ”

Ding Ning put away the two bowls, his face returned to calm, and said this. However, his heart was unusually cold, and he said slowly, it's a pity that she thinks like this after all, but it's a pity that without these things, I can't forgive her coldness after all.

......

The morning light is getting thicker, but the sky in Changling is getting more and more hazy, because another wind and snow have begun to fall.

This time it was not a light snow, but the kind of goose feather heavy snow.

Liang Lian walked on the martial arts arena of the Tiger Wolf Army.

His military boots stepped on the snow, making a creaking sound, and he was very satisfied when he looked at the many formations on another martial arts arena not far away, and the tiger and wolf army chariots that were already meticulously rushing and killing the drills.

However, at this moment, he felt a strange aura.

This is an aura that is enough to attract the attention of any cultivator in Changling, and this breath involves the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi outside the camp, and involves countless flying goose feathers and heavy snow, and it actually slowly pulled up a big flag between heaven and earth.

Feeling the snow flag formed in the air, Liang Lian's brows furrowed deeply, he did not hesitate, the ordnance stepped steadily through the snow, and walked towards the outside of the camp.

As he walked, many cultivators in the camp also sensed something abnormal, and they walked out of the camp one after another, and swept towards the outside of the camp in shock in the wind and snow.

In the snowstorm, a large butter paper umbrella slowly floated.

This umbrella is very large, and there are two figures, one large and one small, under the umbrella.

The wind and snow fell on the shiny surface of the umbrella, and instead of sticking, it floated upward.

In the air above the umbrella surface, there is a faint refraction of light, revealing the outline of a large flag.

Looking at Liang Lian, who walked out of the camp gate, the white-haired old man under the umbrella smiled peacefully and said, "General Liang Lian, I want to challenge you." ”

Liang Lian looked at Xue Wangxu and Ding Ning under the umbrella in silence, and his cold pupils were originally a little puzzled, but when he heard this sentence at this moment, he instantly understood a lot of things.

All the wind and snow that came in front of him instantly parted in fear on either side of him.

His figure suddenly became clear in the wind and snow.

Then he stretched out his palm and clenched his fist against his body.

All the cultivators who had swept out of the barracks stopped at the same time that they saw his gesture and did not leave the camp gate.

"Good. ”

Then he looked at Xue Wangxu and nodded, and said indifferently, "I accept your challenge." ”

Ding Ning saw Liang Lian clearly in the wind and snow.

He was sure that what Song Shenshu said was not wrong.

He didn't say anything, and the silence began to retreat.

Liang Lian's gaze suddenly fell on Ding Ning's body, as if he remembered something, he said expressionlessly: "This student of yours has some meaning." ”

Xue Wangxu smiled slightly and said, "In the future, General Liang will need to cultivate." ”

Liang Lian didn't answer, and withdrew his gaze from Ding Ning's body.

Then his body seemed to begin to swell, and there seemed to be a mountain of iron, standing at the entrance of the barracks.

Xue Wangxu smiled and said, "Please take the sword, the general." ”

At the moment when he said this, many flying snowflakes in front of him were suddenly pulled by the countless strands of heaven and earth vitality gushing out of his body, condensing into countless ice lines in the wind and snow.

Each of these ice lines is a rune line.

Liang Lian's indifferent face suddenly became solemn.

He looked up.

In the extremely high sky above, the looming banner suddenly changed, and countless ice lines and turbulent snow streams instantly formed a huge snow sword.