Chapter 153 The court and the sect (two in one)
After thinking for a while, Xu Yuan did not refuse Xu Xinyao's request. He glanced at the sect disciples who wanted to eat him, and said softly:
"It's up to you, but I suggest you hurry up. If you delay for a long time, I guess you will regret it later with your personality."
He doesn't trust those disciples of the sect, so naturally he won't explain the reason again.
Xu Xinyao revealed a hint of doubt in her beautiful eyes, and said in a low voice:
"Okay, I'm just explaining the next thing to Ziqing and the others."
Xu Yuan shrugged, indicating that she could pass.
Xu Xinyao thought for a moment, but turned around and walked towards the group of sect disciples.
The tense atmosphere on the official road dissipated a little.
Standing where he was, Xu Yuan looked at the group of disciples of various sects with good looks.
After ten breaths, Xu Yuan suddenly asked in his heart:
"How is the cultivation of this group of people?"
After a pause, the voice of the saint's remnant soul sounded:
"Except for the two people who talked to you just now, most of them are body fusion, and a small part are soul condensing."
Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows and scanned the faces of the group of people:
"They're all quite young. This kind of cultivation should be outstanding in the sect. It seems that my fourth younger sister has made friends with geniuses and second-generation ancestors, and they don't accept all trash."
The remnant saint laughed lowly, and said in a teasing tone: "It's really not a waste, but Xu Xiaozi, I thought you would kill that person."
Xu Yuan was cold for a moment, then glanced at Li Zhonghua who kept apologizing to Xu Xinyao:
"Kill Li Zhonghua?"
"Naturally." The saint remnant said.
Xu Yuan shook his head lightly:
"Why should I kill him? Apart from making things difficult for Xu Xinyao, will it do any good?"
The saint's remnant soul smiled: "Don't you think that person is very noisy?"
"It's really noisy."
Xu Yuan agreed:
"But it's not that the sword has no eyes in the competition. Such a young third-rank grand master is probably the true head of a big sect. He pays attention to the master's reputation in everything. If it were Xu Changge, he would be severely injured at most. Why would I do something that does nothing but harm?"
Paused, Xu Yuan glanced at the black soul ring on his fingertips:
"If I hadn't used Charm God's Dao Yun to kill the old man and the strong man, the three dark sons of Wanxiang Sect would have almost capsized our boat in the gutter. The third-rank master mastered Dao Yun, and none of them were easy to deal with.
"Even if we can kill them in the end, how much soul power do you have left?
"Why should I do such a harmless thing?"
The words fall,
Dressed in blue clothes, Xu Xinyao, who has watery eyes, has turned around and walked towards Xu Yuan.
It seemed that she listened to his words, and she simply explained to appease everyone's emotions, and then returned to him after making simple arrangements for her itinerary after she left.
"Third brother, let's go."
Xu Yuan looked him up and down, and asked:
"Are you still planning to travel with them?"
He heard their conversation just now, Xu Xinyao asked the group of people to go back to Huanglongji to wait for him.
Xu Xinyao nodded:
"Father promised me."
Xu Yuan stared at her for a few breaths, shook his head slightly, and didn't say any more:
"Can you fly?"
In Cangyuan, the "former heroine" in front of me is not weak in frontal combat, at least in the middle and early stages, not to mention her attainments in formation.
Xu Xinyao nodded slightly:
"My boots are engraved with a formation that stays in the air. I can fly, but not for a long time"
"Don't resist."
Halfway through hearing it, Xu Yuan waved his hand to interrupt, without looking at the group of sect disciples, he directly waved his hand and used the power of a saint to lift up the fourth sister, and said to Ran Qingmo who was beside him:
"let's go."
Ran Qingmo nodded slightly:
"Um"
The words fall,
Three figures jumped up and galloped towards Shengshan County
Xu Xinyao asked Xu Yuan many questions along the way, but Xu Yuan ignored her, just like Ran Qingmo ignored him along the way.
But Xu Xinyao, who is gentle by nature, didn't feel annoyed, so she turned to Transsion to share with Xu Yuan what she had seen and heard along the way since her travels.
From the sufferings of the world, to interesting stories along the way, to acquaintances, and even some suitors who made her distressed.
Of course, Xu Yuan still ignored her.
As she gradually approached her destination, Xu Xinyao's words gradually became less and less, not because of Xu Yuan's ignorance, but because of the gradual familiarity with the nearby landforms.
She realized that the place they were going to was Shengshan County, and also vaguely realized why the third brother who had been silent all the way beat her
One day later, the destination arrived.
The phantom fog formation in Shengshan County still stretched across the edge of the Wanxing Mountains like a moat, but Xu Yuan took Xu Xinyao directly to the control formation of the Wanxiang Sect.
It was still a moonless night, and occasionally a loud beast roar could be heard in the dark forest.
Landed at the entrance of the cave where the control point is located,
Xu Yuan still didn't speak, and glanced sideways at Xu Xinyao who was silent.
Xu Xinyao lowered her head, her soft hair blowing down her temples, covering her expression.
Without any words, she walked quietly towards the cave.
Xu Yuan didn't move. Seeing the other party's slim figure disappear into the darkness of the cave, he snorted softly and walked slowly to the entrance of the cave and sat on the stone wall.
He has not closed his eyes for two days and two nights. Once he does not practice the exercises, he will feel a deep sense of sleepiness.
Ran Qingmo sat beside him silently, took down the curtain, looked at the dark mountains and forests all around with her quiet beautiful eyes, and said in a low voice:
"Xu Yuan."
"Huh?" Xu Yuan was a little tired and didn't open his eyes.
Ran Qingmo said in a low voice:
"Your sister is actually pretty good."
Xu Yuan whispered:
"How to say?"
Ran Qingmo thought for a while, then whispered:
"I heard about her reputation when I was traveling around the world. Before I went down the mountain, my master said that I should learn from her."
Xu Yuan heard the words and said in a low voice:
"Your master can be regarded as a sensible person."
As he spoke, he hooked the corners of his lips:
"But the Zongmen really should hope that there will be more people like her in the imperial court."
Ran Qingmo thought for a while, but couldn't figure it out, and asked:
"Why?"
"Because there are more people like this, my father's plan will be difficult, and everyone will live in peace."
"Um"
"Nature is good."
Xu Yuan slowly opened his eyes: "No one wants to fight, not including my father. Those who really want to fight and enjoy fighting are lunatics."
Ran Qingmo heard this topic, his eyes flickered, and asked in a low voice:
"Coco, why did your father attack Jianzong?"
Xu Yuan looked at her beside him, his complexion became softer, and he asked in a low voice:
"Ran Qingmo, what do you think of Wanxiangzong's massacre of the city?"
Ran Qingmo was silent for a few breaths, and said very seriously:
"angry."
Xu Yuan smiled slightly, nodded and said:
"Yes, anyone who is angry will feel angry when they see such a thing. This is 400,000 people."
Speaking of which,
Xu Yuan paused for two seconds, then suddenly changed the subject, with a complicated tone:
"400,000 people may seem like a lot, but it's really nothing. The year before last, Ziyue County was demolished, and more than 300,000 people died. Do you know about this?"
Ran Qingmo shook his head honestly: "I don't know."
Xu Yuan continued to ask:
"The demon beast Chao Chengqing County was destroyed two years ago, and more than 500,000 people died. The most serious thing was that Xishen County was destroyed nine years ago, and nearly two million people died. You don't know about these things, do you?"
“.”
Ran Qingmo didn't speak, but shook his head.
She didn't read the Dibao, nor did she read the internal reference, she only knew about cultivation.
All the information was told to her by the master.
Xu Yuan sighed:
"400,000 people is just a drop in the ocean for the entire Great Yan. Because the things I just said are all integers.
"On the 100,000-mile border defense line of the Wanxing Mountains, it is difficult to calculate the scattered casualties every year, but at least it will exceed one Shengshan County.
"Remember, I said every year."
"." Ran Qingmo pursed her red lips.
Xu Yuan didn't mean to stop, he pointed to the northwest and north, and said in a weary tone:
"Ran Qingmo, the border of Dayan is not only the 100,000-mile Wanxing Mountains, but also the desert in the northwest, and the bitter cold land in the north. Since the official war between Dayan and the barbarians in the north, that side has died There are more than five million people, and besides that, there are Japanese pirates making trouble along the nearly 200,000-mile coastal defense line in the east."
"The number of people killed and injured in these places every year is really nothing in Shengshan County."
Ran Qingmo lowered his eyes slightly, and said softly:
"Xu Yuan. Do so many people die every year?"
"Recorded in the internal reference of Xiangguo Mansion."
Xu Yuan sighed again, in a leisurely tone:
"Furthermore, the casualties on the border are only small ones, and the real big ones are still in the territory of Dayan. Except for the seven or eight rich continents, you should have seen what the rest of the places look like, and these reasons are due to many The blood-sucking of the Zongmen has led to the financial deficit of the imperial court, and the local governments cannot afford the expenses of eliminating demons in various places."
"Of course, from the standpoint of your sect, it can also be understood that this is the evil result of the imperial court's stubbornness, holding on to power and refusing to back down."
"However, no one wants Dayan to be exhausted. After all, only when Dayan is strong can the imperial court, sects and many aristocratic families become more powerful."
"." Ran Qingmo's chest rose and fell slightly.
Xu Yuan looked helpless, and said in a low voice:
"Ran Qingmo, now you should know why my father wanted to attack Tianyuan Sword Sect? He didn't want to attack Tianyuan Sword Sect, but all the sects in the world. Bear the brunt of it first and foremost.”
Silence, there was silence outside the cave.
after a long time,
Ran Qingmo said in a low voice:
"Xu Yuan. You tell me this, aren't you afraid that I will tell my master about them?"
Xu Yuan raised his hand and his brain collapsed.
Ran Qingmo's eyes were puzzled, neither pain nor itching.
“.”
Xu Yuan silently withdrew his painful fingers and coughed lightly:
"Well, except for the last point, all the senior leaders of the Zongmen know about the things I said.
"As for the last point, no one believed it before, and no one will believe it when you say it now. After all, the news that you stayed with me has probably spread all over the world."
The black Panlong carriage representing the direct line of the Xiangguo Mansion is too eye-catching, and Ran Qingmo's attire in black all the time with a black sword is also particularly unique. The disciples don't know, but the real high-level must know this precious apprentice of the old man of Jianzong.
Basically, mud gets into the crotch, and it can't be cleaned no matter how you wash it.
Ran Qingmo sat beside Xu Yuan and did not speak. After a while, she seemed to realize that something was wrong:
"Xu Yuan, since your father is going to do that kind of thing, why would your sister come and do the opposite?"
"She was born that way."
Xu Yuan glanced at the direction of the cave, and said directly without thinking: "She is too gentle and kind, and always wants a solution to kill people, but where does such a good thing come from in this world? Will you back down?"
The words fell, and the two of them were not talking.
Time flows quietly,
The voice of the saint's remnant soul suddenly sounded from the bottom of Xu Yuan's heart:
"Boy Xu, your father is really calculating."
"How to say?" Xu Yuan asked.
The remnant soul of the saint sighed a little:
"To be honest, old man, I don't know much about the world today, but your father, as an important official of the court, secretly wanted to destroy the sect, but let your sister go on a trip. Isn't this completely deceptive goodwill toward the sect? What? Coupled with some other government measures, the Zongmen probably thought that your Xiangguo government was going to compromise, right?
"Tsk tsk. When the Zongmen thought they wouldn't make a move, it's really a good way to strike again."
Xu Yuan was a little surprised when he heard this.
The old man Luo was able to come to such a conclusion based on that bit of information. It seems that thousands of years are not in vain.
However, Xu Yuan just said softly:
"Old man Luo, you are wrong, this is the path Xu Xinyao chose.
"At best, it's just a wrong shot, but her behavior is just icing on the cake for my father's plan."
Over the past ten years or so, the court's government orders against the Zongmen have basically been dry without thunder.
Even some time ago, there were rumors of government decrees in several continents around Jiangnan Mansion that one party would govern one party's land.
This would have been unthinkable more than ten years ago.
After all, Xu Yinhe has been in power for decades, and he has gone through hardships to eradicate the sect forces in the government offices in various places in Dayan.
Now the door for the disciples of the Zongmen to enter the court and become an official has basically been cut off, but the recent decree above the court seems to be faintly showing signs that this door will be let go again.
All these are too numerous to mention.
Compared with these confusing decrees, Xu Xinyao's kindness towards the sect can only be regarded as icing on the cake.
After the words fell, Xu Yuan suddenly realized that the time should pass by about the same time, and he should also go in and teach his fourth sister who has a problem with his thinking.
Standing up slowly, Xu Yuan whispered to Ran Qingmo beside him:
"Ran Qingmo, you stay here, I have something to go in and talk to my fourth sister."
Ran Qingmo seemed to be still thinking about what Xu Yuan said just now, and just nodded slightly:
"Well, I'll wait for you here."
Xu Yuan looked at her with frowning eyebrows, reached out and rubbed her head:
"Don't think too much, the conflict between the sect and the imperial court is basically irreconcilable, and we can only stand up from behind."
a bit late
(end of this chapter)