Chapter 154 Ideal (two in one)
Breaking a thumb-thick branch from a dead tree at the side, Xu Yuan walked straight along the dark cave corridor towards the inside.
The sound of light footsteps echoed in the darkness, and after an unknown amount of time, Xu Yuan's **** eyes saw a faint blue-white light at the end of the corridor.
As he continued to walk in, the blue and white light gradually became brighter, accompanied by regular fluctuations of source energy.
Seeing this scene, Xu Yuan subconsciously stopped.
It seems that manipulating the tampering of the dot pattern here is not as easy as he imagined, and the work including Xu Xinyao is still not over.
Hesitating slightly, Xu Yuan still stepped forward, but covered up the sound of his footsteps.
At the end of the corridor, there is a tapered cave entrance, and Xu Yuan saw everything inside.
The light was emitted by the formation patterns on the ground. The girl in blue was sitting cross-legged in the center of the formation with her eyes closed. Around her were some strange materials of equipment floating, and some blue mysterious formation patterns were engraved on the ground rapidly.
These re-engraved formations and the original white formations on the ground complement each other to form a dazzling sea of blue and white intertwined.
Standing at the entrance of the cave and looking at it for a while, Xu Yuan gradually discovered that these blue formations seemed to be constantly eroding and replacing the original white formations.
Is this breaking the formation?
Continued to watch for a while, and after confirming that the other party could not solve it for a while, Xu Yuan walked back a certain distance and sat on the inner wall of the corridor.
He couldn't understand it even if he continued to read, so why not take a break now.
Although the cultivation base is still in the body, Xu Yuan has already faintly felt the palpitations in the morning after staying up all night in his previous life after two days of sleepless nights.
Accompanied by bursts of dazzling light, sleepiness eroded Xu Yuan endlessly like a sea tide.
Not long after, Xu Yuan smelled a familiar scent of lavender, as if it was far away in the sky and yet close in front of him.
Suddenly,
Xu Yuanwu opened his eyes, everything around him was silent at this moment, and the blue and white light before going to bed also returned to darkness.
When he first woke up, Xu Yuan moved his body and found that his body seemed to be covered with something.
A smear of blood flashed across his eyes, and everything in the darkness became clearly visible.
This is a mink fur coat, the style looks familiar, and it should be the lavender fragrance that I smelled just now.
With a soft snort, Xu Yuan looked sideways, and as expected, he saw a quiet girl in blue beside him.
It was Xu Xinyao.
The fourth younger sister's cultivation is stronger than Xu Yuan's, but she can't hold on even after a day and two of sleepless nights.
But she still didn't sleep, Dai Mei also frowned slightly, and she didn't know what she was thinking with her eyes downcast.
Hearing the slight noise beside her, she immediately looked towards Xu Yuan.
Looks met in the dark corridor.
Look at each other for two breaths,
Xu Yuan threw back the mink fur coat he was wearing to her, and asked casually:
"Successful?"
Xu Xinyao took the coat silently, nodded lightly, with a very soft voice:
"Um"
"how do you feel?"
“.”
No reply.
Seeing this, Xu Yuan snorted softly, let out a long breath, and asked instead:
"How long is it now?"
"About seven hours."
"It seems that I slept quite a long time this time."
Xu Yuan murmured in a low voice, then turned to look at her lowered eyes and asked, "Xiao Si, in three days, how many people are left of the 400,000 people in Shengshan County?"
“.”
No reply.
Xu Yuan smiled lowly when he saw this: "Why, you are going to be dumb about everything related to Shengshan County?"
"half."
Her voice was a little hoarse: "Half of it is left."
“.”
There was a moment of silence in the corridor.
Although looking at Xu Xinyao's performance, Xu Yuan already had some vague guesses, but the fall of Shengshan County so quickly still made him somewhat unexpected.
too fast.
He originally thought that Captain Wang would be able to last at least a ten-day period with the help of the defense formation.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Yuan raised his hand and rubbed the space between his eyebrows that was a little swollen from a long sleep.
If he hadn't heard the news of the fourth sister in Huanglongji, just because the father ordered him to transfer from the imperial capital, he would probably be able to rush over to collect the corpse in ten days.
Seeing her depressed expression, Xu Yuan said softly:
"200,000 died, but on the other hand, you also saved 200,000, which is pretty good."
"Third brother."
"Lieutenant Wang is really grateful to you. If you know that this matter was settled by you again, you will go there now. Under his propaganda, the people of Shengshan County should build another shrine for you."
"Third brother."
"Fortunately, you have a bit of a brain. You know that the formation is not finished, so you have to come to Shengshan County to take a look. But if I don't find you, at your traveling speed, this **** pot will probably have to be locked up. Oh no, it’s from our Xiangguo Mansion.”
"Third brother!" Xu Xinyao clenched her fists, her gentle voice had a hint of crying.
“.”
Xu Yuan looked at Xiao Si beside him calmly, without any consolation, and said word by word:
"Now, do you know why I hit you?"
Xu Xinyao said in a low voice:
"Know."
"Why?" Xu Yuan pressed.
Xu Xinyao replied in a low voice:
"If I can be more careful, I will leave after finishing the formation"
"Don't, you are in a hurry to go to Jingjiang Mansion to see me, don't put **** on your brother and me."
Xu Xinyao's face turned pale: "That's not what I meant."
"I know you don't mean that."
Xu Yuan leaned his head against the cold stone wall, and said, "Actually, I think you should be thankful that you left early. If you leave after completing the formation, you will not return to Shengshan County. The Wanxiang Sect probably It will take a long time to research and transform your phantom mist array, maybe it will take a few months, maybe a year, and by then I will definitely not stay in Shengshan County anyway, if it becomes like that, Shengshan County is truly hopeless."
After a pause, Xu Yuan casually glanced in the direction of Shengshan County:
"You imaginary fog array learned from that old man Jiang He?"
"I researched it myself."
“.”
Hearing this, Xu Yuan raised his hand and patted Xiaosi's slender shoulder:
"Yes, it's very powerful. If the ghost fog of the Wanxiang sect is really created, the monsters will rush over to deliver it by themselves during the spring tide every year. It will completely save the Wanxiang sect's effort to catch nourishment for the ghost fog. It's simply too much. incredible."
The third brother's words beside her pierced her wound like a sharp sword, Xu Xinyao put her arms around her shoulders, her delicate body trembling slightly:
“I just want to help them.”
Xu Yuan stretched out an index finger and tapped her forehead:
"no."
"What?"
Xu Xinyao raised her eyes to look at Xu Yuan, with persistence in her soft eyes:
"It's not a play, father's method will kill a lot of people."
Xu Yuan sighed: "Can you not be so naive? How many people can you save by traveling around the world? Millions? You have exhausted your entire life, but how many people die every year in the entire Great Yan? I believe you should see Live it? As long as you want to know, father will not let you know. Xiaosi, you are not stupid, on the contrary you are very smart, I believe you will not fail to see what is the reason for the current situation."
Xu Xinyao sniffed: "I'm trying to change this."
Xu Yuan glanced at her:
"Using your tricks?"
"It's not playing tricks!"
“.”
A short silence,
Xu Yuan rubbed his cheeks and let out a long breath: "Okay, it's not playing tricks. You think your father's way is not good, so tell me what your way is?"
Xu Xinyao's chest rose and fell slightly, and she said quickly and in a low voice:
"I have been to many places, and there is peace in Dayingzhou."
"Dayingzhou?"
Xu Yuan interrupted with a murmur, and asked instead:
"Do you want to implement the Great Yingzhou model to the entire Great Yan world?"
Xu Xinyao nodded:
"Almost, but not exactly the same."
Hearing this, Xu Yuan smiled:
"Looking at the matter in Shengshan County, your method of helping the people is not bad. You know how to use interests to bind, instead of naively relying on the kindness in the sect's heart, but why do you start to think wildly when it comes to this kind of thing?
"The calm and calm in Dayingzhou is largely due to the annual tribute from the Heavenly Master Sect of Dayingzhou, which allows the local government to have enough money to get rid of demons and do other things that are beneficial to people's livelihood. This kind of prosperity is entirely based on the sect. At the thought of the door."
Xu Xinyao shook her head and replied:
"Third brother, you have seen it before. The people who follow me are all the disciples of the high-level sect. They travel all the way. They are all people with good intentions. As long as our Xiangguofu supports them to take the position, they will be able to achieve great success. To solve the current situation, and not only in this way, but also to reproduce the situation in the south of the Yangtze River, and use interests to firmly tie the sect and the local people together."
“.”
Xu Yuan listened carefully, pondered for a while, and raised two fingers:
"Two questions."
"Third brother, ask." Xu Xinyao nodded slightly.
Xu Yuan withdrew a finger:
"First, I don't doubt how you look at people, but have you considered that people will change?"
Xu Xinyao said without hesitation:
"They are all selected by me. I have known their temperaments well after I have been in contact with them for so long. Even if they harm their own interests along the way, they will do something that we think is meaningful. The dozen or so who left and returned to the sect earlier People secretly look for people like us."
Looking at the light in her beautiful eyes, Xu Yuan's eyes were full of complexity:
"Then let me change the question. Did you ever think that I would change so much?"
“.”
Xu Xinyao's beautiful eyes flashed with hesitation, and she said in a low voice:
"I thought about it."
Xu Yuan said in a low voice:
"I didn't think about it, but I hoped it?"
“.”
Silence.
Xu Yuan sighed, and said carefully:
"Little Four, even if you don't use me as an example, it won't work.
"You may indeed be passionate now and want to change some things, but what about in the future?
"It doesn't change now, but it doesn't mean it won't change in the future. According to the current situation in the world, your plan will last at least ten years, twenty years, or even fifty years. This time is too long. There are so many wise monarchs in history. Work hard, and at the end of the year, you will not start to indulge in pleasure.
"The reality is much more complicated than what I said, and many things cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences.
"Even if everything goes well, when these people you mentioned are really in power, can you stay by their side to influence them? Decades of separation, family members, friends, disciples, this large group of people will influence them all the time How can you be sure that decades from now they will still be the same people you know now?"
“.”
Xu Xinyao was silent for a long time, and retorted in a low voice:
"What about the father, hasn't he changed?"
Xu Yuan shook his head:
“Father, although he has been working hard for the world for decades, the reasons for supporting him to continue to do these things may be completely different from his original intention decades ago.
"My mother probably died because of this, and my second brother might as well. This is just our family. Father, the friends he has made in his life and those who died under his command will only die more. These are all things that he put on this matter. A reason for things to go on."
As he spoke, Xu Yuan stretched out his second finger:
"As for you saying that like Jiangnan, the people and the sect are **** with interests."
Sighing, Xu Yuan continued:
"It is indeed very safe and rich there, but do you know? The price of this wealth is that the imperial court is exhausted. The local government on the Jiangnan side is almost eaten away by these sects, and they are almost becoming the headquarters of the sect. Previously The person who attacked me was related to the Tian Yuzong in the south of the Yangtze River. In the end, my father knew this, so he just found a group of scapegoats who did not agree with the political views and killed him. One of the reasons was that the imperial court was almost out of reach there. "
After the words fell, there was a long silence.
In the dark corridor, Xu Yuan looked at the girl beside him:
"Are you still insisting on what you think?"
The cloud-like hair parted, and three thousand black strands hung down on her chest. Xu Xinyao said in a low voice:
"But if you don't try it, how do you know it won't work?"
“.”
Xu Yuan took a deep breath, his eyes turned slightly cold:
"Xu Xinyao, I just said a lot of things very euphemistically."
"Third brother, I know, but"
"You know what shit!"
Xu Yuan interrupted, and said in a stern voice:
"The pursuit of ideals must be down-to-earth,
"Do you think that the local sects are the same as our Xiangguo Mansion? My father ordered the people below to start working. Their sects are not monolithic at all. All kinds of family forces that have been in business for hundreds of years are intertwined inside. There are also aristocratic families under the sect." , In the aristocratic family, there are also divisions of direct lineage and collateral lineage, and then subdivided, there may be disputes between the big family, the second room and the third room in the direct line. , Who do you think has this means?
"In terms of means, the only person I know now is my father, but do you think there is anyone like your father among your "friends"?"
"If you don't believe me, take our Xiangguo Mansion as an example. Our family is simple. My mother's collateral relatives have been punished by my father so they don't count. The second brother has already gone. Now it's just you, me, and Xu Changge. If you remove me, only you and Xu Changge are left, do you think you can win Xu Changge?!"
Xu Xinyao's beautiful eyes were full of mist: "Third brother, I didn't want to fight."
In the dark corridor, Xu Yuan breathed out a foul breath, looked into her eyes, and said word by word:
"Xu Xinyao,
"Although I didn't say much, I probably heard your thoughts.
“You can continue to pursue your ideals in your own way, or you can continue to do what you think is right.
"But if you dare to betray our family because of these things of yours, Xu Changge is reluctant to do anything to you, and I will be willing."
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