Jia Rong had a flattering smile on his face, "Young Master Yun, what do you want me to do?"
Li Yunxiao pointed at Lu Yao, and said coldly: "She is my friend."
Lu Yao was caressing her throat, her larynx almost felt like it was broken, and there was a purple and blue strangle on her snow-white neck, which made people look pitiful again.
After Jia Rong was stunned for a moment, he walked forward without saying a word, raised his hands above his head deeply, bowed down, and said sincerely: "Miss Lu Yao, I was reckless. Please accept my apology."
Lu Yao was startled, covered her neck and shook her hands hurriedly, she stepped aside and quickly helped Jia Rong up, and wanted to say something, but a pain came from her throat, and she coughed violently.
Ji Meng had a bitter look on his face, if these alchemists could do the same to themselves, how wonderful it would be!
Jia Rong took out a milky white pill from the ring and handed it to her, "This is a elixir for promoting blood circulation and removing stasis."
Lu Yao refused to accept it, and now it was Jia Rong's turn to be anxious, and he was relieved to stuff it into her mouth with all his might, and watched Li Yunxiao's eyes carefully.
After the alchemy and tool refining in the guild last time, Li Yunxiao's status in his mind has been equal to that of the sage of alchemy and the master of guiding the way. After he retreated, he thought hard about Li Yunxiao's explanation to Zhang Qingfan and Xu Han that day, and there were faint signs of breaking through to the second level. This made him extremely shocked and delighted.
At this moment, he was interrupted by Lu Yao's sound transmission, and the anger can be imagined. If it wasn't for Li Yunxiao looking for him, the Artisan Master Guild would have been blown up by now.
Li Yunxiao said: "Your talent is better than I imagined. You can break through the second level so quickly, and your achievements will definitely be higher in the future. I want to refine a large amount of elixir this time, and I need your help."
"Alchemy!" Jia Rong's eyes sparkled, and he said excitedly, "What raw materials do you want? I'll prepare them right away!"
Li Yunxiao said: "I have prepared the raw materials myself, this alchemy may take a while. You should find a practice room first, and I will arrange for Ji Meng."
Many of the art refiners are also martial artists. Although their martial arts achievements are low, they still need to retreat and practice hard, so there are also many practice rooms. Jia Rong picked the biggest one for Ji Meng to retreat.
Li Yunxiao walked towards a wall, and after a moment of contemplation, he took out the black girl's big sword, held it high and chopped it down.
His sword posture is wide open and closed, fierce and sharp. The practice room was surrounded by hard black iron. Every time Li Yunxiao cut off a piece of iron filings with his sword, sparks splashed on the wall, and small characters soon appeared one by one, neatly arranged.
Those small characters are fresh and beautiful, full of smoke and dew, carved out one by one under the rough sword, like small flowers blooming suddenly, endlessly.
This kind of strong and mighty sword force produced such lifelike handwriting that floated like floating clouds. Two completely different demeanors appeared under one person's sword at the same time. This strong contrast deeply shocked Ji Meng's heart.
Jia Rong was also a one-star warrior. Although he didn't understand martial arts very well, he could feel the aura of Li Yunxiao's sword, so he held his breath and concentrated, not daring to disturb him.
After a while, a fresh little poem jumped on the wall, like blossoming flowers, competing for beauty.
"Peach Blossom Temple in Taohuawu, Peach Blossom Immortals in Peach Blossom Temple. Peach Blossom Immortals plant peach trees, and pick peach blossoms in exchange for wine money."
As the verse unfolded, a garden full of peach blossoms suddenly appeared in front of the two of them, as if they were suddenly under the sky full of peach blossoms and fallen flowers, the mountains and rivers were of the same color, and the sky and the earth were like a seagull.
Li Yunxiao seemed to be very satisfied with his work, and said with a smile: "Ji Meng, when I come out of closed-door training, if you still can't comprehend a higher peach blossom artistic conception from it, it can only prove that you are stupid, and you don't have to follow me in the future." me."
After he finished speaking, he didn't hear Ji Meng's answer.
Ji Meng has completely absorbed the sword intent of that stroke, and peach blossoms are blooming on the altar. He could no longer hear Li Yunxiao's words, and suddenly sat down cross-legged, began to circulate his true energy, and fell into deep thought.
Jia Rong said in amazement: "Young Master Yun, he..."
Li Yunxiao shook his head slightly, "Let's go, it's time to do our own thing."
The two closed the door of the practice room, and went to the place where the black girl made the big sword last time. Jia Rong issued a death order this time, even if the king died, they were not allowed to disturb them. Lu Yao was startled by such rebellious words, but she still nodded desperately and ordered to go on.
After Liang Wenyu found out, he even sent four master martial artists to guard the door for them, just in case.
Li Yunxiao walked around the refining room, picked out a few sturdy alchemy furnaces again, knocked them a few times, and expressed his satisfaction. Last time he directly refined and exploded a high-quality alchemy furnace. If it was another alchemy master, he might be directly arrested and compensated. But Zhang Qingfan and Xu Han not only didn't say a word, but also took the broken pill furnace to study.
"Just these few, let's refine the first batch first." Li Yunxiao said: "Your job is mainly to study, and you will pick up when I am exhausted. I didn't expect you to be able to do it when I asked you to come. Well, just do odd jobs for me or something."
When Jia Rong heard that he was asked to mainly study, his eyes lit up even more, and he hurriedly said: "Good job, good job, I like doing chores for Young Master Yun the most!"
Li Yunxiao's eyes narrowed slightly, and a ray of divine consciousness fell into the Jieshen tablet in his dantian, and a ray of brilliance immediately circulated on the tablet, heading straight to the center of the eyebrows in his mind. As if there were a third eye in his eyes, a ray of light shot out, and all kinds of items were piled up in the entire refining room.
Jia Rong was taken aback, stared blankly at the room full of things, and said in horror: "Young Master Yun, you won't empty out all the guild's inventory!"
Li Yunxiao said: "This is the treasury of our Li family, all of them have been moved here. Use what you need, and I will return what you don't need."
Jia Rong clicked his tongue secretly, the Li family is the most powerful military figure in the Tianshui Kingdom, and they emptied the treasury directly...
Just when he was distracted, Li Yunxiao said in a deep voice: "There are several ignorant things in the potion to be refined this time. With my current soul power, I am afraid it will be difficult to control. No matter how good the technique is, it will never It may replace the role of soul power, so the first thing to do in this retreat is to advance to the second-level art refiner, you and I must advance!"
Jia Rong straightened his expression, the nodding and bowing appearance disappeared immediately, his eyes flashed the light that only a magician can do, and he replied loudly: "Yes, Young Master Yun!"
"Well," Li Yunxiao was very satisfied with his attitude, and said, "Before that, I'll go have a cup of tea."
Jia Rong: "..."
While Li Yunxiao was retreating, a major event happened in Tianshui Kingdom.
Li Chunyang, the head of the Li family who was thought to be under the control of Li Yi, suddenly appeared in a high-profile manner. Not only did he regain power in the Li family, but he also directly declared Li Yi a spy of the enemy country, and issued a nationwide killing order. Anyone who harbors or shelters will be killed!
His high-profile comeback shocked the sluggish military body, as if reinvigorated, he began to appear frequently and actively in the ruling and opposition parties, which made people speculate endlessly.
Moreover, the old man also took the opportunity of sweeping up Li Yiyu's party to ransack the homes of several court officials in the capital. These few court officials all supported Li Yi during the old man's retreat and suppressed the existence of the Li family's direct lineage. Several of them were directly beaten to death when they prevented the Li family from raiding their homes, and their bodies were thrown to the dogs. This moment completely shocked the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty.
For a moment, people were in a state of panic. There were still many high-ranking officials who filed memorials to impeach Li Yi when the old man arrested Li Yi. After the corpses of the killed high-ranking officials were dragged to the vegetable market to be fed to the dogs, the entire government and the public fell silent. , no one dared to say anything.
The whole country seemed to acquiesce in his nonsense like this, beating and copying all his enemies, and then gradually calmed down. But Li Yi, the protagonist of the whole incident, seemed to have completely disappeared and never appeared again.
The prime minister's mansion, Lan's small courtyard.
Prime Minister Lan Hong was drinking tea and listening to reports from his subordinates.
"The family of Zhang Baisheng, Minister of Rituals, was beaten to death seven people and robbed seven million gold coins worth of finances. Among them, Zhang Baisheng's sixth concubine, his nephew, and five servants were killed. Broken legs Twenty-three people were seriously injured by broken feet, hundreds were slightly injured, and Zhang Baisheng himself had a broken left leg."
There was a man in Chinese clothes next to Lan Hong. His eldest son was also the father of Lan Xuan and Lan Fei. Lan Guang said angrily: "Father, could that old man be allowed to act recklessly like this? Could it be that he killed loyal officials of the court at will? It is impossible to rebel!"
Lan Hong put down the tea in his hand, and said with a smile in his eyes: "Lan Guang, your eyes are still too shallow to see too deeply. If Li Chunyang really wanted to rebel, there wouldn't be such a big commotion. And now they are just picking up some flies The ants are beating, it doesn't matter."
Lan Guang was stunned: "Could it be that he just wanted to vent his grievances about being imprisoned?"
Lan Hong snorted coldly, looked at Lan Guang contemptuously and said, "Do you really think this old man is so easy to be imprisoned? It's probably because he's doing his own tricks and deliberately hiding for a while to see the current situation clearly. Let’s find out the enemies of the family, and then make a fortune by the way, in the past few days, the gold coins he got from raiding the house are probably hundreds of millions.”
"so much!"
Lan Guang was taken aback, and lost his voice: "Don't you care about it, Your Majesty?"
"Care? Huh!" Lan Hong said coldly: "Your Majesty is old, what else have you done? Besides, His Majesty is also waiting, and he also wants to see what Li Chunyang wants to do. If I don't expect it, the day after tomorrow at the latest , Li Chunyang will refill more than half of the collected finances into the treasury."
Only then did Lan Guang suddenly say: "That's right, the Li family has been suppressed by His Majesty all these years, especially financially! The Li family is struggling to make ends meet every year. Hehe, it is precisely this opportunity to supplement the family fortune. But Shang The amount of 100 million gold coins is too terrifying, if he doesn't hand in half, how can His Majesty rest assured."
Lan Hong took a sip of tea, his eyes became more and more cloudy, and he muttered to himself: "This old man jumped out at this time, could it be that he has seen the situation clearly? How could it be? Why can't I see it?"
Lan Guang was stunned: "Father, the situation you mentioned, could it be..."