On the outskirts of the imperial capital, in a quiet and elegant manor, a figure in blue was dancing with a sword. Her movements are free and simple, without any superfluous movements, and her swords and swords are all killing moves. It's just that her bloated figure doesn't match her murderous swordsmanship.
At this time, Empress Li's voice came from the side: "It's this time, are you still practicing sword?"
The sword dancer was none other than Li Kuanglan, she stopped when she heard the sound, put the sword back into its sheath, and said, "If I don't move, my whole body will feel uncomfortable."
Empress Li sat down on the stone chair in the courtyard, ordered the maid to set out refreshments and fruits, and greeted: "Come and try, these are all made by myself, and the materials are not easy to find!"
Li Kuanglan was noncommittal, and strode over. Before he could sit still, he picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth. Just as he was about to swallow it in one gulp, his face suddenly became extremely exciting.
Li Hou covered his mouth with a chuckle and said, "How does it taste?"
Li Kuanglan raised his head, swallowed the snack in his mouth, gritted his teeth and said, "It's really unpalatable!"
Li Hou smiled and said: "I have never cooked in my life, this is the first time I have made it like this, it is already very good. The maids who have tried the dim sum all said it was delicious."
Li Kuanglan said: "These snacks, will they die if they eat them? Can you still say they are delicious?"
Empress Li smiled unchanged, "This new prescription, someone has to try the properties of the medicine before I dare to give it to you. These medicines are very good for you, but you can only take it once. The opportunity is rare, of course I have to seize it." The best ratio is the best. If you don’t take it and die, how can you measure it? If they don’t die after eating it, or if they die slowly, it’s a sign that the medicine is not strong enough.”
Having said that, Empress Li glanced at the maids standing beside her, and said, "You all go down."
The faces of the maids were all pale, but none of them dared to breathe a little harder. At this moment, it was as if they had received an amnesty, and they scattered in a blink of an eye.
Empress Li looked at Li Kuanglan's swollen abdomen, and said, "How much longer?"
Li Kuanglan hesitated for a moment, and said, "Probably, it will be this month."
"This child is so gifted that it is really a headache. All laws are useless to him. Fortunately, I found these secret medicines from the treasury, which are very good for you and him. You can eat all these snacks Alright."
Li Kuanglan picked up a piece, gritted his teeth, and planned to swallow it in one gulp.
"This piece has to be chewed carefully to fully exert the medicinal power." Empress Li reminded.
Li Kuanglan's face suddenly became extremely ugly, he gritted his teeth and chewed until it was chewed thoroughly before swallowing. Looking at the remaining snacks on the plate, her face turned blue.
Li Hou covered his mouth with a chuckle and said, "Swallow it all, I lied to you."
Li Kuanglan didn't care about her teasing him, immediately picked up the plate, poured all the snacks into his mouth, and swallowed them in one mouthful.
"My snacks really don't taste very good. But for the sake of the child in your stomach, you will eat it no matter what. Even if you doubt it, you don't dare to take risks."
Li Kuanglan snorted, but did not answer.
"So, don't struggle, everything you are asked to do is for your own good."
Li Kuanglan stroked his stomach, and said coldly: "I promised you all this, what else do you want to do? Do you want to sleep with more people? That will have to wait until I give birth to him."
Empress Li ignored her angry ridicule, and said seriously: "There is one thing that needs you to do right now."
"I know, what's the matter, tell me."
"Qianye has been developing in Yonglu during this time. After you give birth to the child, go see him. It is best to let him come and see the child."
Li Kuanglan's face changed suddenly, and he raised his voice, saying, "Impossible!"
Empress Li patted her hand lightly and said, "I have a child, so are you still afraid of seeing him?"
Li Kuanglan was a little flustered in a rare way, and stammered: "No, this is different. He doesn't know about this matter. I don't want him to know about it. It's best never! We really met, you let me What to tell him?"
"A child always has a father."
"All in all, absolutely impossible!"
Empress Li didn't feel annoyed, but just said indifferently: "You also know my way of doing things. No matter what, I can't watch Qianye being pulled over by the Yongye camp. If you don't want to be obedient, then don't blame me for using other methods. means."
"what you up to?!"
"If you cooperate well, then I will naturally not use those methods, and you don't need to know, do you?"
Li Kuanglan calmed down slowly, and said, "If you do this, you will ruin my martial arts."
"For the empire, Qianye's position is more important than your martial arts."
"You go, I don't want to see you again, and I don't want to hear about it. At least not until he is born."
"Then I'll come back after the child is born. But, I don't know if I can wait until then."
Li Hou stood up, walked to the gate of the courtyard, and suddenly turned his head and said: "Even if Qianye's talent is once in a thousand years, in these few months, he will not be able to reach the level where he can face the king of heaven? What's more, his talent It’s not that high yet.”
After Empress Li left, Li Kuanglan suddenly grabbed the hilt of the sword. She was so forceful that even her knuckles turned blue. However, in the end, she slowly let go of her hand and sighed.
At this moment in the new world, Qianye slowly opened his eyes, and there were countless ancient runes in his pupils that were born and died. Qianye himself didn't expect that as soon as he entered the new world this time, he would feel the opportunity to break through the blood qi, so he immediately closed the cultivation Xuanpian and refined the blood essence to replenish the blood qi. Backed by the huge blood energy gained from the battle with the werewolf led by Gale, Qianye broke through in one fell swoop and officially stepped into the rank of duke.
The breakthrough process was very smooth, because when he was in Baicheng before, Qianye had been promoted to the realm of vice duke, but was later beaten back to the marquis by King Qingyang's powerful means. At this moment, the accumulation is sufficient, and a breakthrough is a matter of course.
Although it is only a vice duke, there is still an essential difference between the realm of the duke and the marquis. At this moment, the bones in Qianye's body began to be transformed by blood energy, gradually adding many dark golden spots. The modified area is extremely hard, even surpassing high-strength alloys. Qianye was a little skeptical, if his bones were completely remodeled, wouldn't he become the best equipment material
When he was promoted, Qianye did not expect to be able to communicate with the river of blood in the new world. Although he didn't feel the same blood resonance phenomenon as before, he gained a lot, not only a large amount of refined and pure dark gold blood energy, but also a lot of new ancient inheritance knowledge.
Qianye stretched out his hands, and with a thought, a pair of dark gold gloves immediately appeared on his hands. He moved his fingers and felt that the texture of the gloves was excellent. If he hadn't condensed them with his own blood, he would have mistakenly thought that this pair of armor gloves really existed.
Qianye stretched out his hand to hold the void, and a blood-colored giant sword appeared in his hand. With a wave of his hand, the iron table in front of him split into two without a sound.
This is the gift of the long river of blood, the blood armed. From now on, as long as his blood is full, Qianye can instantly summon this unique weapon. I have never seen them use similar combat skills when fighting with bones or blast before. It seems that this should be a secret skill unique to the blood race, and it is a gift from the blood river to the ancient blood race.
Qianye suddenly felt something, walked out of the room, and came to the terrace, from which he could see the entire base, and the door was behind him.
At this moment in the base, nearly 100,000 werewolf fighters all knelt on the ground, praying continuously under the leadership of the priest. That familiar power fell on Qianye again, improving his bloodline essence bit by bit.
Qianye has already asked the high priest, knowing that this is one of the oldest and most sacred rituals of werewolves, and it is an expression of devotion to the ancestors or a certain supreme existence.
This kind of ceremony sounds useless except for the form, but Qianye has truly felt the mysterious power brought by the ceremony twice before and after. This power is different from the original force, the feeling cannot be explained, the source cannot be located, and Qianye has never seen it in any records.
Qianye asked the high priest again and again, and found that he also knew nothing about this mysterious power, so he had to give up.
Only now, for some unknown reason, the werewolf warriors in the entire base spontaneously held a prayer ceremony.
The sacred ceremony could not be disturbed, Qianye quietly waited for the ceremony to end, and enjoyed the baptism of the mysterious power on the body. After the prayer was finished, Qianye called a priest and asked what was going on.
The priest said: "When you were practicing just now, all the priests heard the call from the source of darkness. This is a miracle, so we prayed immediately."
Qianye nodded and sent the priest away.
The werewolf tribe in Yonglu was very primitive, and the senses of these priests were indeed very keen, but it was a pity that what Qianye just caused was the tremor of the river of blood, not the coming of the source of darkness.
To some extent, the river of blood and the source of darkness are similar. Perhaps in the eyes of most people, it is nothing more than a thicker or lighter lineage of dark power, but in the eyes of a powerhouse like Qianye, the long river of blood is the long river of blood, which is clearly different from the source of darkness.
Of course, Qianye would not tell the werewolves the difference between them.
After a short rest, Qianye set off for the advance base of the Three Sacred Tree Forest, planning to use it as a base to explore the depths of the new world.
The advance base of the Three Sacred Tree Forest has been initially built, and the scale is large enough to accommodate 50,000 soldiers stationed here. At the same time, Qianye spent a huge amount of money to build a power tower in this advance base, and used it as energy to build a whole ten forts!
Such firepower can be called insane.
After exploring further, it didn't take long for Qianye to come to a forest that covered the entire valley. He didn't enter rashly, because just on the outer edge, there was a very strong sense of danger. However, the previous experience of capturing three forests in a row gave Qianye a general understanding of the forest configuration. Generally speaking, the larger the forest, the more sacred trees there are, and the stronger the six-armed command.
This forest is so huge, there will be at least four sacred trees in it, and the strength of the six-armed command should be at least at the level of a grand duke.
Qianye observed for a while, approached the forest quietly, caught a single strange beast at the edge, beheaded it casually, and then drenched himself with its blood.
The Imperial Academy's research on alien beasts has achieved preliminary results. The sense of smell of alien beasts is extremely developed, and bloodline lurking can only restrain the original force, but the smell on Qianye's body still cannot be changed. And soaking the body with the blood of a strange beast can at least fool him for a while, and Qianye only needs a little time.
Sneaking into the forest, Qianye first moved horizontally for a certain distance, and calculated the approximate range of the center of the forest through the perception angle of the holy tree's fluctuations, and then sneaked there.
The deeper you go, the more alien beasts there are in the forest. Qianye carefully avoided several waves of patrolling alien beasts, but as the distance from the central area continued to shorten, the density of alien beasts completely covered the field of vision, that is to say , there is no room for evasion.
Seeing that he couldn't go any further, Qianye simply released the original force flames. In an instant, the entire forest boiled. There were so many strange beasts that it made Qianye's scalp tingle!