After bidding farewell to Zhao Junhong, Song Zining and Qianye did not go back to the main hall, neither of them took a car, but walked along the avenue up the mountain. Standing halfway up the mountain and looking back, the Lanjiang River under the moonlight is sparkling, like the wide sleeves of a dancing girl, and the clouds and mountains are dotted with lights all the way to the water's edge, which is a prosperous scene.
Suddenly a streak of purple fire flashed continuously in the night, approaching at a high speed, even the air was churning, like ripples created by tiles hitting the water.
Seeing Zihuo, Qianye immediately took a step forward and stood in front of Song Zining.
Zhao Jundu landed straight a few steps away, his perfect face was covered with ice and snow, he said coldly: "Song Qi is just a mere Song Qi, how can you be willing to be driven by him?"
Qianye frowned, and said slowly: "Master Zhao Si, I don't know what you misunderstood. If Zi Ning and I want to calculate the gains and losses carefully, I owe him from the first life. And Do you think that I will let others control me?"
Song Zining sighed, and couldn't help but said, "I heard that according to the Zhao Clan's rules, a man must go to the battlefield after reaching adulthood or having achieved success in cultivation. Even if Qianye is willing to go back with you in the future, are you going to let him never die for the rest of his life?" Fighting to the death again? Is this protecting him, or harming him?"
Hearing this, Zhao Jundu stood silently for a while with his eyes downcast, then he opened his eyes, stared at Qianye, and said: "One year, if you don't come, I will go find you. In addition, if a year passes, you You'll never see that crystal lock again."
Qianye took a deep breath, his fingertips trembled slightly, but he didn't make a sound.
Zhao Jundu didn't wait for Qianye's answer, he glanced at Song Zining coldly, and said, "Song Zining, there is something you probably don't know yet. Zhang Boqian is about to challenge King Dingxuan. After one month, the news will spread throughout the empire."
Song Zining was shocked suddenly, his face changed suddenly.
King Dingxuan is of the blood of the imperial family and one of the four heavenly kings of the human race. It is precisely because of the four kings sitting in the town, confronting the dark lords at a distance, and checking and balancing each other, that the empire can maintain the overall situation.
Now that Zhang Boqian intends to challenge King Dingxuan, no matter whether he wins or loses, it will be a major event that shakes the internal structure of the empire. Regardless of success or failure in this battle, as long as Zhang Boqian shows a combat power that can rival King Dingxuan, he can become the fifth heavenly king. And once Zhang Boqian ascended to the position of Heavenly King, even if Mrs. An Guogong's wife could still hold the scene, the life of the Song Clan would definitely not be easy.
This news can be described as earth-shattering. Even Song Zining's city mansion was dismayed by it. For a moment, his mind went blank and he had no thoughts at all. When he came back to his senses, Zhao Jundu had already left.
"...Let's go." Song Zining greeted, but his voice suddenly became very dry.
So Qianye and Song Zining continued to walk up the mountain. It took a long time before Song Zining broke the awkward silence.
"Qianye, have you ever thought about how to go in the future?"
"If there is only one road, then go forward, if there are several roads, then choose one and go forward."
"How to choose?"
"The one that leads to the result."
"If you can't tell which one you want?"
"The one closest to the feet."
After finishing this almost nonsense conversation, Song Zining suddenly laughed, "All living beings are numerous, but the road is simple. The road has always been there, so I was too worried." Now that I think about it, Qianye's life was not too much. If there are more choices, then he, who has always had choices, will not be able to walk
"Qianye, you've already said that, now there are two choices ahead, choose one!" Song Zining's voice became brisk again. Whenever he talks like this, Qianye often does not encounter any good things.
As soon as Qianye looked up, he found that he had already reached the gate of "Shenyun Hall". Two identical beautiful girls were smiling and pushing the door out from the side yard. front, revealing a section of dazzingly white and delicate skin on the back of the neck.
This pair of girls is more similar than Ah Qi and Ah Jiu, and they have received special training, every frown and smile, every gesture, and even their voices are surprisingly consistent, just like a person, like a double image seen after drunk .
Qianye felt a throbbing pain in his forehead, did this guy really plan to share one with each other
Song Zining smirked and said, "I haven't used Sixteen and Seventeen, but the female teacher at Yinquan said that the only difference between them is in the bed."
Qianye suddenly had a bad feeling that danger was approaching, and before he could move sideways, a strong push came from behind, knocking him into a pile of warm and fragrant nephrite. Seeing Song Zining's gesture, the two girls laughed and climbed up Qianye's body, hugging him firmly from front to back.
At this moment, in this situation, Song Zining would never allow Qianye to back down.
After a while, the sound of the battlefield resounded from the inside and outside of the main house, separated by a curtain.
Sure enough, although sixteen and seventeen did not even speak differently, there was a significant difference in the wonderful voice at this time. One is like a yellow warbler in the empty valley, which is mellow and crisp, and occasionally sings into the clouds. The other is like silk and bamboo, low and meandering, as if the water of the spring river on a moonlit night hits the shore, and waves rise again after unrest.
Just before this scuffle was in full swing, a majestic fortress stood in the night on the thousand-mile territory of Younan Province, where the Western Land rebels were entrenched, and the force lights in the command room were as bright as day.
Lin Xitang stood in front of the long table with his hands behind his back, staring at the sand table, and was deep in thought for a long time.
There is an old-looking wooden box at the corner of the long table. The workmanship is quite rough, but the wood is very strong. This is one of Lin Xitang's belongings, and it will be placed on the desk no matter where he goes. Someone occasionally glimpsed some damaged nameplates inside, very similar to the military's identity plates, each with traces of gunpowder smoke, and many of them were already incomplete.
Lin Xitang's expression changed suddenly, and he walked over and pushed open the long window leading to the balcony, and then he rose into the sky, rising straight into the blue sky full of moonlight, his silver hair flying in the night.
At an altitude of several hundred meters, a cloud group covering a radius of one hundred feet was slowly swirling.
In the center of the cloud cluster was a person sitting on the ground, with one leg stretched out and the other bent, in a natural posture as if the ground beneath him was not the void, but the real earth. The man raised his head and took a big gulp of the wine, a little of the scarlet wine dripped down the sharp outline of his chin, his posture was extremely unruly, he suddenly threw the wine jug out.
Lin Xitang stood frozen outside the clouds, reaching out to grab the flagon that was flying towards him, raised his head without hesitation and took a big gulp, then threw the flagon back.
The man laughed lowly, and his deep voice seemed magnetic, "Vampires don't have other good things, but the history is long enough. Apart from the Imperial Palace, only they can find wines that are five hundred years old."
Lin Xitang smiled lightly and said, "Congratulations to Zhang Shuai for building his martial arts again."
Zhang Boqian stood up slowly. This legendary figure of one of the Empire's two jades is majestic in stature and resolute in appearance. Every line has the meaning of steep cliffs and dangerous peaks. What is particularly impressive is his pair of phoenix eyes, which are full of spirits and brilliant. The terrible coercion of overturning.
"You've been in this damn place for two years. Interesting?"
Lin Xitang's eyes were calm and unwavering, "The battle was quite difficult, but luckily we made some progress during the Eternal Night War."
Zhang Boqian laughed mockingly, "How difficult can it be for some ants? Give me a month to ensure that there will never be one of them left."
Lin Xitang narrowed his eyes slightly, and said: "This is my war zone. If Zhang Shuai has any ideas, please submit a letter to the Imperial Army before discussing it."
"Why does Lin Shuai hide his head and show his tail like this? You stay here and don't leave, isn't it just to avoid the mess in Weiyang Palace, to save your position..."
Lin Xitang's eyes, which were as still as still water, suddenly became turbulent, and he interrupted Zhang Boqian sharply, "Shuai Zhang!"
Zhang Boqian's phoenix eyes seemed to be filled with lightning, and the clouds swirling around him suddenly expanded, and then slowly calmed down, and he said boringly: "Forget it, let's not talk about it. I am here this time to give you a Great gift."
Lin Xitang was slightly taken aback.
"The Tiansun Grassland of the Song Clan in the Great Whirlpool produces all kinds of rare medicines. Don't you always demand them a lot? After a month, ask them for it. Song Zhongnian will definitely offer it with both hands. Their guarding power will soon be insufficient. to defend beyond boundaries."
Song Zhongnian is the current leader of the Song Clan, and the maelstrom where Tiansun Caochang is located does not border the Song Clan's territory, so daily defense requires more troops than the mainland.
Lin Xitang frowned and waited quietly. He knew that since Zhang Boqian said so, there must be more to follow.
Zhang Boqian said: "One month later, I will challenge King Dingxuan."
Lin Xitang was silent for a while, and said: "Congratulations to Zhang Shuai, breaking through the realm of the king of heaven."
Zhang Boqian acted without any scruples, even the majestic court was treated as if he had entered the realm of no one, as long as he made a decision, he would do it to the extreme. With such a temperament, he has developed a brilliant trend of giving him no one else. Even if the cultivation base is slightly better than Zhang Boqian's powerhouse, when it comes to the decisive battle of life and death, he will often be defeated.
So Zhang Boqian is here to challenge King Dingxuan, the chance of winning is very high.
Thinking of the Song Clan, Lin Xitang sighed in his heart, if Zhang Boqian became the Fifth Heavenly King, the Song Clan might really get closer to himself, Zhang Boqian's biggest political enemy.
"Why did your Dayan Tianji Jue stop in the realm of stars and moons? Since you have been able to deduce Jiazi fleeting years back then, you should know that my path is correct."
Lin Xitang smiled lightly, and said softly: "Our paths are different. To be able to deduce the secrets of heaven, isn't it just to go against the sky? If not, what is the use of such an ability? Do you want to be a puppet of the heaven?"
Zhang Boqian was startled suddenly, he never thought that Huang Quan's classmate from the past, the marshal of the empire known as the number one in the empire's natural evolution, would actually walk such a path.
"Why?!"
"Since I have gained His Majesty's trust, I should devote myself to the empire and die."
"What is your empire?" Zhang Boqian asked slowly.
With a wave of his sleeve, the cloud was immediately torn into flakes, and then quickly stained with a layer of lead ash like ink. The sky seemed to be spinning, and a huge gloomy vortex was forming, and Lin Xitang was swept into it. .
Lin Xitang opened his hands, and the dark clouds suddenly brightened for an instant, and the stars flickered, as if an asteroid belt shuttled down from the top of the world in an instant.
There were stars falling like rain, and in the huge vortex, Lin Xitang stood upright, as sharp as a sword out of its sheath, even if it was broken, it would not bend slightly.
Zhang Boqian suddenly took a deep breath, waved his hand, and suddenly the clouds opened and the moon appeared, and the world returned to its original tranquility, as if nothing had happened.
His pair of phoenix eyes are full of flying and unruly, "I'm waiting to see your way of empire!" Turning around, he gradually drifted away in the void.
Lin Xitang watched his figure go away, his clear eyes reflected the sky, the earth, the nebula, everything in the world, but he had no heart.