The little princess was grounded and naturally couldn't come out, but Zuo Wuji didn't come, and neither did Lan Langlang. This seems a little strange.
Ye Xiao stretched his waist.
After ten days of non-stop practice, he has almost absorbed the dissipated cold air in the space, and even the Tianling space has shown a reverse weak state...
Ye Xiao knows that enough is enough, too much is too late.
It's better to let go of the cold air in the Tianling space for the time being; wait for it to accumulate for a few more days and start rampant again, and then absorb it.
Together, the body fell lightly from the watchtower.
The housekeeper immediately went up to meet him: "My lord, how are you doing? You should be about to break through the fourth rank of Human Yuan Realm now, right?"
Originally, Ye Xiao's cultivation had been at the third rank of the Human Origin Realm, and he hadn't moved for several years. The steward asked this sentence because he didn't want to hurt his son's confidence—how could he break through so quickly? Some people can't break through the first rank for several years.
Human Origin Realm fourth rank
The corner of Ye Xiao's mouth twitched strangely, and said: "Well, it's almost there, and it's about to break through to the fourth rank."
The butler smiled in relief: "Master, you have worked so hard these days. In fact, this practice also requires a gradual process that combines work and rest. Let's take a good rest tonight."
The housekeeper naturally wouldn't know that what he said was the fourth rank of the Human Origin Realm.
And the fourth rank that my young master said was about to break through... is the fourth rank of the Earth Origin Realm!
Between the two fourth ranks, there is a big gap between heaven and earth... If Ye Xiao would directly show that he is actually about to break through the fourth rank of the Earth Origin Realm, I am afraid that the butler could faint directly.
"Is there any movement in the outside world these days?" Ye Xiao asked.
"Well, wait for the young master to eat first, and I will come for you one by one." The housekeeper said with a smile.
"Well, Uncle Song, let's eat together." Ye Xiao said.
"Okay, okay." Steward Song smiled.
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"In the past few days, the boundary of the capital city is very sensitive."
The butler was drinking and talking.
Ye Xiao was surprised to find that the butler's drinking posture was very weird. Holding the wine glass with two fingers, he lifted it up smoothly and naturally, without moving his throat or making a gurgling sound. Anyway, it was just a very elegant glass of wine Gone. Then he filled a glass like flowing water, and it disappeared after one gulp...
Although the drinking was astonishingly fast, the whole process and the whole set of movements were extremely graceful.
This set of elegant movements of drinking makes Lord Laughing Monarch feel a little envious: I was also a good drinker in my previous life, and I feel that I have a good capacity for drinking. Naturally, I have drunk a lot of good wine; but when it comes to more specific wine culture, such as Ye Xiao was determined not to be able to imitate Song Steward's understated and elegant way of drinking, and even if he tried to imitate it, he would probably be a bad dog.
"Sensitive? How do you say that?" Ye Xiao faintly felt that the butler of his family was definitely not just a retired soldier, and his origin might not be that simple.
Firstly, sharpness; secondly, elegance, just talking about the movement of drinking, without systematic training, and the subtle influence of generations, you will definitely not be able to show such a natural aristocratic demeanor...
Three, it's mysterious, and it never talks about the past... Fourth, this butler's cultivation base, with his current eyes, he can't see through it.
There are many levels of warriors in this world, but under normal circumstances, when they are not doing anything, it is difficult for people to see the specific realm and level of the target person. But if there is a shot, it will reveal its true strength.
It is precisely because of this that some exercises that can cover up one's own cultivation have come out.
This kind of mental method itself naturally does not have the effects of nourishing vitality, increasing cultivation, protecting the body, healing wounds and attacking the enemy, but it can play a considerable role in confusing the enemy's eyes and ears, and confusing the enemy's judgment.
After cultivating this kind of exercises, practitioners can hide their aura and conceal their combat power to a certain extent, so that the enemy will not see their true strength, which will naturally take advantage of them when they do it, and may even cause the final result of a comeback.
Only some powerful people, relying on their own experience and the aura sense of facing the enemy, can roughly predict the opponent's state level when the opponent has not made a move. But Lord Laughing Monarch is naturally able, no matter what level of master it is, as long as it is not lower than the level of Laughing Monarch himself, no matter how the opponent hides, he can still be seen at a glance.
But now I can't see the real cultivation level of this housekeeper.
Since Ye Xiao's eyesight and experience are the same as before, but he can't see the opponent's level of strength, the only explanation is that the butler's cultivation base is much higher than his own now.
After all, Ye Xiao's current shortcoming is that his real strength is still relatively rubbish, and he has only the third-rank realm of Earth Yuan!
"Yes, it's sensitive." Although the butler's drinking manner is elegant, he is a master who can't finish drinking. , it is very likely that this auction started. But His Majesty is helpless and helpless."
"Oh, I would like to hear the details." Ye Xiao humbly asked for advice.
He really didn't realize this.
Although Ye Xiao has experienced many people, he knows very little about royal family disputes in the secular world, and almost nothing about the so-called emperor's mind. This is the essential difference in the realm and level of life, and there is nothing he can do about it.
"His Majesty the Emperor has always been committed to supporting the prince, and then he used the second prince and the third prince as the sharpening stones before the prince climbed to the throne. Let them compete with the prince and fight against him, but they will never allow their power to be truly powerful. Overshadowing the crown prince, after all, the whetstone is just a whetstone, if the knife is really worn out, or even broken, it will go against the original intention."
"Although there is always a glimmer of hope for them, thinking that they have hope to make that chair, but they will not really give them hope; because that big position is only reserved for the prince."
"This is the so-called imperial mind." The housekeeper chuckled.
"Is the emperor's mind..." Ye Xiao murmured.
"Your Majesty is a man of great talent, it is undeniable, but his poor health has become a shortcoming in the whole layout. Your Majesty fought out from the battle of the Eight Kings Rebellion, and it can be said that he was decisive But... Although the prince is also a talented person, after all, he does not have that kind of experience; it is okay to be a successful king, but it is absolutely impossible to carry forward your majesty's foundation, and even expand the territory and achieve hegemony."
"So in order to hone the crown prince, His Majesty has no choice but to support the two princes to fight against each other. Only by making the crown prince feel the threat that exists in the future can he make progress. But he has always kept his sense of proportion. Of course, the whetstone can't let the knife give You can't use this knife to grind the whetstone prematurely... Your Majesty has always grasped the balance very well."
Ye Xiao nodded slowly.
Yes, all the emperors of the past dynasties basically did this.
However, among them, there are not many who can really grasp the proportion....
It seems that His Majesty the Emperor of the current Emperor Kingdom is really a wise and wise monarch.
"However, a few years ago, there was an unexpected change that disrupted His Majesty's wishful thinking and made this balance unbalanced. That is... the prince met a woman by chance. This woman fell in love with the prince at first sight, but this woman She is the daughter of the Mu family, one of the eight major families. Although she is not a direct descendant of the head of the house, she is the direct daughter of the second person in the Mu family."
"His Majesty the Emperor has always been quite wary of the three families in the Emperor Chen Kingdom among the eight major families. Naturally, he does not approve of this marriage, but there is no reason to oppose it. If he deliberately obstructs it, not only the prince will hurt the relationship between father and son. It's not easy for the Mu family to explain their feelings, after all, the Mu family is one of the eight major families, and is not something His Majesty the Emperor can easily manipulate... "
"Under all means, I had no choice but to approve this marriage and let the woman become the crown princess. Since then, the power of His Highness the crown prince has suddenly expanded, suppressing the other two princes without the slightest ability to fight back."
"But the two princes will not sit still. The temptation of the throne always makes people fascinated. Even if the hope is slim, they still refuse to give up. The success of the prince and the sudden intensification of threats have instead allowed them to find a way to improve their own strength... So They proposed marriages to the daughters of the other two families of the eight major families in the Chen Emperor Kingdom... A balance was formed among the three, but this balance is no longer stable, it can be called a terrifying balance."
"In the past, under the adjustment of His Majesty the Emperor, the balance between the three was undecided. If one of them was too strong, His Majesty the Emperor would naturally suppress it. However, as it is now, His Majesty's ability to regulate and balance has been destroyed. Once there is an imbalance in the situation, it will inevitably lead to a huge crisis of total collapse."
"In fact, due to the vigilance of His Majesty the Emperor, although the members of the Eight Great Families are wealthy and powerful, they have never been able to touch the realm of imperial power. But this time, the Emperor's son took the initiative to come to the door... So the Eight Great Families The family is naturally happy, and it is in their arms, like a fish in water; even if they don't have a daughter, they have to change into one, not to mention that there are so many beauties in the eight big families?"
"That's why the prince made His Majesty the emperor very dissatisfied this time, because the strength of the eight major families has fully penetrated into the royal family. Moreover, there are only three sons in total, all of whom are sons-in-law of the eight major families..."
"This incident has caused a lot of trouble in the past few years... Now, it has just subsided."
"His Majesty the Emperor spent a lot of effort to consolidate and reorganize the power of the three sons, and re-planned it. Now it has just been planned, so that everything can return to the original track... that is, the prince is slightly stronger, and the two princes are slightly weaker; only Only when two princes work together can they fight against the delicate balance of the prince, and it is only when they have to take a breath... Suddenly, this auction was born without warning."