It is said that it was cold in the past, but it is really cold.
This year's autumn in Changling seems to be stronger than in previous years, and the autumn wind is cooler.
The maids in the palace had already changed into palace clothes with thin padded jackets sandwiched between them. They walked in the palace with palace lanterns in the early morning, their hands were still freezing cold.
Empress Zheng Xiuduan sat behind the desk in the study deep in the palace, facing the spiritual spring filled with white aura.
There is a hundred steps between her and this spiritual spring, so her study room looks very empty, or... lonely.
Ever since she put on the crown and sat on the throne of the Queen of the Great Qin Dynasty, her side has always been so lonely, and it seems that there is no change today.
However, she sat here quietly, her thoughts and perceptions went straight to the sky, through the starlight that the world could hardly perceive during the daytime, she went upstream to reach the endless void that was hard to reach.
Starlight turned into pale sparks in her perception, falling continuously in the void.
From intangible to tangible, and into nothingness, constantly changing.
Some starlight originally fell on the biggest sword in the world.
However, before that, a dark cloud appeared in her perception, blocking the starlight falling on the sword.
When the dark clouds dispersed, she could no longer perceive the existence of the sword.
Many years ago, she believed that Gu Huai stood firmly on her and Yuan Wu's side because Gu Huai let go of the sword's original vitality and accepted her starlight.
The sword became one with her will.
As long as Gu Huai's natal vitality is present, she will always be able to perceive the existence of this sword, and thus perceive what has happened to this sword.
But now she can no longer perceive the sword, which means that Gu Huai's life energy has completely dissipated, and Gu Huai is dead.
Who in this world can kill Gu Huai
Is that Tianliang man named Zhan Maha
All of this seemed unimportant to her momentary state of mind.
The most important thing is that there is one less person by her side.
Even if those people standing beside her are only subservient to her and Yuan Wu's will, or have their own private goals, but when a person's road gets longer and longer, and everyone he knows around him disappears one by one, this feeling will is truly alone.
A young man in a pale yellow robe appeared on the road outside her study, and stood respectfully with his head bowed slightly.
There were quite a few young people in the palace, but apart from Huang Zhenwei, none of them could have such a respectful but humble attitude in front of her.
The queen restrained her thoughts, stood up, walked through the spiritual spring filled with white air, and walked not far in front of him.
Hearing her footsteps, Huang Zhenwei, who was standing with his head bowed, felt nervous and restrained for the first time, not because of fear, but because he was still not sure what emotion he would use to face it.
He didn't look unnatural, but in his heart he was unprecedentedly unnatural.
"As for your teacher, are you dissatisfied with my decision?" Without any extra words, the queen looked at him and asked calmly.
Huang Zhenwei was silent for a moment, then said, "It's dissatisfaction."
Regarding the chief's attitude and answer, the queen was not surprised, and even showed some satisfaction in her eyes, then she slightly raised her head and said, "Don't forget, I made him your teacher. "
Huang Zhenwei took a deep breath, but he didn't know how to breathe out or how to answer.
"Actually, your teacher may not be satisfied with many of the things I do."
The queen said quietly and slowly: "But I asked you to stay by his side in the end, just to let you understand... No matter what choice he and I make, it is only for the Daqin Dynasty to move forward more stably."
Huang Zhenwei was silent for a while, and then said: "I understand."
The queen also looked at him, was quiet for a moment, and said, "You should also understand what your teacher and I expect from you."
Huang Zhenwei knew what she meant, and said again: "Of course I will make the same choice as my teacher, and the Great Qin Dynasty is the most important thing in everything."
The look of satisfaction in the queen's eyes grew stronger, and she said softly: "Your teacher must have passed the sword of defending the city to you."
Huang Zhenwei shook his head and said, "Teacher didn't pass the city guard sword to me."
The queen was startled for a moment, and frowned, "No?"
Huang Zhenwei said: "Not really."
"Don't want you to stand still on those turrets?"
The queen was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed, and said, "Perhaps he thinks the same as I do. This Changling needs a city wall after all."
Huang Zhenwei's body trembled slightly, and she continued, "In this case, you will supervise the construction of the city wall and start construction this winter."
Huang Zhenwei had already heard what she meant in the first sentence, but at this moment he still felt a little unbelievable and raised his head.
The queen saw the look in his eyes, but her face was still indifferent like a woman in the world. She said lightly: "The first thing to change in all changes is the rules and habits. When the habits are changed, you will understand that nothing is wrong." Those who change will know how to accept the will of this dynasty.”
Huang Zhenwei hesitated for a moment, and said, "It will make many people feel imprisoned."
"Then you need to know more about restraint."
The queen laughed, her smile was perfect, without any extra emotions, "The biggest function of the city wall is not to resist foreign enemies, but to divide the boundaries. Those who know how to restrain and accept the will of the dynasty come in, and they will not Those who understand it will be excluded and will receive unequal treatment."
Huang Zhenwei lowered his head.
In anyone's eyes, he is a real gentleman, and if he does not express different opinions, it means obedience and execution.
The queen was even more satisfied, and said: "You will witness the glory of this dynasty."
"But that may not be what I want."
"You let me see my teacher's choice, because you thought the teacher would teach me what kind of choice to make, but you didn't know that before the teacher died, he let me choose myself."
However, she didn't know that the young chief who was hanging his head at this moment thought so in his heart.
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"What are you going to do with this sword?"
Shen Xuan looked at Ding Ning and asked.
The clouds and mist surrounding Zushan are slowly dissipating. Although the bloody smell is still strong, the blue sky has been cleaned exceptionally clean by the unparalleled wind and rain and sword intent, especially the fresh sunlight began to really shine down on the valley bottom of Zushan.
Wu Lianzi knelt down on the ground and called Ding Ning her teacher, but Ding Ning's eyes fell on the huge sword mountain sword embedded in the mountain wall.
The Jianshan sword is the largest and heaviest sword in the world, and the sword itself is also one of the strongest and most powerful swords in the Bashan sword field.
Looking at Ding Ning's gaze at this time, he knew that Ding Ning definitely didn't want to throw the sword away from here.
"You take this sword away."
Ding Ning turned to look at him, and said, "I will tell you how to use this sword, and at the same time I will give you the Heavenly God Art to take back to Changling."
Shen Xuan frowned slightly, but did not thank him.
Before he could say the next sentence, Ding Ning's gaze had already landed behind Li Xixing.
"This thing is not for you."
He looked at the things Li Xixing was carrying and said.
Li Xixing turned his head.
He has been carrying that very strange crystal pillar.
The zerg living in this crystal pillar almost killed all the practitioners who had previously wanted to enter the Ancestral Mountain.
Hearing Ding Ning's words at this moment, he was not disappointed, but asked curiously, "Is this thing really useful?"
"This is Tianyoujing."
Ding Ning said: "It is also the same as Tiantie, a meteorite falling from the sky. It is one of the hardest and unbreakable crystals in the world. The most important thing is that it can let the light refract inside for a long time before it finally radiates."
"Let the light refract inside for a long time before it comes out?" Li Xixing and Hu Jingjing realized something at the same time, and they were both stunned.
"Sunlight and most starlight mean warmth and vitality." Ding Ning continued, "Being able to store light can provide warmth and vitality to some things."
After a pause, Ding Ning looked at Li Xixing and Hu Jingjing, and said: "In the old days, this kind of meteor crystal also fell in the sky, but it was refined into a magic weapon at that time, not this kind of strange thing. insects maintain their vitality and restrain their size."
Li Xixing finally determined who this thing should belong to. He simply took off the spar he was carrying and handed it to Hu Jingjing, "Your."
Hu Jingjing was a little flattered, but seeing the spar that didn't match her body shape, she couldn't help being aggrieved, and said softly, "Can't you carry it for me first?"
Li Xixing frowned, but he didn't say anything after all, he just put the spar that he had just untied on his back.
Ding Ning looked at the appearance of the two of them, couldn't help but smiled slightly, then he turned to look at Shen Xuan, and said softly: "If Gu Huai is dead, she will be even more lonely. When you go back to Changling, it will become more important. .”
Shen Xuan finally asked the question he wanted to ask just now, "What about you?"
"Pretend I'm dead."
Ding Ning looked at him, Li Xixing and everyone else, including Wu Lianzi who was struggling to get up, "So I need all of you to help me perform this play well, so that people can be sure that I am dead."