Chapter 458: Finding Fault

Renjian Yanhuo bloomed in the night sky, and gorgeous spells lit up the sky of the Royal Capital. This kind of immortal scene is annual, and even ordinary mortals can enjoy it. At this time, goose-feather snow fell, and the Royal Capital was covered in a thick white coat.

It was another New Year's Eve.

The palace was brightly lit, and all officials gathered together. The music in the hall was melodious, and the dancers' postures were enchanting, with outstanding skills, each one as if they had no bones, and could be arranged in various poses.

Wei Yuan's position was quite forward, with a dancer serving on the left and right, eating and drinking, completely without him having to move. The dishes were delicacies, and the wine was hot. After entering the belly, spiritual energy bloomed, which was an enjoyment that ordinary people could never imagine in their lifetime.

The Jin Prince toasted from time to time, drinking with the officials. The monarch and minister in the hall were happy.

The Jin Prince was exceptionally happy tonight. Among the officials, those who were sensitive, nosy, and well-informed knew the reason: the New Year was coming, the national luck of West Jin had improved, and several auspicious signs had fallen from heaven, so the Jin Prince was naturally infinitely happy.

In Wei Yuan's mind-reflection world, the sky was dark red only in the surroundings, and the central area had turned into a clear blue sky, with faint blue energy floating. This piece of West Jin's national luck had turned from blood-red to white, and then to light blue.

Wei Yuan's thoughts suddenly drifted, as if he had returned to the time when he first went to Tai Chu Palace. At that time, there was one thing he couldn't figure out, and he still doesn't understand it now.

On this snowy night, many people must not be able to survive until dawn and wait for the New Year. The Royal Capital is like this, and outside the Royal Capital, it is even more so.

However, Qingming has no winter. Wei Yuan had made arrangements before leaving. On this day, an extra jin of grain would be issued, and everyone would have it. Although there was only enough grain, at least now no one in Qingming would go hungry.

In the human domain, except for a few mystical realms and blessed lands, there is no place where no one goes hungry.

Wei Yuan felt that there was nothing to stay in the Royal Capital, so he decided to set off and leave early tomorrow morning. But not to return to Qingming, but to go to the northern mountain gate to visit the master, and by the way, see if the teacher and the eldest sister had left seclusion.

Zhang Sheng's foundation was repaired, and it didn't matter if she left seclusion early or late, but Ji Liuli's long-term seclusion was a bit abnormal. At that time, Fenhai Zhenjun Yanshi spoke vaguely, but being able to make one of the two strongest True Lords of Tai Chu Palace helpless, Ji Liuli's problem was obviously quite tricky.

Whether it was reading or later in Qingming, the time Wei Yuan spent with Ji Liuli was almost as long as with Zhang Sheng. Although she hadn't risked her life for Wei Yuan like Zhang Sheng, Wei Yuan could feel that the eldest sister's concern for him was no less. Just the tempering during the ten years of body forging, he didn't know how much effort she had spent.

It wasn't until dawn that the grand banquet ended. When the Jin Prince left the seat, he was already swaying, obviously happy today.

After leaving the palace, Wei Yuan looked at the heavy snow all over the sky and stopped thinking about mortal affairs.

This world is a fragile building. What Wei Yuan wants to do seems small, but it is extracting the foundation of the building. And the building is already crumbling. Even if it is just extracting a small piece, it may collapse in a large area, and then press Wei Yuan under it.

Wei Yuan let Cui Yu lead the troops back to Qingming, while he quietly left the Royal Capital and headed toward the northern mountain gate.

The sky was slightly bright, and a person wearing a cloak came to the post house in the heavy snow. She handed the guard officer an object, and the officer immediately respectfully let her in. She walked quickly into the courtyard where Wei Yuan lived, but found that it was already empty.

The northern land was white with snow, and Wei Yuan sat in a strange device, flying fast in the high sky. This device was still made when he escaped from the northern border that day, and it was very easy to use when traveling alone, and its speed was not inferior to Yu Jing.

Flying and flying, Wei Yuan suddenly felt a burst of heat around his waist. He hung an ordinary storage bag around his waist, which contained more than a dozen large red gemstones. Now every gemstone was glowing, with a white-hot Buddhist seal in the center.

These red gemstones were the blood spilled by the Yu Jing assassin who assassinated the Little Chu Prince that day. After falling to the ground, they turned into gemstones. Imperial Consort Yuan kept a few herself and gave most of them to Wei Yuan.

At this time, these blood stains suddenly reacted. Wei Yuan was instantly alert. Either that Yu Jing was nearby, or someone closely related to him, and holding a secret treasure, could trigger these blood stains through the storage bag.

A figure appeared in the sky on Wei Yuan's side. It was a barefoot, bearded man holding a giant iron rod. He took big strides and stepped on the clouds, shouting from afar: "Fellow Daoist, please stay!"

"Stay your grandfather!" Wei Yuan made an indecent gesture to the man, activated two spare spray tubes, and the flying device suddenly accelerated and disappeared in a flash.

By the time the man arrived, Wei Yuan had already become a small dot in the sky and disappeared.

The man glared, a violent wind suddenly rose around his body, and a high cliff by the sea appeared faintly, with violent winds and giant waves everywhere, chasing toward the direction Wei Yuan left.

But Wei Yuan added two more spray tubes, and the speed was obviously faster. A moment later, he disappeared completely in his perception, making the man's head steam with heat, but there was nothing he could do.

Wei Yuan flew fast all the way, his speed getting faster and faster. He encountered several divine sense scans on the way, but they were all left behind by him.

Wei Yuan opened his concealment ability at this time. Although he could not be completely concealed during high-speed flight, he had to be close to be detected, and Wei Yuan's speed at this time was equivalent to Yu Jing's full-speed flight, so by the time others discovered him, he had long gone far away.

Another day passed, and Wei Yuan flew into the northern mountain gate of Tai Chu Palace, and the gaze behind him disappeared completely. After returning to the mountain gate, Wei Yuan's first thing was naturally to visit the master. Fenhai Zhenjun Xuanyue was sitting in the hall at this time, watching the sand table at the front line. Wei Yuan was a bit strange, because he had never seen the master have such a great interest in arranging troops.

Seeing Wei Yuan arrive, the old Daoist Xuanyue smiled like a flower, called Wei Yuan to the sand table, and said: "This is the area that our Tianqing Hall is responsible for defending, with a total of more than three thousand Dao soldiers and thirty thousand mortal soldiers. This is the defense I just arranged, you come and see what is wrong."

In terms of cultivation and fighting, Fenhai Zhenjun Xuanyue is rare to have an opponent, but arranging troops may not be good.

Wei Yuan scanned it roughly and had already seen several weak links, as well as some areas that could have been used as traps, but were blocked to death by the old Daoist with heavy troops.

Wei Yuan first asked about the composition and source of the troops. Originally, Tianqing Hall's strength had increased greatly recently, plus Xuanyue took the lead, and Fenhai, Lanhua, etc., fought day and night, resulting in Tianqing Hall accumulating a large amount of military merit, so the palace specially allocated three thousand Dao soldiers to Tianqing Hall some time ago. Now Tianqing Hall has four thousand ordinary Dao soldiers, one thousand Dao Foundation Dao soldiers, plus fifty thousand mortal soldiers, which can be said to be strong and strong.

It's just that Wei Yuan heard that Fenhai and Lanhua fought day and night to earn military merit, and suddenly remembered that there were such a group of people in the world beyond the heavens. They stayed up until their eyes were blue and their hair fell off, just for a little overtime pay.

Of course, a more miserable group of people had blue eyes, were fat, and lost their hair, but had no overtime pay.

It's just that Wei Yuan didn't quite understand why the bottom-level people who worked hard in the world beyond the heavens were easy to get fat.

Fortunately, Fenhai's overtime military merit was quite a lot, a little better than the people in the world beyond the heavens.

Wei Yuan had led the army for many years and had incomparable combat experience. At this time, looking at the distribution of the Liao tribe's troops on the sand table, he already had a plan in his heart. This plan was optimized by human fireworks and had a complete defense system.

At this time, a virtual defense map appeared in Wei Yuan's field of vision, superimposed on the sand table, and Wei Yuan only needed to say it according to it.

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So Wei Yuan said: "First, the position of this multi-tube flying sword gun should be moved forward by seven feet..."

Master Xuanyue suddenly felt a heat rush to the top of his head, and said coldly: "Little rabbit, you don't learn the good, but you learned a lot of bad habits from Fenhai! It seems that I haven't disciplined you for a long time, and you have forgotten how to write the words 'respect the teacher and respect the Dao'!"

Wei Yuan was shocked and didn't understand why the master suddenly got angry.

Xuanyue was getting more and more annoyed, thinking that a flying sword gun position, moving forward or backward by a hundred feet would be fine, but this brat actually wanted to move forward by seven feet. Isn't this finding fault?

But considering that Wei Yuan was still young and always obedient and sensible, Xuanyue suppressed the urge to beat the child and said: "Then you tell me, why must it be seven feet, six feet won't work? Eight feet won't work?"

Wei Yuan was also startled. This terrain was special, and the shooting field of the flying sword gun position would expand a lot if it moved forward a little, and moving backward was to prevent side bow and arrow attacks from the enemy. Moving forward by seven feet was the position with the greatest benefit calculated after balancing the two factors.

In fact, it doesn't matter if it doesn't move, but this position is the most important, and the whole body is affected by one move. If it is not adjusted, it is like a black sesame seed falling into a bowl of white porridge, and it is easy to lose the Dao heart if it is not picked out.

So the master and apprentice argued for half an hour about this seven-foot land, and Wei Yuan finally won the argument.

After finally adjusting the defense position, Xuanyue was still angry. He rarely lost an argument. Unfortunately, he didn't understand the pile of numbers Wei Yuan listed, and he couldn't say directly that he didn't understand, so he had to sulk alone.

After adjusting the defense system, Wei Yuan asked about Zhang Sheng and Ji Liuli.

Xuanyue spoke very easily when talking about Zhang Sheng, just saying that this girl has always been stubborn, the Dao body is easy to handle, but the Dao heart is difficult to handle. When she thinks it through, it will naturally be fine. Counting the days, she should leave seclusion in these few days.

But when talking about Ji Liuli, Xuanyue became serious and said: "This child's Dao heart also has a problem. I heard from Yanshi that it seems to be just a small flaw originally, but it suddenly magnified inexplicably. Now it has reached the point where it cannot condense the Dharma Form."

Wei Yuan was shocked. He didn't expect Ji Liuli's problem to be so serious. The eldest sister's past behavior was unscrupulous, and she had a heart of invincibility without an invincible heart. And based on Wei Yuan's understanding of this eldest sister, she relied on her naturally terrifying foundation to practice, had no obsessions, and had few principles and persistence, especially when treating enemies, she was simply unscrupulous.

Wei Yuan felt that except for himself, I am afraid that everyone in Tai Chu Palace had problems with their Dao heart, and Ji Liuli would not have anything to do. How could it suddenly become so serious?

But Fenhai Zhenjun Xuanyue couldn't say why, so Wei Yuan decided to visit the Tianji Hall again.

Fenhai Zhenjun Xuanyue suddenly frowned, reached out and took a small pocket from Wei Yuan's waist, and held it in his hand. The pocket immediately emitted a thick blood aura, and countless black shadows emerged, wanting to escape, but they were all blocked by Fenhai Zhenjun Xuanyue's Dao power, and none of them could escape.

"Where did these true bloods come from?"

Wei Yuan told the story of visiting Imperial Consort Yuan in the Jin country and then encountering the sneak attack by Yu Jing. However, he naturally didn't say who the target of the sneak attack by Yu Jing was.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 459 =====