It's another bright morning.
Sunlight penetrated the glazed tiles in the window and shone in the hall.
Inside the curtain, a ray of light passed through the gap and shone on a pair of white lotus arms.
Xuanxuan hugged Chen Ke, with her black hair hanging behind her back, and slept comfortably in Chen Ke's arms. The sun shone on her body, and she slowly opened her eyes.
Chen Ke was still sleeping, and Xuanxuan picked up a strand of her hair and tickled Chen Ke's face.
"Naughty."
Chen Ke didn't open his eyes, and hugged him with one hand, but Xuanxuan's cheeks turned pink, and her peach blossom eyes were about to drip with water. She looked at Chen Ke playfully and asked in his ear: "Do you want to do morning exercises?"
"Are you okay again?" Chen Ke opened his eyes and saw such a charming Xuanxuan, his eyes became dim and unclear.
Xuanxuan's fingers were like dancing dancers, dancing on Chen Ke's shoulders. She licked her red lips and said with a smile: "You practiced most of the night last night, and we have only been practicing for a long time. While the sun is still shining, Before you come out, why not practice for a while? I think your secret technique is very good."
Chen Ke hugged Xuanxuan, turned around, and said with a smile: "Okay, since the beauty invites you, how can I let you down?"
A stream of spiritual power circulates between the two people. The harmony of yin and yang is the essence of the endless cycle of spiritual power.
Above the eastern sky.
The red sun gradually jumped out of the sky, shooting out thousands of rays of rays of light, illuminating the world and dispelling the coldness of the night.
In the season when everything revives, the spring sunshine is the most heart-warming.
The sky and earth are filled with spring scenery, in the mountains, in the woods, in the wind, and in the palace somewhere.
I don't know how long it took, Xuanxuan shouted loudly, feeling like he was entering the nine heavens and slowly falling into the world.
"I won't come, surrender."
Xuanxuan said it very simply. It wasn't the first time she surrendered. She was already used to it.
"How can you, a defeated general, surrender at such a critical moment? Look at my strength!"
"Brother, please spare me." Xuanxuan's beauty turned pale.
"Wait a minute, I'll finish practicing soon!"
Xuanxuan felt the constant flow of spiritual power with fear. She liked it and was afraid at the same time. It was really too much for her to not use her spiritual power to protect her body. Why is this bastard getting stronger and stronger? Is it really a matter of secret cultivation?
Xuanxuan's consciousness gradually became hazy, and he gradually fell asleep due to physical fatigue.
In her dream, she felt that she was rowing a boat and drifting in the sea. The waves hit her from time to time, making her unable to find the shore.
After a long time, Xuanxuan woke up.
Chen Ke was no longer around, and the sun was reaching noon at this moment.
"Humph, you are so heartless. You just pull out your body and leave. You are really just like that unfaithful person." Xuanxuan said.
Xuanxuan stood up and looked at the reddish-purple skin. She turned her spiritual power back to its normal color. Her new clothes were already placed on the clothes rack next to her. After putting them on, Xuanxuan got off the bed, walked out of the bedroom, and came to the inner hall.
Chen Ke was still missing, only Xiao Jiu was eating a piece of pastry. The little green lizard next to him watched eagerly as Xiao Jiu ate and drank, and also wanted to have a taste of the human world.
"Where is he?" Xuanxuan asked.
Xiaojiu said: "The general was called away by Li Kui."
"I know." Xuanxuan nodded. Chen Ke usually didn't leave the hall. It seemed that he had something important to do.
Chen Ke really has important matters. Among the sects from all directions today, those neutral sects also sent people to express their submission to Lingkong Mountain and are willing to join the subordinate sects of Lingkong Mountain and become the subordinate sects of Lingkong Mountain. .
Chen Ke's conditions of leadership are much more generous than those of Taoists from the Five Directions. They do not require worshiping Lingkong Mountain, nor do they require 30% of the tribute, only half.
The subordinate sects have absolute autonomy. They only need to respect Lingkong Mountain and Lingkong Mountain will not care about other things.
Even if the subordinate sects become enemies with each other and start a war, Lingkong Mountain will not take care of it. Unless they ask Lingkong Mountain at the same time, Lingkong Mountain will help mediate.
Which sect can disagree with such a good thing?
The more important point is that Lingkong Mountain does not force its subordinate sects to put Lingkong Mountain's honorary throne in their sect worship hall, and there is no need to worship Lingkong Mountain as the main sect.
The biggest relationship between the superior sect and the subordinate sect is the relationship of leadership, and the other is the relationship of inheritance. The original subordinate relationship was that the disciples of the main sect left the sect, established a small sect elsewhere, and worshiped the main sect as their ancestor. Gradually, when there were more such sects, a subordinate sect was formed.
And some rising large sects, because of the division of territory, will make the small sects around their territory recognize them as the master and become their subordinate sects.
Gradually, this trend formed in the monastic world and evolved into the current unified sect.
Chen Ke's words that there was no need to worship Lingkong Mountain made the Zhongzhong sects excited, and they all announced that they would join Lingkong Mountain.
Even if Lingkong Mountain is attacked by enemies again, even though they are the subordinate sect of Lingkong Mountain, they have not paid homage to Lingkong Mountain. It can be said that they are still not the subordinate sect of Lingkong Mountain.
Today's subordinates have been made into a formality by Chen Ke, rather than a ritual like other large sects and small sects.
Lingkong Mountain doesn't even care whether you pay the tribute or not, and it only requires half of the tribute. You can pay a small amount at will, and use excuses such as the lack of harvest this year, the increase in sect disciples, and the increase in expenses.
Lingkong Mountain will not argue with them. What Chen Ke wanted was the surrender of the Lingkong Mountain Range, which has now been completed.
Chen Ke was sitting in the Lingkong Hall, and it was Li Kui who presided over the ceremony. After him, he finally shouted: "The ceremony is completed!"
Sects from all directions kowtowed to Chen Ke: "Meet the Lord of the Sect!"
Chen Ke waved his hand and said: "You don't need to be polite. If you have needs in the future, you can come to Lingkong Mountain."
"Thank you so much, Lord of the Sect." Everyone under the steps saluted and thanked him.
Chen Ke nodded and said to Li Kui: "You can arrange the next thing. Don't force them to stay or leave."
"yes!"
Li Kui said.
Some of the disciples below looked at Li Kui with envy on their faces. Li Kui was really lucky, and he became the number two person in Lingkong Mountain just because he got an extremely thick thigh.
One can really use the phrase "below one person and above ten thousand people" to describe Li Kui.
Even though Li Kui is only in the late stage of Qi Refining Realm, and even though the sect still has many Taoist Realms, no one dares to be disrespectful to Li Kui, because Li Kui represents Chen Ke.
Some people even wonder if they would have been treated like Li Kui now if they had been assigned to the Fifth Hall to serve Chen Ke.
Li Kui stood next to Chen Ke, announcing the agreements that each sect needed to abide by, as well as some things that could be done or not done, like a high-ranking person in charge of Lingkong Mountain, full of authority.
The sects below also got to know the chief steward of Lingkong Mountain, who was only in the realm of Qi refining. Some people had the idea to curry favor with Li Kui.
After the announcement, Chen Ke stood up and left, letting Li Kui and other powerful Daoji realm masters take charge of the subsequent affairs, while he returned to the Fifth Hall.
Facing such a group of people, Chen Ke felt bored and had nothing to say. If it weren't for the stability near Lingkong Mountain, Chen Ke wouldn't want to deal with this group of people at all and let them make trouble as they pleased, whether life or death.
For Chen Ke, he didn't have much desire for power.
Power is not what Chen Ke wants. What he wants is that no one dares to restrain him. This is not what power can bring him. When powerful people control power, they will also be controlled by power and be restricted within a certain framework.
Not caring about power or other things, doing what you want to do, not doing what you don't want to do, and achieving complete freedom is what Chen Ke wants to do.
This kind of thing is difficult. It is not the path to power, but the path to invincibility.
Chen Ke will persevere, just like Lingkong Mountain, which will fall apart in the face of crisis, but after hard work, the crisis in Lingkong Mountain is lifted. This made Chen Ke feel that as long as he worked hard, he would have a chance to achieve the goal he wanted.
Returning to the main hall, Chen Ke saw Xuanxuan sitting and reading a book, Xiaojiu playing with the little lizard, and suddenly felt a sense of peace and quiet in the years.
Perhaps, this kind of life is the biggest dream of ordinary people.
The wife at home is waiting for her husband to return home.
"You have swallowed part of Zhang Zonglei's soul essence. It needs to be refined in time, otherwise it will affect your body." Xuanxuan reminded Chen Ke when he saw Chen Ke coming back.
Chen Ke said: "I understand, and I'm going to practice now."
Chen Ke sat on the cloud bed beside him, crossed his legs and closed his eyes, and began to practice and refine the soul essence he had swallowed.
The spiritual power in his body gradually began to work crazily, absorbing and refining the pure soul power left by Zhang Zonglei!
Xuanxuan stood up and said, "I'll go to the Medicinal Materials Pavilion and help you find some elixir for warming and nourishing, so that you can quickly absorb the soul essence."
Chen Ke closed his eyes and asked, "You actually know medicine?"
Xuanxuan said: "I don't understand medicine, but Master taught me how to quickly absorb the power in the soul. Just wait here."
Xuanxuan walked out of the palace door and headed towards the medicinal materials pavilion.
Some of the precious medicinal materials in the Medicinal Materials Pavilion had already been plundered by the powerful foreigners. Now only some ordinary medicinal materials are left, as well as the elixirs paid tribute by the subordinate sects later.
Xuanxuan was choosing when suddenly a disciple walked in from outside.
"Young Master Xuanxuan, long time no see." This disciple's title was very strange. He didn't call Xuanxuan his wife, or called Xuanxuan his senior sister, but directly called her Young Master!
Xuanxuan's originally lazy and laid-back expression suddenly changed, and her eyes became extremely sharp.
"Are you from the devil world?" Xuanxuan asked in a low voice.
The man smiled and said: "The prime minister has been waiting for the young master for a long time, and he also asked the young master to come with me to see the prime minister."
Xuanxuan sneered and said, "What if I don't go?"
The man smiled lightly and said: "I heard that the young master has taken a liking to the master of this mountain. If the prime minister takes action against him, the young master will not be able to protect him."
Xuanxuan looked at this ordinary-looking middle-aged man with murderous intent in his eyes.
