Chapter 157: Xiaoyaohou visits Wanghaihou
Three days later in the morning, Qingshi walked out of the cabin and onto the spacious second deck. He saw Xiaopang lying on the smooth black gold wood deck, sleeping soundly with his back to the rising sun. Qingshi stretched out a little. Waist, walked over and shouted with a smile: "Little Fatty! Get up, the sun is shining on your butt!"
The little fat man grunted and got up and shook his mane, looking at the bluestone and chirping for a while. Over the past few years, Fatty, who was able to obtain energy from food in this world, is no longer the skinny little monster he used to be.
At this time, Xiaopang was already as big as a big dog, more than three feet tall, and over five feet long. He was no longer thin, and his body was strong and majestic. Although he still has the head of a tiger and the body of a tiger, with a lion's mane and a fox's tail, he doesn't look as weird as when he was small and skinny.
Realizing that he was still in the body of an animal, Xiaopang transformed into a human form and shouted excitedly to Qingshi: "Boss, are you okay?"
"Well," Qingshi smiled, "I have fully recovered!"
"Hehe!" Xiaopang smiled, "Boss, you are really powerful now. Such a serious injury can be cured in three days."
"Oh! It's been three days! I didn't notice it." After hearing Xiaopang's words, Qingshi was stunned, and then remembered the first time he was seriously injured. It was the time when he went to Yunlu by chance. That time he was seriously injured. It was two points more serious than this time, but Qingshi recovered in less than three days, and he was still in a coma, using his own Five Elements Qi to repair the injury. However, now Qingshi has already reached the nine levels of true energy, and both his true energy cultivation and the medicines and techniques used to heal injuries are far more advanced than at that time. However, the injury this time is not as serious as the last time, and it takes longer to heal. Duo, there seems to be something wrong with this.
"Little Fatty!" Qingshi thought for a while and said, "Do you still remember the first time I came to Yunlu? That time I was seriously injured. Mr. Bai said I recovered on my own, right? Could it be your Chunma? Are you secretly healing me?"
"I don't know." Xiaopang took out a chicken leg and said while gnawing on it.
Qingshi secretly thought that this was probably the case, and he would have to ask Chun Niang when he went to Yunlu again in the future. I stopped thinking about it now.
Qingshi came to the control console and felt the current situation of the spacecraft. The spacecraft was still moving forward slowly at an altitude of 1,000 feet, still in a state of stealth and alert, and its weapon systems were still ready to go.
Qingshi escaped from death this time, so he naturally paid more attention to safety protection. Qingshi probably did Jiang Chenxiu's assassination on his own, and Jiang Chenying and the other two fugitive Jiang family members probably didn't know about it. However, it is not known whether this is really the case.
Qingshi originally planned to go to Donghai City to complete the sword-making, but now he has changed his mind. After all, Donghai City is Guo Zheng’s territory, and Guo Zheng takes in the Jiang family’s legacy. It is hard to say that Jiang Chenxiu’s assassination has nothing to do with him. Qingshi is not willing to investigate for the time being. He pursued the case and decided not to go to his territory.
There is a training room on the Xuanhu. When Qingshi left Tianlong Academy, he moved all the training room equipment that he had used for many years to the mansion. Later, when he left Chao Ge, all the equipment was transferred to the Xuanhu.
Qingshi also often exercises and forges on the Black Tiger, but Qingshi's main interests are in making puppets and researching driving magic weapons. Naturally, he can also cast weapons. With the level of Qingshi's fifth-level blacksmith, he can forge a sword that suits him. Of course there is no problem, but Qingshi feels that he still needs the guidance of a master who has rich experience in forging weapons, especially swords. After all, he is not very good at forging weapons.
Also, my own sword-making materials should be somewhat inferior. According to Qingshi's idea, this sword has no attributes, and its grade should be above the mid-level Xuan level. The material used in it should be mainly Xuan iron and fine gold, with four main auxiliary materials.
In order for it to be continuously recast and trained to improve its level in the future, some special treasure materials are needed. According to Qingshi's plan, a total of six auxiliary materials are needed, and now he is still short of two, one of which is blue iron. Mineral powder is produced on the coast of the East China Sea, so Qingshi originally wanted to buy it in East China Sea City. Since he is not going to Donghai Kingdom now, Qingshi wants to go to Haisheng Kingdom, a vassal state that is also on the coast of East China Sea and adjacent to Donghai Kingdom. It is smaller and weaker than Donghai Kingdom in terms of area and national power.
The Black Tiger has been flying in the sky for the past few days, with no fixed direction and no specific flight destination. This is Qingshi's safety measure as a precaution during the healing period.
Qingshi's defense was not redundant. On that day when he was attacked, there was actually another group of killers hiding nearby. If they were not frightened by the news of the war at that time, this group of people would definitely launch a second wave of attacks. At that time, Qingshi was vaguely He sensed another group of hidden killers, but he was seriously injured and had no time to pay attention. He left by boat before the second wave of killers could find out.
Qingshi took out the compass tool used to determine the orientation and secretly estimated the current coordinates. He found that the spacecraft was about a thousand miles southwest of the main peak of Xianyun Mountain, so he took out a map of the Tianlong Continent and looked at it. After clarifying the orientation, he adjusted The direction is to fly towards the northeast.
An hour and a half later, Xuanhu passed by the mountainside thirty miles east of Jianshan Mountain and continued flying to the northeast. After another two hours, we could see a north-south mountain range due east in the distance. This mountain range was neither high nor long, but it was very conspicuous in the vast and boundless plains.
Qingshi looked at the map and knew that it was the Pearl Mountain west of the Pearl City, the capital of the Haisheng Kingdom, so he adjusted the bow of the ship and flew due east.
There was still half an hour before arriving at the destination, so Qingshi began to study the map. This map was very large. It was a map of the entire Tianxuan Empire given by Master. From the map, the entire Tianxuan Empire was shaped like a huge fist. , except for a narrow isthmus in the northwest that borders the Sky Eagle Continent, the entire continent is surrounded by the sea.
Chaoge is roughly located in the southwest, and the entire Tianxuan Kingdom accounts for about a quarter of the mainland. The rest of the country is divided by more than a hundred large and small kingdoms, principalities, and princes.
At the beginning, Jiang Tianlong enfeoffed the world after he conquered it, enfeoffing a total of thirty-two countries. In the following one thousand years, due to the continuous subdivision of countries, the original thirty-two countries turned into more than 200 countries. Nearly half of the countries have ceased to exist due to crimes, extermination of the country, attacks on each other, and other reasons.
About 600 years ago, during the Jiang Wu era, the newly granted titles of princes, princes, princes, etc. were only named, and no longer divided the land and bounded the territory.
There are a total of nine vassal kingdoms on the coast of the East China Sea that are close to the sea. The Haisheng Kingdom is almost the smallest one, and the largest one is the Hanhai Kingdom further south.
Qingshi looked at the shape of Haisheng Kingdom's terrain like an open folding fan, and suddenly thought of a person. He couldn't help but smile knowingly, and said to himself: If I had thought of you earlier, I would have come directly to Haisheng Kingdom to find you instead of Donghai Kingdom. , and Jiang Chenxiu’s fellow would not have guessed where he was going and set up an ambush to assassinate him on the road.
Not long after, the spacecraft approached Mingzhu Mountain. Qingshi controlled the spacecraft to descend and slowly landed over a remote open space at the foot of Mingzhu Mountain. The spacecraft was still invisible and no one could see it. Qingshi collected the spaceship and jumped to the ground, looking in the direction of Pearl City and running away. Of course, Xiaopang had already gone back to the egg house to sleep.
Mingzhu Mountain is only five miles away from Mingzhu City, and the bluestone will soon arrive outside the west gate. Mingzhu City is a thousand-year-old city. Many places on the city wall have weathered and peeled off bricks and stones, and some weeds have grown in the cracks of the walls. , the city wall is not very high, the city gate is wide open, and a few city guards are sitting or standing lazily. They don't even look at the pedestrians coming in and out, and only ask a few perfunctory questions when cars and horses come in and out.
Qingshi walked into the city, and while walking along the street, he looked at the shops and restaurants on both sides of the street with great interest. There were many people on the street, and the sounds of sellers and shouts came one after another. Qingshi slowed down and took in the experience of this place. Customs and customs.
Pearl City is not too big, it feels similar to Liang Yuancheng. Qingshi walked along the street for about half an hour, turned a few corners, and finally came to the city lord's palace, which is also the country's lord's palace. He saw a tall and majestic mansion standing with three doors opening to the south, the largest in the middle. On the main entrance, a huge plaque reads four golden characters: Wanghaihou Mansion.
The front door and the right door were both closed, and only the left door was wide open. Qingshi walked over, and a man who looked like a servant leader shouted from a distance: "Stop anyone who comes! Tell me your name. Why do you come to the Marquis Mansion?"
Qingshi smiled slightly and said: "Qingshi, the third-class Xiaoyao Marquis of the Tianxuan Empire, is here to visit the young Marquis Qin Yutong. Please let me know."
When the servant heard this, he couldn't help being stunned. He looked at Qingshi up and down and then looked in the direction where Qingshi came from and said, "May I ask where Mr. Xiaoyao is now and when will he come? I can report it to my prince."
"I am Xiaoyao Hou," Qingshi said with a smile, "You don't need to report to your Marquis, just to Qin Yutong, the young Marquis. We are brothers from Tianxuan Academy, so there is no need to be so polite."
Since the servant was the gatekeeper, he naturally had some eyes. When he saw Qingshi calling himself Xiaoyao Hou alone, he didn't believe it at first, but seeing that he had an extraordinary bearing and said that he was the senior brother of his own Hou Ye, it seemed that he couldn't be wrong.
The gatekeeper didn't dare to neglect at that moment. He trotted over and said with a smile: "The Marquis's command is too simple. Young Marquis Yutong inherited the title two years ago. I'm afraid Marquis Xiaoyao doesn't know about it yet! Please come in." Come in! I will send someone to report to my Marquis." As he said this, he bowed to Qingshi and called someone to tell him to run forward to report to the Marquis.
Qin Yutong is Qingshi's junior fellow student at Tianxuan Academy's Shiqi Dao School, and they usually have a good relationship. Qingshi knew that he was the eldest grandson of Wang Haihou, the lord of Haisheng Kingdom, but he didn't know that he had inherited the royal title.
The head servant took Qingshi into the Marquis Mansion and headed towards the reception hall. As soon as he entered the hall, he saw a young man with a jade belt and brocade robe and a folding fan hurriedly came out from behind the screen in the east chamber. He was the third-class Marquis Wanghai. Qin Yutong.
"Ouch!" Qin Yutong shouted excitedly, "Is he really Senior Brother Qingshi? It's so rare! Rare visitors!" After saying that, he closed the folding fan and stuck it behind his neck, and trotted over to give him a big hug.
Qin Yutong was a few years younger than Qingshi. After inheriting the title, he was afraid that he would not be able to convince the public, so he grew a beard and acted calmly in his usual actions. Seeing the bluestone suddenly, they couldn't help but be so excited that they lost their consciousness. It was the first time for all the servants and maids to see the Marquis being so frivolous and impatient, so they couldn't help but smile at each other.
Qingshi patted Qin Yutong on the back, feeling a little moved in his heart. In fact, although Qin Yutong was acquainted with him when they were in the academy, their relationship was not that good, at least not as good as the friendship between himself and Xiang Wuji and others.
But many years passed by, and the two of them felt extra affectionate when they saw each other again. What Qingshi didn't know was that he and Xiang Wuji were the two top geniuses in the Taoist Academy back then. They were outstanding in terms of weapon, formation, and martial arts. Qin Yutong and other juniors admired them extremely. Seeing his former idol come to visit him, Qin Yutong's excitement was difficult for Qingshi to understand.
That night, Qin Yutong held a banquet, and important figures in the Qin family, including the head of the family, Qin Yutong's grandfather Qin Qingyuan, all came to greet Qingshi. After all, although Qingshi was deprived of his royal title by Emperor Jianxin and exiled, in terms of identity, he was the younger brother of the current Emperor Chengguang, and in terms of title, he was still a third-class Xiaoyao Hou conferred by the imperial court.
For the next six days, Qingshi either drank and talked with Qin Yutong every day, or Qin Yutong accompanied him around Haisheng Kingdom, visiting scenic spots such as Mingzhu Mountain and the East Coast. Qingshi told Qin Yutong of his plan to make a sword. Qin Yutong sent blue iron ore powder the next day, and two days later, he also got more than a hundred silver, the last sword-making auxiliary material Qingshi needed. Come on.
As for finding an experienced sword-smith, Qin Yutong laughed and said: "The best sword-smith in Haisheng Kingdom is in our house, and what he is best at is sword-making. Don't worry, don't worry, old man These two days are busy, let’s eat, drink and have fun first, and then disturb him in a few days.”
