The gray spots in Xue Tongshi's sea were no longer there, and there was an empty feeling in his brain. He used the Divine Blazing Technique to generate mental power to fill the void. It took a month of diligent practice to fill it up.
At this time, the Bone Puppet was also in a comatose state. Xue Tong bought several iron-enthalpy viper pseudo-elixirs in the Imperial City. Like the pseudo-inner elixir of the Volcano Poison Toad, it was the best thing for the Ghost Puppet to practice.
The bone surface of the bone puppet took on a light green color under the influence of the poison, and its terrifying appearance became a bit more terrifying than before.
The concentration of spiritual energy in Longquan Mountain's top training room exceeded any other place Xue Tong had encountered. Xue Tong practiced day and night without daring to slack off.
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In the blink of an eye, the day agreed with Fei Ran was approaching.
Xue Tong tore off a few strips of earth demon rat flesh and put them to the vulture's mouth. After drinking blood for half a year, the vulture had completely broken out of its shell and crawled on the vulture's nest made of spiritual stones.
Xue Tong switched to feeding the raptors' favorite rat meat, rabbit meat, and snake meat. There were many corpses of monster beasts in his ring. When the vultures were just growing up, they chose low-level monster meat to feed them.
When Xue Tong walked out of the training room, the first thing he did was to pay more than 220,000 yuan at the weapon refining shop and get the high-grade magic weapon-level heavy iron goose-winged crab.
Several spiritual patterns were looming on the blue-black body of the sword. A circle of non-attributed French characters were imprinted on the bottom of the sword.
However, the Jinluan Trading Company received nothing from the four elixirs it purchased. It seemed that Tiancheng Dan was indeed priceless, and even the formula elixirs were hard to find. With what he learned, he planned to chat with Fei Ran for half a day and sneak back to Jiyuan City's Moruo Mountain to practice.
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"Xue Tong, you really kept your promise and came on time."
"Haha, how dare you not keep the promise you made with the princess."
"Okay, now that you're here, let's stay a little longer. I still have things to do." Fei Ran said.
"Xue Tong may not be able to serve the princess anymore. I have something to do and I have to go about my own business."
"What else can you do? Just be busy practicing." Fei Ran rolled his eyes at Xue Tong.
"I have a generous salary for guarding the spiritual stone. I can also go to Longquan Mountain to practice for free for one month every year. I don't know how much better it is than fooling around outside."
An ordinary person would not be able to ask for it, but his attraction to Xue Tong was too small. He shook his head and was about to refuse, but Fei Ran said something that moved his heart.
"I see that your aura and temperament are much better than a year ago. It will only take two or three years to advance to the next level. Tiancheng Dan is very important to you." Fei Ran said with a smile.
Xue Tong blinked, this sentence hit him right in the heart.
"Do you have a way to get the Tiancheng Pill?" Xue Tong asked.
Fei Ran shrugged and said, "It's difficult, but if you perform well as the princess's guard, Prince Chong's Mansion might reward you with one."
Xue Tong was discouraged when he heard this, "Forget it, even if I don't have Tiancheng Dan Dan, I will upgrade sooner or later."
"I have something to do right now. I will accompany you to Xiaoyingzhou, the fiefdom of the royal family. If you can win the favor of your father with your merits, you can expect the Heavenly Pill. You might as well spend three or five months trying it. Maybe you can save three to five years of hardship. Practice and it will pay off!" Fei Ran advised.
"Oh" Xue Tong's eyes flashed, and Fei Ran's last sentence touched his nerves.
"I don't want to be the princess's bodyguard. I want to be the palace's bodyguard and be sent to the princess' side."
Xue Tong means that his identity needs to be recognized by the palace, and he is definitely not a guard recruited by the princess based on her own whims and preferences.
"You have a big appetite. I'll go talk to my father, queen, mother and concubine." Fei Ran guessed Xue Gong's intention.
"Oh, by the way, you let me go a year ago. You must have already thought about what happened today." Xue Tong asked.
"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't let him go casually!"
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The setting sun is like blood, and Prince Chong's palace is bathed in the twilight.
The palace steward and two guards took Xue Tong away and led him around the palace, through covered bridges and courtyards. When it was almost dark, they came to a secluded courtyard.
The housekeeper pushed open the courtyard door and said, "Go straight and enter the main hall."
The courtyard is covered by ancient trees and is dark and quiet.
The door of the main hall is open, and the hall is very deep. There are cases and tables five feet away, and a hollow carved screen behind it.
The furniture in the hall is all bronze in color and is very solemn and depressing.
As soon as Xue Tong sat down on the wooden chair in the center of the room, light black smoke poured into the main room from all directions.
The place where the housekeeper took him was quite unexpected. Xue Tong originally thought he was going to the splendid palace of the palace to meet Fei Ran's family, but he unexpectedly ended up in such a gloomy and terrifying courtyard.
Black smoke swirled around Xue Tong, and Xue Tong felt a chill in his heart, and the inexplicable sound of evil ghosts howling could be heard in his ears.
Xue Tong's thoughts turned sharply and he suppressed the fear in his heart.
Black smoke wrapped Xue Tong tightly, and silver light shone in the smoke, piercing Xue Tong's eyebrows.
Xue Tong Zhanming's sea of consciousness immediately became unstable, and large thick clouds gathered.
The wind was howling, the dark clouds were rolling, and a storm in the sea of consciousness was becoming a reality. Xue Tong was cold and shivering, and his rational mind was almost completely swallowed up by fear.
He kept his thoughts awake and quickly activated the seventh level of the Shen Chi Jue. The sea of consciousness split through several rays of lightning and shredded the growing dark clouds.
Xue Tong's mind and spirit temporarily stabilized and no longer trembled.
But the mutation reappears!
Xue Tong's Fahai suddenly tightened, and a hazy figure appeared behind the screen. A burst of late-stage innate spiritual pressure instantly compressed his Fahai by half, and the incoming mana almost squeezed his meridians and tore his body apart.
The Three-Yuan Technique reacted immediately, resisting the heavy pressure and no longer contracting. Xue Tong's Technique continued, driving the mana in the meridians into the sea, and the law expanded to 80% of the original volume. The heavy pressure on the chest was greatly relieved.
"Prince Chong is here, Xue Tong, tell me how you know Fei Ran, where are you from, and what is the purpose of coming to the palace?" said the figure behind the screen.
At this time, the pressure on Xue Tong's Fahai Consciousness Sea did not decrease, and he could only come out one by one at an extremely slow speed. When he finished speaking, the pressure on Fahai suddenly disappeared, and the tightly wrapped black smoke also disappeared.
"Well, it seems that Ran'er is not talking nonsense. You are very capable and have no malicious intentions. Otherwise, under my pressure and shock technique, you will either be disabled, or you will be frightened and your defense will collapse and you will take the initiative to confess."
"Stand up and walk around the house a few times." Fei Hanhai ordered.
Xue Tong walked around a few times as he was told, and noticed that there was another late acquired warrior in the side room, peeping in the darkness.
"The warrior in the side room has a feminine aura, maybe it's Fei Ran's mother!" Xue Tong thought to himself.
"Just step back and the butler will take you where you need to go!"
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"Congratulations to Mr. Xue, the prince has decreed that you should be made the deputy captain of the palace, guard the Jin Xiu Garden, and be rewarded with the white tiger token!" The steward announced Prince Chong's decision.
"Deputy Captain?"
Xue Tongjue's official position is not small, and seems to be higher than ordinary guards.
"Yes, there are very few guards directly appointed as deputy captains in our palace. Most of them are school captains, especially those who are in martial arts apprenticeship like Mr. Xue. This is the first time that I have seen him in Prince Chong's palace for 60 years. .”
"The deputy captain of Prince Chong's palace is a military attache from the fourth rank. Deputy captain Xue's opportunity is really incredible." The housekeeper praised.
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"No, if it's such a big deal, the princess must be acting coquettishly in front of her father, queen, mother and concubine, so the prince made an exception and granted me the title."
"I have no intention of becoming an official. It's too late for me to become an immortal. If I don't see the Tiancheng Dan or the four-flavored elixir in a few months, I'll leave quickly!"
"Prince Chong is born in the late stage and his level is terrifying. It is never a good thing to be around him. He might end up suddenly and inexplicably one day."
When Xue Tong met Fei Ran, he never thought that Fei Ran was still dissatisfied and shouted that he would not be granted the title of captain, which had wronged Xue Tong.
"No grievance, the official is big enough, big enough." Xue Tong said repeatedly.
"Okay, you give in for now, and when Xiao Yingzhou comes back, I will find a way to get you promoted!" Fei Ran said.
“When are you going to Xiaoyingzhou?”
"Half a month later!"
He stayed at Prince Xue Tong's residence and worked shifts every five days, patrolling and guarding the Kyung Soo Garden day and night. He was a low-key person, and he was always polite to the captains and captains who met him the day after tomorrow. Those people knew that he was a princess and a celebrity, so they didn't dare to Even if he dislikes his martial arts level, he is still polite.
Xue Tong learned that Xiaoyingzhou belonged to Prince Chong's fiefdom, with a population of more than 200,000. Fei Hanhai sent people to inspect the fiefdom every three years. Fei Ran turned 20 three years ago and was supposed to go there for the first time, but she didn't like etiquette and ceremonies. , refused to resign, and replaced him with his eldest brother.
Now Fei Ran agreed to inspect Xiaoyingzhou and called Xue Tong by the way.
However, the situation in Xiaoyingzhou is complicated. There have been more and more troubles in recent years. Xue Tong wanted to know more about it, but the captain who was chatting with him hesitated and did not dare to speak nonsense. He showed the slightest meaning, which seemed to be related to the imperial city. Conflict related.
"The emperor's family is as deep as the sea. Did Fei Ran notice it and talk about meritorious service and promotion?" Xue Tong had a bad premonition.
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Five taels of lions, camels and animal chariots, twenty guards, and five hundred cavalry, the chariots and horses of Prince Chong's Mansion left the imperial city in the morning light.
Xue Tong stepped off a green horse and followed Fei Ran's main car. Xiaoyingzhou was 3,800 miles away and it would take seven days to arrive at the speed of the convoy.
After two thousand miles, the terrain became increasingly dangerous.
The two groups of soldiers who explored the road never returned, and the atmosphere in the convoy immediately became tense.
"Miao Feng, take someone to take a look." Fei Ran ordered.
Miao Feng was born the day after tomorrow and became the captain of the royal palace. He was one of the strongest warriors in the patrol team.
"Is the Aowu Kingdom in chaos?" Xue Tong asked Wang Juncai, the captain next to him, anxiously. He thought that no matter how chaotic it was, he would not directly stop the convoy of Prince Chong's Mansion in broad daylight.
"To be honest, it's a bit confusing." At this point, Wang Juncai had no choice but to say frankly.
"What kind of chaos is this?"
"Young ones don't dare to say it!"
"Fart!" Xue Tong was furious. In anger, Wang Juncai couldn't help but cursed even though he was in the middle of the day after tomorrow.
It was inconvenient for him to go straight into the Fernando car, and the feeling of being deceived became stronger.
"Does Fei Ran have something unspeakable that he dare not tell me?"
"No, with her character there is no question of whether she dares or not, at least this matter does not exist."
"Or maybe I'm worried that I won't be a guard after making it clear, so I deliberately concealed it."
While Xue Tong was thinking, a bomb exploded violently at high altitude more than ten miles ahead.
"Asshole!" Fei Ran opened the curtain and cursed loudly: "I really turned against you!"
The princess's personal escort, the female captain Shan Chunhua, who was driving the car, had a pale face, and her nervous expression was clearly visible.
