"Wen Hao, Xiao Yu'er, why did you two come to Longmen Pass?"
After talking to Wang Renbiao, Li Zexuan finally turned his attention to Meng Wenhao and Li Yu. To be honest, he was a little surprised to see these two little guys.
Meng Wenhao stepped forward and replied: "Captain, your Majesty was very angry when he learned that the books in the academy were stolen. He ordered General Qin, General Cheng, and General Yuchi to lead 10,000 light cavalry to quickly pursue Wu Jie. In order for the army to be able to fight with you and Chang'an." We kept in touch with each other at all times. Your Majesty gave General Qin and his team permission to carry a telegraph machine, but no one in the army knew how to use it. Later, General Cheng chose me, and I came with the army!"
"Um!"
Li Zexuan nodded, then looked at Li Yu and asked: "Xiao Yu'er, what about you? You are a weak woman, you didn't come with the army, right?"
"Sir, I..."
Xiao Yu'er opened her mouth and looked embarrassed. In front of so many people, she couldn't say that she came here to find Wu Jie, right? If she really said that, I don’t know how many strange looks she would receive!
"Chief, Xiao Yu'er didn't follow the army. She came here by herself. She is worried about your safety and wants to come and see you in person!"
Seeing Li Yu's troubled face, Meng Wenhao, who knew the inside story, quickly explained.
Li Zexuan's eyes flashed, and he nodded thoughtfully: "Yes! Xiao Yu'er, I'm sorry that you have such intentions!"
"Uh, sir, just be okay!"
Li Yu looked unnatural for a while, and she quickly replied.
Only then did Li Zexuan turn his attention to Xue Rengui. He was surprised and said: "Rengui? Why are you also at Longmen Pass?"
During the day, he met Xue Rengui in the mountains. The two chatted very well. He also extended an olive branch to Xue Rengui. However, Xue Rengui had no intention of joining the army and had an arrogant personality. He did not want to cling to the powerful. He also There is no need to force yourself!
It's just that he didn't expect to meet Xue Rengui again so soon!
"Rengui has met the Marquis!"
Xue Rengui first clasped his fists and saluted Li Zexuan, and then began to explain: "At around midnight, someone in the village noticed that there were flames shooting into the sky in the direction of Longmen Pass. After they learned through me that you, Lord Marquis, were also at Longmen Pass, they wanted to come over and help! I was fast and took the lead, while the young men in the village followed behind. As soon as I arrived at Longmen Pass, I happened to encounter the Turkic Imperial Guards bombarding the city gate, and Xue followed Fang Junjun to defend the city!"
At this time, Wang Renbiao couldn't help but laugh and interjected: "Xiao Xuan, you don't know, Rengui relied on his superb archery skills to block Wu Jie with nine arrows on the city wall, and forcefully destroyed Wu Jie's first offensive. Thirty percent! If it hadn’t been for him, Longmen Pass might not have been able to hold out when Taoist Master Xuanqing and the Qizhou army arrived!”
Xue Rengui hurriedly said: "The Governor Wang has given me the award, but Xue just happens to have brute strength!"
Li Zexuan smiled knowingly and said: "Haha! Rengui, you don't have to be humble. Your archery skills are definitely among the top three among the people I know. I'm grateful for your help this time guarding Longmen Pass! Return to Chang'an , I will ask for credit for you!"
Xue Rengui waved his hands after hearing this and said: "Master Hou, Rengui has no merit and does not dare to be greedy for credit. Rengui's move is not only guarding Longmen Pass, but also guarding hundreds of lives in Xiu Village!"
Seeing that Xue Rengui looked sincere and didn't seem to be hypocritical, Li Zexuan sighed with regret and said: "That's fine! Since you insist on doing this, Rengui, I won't force you! If you change your mind someday, just tell me!"
"Um!"
Xue Rengui nodded in response, and then said: "Master Hou, it's getting late. Rengui takes his leave and takes the villagers back to the village!"
Li Zexuan thought for a while and said: "The villagers came to Longmen Pass to help despite the danger. I am very touched. I will also say goodbye to the villagers and say thank you by the way!"
Facing the fierce and brutal Turkic Wolf Cavalry, these powerless villagers dared to take up arms and come to Longmen Pass to participate in the defense of the city. Li Zexuan wanted to say that he was not moved. How could that be possible? The human heart is made of flesh!
Xue Rengui hurriedly clasped his fists and said: "Master Hou is serious, if it weren't for your Tianji Brigade, all the crops in Longmen County would have been eaten by locusts. The villagers are willing to come to Longmen Pass to defend the city because they respect you as a person and repay your kindness! I can’t afford to thank you in person!”
Li Zexuan's heart moved, and then he remembered that in the "marching route" he originally planned for the Tianji Brigade, the East Road Tianji Brigade led by Li Ke did pass through Jiangzhou. Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing and said: " The Tianji Brigade is entrusted by the Holy Spirit to destroy locusts in Jiangzhou. However, the villagers are willing to take risks for me. I will carry on this friendship no matter what. You are kind and noble. Quick, lead the way!"
Seeing that he could not refuse, Xue Rengui could only nod his head and said: "Okay! Mr. Hou, come with Xue!"
"Um!"
The two of them left the turret one after the other.
Wang Renbiao, Li Yu, and Meng Wenhao looked at each other and followed suit.
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"Is the earth round under your feet? Are the sun's rays made up of seven colors? Is energy conserved? Running water can generate electricity, and electricity can be used to emit light? The reaction of multiple substances to generate new substances is called a chemical reaction? Also, these ghost drawings are the same What kind of writing is that thing? It’s really strange, where did Xiaoxuan learn all this knowledge?”
In a turret east of Longmen Pass, Xuan Qing looked at the books on the table and couldn't help but murmur to himself.
These books are the top-secret information of Yanhuang Academy that Li Zexuan snatched from Wu Jie. They contain drawings, killer project plans, some textbook annotations, and key parameters of some important projects!
These things were previously placed in the cellar with Li Zexuan. However, Xuanqing had a mysophobia. He disliked the dirty, messy and poor environment in the cellar, so he asked Hong Wenxing to send people to move all the books in the cellar to the east turret. .
However, after seeing the contents of those materials, Xuan Qing's heart was suddenly filled with doubts, because he had never heard of the knowledge involved in it before, and he was very sure that Master Lingxu had not heard of it either. Know these things!
Master Lingxu comes and goes without a trace, and not many people have come into contact with him. However, Xuanqing is definitely one of the people who has had the most contact with Master Lingxu, so after seeing the contents in those books, Xuanqing became even more determined. A guess in my mind is that there is "something wrong" with the Li Zexuan in front of me!
Xuanqing couldn't help but recall the conversation that Li Zexuan had just woken up in the house:
"You kid, it's time to wake up, right?"
"Hmm! It's the junior uncle! Li Zexuan has met the junior uncle!"
"Hmph! Do you still remember me, my uncle, and your sect?"
"The disciple is terrified! Although the disciple went down to the mountain to help the world, he never forgot his identity. The disciple not only accumulated virtues and did good deeds, but also preached Taoism among the people. Because the academy was busy with affairs, and the Holy Master also assigned many official duties to the disciple, the disciple I am ashamed that I haven’t been able to return to my master’s door to visit my junior master uncle and master master uncle for such a long time!”
"Hmph! You still have some conscience! But the one you should visit the most is your master! Senior brother, he has no heirs. He not only regards you as a disciple, but also treats you as his own child. He gave everything to you. You can’t be ungrateful!”
"This is what I taught you! When this matter is over, this disciple must go to Longhu Mountain in person and kowtow in front of the master's mausoleum to apologize!"
"...Hmm! Xiaoxuan, let me ask you, when you came down from the mountain, you were still at the peak of Qi Transformation, but now you are at the peak of Grandmaster. And after my observation, I found that when you broke through the realm, you were different from other warriors. , tell me honestly, have you practiced any evil skills?"
"...Uncle Master is wronged. Although this disciple is not a benevolent and virtuous person, he still has a reverence for heaven, earth, and all living beings. Everything the disciple has learned comes from the master. After the master passed away, the disciple suffered several life and death disasters." , in a desperate situation, the disciple has some special insights into martial arts. Maybe because of these insights, the disciple's way of breaking through the situation is different from ordinary people?"
"Well... are you willing to let your uncle explore your meridians? Don't get me wrong, my uncle has no ill intentions. It's just that our Tianshi Dao has always been a well-known and upright sect. There must never be any treacherous people. I must ensure that you You have not strayed into the heretic ways of evil spirits!”
"Uncle, you don't need to explain. You saved this disciple's life. If you want to investigate, you can investigate. This disciple has a clear conscience and will never resist!"
"Okay! Then Uncle Master is abrupt... Well, the trajectory of the true energy is indeed the movement route of the Taixuan Sutra, and the true energy is also pure Taoist true energy. It seems that Xiaoxuan, you have always adhered to the Taoist heart. You are a master." Uncle, I wrongly blamed you! Huh? No! Why do you have such pure true energy in your body?"
"True Yuan? Uncle Master, what is True Yuan?"
"You don't know true essence, so why do you have true essence in your body?"
"This...disciple doesn't know either!"
"The capacity of a person's Dantian is limited. When one reaches the peak of master's training, the true energy will fill the entire Dantian. It is necessary to condense the true energy with secret methods, condense the true energy into true essence, and coupled with one's own martial arts perception, then one can have It is possible to break through to the Grand Master! This true essence is unique to the Grand Master... Okay! You have just recovered from your serious injury, take the time to adjust your breath! There are a few people outside, they should be looking for you, Uncle Master, I will leave first Got it!"
"Thank you, uncle. Master, please go slowly!"
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"It makes sense that this child's martial arts have improved by leaps and bounds, but where does this weird knowledge come from? Pindao has heard of Yanhuang Academy at some point along the way. People say that engineering is taught there! Engineering, what kind of science is this? Why have I never heard of it from my senior brother?"
After coming back from his deep thoughts, Xuan Qing's eyes became more and more doubtful.
"Clang, clang, clang, clang!"
At this moment, five gongs and drums sounded from the city tower. Xuan Qing was startled and murmured: "It's already the fifth watch! That's all! As long as this child is on the right path and doesn't do anything harmful to nature, what else can a poor Taoist do? worried?"
After saying that, Xuan Qing closed the book in his hand and walked towards the bed next to him.
As Li Zexuan's junior uncle and a banner figure of Tianshi Dao in Longhu Mountain, Xuan Qing still received some preferential treatment here. He could have a separate resting space, unlike other ordinary soldiers who could only sleep in tents!
On the other side, after meeting and persuading the nearby villagers who came to Longmen Pass to support, Li Zexuan urged everyone around him to disperse and rest, while he returned to the corner tower just now, intending to wait quietly for Cheng Yaojin and the others to return.
Previously, with the help of Xuanqing's power and some of his own insights, he broke through to the late stage of the Grand Master in one fell swoop. Now he was very energetic and couldn't fall asleep even if he lay on the bed. He simply sat cross-legged on the couch and started Use the eighth level of "Tai Xuan Jing" to experience this new realm!
"Sir, have you rested?"
About a quarter of an hour later, Xiao Yu'er's voice came from outside the door. Li Zexuan's heart moved and he quickly stopped. Then he whispered: "Come in!"
When he just woke up, he saw that Li Yu's expression was a little abnormal, and he always felt that this girl was hiding something in her heart. Now Li Yu took the initiative to come to the door, probably to "show off" her cards to him, right?
With a "squeak", Li Yu pushed the door in, then turned around and closed the door. Then she walked gently to Li Zexuan and said with a guilty look on her face: "Sir, you have just recovered from a serious injury. Am I right?" Did it disturb your rest?"
Li Zexuan smiled and waved his hand, saying: "It doesn't matter! I'm not sleepy at the moment. Xiao Yu'er, are you worried about why you're still up so late?"
"Um!"
Li Yu nodded her head lightly and said "hmm", then she bit her lips and said softly: "Sir, you have met the Turkic Imperial Master. Can you tell me what kind of person he is?"
"Turkic National Preceptor?"
Hearing this, Li Zexuan couldn't help being startled, and then he said with some confusion: "Xiao Yu'er, what are you asking the Turkic Master for?"
Li Yu's expression was slightly dull. After hesitating for a moment, she replied: "Sir, the Turkic Imperial Master may know the whereabouts of my biological father and mother, so..."
"What? Wu Jie knows the whereabouts of your father and mother? Xiao Yu'er, who did you hear this?"
Li Zexuan was shocked, with a flash of disbelief in his eyes.
Regarding Li Yu's life experience, he has always sent people to secretly search for it, but judging from the jade bracelet on Li Yu's hand, Li Yu's parents must have been from a wealthy family back then, so Li Zexuan has been sending people to Chang'an. I asked nearby if any wealthy family had lost a child more than ten years ago, and there were quite a few people who met this requirement. But when I called them over and asked them in person, none of them met the criteria!
After searching for so long in Chang'an but still not finding any useful clues, Li Zexuan never expected that Li Yu's parents would have something to do with Wu Jie. How could he not be shocked?
Seeing that Li Zexuan didn't believe it, Li Yu explained seriously:
"Sir, this is what Wu Jie told me personally! The night before yesterday, the academy was attacked. Mr. Mo, the two Dugu generals, and Mr. Zhang San, who had gone to sea but returned secretly, were defeated by the Turkic national division one after another. Finally, The Turkic National Preceptor even wanted to kill Mr. Zhang San..."
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