After watching Li Jian go away, Lin Ji still stood motionless.
He didn't know how much time had passed, but it wasn't until a scout from the barbarian army came to carefully investigate not far away that he finally woke up.
Looking over, the scout's eyes suddenly turned black and he fell to the ground unconscious.
Although Lin Ji did not take his life, in this freezing cold world, half an hour of coma was enough to kill him.
Lin Ji withdrew his gaze and looked down at the undetectable sword marks on his chest. He recalled in his mind Li Jian's understated yet full of fanatic sword strike.
“After sacrificing God is sacrificing one’s body?”
He recalled the way Li Jian just gave up his body and used his soul to fight.
"But the shadow of my sword clearly enveloped his entire body. Why was he unscathed in the end?"
Lin Ji thought about it, but couldn't figure it out.
He could realize that this occasional feeling was a gift from Li Jian. Li Jian taught him the swordsmanship that had just broken the She Shenjian, but it was not a teaching by words and deeds, just a demonstration.
After pondering for a long time, Lin Ji shook his head slightly.
"That's all, I can't figure it out, and I don't know what he thinks."
Another place on the Yunzhou border.
Li Jian's footsteps slowly stopped and he caught up with Gu Sheng who had fled dozens of miles away.
At this moment, Gu Sheng was confronting someone. He seemed to be facing a formidable enemy. Even when he saw Li Jian approaching, he still did not dare to relax.
Opposite him, Shen Long held his Taoist weapon and looked at Gu Sheng with a smile.
Seeing Li Jian appear, the smile on his face faded slightly.
"Why do fellow Daoist Li have the leisure to embarrass my colleagues in the Tiansi Supervisor? Could it be that he has made up his mind to advance the situation?"
"No, I'm just happy to see Hunter Xin." Li Jian responded in a low voice, "Lin Ji has the swordsmanship of my Sanshengdong. I want to see how far he has practiced it."
"After that sword strike, how did fellow Daoist Shen feel?"
"generally."
Shen Long was not surprised.
"It's not easy to hear the word "normal" from you. When you said Fang Yunshan, you just used 'not bad'." Shen Long shook his head and laughed.
Li Jian did not smile, but looked at the broadsword in Shen Long's hand.
"Is this the way to kill?"
"yes."
"Didn't this sword be left behind in the North?" Li Jian was a little confused, "If I remember correctly, it was the Taoist weapon of Qin Zheng, the elder of the Qin family in Tianjing. Later, he went to the North alone and was seriously injured. The Taoist artifact was left behind, and he managed to survive."
"I don't know about this. I got the news that the knife was in the hands of Balu, a member of the barbarian Ba clan who had entered the Dao realm, so I went to the far north. I happened to wait for Balu to be alone, so I killed him and snatched the knife away. Come back."
Speaking of this, Shen Long chuckled and said: "I don't know what this idiot is thinking. When Balu is about to die, he is still talking about nonsense like someone has provoked the angry god, and that person is coming to the far north. He will take his life. I can’t keep it anymore, and I’m still thinking about his family’s totem god.”
"This is the case with the Totem Dao. We who enter the Dao are the continuation of the Heavenly Dao, but they are just the continuation of the Totem God." Li Jian said, and couldn't help but remind him, "Slashing the Dao is an important weapon. If the Qin family knows about this sword, If it falls into the hands of fellow Taoists, I’m afraid I won’t let it go.”
"Hehe." Shen Long grinned and did not respond.
Li Jian didn't care about this, he just talked about it casually.
"I still want to guard the barbarian army, so I'll take the first step." After Li Jian nodded slightly, he turned around and left.
Gu Sheng, on the other hand, glanced at Shen Long with fear, and then hurriedly followed him, fearing that Li Jian would walk too fast and leave him behind.
Looking at the two people leaving, Shen Long's eyes showed a bit of sarcasm.
"Even the saints of the past couldn't resist the temptation of the Palace of Eternal Life? Is it really that good to live a long time?"
After the words fell, he took a step forward and disappeared.
When he reappeared, he had already landed in front of a young man named Bai.
"Hahaha, Fellow Daoist Lin! It's been a long time!"
"Master Shen, it's a coincidence that you came here."
Capital City, Panlong Mountain.
Among the bleak village houses, an old man was wearing a heavy cotton-padded jacket, his hands folded in his sleeves, and his whole body curled up, looking as if he was severely cold.
But he just sat outside the house, facing the cold wind.
The mountain wind howled by, and the old man suddenly turned his head as if he noticed something.
Up the mountain, under the archway at the entrance of the village, another old man appeared.
"Brother Mian, long time no see."
Emperor Mian looked at the visitor with slightly dirty eyes, nodded slightly, but did not get up.
"I actually asked you to come. Qin Zheng, have you given up after all?"
As soon as these words came out, the original smile on Qin Zheng's face suddenly froze.
Qin Mian could naturally see the other party's embarrassment, but he did not restrain himself at all. He sneered: "Why, after more than two hundred years at the peak of Taoism, you can't find a way forward. You, the elder of the Qin family, are still sent out to run errands after all?"
Listening to Qin Mian's not-so-kind tone, Qin Zheng sighed slightly and took two quick steps to come closer.
"Brother Mian, there is no need to taunt him with words. I have already accepted my fate, just like Brother Mian."
"I recognized it as early as when I became the emperor of Great Qin." Qin Mian responded.
After the words fell, he stood up and walked towards the depths of the mountain top.
Qin Zheng stopped talking and followed step by step.
Soon, the two of them arrived outside the ancestral mausoleum of the Qin family.
Qin Mian waved slightly, and the stone door of the ancestral mausoleum slowly opened, revealing the gloomy and solemn scene inside.
The many tablets of the royal ancestors over the millennium are arranged from high to low.
Qin Mian looked at the many tablets that he had been guarding for who knows how long, with a bit of sarcasm on his face.
Looking to the side, in the side room of the ancestral tomb, there are many tablets of royal family members, such as queens, concubines, etc.
Qin Mian looked at it for a long time.
It wasn't until Qin Zheng behind him coughed slightly impatiently that he finally came back to his senses.
"What's the rush?"
Qin Mian responded and walked towards the depths of the ancestral mausoleum.
After walking around, he led Qin Zheng to the deepest part, a hall with light shining from above.
The hall was empty, with only a ray of light falling from top to bottom in the center.
It was a stone platform, about ten feet long and wide, with carvings on the side depicting flying dragons rising into the sky, and the dragon heads all leaping to the center of the stone platform in different shapes.
The moment he saw the stone platform, Qin Zheng's face became extremely ugly.
"Seven dragons."
There are only seven stones left on the stone platform. Looking from the side, it is obvious that there are more spaces for two dragons.
"Two pieces were lost." Qin Mian's expression did not change, "If this were not the case, how could the Tianjing family let you come in person? I think Qin Yuan also noticed something was wrong."
Qin Yuan is the current head of the Qin family.
Hearing this, Qin Zheng took a deep breath and suppressed his dissatisfaction with Qin Mian.
"Brother Mian, which two items are missing?"
"Yangzhou, Xiangzhou."
"The rebellion of the Hai Clan is indeed difficult to resist." Qin Zheng sighed softly, "Why did Xiangzhou lose it? Did Taiyi rebel?"
"The Xiangzhou family sect was turned upside down by the small Hehuan sect, and the saying that a thousand-mile embankment collapsed in an ant nest is really not just talk."
While speaking, there was a sudden crisp sound.
Qin Mian and Qin Zheng suddenly turned their heads and looked at the Nine Dragon Platform.
Then, they saw a stone dragon suddenly shatter into pieces, and its debris fell to the ground.
"This?!" Qin Zheng turned to look at Qin Mian.
Qin Mian sighed softly.
"Qingzhou."
(End of chapter)
