Xu Yuan broke off a branch as thick as his thumb from a dead tree on the side, and walked straight inside along the dark cave corridor.
The sound of gentle footsteps echoed in the darkness. After an unknown amount of time, Xu Yuan's eyes, shining with blood, saw a faint blue-white light at the end of the corridor.
As he continued to walk in, the blue and white light gradually became daylight, accompanied by regular waves of energy fluctuations.
Seeing this scene, Xu Yuan subconsciously stopped.
It seemed that tampering with the control array dot patterns here was not as easy as he imagined, and Xu Xinyao's work was still not over.
After a slight hesitation, Xu Yuan still stepped forward, but masked the sound of his footsteps.
At the end of the corridor, at the tapered cave entrance, Xu Yuan saw everything inside.
The light came from the formations on the ground. The girl in blue sat cross-legged in the middle of the formation with her eyes closed. There were some strange equipment and materials floating around her, and some mysterious blue formations were quickly carved on the ground.
These re-engraved formations complement the original white formations on the ground to form a dazzling sea of blue and white.
After standing at the entrance of the cave and watching for a long time, Xu Yuan gradually discovered that these blue formations seemed to be constantly eroding and replacing the original white formations.
Is this breaking the formation?
After continuing to watch for a while and confirming that the other party could not solve the problem for a while, Xu Yuan walked back a short distance and sat on the inner wall of the corridor.
He won't understand if he continues to read, so he might as well take a break now.
Although his cultivation level was still there, two days and two nights without sleep had left Xu Yuan with a faint feeling of palpitations in the morning after staying up all night in his previous life.
Along with bursts of dazzling light, sleepiness eroded Xu Yuan like an endless wave.
Not long after, Xu Yuan smelled a familiar scent of lavender flowers, which seemed to be far away and yet close before his eyes.
suddenly,
Xu Yuanwu opened his eyes suddenly. At this moment, everything around him was silent, and the blue-white light before sleeping also turned into darkness.
When he first woke up, Xu Yuan moved his body and found that his body seemed to be covered with something.
A flash of blood passed through his eyes, and everything in the darkness became clearly visible.
This is a mink fur coat, the style looks familiar, and it should be the lavender scent I just smelled.
With a soft hum, Xu Yuan looked sideways, and sure enough, he saw a quiet girl in blue next to him.
It's Xu Xinyao.
The cultivation level of these four sisters is better than that of Xu Yuan, but they can't hold on even after one day and two nights of sleeplessness.
But she still didn't sleep, her eyebrows were slightly frowning, her eyes were lowered and she didn't know what she was thinking.
When she heard a slight noise beside her, she immediately looked towards Xu Yuan.
Their eyes met in the dark corridor.
Looking at each other for two breaths,
Xu Yuan threw the mink fur coat back to her and asked casually:
"Success?"
Xu Xinyao silently took the coat, nodded gently, and said in a very soft voice:
"Um"
"how do you feel?"
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No reply.
Seeing this, Xu Yuan snorted, exhaled a long breath, and then asked:
"How long has it been now?"
"About seven hours."
"It seems that I slept quite a long time."
Xu Yuan murmured in a low voice, then turned to look at her lowered eyes again and asked: "Xiao Si, how many of the 400,000 people in Shengshan County are left in three days?"
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No reply.
Xu Yuan laughed softly when he saw this: "Why, are you ready to be mute about anything related to Shengshan County?"
"half."
Her voice was a little hoarse: "Half is left."
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The corridor was quiet for a moment.
Although Xu Yuan had some vague guesses after looking at Xu Xinyao's performance, he was still a little surprised that Shengshan County fell so quickly.
too fast.
He originally thought that Captain Wang would be able to hold on for at least ten days with the help of the city defense formation.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Yuan raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, which were swollen from sleeping for a long time.
If he had not heard the news about the four sisters in Huanglongji, based on the order issued by his father from the imperial capital, he would have been able to arrive in time to collect the bodies in ten days.
Looking at her depressed expression, Xu Yuan said softly:
"Two hundred thousand people died, but on the other hand, you also saved two hundred thousand people, which is pretty good."
"Third brother."
"Captain Wang is really grateful to you. If I had known that it was you who had solved this problem, and you had gone over now, and with his propaganda, the people of Shengshan County would have built another shrine for you."
"Third brother."
"Fortunately, you have some brains. You know that you have to come back to Shengshan County to have a look before the formation is completed. But if I don't find you, with the speed of your travels, this shit basin will probably have to be detained. You, no, it’s our Prime Minister’s Mansion.”
"Third brother!" Xu Xinyao clenched her fists, her gentle voice tinged with tears.
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Xu Yuan looked at Xiaosi beside him calmly, without any intention of comforting him, and said word by word:
"Now, do you know why I hit you?"
Xu Xinyao said in a low voice:
"Know."
"Why?" Xu Yuan pressed.
Xu Xinyao replied in a low voice:
"If I could be more careful, I would finish the formation before leaving."
"No, you are in a hurry to go to Jingjiang Mansion just to see me. Don't put the shit in the bucket on your brother and me."
Xu Xinyao's face was pale: "That's not what I meant."
"I know you don't mean it."
Xu Yuan leaned his head against the cold stone wall and said: "Actually, I think you should be glad that you left early. If you leave after completing the formation, you will not return to Shengshan County again, and the Wanxiang Sect probably It will take a long time to study and transform your illusory fog formation, maybe a few months, maybe a year. By then, I will definitely not stay in Shengshan County anyway. If it turns out like that, Shengshan County is really hopeless."
After a pause, Xu Yuan casually glanced in the direction of Shengshan County:
"Did you learn this magic fog formation from old man Jiang He?"
"I researched it myself."
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Hearing this, Xu Yuan raised his hand and patted Xiaosi's delicate shoulder:
"Yes, it's very powerful. If the Wanxiang Sect's ghost mist is really created, the monsters will rush over to deliver it every spring tide, completely saving the Wanxiang Sect the effort to catch the ghost mist. It's simply too great. incredible."
The words of the third brother next to her were like sharp swords piercing her wounds. Xu Xinyao hugged her shoulders with her hands, her delicate body trembling slightly:
"I just want to help them."
Xu Yuan stretched out an index finger and tapped her forehead:
"Your original intention of saving them was good, but you were just taken advantage of this time. That's not why I beat you. My father spent his whole life trying to change this world, but you are fighting with a group of sects who are crooked and evil. Mixing in and playing house, that's why I hit you earlier."
"no."
"What?"
Xu Xinyao raised her eyes to look at Xu Yuan, with persistence in her soft eyes:
"It's not about playing house. My father's methods will kill many, many people."
Xu Yuan sighed: "Can you stop being so naive? How many people can you save by traveling around the world? Millions? You have spent tens of millions in your life, but now how many people die every year in the entire Great Yan? I believe you should see Have you passed? As long as you want to know, my father will not let you know. Xiaosi, you are not stupid, on the contrary, you are very smart. I believe you will not be able to see the reason for this situation. "
Xu Xinyao sniffed: "I'm trying to change these."
Xu Yuan glanced at her:
"Using your house-playing tricks?"
"It's not playing house!"
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A brief silence,
Xu Yuan rubbed his cheek and took a long breath: "Okay, it's not about playing house. If you think my father's way is not good, then tell me what your way is?"
Xu Xinyao's chest rose and fell slightly, and she quickly whispered:
"I have been to many places, and there is peace over there in Da Yingzhou."
"Da Yingzhou?"
Xu Yuan interrupted with a murmur and asked instead:
"Do you want to apply Da Yingzhou's model to the entire Da Yan world?"
Xu Xinyao nodded:
"It's almost the same, but I won't copy everything."
Hearing this, Xu Yuan smiled:
"Just looking at what happened in Shengshan County, your methods of rescuing the people are not bad. You know how to use benefits to tie them up, instead of naively relying on the kindness of the sect's heart. But why do you start to have wild ideas about this kind of thing?
"The peace and tranquility in Da Yingzhou is largely due to the annual tribute paid by Da Yingzhou Tianshi Sect, which allows the local government to have enough money to eliminate demons and do other things that are beneficial to people's livelihood. This prosperity is completely based on the clan. A moment’s notice of the door.”
Xu Xinyao shook her head and replied:
"Third brother, you have seen before that the people who are following me are all the children of the high-level members of the sect. They have traveled all the way and they are all people with good intentions. As long as our prime minister's government supports them in their rise to power, they will be able to a great extent We can solve the current situation, and it doesn’t have to be just this way, we can also replicate the situation in Jiangnan and use interests to tightly bind the sect and the local people together."
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After Xu Yuan listened carefully, he pondered slightly and raised two fingers:
"Two questions."
"Third brother, you ask." Xu Xinyao nodded slightly.
Xu Yuan took back a finger:
"First, I don't doubt your vision of people, but have you ever considered that people will change?"
Xu Xinyao said without hesitation:
"I have screened them all. After being in contact with them for so long, I know their temperaments very well. Even if they harm their own interests along the way, they will do something that we think is meaningful. The dozen or so people who previously left and returned to the sect People are also secretly looking for people who are similar to us.”
Looking at the light in her beautiful eyes, Xu Yuan's eyes were filled with a hint of complexity:
"Then let me change the question. Have you ever thought that I would change so much?"
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Xu Xinyao's beautiful eyes flashed with hesitation, and she said in a low voice:
"I've thought about it."
Xu Yuan said in a low voice:
"It's not a thought, it's a hope, right?"
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silence.
Xu Yuan sighed and said carefully:
"Xiaosi, even if you don't use me as an example, it won't work.
“You may be really enthusiastic and want to change some things now, but what about in the future?
"It doesn't change now, but it doesn't mean it won't change in the future. According to the current situation in the world, your plan will last at least ten, twenty, or even fifty years. This time is too long. There are so many wise monarchs in history. Even if you work hard, you won't start to indulge in pleasure at the end.
"The reality is much more complicated than what I said, and many things cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences.
"Even if everything goes well, when these people you mentioned are really in power, can you always stay with them and influence them? Decades of separation, family members, friends, disciples, this large group of people will influence them all the time. How can you confirm that decades later they will still be the same people you know now?"
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Xu Xinyao was silent for a long time and retorted in a low voice:
"What about father? Hasn't father changed?"
Xu Yuan shook his head:
“Although my father has been working hard for this world for decades, the reasons that support him to continue doing these things may be completely different from his original intention decades ago.
"My mother will most likely die from this, and my second brother may also die from this. This is just our family. The friends and people my father has made in his life will only die more. These are all the things he put into this matter." Reasons for things to continue.”
Saying that, Xu Yuan stretched out his second finger:
"As for you talking about using interests to bind the people to the sect like Jiangnan did."
Sighing, Xu Yuan continued:
"It is indeed very safe and wealthy over there, but you know? The price of this wealth is the exhaustion of the imperial court. The local government offices in the south of the Yangtze River are almost eaten out by these sects, and they are almost becoming the headquarters of the sects. Previously, The person who attacked me was related to Tian Yuzong in the south of the Yangtze River. As a result, even though my father knew this, he just found a group of scapegoats with different political views and killed him. One of the reasons was that the court could no longer reach that side. "
After the words fell, there was a long silence.
In the dark corridor, Xu Yuan looked at the girl beside him:
"Do you still insist on what you think now?"
Ruyun's hair was parted, with three thousand black hair hanging down on her chest. Xu Xinyao said in a low voice:
"But if you don't try, how will you know it doesn't work?"
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Xu Yuan took a deep breath and his eyes became slightly colder:
"Xu Xinyao, I just said a lot of things very tactfully."
"Third brother, I know, but"
"You know shit!"
Xu Yuan interrupted and said in a stern voice:
“The pursuit of ideals must be down-to-earth.
"Do you think all the local sects are the same as our Prime Minister's Mansion? With just one word from my father, the people below started to operate. Their sect is not a single party at all. Various family forces that have been in business for hundreds of years are intertwined in it. There are also aristocratic families under the sect. , within the aristocratic family, there are also direct lines and collateral lines. If you subdivide it further, within the direct lines, there may be disputes between the big house, the second house and the third house. If you want to make a statement, you have to climb all the way up and clear them all out, and if you are not careful, you will trigger a counterattack. , who do you think has such means?
"In terms of means, my father is probably the only person I know now, but do you think there are people like your father among your "friends"?"
"If you don't believe it, take our Prime Minister's Mansion as an example. Our family is simple. My mother's side relatives have been brought down by my father, so they don't count. My second brother has also passed away. Now it's just you, me, and Xu Changge. If you remove me again, only you and Xu Changge will be left. Do you think you can win over Xu Changge?!"
There was a hint of mist in Xu Xinyao's beautiful eyes: "Third brother, I don't want to fight."
In the dark corridor, Xu Yuan breathed out a breath, looked into her eyes, and said word by word:
"Xu Xinyao,
"Although you didn't say much, I can probably hear your thoughts.
“You can continue to pursue your ideals in your own way, or you can continue to do what you think is right.
"But if you dare to betray our family because of these things of yours, Xu Changge will be reluctant to do anything to you, but I will be willing to do so."
I'm a little late for the exam today
Asking for monthly ticket
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(End of chapter)
