"Does he look like my father?"
A sigh-like chuckle sounded softly in the silent cave, and Li Qingyan stared at Xu Yuan with faint eyes:
"What you mean by this is that my father wants to let the second brother go back to the path they took after cutting off your prime minister's office?"
"Good question, I don't know."
"." Li Qingyan.
Xu Yuan relaxed his hands behind his back and said with a smile: "I have only had a few encounters with the current Holy Emperor since I was a child. I don't know anything about his personality. The things I just said were analyzed from Li Zhaoyuan's position. of."
An unknown smile flashed across Li Qingyan's lips:
"So you think that the second brother will block his worth and life in the father's thoughts?
"Furthermore, when it comes to making deals with the sect, my eldest brother seems to have an advantage. After all, the National Master is my eldest brother's nominal sword master, and he even stayed in the Sword Sect for three years in his early years."
Xu Yuan nodded slightly and asked:
"What you said makes sense, but besides that, does Li Zhaoyuan have any other ideas?"
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There was a moment of silence,
Li Qingyan shook his head boredly.
Xu Yuanze said quietly:
"The mother-in-law is a palace maid, not the eldest son. Your second brother wants to ascend to the throne. Every step he takes is gambling with his life, and this time he is gambling that your father's attitude towards my prime minister will change.
"Now it seems that he has a high probability of making the right bet. Next, it's up to us to see how my father will respond."
Establishing a connection with the sect does not happen overnight.
In other words, Li Zhaoyuan most likely started his arrangements more than ten years ago or even more than twenty years ago.
Thinking of this,
Xu Yuan restrained his serious expression and smiled:
"However, I personally would rather see our father and the others working together to take this path to the end, rather than leaving it to the next generation."
After the voice paused briefly, Xu Yuan whispered:
"And then fulfill the romance they had back then."
"Romantic?" Li Qingyan murmured with interest.
In the dark cave, Xu Yuan's bloody eyes flashed:
"A romance that lasts until death for the same ideal."
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Li Qingyan said nothing after hearing this, and slowly stood up from the cold stone surface with his knees supported.
Dressed in red, the figure was as dark as blood in the dark cave. The slim figure stood upright and said in a calm voice:
“This cave seems quite big, I’ll go take a look around.
"But you can look for this kind of romantic consort in picture books. There should be many such stories in there."
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After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan clicked his tongue and said: "Tsk"
She was slightly dissatisfied with the words of the breast-binding princess that ruined the atmosphere.
But after a moment of pause, Xu Yuan touched his chin, looked at her graceful back, and said with a smile:
"Are you so unsure of your father?"
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Li Qingyan did not stop, and his back gradually disappeared into the darkness of the cave.
For a long time,
After a chuckle of unknown meaning came from the distance, her clear voice came faintly:
"As Mr. Xu's child, I believe that you, Prince Consort, should know the taste of power."
As soon as she finished speaking, all she could hear was her retreating footsteps.
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Xu Yuan frowned, but soon after seeing the Sumeru Ring on his fingertips, he sighed softly.
Girls are indeed cuter when they are more emotional.
In his previous life, Xu Yuan had never seen any big scenes, but most of the dozen or so people were able to engage in office politics for a few cents of power, and they would scheming and stumbling over each other all day long, even going so far as to drag people in and work for them.
This is true for a private enterprise with more than a dozen people, let alone the supreme imperial power now.
The standard puppet Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty in the previous life was able to think of ways to seize power through coups. As long as there was a slight possibility for emperors in ancient and modern times, no one would tolerate the imperial power falling into their hands.
If he gives up this kind of power for the sake of his ideals, then Li Yaoxuan will no longer be an emperor, and he will directly transcend and become a saint.
But as of now, neither old man has done this.
Li Yaoxuan needed the royal family inheritance to prevent Li Xingtian's family from ending in his generation.
And his father also has followers who have been with him for most of his life.
At the end of the day, everyone was like-minded,
See you again at the top,
The surrounding scenery has changed.
This kind of romance
There is a high probability that it can only appear in picture books.
Li Qingyan went out to find a way out, while Xu Yuan stayed where he was to restore his energy.
The Yuan Qi injected into Xu Yuan's body by Li Qingyan only had a protective effect, and the depletion of his own Yuan Qi still made his body weak.
But Xu Yuan doesn't care,
I'm rich.
The power brought by his position as the person in charge of the Northern Territory of the Prime Minister's Mansion made his mouth full of oil all at once.
In his previous life, he was reluctant to take the precious elixirs while playing games, but now he only counts them by the bottle in his Sumeru Ring.
I don’t know how much time passed in the cave, but the only sound was the occasional dripping sound from the stalactite tips.
The moment Xu Yuan opened his eyes, he saw that she, dressed in red robe, had returned to him at some point.
He came and went without a trace, making no sound at all.
Maybe in the future, when he gets married and goes shopping in Goulan, he is playing there and the princess is sitting next to him, watching him, and he doesn't even know.
Hiss. It’s really scary to think about it this way.
Concentrating his thoughts, Xu Yuan asked with a low smile:
"You came back so soon and found a way out?"
"No."
Li Qingyan shook his head, his eyes a little solemn: "This seems not to be a cave, but an underground palace."
"Underground palace?"
Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows, murmured subconsciously, and immediately asked: "It has been two hours just now. No matter how big this underground palace is, with Qingyan's strength of mind and soul, you should be able to find a way out, right?"
Li Qingyan pointed at the inner wall of the cave:
"Consort, you can use your mind and soul to investigate and you will know."
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Xu Yuan extended his concentration, and then his mind and soul came out of the sea of consciousness and searched for the surroundings.
The next moment, under Li Qingyan's gaze, Xu Yuan's brows wrinkled little by little.
After running the technique, his eyes will have a certain degree of night vision.
But in today's absolute darkness, this night vision ability will be weakened to the extreme. However, the soul is more like the exploration of infrasound waves in previous lives, and will directly map the surrounding environment in the mind, without being affected by the brightness of light.
But at this moment, when his mind and soul came into contact with the inner wall of the cave, it became weak and powerless as if it had fallen into the realm of stagnation.
And the calm inner wall of the cave was eating away at his mind and soul.
A very subtle feeling.
If he and Su Jinxuan hadn't been accustomed to the invasion of Charm God Spores during their dual cultivation, Xu Yuan would not have been able to detect it immediately with his innate soul body.
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In the silence, Xu Yuan silently stood up and walked towards the stone wall. He stood close and slowly raised his hand to touch the wall.
The wall is not cold at first, it is plush and a little damp.
Is this vegetation?
"Wow--"
A flash of blood flame suddenly ignited, and the darkness in the cave was instantly dispersed.
Putting the blood flame in his hand close to the strange vegetation covering the inner wall of the cave, Xu Yuan looked carefully, only to see that after a slight rustling, the vegetation near the flame avoided it as if it were alive.
The blood flames moved away, and the vegetation crawled back.
Seeing this scene, Xu Yuan used the firelight in his palm to look around.
Then,
He suddenly discovered that both the ground and the inner walls of this spacious cave were covered by an unknown layer of vegetation.
Appearing brownish red,
It looked a little weird under the light of the blood flames in his hands.
Withdrawing his hand, the blood flames dissipated, and the cave instantly returned to darkness.
Xu Yuan exhaled, walked back to Li Qingyan and sat down.
The place where they sit is the only "pure land" around. The vegetation in this area should have been eaten by the turbulent space flow they carried when they teleported here.
After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan asked in a low voice:
"Qing Yan, do you know what this germ blanket is?"
Li Qingyan rubbed the Sumeru Ring with his two slender fingers:
"There are not many plants in the world that can shield the mind and soul, and there has never been brown-red vegetation among them. I think it should be unique to this underground palace."
"unique?"
Xu Yuan murmured, then grinned: "Then we will make a fortune. This brown fungus carpet is a brand-new material. When we go out, bring some samples to my fourth sister, and then find someone to mine it. She can cook up a surprise."
"." When Li Qingyan heard this, his eyes gradually became weird.
"just kidding."
Seeing this, Xu Yuan spread his hands and the smile faded from his eyes.
The huge benefits brought by discovering a brand-new material in this extraordinary world are indeed amazing, but these are all subject to the prerequisite that they can get out first.
The moment he saw the strangeness of the brown-red fungus blanket, Xu Yuan suddenly remembered something, something that he had almost forgotten.
His source of happiness is as high as 3 points.
You can't see how powerful it is when you stay at home and practice. It's only during this kind of random transmission that you can show the benefits brought by Gao Fuyuan.
Previously, he was teleported directly into the crisis-ridden Yingzhi Lake in the Qionghua Secret Realm. This time, he was probably teleported to a Jedi place somewhere again.
Thinking of this, Xu Yuan glanced sideways at the beautiful Li Qingyan next to him and sighed.
It seems that the fortune of this breast-bound princess is also quite low.
Hmm. I miss Treasure Hunter’s N+1 days.
Seeing that Xu Yuan stopped talking, Li Qingyan whispered what she had seen while exploring the underground palace:
"Although this underground palace is intricate, it has obvious artificial traces. It is most likely an ancient tomb, or a maze set up by predecessors."
"Qing Yan."
Xu Yuan suddenly interrupted and pointed to the ceiling of the cave above: "Can you try to penetrate here directly?"
In "Cangyuan", you are not allowed to destroy the terrain, but in reality you can.
maze? What maze?
Cut right through!
Li Qingyan smiled slightly when he heard this.
The next moment,
"bass!"
The blade at his waist was instantly unsheathed, and a flash of fire flashed through the darkness. The sharp tip of the blade was pointed at the ceiling of the cave above.
"Buzz——"
The sword screamed loudly, and a hurricane spread out with Li Qingyan as the center.
The red sleeves settled down, and a small circular hole suddenly appeared. It was bottomless, but no sunlight could be seen.
Sheathing the knife, Li Qingyan said crisply:
"I have tried it before. This underground palace is very deep. I am not sure how far it is from the ground."
Xu Yuan looked at the hole on the top of the cave and hesitated slightly:
"How many consecutive attacks should you try?"
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Li Qingyan did not answer, but gently placed an index finger between his red lips, looking into the dark and deep depths of the cave: "Shh."
Xu Yuan frowned slightly and narrowed his eyes.
It seems that there is a "weird" in this underground palace.
Between thoughts,
Xu Yuan stared closely, his soul searching out.
But in the next moment, a strong humanoid black shadow struck from the darkness as fast as lightning!
The human-shaped black shadow came very suddenly. Not only could the soul not detect it, but it also made no sound.
The speed was very fast, and Xu Yuan could barely see the opponent's movement trajectory with the addition of the Blood Yuan Heart Destruction Technique.
But in other words, this speed should be the same as a turtle crawling in Li Qingyan's eyes.
And as Xu Yuan thought,
The fiery red sword light flashed past, illuminating the dark cave. The incoming figure was split into two halves in the air. With the inertia of the attack, it hit the ground next to them with two "thuds". superior!
Li Qingyan did not stop what he was doing. He raised his jade hand slightly, and two red flame sword shadows shot out, pinning the split figure in two to the ground. He pointed at the two lumps and said softly:
"Consort, take a look."
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The light emitted by the red flames allowed Xu Yuan to see clearly what was coming.
It was indeed a humanoid creature, and he could even vaguely see the blurred facial features on its face.
The head was split vertically in two by Li Qingyan's sword, but the strange thing was that even though it was split in two, nothing similar to blood flowed out, instead there were thousands of tiny tentacles of flesh and blood.
Spreading out from the fracture, Rusty struggled to reconnect the separated bodies.
Xu Yuan's scalp felt numb and he subconsciously stood up.
Looking back at Li Qingyan, the corners of his mouth were twitching.
Damn it, how low is this woman's fortune? Wasn't she the one who dragged him here?
Deadly underground palace, level 90 dungeon in the wild.
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Seeing Xu Yuan's reaction, Li Qingyan frowned slightly and asked in a clear voice:
"Consort, do you know what this weird thing is?"
Xu Yuan's mind was spinning and he licked his lips: "Yeah."
Li Qingyan smiled when he heard this,
get up,
Raise your hand,
The two red flame swords nailed to the monster immediately glowed with a dazzling red light!
The scorching flames rose up, and the monster that was still trying to connect its body was swallowed up in an instant.
In the embers of fire,
Li Qingyan walked up to Xu Yuan with his boots on, bent his eyes, and smiled softly:
"In that case, can your consort tell me what this weird thing is?"
"Know."
Xu Yuan uttered two words, stared into Li Qingyan's eyes, and said softly and solemnly:
"Li Qingyan, the information about this underground palace has been recorded in the Grade A Internal Reference of our Prime Minister's Mansion. If you want to survive, don't doubt anything I say."
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Li Qingyan narrowed his red eyes, was silent for a moment, nodded slightly, and said solemnly:
"Well, since the consort has said so, I will naturally not doubt it."
Hearing this promise, Xu Yuan felt slightly relieved.
To be honest, he was really afraid that this independent-minded princess with breasts would act independently in a place like this.
Li Qingyan pressed the handle of the knife and asked softly:
"Judging from the look on your face, Prince Consort, this thing must be difficult?"
After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan pointed to the charred ground and said:
"This is a strange ghost, a monster with strong vitality and extremely infectious nature. The thing just now should have been a human cultivator before it was infected."
After a pause,
Xu Yuan pointed to the carpets that can shield and swallow the soul:
"Those should be the black death carpets of the White Walkers, which can provide the White Walkers with the energy and flesh to regenerate."
After Li Qingyan listened carefully, she asked the question she was most concerned about:
"Husband-in-law, according to the information from your Prime Minister's Palace, are there any stronger White Walkers in this underground palace than me?"
"have."
Xu Yuan replied categorically: "And it is far stronger than you are now. The strongest alien ghost is also the best among the first-level mortals."
The words fell into silence.
Li Qingyan's beautiful face showed a cold expression, and the hand holding the handle of the knife was slightly firm.
Xu Yuanze smiled softly and said:
"Of course, you don't have to worry too much. As long as we don't make too much noise, that thing won't wake up."
Before the words fell,
"boom!!!!!!"
A roar came from the depths of the underground palace accompanied by a tremor like a landslide and the earth was cracking, making it difficult for people to stand still.
After the tremor, there was the fist wind that spread along the intricate corridor.
The biting wind made their robes rustle.
In silence,
Li Qingyan glanced at the direction of the sound, then looked at Xu Yuan, and pursed his lips in the direction of the sound.
What to do now?
"."
Xu Yuan licked his lips and asked tentatively:
"This is the Barbarian King?"
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