If the proportion of cultivators in Great Yan could really reach such a level, it would probably truly be called a half-human dynasty of immortals.
But it's a pity,
The top brass of the dynasty, including his father, did not want to see this situation happen.
At least,
Don't want to for now.
And in this silence,
Bai Muxi looked at the two visitors with strange expressions and asked softly:
"Your Excellency, is there anything wrong with our cultivators in the Seven Cities?"
After coming back to his senses, Xu Yuan looked at this graceful woman with fair skin like a vampire in her previous life, and replied with a smile:
"No, I just think it's really not easy for you to still maintain such a large number of cultivators after thousands of years."
His words were somewhat condescending.
Bai Muxi didn't pay attention, and smiled slightly with her red lips under the tulle:
"Survival comes."
After that, she asked politely:
"Now that you two have finished asking, can it be my turn?"
"Of course you can." Xu Yuan agreed.
Bai Muxi's beautiful eyes flashed, she paused for a moment, and asked directly:
"Do you two have official status in the Great Yan Dynasty outside?"
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Hearing this question, Xu Yuan looked strangely in his eyes.
Li Qingyan has always called himself "my palace", but this woman can't recognize this kind of self-identification?
It seems that tens of thousands of years have still caused serious faults in the underground civilization.
After thinking for a moment,
"I don't."
Xu Yuan replied directly, then glanced at Li Qingyan and asked, "Do you have an official status?"
Li Qingyan rolled his eyes at him:
"How can I have an official status?"
When Xu Yuan heard this, he pursed his lips at the female commander, whose face was covered with veil:
"Well, she didn't either."
Bai Muxi looked at the extraordinary Li Qingyan and frowned, her eyes filled with suspicion:
"Really do not have?"
"Is this a problem?"
Xu Yuan smiled and asked, word by word:
"Or, Si Ming, you don't believe us?"
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Bai Muxi took a deep look at this handsome man who only had soul concentration skills but was unscrupulous. He lowered his posture, closed his sleeves and saluted again:
"Of course I believe what you say. Let me ask you another question. Can you tell me the status of the two of you?"
"It's simple. She is the princess of the imperial dynasty, and I am the third son of the prime minister."
Xu Yuan paused without thinking, and then added: "As for status, my status and hers in the Dayan Dynasty should be considered quite high."
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silence.
Bai Muxi glanced back and forth at the two clearly distinguished people, the confusion in her beautiful eyes almost overflowing.
In terms of status, she is nobler than him, and in terms of cultivation, they are even more different.
Why should this woman listen to this man?
But these are not important. If what this man said is true, then the Seven Cities in the Karst Cave can really be saved.
However, she had to confirm one more thing.
Thinking about it, Bai Muxi gathered her thoughts and bowed:
"I have one more question that I would like to answer."
"ask."
"Did you two enter our underground palace on purpose?"
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Get to the core of the problem.
If so, with the reinforcements from the Great Yan Dynasty on the ground, nearly 400,000 people in the underground palace can be saved.
If not, then these two people would be of no use to her, and they would both be trapped in this underground palace.
Regarding this question, Xu Yuan did not answer in a hurry and glanced at Bai Muxi with interest.
Bai Muxi's gauze clothes are lightly gathered, she stands tall and graceful, her eyes are clear and calm.
Li Qingyan stood aside, slightly interested in whether the dead man would use lies to exploit the female Siming.
For a long time,
He spit out two words:
"no."
The words fell,
Bai Muxi's eyes flashed with sadness for a moment, but his clear voice remained unchanged and polite:
"I know that you two have come all the way, so the six officials in the palace will take you down to rest for the night, and we will talk again."
"Hello."
Xu Yuan interrupted Bai Muxi's words and asked with a smile: "Sir Siming, have you forgotten that you still owe us a question."
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Bai Muxi was silent for a few breaths, her calm eyes no longer showing emotion, she raised her hands and asked:
"Excuse me."
"Do you want to go out?"
"What?" The calmness in Bai Muxi's eyes that could not last for more than a few breaths was instantly shattered.
Xu Yuan stepped forward, squinting his eyes and raising his hand, and gently touched the center of the ravine where the female commander's gauze clothes were lightly gathered:
"I asked, do you want to go out?"
The residence arranged by the Underground Shrine for Xu Yuan and Li Qingyan was a stone palace.
According to underground laws, Bai Muxi initially arranged a room for the two of them to live separately, but Xu Yuan had no intention of following the local customs.
It's not that he wants to sleep with Li Qingyan, but mainly because he is afraid of being attacked by Bai Muxi at night, which is too unsafe.
The palace is very large, with several load-bearing stone pillars carved with strange giant beasts supporting the four-foot-high roof. It is majestic and quite a bit like a royal palace.
And the layout is contrary to the dilapidation seen in this dungeon.
It was commonplace in Dayan, but in this underground palace it should be considered extremely luxurious.
A large wooden bed is located in the center, with cotton bed blankets, muslin bed tents, wooden table futons, gauze screens, and even a strange-looking wooden tea set.
Some special underground green plants emit blue light in the darkness of the hall, dotting the darkness like stars, illuminating the entire hall.
It seems that these living materials are also produced underground, but the output is very small and can only be used on the top floor of the cave dungeon.
There are truly ubiquitous class gaps.
But Xu Yuandu didn't care much about these things.
The supplies extorted from the sect and Li Yunqing are now in his Sumeru Ring. Even if they are not available here, a complete set of them can be moved from the Sumeru Ring.
The moment he entered the palace, Xu Yuan's eyes were immediately attracted by the appearance of the sculpture in the deepest part of the palace.
It was a ferocious White Walker.
As he watched, Li Qingyan's laughing voice suddenly sounded from his side:
"I noticed that you seem to like touching women's breasts when you talk?"
Xu Yuan came back to his senses, looked at her indifferent gaze, and asked with a smile without realizing it:
"If you feel jealous, Qingyan, I can also point you."
"Virtue."
Li Qingyan snorted softly: "Although I understand your character, Changtian, I shouldn't do such unnecessary offense. Are you doing it for the gem on her chest?"
Xu Yuan bowed his hands in a bachelor manner and said hehe:
"Your Highness the Princess is really smart. She talks without any basis. She has to come up with some evidence to prove that I can take her out. I just did that just to remind her and prove that what I said is true."
Hearing this,
Li Qingyan walked slowly to the big bed and sat down. He took off his black robe, and his curves were instantly revealed by the brown-red fungi. His two slender jade legs were intertwined and he looked at him with his chin propped up:
"How did you learn about that jade pendant?"
"The remnant soul of the saint in the soul ring."
Xu Yuan once again passed the blame. As he spoke, before Li Qingyan could speak, he took the lead in changing the topic and pointed at the strange ghost sculpture deep in the depths:
"It seems that this palace was not very clean before. Coupled with the sculptures of the White Walkers and the weird beasts on the stone pillars, this palace is a proper place of worship."
"You should be able to tell from the words of the female commander just now that there has been a coup here."
Li Qingyan's voice was calm. He crossed his legs and shook them gently. He said in a very soft voice: "Every year, one city sacrifices two hundred people in order to be content with it. In a desperate situation, the former "sacrifice" is most likely to be stabilized by the worship of evil objects. Rule, just like those snowy barbarians preaching that after death in battle, the souls will return to their ancestors."
Speaking of which,
Li Qingyan gently tapped her fair face with his long index finger, narrowed his eyes and smiled, and asked:
"Changtian, what did you think of?"
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They looked at each other silently, then smiled at each other.
Xu Yuan walked to Li Qingyan and sat down next to him, saying slowly:
“Coups are either for power or to realize one’s own ideals.
"The White Walkers in the Blood Demon Cave are almost crushingly powerful against the humans in the cave dungeon. If they launch a coup for the former, they may be exterminated at any time."
"This new female commander may have some clues that can help her get out.
"Either she discovers that there are changes in the White Walkers' lair, and if she doesn't make changes, the so-called "Seven Cities Alliance" will be slaughtered by the White Walkers!"
After a pause, Xu Yuan put his arm around Li Qingyan's shoulders, looked sideways and smiled:
"Qing Yan, am I right?"
Hearing this, Li Qingyan leaned on his shoulder, bent his eyes and smiled softly:
"You're a pervert, but you're pretty smart."
Xu Yuan looked at Li Qingyan and shook his head:
"But women who are too smart are not popular."
Li Qingyan took a sip and blinked:
"How about I pretend to be stupid in front of you, Changtian, in the future?"
Xu Yuan rolled his eyes:
"I told you that you are not suitable for cute expressions."
After all,
Xu Yuan glanced at the sculptures deep in the palace:
"If it's the former, then there is a high probability that Siming won't have a lot of information, and it may not be certain yet, otherwise she wouldn't have treated me in that way.
"If it's the latter, then we were the only piece of driftwood that could have saved her life when she was drowning."
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Li Qingyan stopped joking, sat up straight, and looked at Xu Yuan seriously:
"Tell me the truth. How sure are you of your plan?"
Xu Yuan saw her expression and instantly knew what she wanted to do:
"You want to use the seven thousand cultivators in this cave dungeon to train troops in this underground palace?"
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Li Qingyan was silent for a long time, then he choked out a sentence:
"Men who are too smart are not popular either."
Xu Yuan thought for a moment and said:
"Okay, tell me what you think."
Li Qingyan nodded and said in a low voice:
"The two of us, Xumi Jie, have enough supplies. It can take as little as three months or as much as half a year. We should be able to fight. By then, I can use the military formation to kill the entire underground palace."
"No, it's too long."
Xu Yuan rejected her idea: "The risk of your plan is no less than mine."
Li Qingyan lowered his phoenix eyes and spoke in a low voice:
"Barbarian King?"
"yes."
Xu Yuan nodded and looked directly into Li Qingyan's eyes: "The changes brought by the Barbarian King are too great. The Beifeng Army has left you, and your deputy general, Commander Zong, the Black Scale Guards have also begun to move south. We can not be in a hurry, but the current Barbarian King is absolutely He will try his best to get out. If a strong person like him is running around in a cave like this, he will very likely find our outer cave dungeon."
As soon as the words fell, the palace fell into silence.
After a while,
Li Qingyan said quietly:
"Listen to you."
"Don't worry, I will try my best to get us out."
After saying that, Xu Yuan raised his hand to touch her head to comfort her, but the princess raised her hand to open her head.
She stared at him:
"I don't like others touching my head."
Xu Yuan rubbed his wrist and teased:
"Not even the commander's orders?"
Li Qingyan ignored him and sighed in a low voice:
"It's a pity that there are seven thousand cultivators in this cave dungeon. I have just investigated and found that these people's foundations are not bad, and their auras are extremely strong for the same realm."
Xu Yuan smiled slightly and said softly:
"This is a physique formed under the ground for thousands of years. You can't ask for it. However, if the Great Yan Dynasty can achieve the ratio of cultivators like them, those monster beasts in Cholera Township should no longer be a problem."
Li Qingyan's plump body undulated slightly, he exhaled, gathered his thoughts, and said with a smile:
"It's impossible. It's only been more than twenty years since my father and Xu Gong set up a martial arts school to teach martial arts, and the martial arts disciples who fled have already started to suffer from cholera in the countryside.
"Cultivators are more terrifying to the people than monsters."
Xu Yuan smiled slightly in surprise:
"You have been in the army all year round, and you actually know about local banditry?"
"Why don't I know?"
Li Qingyan glanced at Xu Yuan very strangely and said in a low voice:
"In the past, there were many such chivalrous groups composed of idle warriors operating in Beifeng City. Even those large and medium-sized chivalrous groups with official endorsements, many of them had the blood of good gangsters and strongmen in their hands, let alone strongmen. Those unregistered warriors."
Speaking of which,
Li Qingyan raised the corners of his lips slightly, and his rustling voice had a hint of amusement:
"And those people actually have the nerve to call themselves rangers."
"Not just a ranger"
Xu Yuan smiled and added softly: "In the wilds of many counties in the south, martial arts disciples have begun to use the techniques learned from martial arts schools to open sects and recruit disciples."
Li Qingyan's eyes were strange. She had stayed in the north all year round and didn't know this:
"How dare a group of martial arts disciples who haven't even gathered their souls yet start a sect?"
Xu Yuan shrugged and chuckled:
“You can establish a sect if you have skills, but for those low-level skills, you can just think of them as obedient bandits;
"Of course,
“They themselves don’t think of themselves as bandits;
"Secular sect."
Since the establishment of the Tianan Martial Arts School decades ago, which provided a training channel for the people at the bottom, the martial arts disciples who were either eliminated or did not choose to join the army have evolved to this day, and have already taken the form of the so-called "martial arts world".
"Secular sect?"
When Li Qingyan heard this, his red pupils shone brightly, and his voice carried a hint of military killing intent: "The local government doesn't care? If things go on like this, this will shake the foundation of my rule in Great Yan."
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Xu Yuan's eyes flashed, slightly surprised by Li Qingyan's political qualities as a general, but he was relieved when he remembered the identity of the princess of the other dynasty.
To be honest, he never knew these things.
But who made his father a powerful and protective prime minister?
When he reunited with the other three young men in the capital at Goulan, the joke he made with Gong Yuanzang, the son of the second prime minister, was not a joke.
Since his father's study is located in the inner courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he, the third child, can usually come in and out at will.
It was possible when I was a kid, and it’s even more possible now.
During the time he stayed in the Imperial Capital, he went in openly and read many central secret memorials and internal references of the Great Yan Dynasty.
Sometimes I even watch it with my dad.
The father and son sat at the desk without saying a word. As soon as they put the notes down after reading them, Xu Yuan immediately picked them up and browsed them.
Because of this, Xu Yuan now clearly knows the current situation in Dayan.
After the establishment of basic training centers such as the Tian'an Martial Arts School and the Formation Division, which allowed the people at the bottom to have access to the path of training, Dayan's overall national power has been growing at an extremely fast rate.
More practitioners,
More array masters,
More alchemists,
More elixir cultivators,
more and more.
These talents are like military Class A monsters, dragging the Great Yan Empire along the road to prosperity.
However, the growth rate of this kind of national power is actually faster, and it can be replaced by military-grade flying monsters as the "engine".
The source of energy between heaven and earth is constantly surging, and with the current output of Great Yan's overall cultivation resources, it can completely supply more people for cultivation.
However, this trend has been suppressed by the imperial court and the sect, and they still control and suppress the channels for practicing skills on a large scale, especially high-level skills.
Dayan's productivity is firmly suppressed by the top-level buildings.
But unfortunately, once the productivity thing is released, top-level buildings cannot be suppressed by suppressing it.
Just like the secular sect that made Li Qingyan wary.
As long as one such secular sect appears, a second one will appear immediately, and a third one will appear. When it appears on a large scale, it will lead to a rapid proliferation of low-level warriors in the next few decades.
Li Yaoxuan, his father and their staff need time to deal with the chaos caused by this change.
After a pause, Xu Yuan explained softly to Li Qingyan:
"These secular sects were tacitly approved by my father."
"Xu Gong acquiesces?"
Li Qingyan murmured something that suddenly became clear, and asked: "Because you are obedient?"
"Transparent."
Xu Yuan praised the princess in tight clothes: "These martial arts sects have a fixed base, but they are much easier to manage than those wandering knights. They are obedient, can eliminate monsters near the sect, and can also provide Local government can generate revenue, why not?”
“It is better to block than to clear.
"What Mr. Xu saw was really far away."
Li Qingyan thought for a moment, nodded slightly, and a smile appeared on his lips again:
"Let me guess, Mr. Xu's next step will be to convert all the active large-scale chivalrous groups into such secular sects, and then hold their top officials accountable?"
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Xu Yuan's eyes were slightly surprised.
Right again.
The conclusion he came to after discussing with the old man was roughly the same.
It is better to block than to open up.
Try to guide these non-staff martial arts disciples to join together and let them take root and operate in fixed sect locations.
The court's attitude towards it will always be tacit approval rather than recognition.
If you are obedient, you will be given a bone as a dog; if you are disobedient, you will be beheaded directly.
This princess is still as smart as ever.
Smiling slightly, he said softly:
"yes."
Li Qingyan asked with great interest:
"Changtian, how do you know such confidential information?"
"Of course through the memorial." Xu Yuan said matter-of-factly.
"Memorial?"
Li Qingyan glanced at Xu Yuan with a smile:
"Xu Gong allows you to read the memorial, Changtian?"
"Have you not been to the inner courtyard of my mansion? The door of my father's study is always unlocked."
Xu Yuan looked into her eyes and asked with a smile:
"Qing Yan, next time you come to my house, can we read the book together?"
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I went to the hospital for an infusion during the day.
A little late, a little too long
(End of chapter)
