After leaving Jiange, Gu Xu passed through the space passage and arrived outside the palace of Jicheng in the north.
After his realm improved and he absorbed Emperor Ziwei's understanding of the Great Way of Heaven and Earth, he was able to travel across the entire wilderness in an instant like a true saint. The space blockade will no longer cause any hindrance to him.
He took out the astrolabe and sent a message to Luochuan: "Meet in Jicheng."
Then he walked straight to the gate of the palace and said calmly to the soldier guarding the gate: "Can you please inform your king that Gu Xu is already waiting outside the door and wants to meet her."
Seeing Gu Xu appearing out of thin air outside the door, these soldiers were a little nervous, thinking that a powerful enemy sent by the Da Qi Dynasty came to look for trouble.
However, after hearing the word "Gu Xu", they immediately relaxed and their expressions became respectful and friendly.
They are no strangers to this name.
Not just because of the wanted posters all over the wilderness.
It's even more because of the rumor that "Gu Xu will be Dayan's royal highness".
Although Zhao Yan has never confirmed this matter personally.
But it is human nature to like gossip.
Outrageous stories such as "Gu Xu betrayed his country in a rage for love", "Gu Xu and Zhao Yan had already made a private decision at the Luoshui Conference" and other outrageous stories are becoming more and more widely circulated among the people in the northern border.
"Gu...Master Gu, please wait a moment. I will go in and report to the king."
As the leading soldier spoke, he looked at Gu Xu's otherworldly beauty and thought, no wonder the king, who has always been uninterested in the opposite sex, had a soft spot for this person.
After saying that, he turned around and hurriedly walked into the palace.
Gu Xu waited outside the door for a moment.
Then he saw a tall young woman crossing the threshold and coming towards him.
She wore a short dress made of animal skins, revealing her long, fair arms and straight and well-proportioned legs.
A pair of snow-white bare feet painted with crimson khaodan stepped on the bluestone steps, their steps were graceful, as if they were stepping on the clouds.
Gu Xu was in a daze for a moment.
"Xi..."
He couldn't help but softly shouted this name that had long been submerged in ancient times.
Hearing his voice, the beautiful woman stopped, smiled, cupped her hands towards him and said:
"Disciple Xi pays homage to Master."
At this time, the soldiers on both sides had been retreated.
Gu Xu came back to his senses, looked at the charming fox eyes of the woman in front of him, shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, don't try to break me."
This woman is Zhao Yan, the current monarch of Dayan.
Although she deliberately dressed in ancient times in front of Gu Xu.
But compared to the twenty-eighth-year-old girl Xi, Zhao Yan, who is still young, has already lost her youthfulness and has become slim, plump, charming, and has a bit more graceful charm of a mature woman in her movements.
She took a step forward, grabbed Gu Xu's sleeve, lowered her head slightly, and pretended to be aggrieved: "This disciple has been waiting for the master for thousands of years in reincarnation, but in the end the master refuses to recognize me as his disciple?"
"How could you deny it?" Gu Xu smiled.
In this life, Zhao Yan is several years older than him, and he is the king of a country, but he still calls him "Master" in a sweet, respectful, and charming voice just like Xi in the past.
This gave him a rather subtle feeling.
Zhao Yan immediately got into his arms.
She hugged him tightly and rested her head on his shoulder.
"After you left, I dreamed of you almost every night," she said softly, feeling his heartbeat, "I thought you would never come back to see me again..."
Their chests were pressed together, leaving no gap.
Gu Xu reached out and hugged her back, like a soft cloud.
"It's not because I can't let you go." He said, smelling the faint fragrance of her hair.
A few days ago, he swallowed the remaining soul of Emperor Ziwei.
In the memory of Emperor Ziwei, he saw the entire plan formulated by the former master of the upper world to overthrow the Qi Dynasty and rule the wilderness——
The Great Yan of the Northern Territory is naturally a vital link in Emperor Ziwei's plan, and is also the ally he desperately wants to win over.
Emperor Ziwei planned to use Gu Xu's identity to propose to Zhao Yan after seizing Gu Xu's body.
Although Emperor Ziwei no longer exists.
But when he learned about this, Gu Xu still found that anger was burning in his heart, and it was more intense than he imagined.
I do like her.
He confirmed his thoughts again.
"But you said before that you were going to leave me and find your fiancée to renew our relationship..." Zhao Yan raised her head slightly and looked at him with a pair of shining eyes.
"Renewing old ties and forging new ones are not contradictory."
Gu Xu felt that his face seemed to be getting thicker and thicker.
"A carefree man." Zhao Yan snorted, but held him tighter with her arms, which made his ribs hurt and made him almost breathless.
"Your Majesty, spare your life!" Gu Xu surrendered immediately.
Zhao Yan completely ignored his plea for mercy.
She pushed him against the wall next to her, pressed his shoulders with both hands, stood on tiptoe slightly, and then bit his lips, savoring the taste in her memory.
He didn't stop until he bit the corner of his mouth.
"Are you in the sixth realm?"
Zhao Yan asked while licking the blood on Gu Xu's lips clean with the tip of her tongue.
"Isn't it the same, Your Majesty?"
"I am older than you and have practiced longer than you. I thought I could still be ahead of you for a while, but I didn't expect that you would catch up."
"As a master, I have to set an example in front of my apprentices. What if I can't defeat my apprentices all the time?"
"In this case, wouldn't it be a good idea to switch to a disciple to protect the master?"
"..."
The two people's names for each other kept changing between the past life and this life.
If anyone else heard their conversation, they would be confused about their relationship.
After some joking, Zhao Yan noticed the solemn expression lingering between Gu Xu's brows, so she also suppressed her smile and asked: "Fellow Daoist Gu came to Jicheng today, must he not just come to me to reminisce about the past, right?"
"Of course," Gu Xu looked towards the south where Da Qi Dynasty was located and replied in a calm tone, "I am determined to overthrow Da Qi and rebuild the world. I hope that the king can become my ally and fight alongside me."
"You are my master in the previous life, the living god of fire, and the true founder of Dayan. The relationship between you and me has long been beyond allies. Your enemy is Dayan's enemy, and your ambition is also Dayan's desire. ." Zhao Yan stood beside him, shoulder to shoulder with him, grabbing his right hand with her left hand and interlocking with his fingers.
"But now, I am not asking you for an alliance as the 'Vulcan'."
"Then what else is your identity?"
Gu Xu was about to speak.
However, at this moment, a voice suddenly came from not far away: "He is the reincarnation of Emperor Ziwei, the leader of 'Qing Ming', the Khan of the grassland, and the person destined by the destiny of the stars."
(End of chapter)
