In the school grounds of the south guard city, the strong wind is hunting, and countless soldiers are practicing battle formations here.
Sun Shouren was sitting in the study outside the school grounds, looking through the window at the school sergeants from time to time.
"My congratulations to my adoptive father for breaking through to the acquired realm!" Chen Mo walked into the study and bowed to Sun Shouren with a smile.
He didn't come here on his way to this mission, but after hearing the news about his adoptive father's breakthrough, he temporarily left the mission and came here to congratulate him.
Today they are still near the capital and are relatively safe.
Chen Mo guessed that if he was from a foreign race or a demonic person, he would definitely take action after he entered Beili territory.
The reason is simple, so that once he dies, he can directly provoke a war between the two countries.
Otherwise, even if he died in Daqian territory, the imperial court could still build a plank road to Chencang secretly and continue to send envoys to Beili.
Therefore, the first half of this mission will be safe. At most, there will be some demonic thieves who will test it, but no innate strong people will take action directly.
The danger will not really come until you enter Beili territory.
"Ah! Why are you here!" Sun Shouren looked surprised when he saw Chen Mo.
He really didn't expect that Chen Mo would come not long after he finished his retreat.
"The mission just happened to be nearby. When I heard about your breakthrough, I came to congratulate you." Chen Mo stood up and said with a smile.
"You! You shouldn't have accepted this job in the first place." Sun Shouren sighed softly after hearing this.
As a fourth-rank official in the imperial court, he naturally knew the real danger of this matter. There were too many people who wanted to sabotage the peace talks and provoke war between the two countries.
"I have already estimated this. With my strength, it is not dangerous."
Chen Mo had a smile on his face and looked very confident.
When Sun Shouren saw this, he didn't say anything more. He knew that his adopted son was calm in his work, never greedy for success, and had his own opinions and ideas.
Since he said so, it proves that even if there is danger, it is not too high.
What's more, Sun Shouren also understood that although the risks of this mission were extremely high, the benefits were equally high.
Chen Mo goes there again and again, and is guaranteed to be a fourth-rank official when he comes back.
He is only twenty-two years old. At his age, he has achieved this official position. Even if he does nothing in the future, he can reach the second rank through seniority.
"On this mission, you must remember to save your life first." He lowered his voice and took out a talisman from his arms.
"This is the Zongdi Golden Light Barrel. I have kept it to save my life, my foster father. I will give it to you first this time."
It can be seen that this talisman is very rare, and Sun Shouren always carries it with him.
"When a warrior activates this talisman, he can travel dozens of miles in an instant. He can use three breaths in total to travel a hundred miles. Its effect is far better than the magical talisman."
Although this talisman is not like a small moving talisman, it is instantly activated and allows the warrior to travel ten miles away.
But it can greatly increase the warrior's speed, which is definitely an important trump card for life-saving escape.
"Hold it carefully. If it's used, pull it down. If it's useless, don't forget to return it to me later." Sun Shouren patted the talisman into Chen Mo's hand with a look of pain on his face.
It can be seen that this talisman is also quite precious to him.
"Thank you, foster father!" Chen Mo did not refuse, bowing and saluting.
"Okay, take the talisman and return to the mission quickly. I won't keep you here."
Sun Shouren waved his hand. Originally, when he came out of seclusion and learned that Chen Mo had left for a mission, he planned to deliver the talisman to Chen Mo himself or send someone to do so.
Now that I have handed it over to him personally, there is no need to worry about it anymore.
"My child, there are some wonderful things in the world. The main reason I came here this time is to give these to you."
Chen Mo did not leave directly, but took out four bottles of nourishing liquid and placed them on the desk in front of him.
"This thing is called Shen Yang Liquid. It can warm and nourish the warrior's spiritual consciousness, helping the warrior to open up the sea of consciousness faster and condense his spiritual thoughts."
He opened a porcelain bottle and introduced it carefully.
There was a lot of nourishing liquid stored in the Wei Xia Ghost Domain. Even though Chen Mo had used a lot, he still had more than ten bottles in stock.
Moreover, the effect of this spirit-nourishing liquid is very good. Even if Chen Mo has reached the acquired perfection now, swallowing the spirit-nourishing liquid and practicing can still enhance his spiritual consciousness.
If a warrior wants to return to the innate world from the future world, he must gather the five qi in his chest and adjust the yin and yang in his body.
Only when the Three Treasures of Essence, Qi, and Spirit are complete and the Yin, Yang, and Five Elements in the body are balanced can a warrior return to his innate nature.
To reach this step, the energy and consciousness in the physical body need to be strong enough.
The first two are not a problem for Chen Mo. The only thing that restricts him is his spiritual consciousness, which can only be cultivated slowly through hard work.
"Where did you get this thing? How can it warm and nourish your spiritual consciousness?" Sun Shouren picked up the porcelain vase and looked at it again and again, his tone slightly surprised.
Treasures that can warm up the consciousness are not easy to find, and each one can be said to be quite expensive.
"This matter is quite complicated. I once met a ghost and got it from her.
However, there is no harm in this nourishing liquid, adoptive father, you can use it with confidence. Just don't use too much, one drop a day is enough. "Chen Mo explained carefully.
Refining and absorbing the nourishing liquid is not easy. Swallowing too much will not hurt your health, but it will be a waste.
"Okay, but I took these, do you have enough for yourself?" Sun Shouren asked again.
He knew that his qualifications could not be compared with Chen Mo. Even with this nourishing liquid, he did not dare to say that he would definitely be able to break through the middle stage of the acquired life, let alone the acquired perfection.
But Chen Mo is different. With his talent, perfection is bound to happen the day after tomorrow.
These resources should be used by others first, so that they can exert greater value than themselves.
"Don't worry, foster father, there are still many children." Chen Mo replied with a smile.
"Okay, hurry up and leave. You are the head of the mission. It is not good to be away from the mission for too long." Sun Shouren waved his hand again and urged.
"Goodbye, my child." Chen Mo bowed, turned around and walked away.
He was like a stream of light, constantly turning back and forth in the air, and rushed back to the mission at an extremely fast speed.
In fact, with Chen Mo's current cultivation strength, if he traveled day and night, it would take at most two or three days to reach Lidu.
However, on this mission, it was not good to go too fast, not to mention having to travel with many officials from the Ministry of Rites, so I could only ride on horseback.
Rushing all the way back to the mission, many members of the mission were camping and resting. When they saw Chen Mo coming back, they all smiled and said hello to him and saluted him.
Everyone simply ate some dry food, and Chen Mo arranged for people to prepare the team and continue moving forward.
High above the clouds, two innate experts stood together, quietly watching the envoy team.
"Old Chu, do you think it's worth it for Huaili to do this?" A tall man with a majestic face, wearing a black python robe, who looked a lot like today's emperor said.
It was obvious from his words that he should also be a member of the royal family.
The man he called Lao Chu was wearing a bright red robe with no trace of color, and a long hair shawl, casually scattered behind him.
"He is the Emperor of Daqian. If he thinks it's worth it, then it's worth it." Chu Tianxiu responded to his old friend calmly.
"I'm afraid that if he knows everything, he will regret what he has done now." Zhao Xuanxin sighed softly.
"Then just don't tell him. Zhao Xuanxin, please remember that we have sworn an oath that we will never tell any outsider about this matter without everyone's consent.
Especially Zhao Huaili, he is the leader of a country. Have you ever thought that if you tell him that our world will be completely engulfed by the mirage in a hundred years, everything he is doing now will be in vain in a hundred years.
So what would he do with his status and position? How much turmoil will it cause? If this news accidentally gets out, what will those Qi Refiners do?
Those golden elixir monks are not like us innate warriors who can only live for three hundred years! "
Chu Tianxiu's tone suddenly became serious and he spoke sharply.
The so-called mirage will take thousands of years to submerge this world, but it is just false news they released.
Only a dozen innate warriors know that in more than a hundred years, the mirage will completely submerge this world, and everyone will be pulled into the mirage no matter where they are and completely assimilate with it.
Other than that, everyone, including many innate experts in the same realm as them, did not know the truth of this matter.
And they also made an agreement to protect this secret no matter what. Unless everyone agrees, this news must not be told to anyone, not even the innately powerful.
"I understand, I understand." Zhao Xuanxin nodded helplessly with a bitter look on his face, and slowly turned his gaze to Chen Mo.
"The leader of this mission, Chen Mo, is very talented, both internally and externally, and has outstanding combat power. He is even better than you and I back then."
Zhao Xuanxin first praised Chen Mo, and then seemed to ask, and then said to himself, "Do you think he has a chance to break through to the realm of heaven and man?"
Chu Tianxiu shook his head, with a look of reminiscence in his eyes, "I don't know which one of you or me, Taoist Zhang of Daoxuan Mountain, or Abbot Mingxing of Kuchan Temple, was not stunningly talented when we were young.
But none of us succeeded. How can it be so easy in the heaven-human realm! "
Zhao Xuanxin was also silent for a while, not knowing what to say.
"It's just that if a demonic thief comes later, you'd better use your Zhao family's star-picking and moon-catching hand to send him away first.
If he really has a chance to break through to the heaven-human realm, he might be able to give us a glimmer of hope. "
Chu Tianxiu broke the silence and explained to his old friend.
He really felt that Chen Mo's hope of breaking through to the realm of heaven and human was very slim, even negligible.
But no matter how slim the hope is, it is still hope, and it is better than nothing.
"Okay." Zhao Xuanxin nodded in agreement.
Now that he has met Chen Mo, he must find a way to protect him.
Even if it was a tiny hope, he didn't want it to go out.
The envoy rushed forward at full speed, followed closely by the two innate strong men in the sky, as if they were strolling in front of a court.
Chen Mo could actually vaguely sense the existence of the two innate strong men, and these two strong men did not deliberately conceal their existence.
But even so, no one in the entire mission could find those two innate experts except him.
Some people only know that there is an innate strong person accompanying them secretly, but they don't know where exactly.
The journey continues until dusk, and you need to spend the night in the wilderness.
Although the number of people may not necessarily attract Mirage, as a precaution, Chen Mo still arranged for three people to play the gong.
Add two more ever-burning lanterns taken from the Night Patrol Department of the capital to disperse the mirages.
We continued on our way the next day, and after walking for several days, the mission was attacked for the first time.
There were a total of seventeen demon thieves who came, four of them were Hou Tian, and the rest were all in the Tongmai realm, with varying strengths.
Chen Mo held two hammers and didn't even wear armor. In just three or two breaths, he killed four demonic Houtian warriors one after another.
Then he joined forces with other warriors from the mission to kill the remaining Tongmai warriors.
This time it was just a test. They hadn't entered Beili territory yet, and the demons and aliens hadn't sent any innate experts to attack them.
After the temptation was over, the rest of the journey was very smooth, and I continued walking for several days.
The delegation finally arrived near the border.
When I came here, the atmosphere around me became solemn.
There are no common people living here, they are all frontier troops responsible for farming.
From time to time, you can still see many soldiers rushing towards the border. Although there are no major conflicts between the two countries, there are still constant small frictions.
When they arrived near the border town, General Zhenbei, who had already received the news, came to greet him personally.
Given Chen Mo's official position, it would be impossible for General Zhenbei to come to greet him in person under normal circumstances.
It was just that the emperor personally saw off the mission on the day it left Beijing, so even if General Zhenbei was a high-ranking official of the second rank, he had to come to welcome him according to the rules.
Under the arrangement of General Zhenbei, the delegation rested in the border town for five days before continuing their journey northward away from the border.
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