His Royal Highness only had seven unopened acupoints left. After diligently removing the mixed Qi that Huang Baozhuang had implanted into his body, he opened a new Di Cang acupoint. Combined with the Sword Qi that had been nurturing in his body during this period of time, he was able to form Sword Qi and destroy a lotus. After bathing and changing clothes during the day, he asked the two maidservants about it and found out that this lotus was a rare drought hibiscus. Not only could it not grow in water with a great difference in temperature, but it also hated moisture and liked dryness. If the lotus root was soaked in water for too long, it would rot and die. The water storage in the pond was very particular. If it was properly cultivated, it would bloom a few months earlier than normal lotus and its flowering period was also very long. A single lotus was very valuable, so it was nicknamed the Ten Golden Lotuses and the Fierce Woman Lotus. Generally, a wealthy family could only grow one or two lotuses in a vat. They did not have the money nor the energy to take care of a hundred lotuses, which was enough to show the depth of the Wei family's wealth.
After exhaling a mouthful of Sword Qi to cut the green lotus, Xu Fengnian felt his entire body relax. The circulation of Qi was no longer stagnant. The wonders of the Big Yellow Court were endless. The most obvious and straightforward thing was that it had exceptional hearing and vision. Xu Fengnian seemed to be following the incantation and closing his eyes to concentrate, but he was actually listening to the slow blooming of a budding lotus. During this process, the Sword Qi rolled along the Dragon Wall and flowed violently along his meridians. It was the complete opposite of the bashful unfolding of the flower bud in the pond. Unfortunately, His Highness could only hold on for two hours before he could no longer withstand the burst of majestic Qi in his body. Presumably, after opening Six Acupores, he could wait for a whole night for a lotus to fully bloom. Hsu Fengnian stretched and mocked himself, "A good man should be able to endure."
Hsu Fengnian sat back in front of the table and weighed his current wealth. Those flying swords would only be priceless after they were cultivated, but they were destined to be a pile of scrap metal in a short period of time. Although the process of drinking blood to become a fetus was very difficult, he did not have the old man with the sheepskin fur coat to temper him. Relying on this stupid method to cultivate the swords was also a kind of training.
It was very difficult to find a good thing in the world where you could gain some benefits by suffering some hardships. Once he mastered the Nurturing Sword, Entering the Mysterious Finger would not be as unreachable as it was now. The five pieces of facial skin made by Shu Xiu were very useful. As for the silk armor that he wore, it was invulnerable to water and fire and invulnerable to swords and spears. It was all nonsense. If he really encountered a Level One master, he wouldn't be able to survive. However, it was still useful to deal with sneak attacks from ordinary swords and sabers. Of the six pages in the saber manual, the most useful one was undoubtedly the latest page with detailed analysis of the Rolling Dragon Wall of Sword Aura. Not only had it inadvertently helped him to break through one acupoint, but during this period of time, he had been diligently and tirelessly following the path of complexity rather than simplicity. Only then did he realize that in the beginning, the obscurity and stagnation were very difficult to bear. But once he got used to it, it was as the old saying goes, "First bitter, then sweet." The essence of the twelve moves in the Stacked Thunder Armor of the Thorny Whale, which he had extracted from thousands of secret manuals, had to be repeatedly verified with the Divine Intent in his mind every day, quietly waiting for the day when he could accumulate enough knowledge and use it.
Back then, he had chosen to sneak into the Fish-dragon Gang and rush to Beimang, choosing to use the city as a foothold. Firstly, there were fewer wars in the north of Youzhou, so there was more space in Jianghu. Secondly, the city magistrate of Beiliang, Tao Qianzhi, was a person who was bound to die. Not only was he familiar with the art of war and strategy, but his martial prowess was also outstanding, and he had a profound understanding of the military and politics of Beiliang. He was originally the Commandant General of Gusai State in the south of Beimang, but because of the extremely unlucky royal family member who was killed by Chen Zhibao's surprise troops during a military parade, he was implicated and demoted to the city magistrate of Gusai State. In fact, his official position seemed to have been demoted by one rank, but he was actually in charge of the military and politics of Beimang State at the border. It could be considered a blessing in disguise, as he had escaped the confinement of the army. As long as he made some achievements, he would be favored by the Governor of Longyao State and even the Empress of Beimang.
According to the information gathered in Beiliang, Tao Qianzhi had a unique understanding of military tactics. He was especially good at trickery and had a violent temperament. What was most praised by the Beimang court was that he had to kill a Beiliang soldier every day before he could sleep. He had come to Liue City from Gusai Province without bringing a single family member, a single cent of silver, or a single treasure. He had only brought six prison wagons with him, imprisoning more than forty captured Beiliang soldiers on the battlefield. After a month, they were all killed. However, Tao Chengmu was very close to many of his fellow generals in the Beimang border army. There would always be new prisoners sent to Liue City for him to behead with his own hands every day. It could be said that Tao Qianzhi was a young official in the Beimang court who was favored by various forces. He had both military skills and a good reputation among the people. Sooner or later, he would be like a carp jumping through the dragon's gate and become an indispensable cornerstone of the Beimang court.
According to the Beimang's Lü City Lord, he had sixty armored bodyguards. Tao Qianzhi himself should have the strength of a second-rank fighter. Hsu Fengnian weighed the strengths of both sides and smiled sinisterly. Assassinations between the two dynasties were very frequent, but most of them were done by suicide soldiers, so the chances of success weren't high. Beimang had once spent a lot of money to create an assassin team. They asked for two to three experts from the top sects in the dynasty, as well as more than a hundred elite soldiers from the army. A total of 130 people were divided into three groups to infiltrate Beiliang, avoiding the main force and attacking the weak. Their targets were all the mid-level military and political officials of Beiliang. However, they didn't expect that the three adopted sons, Chen Zhibao, Yuan Zuozong, and Chu Lushan, would confidently split into three groups and kill them all. This caused the Beimang court to shake. The Empress even entered a large-scale purge, and many heads were lost. However, in reality, she only found out a few pawns of the Beimang court that had been hibernating in the Beimang court for many years. The funny thing was that in the end, when they found out that it was the Right Minister of the Beimang, they found out that one of the spies was a two-faced person. The Beimang didn't refuse any business in Beiliang. Relying on the golden name of the Right Minister, they wantonly sold military secrets, causing the originally powerful Right Minister to resign and live in seclusion in the mountains.
The enmity between Liang Mang and Liang Mang was not something that could be explained in a few words. It was like a chopping board. Today, it was smeared with your blood, and tomorrow, it would be added with my blood. Layer by layer, it had long solidified into a disgusting blood monument.
A gentle knock sounded on the door. Hsu Fengnian knew that one of Qiu Shuichun's servants had arrived. He said, "Come in."
It was Qiu Shuichun, who was relatively small and delicate. Her skin was white, and she had a slightly round and inconspicuous oval face. For such a small girl, if you used a little bit of force on the bed, you would be worried that you would rub her body. She was worthy of being a little girl worth fifty taels of gold. It was a pity that Hsu Fengnian had to be a vegetarian monk for every day that he did not have the full Yellow Courtyard. There were so many women in Wutong Garden who were worth eighty taels of gold and above. His Royal Highness, not to mention his cultivation and other aspects, just his willpower alone was enough to make people sing and cry!
The young servant girl carried the food box into the room. Her slender calves quietly came out from under her skirt. Her movements were playful as she hooked the door. Seeing Young Master Xu look over, she smiled with a red face. She placed the food box on the table and stood to the side with her head lowered. She timidly said, "Sister Qiu Shuichun asked me to warm the bed tonight. I wonder when Young Master will be resting." She did not have the face to say the words "serve in bed." She looked at her toes, and her ears were completely red. In reality, during the cold of spring, it was a very common duty for servant girls in large families to warm the bed and warm the quilt. During the hot summer, no matter how tired the servant girls were from fanning themselves, according to the rules, they were not allowed to doze off for an entire night. She and Qiu Shuichun were both jaspers who had been carefully trained and were very familiar with serving their masters. However, they rarely had the opportunity to show their faces in the Wei manor. Seeing this handsome young master who was highly regarded by the master, their love was far from that of love. It was the natural shyness and timidity of women that was real. Hsu Fengnian opened the food box and picked up a piece of date cake that melted in his mouth. He raised his head to look at the servant girl. Her face and figure were only seventy taels of gold, but she had a pair of beautiful eyebrows. Her eyebrows were charming, and she had a hidden charm at a young age. She did not know that when she started out in the spring, she was judged by a horse breeder that her eyebrows were worth thirty taels of gold. His Royal Highness had spent a lot of time looking at the beautiful flowers, so his eyesight was not bad.
Hsu Fengnian reached out to pick up a piece of cake and handed it to the girl. He smiled and said, "There is no rush. Sit down and chat first."
The little girl softly said, "Oh." She sat slightly sideways across from Hsu Fengnian. She took the cake with her head still lowered. Her small mouth slightly opened and closed as she ate carefully and slowly.
Hsu Fengnian said something that spoiled the mood, "You guys are staying in the city. You should be paying respects to your ancestors and sweeping the tombs. Where would you find yellow paper? It will be the Qingming Festival in two days. I want to burn paper at the corner of the street to pay my respects to the south. "
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