In an elegant courtyard, an old man dressed in luxurious clothing was playing chess with a young girl in white.
"Master, it's your turn."
The white-dressed girl said with a faint smile. This girl was Lin Xintong, whom Yi Yun had previously met. And the old man she addressed as master was naturally old man Su.
"Uh …"
Old man Su's eyebrows were tightly knitted as he held a chess piece in his fat hand. He was in a dilemma.
He had used all sorts of excuses and after reneging at least seven or eight times, he was still forced into a corner by Lin Xintong. Now, the game was coming to an end, and he could not save his dead pieces no matter what.
"Ahem … Xintong, your chess skills have improved recently. You have a bit of the demeanor I had in the past. It looks like I have to be serious …"
Old man Su said shamelessly. Lin Xintong could not help but snicker as she urged her master to make his move.
Lin Xintong usually did not smile. Only in front of old man Su would she reveal the playfulness of a young girl. In Lin Xintong's heart, old man Su was her master, and also her grandfather.
At this moment, a voice came from the door, "I, Zhang Tan, have come to deliver a letter to Master Su on the orders of the Marquis."
"Ah? There's a guest. " Old man Su looked as if he had seen his savior, "No more, no more. The guest is here. Xintong, go brew a pot of tea."
Old Man Su directly used his big fat hand to mess around on the chessboard, and the whole game was a mess.
"Uh …"
Lin Xintong was speechless and immediately said in amusement, "The tea apprentice has just brewed it. Master is too busy playing and has not drunk it yet."
"Eh?"
Old man Su looked at the pot of tea on the table and blinked. He did not know what to say.
Fortunately, the Jin Long Wei's Thousand Households Zhang had already walked into the yard and cupped his fists at old man Su.
"I, Zhang Tan, have brought a letter from the Marquis. Master Su, please take a look."
Zhang Tan said as he placed the letter on the chess table. It was a letter sealed in red, and there seemed to be sealing runes on it.
Old man Su had come to the Tao tribal clan mainly to wait for Zhang Tan's letter.
He took the letter and with a serious expression, he casually said, "Zhang Tan, right? It's been hard on you. Have some tea."
Zhang Tan paused and glanced at the teacup on the table.
He was a meticulous person. He could tell that this was the tea that Old Man Su and Lin Xintong drank while playing chess. It was most likely brewed by Lin Xintong herself.
What sort of person was Lin Xintong? She was pursued by many elites from large family clans. There was even a chance of her marrying a prince of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom, becoming a prince's wife or even an empress.
As a Thousand Household of the Jin Long Wei, if Zhang Tan were to drink the tea brewed by the future empress, he would be courting death!
Although it was unlikely, Zhang Tan was a Jin Long Wei Thousand Households. He had to deal with all sorts of people, so he had to consider everything carefully.
He immediately said, "Thank you, Grandmaster Su, for the tea. This lowly general needs to return to report, so I won't be able to drink it."
Zhang Tan was very polite, and his words were very appropriate. But old man Su was like a wild crane. As a master that even the royalty of the Divine Kingdom had to treat with respect, he did not have the mood to consider the etiquette of the secular world. He could not be bothered to think about it.
"Alright, then you may leave."
Old man Su waved his hand. After Zhang Tan left, he tore open the seal and formed a few hand seals to undo the seal.
Following that, old man Su took out the contents of the envelope. It was not a letter filled with words, but a map.
After old man Su took out the array diagram, an ancient beast phantom appeared from the array diagram. It soared into the sky and finally disappeared in the air, like a wisp of smoke curling up in spirals.
Seeing the map, old man Su's eyes lit up. His expression was like a miser seeing a peerless treasure.
He said to himself, "In this Cloud Wilderness, there must be an amazing treasure! Even that old kid Marquis Wenyun can't handle it himself, and needs my help … The Divine Kingdom's treasure seeking compass to explore the Cloud Wilderness was not in vain! "
"Master, what's with this map?" Lin Xintong was standing by the side. She looked at the ancient beast phantom that had disappeared in the sky, deep in thought.
She could not understand the mystery of the map, but she could feel its mysteriousness.
Old man Su said, "This map is something passed down from ancient times. I don't know if it has anything to do with the Purple Clouds' Birth, but even if it has nothing to do with it, it's still amazing! Xintong, don't worry. I'll search to the ends of the earth to find a way to join up your naturally terminated meridians! "
…
Ever since Lian Chengyu failed to break through to the Purple Blood realm, the Lian tribal clan had returned to peace. There was no longer the spectacular scene of hundreds of people going up the mountain to pick herbs, nor the scene of a dozen men fanning the fire and refining the desolate bones.
The news of Lian Chengyu's injury had been covered up by the upper echelons of the Lian tribal clan. Now the tribesmen thought that Lian Chengyu had reached the large success stage of Purple Blood, and his strength had increased by leaps and bounds!
Now they just had to wait for the Kingdom's selection, for Lian Chengyu to become a Kingdom warrior, and lead the Lian tribal clan to a good life.
That day, the sky was filled with snowflakes, and the clouds hung low. A large eagle hovered above the Lian tribal clan.
The eagle's wingspan was more than ten meters, and as it flew, it stirred up a strong wind, messing up the snowflakes.
"What's that?"
The poor people of the Lian tribal clan had never seen such a large eagle.
"A fierce beast? Or … a desolate beast!? "
Seeing such a large eagle, the people panicked. With the protection of the wonderland, normal fierce beasts and desolate beasts rarely came close to the tribe's territory.
But this was only under "normal" circumstances. Sometimes, fierce beasts and desolate beasts would invade a human's wonderland, and massacre the humans.
That basically meant the annihilation of the tribe. In the entire Cloud Wilderness, there were countless small tribes. It was not a big deal for a few small tribes to be destroyed one day.
If a desolate beast really attacked, it would be a tragedy for the Lian tribal clan!
Just as the people of the Lian tribal clan were panicking, the eagle suddenly threw something that burned in the air.
"Peng!"
With a loud explosion, a row of words formed from light appeared in the sky.
These words took up an area of about half an acre, and hung in the sky. It could be seen clearly in any region of the Lian tribal clan.
"Three days later at noon, the Jin Long Wei envoy will enter the Lian tribal clan, bringing ten warriors with them to the Tao tribal clan for the selection. Those who pass the selection will become a Kingdom warrior, a member of the Jin Long Wei! The ten people must be below the age of twenty-eight. They will be chosen from those who passed the preliminaries. The exact number will be decided by the tribe! "
Seeing this row of words, the people were stunned for a while. The Kingdom's selection, the Kingdom's selection had finally begun!
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