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Chapter 474: The Art of Immortality, the Gu of Prolonging Life (asking for monthly votes)
Changsun Wuchou, who was guarding outside, had been sitting on the steps bored, with his hand supporting his chin. He was already 36 years old, no longer the young peddler who had just turned 30 five years ago.

But after hearing those words, he staggered.

The chin was cut directly by the palm that was supporting it, and a slap hit the cheek, making a loud noise. Suddenly, a sound of breaking air was heard. Changsun Wuchou, who had not made any progress in the fifth level of the sky for several years, staggered and his hair came loose.

A chopstick went through more than ten feet and directly inserted into the rockery opposite. It was obviously just an ordinary chopstick, but at this moment it was like a crossbow arrow shot from a powerful crossbow, with extremely strong power.

Changsun Wuchou grinned, covered his head obediently and ran outside.

Li Zhaowen stretched out his hand to push open the window, then said calmly: "I asked Wu Chou to watch from outside before, and we were so excited chatting that we forgot about this matter and thought it was someone else."

The voice paused, and when he saw the King of Qin, he said again: "Just look at the geomancy map."

"Isn't reuniting with me more worthy of attention than the geomancy map?"

She answered herself, calmly and confidently: "Of course not."

"So why don't you come and drink!"

Li Zhaowen reached out and took Li Guanyi's arm, pulled him over, and sat him in the main seat again. They continued drinking and chatting. When the moon in the sky had passed the zenith and the sound of birds could be faintly heard, he let him go back.

Li Zhaowen, the Lord of Xiyi City, crossed his arms around his shoulders, leaned against the gate of his mansion, and said with a smile:

"Brother Li."

Li Guan turned around and saw Li Zhaowen raising the wine cup in his hand. He smiled and said, "Don't forget the agreement we made that day. There are still two more to go."

"I haven't been able to think clearly about these two agreements yet."

"I'll tell you when I think it through."

The third agreement between Li Guanyi and Li Zhaowen.

The first agreement was that the King of Qin accepted the city of Xiyi.

Of the three agreements, only the first one was bold and turbulent enough to have an impact on the general trend of the world. As for the remaining two agreements, given Li Zhaowen's character, how could they be ordinary agreements?
Li Guan smiled and said:
"Okay."

"Haha, then I'll be waiting for your next two promises, Erlang. I think they must be extraordinary!"

Li Zhaowen watched Li Guanyi leave before turning back to his own courtyard. He climbed up the high building alone, listened to the melodious birdsong, and saw the moonlight like water, shining on the mountains, rivers and cities. He couldn't help but feel peaceful.

After a long time, he took out the finger that was "hidden" behind the bottle and used to feed the King of Qin. On that cold winter night, under the bright moonlight, Li Zhaowen only felt that the finger was slightly hot.

This burning feeling, like a fire in the heart, lingered for a long time.

Zhangsun Wugou knew that Li Zhaowen had returned, so she arranged for her to bathe and change clothes, but she did not see her coming down from the high building. She was curious and worried, so she went to look for her, but she saw someone going up to the west building alone. She asked, "Duke?"

Li Zhaowen just raised his head and looked at the sky, and suddenly said:
“I really regret it.”

Changsun Wugou was puzzled.

Li Zhaowen said: "Everything I do has always been in line with my heart. Changfeng Tower was originally a pawn that your brother and I left in Chen State to gather intelligence on Chen State for our government. However, things changed during the grand sacrifice of Chen State that year."

"I took away all the people trained in Changfeng Tower at that time. I thought it would be a pity to throw away the first tower of Chen State, so I gave it to Guanyi. But I didn't expect the many developments that would happen later."

“I really regret it.”

Li Zhaowen repeated it once more, this time just saying lightly:
"If I had known, I wouldn't have given it to him then."

"But even if I don't give it to him, he will need intelligence in the future. That Master Xue will still make a similar choice. At the beginning, I only treated Brother Li as a friend. At that time, I couldn't do what she did."

After a long silence, Li Zhaowen just smiled casually:

"Forget it, let's wait and see tomorrow."

He turned around calmly, looked at the fingers that were still slightly hot at the moment, and suddenly smiled carefreely. He raised his fingers and pressed the two fingers that brushed Qin King's lips against his own lips. His sleeves rolled up, and under the moonlight, he was free and easy like a knight.

Changsun Wugou had never seen Li Zhaowen like this before, and was stunned for a moment.

Until Li Zhaowen waved his knife and gently chopped Changsun Wugou's forehead.

Only then did Changsun Wugou come to his senses.

Li Zhaowen smiled and said, "What are you thinking about?"

"I've been drinking all night, and I'm a little tired. Why don't you help me wash myself?"

"Yes, I was just thinking that I've never seen the city lord look like this before."

Changsun Wugou walked forward with a smile.

A few days later, Li Guanyi discussed many matters concerning the entire Xiyi City with Li Zhaowen. There were many files that needed to be signed. Li Guanyi kept pressing the Qin King's Seal and felt his own luck surging. Even the Jiuzhou Ding was undergoing some subtle changes.

Just for security reasons, it is not possible to send troops to attack the city at this stage.

After dealing with all these things, Li Guanyi immediately got up and traveled alone, lightly equipped, riding a chestnut horse, wearing an outfit commonly worn by heroes and knights from the Western Regions, with a machete on his back, a wine gourd hanging around his waist, a cat sitting on his shoulder, and galloping towards the north.

Li Guanyi set out from Xiyi City, bypassed the Western Regions, mingled with herds of wild horses and tribes that still maintained the tradition of wandering in this era, headed towards the Turkic steppe, and successfully entered it.

With the help of "Jiangnan Misty Rain Chonglou Gong", Li Guanyi's demeanor and temperament seemed as if he were really a rough wandering man herding horses on the grassland. With the help of Yaoguang's magical power, he was able to have a normal conversation.

He arrived at Xiyi City in early March of the fifteenth year of Tianqi. It was not until late April of the fifteenth year of Tianqi, approaching the beginning of May, when the grass had turned green, that Li Guanyi slowly circled one circle after another, gradually approaching the northern region.

During these two months, there have been few changes among countries.

The States of Chen and Ying were both vigorously encouraging agriculture and sericulture, cutting taxes, and stimulating the economy and commerce. Yuwen Lie had reappeared on the battlefield with a mechanical arm, but Guan Twelve, who was the best at making mechanical arms in the world, had already entered the south of the Yangtze River.

But no one knows how much military power this once mighty general still has.

There were sporadic uprisings in Ying State.

But they were just a few words. The most outstanding among the many heroes were Dou De and others, but they were just hiding among the mountains and rivers and never showed up. Only some young people thought that Emperor Ying was old, so they raised their arms and shouted.

He wanted to emulate the deeds of the King of Qin and dominate the world.

It was wiped out by the government within a few days.

Shan Xiong just sighed, saying that Jiang Wanxiang was just old, not dead.

It would be better to say that this king, who had the strongest national fortune in the entire Ying State during the three hundred years since its founding, was the most terrifying before his death. In the six months since Li Guanyi became king, Jiang Wanxiang swung his butcher knife and dealt with many backlog of old cases.

The killing was so intense that blood flowed like a river and heads of people piled up everywhere.

The number one person in the dynasty, also the biggest corrupt official in Ying State, the left prime minister corresponding to Wei Yiwen, and also the favorite of Jiang Wanxiang, personally helped build the Zhaixing Tower, but was also beheaded, his property was confiscated, and nearly 100 million taels of silver were seized.

In addition, there are land deeds, mansions, chambers of commerce, etc.

The various real values ​​directly filled the national treasury, which was already on the verge of collapse.

Wen Heyan: Using this person as a trap, he embezzled all the wealth in the world into one pocket, and then chopped him off with a knife in the end. How cruel!
Ying's national strength suddenly expanded.

He started to clean up the bureaucracy again, killing civil servants, military officials, and noble families. So many heads rolled down and blood flowed like a river, which made the people cheer. The court bureaucracy was cleaned up and the people's hearts were united. The officials could not resist Jiang Wanxiang's terror and had to lie dormant obediently.

In this situation.

Jiang Wanxiang cut away Ying State's shortcomings, and then held them together again by him, forming a rope. The cohesion and public opinion were greatly improved again. This largest country in the Central Plains still has a profound foundation.

The old and dying king still has the heroic spirit.

As for the State of Chen, Chen Dingye did not make such drastic, sharp and decisive reforms as Jiang Wanxiang. People secretly commented that Emperor Chen Huangying was ultimately more powerful than the latter.

But Li Guanyi discovered the message.

Chen Dingye’s second batch of funding has arrived.

Everything Chen Dingye did seemed very reasonable.

The last emperor of an imperial dynasty, an incompetent emperor whose spine was broken and whose spirit was worn out by Tan Tai Xian Ming's decades of planning, killed the Turkic envoys and used his thigh bones to make a pipa; he favored treacherous ministers, and everyone in the court was greedy.

However, because it was too reasonable, Li Guanyi felt wary.

At this stage, is Chen Dingye really as stupid as he appears to be?

In short, it’s better to be careful.

Well, take the money first.

This time, a total of five million taels of silver were received. Mr. Nan Hanwen also brought three hundred craftsmen and his disciples and their families, a total of thousands of people, to Jiangnan to build a huge school, where talented people selected from all over the country practiced.

The King of Southwest and others have successfully entered the secret realm of the ancient red dragon according to the plan.

Later, military doctors such as Shi Dalin of the Qilin Army also joined in and began to gradually reap the secret realm planted by Chen Baxian, Duke of Chen five hundred years ago, and refined a Qi-nourishing powder based on Hou Zhongyu's version.

This Qi-nourishing Powder is an enhanced and improved version.

According to combat responsibilities and combat sequences, they were distributed to the Tiance Mansion's army in batches.

With the support of elixirs, most of the Qilin Army soldiers who were wounded on the battlefield before have recovered and made progress. Those who were too seriously injured and no longer suitable for front-line combat have been transferred to the academy to train grassroots officers.

The progress of recasting the armor and weapons of the Murong family is going smoothly.

With the help of Guan Twelve, Xiao Wuliang's mechanical arm completed the update and iteration, and has basically recovered 90% of its normal combat capability. As Chen Wenmian's deputy general, there is no problem at all.

And this process took only one month to complete.

Guan Twelve originally thought that this was the thing that was meant for him.

After settling the matter, he planned to leave. He told the leader of the Mohist school that he had no intention of going to the State of Chen or the State of Ying. Anyway, the Western Regions, the Southwest, the South of the Yangtze River, and the waterways formed a territory of thousands of miles, which was enough for him to travel.

He planned to spend three to five years walking slowly across the entire Qin territory.

Then he was taken to meet General Xue.

And he has not been able to leave the Eighteen Prefectures of Jiangnan until now.

The spring ploughing went extremely smoothly, the weather was favorable, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.

Wei Xuancheng, Fang Ziqiao and others helped to deal with internal affairs, and everything was in order. As for the five weapons taken out from the Overlord's Secret Realm, their owners have not yet been found. Weapons of this level have already become spiritual, and are close to the level of divine weapons.

Even if its spirituality is not as good as the Tiger Roaring Sky Halberd or the Scarlet Sky Sword, the gap is not particularly large.

I had no choice but to leave it at Murong's house.

Apart from Li Guanyi, only Murong Longtu could easily suppress these weapons.

It's just that when General Fan Qing was taking the elixir and practicing under the guidance of Ximen Hengrong and Jian Kuang, he seemed to have a faint resonance with the swords among the five weapons. Unfortunately, Fan Qing was only at the fifth level after all.

The masters of these five weapons were all great masters. They were all the top ten divine generals of that era. According to Murong Longtu's words in the letter, Fan Qing had to wait until he reached the seventh level of heaven before he was qualified to hold the sword that was only one step away from being a divine weapon.

Everything goes well, and everything can be considered smooth.

Li Guanyi's mood became cheerful.

Even the dry food in my hand became delicious.

Crunching sound.

That was the sound of teeth biting through dry food.

Li Guanyi sat cross-legged on a stone with a fire in front of him roasting sheep. There was a roll of tanned fur on his mount. His hair was a little long, and he didn't use a jade hairpin, but just let his black hair hang down. He looked like a normal grassland man.

The little Qilin was chewing on the barbecue made by Li Guanyi.

Smacking his lips, the little Qilin said with a sad face, "Guan Yi, I want to eat vegetarian food!"

"I want to eat fruit!"

“I want to eat bamboo shoots!”

Li Guanyi said, "Almost, almost. Otherwise, why don't you eat some grass first?"

The little Qilin had two big bags of tears in his eyes and he really couldn't eat anymore. How could there be someone in this world who likes to eat meat forever? Li Guanyi laughed and rubbed Qilin's head. Since this little guy followed him, at least he didn't suffer much loss in food.

Along the way, the food on the grassland was mainly meat, dried fruits and dairy products.

Little Qilin ate it for two months.

From the initial happiness and satisfaction, he loved dried fruits and dairy products very much. But in the end, when he saw other food on the table, he would not eat dried meat and dried fruits. Now he misses the good bamboo shoots hidden in Tuanzi's house very much.

Crisp, tender and juicy.

That dumpling really knows how to eat!
Li Guanyi rubbed the Fire Qilin and looked into the distance.

With his eyesight and divine light, he could see through the layers of clouds and could already see the towering glacier. The life-extending Gu that had left its mark before was now in that direction.

Li Guanyi cut off a piece of meat with a dagger, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, thinking: "However, since I'm already here, if everything goes well, I can get the Gu worm, otherwise, I can go to the Northern Territory Pass..."

"Turn back from the North Territory Pass to the South."

Outside the Northern Territory, there lived Gao Xiang, who was once the third most powerful general in the world.

As well as two powerful generals of the Taiping Army, Yuan Shitong and Xue Tianxing.

In addition, there were two disguised sons of Duke Taiping.

Li Guanyi said, "Let's go and have a look. Leaving it there is not a big deal after all. Besides, I remember that Mr. Siming said that he threw the arm of the green-robed guest Zhang Ziyong into the five lotus ponds and volcanoes outside the northern region."

Huo Qilin suddenly realized:
"Oh, Guanyi, your weapons will also be cast there."

"Yes."

Li Guan nodded. The thick-backed heavy sword he placed on the side of the horse was made of gold and iron, the Jiuli divine weapon. As soon as Li Guan raised his hand, the thick-backed heavy sword whistled several times and flew into his palm.

Li Guanyi lightly brushed the blade of the heavy sword with his palm and said to himself:
"If the Lord of the Many Divine Weapons can forge them successfully, he can restrain all the divine weapons in the world. I wonder if the words left on the stone tablet by the Lord of Jiuli thousands of years ago are true or just exaggerated."

"If it is cast, can it directly destroy the God of War Jiang Su's Lance of Extinction?"

He tapped the weapon with his fingers, and the heavy sword made a low humming sound.

Li Guanyi put the weapon into the scabbard.

Only a faint hum of weapons remained.

Looking around, there was a path in all directions. Li Guan put out the fire, got back on his horse, and took the Fire Kirin with him, following the mark left by the Jiuzhou Ding that day, and headed towards the place where the life-extending Gu was.

The scenery along the way was of course magnificent. He met many Turks, but Li Guanyi easily avoided them. Then he met a Khan from an unknown tribe, who was riding thousands of cavalrymen across the vast grassland. The sound of their horses' hooves was like thunder, which was indeed magnificent.

Li Guanyi pulled the reins and held his weapon.

He retracted his sharp eyes and did not look directly at the galloping army. He continued to gallop for more than ten days and finally arrived at the snow-capped mountains. It was already May, but the snow-capped mountains were still cold.

The snow on the shady side seemed to have not melted completely in such a long time. When the wind blew, it still brought a slight chill. Li Guanyi turned over and dismounted, stepped forward, and found the place where the brand was left before.

It is still a vast glacier, and there seems to be something special about it, so the ice and frost do not melt for a long time.

With the eyes, one can see that at the bottom of the glacier, there is a strange beast like white jade, flowing comfortably underneath, emitting a hint of sharp aura.

It is the magical poisonous insect that is capable of containing the sword madness's sword intent and its sharp edge.

Li Guanyi leaned over, bent his fingers, and tapped the frozen river frost, making a crisp sound, and then smiled and said, "Little guy, do you remember me?"

The body of the poisonous insect, which was originally swimming happily, became stiff.

He was one of the strange beasts and was originally intelligent.

He raised his head stiffly and looked at Li Guanyi.

Recognized the scent of the person coming.

Li Guanyi grinned.

From the perspective of the white jade beast, it was full of threats.

After silence.

The body of the white jade-like beast stiffened and began to die.

Oh, I'm dead!
Li Guanyi chuckled, "Pretending to be dead, huh? If you are dead, then I won't be polite. Since I can't catch you, I will take your dead body back and make tea for you."

"I heard that people in the southwest also eat these edible insects by frying them and eating them with wine. They are crispy and delicious."

Because of the magic, this language conveys information through the method of the soul.

The insect probably understood it as well.

The low and solemn dragon roar echoed.

Li Guan took a step onto the heavy ice that was heavy enough to break the edge of a sword. His sleeves fluttered and a faint red-gold flame rose up, turning into dragon scales.

No action was required, just standing there, and the glacier began to crack in an instant.

It made a rumbling sound like thunder.

Li Guanyi stared at the stiff alien insect.

The strange insect raised its head and looked at the huge, ferocious, real ancient red dragon beside Li Guanyi. It instinctively curled up into a ball, as if it was "scared to life" again.

"Wouldn't it be okay if it was just like this?"

Li Guanyi used the Zhouyou Liuxu magic skill taught by Grandpa Chen Chengbi and pulled his palm backwards.

It was done with extremely gentle force.

The surface of the water cracked, and the poisonous insect flew up all of a sudden and landed back in Li Guanyi's palm, where it stayed still and didn't dare to move at all.

Li Guanyi stared at the poisonous insect that was as white as jade and carried a pure aura.

Sensing this strange beast, which perfectly met the requirements of the witchcraft lineage's [Life-Extending Gu] magic, he pursed his lips.

He had been acting calm before.

But actually, I was always tense inside.

He knew that the old man's life was coming to an end, and the old man also knew that Li Guanyi understood all this, but the two of them still got along as usual. No one mentioned this, and they seemed to have tacitly forgotten about this matter.

But Li Guanyi still kept them in his heart and was always thinking about them.

Only now did his tense spirit finally calm down a little. Li Guanyi placed the life-extending Gu into a specially made box, held it in his arms, raised his brows, and felt relaxed.

"Let's go!"

Huo Qilin was just dozing off, staring at the jade-white poisonous insect, wondering if it was edible. He was stunned when he heard this and asked:

"Want to go to the Five Great Lotus Pond Volcanoes?"

Li Guanyi said, "No, just go back!"

Little Qilin was puzzled: "Aren't we going to forge weapons and meet the [Son of the Duke of Taiping]?"

Li Guanyi raised his hand and pressed the box close to his heart. His eyebrows were raised, his eyes were shining, and he grinned and said:
"I won't wait any longer, and I won't go to see it. What kind of magic weapon, what kind of fake Son of the Duke of Taiping, I can go and see it later, and I can cast it later. There are still many opportunities to get magic weapons."

"But I only have one great-grandfather."

"I want my great-grandfather to be healthy. I have decided. Anyway, I only know a little bit about the business of casting weapons, but I am not an expert. I should let my great-grandfather personally join me in casting the Nine Li Divine Weapons of Gold and Iron!"

The Fire Kirin was sluggish.

Fire Qilin stopped thinking.

Soon he didn't care anymore and cheered: "Good fruit, good bamboo shoots!"

Li Guanyi said: "You still want to eat good fruits?"

The little Qilin was not convinced and said, "Grandpa Longtu loves me very much, he won't give me the same easy fruit as the old guy did!"

Li Guan laughed loudly, jumped on his horse, and planned to gallop all the way to a safe place.

Then he used the Jiuzhou Ding to directly summon the ancient red dragon.

He was already impatient to return to Jiangnan, but after taking a few steps, his eyebrows suddenly raised, and a sharp look flashed in his eyes. Huo Qilin asked in confusion:
"What's wrong, Guanyi?"

Li Guanyi exhaled, rubbed Qilin's head, and said, "Nothing."

He just said: "It seems that a guest has come to visit."

At this time, in the steppe Turks, in the golden tent.

The Turkic Khan slowly opened his eyes.

(End of this chapter)