The night falls and the cold wind blows.

The old dusty valley was brightly lit, illuminating the wide river surface with a strange green color.

Hundreds of river lanterns were floating in the green water. Wedding boats decorated in red and festive colors came near from afar. The boatman used a long pole to skillfully steer the boat through the river lanterns.

Red lanterns were hung high on the boat, and on a high-backed chair under the red ceiling sat the bride-to-be in a bright red wedding dress.

The veil with thin gold chains and rubies hanging on the four corners covered Furong's face. The wide bright red wedding dress embroidered with "Phoenix Flying" in gold and silver covered her embroidered shoes. From a distance, she looked lifeless, and more like a clay or wooden sculpture moved out of a temple.

The river bank was crowded with people and the sound of cheers was endless.

Countless people were curious about the palace marriage selection that only happened once every twenty years, and they gathered together to point fingers at the brides on the wedding boat.

In today's world, the imperial court is in decline and chaos is rampant, especially in the underworld.

There are two most famous forces in the underworld. One is the tyrannical and vicious killer organization Wufeng, and the other is the secluded Gongmen who is regarded as the righteous.

Gongmen is a force established by the Gong clan. Over the hundreds of years, they have collected many long-lost martial arts techniques and secret skills. There are many martial arts masters, and they have passed on the skills from generation to generation. The clan members are highly united and face external threats together, making them difficult to disintegrate.

They are powerful and mysterious, but they have been living in seclusion in the Jiuchen Valley for many years. They are not bound by the rules of the martial arts world and regard Wufeng as their mortal enemy.

According to reliable sources in the underworld, the Gongmen family has a total of four direct branches, with Gong as their surname and Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu as their names.

The Shang Palace is good at forging weapons; the Jiao Palace is in charge of external affairs, responsible for the family's livelihood and dealings in the martial arts world; the Zheng Palace is good at medicine, poison and hidden weapons; the Yu Palace is responsible for internal guarding, defense and commanding the palace gates.

The Old Dust Valley where the palace gate is located is a place with a very dangerous terrain, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The palace gate is full of sentries and bunkers, with mechanical passages extending in all directions. It is strictly guarded all year round, with guards changing day and night without interruption, making it difficult for outsiders to enter.

If outsiders want to enter the palace openly, they can only take advantage of the opportunity of the palace's marriage selection.

Of course, you must first meet the conditions for palace marriage selection:

First of all, the girl's background must be clean, preferably from a family that is friendly with the palace. This way, it will be easier to check her background and make compensation or hold her accountable if something goes wrong;

Secondly, the girl must be good-looking, well-proportioned, healthy, well-educated and well-mannered, between the ages of sixteen and twenty, and of marriageable and childbearing age;

Finally, the girl herself or her family or clan voluntarily participates in the marriage selection and unconditionally accepts the results, including severing contact with her family after being selected and never leaving the palace for the rest of her life, or obeying the palace's arrangements after being eliminated and marrying into a small family living in the Old Dust Valley that depends on the palace for its life.

Zhang Xueming is one of the many outsiders who want to take advantage of this marriage selection to enter the palace.

Fortunately, by chance, she got an internal quota and became the eleventh out of the ten brides to be selected, a true relative.

At that moment, Zhang Xueming was sitting under the red roof of the last wedding boat. On the surface, she was as motionless and silent as the other brides to be selected, acting like a puppet.

In fact, since she entered the territory of Jiuchen Valley, the improved version of Yangzhou Slow Heart Method that combined Mingyu Gong and Poison Sutra in her body started to operate faster, extracting the miasma in the surrounding air bit by bit and converting it into her own internal strength. It was much faster than usual when she did not use toxins to assist in her practice.

This is just the outskirts of the Old Dust Valley, and the miasma content in the air is the lowest.

What about the heart of the Old Dust Valley, the source of the miasma?

I heard that the deepest part of the Jiuchen Valley is isolated from the outside world, with deep forests and dense trees, no sunlight, and countless exotic flowers and plants, including extremely poisonous plants. As a result, poisonous miasma is generated in the valley, becoming more and more dense every year, and it may have even condensed into fog.

That is to say...

As long as she can ensure that there is enough energy to supply her mind method to transform toxins, she will be able to reach the eighth level of the mind method and become invincible in the world in at most half a year!

Under the veil, Zhang Xueming opened her eyes slightly and couldn't help swallowing.

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