I am a living immortal.

The scorching sun roars in the dog days of summer.

People from the martial arts world can be seen everywhere on the streets, and in order to make this martial arts competition grand, Jiading Prefecture has summoned thousands of craftsmen to start building a huge guild hall.

It was a spectacular sight to see truckloads of materials passing through the streets.

The increasingly large guild hall also aroused the passion of a group of martial artists.

Martial arts schools were never created behind closed doors, but rather forged through hard work. However, most of the best martial artists in the martial arts world today were in Jiading Prefecture, some even at the Grandmaster level.

The game is very lively every day.

Su Mu once again returned to her secluded days. Various rules intertwined, allowing Su Mu's mind to focus 99% on the construction of the world within her.

Just like a stacked building, it is constantly integrated.

Spring was in full swing, and the integration of various rules was already a bit overwhelming. Now he needed a vast and powerful force to suppress all these rules.

And this force must be extremely strong and extremely yang - the sun.

It’s time to put catching Xia on the agenda, and now is the time.

Su Mu sat cross-legged in the courtyard.

"The dog days of summer have arrived, the solar term of Great Heat, and at noon, the sun is at its strongest and most yang."

With that, the old goat leaped and disappeared into the courtyard. His eyes were filled with fear, and the sun was setting in the sky. This time, he wouldn't use Jiading Prefecture's yearning for spring as bait. This time, he'd use spring as bait to catch summer!

In the courtyard, with Su Mu as the center, heat was surging and rising, echoing the sun hanging in the sky.

The sound of cicadas rang out from all directions, the heat turned into substance and distorted the surrounding air, and summer came in an instant, the interaction between spring and summer.

The artistic conception of a little spring attracted the inclination of the sun.

The various rules in Su Mu's body vaporized under the inclination of the brilliant sun and turned into fleeing rules, just like fish swimming in his body, but they were trapped in a small space and left to their own devices.

Using the heat, Su Mu transformed himself into a furnace and began to refine the rules. This was much faster than Su Mu's gradual withdrawal, and under the pressure of the general trend, his true intentions continued to emerge.

The old goat turned to look at Su Mu. Su Mu looked the most terrifying at this moment. In his eyes, Su Mu sat cross-legged in mid-air, the corner of his mouth slightly raised, one hand supporting his head, the other casually fiddling with the air, and behind him was an unimaginably vast sun.

His eyes were devoid of emotion, a pale grey. This was a manifestation of a quasi-divine quality. Su Mu's intense concentration was the most terrifying. Perhaps Su Mu herself didn't even know it. For example, back when they were practicing swordplay in the courtyard, the old goat would only dare to crouch in the corner and watch, fearing he'd be struck by the opponent's careless moves.

The situation is similar now.

There is only one thing in my mind, and that is smelting, smelting again and again.

The old goat didn't dare stay in this yard anymore. If it got hit by that seemingly random poking, it would probably only be left with a pool of blood and flesh and a pile of spiritual energy...

So the moment Su Mu got into the mood, he rushed out.

But this courtyard was truly boring. Mirage Dragon was also completely absorbed in digesting the food, not even caring about the puppet, which was then thrown into the corner like a pile of mud. Su Mu said that he hadn't given her anything he brought, and he didn't dare accept it, fearing that he would be refined.

I am helpless...

It was such a coincidence that I met Chen Tao who wanted to visit me when I went out.

Seeing the old goat panicking, he immediately became nervous as well: "What's wrong?"

"It's okay. Su Mu has gone crazy with her training. You'd better not go in, or you won't be able to get out. I'm going to hide for a while."

"Being possessed!! This is what you call being okay??"

Chen Tao looked confused.

"Don't worry, it's not like he's gone crazy. He's just trapped in his own world, with almost no awareness of the outside world. If you go in, you'll probably evaporate in an instant."

At this point, Chen Tao finally felt the heat coming out of the door. You know, it's the hottest time of the year now, it's already hot enough outside.

"Is this okay?" Chen Tao asked.

"I think so." The old goat thought about it expressionlessly.

"Let's stick two talismans." As he said this, he took out two talismans from his sleeve and stuck them on the door, one to block the overflowing heat, and the other to prevent people outside from entering.

Chen Tao was no longer surprised by these increasingly miraculous and endless methods. If the old goat told him the next moment that they were monsters, he would have accepted it. He no longer felt much shock; he was numb.

The old goat no longer hides himself from people and is becoming more and more presumptuous. He is just about to reveal his true form to Chen Tao.

It is enough to show that Chen Tao is really a good person.

"Let's go, let's go have some iced drinks. By the way, when is this martial arts tournament going to be held?"

"It will be soon, probably before autumn."

"Did His Royal Highness really just ask you to have dinner last time?"

"Not really. We chatted about some random things but didn't say much. But this prince is really a hidden talent. He talked about martial arts and looked into the future. But from what he said, he wanted to form a team composed entirely of martial arts masters, but I don't think he is serious. He even invited me, but I refused. I have a lot of things to do here, so I don't have the time to be cannon fodder for him. But speaking of it, the cakes made by the royal chef in this palace are delicious. I will bring some to you next time I go there." Chen Tao said a lot of nonsense, and the final conclusion was still on the cakes.

"Will you go next time?"

"Well, but it's not just me. This prince is very strong in martial arts, but seems to be lacking in his understanding of the martial arts world. Not everyone is as loyal as the eunuchs around him. Expecting a large group of martial arts masters to serve him as their leader is a bit of a pipe dream."

"The court and the martial arts world are ultimately different, no matter how close they are."

The Yu Dynasty's Jianghu was much like the Yan Dynasty's, mostly lingering outside the court, a world apart, a different set of rules. They were like two lines that briefly intersected, then separated, remaining parallel most of the time.

The court cannot control the world, and the world does not care about the court.

The two sides didn't interfere with each other, nor could they. The court wasn't willing to put in the effort to manage them, and those in the underworld, used to the free and unrestrained life, didn't want to be bound by it. Peace and tranquility were good.

But the appearance of this prince clearly intended to disrupt this balance. The lack of rebellion now was because most people didn't understand what he was up to. The arrival of the jianghu visitors to Jiading Prefecture was simple: to compete in martial arts and take a look at the imperial palace's Sutra Library. That was all. The assassination of the prince was a spectacle for most, but this prince clearly had a different perspective.