Deep Palace Pet Peach Blossom Flawless

It was from that time that Zhou's mother asked several cousins ​​who had a similar relationship with Zhou Diheng to find out indirectly what kind of celestial being her son liked. Even after he was poisoned by an aphrodisiac, he refused to even look at these charming women.

Zhou Yuqian was naturally one of the people entrusted. He watched those people in white dresses being expelled from the banquet, and strangely felt that the air became fresher for a moment.

Soon, the City Lords of Yuncheng, Richeng, Yuecheng, Yingcheng, and later Guangcheng and Qingcheng all came forward to pay their respects to Zhou Diheng. The City Lord of Yuncheng even prepared several rosewood boxes. The boxes were not small and were held in two people's arms and placed on the glass table in front of Zhou Diheng.

The rosewood boxes were opened one by one, and the brilliant colors inside suddenly overflowed.

The Lord of Yuncheng said respectfully, "Young Master, these are the spoils of this war. Aside from some I distributed to my severely injured and tragically deceased subordinates, the rest is here. On behalf of Yuncheng, I would like to present them all to you!"

Zhou Diheng looked at the various mutant beast pills. He stretched out his hand and pinched a emerald green beast pill between his two bony fingers. "These beast pills are of good quality!"

The Lord of Yuncheng said, "Yes, the best and highest-grade exotic beast pills are all here."

Zhou Diheng threw down the exotic beast pill in his hand and said with some emotion: "The mutant beasts covet the flesh and blood of the returning real people, and the returning real people in turn use the mutant beasts' inner pills to strengthen themselves. It seems that we and the mutant beasts are destined to fight to the death and cannot coexist."

At this time, the City Lord of the Cinema City, Zhou Yuxi, took over the conversation: "Young Master, I also brought you some gifts. They are not very expensive and cannot compare to the lavish gifts of City Lord Yun. Please accept them."

Led by the movie city lord Zhou Yuxi, other city lords took out their gifts one after another.

"Young Master, this is a token of our gratitude from Sun City."

"This is a token of our Moon City's love."

"This is……"

The Lord of Qingcheng City also hurriedly asked his subordinates to take out the gift he had carefully prepared, "Young Master, this is a little gift from us in Qingcheng."

Zhou Diheng's fingers gently stroked: "Lord of Qingcheng, you are here too."

The Qingcheng City Lord's smile grew somewhat stiff. "Catching" wouldn't be the right word, as they arrived late after the Yuncheng War. "Yes, we from Qingcheng brought some post-war supplies to Yuncheng."

Saying too much would only make things more obvious, so the Lord of Qingcheng City only stated his own position. After all, the original news was that the mutant beast was going to attack Sun City or Moon City. Who could have imagined that the mutant beast would change its route halfway?

Zhou Diheng nodded casually. In his opinion, human intrigue has never stopped no matter when and where, and there is nothing wrong with this.

He changed the subject, "Returning the favor, City Lord Yun, I heard that the Yunlu Secret Realm in Yun City has reached the training season again. I plan to lead a team of returning True Immortals into the center of the Yunlu Secret Realm. If you're interested, you can choose someone to follow me into the Yunlu Secret Realm for training."

City Lord Yun's face immediately lit up with joy. He said, "If a young master leads us into the Yunlu Secret Realm, the rewards we gain will surely be extraordinary!"

The reason the Zhou family of the Imperial Capital wields such immense power is that only direct descendants of the Imperial Capital Zhou family can enter the deepest secret realms of each city. Legend has it that they hold the key to the secret realms. This means that the richest, most precious, and rarest secret realm resources are still controlled by the Zhou family of the Imperial Capital, while the other city lords are merely nominal controllers. The deepest reaches of the Peach Blossom Secret Realm in the film city have only recently been accessed by Zhou Diheng, who, after more than a decade, took the treasure at its heart. Of course, the existence of this treasure is merely speculation.

Not only that, the strength of the imperial capital and the royal family's trump cards are not limited to this. Their power and status, and the strength they always show in times of crisis, have made the other cities inseparably united with the imperial capital, fundamentally extinguishing the fierce internal strife among humans. From beginning to end, they have taken the imperial capital as their leader and obeyed its orders.

The other city lords all looked at Zhou Diheng expectantly. Didn't they gather here just hoping that they might be lucky enough to get a piece of the pie?

Zhou Diheng said directly, "The mayors of each city can choose good people to follow me into the Yunlu Secret Realm, but I only want high-level Returning True Persons! The deepest part of each secret realm is enchanted, and the dangers inside are a hundred times greater than outside. You must ensure that you are willing to enter. Intermediate-level Returning True Persons should not join in the fun. High-level Returning True Persons also bear the risk of life and death at their own risk. Do you understand? Of course, the harvest of each city will be divided among yourselves."

Everyone responded without hesitation, secretly rubbing their hands in preparation, their spiritual powers boiling.

This incident made all the high-level returning immortals present very excited, and for a while, the banquet was filled with toasts and clinking of glasses.

When everyone was immersed in joy, suddenly an extremely heavy pressure came from thousands of meters above the sky, and the entire night sky was shrouded in dark smoke. In a flash, Emperor Zhou Heng suddenly raised his head and looked through the window not far away at the night sky. His eyes were as sharp as cold lightning.

In an instant, all the high-ranking Returned Immortals in the banquet hall turned serious and looked out the window.

The Cloud City Lord's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. "What on earth is that? Why are all these beasts coming to our Cloud City territory lately?"

Zhou Diheng had already mobilized the spiritual power in his body, and his eyes emitted a purple-gold light. The returning immortals in the field also mobilized their spiritual power to resist the unknown force, and then eyes of various colors appeared in the banquet hall.

The next moment, Zhou Diheng appeared in the pitch-black night sky. His purple-gold eyes stared at the dark shadow before him, and he couldn't help but frowned: "Who the hell are you? You can actually ignore the sky barrier!"

The shadow gradually solidified into a pure black humanoid figure. Its voice was rough and low, like the grinding of a millstone: "I... I have existed for eons! How could you, tiny, despicable humans, even know me? In fact, the darkness and sin of you humans are the true reason for my creation! And because of this, I will never perish! Thousands of years ago, I absorbed the three souls and seven spirits of a person, but that person deceived me so badly. In the end, I fell for her trick and released her spirit back to its place, but was still beaten to death by her lover! Fortunately, I am immortal. Even if only a wisp of tobacco remains, after thousands of years of nourishment from the evil thoughts of the human world, I can make a comeback today! Hahaha! But those two hateful humans have long since become a pile of bones. No matter how powerful they were, they still turned to ashes! Don't think anyone can stop me this time! I will absorb the souls of everyone here! I will consume the flesh and blood of everyone here! You - what are you... Ah! What the hell can actually attack me directly!"

Zhou Diheng shot an arrow through the black mist without hesitation. The black mist kept talking for a long time, almost exhausting all his patience. Although the black mist slowly regained its human form, it was still smaller. The next moment, the black mist drifted away to a distance where it felt safer. It transformed into a black eye and stared at Zhou Diheng. Looking at the bow and arrow with purple lightning in Zhou Diheng's hand, it suddenly trembled and said in an unconscious voice: "You! Who are you? Why do you look so familiar? No! It can't be! This is thousands of years later! How could that person... No, you don't just happen to have the surname Zhou? Are you a descendant of those two people?"

The humanoid black mist was in doubt, but the more it looked at Zhou Diheng, the more fear, anger, and hatred it felt grew. It cursed, "Great! Thousands of years ago, I was deceived by you. Thousands of years later, just as I've recovered a little, I've run into your descendants. This is God's revenge. I'll eat you up! Don't be too scared. You look so much like that man. Humph, give me your soul first!"

The black mist had obviously been holding it in for too long, and it rambled on and on, cursing for a long time, but its vocabulary was clearly limited, repeating only things like "bastard," "damn it," "I won't let you go," and then the swirling black mist-like eyes began to rush towards Zhou Diheng layer by layer. A huge suction force came over, and Zhou Diheng's body didn't move, but he suddenly felt dizzy and his mind was unstable. He was startled, and his mind was already turning a lot. The next moment, his purple-gold eyes shone brightly to the extreme, and purple lightning arrows around him turned into ten, ten into a hundred, a hundred into a thousand, a thousand into ten thousand...

Half of the sky was covered by black fog, and the other half was occupied by lightning and thunder. Dozens of high-level returning to the real people only dared to stand below the battlefield in the sky, watching the high-altitude battle from afar.

Zhou Diheng discovered that his lightning power could suppress the black fog, so he spared no effort to let the lightning arrows pierce the black fog's body again and again. Gradually, the black fog became smaller and thinner, and in the meantime, the black fog's voice was mixed with disbelief: "No! Impossible! Ordinary lightning has no effect on me at all! What's going on? Ah! Damn it! That person is really my nemesis. Even your descendants can suppress me! No! I will continue to grow stronger, so strong that you can no longer do anything to me! Just wait! Wait! I will be back again!"

Zhou Diheng kept firing his bow and arrow, not listening to anything the black mist said. Finally, under the attack of a powerful purple lightning, the black mist was finally suppressed and turned into ashes, and its soul was scattered. Zhou Diheng stopped his movements, but he felt that he had not really completely destroyed the thing. The purple lightning swept through the area again and again. It was not until a moment later that Zhou Diheng really stopped. He frowned tightly and said, "The black mist is like a cloud, shaped like an eye, sucking souls and frightening spirits, eating human flesh and blood. Wherever it passes, it is dark and there are only corpses! The "Imperial Secret Records" records that this is - No Sun!"

But how could the calamity of the endless sun befall this world? This isn't the ancient times. Without the surging five elements of spiritual energy and the myriad of exotic beasts of the ancient times, this world shouldn't be enduring the calamity of the endless sun! This world can't withstand the erosion of the endless sun.

"Could it be that the resurgence of the Five Elements' power has somehow freed Wu Ri's black fog from its confinement? That black fog is also very weak, far from the rampant and fearless power described in the 'Royal Secrets'. It seems I need to be more prepared! Although the black fog has been dispersed, it hasn't truly disappeared. It's waiting to revive and become stronger, so I must prepare early!"

Because of the unknown black fog attacking Cloud City, Zhou Diheng issued a temporary new decree to the nine major cities: "The aerial barrier only serves as a warning to the Black Eye Mist, but cannot prevent its invasion and devouring. However, high-level lightning has an absolute suppressive effect on the black fog. From today onwards, all Returned True Persons of the Lightning, Fire, and Light Element must obey this order and add these three spiritual powers to their aerial barriers to resist the Black Eye Mist, just in case!"

This kind of enemy that can be seen but not touched is even more terrifying. Several city lords witnessed the battle between Zhou Diheng and that thing with their own eyes, so naturally they all responded.

At the same time, when the first floor of the banquet hall fell into darkness, Xue Qingwu was startled for a moment. Many people rushed to the windowsill to look out. Xue Qingwu looked at the pitch-black hall, wondering what had happened, and some of the returning real people disappeared in the blink of an eye.

An unknown black fog attacked the barrier in the air, and the hall was already dark. Fortunately, the spare light box lit up in a moment, dispelling the panic among the crowd.

Xue Qingwu and her cousin kept quiet. She held her cousin's hand tightly and comforted her cousin Xue Qinglian's emotions. She didn't dare to use her spiritual power rashly. There were many people and eyes here, and there were countless returning real people. Being discovered would be no joke.

Xue Qingwu was in a daze and didn't expect that something unexpected would happen when she was distracted. Someone took advantage of the dim light and walked behind the sofa where they were sitting as if as a prank. When she noticed it, someone quickly reached out and pulled out the hollow flying phoenix golden hairpin on her head, and her hairband was also taken off. In an instant, her black hair cascaded down like a black waterfall, and Xue Qingwu was surrounded by black hair.

Xue Qingwu was stunned for a moment. She looked at the boys and girls walking towards her and stood up instinctively.

Xue Qinglian stood up and angrily shouted at the leading youth, "Mr. Ye, what do you mean? How dare you be so rude! Bring me my cousin's hairpin!"

Xue Qingwu suddenly realized that the leader was the youngest son of the Ye family, the one who was engaged to the Xue family. It seemed that this rebellious teenager was also very resistant to this marriage! Indeed, how could the children of aristocratic families, accustomed to doing whatever they wanted, be willing to be bound by the agreements of the previous generation? However, Xue Qingwu couldn't understand why this young son of the Ye family, who seemed to be named Ye Chengfeng, would come to trouble him alone? Could someone have deliberately leaked some false information?

Ye Chengfeng walked up to Xue Qingwu with an arrogant look on his face. He sneered, "Are you the Third Miss of the Xue family? The one who's engaged to me? You look okay, but you're not a stunning beauty! I heard you're even a year older than me!"

Someone immediately responded, "That's right! I don't know how she can have the nerve to become your fiancée, Young Master Ye. Be smart and cancel this marriage yourself!"

"That's right. Women older than you age faster. Young Master Ye, looking at it this way, you're really at a disadvantage!"

Originally, Ye Chengfeng was a little dazed when he saw the woman who was almost surrounded by long black hair. The black hair like clouds and waterfalls made Xue Qingwu look extremely delicate and charming. Her pair of sparkling eyes were so beautiful that they stared straight at him opposite her.

However, Ye Chengfeng, provoked by this, felt completely humiliated. He said angrily, "Be sensible. I don't want to marry a woman older than me. You better face reality!"

Xue Qinglian was furious: "Can you please look in the mirror? My cousin is so beautiful, who said she would marry you? You are just a little brat, okay? As if we cherish you so much! A bunch of brainless people!"

Xue Qingwu's face darkened slightly when Ye Chengfeng finished speaking. She secretly used a bit of her spiritual power to make the other party feel suppressed.

"Hmph, don't say one thing and mean another! I've heard it all over my ears these past few days. You're just trying to take advantage of that marriage to get yourself in trouble. I..."

Xue Qingwu's eyes turned cold, and an oppressive aura rose up. She was very angry. At the banquet, facing everyone, she, who had always been well-dressed and well-mannered, was maliciously made to look disheveled in public. For Xue Qingwu, who paid great attention to etiquette in public, her mood instantly dropped to freezing point. What's more, there was a high possibility that she would return empty-handed today, which made her already bad mood even worse. Ye Chengfeng's words stopped abruptly under Xue Qingwu's cold gaze.

Xue Qingwu said coldly, "You are so good at dreaming, why don't you carry your pillow with you all the time? That way you will have a pillow to accommodate your daydreams!"