Because the emperor was ill and the world was in chaos, the palace was no longer lively, and the fifth year of Zhongping passed in such a deserted state.

There was nothing special about the Spring Festival in the sixth year of Zhongping. Although the emperor was in better spirits these past two days, he only took a short time to get together with his wife and children. He did not say anything at the table, and his face

You could tell he was tired just by looking at him. He didn't even finish a meal, so he went back to rest with the help of the palace maid.

As soon as the emperor left, only Queen He and the three princes were left. At this time, there seemed to be nothing to talk between the princes. Queen He also thought about taking her son and leaving directly, not wanting Liu Bian to eat too much.

After speaking, he came to Liu Xuan's side and started laughing and joking. He didn't know why he was so happy.

"This kid is usually taciturn. It's rare that he's happy today, so let's ask him to be more casual." He turned to look at the eldest prince Liu Xuan: "I'm afraid he won't have much chance in the future!"

Empress He was still unclear about the situation with the eldest son of the emperor. The fact that Liu Xuan drank the poisoned wine in front of her without any incident made her very afraid. Who knew that Liu Xuan, who was usually silent, would

What else does Xuan have?

She even invited Shi Daoren to ask how Liu Xuan was not afraid of poisonous wine.

The Shi Dao Ren was also quite famous and was said to be proficient in mystical arts. When Queen He gave birth to Liu Bian in the early years, because the emperor had lost several sons one after another, she was worried and sent her son to the Shi Dao Ren to raise her, hoping to use her mystical skills

Shu protects this son.

Afterwards, her son grew up healthily, and Empress He respected Shi Taoist more and more. She only protected her son if this old Taoist was really proficient in Taoist magic. Therefore, whenever anything weird happened, Empress He would call him "

Come and ask.

This was the case this time. However, after listening to the Queen's description, Shi Daoren frowned and gave the final explanation that could not make Queen He happy: "If he is not proficient in metaphysics and has cultivated a Taoist body that is invulnerable to hundreds of poisons, it is because he has

Protected by exotic treasures!”

If Liu Xuan had listened to it, he would probably have to admire Shi Daoren for being really talented and knowledgeable, because he had indeed guessed the truth. But this conclusion made Empress He unhappy - no matter which way it was, it made her even more worried.

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If it is the first type, it proves that Liu Xuan himself is also proficient in the mysterious magic. He used poisonous wine to harm him. If he uses mysterious magic to take his own life, how can he resist? This thing is not as good as weapons, poisonous wine, and those are also stylish.

Objects can also be guarded against. This mysterious technique...

Fortunately, Master Shi heard that the young man was no more than twenty years old, so he said with certainty: "At such a young age, he is definitely not a member of the same Taoist group who has achieved success in cultivation. From this point of view, he must be protected by a rare treasure!

"

Queen He looked Liu Xuan up and down, and she couldn't help but wonder where the eldest prince found such a treasure, and was he not afraid of the huge poison in the wine?

Maybe he noticed something, and Liu Xuan turned to look at her. His gaze was like a sharp sword, so much so that she turned her head to avoid it unconsciously.

But then she felt that it was really embarrassing for her as a queen to be intimidated by a prince who was a concubine. She had no intention of eating this meal, so she greeted her son, and both mother and son left and went back to their palace.

Liu Xuan saw his second brother looking back at him unhappily, smiled and waved his hand at him, then turned his head and looked at his third brother who was eating slowly.

After the New Year, the third brother was only nine years old. According to the history he knew, this year, this little guy, who was not even ten years old, became the last emperor in the history of the Han Dynasty.

At the same time, the second brother who just left will ascend the throne in a few months. Unfortunately, he will soon be dethroned and killed by the notorious Dong thief.

"After all, we are brothers, and they respect me a lot. It's not good to watch him die!"

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw that his third brother had already finished eating, got up, bowed to him and said goodbye, and went back to the palace of Empress Dowager Dong.

In a short time, this person was gone, leaving only a few palace maids and eunuchs waiting around. However, Liu Xuan noticed that the expressions of the palace maidens were quite impatient, and they did not even try to hide it, which showed that he

The eldest son of the emperor was so unpopular in the palace.

Liu Xuan was too lazy to get angry with such a person, so he stood up and left directly, going back to his palace to rest.

In the sixth year of Zhongping, nothing seems to have changed much.

The old emperor is still bedridden, but there is good news.

In February, Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo, who had gone on an expedition, reported good news and had defeated the rebel kingdom. Now they have returned to Beijing with their troops.

After hearing the news, the emperor seemed to feel a little lighter. He was overjoyed and rewarded him again - but he was not sick and confused after all. He took this opportunity to make Dong Zhuo the Bingzhou Shepherd, hoping to transfer him away from his hometown in Liangzhou.

However, this person refused again and refused to take office in Bingzhou, so the matter dragged on.

In addition, the emperor's energy recovered from the great victory was also exhausted, and he lay back on the bed again. Naturally, he no longer had the energy to argue with Dong Zhuo, so the matter ended like this.

At this time, Liu Xuan stayed in the palace, besides practicing, he also tempered a long sword.

Cao Bao stood guard at the door every day, just to make a gesture. If someone came, Liu Xuan would definitely notice it before him. However, after watching for several days, Cao Bao saw that the long knife in Liu Xuan's hand was getting thinner and thinner.

It turned out to be slightly thinner than a long sword, and the blade was straight. Out of curiosity, I couldn't help but ask: "Is Your Highness refining a long sword?"

Obviously a month ago, His Highness the Prince told me that he wanted to refine a long sword, so he went to the palace to get some fine iron. Then these days, he saw Liu Xuan sitting cross-legged on the couch, taking the iron and dragging it between his hands.

Then, the whole body was filled with smoke, which lasted for about an hour every day.

Now more than a month has passed, and the iron in his hand has long lost its original appearance, and has gradually taken on the appearance of a weapon. However, as the days of sacrifice went on, the appearance became clearer and clearer, and the question marks in Cao Bao's head became more and more clear.

Come more and more.

At this time, the broadswords and so on, not to mention the wide and thick blades, the blades are also curved! However, the weapon that is gradually taking shape in Liu Xuan's hand has a very common style. If you take a cursory look, it looks more like a long sword.

The sword - it was a bit thinner than the current long sword. If he couldn't see clearly that there was only one blade from a closer look, Cao Bao would have thought it was a long sword.

He didn't know it, so Liu Xuan wouldn't be surprised. The long sword he had tempered with the Emperor's Dragon Qi that he had cultivated for more than ten years and the remaining trace of true energy in his soul was not something from this era at all.

To put it bluntly, there is nothing unusual about this, it is just a Tang Dao. If you were to put it in the world that I once lived in, if you want to say that you handle a Tang Dao by yourself, you would be scolded as old-fashioned and unoriginal.

However, although he had been practicing for a long time, he had never studied any weapon fighting skills. He probably couldn't master a long sword or anything like that, but weapons like knives were relatively easy to master - in Liu Xuan's view, although the sword skills were complicated, they were still difficult to master.

The basics are simple and clear: hack the enemy to death!

Moreover, chopping is easier to learn than stabbing, picking and other skills, so I finally chose the knife.

Since I wanted to use a knife, I naturally had to use a relatively famous one, and because of Liu Xuan's personal preference, it also had to be more beautiful. After much selection, I chose this Tang Dao.

The Tang Dynasty sword is very similar to the later long sword in terms of the blade and the handle. In addition, the blade is straight, and it can even be mistaken for a long sword when inserted in the sheath. Of course, in this late Han Dynasty, it probably would not be misunderstood, because the blade

too thin.

As for the sturdiness? Liu Xuan believes that this Tang sword, tempered by its own true energy, can withstand any so-called magic weapon in the world at this time without any damage. Even if it is really damaged, Liu Xuan can still rely on it.

The emperor's dragon energy allowed the Tang sword tempered with dragon energy to recover on its own.

This nearly two months of tempering not only made the long knife strong enough and capable of self-healing, but the most important point was that it could perfectly respond to the energy in his body, so that when he used some moves, he would not be

If the weapon is ineffective, it will not be able to exert its due power.

"I guess the old emperor is nearing his end of life, and Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo have already moved away! What will happen next is the drama between the two parties fighting for the throne!"

He reached out and stroked the bright and straight blade, and saw a faint golden light shining wherever Liu Xuan's palm brushed it.

"There will be a period of chaos in the palace and even in Luoyang, especially when there is a melee between the imperial army and Yuan Shao's Xiyuan Army. It will not be very convenient if you don't have a handy weapon at that time. Take advantage of this leisure period

, tempering this sword in advance can be regarded as preparation in advance!"

He also told Cao Bao these words, so the young eunuch who was close to him never asked the prince why he wanted to make a weapon. He was more curious about how a big pile of fine iron could slowly change in Liu Xuan's hands.

Has it become a weapon?

But he didn't know that if Liu Xuan still had half the cultivation level of the year, he could easily make such a long knife. But now it takes nearly two months, and at the same time, he can barely make it with the help of some magical power of the Emperor's Dragon Qi.

of.

"Back then, there were so many magic weapons that I didn't know which ones to use, but now I can only deal with guys who can use weapons that are slightly better than ordinary weapons!" Liu Xuan waved his hand and got used to it: "However, with my true energy to cooperate with the emperor,

Refined with dragon energy, this sword is not a temporary transitional thing that can barely cope with it for a while. If a trace of dragon energy can be condensed into this sword independently and connected with the national power, this weapon will also become an excellent weapon.

The divine weapon!"

Although these are just guesses, Liu Xuan was once a generation of immortals with extraordinary cultivation. Naturally, the speculations made based on his knowledge would not be too far-fetched, so he was very satisfied with this long sword.

"Now, we are just waiting for those big chaos to come!"

Thinking of this, he turned around and asked: "Has there been any news from Mengde these days?"

Cao Bao nodded immediately after hearing this: "Cao Yilang said that although the Xiyuan Army has not been mobilized these days, it is loose on the outside and tight on the inside. It looks like it is ready to go to war at any time, and the general often recruits Yuan Shao, the captain of the Sili School.

During the meeting, Cao Yilang speculated that something big was going to happen.";
Chapter completed!