The Imperial City of Dongyu has returned to peace again after experiencing the two major events of Su Ruan becoming a Marquis and the duel in the martial arts arena.
However, many caring people have discovered that under this peaceful atmosphere, there seems to be an undercurrent surging, as if a storm is about to come.
After Su Ruan returned from Zhao Mingliang without any results, he went to the palace again that night, discussed with Yu Renwang and others for most of the night, and finally stayed in Yu Shulan's palace.
From the next day, Yu Shulan, who was suffering from the confusion and suffering of her first love, moved into the Hou Mansion again and stayed by Su Ruan's side. However, she never gave a clear answer as to whether she was really willing to be Su Ruan's woman.
A few days later, the royal city's garrison began to mobilize frequently and settled in Liufeng Valley in the northwest of the royal city. All middle-level generals above the martial arts were summoned by the imperial king and returned to the royal city to be on standby. Even Yang Wenyan, who was out on business, was recalled.
Su Ruan has been completely quiet these days. He is either practicing martial arts at home or occasionally accompanying the seventh princess Yu Zijin to visit Diao Chunxiang. Liu Yeyun, the Minister of Rites, has also officially started receiving treatment from Su Ruan and is expected to recover within a month.
The peaceful days always passed quickly. More than half a month later, Yufeng Island, where the royal city was located, welcomed several groups of people, most of them from the Tianhe Empire.
Among them are the troops sent by the fourth princess Zhao Mingliang, the masters secretly sent by Yu Wen Qingyan, and many people with ulterior motives who want to get involved.
Because the news that someone in the Eastern Royal Kingdom was about to try to break through Tianwu's bottleneck had already spread like wildfire. Faced with this major event that might disrupt the balance of forces among all parties, no one cared.
The day of trying to break through was getting closer and closer. Su Ruan's family also began to make preparations.
First of all, Su Rou, Su Qing and others were all admitted to the palace by Queen Yurenfeng, and moved into the palace with a higher security level on the grounds of heart-to-heart talk.
Secondly, Su Ruan finished treating Liu Yeyun and accompanied Yu Amaterasu to Liufeng Valley alone to prepare for a breakthrough.
At the same time, Zhao Mingliang, the fourth princess of the Tianhe Empire, led an elite escort team and obtained permission from the Royal King to head towards Liufeng Valley on the pretext of assisting Su Ruan.
The Liufeng Valley in the northwest of the royal city has become the focus of all parties...
Yufeng Island, the main island of Touyu Kingdom, is mainly divided into two types of terrain. The south is a vast plain, where the Touyu Imperial City and a large number of large and small towns are built. The north is mountains and covered with forests. Various mineral resources are relatively abundant. And there are dangerous
Beasts appear.
Liufeng Valley is located at the boundary between plains and mountains. It is a top-secret place surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only one side having an exit.
There are many military camps built in the valley. More than 10,000 troops have been stationed. Su Ruan and Yu Tianzhao, as well as Huang Ge who had defended this place in advance, and Zhao Mingliang's troops gathered here.
The person in charge of commanding the army in the valley is the eldest prince Yu Zixiu, and several important officials from the Ministry of War serve as his deputies, one of whom is Luo Gang, the director of the Ministry of War in the royal city.
Regarding Zhao Mingliang's intervention, except for the approval of the Imperial King, the other generals of the Eastern Imperial Kingdom were very critical. They believed that Zhao Mingliang, as the princess of the Tianhe Empire, should not intervene in the affairs of the Eastern Imperial Kingdom.
Unexpectedly, she was the helper invited by Su Ruan, and Su Ruan had a special status. He was the person in charge of this breakthrough attempt, and no one could control him.
Yuwen Qingkuang, Yuwen Qingcheng, brother and sister, and Heavenly Warrior Meng Zhizhou, accompanied Zhao Mingliang to stay in the Wind Valley in the name of guard. Su Ruan actually had no objection at all to this.
The day of trying to break through was getting closer and closer, and Yuren Wang, who stayed behind in the palace, couldn't help but become a little nervous, fearing that something unexpected would happen this time, but Yu Shuqing, who never left the palace, was vaguely expecting something in his heart.
Three days before the breakthrough, on a small uninhabited island to the east of Yufeng Island, three figures suddenly fell from the sky.
These three people are Yu Shulan, the ancestor of the Heavenly Warriors, Daji who was taken flying by Yu Shulan, and Su Ruan who was wearing a phantom suit.
Yes, there is a Su Ruan in Liufeng Valley, and there is a Su Ruan here, and there is no difference between the two Su Ruan.
Landing on the isolated island, Yu Shulan looked at Su Ruan with his visor open, and you can imagine the shock in his heart.
With just a piece of weird full-body armor, he was actually able to fly into the sky, and his speed was no weaker than her, a heavenly warrior. Su Ruan became more and more mysterious in Yu Shulan's heart.
For safety reasons, Su Ruan did not take off the shining silver phantom suit, but only opened the visor to reveal his face.
After confirming that there was no danger on the isolated island, Su Ruan arranged some things around the island, and then let Daji start to break through.
That's right, the person who really wants to break through Tianwu's bottleneck this time is not Yu Amaterasu, but Daji. Yu Amaterasu who went to Liufeng Valley was just a cover to deceive others.
Very few people know about this matter, only a few parties involved, as well as Yu Ziyi and Yu Shulan.
It was precisely because of this incident that Yu Zihuan expressed dissatisfaction with Su Ruan.
Because Liufeng Valley is being watched by various forces, it is likely to be in great danger. Su Ruan arranged for Yu Amaterasu to go there as a bait, almost letting her die. It is strange that Yu Ziyi is willing to do so.
But this was what Yu Amaterasu agreed to on her own initiative. She didn’t even have any objections, so what could Yu Ziyi say?
Without mentioning whether Daji's side made a successful breakthrough, we turned our attention to Liufeng Valley, which has attracted much attention.
In the main tent of the military camp in the valley, the eldest prince Yu Zixiu sat in the position of commander, and the others sat on both sides. But next to Yu Zixiu, there was the prince and concubine He Guangyun who came with him.
He Guangyun did not interrupt the discussion of Yu Zixiu and others, but stared closely at Su Ruan, who was sitting in the first place on the left below, with a fierce look in his eyes.
After Yu Zixiu analyzed the intelligence collected today, he solemnly said to everyone present: "Everyone, trying to break through the bottleneck of Tianwu at this time is a great opportunity for the rise of our Dongyu Kingdom. If successful, our Dongyu Kingdom will have one more person.
The ancestor of the Heavenly Warrior is the true ancestor of the royal family. Even if it fails, the Lord Zixiao will be present to ensure that the ancestor is safe. However, this matter is of great importance and must not be interfered by external forces. We must take strict precautions.
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"In recent days, many suspicious spies have appeared around Liufeng Valley, and all of them are highly skilled and good at hiding. So far, no one has been successfully captured. Unfortunately, Huang Zu (Brother Huang) wants to stay in the valley to defend against powerful enemies, so he cannot easily
Take action. So the important task of catching the spies must be shouldered by you. Director Luo, can you find out the whereabouts of those spies?"
Director of the Ministry of War Luo Gang stood up and clasped his fists, and replied: "Reporting to Your Highness, those spies are all earth warriors, and most of them have wind attributes. Their escape speed is too fast, and ordinary soldiers cannot capture them. Please order your highness to let the earth warrior officers
Take action to capture the spies."
"Hmm..." Yu Zixiu pondered for a moment, turned to look at Baihuahou Qin Yi, who was sitting in the first place on the right, and said: "Master Baihuahou, your understanding of spies is far better than mine. What's your advice?"
Qin Yi, who is responsible for the East Royal Intelligence Network and is in charge of the secret assassin organization, was sent by the Royal King this time to help defend Liufeng Valley. He does have a group of strong assassins under his command. If he is allowed to take action, he must be able to get it.
Drop those spies.
Qin Yi knew that Yu Zixiu was asking him questions. In fact, he wanted him to take action. He smiled and nodded and said: "Your Highness, please rest assured. Qin's men have already been dispatched, and they will surely gain something in these two days. You will not miss anything. Your Highness."
What we need to be more prepared for is a surprise attack by a powerful enemy. If a Heavenly Warrior attacks us rashly, it might be difficult for the left-behind Ancestor Huang alone."
The number of Heavenly Warriors in a country directly determines the country's right to speak in the world. That's why King Yuren attaches so much importance to cultivating Heavenly Warriors. But unfortunately, others will never let him do so.
Of course, Yu Zixiu knew the inside story, and he also knew that other countries would definitely intervene to cause trouble, and even kill Yu Amaterasu who tried to break through. However, there were only three ancestors of the Heavenly Warriors in the Eastern Yu Kingdom, and among them, Yu Shuqing was almost squatting in the palace.
Without moving, Yu Shulan foolishly ran to help Su Ruan protect his family. Only Brother Huang was free.
This problem of insufficient manpower cannot be solved in a few words.
Yu Zixiu thought for a while and felt that it was better to be more realistic and make full use of the resources at hand. Everything else could only be left to God's will.
"Second order, all middle-level warriors and generals above will closely guard Liufenggu and check whether any spies from other countries have infiltrated the soldiers under their command." Yu Zixiu said with a solemn expression: "At the same time, please ask the fourth princess of the Tianhe Empire, Zhao Mingliang, to help lend some people. She
I am here in the name of assisting the Marquis of Zixiao, and I would like to ask the Marquis of Zixiao to come forward and elaborate on this matter."
"Don't worry, Brother Wang, I will do my best on this matter!" Su Ruan, who was sitting below, cupped his hands towards Yu Zixiu, without any sign of nervousness in his expression.
The generals in the tent still admired Su Ruan, the young Marquis of Zixiao. It was not that he admired his talents in all aspects, but that he was able to defeat the peak of the long-established warriors with the cultivation of a middle-level warrior.
Earth warrior Nie Siyuan. They are soldiers and only respect the truly strong.
Only He Guangyun, who was sitting next to Yu Zixiu, always gritted her teeth at Su Ruan, but she did not dare and could not easily take action against Su Ruan.
Because they hadn't seen each other for several days, Su Ruan gave her an increasingly mysterious feeling. In the past, she could roughly sense Su Ruan's aura as a warrior, but this time when she faced Su Ruan, she couldn't sense it from him.
The slightest aura. This shows that Su Ruan must have made great progress in cultivation, and his aura was completely restrained. He Guangyun was so frightened that he did not even dare to provoke him.
The next step was to discuss the details of the defense. Su Ruan had no interest in this and just walked away. He wandered around Liufeng Valley alone, and even went out to hunt game at the entrance of Liufeng Valley, euphemistically called improving the food.
But no one noticed that Su Ruan would quietly arrange some small things wherever he went...
At the same time, in the palace, the fourth prince Yu Zirong, who had been under house arrest for nearly a month, knew that the Yuren King had no time to pay attention to him at this time, so he finally escaped from the palace with the help of his loyal men to do something.
Looking at the small porcelain bottle in his hand, Yu Zirong's previous timid and timid face completely disappeared, replaced by a gloomy and terrifying face with a sinister smile.
But he didn't know that every move he made was under the watchful eye of his good second brother.
The second prince, Yu Ziheng, was a well-known libertine. He did not do his job all day long and did not make friends with noble officials. He only knew how to travel around and get to know some random people.
But who would have known that this libertine, who was full of the air of a dandy, secretly founded a large chamber of commerce and controlled many powerful small chambers of commerce. The money in his hands could be said to be as rich as the enemy's.
This time, Yu Amaterasu tried to break through the Tianwu bottleneck and attracted countless attention. The fourth prince Yu Zirong was unbearable for revenge. Finally, Yu Ziheng found an opportunity. He was going to do something, which might have a chance to change the pattern of Dongyu Kingdom.
Even Su Ruan didn't expect that the second prince Yu Ziheng, who liked to wear a fake smile, would hide so deeply. Because of his intervention, Su Ruan's woman was almost insulted...
In Liufeng Valley, Yu Amaterasu was sitting cross-legged in a secret cave, calmly adjusting his breath.
This time, Su Ruan only allowed her to be used as a bait, and did not let her actually try to break through. But Yu Amaterasu had been preparing for a long time. She wanted to try to hit the Tianwu bottleneck, and she would have no regrets even if she failed.
Unaware of this, Brother Huang sat aside and patiently explained to Yu Amaterasu what he needed to pay attention to during the breakthrough process.
Brother Huang was grateful for the care Amaterasu took for him when he was young. He always respected this aunt and worked hard for this breakthrough. He believed that as long as Su Ruan was around, there would be no danger even if Amaterasu failed to break through.
It's a pity that the real Su Ruan is not here, but thousands of miles away.
At this time, on the uninhabited island thousands of miles away, Su Ruan was looking at Daji with great distress. He wished he could rush forward immediately to stop her from continuing to break through.
I saw Daji sitting cross-legged on the ground. She had taken off the silver mask on her right face, revealing her peerless face. However, there was no gentle smile on her face, which was completely occupied by a look of pain and dripping cold sweat.
The correct way to break through the bottleneck of Tianwu. It is actually very simple to say, and basically any warrior can understand it.
Instead of strengthening the perception of the vitality of heaven and earth, and then achieving the purpose of controlling the vitality of heaven and earth, the meridians of the whole body go backwards, impacting the zenith with one's own energy, and then opening the zenith to draw the vitality of heaven and earth into the body, so as to achieve the purpose of cleansing the marrow and reborn, allowing oneself and the body to be reborn.
The vitality of heaven and earth forms a certain degree of harmony.
The method is indeed not difficult, but it is only the simplest first step. The meridians throughout the body are retrograde. This has blocked countless people's steps, and even caused countless people to explode and die.
At this moment, Daji's meridians were running backwards, causing all the energy in her Dantian to flow backwards toward the top of her head.
But retrograde meridians are definitely not fun. It’s like a river that originally flows from west to east into the sea. Suddenly you want it to flow in the opposite direction, and you also have to divert seawater to pour in. The impact on the river can be imagined. One mistake can cause
Cause river collapse and flooding.
What's even more difficult is that Daji is a dual-attribute warrior, just like there is another kind of current in the river besides the ordinary river water. In this way, the difficulty of reversing the flow is doubled.
Fortunately, Daji was a human spirit who had been honed in the underworld for countless years, and her willpower was definitely strong enough. She gritted her teeth and persisted for a whole day, successfully causing the dual-attribute energy to go retrograde and hit the zenith.
The so-called Zenith, also known as Tianling, refers to the Tianling Cap of the human body, but it does not refer to the Tianling Cap skull, but a kind of Tianling protective film formed by the human body since birth to prevent the brain from direct contact with the vitality of heaven and earth.
When a warrior has reached the pinnacle of the Earth Martial Realm, his body has become very strong and he can fully open the zenith to receive the vitality of the world. However, the process of the meridians retrogradely impacting the zenith is another extremely painful difficulty. If the energy is not controlled carefully, it will
It will affect your own brain, and even cause your brain to be destroyed by the violent energy and die.
Therefore, the first step of retrograde meridians is very difficult. Once the energy is out of control, the body will explode. The second step of hitting the zenith is equally difficult. If you are not careful, you will become an idiot at best, or your brain will be destroyed and people will die.
It can be seen that although the method to break through Tianwu's bottleneck is simple, it is difficult and dangerous step by step.
Fortunately, Daji still succeeded. He succeeded in breaking through the zenith with his powerful dual-attribute energy, attracting the vitality of heaven and earth to fill his body.
After that, the vitality of heaven and earth within a hundred miles radius rushed into Daji's body, starting from the top of her head and destroying all her flesh and bones, helping her to be reborn.
This is another more painful process. After all, the body has to go through destruction and rebirth, which is definitely not something that ordinary people can bear.
Fortunately, the most difficult thing this time was to endure the pain, and there was no need to control anything else. Su Ruan looked at Daji, who was covered in blood, and his heart became entangled, but he also believed that Daji could survive it.
After two days and two nights, the first three steps to break through Tianwu's bottleneck were finally completed perfectly. Daji was reborn under the nourishment of the vitality of heaven and earth. There was a faint jade-colored light all over her body, and the blood stains left behind were automatically washed away, making her look extremely beautiful.
things.
Today's Daji can be considered a true half-step Tianwu. Her strength is far superior to any peak warrior. Her physical strength and energy have been doubled.
But there is still the last step, to merge with the vitality of heaven and earth. This step is the most difficult and dangerous.
According to Yu Shulan, when the three brothers and sisters first broke through, they all chose to hide their auras as much as possible to escape the test of heaven and earth, and then successfully advanced. However, this also left hidden dangers, which made them unable to break through to the intermediate level of heavenly warriors.
It is difficult to make progress.
Except for the three brothers and sisters Yu Shulan, many people have chosen to escape the test of heaven and earth. Because they are really not sure of accepting such a terrifying test, and if they are not careful, all their previous achievements will be wasted. Therefore, they are willing to stop being mid-level heavenly warriors for the rest of their lives and obtain thousands of
Zai Shouyuan and the powerful force are unwilling to take risks and go further.
And this so-called test of heaven and earth is nothing else, it is exactly what all monks must go through - heavenly tribulation!
Trina warriors are a type of martial artist who can eventually shatter the void and ascend to immortality. Naturally, they cannot escape the test of heaven and earth. However, after thousands of years, some clever people have come up with an incomplete breakthrough method to hide their own aura and escape the test.
.Using this method, a group of heavenly warriors with no future were created.
There are also various ways to hide one's own aura. When Yu Shulan made the breakthrough, he thought of a trick to close his heart, stop the flow of energy in his body, and pretend to be dead to escape the catastrophe. Later, Yu Shuqing and
Brother Huang also used this method to successfully advance.
But today, after Su Ruan confirmed that Daji had successfully completed the first three steps to break through the Tianwu bottleneck, he ignored Yu Shulan's dissuasion and insisted on making Daji endure the test of heaven and earth and endure the terrifying natural disaster.
Over the isolated island, thick black clouds gradually gathered, and blue-white lightning flashed in and out, making Yu Shulan terrified.
But Su Ruan, a heartless guy, didn't worry at all that Daji would be struck to death by lightning. He had the time to hum a tune and drink wine under the rolling thunderclouds.
Even Daji, who was about to be struck by lightning, looked up at the sky with a smile on her face, without any trace of worry on her face.
Seeing that these two ungrateful little guys actually wanted to bear the most terrifying power of heaven and earth, Yu Shulan was so anxious that he almost jumped up... (To be continued...)