Chapter 185 Hongdou is the most lovesick, Hongyi is the most infatuated
"Could it be an anonymous female monarch from the Palace of Female Emperors? But she is so young..."
The old swordsmith took a sip of wine and murmured.
"The anonymous lady?" Liu Zian asked curiously, with a look of interest on his face.
The old swordsmith glanced at him:
"The Palace of the Female Sovereign is the ancestral hall of Yunmeng Jianze. The Yue women who enter it are called the Female Sovereign by outsiders, and their full name is the Hidden Lady, because once they enter the Palace of the Female Sovereign, they have to abandon their ordinary identity and everything in the past, including
name.
"Then take off a Patriarch plaque in the Patriarch Hall and choose a title to replace the original name.
"This is true for every generation of female monarchs in the palace, so there are some special titles that have been passed down in the palace for nearly a thousand years and have been won by many generations of anonymous female monarchs.
"And the Yue girls who can enter the Queen's Palace are not easy to mess with. Either they are not the direct descendants of the previous generation of Queens, they are not talented evildoers, or they are Yue virgins of this generation who were found in the land of Wuyue.
"For the last one, enter the Palace of the Female Sovereign unconditionally and inherit the Patriarch's card with the title of 'Yue Maizi' in the palace. You have a transcendent status and are the first successor to Yunmeng Jianze Yuanjun.
"As for the other anonymous female monarchs, they all have their own titles in the palace of the female monarch.
"There were some bored and idle people in the world who summarized the titles of the female monarchs of the past dynasties that had been circulated from the palace of the female monarchs. They included the old and new titles and compiled them into a booklet. They also recorded the deeds of some anonymous female monarchs in the world.
It is quite popular in Jianghu teahouses...
"Oh, the main reason is that the Yue girls of Yunmeng Jianze live in Yunmeng Daze, which is nine hundred miles away, living in isolation. The palace of the female monarchs there is too mysterious, and those Yunmeng female monarchs who are few in number and have high status are even more like divine dragons.
See the beginning but not the end.
"This sect is also recognized as the ancestral home of swordsmanship in the world. The swordsmanship has long been dominated by a small group of female cultivators. Most people in the world are curious and naturally want to take a peek.
"Otherwise, do you think that during the Peach Valley Swordsmanship held every five years, there are really so many qi practitioners who come all the way to this remote and remote world in the south to hone their swordsmanship and improve their swordsmanship?
"Qi practitioners are rare in the world, and sword cultivators are even rarer. How can there be so many people? They all come here to join in the fun and want to take a look at this new generation of virgins and anonymous ladies."
The old swordsmith sneered, shook his head and drank.
"I heard that there is a gap in this generation of the Nvjun Palace. The Yuan Jun is still unresolved. The new nunjuns are all quite young. I have only heard of one so far. The eldest female monarch of the Nvjun Palace is called Xue Zhongzhu. What a Xue Zhong
Zhu, the last time this title appeared in the Hall of Female Sovereigns was three hundred years ago, and the anonymous female monarch who was delisted was also a ruthless person."
Liu Zian frowned slightly, "I hope this woman lives up to her reputation."
The old swordsmith suddenly asked:
"Will this generation of virgins show up? Is there any specific situation?"
Liu Zian frowned and recalled:
"Taogu Wenjian has appeared before, and his common name is Zhao Qingxiu. I don't know about the others. I heard that he has a very cold temperament, does not talk to outsiders, and has little contact with the outside world... This kind of cultivation seed has always been arrogant, which is normal."
Liu Zian shook his head.
"You haven't grown up yet." The old swordsmith thought thoughtfully, "It should be enough to attract a candle in the snow..."
The two chatted for a few more words, and Liu Zian suddenly said:
"Boss Li sent someone to tell you that Wei's people are already on the way."
The old swordsmith looked as usual and nodded, "It's on time."
The two looked at each other.
"What about the old gentleman's sword?"
"Of course it's accurate." The old swordsmith paused and said, "Don't let anything happen again over there at Broken Wing Canal."
Liu Zian felt relieved.
"Don't worry, I have stabilized Ouyang Lianghan's side."
As if remembering something, Liu Zian looked a little ugly and reluctantly said: "Zheyi Canal has been blocked, and the second phase of repairs is already underway. In a short period of time, unless Ouyang goes crazy, the water level of Butterfly Creek will not be affected.
"
“So best.”
After half a cup of tea.
In front of the sword furnace door, the old swordsmith watched Liu Zi's relaxed figure walk away.
The old man glanced at the dawn sky that was about to light up, turned around, picked up the wine bottle, shook it, raised his head and drank the remaining wine.
The turbid wine wetted his beard and linen clothes.
In the empty sword furnace room, the old swordsmith suddenly put down the wine pot and said inexplicably towards the closed sword furnace:
"You're thirsty too, want to have a taste?"
There was silence in the house.
There was only the voice of the old swordsmith talking to himself:
"I almost forgot, you little guy can't drink wine, you like to drink ethereal things... OK, I can't just hold it in while I'm satiated."
After saying that, the old man carrying the wine walked to the sword-making furnace and opened the circular iron door of the sword-making furnace, revealing the empty inner furnace to the whole house.
"Little guy, go ahead. Since you like his qi so much, take advantage of the fact that the little girl Xie of Chen County is not here, so you can inhale more... But remember not to let the water rise too high and flood the county again..."
The old swordsmith burped and muttered a few words.
He took the wine and went out, stepped on the lawn under the morning sun, and went down the mountain to get some wine.
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Gezao Mountain is located in Yuanzhou, Jiangnan Road.
It has been a prosperous place for Taoism since ancient times.
It was also named "The Thirty-Third Blessed Place in the World" by Emperor Gaozong of Daqian more than 20 years ago.
The pattern of Taoist gates in today's world is North Tower View and South Sanqing.
The ancestral court of the Yuqing Sect, one of the Three Qing Dynasties, is located on Gezao Mountain.
The Yuqing Taoist priests also became famous all over the world for their collection of medicines and elixirs, preaching and practicing medicine.
On a sunny day like today, there is an endless stream of people coming to seek medical advice, medicine and elixirs.
Wealthy officials from Jiangnan Province who spent a lot of money would sometimes come with great fanfare to hire Yuqing Taoist priests to perform rituals and host fasting ceremonies.
If you look down from a high place.
From the mountain gate at the foot of the mountain to the Taoist temple at the top of the mountain, the flow of lay people is as steady as flowing water.
Receiving laymen, Yuqing's disciples walking among the palaces and temples chanted "Blessings and Lives of the Infinite Heavenly Lord", wearing blue robes, Nanhua scarves on their heads, and no hair.
Seeing that he is full of energy, and the Taoist robes and clothes on his body are all made of high-quality silk fabrics, he looks very rich and noble.
No wonder some people say that the most wealthy and sophisticated among the Three Mountains Blood Drop Sect is the Yuqing Sect of Gezao Mountain. If you see this, you will know something about it.
At this moment, the square halfway up the mountain under the sun is full of people.
Although the gate of Gezao Mountain was wide open to welcome visitors from all directions, the disciples of Yuqing also greeted them with smiles and a warm and hospitable appearance.
However, the flow of lay people going up the mountain is still mostly blocked in the first half of the Yuqing Temple Palace Complex.
The closer you get to the top of the mountain, the more majestic the palace becomes and the quieter and more peaceful it becomes.
There are many registered Taoist priests in Yuqing Sect, but most of them are secular nominal disciples or amateur disciples.
Unless they are the core disciples of Yuqing, or the nobles of the Jiangnan clan who have long-term friendship with the Yuqing Sect and spend a lot of money.
Otherwise, outsiders cannot enter the several silent palaces deep in Yuqing Temple.
Among them, especially the Yuqing Palace located on the top of the mountain, with upturned eaves and corners, is solemn and solemn.
And there was faint purple smoke lingering above the roof of Yuqing Palace.
It is very conspicuous against the blue sky and white clouds.
Every auspicious day like today, when a layman is ready to go up the mountain, he only needs to stand in front of the first step at the foot of Gezao Mountain. When he raises his head, he can see the main palace on the top of the mountain and the strange purple energy slowly lingering above.
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I don’t know if this strange sight of purple energy is generated naturally or if the Yuqing Taoist priests are performing rituals in the Yuqing Palace below.
Whenever the lay people who come to Gezao Mountain for the first time show expressions of surprise, the Taoist priest who leads the way in front of the mountain gate will tell him with a proud smile that this is a very senior senior person in the temple who is quenching behind closed doors.
When refining the elixir, the purple air rising above is the elixir mist, so there is no need to make a fuss about it.
In this way, the pious and solemn expressions on the faces of the laymen can be reduced, and the incense of the Yuqing Sect in Gezaoshan will naturally become more prosperous.
However, most of the lay people who go up the mountain to seek elixirs every day will be stopped in front of the Taoist temple and cannot go deep into the Taoist palaces closest to the top of the mountain.
As for the Yuqing Palace, the pinnacle where the purple elixir energy is swirling and rising, no one can approach it. Even the envoy sent by a nobleman from Chang'an a few days ago could only wait in the front hall.
However, the Yuqing Taoist priests who came to pass these things were accustomed to them and regarded them as normal.
However, at this moment, what many lay people in the front hall of Yuqing Temple do not know is that at this time, on the top of the mountain, by an elegant and unique pond near the main hall of Yuqing Palace, there is a beautiful figure in red sitting alone by the water.
This girl in red dress is in her prime, she is disguised as a man, her hair is tied up, she wears a Confucian crown, she wears no makeup, and her face is bare.
However, even though she was wearing a suit of soft red clothes, she still couldn't hide the shameful waste of fabric somewhere on her chest.
But I don't know, but among the palaces with dark and monotonous colors, this red dress is too conspicuous.
The scenery here is the best. Most men in the world hate poverty and love F.
This pond is obviously located next to the corridor on the right side of Yuqing Palace, and there are corridors on the left and right sides where you can leave Yuqing Palace and go down the mountain. However, most of the Taoist priests wearing the costumes of direct disciples of Yuqing Sect rushed through Yuqing Palace, and their footsteps were slow.
Unknowingly, I turned to the long corridor on the right.
When passing by, the eyes of many young Yuqing Taoist priests subconsciously drifted to the scenery of a pond outside the corridor.
But the girl in red, who had just arrived at Yuqing Temple, turned a deaf ear, seemingly unaware that she had become a sight to the passers-by on the corridor.
She is also looking at the scenery.
In the peripheral vision of a group of Yuqing Taoist priests passing by.
Blue sky, white clouds, pond, swimming carp.
The girl in red is sitting alone, with her snow-white wrists wrapped around her and a small porcelain jar in her arms. She tilts her head slightly and her eyes reflect the fish in the pond.
The sky is blue and she is red.
The swimming carp is moving, but she is still.
The mountains in the distance are like dark blue, and her eyebrows are picturesque.
I don't know what this strange lady in red is waiting for here. Before she knows it, the sun above her head has climbed high into the sky, and she has been sitting alone all morning.
Or rather, I spent the whole morning in a daze by the pond.
Xie Lingjiang never turned his head to look at the Taoist priests who were passing by on the corridor. His plain face seemed to be more beautiful, and he was a little dazed. His heart seemed to have fallen into the pond and turned into a swimming carp.
Slowly stirring the clear blue sky.
From time to time she raised her head to glance at Baiyun, her eyebrows slightly furrowed and her brows filled with worry.
Sometimes the little finger lifts the hair beside the ear, lowers the head quietly, curves the corners of the lips into a slight arc, and hugs the porcelain jar containing the pickled radish from the Yuqing Palace Breakfast Hall in his arms tighter, looking for a certain person
The vast canteen where my husband put in was greatly deformed due to the pressure.
I don’t know what I was thinking of in such broad daylight, and I was snickering so sweetly.
Could it be that he thought that he would be able to go back soon and feed some greedy elm head with pickled radish?
The corners of his mouth only turned upward for a short while, but Xie Lingjiang suddenly slumped his shoulders again, turned his mouth downwards, and buried his head in despair.
I don’t know which bastard kid offended her... He did something that deserved merit deductions, but Xie Lingjiang was not willing to let him deduct them.
And someone far away actually ignored the fact that he had not deducted merit from the little junior sister for a long time. Even sometimes, when the two of them faced each other in the bumpy carriage, they couldn't help but peek a few times, thinking that they were hiding the most important things.
Well, there is no dull sound of wooden fish in my ears...
However, little did they know that as a seventh-level Qi practitioner, she was so aware that she just pretended to turn her head and be attracted by the scenery passing by outside the window. In fact, the green fingers under her sleeves were twisted into twists and covered with red marks, and a certain heart had long been filled with shame.
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Xie Lingjiang didn't know whether to complain about the uneven road, or to be annoyed that he was not serious, or... the man named Liu Ashan outside was not good at driving a carriage?
Similarly, her little junior sister's merits have not increased much.
After all, he doesn't do anything that has anything to do with people...
The morning passed in a flash.
At lunch time, there were more people passing by the corridor on the right side of the Yuqing Palace. But for some reason, upon closer inspection, some of the pedestrians looked familiar, as if they had passed by several times... Among the passing figures,
There were also younger and more energetic Taoist priests who paused slightly, seeming hesitant to talk to each other, but eager to help the lost female lay practitioner.
But at this moment, in the sky above Yuqing Palace, the lingering purple smoke elixir was swept away by a strong wind, and returned to the blue sky and white clouds.
The red door of the palace below suddenly opened from the inside.
The Taoist priests near Yuqing Palace stopped and looked around curiously.
"Is there a new elixir coming out? This time it's the elixir-forming geometry. Which Taoist priest is using the treasure furnace recently?"
"It's Uncle Chongxu."
"It turns out to be Third Master Uncle. No wonder the elixir is fragrant. This batch of new elixirs has been reduced to at least half, and it's not like there's nothing left to gain..."
A young Taoist priest sighed.
Chong Xuzi is the younger brother of the old head of Yuqing Sect. His status in the temple is only slightly lower than that of the old head. He is addicted to alchemy and his external alchemy skills are among the best in the whole sect. However, he does not like to deal with the rich and powerful people at the foot of the mountain. His temper is
It has a bad reputation.
A group of Taoist priests from Yuqing's direct line gathered in front of the open vermilion door, looking forward to it.
Beside the pond, Xie Lingjiang also looked slightly sideways.
"Congratulations to Third Master Uncle..."
"Get out of the way."
Before the elegant and wealthy Yuqing Taoist priests at the door could congratulate each other, an old Taoist priest named Nanhuaguan strode out of the hall and brushed aside the Taoist priests blocking the door.
Under the surprised gazes of the latter who were retreating sideways, Master Nanhuaguan turned his steps and walked towards the beauty in red by the pond not far away.
"Old senior, how's the antidote?"
Xie Lingjiang seemed to be relieved, stood up pretty, and greeted him politely.
"This time I'm refining this golden elixir for my old friend from Longhu Mountain. It just happened to be easy. It's not difficult at all. My niece has been waiting for a long time..."
The direct Taoist priests in front of the Yuqing Palace were surprised to find that Uncle Chongxu, who had always been irritable, actually showed a rare smile to this strange girl who had just arrived at the foot of the mountain.
Nanhua Guanlaodao and the girl in red chatted about their long journey while walking.
Only a group of Yuqing Taoist priests were left standing there looking at each other.