In the early morning, under the warm sunshine, the streets of Fengxuan Imperial City were extremely lively, almost to the point of being deserted. For no other reason than today is the day when Fengxuan Tianjiao went to Lundao City to participate in the Imperial Forum.
All the people in the imperial city came out and went to the city gate to bid farewell to the geniuses.
The Imperial Forum held every twenty years is related to the honor of the entire empire, so how could the farewell ceremony be so small?
In the huge open space outside the imperial city, there are eight huge flying birds standing. These eight flying birds are fully fifty feet tall, and when their wings are spread out, they are close to one hundred and fifty feet tall.
These are eight late-level to peak level four monsters, named Swift Wind Birds. Their speed is almost the same as that of Zhulu Academy’s Flying Birds. They can easily travel tens of thousands of miles a day. With them as transportation tools, they can reach the summit within half a month.
Daocheng.
There are more than seventy talented people in the Fengxuan Empire who are qualified to participate in the Imperial Forum. They all stood under the Swift Wind Bird, as if they were waiting for something.
Yan Ting was wearing clean white clothes today and was spotless. After several months of nursing, his skin tone had returned to white, and he looked cleaner.
Zi Qianying stood beside him and said with a smile: "It seems that your mental state is very good. After your breakthrough in cultivation, your whole person has become different."
Yan Ting responded with a smile: "The Qi Condensing Yuan Pill plus the Purple Ming Pill are certainly extraordinary. Now, I am qualified to barely compete in the imperial discussion. I still have to thank you for all this."
"Humph, of course you have to thank me, but don't forget what I told you. You owe me a huge favor." Zi Qianying snorted.
Yan Ting smiled faintly and looked around. All the people from the Fengxuan Empire who were qualified to participate in the imperial discussion should be here except for two people.
One is Yue Chenlian, who lost the qualification to compete because he lost a battle with him, and the other is Feng Xuan Prince Feng Hanyao.
He squinted his eyes and found a few unkind eyes looking at him. It was Yue Chenyuan, the Yue family, Cang Peng and others.
"Huh, rabble." Yan Ting said softly and coldly. Yue Chenyuan could still let him look at it a few more times. As for Cang Peng, he could suppress it with one hand now.
But he still needs to be more careful about this. If these people want to deal with him, they probably won't do it themselves.
"What are we waiting for here?" Yan Ting asked Zi Qianying on the side.
"Waiting for the person who will lead the team today." Zi Qianying said: "If we are the only ones going there, there will be no danger on the way, so the royal family will arrange eight masters who are at least in the middle stage of the Yuandao realm to protect us as we go to Lundao City.
Look at these eight wind birds, each one carries ten people, and one of the ten people is the Yuandao master."
"Eight mid-level Yuandao!" Yan Ting was slightly surprised, but he was relieved in an instant.
The participants of the imperial discussion held every twenty years are all the new generation geniuses of the empire, who are the mainstays of the future of the empire. Although the royal family is afraid of these people, it is impossible to completely let it go. It sends eight mid-term Yuan Dao, it seems.
It's also reasonable.
Zi Qianying looked into the distance and whispered: "They are coming."
Yan Ting also looked at it, and saw eight people flying in the distance. After a moment, they landed steadily under the Swift Wind Bird, facing more than seventy people.
"Everyone has arrived." Among the eight people, an old man in gray robe stood up. His cultivation level was the highest among the eight people. He had reached the seventh level of Yuandao, and his status was naturally the highest.
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"The prince and Yue Chenlian have not arrived yet." At this moment, a voice came out.
The old man nodded and said: "The prince is practicing and plans to go on his own in a few days. Why hasn't Yue Chenlian arrived yet?"
Yue Chenyuan's face darkened, and he stood up and said: "Yue Chenlian has been deprived of the qualification to discuss Taoism because of his bet with the prince, so he did not come."
Hearing this, a vague look of anger appeared on the old man's face, and he said in a deep voice: "Nonsense, talking about Taoism in the empire is child's play. Being deprived of the qualification to talk about Taoism because of a bet is really stupid. I don't want this kind of person."
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Hearing the old man's scolding, Yue Chenyuan was also a little displeased. His Yue family had a five-yuan family, and they lost one person and four others. They were all participants in this imperial discussion, but the old man scolded him in front of him.
The Yue family, are you not giving the Yue family too much face?
"Old sir, my brother..."
"Needless to say, treating the Imperial Doctrine as a bet is treating the Fengxuan Empire's honor as a bet. It is a shameful and hateful thing in itself. No matter how powerful he is, he will not be recognized and respected by others.
, Since Yue Chenlian has been deprived of his qualifications for the wheel, we won’t wait for him." The old man said coldly without giving Yue Chenyuan a chance to explain.
He faced everyone and spoke loudly: "Everyone, my name is Lan Zhantian, and I am the emperor's personal bodyguard. This time I am escorting the geniuses of Fengxuan Empire to Lundao City. I know that there may be old grudges between you, but in the empire
Before discussing the truth, I hope that you can temporarily put aside your prejudices against each other, and don't let a small loss lead to a lifelong regret."
"The Imperial Forum is held every 20 years. You are lucky to be able to participate. Many people miss the opportunity because of their age. I hope you can seize this opportunity and don't underestimate your opponents, let alone be afraid. Otherwise, there will be chaos.
If you lose your state of mind, you will definitely lose."
Yan Ting listened carefully. There was some truth in what the old man said, but unfortunately, not many people would listen.
"On the Gale Bird, I hope you can stay calm. You will be at a height of 10,000 feet for a while. If you fall, even if you are in the Yuanluo realm, you may not be able to deal with it calmly. If you are not careful, you will regret it for eternity. Okay, my words
That’s all.”
"The time has come. You can choose one gale bird for every nine of you to go up."
Lan Zhantian said to everyone, and as soon as he finished speaking, everyone began to discuss choosing the Gale Bird.
"Let's go there." Zi Qianying pointed at one of the wind birds and said to Yan Ting.
Yan Ting nodded. The only person he was familiar with in this imperial city was Zi Qianying. Being with her would give him psychological protection.
The two of them flew on one of the gale birds together. After more than ten breaths, everyone stepped on the gale bird. After Lan Zhantian and the other eight people took a look at each other, they nodded to each other, and each of the eight people flew on a gale bird.
Bird on.
Lan Zhantian waved his long sleeves and said loudly: "Let's go."
Eight Gale Birds rose into the sky and spread their wings. Suddenly, huge shadows appeared on the ground. After a while, the shadows on the ground gradually shrank. When they looked at the sky again, the Gale Birds were already thousands of feet high in the sky.
Looking at the rushing bird in the distance, the people in the city all looked envious. Those people were about to participate in the Imperial Forum to fight for the empire and fight for honor.
Thousands of feet high in the sky, clouds and mist shrouded, and the mountains below stacked up like giant winding dragons, but in Yan Ting's eyes, they were as small as earthworms.
Feeling the strong wind blowing in front of him, Yan Ting did not waver at all. With his current cultivation level, he could completely ignore these fierce strong winds.
"Where is Lundao City?" It took a long time for Yan Ting to ask this question.
Zi Qianying laughed dumbly: "You don't even know where Lundao City is?"
"I don't know." Yan Ting answered briefly.
Zi Qianying smiled helplessly and explained: "Lundao City is not within the territory of the seven empires, it is in the far north of the Xuanhuang Territory."
"The seven great empires of the Xuanhuang Territory span millions of miles, and there are countless sects. However, Daocheng is an extremely special existence. It does not belong to any empire or the jurisdiction of any sect. It is located in the extreme north of the Xuanhuang Territory.
The earth is independent of the world, but it accommodates thousands of lives. In the center of the Taoist City is a huge Taoist platform. It is said that this Taoist platform is ten miles in size and was built by four powerful Yuanzong men.
The materials used are extremely hard and will last for thousands of years.”
"So that's it. So how far is this far north of the Xuanhuang Realm?"
"About five hundred thousand miles," Zi Qianying said.
"Five hundred thousand miles, five hundred thousand miles..." Yan Ting murmured to himself, this is such a far distance, half a million miles, an empire from south to north is only ten thousand miles away, when it comes to Daocheng,
It was actually five hundred thousand miles away.
This can't help but make Yan Ting feel how huge this world is. He has been walking for eighteen years in his life, but he has not even left the three empires. Besides the three empires, there are four empires. The seven empires are just the Xuanhuang Realm.
It’s just one piece of a million territories.
And the harp player who saved him in the swamp of death said that he was in Bahuang.
Bahuang is to the west of Xuanhuang Territory, which means that he needs to leave Xuanhuang Territory to set foot in Bahuang. And Bahuang, will Bahuang be another place the same size as Xuanhuang Territory, or even bigger than Xuanhuang Territory?
"By the way, since the Imperial Discussion is jointly organized by the seven empires, who will host it? Could it be the emperors of the seven empires together?" Yan Ting asked again.
"This won't happen. It's impossible for seven emperors to preside over it together every time. Since a thousand years ago, the seven empires have formulated rules. Each empire forum is presided over by one empire, and the other six empires only need to
Just send someone to supervise it. This will prevent people from that empire from practicing favoritism and malpractice. This time, people from the Donghua Empire should be in charge." Zi Qianying said.
"Donghua Empire..." He suddenly asked: "Is the surname of Donghua Empire Chu?"
"Yes, the current emperor of the Donghua Empire is called Chu Ying. I heard that he has several sons with extremely talented talents, especially two of them named Chu Tianxuan and Chu Tianfang. They seem to be candidates to participate in the imperial discussion this time.
Be careful if you meet them." Zi Qianying glanced at Yan Ting doubtfully, not understanding why he suddenly asked this.
Yan Ting suddenly had a headache, Chu Tianxuan, Chu Tianfang, Chu Tianyuan...
He knew that Chu Tianyuan had an extraordinary status, but he had never understood it in depth. In this case, Chu Tianyuan might be the prince of the Donghua Empire.
It is indeed Zhulu Academy. Even though its reputation is not as good as before, so many empires still send their princes here.
"You have to be careful, and what I'm worried about is not those people, but these." Yan Ting looked at the rest of the people on the Gale Bird coldly.
Zi Qianying naturally knew what he was referring to, and she also had some worries in her heart.
Yan Ting provoked the Yue family, the Cangyun Sect and the Imperial Academy at the same time. Half a month ago, he defeated Yue Chenlian and deprived him of his qualifications to discuss Taoism. Now Yue Chenyuan definitely wants to kill Yan Ting. There are people in the imperial city.
It's difficult to protect Zuixian Tower, but once you get to Lundao City, it's not that difficult.
"When you are with me, they won't have many chances to take action. There will be people in the Imperial Forum to maintain order. If someone maliciously kills people during non-war periods, there will be no good end." Zi Qianying frowned.
"They won't be so stupid to do it themselves, unless they don't want to compete." Yan Ting sat cross-legged, breathing calmly: "Just take it one step at a time. I hope these people are not ignorant."
