On the day of the Jiuyan Continent Martial Arts Families Conference held in Yan Clan Zhongzhou, only less than 70% of the Martial Arts Families were present.
During the meeting, the Sanji family did not let other martial arts families express any opinions, and directly let Baihua and several soldiers preside over the entire meeting.
Baihua was not polite to these families. She took out a few pages of planning paper that she had already prepared and read out the terms according to the written terms.
After reading out the terms and rules that all families must abide by, Baihua asked for a list of families from the Jiuyan Continent close to the Qingji Mountains. He named a dozen families in a row and ordered them to return to their home state immediately.
, began to build city walls and defensive cities on the border.
This time Ming Zhiyuan still brought a lot less people, and only a few neighboring families could be led by a Tianyuan soldier to arrange various defense affairs.
The small and medium-sized families also learned that the main state of the border families was attacked by warriors from the Qingji Continent. At this time, the Sanji family took the lead to jointly resist the invasion of the Qingji Continent. Naturally, they could only follow Baihua and the others' arrangements.
In fact, they also longed for someone to come out to lead everyone and take charge of the defense against foreign enemies.
After all, Jiuyan Continent has never been invaded by foreign enemies in all these years, and they have no experience in resisting foreign enemies.
Ming Zhiyuan sat at the edge of the venue, watching Baihua assigning tasks to guard the territory and each family one by one. He also sighed in his heart that such a charming and charming princess actually liked to form troops and charge in front of the army.
It only took one day for the martial arts family meeting to be held. The families on the border of the Qingji Mountains finished the meeting and had no time to rest. They quickly returned to their home state, and the six Tianyuan soldiers returned with them.
Baihua stayed, and she had to wait here for the families who had not yet arrived in Yan's main state. When they arrived, she would arrange various assistance tasks for these families.
Ming Zhiyuan and the Yu family were also preparing to return to the Yu family's home state. On the afternoon before their departure, Ming Zhiyuan came to Baihua's temporary residence, and the two of them walked and chatted in the Yan family's backyard.
"I will return to their main state with the Yu people tomorrow."
"Um."
"I want to keep Qinghai by your side, and you need to keep an alchemist by your side."
"There is no need to stay. I am in the Yan clan and there is no security problem. I have to go to the Qingji border in a few days, and I can't take the alchemist with me."
"Your martial arts?"
"My martial arts is only at the third level, but I don't rely on my martial arts level to arrange defense against foreign enemies. You don't have to worry."
Ming Zhiyuan deeply regretted not bringing Tang Wei to Yan's main state at this moment. If Tang Wei was here, he could still let Tang Wei stay and protect Baihua.
"I will tell the head of the Yan family to send a Martial Lord or a Martial Emperor as your bodyguard, and that magical beast, called Ying Wu, I will keep it."
Baihua stopped while walking and looked at Ming Zhiyuan with crooked eyes, "Are you worried about me?"
"Of course I'm worried about you. I brought you here from Tianyuan Continent. How can I feel at ease if something happens to you?"
Baihua tilted her head and looked at him with a smile, "Is it just because of that?"
Ming Zhiyuan looked at the smiling face in front of him, turned his head to one side in a dodgeful manner, and then turned back, "It's not just that."
"Oh? What else?"
Baihua smiled brighter and brighter, looking straight at Ming Zhiyuan's face.
At this moment, Ming Zhiyuan suddenly remembered that he still wanted to achieve enlightenment after all and leave the Nine Flames Continent. He turned his head in an instant and said, "Also, you are of Gaoyue royal bloodline. Let you stay here alone. I really do
worried."
The smile on Baihua's face gradually disappeared, and a look of disappointment slowly appeared, "Oh, that's just it."
Ming Zhiyuan couldn't bear to look at Baihua's disappointed face and walked forward, "I will ask the Yan clan to send more warriors to follow you to protect you. When I return to the main state of the Yu clan, I will also send someone to send you a gift."
More elixirs."
Baihua took a deep breath and followed Ming Zhiyuan, walking slowly, "Are you afraid of something?"
"I'm not afraid, I'm just worried about your safety."
"That's not what I meant."
"Um?"
Baihua suddenly grabbed Ming Zhiyuan and pulled him staggering. Ming Zhiyuan looked at her in surprise.
"You know what I'm talking about? Are you afraid or unwilling?"
Ming Zhiyuan looked at her, and Baihua's eyes were filled with tears. As a royal princess, she seemed to have achieved the ultimate.
Looking at Baihua's shy and resentful face, he said for a long time, "I, I want to attain enlightenment, leave this world, go to the Eternal Life Heaven, and resurrect my family. If that really happens, you...
..I will fail you."
"Promise? Go to the Heaven of Immortality? When? When will you achieve enlightenment?"
Ming Zhiyuan smiled awkwardly and said, "I don't know either, it's still early."
Baihua also forced a smile and said, "Since it's still early, what are you worried about? Maybe ten or twenty years, but how many years can I live? The four continents are coming together, and this world is about to be in chaos. In the martial arts of our generation,
Man, who knows where the bones will be buried tomorrow?”
Ming Zhiyuan looked at her blankly, "Actually, you don't have to be like this. As a princess, you can live in fine clothes and fine food in the capital..."
"If I am willing to live my whole life in the capital, why should I become a general and guard the borders?"
For a moment, Ming Zhiyuan felt a little ashamed that his mind was not as clear as that of a woman.
Baihua cast a somewhat sad look, "You have Miss Yirou in your heart, so..."
"No, no, I really only thought of her as a girl and didn't think about anything else."
"what about me?"
"I......"
Baihua suddenly sighed, turned around and walked back, "I understand what you mean, Master Zhiyuan. I won't go to see you off tomorrow. I want to tell you first that you have a safe trip."
Ming Zhiyuan looked at the airy and sassy figure, and suddenly followed a few steps quickly, took Baihua's hand and held it in his own, "If you don't dislike me, I will naturally be very happy.
"
Baihua turned around and looked at him blankly, slowly showing a smile, then her face turned red, and she struggled to get rid of her hand, "You are a person who just talks nicely, why are you moving your hands and feet?"
Ming Zhiyuan also smiled, "Didn't you strike first? You almost pulled me down."
Baihua's face turned even redder instantly, and Ming Zhiyuan pulled both of her hands up, "I'm serious, if you don't dislike me, I will..."
Before Ming Zhiyuan could say anything, he only heard a crisp voice, "Brother Zhiyuan."
The two of them turned back together and saw Yirou standing at the garden porch, holding the full moon door in one hand and holding a basket in the other, looking at them.
Baihua hurriedly broke away from Ming Zhiyuan's big hand, and for a moment she was so embarrassed that she didn't know how to place her hands and feet.
Ming Zhiyuan was also a little embarrassed. He raised his hand and touched his nose. He smelled the fragrance of Baihua in his hand. He felt a little happy in his heart, but asked: "Yirou, why are you here?"
Yirou slowly walked in with a basket, "I made some snacks and wanted to give them to Sister Baihua to try."
"Oh, sister Yirou made it, let me try it."
Baihua hurriedly walked towards Yirou and took the basket in her hand. Yirou looked at Baihua's crimson and hot face and smiled, "Sister Baihua is so pretty."
Ming Zhiyuan also stepped forward, "Let me see, what did Yirou do today?"
The two kept talking to Yirou, slowly easing the awkwardness.
After a while, the three of them took the snacks made by Yirou and started eating them in the pavilion in the garden.
Early on the next morning, in the courtyard of Yan's main building, Liangzi and Fengwu were covered with large and small bags and various packages. Only Yingwu seemed a little absent-minded. He stood aside and looked at Liangzi and Fengwu with envy in his eyes.
look.
In the courtyard, the three Sanji family heads stood beside Ouyang Xingzhong and Ming Zhiyuan, saying farewell. Baihua stood facing Ming Zhiyuan, smiling slightly, looking at the young Dan Emperor without saying a word.
Ming Zhiyuan glanced at her from time to time, but she avoided it.
Ming Zhiyuan walked up to Yingwu and patted its wings, "If you stay here for a few days, the injury will be completely healed. From now on, when you are with Baihua, you have to protect her, you know?"
Yingwu nodded, "I know, I will definitely protect her."
Ming Zhiyuan smiled, took out a box and a jade bottle and handed them to Baihua next to him: "If you are in the box, give Yingwu one pill every five days, and if you are practicing, take one in the jade bottle."
Baihua was not polite, stretched out her hand to take it, and nodded to him.
The two looked at each other for a long time.
The people around him all walked away knowingly, and even Yirou followed Ouyang Xingzhong and others to the side.
Seeing that everyone had gone away, Ming Zhiyuan was no longer restrained. He stretched out his hand to hold Baihua's little hand and said: "While I'm gone, if the Yu family has nothing else to do, maybe I will go to Qingqing soon."
The extreme boundary meets you, you have to take care of yourself, Yingwu is given to you so that you can save your life in the most dangerous time, not for you to ride it to your death, you have to remember."
Baihua let him hold her hand in his and said seriously: "I understand, I'm not that stupid. Things can't be done at the right time. Of course, saving my life is the most important thing."
Ming Zhiyuan tucked a strand of hair from her forehead behind her ears, and said: "Don't be reluctant to take the pills. You have to eat more and practice more. I will ask Feng Wu to give them to you when I go back. You can lead a group
You can also bribe unfamiliar martial arts families with some elixirs to make them listen to you more."
Baihua covered her mouth and chuckled, "Are you afraid that I don't know how to use people?"
Ming Zhiyuan also smiled, "I know you understand, but I just told you in vain."
The two talked for a long time before they separated. Ying Wu followed Ming Zhiyuan step by step, "Alchemist Zhiyuan, don't forget me."
"I know, don't worry, I will give you the elixir."
Ming Zhiyuan waved his hand, got on the back of the monster with Ouyang Xingzhong and others, and said goodbye to the family heads.
Liang Zai and Feng Wu flapped their wings on the spot, dust instantly flew up, and the two beasts immediately took off.
As they flew higher and higher, Ming Zhiyuan looked at Baihua who was looking up below. He didn't know what was going on, but he actually had the idea of taking her with him, and he couldn't help but feel a little melancholy.
On the way back, the group only landed when they stopped to relieve themselves. At other times, they even ate some prepared food on the back of the monster.
Fortunately, Yirou knew that she would have to travel for a long time, so she made a lot of steamed buns and snacks to take with her, so everyone didn't have to chew on the dry food.
It wasn't until the evening of the second day that everyone returned to the Yu family's main residence.
As soon as they landed, Yu Haoyu, who was in charge of guarding the house, came up with his people to greet him. The two family heads and the alchemists were back, but there was no joy on Yu Haoyu's face, instead he looked worried.
"Uncle, two more of our oases were attacked, and the family lost seventeen low-ranking children. I have asked people to summon all the people in the oases and ask them to return to the main state."
Yu Yizhi listened to Yu Haoyu's words while walking. After listening, he nodded and said: "You are right. At this time, you don't need to care about the things in the oasis. Bring back what you can and bury what you can't.
stand up."
Yu Haoyu responded: "It's just that more and more warriors from the Qingji Continent have sneaked into our Jiuyan Continent, and they don't confront us head-on.
They always hide and attack the states where the oasis is weakly defended, which makes it difficult for us to defend ourselves."
Ming Zhiyuan followed Yu Yizhi, listening to Yu Haoyu's report on what had happened in the past few days.
Everyone walked to the main hall, where food had been laid out. Everyone had a hearty meal first, and then Ouyang Xingzhong led his disciples to rest.
After he asked his servants to arrange a place for Yi Rou to rest, Ming Zhiyuan, Yu Yizhi, Yu Lianwu and Yu Haoyu started discussing in the hall.
The night was getting deeper and the four people were still discussing in the main hall. Yu Haoyu went out and ordered his servants to prepare a midnight snack.
Not long after he came back, the four of them heard a cry of surprise coming from outside the hospital, and then they covered their mouths as if they were afraid of startling others, feeling a little stuffy.
These people were all veterans. When he heard that the voice was wrong, Yu Yizhi immediately jumped out of the door and ordered, "You protect the alchemist."
As Yu Yizhi jumped into the courtyard, the three people in the main hall heard Yu Yizhi's voice again, "It doesn't matter, I'm alone."
At this time, Ming Zhiyuan followed the two Yushi Wu Emperors out of the main hall, and saw Yu Yi Zhizheng fighting with a man in the courtyard. The man was of medium build, dressed in black, and covered his face with a black scarf, so he couldn't see what he looked like.
It was just that he fought with Yu Yi for more than ten times, and there was no sign of defeat.
Ming Zhiyuan immediately understood that this was probably also a Martial Master realm.
Yu Lianwu and Yu Haoyu were guarding Ming Zhiyuan, one on the left and the other on the right. Both of them watched the fight between the two men in the courtyard with wary expressions.
Ming Zhiyuan felt that there was something wrong. How could a warrior at the Martial Master level come to attack alone? He was a Martial Master after all, and a few followers or followers had to come with him, at least to help him snatch and transport resources.
Otherwise, the purpose of his sneak attack cannot be just to kill people on the oasis. Stealing resources should also be one of their goals. Moreover, they need to eat, drink and practice while hiding in secret.
As his mind was spinning rapidly, Ming Zhiyuan suddenly turned to Yu Haoyu and said, "Something is wrong. Emperor Yu Wu, go and have a look in the veins."
When Yu Haoyu heard this, he also reacted and flew away without answering.
Seeing that Yu Haoyu had been running out for a while, Ming Zhiyuan did not hear any fighting sounds from the back mountain mine, nor did Yu Haoyu hear any warning sounds.
Ming Zhiyuan was a little surprised. Could it be that this person came alone to attack an oasis main palace?
Seeing that Yu Yizhi and the man were still fighting, and for a moment they couldn't tell the winner, Ming Zhiyuan said to Lian Wudao again: "Master Yu, please go around the house and don't let this man's accomplices sneak attack other courtyards.
.”
Yu Lianwu said: "It doesn't matter. There are people from the mansion guarding other courtyards. If there is a fight here, other people will be alert. If something happens, they will definitely shout loudly."
At this time, many disciples of the Yu family had arrived in the courtyard, and everyone surrounded Yu Yi Zhi and the masked warrior from a distance. For a while, no one could get close enough to intervene in the battle between the warriors.
Under the protection of Yu Lianwu, Ming Zhiyuan also took a few steps forward. Seeing how evenly matched Yu Yizhi was with that man, he knew that the warrior who came to attack him must be at the middle level of the Martial Master Realm.