Moonlit night, alone in the quiet city.
A sudden and clear sword chant cut through the night of Duyou City... the night in the eyes of the sword cultivator.
Alone in the secluded West City, the bustling market where mortals gather is still there, with hustle and bustle of traffic and extraordinary bustle.
Only occasionally a few pedestrians on the busy street would stop, look up and close their eyes.
In the secluded East City, magnificent high-rise buildings, mansions with various decorations and secluded private residences stand side by side.
On the Banyue Street, Xinling Street and Meilu Street in the west of East City, there are many large shops and the streets are prosperous and bustling with people. It seems that they are not inferior to the cities in West City. It is hard to believe that this is the place where monks gather.
At this time, people on these streets stopped what they were doing from time to time.
There is a rich and noble young man who is leisurely traveling with his female companion, holding a folding fan behind his back. He looks back to tease his female companion in the previous second, and in the next second his smile disappears, he closes his eyes and looks up, as if he is gazing at the moon.
There was a silent scholar sitting in a tavern on a high-rise building, leaning against the railing and drinking under the red lanterns on the roof. Halfway through drinking, the wine suddenly spilled out, wetting his clothes. However, he continued to "drink" with his eyes closed, and remained motionless until the wine was all gone.
There was also a heavily guarded mansion near the street. The tightly closed window of the exquisite building was pushed open by a slender hand, and the woman closed her eyes and listened...
Various similar scenes quickly "spread" with a small restaurant in a run-down alley in Duyou East City as the center.
Then……
The rich and powerful young man who was parading with his female companion said goodbye to her and walked away in a certain direction with his hands behind his back.
The scholar, whose clothes were half wet by the wine, adjusted his crown with both hands, carried a tasseled sword, and walked down the tall building slowly and solemnly.
And in a certain mansion, the windows on the second floor of a small and exquisite building were wide open, and no one was inside...
Similar scenes were common in the city.
At this time, if someone ignored the no-fly order of Youlan Mansion in Duyou City and looked down from the clouds in the sky above East City, they would find that there were different figures from all directions, radiating in a shape, slowly gathering towards Wutong Street in the middle...
The night seems a little different tonight.
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Located in the Taiqing Four Prefectures on the edge of East City.
About one tenth of the students scattered throughout the palace suddenly closed their eyes.
After a moment's silence, he suddenly opened his eyes with a look of surprise.
Almost all of them were wearing Xiaoyao Mansion's white sword robes with sword patterns on the sleeves.
And deep inside Xiaoyao Mansion, in a simple hall, the bronze door suddenly opened.
The sword energy is overflowing.
A burly old man with white hair and white clothes strode out, followed by a snow-white stag.
At the same time, in one of the four prefectures of Taiqing, in the Taiyi Prefecture, a woman's voice was heard, echoing throughout the prefecture, "Deputy Prefecture Master Yue, why did you suddenly come out of seclusion?"
The voice paused, "Are you looking for the Lord of the Mansion? He is not in Duyou now."
“Senior Yue, what happened…” Then, deep and rich voices were heard from the mansions of Fuyao, Kunpeng and others, asking about the situation.
The burly old man had his hands empty, shook his sleeves, and then put them behind his back.
He looked towards the north and laughed:
"There are sword chants, very fierce sword chants, in East City! A kid has bred a top-grade sword. Hahahaha, listening to the noise, it seems to be even louder than the birth of the top-grade swords of the eldest and youngest Zhao girls! I must go and take a good look and snatch them back to our Xiaoyao Mansion. We can't let those old guys in the Sword Pavilion get there first. Hahaha, this once-in-a-millennium event seems to be really coming. First, there were the two girls of the Zhao family, especially the eldest girl Zhao, who had two top-grade swords like twin lotus flowers. I have never heard of it before..."
The burly old man paused for a moment, as if he had thought of something, and snorted:
"Hmph, some accidents happened later. It was because Miss Zhao was too naive and inexperienced that she was misled by the scoundrels down the mountain. However...
"It's not a big problem! Miss Zhao is still the number one prodigy in Haoran Realm of our Taiqing Prefecture. She has a chance to break the record of that old guy named Zhao who takes advantage of his age. I won't make a mistake.
"But I never expected that a powerful kid would show up tonight. The sound of his sword chanting is quite fierce, hahahaha. I hope it's a boy to put some pressure on the two girls of the Zhao family."
The burly old man had a hearty laugh.
In the four prefectures of Taiqing, the people of high status who had spoken earlier in each prefecture were now listening quietly without interrupting.
This Senior Yue, whose full name is Yue Nanxing, is the head of Xiaoyao Prefecture and also the deputy lord of one of the four Taiqing Prefectures.
He is a native of Wangque Continent. When he was young, he was born in one of the four prefectures of Wangque and Taiqing. At that time, he was one of the best sword immortal embryos. His name is still engraved high in the Wangque Taiqing Tianjiao Record.
Later, Vietnam Star traveled around the Nine Continents with a sword, asking for swords everywhere, and was away for half his life. Finally, he returned to Wangque, entered the Taiqing Four Palaces to work and practiced in seclusion.
This senior Yue is the most experienced among the four prefectures of Taiqing. He loves to promote the younger generation, and his students are all over Wangque.
If it weren't for the fact that the lords of the four Taiqing lords were mostly appointed from Zhongzhou, and if he had not been power-hungry, he would have been able to change the title of "deputy" to "principal" long ago.
This burly old man has been in seclusion often in recent years, but he still loves talents very much and always pays attention to the cultivation of the young sword practitioners in the mansion.
For example, in Xiaoyao Mansion, the current Concubine Zhao Ling, who is far superior to all her peers, was the one he discovered and favored.
Vietnam Star overcame all objections and allowed her to skip the Fuyao Palace stage as soon as she entered the Four Palaces of Taiqing, and directly join the Xiaoyao Palace, the leader of the Four Palaces. To some extent, she became the junior sister of the same batch of students who entered the palace...
Vietnam Star even made the assertion that "this woman must have achieved the Golden Elixir before her students become successful", which means her students would be 20 years old.
He endorsed Concubine Zhao Ling, allowing her to become famous in the four prefectures of Taiqing before she even reached the Haoran realm.
As for the doubts behind the scenes and the rumors about the so-called illegitimate daughter, they were completely shattered the moment Concubine Zhao Ling opened the window one morning and stepped into the Haoran realm along with the first rays of dawn in the sky.
Most of the students in Xiaoyao Mansion still remember the sword chanting of Concubine Zhao Ling when she entered Haoran. It attracted the attention of sword cultivators within thousands of miles of Duyou City and gathered outside the mansion. It was a rare grand occasion.
However, Junior Sister Zhao was already a member of their Xiaoyao Mansion, so how could the seniors from the Sword Pavilion, Duyou, and other sword sects snatch her away...
However, ever since Zhao Lingfei went back to her hometown at the beginning of the year and returned to the mansion, her cultivation has been stuck at a bottleneck.
So the discussion started again, which made the burly old man seem a little embarrassed...
At this moment, Vietnam Star touched the head of the white deer beside him, and his figure flashed again and again like a phantom, and soon arrived at the gate.
"I was originally planning to deal with Zhao's affairs after I came out of seclusion in a few days, and help her seek justice from the scoundrel down the mountain. But now I have to come out of seclusion early and go to East City to snatch the baby. Haha, I don't know if this baby is a boy or a girl, and whose family it is... Could it be... a branch of the Zhao family?"
He muttered a few words to himself, smiled and shook his head, thinking that the possibility was not high.
The burly old man waved his hand, "You guys go about your business, don't worry about me. Disciples of Xiaoyao Mansion, follow me out of the mansion!"
He carried a white deer with its head held high and strode out of the gate of Taiqing Mansion, leaving only a tall afterimage.
The people in the mansion were not surprised as they were already familiar with the old senior's personality.
Xiaoyao Mansion suddenly became lively, and a large group of students followed.
Many students from other prefectures also followed to join in the fun. They were very curious about the doll that Deputy Prefect Yue mentioned might be as good as or even better than Concubine Zhao Lingfei. Who was she?