The Xia Dynasty still maintained a strategy of loose exterior and tight interior.

Along with the first contact with the outside world of cultivation, more and more practitioners gradually broke into the territory of the Xia Dynasty.

But without exception, Emperor Qizhi never met anyone.

It’s not that he’s trying to show off, this is also a strategy.

Of course we have to meet, but how and in what form the meeting will take will determine the future of the Xia Dynasty!

Emperor Qizhi had anticipated that it would be best to gather all the practitioners from various immortal sects and major forces together and meet them together.

This certainly doesn't show any sincerity, but it can also make that group of people aware that they still have competitors.

Even if he really wanted to sell the remaining spiritual treasures of the Xia Dynasty, Emperor Qizhi wanted to get a good price instead of being deceived by empty words.

This is an essential quality for a mature person in power.

As for the actual meeting and negotiation, we will have to wait until after the first meeting and then contact each other privately.

It was difficult for Xia Chao to judge which of the cultivators was powerful and which was not easy to provoke. Wouldn't the cultivators themselves know? If they were put together for a meal, then it would be clear.

This is also one of the essential abilities a decision maker must have.

Now it seems that the Wanfa Alliance is more powerful, and it is the first and only one that tries to force its way into the imperial capital.

This is most likely the main course this time.

In this case In the imperial study, Emperor Qizhi wrote a handwritten order and sent it to the Yulong Guards in various places.

There is no need to delay any longer. There are already quite a few immortal cultivators fleeing from the Xia Dynasty. If we continue to delay, there will be too many of them and trouble is inevitable.

It’s better to be careful.

It's time to bring all the practitioners from all over the world to the imperial capital to meet him! Yangzhou is a prosperous place with commerce as its center.

The warm wind makes the tourists drunk.

Cui Hao was also a little drunk.

The woman in his arms has a pretty face and a slim figure. Her soft Wu dialect makes one's bones numb and unable to control their emotions.

It is truly a heavenly enjoyment.

The dark purple grapes are sweet and juicy. They are stuffed into the mouth by slender jade fingers. One bite is taken, and the juice overflows, with a sweet and satisfying taste.

Being in it, you will feel so happy that you will forget about the heaven.

"Brother Cui."

While Cui Hao was enjoying himself, Brother Li, a familiar member of the Yulong Guard, came over and asked, "Are you drunk?"

"No."

Cui Hao shook his head repeatedly, and a smile appeared on his face. He asked, "What's the matter?"

"Brother Cui, aren't you anxious to go to the Imperial Capital? I haven't forgotten this matter these days. Today, I finally contacted a fast ship. By water, we can reach the Imperial Capital in a few days!"

Brother Li took Cui Hao's hand and said happily.

"ah?"

Cui Hao was a little dumbfounded. Looking at the pretty woman in his arms, he suddenly felt reluctant to let her go. "Are you leaving now?"

"Hasn't Brother Cui always wanted to go to the Imperial Capital?"

Yulongwei said in pretended confusion.

"Yes, indeed."

Cui Hao gritted his teeth.

"Okay, let's go, everyone is waiting for you."

Yulongwei pulled Cui Hao up without saying a word, "Come on, come on, the emperor heard about you and wants to meet you. There is no time to waste."

When he was about to walk out of the room, Cui Hao couldn't help but look back.

The petite girl smiled at him, her bright eyes seemed to speak, captivating and charming, with all her charm displayed here.

For a moment, Cui Hao could hardly move.

Suddenly I feel that cultivating immortals doesn’t seem to have much meaning.

'Alas, it is a pity that the immortal and the human are separated, and I cannot talk about the past and present with my beloved.'

Cui Hao sighed in his heart. After finishing other things, he could come back again to make up for the shortcomings, which could also be a fun part of his practice.

A similar yet somewhat different scene took place in various places during the Xia Dynasty.

Except for the two monks who broke into the Xia Dynasty's palace, all other monks received excellent hospitality from the Xia Dynasty.

There are many people who linger here for this reason.

But since the Yulong Guards had received orders from Emperor Xia, they would naturally not delay. No matter how they had delayed before, they would now rush to send them to the imperial capital of the Xia Dynasty. And it would be best if they arrived together, neither too fast nor too slow.

A few days later.

It was already one hundred and fifty years into the Xia Dynasty.

As winter was coming to an end, snow fell in the imperial capital of the Xia Dynasty, and everything was covered in silver.

But this did not affect the prosperity of the Xia Dynasty's imperial capital.

Before daybreak, many people were already cleaning the streets that had snowed all night to ensure normal traffic.

Several luxurious carriages rushed from various places in the Xia Dynasty's imperial capital to the direction of the Xia Dynasty's imperial palace.

The person driving the car had a light silver carp embroidered on his chest.

“Crunch, crunch.”

The carriage rolled over the snow on the streets that had not been completely cleared, making a hissing sound and leaving slightly thick ruts.

Few people know that these small carriages may be carrying the future of the Xia Dynasty.

When the carriage stopped at the main gate of the palace, a monk from the Yulong Guard approached them.

Cui Hao is naturally just one of them.

With a quick glance, one can see three or five monks of different identities getting off the carriage.

Obviously, this time the meeting was not just with one family.

While greeting each other, they walked through the main gate of the imperial capital and saw two golden pillars standing there.

The pillar was about ten feet long and as wide as a man could hug. It was golden in color, with dragons and phoenixes carved on it, an exquisite workmanship that was beyond belief.

There was no spiritual pressure flowing on it, as if it was just an ordinary decoration.

"Huh?"

Cui Hao stared at it curiously for a few seconds, "Why does that pillar look a bit like a golden wood?"

He was not a person who did not know the value of things. Jinguimu, a relatively special spiritual material, had many uses in the world of immortal cultivation and was not too difficult to distinguish.

But if it is really a golden wood, and it can grow so big and grow so well, it must be at least a thousand years old, right? That's extraordinary!

Isn't it said that the Yuantian Realm has been devoid of spirits for thousands of years? Could it be that the Jin Guimu, which was abandoned by a sect in the mortal world, has now been revived and moved here by the Xia Dynasty?

It is not impossible.

"Impossible? This thick and long golden Gui wood is difficult for ordinary weapon refining masters to refine, let alone carve dragons and phoenixes on it. It is simply impossible."

There were practitioners who immediately objected.

Although Jinguimu is indeed a tree, its texture has always been extremely hard and it has strong resistance to spiritual energy.

The thousand-year-old Jingui wood is qualified to be used as the main material for large flying boats. Even in places where spiritual energy is turbulent, the Jingui wood can withstand it with its own material and will not be affected. It is one of the most useful spiritual materials.

Even if it is a hundred-year-old Golden Gui Wood, it would take ordinary cultivators three to five years to see initial results by refining it with their own magic power, not to mention a thousand-year-old Golden Gui Wood, which would make even a foundation-building cultivator helpless.

It is necessary to use special formations, soak in medicinal liquids, and then use secret techniques to refine it in order to greatly shorten the time. Ordinary small sects don't even need to think about it, let alone ordinary dynasties.

Even if you are lucky enough to pick up a few golden gui woods, and even if you use an axe to chop them off, you can hardly cut off even one, so why would you paint on them?

If you are not fully awake, you can sleep for a while longer.

Cui Hao walked up to the two pillars, a trace of spiritual energy rose in his hand, and pressed it towards the pillar.

However, before the spiritual energy could get close, it was completely bounced away and could not advance an inch.

The expression on Cui Hao's face froze for a moment.

Is this really Jingui Wood? Or is it a thousand-year-old one?

My goodness, what kind of status does Xia Chao have, using the main material of the flying boat as a pillar to poke here? !

"This thing"

Cui Hao swallowed lightly. Although the master of Guizang Valley was a Jindan, he was not so arrogant as to use the thousand-year-old golden Gui wood as a facade. That was already a strategic material. "It seems to be true."

"This joke is not funny."

The practitioners who came with them folded their arms, clearly showing their disbelief.

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"You'll know if you try it."

Cui Hao took a deep breath. If this wasn't picked up, there must be a master in the Xia Dynasty! To carve a dragon and a phoenix on a thousand-year-old golden gui wood? What level of expert must that be? If it was done by one person, then at least he must be a golden elixir, and it would take more than ten years to achieve such results, right?

Two of them mean twenty or thirty years!

It has been carving since the revival of heaven and earth?

"Why does it sound so real?"

The monk frowned, and a ball of spiritual light appeared in his hand, and he casually hit Jin Guimu with it.

However, when it was still ten feet away from the golden wood, the spiritual light quickly disappeared, and strands of golden light suddenly rose from the pillar. The extremely sharp aura made people feel cold all over, as if a needle exploded! This active "attack" had already offended the Nine Dragons Golden Light Formation.

"Is it really true?!"

The attacking monk was startled, and cold sweat instantly slid down his forehead. As his voice rang out, the counterattack of the Nine Dragons Golden Light Formation had arrived.

The golden light was like a sword, condensing into a line and stabbing forward!

His cultivation was only at the late stage of Qi training, so there was no way he could be a match for the Nine Dragons Golden Light Formation. Such a casual counterattack was already an unbearable burden for him.

At that moment, the dead souls were terrified and had no time to try to slip away. The Fish Dragon Guard leading the way took out a token from his hand and blocked the attack of the Nine Dragons Golden Light Formation.

"This thing is of course real, so you don't have to be too surprised."

The Yulong Guard ignored the startled attitude of these practitioners. After giving them a warning, they finally said, "Emperor Xia is waiting for you in the hall. It is better not to delay too long."

"Yes, yes, yes."

This time, several practitioners with different backgrounds already had an idea in their minds.

The water in the Xia Dynasty is quite deep! Above the Xia Dynasty Hall, the original place for court meetings.

Naturally, all civil and military officials did not need to attend court for the time being, and each returned to their own places to handle affairs. There were more important things to do here now.

For example, receiving the "immortals" who have reappeared in the world.

Judging from the cultivators who have appeared in the Xia Dynasty today, almost all of them are at the Qi training stage, and the only one in the Wanfa Alliance is at the foundation building stage.

According to those people, the world at this moment is not suitable for the activities of more powerful cultivators. It will take a few more years before their predecessors and masters can travel easily.

They came here first at this time to look for opportunities.

And the blame was found on the Xia Dynasty.

The tradition of the immortal cultivation world is: natural resources and treasures are obtained by those who are destined to obtain them.

But what counts as "fate" needs to be discussed in detail.

The saying that all under heaven belongs to the king is fine when told to ordinary people, but trying to use this argument with monks is like playing the lute to a cow.

Emperor Qizhi originally thought that the Wanfa Alliance was shameless enough, wanting to exchange the common immortal cultivation techniques that could be continuously branded for the genuine spiritual treasures of the Xia Dynasty.

When I heard about the preparations of the monks from other forces, I realized that those guys were actually planning to come to the Xia Dynasty to "buy with zero coins"! In short, if they come across any natural treasures, they will dig them up and leave, and then look for the next one.

In comparison, the Wanfa Alliance, which was willing to give them some waste paper, seemed a bit honest. At least it was under the name of a transaction!

This made Emperor Qizhi frown deeply. The atmosphere in the world of immortal cultivation was not good at all! It was not an easy task to negotiate with these immortal cultivators as a mortal dynasty.

At least they have to know that they cannot just take the spiritual treasures in the Xia Dynasty and leave.

At least the spiritual treasures discovered by the Xia Dynasty must definitely belong to the Xia Dynasty. This is the bottom line. If it is lower, there will be no bottom at all.

"It all depends on the Nine Dragons Golden Light Formation left by Mr. Gu."

Emperor Qizhi took a deep breath and looked at the magnificent golden pillars surrounding the hall. He suddenly felt more confident.

He may not be able to do it, but Mr. Gu definitely can!

We don't expect to be able to intimidate all the cultivators who come to the Xia Dynasty with just a formation, but at least let them know that the Xia Dynasty is not a dynasty that can be manipulated by them at will.

You have to show a certain level of strength before you can really start negotiations.

We can give them some of the spiritual plants from the Xia Dynasty.

But we must strive to obtain something that is beneficial to the Xia Dynasty, rather than purchasing it with zero coins, or basic immortal cultivation techniques that are no longer useful to the Xia Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, those people are here."

Soon, a messenger came quickly to report the news.

"good."

Emperor Qizhi adjusted his dragon robe once again, and his face with gradually white hair showed unparalleled majesty.

At this time, he was Emperor Xia.

To represent the interests of the Xia Dynasty, a bloodless confrontation was required, but it was no less fierce than any other battle.

"Call them in."

Emperor Qizhi sat alone on the dragon throne, speaking in a calm voice without any emotion.

"yes!"

Soon, a voice echoed outside the temple.

"Emperor Xia has issued an order to summon all monks from all over the country to enter the palace!"

"Emperor Xia has issued an order to summon all monks from all over the country to enter the palace!"

"Emperor Xia has issued an order to summon all monks from all over the country to enter the palace!"

A series of voices were strung together into a line, and well-trained, heroic and dashing guards lined up in front of the hall.

A full hundred monks from the Fish and Dragon Guards and even several masters of the Xia Dynasty were waiting here for the guests.

Such a grand ceremony not only showed enough respect to the guests, but also demonstrated the power of the Xia Dynasty.

When friends come, there is good wine; when wolves come, there are weapons! Soon, there were less than ten monks, and they were arrested in front of the temple.

Accompanied by the Fish and Dragon Guards and led by the martial arts master, they arrived at the main hall of the Xia Dynasty.

The first thing that caught the eyes of those monks was not Emperor Xia, but the four pillars standing in the hall.

Four golden pillars that are magnificent and majestic!

Emperor Xia's gaze also fell on these monks.

This was the first time he received monks from the lower world.

This negotiation may well determine the future direction of the Xia Dynasty, whether it will be high or low.

Only success is allowed, failure is not allowed! On the dragon throne, Emperor Qi Zhi spoke slowly, awakening the monks who were staring at the pillars in the palace, and reminding them who the master here today is.

"You have come from far away, and I am sorry for not welcoming you in person. The Xia Dynasty has not prepared any gifts, but fortunately, wine and food are ready around. Please take a seat, monks." (End of this chapter)