When Cao Shen came to the management office, he saw an old man sweeping leaves under the tree.

"Mr. Liu, I'll return the key to Liangyitang."

The old man glanced at Cao Shen, nodded and asked him to put the key in the house.

After returning the key, Cao Shen did not leave immediately. Seeing that the old man was hunched and his steps were staggering, he thought for a while and stepped forward to take the initiative to help the old man sweep the fallen leaves.

"Mr. Liu, I'll do it."

Cao Shen's martial arts courses were good, and he quickly cleaned the dead leaves.

"Come on, come on, sit with the old man for a while." Mr. Liu sat under the dead tree and waved to Shen Cao.

After calculating Yang Shang's footsteps, Cao Shen walked over and sat next to Liu Gong on the ground.

"Old man just heard Xiao Zhang's words. What kind of bastards did you seem to have said in Liangyitang?"

"What a bastard, that's him timid!" Cao Shen immediately told the old man about his affairs in Liangyi Hall and said angrily: "It is absurd to have a sacrifice for the emperor, but these guys followed each other and kept giving sacrifices to the emperor. How could there be any respect for this?"

"Emperor--" Mr. Liu kept pondering as he heard about this.

Suddenly, Cao Shen remembered something: "Mr. Liu, you have a long life with a squid back. Have you ever seen the emperor back then?"

"Of course I've seen it."

"What does the Emperor look like?"

"It looks..." Liu Gong's turbid old eyes flashed with memories.

"The Emperor is very young. What he most often appears in front of the people is the imperial robe and crown posture with a black robe. But once, the old man remembered that he had seen his usual clothes. He was wearing a long white robe and walked through the path with General Huo."

"Then...what does he look like?" Cao Shen wanted to ask if he was similar to himself. But after thinking about it, he still didn't dare to ask. What his mother once said should be just a false statement to comfort him, right?

"Your Majesty is outstanding. As long as you see him, you will naturally understand in that moment. Oh, this is the Emperor who has been guarding our Xia Kingdom for hundreds of years."

The old man touched the young man's head: "The emperor is the incarnation of the country, a supreme god that must exist and must exist forever. Those gods' marriages and sacrifices are just jokes. Which goddess can defeat His Majesty?"

Mr. Liu said proudly: "Imperial Huai made the same respect for heaven and earth, respected the emperor as the 'Lord of Heaven', and was a sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrific

"It can be rumored that 'God marriage is harmful to both parties'..."

"If one side is strong, it is enough to overwhelm the other side. Then the other side will become a vassal. During the catastrophe of the gods, some gods use this method to oppress the king of the country, trying to gain the fortune of the country. However, as the king of the country grows, many gods suffer losses. As for our emperor..."

"Who can take advantage of His Majesty at the level of the Lord God?" Liu Gong smiled and said, "Don't just look at these divine marriages, look at the protective gods originally established by the vassal states. The slogans he made at the beginning were all the sons of the goddess and the emperor. But with the status of those goddesses, even the gods could not be matched with His Majesty."

Because none of the great goddesses who were worshipped by the Emperor were lower than the level of the main god.

"Is this what..."

"Okay, don't worry about such things. Those who have organized a divine marriage for the Emperor may not not understand this. It is just a means to maintain the royal power, and everyone knows it in their hearts. If they really acted too much, the Ling Emperor might not have been able to do something about that year again."

After the catastrophe of the gods, the gods returned to heaven. But I really think that the gods cannot interfere with the human world, and that the underworld cannot affect the mortal world?

How did Emperor Ling die back then? Isn’t it that the hidden immortal in Xia Kingdom took action and killed the stupid emperor who dared to associate with the concubine of Heaven and tried to make the concubine of Heaven and worship the emperor.

After being comforted by Liu Gong, Cao Shen felt relieved and soon said goodbye to leave and went to find Yang Shang for dinner.

Looking at the young man's back, Mr. Liu looked at the north with a faint look: "Speaking of this, Your Majesty is about to wake up? Is it really a long time to sleep this time."

...

Cao Shen and Yang Shang had lunch somewhere in a remote place in the Imperial Academy.

The Taixue emphasizes simplicity, thrift, but as one of the most elite students in the country, the treatment is not much. There is one soup, one staple food, one snack, one fruit, two meat and vegetable products.

Put the eight-edged plates one by one, and the two of them were eating and chatting.

Yang Shang: "I just heard that I seemed to have to bring my own cinnabar in the afternoon's magic course. Because all the cinnabars on the Taixue side were taken away a few days ago."

"The cinnabar is gone?" Cao Shen was stunned: "How could the Taixue lack anything?"

"I don't know. It is said that a big man suddenly took it away. No wonder Sun Yan suddenly said he wanted to go home to get the cinnabar. It turned out that he knew it a long time ago. Why, you want to go home to get it too?"

"Well, maybe I have to go back."

The magic class is also a practical class. Under the care of the lecturer, he performs immortal arts, magical magic, magical spells, and poems.

That’s right, with the blessing of Shi Huangshi, poetry and songs have been used as a special way of fighting against literature and Taoism, writing poetry with brush and ink to achieve the same effect of Taoism and witchcraft.

Because the three major systems are profound and profound, a student will choose a system to study in the same situation.

Yang Shangxue’s poems and songs are literary, Taoist, and his poems have reached the “state of ink”, that is, the strength of the four tripods made by the nine tripods of the Xia Kingdom.

However, because Cao Shen cooperated with his own "Soldier Yin and Yang" academic, he chose to use Yin and Yang Taoism as a supplement. In the afternoon course, he needed a lot of cinnabar calligraphy, painting and talismans.

After drinking the water shield soup in one sip, Cao Shen wiped his mouth: "I'll go back now, please help me clean up."

"Don't be so anxious. At worst, he might bring more people to Sun Yan."

"Forget it, I'll go back by myself. Today I plan to try a new Taoist technique."

After saying that, Cao Shen quickly ran to the gate of the Imperial Academy.

The moment he walked out of the door, he immediately took out two divine talismans from his arms and threw them on his body.

It is prohibited to use magic at will within the Imperial Academy, but the streets are different. The streets of Luocheng are specially used to impose defensive spells, and there are cloud and divine ways that are specially used for spells.

Cao Shen passed through Yundao and soon returned to his own tavern.

He lost his father at a young age, and his mother raised him and sent him to the Imperial Academy education with this ancestral wine shop.

When he returned home, his mother happened to be not at home. He went up the second floor to search for cinnabar. When he was about to go back to the Imperial College, a drinker came to his house.

"Xiao Cao, you happen to be at home, so I can make two pots of wine for me."

Seeing that it was a regular customer, Cao Shen did not refuse: "Uncle Yan waits on the first floor, and I'll come when I go."

He picked up the wine pot and went to the cellar to make wine.

Under the ground of their Linghe wine shop, there are white and black flower pots that are taller than others. According to my mother, these wine jars have been passed down for a hundred years and are old things left at home when their Cao family was still rich. These wine jars are soaked in Linghe wine for many years and have their own aroma. As long as the spring water is poured into it, they will naturally become wine after a long time.

Of course, Linghe wine shops are a century-old man, and they cannot do the job of directly filling water as wine. They pour their own Linghe wine into the wine jar and warm it up, which is said to make the wine more mellow.

"As far as I can tell, I rarely come down to this cellar."

Because he had not yet won the crown, his mother was unwilling to let Cao Shen take over the restaurant at home, and was worried that he would be addicted to drinking like his elders at home, so he was strictly forbidden to come down privately.

Cao Shen picked a wine jar in a corner to get the wine. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a bulge in the corner.

In the Imperial Academy, he had learned the art of mechanism, so he naturally knew what this protrusion was.

"Strange, there are mechanisms in the wine cellar? When I was a child, why didn't I remember it?"

He groped for a while and observed the arrangement of the wine jars in the cellar.

Indeed, the location of these wine jars is like a formation, seemingly hiding something.

"Here!" He went forward and turned a wine jar, and only heard the crackling sound of the cellar, a key appeared in the bulge in the corner.

key?

In an instant, Cao Shen Lenovo saw the pattern on the top of the door when he entered the wine cellar when he was a child. He turned his head again, and indeed, at the upper end of the entrance of the cellar, he saw a lotus-shaped pattern. The hole in the center of the lotus seemed to be a keyhole.

"The cellar is dim. When people enter the cellar, they will not deliberately pay attention to the location above the cellar portal. If I hadn't come in and fell when I was a child, I wouldn't have seen this lotus pattern."

"My mother said back then that this pattern was an evil-proof object. But now look—"

Cao Shen ganged the mechanism and found a bronze general mask from the cellar.

"What is this? Is it an antique? I have only been six hundred years since my time traveling through Daxia. Is there anything that can be regarded as an antique?"

After thinking about it, Cao Shen thought to himself: "Let Yang Shang see this thing. His family has a lot of knowledge and may have an understanding of this."

Cao Shen wrote down this incident, put the mask in his arms, prepared wine for Uncle Yan, and hurried back to the Imperial Academy.

In the afternoon, the two of them practiced magic in the Imperial Academy for a long time. Cao Shen was about to mention this matter, but suddenly two lecturers came over hurriedly and pointed at the two of them who were preparing to rest: "Come here."

The two looked at each other and had to walk over. After seeing the lecturer Zhang and another lecturer named Chen in the morning, Cao and Shen bowed and bowed.

"Why are you two?" Lecturer Zhang waved his hand: "Forget it, you guys are fine too. Come and help me and send the things to Tongtian Peak."

"Tongtian Peak?" Yang Shang's eyes lit up: "We are going to the holy land of the Wuhundao?"

"Absolutely, don't talk nonsense, come here quickly."

The two lecturers took them to the warehouse, which contained boxes of cinnabar, dan jade, various ink and talismans.

Cao Shen thought to himself: No wonder cinnabar and other objects are scarce, it turns out that they are all here. Is it a big man from Tongtian Peak who wants to use it?

Tongtian Peak is the holy land of the Xia Kingdom's martial arts, and was established by the hometown of Grand Sima Huo Qubing.

The two lecturers ordered the two to carry the box, then summoned a fairy boat, and took the four to Tongtian Peak.

Tongtian Peak is not far from Xiadu Luocheng, in the Tiangang Mountains southwest. Its mountain is like a flying dragon looking at the sky. It is said to be transformed by the divine beast that Master Huo killed.

As soon as the fairy boat entered the vicinity of the Tiangang Mountains, the boxes of cinnabar and danyu automatically shook open and rushed toward the top of Tongtian Peak.

At this moment, colorful glows emerged from the top of Tongtian Peak, and terrifying divine energy were ready to move. The sky thunder shuttled through the dark clouds, but it was unable to fall for a long time.

"General Huo is worthy of the ancestor of martial arts. This momentum is probably about to enter the Liangyi realm, right?"

"It's not that fast, but it is definitely the peak of the Four Symbol Realm. Part of this atmosphere comes from that magical artifact."

General Huo?
To be continued...