Donglai County is seven or eight hundred miles south of "Qingzhengli City". There is a huge blue light curtain in the open plain, covering the area hundreds of miles in radius.

At noon, the sun was shining brightly and there were no clouds in the sky. A ray of light came from the southwest, revealing the figure of a handsome man, none other than Tang Ning.

Since he left the Qiankun Spiritual Beast Pavilion last month and returned to the alliance, one month has passed in the blink of an eye. He came here again in order to participate in the annual Spiritual Beast Gambling Competition of the Qiankun Spiritual Beast Pavilion. In the former, he

I have already registered to participate in this gambling match, and the spirit beast participating is the golden rhinoceros ant.

He is currently being held in the Qiankun Spiritual Beast Pavilion, under their control, and is only waiting to go on stage today.

Tang Ning flipped his hand and a talisman sank into the inner room. Soon, a corner of the light curtain melted away and he entered the inner room in a flash.

There is a plain inside, with no obstructions to the view.

The land with a radius of hundreds of miles is divided into dozens of areas of different sizes, shrouded in light curtains, and next to each area, there is a towering palace.

Since the gambling competition only officially started tomorrow, there were not many people inside. He was here to prepare as a contestant and needed to arrive a few days in advance.

Tang Ning flew all the way, and after a short while, she came to a majestic palace.

He went straight into the palace. The interior was extremely wide, about hundreds of feet in size. It was decorated with carved beams and painted pillars, crystal palace lanterns hanging high on the roof, and jasper red walls around it. It was very luxurious.

In each corner, there are more than ten figures standing or standing in front of the cabinets, and dozens of feet-long desks are placed.

In addition, there were about ten people bustling in the hall, and it seemed that they were all monks participating in this spiritual beast game.

Tang Ning came to a desk. On it were engraved the names of various spirit beasts participating in the competition. There were more than a hundred spirit beasts. They were divided according to levels, from fourth level to first level. They were clearly marked, including fighting spirit beasts.

The types and odds are all written on it.

Tangning saw the name of the Golden Armored Ant in the ranks of second-level mid-level spiritual beasts.

The second-level mid-level spiritual beast, the golden rhinoceros ant, faced off against the three-tailed red scorpion. The odds were four to six.

The odds for the golden ant are four, and the odds for the three-tailed red scorpion are six. Because this is the third time that these three-tailed red scorpions have participated in the game held by the Qiankun Spiritual Beast Pavilion, and they have won the first two times, the odds are higher.

He took a look at the matchup information and odds, came to a man in front of the cabinet, turned his hand over, took out a token and handed it to him: "Fellow Taoist, I am the person organizing the spirit beast game for your chamber of commerce this time.

Participants.”

The man took the token, glanced at it, handed it back to him and said, "What do you need, fellow Taoist Tang?"

"I don't know where the spirit beast is sealed. I want to take a look."

"More than a hundred miles away from the main hall, there is a Spiritual Guan Pavilion. Fellow Taoists can go there for consultation."

Tang Ning thanked him and left the main hall. Before it was time for tea, he saw a spiritual tube pavilion standing upright. He went straight into the inner room, where several monks from the Chamber of Commerce were sitting at the desk.

He walked up to a person and handed over the token: "I am a participant in the spirit beast game. I wonder if you can take a look at my spirit beast status first."

The woman took the token and took a look at it: "What kind of spiritual beast are you competing in?"

"Golden Rhinoceros Ant."

The woman turned the page with her left hand, took out a book, and checked it out: "Fellow Taoist, please come with me."

The two of them left the main hall and walked to a small light curtain. They flipped their hands and a talisman disappeared into the room.

Soon, a corner of the light curtain melted away, and the two of them entered the inner room, which was only a few miles in radius, and contained more than a dozen cages that looked like gold but not gold, and looked like wood but not wood.

Each one was about a hundred feet in size, with dense runes surging on it. There was a pavilion in each of the four corners, and a man was sitting cross-legged below. Tang Ning's consciousness scanned it, and he saw that these four people were all golden elixir cultivators.

When they saw the two people entering, the four people did not raise their heads and were still sitting cross-legged.

The golden-armored ant was being imprisoned in one of the cages, which was neither gold nor wood. Tangning walked closer and saw it lying on the bottom, its whole body bound by unknown black runes, unable to move at all.

"Can you release it from this cage so I can take a look?" Tangning asked.

The woman replied: "Sorry, our court has regulations that no one is allowed to touch the participating spirit beasts until before the competition. Neither we nor the owners of the spirit beasts can touch them in advance until the ring starts."

Tang Ning watched for a while, and he could vaguely feel that the golden armored ant seemed to be very tired and sleepy at the moment.

"Don't worry, fellow Taoist Tang, these runes will not damage its body, they will just make it unable to move. We have prepared a resting place for the contestants. We will return the spirit beasts to you fellow Taoist only after the betting game is over. We will never

It will hurt it."

Tangning nodded, and the two of them exited the light curtain and disappeared into the distance.

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In Fenghua City, a huge thunder boat slowly moved out from the exit of the city. Silver arcs flashed across its body, straight into the sky, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

On the top deck of the ship, various huge cannons stood, and on the bow of the ship, flags were flying.

Jiang Yuhuan stood on the bow of the boat, looking at the mountains and rivers passing by beneath his feet. The carefree look on his face remained the same, but his eyes were deep.

Suddenly there was the sound of footsteps behind him, and he saw a woman with waist and fat buttocks and skin as radiant as snow walking slowly towards her. It was Nangong Feiyue, a former disciple of Shuiyun Sect.

Jiang Yuhuan smiled and said: "You are not here to collect debt from me, are you? I am penniless now."

Nangong Feiyue ignored him and walked in front of him, standing side by side with him, leaning on the bow of the ship, looking at the sunset: "This time our column went to garrison Qingdao, why didn't we see fellow Taoist Tang Ning alone? He wasn't there in the first place.

The third brigade?”

"I didn't expect you to care about him."

Nangong Feiyue's face turned cold.

Jiang Yuhuan smiled: "I don't know either. I seem to have heard that Junior Brother Tang was transferred from the Seventh Column. I don't know where exactly he went."

Nangong Feiyue glanced at him sideways: "What about you? Why don't you leave? You are Hou Yi from the Jiang family in Qingzhou. Our seventh column inspector seems to be a descendant of the Jiang family. I heard that he has met you? Are you going to be arrested?

Transferred to the direct command of the column? Why not go?"

"The tone sounded like you were reviewing. I forgot that you were from the Inspection Department before."

"I'm asking you something." Nangong Feiyue's face darkened.

Jiang Yuhuan shrugged, leaning on the bow of the boat with a lazy look: "What difference does it make where you go?"

"Let me tell you a secret. I have always believed that everyone has his own destiny."

"Since he first came into this world, he has been carrying his unique mission. What achievements will a person achieve, or when will he die? It has already been destined, and this cannot be changed."

"So life and death are not important. You can't control it at all. Living in the world is like a puppet with strings. It has no meaning in itself because the ending cannot be changed."

"What is really interesting is the process, the process from birth to death, the scenery experienced in a lifetime, and the mood of looking at the scenery."

"It's like when you see a flower blooming, what's really interesting is the process of it blooming."

"When it fully blooms, it is the beginning of its withering. Although it looks outward, it is actually withered on the inside."

Nangong Feiyue snorted coldly: "That's a bunch of nonsense."

"You don't believe it? Let's do this! I'll give you a divination." Jiang Yuhuan turned his left hand, took out a pair of golden turtle shells, handed it to her and said, "Try it."

Nangong Feiyue glanced at him, but saw a smile on his face and a strange look in his eyes. She originally dismissed it and was about to refute it, but by some mistake, she took the turtle shell naturally and shook it.

Hand it back to him.

Jiang Yuhuan took the turtle shell and opened it. There were more than ten simple copper coins scattered inside: "Hey! This hexagram is not very good. It seems that you have a bad fate."

"That's nonsense." Nangong Feiyue said expressionlessly, "What about you! What's your hexagram?"

"Haven't you heard? Doctors don't heal themselves, and divination people don't divination. How can you do it for yourself? This is a big taboo."

Nangong Feiyue did not continue to get involved in this topic and asked: "If the war with Mu Bei ends, will you return to Xingang?"

"Won't."

"Why? Aren't people like you who take things easy and don't care about life and death the same everywhere?"

"When did I say that I don't care about life and death? I just said that life and death are determined and cannot be changed by humans. These are two different things. Don't misinterpret them."

"You haven't answered me yet why?"

"Didn't I say it? The important thing is the process and the scenery along the way. Xingang is like a well. You can see so much scenery when you are in the well! Have you ever seen a frog that jumped out of the well and returned to the bottom of the well?

"

"So, you are going back to Jiang's house?"

"It's the same wherever you go, be it a casual cultivator, free and easy, or a member of the Xuanmen Chamber of Commerce's cultivating family! It doesn't make much difference to me. On the other hand, you probably won't go back to Xingang again! Where are you going?"

Nangong Feiyue said: "How do you know I won't return to Xingang?"

Jiang Yuhuan said: "Everyone has his own special mission since birth. Some people never find it throughout their lives, some people find it but give up, and some people persist but fail. In this world, those who truly complete their mission

There are only a few people.”

"As for your mission, you can figure it out if you think about it carefully."

"You were born in the Mubei Grassland and grew up in a village of non-monster clan. You have no shortage of martial arts inheritance. Why did you come to Xingang instead of staying close by? This is definitely not your personal wish. It must be the result of the discussion among the elders of the non-monster clan.

.”

"Why did the non-monster elders send you to the Xuanmen sect on Qinghai Island? Isn't it because the Xuanmen sect was very powerful at that time and I hope you can integrate into it?"

"You are here with a mission and tasks. I would make a bold guess that the elders of the non-monster clan dispersed you young children to various Xuanmen. The purpose is for you to master the center of the Xuanmen, thereby giving back to the non-monster clan and improving the non-monster clan.

status of the clan.”

"Presumably the elders of the clan should have told you about these things before you left!"

"But now that Xuanmen is declining and the world is in chaos, I heard that there are many non-monsters in the Mubei coalition. You have already occupied a place in Mubei, so why bother to serve Xuanmen! What's more, Xingang is small and weak, and Yu Gongyu
To be continued...