If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 453: The Fate of the Golden Carp (Additional chapter for the reward from the leader of the "Lolita Destroyer Control")

"Master, you saw it. Yu Fengxian is really rude and bold, treacherous and cunning. She even dares to use words to threaten you and the old master." Xiao Yu's figure disappeared in the private room, and Li Rongji immediately said with indignation.

"You are indeed very courageous. If you don't know the meaning of 'the ancestor of earthly immortals', it would be fine.

Now that she knows that the Patriarch is a friend of the Three Pure Ones, she still dares to actively ask for benefits.

This kind of just-right thick-skinnedness, as long as it doesn't die halfway, will surely become a great thing in the future." Master Xuanyin said with emotion.

Li Rongji's expression froze, and he murmured, "Why didn't the real person take it as an offense, but instead admired her?"

Xuanyin Zhenren said calmly: "Although she seems to be trying to control me and indirectly coerce the Patriarch, she has not slandered Wuzhuang Temple and the Patriarch.

What she seeks is not wealth and glory in the world, but the great way.

When immortals save mortals, the greatest test for them is their persistence in the Great Dao.

When mortals ask immortals for wealth, honor and power, the immortals are disgusted; when mortals ask for the great way with the utmost sincerity, any immortal will be very happy.

Yu Fengxian is so determined to pursue the Dao that she seizes every opportunity she has. I don't like her audacity, but I admire her Dao heart."

"My disciple's determination to pursue the Dao is also very firm." Li Rongji said immediately.

Xuan Yin Zhenren glanced at him and asked, "If you abandon your family and career and go to Wanshou Mountain to be a sweeping disciple for thirty years, even if you are destined not to become an immortal in this life, you can accumulate immortal fate for the next life. Are you willing?"

Li Rongji stammered, "My heart is willing, but I have the responsibility of my country and family, so I dare not go against the will of heaven."

He himself felt embarrassed and quickly changed the subject, saying, "Master, did you get any results from your investigation of the ancient Dragon Palace in the underground water veins of Nanping Mountain this time?"

Xuanyin Zhenren said: "The Ancient Dragon Palace has long left the Nanping Mountain area."

Li Rongji nodded and said, "I have also heard from Uncle Wang that the Dragon Palace and Water Palace can move, just like a small boat in an underground waterway, and can appear anywhere in the Black Dragon River Basin.

Has the real person tracked its current location?"

Xuanyin Zhenren sighed: "The current in the waterway is turbulent and turbulent, and the deepest part is more than ten thousand feet deep.

I used the Water Avoidance Technique to sneak in, but I couldn't last half an hour.

Moreover, the waterways under the abyss are chaotic and disorganized, and even the direction is difficult to determine. "

He is not a river monster.

If you are hit by turbulent currents and lose your direction, you may die directly in the abyss, and even your soul will not be able to escape.

All he could do was measure the water level and deduce the approximate location of the ancient Dragon Palace when it would appear in the human world next time.

It is enough to know this. After all, the real destined person is not him, but Prince Qinghe Li Jingyu.

Even if he found the ancient dragon palace at the bottom of the abyss, could Li Jingyu go down or dare to go down?

He was a powerful earthly immortal with ten thousand years of cultivation, but he could only hold out for half an hour.

Even though Li Jingyu was destined to be the master of the Dragon Palace, he still had to wait for the Dragon Palace to "surface" on its own.

Just like the last time, the Dragon Palace was stuck in the underground waterway of Nanping Mountain. Although the water flow was still turbulent and chaotic, at least all the powerful humans and immortals could enter and get close.

Last time, Li Jingyu was not the only one who went to Nanping Mountain’s underground water veins to explore for treasures.

For example, Ge Qingyun, the "Wave-Treading Fairy" who almost beat him to death with an iron paddle.

All we can say is that Li Jingyu has a destiny, but that doesn't mean there are no other destined people.

Even if there is no destiny, if you hear that there is an ancient water palace in Nanping Mountain, others can try their luck.

At this time, the "treasure hunt time" was over, and Li Jingyu failed to open the Dragon Palace. It once again sank into the "abyss" along the underground waterway, floating around in the water veins thousands of feet deep from the surface.

After a pause, Xuanyin Zhenren continued slowly: "This trip to Nanping Mountain took a month or two, mainly for two major events.

First, calculate the time and approximate range of the next appearance of the Ancient Dragon Palace.

It will be convenient for the prince to seize the initiative and then test fate.

Secondly, help the prince find the final 'key'."

The last time, Li Jingyu had already arrived at the gate of the Dragon Palace and saw the shadowy silhouette of the Dragon Palace, but he was swept away by a vortex because he still lacked the last "immortal fate".

That immortal fate is the "key" to open the vortex and enter the gate of Dragon Palace.

"Can the real person achieve the goal?" Li Rongji asked with concern.

Xuan Yin Zhenren nodded gently and said with a smile: "Fortunately, the prince has a map of the underground water veins of the Black Dragon River given by the Ba Snake God.

Although I cannot enter the deepest water veins to search for the Dragon Palace, I can calculate the location where the Dragon Palace will appear through the water flow.

The next time the Dragon Palace appears, it will be in the territory of Western Shu.

At that time, we will dispatch 100,000 troops to block the nearby counties and prefectures to ensure that no one will compete with the prince for the opportunity."

Li Rongji asked curiously, "When and where will the next birth take place? If it is located in the border area, it will be difficult to settle down a hundred thousand troops, even if it is easy to mobilize them!"

With the national strength of Western Shu, it would not be difficult to grit their teeth, draw troops from various counties, and form an army of 100,000.

The difficulty lies in logistical supplies.

To mobilize 100,000 soldiers and horses, at least 500,000 civilians must be conscripted at the same time.

If we want to march thousands of miles, we will have to involve millions of people.

Transporting one stone of grain to the front line may consume twenty or even two hundred times the amount of grain.

Before the Rebellion of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms, Western Shu had to go through turmoil once or twice, but it was nothing.

Now West Shu is in the stage of recuperation, and the soldiers in the county government must be on guard against evil spirits.

If they were really forced to leave their hometown to search for the immortal palace, they would most likely rebel.

Don't think there was no rebellion in Western Shu.

Isn’t “Qingling”, Aunt Liu’s childhood friend, the daughter of a rebel general?
Xuanyin Zhenren hesitated for a moment before saying, "Six years later, it will be eighty miles north of Yingxiang Prefecture."

"Is it so close to Yingxiang Mansion?" Li Rongji breathed a sigh of relief first.

Yingxiang Prefecture has the vast Heilong River Plain, and the grain produced each year cannot be eaten up, so it has to be transported to Luodu.

It is easy to feed an army of 100,000 for one or two months.

Then he asked in confusion: "Nanping Mountain is thousands of miles away from Yingxiang Prefecture. How can the Water Prefecture be so far away?"

Taoist Xuanyin said: "What's the big deal about running to Nanping Mountain? The entire Black Dragon River stretches for thousands of miles. Counting the tributaries and nearby lakes and rivers, you can calculate how big and wide it is. The ancient Dragon Palace can appear anywhere within the range." The source and end of the Black Dragon River are not within the territory of Western Shu.

The Heilong River basin affects several nearby vassal states.

Therefore, the ancient Dragon Palace may appear outside of Western Shu.

The last time, Nanping Mountain went deep into the Ten Thousand Mountains in the South, which was theoretically not within the territory of Western Shu. Of course, the Western Shu Li family had always claimed that the Ten Thousand Mountains in the South were also the territory of Western Shu.

Even now that Xiaoyu "invented" the art of smelting iron by pulling out iron rods along the Liusha River, the Ten Thousand Mountains in the south are still the most important mining area in Western Shu.

Wasn’t Song Changqing exiled to the southern mountains to guard the miners?
"It's a good thing that it appeared near Yingxiang Mansion, but we have to wait six years." Li Rongji frowned. The Li family has been planning for the Ancient Dragon Palace for decades. Six years is not a long time, but six years is enough time for many variables to appear.

Xuan Yin Zhenren laughed and said, "Don't think six years is too long. If the Dragon Palace cannot be opened after six years, the next time the Dragon Palace appears will be thirty-six years later. The fourth time will be 216 years, and the fifth time will be 1296 years. Until the end of an era, reincarnation will start again."

"Ah, if that's the case, if he fails next time, Uncle Wang might..." Li Rongji's face changed drastically, and he asked anxiously: "Master, have you found Uncle Qinghe's last chance?"

Xuan Yin Zhenren said: "We haven't found it, but we have locked down its approximate location."

Li Rongji asked in surprise: "Where is it?"

Xuan Yin Zhenren asked back: "Your Highness, can't you guess it?"

——You don’t have any clues at all, how can I guess? Hey, the real person asked me to guess, which means the clue is very obvious.

Li Rongji thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "Could it be in Yingxiang Mansion?"

Xuan Yin Zhenren smiled and said, "The Dragon Palace and Water Palace gave us instructions!

The last time it appeared in the underground water veins of Nanping Mountain, how many miracles did the prince encounter in Nanping Mountain?

Now it is about to appear in Yingxiang Prefecture, and the key is likely to be nearby."

Li Rongji was excited and asked again: "Yingxiang Mansion is not small. It is still very difficult to find a needle in a haystack. Are there any other signs?"

Xuan Yin Zhenren smiled faintly and said, "What did the prince see when he was swept into the underground undercurrent by the Dragon Palace water hole?"

Li Rongji said: "I saw a golden carp blowing bubbles at him."

Xuan Yin Zhenren laughed loudly, "Isn't this omen obvious enough? Yingxiang Mansion is very large, and there must be limited items, landscapes, and people related to the golden carp in Yingxiang Mansion."

Li Rongji felt as if he had suddenly become enlightened and his spiritual perception was greatly improved.

He had a strong premonition: Master Xuanyin had really grasped the key.

This premonition is not an illusion.

He is the Crown Prince of Western Shu and the nominal future head of the Li family.

Although the Dragon Palace inheritance is not of benefit to him, it is closely related to his fate, the fate of West Shu, and the Li family.

Now Lee Young-gi has a sense of fulfillment that his destiny is in his hands.

This was completely the opposite of the empty and irritated feeling he had when Prince Qinghe lost his opportunity.

"Master is indeed very wise! With just a few words, I, your disciple, have already felt something, and my spiritual sense has been touched."

Li Rongji stood up and bowed to Master Xuanyin to express his gratitude sincerely.

Xuan Yin Zhenren received the prince's gift and said something humble and truthful, "Your Highness is ultimately a man of destiny. Although it is difficult to defy the will of heaven, it is even harder to break destiny!

I just borrowed the prince's "fortune".

All revelations now are manifestations of destiny."

"Master, how can I cooperate with you in finding the 'Golden Carp Romance'?" Li Rongji asked excitedly.

Xuan Yin Zhenren smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will go to Luodu soon.

Probably after the Chinese New Year, the prince will come to Yingxiang Mansion in person.

The prince is a man of destiny, so it is most appropriate for him to come and find his own opportunity.

Moreover, it must be carried out quietly, trying not to disturb the "heaven", the "earth", or people.

If you search for it now with great fanfare, you might alert the enemy and cause the 'Golden Carp Romance' to flow to other places."

"Heaven" represents the gods in heaven. After all, Li Jingyu's destiny was deprived by "God".

"Earth" represents ghosts and gods in the underworld.

The "Lord of the Dragon Palace" itself represents a "great god's position", so it is inevitable that some ghosts and gods will become greedy.

To enter the underground water veins of Nanping Mountain to search for traces of the Dragon Palace, it would be most appropriate to ask the river god or lake god for help.

But the Prince of Qinghe would rather seek help from the dog-meat Taoist priest who has no martial arts skills and no powerful magic to protect him.

After the dog-meat Taoist priest politely declined, he went to find Chijiuluo.

Chijiuluo is disabled, so only the great earthly immortal of Wanshou Mountain, Xuanyin Zhenren, can take action personally.

"People" refer to the strange individuals who also have their eyes on the Dragon Palace, as well as the "lucky people" who have some cause and effect relationship with the Dragon Palace.

Last time, the Wave-Treading Immortal Ge Qingyun wanted to kill Li Jingyu.

Now that the relationship has fallen out, the conflict will only become more intense.

Li Rongji's face changed slightly, and he said in a hoarse voice: "The Ancient Dragon Palace will appear in the world in six years. Six years is not long, but it is not short either. Uncle Prince Qinghe will not live in Yingxiang Mansion from now on, right?"

Yingxiang Prefecture (including Tianmen Town) is the richest and most important place in Western Shu.

The territory originally belonged to the Prince of Qinghe.

Li Jingyu's title "Qinghe" actually refers to the Qingshui River in Tianmen Town.

Rivers like the Heilong River and the Liang River have vast basins, covering tens of thousands of miles, and are not suitable to be the fiefdom of a prince.

Now the King of Shu has arranged for the Crown Prince to come to Yingxiang Mansion with the purpose of taking over power from the Prince of Qinghe.

After all, Prince Qinghe has already gotten the biggest piece of the pie: the inheritance of the Ancient Dragon Palace.

If he succeeds in opening the Dragon Palace, Li Jingyu can at least become the master of the Black Dragon River and become a true god.

Even Tianmen Town and Yingxiang Prefecture are just a small corner of the vast Black Dragon River Basin.

"I don't know. Let's see how the prince arranges it." said Master Xuanyin.

(End of this chapter)