One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 315 Chapter 316: The Prince Enters the Midnight
Zhou Suo is the 32nd prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He is accompanied by his sister Zhou Yourong.

Their mother was the Shu Guifei of the current dynasty. She was born into the Zhang family of Hejian. Although she was not the empress, she played an important role in the imperial palace.

Since the queen has no children, Zhou Suo is a strong contender for the next king.

This time, the two of them entered the polar night for only one thing, which was to go to Hesheng City to buy some spiritual materials to go back and refine the Imperial Golden Pill.

This Huangji Golden Pill is the Infant Transformation Pill passed down from generation to generation in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Except for the first generation Emperor Wu who succeeded in refining it, no monarchs of subsequent generations succeeded in refining it.

Among them, several spiritual materials left by the founding emperor have been consumed.

Therefore, the current monarch cannot even refine a furnace of the Imperial Golden Elixir, and needs to purchase it. Some of them require going to Hesheng City in the polar night to have a chance to buy them.

As for whether you can really buy it, you have to go to Hesheng City to confirm it.

This Hesheng City is located in the polar night sky. It can be considered a town, but it is not just a town, but a city.

The biggest feature of this city lies in the two words "Hesheng".

When humans and demons are born together as one, it is called unity.

Some cultivators, unable to break through, try grafting their bodies to extend their lifespans or even make up for certain deficiencies in themselves, thus achieving a breakthrough.

So this Hesheng City is another evil city. The people inside may look like humans, but they may also be monsters. They may look like monsters, but they may actually be humans.

However, because the mayor of Hesheng City was powerful and had established rules, selling things there was still fair, so Hesheng City gradually developed into a large market.

Zhou Suo and Zhou Yourong were both Purple Mansion cultivators. Among the people escorting them was an elder from the Zhang family. This elder was a little special. He had lived in a huge black altar for many years and was carried in a horse-drawn carriage.

In addition, there are Zhang Feng, one of the most outstanding sons of the Zhang family this generation, and Zhang He, and a team of one hundred Taoist soldiers. In addition, there are two Purple Mansion cultivators invited from Yanming Mountain in the north of the royal city.

There were actually six Purple Mansions and one unknown Golden Core cultivator among the group.

Zhou Suo didn't know much about the Zhang family's golden elixir who lived in the black altar. He only knew that he was once called Zhang Jian. According to seniority, he should be his uncle and he had held him in his arms when he was a child.

He had heard from his mother that this uncle had been to Hesheng City during the Zifu period, and had already achieved Golden Elixir when he returned.

But the strange thing was that the Zhang family did not hold any Golden Elixir Banquet at all. Everything was normal when he first came back, but not long after, this uncle stopped going out and locked himself in the house. Later, he sealed all the windows of the house and hung thick cloth inside.

He seemed to be extremely afraid of light, and later, he even sealed himself in a large jar.

This person and this matter are secrets in the Zhang family, and only very few people in the Zhang family know about it.

But this time, the Zhang family asked him to follow them. Zhou Suo was actually not very happy about this, because he felt that although the person in the jar was his uncle, he didn't know what he had become over the years. It was too evil.

Because every day I have to burn incense on this black altar,
And a small sacrifice must be performed every three days. This is what the Zhang family told him. The method of the small sacrifice is more bloody and weird.

It required blood sacrifices of three kinds of animals, and Zhou Suo didn't like doing this. In his opinion, as a prince, he always sacrificed these evil creatures of unknown origin, which was really a disgrace to his status.

So it was Zhang He from the Zhang family who did it all the way, and another member of the Zhang family, Zhang Feng, would avoid it. He seemed to be a little unhappy about it, but he just didn't say it out loud.

The black altar was placed in a big black sedan chair and covered tightly with black cloth. Zhang He performed the sacrifice every day at midnight. At that time, he felt that the people in the altar had woken up, so after he performed the sacrifice, he covered the sedan chair with black cloth. When he looked at it again the next day, the offerings would become dry.

Zhou Suo stood aside, looking at the sky, with Zhou Yourong and Zhang Feng next to him.

"The road we are taking leads to the Ghost-Swallowing Castle. I heard that there is a disciple from Tiandu Mountain living there. He has been practicing here on the edge of the mountain for many years and must be very familiar with the polar night. It would be a good opportunity to recruit him to join us when the time comes." Zhang Feng suggested to Zhou Suo.

Zhou Suo stood with his hands behind his back, facing the wind, his hair blowing.

He didn't say anything, but Zhou Yourong beside him said, "A disciple from Tiandu Mountain who can practice here must be a person of great ability. I'm afraid he won't be willing to accept our call."

"Then it depends on whether Master Feng Lei's Thunder Order is useful." Zhou Suo said lightly.

In fact, he had no idea whether the Thunder Order would work or not. After all, Feng Lei Zhenren from Tiandu Mountain had a vague feeling of division when he left the mountain and went to the capital. He did not even return to Tiandu Mountain after he reached the Nascent Soul stage.

But you have to try it after all.

They headed towards the Ghost-Swallowing Castle, from where they could enter the Midnight Sky.
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Zhao Fuyun was pondering the natural runes on the tiger frog. This rune could make it change its size according to his heart. It was not afraid of fire, could avoid water, and was tough and could fission. So many days had passed, and it had not withered. Zhao Fuyun felt that it could freely absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

Zhao Fuyun studied the runes and learned how to perfectly connect them together to form a complete restriction.

Only when two or more runes are combined together can it be called a ban.

Many people can draw talismans and rune patterns, but it is difficult to make them into a ban.

Talismans and runes are different.

The talisman includes runes, but also the name of the talisman, some other structural things, and even some spells.

A talisman is like a symbol, representing a meaning, and then it is reflected by the corresponding name of a deity. Through the entire structure, the meaning of this talisman is limited to a range, making it more holistic and organized.

As for the prohibition, it is to combine many runes together to form a whole without a name. It is like writing an article or a paragraph with runes to form a complete expression.

There are no gods' names in the prohibition because putting multiple gods' names together will cause conflict, and the prohibition's primary goal is to avoid interruption of the meaning of the law, and also to avoid being too complicated and cumbersome. Too much complexity and cumbersomeness will make it difficult to record too many things in the limited space. Something that can be said in one sentence requires more than ten sentences. This is an obstacle to expression.

Zhao Fuyun looked at the natural restriction in front of him and the complete closed loop formed on it. After learning and comprehending it, Zhao Fuyun felt that it was of great help to him.

He wanted to refine a robe, so naturally he needed to embroider runes and prohibitions on it.

He needs to embroider the runes he needs within a limited range. Being able to draw runes into forbidden symbols has naturally surpassed many cultivators, but making the runes more concise, more integrated and clear should be a cultivator's lifelong pursuit.

Zhao Fuyun was constructing his own robe talisman in his mind. He felt that the talisman on the skin of the tiger-skin frog could be used.

However, more things need to be added, because he was thinking that his robe would carry the Taixu Qiankun Sleeve Technique in the future.

　I'll update one chapter first, and then there's more.

　　
　
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