Chapter 532 Return to Black Prison

Although Xu Yuan's words were a joke, they were actually somewhat serious.

Although he was staying at home now, he still needed a lot of money. The showdown with his father on New Year's Eve directly put the matter of setting up the Sword Sect on the agenda.

This is going to be expensive.

And not only that, his plan to use Li Yunqing to lay out Japan also required money and food.

Xu Yuan had personally seen the logistics accounts of the Beifeng Army when he was Li Qingyan's personal guard in the north.

In peacetime, a battalion of 5,000 elites will receive about three to four hundred thousand taels of silver just for military pay and spiritual food per month. However, during wartime, military subsidy plus the loss of spiritual blades and war equipment, all kinds of trivial things add up to less than It is said that it will start at 700,000 taels.

Due to the special environment of the Deadly Underground Palace, Xiaobai's underground remnants are more like a religious army built by fanatics than Dayan's army. As long as they are provided with food and military pay, it will be fine, but the problem is that now An army only has personnel and no equipment. Silver is needed to build new armors, spiritual blades and various types of ordnance.

Xu Yuan thought about asking his father to solve the problem. At this time when the chaos was about to start, there were so many combatable soldiers out of thin air. The other party had no reason to refuse. But the problem was that after the ordnance was installed by the Prime Minister's Mansion, this army But he can't move it at will.

So he had to figure out how to get the money himself.

Of course, Xu Yuan could also leave this mess to Li Yunqing. After all, it was him who wanted to borrow troops, and it was obviously reasonable for him to figure out a way to deal with the ordnance.

But in this way, the loaned army can easily be manipulated and corrupted by Li Yunqing. There is no need to doubt the loyalty of the religious army of fanatical believers, but it cannot keep others from "taking charge of the food".

It is best to maintain a certain supply of money and food for this loaned army. It may not be much, but it must at least be able to maintain the basic operations of the army.

Either of these two things is a bottomless pit that requires a huge amount of money and food to fill, and Xu Yuan does not have a stable source of income now, so he naturally focuses on these four sisters.

He raised eight million taels of silver by selling his exercises to her. Is it reasonable for him to use a few million to do other things?

But it is a pity that Dora A Yao did not give Xu Yuan this opportunity.

As soon as the fourth sister heard that her scientific research funds were going to be used, she knelt down in front of Xu Yuan at the speed of light. After she knelt down, she said "Third brother, I'll wait for you below" and ran away.

Using the formation magic weapon, the speed is not weaker than that of the Grand Master.

Looking at the beautiful figure that disappeared in an instant, Xu Yuan frowned and realized a problem.

This girl seemed to be letting him go all the time.

If there was a fight, it seemed like he wouldn't even be able to beat these four sisters.

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After Xu Xinyao left, Ran Qingmo agreed to Xu Yuan's invitation, walked through the snow in the inner courtyard, and followed him through a secret room in the inner courtyard towards the dark prison.

Looking at the seemingly endless dark corridor in front of them, the gentle footsteps of the two people echoed carefully.

After walking together for a long distance, Xu Yuan felt the breath of the girl next to him, looked at the dark environment around him, and suddenly whispered like a whisper:

"Ran Qingmo, do you think it's a bit dark here?"

"Um?"

Ran Qingmo groaned: "What's wrong?"

"It's such a dark place, do you want to hold me?"

"Xu Yuan, my cultivation level is higher than yours."

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After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan's expression did not change at all, and he stretched out his hand to pull Ran Qingmo directly:

"I mean I can't see the road a little bit."

Ran Qing Moyu raised his hand to avoid it, his eyes were suspicious:

"But you've already melted."

Seeing this, Xu Yuan directly moved towards Ran Qingmo's slender waist, and his voice was sincere:

"This is a restriction on my technique. Even if you are a master, don't you still know how to make fire?"

"But you can make a fire."

Ran Qingmo took a step back and dodged Xu Yuan's grasping hand. After a moment of pause, she whispered again:

"If you can't see clearly, why don't you light a fire now?"

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Damn it, he suddenly felt a little bit what the old man Ran Jianli was feeling just now, and what was even more desperate was that even if he wanted to use force, the gap in cultivation meant that he could not touch this big ice lump at all.

While feeling depressed, Xu Yuan suddenly felt that the hand he was withdrawing was held by a cold and delicate hand.

Xu Yuan subconsciously raised his eyes and met the girl's quiet and calm gaze:

"If you want to take me with you, you can just say so directly, Xu Yuan."

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"The Black Prison is deep underground, some distance from the surface. We may need to walk for a while." Xu Yuan took Da Bing Tuozi's boneless cold jade hand and said softly while walking down. : "When you get down there, remember to activate the temporary soul key that Xu Changge gave you."

"Yeah, okay." Ran Qingmo followed closely behind him and responded softly.

The stairs spiraled downwards, and the stone walls on both sides were not illuminated. After a while, the two of them entered a large stone room.

The six inner walls of the stone chamber are all regular and even, except for a spherical line engraved on the ground, like a round platform.

Pulling Ran Qingmo to the center of the ball, Xu Yuan said softly:

"We have arrived at the entrance. Now activate the soul key. Once the formation identifies your identity, we can go down."

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Upon hearing this, Ran Qingmo immediately activated the soul key in his hand with his mind and soul.

The next moment,

A rumbling vibration sounded without any warning, and with this vibration, the round platform under the feet of the two began to slowly descend.

Looking at the vibrations around him, Ran Qingmo looked around with a little curiosity, and asked in a low voice:

"Xu Yuan, this round platform doesn't seem to be driven by the formation?"

Accompanied by the sound of heavy gears running, Xu Yuan smiled and explained:

"Yes, all the building materials in the Black Prison have the attribute of absolute spirit, so it is naturally impossible to engrave ordinary formations. This formation is just a means of activation. The gear mechanism is used to raise and lower the round platform."

Speaking of this, Xu Yuan paused and instructed:

"By the way, remember not to take out the source crystal down there. The monsters imprisoned in the Black Prison may cause trouble even if they have only a trace of source qi."

"Oh, okay." Ran Qingmo.

The Black Prison is a huge underground building complex. Although it is far inferior to the Dead Silence Underground Palace, in order to avoid the detection of the powerful Di An, it is still far away from the surface. The lifting platform descended from slow to fast until it slowly slowed down and stopped half a quarter of an hour later. When it completely stopped, a deep and narrow corridor came into the eyes of Xu Yuan and Ran Qingmo.

Stepping into it, the walls of the corridor were hung with torches to provide some lighting, casting the shadows of the two people in a shadowy way. After walking out for more than ten feet, an ancient wooden door quietly emerged at a fork in the road.

This is the entrance to the inner courtyard of the Xiangfu, and it is also the end of the Black Prison, where the living room of the Black Prison Sikou is located.

It is the old room that Xu Yuan had been to before.

Just as he was hesitating whether to take Ran Qingmo in to say hello to Qing, Xu Yuan found that the wooden door was pushed open from the inside.

A tall figure in a black robe walked out slowly from inside.

Just as he was about to speak, Xu Yuan's eyes twitched uncontrollably.

In his peripheral vision, he saw the big ice ball beside him take out the ink sword.

The atmosphere in the narrow corridor froze instantly.

The moment she saw the man in black robe, Ran Qingmo felt a chilling murderous intent enveloping her.

The tense atmosphere lasted for a moment, and Xu Yuan belatedly sensed the murderous intent in the air. His spiritual vision swept through it instantly, and then he was relieved.

Qing was staring at the hand he and Ran Qingmo were holding.

Single dogs are like this, they can't stand seeing people show affection, not to mention that Qing himself is a little unstable mentally.

Thinking of this, Xu Yuan sighed in his heart.

Moreover,

Qing should have mistaken him for someone else.

Raising his hand and shaking it in front of Qing, Xu Yuan whispered:

"Hey, hey, hey, look carefully, although I may look a bit like you, don't mistake me for my father when he was young."

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As soon as the voice fell, the murderous intent dissipated instantly.

Qing, who was covered by a black robe, withdrew his gaze. A sweet and lovely voice came out faintly, with some disgust and disdain, as if looking at a plague god:

"Xu Changtian, why are you here again?"

Xu Yuan didn't care about the other party's tone at all, and said softly:

"You came out just in time. I want to go to the Heaven-level Prison to see someone."

"You have the soul key, can't you just go there directly?"

After saying that, Qing took a step back and was about to shrink back to his room.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan hurriedly said:

"I want to go to Yin Liulan's cell. That place requires your or Lou Ji's soul key."

"Yin Liulan?"

Qing's footsteps paused, and the eyes under the black robe were a little scrutinizing:

"What are you going there for?"

"My father asked me to go there to do something today." Xu Yuan thought about it and made up a lie. Anyway, Qing couldn't go to his father to confirm.

Hearing this, Qing's eyes hidden under the black robe flickered for a moment, and she whispered softly:

"That's right, today seems to be the first day of the new year, come with me."

After that, she was ready to lead the way.

Seeing Qing's matter-of-fact behavior, Xu Yuan was stunned for a moment:

"Ah? What's the first day of the new year?"

Qing's cold eyes immediately swept over, with a little amusement in his eyes:

"Xu Changtian, other people may not know, but I am the chief prosecutor of the Black Prison. I know very well what the identity of the prisoners in Yin Liulan's cell is. What are you pretending in front of me?"