Chapter 566 Xifeng Mountain

The sky is blue and vast, and the long narrow road is only a carriage moving slowly. The heavy wheels roll over the ice and snow, splashing snow mist, and the years are peaceful.

Xu Yuan stretched lazily, leaned on the soft bed, opened the car window and looked at both sides of the official road.

The distant mountains are like ink, and a river divides the two banks. The magnificent mountains and rivers of the Central Plains hills are immediately in sight.

The scenery is beautiful, but Xu Yuan's eyes are full of fatigue.

It has been more than a month since I left Beijing. No matter how beautiful the scenery is, it will always be boring if I continue to look at it for a month.

The only thing that can comfort myself is probably that the scenery outside has changed a little bit over time.

When we just set out from Di'an, the mountains and rivers in late winter were all white. The falling snow throughout the winter almost dyed the whole world into a white waterfall. Today, the snow has melted, and dots of lush green gradually appear in sight, spreading wildly at an extremely fast speed.

Another new year is coming.

Blowing the breeze of early spring, savoring the morning tea handed by Xiaobai, Xu Yuan glanced at the black-clothed girl sitting cross-legged on the futon opposite.

As his royal treasure-hunting concubine, Da Bingtuozi must be brought with him on this trip to Beijing, and in order to let her travel with him, Xu Yuan even asked his father to come forward and run to Ran Jianli to make up a lie.

But today he regrets it a little.

He should let Ran Qingmo wait for him directly in the desert after a while, and he should take Bai Muxi to the Feng family's ancestral land alone to get the token of the Feng family's treasure and then go to meet her.

If this is the arrangement, the one-month trip may pass in a blink of an eye, instead of living like a year like now.

This was probably the first time in Xu Yuan's past and present lives that he hated this long journey so much.

He wanted to find Xiao Bai to pursue excitement, but the carriage was too small and he couldn't do it at all.

At the beginning of this journey, Xu Yuan occasionally took Bai Muxi to the mountains and forests for a walk, but gradually Ran Qingmo became suspicious.

Because the time was too long.

Later, after consideration, Xu Yuan stopped doing this.

A life of indulgence will make the threshold of desire continue to rise, and constantly pursue higher stimulation, while a life of abstinence can make the next pleasure reach the peak.

But the price of abstinence is boredom.

Xu Yuan can't even find someone to talk to now.

The big ice ball, who is practicing the King of Rolls all the time, seems to have infected Biluochun. The two women are now staying in the carriage every day to practice rolling each other, as if they want to see who can break through the origin first.

This is hard for Xu Yuan.

These two women can practice, but he can't.

If Xu Yuan wants to practice with his physique, he must use the formation at home to extract the essence of ghosts and aliens, and the fourth sister has not yet developed a portable formation.

As for sinking his mind to study magic?

Xu Yuan wants to do so, but he dares not.

Because studying magic will consume source energy.

Before leaving, Xu Xinyao only made him more than ten strange crystals to replenish the black source energy in his body. If he uses one, he will have one less. If he wastes blindly, if he encounters danger at that time, the source energy in his body will be exhausted and he can only wait for death.

After a month's journey, Xu Yuan already felt like ants were crawling all over his body.

Travel?

Imprisonment!

Rubbing his eyebrows, Xu Yuan glanced at his side.

Sure enough, Bai Muxi, who had just made morning tea for him, had already sat on the futon next to Ran Qingmo without saying a word and continued to read.

One was dressed in pure white, the other in black. It was pleasing to the eye at first glance, but after staring for a long time, Xu Yuan still retracted his gaze, and his narrow eyes, which had turned into dead fish eyes, unconsciously scanned back and forth over the boundless blue sky.

Sure enough,

He should have asked Da Bingtuozi to go directly to the West Desert to wait for him

Thinking about these messy things in his mind, I don’t know how long it took, until the sun was high, Xu Yuan caught a glimpse of a tiny black shadow in the distant blue sky rushing towards the car.

Seeing this scene, Xu Yuan’s wandering mind was shocked.

Finally a letter?

Mumbling in his heart, Xu Yuan immediately sat up and stretched a palm out of the car window.

From time to time, the black dot in the sky turned into a sparrow with a purple tail and landed obediently on Xu Yuan’s fingertips, with a rolled-up paper door tied to a thin rope on its small claws.

Purple Dragon Bird, a medium-grade demon beast, is a flying bird used by the Black Scale Guard for short-distance communication.

It should be a message sent to him by the Black Scale Guard branch in the area of ​​Xifeng Mountain.

After removing the paper door between his claws, Xu Yuan casually threw the bird out of the carriage. It flapped its wings twice and flew into the blue sky in an instant.

Slowly opening the paper door, Xu Yuan was browsing when a clear and quiet female voice suddenly came over:

"Sir, is it a letter from the Black Scale Guard?"

In the past month, Xu Yuan had very few opportunities to talk to the two women. When he heard this, he immediately raised his eyes and smiled softly:

"Yes, you don't practice anymore?"

Bai Muxi raised his hand slightly, and a wisp of five-colored Dao Yun loomed. He tightened his hand, and the Dao Yun dissipated, and he said softly:

"I have encountered a small bottleneck, and I should not be able to make any more progress in a short time."

When the words fell, Bai Muxi keenly took in the surprise in the young master's eyes, and his mood was inexplicably happy.

She had indeed been practicing all the way, but she clearly saw the look on the young master's face that changed from boredom to despair.

Since that night, every time the young master came to look for her, his tricks that kept his body intact and were flashy gave her a little shock.

His thoughts inexplicably drifted to those nights, and Shengxue's fair skin showed a subtle blush, but it was suppressed by Bai Muxi's luck.

She knew very well that her intimacy with the young master was her advantage, but it was also her disadvantage. After all, only those who can't get it will know how to cherish it.

Therefore, the "play" she played with the young master during the journey was all intentional on her part.

However, she has been careful to control this degree, because the young master is really smart, and he can see through most of her schemes at a glance.

The reason why we were able to succeed this time was mainly because cultivation was a serious matter, as well as the favor of the young master, and the protection of Mr. Ran.

When they were practicing, the young master would never bother them no matter how bored he was, and would even deliberately lower his presence to avoid affecting them.

With her thoughts at this point, her heart softened slightly. Bai Muxi stood up from the futon gently, walked to Xu Yuan and sat down next to him. She tilted her head slightly to breathe close to the young master. While looking at the paper, she asked softly:

"What's the message from the Black Scale Guard?"

Xu Yuan smelled the fragrance of the woman's hair, but he didn't hide anything. He handed the paper to Xiao Bai and said:

"It's all about the Feng family."

Bai Muxi glanced briefly and asked softly:

"Is the Feng family in Xifeng Mountain a collateral branch?"

Feeling the woman's exhalation like orchid at a close distance, Xu Yuan subconsciously stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around Xiaobai's slender waist, but after taking a look at Da Bingtuozi, he temporarily endured it and said:

"The direct descendants of the Feng family are all in the Prime Minister's Mansion, so naturally those here are collateral descendants."

As she browsed, Bai Muxi's delicate bright eyes suddenly widened for a moment:

"The director of the Black Scale Guards branch in Xifeng Mountain is no more than a grandmaster, but a branch of the Feng family actually has a peak powerhouse from the beginning?"

As she said that, she gave Xu Yuan a strange look.

His eyes seemed to be asking, why didn't the Prime Minister's Office pay some attention to such a powerful person in the Feng family?

Xu Yuan thought for a while and replied in a low voice:

"A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. The Feng family was one of the top three families in the world at that time. Isn't it strange that there is no one at the peak of the origin of the family?"

Bai Muxi frowned and asked warily:

"But won't this cause problems?"

"What's wrong?"

Xu Yuanyan said with a smile: "Rebellion? Just a Peak Origin?"

Regarding power, Bai Muxi has a natural sensitivity:

"Sir, what I mean is that if this person breaks through the mortal world, will he follow the example of the Long family?"

Xiaobai was already regarded as Xu Yuan's concubine. Although he was far from qualified to enter the inner court, Xu Yuan did not hide some confidential documents of the Prime Minister's Mansion from him.

Just like the remnants of the Long family will gather around Long Po, if a person from the side family breaks through the mortal world, will they become the second Long Po?

Xu Yuan shook his head and said in a nonchalant tone:

"Mu Xi, you need to change your thinking. Great Yan is different from your underground palace. It is not a place where the capable can live, but where blood is supreme."

"That person also has the blood of the Feng family."

"But he is a collateral lineage. There is a natural gap between the collateral lineage and the direct lineage. They are born as ministers, and they will only be ministers until they die."

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Compared with the Prime Minister's Mansion's supervision of the Long family veterans, the Prime Minister's Mansion's supervision of the Feng family's collateral branches is almost non-existent.

First, because they are their relatives after all, and policies that are too high-pressure will cause unnecessary trouble.

The second reason is because they are just collateral.

As long as the head of the family, Feng Jiuxuan, does not die, the Feng family will be firmly bound to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Even if these side clans want to rebel, the veterans of the Feng family will not pay attention to them at all.

And even if Feng Jiuxuan dies, as long as one of him and Xu Changge changes his surname to Feng, or even if the fourth sister changes her surname to Feng, the inheritance rights of the Feng family will not fall into the hands of collateral families.

This is the rule and cohesion rooted in the blood of a thousand-year-old family.

Xu Yuan reached out and took the paper from her fingertips, flicked it with his fingers, and said with a low smile:

"Actually, instead of worrying about the half-dead old immortal from the side branch who has broken through and transformed into the mortal world, it is better to worry about the two geniuses who have emerged from the side branch of the Feng family in recent years. One is an eighteen-year-old breakthrough grandmaster, and the other is a fifteen-year-old Fusion seems to have understood Tao Yun. If they grow up in the future, they may be able to threaten me. "

Upon hearing this, Bai Muxi's bright eyes instantly flashed with murderous intent.

Ran Qingmo over there suddenly dispersed his skills, opened his eyes, and stared at Xu Yuan without blinking.

Neither of the two women spoke, but they seemed to have spoken.

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The atmosphere is a little weird.

After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan rolled his eyes speechlessly.

Xu Yuan had experienced the gangsterism of Little Green Tea before. He would directly kidnap Mu Zhiyun when he opened his mouth, but why did his Big Ice Tuozi become a bandit?

It must have been the green tea that spoiled his big ice cube.

Exhaling a breath, Xu Yuan smiled and said:

"Don't be so nervous. Most of the people on the side branch were purged by my grandfather. Although my father did marginalize the side branch of the Feng family due to various considerations, they are still members of the Feng family, and they are still on the same side. On our side, if the two collateral geniuses can really gain momentum, wouldn’t it be enough to give them some equal power?”

Only young people can be rebellious blindly, adults know how to compromise.

Because of Feng Jiuxuan and Feng Qianer, the Feng family was naturally classified into the camp of the Xiangguo Mansion. As long as the high-level officials of the Xiangguo Mansion are not pedantic and do not cling to power, who would be willing to risk suspicion and join another family?

Hearing Xu Yuan's words, Ran Qingmo silently closed her eyes and began her practice of the King of Volume again.

Bai Muxi whispered:

"Sir, on this trip to the Xifeng Mountains, should we test the virtues of the two geniuses?"

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Xu Yuan's eyes twitched slightly.

Why test virtues?

Of course, it's for certainty.

People with talents will be asked to the bottom, those who can be used by me will be kept, and those who can't will never be kept.

He found that this green tea yogurt is more and more like a villain.

But on second thought, Bai Muxi's suggestion actually makes some sense.

After all, the Feng family is now basically in name only. No one knows what kind of political propaganda the side branch is carrying out in private, and whether they will have resentment towards the Xiangfu.

And if you calculate the time, the time point of the collapse of the Xiangfu in "Cangyuan" seems to coincide with the timeline when the two geniuses grow up.

It's always better to be careful.

Thinking of this, Xu Yuan thought about it for a while and nodded:

"There is no need to deliberately contact. Professional matters should be left to professional Black Scale Guards, but if you happen to meet them, you might as well try it out."

After two days of driving, the scenery of the wilderness gradually faded, replaced by a magnificent mountain range that stretches for thousands of miles.

The ancestral land of the Feng family, Xifeng Mountain, has arrived.

This time, it was not a formal visit, so before entering the mountain, Xu Yuan and the other two hid the carriage in a forest and activated the simple formation on it to hide it to prevent the monsters in the mountain from eating the horses.

After making all preparations, the three of them concealed their breath and sneaked into the vast forest in front of them.

There are two Feng Family ancestral temples.

One is in the gathering place of the Feng Family, newly built more than 300 years ago, and the other is hidden in the Xifeng Mountain Range. Only the head of each generation knows its location.

Of course, this time, Da Bingtuozi, the treasure-hunting girl, doesn't need to go out, because Xu Yuan has a map found from home. After all, he is the legitimate son of the Feng Family.

Xifeng Mountain Range is a treasure land.

It is surrounded by red clouds all year round, and the fairy air is pervasive. Every time the sun sets, the afterglow of the setting sun falls on the forest, and it is as if a bright phoenix sinks into it, which is magnificent.

After entering the night, the entire Xifeng Mountain Range will be shrouded by a layer of thick fog that hinders spiritual perception, and the towering main peak is hidden in it, like a giant phoenix crawling on the ground.

The sunrise and sunset repeat for three days.

Xu Yuan and the other two relied on the slightly rough map to approach the location of the Feng Family ancestral temple.

The burning bonfire illuminated the white fog around, and the towering dense forests around were shadowy. Sitting in front of the bonfire with Bai Muxi, Xu Yuan fiddled with the seasoning bottles and jars in his hands with familiar movements, and the main food was the wild game he encountered during the day.

Apply the sauce, put on the iron spikes, and place it on the bonfire, and the roasted meat fat drips cracklingly.

While rotating the iron spikes in his hand, Xu Yuan whispered to Xiaobai:

"Ran Qingmo should be back soon, right?"

Bai Muxi sat cross-legged on the side, glanced around, and replied softly:

"This thick fog hinders spiritual perception, and I have not sensed Mr. Ran."

Xu Yuan smiled gently when he heard this:

"You haven't come back so late, it seems that there is a big harvest today. Yesterday, there was a broken source crystal and a lower-level fire-related skills of the A-level. I wonder what I can find today."

Although there is no need for the big ice ball to find the ancestral temple, there are obviously other good things left by the ancestors of the Feng family hidden in the ancestral land of the Feng family, so Xu Yuan also asked the treasure hunter to go out and try his luck.

If it is found, it can be considered as returning it to its original owner.

Xu Yuan was thinking in his heart, Bai Muxi suddenly raised his eyes and looked in a direction deep in the dense forest, and said:

"Sir, it seems that someone is coming over there."