More than two months later, in the imperial garden of the palace.
Hong Zhan sat in the water pavilion, his soul power poured into his eyes, and he looked at the luck in the sky thoughtfully.
Under these months of cultivation, his soul power improved extremely quickly. A small half of the luck was consumed, but the sin karma was consumed.
The sin karma was very strange, it would appear on its own inexplicably, and then not appear for a long time, which slowed down his soul refining speed a lot.
"How should sin karma increase? You must ask an immortal cultivator for advice." Hong Zhan withdrew the soul power in his eyes and said solemnly.
At this time, thirty young people walked up excitedly and bowed respectfully: "Meet the emperor."
Hong Zhan looked at them and asked, "How does the innate realm feel?"
After killing all the immortal cultivators that day, Hong Zhan gave the remaining half of the elixir to this group of trusted courtiers, pushing all their physical cultivation to the innate realm.
"The innate realm feels so good, thank you the emperor for giving me the pill."
"Your Majesty, you didn't see that many officials were envious to death when they saw us rejuvenated."
"Your Majesty, my Daqing Dynasty is now united in all officials, and they all want to make meritorious contributions and be rewarded."
……
Everyone said excitedly.
Hong Zhan nodded and said: "I am going to change the court to a cabinet system, and select ten people from you to guard the Daqing Dynasty for me."
"Your Majesty, are you going to the Heavenly Continent where the immortal cultivators are located?" Someone looked moved and asked expectantly.
Others also showed anticipation.
Hong Zhan nodded and said, "The spiritual energy of our continent is too thin, and we have no immortal cultivation resources, so our physical cultivation will not be able to improve. His cultivation was too weak, he couldn't even fly with a sword, and he couldn't even store and absorb the spiritual energy in the spirit stone, what kind of immortal cultivator was he? Therefore, we are going to the Heavenly Continent and compete for immortal fate."
"Your Majesty, take me with you."
"I am willing to follow you."
"Your Majesty, you must bring your ministers."
……
All the courtiers were excited to follow.
However, Hong Zhan would not give up the luck of the Great Qing, and only selected twenty people to follow, and the other ten stayed to guard the Great Qing Dynasty for him.
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Three months later, on the vast sea.
A dark sailboat was sailing rapidly, and Hong Zhan in a black suit stood at the bow, looking into the distance.
"Your Majesty, the direction we are driving is correct, it will take about a month before we can reach the Heavenly Continent." Another man in black next to him said.
Hong Zhan nodded and said: "From now on, you call me 'young master', develop a habit first, so as not to accidentally leak your mouth in the future."
"Yes, young master!"
"Inform others and speed up." Hong Zhan said.
"Yes!"
When the courtier retreated, Hong Zhan held on to the railing and continued to look into the distance.
In addition to having sails, this ship also has special oars inside, similar to fuel engine propellers, but it needs to be driven by spirit stones to sail extremely fast on the sea.
Rumble! The hull suddenly shook violently.
"There is a monster at the stern." Someone exclaimed.
Hong Zhan turned his head to look, but saw a brown tentacle several feet long thrown onto the ship, the tentacle smashed a large number of items, and suddenly threw it towards the mast of the ship.
"Damn it, it's going to destroy our ship and cut it down!" One person shouted in surprise.
I saw several people draw their swords and slash at the same time.
With a bang, bang, bang, bang, all the ordinary long knives were ejected away by the tentacles, the tentacles were too tough.
With a bang, finally, two long swords cut through two openings on the tentacles, splattering some blood, those were the two immortal cultivator's swords, even sharper.
The tentacles contracted painfully, overturning a large number of items on the boat and quickly retracting into the sea.
"Young master, we are being targeted by monsters." One person said anxiously.
At the next moment, four huge tentacles were thrown out of the sea again, like an underwater monster that was really angry and wanted to completely destroy the ship.
With a bang, the tentacles slammed down, and the entire hull was shaking violently, showing signs of falling apart.
Everyone quickly picked up their swords and slashed at them, but the tentacles moved faster, swept out, and smashed everyone.
Ah, there was a scream, and everyone was smashed backwards and flew out, crashing heavily all over the boat.
"What a strong monster!" Hong Zhan said solemnly.
"It's an octopus, an octopus demon?" Someone else exclaimed.
But I saw a house-sized octopus head floating out of the water, its eyes were shaped like lanterns, exuding a bloodthirsty aura, just one look, made everyone's hearts tremble, the octopus' tentacles spread out, and quickly wrapped around the hull.
"Young master, it's climbing up." Someone said anxiously.
Hong Zhan saw it thoroughly, the strength of everyone and the octopus demon was not on the same level, and the death battle would definitely be more victorious than good.
"Set fire to the explosives in the cabin and blow it up. Others, jump into the sea with me." Hong Zhan's eyes flashed with a hint of cruelty, and he ordered.
"Yes!" Everyone responded.
At this moment, a long purple rainbow shot from the sky. The octopus demon seemed to feel a crisis and turned his head to look abruptly.
Rumble! The octopus demon was pierced by a long purple rainbow, splattering a large amount of blood, its tentacles drooping down, its eyes widened, as if it didn't believe that it would die so aggrieved.
But I saw the purple long rainbow just now deflected and soared into the sky, no, it was not a long rainbow, it was a long sword emitting purple light, the long sword was extremely fast, and it flew high into the sky in an instant, and with a bang, it was grabbed by a woman in her hand.
A life-and-death crisis was inexplicably resolved?
Everyone looked in surprise, but saw a woman in purple standing in the sky, her skin was like snow, her face was beautiful, her body was tall and plump, but there were many blood stains on her clothes, as if she was injured.
"Thank you, senior, for saving me." Hong Zhan bowed gratefully to the woman in purple, and everyone hurriedly bowed.
The woman flew in the air, landed on the boat in a blink of an eye, frowned and asked, "Don't you know me?"
Hong Zhan was startled and hurriedly asked: "I don't know the seniors, I don't know the names of the seniors?"
"My name is Zhou Jingxuan." The woman in purple said.
Zhou Jingxuan?
The moment they heard this name, everyone's faces changed, and then they looked at Hong Zhan together.
Hong Zhan also felt tight, Zhou Jingxuan? He did know this name in the confession of Lone Star.
Lone Star Son comes from a sect called "Pingnan Sect", and Zhou Jingxuan is an elder of the Pingnan Sect, with extremely strong strength and high status.
He never expected that the first immortal cultivator he met when he went to sea was actually from the Pingnan Sect.
However, Zhou Jingxuan seems to have recognized the wrong person, so it is better to go with the flow.
"Meet Elder Zhou, I don't know how Elder Zhou recognizes us?" Hong Zhan said immediately.
Zhou Jingxuan said disapprovingly: "Pingnan Sect's ship has been painted with a layer of black paint, don't I recognize it? Also, aren't you using the basic swordsmanship of Pingnan Sect? Is it difficult to recognize you?"
Hong Zhan instantly guessed the reason. The innate realm swordsmanship they used was all learned from the confessions of Lone Xingzi and others, which was misunderstood by Zhou Jingxuan?
Obviously, Zhou Jingxuan happened to pass by here and regarded them as disciples of the Pingnan Sect.
"Elder Insight, I admire it." Hong Zhan said immediately.
Everyone also bowed and did not dare to look up, for fear that Zhou Jingxuan would see the clues.
"What kind of cultivation are you all?" Zhou Jingxuan asked casually.
"We are all the first in the Innate Realm." Hong Zhan said.
Zhou Jingxuan frowned slightly, and said coldly: "Disciples who have just started are also sent? Hmph, you really don't take my words seriously."
Hong Zhan didn't speak, he knew that Zhou Jingxuan was complaining about a certain person in power in Pingnan Sect.
When Zhou Jingxuan looked at everyone again, her eyes softened a lot, and she asked: "Since you have arrived in this sea area, why don't you go to the designated location? Yaw so much?"
"We are lost." Hong Zhan said.
He didn't know what the designated location was, but now he could only follow the stubble first.
"Yes, in this vast sea, getting lost is very common, I will show you the way later, just in time, I will also heal on your ship for a while." Zhou Jingxuan said.
"It is our honor for the elder to stay on our ship." Hong Zhan could only say helplessly.
"The cabin belongs to me for the time being. That octopus demon, for you to eat." Zhou Jingxuan said.
"Thank you, elder, elder, please!" Hong Zhan said.
Zhou Jingxuan nodded, walked into the cabin alone, and closed the cabin door with a bang.
Everyone hurriedly looked at Hong Zhan and asked in a low voice: "Young master, do you want to ......?"
Their eyes were cold, and some even made a gesture of wiping their necks, as if they were waiting for Hong Zhan to order Zhou Jingxuan to be slaughtered.
Hong Zhan thought for a moment and shook his head, Zhou Jingxuan's strength was too strong, his explosives were not sure to hurt Zhou Jingxuan at all, and he made a rash move, waiting for them to be killed back.
"Elder Zhou is our distinguished guest, so we must treat him well." Hong Zhan ordered with a serious expression.
Everyone instantly understood what Hong Zhan meant, and nodded helplessly.
"Salvage the octopus demon corpse, let's also try the taste of monster meat." Hong Zhan ordered.
"Yes!"
Everyone began to salvage the octopus demon's body.
Hong Zhan frowned and thought, how could it be so coincidental that he would meet someone from the Pingnan Sect on the way?
He quickly figured out the reason, this sea route was provided by Lone Xingzi and others, and it was obvious that Lone Xingzi and others deliberately dug a pit to lure them to death. Fortunately, they had a big fate, so they first met Zhou Jingxuan, who didn't delve into mundane things.
"If you want to get rid of Zhou Jingxuan, I'm afraid it's not easy." Hong Zhan thought.
It didn't take long for the huge octopus carcass to be cut into multiple parts, dragged onto the boat, and cooked by a special person.
Hong Zhan took a bite curiously, the octopus meat entered his stomach, and he felt a huge aura burst out in his body.
"Good thing!" Hong Zhan's eyes lit up, and he said while eating: "You can eat too."
"Yes!" Everyone began to cook and eat.
After eating, everyone felt the accumulation of spiritual energy in their bodies, and eating it at once was more than the spiritual energy of heaven and earth absorbed by a month of penance.
They quickly sat cross-legged and began to refine this huge spiritual energy.