Mr. Xu?"

Xiao Jinyan looked up and down at the woman. He had seen this person's disguise technique, which could be almost fake and real, and even his body shape could be changed at will. After being fooled several times, he did not dare to believe her easily.

The woman said, "What, do you think Mr. Xu must be a man, and an old man of seventy or eighty years?"

"Isn't it?"

"Of course not." The woman said proudly, "I have been Mr. Xu for many years."

At this time, a voice came, "Piaomiao, stop making trouble."

As soon as he finished speaking, an elderly man in white clothes walked in. When the woman saw the old man, she pouted, "Why are you here?"

The old man laughed, "If I don't come again, this hero Xiao will be confused by you."

Xiao Jinyan said, "I am already confused now."

The old man said, "I am Mr. Xu, the owner of this Jianghu restaurant, and the former palace master of the Baihua Palace in Donghai. This is my granddaughter, Xu Meimiao." He said to the woman, "Stop making trouble, why don't you change your appearance?"

The woman said, "Not fun at all."

After saying that, he turned around, took off a mask, and looked at the woman, with her face covered with yellow yellow eyes, her eyes wide open, her nose was crooked, like a yaksha.

Xu Piaomiao saw Xiao Jinyan staring at her and said, "Why, I have never seen such a beautiful woman?"

Xiao Jinyan smiled and said, "This breed is indeed rare."

"That's what I like. I'll make arrangements now, let's get married tonight!"

Mr. Xu said calmly, "Stop messing around!"

Xu Piaomiao heard this and said, "I'll scare him." He turned around again, and the previous yaksha face disappeared and turned into a clever girl.

Mr. Xu said, "My granddaughter, I have been studying some evil ways all day long. Don't blame Xiao Shaoxia."

Xu Piaomiao said dissatisfiedly, "I am a crooked way. What you are studying is Yangguan Avenue? Old man, you are too partial. How can you say that your granddaughter?"

Xiao Jinyan laughed long, "Let his granddaughter be honest and see his nature, but he is a person with a temperament. How dare you blame him?"

"It's still your word. For this reason, the money you owe me was written off."

Xiao Jinyan thought to myself that when did I owe you money, it was you who cheated me. However, he knew that if you respond to this little kid, she would have tens of millions of reasons to make you speechless.

Xiao Jinyan saluted the old man again, "Xiao Jinyan, I have met his senior!"

Mr. Xu said, "If you really want to talk about it, when you were still a child, I would have fed you wine. I didn't expect that in a flash, you have grown up so much in more than ten years."

"Grandpa, you are partial. You feed him alcohol, but you don't let me drink. I seriously doubt whether you are my biological grandfather!"

Xiao Jinyan laughed in his heart, not caring about the grammatical disease she said. It seemed that Mr. Xu had no choice but to deal with his granddaughter, and just a few words left him speechless.

Mr. Xu then said, "Okay, grandpa is wrong. I'll give up your Tianyan Bagua Chart yesterday, so I'll be fine. You go and go stubborn!"

Xu Piaomiao was happy in his heart and kissed the old man on the face, "You should be nice to me!" After that, he left happily.

Xiao Jinyan then said, "My senior brother once said that if something happened to him in the capital, I told me not to act rashly and come to visit my senior first. I wonder what you can teach me?"

Mr. Xu took him out of the cave.

Outside the cave, there is a small pond with birds singing and flowers fragrant. There is a thatched hut next to it. The edge of the pond is colorful and flowers blooming. What surprised him even more was that lotus flowers bloomed in the pond and the fragrance was everywhere.

Lotus, peach blossoms, peony, pear blossoms, so many improper flowers bloom in this early autumn season. It is very human to do this.

Mr. Xu was very proud when he saw Xiao Jinyan's surprise and said proudly, "Twenty years ago, I discovered that there was a hot spring underground. The temperature was different from the outside world, so he set up a formation to isolate it, and used the secret technique of the Hundred Flowers Palace to cultivate flowers and plants, which led to this scene. Humanity is the art of the Hundred Flowers Palace's Qimen Dunjia that is the most powerful technique in the world. In fact, the real essence of the Hundred Flowers Palace is the word "Hundred Flowers".

Xiao Jinyan saw a willow tree next to it, and a buffalo gnawing on the grass beside it, and was shocked. No wonder he felt that this place looked familiar, wasn't it? Didn't he see that paradise in Xuanji Well just now? But, looking around, he didn't see the shepherd boy catching frogs.

Mr. Xu is indeed capable of having such a pure place in the downtown city. However, Xiao Jinyan did not come to appreciate the flowers, but he was straightforward, "Senior has never answered my questions."

Mr. Xu did not hurry and slowly boiled hot water, boiled a pot of white tea, and handed it to Xiao Jinyan, "Try the Hundred Flower Tea I made myself."

It was tasteless when the mouth was filled with flowers, and the tongue and teeth were used to produce saliva. Xiao Jinyan said, "Good tea!"

Mr. Xu smiled and said, "I collected 100 kinds of flowers. After drying them, the above Longjing will be filled with thirteen kinds of spices and incense. A hundred pounds can only produce half a dollar. You will have a good taste."

Not to mention the cost of this hundred-flower camellia, only those who have a lot of time can do it by using the effort.

It can be concluded that Mr. Xu has extremely exquisite requirements for life.

However, this idea did not last long. Mr. Xu said he was a little hungry. The servant brought a pancake and rolled a green onion to bring it to him. Mr. Xu drank the flower tea while eating it with relish.

Seeing Xiao Jinyan's stunned look, Mr. Xu smiled and said, "Why, don't you understand?"

Xiao Jinyan had no choice but to agree, "Great elegance is great vulgarity, and great vulgarity is great elegance. The realm of a gentleman is not something that ordinary people can understand."

Mr. Xu laughed, "What a bullshit, elegant and vulgar

, I made Baihua tea because I was frustrated when I was free, and I ate pancakes and rolls of green onions because of my love. Back then, I was in the Baihua Palace in the East China Sea, and I had pancakes every time in the palace.”

Xiao Jinyan thought to himself that the disciples of the Baihua Palace must be very thin.

After having enough tea and food, Mr. Xu said slowly, "What do you have to ask?"

"Why did the emperor arrest my senior brother?"

Mr. Xu said, "Because of your senior brother's stubbornness! I asked him to travel around the world with me, but he chose to stay in the capital. When he reached this point, he deserved it."

"I don't understand."

Mr. Xu said, "Your senior brother was one of the Eight Tigers of Jingnan back then. After Your Majesty took over the power, the Eight Tigers who followed him to fight the country, killed and killed, and the only one left him and Yuwen Tianlu, helping him to be the minions guarding the world. However, the cleverness of your senior brother and Yuwen Tianlu is that when they saw something wrong, they had already established their own team in the court, so His Majesty has not touched them over the years. First, one of them built a smile hall, the other one built a Dengwen Academy, so His Majesty would be scruples when he took action. Second, he had gone to Shujian Mountain and made a deal with the gods in the mountain. As a result, after ascending the throne, he violated his promise. Therefore, over the years, the people on Shujian Mountain wanted to kill him quickly."

Xiao Jinyan was puzzled, "With the strength of Shujianshan, wouldn't it be easy to kill the emperor?"

Mr. Xu smiled and said, "Do you know that there is a shocking formation in the capital?"

"A little heard."

"For some reason, Shujianshan is very afraid of the Sword Formation. As long as he hides in the capital and does not come out, Shujianshan will have no choice but to do anything to him. Therefore, in recent years, His Majesty has never left the palace. The only time was last year, when he went to Nanling to worship his ancestors."

Xiao Jinyan had heard of this incident. It was the time when Yuwen Tianlu and the emperor's Nanling complaint, which caused the Western Chu State to fall into civil strife. A god of war died in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The original three-legged tripod became the only one now.

Mr. Xu said again, "The time to worship ancestors in Nanling was a test of His Majesty on Shujian Mountain and a test of Yuwen Tianlu. Unfortunately, Yuwen Tianlu lost His Majesty's trust." He continued, "That day in Nanling, a sword guard died in Shujian Mountain."

Xiao Jinyan said in shock, "What?"

He had seen the strength of the sword guard, almost at the level of a grand master outside the third realm. However, for such a big thing, no news was spreading, whether in the capital or in the world.

"So, Your Majesty asked Yuwen Tianlu to go to the Western Xinjiang, and then ordered Li Chuntie to join forces with Western Chu and Northern Zhou to intercept him in Zhaoyaoshan. I believe you know what happened next."

"Although Your Majesty is in the capital, he also has a national guru Yuxi who guards the Scaring God Formation. The man has been mingling with Yuwen Tianlu all day long. To put it bluntly, His Majesty has been placed beside him with a spy. How could his secret actions escape Yuxi's eyes?"

Only then did Xiao Jinyan understand clearly.

On Zhaoyao Mountain, Li Chuntie, the living Buddha Kaba of the Western Regions and Helian Liangbi, dealing with Yuwen Tianlu. However, when he took action, he seemed to cooperate with Yuwen Tianlu in a tacit understanding and caught the two people off guard. He lacked two great masters, so that Zhao Langjiang could run rampant in the Western Regions.

However, Li Chuntie violated His Majesty's will and released Yuwen Tianlu privately. Now that the matter is exposed, Li Chuntie naturally cannot refuse to blame.

If the strength around His Majesty can even kill the sword guard, then Li Chuntie will naturally be trapped by this force if he does not leave the capital.

Thinking of this, he only felt that the trip was very difficult.

Xiao Jinyan asked, "Your Majesty went to the Sword Mountain back then, what deal did you reach with the mountain? What did he promise? Why did he regret it?"

Mr. Xu said, "The only thing that Shujianshan can fear in the world is one God-Shocking Formation. What he promised is to return the pivot of the God-Shocking Formation to the original owner after seizing the throne."

Return to the original owner?

These four words are full of information.

The implication is that the reason why the Ming Dynasty was able to build this shocking formation was also caused by Shujian Mountain.

"When the seventy-two princes fought in chaos, Emperor Taizu was not the strongest and his martial arts were not the highest. The reason why he could stand out in the chaos in the world was because when Shujian Mountain just arrived, an object flowed into the rivers and lakes, and then fell into the hands of Emperor Taizu. Later, Emperor Taizu used this object to sweep the world and establish the Ming Dynasty. He was intimidated with the Li family in Yinyang, and used the power of the Li family to rebuild the capital, thus establishing the Scareful God Formation. The Supreme Heavenly Dao had to be forced to enter a dormant state. This secret became the secret of the royal family. Later, King Yong learned about this and went to Shujian Mountain. With their help, he seized the imperial power. However, His Majesty was too ambitious. Since there was such a treasure and even the opportunity to compete for the way of immortality, how could he easily trade it out? "

I see.

Xiao Jinyan seemed to understand the truth. When the emperor had supreme power, his next goal was to live forever. In this way, he could continue the country for generations. If Zhu Liye had conspired with Shujianshan at the beginning, but Zhu Liye sat on the throne and his butt determined his thoughts, he would naturally not hand over the God of Shocking Formation.

What's more, without the protection of the God-Shocking Formation, killing him is as simple as crushing an ant to death. Instead of being the emperor in fear, it is better to go back on your word. Anyway, Shujianshan has no choice but to do anything to him.

"What exactly does Shujian Mountain exist?"

Mr. Xu did not answer. He stood up, came to the desk, picked up something casually, and handed it to Xiao Jinyan, "What do you think this is?"

Xiao Jinyan held it in his hand and looked at it carefully.

There are a cube with six faces and six colors. Each face has nine grids. Except for the ones in the middle of the six faces, the rest of the grids can rotate with each other.

Mr. Xu said, "This is a thing passed down from the Qimen Dunjia of our Baihua Palace, called the Rubik's Cube. The book once said that if you study this Rubik's Cube thoroughly, you can understand the secrets of this world."

Xiao Jinyan kept turning the cube, but found it difficult to put six colored surfaces on the same plane. After trying it a few times, he finally gave up.

Mr. Xu said, "I have been studying it for more than 20 years and can only restore all four sides, but it has helped me understand a lot of truths."

"Look at me with your ears."

Mr. Xu said, "This world is flat."

Xiao Jinyan said in surprise, "The saying of a round sky and a place has existed since ancient times. The sky is a pot lid and the cage is at the end of the world. Isn't it easy to draw a conclusion?"

Mr. Xu asked with a smile, "Since it's flat, have you ever heard that anyone has reached the end of the world?"

Xiao Jinyan shook his head.

The continent is surrounded by the sea.
To be continued...