The backyard of the Blood-Clothed Guards.
Three figures sat side by side by the pond, chatting casually.
" ... To be honest, I never thought that the Qing Kingdom would let Dou Zi in."
Lou Youzhi glanced at Dou Tianyuan and said pointedly, "You offended the old Duke to death back then."
"Every generation has its own grudges. Lan Jing is so obsessed with Dou Zi that he wants to marry her. What can old man Lan do? What's more, Qing's title can only make him not afraid of me, but it can't make him not afraid of Xu Chong, hehe..."
Dou Tianyuan twitched his lips with a wicked smile, and then he became puzzled: "But then again, I didn't expect this... Dou Zi obviously always hated Lan Jing."
"A good girl is afraid of a clinging man."
Xu Chong smiled and said, "Lan Jing is as tough as a dead pig and Dou Zi is reluctant to use force. With this back and forth effort, even a stone can be melted by her."
"Yeah?"
Dou Tianyuan frowned, "Will it work if I keep pestering you?"
"If you still have thoughts about Hua Miaoyin, you'd better speed up."
Lou Youzhi had a blank expression on his face, but he started with a savage attack, "You two don't have many years left to live."
"Bullshit!"
Dou Tianyuan immediately got angry, "I've seen all kinds of women, and you..."
"that."
Xu Chong suddenly interrupted and looked at Dou Tianyuan seriously, "The old lady of the Hua family passed away two months ago..."
"Well."
Dou Tianyuan was stunned for a moment, then he became a little angry, "Why are you so serious? Do you also think that I have feelings for her?"
"No, no."
Xu Chong waved his hands quickly, "It's just that I'm engaged to the Hua family after all, and according to seniority, I have to call her grandma."
"Is that so... That's right."
Dou Tianyuan thought about it and suddenly sighed, "Speaking of Hua Miaoyin, I did owe her, but it's not what you think."
The two of them immediately showed curious expressions.
"You all know what kind of person I used to be. My hands were covered in blood. As long as it could make me stronger and climb up the social ladder, I would dare to contact and kill anyone... Even the captains in the station didn't know as much about the Taiping Dao as I did."
Dou Tianyuan bared his teeth, revealing a sinister expression, "Born in Daqing, but more of a traitor than a traitor."
"I vaguely remember that the Xie family and the Hua family had a very bad relationship and offered a huge reward for the heads of the Hua family members. Could it be that..."
Lou Youzhi narrowed his eyes.
"You guessed it right, this is how Hua Miaoyin and I met."
Dou Tianyuan said, spreading his hands helplessly, "Unfortunately, my strength was slightly inferior to hers at that time, so I failed to succeed."
"Then what?"
Lou Youzhi pressed on, "You said you owed her, but this doesn't really count as an obligation, right?"
Xu Chong also looked curious.
"The next year, I broke through and found her again... But I didn't kill her, nor did I use her to exchange for the Xie family's bounty. Instead, I used her to lure several people from the Xie family."
Dou Tianyuan looked slightly embarrassed. "Originally, this matter was also good for the Hua family, but I was exposed at the end, and Hua Miaoyin was charged with colluding with the court. She was almost executed... In order to protect Hua Miaoyin, the Hua family chose to marry an elder of the Taiping Dao at that time."
"I see."
Lou Youzhi seemed to be thinking, "So you think you harmed Hua Miaoyin?"
Dou Tianyuan said nothing.
"I heard about this from Nong Yue."
Xu Chong suddenly spoke up and said with a smile, "The old lady's husband's family treated her very well, and she didn't suffer any grievances. On the contrary, the elder supported the Hua family many times, and even his contribution made the old lady a candidate for the head of the family. In general, she has found a good husband."
"oh?"
Dou Tianyuan was slightly surprised, then he smiled, "If that's the case, then she was able to die of old age, and her life was worth it."
"really."
Lou Youzhi nodded in agreement, "For ordinary people like me, once we embark on the path of martial arts, dying of old age is the best outcome."
Died of old age...
Xu Chong's eyes moved slightly, and his gaze fell towards the pond, "Almost."
"Are you sure?"
Dou Tianyuan's expression became serious.
"Don't worry about my safety."
Xu Chong looked relaxed, and waved his hand to open a passage: "But for the sake of the two elders' longevity, please go sit somewhere else for a while."
"You little brat..."
Dou Tianyuan and Lou Youzhi were speechless. After looking at each other, they stood up at the same time and walked away.
After the two men left, a stone slab appeared out of thin air.
It is the Fang family’s cave, the Spring and Autumn Tomb.
Today is the last day that Chunqiu Tomb exists as a complete cave.
At this time, the Spring and Autumn Tomb had become extremely weak, including the stone slab itself and the rules in the cave.
In about a quarter of an hour, it will completely collapse.
However, Xu Chong did not intend to let the Spring and Autumn Tomb be destroyed naturally and turned into a pile of useless fragments.
He planned to bring the Spring and Autumn Tomb into the Imperial Prison and try whether he could use it as nutrients to feed the Imperial Prison.
As for why we do this...
This is a path that he, Lou Youzhi and Dou Tianyuan jointly researched.
Another way out of Tianxuan Realm.
——The great migration of imperial prisons.
The Imperial Prison replaced the Tianxuan Realm and became the new habitat for millions of living beings.
Unlike Emperor Yongtai's claim of finding a new world, this method has a practical basis.
first.
The rules of the Imperial Prison are special, and it is not destined to decline and collapse like many other caves such as the Spring and Autumn Tomb.
If we can replace the Tianxuan Realm and become the new habitat, there will no longer be a crisis of world destruction.
Another known entity with the same characteristics as the Imperial Prison is Changshengtian, which has become a thing of the past.
However, even if Changshengtian was still intact, it would still not be as suitable as the Imperial Prison.
Because the size of Changshengtian's space is constant and never increases or decreases.
But the imperial prison has been growing.
According to the fragmentary words in the royal annals, it can be inferred that the original imperial prison had only three floors, and after nearly ten thousand years of growth, it formed the current seven floors.
Secondly.
The environment outside the world cannot pose a threat to Xu Chong.
Even if the Tianxuan Realm collapsed, Xu Chong could protect the Imperial Prison as long as he didn't encounter any higher-level creatures from outside the realm that he couldn't defeat.
As for the Imperial Prison being too large...
This is no longer a problem.
While they were researching a way out, Dou Tianyuan secretly told them a secret... The main pond of the Imperial Prison could be shrunk by using strong force in a manner similar to evaporation.
How could it be possible that Dou Tianyuan, such a big shot, sits by the pond every day just because he likes fishing?
Its real purpose is to compress the Imperial Prison with its strength... It is hard to say whether it has the intention of taking the Imperial Prison for itself.
But for Dou Tianyuan, compressing the imperial prison consumes too much energy and has too little effect.
At least Dou Tianyuan thought that there would be no hope before he died.
So Xu Chong became the new master of the imperial prison.
The total amount of strength is several times greater than that of others, and Wushang Huanzhen is a perpetual motion machine. The two combined have increased the efficiency of the Compression Imperial Prison by more than ten times.
Although the pond has now shrunk only a little bit to the point where it is difficult to see with the naked eye, this slight reduction was achieved only half a month after Xu Chong took over the imperial prison.
I have to say, there is hope.
Of course, all of the above only provides a theoretical basis for the large-scale migration of imperial prisons, and the actual operation is not that simple.
Putting aside other things, with the current area of ​​the Imperial Prison, the seven floors combined can only accommodate a few thousand or tens of thousands of people, which is not enough for the entire Tianxuan Realm to migrate.
How to accelerate the growth of the Imperial Prison became the biggest difficulty.
In this regard, the first thing Xu Chong thought of was Lingyuan.
After all, whether it is the use of the panel or the irregular fragments of the cave, it proves that the cave is closely related to spiritual energy.
The spiritual source is a highly concentrated form of spiritual energy. If the Imperial Prison can absorb a large amount of spiritual source in a short period of time, it is very likely that the growth of the Imperial Prison can be accelerated.
Xu Chong has already done experiments.
Inside the Imperial Prison, releasing the spiritual energy stored in the panel will create the same scene as in the land of natural disasters - the spiritual energy disappears out of thin air.
There is no doubt that he was absorbed by the imperial prison.
In this way, feasibility is improved again.
Then comes the second difficulty.
It is true that the panel can extract spiritual energy from other caves and release it in the Imperial Prison.
But the problem is that even if Xu Chong's three clones used the panel to absorb spiritual energy at the same time, the efficiency was too slow. It was impossible to allow the space in the imperial prison to grow to a large enough size in more than 40 years.
Therefore, it is obviously unrealistic to use the panel to accelerate the growth of Imperial Prison.
So Xu Chong naturally thought of the Spring and Autumn Tomb.
If the cave-heaven is regarded as a combination of rules and spiritual energy, then there is no doubt that the best nutrient for the growth of the cave-heaven is another cave-heaven.
It is true that a cave heaven cannot accommodate another cave heaven, and even contact between the two will cause a conflict of rules, leading to the collapse of the cave heaven.
But the Spring and Autumn Tombs were already on the verge of collapse and were extremely weak. Under such circumstances, would they still pose such a big threat to the imperial prison?
And once the Imperial Prison successfully devours the Spring and Autumn Tomb, and its main body is not fundamentally damaged, then...
Can the Tianxuan Realm, which is about to be destroyed, also be swallowed up by the Imperial Prison?
Xu Chong decided to take a risk.
It's not really an adventure.
"At worst, we'll lose an imperial prison and a Spring... The Spring and Autumn Tomb doesn't count, it was going to be destroyed anyway."
"As for me, with the Immortal God here, I should be able to survive even if I enter the cave and personally participate in the collapse."
"Well, it's not a big problem."
Just like that, Xu Chong closed his eyes, sorted out the expected situation again, and felt the destructive power brewing on the stone slab.
After half an incense stick.
"Now!"
Xu Chong suddenly opened his eyes.
The slab of stone flew up into the air above the pond and then plummeted downward.
Just as the stone slab touched the water surface, a vortex suddenly appeared.
pity……
This kind of surprise has no effect on inanimate objects like rules and caves.
The moment the entrance to the imperial prison was opened, the falling momentum of the stone slab suddenly stopped and began to move vertically upward in the opposite direction.
"Sure enough, the caves and heavens repel each other..."
Xu Chong was not surprised. He appeared above the stone slab in a flash and pressed down with tremendous force!
——Snap!
This is the sound of stone slabs cracking.
Xu Chong broke the iron rule that the cave heaven could not be destroyed by external forces alone, but he did not feel happy at all.
The cracking of the hub indicates that the cave is about to collapse, and the cracking of the main body means that the collapse has already begun.
Less than half of the stone slab was submerged in the vortex.
The destructive force that is still brewing is about to erupt completely.
At the critical moment, Xu Chong had no time to think and directly summoned the other two clones back.
With their feet on shoulders, the three clones were stacked together in a pyramid posture.
The power of the three Nine-Revolution Immortal Essences suddenly erupted.
"Let me in!"
——Snap!
——whoosh!
--boom!
The first sound was the stone slab cracking completely, the second sound was the scene changing, and the third sound was the collapse of the Spring and Autumn Tomb.
The incomparable impact force came violently, and Xu Chong didn't even have time to look at the scene in front of him. He was completely wrapped up in it, with no blind spots.
In an instant, all senses were lost.
At the same time, clear tremors spread rapidly from the Blood-Clothed Guards' backyard pond, from light to heavy, from near to far.
The first ones to feel the vibration were naturally Dou Tianyuan and Lou Youzhi who had been paying attention.
The two men stood on the top floor of a restaurant not far from the Blood-Clothed Guards, their faces looking extremely ugly.
"How did he get in?! Why did he go in?!"
Dou Tianyuan stared at the direction of the pond and uttered two words through gritted teeth.
Just now he saw very clearly that three Xu Chong appeared.
The three Xu Chongs all sank into the pond along with the stone slab.
"Don't worry. The fact that there is no stream of light in the sky proves that the Imperial Prison did not collapse along with the Spring and Autumn Tomb."
Lou Youzhi tried to comfort her, but his tone did not sound optimistic.
"I know that!"
Dou Tianyuan's eyes flashed red. "But even if only the Spring and Autumn Tomb collapsed, would Xu Chong be able to survive? Don't forget, the shock broke out the moment he entered the Imperial Prison... Even if Xu Chong is the master of the Imperial Prison and is less suppressed by the Forbidden Heaven and Absolute Land, such a short time is not enough for him to distance himself from the Spring and Autumn Tomb!"
“…”
Lou Youzhi fell silent.
Of course he knew what Dou Tianyuan said, but what could he do?
Not to mention that he has become a disabled person, even if he had the strength of his peak period, it would not be enough to replace Xu Chong to complete this step.
His only choice was to believe Xu Chong.
"Let's go."
Dou Tianyuan, who was on the verge of exploding, suddenly calmed down and said through gritted teeth: "If he's alive, I want to see him. If he's dead, I want to see his body."
"Why……"
Lou Youzhi sighed.
Just as the two turned around and prepared to go downstairs, a voice suddenly interrupted.
"Why do you want to see the body of a dead person? Can't you hope for me to be well?"
A huge surprise broke out and the two turned around suddenly.
Who else could the young man standing in front of the window be but Xu Chong?
"Good boy!"
Dou Tianyuan punched Xu Chong on the shoulder and then laughed out loud.
Lou Youzhi also breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "How is the injury?"
"It's okay, I'm not seriously injured, I just need to sleep for a while to recover."
Xu Chong spread his hands and said helplessly.
"Sleeping?"
Dou Tianyuan was stunned and looked Xu Chong up and down.
"This is an illusory body I created using light splitting and shadow transformation. It was originally besieging the Tianji Palace. I came here to tell you because I was afraid you would worry."
Xu Chong explained calmly, "As for the main body, the three magical bodies must sleep and recuperate."
"So that's how it is..."
Dou Tianyuan thought for a moment and asked, "Do you want me to go to the Imperial Prison and get your real body out? The environment outside is definitely more suitable for recuperation than the Imperial Prison."
"I'm afraid that's not possible."
Xu Chong shook his head. "The first layer of the Imperial Prison has been filled with the destructive power of the Spring and Autumn Tomb. Neither the spiritual energy nor the rules can be digested so quickly by the first layer. Once the entrance and exit are opened, these energies will gush out and be completely wasted."
“How long does it take to fully digest?”
Lou Youzhi's eyes flashed and he asked.
“No more than a month at the longest.”
Xu Chong replied, his lips curled up slowly, "So far, our plan is going well."
"Not more than a month?"
Lou Youzhi and Dou Tianyuan looked at each other and couldn't help but feel excited.
If it takes a year, several years or even ten years to digest a dilapidated Spring and Autumn Tomb, then this plan can be abandoned directly.
After all, the three of them planned to feed all the caves they could find to the Imperial Prison before the destruction of the Tianxuan Realm.
"Interesting, really interesting. "
Dou Tianyuan stroked his chin, his expression filled with satisfaction, "I never thought that I, Dou Tianyuan, would be able to participate in such a big event in my life... It's great!"
"In that case, one month later..."
Lou Youzhi narrowed his eyes.
Xu Chong didn't say anything, but the expectation in his eyes was just as obvious.