After all the sacrifices have been made to speed pass, who is still practicing hard skills?

"On the way. Old friend"

When Zhu Qingqing heard this, a complicated look appeared in her eyes.

Of course she knew it was just a casual remark.

Jiang Che is the current King of War and a local lord. It is widely rumored that he has already captured the capital of the Great Zhou, killed the current emperor, and started a large-scale march into the Central Plains.

Such a big shot is usually busy with all kinds of things, how could it be possible that he was just passing by?

As for the word "old friend", it made her feel even more complicated.

In the past, she didn't know the relationship between Jiang Che and her mother, but from some things that happened later, she had already noticed something was wrong and realized that the relationship between Jiang Che and her mother was unusual.

Even deeper than she thought.

It was just a guess before and she didn't dare to be too arbitrary, but now Jiang Che's words "old friend" made her completely certain of this matter.

Thinking of this, Zhu Qingqing lowered her head, looking a little dazed, as if she was thinking about some past events.

"Why is your mother buried here? Was it your idea?"

Jiang Che didn't pay attention to Zhu Qingqing's change and continued to ask.

In his opinion, people of Mrs. Zhu's status should either be buried with her late husband Zhu Sheng, or sent back to her parents' home and buried in a Taoist temple like this.

It made him a little surprised.

Zhu Qingqing shook her head:
"No, it wasn't my idea. It was my mother's last words before she died. She said she didn't want to go back to Yanggu County or go home, and she just wanted to be buried on a hilltop.

They said that this way you can see farther."

"Farther away." Jiang Che remained silent. After a moment of silence, he continued to ask:

"When your mother was seriously ill, why didn't you ask your brother for help?"

Zhu Qingqing looked depressed. She was silent for a moment and said with a choked voice:

"At that time, the whole of Yuezhou was looking for you, and my brother's whereabouts were completely unknown. My mother said that we couldn't cause him any trouble, but in the end, what we got was the news of my brother's death."

Jiang Che frowned.

Is the 'he' that Mrs. Zhu mentioned really Zhu Xu?

"call"

Jiang Che slowly exhaled a breath of foul air. It was meaningless to pursue the past now. He immediately looked at the inscription on the tombstone and asked in a serious tone:
"Did your mother leave any last words or wishes before she died?"

Zhu Qingqing still shook her head:

"When my mother died, it was at night. I didn't hear her say anything. When she died, she was just holding something tightly in her hand."

"what?"

"A piece of Qingming Lingyu that she wanted very much. She said it was her heirloom, which she accidentally lost before. So she asked me to help her find a piece before she died." As she spoke, Zhu Qingqing took out the jade pendant from her arms.

Jiang Che raised his hand and summoned the jade pendant, which slowly fell into his hand. Looking at this familiar yet unfamiliar thing, Jiang Che's thoughts were instantly pulled back to a scene from the past.

"After I went back that night, I thought about my wife day and night, and I couldn't help myself, so I took the risk to come here. Since you are so cruel, I won't force you, but I want the jade pendant you are wearing around your neck to stay. Would you mind thinking about it?"

"This is a jade pendant passed down from my family. I will give it to Qing'er in the future. If you marry her, you can hold it in your hands."

"Does Madam really think it's a good thing that I married Zhu Qingqing?"

"I"

"Give me the things, and I will never bother you again. Jiang always keeps his word."

"Madam, give me the jade pendant. I promise that this matter will not be known to outsiders, otherwise..."

"Can you really do it?"

"can."

"What you said just now, are you sincere?"

"certainly."

"This is the last time. You and I should not meet again. After all, I am already a wife."

That time was the second time Jiang Che met Madam Zhu after he visited the Zhu Mansion at night. In order to gather the sacrifices to break through the innate realm, he found Madam Zhu and tricked the heirloom Qingming Lingyu from her.

Jiang Che slowly pulled his thoughts back, staring at the Qingming Spirit Jade, hung it around his waist, then took out a storage spirit ring from his sleeve and handed it to Zhu Qingqing, saying:
"These resources are enough for you to practice to the Xuandan realm safely, but there is no free lunch in the world, so use this Qingming Lingyu to exchange them."

Zhu Qingqing widened her eyes and stared at Jiang Che blankly.

Although the Qingming Lingyu is also considered a good spiritual object, it is too insignificant compared to the resources in the storage spirit ring that are sufficient to provide warriors with a breakthrough to the Xuandan realm.

For a moment, she didn't know whether to refuse or accept it.

"Practice well in the future. If you have any difficulties, you can use the token in the spirit ring to ask for help from the government." Jiang Che didn't wait for Zhu Qingqing to speak. After giving her instructions, he glanced at the tombstone, took a step forward, and disappeared into the void.

The only one left there was Zhu Qingqing, who had not yet come to her senses. At this moment, she looked at the storage spirit ring in her hand, and suddenly thought of the first time she met Jiang Che.

Scenes came to my mind.

Her biggest dream was to marry a peerless hero, and she didn't care much about Jiang Che, who was only the deputy commander at the time. But a few years passed and time went by.

Jiang Che has become the world-famous hero, while she is just an insignificant nun in the martial arts world. The gap between the two is like an ant compared to the bright moon.

Suddenly, Zhu Qingqing was overwhelmed with grief, and she squatted on the ground and cried loudly, without caring about her image. Her cry was mixed with endless regret.

"I never thought that after just a few years of cultivation, you still have so many stories. You had a close relationship with that dead woman, right? Do you regret not treating her well?"

Above the void, Old Man Ku Rong looked at Jiang Che. He saw almost everything that happened to Jiang Che just now, and then he sighed.

Jiang Che had a blank expression on his face. Without even looking down, he tore open the void and disappeared in an instant, leaving only one sentence floating in the air.

"It's just a little bit of wind and frost."

Upon hearing this, Patriarch Ku Rong was stunned on the spot, with a look of surprise between his brows, as if he did not expect Jiang Che to change so quickly, which was somewhat beyond his expectations.

After all, in his opinion, only those who have truly experienced countless life and death pursuits can have such a free and easy idea. But Jiang Che, how many years has he been practicing?

I'm so open-minded
When Jiang Che truly faced the death of Madam Zhu, although he felt some inexplicable emotions in his heart, he also completely got through this hurdle. The person is gone, and there is no point in pursuing him.

If one pursues the truth in this way, more and more people will not be able to catch up with him and will gradually die out.

What he can do is to continue to strengthen his determination and keep going forward step by step until he reaches the end of the immortal road.

For a moment, Jiang Che's heart of Tao became brighter and brighter, as if it had swept away all the dust. It was like a bright pearl, emitting a faint glow, which astonished the old ancestor Ku Rong who had been accompanying him all the way.

This was the first time I saw how talented Jiang Che was.

Not only does he have terrifying potential for cultivation, but his heart for the Tao is also extremely strong.

He even sighed in his heart that if Jiang Che could always maintain his current state, under the current situation of great changes in the world, Jiang Che's possibility of becoming an immortal would not be lower than his.

There was even a feeling that the waves behind the Li River were pushing against the waves in front.

soon.

The two of them once again crossed thousands of miles and arrived at Yuezhou City, the center of today's Yuezhou. Jiang Che stood in the void, overlooking the ground below, and could clearly sense the wives and concubines in King Wu's mansion.

The Qi sisters, Zhao Xianzhi's master and apprentice, Empress Xue's sisters-in-law, and others were all here. "You are so young, why do you have so many women?"

Patriarch Ku Rong was even more surprised when he saw this. Before, he thought that Jiang Che was not a person of universal love after experiencing the pain of separation and his heart of Taoism became clear.

After all, if you are too philanthropic, you won't be trapped by the pain of separation.

But what he saw now overturned some of his perceptions.

"At such a young age, shouldn't you find more women? If it's just boring practice, then what's the point of immortality?" Jiang Che smiled faintly. He longed for immortality and power.

But he doesn't really want to be a lonely man. That kind of immortality is not what he wants.

"makes sense"

Patriarch Ku Rong couldn't help but utter a few words.

"Fellow Daoist, you must have had many female confidantes in the past, right?" Jiang Che glanced at Old Ancestor Ku Rong.

"Look at me, how many fairies can I attract with my appearance?"

Patriarch Ku Rong chuckled.

Jiang Che shook his head:
"With the senior's cultivation strength, changing one's appearance is just a matter of thought."

The higher the level of cultivation, the easier it is to change one's appearance, or even regain youth. For example, Qi Yuan, the ancestor of the Qi family, still looks like a young man even after living for hundreds of years.

Of course, there are exceptions, those who are used to their own ways and are unwilling to make changes.

For example, Dongfang Mingyue, the former Purple Dragon Dharma King of the Qingtian Sect.

"I was born like this, why should I change my appearance because of some women?" Old Ancestor Ku Rong couldn't help but sneer. He had experienced thousands of years and had already watched the time pass.

I have long since stopped taking love affairs seriously.

"Boring."

Jiang Che smiled.

"Cultivation is the greatest pleasure. You have not yet seen through these illusions." Old Ancestor Ku Rong completely disagreed with Jiang Che's idea. Of course, Jiang Che had no intention of admonishing him.

Everyone has their own aspirations, there is no need to force them.

"Would you like to be given some time to accompany your wives and concubines?"

Patriarch Ku Rong said casually.

Jiang Che looked at the sky and nodded immediately:

"Okay, Senior, you can do whatever you want in the city. Tomorrow morning, you and I will set off for the Witch God Temple."

After saying that, Jiang Che flew away directly, leaving behind the confused Old Ancestor Ku Rong. He swore that he was just talking casually just now. He felt that Jiang Che should be in the state of a sage after experiencing that kind of state of mind just now.

As a result, what is the situation?
Seeing that Jiang Che had indeed left, Patriarch Ku Rong could only sigh helplessly:

“Hey, young people nowadays.”

Wu Wangfu.

In Queen Xue’s boudoir.

Xue Bai'er was chatting and laughing with Queen Ning Wei Yourong. The two of them were old acquaintances, and although their relationship was ordinary before, it was different now.

The Great Zhou was destroyed, and these two concubines of the previous dynasty stood on the united front.

Although the Qi sisters and Master and Disciple Zhao Xianzhi did not target them, they were quite friendly to them, except that Qi Ningbing would occasionally ask them how they first met Jiang Che.

All her status was considered as the treatment she received as Jiang Che's concubine.

But as the saying goes, where there are people, there is struggle.

The struggle is especially severe among women.

Wei Yourong, who had been a princess, and Xue Bai'e, who had been a queen, were very clear about this. It was in this context that the two chose to stick together for warmth.

At this point, Jiang Che's harem was divided into four major camps.

The first is the sisters camp with the Qi sisters as the main force and Qingqing as the auxiliary force. The second is the master-disciple camp with Zhao Xianzhi as the main force and Huang Shanshan as the auxiliary force. The third is the sisters-in-law camp with Xue Bai'er as the main force and Wei Yourong as the auxiliary force.

As for the fourth, it is the aloof Yaoyue camp.

Among the four major camps, the Qi sisters are the main ones, and the other factions are auxiliary. Although there is no open struggle, everyone knows privately that it is just an appearance.

It is impossible for everyone to be as close as sisters.

After all, people have different degrees of closeness and distance.

What they can do is to maintain their status, not fighting but also not being bullied.

"Sister-in-law, when we meet that little thief Jiang Che in the future, we will join hands to deal with him. You have a butt and I have breasts, and I guarantee that he will be addicted to us."

Wei Yourong chuckled, her best feature was her forward position, the four words "Yourong Naida" were the most appropriate to describe her, while Xue Bai'er's advantage was her lower body.

This made Qingqing and Qi Ningbing extremely envious.

"Don't call me the Imperial Sister-in-law. Why don't you listen to me?" Xue Bai'er frowned.

The Great Zhou has been destroyed, why are we still mentioning those things?
"Oh, my sister-in-law, you don't know, but Jiang Che likes this kind of thing. I think I have figured him out, hehe." Wei Yourong's eyes flashed with a cunning light.

In the past, she felt that Jiang Che’s interest in her was decreasing, but there was nothing she could do no matter how anxious she was. After all, there were innumerable beauties in this world, and Jiang Che could pick a large group of them with his eyes closed.

But now she understands her advantages.

That is the sister-in-law relationship between her and Xue Bai'er.

Looking at the Qi sisters, Zhao Xianzhi's master and apprentice, etc., it is enough to see some of Jiang Che's little hobbies.

"You."

Xue Baiyi smiled bitterly and shook her head.

Suddenly, just as Wei Yourong was about to speak, the void around them suddenly changed, and a pair of large hands, one on the left and one on the right, directly wrapped around the waists of the two men, followed by a teasing laugh.

"So the Queen and Empress are actually planning to deal with me. Humph, today I will let you know what the sky is high and the earth is thick!"

"Jiang Che?"

"Jiang Che?"

Xue Bai'er and Wei Yourong exclaimed at the same time.

"Don't be afraid, it's me."

Jiang Che chuckled.

"Why are you here?"

"Aren't you in the capital?"

"I came back just to see you guys." (End of this chapter)