Chu Zhiyuan smiled and clasped his fist: "Your Highness, have you heard the news outside?"
"Fuyuan Town has been recaptured by you?" Li Hongzhao smiled, her phoenix eyes narrowed. Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "How does Your Highness feel?"
"Heh," Li Hongzhao chuckled, lightly shaking her head: "Seeing you so happy, it's as if you didn't recapture a lost military town, but rather seized one of our Great Meng's military towns."
"Worthy of being Your Highness, truly, you don't lose spirit even when you lose the battle!" Chu Zhiyuan chuckled, extending his hand to signal her to take a seat.
Li Hongzhao snorted and said to Xiao Ruoling: "Sister Xiao, I've finally seen you again."
Xiao Ruoling said apologetically: "Your Highness, please forgive me, I haven't been in the mansion for the past few days."
"Oh—?" Li Hongzhao's phoenix eyes lit up: "Not in the Duke's mansion? Then where? Could it be the Qing Prince's mansion?" Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said: "You're asking too much."
"Alright." Li Hongzhao smiled: "Then I won't pry. Sister Xiao, I didn't expect there to be so many rouge shops in Yujing, it's dazzling. If you have time, let's go shopping, and you can help me choose."
Xiao Ruoling smiled and said: "Okay, but it will have to be after this busy period, I really don't have the time."
Li Hongzhao glanced at Chu Zhiyuan: "Could it be that you're getting married soon?" Chu Zhiyuan smiled.
Xiao Ruoling smiled and said: "Not so soon... What about Your Highness, do you have someone in mind?"
"Someone in mind..." Li Hongzhao glanced at Chu Zhiyuan: "I'm different from you, Sister Xiao. I don't fancy these stinky men."
Xiao Ruoling pursed her lips and chuckled, glancing at Chu Zhiyuan, and said to Li Hongzhao with a smile: "Your Highness is a princess, and your cultivation is so powerful, I'm afraid it's really difficult to find a good husband."
Li Hongzhao can be said to have eyes higher than the sky, and also has the qualifications to do so, being of noble birth and with unparalleled talent, enough to make the men of the world feel ashamed.
"Sister Xiao, your cultivation has greatly improved."
She possessed the Phoenix Cry Soaring the Nine Heavens Art and was also keenly perceptive, noticing that Xiao Ruoling's aura had greatly increased.
Her phoenix eyes moved over Xiao Ruoling's body, and she smiled: "Almost at the Perfected Acquired Realm, right?"
"Your Highness has good eyes," Xiao Ruoling said with a smile.
While Chu Zhiyuan was improving her swordsmanship, he was also using the Qionghua Nine Chapters Record to improve her cultivation and realm, rapidly approaching the Perfected Acquired Realm.
The power of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden Art lies in the Qionghua Nine Chapters Record. With the assistance of the Qionghua Nine Chapters Record, cultivation progresses rapidly, advancing by leaps and bounds.
"Indeed, congratulations are in order." Li Hongzhao smiled: "Let's have a good drink."
Xiao Ruoling personally filled a cup for her. At this moment, the singing outside stopped.
Chu Zhiyuan glanced at the two women who had quietly retreated.
Li Hongzhao smiled and said: "Such a voice is indeed wasted here."
Chu Zhiyuan said: "Does Your Highness also like it?"
"Who wouldn't like such a voice?" Li Hongzhao snorted: "If this weren't Great Meng, I would have already taken her into my mansion to raise, saving her from the wind and rain outside, and suffering the hardships of life."
"Heh!" Li Hongzhao sneered.
If he truly cherished flowers, he wouldn't be so harsh on himself. Look at him, where is there any sign of cherishing beauty!
Chu Zhiyuan said: "I also have good news to tell Your Highness, I have advanced another realm, and am now at the Fifth Heaven."
"Fifth Heaven!?" Li Hongzhao could no longer maintain her smile, and stiffened: "Truly the Fifth Heaven?"
"Want to try?" Chu Zhiyuan extended his palm.
Li Hongzhao retracted her jade palm and snorted: "No need!"
Last time, it was during the palm test that he took the opportunity to injure her, and the thought of it still makes her chest ache.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said: "What Heaven is Your Highness at now?"
"Asking the obvious!" Li Hongzhao snorted: "Don't be smug, no matter how fast you are, you will eventually be stuck at the Perfected Grandmaster Realm, you will never become a Grand Great Master!"
"Haha, you're getting anxious."
"With your progress, your foundation is unstable. Wanting to become a Grand Great Master is a dream!"
"Fast progress means an unstable foundation?" Chu Zhiyuan smiled and shook his head: "That's not necessarily true. What is a foundation? It's the understanding and insight into one's own realm. I'm afraid I'm not inferior to you."
Upon reaching the Grandmaster Realm, one vaguely possesses the ability of internal vision.
One can see the colors of the internal organs, and see the flow of energy in the meridians.
However, the clarity of a Grandmaster's internal vision is vastly different from that of a transcendent's internal vision, and the understanding of one's own realm is also vastly different.
"Hmph, I just think you're going to be happy for nothing. Without becoming a Grand Great Master, no matter how talented you are, you're not truly talented," Li Hongzhao said.
Chu Zhiyuan nodded: "That's right, without becoming a Grand Great Master, you're ultimately a fish, not a dragon."
As a prince or princess, no matter how fast your cultivation speed is, no matter how fast your progress is, without becoming a Grand Great Master, your status will not undergo a fundamental change.
Only by becoming a Grand Great Master can you truly be influential. At best, you will occupy a position of power in the court, and at worst, you will inherit the throne and wield the Son of Heaven's Sword.
Xiao Ruoling smiled and said: "Your Highness, are you confident in becoming a Grand Great Master?"
"Absolutely confident!" Li Hongzhao smiled proudly.
A loud shout suddenly sounded outside.
Immediately following was a continuous burst of laughter.
Chu Zhiyuan had already heard that the outside was saying that Great Meng had already withdrawn its troops ten miles, avoiding the sharp edge of the Ying King's Wind-Chasing Iron Cavalry.
Xiao Ruoling glanced outside, then looked at Li Hongzhao and smiled: "I'm afraid there's no one else in the world who dares to say that?"
Li Hongzhao said proudly: "Anyone who cultivates the Phoenix Cry Soaring the Nine Heavens Art will surely become a Grand Great Master. The Phoenix Cry Soaring the Nine Heavens Art is the number one miraculous art in the world."
Chu Zhiyuan chuckled.
Li Hongzhao snorted: "Don't you believe it?"
"The Phoenix Cry Soaring the Nine Heavens Art also has such a saying? This so-called number one miraculous art in the world is self-proclaimed by Your Highness, right?"
"Ignorant!" Li Hongzhao sneered: "The Phoenix Cry Soaring the Nine Heavens Art is a miraculous art that directly leads to the Grand Great Master Realm, it cannot be compared to other arts in the world!"
Chu Zhiyuan raised his eyebrows: "There is also a miraculous art that can be directly cultivated to the Grand Great Master Realm? Then it would probably have been snatched to the point of breaking heads, right?"
"The Phoenix Cry Soaring the Nine Heavens Art is not recorded in writing, nor is it recorded in physical form, there is nothing to snatch." Li Hongzhao said triumphantly: "Moreover, snatching it is useless, only young girls can learn it."
The three were chatting when they saw Cheng Tianfeng, accompanied by Mo Chunyu, coming alone, without bringing the Frost Treading Iron Cavalry.
Chu Zhiyuan raised his hand to greet him.
When Cheng Tianfeng saw him, his face darkened, and he wanted to pretend he didn't see him.
Then, he saw Li Hongzhao and Xiao Ruoling appearing beside Chu Zhiyuan. His eyes flickered, and he changed his mind, coming into Chu Zhiyuan's house.
Mo Chunyu did not come in.
After some pleasantries.
Cheng Tianfeng was graceful and polite.
"Brother Cheng, have you heard the news?" Chu Zhiyuan said with a smile.
Cheng Tianfeng squeezed out a smile: "Congratulations, as expected, you are worthy of being the Ying King!"
He had this judgment at the time, as long as the Ying King and the Wind-Chasing Iron Cavalry took action, the Cloud-Treading Iron Cavalry would not be able to gain any advantage. Now the Great Zhen's situation is somewhat awkward.
The Ying King is leading the Wind-Chasing Iron Cavalry to gain the upper hand, and can defeat Great Meng, so is there still a need to form an alliance with Great Zhen, is there still a need to borrow the strength of Great Zhen?
If there is no need, the alliance with Great Zhen is only to stabilize Great Zhen, and prevent Great Zhen from causing trouble.
Chu Zhiyuan said: "Brother Cheng, I have a small request."
"...I may not be able to satisfy it." Cheng Tianfeng directly shut Chu Zhiyuan's mouth.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said: "Can't Brother Cheng speak on the matter of the envoy?"
"What is it?"
"End the negotiations as soon as possible, if it drags on, I'm afraid there will be variables." As he spoke, he glanced at Li Hongzhao.
Cheng Tianfeng frowned.
He understood Chu Zhiyuan's meaning.
The current stalemate between the two sides is Chu Zhiyuan.
One side wants to marry a princess to Chu Zhiyuan, and the other side firmly disagrees, and then takes a step back, letting Chu Zhiyuan enter Shenjing for a year, and the other side still does not agree.
"Boom!"
Thunder rumbled.
A bolt from the blue.
The people in Xianyun Tower and the streets outside the tower raised their heads to look at the sky.
The weather was clear, and the sky was cloudless.
The bright sunshine shone on their bodies, warm and comfortable.
"Rumble!"
The sky roared again.
Chu Zhiyuan's gaze turned to the location of the Second Prince, the Jing Prince's mansion!
