The villain's daily corpse collection

After all, the secret realm is a matter between Xuanmen and the heavens. The imperial family wants to participate in the treasure hunt, and Yangyue An wants to have a big share, but they can't be too obvious, and the face project must be in place. Therefore, they decided to hold talks at the headquarters of Lin'an Palace before opening the secret realm, and did not choose Tianwang Palace or Prince An's Mansion, which represented the power of either party.

Du Ximiao was a member of the imperial family. She did receive an invitation to the secret realm meeting. Not only did she receive the invitation, she also found that she had a spot to enter the secret realm. As for most of the spots, they were in the hands of Yangyue Anshi and her brothers and sisters.

Yuan Xiang drove the carriage and stopped near an inconspicuous Water Official Temple in the west of the city. There are Three Official Temples everywhere in the city, and this Water Official Temple named Qiling Temple is one of the many Three Official Temples in the world.

This was their first time to Lin'an Palace. In the past, Xuanmen stayed away from downtown streets, fearing worldly disturbances, and chose to stay in deep mountains and old forests. The higher the mountain and the deeper the pool, the better the place for quiet cultivation.

Only the head of Lin'an Palace said, "The great hermit hides in the city, the small hermit hides in the wild." Even if he is familiar with people in the court, he does not fight with others. He is a "great hermit". In the bustling and noisy environment, he can still maintain inner peace and not be immersed in the corrupt world. This is the foundation of Lin'an Palace's practice.

Today, no outsiders were in the Water Official Temple. Du Ximiao got off the car and walked straight into the temple. He crossed the mountain gate and walked across the Gupeng Bridge. There was a stream flowing under the bridge, and the gardens on both sides were lush and green. In the era of water shortage, it was not possible to have such an arrangement in ordinary Taoist temples.

Passing by the bell tower and several main halls, the main hall enshrines the Four Great Emperors, and there are also huge statues of the Nine-Holding Gods in the main hall. Du Ximiao carefully looked at the names and appearances of each god. Only the Water Virtue God of Chen had no carved face, but he was called the Nine-Holding God together with other gods, and he also had a body sculpture, which was really strange.

After walking out of the Jiutian Palace, Du Ximiao looked down at the invitation. The meeting place mentioned in it was the deepest hall in the temple, which was also one of the main halls. The supreme being in heaven, Tianzun, was enshrined there.

Du Ximiao took a deep breath. It had been a while since she had set fire to the stronghold, killed the retainers, and caused an uproar at An's funeral. After doing those things, she had never seen the bigwigs she had offended again. The brother Emperor Xian, who hated her to the bone at that time, and the chief steward An, who she had offended by disrupting An's funeral, were the guests of honor today.

She turned her head and looked around, wondering in her heart where her goddess sister was hiding. If a fight broke out, she must show up to protect herself!

Yuan Xiang saw her worry from the side, and he whispered, "Don't worry, Your Highness, I'm here." Du Ximiao turned her head to look at him, smiled, and was about to say something when she was interrupted by someone coming from the front.

"Isn't this the Princess Taiyao who has regained the emperor's favor? I didn't expect His Highness to come to the secret meeting today." Someone recognized Du Ximiao, and she responded with a standard smile, silently complaining that she didn't recognize the person in front of her at all, so why pretend to be familiar! The person wanted to get closer, but saw Yuan Xiang deliberately blocking the two of them, so he left in dismay.

The main hall dedicated to Tianzun is grand and quiet. Perhaps because the hall is empty, people gathered together talking in low voices and it is difficult to hear clearly. Only rustling sounds can be heard.

Some rattan tables and chairs had been placed in the main hall, and many distinguished guests were already seated. Du Ximiao saw his brothers and sisters whom he had not seen for a long time.

The eldest brother, Prince Xian Du He, sat upright, occasionally chatting with the three male monks around him, two of whom were twin brothers.

Sitting several tables back was the second brother, Prince Qing Du Lian. He was silent the entire time, with a man and a woman in Taoist robes beside him. Compared to the other tables, the three of them seemed too quiet.

At the front was the fifth sister, Princess Wanyu Du Yunyi. She seemed to glance at Du Ximiao, then turned her head to look forward. Beside her sat two female monks, one of whom had most of her face covered with a silver mask.

In addition, there were monks from some sects sitting nearby.

Seeing that almost everyone had arrived, the head of Lin'an Palace stood in front of the stage and talked to everyone about matters related to the secret realm.

This time, the secret realm was created under the instruction of the An clan ancestor from the heavenly realm. Because the heavenly realm and the mortal realm had been disconnected for too long, the ancestor still wanted to seek benefits for the younger generation. Thirty-nine people can enter the secret realm this time, and the quota has been allocated.

There were four people from the imperial family, Prince Xian had three places, Prince Qing and Princess Wanyu had two places, and Princess Taiyao Du Ximiao had one place. The rest of the places belonged to other Xuanmen.

"In order to avoid too much conflict, we decided to split into three groups, each with thirteen people, to enter the secret realm at different times. The secret treasure is hidden anywhere and will not be found all at once. The distinguished guests who came today are the first group to enter the secret realm."

Next came some safety tips, distribution of maps, and signing of life and death agreements.

While the crowd was dispersing, Du Ximiao walked towards the table of Prince Xian Du He, followed closely by Yuan Xiang.

"Ahem, Brother Di, long time no see."

Du He looked up and saw that gorgeous and familiar face, and the three male practitioners beside him also looked over.

"What are you trying to do again?" He snorted coldly and looked at her quietly.

Du Ximiao heard his tone and it seemed that he didn't want to break up with her. She calmed down and greeted him, "Brother Emperor, you are joking. I am just an insignificant daughter of the Emperor. How can I escape your scrutiny if I do anything?"

Du He took a sip of tea and did not accept her opinion, but did not drive her away either.

Seeing this, Du Ximiao hurriedly said, "Compared to other brothers and sisters, only you, Brother Di, are the closest to me. I have not gotten to know the others much, and they are even worse than strangers. And just now, I saw along the way that the cultivators they brought with them to explore the secret realm are really not as good as the adults under Brother Di's command. In this secret realm treasure hunt, Brother Di will definitely take the lead!"

Listening to her impassioned speech, Du He's expression moved slightly, and he seemed not so indifferent anymore.

"After all, we are a family. The misunderstandings and conflicts before were all deliberately instigated by someone to alienate us." Du Ximiao said earnestly, "Brother Di, those malicious people are dead, and they have paid the price. Can we just let go of what happened before?"

Du He heard that Du Ximiao was here to show his goodwill. In fact, he was not angry for too long. Although the death of several retainers was troublesome, there was indeed an undercover agent of the second prince Qing among them.

It would be better to kill the wrong person than to let her go, otherwise he would suffer losses. She did a good thing for him. As for the emperor in the capital, he didn't believe that the emperor really liked this crazy girl, but was just trying to win her over and give her some small favors to get rid of her.

What if a woman is ruthless? Could she really stand in his way?

"Sit down and talk." Du He gestured to one of the male monks to make room for Du Ximiao.

"Brother Di, I came here to discuss something important with you." Du Ximiao went straight to the point, "I met two masters before - they are definitely first-rate masters. They want to enter this secret realm, but I only have one spot in the secret realm. I heard that Brother Di has three spots. I wonder if you can give one spot to your sister?"

Du He frowned and thought. The conditions proposed by the three monks under him were no less than many, but Du He only agreed because of the value of the master monks.

Du He spoke slowly: "The three people around me are also top masters, why should I give you the spot?" Du Ximiao had already seen that this spot should have been hers, but what could she say when it was taken away directly?

"I don't want any treasures from the secret realm, and my masters only want one thing. They promised that all other treasures they found would belong to Brother Di."

After Du Ximiao said this, the monks around Du He couldn't sit still. Especially the lone male monk, who couldn't help but interrupted and said, "Master? You sound so nice, you must be a liar, maybe you sneaked in first and hid the treasure!"

"My Lord, how do you know so much about things that haven't happened yet? Is this your own idea?" Du Ximiao turned and looked at him.

The male monk jumped up as if someone stepped on his foot: "Seventh Prince, please don't talk nonsense! I have never thought about it. We agreed with the prince on a 60:40 split, and the prince also agreed."

"Brother Di, my experts can bring you more than 95% of the secret treasures. This deal is so worthwhile!"

Du He's expression changed slightly, and Du Ximiao took advantage of the situation and said, "How about this? For the sake of fairness, why not use this quota as a bargaining chip and let the masters compete to decide the winner."

"You are still the same as before, you have a lot of tricks." Du He smiled at her, his tone even a little doting. Du Ximiao rolled her eyes in her heart. Since she was asked to be the unreasonable person, she would do it to the end.

"Thank you, Brother Emperor, for loving my sister. What do you think of this immortal?" she asked with a smile, looking very harmless.

Seeing that the King of Xian had no objection, the lone male monk could not refuse directly, "Let's compete, but why didn't your master come with you? Are you afraid?"

"Okay, we accept this competition."

A cold female voice came from behind them. Wang Wei and Huo Feng appeared in the hall without knowing when. Wang Wei's voice was not loud, but everyone's eyes fell on them, and the main hall gradually became quiet.

Wang Wei put on a silver-white half-mask before she appeared. After all, Lin'an Palace was half of the An family's territory, and there were many people and eyes. If they recognized her as the one who killed their former young master, they would call for her to be killed under the banner of revenge. She didn't want to become someone else's pawn. If she caused trouble at that time, it would not be worth it.

Du He didn't feel anything at all about the approach of the two people. Not only him, he also communicated with the twin brothers through eye contact and found that they were also unaware.

"Your Highness Prince Xian, we are the masters invited by Princess Tai Yao." Wang Wei bowed according to the Xuanmen etiquette.

Du He and the other monks looked at the master and his disciple. Du He raised his head, and the male monk stepped forward to return the greeting: "It is you two who want my place?"

"He wants it." Wang Wei glanced at Huo Feng, "To be precise, this quota has not been officially determined yet. You need to compete to finally confirm who is qualified to have this secret realm quota."

"What a boast!" The male monk finally confirmed King Xian's attitude, then stepped forward and said, "Let's compete, but I won't compete with him. I want to compete with you!"

The monk pointed at Wang Wei, who didn't react for a moment and pointed at himself. The monk nodded to confirm again, and Wang Wei realized that he was indeed the one being called.

Huo Feng looked at the man in surprise. At least he wouldn't lose too badly when competing with him, but when competing with his master, he had a bad feeling.

Wang Wei was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud: "You don't think that because I'm a woman, your chances of winning are greater, right?"

"How, how is that possible!" the male monk retorted stubbornly, "I'm just worried that the two of you have planned to trick me, so I want to choose my own opponent."

But what he was thinking in his heart was, I just think you are a woman who is easy to bully. You don't think that I am an expert just because I pretend to have the aura of an expert. I am not that easy to fool.

"How do we compete? Where do we compete? When do we compete? You decide." I hope you will make concessions generously.

"Now." The male monk seemed a little impatient. He looked at Prince Xian and said, "Your Highness, can you lend us the martial arts arena in the back mountain of Lin'an Palace?"

The head of Lin'an Palace walked straight over. He heard everything clearly in front. He looked at King Xian and nodded.

Du He stood up and said, "Let's go to the back hill to watch the fun."

Everyone moved to the martial arts arena in the back mountain.

Wang Wei was the first to stand on the platform. The male monk didn't know why he was a little behind the crowd along the way.

"Compared to what?"

"A fight! Let's see who has more profound skills and abilities."

"Okay."

"Wait!" the male monk shouted, "Let's not compete in fighting, let's compete in swordsmanship."

"Okay."

"Hiss..." The male monk felt a little scared when he saw Wang Wei agreed so readily.

"Hey! Are you still going to compete? So many important people are waiting here!" Someone in the audience was unhappy.

At this time, a disciple from Lin'an Palace came over with two swords and gave one to each of them as weapons for the competition.

Wang Wei smiled slightly, and the monk's hand holding the sword trembled a few times.

In fact, she was not good at using weapons. Her magic was the most powerful force in the world. No weapon could get close to her, so she naturally didn't have to learn it. But things have changed over time.

However, even if you haven't eaten pork, you have seen pigs run. Anyway, it shouldn't be difficult to just wave a few powerful-looking moves. First, make some fake moves to make the opponent underestimate you, and then...

Just as Wang Wei had planned, her sword dancing posture was extremely graceful, and everyone was fascinated. The male monk opposite him went from trembling with nervousness to gradually straightening his back.

That's it? You're still pretending to be an expert at this level. You'll definitely win this time!

He gradually became more confident, and his moves gradually showed flaws. As a result, the next moment, Wang Wei turned around and exerted a little force, and the blade stood on the neck of the male monk, and the sharp blade cut the skin of the man's neck.

Male monk: “…”

Audience: “!”

Before anyone could react, Wang Wei won in a lightning speed.

Winning didn't seem so easy, but she did win. After all, she didn't want to be targeted by all the monks before she even entered the secret realm.

"I declare that this competition is..." The head of Lin'an Palace looked at Wang Wei. Wang Wei said his pseudonym "Mo Wei". The head nodded and said, "Master Mo wins. You can decide who will win this spot privately."

When everyone left, Du Ximiao's fifth sister Du Yunyi said a few words to Du Ximiao before leaving -

"Seventh sister, have you ever heard the saying, 'The first bird to stick its head out gets shot down, and the local snake gets killed with a knife'?"

"Fifth sister is very knowledgeable, so naturally I, the younger sister, have never heard of her."

"What this means is that being in the limelight too much is not good for you."

"Thank you for your teachings, Fifth Sister. I have a poor memory and easily forget things. I hope you can remind me more often." After Du Ximiao finished speaking, she turned around and walked to Wang Wei's side.

"Sister Weiwei, you are really amazing. I really didn't misjudge you!" Du Ximiao praised. Du Yunyi stood there, took a look, and then left.

Wang Wei also glanced at Du Yunyi as he passed by, and was speechless for a moment at Du Ximiao's "childish" show-off behavior. Du Ximiao ran towards Wang Wei with a smile, took her arm, and walked out with the crowd.

"Life and death status?"

Wang Wei frowned as he looked at the documents and red ink in front of him.

"Yes, everyone who enters the secret realm needs to sign to prevent any accidents. As we all know, there are risks and opportunities in the secret realm. The better the treasure, the greater the danger. But if something goes wrong, you must be responsible for yourself." The person in charge of the Lin'an Palace secret realm explained this necessary process.

Du Ximiao carefully observed the expressions of the master and disciple, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw them press their fingerprints happily.

"Dear guests, the prince invites you."

A voice came from behind. It was the captain of the palace guards who came to deliver a message.

Du Ximiao frowned where the captain of the guards couldn't see. She wanted to hold Wang Wei, but her sleeve slipped down her palm.