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Holy Maiden Su Xia's eyes were filled with an unprecedented exhaustion.

Etiquette intelligence had infiltrated the entire Zhou Empire, and the current situation could not be ignored. Many spies from other races had infiltrated the various regions, yet they were all powerless.

However, You Tianzi continued to play the song every night, not paying any attention to it at all. His attitude towards the dukes had also changed quite a bit, and his monarch's heart was unpredictable, his moods unpredictable.

The taxes of the various marquises were constantly rising, but none of them dared to speak out. This was because You Tianzi's cultivation was truly too high. In the end, it was the common people who suffered.

In the entire Zhou Dynasty, the people were uneasy and the society was unstable.

It wasn't that Youzi didn't know, but he didn't want to take any action to comfort her. He simply ignored all government affairs.

The imperial court of the Great Zhou Empire was also in a state of helplessness, each on its own, doing their own thing.

From top to bottom, etiquette was always running about for the future of the entire Great Zhou Empire.

"…" "You Tianzi's cultivation level is too high, and his talent is astonishing, so even etiquette can't suppress him. The High Priestess had a direct conflict with him, and now that he is recovering in the Church, the Heavenly Son of the Disciplinary Hall is just as useless as he is now. Unless we use the entirety of his power, it would be difficult to suppress him, but that way the imperial clan would suffer internal strife, and the status of the Great Zhou Empire is in danger."

"You Tianzi's cultivation is so high, but why is he treating the Great Zhou Empire like this?" Su Xia tightly clenched his fists as he felt puzzled in his heart.

"No one can guess You Tianzi's current thoughts. Forget it. The attitude of the village's Xu family is indeed not something we can control." In the past few days, the Palace Mistress of the Great Hall had not been able to convince Xu Chong Mu to support the Great Zhou Imperial Family.

The village's Xu family had almost nothing to ask for. All year long, in the hidden mountains, they did not lack anything and everything was self-sufficient. Nothing was able to attract them at all.

"You Tianzi's temperament is unpredictable. Right now, we have to prepare for our ceremony. If there really is a great disturbance, we at least have to be able to protect ourselves." Su Xia's voice was very low, but she had heard from the Heavenly Worship Hall Master that the destiny of the Great Zhou Empire's Royal Clan was in turmoil. It was likely that something big would happen within the next decade or so.

"Yes." The leader's expression remained calm.

This time, the clash between the sons of the village's Xu family and the sons of powerful foreign families was extremely important.

Everyone could see that Xu Tianyi wanted to befriend their disciples, but no one could fathom Xu Chongmu's attitude.

On the hill, Xu Zhengyi and Xu Xindie had finally returned.

"We should be able to give them a surprise tomorrow. The Golden Scaled Dragon Lion's recovery ability is extremely strong, I'm afraid that some of them are going to have bad luck." Xu Zhengdao laughed. He was in an excellent mood.

"We should be surprised later on." Xu Xindie pointed at the cave and smiled, "There's another world inside. It seems like this place is not as simple as it looks on the surface."

"I can't wait any longer, but Miss Xindie, you still have to let the Ten Thousand Spirit Butterfly investigate. If the Golden-scaled Dragon and Lion Beast find the scent and come back, I'm afraid we will be stuck inside the cave." Xu Zongyi was extremely cautious.

"Yes, I've already prepared it. Don't worry." Xu Xindie gently leaped and landed in the valley.

Xu Zongyi opened up a path with the folly sword in his hand. Although the Ten Thousand Spirit Butterfly had already explored this place, there was bound to be some unpredictable danger.

Xu Zhengdao walked beside him.

The entrance to the cave was not small, but the inside was even larger.

Xu Zhengdao took a match and took out three torches from his space tool.

The firelight instantly illuminated the cave. Everyone was stunned by what they saw.

This place did not look like a cave at all, but more like a palace.

Although it looked somewhat rough, it did not lose its grandeur.

There were traces of claws on the mountain walls, clearly created by the Goldscale Dragon Lion of that day. This was for the production of young and also for its future shelter.

In these past few years, the cave had become a palace.

The marks of claws on the stone wall were filled with an extremely frightening aura.

In this place, there were many broken bones of vicious beasts. The entire palace covered three or four miles, and was nearly 200 feet high.

The ground under his feet was abnormally fertile, and it was unknown just how many corpses of vicious beasts were buried there.

It could be seen that there were traces of soil being split open, and there were many scales on the ground. Clearly, this Gold-scaled Dragon Lion had just broken through into the pericelestial stage.

"West Heaven Gengjin Grass!" Xu Xindie went to a deeper place. She believed that this was where the Gold-scaled Dragon, Lion Beast, lived everyday. Not far away, there was its feces.

The feces of the Golden Scaled Dragon Lion were not ordinary, just like golden lumps. The content of the poop was extremely high, because it usually absorbed heavenly and earthly treasures related to the metal element. The aura emitted by the West Heaven Gengjin Grass was beneficial to its growth.

"The Heaven Golden Tree is just a benefit it gave to its brothers. I didn't expect the West Heaven Gengjin Grass to be the main attraction." Xu Zongyi was extremely excited as he looked at the soil at the roots. His pupils had shrunk to the size of a needle as he sensed the aura it emitted. His desire for battle was incredibly strong. "This is a Golden Battle Land?"

"No mistake, this is indeed the Golden Battlefield." Although it was not a big problem for Xu Xindie to grow the West Heaven Gengjin Grass, it was good enough that she was able to find the appropriate soil to plant it in as a berserk beast.

"Seems like the mother of this Gold-scaled Dragon Lion has put quite a bit of effort into the growth of her child." Xu Zhengdao sighed emotionally.

"The bloodline of a Gold-scaled Dragon is already extraordinary. Without good treasures to nurture it, raising it from a young age will only be a waste of its bloodline." Xu Xindie looked at the West Heaven Seventhgold Grass and saw that she wasn't of much use for it. She looked at Xu Zongyi and said, "You can have the Gold Battle Land and the West Heaven Geng Golden Grass as well."

"I've already taken the Heavenly Gold Tree and the Shapeshift Stone, so taking this isn't good!" Xu Zongyi rejected.

"Not for you, but for the three of us. We'll give it to you to maintain." Xu Xindie giggled and said: "When we raise our magic tools in the future, you can't take it all for yourself."

"You also know that Xin Die and I don't have the mood to take care of these flowers and trees. Naturally, there are people who work hard for us, so you don't need to collect any fees from us." Xu Zhengdao stood to the side and laughed heartily.

"Fine." Xu Zongyi didn't know what to say to the two of them, so the only thing he could do was repay them in the future.

He shook his head as he looked at the golden battle soil on which the Gengjin Grass had taken root. "I can't move now. Unless I transplant it in a short period of time, it will harm the roots of the Gengjin Grass."

"Seven days is too much of a time. Can't we transfer it into a spatial magic tool first?" Xu Zhengdao frowned.

"This won't do. The West Heaven Gengjin Grass has very high requirements for the quality of the earth. The Gold Battle Earth, coupled with the soil here, has a rich metal heavenly treasure in the earth, which allows it to survive like this." "It seems that when the Golden-scaled Dragon and Lion Beast were giving birth to their young, they also felt that the auras of the metal element were the densest. Otherwise, with the Western Gengjin Grass absorbing the nutrients in this area, it would be easy for not a single blade of grass to grow in this area, and if there is not enough nutrients, the ground would dry up."

"It seems like we can only get them out of the competition earlier!" Xu Zhengdao lowered his head in thought. He seemed to have thought of something.

"Righteous path, what do you want to do?" Xu Xindie always felt that it was a bit dangerous.

"Tomorrow, they will definitely suffer a backlash from the Golden Scaled Dragon. That will be our best opportunity." Xu Zhengdao originally only wanted the Golden-Scaled Dragon to stall them, so that Xu Tiancheng and the others wouldn't have time.

On the other hand, they could hunt and earn hunting points.

After all, he only had seven days.

"If it wasn't for them and the Gold-scaled Dragon, it would be difficult for us to enter when it returns." Xu Zongyi shook his head.

There are a lot of ways to get Heart Butterfly to put poison in it. Maybe when the time comes, I can try to control it and lure it out. Xu Zhengdao felt that the safest option would be to clear out everyone who participated in the Autumn Hunt.

Each and every one of the direct blood inheritances of these foreign powers had extraordinary methods. They didn't know what other methods they had, but they definitely had to strike first to gain the upper hand.

"Then let's move together." Xu Zongyi also wanted to use his martial arts techniques in actual combat.

"Alright." Xu Xindie didn't have any objections.

They wanted to search for more things in this cave, but they couldn't find anything else.

It was already dawn.

Outside the Golden Maple Forest.

The major external forces had all risen. Many people from the Xu family had been busy with their work for a long time. They would be sent to their respective tents as soon as possible.

For Xu Zongyi and his gang, it was the Autumn Hunt, but for Xu Chongmu and the rest of the foreign powers, it was an autumn tour arranged by the village's Xu family. Every day, there would be people who would send various kinds of food to the village, all through meticulous preparation.

In the autumn, cultivation was different depending on one's strength and cultivation level. As for the items that were cooked, the ratio would also be completely different.

Xu Chongmu worked hard to entertain these foreign guests. Even though the level of these people was extremely high, he felt that if he could stay in the farmhouse for a long time and receive this level of cultivation, his cultivation would definitely advance.

Compared to what they usually ingested, it was like the difference between cloud and mud.

It had to be said that the farmer Xu family was too focused on food and drink.

After countless years of accumulation, even though the people outside were very serious, compared to the people outside the village, the Xu family was like a small child meeting a great master.

Apart from other things, fire and water were problems that many people could not solve. For the village's Xu family, there were too many good sources of water. This was an accumulation of countless years.

According to the different types of herbs and ingredients used, the effects were completely incomparable.

Many experts who had reached a certain level of cultivation were unable to break through their own limits, but they could still break through the shackles of the school by eating, brewing medicinal herbs. This was the meaning of the existence of the institution.

Not just vegetation, but people as well.

Xu Chongmu was very generous. All the important people that came to the Xu family this time were all to let the core disciples of the Xu family understand about it and personally cook it.

However, Xu Chongmu didn't pay much attention to travelling merchants.

Xu Jingzhi and Xu Minglu from the Spring Life Courtyard brought their disciples to visit their former good friends, and also asked them to treat them.

Amongst these travelling merchants, some of them had deep ties of friendship with the various headmasters of the Xu family.

Some of the seniors from the travelling merchants didn't even have much chance of living anymore. Some of them had only grown up watching Xu Jingyu, Xu Minglu, and Xu Chen grow up.

Since the outside world was in a state of turmoil, many traveling caravans had disappeared one after another. Xu Minglu and Xu Jingzhi also had to learn about the situation from them. After all, since ancient times, the Xu family had interacted more with travelling merchants.

For countless years, they would come to the village every year, and the prices would also be a little more realistic when compared to each other. More importantly, the news that these travelling merchants had brought them were mostly true, however, because the battles between the various large powers were very complicated, it was hard to avoid having some tricks up their sleeves, and it was naturally true and false.

No matter how popular the Xu family was in the eyes of these big forces, travelling merchants were still the most long-term partner.