The Weird Way of Immortality: My Taoism Progress in One Day a Year

Chapter 192 Banquet
"Ninth Prince, the hunting will begin tomorrow, and many princes have already entered the palace. The royal banquet will be held tonight, and Ninth Prince is invited to attend the banquet."

"okay, I get it."

When Li Yan was practicing in the Stargazing Pavilion, he was called out by Taoist Qingyun.

An eunuch came to deliver the news.

Tomorrow is the hunting day, which is the tradition of the royal family of Daxia.

Hunting monsters has always demonstrated the strong martial virtues of the Da Xia lineage.

Li Yan’s current identity is the ninth prince Xia Yan, so naturally he cannot hide.

Some time ago, Xia Yao invited him to join a team to go to Xuanyi Mountain to participate in hunting, and he had agreed.

Tomorrow is the day when the hunt begins.

After staying in the Observatory for many days, he finally left the Observatory.

After returning to my residence and washing up, it was already evening.

The eunuch came to the outside of the courtyard to urge him, and Li Yan did not delay. He followed the eunuch's lead and went all the way to the royal banquet.

Emperor Xia sat high on the throne, looking dignified.

Several concubines sat on one side.

The princes and princesses sat on the other side.

"Ninth brother, come here."

Xia Yao smiled and waved to Li Yan.

Li Yan nodded slightly and walked to the seat next to Xia Yao.

As soon as he took his seat, a sturdy man in a green robe sitting at the front row looked over at him.

The green-robed man smiled at Li Yan and said, "I haven't seen you for two years. You seem to have lost a lot of weight."

Li Yan shifted his gaze over and recognized from Xia Yan's memory that the man in green robe was Xia Ji, the third prince of the Great Xia Dynasty.

He has reached the sixth level of martial arts, Ning Gang realm, and now serves as the commander-in-chief in Yanzhou.

He replied calmly, "Third brother is still as majestic as usual."

"I heard that Ninth Brother is currently practicing the art of sorcery. From what I can see, he really has some of the demeanor of a true practitioner."

Another man in green robes laughed.

But the mockery in his tone could be heard clearly by everyone.

Li Yan's expression remained unchanged.

Xia Yao frowned, and a hint of displeasure appeared in her eyes.

Most of the other princes and princesses followed suit and laughed.

At this time, a burly man in gold clothes said to the man in green robes with a stern look, "Eighth brother, how can you make fun of the way that ninth brother practices? Since the emperor has allowed ninth brother to practice magic, it means that the emperor has already thought about it. How can you question it?"

The man in golden clothes is the eldest prince Xia Hong.

The man in green robe who had just mocked him was the eighth prince Xia Yan.

"Brother, you are right. I just didn't think carefully and said something without thinking."

When Xia Yan saw Xia Hong speak, he quickly put away the smile on his face, then turned to Li Yan and bowed, "I hope you can forgive me, Ninth Brother."

"Myna was just joking, how could I take it seriously?"

Li Yan naturally didn't care about this.

He could see that each of these people had ulterior motives.

However, with his current strength, it is not enough to lift the table.

Therefore, I can only act out a play with these people.

Xia Hong's eyes flashed, and he said to Li Yan: "From my observation of the aura on your ninth brother's body, he should have opened up his Qi Sea and entered the realm of an eighth-grade warlock!"

Although Li Yan has entered the Qi Refining Realm, he only reveals the spiritual energy of the Qi Hai Realm to the outside world.

With his methods, at present, unless one is a master above the fourth rank, it is impossible to see through his specific realm.

Although Xia Hong also has the cultivation level of the sixth level Ning Gang realm, he is still far behind.

He nodded gently and said, "Brother is right, I have indeed opened up my Qi Sea."

Xia Yao was surprised when she heard this. She knew that Li Yan had been practicing in the Stargazing Pavilion these days, but she thought that Li Yan had just started practicing as a sorcerer, but she never thought that he had already opened up his Qi Sea.

Her current martial arts cultivation is only at the eighth level of internal organ refining.

Li Yan opened up his Qi Sea and actually caught up with her in terms of realm.

The other princes and princesses also changed their expressions when they looked at Li Yan.

Although there are peerless geniuses who can enter the Tao and open up the sea of ​​qi in three days for a sorcerer.

But for ordinary people, if they can enter the Tao within three years, they can be considered to be of average quality.

Li Yan's martial arts vein was abolished two years ago.

Even at that time, he had already begun to practice sorcery.

After two years of practicing Taoism and opening up his Qi Sea, this sorcerer's talent can be considered quite good.

Moreover, although the eighth level realm may not seem high, this is because they are princes and have a lot of training resources to assist them.

In fact, in the outside world, the ninth rank is already quite strong, and the eighth rank is actually considered a master.

The fact that Li Yan opened up his Qi Sea in such a short period of time and entered the eighth level of sorcerer was enough to attract their attention.

Originally they thought that Li Yan had to become a sorcerer because his martial arts meridians were destroyed.

However, after Xia Hong revealed that Li Yan had opened up his Qi Sea, they all changed their minds.

Several other princes also started talking to Li Yan, hoping to rekindle their old relationship.

Their purpose, of course, was to win over Li Yan.

However, Li Yan just responded with a few words casually and they did not become close friends.

This is true for the eldest prince, the third prince, and the fifth prince.

He knew it in his heart.

The reason why so many princes tried to win him over was not because of his outstanding talent and aptitude, but because he practiced the art of sorcery.

This path destined Li Yan not to compete with them for the throne of Emperor Xia.

So it is the best ally.

There is only one Emperor Xia.

Although successive Xia emperors had voluntarily resigned and stayed in secret to protect the Great Xia lineage.

Therefore, the fight for succession within the Great Xia lineage was not that brutal.

But apart from the princes and princesses who had no interest in the throne of Emperor Xia, no one wanted to be the loser in the fight for the throne.

Now that he has shown his own value, it will naturally attract others to win him over.

But he naturally wouldn't get involved in these petty fights.

Now he showed some talent just to give an explanation to Emperor Xia.

Otherwise, if Emperor Xia allowed him to practice sorcery, he himself would not have shown the slightest talent.

When others see him practicing in the Observatory, it is inevitable that they will cause some gossip.

At the banquet, Emperor Xia gave some encouraging words to the princes. Li Yan and other princes and princesses echoed him, and then they began to drink and have fun. The banquet ended very late.

The next day.

Li Yan rode a red-maned horse and followed Emperor Xia and a group of princes towards Xuanyi Mountain.

The monsters kept in captivity in Xuanyi Mountain were specially prepared for this hunt.

On the outer layer of Xuanyi Mountain, there are all ninth-grade monsters.

The further you go in, the stronger the monsters become.

Not only are there seventh- and eighth-grade monsters, but in the central area, there are even sixth-grade monsters.

But since these monsters are kept in captivity, there will naturally be no risk for the princes to participate in the hunt.

The strong man who takes care of Xuanyi Mountain is a fifth-grade Purple Mansion Realm sorcerer.

Once an uncontrollable situation occurs, they will take action to rescue the prince.

However, there is a formation barrier in Xuanyi Mountain. Under normal circumstances, as long as you don't run to an area beyond your ability, you won't encounter any risks.

(End of this chapter)