Chapter 224 Return to the Illusionary Realm
As night fell, Zhou Tieyi walked out of the God-Slaying Division, still thinking about how to grab some power from the Great Xia Emperor.

Accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger.

If you want to pull a tiger's fur, you have to pull it when it is napping, and you have to be careful of the tiger's attitude at all times.

Just as Zhou Tieyi was about to get on his bike, he suddenly saw a figure half a head taller than him walking up to him.

"Let's go have a drink."

Yuchi Jing said to Zhou Tieyi.

Zhou Tieyi took a look at Yuchi Jing's clothes, then looked at the ordinary carriage parked next to him, and asked, "There must be a reason for drinking. I wonder what the reason for today's wine is?"

Yuchi Jing thought for a moment and said, "Celebrating my small progress in the past two months? Is this an acceptable reason?"

Zhou Tieyi clapped his hands and smiled, "You can drink this wine today."

Zhou Tieyi got on the carriage, but did not sit in the carriage. Instead, he sat on the frame, with Yuchi Jing sitting on both sides. Yuchi Jing pulled the reins, and the horse skillfully walked towards a tavern in Xuanwu City.

This tavern is on the outskirts of the city, with a large number of carriages parked around it. This is where the coachmen go to drink and joke at night.

“This is a great place.”

After getting off the car, Zhou Tieyi exclaimed that the food in this tavern must be good since it could attract so many coachmen.

Yuchi Jing handed the carriage to the waiter and told him to feed some good feed, then walked to Zhou Tieyi and said, "I came here once with someone else, and I fell in love with this place."

As soon as Yuchi Jing walked over, he saw the shopkeeper coming out hurriedly. Although Yuchi Jing was dressed ordinary, Zhou Tieyi was wearing the uniform of a fifth-rank official. In such a small shop, he was already a very high-ranking official.

When the shopkeeper saw Zhou Tieyi's appearance, he was even more shocked. Such a young fifth-rank official... It seemed that he was the only one in Tianjing now.

"It is a great honor for our shop to have you here, sir. Please come in. Do you need to clear the place?"

Zhou Tieyi waved his hand casually and said, "Just set up a table in a secluded place outside."

The shopkeeper nodded quickly. It seemed that this man really came to his shop to drink at the invitation of a friend. He looked at Yuchi Jing, who was neither humble nor arrogant beside Zhou Tieyi, and hurriedly memorized Yuchi Jing's appearance to avoid offending any important person in the future.

The ground outside this kind of small shop is flat. It is summer now and it is close to Xuanwu Lake, which is much more comfortable than indoors. The only drawback is that there are more mosquitoes. However, these are not a problem for Zhou Tieyi now. With a shock of blood, the mosquitoes are immediately killed. It is simply a magical skill.

Not long after the two of them sat down, two candlesticks were lit next to them. The light was bright but not dazzling, which combined with the full summer moon and the sparkling Xuanwu Lake in the distance created a unique charm.

Braised beef, pickled duck, boiled edamame, etc. were also served one by one, accompanied by a pot of iced wine from the well.

The wine is slightly cloudy and needs to be filtered through a white cloth filter.

Seeing Zhou Tieyi drinking wine and eating braised beef, Yuchi Jing knew that there was something to talk about today, and said with a smile, "I thought it wouldn't be so easy to invite you out today."

Zhou Tieyi held the wine bowl and asked, "How long have you been waiting for me at the entrance of the God-Slaying Division?"

"An hour."

Zhou Tieyi shook his wine bowl and said, "That's it. It's better than the day you took me for a walk in circles in your huge garden."

Hearing Zhou Tieyi talking about his embarrassing experience, Yuchi Jing looked embarrassed and asked, "Can you please not mention this matter again in the future?"

Zhou Tieyi clinked his wine bowl with Yuchi Jing's, drank it all in one gulp, and said with a smile, "Ten years later, twenty years later, thirty years later, I will mention it! Who knows, when you become a titled general, I will tell your grandson about it, so that you don't have to pretend to be old-fashioned like the right general in front of your grandson. That would be so boring."

Yuchi Jing was stunned for a moment, then he picked up the wine bowl, drank it all, and said with a smile, "This sounds interesting."

Picking up the wine pot and pouring a bowl of wine for Zhou Tieyi and himself, Yuchi Jing asked, "Do you think the Tianjing military merit under grandpa's command is too rigid now?"

Zhou Tieyi glanced at Yuchi Jing and thought, things are really different.

After three days of separation, you should look at each other with admiration.

He didn't pretend, but gave the simplest example, "Weren't you taught by the right general before?"

Yuchi Jing was speechless for a moment.

Zhou Tieyi continued, "Daxia has been at peace for a long time, and the general has retired from the army. What the right general wants to do most in Tianjing is to protect the wealth and honor of the military heroes and be worthy of the people who followed him through life and death. So in the court, he is forbearing, and in the military heroes, he is benevolent. This is a good thing. After all, each generation is responsible for the affairs of its own generation."

"But for me, this was not a good thing, so when I entered the right general's study, I was eventually kicked out by the right general."

Yuchi Jing thought for a moment, "So you want to change your military honor?"

Zhou Tieyi shook his head, "I don't want to change my military honor."

Yuchi Jing was slightly stunned. Although he had made considerable progress, he was still some distance away from Zhou Tieyi.

"I am just one person, I can't take care of so many things. Besides, only the Right General and the Left General can change the military honor. No one else is qualified..."

Zhou Tieyi paused and pointed at Yuchi Jing with his wine bowl, "Of course if you really want to, with the help of the authority of the right general, you also have a chance."

"As for me, it's just because I was born in the Zhou family and what I do involves military merits, but my future is in the God-Slaying Division, not in military merits, so I kicked that group of people out today."

Change military honors.

This is a matter that is far more complicated and more serious than the restructuring of the God-Slaying Division. Zhou Tieyi cannot possibly touch it. If he does, His Majesty the Great Xia will immediately become alert. This is no longer a matter that can reassure His Majesty the Great Xia by balancing power.

There is no balance of power in the army, only absolute will, absolute action and absolute loyalty.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of radical armies will not be too poor.

On the contrary, an army with internal checks and balances, where the generals do not know their soldiers and the soldiers do not know their generals, will not have very strong combat effectiveness.

Reform of the Honor of Arms...

Yuchi Jing thought about it seriously, then shook his head and drank.

You can do things within your ability. I know myself now. If Zhou Tieyi can't change it, then I can't change it either. At least in the current situation and with the power I have now, I must not have the idea of ​​changing the military honor.

But since Zhou Tieyi mentioned it, it means he is reminding himself that there is a chance.

Yuchi Jing took the opportunity to think further. In the past, Great Xia had been peaceful for a long time... but now the emperor has fallen from the status of a saint because of his cultivation. "Maybe the situation in Yuanmeng has changed?"

Zhou Tieyi looked deep in the eyes and smiled, "Maybe it's not just Yuan Meng."

He knew too little about the situation on Yuan Meng's side and did not dare to judge it easily, but he did know something about the situation within the Divine Way.

"Why do you think I dare to change the God-Slaying Division?"

"Is there something going on?"

This was the first reason that Yuchi Jing thought of, and it was also the method Zhou Tieyi used to suppress Confucianism in accordance with the emperor's instructions.

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "If it was just a rumor, then after I set up the Supervisory Office, I shouldn't have taken any further steps."

Yuchi Jing's already big eyes suddenly widened even more. Considering the fact that the emperor had just fallen from the status of a saint, he understood what Zhou Tieyi meant.

That is, His Majesty also hopes to see Zhou Tieyi continue to restructure the headquarters of the God-Slaying Division, at least to ensure that the God-Slaying Division has enough combat power in Tianjing to resist the evil spirits!
This was completely unimaginable in the past. Since when did Tianjing, a place known for all virtues, have to worry about the evil spirits of gods?

By the way, Yuchi Jing also understood why Zhou Tieyi kicked out those military heroes and playboys.

They still haven't understood that Zhou Tieyi's reform of the God-Slaying Division was in accordance with the emperor's wishes from the beginning to the end.

Yuchi Jing picked up the wine bowl and took a sip, then sighed, "It seems I still need to study harder."

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "Although those people are stupid, they are still useful as cannon fodder. You have waited for me for an hour today, and I cannot but give you, the grandson of the Right General, some face. So, you go back and tell them that in a month, the God Execution Department will start holding martial arts selections. If they are capable and achieve good results in the martial arts selection, they will naturally be reappointed."

A month later, the dandies with military honors, the outstanding small bannermen from various states, and the poor children from Tianjing competed on the same stage. Naturally, the capable ones were promoted and the weak ones were demoted. Even if there were more capable people, he would be able to find places to fill them after checking so many positions.

After drinking with Yuchi Jing, Zhou Tieyi returned to Qilin Pavilion and received an unexpected message.

"Do you have time today? There is a nice small trade fair going on. Come to the entrance of Taixu Fantasy Market. I'll be waiting for you."

The person who brought the message was the 'Panda', the first outsider Zhou Tieyi met in the Land of Illusion.

Zhou Tieyi thought about it and accepted the information.

The next moment, he fell asleep.

The panda sent a message to a group of people at the entrance of the market. He didn't care how many people came in the end. It was a cost-free thing for him anyway.

After a while, Zhou Tieyi came to the entrance of the market town and found the panda through the communication function between the Taixu masks. The panda still looked like a little fat boy in the Taixu illusion.

But this time the panda could no longer hide its tracks in front of him.

Zhou Tieyi looked at the panda. With the help of the power of [Mirage], he could easily sense the panda's specific information.

He is around thirty years old, and his vitality is unprecedentedly strong, but this strong vitality is mixed with a lot of resentment and death. His personality is that of a lone wolf who trusts no one and will do anything to achieve his own interests.

The aura above its head was also very interesting. A large amount of gray-white death energy was wrapped around it, and a lot of blood light transformed into the shape of swords and weapons, pointing directly at the panda itself.

This means that in reality, this panda is probably either killing and robbing, or on its way to kill and rob, so its luck appears to be on the edge of a knife and licking blood.

The usual physiognomy words about bloody disasters probably can't intimidate this murderer at all.

Of course, being fierce alone is not enough. If the other party can survive until now under such bad external conditions, his own talent and luck must naturally be good.

As luck and fortune gathered, a statue of Jiaozi appeared.

Although the Ya Zi image is already an extremely good manifestation for ordinary martial arts practitioners, Zhou Tieyi brought out so much dragon blood essence from the palace that he trained eleven personal guards with the Ya Zi image.

But there is indeed a huge gap between these house-raised guards and those who came out of the battles outside.

Zhou Tieyi looked at the Yazi statue. This special Yazi statue held a long sword in its mouth, on which blood, gold and red auras were intertwined.

The golden and red luck was obviously external luck, but it was forcibly absorbed by the Jiaozi statue and attached to its own sword.

Is this some method of stealing other people's luck?

Zhou Tieyi's eyes lit up and he immediately became very interested!
Zhou Tieyi's observation was extremely quick, and the panda had never expected that Zhou Tieyi had the ability to observe other people's fortunes in the illusory world of Taixu. He introduced to Zhou Tieyi another companion who had obtained the information and came to the meeting.

"This is Yueqin."

Zhou Tieyi looked at the other person. It was obvious that Yueqin had only been in the martial arts world for a short time.

Although she is not as ignorant as Li Jianhu, from what he observed about her luck, her ability is really closely related to the piano. Combined with her golden luck, Zhou Tieyi basically judged that she should be the legitimate daughter of a local family and has been used to a life of luxury since childhood.

Even if she had not obtained the Taixu Illusionary Side by chance, she would probably have had very few opportunities to contact the outside world. She took the name "Yueqin", and it was obvious that she came to the Taixu Illusionary Side without telling her father and brothers, otherwise she would not have revealed this flaw.

Being able to present pure golden luck is almost the same as Xiu'er's luck. Even if she is a local family, she is definitely at the top level. In addition, she is a female, has a specific age and is extremely good at playing the piano. If you ask around yourself, you can roughly judge the range.

After a few more contacts, you will be able to confirm the other person's identity.

“This is Panda.”

When Zhou Tieyi's name was mentioned, the panda looked somewhat helpless, and Yueqin was obviously a little stunned.

Zhou Tieyi ignored the changes in their expressions and looked at the panda, "You called us here. Is this gathering important?"

As the panda led the two into the market, he explained with a smile, "You two have been traveling in the Grand Illusion Realm. I'm afraid you have discovered that there is no place in the Grand Illusion Realm where middle-grade cultivators can trade items, right?"

Yueqin nodded subconsciously.

In the market, most of the secret manuals are used by lower-third-grade practitioners. Although many of them can broaden one's horizons, for a legitimate daughter like her from a famous family, they are merely eye-openers.

"The resources of mid-level cultivators are already very difficult to obtain. Many things like weapons and elixirs, even if ordered in advance, still require a month or two of preparation time. So generally speaking, mid-level cultivators form small groups and trade on a fixed few days each month. They don't meet on normal days. This time, I just happen to have an invitation quota, so I can bring people into a trading group."

Hearing what the panda said, Yueqin politely replied, "Thank you."

Zhou Tieyi smiled without saying anything. Does this invitation quota correspond to the death quota?
(End of this chapter)