Longevity: Never leave the mountain until you are invincible

Weiyuan Hou got married.

The Queen Mother and Emperor Hongguang personally attended the wedding for Weiyuan Hou. The ministers attended the banquet and presented various gold and silver treasures and precious paintings as gifts.

In the past three days, people inside and outside the imperial capital have been discussing how luxurious and lively Weiyuan Hou's wedding was.

Chu Chen went to take a look, but did not see the liveliness of the wedding. He only saw a woman crying silently at the back door of Weiyuan Hou's mansion. She left Weiyuan Hou's mansion with resolute tears.

Also left the imperial capital.

This woman was Weiyuan Hou's first wife.

After Weiyuan Hou married the daughter of the Zhang family, Weiyuan Hou's first wife did not want to be a concubine, so she asked Weiyuan Hou to divorce her, and then left the imperial capital alone.

"People's hearts are easily changed under the erosion of power."

Chu Chen looked at the woman's back as she left, and felt touched.

In Li Xiaoer's words, Weiyuan Hou was a good general who loved his soldiers like his sons, was willing to live in poverty, and loved his wife.

Unfortunately, once he gained power, he was obsessed with power, money, and beauty, and became a fan of the empress dowager. For power, he even abandoned his first wife.

At this moment, Weiyuan Hou was in front of Weiyuan Mansion, welcoming the empress dowager and Emperor Hongguang, and arranging his wedding. Perhaps he had already forgotten his first wife.

"Xiaoer, why do people become strange after they gain power, and they are completely different from the past?"

Back in the pawnshop, Chu Chen asked Li Xiaoer while drinking and chatting.

"It's because I've been suppressed for too long."

Li Xiaoer ate roast duck and drank wine in big mouthfuls, so free and unrestrained.

Half a month ago, he was overworked and fell into a coma while managing the business of the miscellaneous soup restaurant. He went to the clinic for a check-up and found that he had a stroke.

There is no greater disease in life than a stroke.

Stroke, even in the previous life, was a difficult and complicated disease, not to mention in ancient times with backward medical conditions.

With the current medical conditions in the Great Yan Kingdom, having a stroke is basically the same as being sentenced to death.

You don't know when the disease will occur, and if it occurs, you can be saved. Even if you are saved, you may be paralyzed, unconscious, and lie on the bed for life.

And unlike other diseases, the internal energy of warriors has no effect on treating stroke.

Li Xiaoer has now let it go. He is no longer obsessed with making money and clinging to the rich and powerful. After leaving the business of the mixed soup restaurant to his brother, he just wants to be a free and easy rich man.

He likes to drink and eat meat in big mouthfuls, and live like a man in the rivers and lakes.

"That's right."

Hearing this, Chu Chen nodded in agreement.

There are many similarities between people gaining power and people getting incurable diseases.

People with incurable diseases feel that they are about to die, and they don't need to worry about this or that. They can live as freely as they want, just like Li Xiaoer.

People who have power are even more so.

Once they have power, they may open the Pandora's box in their hearts, no longer suppress their nature, and act recklessly, such as Lü Qinghou and Weiyuanhou.

"How can wealth, power, fame and fortune compare to life?"

Chu Chen looked at Li Xiaoer, who seemed to be free and easy, and felt emotional.

If you don't even have your life, what can you do with more money and power?

Two months later.

Li Xiaoer fell ill again, and the doctors in the clinic were unable to treat him, and he passed away at the age of 42.

Another good friend of Chu Chen left him.

Over the years, for various reasons, the people and things that Chu Chen was familiar with are slowly disappearing.

Old man Shen, Li Xiaoer, and the neighbors of Changlefang left one after another.

At first, Chu Chen would be sad and sentimental, but with the accumulation of time and experience, he gradually became indifferent.

Just as the number of times he cursed the Queen Mother and the King of Wei was decreasing, now he would only curse the Queen Mother and the King of Wei once every morning and evening, instead of cursing them a hundred times every morning and evening as before.

It was not that he became indifferent, but that he became accustomed to it.

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For a long time, the Queen Mother had used the power of the Zhang family to control the court and suppress Emperor Hongguang.

But as time went by, Emperor Hongguang grew older, and the court of Dayan was in turmoil again.

Especially in the eleventh year of Hongguang, when Emperor Hongguang came of age.

After all, Emperor Hongguang was the emperor in name only. Before he came of age, the court officials of Dayan might not have other thoughts, but as Emperor Hongguang came of age, some court officials also had thoughts.

Some court officials began to support Emperor Hongguang vaguely and gathered around him.

Emperor Hongguang took advantage of the situation to cultivate his team, spent two years steadily, and gradually became more powerful, and was able to compete with the Queen Mother.

In addition, after Zhang Youxian's death, the Zhang family no longer had a skilled leader, so the Queen Mother's side began to decline and gradually could not suppress Emperor Hongguang.

If it were not for the existence of Zhang's court officials such as Weiyuan Marquis and Lu Qinghou, and the fact that the Zhang family firmly controlled the Imperial Guards, I am afraid that the court of Dayan would have changed a lot.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Chu Chen.

In the past seven years, he has put almost all his energy into cultivation, and even rarely went to the Qunfang Courtyard.

He would only reward himself once every time he broke through his cultivation.

Combine work and rest.

After Li Xiaoer died, his brother Li San did not turn his face and disown him. He did not reduce the monthly dividends, and even gave Chu Chen an extra 10%.

At first, Chu Chen was a little surprised. He thought that he would have to use some tricks to get back the dividends from the miscellaneous soup restaurant.

As Chu Chen's strength continued to grow, he became less cautious.

There are ways to get by.

When he was not strong enough at the beginning, Chu Chen would choose to compromise and pretend to be nice, such as when facing Lv Qinghou and Zhang Pan, he would try his best to avoid things that could cause trouble.

But after he became strong, if he continued to do so, it would be too aggrieved.

Gou Daofei said that Chu Chen was not a coward.

In order to avoid trouble, he could give up most of the profits of the miscellaneous soup shop, but if anyone dared to touch the profits that should be his, Chu Chen would naturally not be polite.

This change is somewhat similar to Weiyuan Hou and Li Xiaoer, but the difference is that Chu Chen adheres to his original intention and adheres to the principle of not offending others if others do not offend me.

And Chu Chen's confidence comes from the change of strength.

Relying on the monthly dividends of the miscellaneous soup shop and the contributions of many gentlemen on the beam, Chu Chen has completed nine blood exchanges, and has achieved great success in marrow refining, touching the threshold of the innate realm.

Once the Soul-stealing Body Forging Sutra breaks through the fourth level, he can be promoted to the innate realm.

The internal energy training is also not bad. When the internal energy is accumulated for two hundred years, you can try to break through the Xiantian realm with the Shui Yuan Jue. The Fengshou Body Technique and the Dianxing Sword Technique can also be practiced to perfection.

Chu Chen now has a strong internal energy, a strong body, and a perfect swordsmanship. His accumulation far exceeds that of warriors at the same level. In terms of strength, he is firmly at the top level of the Marrow Refining Realm.

Looking at the Great Yan Jianghu, he can definitely be ranked in the top three of the Earth List.

If the Xiantian Grandmaster does not take action, Chu Chen will have no problem protecting himself.

This point was verified a few months ago.

A Marrow Refining Realm warrior sneaked into the pawnshop and was easily killed by Chu Chen with a sword.

Although this Marrow Refining Realm warrior was poisoned by the Bone Melting Powder, Chu Chen felt like an adult facing a child when facing this Marrow Refining Realm warrior.

Even if this Marrow Refining Realm warrior was not poisoned, Chu Chen was confident that he could defeat him within ten moves.

Of course.

Chu Chen was not complacent. Not to mention that he had not yet broken through the Xiantian realm, even if he did, there were still cultivators in the world who were superior to the Xiantian realm.

Being cautious and low-key was still the first rule of conduct.