Chapter 183 The Immortal Palace opens for school, the third generation of immortal seedlings of the Ming Dynasty!
"Boom!" Half a month later, in a farmer's home in Daxing County, a fox that was larger than an ordinary buffalo, pure white in color, and had nine tails, flew backwards with blood all over its body, and knocked down a mud house.
Outside the farmer's yard, the villagers held up torches and looked nervously at the area that had been blocked by police.
Everyone was afraid to breathe as they looked at the young man wearing a black cloak and holding a long sword in the billowing smoke.
Lu Yi had a cold face, and stared at the fox with nine scattered tails in the smoke and dust with lightning-like eyes.
"Roar!" The fox demon opened its bloody mouth and roared at Lu Yi with a ferocious face. There was a hint of human anger and resentment in its narrow eyes.
"Has your humanity also improved?" Lu Yi's eyes suddenly turned cold after noticing the look in the fox's eyes. "It seems that I can't kill you so easily. I need to bring you back to the Xianwu Division alive."
In fact, regarding spiritual beasts, even if Jiajing did not tell everyone the difference between the spiritual beasts in the world of immortal cultivation and those in the Ming Dynasty, with the Yan family's cultivation and research on the army of spiritual beasts, everyone could clearly find that these wild beasts and poultry, even though they mutated because of spiritual energy and became bigger and stronger, there was still not much change in their intelligence.
Of course, there are exceptions to everything. There are also some wild beasts that become more human and smarter because of absorbing spiritual energy!
Correspondingly, spiritual animals that are more human-like will have a higher chance of being tamed, and will naturally be kept in captivity for observation and cultivation, or even tamed for use by the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, in recent years, the Yan family has actually bred some spiritual beasts and war horses with quite human-like nature. Then, they mated a male and a female spiritual beast, and gave birth to offspring for observation.
Then he was surprised to find that the pony was naturally human-like. After many attempts, he found that the more spiritual energy the spiritual beast absorbed, the higher its intelligence would be.
In this way, the more human-like the two spiritual beasts are, the intelligence of their offspring will be more human-like based on that of their "parents". If they are bred like this from generation to generation, there will be more high-quality spiritual beasts.
It can only be said that the Yan family has really figured out some tricks when it comes to raising large armies of spiritual beasts, and Jiajing also highly praised this.
After all, the path that the Yan family tried was not even attempted by the academy back then. Well, of course it is also possible that the academy had tried it, but they just didn't know about it.
After all, I learned about the revival of spiritual energy on the Death Star and the cultivation of spiritual beasts and plants from some ancient books. Maybe there are more methods, but I just haven't seen them.
However, breeding spiritual beasts in this way would at best yield powerful wild beasts that were more human-like. If one wanted to reach the level of a true spiritual beast, it would not work without the blessing of bloodline talent.
Therefore, if the Ming Dynasty's spiritual beasts are to be able to practice and pass on innate magical powers in their bloodlines, a large number of spiritual beasts are needed to combine with the Ming Dynasty's "pseudo spiritual beasts" to leave offspring.
However, there was no rush for these things. We could just let the Yan family cultivate more spiritual beasts with high intelligence in their own way. Then, we could "smuggle" a batch of spiritual beasts from the Xiuxian world and bring them over for breeding.
Therefore, the Xianwu Guards who are responsible for hunting spirit beasts will also receive orders that whenever they find wild beasts with human-like nature, they should try to capture them alive for the purpose of breeding highly intelligent spirit beasts.
The nine-tailed fox in front of him, which had harmed countless people, was obviously very intelligent and had reached the standard for inclusion in the Immortal Martial Arts Division.
"This beast got away with it!" Lu Yi said coldly, and with a wave of his hand he made a beautiful sword flower, put the sword in his hand into the sheath, and then took off the thick iron chain around his waist, swung it and rushed forward.
Seeing this, the two immortal warriors at the second level of the acquired realm behind him sheathed their swords, removed their chains, and rushed forward.
"Roar!" The fox demon looked at the three ants rushing towards it, let out an angry roar, swooped forward, opened its bloody mouth and rushed towards Lu Yi and the other two viciously.
However, at the moment when the three men made their move, the fox's eyes rolled around, and then it braked suddenly. When Lu Yi and the other two were about to stop it, it turned around and rushed to the side.
Seeing this scene, Lu Yi snorted coldly, and the "Qi Induction Technique" in his body started to work. His innate true essence suddenly became quiet, and then his spiritual energy circulated according to the practice route of the immortal martial arts method.
"Hah!" A loud shout rang out, and the chain in his hand was thrown out violently. The chain made a "rustling" sound of breaking through the air, like a poisonous snake staring at its prey and wrapping its tail around one of its prey. Then Lu Yi swung his arm and pulled it.
"Bang!" The chain straightened instantly, accompanied by a miserable roar from the fox.
"Clatter!" At this time, the chains in the hands of the other two immortal guards suddenly came and tied the two hind legs of the fox demon. While trapping the fox demon, the two men also started running quickly at a fast speed. In the blink of an eye, they bound the other two legs of the fox demon!
"Roar!" The fox demon let out an unwilling roar and fell to the ground with a bang.
Lu Yi pulled out the chain, wrapped it around the fox's neck, and then stood on the fox's body. His stern face was full of indifference, and his tiger eyes looked around at the people present.
"I am Lu Yi, a captain of the Immortal Martial Department of the Great Ming Dynasty," Lu Yi said in a clear voice, "Listen carefully, the spirit beasts are ferocious, especially those from the mountains, which are even more cruel and bloodthirsty. If you find any, you must immediately report it to the local government and have the Immortal Martial Guards assign someone to kill them!"
"If you conceal the truth again, you will be severely punished. Do you understand me?" As he spoke, Lu Yi used his spiritual energy and let out a loud roar.
The people who were watching the excitement were frightened by the shouting and trembled all over. Then they knelt down one after another and said tremblingly: "I obey your order, my lord, I obey your order..."
"Don't worry Captain Lu, I will organize people to patrol and search for these spirits and beasts!" The magistrate of Daxing County trotted over to Lu Yi and greeted him with a bow. "Captain Lu is really young and promising. He was able to subdue such a vicious beast in an instant. I admire you!"
Looking at the pot-bellied county magistrate in front of him, Lu Yi said coldly: "Zhang Zhixian, as far as I know, this demon fox has been staying in Daxing County for a month. Why hasn't it been reported yet?"
Hearing Lu Yi's question, the county magistrate showed a look of embarrassment on his face. He didn't know how to answer. He could only stammer and didn't know what to say for a moment.
After a month, officials in the counties surrounding the capital had basically figured out who the people in the Ming Xianwu Division were and what they did.
There are immortals in the Ming Dynasty who send down "holy water" from the sky. In the past month, there has been a lot of buzz about hunting auspicious beasts in the prefectures and counties around the capital. Not only are the Immortal Guards hunting, but also some wealthy businessmen and even officials in these prefectures and counties are hunting auspicious beasts.
In the hope that eating the flesh and blood of the auspicious beast can prolong life, or even achieve immortality.
Well, now it should be called "spiritual beast"!
There have been rumors before that the Xianwu Guards called these auspicious beasts so-called spiritual beasts.
Lu Yi was originally the deputy commander of the Jinyiwei, and the Xianwuwei was derived from the Jinyiwei, with the same personnel regulations and commanders.
Therefore, everyone knows why this nine-tailed fox wreaked havoc in Daxing County for a month, killing countless people, but still remained unreported. Naturally, everyone wanted to hunt this legendary beast and eat its flesh and blood, so as to achieve immortality.
But he couldn't say these words openly. After all, he was an official of the imperial court, and a Beijing official at that. The imperial court had already issued an order that any strange beasts he spotted must be reported.
If he told the truth, he would definitely not end up well, but if he didn't say it, he knew in his heart that Lu Yi would definitely know it.
For a moment, Zhang, the magistrate of Daxing County, could only stand there in a daze, giving Lu Yi an awkward smile.
He now wants to slap himself in the face. How could you be so mean? Why did you come up to me and try to get close to me for no reason?
"Hmph," Lu Yi snorted, waved his hand, and said to the two immortal guards, "Take this beast back." After that, Lu Yi looked at County Magistrate Zhang and said:
"Daxing County Magistrate, your affairs are not my responsibility, but the end of the year is coming soon, and you will have to explain yourself when the imperial inspection comes!"
After saying that, Lu Yi didn't bother to pay attention to the magistrate's pale face, and turned around and strode away.
The bright moon hangs high in the night sky.
In a huge iron cage carriage, a fox demon tied tightly with iron chains was locked inside, and then a large black cloth was laid on it, wrapping it tightly.
Lu Yi and three immortal warriors rode on spirit beasts and walked in the front, followed by two teams of royal guards escorting the carriage.
"Boss, we've been out for a month, right?" The tall and thin Immortal Warrior, who was at the second level of the acquired realm, looked at Lu Yi with a smile.
"Hmph," Lu Yi snorted and turned his head to look at the two of them, "If you have to fart, do it now!"
"Hehe," Hearing this, the tall and thin Xianwuwei immediately smiled and said, "Nothing can be hidden from the boss!"
The relatively silent Xianwuwei on the side also snorted and shook his head.
"The Daming Immortal Palace will officially start school at the beginning of next month, right?" The tall and thin Immortal Warrior said, "I heard from the brothers that there are children from ordinary families among the first batch of students in the Immortal Palace?"
"What?" Lu Yi raised his lips and asked, "You want to ask me to go through the back door?"
"How can that be possible?" The tall and thin young man waved his hand. "I am from the first batch of Xianwu Guards. I am an orphan with no relatives or friends. How can I use a backdoor?" He smiled and said:
"I just want to ask, don't you know that behind the scenes in the capital, the price of this place in the Immortal Palace has been raised to a sky-high price!"
"I just want to get some inside information, and then I can tell some of it to those wealthy merchants and make some extra money..."
Ever since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty's Xianwu Division, the Xianwu Guards no longer have to hide from the world. In addition, over the past month, the Xianwu Guards can be said to have officially made their debut in the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the Xianwu Guards also have normal rest time. In addition, the Xianwu Guards have generous salaries, so they can naturally live a leisurely life in the capital.
As Yan Shifan's reforms gradually began and he secretly used the "Da Ming Miscellaneous News" to reveal a lot of information, many merchants, craftsmen, and some descendants of various schools of thought began to run around.
For a time, the entire capital city became extremely prosperous. Rich businessmen could naturally buy some information about the Immortal Guards, and as time went by, they established some relationships with them.
Now the people all tacitly acknowledge that there are immortals in the court, and the news about the Ming Immortal Palace is not deliberately blocked by the court. The news that the emperor himself serves as the principal, the cabinet and the Imperial Household Department, and even the two princes serve as professors are also known to many interested people.
Naturally, the relationship was dragged to the Xianwu Guards.
"Don't ask me," Lu Yi smiled and shook his head, "The Immortal Palace will indeed start school at the beginning of next month, but the number of places is strictly controlled. In addition to the cabinet and the royal family, there are also the descendants of some meritorious foreign ministers, and finally some children from ordinary people's families..."
Seeing Lu Yi start to speak, the two Immortal Guards quickly took out small notebooks from their arms, dipped the brushes in saliva, and began to write furiously.
"Heh!" Seeing this scene, Lu Yi chuckled. How could he not see that these two guys were definitely trying to use this worthless information to cheat those wealthy businessmen out of their money.
However, he did not stop it. He thought that it was just merchants' money, so he could just cheat them. They were just some low-class people. Being able to give money to the Xianwu Guards could be considered as a good deed for them.
Lu Yi was born into a noble family, and even though the imperial court now intended to improve the status of merchants, craftsmen and other low-class people, he did not think much of it.
"Children of ordinary people are also different," Lu Yi continued, looking at the bright moon in the distance, and said: "Merchants, craftsmen, military households, descendants of the Hundred Schools of Thought, huh..."
"Calculate it yourself. If these people are evenly distributed, how many of their children will be able to enter the Immortal Palace?"
"It's good to have ten children from ordinary families come in. Even so, these ten children from ordinary families are representative."
"Tsk tsk," the two Immortal Guards couldn't help but smack their lips when they heard that there were only ten places for common people to enter the Immortal Palace. "Wow, how many people are there in total for the first batch of students in the Immortal Palace?"
"I visited the academy near the imperial city," the taciturn Immortal Guard said, "and I heard that it was built according to the standards of the Imperial Academy. In the 47th year of Jiajing, the number of students in the Imperial Academy was 10,000. I heard that the number is still increasing this year."
"The area of Daming Immortal Palace is twice that of the Imperial Academy. The number of people is probably more than 10,000, right?" "If we calculate based on 10,000 people, the civilians will occupy 10 of them?" Hearing this ratio, the tall and thin Immortal Guard took a breath and looked at Lu Yi, "Isn't it too few?"
"You are wrong," the silent Immortal Warrior glanced at his brother and said calmly, "Ten is good enough. In other words, ordinary people may have less than ten children. Of course..."
At this time, Lu Yi took over the conversation and said: "It may be more than ten, but at most there will be more than ten. I don't know the exact number."
"Everything is difficult at the beginning. To get started, the Immortal Dynasty needs to satisfy the upper class, so that the upper class can feed back to the lower class..." Lu Yi said, sighing with a little emotion.
Of course, there was one more thing he didn't say.
That is the process of the Xian Dynasty developing from its inception to getting on the right track. The people of the Ming Dynasty today are afraid that it will take several generations to go through this process.
By the time the cultivation of immortals becomes fully popular and the prosperous era of immortals arrives, several generations will have passed.
Even if one day in the future, cultivating immortals becomes popular among the common people, some people may even obtain immortal methods by chance and embark on the path of cultivating immortals.
But at that time, it was very likely that these people were just mediocre members of the masses.
They will produce enough value for the Immortal Dynasty and make their due contributions, and then one day in the future, they will die because of a lack of resources or because they are stuck in a certain realm.
This is how life manifests itself for most common people: they are born for the immortal dynasty, die for the immortal dynasty, dedicate their entire lives, produce enough value for their coming into the world, become a part of the collective, and then leave.
After a few years or decades, there will be no trace left.
In fact, there is some truth in this. Lu Yi and other real dignitaries in the court have already seen the essence of the matter. The truth about cultivating immortals in the future is that it has nothing to do with most people.
Even if it is the Immortal Warrior Guard beside him, if he cannot break through to the third level of the acquired realm, that is, the martial arts realm, within a certain time limit, and then use martial arts to enter the Tao and embark on the path of cultivating immortals, he will ultimately be a mortal.
It's cruel, but it's the truth!
Time flies, and it is early September of the 49th year of Jiajing. The sky is gloomy that day, with a light drizzle in the air, but the capital city is unusually lively!
Especially the imperial city, next to the Western Garden.
Countless people gathered under the city walls.
At this moment, everyone was staring at the magnificent and majestic building on the edge of the West Garden - the Daming Immortal Palace!
In fact, it is impossible to complete the Daming Immortal Palace in just a few months. It is just a reconstruction of the area next to Xiyuan, north of Taipusi Street and west of Huichang Street.
The residence of Duke Yansheng and the Taipu Temple were connected, and all the surrounding houses were repaired and rebuilt to be used as residences and schools for the students of the Xianfu.
In addition, the construction was personally supervised by Xu Fan, the Minister of Works, and carefully supervised by countless skilled craftsmen with proven skills, so it was naturally built extremely quickly. Not only that, its magnificence is even more breathtaking.
The entire immortal palace is vermilion in color, which forms a sharp contrast with the gray clouds in the sky, making it look even more luxurious.
The roof is covered with glazed tiles. As rainwater accumulates, raindrops roll down, sparkling with a warm jade-like luster, as if every tile was made from the stars in the sky.
The colorful paintings under the eaves depict scenes from the myths and legends that are familiar to everyone in "Journey to the West". There are cranes flying among the clouds and dragons flying over the waves. Every stroke reveals the extraordinary painting attainments.
A huge plaque is hung on the main entrance of the Immortal Palace, with four large gold-plated characters "Da Ming Immortal Palace". Even in the gloomy weather, the characters are still shining. The handwriting is vigorous and powerful, yet it does not lose the ethereal air.
In front of the gate of the Immortal Palace, what made the people talk about it was that there were two thick white stone pillars standing, on which were carved two divine dragons, which looked lifelike and majestic.
Four pairs of dragon eyes were round and looked down at everything with bared fangs and claws.
As for the interior of the fairy palace, when you enter from the main gate, the first thing you see is a wide and majestic avenue paved with bluestone slabs. Both sides are planted with exotic flowers and plants, with a fragrant smell, as if you have entered a fairyland.
Going forward along the avenue, there are exquisite pavilions and towers scattered in an orderly manner. In the middle is the original Taipu Temple attic, which has now been changed into the "Xianfu Library".
On the left is the original "Yanshenggong Residence", which has now been converted into the Xianfu School, and behind it is a huge open lawn.
At this time, Jiajing, the Cabinet, the Imperial Household Department, the Two Kings and others were standing on the lawn covered with spiritual herbs, looking at the Taiye Lake on the east side.
At this time, Taiye Lake has completely turned into a spiritual lake.
And because Jiajing integrated the long river of spiritual source a month ago and set up a reverse spirit gathering formation and prohibitions, the concentration of spiritual energy is no less than that of the mansions of the people who now have direct access to the spiritual veins.
In fact, because the Daming Immortal Mansion also has a spiritual vein underneath, the spiritual energy is even richer than that of other people's residences.
"Xu Fan," Jiajing said slowly as he paced on the soft grass lawn, looking at Xu Fan who was coming up, "It took only a few months to complete the project from site selection to construction supervision. It's not something that ordinary people can do. I'll give you a reward!"
Hearing that the emperor was going to reward him, Xu Fan's face flushed with excitement. He immediately knelt on the ground and said, "It is my duty to share the emperor's worries and serve the Ming Dynasty!"
"If you do well, you will be rewarded. If you do not do well, you will be punished," Jiajing said, raising his hand and signaling Lu Fang to give a bottle of elixir to Xu Fan. "This is the Peiyuan elixir obtained from his world."
"Take one pill each time you advance to a new realm. It will help you stabilize your realm quickly so that you can start practicing at the next realm. There are six pills in this bottle, enough for you to use until the middle stage of Qi training."
After hearing Jiajing's words, the expressions of everyone present changed. Even Xu Fan's father, Xu Jie, was slightly moved when he looked at the small jade bottle in his son's hand.
Although this Peiyuan Pill was given as a reward to his son Xu Fan, as his father, he can naturally enjoy it as well.
Others, such as Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others, although they were in the same camp as the Xu family, could not help but reveal a hint of jealousy after hearing about the effects of Peiyuan Dan.
If Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others only had a bit of jealousy that is normal, then Yan Shifan's hatred at this moment was naked and undisguised.
He never thought that someone whom he never took seriously and looked down upon would one day receive such a heavy reward.
Didn’t you see that when everyone heard about the efficacy of Peiyuan Dan, even Prince Yu and Prince Jing who were standing nearby had envy in their eyes?
It is obvious that the two kings know the efficacy of the Peiyuan Pill, and they may not have much of it on hand.
The most important thing is that as long as you break through a realm, you can take one pill to stabilize it, and then break through to the next realm with peace of mind, without having to worry about the current realm not being stabilized.
Everyone knows that when practicing, after breaking through one realm, one needs to consolidate the current realm before breaking through to the next realm. In this way, one's own cultivation realm can be consolidated.
Otherwise, when your realm becomes higher and higher in the later stages, it will be easy for the early foundation to become unstable.
At that time, at best, the state of cultivation will collapse like a building, and at worst, it is very likely that one will die on the spot.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace!" After receiving the Peiyuan Pill, Xu Fan knelt on the ground and expressed his gratitude loudly.
"Get up," Jiajing raised his hand, motioning Xu Fan to stand up, then looked at Yan Song and said, "Lord Yan, how many Immortal Seedlings are there in the Immortal Mansion this time?"
"Your Majesty," Yan Song's face remained calm as usual, as if he was not affected by the Pei Yuan Dan at all. He took a step forward and spoke slowly, "The first batch of "immortal seedlings" of my Daming Immortal Palace includes a total of 12,000 people, including 3,000 descendants of the eight families in the cabinet."
"There are 6,500 royal family members, 1,500 people from the Five Military Governors' Office, key officials from the two capitals and 13 provinces, hereditary meritorious families and officials, etc., a total of more than 900 people..."
"And other fairy seedlings that are suitable for the people's homes..." Yan Song said in a submissive tone.
However, when counting from the two capitals and thirteen provinces to hereditary meritorious families and officials, the numbers become vague.
Jiajing naturally saw through Yan Song's twists and turns and his cunning schemes, but he was too lazy to bother with them.
And judging from the expressions of Xu Jie and others, it was obvious that the more than 900 pieces starting from the two capitals and thirteen provinces had already been divided up by the cabinet, otherwise Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others would definitely not give up.
These more than 900 people are the future investments of their respective families.
Everyone present was smart. They all knew and could see clearly that this first batch of immortal seedlings were the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. The imperial court would have to invest a lot of resources in their cultivation in the early stages.
Afterwards, this first batch of immortal seedlings will inevitably be integrated into all aspects of the Great Ming Immortal Dynasty, and will become the backbone for at least hundreds or even thousands of years.
And these people are the future of their cabinet families.
However, Jiajing did not care about these. As I said before, for him, no matter how these cabinet families developed in the future, the final result must be that the Ming Dynasty benefited.
As for the twists and turns involved, he didn't care, he even encouraged them to fight and compete with each other.
But these people all know his bottom line. No matter how they fight, the Ming Dynasty must get tangible benefits, otherwise it will be punished. No one can touch this bottom line.
Among them, Yan Song and others allocated 6,500 quotas to the royal family. Although Jiajing did not say it, he was still satisfied in his heart.
Although he dealt with the royal family members and no longer supported them, after all, these royal family members all had the surname Zhu.
The continuation of the royal family is the last bottom line guarantee of the Ming Dynasty.
Especially in the early future, the barbaric growth pattern of the Ming Dynasty will be similar to the relationship between the imperial court and the aristocratic families in the Sui and Tang dynasties, where they prosper together and suffer together.
Therefore, family-style development can meet the needs of wild growth and ensure that their interests are closely integrated with those of the court.
In this way, when the Ming Dynasty sails into the sea of stars in the universe in the future, the two sides will be twisted into an extremely tough rope. When the roots of these families are deeply bound to the Ming Dynasty and can never be separated, that is when the Ming Dynasty begins to get involved in the world of immortal cultivation step by step!
That’s right, in the mortal world, the Ming Dynasty is the prototype of a monster. When the third and fourth stages of land reform begin, it will completely turn into a hungry and greedy monster.
Under this model, the resources on Earth are destined to be unable to satisfy its appetite. Even if it sails into the sea of stars in the universe, there may not be enough resources for cultivating immortals.
At this time, it is inevitable to get involved in the world of immortal cultivation!
In order to ensure that the development of the Ming Dynasty will not collapse, only the magnificent and vast world of cultivating immortals can satisfy the appetite of the Ming Dynasty!
"Okay," Jiajing said, looking into the distance, and said, "These twelve thousand immortal seedlings will be the third generation of immortal cultivators in our Ming Dynasty!"
"..."
(End of this chapter)
