Chapter 189 Mysterious Mortal Bones! No relatives in heaven, Zhu Yijun: Cousin, you disappoint me
Why did the master suddenly laugh?
Seeing his master suddenly burst into laughter, Lu Fang was stunned.
As far as he could remember, this seemed to be the first time he saw his master laughing so uncontrollably. His master never showed his emotions on his face.
Even though the master would sometimes be generous in giving a smile when Yan Song, Xu Jie and others proposed some way to make money.
But that was just a smile that met his inner expectations. Even when he became the emperor, the master was not so excited. It can be seen that the master gained a lot from this trip to the immortal world.
However, thinking about the man his master was talking about, whose background and power in the world of immortal cultivation was equivalent to the status of the Ming Dynasty in the world, and looking at the piles of treasures in front of him, Lu Fang was immediately relieved.
A treasure that can make its master laugh must be extraordinary.
Thinking of this, Lu Fang couldn't help but smile.
"Lv Fang," after a moment, Jiajing, who had restrained his emotions, waved his hands and put away his life, "Come, share the treasure with me!"
Jiajing, who was in a good mood, was already squatting beside the treasure mountain with a smile on his face while speaking. He looked just like a child who had discovered treasure.
"Okay, that's it!" Seeing the unstoppable smile on Jiajing's face, Lu Fang also squatted beside him with a smile.
Then the master and servant, with smiles on their faces, picked up a treasure and examined it carefully, like two old farmers with a good harvest.
However, Jiajing was enjoying picking treasures. At this moment, over in the world of immortal cultivation, Li Changqing, who had returned to "Zixian Bookstore" and entered his storage ring with his spiritual consciousness, was planning to test the "living mountain", but his face suddenly darkened!
"Boom!" The next moment, terrifying spiritual pressure burst out from his body, and the clothes around him fluttered wildly at this moment. The tables, chairs, benches, and tea cups in the room exploded instantly.
If Jiajing were here at this moment, he would definitely be able to clearly feel that Li Changqing's exact cultivation level is at the Golden Core Stage!
Moreover, his cultivation is even more unfathomable than that of the Sect Leader Dugu Ying!
"Meow?" At this time, the black cat, which had turned to normal size and was standing on the desk drinking water, suddenly felt that its owner was angry, and immediately looked up curiously, with a head full of question marks.
A human-like look of surprise appeared in a pair of vertical pupils.
It didn't understand why its owner was angry for no reason. Moreover, it seemed that this was the first time it saw its owner angry.
As a member of the Li family, the first family among the three main veins of Baima Academy, his master is an extremely outstanding genius even among the younger generation of the entire academy.
He normally never shows his emotions, his mind is unfathomable, and among his peers, no one wants to mess with him.
In the entire cultivation world of Arcturus, there are so many geniuses and geniuses, and they are always polite when they see him. How could he lose his composure like this for no reason?
But how could it understand Li Changqing's mood at the moment?
"The thing is lost!!!" Li Changqing's eyes turned red at this moment, and his violent spiritual sense instantly penetrated the mountain that was quietly floating in the storage ring. He wished he could scan every grain of sand, every blade of grass, and every handful of soil in the mountain dozens of times with his spiritual sense.
"The power of space!" Suddenly, Li Changqing, who had calmed down, felt something in his heart, and his eyes flashed with brilliance.
"Every time this mountain changes or moves, there are fluctuations in the force of space..." Li Changqing's brain was working rapidly, and he kept recalling every little thing that happened since the mountain appeared, for fear of missing any detail.
"Dust!" Li Changqing thought of the scene before, when dust came out of the clothes, ears and noses of all those who were stained with mountain dust. "That is to say, as long as part of the mountain is exposed to other places, it will reappear from these places!"
In Li Changqing's mind, his spiritual consciousness was replaying all the details about the mountain at a rapid speed like a kaleidoscope.
Finally he saw birds flying out from the mountain!
"If we want to crack the secret of this mountain and get our things back, these birds that flew away are the key!"
If Jiajing knew what Li Changqing was thinking at this moment, he would definitely admire this person's extraordinary mind and guess his next plan so quickly.
But at this time, Jiajing couldn't care about Li Changqing's feelings.
Inside the side hall of Yuxi Palace.
I don’t know how much time had passed, but I saw the blood-red setting sun outside the hall, shining in through the gaps in the doors and windows of the hall, and falling on the hall, forming rays of light as wide as blades.
Dust rolled in the light and fell on the treasures that were sorted into piles, emitting rays of light.
The entire side hall was filled with exposure!
"Huh," Lu Fang exhaled lightly out of habit, and simply sat on the floor, looking at the pile of treasures in front of him, and said with a smile: "Master, there are more than ten volumes of martial arts alone!"
"There are a total of 120 storage bags for elixirs, 200 storage bags for magic tools, 300 storage bags for treasure tools, and 60 spiritual tools..." At this point, Lu Fang's tone suddenly sank, and then he picked up a storage bag and said, "These are all spiritual stones..."
When he was sorting the treasures just now, he had already learned from Jiajing the difference between spirit stones and spirit sources.
Therefore, when dealing with spirit stones, one must be unprecedentedly serious!
(Note: The setting of the spirit stone in this book can be found in Chapter 157.)
"Spirit stone..." Looking at the fist-sized, transparent spirit stone in his hand, which was magnificent under the sunlight, Jiajing couldn't help but reveal a hint of regret in his eyes.
"The concentration of spiritual energy is not lower than that of spiritual source, and it is more convenient than spiritual source. Unfortunately, the spiritual energy of spiritual stone is poisonous..."
Thinking of this, Jiajing couldn't help but recall what Liu Quan had said before, that Li Changqing was still doing the spirit stone business.
Before this, he had always thought that Li Changqing was at most doing some spiritual vein business, or at worst some business related to his life. He didn't expect that he was even doing spiritual stone business.
Once spiritual stones are used by cultivators, they will cause drug addiction. If they break out on a large scale in the world of cultivation, it will harm countless people.
Once the spiritual stone is stuck, the future of this cultivator is basically doomed. There will be no second possibility except death in the end, unless he has another fortuitous encounter.
This is enough to show how evil Li Changqing is!
"Lv Fang, find a bigger storage bag to store these spirit stones. You can keep them." Jiajing stared at Lv Fang and said, "Remember, you are not allowed to use them privately without permission, and you are not allowed to leak them out. Otherwise, you know the consequences!"
"Master, rest assured. I know the pros and cons of this!" Having followed Jiajing for so long, Lu Fang could naturally understand the meaning behind his master's words.
Moreover, he is highly favored by the Emperor, has a bright future ahead of him, and is the absolute confidant of his master. So what if the spiritual energy contained in this spirit stone is extremely rich and is not inferior to the spiritual source?
Even though everyone, including him, has not yet been assigned to use spiritual energy for cultivation, spiritual stones do not have the slightest appeal to him!
As for letting this thing spread?
Well, he would only do this if he is really fed up with it and tired of living!
"Spirit Vein Scroll..." Seeing Lu Fang carefully putting several bags of spirit stones into the third-grade storage bag, Jiajing smiled. He was very satisfied with Lu Fang's understanding.
It can be said that Jiajing left no room for plundering Li Changqing this time. As long as Shanti could touch anything in the storage ring, he took it all away.
Things like jars of elixirs, spiritual weapons, and magical instruments are not a big deal for Jiajing.
The real good stuff are those piles of scrolls!
According to Liu Quan, he would deliver goods to Li Changqing every three months, which mainly included the total amount of spiritual medicine, spiritual veins, natal spirits and spiritual stones.
There are twelve bundles of spirit vein scrolls here, with "one", "two", "two", "three"... "six", "seven" written on them respectively. The lowest number is seven.
Having had the seventh-grade spiritual vein scroll given to him by Liu Quan before, Jiajing naturally knew what these numbers represented.
"The first-grade spirit vein has one, the second-grade has two, and the third-grade has..." Looking at the twelve bundles of spirit vein scrolls, Jiajing felt a burning sensation in his heart.
For a dead star, as long as its size is not too exaggerated, one spiritual vein should be enough to give birth to spiritual energy for the dead star.
Jiajing didn't know whether the size of the earth was big in the world of immortal cultivation, but he knew that spiritual veins could be integrated. If all the spiritual veins below the first grade were integrated, the richness of the spiritual energy in this first grade spiritual vein would be unimaginable.
Of course, even if these twelve bundles, which have spirit veins of the lowest grade of seventh grade fused together, are nothing in the world of cultivating immortals, but on Earth, it may be enough to revive the global spiritual energy.
"But this is not enough!" However, at this moment, Jiajing was not satisfied!
Because he has an emperor's heart!
The heart of an emperor represents endless desire and greed. In this world, nothing can fill the desire in the heart of an emperor!
Before, when he didn't get the spiritual vein, he tried every possible means to get it, and he used all means to do so, including negotiating with Huangfeng Valley, setting up a wild market, and negotiating with Li Changqing.
He even went so far as to use himself as bait and join the game himself!
Now, with the careful planning of the Daming Immortal Sect, they have finally completed their layout and participated in the spiritual vein business. The first spiritual vein earned for Daming is of the seventh grade.
Now, it was an attempt made on a whim, and he reaped an unexpected reward, allowing Daming to obtain so many high-quality spiritual veins at once. If he wanted, he could trigger a spiritual revival for the earth at any time. But at this moment he was not satisfied!
His appetite has grown!
How can one Earth be enough? How can it be enough?
"What I want is the endless stars in the sky. If all these stars were planted with spiritual veins, and then transformed and populated with a large number of people, they would continuously provide the Ming Dynasty with cultivators and resources..."
"Until the entire universe!"
As Jiajing thought, the "Taihao Emperor Sutra", which was once practiced exclusively by the royal family of the "Ancient Dahao Dynasty" and later renamed "Emperor Sutra" by him, began to operate on its own.
(Note: For the Dahao Dynasty, see Chapter 126.)
"Hua Hua Hua." As the spiritual energy surged, the loose Taoist robe fluttered, making bursts of sound.
At the same time, at this moment, the natal Ming in the sea of consciousness seemed to sense the master's state of mind and began to emit golden halos, as if responding to Jiajing.
After a moment, Jiajing took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and then looked at the twenty or so bundles of natal scrolls next to the spiritual vein scroll!
That’s right, all of the sealed scrolls in these twenty or so bundles are my life.
Not only that, Jiajing also saw the methods of natal adaptation and fusion from the storage ring he looted from Li Changqing.
As he had guessed before, with the passage of time, from the ancient times to the current era of cultivating immortals, the methods of hunting and adapting the destiny have already become very mature!
For example, if someone is born with a bad destiny, then as long as they find a destiny with the same spiritual attributes and which is naturally powerful, then through formations and secret techniques, they can perfectly replace the destiny.
The records in ancient times, which have been used to deceive low-level monks, saying that even if the fate adaptation is successful, there will be a lot of rejection, and even backlash and death if not careful, are already outdated.
Therefore, in some shady places in the world of immortal cultivation, the business of life can be said to be extremely popular.
And these are almost what Jiajing expected.
The business of hunting down and selling the original people and adapting them to replace others has long formed an industrial chain, and there are even academies, which are endorsed by senior officials who make the rules.
This is enough to show how lucrative this industry is!
After putting away the natal scroll and the spiritual vein scroll, Jiajing finally turned his gaze to a very ordinary piece of bone.
"Master, this thing looks like a piece of spine..." Lu Fang suddenly said at this time.
Hearing this, Jiajing did not say anything, but picked up the yellowed piece of spine that looked like it had been removed from the rotten bones, and looked at it carefully. He really did not see anything special.
Even when he saw this piece of spine just now, he used his spiritual sense to penetrate it and wanted to explore it.
It turned out to be just an ordinary piece of spinal bone without even a trace of spiritual energy.
However, although he did not find anything strange, Jiajing did not underestimate it at all. Instead, he became more and more interested in it, only because this tiny piece of spine was kept in a wooden box made of spiritual weapon.
It is said that spiritual tools have spirits and can recognize their masters! But strangely, this wooden box containing the spine does not have a spirit, only a "dead spirit".
Well, the so-called "dead spirit" does not mean that the spirit of the spiritual weapon is dead, but that the spirit does not have its own consciousness.
All actions, such as attack and defense, are based on instinct.
Except that the weapon spirit has no consciousness of its own, it has all the qualities that a spiritual weapon should have, such as recognizing its master, and only the master can open it.
However, at this time, there were only two worlds between them, and there was only a "dead spirit" that could not contact the owner's spiritual weapon. Under Jiajing's spiritual attack, it was easily broken.
"Human spine..." Jiajing looked thoughtful and said to himself, "With Li Changqing's identity and status, there is no reason for him to treasure an ordinary bone so much..."
Jiajing, who was unable to figure out the reason, shook his head slightly, and with an idea, he put the piece of spine back into the spiritual wooden box, and then into his storage ring.
That’s right, in addition to a large number of treasures, there are also some small gadgets among the treasures looted from Li Changqing.
For example, there were some luxurious flying shuttles, eggs of unknown ancient beasts, some special precious clothes and fabrics, various materials for refining equipment, as well as many storage bags and storage rings.
Storage rings are the same as storage bags, both are divided into grades from ninth to first, and the one in Jiajing's hand is a storage ring of the third grade.
As for the internal capacity... it can only be said to be very large! For example, the mountain covering an area of 20 acres can be easily accommodated.
"I just don't know what expression Li Changqing has at this moment..." Thinking of Li Changqing's face, which was always elegant and well-planned, Jiajing curled the corners of his mouth.
He was not as good as him in terms of cultivation background, but in terms of people's hearts and power, Jiajing was not afraid of him, and even looked down on him. At least he saw Li Changqing's layout against him.
"A mountain suddenly disappeared. I think everyone outside knows about it. You go and deal with it." After sorting out the harvest, Jiajing waved his hand, signaled Lu Fang to clean up the mess, and then entered the temple.
"Yes," Lu Fang bowed and turned to leave, "I will take care of it right away."
As Lu Fang revealed the news, Prince Yu, Prince Jing, Yan Song, Xu Jie and others soon received the news.
In the Yan Mansion, in the thatched cottage of Lingtian courtyard.
The three generations of the Yan family gathered together again.
Ever since Yan Song planned to build a family of immortal cultivators, Lingtian Courtyard has become the core of the entire Yan family.
So far, except for the three of them, no one else is allowed to enter. Even Hu Zongxian can only enter after the court session and upon Yan Song's invitation. No one is allowed to be disturbed at other times.
Of course, this would make it hard for Yan Shaoting, who had to serve tea and water in the Lingtian courtyard.
Even when he had nothing to do, he would be scolded by his father Yan Shifan, who had a bad temper and a rebellious personality.
"Dad, there's news from the palace!" Yan Shifan drank a sip of the spiritual tea offered by his son Yan Shaoting, looked at Yan Song who was calm and composed, and saw that his father didn't say anything and was still meditating with his eyes closed, so he continued:
"Eunuch Lu did not explicitly state whether the disappeared mountain outside the city was related to the immortals, but he ordered the immortal guards to withdraw," Yan Shifan said, leaning closer to Yan Song, "Dad, I guess the emperor must have negotiated with the immortals."
"Huh," Yan Song took a deep breath, and the 'Qi-inducing Technique' running in his body gradually stopped, and then his spiritual energy also calmed down. He then looked up at Yan Shifan and said, "The second year will soon be over, and you only have two years left..."
"Change, how are you preparing?"
Seeing that his father Yan Song had no interest in the disappearing mountains and the stories about immortals, Yan Shifan suddenly choked.
However, Yan Shifan also knew that the attitude of the palace was obviously not to tell the outside world about this matter. Even if he said more, it would not only waste his words, but also be scolded by his father. Thinking of this, he stopped talking about it and said:
"Don't worry, I have already found someone who teaches the Hundred Schools of Thought. The next step is to use the 'Miscellaneous Newspaper' to build momentum."
"After that, the Ministry of Rites submitted a memorial, which was then approved by the Cabinet. Then, the imperial court issued an order to reform the imperial examination system..."
Listening to Yan Shifan talking about his plan, Yan Song nodded slightly, and then suddenly said: "Change the order, and use the "Miscellaneous News" to build momentum for the Hundred Schools of Thought..."
"Then I will reveal some information to students all over the world, as well as people from all walks of life, especially merchants, craftsmen, and military households..."
"After we have built up enough momentum, we will find someone to petition, and then we can use the new Imperial College..." Yan Song paused for a moment, and then said, "Let's suspend the imperial examinations next year and the year after."
"In the remaining two years, we will train a group of officials from various families and assign them to various places in the Ming Dynasty."
"Since the imperial court wants to reform, it must first give confidence to students all over the world, so that they can feel at ease!"
As Yan Song spoke slowly, Yan Shifan immediately became serious and took note silently, not daring to miss a single word.
He knew that his father was supporting him.
The reform of "innovation" that he had proposed was a prerequisite for the Ming Dynasty to become an immortal dynasty.
Only when the reform is completed and the Ming Dynasty digests its previous gains and sees results in the process of rapid development, can the national policy he proposed be considered completed.
At that time, his status in the cabinet and the entire court will be raised to a higher level.
Before this, he did not realize that the reason why he could call the shots in the cabinet, scold this and that, and sometimes even the upright officials were speechless and could only endure the humiliation silently, was entirely because he was the son of Yan Song, the chief minister of the cabinet, and because the upright officials had their own plans and would not break off relations with his father.
Others respectfully call him "Little Cabinet Minister", but in fact they are not really respecting him, but respecting his father Yan Song behind him!
Now, with the start of his cultivation, Qingliu had already torn relations with their Yan family. Starting from the fortieth year of Jiajing, he could clearly feel that Qingliu, who used to be as docile as a sheep, suddenly became fierce, and they dared to fight back if he dared to speak.
In fact, it’s not that Qingliu has become more powerful, but that they have stopped pretending!
Especially in the later debates on state governance, let alone Xu Jie, he was the one who was arm wrestling with his father. People like Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, and Zhao Zhenji all left him behind.
These years have made him realize that he, Yan Shifan, the young cabinet minister who shoulders the heavy responsibility of governing the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, is still far from being as good as he could be. So in addition to practicing, he has been learning how to govern the country in these years.
He knew that no matter how he fought with the Qingliu in the future, he had to proceed from the interests of the Ming Dynasty, which could not avoid the way of governing the country. The old way of framing and forming cliques was outdated and would not work!
If you want to survive in the increasingly brutal competition in officialdom, you must have real abilities!
The national policy of "initiating innovation" is the first step for Yan Shifan to prove himself, and he must do it well!
"As for the common people, everything is in line with the imperial court," Yan Song said in a submissive tone, "As long as the imperial officials set an example, they will naturally follow suit, and then they will believe..."
“Thus, we gradually gave up our inherent ideas and began to generate endless motivation driven by interests.”
"Then, with the imperial court providing some guidance from behind, as long as the general direction is not bad, everything will fall into place." Yan Song looked at Yan Shifan and said, "Two years, the first imperial examination will be held in two years!"
"It's time to submit your 'Innovation' national policy paper."
"Yes," Yan Shifan's heart trembled, and he said seriously: "Don't worry, Dad, your son will definitely get it done!"
"Also, we have to keep an eye on Yingzhou Prefecture. This year's spiritual resources should be shipped back. I'm worried that Qingliu will take action..." Yan Song said, looking out the window with a distant tone.
"Don't worry, Dad. They are not clean either. Nothing will happen to them!" Yan Shifan said confidently, "As long as we don't alert Hai Rui who is in charge of Ningbo Prefecture, nothing will happen!"
"I hope so," Yan Song said in a slow voice, "After this batch of spiritual resources arrives, we can start training the children of our Yan family. When it comes to cultivating immortals, it's always better to be one step ahead."
"Dad, do you mean to bestow the magic without the emperor's permission?" Yan Shifan was stunned.
Dad is still so brave!
"Haha," Yan Song snorted and looked up at his son. "Shifan, it's right to be cautious, but don't be overly cautious. Just do it with confidence. As long as it doesn't get out of hand, the emperor will turn a blind eye..."
"My Yan family has always done things that cost us our lives. This is our duty. As long as the emperor gets a share of the proceeds, it is enough," Yan Song waved his hand and said:
"Shao Ting stays here, you go and get busy."
After hearing what his father said, Yan Shifan did not resist this time. Instead, he bowed and turned away.
Time flies. Three months have passed since the last time the mountain disappeared and the news was suppressed by the Immortal Guards.
It was already mid-December of the 49th year of the Jiajing reign.
During these three months, in addition to the constant rumors about the new policies of the court in the Ming Dynasty, the successors of hundreds of schools of thought were born.
These were the steps Yan Shifan took to build momentum for the reform.
Compared to the turmoil in the outside world, the Daming Immortal Palace is also extremely lively with the 12,000 immortal seedlings who have already started practicing immortality.
Of course, the excitement always belongs to a small number of people, and most of the others are just passers-by who come to watch the fun.
At this time, in a detached courtyard somewhere in the Immortal Palace.
"Your Highness, Prince Jing has been trying to win over the children of officials, military households, and merchants in recent days. Even many children of the cabinet families are very close to him..."
Feng Bao, dressed as a butler, was massaging Zhu Yijun's arms and legs, trying to dispel the blood from the wounds and swellings he had sustained from practicing the Immortal Martial Arts, while he said:
"Recently, many members of the royal family have come into conflict with officials and children of the common people because of what happened back then."
"When several conflicts occurred, it was always Prince Jing who intervened, stepping on the royal family's face, which made the people around him more cohesive."
"Many members of the royal family are now in disarray. Even many children of officials have implicated you, saying that you are not doing anything... For this reason, many children of the royal family are dissatisfied with you..."
"What do you want to say?" Zhu Yijun looked at Feng Bao, and before he could speak, he continued, "Feng Daban wants to say that my cousin is deliberately using me to help him win over people?"
Zhu Yijun said this with a tone of anger and loss.
"Sir," Feng Bao knew that his young master actually understood, so he knelt on the ground and said, "I will say something that will get you killed. The royal family has no relatives, so you have to be on guard!"
This time, Zhu Yijun did not reprimand Feng Bao for sowing discord. He just sat up from the recliner, with a look of disappointment on his young face, and whispered, "My cousin and I were very close before."
"When we met Grandpa Emperor, he told us that we should support each other..." Zhu Yijun raised his eyelids with long eyelashes and said, "Cousin, you disappoint me..."
"By the way, Prince, fight for it!"
"This is your fate, and the fate of our servants!"
Seeing this scene, Feng Bao felt at peace in his heart. He knew that Zhu Yijun's wisdom was no less than Zhu Yijin's. Seeing the prince like this, he knew that the prince was going to fight!
"..."
(End of this chapter)
