Chapter 223: The Path of Immortal Cultivation for a Mortal Family, Year-end Bonus for the Next Year! The Age of Spiritual Industry? The Madman of Technology in the Ming Dynasty
The process of the natal transplant went smoothly, except for some minor and insignificant accidents at the beginning, which could not even be called accidents.
After severing the connection between the original Lala vine and Li Ming's consciousness, Jiajing took out a high-quality vine that had been planted in advance on the natal plateau, a "congenital wisteria", and connected it with Li Ming's consciousness.
Li Ming's natal star is Lala vine, but his spiritual attribute is gold, which means his attribute does not match his natal star.
As for the innate talents, well, they are also very ordinary, even useless, except for one: perception.
Not only that, this perception talent has certain limitations, that is, there must be a place where the Lala vine grows.
The ability of this "innate wisteria" is much stronger than that of the Lala vine. Its innate ability is to control all vine plants within its sight and launch attacks. It also has extremely strong healing power. The most important thing is this healing ability.
If the talent is cultivated into supernatural power, as long as there is a drop of blood left, one can rely on the powerful self-healing ability to be resurrected.
Of course, if you were beaten into pieces in an instant and then disappeared completely, then you would naturally be deader than dead.
In addition, there are some special injuries, such as damage caused by the way of heaven, or damage that is specifically restrained, which are another matter.
The same golden spiritual energy is adapted to the cultivation level and speed of the innate purple vine, which is naturally faster and more.
"Is this my destiny?"
Li Ming looked at the vine in front of him, which was more than ten meters long, purple all over, with a purple and white flower bud on the top, and muttered to himself.
But then the expression on his face was replaced by surprise.
His destiny has been changed, so his cultivation speed will certainly speed up. It may not be long before he surpasses Li Tianming, the first genius of the family, and becomes proud of himself!
"Although this innate purple vine is a high-quality life force, it may not be the top life force." At this moment, as if seeing through Li Ming's thoughts, Jiajing's voice slowly sounded.
"If you want to surpass others in cultivation, you should work hard to improve yourself, rather than fantasizing about winning with talent."
"You have to understand that in cultivation, besides relying on one's talent and destiny, one also needs resources. You need to have more resources."
"Disciple understands!" Hearing Jiajing's admonition, Li Ming's heart suddenly trembled. He immediately put away the excitement on his face and said seriously: "Disciple will definitely remember the teachings of the ancestors and practice hard!"
"This is a ninth-grade storage bag. It contains the resources I left behind for cultivation. I will give it to you. With these resources, if you work hard enough, it won't be difficult to break through the foundation-building stage."
Jiajing said as he handed a ninth-grade storage bag to Li Ming.
These resources are considered as rewards for Li Ming's cooperation and willingness to be the first person to participate in the natal transplant.
"I am about to go into seclusion. If we are destined to meet, I will come out next time and perhaps we will have a chance to see each other again. Take the things and go..." Jiajing said, ignoring Li Ming's slightly changed expression, he waved his hand and sent him back.
The next step is to observe Li Ming. If there is no rejection within three months, it will be a success.
However, based on what Jiajing learned from the description of rejection reactions in "General Guide to Birth Transplantation", he did not think there would be any problems, because except for the initial removal of the natal transplantation, the rejection reactions in the other three stages were all related to the natal transplantation.
During the transplantation process, you only need to pay attention to two points.
One is the environment during transplantation, whether it is strictly implemented, such as magic arrays, spells, etc.
Another one is the compatibility between the destiny and the cultivator himself.
For the former, in the world of cultivating immortals, it is natural to have layers of defense and take protective measures to prevent any accidents from happening during the process, but in the Ming Dynasty, there is naturally no such concern.
Of course, the key point is that there is no need to consider this aspect, because the natal transplant is ultimately a replacement carried out within the natal body, so naturally there is no interference from external factors.
As for the latter, in the world of cultivating immortals, it is naturally necessary to utilize the blessing of magic arrays and spells to conduct multiple tests and adaptations on the spiritual properties of the cultivator who has transplanted his own destiny to ensure that there are no risks.
But even so, after the transplant, which is the final stage, spiritual energy disorder and mutation will occur.
Ultimately, this is because the cultivator's own spiritual energy attributes have not been properly adapted.
After all, the human body is the most mysterious thing. There is no guarantee that spiritual energy will not mutate or change its properties in the future.
This is not without records in the General Notes on Cultivation. After building the foundation, the cultivator practiced the corresponding attribute of the exercise, and then found that the attribute of the spiritual energy had changed.
Then, I had to change my technique.
Of course, some superior exercises have the ability to automatically adapt and generate exercise routes as the spiritual energy changes.
For example, the 'Emperor's Scripture' that Jiajing practiced, even though it is of fire attribute when Jiajing uses it, if Jiajing's spiritual energy attribute changes to water attribute, then the generated practice path will also change accordingly.
For example, the aura of ice attribute is born from the five elements, but it is not in the five elements. Instead, it is mutated from the water of the five elements.
This is why many people in the cultivation world like the superior practice. It is because the superior practice is unique, and once practiced, it is equivalent to practicing a unique practice outline.
No matter how other minor details change, as long as the main framework of the practice remains unchanged, the practice route of the corresponding level will be generated according to the cultivator's spiritual energy attributes or his own characteristics.
In this way, Jiajing did not need to pay special attention to or be concerned about the four major rejection reactions during the natal transplant process, so it was very likely that Li Ming's natal transplant was successful.
Of course, to be on the safe side, Jiajing still needs to pay more attention to it.
Yingtian Prefecture, Jiangning County, Daoxiang Village.
"Caw, cackle..." The moonlight was like water. A fat crow flapped its wings, descended from a distance, and stood steadily on the treetop.
The bird pecked at the feathers on its wings with its shiny, thick beak, then looked down at the small courtyard complex that was divided by thatched houses.
Ever since the 52nd year of Jiajing, when Li Tianming, the Li family's number one genius, picked up a method of cultivating immortality by the river at the age of seven, this ordinary farming family suddenly transformed into a family of cultivating immortality.
In eight years, the Li family has completely developed the entire Daoxiang Village into a place where they have the final say.
There are many reasons why Daoxiang Village became a place where the Li family has the final say. If you dig deeper, you will find that it was just an experiment by the imperial court.
But if we look at it from the perspective of the Li family itself, the Li family is divided into three groups: outer, inner and core. They are also a large local family and have developed properly.
The Li family is a wealthy family in Daoxiang Village.
Of course, this big household is relative. At least in a remote small village like Daoxiangcun, it is considered a big household.
In the 52nd year of the Jiajing reign, there were a total of 28 family members in the three generations of the Li family. In eight years, the number had expanded to 37.
Of course, this is also a common phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty today, with regard to the population growth and survival rate of ordinary people.
Even in the current Ming Dynasty, perhaps because Jiajing's cultivation level has broken through to the golden elixir level, or because of the continuous transformation of the natal object, the survival rate of newborns is almost 100%.
This birth rate is already on par with the world hundreds of years later, and there is even a tendency to exceed it.
After all, the speed of development of scientific and technological civilization relies on the leadership of a few geniuses, and is ultimately not as fast as that of immortal civilization.
Talking about science in a civilization of cultivating immortals is considered micro-innovation, but talking about cultivating immortals in a civilization of science and technology is a subversion of civilization.
Therefore, if science starts to study the cultivation of immortals, the winner will be immediately clear, and technological civilization will undoubtedly lose.
Therefore, in terms of people's livelihood, including the survival rate of the people, diseases, natural disasters, etc., in the Ming Dynasty will only become less and less, and the birth rate will naturally become closer and closer to 100%.
However, the population increased from 28 to 37 in eight years. This was a restrained result because the Li family embarked on a different path.
The inner and outer clans of the Li family are divided according to blood relations.
For example, the lineage of the eldest son of the clan leader is the inner clan, while the outer clan is the collateral bloodline. The inner clan is the clan members who know about cultivating immortals and have been practicing. The outer clan is more complicated, mainly composed of the head of a lineage and clan members who have participated in cultivating immortals but did not meet the standards.
As for the matter of cultivating immortals, the Li family did not hide it from their clansmen, except for those who were too young or had moral problems.
As cultivating immortals is in the interests of the entire clan, those who do not have the talent for cultivation are willing to contribute to the family.
After all, no one dares to say with certainty that their descendants will not participate in cultivating immortals in the future, so it is in the interests of everyone.
As for those who have character problems, or are unwilling to contribute to the family, or even have been deprived of the qualifications to practice Taoism and are forced to give up resources, those who are jealous and hateful will naturally be dealt with silently.
For an ethnic group, human life is no longer valuable for the benefit of the majority and the development of the ethnic group.
For example, those members of the tribe who no longer practice Taoism will be classified as the outer tribe, and will be mainly responsible for the family business, farmland, and external negotiations, while the members of the inner tribe will mainly be responsible for cultivation.
As for the core members of the tribe, anyone can become one.
The main thing is to see the results of cultivation and whether they meet the family assessment standards. Basically, no matter whether it is a collateral branch or an inner or outer clan, newborns will receive enlightenment at the age of three and then start practicing at the age of six.
These children will be considered core members of the tribe.
If they can open up all the acupoints within three years, they will stay in the inner clan. Otherwise, if they cannot open up all the acupoints, they will be ordered to stop, deprived of their qualification to cultivate immortality, and the clan will no longer support them.
For example, the spiritual resources grown from the spiritual fields within the family, as well as the various materials obtained from transactions with the immortal cultivation families in Nanjing City, will not be allocated to these people at all.
That’s right, a transaction with the immortal cultivation family in Nanjing City!
Don’t underestimate the 10,000 immortal seedlings in Nanjing city who were originally registered by the imperial court. They have now grown into powerful people, established families, and started businesses related to cultivating immortals. They seem to be clean and innocent.
But as long as they are cultivators, they will not completely break away from the circle of "the world of immortal cultivation", so they will have secret contacts with each other.
Zhang Juzheng and others in the imperial court also kept silent about these things, sitting quietly in high places, observing and recording the development of the immortal cultivation world.
Of course, if someone shows up, the imperial court’s wrath will fall instantly, and these families will be wiped out. Then the benefits will naturally belong to the East Factory, the West Factory and the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
Ever since Nanjing City gathered various forces from the court and became a place where good and bad people gathered, the two factories and one guard also got involved.
The reason is naturally that Huang Jin, the East Factory governor who has the imperial master as his backer and is rumored to be extremely powerful, cannot bear the burden of being a "villain", and adding Chen Hong from the West Factory will be enough to make it difficult.
Therefore, the Jinyiwei naturally joined in and helped to bear some of the "evil deeds", and the person in charge was the current commander of the Jinyiwei, Zhu Xixiao.
With the joining of the two factories and one guard, the "immortal cultivation world" breathed a sigh of relief, because the open and secret struggles behind the two factories reflected the power struggle between the two national masters of Buddhism and Taoism in the court.
As for the Jinyiwei, they are completely willing to be the knives of the two factories. As long as the benefits are sufficient, the two factories can use them for cooperation.
Nowadays, in the eyes of these people in the "immortal cultivation world", the court is truly dark, but it is precisely this darkness that provides them with the soil to breathe and survive.
The two factories and one guardhouse enriched themselves and cooperated with the "immortal cultivation world" to provide elixirs, talismans, and even magical instruments, as well as new spiritual seeds, which were then handed over to these shady families and sects.
These families and sects in the "immortal cultivation world" are responsible for paying fixed tributes to the two factories and one guard every year and providing a large amount of spiritual resources.
You provide me with resources from the court and protect our existence, and we will grow private land for you and provide you with various needs.
The supply and demand relationship has developed steadily over the past eight years!
However, the exchange of interests between each other may seem like the cooperation of certain families in the "immortal cultivation world", but few people know that, after all this, there are actually more families and independent cultivators supported by the two factories and one guard.
After all, for Huang Jin, Chen Hong and others, on the surface they were using the spiritual resources of the imperial court, allowing these shady independent cultivator families to plant spiritual fields, and then develop their own private fields.
Who allowed these families to grow spiritual fields?
In fact, it was just to have an excuse to support them in a logical way. Now, the intricate network of interests has been formed. All kinds of interest entanglements, frictions, and collisions have led to the barbaric growth of these immortal cultivation families within the scope of Yingtian Prefecture.
It is similar to the saying that a horse cannot grow fat without grass at night.
Those members who were kicked out of the inner tribe and went to the outer tribe to be in charge of business mainly did shady business with the Immortal Cultivation Chamber of Commerce in Nanjing City and the Eagle Claw of the imperial court in exchange for more benefits.
For example, elixirs, talismans, and even some spiritual seeds.
In addition, those who were kicked out of the inner clan can continue to practice, but they can only do so by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and struggling unwillingly. If someone is truly blessed and achieves great success late in life, he will naturally be favored again.
But everyone knows that this possibility is too slim.
This kind of ethnic group development model is also the development model of most immortal cultivation families in the "immortal cultivation world".
They don't know that the path of a mortal family to become an immortal is nothing more than a large-scale experiment under the strict surveillance of the imperial court.
Once the experiment is over and the results are realized, it will be time for the court to take action, make repairs, and rectify the "immortal world".
"Swish!" Li Ming's eyes suddenly opened, and he sat up from the bed in horror, starting gasping for breath.
"Is it a dream?" Looking at the window illuminated by the moonlight and recalling the scenes of himself being summoned into the fairyland by Master Yunyin, Li Ming felt a little dazed and could not tell what was real and what was fake.
But then, his body suddenly stiffened.
Because he suddenly found that he seemed to be holding something in his hand. He raised his hand and looked at it in the moonlight. Li Ming's pupils shrank, and then his whole person's breathing became rapid.
"Storage bag!?" Li Ming looked at the bag in his hand. It was exactly the same storage bag that the Yunyin Patriarch gave him in the dream. He tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart.
Thinking of all the things that happened in the fairyland, I wanted to roar to the sky to express the excitement in my heart.
But he knew that this was an opportunity that belonged to him alone and he must never make it public!
Otherwise, not to mention what the clan members would think, if even the slightest word leaked out, the entire Li family would likely be in disaster!
Don’t think that the Li family can be ranked in the top ten or even top five among the immortal cultivation families in the current "immortal cultivation world".
However, if the top families are determined to attack the Li family, it probably won’t take long for the Li family to be wiped out.
Even if the news about the Yunyin Patriarch spreads, the imperial court will intervene, and by then there will be no place for the Li family in the entire world.
In addition, since the Yunyin Patriarch only summoned himself, it meant that the Patriarch did not intend to assert his existence.
Besides, how could I easily reveal the existence of the master without his consent?
Li Ming suppressed the excitement in his heart. His thoughts raced rapidly in his mind. It took him a long while to calm down his agitated emotions.
"Let's give it a try and see if there is any effect after changing my destiny!" Everything was true. Naturally, Li Ming couldn't wait to start practicing the 'Qi-Inducing Formula' which recorded the method of opening up the acupoints.
As the technique was practiced, spiritual energy between heaven and earth began to gather towards his body. The pores on his skin opened up, greedily absorbing the spiritual energy.
"Gurgle." The technique was working. Perhaps it was an illusion, Li Ming felt that the spiritual energy from the outside world turned into streams of tangible air, passing through the skin, rushing into the body and rushing towards the acupoints.
What Li Ming didn't know was that as he practiced, the innate wisteria in his sea of consciousness also began to expand, emitting a layer of purple mist around his body like a ribbon.
As the "Qi Inducing Technique" was practiced, the purple mist seemed to breathe, expanding and then shrinking. The purple mist filled the sea of consciousness, and as the spiritual energy entered the body, the flow rate became faster and faster.
"Boom!" As the sky turned pale, an acupoint in Li Ming's body that had been unopened for half a year was instantly pierced.
"...Huh!" After a moment, Li Ming slowly exhaled, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and then he opened his eyes.
But as he laughed, his eyes suddenly turned red.
Thinking of the previous despair, and the bitterness on my father's face and the disappointment in my mother's eyes after I was kicked out of the clan, which later turned into comfort for myself, I felt that all the hard work had paid off and I was inexplicably sad.
"I will definitely become a genius that everyone looks up to, and I will also be the first person in the Li family to break through the foundation-building stage!"
Li Ming clutched the storage bag in his hand and swore secretly in his heart.
The sight slowly shifted away, and Jiajing withdrew his gaze. Li Ming was in good condition, and everything was normal.
Afterwards, Jiajing began to summarize the process of this natal transplant and some unexpected events encountered during the process.
Because next, he needs to communicate well with the consciousness of his natal Ming and understand his emotions clearly.
However, Jiajing guessed that although the current Ming Dynasty might have its own consciousness, it was most likely only subconscious.
To be precise, it is most likely an instinct.
Just like the original Nara vine, when it was cut, it affected Li Ming emotionally and tried to protect itself, but throughout the whole process, it never conveyed any verbal consciousness.
This means that the consciousness of the life is more like instinct, or that the cultivation of himself and Li Ming is not enough to give birth to consciousness in the life? Or maybe the life is also growing?
In short, understanding one's destiny with just a book called "General Notes on Cultivation" is not enough. Jiajing feels that he needs to go to the world of cultivation and find some ancient books to read.
How can the innate consciousness become completely independent? Can it only be cultivated in the Spiritualization Stage or the Void Refining Stage? Is it possible to cultivate it in advance?
Regarding his destiny, Jiajing felt that he needed to study it more.
However, this is destined to be a long process and there is no rush. It is just a determined research direction before breaking through the middle stage of the Golden Core. Of course, there are other plans, such as practicing magic.
When I first obtained the "Emperor's Scripture", the entire inheritance of the "Ancient Great Hao Dynasty" was recorded in the "Emperor's Scripture·Nine Volumes", which contained too many supporting exercises and magical powers.
In addition, there are also superior skills exclusive to the royal family, etc.
Now he has nine more sons, three daughters, and two grandsons, Zhu Yijun and Zhu Yijin.
These are the future of the royal family of his lineage and the real heads of the Ming Dynasty, so naturally they must be trained well.
The Ming Dynasty is, after all, a Ming dynasty of one family. We cannot just focus on developing others and forget about our own family lineage.
In short, there will be a lot of things to do for Jiajing next.
Time flies by.
In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year of the 60th year of Jiajing.
Yan Mansion, back hall, and living room.
Yan Song's three generations of ancestors and grandchildren, as well as Hu Zongxian, sat quietly in their seats waiting.
Yesterday, news came from the palace that the venue for this year's year-end political meetings has been moved from Yuxi Palace to Benming Plateau.
How to get to the Mingming Plateau? Of course, he was summoned by the emperor.
At this time, everyone was holding the records of all the political achievements from the 53rd year of Jiajing to the 60th year of Jiajing, waiting quietly.
Everyone knows that during this highland political meeting, the emperor will reward the cultivation of all those who hand in their destiny, and there will also be additional cultivation rewards. Moreover, Eunuch Lu said that the two can be superimposed.
What does this mean? It means that in addition to the rewards for cultivation that he should have received, there is also an additional reward for his political achievements.
Early in the morning, before daybreak, all officials, regardless of whether they had handed in their official duties or not, carefully reviewed their own performance over the past seven years.
I was afraid that any of my achievements would be missed.
Officials who handed in their natal charts would naturally participate in the plateau's political affairs and receive rewards. Officials who did not hand in their natal charts would not be allowed to enter the plateau, but their political achievements reports would be collected.
If someone has outstanding political achievements, rewards will be given directly.
Even someone like Hai Rui put on his new official robe early, tightly grasped his memorial, and waited.
"Dad, with this reward, Lu Fang and Lu Bing will probably be able to break through to their foundation-building stage!" Yan Shifan drank a sip of spiritual tea and said to Yan Song, hoping to ease his nervousness.
There is still one hour left until noon, and he is just waiting. The longer he waits, the more nervous and expectant he becomes.
"Over the years, we have fed a lot of spiritual resources to our natal spirit beasts. I wonder how much cultivation it will benefit in return..." As he spoke, Yan Shifan suddenly seemed to have thought of something and said nervously:
"Dad, do you think that we will share our cultivation with those who hold us back?" He then continued to speak with a certainty, saying hatefully:
"If that's the case, I will never let these bastards off..."
Seeing Yan Shifan chattering on and on with an uneasy look, Yan Song raised his eyelids and was too lazy to pay attention to him. Yan Shaoting, who returned to Beijing at the end of the year, just smiled and said nothing, acting very calmly.
Hu Zongxian was naturally a shrewd man, but his continuous drinking of tea showed that he was not at peace at the moment.
The New Party started practicing later, so he, Wang Chonggu, and Yu Dayou were all at the fourth level of Qi training, which was at the bottom of the cabinet.
This is because the mansion is connected to the spiritual vein, and he is also a minister, so he has a lot of extra resources.
However, his cultivation level is still one level lower than that of most of the immortal seedlings in the Daming Immortal Palace. You should know that in the Immortal Palace, many of the immortal seedlings had already broken through to the fifth level of Qi training.
For example, many immortal seedlings with talent for refining instruments were recruited into the "One Pavilion and Two Academy" under the charge of Xu Fan from the Ministry of Works. Their cultivation level was all at the sixth level of Qi training. After all, these people were the core of building the Ming Dynasty.
Xu Fan spared no effort in providing these people with a large amount of resources, and even let them live in the Xu Mansion and practice using spiritual veins.
For a time, everyone in the entire Ming Dynasty knew that the most lucrative job in the court was to become a weapon refiner.
Many immortal seedlings in the Immortal Palace have begun to focus on practicing cultivation tools.
At this time, in the study of the Xu Mansion, the Minister of Works Xu Fan did not care about his uneasy and nervous mood.
"Swish, swish, swish!" At this moment, Xu Fan, holding a pen, was drawing and writing on a stack of scrolls.
In many places, the writing is even extremely messy, completely cursive, and there are some mysterious patterns, gears, and instruments.
In order to speed up the writing process, some people are even willing to use some typos.
On the desk, there was a floating timer. As time passed, there was only a quarter of an hour left until noon.
"Huh!" As the last stroke was completed, Xu Fan suddenly put down his brush and exhaled the breath he had been holding.
He was at the sixth level of Qi training and at this moment, sweat was oozing out of his forehead.
The big hand pulled up the scroll and looked at the directory at the very beginning, which recorded the new research results and directions of the "One Cabinet and Two Institutes".
There was only a long line of neat small characters written on the catalog.
"The Ming Dynasty's Spiritual Era: Refining skills and workshop manufacturing go hand in hand, a proposal for the Spiritual Industrial Era."
"The Ming Dynasty needs to enter the next stage, the era of spiritual energy industry!" Looking at the long scroll, Xu Fan said in a deep voice.
"..."
(End of this chapter)
