Chapter 258 Thirty Years in the Human World!
Outside Yuxi Palace.
Under the gloomy sky, the hard snowflakes, which were originally only the size of salt grains, were now mixed with cold rain.
"What a pity," Yan Shifan couldn't help but turn his head while speaking, and glanced at the Xu Jie and his son who were walking alone behind him, and said, "I originally thought that the spiritual network would be placed under the Ministry of Industry, and then we would send people to do something about it."
"This will not only allow the Emperor to punish the Xu family for poor management, but also allow us to take this opportunity to take back the 'Spiritual Network'."
"And during this process, other people will definitely not sit idly by and watch the Xu family master the 'Spiritual Network'. By then, all parties will inevitably fight with the Xu family over this!"
"When both of them are defeated, they will no longer be qualified to compete with my Yan family for the "Spiritual Network". At that time, my Yan family can smoothly obtain the "Spiritual Network". What a perfect plan..." As he spoke, Yan Shifan's eyes became a little sinister, and his tone was unfriendly:
"I didn't expect that old Xu Jie actually figured it out!"
"In fact, given Xu Ge's intelligence, it would be a big problem if he couldn't see it." At this time, Hu Zongxian took a breath of cold air, looked at Yan Song who was supported by Yan Shaoting, and said:
"I'm sure you have anticipated all this, right?"
Hearing Hu Zongxian's words, Yan Song nodded, and then said slowly: "In fact, it is such a simple situation. Who is Xu Jie? He can't have thought of it."
"And even if we don't push the 'Spiritual Network' to the Ministry of Industry, Xu Jie will find a way to push it out."
"And he will use the same method as us. In short, whoever gets this 'Spiritual Network' will take on this hot potato, which also means giving Xu Jie a chance."
"What should we do now?" Yan Shifan suddenly spoke up, "None of Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, and Zhao Zhenji are fools."
"After what they did just now, they will definitely be aware of it when they return. Can we do the same thing then?"
"Maybe!" However, as soon as Yan Shifan finished speaking, Hu Zongxian immediately spoke.
And his voice was full of certainty!
"What did you say?" Seeing Hu Zongxian's affirmation, Yan Shifan couldn't help but frown, and gave him a look that said, "You are talking nonsense."
"Although the hot potato of 'Spiritual Network' has not been pushed into anyone's hands, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the next 'Spiritual Network Division' will obviously be a quagmire!"
"Whoever intervenes will be treated as a sitting duck. What if someone uses the 'spiritual network' to spread rumors that offend the emperor, or if some unruly people slander the court?"
"Who will dare to take on this responsibility? Who will be able to take it? By then, I'm afraid that anyone who interferes with the 'Spiritual Network Division' will be punished in the end."
"How could they not understand such a simple truth?"
"Brother Shifan, have you ever thought about the emperor's purpose in pulling out the 'Spiritual Network Division'?" Seeing Yan Shifan looking at him, Hu Zongxian did not beat around the bush and said bluntly:
"It's because the emperor doesn't want anyone to get involved in the 'Spiritual Network', but at the same time, the 'Spiritual Network' cannot be managed by the emperor himself, after all, the emperor's status is there."
"Moreover, we, as ministers, not only do not share the emperor's worries, how can we let the emperor do it himself?"
"Therefore, this 'Spiritual Network Division' is ultimately a mixed bag of different factions!"
"The Emperor's goal has always been to maintain balance."
"And this 'Spiritual Network' is indeed a hot potato, but since the emperor has singled it out and asked the cabinet to designate and appropriately expand the officials of the 'Spiritual Network Department', this shows that the emperor is giving everyone a chance to join."
"In other words, this 'Spiritual Network Division' must have personnel from all quarters."
"It's not a matter of who enters and who doesn't, but everyone must enter," Hu Zongxian paused for a moment, and then continued:
"The most important thing is that after each of our forces enters the 'Spiritual Network Division', they have reasons to fight for!"
"Brother Shifan, you can think about it," Hu Zongxian said, pausing slightly before continuing, "If this 'spiritual network' is to be spread across the entire territory of Ming in the future, will a mere photo tower be enough?"
“There has to be more!”
"By then, in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, I'm afraid every provincial government, even prefectures, states, and even counties, will have to build a photo-taking platform."
"Moreover, officials in and outside the six ministries have already begun to secretly take sides."
"For example, if it is in the Songjiang Prefecture area."
"That is the Xu family's territory. In this way, officials from Songjiang Prefecture who belong to the Xu family will be able to control the Liuying Tower."
"At that time, if officials from Xu Jie's faction wanted to target other colleagues, they could publish content that was unfavorable to the areas governed by other officials at any time. Then..."
At this point, Hu Zongxian shook his head slightly and said meaningfully: "It is better to guard against the people's mouths than to guard against the river!"
"I dare to assert that in ten or even twenty years, the struggles among officials in the Ming Dynasty will no longer be limited to the court or simple impeachment."
“The fight between officials can evolve into many forms!”
“For example, controlling public opinion!”
"If one official attacks another official, or if an official from a certain place has connections in the court and wants to promote someone from his faction, then this 'Spiritual Network' will be a powerful weapon in the hands of officials from all over the country to target their political enemies!"
“Not only that, but also publicity for political achievements!”
"At least with the 'spiritual network', there will be no fraud in the assessment of people's livelihood in the performance evaluation."
"If it's just fraud on paper, the Emperor's Seal can tell the difference, but what if the people are deceived by the propaganda of the 'Spiritual Network'?"
"When the time comes, during the people's livelihood assessment, when officials in charge of a place ask whether the people are living a prosperous and happy life, how will the people answer? They will understand and support their parents!"
"Putting on a show, whitewashing the truth, haven't we seen enough of this in the court? We..."
Hu Zongxian was also very angry, and before he could finish his words, he heard Yan Song cough softly. Suddenly, Hu Zongxian shuddered and realized that he had said too much.
Speaking of the person in the court who is best at whitewashing the truth and putting on a show, apart from the person next to him, who else dares to do it before him?
He spoke to his face about those officials who whitewashed the truth and put on a show. Wasn't this a hint at his own teacher, Lord Yan?
"Ahem!" Hu Zongxian coughed lightly, then immediately changed the topic that embarrassed everyone without changing his expression, and continued:
"Don't talk about colleagues in the court, or the respect of court officials. When the 'Spiritual Network' is perfected, if the people want to understand the Ming Dynasty, they can only do so through the 'Spiritual Network'!"
"In other words, that's what the 'Spiritual Network' wants the people to see."
"All the people will become dependent on the 'Spiritual Network' and thus be forced to become knives in the hands of others without knowing it!"
"It's like hanging on a big net, like cocoons, and these people are locked in these 'cocoons'."
"Everything they saw was what the 'Spiritual Network' wanted them to see. But what is the world under the 'Spiritual Network' like? If they don't go out of the door themselves, they will never know!"
"Huh!" After saying these words, Hu Zongxian couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, looking into the distance with deep eyes and muttering to himself.
"I think the emperor saw the future power of the 'Spiritual Network' and its control over the people, so he singled it out and established the 'Spiritual Network Department'."
"Therefore, the 'Spiritual Network Department' must be jointly managed by all factions of the cabinet."
"Because only in this way can we fight each other, be wary of each other, and form checks and balances."
"If the various factions within the 'Spiritual Network Division' get along harmoniously one day, it will bring about a catastrophe!"
"Hiss!" After hearing what Hu Zongxian said, Yan Shifan finally understood.
When Yan Shifan thought about the fact that the 'Spiritual Network Division' would control all public opinions in the world in the future, he felt both surprised and happy, as well as fearful and terrified!
What is surprising is the function of the "Spiritual Network". In the future, it may be far more than that. After all, it needs to continue to transform.
Just like the first "Earth Treasure Wheel", it has been transformed and transformed generation after generation until it has become what it is today.
The good news is that this "spiritual network" can play a huge role in the future, especially in official circles.
The future development direction of their Yan family is to deeply penetrate all walks of life in Ming Dynasty. If they are coordinated with the "Spiritual Network", then all the industries of Yan family will be unbreakable and deeply rooted.
What they fear is that it is such a powerful weapon. If it is not used properly, it is very likely to get out of control.
By then, no one will have a good ending!
What I fear is the old saying: "He who gains by losing, loses by losing!"
You have to know that in the future Ming Dynasty, at least half of the people will enter the era of cultivating immortals. If someone incites public opinion, the immortal cultivators will cause a civil uprising and riots...
By then, there will probably be tons of blood and rivers of blood.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that just a few immortal cultivators can cause the Ming Dynasty to suffer numerous heads rolling and rivers of blood, but that the emperor will kill all the people involved, causing countless heads rolling and rivers of blood to flow.
Of course, this cannot be separated from the officials of the imperial court!
"Ruzhen is right," Yan Song said, glancing at Yan Shifan who had completely understood what was going on, and said in a deep voice:
"So, everyone in the 'Spiritual Network' cabinet must get involved, and they can't just keep pretending to be harmonious."
"Therefore, when it is time to use the 'Spiritual Network' to gain benefits, don't be soft-handed," Yan Song said, turning his head to glance at Xu Jie and his son who were also discussing in the rain and snow, and said:
"My plan and his plan both failed, but we both expected this possibility."
And just as Yan Song said, what Xu Jie and his son, who were walking at the back of the group, discussed was very similar to what they said.
"So, what father said before, that all the baits were caught, was not actually referring to everyone fighting for the 'Spirit Net', but to everyone entering the 'Spirit Net Department' and being unable to control themselves?"
At this moment, thinking about what had just happened in Yuxi Palace, Xu Fan asked belatedly.
"That's right," Xu Jie nodded slightly and said, "This 'Spiritual Network' is of great importance. My Xu family has no control over it. And no one in the court can take it for themselves."
"The Emperor will never allow this thing to fall into the hands of anyone else, even if that person is a prince!"
Xu Jie's old face remained calm throughout, and even his words were as gentle as before, but Xu Fan could keenly sense the difference in his father's behavior at this moment.
His intuition told him that his father was going to take action again, and this time the action would be completely different from his previous small-scale actions such as returning to the cabinet and eliminating various factions in the Ministry of Industry.
This time, it will be the first time that my father will take action against other cabinet members after returning to the cabinet from Yingzhou Prefecture.
From the day he returned to the cabinet, my father has been working diligently and planning every step carefully. This time, he can finally avenge himself.
"What we can do is to use the 'Spiritual Net' as bait to lure all the fish to the bait, and then take this opportunity to make a profit for our Xu family." Xu Fan's voice was very light. He looked at Xu Fan and said, "Fan'er, I'll leave this to you."
"Don't worry, father. I understand!" Although Xu Fan is still slow in political sense and his political skills are not as good as those of others in the six departments, he has made a lot of progress over the years.
From the moment his father said, "I'll leave it to you," he knew that he was going to let him tamper with the 'Spiritual Network'.
These actions will not affect the interests of the Ming Dynasty, but will force others to find the Xu family for this. And under the pressure of the "Spiritual Network", the cabinet will give in.
And Xu Fan also knew what his father wanted to do.
Although the Xu family has begun to lay out plans for officials in the prefectures, states, and counties of the Ming Dynasty and has achieved many results in recent years, the higher you go, the less likely the officials' positions will be easily shaken.
From provincial governors, to high-ranking officials such as the Six Ministries, the Inspectorate, and the Hanlin Academy, there were already many factions, and they had taken sides with all the parties in the cabinet.
What Xu Jie lacks now is high-ranking officials in the capital.
If one wants to make Yan Song and others in the cabinet voluntarily give up their positions, one can only rely on the "Spiritual Network".
There was no way, since Xu Fan had not told anyone about the core immortal technology of 'Spiritual Network', and it was instead in the hands of the Xu family.
Of course, if the emperor wanted it, the Xu family would naturally hand it over obediently without any complaints.
But for others, as long as they want to control a part of the 'Spiritual Network' in the Ming Dynasty in the future, they must "pay some blood", otherwise the Xu family will not dare to guarantee whether the 'Spiritual Network' in the jurisdiction of their respective factions of officials will be good.
Even if the emperor blames me for this, I can completely push it off. I have just developed a lot of things, and even Xu Fan needs to do some research.
Moreover, in a situation like this, which is obviously an internal fight between the two factions, the emperor would most likely not care. In the end, he would only look at the result.
If the development progress of the Ming Dynasty is affected due to internal strife, then although the Xu family will also be punished, the other party will be completely defeated by the Xu family in the internal strife, which will lead to the obstruction of the court's development, which shows the incompetence of the other party!
The punishment they receive at that time will naturally be greater than that of the Xu family, and they might even be regarded as useless by the emperor.
I don’t know whether others are afraid or not, but Yan Song is definitely afraid.
Therefore, in order not to be regarded as useless by the emperor, they could only let themselves be manipulated by the Xu family and be controlled by the "Spiritual Network".
In short, the Xu family, which has mastered the core technology of the Ming Dynasty, has taken control of everyone in the cabinet this time, and no one can help!
When Xu Jie was about to leave in a sedan chair amidst the heavy snow, he suddenly seemed to notice something and looked up. Not far away, in the heavy snow, Yan Song was bowing to him.
Although the view was blocked by heavy snow and looked blurry, Xu Jie could still see the smile on Yan Song's face.
He immediately knew that Yan Song had seen through his intentions, but so what? It was for them to see!
And it's not just Yan Song, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Zhao Zhenji and others who will suddenly realize this after they return.
Thinking of this, Xu Jie also stopped, bowed to Yan Song from a distance, and then turned and got into the sedan chair.
This heavy snow lasted for a long time.
It rained from November of the 76th year of the Jiajing reign until the beginning of spring of the 77th year of the Jiajing reign.
As the cabinet members entered the world of cultivating immortals and established cooperative relationships with the Western Continent, Lingxu Island, and the Jin family of Fengling Town in a corner of the east, the spiritual stones could be said to be transported once every six months.
A steady stream of spirit stones were transported from the capital's teleportation array to the southeast coast, escorted personally by the eunuchs from the East and West Factories.
When these spirit stones arrive in the southeast, they will be taken away by the prefects and county magistrates, along with merchants from various countries, and will be directly returned to their respective countries through teleportation arrays.
Soon, time came to the end of the seventy-seventh year of Jiajing.
It only took one year to form a stable spiritual stone transportation route from the prefectures and counties on the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty to overseas countries.
Overseas countries have also officially embarked on the path of cultivating immortals.
Take the UK for example. Today, the king has become a symbolic mascot, and all power belongs to the parliament. The current parliament is headed by Richard Sutherland, the patriarch of the Sutherland family, who is the prime minister and the person at the pinnacle of power in the UK. After that, several businessmen and aristocratic families jointly manage the entire UK.
However, with the opening of the spirit stone trade, these British parliamentary families now have their own guests of honor.
And every guest of honor was either from the East Factory, the West Factory, or a centurion of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
At the same time, this also meant that some officials within the Ming Dynasty began to divide up the power of overseas countries.
For example, what the parliamentary families need for cultivation is naturally no longer spirit stones, but normal resources purchased at the cost of signing various treaties and owing a large amount of future spiritual energy industrial products.
After all, according to the initial discussion and decision, the various families headed by the Saslan family helped the Ming Dynasty to establish an aura factory in the UK to produce aura industrial products.
Then, these products will be exchanged for normal cultivation resources according to a certain percentage of the output, and used for family cultivation.
In addition, if they are loyal to the Ming Dynasty's top leaders, they will receive some additional resource support.
In this way, the Ming Dynasty can be said to have carried out a thorough division of the overseas countries, inside and out.
Of course, these are all managed by the families under the command of the cabinet and the six ministries, while people like Yan Song have long since moved beyond these trivial matters and have turned their attention to other areas.
On the one hand, it is the development of the world of immortal cultivation.
On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty was laying the "spiritual network".
Of course, during this year, there was no difference for the top officials in the cabinet, but the decrees issued from the court caused a stir among the people.
The first was the appearance of the teleportation array, which allowed the people of the Ming Dynasty to understand what it truly meant to be close yet far away.
Of course, the appearance of the teleportation array was also quite shocking to the cultivators and immortal families in the so-called Ming Dynasty immortal world.
Although they knew that the immortal methods they were currently practicing all came from the imperial court, they also knew that the imperial court's foundation and development in the field of immortal cultivation had long exceeded their imagination.
However, when the teleportation array was actually unveiled, the entire Ming Dynasty's cultivation world still fell into silence.
The immortal cultivation families and sects that usually relied on the "huge" number of immortal cultivators in their clans, thinking that they could be on equal footing with the imperial court, and even those who did not take the "two factories and one guard" seriously, all completely stopped at this moment.
Afterwards, when the imperial court announced that there was a teleportation array built by the imperial court even on the moon, the whole world was shocked.
When countless people received the imperial decree, they ran around to tell each other and danced with joy.
On that day, throughout the entire Ming Dynasty, fireworks and firecrackers resounded through the sky, and countless men of letters and scholars climbed to high places to recite poems and compose essays.
There are people wandering around the streets, performing tricks, and even some cultivators who usually claim to be different from ordinary people are willing to show their faces on the streets.
Everyone was celebrating the Ming Dynasty's successful moon landing, the construction of a teleportation array on the moon, and the expansion of Ming Dynasty's territory to the outer stars. As for the neighboring countries and overseas countries, they were the first to pay tribute, just to please Ming Dynasty and celebrate for it.
The bright future is here, and God has blessed all nations. It has the ultimate style and grace of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. No, in fact, it has already surpassed the Tang Dynasty!
Afterwards, the Ming Dynasty announced the establishment of the "Spiritual Network Bureau", which was then built by the Ministry of Works. It covered the entire country, from the capital to the prefectures, counties, and even villages.
Pitch-black wooden stakes, more than ten meters tall and as thick as bowls, stand beside the road or on the streets.
At first, no common people could understand what these black wooden stakes were used for. It was not until the Ming Dynasty announced the construction of a 'spiritual network' and informed all common people of its function that the world was shocked again!
Transmitting sound thousands of miles away?
No, not only that, there are images!
The most important thing is that even ordinary people can have a photo stone in their hands, so they can meet each other even if they are thousands of miles apart?
Before this, the immortal cultivators in the Ming Dynasty had a "communication jade token" that could communicate over thousands of miles, which made countless people envious.
But they knew that these were magical weapons of the immortals and they could not use them. They could only suppress their envy and go back to tell their children to strive to enter the immortal palace.
As long as one becomes an immortal cultivator, one can use the "Communication Jade Card" and embark on the path to immortality.
But now, with the "Spiritual Network" and the photo stones issued by the court, even if they are ordinary people, cannot practice Taoism, and have no spiritual power, they can still transmit sound over thousands of miles.
Even for many ordinary people, the role of the photo stone is far stronger than the "communication jade card".
For a time, the people, full of expectations, even took the initiative to help the government drive piles, just waiting for the arrival of the "wire" so that every household would be connected to the network!
From this point on, starting from the 78th year of Jiajing, all the people in the entire Ming Dynasty were in a state of excitement.
For them, the days now are becoming more and more hopeful, and their quality of life is getting higher and higher.
All of this originated from the court and the emperor!
That’s right, with so many national policies to improve people’s livelihood, they had naturally been publicized by the official newspapers and miscellaneous newspapers of the Ming Dynasty, and all the credit was attributed to the great Emperor.
Even overseas countries, such as Britain, led by the Sutherland family, united many aristocratic and merchant families. In order to please the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, they decided to force God to step down.
This move naturally caused dissatisfaction and resistance from many churches.
However, in the face of absolute power, what can a group of mortals do?
Behind the top leaders of various countries today, there are immortal cultivators from the two factories and one guard of the Ming Dynasty. Anyone who dares to disrespect His Majesty will die!
To use the words of the people from the Two Factories and One Guard, how can a mere God be compared with the Emperor Wanshou?
Then, everything happened as it should. The crosses were taken down from the churches of all the major churches and replaced with a huge throne standing on top of the churches.
On the throne was a majestic and domineering statue, which was none other than Jiajing. The real Immortal Emperor was in the world, so naturally, the false gods of the past could not challenge him.
Moreover, many church members who were regarded as traitors by conservative church members and heretics even proposed to amend the Bible and regard God as a minister of the Emperor of Longevity.
This move naturally received support from senior officials of many countries.
Naturally, those in the two factories and one guard were happy to see someone else's supreme god become a subject of their Ming Emperor.
A true Ragnarok has completely arrived. The supreme gods in countless temples have been pulled down from the altars, and people have rebuilt statues for them, but this time, the gods are all kneeling.
In many temples, palaces, and murals, the content depicted is similar.
Standing high above, wearing a dragon robe and gazing domineeringly at the front, Jiajing may be standing at the highest point of the temple, or standing on the clouds, or sitting on a high throne.
And below, the gods are worshipping him!
In just a few years, the overseas countries have not yet submitted to the Ming Dynasty, but the overseas gods have already become servants of Emperor Wanshou.
For example, among the many servants of God, four great gods were selected. They are the number one god, Jehovah.
The second one is Brahma, the third one is Zeus, and the last one is Odin.
Of course, this ranking has also been carefully considered.
After summarizing the myths and beliefs of various nations, it was concluded that according to the Bible, Jehovah defeated Baal.
Well, Zeus is the Baal of the Bible.
Therefore, Jehovah is definitely stronger than Zeus.
After that, Odin is similar to Zeus, but Zeus's territory is larger than Odin's. If Jehovah can defeat Zeus, he can naturally destroy Odin as well. Therefore, Zeus ranks before Odin.
The last one is Brahma. Its composition is too complicated and its mythology is too mixed, so much so that the Jinyiwei in charge of the Mughal Empire was overwhelmed after seeing the messy pantheon.
However, after learning that overseas countries had completed the compilation of myths and that the gods of all countries would submit to His Majesty the Emperor, seeing that time was running out, they had to gather them all together and send them over.
Then, as expected, Brahma came last.
According to the Bible, God once destroyed a place where there was widespread worship of fornication. In order to rank Brahma, those believers who were once loyal to God still added this paragraph.
At this point, all the gods of various countries submitted to Jiajing.
When all these things reached Jiajing's ears, he immediately laughed. He did not expect that the Jinyiwei and the people from the East and West Factories would cause so many interesting things in various countries.
However, on this planet where he is the strongest, he is actually already a god, so there is nothing wrong with being the lord of gods.
In this way, while overseas countries were busy using spirit stones to cultivate immortality and at the same time building spiritual energy factories under the control of major high-level officials, the time flew by as the "spiritual network" in the Ming Dynasty was being laid in full swing.
In the blink of an eye, thirty years have passed and the world has changed dramatically!
The 25th day of the 11th month of the 99th year of Jiajing reign, cloudy. The secondary capital of the Ming Dynasty, the first fairy city, Nanjing.
The sky was gloomy. With a low muffled thunder, streaks of rain finally began to float across the sky.
"Hello, everyone."
"Now let me tell you an important message!"
"Dating back to the 77th year of the Jiajing reign of this dynasty, the spiritual network era was a major national policy proposed by the Minister of Industry, Xu Fan. Finally, with the advancement of time, it has been fully implemented."
"This great vision of connecting every corner of our country has officially covered all regions of the country with the completion of the 'wire' construction in the last village."
"This is not only an important milestone for our dynasty since the era of spiritual energy industry, but also a glorious testimony to the common efforts and shared achievements of all our subjects."
"From now on, no matter whether we are in a bustling city or a remote village, every citizen will enjoy the convenience and well-being brought by the spiritual network. We have reason to believe that based on this solid foundation, future development will surely be more prosperous..."
At the Xuanwu Central Cross Street, on the nine-story building in the northeast corner of Xianming Times Square, a series of pictures are displayed on the huge stone wall for taking pictures, and in the lower right corner of the stone wall is a well-dressed and capable woman, explaining with a smile.
"Regarding the arrival of the 'spiritual network' era, the cabinet issued important instructions... The prefect of Qujing Prefecture and the magistrate of Nanning County personally went to Baliang Village to understand the people's sentiments and took photos to commemorate the occasion..."
At this moment, the picture on the huge stone wall was enlarged.
The figure of the capable woman who was explaining disappeared, replaced by the picture on the stone wall.
In the picture, there is the prefect of Qujing Prefecture with a big belly, wearing a scarlet official robe, and the magistrate of Nanning County, also a short and fat man, each holding a child in his arms.
In the middle of the two people is an old man with plain clothes, white hair and fallen teeth. He holds in his hands a Xianmi brand photo stone made by "Mi Ji Xian Shang" for the 90th anniversary of the Jiajing reign.
The old man was stiff and at a loss for what to do when he forced out a smile.
The picture of harmony and love between the subjects makes people smile knowingly.
"Eh? Has the 'Spiritual Network' been laid?" Under the huge stone wall with a photo, a fat boy in a pure white scholar's uniform scratched his head and looked curiously at the tall and thin boy next to him, saying:
"I remember that the 'spiritual network' was laid as early as the 80th year of the Jiajing reign. It has been several decades, right?"
Hearing this, the slightly handsome boy beside him shook his head speechlessly and said, "I told you not to listen in class."
After saying that, the young man was too lazy to pay attention to his best friend. He looked around, then looked at the fairy track slowly approaching not far away, and said, "Don't think too much, let's go to Zhongshan first!"
"If you are late, you will miss the match between No. 2 Middle School and No. 3 Middle School. If you miss the bet, you will miss out on this year's new model of 'Xianmi Speed 7'."
"That is the most popular and most cost-effective racing-grade shuttle in the shuttle market this year."
"You want to buy 'Xianmi Speed 7'?" The little fat man heard his best friend's words, stared with round eyes, and said with a breath: "Wow, that's worth three hundred thousand spiritual energy!"
"Don't worry, I borrowed a 'school loan' and I can pay it back in three months."
"Old Wang, why don't you just forget it? I heard that those 'school loans' are all scams, with compound interest..."
"I heard that a girl from No. 5 Middle School went to a 'fruit loan' to buy the seventh new photo stone of the 'Great Hagar Series', but she couldn't pay it back, so she had someone upload her image to the spiritual network."
"Don't worry," the handsome young man came to the sign that read "Xuanwu Street Station" and got on the Immortal Track with everyone else, saying, "Aren't they the people from 'Shuyuandai'?"
"They are just a bunch of shady people. My eldest brother's eldest brother is the 'East Star Extreme Dao'. Isn't it easy to play with them?"
"Hiss!" The little fat man couldn't help but take a breath of cold air after hearing the words "Dongxing Jidao". He followed the young man to the last row of Xiangui and sat down, saying in a low voice:
"Lao Wang, are you really in the underworld? I've heard that the 'East Star Underworld' is 'rock-walking'!"
Walking stones? Hearing this, the young man's face changed, but he still pretended to be calm and said:
"What nonsense are you talking about? Daming has banned stones! How could I not know whether there are 'walking stones' in Dongxing?"
"But..." The little fat man wanted to say something, but was interrupted by the young man who scolded him.
"Li Baole, if you continue to talk nonsense and slander the gang, don't blame me for not caring about our brotherhood!"
Looking at the unfamiliar appearance of his best friend next to him, the fat boy named Li Baole opened his mouth and could only lower his head.
Looking at the six ancient seal characters "Nanjing Xianfu Academy" written on the chest, he raised his head from time to time to look at the quiet Xiangui carriage.
It was gloomy outside the window and the rain was getting heavier.
Soon, it began to rain heavily. The gloomy carriage became increasingly quiet and everyone felt drowsy.
Li Baole looked aside, crossed his legs, held the photo stone in one hand, and kept gesturing at something. For some reason, his best friend who was sending messages became more and more uneasy.
"Boom boom boom." A low sound was heard, and the Xiangui drove out of the city and headed towards the suburbs.
In the distance, the huge fairy city filled with high-rise buildings, ancient bronze palaces, towers and pavilions, steel forests and ancient buildings lined up in rows was left far behind.
The fairy track drove into the misty wilderness, and then into the deep green mountains.
After a while, Li Baole looked at the scenery outside the window, and his thoughts also drifted away.
"Is what my father said true? ... Changing one's destiny, defying the will of heaven and changing one's fate..." Li Baole murmured in his heart.
"..."
(End of this chapter)
