King of Black Mist

Today is the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, with auspicious snow falling from the sky. Emperor Jiajing accepted congratulations in the Baohe Hall and gave a banquet to all the ministers.

Li Changzhou, the descendant of Duke Dongwang, was granted the title of Master Lei Yuanyang, the Protector of Shenxiao.

He was granted the title of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, a second-grade salary, a jade, a gold and a silver elephant seal each, a purple garment and a jade belt, and was given the title of in charge of Chaotian Palace, one of the three main palaces in the palace.

In addition, he ordered the construction of Shenxiao's Mansion in the west of the city, sent forty servants to serve the real man, and donated thirty hectares of fertile land for the use of Shenxiao's Mansion, exempting him from rent.

Promotion is faster than women of this era - as long as they are good-looking.

No wonder scholars in history criticized foreign scholars verbally and writing. On the one hand, Han Chuang studied hard for ten years and did not even get a county magistrate. On the other hand, he climbed up to the top with just one mouth - Shao Yuanjie was granted the title of Minister of Rites, enjoying a first-class salary.

In the past, there were Taoist priests who married royal women and became relatives of the emperor.

"In fact, Taoist priests in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the early Ming Dynasty, also had to study hard for many years, master the classics, and take exams. Only those who passed the test could obtain the certificate and become official Taoist priests. Now -"

Yaochi's voice is melodious and sultry: "Those who pray for rain and snow will win a beautiful official position, and those who bring in gold and treasure will make huge profits."

Just hearing the sound arouses desire.

"Do you know much about the Ming Dynasty?" Li Changzhou asked.

"It's okay." Yaochi smiled.

As Li Changzhou's "wife", she was named the Palm Immortal Miaohua Yuanjun.

"Jiajing will definitely come to you tomorrow and ask you how to live forever. Have you figured out a way?" Yaochi said again.

"alright."

"how?"

"Give him elixirs to increase physical strength, strength, agility, lifespan, and immortal appearance."

"Increase lifespan? Bring it." Yaochi spread his hands.

They lived in the Chaotian Palace within the palace, and the lights were on all night long. Under the lights, her delicate jade hands made people want to hold them in their hands, observe them carefully, rub them and feel them.

It didn't matter if he gave her the blood beads, but giving it to her in this flirtatious atmosphere was disrespectful to Miss Yang.

"People whose 'ability' exceeds 100 are useless," he said.

"I can give it to others."

"No."

"Don't forget that I am the one speaking for you today."

Li Changzhou gave her two drops of blood.

Yaochi held it on his fingertips and looked at it, then glanced at him again: "You are a treasure now. Have you considered where to hold funerals after you die?"

She put away the blood beads and continued: "I bought many funeral companies."

"Funeral company?"

"Players also have value after death. After an accidental death, for example, if there is a problem with the concept of cultivation, unsuspecting family members will send it over."

"The efficiency is too low, and safety means waiting for the rabbit to come out." Li Changzhou was not optimistic.

"Without player corpses, the mortality rate of ordinary people has also risen sharply recently, so there is no need to worry about making money."

"Capital is really scary." Li Changzhou was convinced and took out the storage bag from his waist.

The storage bag belonged to the Divine Emperor. After Li Changzhou replaced him, all the items were transferred to him.

This is the benefit of having a high status, but with a high status, the risks of the mission are greater.

I don't know if it is to avoid revealing his identity, but there are some relics of the descendants of the Eastern Prince in the storage bag, and there is not a single artifact that represents the lofty status of the emperor of the divine religion.

Two jade volumes, three bottles of elixirs, some gold and silver and other miscellaneous items.

Li Changzhou took out the jade volumes. One volume contained the practice method "Yuan Yang Bao Gao" and the other volume contained the "Collection of Taoism".

I glanced at "Yuanyang Baogao" for a few times and then threw it aside. Only fools can practice it if they have to be a boy.

There are thirty-one spells in "Taoist Collection", most of them are juggling, and the remaining small part are real spells, but they are not very powerful. There is no time to waste on them now.

"Isn't this the descendant of Duke Dongwang also a fake?" Li Changzhou threw away the jade book and took out the elixir.

The first bottle of aphrodisiac, the second bottle of aphrodisiac, the third bottle of aphrodisiac, very good, they really came to the palace to defraud people of glory and wealth. Damn it, deserve to be killed, the Ming Dynasty was defeated by these Taoist priests!

"Where are you?" Li Changzhou looked at Yaochi who was also looking through his storage bag.

Yaochi shook her head slightly and threw the storage bag on the table. She even disliked the fact that a funeral company was running a funeral company and the player's body was not spared. This shows that the descendants of the East Prince and the Queen Mother of the West are fake.

"But I got some useful information for you." Yaochi said.

"What?"

"Answer me first, why haven't you seen me in the past half month?"

Li Changzhou paused for a moment, thinking it would be better to make it clear, so he said: "Thank you for your thoughtfulness, but Qinglan is enough for me."

"What does this have to do with not seeing me?" Yaochi seemed really confused.

"this."

"this?"

"avoid arousing suspicion?"

"you ask me?"

"Avoid suspicion." Li Changzhou nodded.

"You can't see women now? Are you the same as the concubines in the harem?" Yaochi pointed her slender finger in the direction of the harem.

"Can't see you."

"Oh~" Yaochi nodded with a smile.

She suddenly came close, almost touching Li Changzhou's face, and asked in a soft voice that even a candle flame could not extinguish: "Am I special? Will your heart be moved when you see me? It will make your heart move because Qinglan is enough." ?”

It's a bit like a couple having a private night talk.

"I think we should talk about something bigger." Li Changzhou backed away first, then stood up.

He opened the window, and snowflakes fell from the dark sky.

Yaochi leaned back, leaning on the soft bed, holding his temple with one hand, looking at his back, and asked with a smile: "What great thing? Give birth to a child? Or rebel?"

"How great is rebellion? Let's talk about becoming an immortal later."

"That's nothing to talk about. I don't know anything." Yaochi looked at his fingernails by the light again, with a serious attitude, as if he was an auditor testing ancient nail trimming techniques.

"What information is useful to me?" Li Changzhou turned around and asked her.

A gust of cold wind blew in, and Li Changzhou's long hair and long sleeves of his broad robe were all fluttering. With the windows and heavy snow as the background, he was made even more extraordinary.

"Close the window!" The beauty under the lamp glared at him.

Li Changzhou closed the window. The moment he closed it, he knew that he had been tricked. He gave her blood beads and closed the window. She said one thing and he did the other. If this continued, it would be fine if he got used to it.

But opening it now is too deliberate.

The only thing to blame is that I have no experience in love, so I fell into her beauty trap without knowing it, eh? Does Yaochi have any experience in love? Although I know she is a virgin, it does not mean that she has no experience in love.

Yaochi didn't know what the little virgin was thinking, so he said: "Since Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor's dragon vein has been added to his body, and he is invulnerable to all methods, including elixirs and cultivation methods."

"Blood beads and jade pills are useless?" Li Changzhou frowned.

"The jade pill is definitely useless, but the blood beads may be."

"It seems we can only rely on these." Li Changzhou's eyes turned to the elixirs on the soft table. Aphrodisiac, aphrodisiac, aphrodisiac, these are just medicinal materials, not elixirs.

"I'll go with you tomorrow."

"Um?"

"There is still a difference between us and practitioners. Skills are skills, not spells."

Li Changzhou was stunned for a moment.

Yaochi's beautiful and flawless face smiled meaningfully: "Let him sit on the auspicious clouds that only gods can have tomorrow."

"That's it! Okay!" Li Changzhou smiled and clasped his hands, "I'll use teleportation again to make sure he's obedient."

"Are you and I, together as husband and wife, afraid that we won't be able to defeat this feudal emperor?" Yaochi said with a smile, "As long as we gain Jiajing's trust, no matter how the dragon vein is used, we can take the lead. I'm afraid this is also the case for the Emperor of Heaven. The reason why he later changed his identity and sneaked into the palace."

There was a sound of a watch outside, and the room became quiet for a while.

Yaochi's smile became a little heart-beating: "It's late at night, rest?"

On this snowy night, her voice had a special quietness.

"Well, you rest, I'll go find Qinglan and my sister."

Two bottles of aphrodisiac were thrown over.

"Get out! Pervert!"

Um?

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Li Changzhou left Chaotian Palace, left the Forbidden City quietly, and blended into the capital of 1539 in the wind and snow.

There are lights everywhere, and I don’t know how many people have sleepless nights.

After the snowfall, Li Changzhou called Li Qianxia over, and she and Yang Qinglan hid in an uninhabited courtyard in the south of the city.

The south of the city is mostly the residence of officials, and the public security environment is the best, and generally no one will come unexpectedly.

The three met and chatted all night, telling each other about each other's identities, missions, and speculations about the mission.

Yang Qinglan is the descendant of Gushe Mountain. Indeed, people in the world call her the Goddess of Gushe.

Li Qianxia is a Peng girl who is one of the five heavenly kings of the divine sect. It is rumored that she likes the Emperor of Heaven and is jealous of the Queen. There are also rumors that Peng girl is the biological sister of the Emperor of Heaven.

The status of the divine sect is like that of the White Lotus Sect, the Huoju Taoist Sect, and the Lingbao Sect. They are all wanted criminals by the imperial court, and their status is even worse than that of the monks of this era. Therefore, the emperors, queens, and kings of the past dynasties have all failed to show their heads. Few people know their true identity.

This is also the reason why Li Changzhou and Yaochi were able to sneak into the Forbidden City, and why there were rumors between Li Changzhou and Li Qianxia.

The missions of the three of them are the same, and so is Yaochi. They are all about [overcoming the tribulation and becoming an immortal].

"Yaochi said that this is the heavenly tribulation." Li Changzhou relayed, "In ancient times, practitioners became immortals, and when they became immortals, they had to go through the 'human tribulation.' Fight for it, a group of heroes fight with each other, and only those who survive will become immortals."

"Sister Yaochi is here too?" Li Qianxia became happy.

This mission is different from the past. It is not just a black card and a white card. The four of them can join forces.

The four of them joined forces, and Li Qianxia couldn't think of anyone else who could be their opponent. If there was, there was nothing they could do about it. They really couldn't win. They had already beaten each other.

"Based on her 'instinct', is she a concubine?" Yang Qinglan asked.

"That's right." Li Changzhou didn't dare to delve into this topic, even though the identity assignment had nothing to do with him.

"Where is the dragon vein? How can I use the dragon vein to become an immortal?" Li Qianxia asked them while mumbling to herself.

"Emperor Jiajing must be the key," Li Changzhou was also thinking about this issue. "I am in the palace, and you are outside, trying to find ways to get information. There have been many practitioners in the capital recently, so you should be careful."

"There are masters in the palace, you have to be careful yourself." Yang Qinglan's voice was soft and pleasant, and she looked at him with her eyes.

Li Changzhou couldn't help but smile and nodded.

"The Queen of God and the other four heavenly kings are also here. If we can find them and ask them to help, we should have a great chance of success." Li Qianxia thought.

"Queen of Heaven?" Yang Qinglan's clear eyes flashed.

She has a good memory, and she remembers Li Changzhou's answer: "So, maybe." Is the Queen of Heaven considered a concubine?

Li Changzhou had already begun to consider whether he would be buried in Tianshou Mountain or thrown into the moat.

The sound of drums came from various towers, and the deserted capital suddenly became noisy, with the sound of shouts, the sound of sedan chairs, the sound of horse hooves, and the sound of singing.

After five o'clock, the curfew is lifted, those who do business do business, and those who go to court go to court.

"I'm leaving first. You must be careful. If you need anything, just call me. It doesn't matter whether I'm with Emperor Jiajing or not!"

"Well, you too, brother, just call us if you need anything."

Li Changzhou teleported directly back to Chaotian Palace.

Yaochi sat cross-legged on the couch, flipping through the jade album in her hand. When she saw him coming back, she just raised her eyes and said coldly: "Happiness is back?"

Li Changzhou was too lazy to pay attention to her. He entered the side hall and put on the purple clothes and jade belt given by Jiajing.

Once the clothes are put on, a little more worldly luxury is added to the dusty temperament.

Yaochi's beautiful eyes flashed, and she praised with a smile: "You're so handsome."

I have no idea when she is angry and when she is not.

Not long after, Jiajing sent someone to announce the news and met them in the side hall.

Neither of them knows ancient etiquette - Yaochi may, based on the impression in the TV series, make a random bow.

I don’t know if that’s right, but Emperor Jiajing didn’t say anything.

After offering seats and greetings, Emperor Jiajing asked directly: "Two Taoist priests, I am devoted to cultivating mysticism, do you have any method?"

Li Changzhou smiled. The heartbeats of the palace ladies around him accelerated obviously. He asked Emperor Jiajing, "Has your Majesty learned any techniques?"

"I have been surrounded by countless Taoist priests over the years, but I have only learned two things: fasting and worshiping, and collecting yin and replenishing yang."

"What is Zhaijiao?" Li Changzhou asked.

Emperor Jiajing glanced at him with some suspicion.

Don’t you even know about Zhai Jiao?

I didn't know that Li Changzhou was the top scholar in liberal arts, but the word Zhaijiao was not included in the examination scope.

If an ordinary Taoist priest had asked this question, Emperor Jiajing would have immediately lost interest, but Li Changzhou behaved calmly and calmly, with a demeanor of knowing what he knew and not knowing what he didn't know, which made him lose his inner contempt.

The most important thing is that Li Changzhou had thunder and snow yesterday.

"The so-called Zhaijiao means building a Taoist altar, and after fasting and bathing, pray to the gods and offer green words." The eunuch beside Emperor Jiajing explained.

"How long has your Majesty been practicing fasting and offering sacrifices?" Li Changzhou asked again.

"It started in the third year of Jiajing." Another eunuch answered.

"Is it effective?"

"Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't." The eunuch continued, saying that the old god Jiajing Emperor was here.

He allowed the eunuch to speak and tested Li Changzhou's truth. If the eunuch said something wrong, he could still save the situation.

"Wrong." Li Changzhou said, "It doesn't work at all. The so-called effectiveness is just a coincidence."

Emperor Jiajing finally frowned.

The eunuch waited for a moment and saw that Emperor Jiajing still had no intention of speaking, so he continued to ask: "May I ask Master Li, what's wrong?"

"There are no gods in the world." Li Changzhou said.

"There are no gods?" The eunuch was shocked. It was not because he was not a god, but because he was afraid that the emperor would be angry.

Over the years, all officials who persuaded the emperor not to believe in Taoism were demoted or imprisoned at worst. Emperor Jiajing was obsessed with Taoism and became obsessed with it.

"If there are no gods, what's the use of praying to them?" Li Changzhou waved his sleeves.

Yaochi, who was beautiful but innocent, looked at him with her eyes, seeming to like his posture very much.

The eunuch glanced at Emperor Jiajing's face and said, "What about picking yin to replenish yang?"

"Tell me more specifically."

"Have sex with a virgin and take the elixir made from the blood of the virgin's first menarche."

"Your Majesty, do you want to hear the truth?" Li Changzhou looked at Emperor Jiajing.

"It depends on whether it is true or not." Emperor Jiajing finally spoke.

"The two skills your Majesty has learned are useless and a waste of money; as for harvesting yin and replenishing yang, they are only useful for enriching the harem and multiplying the emperor's heirs."

The eunuch was so frightened that his body trembled.

All the masters in the palace, including the great master Shao Yuanjie, were sent to the throne in this way. The newly arrived master Shenxiao actually said arrogant words, saying that they were all lies!

In terms of ability, Shao Yuanjie and others are all very powerful. Why do you say that you are right and they are wrong?

Emperor Jiajing did not get angry, and his tone became gentler: "How can you prove that fasting and gathering yin and replenishing yang are fake?"

"Your Majesty, would you like to come with me?" Li Changzhou smiled.

"Where to go?"

"moon."

"Moon?!" Emperor Jiajing stood up.

"Seeing is worse than hearing." Li Changzhou also stood up, "Your Majesty, why not go and see if there is Chang'e on the moon. If not, it will naturally prove that the Zhaijiao is fake."

As he spoke, he quickly took two steps forward. Without waiting for anyone to react, he grabbed Emperor Jiajing's sleeve and looked at him with stern eyes.

The eunuch hurriedly came to stop him, and the guards outside the palace had already pressed their hands on the handle of the knife. As long as Emperor Jiajing gave an order, these guards would rush in, break Li Changzhou's legs, and wait for him to be punished.

Any Taoist priest would be punished in this situation.

Within a certain range around Emperor Jiajing, magic and Taoism were as non-existent as superstition.

"Master, Master, let go quickly!" The eunuch couldn't hold Li Changzhou's hand away.

Emperor Jiajing did not order the guards to come in. He felt that Li Changzhou's eyes were like an immortal asking him: Do you have the courage to become an immortal?

"Okay!" Emperor Jiajing said, "Master, take me to see the moon!"

"Your Majesty—" The eunuch was so frightened that he almost knelt down.

Where is the moon? Who can go to the moon? That is heaven, and only gods can go up there!

"Haha!" Li Changzhou laughed, "To become an immortal, you don't need fasting or feasting, you don't need to collect yin and replenish yang, you only need the Dharma and a brave and diligent heart. The day when your majesty will become an immortal is right in front of you!"

"Congratulations, Your Majesty." Yaochi stood up and saluted with a smile.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations, Your Majesty!" The eunuch who was crying just now, regardless of whether it was true or not, knelt down first before speaking.

"Master, how do you get to the moon?" Emperor Jiajing did not indulge in flattery.

Li Changzhou glanced at Yaochi, Yaochi smiled softly, and a cloud fell from the sky and landed in front of the side hall door.

"Your Majesty, come with me!" Regardless of the exclamations of the palace maids and eunuchs, the obstruction of the guards, and the retreat of Emperor Jiajing, Li Changzhou pulled Emperor Jiajing and walked towards Xiangyun.

After entering a certain range, the auspicious clouds still did not disappear, and the skill was indeed effective.

"Your Majesty, please come to Xiangyun." Li Changzhou smiled.

The eunuchs, palace maids, and imperial guards all trembled and looked at the white clouds in front of them in disbelief.

Emperor Jiajing carefully raised his steps and put his feet up.

Very soft, but solid!

Emperor Jiajing's heart was beating wildly. He had been superstitious about Taoism since he ascended the throne. Now in the past eighteen years, he has seen countless strange people and strange things, and seen real people calling the wind and rain. But when it came to him, Taoist palaces were built one after another, and Qing Qing I wrote one word after another, but nothing came out.

But now, he has embarked on Xiangyun!

"Your Majesty, stand still, let's go see if Chang'e is there!"

Auspicious clouds rise from the ground, carrying Emperor Jiajing, Li Changzhou, and Yaochi, and fly towards the sky covered with clouds and snow.

"Your Majesty, it's cold in the sky, put on your cloak! Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

Emperor Jiajing looked down and saw Huang Jin holding his cloak and holding up the corners of his clothes, running wildly in the snow-white palace square, shouting loudly, and in the blink of an eye he turned into a small black dot in the vast whiteness.

He looked around, seeing white snow, the Forbidden City, the capital, everything was in sight.

A cool breeze blows on the face, snowflakes fly, and the yellow tiles, red walls, houses, and bridges below pass by one after another. In an instant, they are flying straight up against the wind and into the sky.

The sky is blue, the sun is shining, and the sea of ​​clouds is billowing.

"Hahahaha!" Emperor Jiajing laughed loudly, feeling open-minded and finally having the mood of an emperor swallowing up the world.

No, it is the freedom of immortals traveling around the world!

Li Changzhou stood aside, his clothes flying like a god. He smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the moon is far away from us. We must speed up next."

Before Emperor Jiajing could react, the auspicious clouds flew out under his feet, and the sea of ​​clouds below was pulled into a long white cloud wave.

Emperor Jiajing closed his eyes tightly. After an unknown amount of time, his speed finally slowed down.

"Your Majesty, we have arrived."

Emperor Jiajing slowly opened his eyes, only to see desolation, potholes, and the endless spread of brown and gray land.

"Is this here?" He looked around.

Li Changzhou spent half of January traveling back and forth to the moon. In order to satisfy Yang Qinglan and Li Qianxia's idea of ​​landing on the moon, he developed an "ability" bubble that can move freely on the moon based on the "Thai Betta Oxygen Bubble".

In the bubble, you can breathe freely for a short period of time without being disturbed by radiation or moon dust.

"Here is the moon, there -" Li Changzhou pointed to the sky, where the distant earth like a big blue glass bead hung, "Your Majesty, please look, that is the land of China."

Emperor Jiajing looked at the blue bead and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

On the last day of 1539, the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month and New Year's Eve, Emperor Jiajing's worldview was shattered.

Asking for a monthly ticket.