King of Black Mist

Beijing, an unknown courtyard.

"We followed Master Yaochi's arrangements and tried to stay hidden. We did not take action on the day when Jiajing favored Concubine Cao Duan. The rest were to weaken his yang energy when he favored Concubine Wan's daughter and was physically exhausted."

Qi Die's voice was moving, and he recounted what happened in the past ten days in a melodious and melodious way. His thoughts were clear, and it was obvious that he had already carefully sorted it out in his mind and thought about how to say it.

Li Changzhou nodded: "You did a good job."

One of Bi's men suddenly turned to Wanfu and said, "Master Li, we did a good job, is there any reward?"

Li Changzhou was stunned, not only because she suddenly wanted to give a reward. A blond Russian woman suddenly performed the Xia Kingdom's etiquette.

There was a burst of laughter in the room. There were fifteen people in total, but Li Changzhou was the only male. Everyone wanted to bully him and see him being bullied.

"They have been watching Jiajing for the past few days and have learned the rules of the Ming Dynasty." Qi Die explained with a smile.

Li Changzhou laughed and turned to look at Yang Qinglan who was smiling: "Do we have anything else at home?"

"Blood beads."

"Has it reached the point where you want me to sell my blood?"

Li Qianxia reminded him: "Brother, our family has always been poor."

The Russian female player who saluted straightened up and was about to say forget it, Yaochi said with a smile: "I'll do it."

A flash of golden light illuminated the room, the temperature rose rapidly, her skin felt hot, a kind of comfortable heat, and a sunflower appeared in her hand.

A small half of the sunflower seeds on the disk were missing, and she plucked twenty seeds from it with her slender fingers.

"Two for each of you."

"What is this?" Li Qianxia asked curiously.

Yaochi gave her three more coins, then held the sunflower and said to Li Changzhou with a smile brighter than the flowers: "Do you know what the flower language of sunflower is?"

"The language of flowers, Valentine's Day chocolates, and Halloween fruits are all the conspiracy of capitalists."

"It's a conspiracy, but it's not." Yaochi said with a smile, "Everyone has the idea of ​​pursuing a happy and beautiful life. Wouldn't it be better to have someone in your life who you are willing to send flowers to, and someone you want to receive apples from on Halloween? ?”

Li Changzhou looked at Yang Qinglan, looked her up, and then nodded with a smile.

"Blind!" Yaochi grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds from the sunflower and smashed him in the face.

Li Changzhou flicked his sleeve and caught the sunflower seeds that were made of gold.

[Name: Mana Sunflower·Sunflower Seed]

[Type: props]

[Quality: B]

[Special effect: Restore mana]

[Minimum usage conditions: living body]

[Introduction: Each time you take one sunflower seed, 200 points of mana will be restored within ten seconds (equivalent to two hundred "powers")]

[Remarks: The flower language of sunflowers is silent love, and I only have you in my eyes - so it can only restore mana, if the "ability" is converted into 'inner energy', 'inner power', 'magic', 'fighting energy', etc. Wait, it’s useless]

He took out one and handed it to Yang Qinglan.

"Is this one of the fifty free elixir recipes in "Little Jade Cauldron"? "

Yang Qinglan held the golden sunflower seeds between her fingers and looked at them carefully.

"By the way, brother, you are entering the palace today. Has Jiajing agreed to your conditions?" Li Qianxia asked curiously.

"Seventy to eighty percent," Li Changzhou said.

At this time, the water girl's expression suddenly became quiet, as if she was listening to something.

Everyone noticed her strangeness and waited without saying a word.

After a while, the water girl came back to her senses and said: "The water I put in the vase in the palace heard the conversation between Jiajing and Tao Zhongwen."

"Let it out." Yaochi ordered.

The water girl nodded, and with a splash, her body transformed from a transparent human form into a water curtain. On the water curtain was the scene of Emperor Jiajing meeting Li Shizhen and Tao Zhongwen.

The sound of rushing water became smaller and smaller, and Emperor Jiajing's voice became clearer and clearer.

Yang Qinglan, who was looking at the sunflower seeds, also raised her head. Li Changzhou glanced at her and asked her with his eyes if this was the medicinal material in the elixir.

Yang Qinglan nodded slightly.

Li Changzhou grabbed her hand, stuffed all the remaining sunflower seeds into her hand, and took the opportunity to touch her hand all over. The skin was delicate, smooth, and slightly cold.

It doesn't really matter how it feels, what matters is the warmth of the skin-to-skin contact between the two of them.

Well, let’s not kid ourselves, both are important.

Li Changzhou got kicked by Yaochi. I don't know if it was to remind him to do business or to tell him that she was jealous.

Yang Qinglan also retracted his hand, and Li Changzhou had no choice but to look at the water curtain. In fact, he was listening with his ears and watching with his peripheral vision.

‘.If Your Majesty agrees, there will be a catastrophe of life and death in one year; one hundred and four years later, the Ming Dynasty will be in chaos, and those who disrupt the Ming Dynasty will have the surname Li. ’

‘Is it Li Changzhou? ’

‘The secrets of heaven are obscure and the poor can’t see clearly. ’

‘What is the great calamity of life and death? ’

"Your Majesty, as the Son of Heaven, cultivates Taoism. If you succeed, the country will remain unchanged for thousands of years. Heaven will not allow it, the earth will not allow it, and the people will not allow it." ’

‘You mean there are constant natural and man-made disasters? Someone else will assassinate me? ’

‘The secrets of heaven are unpredictable and cannot be seen except by great chance. I have tried my best. ’

‘Let me ask you, have I entered Taoism? ’

'Into the. ’

"Is the Li Tao Zhongwen mentioned Li Zicheng?" Li Qianxia turned around and asked.

"That's him." Li Changzhou had a headache.

Although his surname is Li, the surname Li is simply a bad name. It is a coincidence that he has the same surname as Li Zicheng.

Yang Qinglan held Ruyi in her arms, her beauty was stunning, and she muttered:

"In original history, it was Li Zicheng who invaded the capital and had Emperor Chongzhen hanged on Long Live Mountain. In other words, in real history, Jiajing entered Taoism, so he encountered the Renyin Palace Incident in 1542, and then moved to the west. He lives in the garden and devotes himself to cultivating mysteries."

"It seems that we are preparing to become immortals." Yaochi said with a smile, "Judging from history, Jiajing will definitely agree to our conditions."

"Has the human calamity passed?" Bi asked.

"It should be over," Li Qianxia wasn't sure. "After killing so many people first, Shao Yuanjie also died, and only Tao Zhongwen was left."

It's not that Li Qianxia looks down on Tao Zhongwen. In this era when no one can become an immortal, there is strength in numbers.

"You cannot underestimate him," Yaochi stared at Tao Zhongwen's expression in the water curtain. "This man has something to hide from Jiajing. He has seen a clearer future."

"Well -" Li Qianxia sat on the pit, with the soles of her feet touching each other, her left hand supporting her right hand, and her right hand supporting her chin, "An enemy who knows the future is indeed very dangerous."

"There are also those players who have not taken action." Yang Qinglan said, "It may not be just the four of us who can overcome the tribulation and become immortals, and it is not just Bi and the others who come to stop us."

"Why do I feel that Shao Yuanjie is dead and this human calamity has just begun?" Li Qianxia looked up at them.

"Do you think becoming an immortal is that easy?" Li Changzhou glanced at her, trying to correct her travel mentality.

"It's been a success this time." Compared to Li Changzhou's preaching, Yaochi smiled cordially, "Your brother overwhelmed the four dragon kings as soon as he came up, snowed in the capital, and gained Jiajing's trust——"

"The snow is due to Miss Yang." Li Changzhou smiled even more proudly than if he had done it himself.

"It's two people working together." Yang Qinglan pursues objectivity and fairness.

Then, she added: "Only two people working together can gain Jiajing's trust despite the circumstances."

"——Then it's New Year's Eve," Yaochi continued, "killing the four dragon kings, and then the siege of twelve real people. If any one of us faces these situations alone, the failure of the task will be the least serious. If we don't Be careful, everyone is gone."

"Listening to what you said, it feels so difficult." Li Qianxia came to her senses, "I only performed twice on such a difficult task and ate watermelon seeds all over the floor."

Yaochi smiled and said, "Do you understand why I must get your brother?"

Li Qianxia giggled like a little girl, while cracking melon seeds, she shook her head and said, "I don't understand, I don't understand. I'm only fifteen years old. I don't understand the thoughts of uncles and aunts like you who are twenty years old."

She is the one who said that twenty-year-old is a girl!

Bi looked at her sideways, and the blond and blue-eyed little girl looked disgusted.

Yang Qinglan looked at Li Changzhou and saw his thoughtful expression, and asked him softly: "What are you thinking about?"

"Golden crown." Li Changzhou raised his eyes, "What material should be used for a golden crown that can withstand dragon veins? Can I make a fuss about it?"

"Making a fuss? You want to withhold money? No, what's so corrupt about this?" Li Qianxia leaned on the couch, spitting out the melon seed shells into the plate with a pop.

Collapse, five female players from Russia, five subordinates from Yaochi, these ten people share a large round table with everything to eat.

After all, we are modern people. Although we have a superior-subordinate relationship, we still get along casually most of the time, eating and drinking as we please.

"Do you want to bring Golden Crown back to reality?" Yang Qinglan said.

"Yes." Li Changzhou nodded, "One of the effects of my 'birth' is that as long as you have enough permissions and game currency, you can redeem all the items in the game after the game is over."

"The dragon vein can only be used by the Zhu family's bloodline, so what's the use of it?" Yaochi asked.

"That's why we need to make a fuss." Li Changzhou said, "Zhu was not born to be an emperor, and the dragon vein was never owned by his family. As long as there is someone more favored by the dragon vein than Jiajing, he is qualified to wear the golden crown."

"I understand the truth. It has changed from the equal election in designated Jiajing to the differential election." Li Qianxia slowed down while eating melon seeds, "But what can I do with this golden crown?"

"Yeah, what are you using it for? I'm too lazy to wear the crown, but you want me to give it to you." Bi said.

"Princess." What the five Russian female players wanted to say.

Can the Tsar's crown be given to anyone casually? !

"That's why we need to make an article." Li Changzhou still said the same thing.

After pondering for a while, he smiled and said: "How about collecting all the Taoist books in the world? Jiajing will definitely support it fully."

Yang Qinglan nodded in agreement, then looked at him again, smiling slightly teasingly: "Can you afford it?"

Taking in a breath as if he had a toothache, Li Changzhou looked at Yaochi: "Aside from the funeral business, do you have any loans? Let me introduce you."

All kidding aside - the loan is real, and the next fifteen people will deduce Tao Zhongwen's back-up plan and how to deal with players.

"Any ideas on the materials for refining the golden crown?" Li Changzhou finally asked.

"To be able to restrain the dragon's veins and imprint scriptures, the only thing I can think of is a jade seal." Yaochi said with a smile.

"Yuxi. It is indeed the best choice."

"There is also a Buddhist golden body." Yang Qinglan muttered.

"Buddhist golden body?" Li Changzhou looked at her.

"I have been thinking about faith recently, so I thought of this - the Buddhist gold body embodies the faith of all living beings, and scriptures are often engraved on the gold body." Yang Qinglan explained.

Li Changzhou nodded slowly.

"So it's Taoist. The three pure things of Taoism are all made of mud." Li Qianxia continued to think, chewing a chicken foot in her mouth.

"In addition, there are the golden bodies of Confucius, Guan Gong, Kong Ming and others, but compared with the Buddhist golden bodies, these have less faith than the latter." Yang Qinglan said.

"Then choose the jade seal and the Buddhist golden body." Li Changzhou made up his mind.

"Forget it about the jade seal, Jiajing has been taken care of by your hard-to-get tactics," Yaochi looked at him with a smile on his face, "Buddhist golden body. If you are sure, it must be another human disaster."

"Don't worry." Li Changzhou was confident, "There is a temple in the palace. It's enough to melt the golden body inside. No need to kill people."

In order to become an immortal, Li Changzhou had indeed done a lot. Not to mention the facts he had bragged about with Emperor Jiajing, and now he wanted to melt the golden body of Buddha.

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the weather was sunny, with thin white clouds floating in the sea-like blue sky.

Li Changzhou and Emperor Jiajing came back from the moon, and they sat across from each other to discuss the matter of stripping off the dragon veins.

"Dragon Vein is the spirit of the Emperor and the spirit of all living beings. Your Majesty can build a five-color Aoshan lantern shed in the capital city, thirty feet high, and hang five-color lanterns according to the four directions of the world. On the Lantern Festival, your Majesty will personally hang the top lantern. .”

"So you can separate me from the dragon vein?"

"I still need to use some methods. After separation, I will guide part of the dragon veins into the golden crown. As long as your majesty wears the golden crown, he will still be the emperor of destiny."

Emperor Jiajing nodded slowly.

"I still have something to report to Your Majesty regarding the Golden Crown," Li Changzhou said.

"Please tell me, real person."

"The golden crown that can enclose the dragon's veins cannot be made of ordinary materials. First, it needs His Majesty's golden seal, and second, it needs the golden body of the Buddha in the palace."

"That's right." Emperor Jiajing didn't hesitate.

For him, if the golden seal is gone, then create another one; as for the golden body of Buddha, as a Taoist, he has long been dissatisfied with it and wants to scrape off the gold powder and use it to build a palace.

"In addition, I would also like to ask Your Majesty to collect all the Taoist books in the world. On the Lantern Festival, I will integrate all these scriptures into the golden crown. Your Majesty, wearing the golden crown, can consult the Taoist books of the world at any time."

Emperor Jiajing glanced at Li Changzhou.

The last emperor Puyi said in "My First Half of Life" that even if Emperor Chongzhen did not commit suicide because of the ruin of his country, he would commit suicide because there was only one eunuch left to follow him.

As an emperor, it is normal to be flattered and supported by others.

Emperor Jiajing would accept anyone who tried their best to flatter him. If the other party didn't do the same, he would be surprised and unable to accept it.

When facing Li Changzhou, Emperor Jiajing was very cautious.

The prospects described by the other party are too good, and they are so considerate in every aspect.

But apart from Li Changzhou, he had no other choice. Only he could lead him into the Tao Sect and gain immortality.

"I heard yesterday," Emperor Jiajing said slowly, "that if I enter the Tao, there will be a catastrophe of life and death; after 104 spring and autumn years, the Ming Dynasty will be disrupted by a person with the same surname as the real person."

Li Changzhou smiled.

He said:

""Laozi" says: 'The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiencies by making up for the excess.' Your Majesty's entry into the Tao means 'excess'. Since I have been seeking immortality, I have always had 'excess', but with every calamity, my magic power will inevitably increase greatly. After nine deaths, I will be able to survive." With today’s supernatural powers that can reach heaven and earth. If your Majesty looks forward and backward, your eternal life will be nothing more than empty talk.”

Emperor Jiajing remained silent, his face as gloomy as water.

For a long time, he asked as if talking to himself: "Is it worth it?"

"I have nothing to gain, and all my magic power is earned. There is nothing worth it or not. What's more, if I don't live forever, everything is just a phantom."

"In order to enter the Tao, Is it worth going through the catastrophe of life and death and losing the inheritance of my ancestors?"

Li Changzhou looked at Emperor Jiajing.

"Has your majesty read Su Shi's "Red Cliff Ode"? There are few stars in the moon, black magpies fly south, Cao Mengde conquers Jingzhou, goes down to Jiangling, sails thousands of miles, covers the sky with flags, drinks wine by the river, composes poems across the river, he is the hero of the world, and now Are you okay?"

Li Changzhou smiled again and said:

"If Your Majesty doesn't follow Taoism, will the Ming Dynasty last for tens of thousands of years? Since ancient times, emperors have sought immortality. After Your Majesty leaves, future generations will also embark on this path, taking the Ming Dynasty as a bet, hoping for eternal life and the same life span as heaven and earth."

Emperor Jiajing clenched the armrests of the sandalwood chair with both hands, and a fierce aura gradually emitted from his body.

He stared into the void, and after a while, he slowly spoke: "Since this disaster will happen sooner or later, it is better to let me come. If it succeeds, the Ming Dynasty will last forever; if it fails, I will be called a faint king!"