Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 951 Promotion
"Did you get the stuff?" Shangluo asked on the phone under the dim street lights.

"Got it, Tianjun. Everything is going according to plan."

"Does General Fu have any instructions for you?"

"He told me absolutely not to open it."

"Then don't open it. Stay where you are and let me handle it."

Shangluo was about to hang up the phone when the person on the other end suddenly asked:

"Wait a minute! Lord Tian, ​​I'm going to upgrade from a deputy livestock to a deputy beast."

"Sub-beast? The main beast."

"Beast level? Have I been reinstated?"

"You did a good job on this mission, so the previous incident of you standing me up is written off. Your 'fragrant porridge hot pot strategy' was very successful. Please act more cleverly in the future, I will use you in other important ways in the future."

"Thank you, Lord Tian! Thank you, Lord Tian!"

The call ended, and Apollonia was shocked by Rumble's earnestness.

[He really works hard. So when did you collude with him? How come I didn't know? ]

"He was 'lurking' where Fu Yuanshan was. After discovering the breakthrough, he immediately contacted Zhu Ling - of course, I don't know whether he was lurking on purpose, but he bumped into him by accident."

[This could only be a coincidence! He was a living person, running around everywhere, who could have predicted where he was going? It could only be a coincidence. ]

"So this ability of his is really amazing. He can always appear in the most critical place in advance. He just said that his original intention of 'escaping' was to be loyal to the Heavenly Emperor. As for when he started to be loyal, I can't say. I guess he was just running away when he left."

[Tsk, you probably just came up with this idea after seeing Senior Fu. By the way, I didn't see you making any arrangements afterwards.]

"In fact, it was Zhu Ling who arranged it. I didn't participate in the whole process. You see, good connections are so important. Even if I don't have to say anything, there will always be people standing on my side to consider the problem."

[No wonder you suddenly asked General Fu to bring Zhu Ling to the scene to command. So you became the Heavenly King just for your face.]

"Face is also part of strength. You see in the Conferred Gods War, face is more important than anything else. Because the face of Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao determines how many people they can attract. Jiang Ziya is good at appealing to emotions and persuading people to do things with reason, while Shen Gongbao is good at first using a small hammer to fix the seams, and then dragging a large group of people into the water to help the Calabash Boys save their grandfather. Although face itself does not exist in reality, every person you attract counts as one." [But by the way, how did you know he was going to Qingcheng Mountain?]

"I don't know that either, and neither does Zhu Ling - only Long Long knows why he chose Qingcheng Mountain. That's why I say that his ability is really powerful and often plays some interesting roles. Although he is not necessarily needed to solve the problem, he did help me find out the secret of Senior Fu."

【So how do you plan to deal with it? 】

"No deal with it." Shang Luo replied, "Since Senior Fu doesn't intend to let others see it, it is his important secret. People who practice Taoism need to keep secrets, I can understand. So the Heavenly Court allows small secrets, hiding a magic weapon or something is not a big deal. So even though that kid helped me trick Senior Fu's magic weapon or something, I won't open it to see - as long as I can effectively weaken him."

After all, it was impossible to catch Fu Yuanshan who was flying all over the sky. He had just discovered when he and a large group of Jinyiwei were chasing him with sword formations that it was almost impossible to track Fu Yuanshan's whereabouts. Unless, like they did before, they set up a trap and waited for Fu Yuanshan to come to them, and then took the initiative to chase him, so that they could catch his shadow when he was not prepared. However, it was just a shadow.

If we don't strip him of the power to spread his clones everywhere, this game of pursuit will probably take ten or eight years to finish.

[I feel that the way you fight is actually very "right". Immortal cultivators have many magical powers, and they have outstanding attainments in a certain aspect. You can only find ways to break them one by one, just like Sun Wukong asked Taishang Laojun to take away the diamond ring of the green ox, or asked for the Dingfeng Pill to restrain the yellow wind monster. You have to find a way to strip away his magical powers step by step, so that you can really fight him face to face. The real strength is only useful at that time. As long as you don't fight to this point, the rest of the time is just a fight. ]

Suddenly, Apollonia understood something:
[That's a huge sacrifice for Senior Fu! He is now peeling himself off bit by bit, guiding you step by step on how to deal with him, and even giving away all his past. He]

"So I must not break this last layer of window paper." Shangluo continued, "I am very interested in his magic weapon. But I must not peek. He has allowed me to come to this point, and I cannot cross the line."

【Why did he do this?】

"It's for the Heavenly Palace, I think." Shang Luo replied, "Immortal cultivators are all self-sufficient little worlds. Everyone is perfect and can be happy without asking for too many external things. I can see that Senior Fu has very little desire other than eating for free, and generally speaking, we don't have much intersection. And there is only one goal that brings all of us together: to build the Heavenly Palace. Or to be more specific, to let everyone ascend together. Because only when everyone moves together can time stop and no longer leave marks on everyone."

[So, at Senior Fu's age, he must have had parents, and maybe even a lover? ]

"I'm afraid his grandchildren are about to reach the end of their life span—if they have any. Immortal cultivators are also human beings. They don't need to rely on external things to survive. This makes it easier for them to lose touch with the time of the outside world. Compared with material things, spiritual damage may be more terrible. If they completely lose contact with the world and become a person that no one knows, no one cares about, and no one recognizes, that would be too pitiful. As far as I know, if a cultivator doesn't want to die, he won't die. But if he completely loses contact with the world like this, then what's the difference between him and a meteorite floating in the universe?"

[So this is the limit for cultivators?]

“It’s hard to say.” Shang Luo shook his head. “But this is something I must understand. Others may not understand, but as the person who was ordered to set up the Heavenly Court, I must understand this matter. Otherwise, it will be like leading everyone into a fire pit.”

[You have given everyone a lifespan that exceeds human limits, so you don’t owe anyone anything. Any extra money is pure profit.]

(End of this chapter)