The Evil Emperor's Beloved

Your Majesty's intention makes us think deeply.

Seeing that Mr. Jing still wanted to refuse, Ning Li wanted to take over the matter directly, but he knew that he couldn't.

If Emperor Xuanyuan did not give this matter to him immediately, he would have lost the opportunity.

If he still tried to fight for power at this time, it would not be a good thing for him, the Ning family, the queen and the fifth prince.

This means they are all sent right under the emperor's nose, which is too conspicuous.

"Yes, I obey your command." Mr. Jing thus accepted the task.

"Okay, that's it, everyone leave." Emperor Xuanyuan began to drive people away.

After saying this, everyone left Emperor Xuanyuan's imperial study.

Prime Minister Jing, the Si family, the Wen family, and the Leng family walked at the end. They looked at each other and understood what was in each other's eyes.

This is not the place to talk, let’s go somewhere else and talk slowly.

When Mr. Jing got the decision-making power for the competition list, everyone knew that their chance had come.

The Five Nations Competition is held every three years. They didn't have the chance three years ago because the younger generations in their family were still young kids then. Three years later, it's time for the younger generation in their family to compete.

Several people left the palace with extremely brisk steps, and after returning, they could let the younger generations at home start making preparations.

When some people are happy, some people are angry.

After returning to the palace, the Minister of Revenue Ning Li called his sons and grandsons to the study and conveyed the order of Emperor Xuanyuan in the imperial study today, and mentioned the list of candidates for the competition.

The power to decide the list was not in his hands, so the number of family members who could take the exam had to be restricted again and again, which made him extremely frustrated.

The Five Nations Competition has twenty participants from each nation. There will be individual battles, group battles, alchemy, weapon refining, and more.

As soon as Grandpa Jing returned to the mansion, he began to arrange the details. A year ago, Emperor Xuanyuan had already issued an edict that this year, selections for various contestants would be held in the Xuanyuan Imperial Capital. Notices had been posted in all major cities of the Xuanyuan Dynasty, and all citizens of the Xuanyuan Dynasty could participate. However, there were restrictions, such as age not exceeding twenty-five years old, and the minimum cultivation level not lower than the eighth level of Qi Refining, which was also the minimum threshold for the three major academies to select talents.

Although there are 20 contestants, 10 of them are reserved for the royal family and the children of noble families, which is also a means of imperial power. Power must still be in the hands of a few people, which is also a kind of centralization.

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Meanwhile, Jing Yueli, who was refining medicine in the space, was already busy day and night. On the way back from Sunset Mountains, she had a vague feeling that she was about to break through. She had absorbed a large amount of spiritual energy in the lake before, and coupled with the subsequent battle with the carnivorous plant, she had been holding back and wanted to break through to the middle stage of foundation building in one fell swoop.

After coming back, she was busy running around in several places, and the pills she had refined before were almost used up. Therefore, as soon as she stopped, she plunged into the space to refine pills, and began to consume a large amount of her mental energy to prepare for the breakthrough later.

During this retreat, Jing Yueli became a little carried away.

At this time, there were medicine bottles scattered everywhere around her. Ji Feng was busy like a little bee, neatly arranging the medicine bottles that Jing Yueli had scattered on the ground.

In addition to refining basic elixirs, Jing Yueli also developed an elixir that can instantly improve a person's cultivation level, but it can only last for half a quarter of an hour. After half a quarter of an hour, the person using it will temporarily lose their spiritual power and then need a long rest to recover. There are no other side effects.

Such pills are a way to save your life when you encounter difficult dangers.

Jing Yueli called this elixir the Shengling Pill.

However, this elixir does not improve a person's cultivation endlessly. It only raises the person who takes it to a higher level. For example, a person at the middle level of foundation building can be promoted to the high level of foundation building.

This was also the inspiration Jing Yueli gave herself regarding the matter of the Second Elder.

When encountering an opponent stronger than herself, how can she save her life and escape successfully? The Shengling Pill is the only solution she can think of at the moment. It would be even better if she could fight against an opponent of higher level.

For example, the upcoming Five Nations Competition is a good testing ground.

In addition to one's own cultivation, one also needs powerful weapons.

Now they are all using magic weapons, which are a little more powerful than ordinary weapons. Above the magic weapons are spiritual weapons, holy weapons, and divine weapons. And each type of weapon is divided into grades of top, upper, middle, and lower.

The Fallen Cherry Whip that Jing Yueli's mother left behind was a top-grade holy weapon, but the Fallen Cherry Whip that was split into two could only exert the power of a top-grade spiritual weapon.

However, for Jing Yueli now, the top-grade spiritual weapon is enough for her to use.

After refining the elixir, Jing Yueli finally had some free time to take a good look at her own space. Ever since her spiritual marrow entered the space for an upgrade, she has been busy with various things.

Jing Yueli looked at the tower in the distance, made a decision in her heart, and walked over. No matter what it was, it was in her space, and she still needed to figure it out.

The tower looks close, but when you actually walk towards it you realize that it is really like the saying "If you look at the mountain you will run your horse to pieces".

Jing Yueli stood in front of the tower, which had seven floors in total. She looked at the five big characters "Star Trial Tower" on the eaves. As soon as she heard the name, she knew that there must be good things in this tower.

"Squeak" Jing Yueli took a step forward and pushed open the door of the Star Tower.

The tower door opened, and the ancient atmosphere inside hit her in the face. Jing Yueli originally thought that according to its name, the Trial Tower, there must be trials and levels in the tower. However, when she saw everything in the hall on the first floor of the tower, her understanding of the Trial Tower was completely overturned.

The first floor of the Trial Tower is an alchemy room. How can Jing Yueli be so sure that it is an alchemy room, because there are various alchemy furnaces placed directly opposite the hall on the first floor.

Jing Yueli approached and stroked the alchemy furnaces one by one, her hands were shaking. With so many alchemy furnaces, she could use a different one every day for a month, hehehehe…

She even began to dislike the alchemy furnace she had used before.

To the left of the alchemy furnace was a whole wall of alchemy books. Yes, a whole wall. Some of them were even placed too high, and Jing Yueli had to fly up to get them.

To the right of the alchemy furnace is a whole row of shelves against the wall, which are filled with jade bottles of various shapes and sizes.

Jing Yueli picked up one of them and opened the stopper on the jade bottle. It was empty. She opened the second one, the third one, and then randomly picked a few more. They were all empty. In other words, this entire wall of shelves was only used to place jade bottles?

This reminded Jing Yueli of the fact that some people in later generations liked to collect various cups. This is really similar.

Ignoring this, Jing Yueli stepped onto the stairs to the second floor.

The second floor is a refining room. The layout inside is similar to that of the first floor. On one side are books about refining, on the other side are various refining materials and finished products, and there is a large refining furnace in the center.

Jing Yueli was not very interested in refining weapons. She took a quick look and left.

What Jing Yueli didn't know was that because of her lack of interest, she briefly missed out on a magic sword that had been following her.