Mortal Mage

If he, the emperor, wants to resign, he must make clear arrangements for his affairs.

Otherwise, there will be great suffering and people will suffer.

Of course, he had no intention of "resigning", but if he wanted to cultivate immortality, it would be difficult for him to handle state affairs, so he would need to simplify state affairs.

He called a few more officials and interrogated them about other changes in the court. Knowing that everything was under control, he patted his butt and left the Zhenghe Hall and went to the imperial study.

Canglang has now collected so many jade slips of martial arts techniques, flying swords and magical weapons. There is only one reason for the appearance of these things.

There used to be a fairyland sect in Canglang Continent.

This immortal sect is closely related to the Dihuang Dynasty.

Therefore, he must ensure that the situation in the court is stable and controllable before he can possess these resources.

The Tianze Kingdom also left behind a large number of descendants of the Dihuang Dynasty.

Once the country is in turmoil, it will inevitably be a bloody storm.

Although the people feared the immortal, they had not forgotten how Li Si started his career.

Under the pretext of overthrowing the Dihuang Dynasty, he incited the people of the world, saying that they should share the resources for longevity.

As a result, after the common people helped Li Si to overthrow the Dihuang Dynasty, he immediately controlled public opinion and banned the matter of immortality. His family monopolized the resources of immortality for more than 200 years, and finally sold the spiritual vein.

Now the spiritual energy of Cuiyun Continent is passing through Xichao and is being injected into Canglang bit by bit.

Once Canglang's spiritual energy revives, those people who secretly practice breathing techniques among the people will definitely notice it first.

Zhang Mingxuan cannot repeat Li Si's mistakes.

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Royal study room.

A palace maid brought a cup of warm tea and another brought a plate of snacks. They waded carefully into the room and gently placed them next to Zhang Mingxuan's desk.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Zhang Mingxuan responded politely.

He held a green jade slip in his hand and sat quietly in front of the desk. His spiritual sense kept moving back and forth at the edge of the jade slip, in and out, trying to find loopholes in the restrictions within the jade slip.

The two palace maids bowed slightly shyly and then stood on both sides of Zhang Mingxuan.

The character of this emperor who has been missing for half a year has not changed.

"What are your names?"

The highest-level ladies-in-waiting who can serve the emperor are the imperial ladies-in-waiting. Although they are servants in front of the emperor, they can be said to be able to call the wind and rain among the palace maids.

If Zhang Mingxuan remembered correctly, these two maids were assigned to him by Dang Nanzhi. At that time, Tianze besieged the city and everyone evacuated, only these two maids were still serving him. There was no one in the palace at that time, and the two maids maintained all his daily life, including three meals, summons, washing, and other matters.

"Slave Xiang Ning"

"Slave Zhilan"

The two girls looked shy, and it was obvious that they were not old people in the palace, because the palace maids who often mingled in the palace would not be stage-frightened in front of the emperor.

"Well, from now on, there will be no tea or snacks. Just one simple vegetarian meal every ten days. Please leave."

Zhang Mingxuan has achieved great perfection in Qi training and does not need three meals a day. If he sits in meditation and regulates his breathing, it is no problem for him to eat once every fifteen days.

"Slave... I obey."

The two women bowed and retreated, not daring to raise any doubts.

After the two palace maids left, Zhang Mingxuan spread the jade slips of martial arts techniques in his arms onto the table and began to ponder.

The restrictions in the jade slip are quite advanced and only recognize aura. If you inject spiritual runes into it, they will be rejected.

If spiritual power cannot enter, then there is no way to place runes inside the jade slip. If runes cannot be placed, then the underlying structure inside the jade slip cannot be changed.

This is a difficult question.

Zhang Mingxuan was thinking hard and before he knew it, his head was feeling a little dizzy.

When he raised his hand to pick up the tea, he found that the tea, which was warm just now, had become cold. He looked up outside the study and saw the bright moonlight. The palace lanterns in front of the table had been lit up at some point.

His spiritual sense swept outside the study, and he saw only Xiang Ning standing there, leaning against the wall. She looked drowsy and seemed to be very sleepy.

"No need to wait for me, go back and rest."

Zhang Mingxuan was thinking about Xiang Ning's voice transmission outside the room.

Xiang Ning's face suddenly turned pale, and goose bumps appeared all over her body. She knelt outside the door in shock and responded hastily, "I obey your order."

"It's a Taoist sound transmission spell. There's nothing to be afraid of. Go ahead."

Zhang Mingxuan sent a message again, comforting him softly.

It was late at night and he didn't feel like talking.

Xiang Ning hurried away.

After walking back and forth in the study and thinking for a while, Zhang Mingxuan opened Qingling's storage bag.

When Qing Ling was injured at the bottom of the sea, he was asked to help put the bones into the storage bag and was told the mantra, but afterwards Qing Ling was able to control his body with his soul at any time, and he had no chance to open it privately.

Zhang Mingxuan was not trying to check Qingling's privacy, but to find something that cultivators often used.

Blank jade slip.

He probed his spiritual sense into Qingling's storage bag. Inside the bag, there were a pile of colorful clothes and the rest were pills. At a glance, there were about a hundred bottles. There were not many magic weapons and they were all for women, which he was not interested in.

However, there are indeed quite a few blank jade slips, perhaps more than a hundred.

Blank jade slips can be injected with spiritual power to transmit sounds, copy techniques and mental methods, and can also record spiritual energy, memorize thoughts, and record audio and video. They are a common item for cultivators.

He grabbed a handful of blank jade slips, returned to the table and sat down, then spread the blank jade slips on the table.

"Let's give it a try. At most, we'll just destroy a few dozen jade slips. This thing isn't that valuable."

Zhang Mingxuan whispered and thought in his heart.

A blank jade slip costs about five low-grade spirit stones, which is equivalent to a month's income for a menial disciple of a large sect.

But he doesn't care about this little bit of spirit stones, he deserves it.

He spread out a piece of rice paper on the table, took out a charcoal stick, and began to draw.

The underlying rune of the Fire Escape Array is the Trap Array. The biggest difference between the Trap Array and the Encirclement Array is that after being trapped in the Trap Array, people outside the array can see the people inside the array.

Once trapped in the trap, no one can be seen from the outside, so it is called a trap.

A jade slip is a jade slip after all and cannot contain any formations.

The formation is mainly based on the combination of rune spiritual energy veins.

The prohibition is mainly based on the combination of spells and runes.

If restrictions are imposed on a jade slip or storage bag, they will often try to avoid the appearance of spiritual energy veins.

Because the spiritual power veins will take up the memory of the jade slip.

"In that case, let's simplify this fire escape formation and only keep the characteristics of the trap formation."

While thinking seriously, he began to paint on the rice paper stroke by stroke.

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Lihe Hall.

Jiang Hanhai looked mature and steady, holding a memorial in his hand, and remained silent.

A few names and introductions were simply written on the letter in a sharp handwriting.

"Hua Yu, middle stage of foundation building. She has abandoned her own cultivation method. Her life palace is in the second water bureau. She was born at the hour of Si.

Qing Ling, Elder of Dan Pavilion of Chenfeng Sword Sect, early Nascent Soul stage, Fate Palace, Wood Division, Born at Chen time

Shi Manman, late Jindan stage. Life Palace, Gold Four Bureau, born at Shen time

I don’t know about the rhyme.”

"This...was handed over by which immortal in the harem?"

He carefully folded the letter in his hand and gently placed it on the table.

Liu Zhong nodded gently. He and Jiang Hanhai sat in the main seat in the hall.

Standing next to the two men were a dozen or so key officials from other departments.

"What do you mean, Your Majesty?"

"Your Majesty stayed alone in the Imperial Study for two days and was not allowed to be disturbed. He said that everything should be done according to the "rules."

"This……"

Jiang Hanhai had a worried look on his face. He picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, looking a little listless.

He put down his teacup, glanced at the officials gathered around him with a melancholy look, and asked, "Have you followed the 'Laws for Imperial Concubines in the Harem'?"

"Your Excellency Jiang."

An old official in a third-rank official uniform took a half step forward and continued, "In the future, the Imperial Law for Imperial Concubines states that the choice of empress must first be the eldest daughter of a third-rank civil official or above, followed by the eldest daughter of a military official with outstanding merits, then a good and beautiful girl from a scholarly family, then a girl from the common people, and finally a marriage between two countries."

After the official finished his report, everyone was silent.

Because according to the "Royal Laws for Concubines in the Palace", the list presented by the harem would not be qualified to be selected as the queen.

But no one dares to say this.

"Cough cough."

Liu Zhong coughed lightly and smiled. "I think that since Your Majesty wants to follow the law, then we should follow the law."

"I wonder what Eunuch Liu means?"

Jiang Hanhai knew it very well.

How to follow this law? None of the four people selected from the harem are qualified to be the queen. The only way is to select another woman from the court.

That means adding one more person.

Of course, the candidate for the queen was selected by the Ministry of Rites, reviewed by the Bureau of Imperial Households, and finally decided by the emperor himself.

According to the regulations, this is the only thing we can do.

Therefore, the Ministry of Rites began to act "according to the law".

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Royal study room.

Wang Mingde and Qi Yuanqinghe stood in front of Zhang Mingxuan's desk.

"Give the two ministers a seat."

Zhang Mingxuan put down the charcoal pencil in his hand and gave instructions to the eunuch beside him.

"Is Wan'er okay?"

He used his spiritual sense to sweep around and saw that Wang Mingde's injuries had indeed healed. He felt a little better, but he didn't know about Wang Wan'er's condition. At this time, he had a clear storage bag with various healing pills in it.

Wang Wan'er was seriously injured because she used the immature formation he developed, and he felt guilty.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. Wan'er and I took half a pill of the elixir Your Majesty sent us earlier, and we are both cured now."

The elixir that Wang Mingde mentioned is the Bingning Fuyuan Pill. This elixir is considered an ordinary mid-grade elixir in the Cuiyun Fairyland.

"I want to establish a sect of immortal cultivation in Canglang and let you lead it. Is this possible?"

After all, it is impossible to keep cultivation under wraps among the people. Instead of doing so, it is better to simply relax controls and unify management.

"I wonder what your majesty's intention is in allowing the people to practice cultivation?"

"You are now at the third level of Qi Refining. How many meals a day do you have?"

"Minister, one meal every three days is enough."

"What about ordinary people?"

“You need three meals a day.”

"In that case, if one in a thousand people in Canglang could cultivate to the third level of Qi Refining, how much food could be saved?"

"This……"

Wang Mingde did a little calculation in his mind and came up with a shocking number.

Saving food is one thing, but the more important thing is that after reaching the third level of Qi Refining, one will have more physical strength and can work longer.

He suddenly looked up and looked at Zhang Mingxuan in horror.

Why has no one thought of such an obvious truth for thousands of years?

Whenever a natural disaster occurred, the most difficult issue for the imperial court was food.

If we allow cultivation to take place, the food problem will be solved.

Fasting is the foundation of spiritual practice.

"Your Majesty, you know the coming of autumn when a leaf falls, and you know the coming of spring when a flower blooms. You can see the big picture from the small, and the general from the subtle. I have great respect for you."

Wang Mingde was shocked and shocked. If this policy is implemented, it will cause unrest among the people in the short term, but in the long run, the benefits will outweigh the disadvantages. After thinking about it, he found an important problem and leaned over to ask, "If the country's cultivation is allowed, the spiritual energy close to your majesty's teleportation array may not be sustainable. It still needs spiritual veins to nourish the interface."

When suppressing the rebellion, Hao Fen mentioned in front of civil and military officials and tens of thousands of troops that there was a teleportation array in the palace to transport spiritual veins.

Although the Lingyu Guards have been strictly preventing the matter from escalating further, it is no longer a secret in the palace and even in the entire Taicang.

"Well, Lingmai, I will find a way."

Zhang Mingxuan also realized that this was a problem.

The main reason why Li Si banned the cultivation of immortals was because the spiritual energy emitted by the spiritual veins was not enough to support the cultivators of the entire Canglang, and he was worried that it would cause disputes. From this aspect, Li Si did nothing wrong.

"First, establish an official immortal cultivation sect in the name of the court, and try it out locally first, with a higher threshold."

Zhang Mingxuan stood up from the table, looked at Qi Yuanqinghe, and changed the subject; "Reform is a long-term plan, and we can't rush it."

"I understand, sir."

Qi Yuanqinghe bowed slightly.

"Only with stability can there be development. All plans should be piloted locally first, and then gradually implemented in one city, one county, and one state. I have read the report you submitted, and all the plans are fine. It's just that you pushed them too hastily."

Qi Yuanqinghe showed admiration on his face and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty is wise and holy. I admire you deeply. From partial trial implementation to widespread implementation, the reform can be stable and its effect can be gradually observed and its strategy can be adjusted. This step-by-step approach is unprecedented in history."

"The two ministers put the people first and care about the people. Their vision is higher than mine."

Zhang Mingxuan said in a gentle voice.

"Your Majesty is extremely wise and wise, and I, your subjects, do not deserve your kindness."

Qi Yuanqinghe has read all of Zhang Mingxuan's papers from the childhood examination to the palace examination over the past year. He knows very well that Zhang Mingxuan's thoughts and background are extraordinary, and he has long admired him. Otherwise, he would not have been so devoted to following a fake emperor who was picked up.

Although he had not yet reached the first level of Qi Refining, he knew clearly that Zhang Mingxuan at that time would never have been able to kill Li Si.

Zhang Mingxuan had an awkward smile on his face. Others didn't know his background, but he knew it clearly.

Fortunately, he was able to pick up this emperor and meet two open-minded ministers. Otherwise, he would have been treated as an alien and roasted on the fire by the people of this continent.

He also discussed some specific reform measures and details with Wang Mingde and Qi Yuanqinghe until late at night, when the two of them left.

The moon was high in the sky, and peace returned to the imperial study.

Zhang Mingxuan was alone, continuing to immerse himself in breaking the ban on the jade slip.