Mortal Mage

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Royal study room.

Zhang Mingxuan held a brush in one hand and a memorial in the other, and yawned heavily.

The desk in front of him was piled high with several stacks of memorials. Liu Zhong and two young eunuchs accompanied him, helping him to copy and organize them.

He closed the last memorial in his hand, threw it aside, and fell drowsy.

I finally finished reviewing the memorials that had been piling up for more than a year.

"His Majesty."

Liu Zhong nervously took out another memorial from his sleeve.

"explain."

Zhang Mingxuan lay on the table with his eyes closed, looking exhausted.

He hadn't had a good night's sleep in this month, and even though he had reached the great perfection of the Qi Refining Stage, he couldn't hold on.

"I have another memorial here."

Liu Zhong took out the memorial prepared by the Ministry of Rites on the candidates for the empress and the harem from his sleeve.

"what's up."

Zhang Mingxuan did not take the memorial.

"Regarding the rules of your wedding and the selection of the queen, you need to decide personally."

Liu Zhong stretched the memorial toward Zhang Mingxuan again.

"Let those old weirdos in the harem decide. Don't bother me about this anymore."

Zhang Mingxuan said this with his eyes narrowed, then fell asleep.

He didn't want to get involved in the affairs of the harem at all.

Those old monsters had higher cultivation levels than each other, and he couldn't do anything about them.

My cultivation level is too low, so I have no right to speak.

During this month, the three old monsters never came to him once, which made him feel a lot more at ease.

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The sun was blazing.

Huaxi Palace.

The courtyard in front of the palace had already been cleared out.

A large group of eunuchs carried three freezing ice coffins to the courtyard in front of Huaxi Palace.

Shi Manman stood proudly in front of the door, and Qingling Yuanying floated beside Hua Yu.

"Your Majesty."

A young eunuch hurried out of the crowd and knelt on the ground, trembling.

Although His Majesty said that the kneeling ceremony has been abolished, they have no choice in front of the immortal.

This kind of pressure is not something that ordinary people can resist.

"The first woman in the ice coffin was seventeen years old. Because of her poor family background, she was forced to sell herself to the rich and powerful. She was tortured all day long. One day ago, she hanged herself under the beams of the dilapidated house.

The second woman in the ice coffin was fifteen years old. She was born weak and sickly. Her family could not afford the medical expenses. Three days ago, she died of a sudden illness and failed to receive effective treatment.

The third woman in the ice coffin was 20 years old. She was imprisoned for theft and was detained for three years. She died of hunger strike seven days ago. After investigation, it was found that this woman was wrongly accused.

A eunuch reported respectfully.

They didn't know what the harem wanted to do with the woman's corpse, they were just following orders.

"You did a great job."

Qing Ling Yuan Ying flew above the three ice coffins, laughed, and said to Hua Yu, "Please reward me."

After hearing this, Hua Yu took out a handful of low-grade spirit stones from her storage bag without hesitation and scattered them among the crowd with a "ding-ding-dang-dang" sound.

But none of the young eunuchs kneeling in the hall dared to pick it up.

They were all new to the palace and had no idea what spirit stones were and had never seen one.

"Hey, hey, hey, you guys don't like the spirit stones? You think they're too little?"

There was anger in Qingling's tone.

A group of eunuchs heard the immortal getting angry, but they did not dare to disobey and hurriedly picked up a diamond and held it in their hands.

"Do you have the birth dates of these women?"

After examining the three ice coffins, Shi Manman asked the eunuch kneeling in front of her.

"Your Majesty, the first one was born in the second water bureau of the heavenly plate, and his destiny is Taiyin, and the remaining two were born in the third wood bureau,"

The eunuch replied in a trembling voice.

In order to find the bodies of these three women, Taicang mobilized the entire country.

After hearing this, Shi Manman and Hua Yu looked at Qingling's Nascent Soul together.

When taking over the body of a deceased person, if the spiritual roots and horoscopes are compatible, it will not have much impact on the cultivation and practice.

But if the spiritual roots and the horoscopes are not compatible, then both the level of cultivation and the techniques will plummet across boundaries.

"It will take a hundred years to rebuild anyway."

Qing Ling looked indifferent and spoke slowly.

He continued to float back and forth over the three ice coffins for a long time, and finally pointed at the woman in the middle.

The woman died of a sudden illness and no treatment was effective.

In Qingling's opinion, his background should be the most innocent.

It is possible that the other two women were deliberately harassed and killed.

If you accidentally take over the body of someone who died suddenly, there will be severe backlash.

"Open the ice coffin."

Shi Manman pointed to the ice coffin in the middle which was filled with cold mist.

Immediately, seven or eight young eunuchs stood up and worked together to chisel open the ice coffin.

A chill hit my face.

In front of everyone, there was a female corpse in an ice coffin. She was wearing a plain long dress and was extremely skinny. Perhaps it was because she had been dead for three days, or perhaps it was because of long-term illness, which made her skin white.

The cold air dissipated, and the female corpse's eyelashes trembled slightly.

"It will be useful."

A clear voice broke the silence.

"Give these two remaining women a good burial."

Shi Manman waved her hand to signal the eunuchs to leave.

"I obey your command."

The eunuchs responded, and together they lifted the other two ice coffins, and rushed out of Huaxi Hall and headed outside the palace.

Hua Yu walked closer to the female corpse, took out a black Hundred Herbs Pill from the storage bag and put it in the corpse's mouth, then looked at Qing Ling's Nascent Soul.

Qingling Yuanying was surrounded by true energy, and began to murmur; "Transform yin and yang into positive, and transform dead energy into life. The four symbols return to one, the three souls and seven spirits return to this body, and this life will continue, and the spirit and soul will live forever."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qingling's Nascent Soul transformed into a strong stream of true energy and flew towards the female corpse.

Shi Manman Huayu stared with bated breath.

The strong true energy slowly penetrated into the mouth and nose of the female corpse, and the body of the female corpse began to emit a long green light. A wave of spiritual energy surged out from the ice coffin and spread to the surroundings.

The female corpse's body shook violently, then gradually calmed down. Her skin turned red, her eyelashes trembled again, her pale face gradually turned rosy, her shriveled body began to fill up, and the ice coffin melted. The elegant long dress swayed gently without wind.

The true energy of Qingling Yuanying slowly converged outside the female corpse and returned to calm.

Her body also began to twitch slightly, her heart rate went from weak to strong, and her breathing went from weak to strong, slowly and steadily.

The eyelids slowly lifted and the eyes slowly opened.

A pair of clear eyes.

"It's over. Three hundred years of cultivation have been lost."

Qing Ling secretly thought that something was not good.

She would have reached the middle stage of the Nascent Soul if she had practiced for a few more decades, but now she had lost three hundred years of cultivation in one possession of another body. How could she not feel heartbroken?

She secretly adjusted her breathing and then sat up.

"I'm looking for Zhang Mingxuan."

Qingling looked at Shi Manman.

"Just remember the rules of the palace."

Shi Manman responded calmly and turned back into the hall.

The rule for the harem to meet the emperor is to report first.

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Royal study room.

Zhang Mingxuan squinted and raised his heavy head.

I don't know when he put on a velvet cloak.

"Your Majesty, the immortal from the harem requests to see you."

A young eunuch bowed and reported.

"not see."

Zhang Mingxuan rubbed his eyes.

"Can you say that again!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a clear voice came from his mind, and he hurriedly changed the subject: "See you, see you, please come in quickly."

As soon as he finished speaking, a woman walked in.

Zhang Mingxuan looked up.

The woman was wearing a simple white dress, her skin was as white as snow and shiny, her eyebrows were like distant mountains, her lips were slightly pursed, her cheeks were flushed, and her face was as beautiful as if it were natural.

This woman's appearance is surprisingly similar to Qing Ling's real body.

Zhang Mingxuan knew that this was Qing Ling's appearance after he took over her body.

"Give me back the storage bag."

"promise."

Zhang Mingxuan threw the storage bag to Qingling without saying a word.

He took out a blank jade slip and put the others in it.

There were hundreds of blank jade slips in the storage bag. If Qing Ling didn't check carefully, he wouldn't notice anything unusual.

Qing Ling swept his hand and grabbed it, while his spiritual sense probed into the storage bag.

Magical weapons, elixirs and medicines are all here.

"You didn't touch my storage bag? So you're following the rules?"

Qingling stared at Zhang Mingxuan, who was sitting behind the desk, with disbelief.

Zhang Mingxuan shook his head, his face slightly red.

In fact, he has seen all the colors and sizes of Qingling.

But now Qingling has changed her body, so naturally things are different.

"You know the truth."

Qingling turned around gracefully and left the imperial study.

When Zhang Mingxuan saw her leave, he quietly comprehended the blank jade slip on his chest.

He could also directly ask Qing Ling for dozens of jade slips, but the other party would definitely ask him what they were for.

He was not ready to tell others that he was in the process of cracking the restricted jade slips.

After making sure Qing Ling had gone far away, he took out a blank jade slip from his arms and pointed to the maid and eunuch in the room and asked them to leave.

He took out a blank jade slip, and spread out the formation diagram that he had modified over the past few days from under the table. He injected his spiritual consciousness into the blank jade slip, and began to set up the formation in the blank jade slip.

His idea was simple. He set up a hidden trap in the blank jade slip, which was equivalent to a back door.

With this backdoor, he could copy the contents of the restricted jade slip into a blank jade slip. He could then enter the jade slip through the trap array and view the contents of the jade slip from the trap array inside the jade slip.

The idea is simple.

The biggest technical difficulty here is to simplify the trap to be small enough.

It was easy for Zhang Mingxuan to simplify the formation.

The spiritual consciousness probed into the blank jade slip and began to be deployed in the last area inside the jade slip.

Just a dozen or so runes and thirty to fifty spiritual power veins.

He didn't need this trap to have any real function. He just needed it to be able to hide a trace of his spiritual consciousness inside the formation in advance.

After finishing it, he took out another jade slip from his arms.

This jade slip is a jade slip with encrypted aura.

He held a jade slip in each hand, activated his spiritual power, and began to copy the jade slips.

Just as he was expecting it, the jade slip with the technique in his right hand fed back a message in his consciousness.

"Only one of the jade slips of this technique can be preserved. If you forcibly copy it, the old jade slip cannot be preserved in the world."

Since it was useless to watch anyway, Zhang Mingxuan didn't care.

What's more, there are more than 100,000 such jade slips in the Qionghua Treasury.

He doesn't feel bad even if it's really damaged.

After confirmation, the true Qi was mobilized and the spiritual power was stimulated again.

A ray of starlight flew out from the jade slip in the right hand and instantly penetrated into the blank jade slip in the left hand.

A crisp "ding" sound was heard.

The jade slip in Zhang Mingxuan's right hand broke into pieces and fell into his hand.

The blank jade slip in the left hand emitted a faint green light.

It seems to be done.

Zhang Mingxuan’s spiritual consciousness probed into the jade slip.

The word "Xian" appeared on the jade slip, and then it was split into two, forming the words "Ren" and "Shan".

Then, a breath of his energy entered the jade slip.

The jade slip authenticated the aura, but the aura did not match, the man and the mountain merged, and his consciousness was expelled from the jade slip.

"It looks like there is no missing content."

Zhang Mingxuan secretly rejoiced in his heart, and then probed his spiritual consciousness into the jade slip again.

This time, after his spiritual sense probed into the jade slip, he did not continue to peek at the immortal characters inside the jade slip. Instead, he let his spiritual sense linger around the periphery of the jade slip, neither completely entering the jade slip nor completely leaving the jade slip.

Instead, it resonated with the spiritual consciousness that he had reserved in advance at the bottom of the jade slip.

After a long time, Zhang Mingxuan finally found the spiritual consciousness that he had reserved in the jade slip in advance.

The two resonated immediately, and Zhang Mingxuan's consciousness instantly entered the deepest part of the jade slip.

"Haha, it's done!"

He was pleasantly surprised and looked up at the space at the bottom of the jade slip.

Rows of text appeared above his head, with many runes wandering among the text.

If Zhang Mingxuan guessed correctly, the runes wandering between the words should be the security system in the jade slip. These runes can repeatedly verify the aura in the jade slip at any time.

However, these runes are obviously a bit rigid, and it is impossible to see the divine consciousness that already existed beneath the jade slip.

Zhang Mingxuan then gradually read the contents of the jade slip.

The words above the head were spinning "swish", and the runes in the middle of the moving words also began to patrol the jade slip frantically.

But these runes could not detect any other aura in the jade slip.

Because Zhang Mingxuan didn't conduct any breath verification at all, but used his spiritual sense to check it directly.

Finally, Zhang Mingxuan finally found the beginning of the jade slip.

The first article in the jade slip had a row of small characters written in a leisurely manner.

"Dong Huazi's Secret of Immortality"

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Above the words of the true secret, an old man was sitting cross-legged on a cushion. Every time Zhang Mingxuan's consciousness noticed a piece of text, the true Qi in the old man's body and the direction of his spiritual veins would light up like lines, guiding the practitioner on how to circulate the true Qi throughout the body and how to mobilize the spiritual energy.

No matter the details.

Is this the advanced technique?

But what category does this true secret belong to?

While Zhang Mingxuan was thinking, he unknowingly began to follow the words on the jade slip and the old man's real-life video tutorial, learning to draw on the true Qi in his body and began to practice.

"This should be a method of longevity?"

While Zhang Mingxuan was practicing, he couldn't help but say this in his heart.

"Yes, this is our sect's longevity method."

The old man in the jade slip opened his eyes and responded to Zhang Mingxuan.

"Awesome, you can even provide one-on-one tutoring?"

Zhang Mingxuan was secretly surprised, but the old man in the jade slip obviously would not talk nonsense. Only when Zhang Mingxuan tried to ask questions related to the content of the jade slip would the old man speak. At other times, if Zhang Mingxuan was distracted, the old man would frequently repeat, "When practicing, you should forget yourself and forget about things, be silent and odorless, neither be false nor real. If you are absent-minded, you need to go out of the mountains to gain experience before you can practice again."