casket of old days

Chapter 178 Alchemy and Tentacles
Longevity Palace, inside the Hall of Immortal Ascension.

Because of the habit of Emperor Yong'an's daily cleansing, the entire hall was always quiet inside and outside.

Every eunuch and court lady walked carefully near the main hall, for fear of disturbing the emperor's cultivation.

Although Emperor Yong'an spent the whole day cultivating secretly in the Longevity Palace, the ministers in the court knew that the Emperor Xiuxian still firmly controlled the situation in the world through Fengshui, divination, luck, and his subordinate Tianwei. Change, you can know the world's affairs without going out of the palace.

That night, Emperor Yong'an was talking about alchemy with Fu Nanzi, the abbot of Baiyun Temple.

In addition to being the abbot of Baiyun Temple in the capital, this Fu Nanzi is also the head of the alchemy school taught by Tianshi.

The art of alchemy can be said to be the best in the world, and he was often recruited by Emperor Yong'an to refine elixirs in the Longevity Palace.

The two practiced alchemy in the afternoon and talked in the evening. Emperor Yong'an seemed to be happier as they talked. The eunuch Chen Zhong reminded Shichen several times, but he sent him out.

When talking about the use of fire in alchemy, Emperor Yong'an changed the subject and said suddenly: "I heard that during the Xia Dynasty, there were masters on Longsnake Mountain who refined Taishang Huang Ting Dan, did the Taoist priest hear about it?"

Tai Shang Huang Ting Pill can increase life by one year.

Fu Nanzi's eyes moved slightly, and he said: "I have never heard of this kind of elixir."

Emperor Yong'an smiled: "Maybe I remember wrong."

After a while, Emperor Yong'an asked Fu Nanzi to retreat first.

After a while, the eunuch Chen Zhong came up, holding a box of elixir and said, "Master, today's elixir is ready."

Emperor Yong'an glanced at him and said: "I asked you to arrange for the people who learn alchemy, how are they doing?"

Chen Zhong lowered his head and said, "Today, some sorcerers who secretly observed Fu Nanzi's alchemy... are still comprehending the newly obtained elixir..."

Emperor Yong'an sighed: "Now you know why I spend 50 taels on Baiyun Temple every year, right?"

Chen Zhong said: "Master Shengming. Slave... I still have something to do with Chen Zuo."

"Zhong Guangqi sent people to check the golden millet yellow bud pill refined by Baiyun temple for his son this time, and found someone to follow up with their medicinal materials..."

Emperor Yong'an directly interrupted: "Since when did you hide your words like Wu Siqi? Come on, tell me how much money they swallowed from me."

"Shengming has no fault, master." Chen Zhong knelt down and said, "Our Tianwei in Luozhou and Donghai Prefecture also reported that the medicinal materials imported by Baiyun Temple this year are about 7 taels of silver."

"Furthermore, two of their ships transported medicinal materials, and another ten ships carried silk, tea, and porcelain, smuggled all the way from south to north, under the banner of your majesty, the water transportation was unimpeded, and no one dared to set up card fees. Check vessel."

"They said less...and reported more than 40 taels of silver, and made 15 taels of smuggling on the road."

"From the head of the treasury, the Zhangji, the supervisory court to the Dao Gangsi's great virtues, all of them have received money."

Emperor Yong'an said coldly: "Where's Fu Nanzi? How much did he suck?"

Chen Zhong said: "A ship was pretended to be a merchant ship, transported 20 taels of silver, and sent it to Gushui, Fu Nanzi's hometown."

Emperor Yong'an sneered: "7 taels of pills were sold to me for 50 taels. They are really my good ministers. They even peddled smugglers all the way in my name, from south to north, and this canal was also built for them. Is it?"

Emperor Yong'an let out an angry snort, the air rippling like water waves, Chen Zhong in front of him was stiff all over, as if his body could not move at all.

"They dare to swallow my money, and they dare to ruin my reputation!"

"Is there anything else they dare not?"

Accompanied by Emperor Yong'an's anger, scales emerged from under his clothes. Chen Zhong could only feel the sounds beyond human imagination echoing in his ears, which made him deeply immersed in it, and was extremely fascinated...

Snapped!
The air exploded, and Chen Zhong came back to his senses. The abnormality just now seemed to have completely disappeared, and the Emperor Yong'an in front of him had also lost his anger.

But Chen Zhong knew that the emperor was just like the past ten years, not because he was not angry anymore, but because he hid his anger deeply.

"Master, please don't hurt the immortal body." He quickly prostrated himself on the ground and said in a low voice, "There is a news from Zhaoyao Mountain today..."

"Chaoyao Mountain?" Emperor Yong'an said, "Jiang Longyu...is he on the mountain now? Has something happened to him?"

Chen Zhong immediately told about Chu Qiguang's writing on his chest, and Jiang Longyu's writing on his back later.

Emperor Yong'an laughed and said, "This Jiang Longyu is really messing around more and more."

Seeing the emperor laughing, Chen Zhong felt relieved, and said, "Your Majesty, you know why the other students in Zhenma Division are making things difficult for Chu Qiguang?"

He went on to say: "It turns out that Chu Qiguang failed to activate the magic-subduing talisman, and this person doesn't believe in respect."

"Oh? Is there such a thing?" Emperor Yong'an immediately asked, "Has someone verified it?"

Chen Zhong said: "It has been verified, it is indeed an untrustworthy person."

After thinking for a moment, Emperor Yong'an murmured: "People without faith..."

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On Chaoyao Mountain, Chu Qiguang has become more and more used to the days of simple study and practice on this mountain.

Living in such a peaceful life, he felt his knowledge growing and his power becoming stronger and stronger every day, which made him feel that time passed so fast.

Unknowingly, nearly a month has passed, and as the day of this month's festival gets closer, the atmosphere on Chaoyao Mountain is getting more and more tense.

In Chu Qiguang's dormitory, Li Chuzheng was copying handouts with red eyes.

Zhang Haizhu on the side was wearing a padded jacket, yawned and said, "Okay, it's already so late, go to bed first, and get up to copy tomorrow."

Li Chu shook his head: "No, I have to practice boxing in a while."

Zhang Haizhu was surprised: "You still want to practice boxing at such a late hour?"

"There is going to be a small contest soon. It is related to whether you will enter the upper court or the lower court. Haven't you inquired about it? The treatment of the two courts is very different." Li Chu sighed: "I don't practice boxing for half an hour every night. , can't sleep at all."

Zhang Haizhu opened his mouth, finally sighed helplessly, looked at the bed belonging to Chu Qiguang beside him, and remembered that the fairy in their dormitory hadn't come to sleep for almost a month.

In the boulder courtyard, a figure covered in purple punched the gray granite with a fist, creating a fine crack.

Chu Qiguang looked at his unscathed purple palm, and then at his feet. Two tentacles emerged from the black mud-like shadow and curled up on his legs.

These days, Chu Qiguang has been observing the tentacles under his own feet and those of others.

He is now very confident that this tentacle has a lot to do with strength.

'The stronger the strength that can be exerted, the more terrifying the strength, the more tentacles under the feet. '

'And the threshold of a tentacle seems to be the fifth realm of martial arts. '

At present, the person Chu Qiguang sees with the most tentacles under his feet is Song Ming, the mentor who teaches ghost knowledge, and the other party has five tentacles stretching under his feet.

The second is Yi Shuang, who teaches cult knowledge, and Yang Ling, the boxing instructor, all of whom have four tentacles.

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(End of this chapter)