Seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune starts from Tianshi Mansion.

Chapter 404 403. Immortal Path Continues
Han Qingtao's expression was as solemn as Li Hang's: "It is still unclear whether it is a former member of the Heavenly Palace, but I think we must be on guard."

"Friend Han is right." Li Hang nodded.

The top of the mountain fell silent for a moment, and the two stood facing each other, both silent.

After a while, another ray of light flashed in the distance, and then arrived at the top of the mountain in an instant.

An elderly Taoist priest, whose clothes were somewhat similar to Li Hang's, but not exactly the same, and whose robe was mainly ochre yellow, appeared in front of Li Hang and Han Qingtao.

The old Taoist priest has white hair and a youthful face, a kind expression, and a lingering breath. Everything about him seems unpretentious, but it gives people a sense of returning to nature.

"Brother Yan Dao." Li Hang and Han Qingtao spoke first and greeted him.

The old Taoist priest smiled and returned the greeting: "Friends Li and Han, long time no see. I hope you are well."

He looked around Penglai and sighed softly, "Such a fairyland, but it was disturbed by the people from Longhu Mountain of the Tang Dynasty. Now it has just recovered a little bit of its original appearance."

The old Taoist priest retracted his gaze and looked at Li Hang and Han Qingtao in front of him: "At the beginning, I didn't have the time to split myself and come here. I'm sorry for the trouble, fellow Taoists."

Han Qingtao said: "This matter is due to the carelessness of me and Brother Huang Dao of the Chunyang Palace of the Great Tang Dynasty."

The old Taoist priest said, "Fellow Daoist Han, you are too kind."

While the three were talking, another streak of light flashed in the distance and quickly reached the top of the mountain.

The light fell, and from it emerged a young Taoist priest wearing cloth clothes and hemp shoes, whose clothing style was roughly similar to Han Qingtao's.

Regardless of the young Taoist's real age, judging only by his appearance, he is no more than 20 or 30 years old and looks extremely young.

"Three Taoist brothers." The young Taoist greeted Han Qingtao and the other two.

His name is Shen Xi.

In recent years, Penglai has been reopened, and among the five Taoist masters who entered Penglai, he is called the Eastern Green Emperor.

At this point, except for the fallen Northern Black Emperor Huang Xuanpu, the remaining masters of the four major Taoist sects in Penglai have gathered here today.

The Eastern Green Emperor, Shen Xi.

White Emperor of the West, Han Qingtao.

The Southern Red Emperor, Li Hang.

And the old Taoist in yellow, who also seemed to be from the Taoist Danding School, the Central Yellow Emperor, Yan Keji.

In their respective worlds, they are all giants.

By chance in the past, he entered Penglai, one of the nine heavens and ten earths in a short period of time.

Shen Xi and the other three, together with Huang Xuanpu from before, had many clashes and frictions during their interactions, but in the end they all restrained themselves and explored Penglai together.

Here, they discovered many relics of ancient talisman sects and ancient heavenly palaces and gained some knowledge.

Although their experiences in the human world were different, due to various reasons, they embarked on the same path:
Relying on the inheritance of the ancient heavenly palace and the ancient talisman school, a Taoist kingdom was established on earth.

In their own world, they all have their own foundation and are secretly planning.

During this process, many other things also happened.

Among them, Huang Xuanpu, the Northern Black Emperor who was in the Tang Dynasty, was killed completely. Later, Xu Yuanzhen entered Penglai from the Tang Dynasty and caused a big fuss.

But in the process, Shen Xi, Li Hang and others also discovered many secrets.

Some of these secrets helped them a lot, but some also foreshadowed troubles and crises.

"The unusual movement in the blue sky may be from the old part of the Heavenly Palace." Han Qingtao said.

Yan Keji nodded slowly: "Fellow Daoist Han is right, I also feel it."

Shen Xi's face was calm and unperturbed: "Is he their descendant, or... a former member of the Heavenly Palace?"

Han Qingtao: "So many years have passed. If the former members of the Heavenly Palace are still alive, their cultivation strength may be..."

"There is no doubt that the war back then was brutal, but there are many secrets and the details are unclear." Li Hang said slowly.

Yan Keji, Shen Xi and Han Qingtao in front of him were all silent.

The four Taoist masters all looked down at the mountain below their feet at the same time.

This is a relic left over from the ancient heavenly palace.

In ancient times, there were three realms: heaven, earth, and man.

Due to the dramatic changes in heaven and earth, the heaven was eventually divided into nine heavens, the earth was divided into ten lands, and only the human world remained intact.

Time passed quickly, and many years later even the Heavenly Palace disappeared, and the world lost its supreme ruler.

At that time, major families and sects in the world rose and fell alternately, and dynasties changed. Although chaos occurred frequently, fortunately, the path to immortality had not been cut off, and there were often people in the world who ascended to immortality and roamed the universe.

Until the end of the Han Dynasty.

When the human world is in turmoil and the situation is turbulent, the heaven and earth are also undergoing great changes.

Someone claiming to be a descendant of the former Heavenly Palace was born and wanted to rebuild the Heavenly Palace.

Due to various reasons, a fierce war broke out between the old members of the Heavenly Palace and their opponents. The impact gradually spread until it swept across the human world and even the entire nine heavens and ten earths.

Many powerful people and countless lives perished because of this.

History and records are scattered or even confused.

Eventually, it even caused turbulence in time and space in the human world, and it split.

The nine heavens and ten earths completely disappeared.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth became turbulent and low, which cut off the path to immortality. For many years, no one had ascended to immortality.

Until now, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has surged, and the world has finally begun to show signs of improvement.

For Han Qingtao, Li Hang and others, this is an opportunity.

But it could also be a crisis.

Although they wanted to comfort themselves that the great war at the end of the Han Dynasty engulfed the heavens and the earth and no one could stay out of it, and that the immortals and Buddhas perished as a result, Han Qingtao, Li Hang and others knew very well that it was just the most ideal situation and it would be difficult to really do as they wished.

Unfortunately, they learned about Penglai at different times.

After they also embarked on the path of rebuilding the Heavenly Palace, they realized that there might be other “predecessors” who share the same path in this world.

"The spiritual energy of the human world has been low for many years. If there are still beings above the Ninth Heaven surviving in the world, they are most likely to be in one or more worlds among the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths."

Li Hang said slowly: "For example, Biluo."

Shen Xi, who was silent most of the time, spoke calmly at this moment: "If this is really the case, everything is caused by fate."

Yan Keji: "Fellow Daoist Shen is right. We should do our best and leave the fate to fate. All kinds of changes, good and bad, are interdependent, not necessarily all hardship."

Han Qingtao: "Shall we... go to Biluo to take a look?"

Li Hang: "The situation is unclear, so we should not act rashly."

Yan Keji and Han Qingtao nodded slightly.

"Regarding... the Longhu Mountain Tianshi Mansion in the Tang Dynasty, what do the three Taoist friends think?" Yan Keji asked at this time.

Li Hang said frankly: "To be honest, I had a little hope of obtaining the Heavenly Master Seal before, but ultimately failed.

The dominance of Longhu Mountain in the Tang Dynasty is already established. From my humble opinion, looking at all the people in heaven and on earth, they are the best in all Taoist traditions, and few of the rest of the sects can suppress them.

If you want to take down the Heavenly Master Seal or the Ten Thousand Laws Sect Altar, it is not something that can be done by one family alone."

Han Qingtao said: "The inheritance of the Talisman School in the human world of the Great Tang Dynasty is a new inheritance after the Taoist changed the reign at the end of the Han Dynasty. If they are really the old part of the Heavenly Palace, they wanted to recreate the scene of the Heavenly Palace ruling the world. They also supported the inheritance of the ancient Talisman School. Even if there is no conflict between them and the Dragon and Tiger Mountain of the Great Tang Dynasty, it is difficult for them to go together."

"It's too early to say anything right now. Let's think about some indirect methods." Yan Keji said.

Han Qingtao thought of a young man who had slipped through his fingers during the Tang Dynasty.

The young man named Chen Yi who entered Luo Yuan. Although it has been more than ten years, Han Qingtao, the White Emperor of the West, still remembers that when the other party escaped, he revealed some secrets, which seemed to be vaguely related to the Heavenly Palace.

That might have been an opportunity, but unfortunately she was a little careless at the time and failed to give it the highest attention at the first time, so that Chen Yi escaped.

Han Qingtao was thinking in his mind, but there was no strange expression on his face.

After the four of them talked and decided on a general strategy, Shen Xi was the first to say goodbye and left, disappearing in Penglai.

After Yan Keji said goodbye to Li Hang and Han Qingtao, he also left.

Li Hang watched the old Taoist disappear, and spoke after a long while: "I'm still not sure."

Han Qingtao nodded: "I also can't see through Brother Yan."

Although Shen Xi is indifferent and taciturn, Han Qingtao and Li Hang have gotten to know him a little after spending so many years with him.

For example, although Han Qingtao and Li Hang are still unsure of the specific situation in the human world where Shen Xi is, in terms of length of time and profound history, it should be neither as good as the human world of the Ming Dynasty nor as good as the human world of the Song Dynasty. In fact, the gap may be quite large.

For another example, in the world where Shen Xi lived, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was reviving again, and the time of its arrival was much later than that of the worlds of the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty...

But both Han Qingtao and Li Hang felt that their understanding of Yan Keji was very limited.

This was the same feeling shared by Huang Xuanpu of the Tang Dynasty when he was still alive.

"Friend Han, I wonder what's happening with the Zhenwu Temple, which is a branch of our sect in the Ming Dynasty?" Li Hang changed the subject and asked Han Qingtao.

Han Qingtao: "Brother Mu Dao and Zhenwu Temple are also in a lot of trouble right now."

Li Hang smiled: "Did you have a deep conversation with him?"

Han Qingtao: “No chance.”

But she was sure that Mu Chunyang was not completely unaware of the Ming Dynasty's human kingdom in his early years.

At the same time, she also felt that the other party did not agree with the Human Kingdom.

But to some extent, they adopted a tacit attitude.

Han Qingtao thought that this was because Mu Chunyang was also not interested in Ming Dynasty Neo-Confucianism, so he acquiesced to the possible changes without making a sound.

But under the current situation in the Ming Dynasty, after the Daoguo incident was exposed, he had to express his opinion.

Han Qingtao did not hate Mu Chunyang for this.

But I still say that after this incident, you in Zhenwu Temple will not feel comfortable either.

Han Qingtao is more concerned about himself at the moment.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged, and the nine heavens and ten earths reopened.

It also means that the road to immortality that has been cut off from the human world for many years has been reconnected, and the door to immortality may be reopened.

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The world of Ming Dynasty.

Amidst the beautiful landscape, many people are stationed here, spreading out and searching painstakingly among the mountains.

Later, the soldiers reported back to the headquarters, saying that they had not yet found a weak spot in the void that could open a "gateway" to Penglai.

Inside the commander's tent, Yu Zan, a high-ranking official of the imperial court who was in charge of the search and arrest here, waved his hand silently, and the reporter quickly withdrew.

The only people left in the tent were Yu Zan, who had an elegant look but was dressed in a general's robe, and a middle-aged official in court robes.

The middle-aged official stood with his hands behind his back, not saying a word.

Yu Zan bowed behind him: "Lord..."

Chao Feng, one of the Grand Secretaries of the dynasty, finally spoke up at this time: "Search again."

Yu Zan: "Yes, Lord."

He paused and said, "Lord, I think that the traitor Han Qingtao was able to escape because someone was secretly in contact with him and gave him a helping hand..."

Chao Ge Lao turned around and said, "You mean... Master Mu?"

Yu Zan: “That’s right.”

Chao Feng: "Master Mu of Zhenwu Temple is a real person who was personally conferred by the emperor. How could he associate with such a traitor?"

Yu Zan: "Han Qingtao, this traitor, had a somewhat special identity in the past."

"That's not impossible." Chao Feng said, "Find a few imperial censors to report the situation back to the capital. After all, the matter has not been investigated yet, so you and I don't need to report it for now."

Yu Zan: "That is what you wish for, Lord. I believe that Your Majesty and the Prime Minister will find out the truth."

On the one hand, Han Qingtao escaped and someone needed to take the blame.

On the other hand, after the matter is reported, Mu Chunyang will return to the capital to meet the emperor to avoid suspicion, and Lord Liu Chong will not be able to rely on his help.

"Personally, I am still willing to continue to believe in Master Mu." Chao Feng sat down and said, "Your Majesty has always been kind and generous. I believe he will still give Master Mu a chance. Speaking of which, the foreign barbarians and the evil monks in the northwest have been making more and more trouble recently."

Yu Zan: "What the elder said is very true. In the past few years, news has been reported that the evil monks from the Western Regions are occupying Mount Xumi. It is definitely not just the Karma tribe. The five tribes of the Vajra Realm mentioned in the scriptures should all be present.

Judging from the size of the Karma tribe, the other four tribes are mostly similar to it, so they have become quite influential. "

Chao Feng: "Well, especially if they are colluding with the barbarians, it is indeed not a simple matter. If our dynasty wants to completely quell the Xumi Rebellion, it will inevitably affect the entire body, so we need to carefully consider it."

The spiritual energy of the world in the Ming Dynasty has been surging for hundreds of years and has a profound foundation.

The place where its power is exerted is often internal...

Yu Zan: "The Prime Minister must have considered everything."

Chao Feng nodded slowly.

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After returning to the Earth Sea, Lei Jun could already feel that the momentum of the advance from the Ming Dynasty people on the Gui Zang side was clearly beginning to weaken.

I wonder if the other side is making good preparations for a powerful attack, or is the traditional show going on again?
Lei Jun ignored it for the time being and just blocked the chance for Daming Renjian to pass through Guizang.

Junior Sister Tang Xiaotang is currently still in the human world of the foreign Khanate. When things over there are over, Lei Jun will consider it and take the initiative to visit the human world of the Ming Dynasty when he has time.

Although the current situation in the sea has not been completely settled, there are basically no major waves.

Li Bin, the patriarch of the Juli tribe, is using the advantages of the land and sea to avoid being hunted down by Li Tianqing.

Li Tianqing is a practitioner of the Wumen Divine Dance, and the characteristics of this lineage mean that it will take him some time to defeat an opponent of the same level.

But once he is completely sure of victory, the opponent will basically be defeated. Failure means death and there is no chance of escape.

Just like the nine-winged golden centipede back then.

Xing Feng was sealing Luo Yuan's void portal leading to the Earth Sea.

This trip made Lei Jun realize that the new leader of the Xuehe Sect after Wei Ancheng was also no ordinary person.

Although it's not 100% absolutely free, the other party can go in and out of Luoyuan alone, and come and go frequently...

At the moment, the two sides are not enemies, so Lei Jun didn't ask much about how Xing Feng did it.

His immediate concern was another matter.

The Jiuli people have existed since ancient times.

But Lei Jun still has doubts about the current naming of the Jiuli tribe.

This corresponds to the names of the stars Tan Lang, Po Jun, Ju Men, Zuo Fu, You Bi, etc. According to what Lei Jun learned after coming to this world, the history should not be as long as Jiuli itself...

So, when did the names of the Nine Li tribes, such as Tanli, Poli, Juli, Fuli and Bili, come into being?
Who named them?
"Heavenly Master."

In the sea of ​​earth, Shen Qubing greeted Lei Jun and introduced him to the woman next to him who was from the Jiuli people: "This is the chief of the Wuli tribe, Li Ying."

(End of this chapter)