102. I Walk Slowly, but I Want to Be Better than the Heavens (5K Words, Long Chapter)

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In February of the twenty-sixth year of Chongming, Emperor Chongming died tragically on Tianjie, and the Song family was destroyed.

In the late spring of April of the same year, the Han Dynasty was unified in Siming Mountain, and King Xingtian ascended the throne as emperor, with the title of Tiande. The edict was dispatched by fast horse over 800 miles to sixteen provinces across the country, and was notified to all prefectures.

("Heaven's virtues are benevolent, the earth's virtues are transformed, and people's virtues are righteous." - Dong Zhongshu's "Spring and Autumn Fanlu")

From then on, the Tiande era was implemented in Siming.

This year is the first year of Tiande.

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After leaving the wall of the Forbidden Palace, Ye Jiming did not delay all the way. He turned his sword into Dunguang, passed through Lingnan Road, and came to Nanhai, one of the four seas in Fengxi Kingdom, which is a southward tributary of Fengxi River.

Across a vast stretch of thousands of miles of water, and passing through seven countries including Baoxiang Kingdom, Liuguang Kingdom, Lanyue Kingdom, and Jiuhu Kingdom, after half a month, we finally arrived at the foot of a stretch of mountains.

"Having a family to rely on..."

"Even if the mission fails, the worst case scenario is that you will only be punished with some merit..."

After hesitating for a while at the foot of the mountain, Ye Jiming finally strengthened his determination and walked towards a white jade fairy road hanging down from the clouds. This fairy road starts at the foot of the mountain, but when you walk about a thousand feet, you can see that the mountains under the stairs turn into layers of jagged and strange rocks, and the towering ancient trees with fairy aura are like exotic flowers and plants.

Countless white-water waterfalls hang down from the clouds, like pythons breathing out their breath.

When you reach about 2,500 feet, you can finally see the huge fairy palace with bright golden light and purple air rising into the sky. It is suspended in the clouds, carried by eight huge dragon turtles.

There is a huge horizontal plaque hanging on the main door, with writings on it including iron paintings, silver hooks, dragon seals and phoenix seals.

Even those who are ignorant of immortal literature will still think of the name "Feiyu Palace" in their minds when they see the three characters on the jade plaque.

"Disciple Ye Jiming..."

"The protection of Fengxi Country for three hundred years failed..."

Ye Jiming walked to the underground palace pavilion next to Tianlu Hall, took out a feather-shaped token with silver light from his sleeve, handed it to the bookcase, and explained his purpose to the elder on duty guarding the pavilion.

The slender Feather Token was imprinted with a cyan "No" fairy text, then turned into a ray of silver light and flew straight towards the interior of the fairy palace, and soon landed on a dragon turtle turtle. On the peak of the shell.

This peak is shorter than the eight adjacent peaks.

It's just that the whole mountain is black and yellow, and there is a carved stone at the entrance of the mountain with the word "Imperial Capital" written on it.

The silver feather token was inserted diagonally in front of a cave door on the mountainside.

Inside the cave, in the retreat room, a middle-aged man in a mysterious robe with white hair sat cross-legged on the futon. His eyes were closed tightly, and his body was filled with bright yellow aura. ,

When these bright yellow auras floated above the man's head, they turned into python dragons.

In front of the man, there was a small cauldron, with only a shallow layer of mercury-like liquid left in the cauldron.

From time to time, the sound of roaring tigers could be heard inside the cauldron.

However, at this moment, there were faint signs of collapse of the python dragon.

"What's going on?"

"Dragon veins from Fengxi Country..."

He opened his eyes, looking slightly surprised.

With the means he left to the royal family, this period of time is enough to ensure that Fengxi State Sheji survives for three hundred years. Before he went into seclusion, he had assigned a task to the sect to ask the "immortal" to protect the Song family.

With the Immortal around, even if the Song family only has a corner of Shenjing left, he is confident that with the help of the "Immortal", he can rebuild the river.

"Could it be that he is a descendant of Jiayou..."

"Didn't you go to the Ancestral Temple in time to let the Immortal Palace disciples come out to help the country?"

"I have to give you some advice."

Song Dao sighed slightly, secretly thinking that future generations would not live up to expectations.

When he was in seclusion to attack the realm of Dao Dan, Emperor Jiayou of Fengxi Kingdom was still in power. Although Emperor Jiayou was not the Lord of Ming Dynasty, he was also the Lord of Shoucheng.

Emperor Jiayou even had cultural and martial arts worth flaunting.

After only forty years of seclusion, Fengxi Country will never be in a state of subjugation...

Something must have gone wrong.

However--

At this moment, the silver feather token from the underground palace pavilion appeared in front of him.

A huge cyan word "No" stands out.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Jiming's description of the mission failure was projected into the air.

[The new emperor of Fengxi Kingdom, Xu Xing, has a Ming royal body and looks like a human king. 】

[Xuanji Temple Conglong. 】

[The city of Shenjing was destroyed, and the last emperor Chongming and his princes died. 】

A flash of inspiration emerged, and the lines of writing were particularly conspicuous.

Looking at these three lines of handwriting, Song Dao's face was stunned at first, and then his face turned gloomy, "Mingwangti, Xuanji Temple, Lingyin Peak? With your intervention, no wonder our Fengxi Kingdom has not reached the 300-year Sheji... …, the country has perished.”

Without the follow-up Dragon Veins, the final step of condensing the Dao Pill and reconciling the Dragon and Tiger Qi would not be a failure, but without that bit of Dragon Luck, he would have to form an imperfect Dao Pill.

Although the second-grade Dao Dan is already an immortal seedling.

But... How could he be willing to watch helplessly as he was only one step away from condensing a first-grade Dragon and Tiger Dao Pill!

But after all, he was born as an emperor and had great skills in cultivating qi.

He quickly calmed down.

"Fortunately, I was prepared before condensing the pill..."

"A three-day suspension at this moment... will not affect the overall situation."

The suspended small cauldron was casually put into Song Dao's sleeve, and the python dragon that filled his body crawled back into his body. The aura on his body quickly converged to the extreme, and there was no sign of cultivation. If it weren't for his extraordinary clothes and jade-like skin, ordinary people would probably think that he was a mortal rather than an immortal who could return elixirs with jade liquid.

Each level of the cave opened one by one, and he walked out and reached the top of Huangdu Peak.

There is a golden palace on the top of the peak.

"The Second True Legend of Huangdu Peak, Song Dao Kowtow, meets Taoist Wangui..."

Song Dao lifted up his robe and knelt obediently on the jade steps in front of the golden palace.

After kowtowing to the Golden Palace three times, he shouted loudly.

Above the Dao Dan is the Nascent Soul realm. The monks in the Nascent Soul realm are also respectfully called "Tao Lord" by the lower-level monks. Wangui Daojun is a Nascent Soul monk in Huangdu Peak, with a high status.

"What's the matter?"

A voice came from the golden palace, with an indifferent tone.

"Fengxi, the country founded by the disciple, did not last for three hundred years. It was overthrown by a rebel king in the territory... The disciple is about to condense the elixir and will form a first-grade dragon and tiger Tao elixir."

"I hope Wangui Daojun will give you the immortal order..."

"Relieve my crisis."

Song Dao lowered his posture extremely low.

Rampant, it depends on who is right. In the world of immortality, it is still right to be cautious. What's more, he still seeks help from Wangui Dao Lord and cannot offend him at all.

"Separated between immortals and mortals..."

"This is the commandment of the Immortal Sect, and poor people cannot violate it."

Wangui Daojun, who was in seclusion in the golden palace, opened his eyes, glanced at Song Dao outside the palace, and shook his head.

At his level, any talk about immortals and mortals not interfering with each other is just a lie.

Feiyu Immortal Palace is one of the orthodox religions, so it established these precepts.

If placed in the demonic territory such as the Nether Spring Sect and Yama Luo Shrine, the secular kingdom would be nothing more than fish and meat on the chopping board of the monks in the sect, allowing them to be slaughtered at will. It is extremely common to massacre dozens of cities, destroy three or four countries, and refine a magic weapon.

Therefore, he rejected what Song Dao said because Song Dao did not pay the price to make his heart move.

The dynasty established by the rebel king who was able to destroy the Song Dynasty sword must not be a false dragon, but a human-king body was born from the common people. Such an immortal, given his level, wouldn't care too much, but he wouldn't help Song Dao kill him either.

"disciple……"

Song Dao gritted his teeth, knowing that he should bleed.

He kowtowed to Taoist Lord Wangui again and said: "I know that the Immortal Sect cannot interfere with the secular world, but what I want is not for the Immortal Sect to help me reestablish the country, but... to ask for three years of dragon vein from Fengxi Country. Continuously!”

"In these three years, the disciple will definitely condense the first-grade Dragon and Tiger Taoist elixir in one fell swoop."

"If successful, this disciple is willing to serve Dao Lord for a hundred years in order to repay his kindness."

It is unrealistic to help him reestablish the Fengxi Kingdom.

But with the Immortal Sect's methods, it shouldn't be difficult to help him keep the Fengxi Kingdom's dragon veins running for three years...

After saying that, Song Dao looked at Jindian silently, waiting for Dao Lord Wangui's reply.

In fact, with his cultivation of jade liquid returning elixir, and the Dao elixir realm that he is about to reach, if it is just a mortal rebellion against the king, he has enough means to deal with it.

If Ye Jiming can't do it, then send a Xianji monk to kill him.

Xian Ji couldn't do it, so he sent Huandan monks to kill...

but--

The trouble is.

Xu Xing is a real dragon with the appearance of a human king, and he also has the body of a bright king. This kind of qualification is much stronger than when he was seeking immortality. As long as Xu Xing doesn't die in the future, it probably won't take long to grow to his level...

Therefore, Lingyin Peak saved Xu Xing and protected this true human dragon.

In this case, he cannot target Xu Xing, the sect's immortal talent who is about to become an immortal.

Although the two had a blood feud and Xu Xing misunderstood the foundation of his enlightenment, his power was not strong enough to influence the Immortal Sect's decision-making and shake up the Immortal Sect's rules.

Therefore, he did not ask the Immortal Sect to help him target Xu Xing, but only asked the Immortal Sect to protect him for three years without stopping his dragon veins.

In this way, his goal of condensing the Dao Pill can be achieved.

From the perspective of the Immortal Sect, he is the weak one. Moreover, in just three years... it was a good thing to obtain an additional first-grade Taoist True Lord for the sect, and it would not affect the human king Xu Xing too much...

In addition, he has drawn on his future and is willing to spend a hundred years serving Lord Wangui Dao.

No matter how you look at it, it will be Wangui Daojun's profit.

"Three years..."

"Protect your dragon veins to continue..."

The indifferent voice of Wangui Daojun came from the Golden Palace, "I agree to this matter!"

Outside the hall, Song Dao listened to this fairy sound and was immediately ecstatic.

"Disciple, thank you Wangui Daojun for your kindness in protecting Dao."

"I will never forget it."

He stood up and bowed deeply.

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Even though Xu Xing had expected it, fate would not go as he deduced based on the fate of "official thief". For example, he established a country named Han instead of Zhou. Establishing the reign name is Tiande, not nectar.

Emperor Chongming did not hang himself in Wushan, but he sent Chang Ji to capture him alive...

But just when he was about to ambitiously attack the territory and complete the unification, he didn't expect that Feiyu Immortal Palace actually sent an immortal to give him an edict...

"Blood descendants are nothing more than mortal grudges..."

"How can it be compared to the brotherhood you will have in the future?"

The name of the immortal who issued the edict was Deng An. He stuffed the jade edict into Xu Xing's arms with a smile, "When Junior Brother Xu enters the Immortal Sect, in the past three years... Master Song will compensate you. You must think of the best in everything." , with the friendship of Dao Dan Zhenjun, you will have a smooth journey in the world of immortality from now on."

He didn't think much about Song Dao.

After all, it is normal for immortals not to care about their descendants who are separated by more than ten generations.

There is no blood relationship between them...

And Xu Xing enters the Immortal Sect, and from now on he will create the Immaculate Immortal Foundation, with the hope of becoming the third true successor of Huangdu Peak. Xu Xing will be Song Dao's junior brother by then. The friendship between senior brothers is enough to surpass the meager blood relationship.

"Song Dao is a man who will retaliate for his anger and is narrow-minded..."

"Back then, I didn't stop him from condensing the elixir to achieve enlightenment, yet he even cut me off with a single blow of divine will, and then killed me himself..."

"Now that I cut off his dragon vein, I almost caused his pill condensation to fail."

"Based on his character, he probably already regarded me as Kou Yu."

Hearing this, Xu Xing thought to himself as various thoughts flashed through his mind.

What Deng An said is not unreasonable, but such things need to be viewed differently. Some people are narrow-minded and some are broad-minded.

As it happens, Song Dao falls into the former category and is not broad-minded at all.

It's just that the current situation is stronger than that of others. No matter how much he is a mortal emperor, he must obey the orders of the Immortal Sect and cannot easily disobey him...

To resist the decree is to directly challenge the dominance of Feiyu Immortal Palace, the Xuanhe Immortal Sect.

The gain outweighs the loss!

Losing something big by being small!

If you really don’t want to do things according to the will, there is no need to resist it. Instead, they should first pretend to agree, and then cling to connections within the Immortal Sect's system to use internal power to cancel the decree.

"When I was a minor official in the court, I often read the history of the country, and I admired heroic figures like Taizu of Fengxi Kingdom the most."

"Emperor Chongming is fatuous and immoral..."

"It does not affect Zhenren Song's saintliness."

In Ziwei Hall, in the side hall, Xu Xing gathered his thoughts, stuffed the jade edict into his sleeve, and complimented Song Dao.

Since Song Dao is willing to pretend to be "benevolent and righteous" for the time being, why not take advantage of his plan and first dispel Song Dao's scruples about him, show his enemy that he is weak, and then reverse the situation when there is a suitable opportunity.

"Junior Brother Xu is right..."

"Zhenren Song has always enjoyed a good reputation in the Immortal Palace and has good moral character."

Seeing Xu Xing accept the order, Deng An breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

Although with his immortal base cultivation, he can now crush Xu Xing to death with one hand, but Xu Xing is an immortal talent valued by the Immortal Palace, his status is far above him, and his future future is limitless.

He didn't want to offend Xu Xing because of the decree.

Now Xu Xingneng voluntarily waited for three years and gave up three years to Song Dao to condense the elixir. It can be said that everyone is happy. Not only did he make friends with Song Dao, the destined Dao Dan Master, but he also made friends with Xu Xing, the future immortal talent in the sect...

This mission as an envoy is a good thing!

"I wonder if Master Song has any gifts to congratulate me on becoming emperor?"

"Senior brother and I, it stands to reason..."

"That's fine."

"Sending goose feathers from a thousand miles away is a light gift but heavy affection. Even if Master Song didn't bring me anything, I wouldn't feel grudge or care about it..."

After chatting for a while, Xu Xing changed the subject and asked Deng An for the gift Song Dao had given him.

Since Song Dao wanted to pretend to be brothers and sisters, then he would obey Song Dao's wish...

Junior brother established the system and proclaimed himself emperor,

Senior brother, it’s okay if you don’t express your feelings.

"this……"

Deng An was stunned for a moment.

Even though ordinary grievances are not worth mentioning, but...Xu Xing destroyed the Song family and the country, even though Song Dao, the ancestor of Fengxi Kingdom, didn't care at all, he asked Song Dao to send Xu Xing a gift of becoming emperor..., what do you think? No matter how I feel, this is awkward and inappropriate.

"Junior Brother Xu is willing to give up three years of his time to Master Song. It is appropriate for Master Song to reciprocate..."

"Junior Brother Xu is obviously asking for gifts at this time, but in fact he doesn't want Master Song to be too grateful. After all, kindness is as great as hatred."

Deng An thought about it and felt relieved.

He thought he had "guessed" Xu Xing's inner thoughts.

"Senior brother came in a hurry..."

"I must have forgotten to bring the congratulatory gift from Master Song."

"Junior brother Xu, don't be anxious. Senior brother will come as soon as you go..."

After Deng An dropped these few words, Yu Jian left.

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After Deng An left for less than a cup of tea.

Xu Xing's eyes were slightly cold.

He wrote a secret letter and sent his eight hundred-mile fast horse to Chang Ji and other generals who were fighting abroad, ordering them to swallow up the entire Fengxi Kingdom as soon as possible and not to wait any longer.

There were also people from the political circles who secretly sent people to start offering rewards to assassinate the Song family clan.

Deng An had just stated that Song Dao's method of reuniting the dragon veins was to have the princes of the Song family establish small courts in various places to reunite the broken dragon veins of Fengxi Kingdom...

Although the dragon veins condensed by this method are not as good as those of the previous orthodox dynasty. But for Song Dao, it was enough. Song Dao only needed the last bit of dragon luck to successfully condense the elixir.

"Song Dao..."

"The Taizu of Fengxi Kingdom is indeed not an ordinary character..."

"The mind, qualifications, and calculations are all top-notch."

Xu Xing sat on the dragon chair in the side hall. After taking a look at the thick pile of "Records of Daily Life" placed in the bookcase, he shook his head and thought to himself.

When the previous dynasty was defeated and the history of the later dynasties was compiled, the most important source of historical data was the "Daily Records" of each emperor.

Song Dao, the Taizu of Fengxi Kingdom, was naturally no exception.

"but……"

"No matter how many calculations you make, it's just a matter of one move..."

"I, Xu Xing, am half as good as you!"

Xu Xing sneered several times and focused his consciousness on the ancient bronze mirror in his mind.

[Mirror owner: Xu Xing. 】

[Path and fruit: Mingwangti (immortal green), underground master (half-immortal), dragon thief (purple), Wenchang (red), Weixin (red), and learned knowledge (white). 】

【……】

[Fate: Righteous Hero (yellow), Human King (green). 】

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After establishing the Han Dynasty.

He also successfully condensed the Immortal Green Fate [Human King].

[Human King (Immortal Green): All people are loyal to him, and his fate belongs to Ziwei. Wearing twelve crowns and imperial robes, governing the country and the people, practicing the way of the emperor, he is respected in the mortal world for thousands of years. Facing the calculations from foreign enemies, you are entrusted with the destiny, and you have a great chance of avoiding danger and seeking good fortune. Even in danger, you can survive. ]

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"You have condensed the Immortal Green Fate [Human King]. This fate conflicts with the Emperor Purple Fate [Dragon Thief]. Do you want to replace the Emperor Purple Fate [Dragon Thief] with the Immortal Green Fate [Human King] and solidify it with [Tao Fruit]?"

"This process is irreversible!"

On the mirror, lines of handwriting appeared.

"Once the Human King Fate is condensed."

"The dragon luck of the entire Fengxi Kingdom belongs to me. How can you, Song Dao... take it away?"

Xu Xing sneered several times.

A real dragon cannot be raised in shallow water.

The territory of Fengxi Kingdom can only support one human king. After he established the system and became emperor, he got the method of Feiyu Fairy Palace on condensing dragon veins and transforming dragon luck into human king body from Xuanji Temple.

But the method is just a method. If you want to condense the human king body, you must take over the sixteen rivers and mountains of Fengxi Kingdom.

This is the minimum requirement for transforming the human king body...

However... Xu Xing is different. He has plundered dragon luck in the copy world, and once proved, it will be forever proved. Now after breaking through the Divine Capital, the dragon luck gathered is enough to condense a human king body!

According to his guess, the fate of [Human King] is the human king body.

Just like the Ming King Body.

And once the human king body is formed, the luck of the world will be drawn back into his body and absorbed by him to achieve the human king body.

After all, power will not be born out of thin air.

Just like the old story of praying for rain.

He can sense that praying for rain has reduced his luck, but these lucks are absorbed by the bronze ancient mirror again and solidified in his body.