Demon Slayer

Chapter 206: Demon Summoner

"Kill a few chickens? Am I one of those chickens, or am I the monkey?"

Gu Li Nuan's eyes twitched, and she felt anxious. She took out a few Dafeng coins and stuffed them into the eunuch's hand. She walked towards the palace with her head held high. Not long after she walked, she met another eunuch who was also on his way to the Imperial Academy. He greeted her and said, "Congratulations, Master Gu!"

Gu Li Nuan said absentmindedly: "Eunuch, what's there to be happy about?"

"Master Gu, you may not know that the doctor of your Imperial Academy has made great contributions in suppressing the rebellion, and His Majesty has asked me to reward him and promote him."

Gu Li Nuan was startled and said in a lost voice, "Promoted again? The eunuch who just passed by promoted him, how come he was promoted twice?"

The eunuch who announced the decree said, "Your Majesty said that the first time, others did not do their job well, but the Imperial Academy Doctor did his job well, so he should be promoted to the sixth rank. And this time, it was the Imperial Academy Doctor who made great contributions in suppressing the rebellion and established great merits in southern Xinjiang, so he should be promoted again, to the fifth rank."

Gu Li Nuan took out a few Dafeng coins and quietly stuffed them into his hand, hesitatingly saying: "So he has made a contribution. The Doctor of Imperial College is a doctor of my Imperial College. He has made a contribution and received the reward, and I am also honored..."

"Yes!" The eunuch who announced the decree smiled charmingly and left in a hurry.

Gu Li Nuan was absent-minded and continued to walk towards the palace. He met another eunuch who was coming to announce the imperial eunuch. He was delighted when he saw him and said with a smile: "Congratulations, Lord Gu! Congratulations, Lord Gu!"

Gu Li Nuan said with a dark face: "Eunuch, what is there to be happy about?"

"Your Majesty has asked me to pass on your order to promote you to the position of Doctor of the Imperial Academy!"

The old eunuch smiled and said, "The Imperial College Doctor Qin Mu treated the Imperial Master's injury and was promoted to the rank of Fifth Rank Shangzhongsan Doctor, with the same treatment as the Imperial College! He was promoted three levels in one day. This is a great event for your Imperial College!"

Gu Li Nuan nodded woodenly, took out a few Dafeng coins, and stuffed them into the old eunuch's hand without anyone noticing, saying with a fake smile: "I am also proud of it..."

The eunuch walked away, and Gu Li Nuan's face darkened. One was promoted while the other was demoted. If Qin Mu was promoted again, he would be on the same level as himself!

He was promoted three levels in a row, and he had to spend a lot of money!

"If he gets promoted any higher, I will have to call him Sir."

Gu Li Nuan calmed down, went to see the emperor, and presented the list of scholars who died in the battle. Emperor Yanfeng was reviewing the memorials, looked up, took the list and read it, and said with heartache: "These scholars are my pillars of talent, the backbone of the country's future, but because the news leaked, they were killed by the traitors! I want to kill people!"

Gu Li Nuan had cold sweat on his forehead and didn't dare to speak. Who knew if the emperor wanted to kill him after he interrupted?

Emperor Yanfeng stood up, walked back and forth, and suddenly slammed the table, saying with great sorrow: "I issued an order just before I left, telling the scholars where to train. Why did they encounter an ambush? Gu Linuan, Gu Aiqing! Tell me, who leaked the news?"

Gu Linuan pondered and said, "From the battle situation in Lizhou, the Shaoyin of Lizhou Prefecture has already conquered Lu County. When the Imperial College and the scholars arrived in Lizhou, the rebels just performed the Soul Pulling Technique, which means that the rebels knew the exact time when the scholars would arrive in Lizhou, as if they had foreseen it. They should have received the news that the scholars came to train before conquering Lu County, which is why they were able to summon the soul of the demon back after Lu County was broken. This means that it was not the Imperial College or the scholars who leaked the news, but..."

He said with a stiff face, "It was me or those first-rank officials who leaked the news."

"The traitor is among us!"

Emperor Yanfeng sneered, "It seems that one of us wants me to move my butt and give him a seat. The people who came to discuss the matter the other day and knew about this matter, except for you and me, were all first-rank officials, several teachers of the prince, as well as the Minister of Education, the Minister of Works, and the Duke of Guo. Who do you think it is?"

Beads of sweat appeared on Gu Li Nuan's forehead. She clenched her teeth and said nothing.

Emperor Yanfeng glanced at him and snorted, "You dare not say it? You are disloyal to me."

Gu Li Nuan's forehead was covered in sweat. "I have been frozen in the Great Ruins for two hundred years. I don't know much about the ministers in the court, so I dare not speak rashly..."

"You are just talking nonsense, I forgive you."

"I am a dull-witted and stupid person by nature. I was even deceived by a doctor of the Imperial Academy into giving me the imperial sword. This shows how stupid I am..."

Emperor Yanfeng laughed angrily, pointed at his nose and said, "Don't try to take advantage of me! The Imperial Academy Doctor cheated you of your sword, you just need to bow your head and admit your mistake, and I will give it back. If you are stupid, what use is there for me to have you as the High Priest? Get out of here right away! Tell me, who do you suspect?"

Gu Li Nuan gritted her teeth, raised her head abruptly and said, "The prince's teachers are highly suspicious!"

"What did you say?"

Emperor Yanfeng was furious, and his imperial power exploded, forcing Gu Li Nuan to bow her head.

Suddenly, Emperor Yanfeng looked dejected and waved his hand, saying, "Gu Aiqing, you are very smart, very smart... Go down."

Gu Li Nuan was covered in cold sweat and slowly retreated.

"Come back." Emperor Yanfeng said.

Gu Li Nuan felt a chill in his spine, and walked back again. Emperor Yanfeng said slowly, "The Imperial Master has made great contributions this time, but I have not rewarded him. What do you think I should reward him with?"

Gu Li Nuan lowered his head and asked, "What can your majesty reward him?"

Emperor Yanfeng shook his head: "No more."

Gu Li Nuan thought for a moment and said, "Then I will reward the Imperial Master with beauty and wealth."

"You think the same as I think."

Emperor Yanfeng sighed, "But I am afraid he will refuse to accept it again as he did before."

Gu Li Nuan hesitated and said, "A lot of things happened this time. If the Imperial Master is really smart, he will definitely accept it this time."

Emperor Yanfeng was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "You are also a wonderful person. I didn't kill the chicken for you to watch, and you are not a chicken either, so go down. Also, don't always provoke the Imperial College Doctor. You can't afford to provoke him. His power is beyond your imagination. Every time you wear the shoes he gives you, I feel ashamed for you. I have appointed you despite all the opposition, and I don't want to clean up your mess all the time."

Gu Li Nuan was so ashamed that he retreated, thinking: "I can't afford to offend him? How could I not be able to offend him? I am a great master of the magic world, one of the few figures in the magic world, how could I not be able to offend a young boy in the Five Lights Realm? Have I lived in vain for the past few hundred years..."

Emperor Yanfeng continued to review the memorials, and suddenly put down his red brush, lost in thought: "I took this position in middle age, and even outlived several sons. It seems that my prince did not wait as long as I did to be the prince..."

In the Imperial Academy, Qin Mu received three imperial edicts and his official rank was promoted to Zhongsan Daifu, a fifth-rank official. Zhongsan Daifu was just a welfare official position with no real power. He was a type of civil servant and was praised as the country's top minister, but he was just an ordinary person.

Obviously, the emperor still had some doubts about him as the leader of the Demon Sect, and would not give him real power, so as to avoid the court and the country being filled with the villains of the Demon Sect.

Qin Mu casually threw the three volumes of imperial edicts into the west room, his heart calm.

He is also practicing the other four variations of the Five Lights Realm.

This time when they went south to quell the rebellion, Imperial Master Yankang gave them a lot of guidance. After returning from southern Xinjiang, Shen Wanyun, Si Yunxiang and others plunged into the Tianlu Tower to look for the skills to reach the Five Stars realm.

Si Yunxiang also borrowed the bookplate of the doctor of Taixue from Qin Mu and entered the third floor of Tianlu Tower to look up the skills.

"Master Yankang carried out reforms to promote the use of all laws in the world for the daily use of the people. The Yankang State is equivalent to a larger demon sect."

Qin Mu inhaled and exhaled the Star-Suppressing Power, and his body slowly changed. His two legs gradually merged into one, turning into a snake tail, a human head and a snake body, two or three feet tall, and two tightly closed doors appeared behind him.

During his trip to southern Xinjiang, he had already refined the four deities of the Five Stars Divine Treasures, namely, Chenxingjun, Yinghuoxingjun, Suixingjun and Taibaixingjun. However, the form of Zhenxingjun was difficult to refine. No matter how strong his vitality was, he could not form the most perfect form of Zhenxingjun.

This time he activated the Three Dan Techniques of Tyrant Body, and the tightly closed door behind him gradually became clear, but the words on the door were still a little blurry and could not be distinguished.

Zhenxingjun is extremely special among the Five Star Gods. The Zhenxing Dihou true skill, the first of the Five Stars, is unexpectedly difficult to practice, especially the portal behind Zhenxingjun.

Qin Mu was able to transform into the form of Zhenxingjun, but the portal was still difficult to blur to a clearly visible state, and the words on the portal were always blurred.

In the air, a stream of ochre-yellow light continued to surge and flow into his body. The power of the Earth Star surged in, making his deified body more and more stable. Gradually, Qin Mu discovered that Zhenxing Jun's form was changing, and there was a phantom of a book in his hands.

He looked at the shadow of the book, but still couldn't make out the words on it. However, from the strange patterns on the words, it seemed that the book was written in tadpole script, which looked like the sun, moon, insects and fish, and was completely different from the current writing.

Qin Mu had studied under the deaf master for nearly ten years. The deaf master also had a deep attainment in ancient Chinese characters, but he had never taught him this form of tadpole writing.

Qin Mu turned his head and looked at the words on the shadow of the portal behind him. Although it was still blurry, he could vaguely see that it was somewhat similar to the words in the book.

"What is this text?"

Qin Mu felt that something was strange. If every martial artist in the Five Stars Realm had such a double-door portal behind him, and the Deified Star Lord had such a book in his hands, then someone must have thoroughly studied the words in the book and the words on the door and parsed out the mysteries contained therein. Why didn't even the National Master mention this?

Could it be that in the deified state of other people's Zhenxingjun, there is no such portal and no such book?

As he was thinking, a heavy and demonic voice suddenly came from his mind: "Don't let your imagination run wild. This is the language of Youdu. How can a tiny and weak creature like you recognize the language of Youdu?"

Qin Mu was horrified, his hair stood on end, and he asked in panic, "Who? Who is talking in my body?"

"Pack?"

The voice laughed and said, "How long will you keep pretending in front of me? When I borrowed your eyes to check out the fighting skills of Master Yankang, didn't you recognize me? The summoner of the Lord of Dutian?"