Inside the Shouren Academy.
Xu Qingnian was a little confused.
The increase in cultivation of the Golden Crow Body Tempering Technique was instantly gone.
Yes, before, when he cultivated the Golden Crow Body Tempering Technique, the Qi and blood in his body rolled and moved, and one day of cultivation was better than a hundred days for others.
But now the cultivation speed was extremely average, just like not cultivating at all.
Oh, no, Xu Qingnian even felt that there was only a slight increase, even slower than if he hadn’t cultivated the foreign arts.
Originally, according to his plan, he would be able to break through to the eighth rank in three or five days without two months.
But at the current rate, it wouldn’t even be possible to break through to the eighth grade in three to five years.
“What’s going on?”
Xu Qingnian’s brows were locked.
He hadn’t cared about the martial realm during this period of time because he had the foreign art in place and could practice it whenever he wanted, just as a walk in the park, after all, he was within the Imperial City and wasn’t worried about anyone looking for him.
But now the supernatural arts had failed.
How could Xu Qingnian not panic?
According to the current situation, it would be difficult to raise oneself to the eighth rank, and even if one entered the eighth rank, what about the seventh rank?
“Don’t panic, it might be a body conditioning problem, try again.”
Xu Qingnian rea*sured himself in his heart that he should never panic, it was just a technical adjustment.
He took a deep breath and continued to start practicing the Golden Crow Body Tempering Technique, while also practicing the Taiyin Pulse Condensing Technique.
A little over half an hour later.
Xu Qingnian was completely silent.
For indeed, there was no half effect.
The foreign arts were really useless.
“Impossible, how could the foreign arts be useless? This is absolutely impossible.”
Xu Qingnian frowned, if the supernatural arts didn’t work, he was only afraid that he would be out of luck ah.
Don’t look at yourself in the imperial court, offending some county prince, the reason Xu Qingnian didn’t panic at all was because everything had a roundabout way, not daring to kill someone blatantly.
But heteromancy is different, once one can’t suppress it, one may become possessed.
Although he said that he had the Heaven and Earth Palace of Literature in his body, and that he was now of the sixth grade of Confucianism, he didn’t know if he could suppress this supernatural art.
This is a knife that hangs over one’s head at all times.
It is only because the cultivation of the supernatural arts is so fast that one drifts away, so one does not care too much.
Plus, with Confucianism around, there was no fear of the demonic seed suddenly erupting.
But now the situation that had arisen made Xu Qingnian actually a little confused.
“Is there something wrong with the body? Or is it something else?”
Xu Qingnian frowned, he didn’t know what the cause was, but he had to know the answer quickly.
Heteromancy was not something to fool around with.
It was also at that moment that a voice rang out.
It was Chao Ge’s voice.
“Brother Xu, come quickly!”
As Chao Ge’s voice rang out afterwards.
Without any hesitation, Xu Qingnian directly closed his eyes and sank his mind into the Palace of Literature.
The Heaven and Earth Palace of Literature.
Entering inside the Palace of Literature again after a period of time.
The entire Palace of Literature was much more magnificent than before.
No matter how many times one viewed it, it was still filled with shock.
And as Xu Qingnian entered, a scene that surprised him appeared.
In the middle of the Palace of Literature, two people appeared at that moment.
One was Chao Ge, handsome beyond words.
One was a middle-aged man, standing with his arms folded, who had a domineering aura between his brows and looked towards himself with curiosity.
“Brother Xu, you entered the sixth rank yesterday and the Palace of Literature sensed something, causing this one to awaken, but he has also forgotten many things, the same as I do, remembering only a little bit.”
Chao Ge introduced this person to Xu Qingnian.
“I am Xu Qingnian, I have met senior.”
After hearing this, Xu Qingnian instantly bowed towards the other party.
“Brother Xu, you are welcome.”
“I may have to trouble you to check my origins for me.”
The latter spoke indifferently, but was also very polite to Xu Qingnian.
Apparently Chao Ge had already informed the other party of many things.
“A small matter.” Xu Qingnian nodded, now that he was a Viscount of Great Wei and a Minister of the Household Department of Great Wei, he was no longer like the old days when he could not find any information if he wanted to.
“En, brother Xu is a generous person with excellent character, brother, there is no need to rush, you should properly detail your memories, so that it is also convenient for brother Xu to search for you.”
Chao Ge said with a light smile, allowing the other party to tell what memories he had left, so that it would be easy for Xu Qingnian to find them.
“En.”
The middle-aged man nodded and spoke immediately afterwards.
“Xu Xiandi, my humble brother doesn’t remember much, only one name that I remember, Sheridan, I should have fought with him during the great battle, so I remember his name.”
The middle-aged man said so, he had no recollection of his identity at all, but remembered the name.
“Sheridan?”
Xu Qingnian frowned, but didn’t think much of it, just wrote the name down.
“By the way, Brother Xu, you are now of the sixth grade and can forge the seventh grade of literary artifacts, it would be bad to delay any longer.”
Chao Ge spoke out, reminding Xu Qingnian that he could cast a seventh-grade literary weapon.
“Good.”
Xu Qingnian nodded, only he didn’t cast a Wen weapon immediately, but spoke up and asked Chao Ge.
“Brother, I’ve run into trouble.”
Xu Qingnian said in a serious tone.
“Eh?”
Both Chao Ge and the middle-aged man were naturally a little curious and turned their gazes towards Xu Qingnian.
“I’m not getting any results from my cultivation of the foreign arts, and my martial dao has not grown half as much as others, before a day of cultivation was better than a hundred times than others, but now a day of cultivation is probably not as good as an hour.”
Xu Qingnian said seriously.
He didn’t know what was happening, so he turned to Chao Ge to see if he understood.
“How could this be? Could it be that there’s something wrong with the foreign arts? This shouldn’t be, the supernatural arts I deduced for you, there’s absolutely no problem.”
Chao Ge frowned, he didn’t know what was going on either.
And this middle-aged man suddenly spoke up.
“Show me the supernatural arts.”
He spoke out, and Xu Qingnian didn’t hesitate, directly gathering his writing pen and copying down the original xiejutsu.
The latter read it carefully, and after a while he shook his head and said.
“There is not a single problem with the xiejutsu, it’s perfect.”
He gave his evaluation.
This answer made Xu Qingnian even more curious.
“Brother, then why is my cultivation speed so slow?”
“Is it because of the lack of an eighth-grade supernatural art?”
Xu Qingnian asked so.
“No!” The middle-aged man shook his head, then pondered for a moment and turned his gaze towards the Palace of Literature.
“It should be because your Confucian Dao grade is too high.”
He stated a possibility.
“The Confucian Dao grade is too high?”
Xu Qingnian was a little surprised.
He hadn’t really thought about it, but just as soon as he said this, Chao Ge couldn’t help but show a dawning realization.
“Yes, it’s true that Hao Ran Zheng Qi suppresses the devil seed, but your Confucian Dao is already of the sixth grade, but your Martial Dao is only of the ninth grade, there is a huge difference between the two, and the Confucian Dao suppresses the devil seed to death, causing your cultivation speed to drop dramatically.”
Chao Ge put it this way.
“Confucianism and the Other Arts need to be balanced, they can’t be too strong, not just these two, if you cultivate the Immortal Dao, the Buddhist Dao, or the Evil Dao in the future, you need to maintain a balance.”
“Otherwise those First Grade martial artists, who have already reached the top, can completely practise the Immortal Dao.”
The middle-aged man’s explanation made Xu Qingnian completely dawn on him.
“Then …… What should we do now?”
Understanding is understanding, seeing as Xu Qingnian could not think of a solution ah.
“There is no way to solve it.”
“Sixth grade Confucian Dao, ninth grade Martial Dao, there is a vein of suppression in itself, the good thing is that you practice a different art, if you practice something other than a different art, it is estimated that there will not even be a hint of growth.”
The middle-aged man shook his head, it was a dead end, it couldn’t be solved, the suppression between systems.
Why else wouldn’t those great Confucians go and practise the Martial Dao? Why didn’t they go and practise the Immortal Way? Other than that, prolonging one’s life would earn one.
“Actually, it’s not like there’s no solution.”
Chao Ge shook his head.
“You can’t raise your cultivation through normal cultivation, but you can raise it through other aspects, such as some heavenly treasures that can raise your strength after swallowing them.”
This was Chao Ge’s idea.
Only the moment this idea was spoken, the middle-aged man rejected it.
“In theory, it is possible, but the problem is that you can’t eat too much of such heavenly treasures, too much of them won’t be too useful, and such things are worth a lot of money, and some of them have a market without a price.”
The middle-aged man replied in this way.
This is the truth, eating heavenly materials and earthly treasures can definitely improve your cultivation, but the question is how much can you eat?
So this can be used temporarily, want to rely on this to improve your strength?
It’s better to wash up and sleep.
However, Xu Qingnian had some other thoughts inside.
Wouldn’t it be enough to break through to the eighth grade through heavenly treasures and then refine a seventh grade realm-breaking pill?
The biggest problem for Xu Qingnian today was the demon seed, what about the seventh grade after raising it to the eighth grade?
His own Confucianism is already the sixth grade, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to break through by relying on foreign arts alone, so he can only refine the realm-breaking pills, otherwise at this rate of cultivation, he will never be able to break through to the seventh grade in his lifetime.
And just at that moment, Chao Ge continued to speak.
“This way, don’t rush for now, even if the time is up, this devil seed won’t be able to help you much, your Confucian Dao is already of the sixth grade, unless the devil seed is also promoted to the sixth grade, it won’t affect you too much.”
“We’ll help you think of a way, if you mess up, you’ll be in trouble, let’s first condense the Wen weapon.”
Chao Ge said so, while Xu Qingnian nodded, he did not say anything about the Dan Shen Ancient Scripture.
“Good.”
Xu Qingnian agreed and then sat down within the Wen Pond and began to forge the Wen Weapon.
The seventh-grade Wen weapon had yet to be cast, and now he had to cast two Wen weapons in one breath.
The Wen Pen, the Wen Ruler and the Wen Bell.
Xu Qingnian did not rush to forge the three weapons immediately, but began to forge the names of the three weapons one by one after he had forged them.
A weapon needs a name before it can be transformed.
Xu Qingnian named them [Spring and Autumn Brush], [Persuasive Ruler] and [Eight Desolate Bells] respectively.
For the seventh-grade weapon, Xu Qingnian already had an idea, the Book of Words.
It was something like the Heavenly Decree, and Xu Qingnian left four words [Up to Heaven].
The meaning was that as long as one wrote something in the book, it would reach the ears of the saints, but of course whether one could do so was another matter, but as long as one reached the fifth-grade Confucian realm, at least there would not be any slight problem for the Emperor to see it.
The benefits of the heavenly decree, Xu Qingnian has already appreciated, but this kind of thing His Majesty will not reward too much, otherwise you have nothing to write a sentence in? Wouldn’t it be a bit of a problem to send it to His Majesty?
But with this thing, it would be much easier to send letters to anyone in the future.
A sixth-grade cast weapon, Xu Qingnian also thought of what it was.
A gentleman’s sword!
Yes, a sword!
Who said that a literary weapon could not be a weapon?
Xu Qingnian cast the sword weapon, deliberately did not make it particularly complicated, and did not leave words, just injected public opinion into it, going forward it was a gentleman’s sword, a king’s sword, and this sword was of great use between the hearts of the people.
As for the inscription, Xu Qingnian naturally responded to the scene.
For the seventh grade, he engraved seven words, “To know and act in unity, to conscience.
For the sixth grade, he engraved the text of his own words.
As the words were engraved, the Palace of Literature changed once again, while the purple Hao Rang Qi once again surged into his body.
This is activating the Confucian divine power.
The tenth grade is the word.
The ninth grade is the eye.
The eighth grade is the heart.
The seventh grade is spirit.
The sixth grade is the intention.
The Confucian Avatar is basically used to target evil spirits, so it is not very useful for the time being.
But something was better than nothing, Xu Qingnian didn’t care, more of this kind of thing was better.
When the casting was over, five literary weapons surrounded him at that moment, the Spring and Autumn Brush, the Persuasive Ruler, the Eight Desolate Bells, the Book of Words, and the Junzi Sword.
“Brother Xu, you are promoted to the sixth rank, the Sacred Book Room, from now on you can read books in it, it will be beneficial to you.”
After seeing Xu Qingnian cast his weapon, Chao Ge spoke out and informed Xu Qingnian of the changes in the Palace of Literature.
“Sacred Book Room?”
Xu Qingnian turned his gaze to the opposite side of the Martial Performance Hall.
“Thank you for your guidance, elder brother.”
Xu Qingnian nodded, but there was nothing to read at the moment.
However, just at that moment, the middle-aged man took out a piece of white paper and handed it to Xu Qingnian.
“This is a supernatural art, called the Da Luo Dan Yuan Art, an eighth grade supernatural art, I happen to have some records of supernatural arts in my memory, you can try to practice this, I can detect that you have already reached the ninth grade perfection, practicing this art, you might be able to break through to the eighth grade in one go.”
The middle-aged man said so, as he presented a foreign art to Xu Qingnian to see if it could help him.
“Thank you very much, brother.”
This was really an unexpected pleasure, but this magic art sounded familiar, the Da Luo Dan Yuan Art? When he thought about it, Xu Qingnian remembered that there was a magic art recorded in the Pingqiu Province Disaster Relief Silver Case, which was also called Da Luo something or other.
Xu Qingnian finished reading the foreign art quickly and left the Palace of Heaven and Earth Literature after memorizing it.
He opened his eyes.
It was still not yet dawn.
Xu Qingnian was still somewhat reluctant to try to cultivate, but the miracle did not occur, not a single improvement.
The Confucian Dao had suppressed it somewhat harshly.
Exhaling a breath, Xu Qingnian didn’t think much of it, he had now arrived at the ninth grade of perfection, and was just a foot away from the eighth grade.
If it wasn’t for the slow pace of cultivation, he could have broken through by now.
Right now, Xu Qingnian’s only hope was this Da Luo Dan Yuan Art, if he could break through to the eighth grade, he could at least ease the crisis.
Thinking of this, Xu Qingnian ran his body’s qi and blood, before gathering the Great Circumference and bathing in the moonlight.
Tenth Grade Nourishing Body.
Ninth-grade qi veins.
Eighth-grade Dantian.
A stream of qi and blood boiled within his body, and then spread around his dantian under the Great Circumference.
The Dantian is an extremely mysterious existence in the human body.
It can be called the door to the body’s treasures.
The martial artist first nurtures his body and absorbs qi, which not only strengthens his body, but also increases his strength and so on, but this internal qi does not last long in the body.
Therefore, it is necessary to condense the qi veins, so that the internal qi can be condensed in the qi veins, and in this way, it will not be necessary to gather qi in case of danger or temporary battles.
However, after condensing the chakra, it does not last long, as time gradually pa*ses and the internal qi in the body is not the purest internal qi.
Therefore, when you reach the eighth rank, you must open up your dantian and preserve this internal qi to keep yourself at the top of your game at all times.
This is the characteristic and role of the first three grades of the martial arts.
Xu Qingnian gathers his internal qi and gathers the Da Luo Dan Yuan.
Cultivating the Da Luo Dan Yuan Art was indeed better than the Golden Crow Body Tempering Art, but it was only a little better.
“I regret that I shouldn’t have not cultivated it earlier.”
Xu Qingnian was having a bit of a hard time, he was now really regretting why he hadn’t cultivated to the eighth grade earlier.
Why did he have to delay it.
Now it was good, frantically raising the quality of Confucianism and being too cautious, he had planted himself.
An hour later.
It was almost dawn.
Xu Qingnian had made no progress, if he had followed his previous cultivation speed, he would have broken through to the eighth grade by now.
The Da Luo Dan Yuan Technique was also not doing anything.
It was just that just as Xu Qingnian kept cultivating, a sudden and powerful energy didn’t enter his body.
“Is the foreign art effective?”
Xu Qingnian was somewhat surprised.
It was only in the next moment that Xu Qingnian discovered what was going on, it was the people’s power of faith.
The ma*sive amount of faith power was injected into his body and turned into rolling energy, which was equivalent to directly swallowing a heavenly treasure, instantly increasing his strength by leaps and bounds.
Xu Qingnian smacked his lips a little, he really didn’t expect that the people’s faith power could not only be turned into talent qi, but also into martial qi, saving the need for hard cultivation, this was really a golden oil.
Feeling this surging martial dao qi, Xu Qingnian barely spoke a word as he opened up his dantian with a flourish.
Boom!
An incense stick later.
With a rumbling sound within his body, as if he was opening up the heavens, Xu Qingnian’s qi and blood surged, and his entire aura climbed considerably.
The Great Luo Dantian coalesced like a black hole, expanding wildly. The martial arts dao was to develop the body, while the body held many treasures within it.
With the cultivation of the Great Luo Dan Yuan Technique, the Dantian within Xu Qingnian’s body expanded wildly.
Ten feet!
Hundred feet!
One thousand feet!
One thousand eight hundred feet!
The expansion stopped only when it reached 1,800 feet. An ordinary martial artist with 10 feet was considered excellent, while a martial genius with 100 feet was considered a martial genius, and the further you went, the more terrifying it became.
With the promotion to the eighth rank, a huge amount of internal qi was injected into it, and Xu Qingnian felt an unprecedented pleasure.
Boom.
Xu Qingnian gathered his fist and waved a fist towards the sky dome, and a dull sound rang out in an instant.
With this punch, it was estimated that a seventh rank martial artist would be somewhat unable to withstand it, right?
“It’s a pity that Cheng Lidong has already disappeared, or else I would let him have a taste of this iron fist of mine, I guess he would have to cry, right?”
Xu Qingnian lamented in his heart that it was a pity that Cheng Lidong had gone offline so soon, how good it would have been if he was still around, at least he would have been able to try to try his iron fist.
After reaching the eighth grade.
The power of the Hundred Faiths was also almost empty, but fortunately, he had finally stepped into the eighth grade.
Sensing some demon atlases, all sorts of information surfaced at that moment.
[The three-legged golden crow, a demon god of heaven and earth, transformed into a sun, reflecting the heavens, the most virile and virile, with a ferocious character.
[Current state: Seventh Grade, healed, will advance to Sixth Grade in a year].
[After the sixth grade, if you can suppress it, you will receive the blessing of the Golden Crow’s divine thoughts]
—
As one steps into the eighth grade, the demonic thoughts of the three-legged Golden Crow also step into the seventh grade in the same way, the good thing is that it is the sixth grade of Confucianism, which can be perfectly suppressed.
It was just that he only had one year before the three-legged golden crow’s demonic thoughts would be promoted to the sixth grade.
A year’s time.
Isn’t this too F**king rushed? Isn’t this upgrade speed a bit outrageous?
I’m going up one grade and he’s going up one grade?
What makes this demonic thought upgrade so fast? Why?
Xu Qingnian was really feeling the pressure.
No, not feeling pressure, this is simply forcing herself to die.
If he could cultivate the magic, he would be able to break through in at least a year.
But now that the supernatural arts were gone, what could I do to rise to the seventh rank?
By relying on the Dan Shen Ancient Scripture?
If you rely on the Dan Shen Ancient Scripture to break through to the seventh grade, then the demonic thoughts will also follow.
At this rate of advancement, how can I rise above it?
And it’s one rank and one heaven.
Confucianism can barely suppress it by half a grade, and if the devil’s thoughts are promoted to the sixth grade, Confucianism can still suppress it, but it can only keep itself from turning into a devil.
But if this rate of promotion of the devil’s thoughts is followed, after five grades, if one does not have five grades of Confucianism or five grades of Martial Dao, won’t one be able to wait for death?
At the same time, Xu Qingnian checked the other two devilish thoughts.
[Taiyin Jiao Demon, a dragon originated from the grievances of the dragons of heaven and earth, but unable to transform into a dragon, hates all things and kills endless living beings, later subdued in the Devil’s Abyss of the North Sea by a supreme power, terrifying.
[Current realm: Seventh grade of martial arts, will be promoted to Sixth grade in one year]
[If you can subdue it, you will be granted the extreme power of the dragon]
—
[Ancient Demon, a chaos-born demon that only knows how to devour, born at the beginning of heaven and earth, destroyed at the time of its emptiness, later suppressed by heaven and earth]
[Current state: Seventh grade of martial arts, will be promoted to Sixth grade in a year’s time]
[If you can suppress it, you will be granted the Great Power of Devouring Heaven]
—
This is a demon born from the Da Luo Dan Yuan Art, one that is much stronger than the Three Legged Golden Crow and the Tai Yin Jiao Demon.
At the very least, it was obvious just by reading the introduction that this thing was very strong.
Moreover, the three demons in the Demon Atlas would all be promoted to the sixth rank after a year.
One three-legged Golden Crow had put himself under some pressure, and with three great demons, Xu Qingnian felt that he couldn’t hold his own.
“Brother Chao Ge, save me.”
Xu Qingnian could only call out to Chaoge to think of a solution, this was definitely not going to work if he didn’t think of a solution.
“No need to rush = rush, I have discussed with my elder brother, you should find a way to promote to the seventh rank anyway, and then with the power of Confucianism, suppress these demons once more to help you delay.”
The first thing that Chao Ge noticed was that these three demons had been healed.
Because Xu Qingnian had been promoted to the eighth grade, the Yuan Shen that had been injured before was also instantly healed, but because Xu Qingnian’s Confucian Dao had been promoted to the sixth grade, the demonic thoughts could not explode and were suppressed to death.
However, once he was promoted to the sixth rank, one three-legged Golden Crow was fine, but three demons together would not really be able to resist.
But Chao Ge was not without a solution. He could suppress these demons one more time and hurt their spirit, and then he could delay them for at least another year, although he could treat the symptoms but not the root cause.
Hearing what Chao Ge said, Xu Qingnian nodded his head.
Breaking through to the seventh rank in a year was not that difficult, with the Dan Shen Ancient Scripture around, it was completely doable.
When he broke through to the seventh grade of martial arts, he could then suppress the demons and give himself a little more time to wait.
However, Xu Qingnian was now worried about one thing.
How long was it to promote to the fifth rank after the sixth rank? Two years?
How long was it for the fifth rank to advance to the fourth rank? Three years or four years?
How long was it for a fourth grade to be promoted to a third grade? Five years or ten years?
How about the third grade to the second grade?
What about the second rank to the first rank?
At this rate of promotion, wouldn’t this require one to become a First Grade Martial Artist within twenty years?
Or become a Confucian saint.
The pressure on time is too great, twenty years will pa*s in the snap of a finger, and for a dynasty, twenty years is really not much time.
One has to think about it and figure out exactly what one is going to do next.
As the old saying goes, if you are born with worries, you will die with peace and happiness.
Getting up and going back to his room, Xu Qingnian began a new round of planning.
[First: Sixth Grade! No matter what, raise to the sixth rank within a year!
What seventh grade in a year? Xu Qingnian’s goal was the sixth grade, and he had to reach the sixth grade by all means, no matter what, and then frantically suppress the demon’s demonic thoughts in his body.
Second: Accelerate the development of Great Wei and get more public opinion for the sake of it]
Public opinion beliefs can be converted into the purest martial arts qi, one’s promotion to the sixth rank had depleted a large amount of public opinion beliefs, and now the martial arts realm could also rely on public opinion beliefs for conversion, naturally Xu Qingnian intended to accelerate the development of Great Wei and hurry up to obtain more public opinion beliefs.
There is no longer any use in disliking people, now it is about doing practical things and making the people of Great Wei really eat and drink, so that they can truly be respected by the people and gain their hearts.
Thirdly, to make a realm-breaking pellet, to find a way to break the magic, and to find out the identities of several people in Chao Ge].
The people’s hearts must be won, but at the same time, he must also refine a realm-breaking pellet. No matter how demanding it is, with a realm-breaking pellet, he can break through the realm directly, saving time and effort.
But in the process of refining the realm-breaking pills again, one must also go and read some books properly, especially books on the supernatural arts.
If he didn’t get rid of this thing, Xu Qingnian was really unsure of himself.
Of course by the way, he would investigate a little more information about Chao Ge’s people.
There was one thing that Xu Qingnian was curious about, and that was why did Chao Ge and the others know so much about the supernatural arts? But after thinking about it Xu Qingnian could only think that they were once half-saints, and even sub-saints, so it was no big deal if they knew a bit of supernatural arts.
Certain of these three ideas.
Xu Qingnian set his eyes on the Dan God Ancient Scripture now.
The Dan God Furnace was placed quietly on the table and shook slightly, when the Dan God’s voice rang out.
“What’s wrong?”
A bit of a voice that had just woken up rang out, and Xu Qingnian was straightforward.
“Senior Dan Shen, I’ve entered the eighth grade.”
Xu Qingnian opened her mouth, informing the other party that she had broken through to the eighth rank.
“The eighth rank?”
Hearing this, the Dan God instantly perked up.
“You want to refine a seventh-grade realm-breaking pill?”
The Dan God asked.
“En, I still hope senior will tell me what those ingredients are needed for a seventh grade realm-breaking pellet, so that junior can have someone find them.”
Having entered the eighth grade, Xu Qingnian did not intend to cultivate, and went straight to collecting materials to break through to the seventh grade.
“Good, good, good.” It could be seen that the Dan God was very happy, he was very excited and said, “The prescription for the Seventh Grade Realm Breaking Pill is relatively simple, so mark this down, one catty of Heavenly Meteorite Gold, one sixth grade Spiritual Wood Heart, one catty of Ten Thousand Year Purple Jade Marrow, one Burning Valley Spiritual Flame, and one catty of Yin Underworld Sand, and you can refine the Seventh Grade Realm Breaking Pill.”
Dan Shen said, naming the five ingredients, according to gold, wood, water, fire and earth.
“Good, if the ingredients are collected, how long will it take to refine it?”
Xu Qingnian opened his mouth and asked.
“Within three days.”
Dan Shen spoke with certainty.
“Alright, I’ll go ask then.” Xu Qingnian didn’t understand what these ingredients were at all, but she could go ask and see if it was okay to get them.
“By the way, do you want a few whole Realm Solidifying Pills? You’ve entered the eight grades, but each grade isn’t complete and perfect, I can still help you refine the Realm-Solidifying Pill so that there won’t be any flaws, which will be of great benefit to you in the future.”
The Dan God asked.
“What ingredients do I need for this?”
Hearing this, Xu Qingnian was naturally interested, it was quite good to fill in the flaws.
“It doesn’t need any other materials, ten grade solid realm pills, ten thousand spirit stones, fifty thousand for the ninth grade, one hundred thousand for the eighth grade, and three hundred thousand for the seventh grade.”
The Realm-Solidifying Pill didn’t need any materials, just spirit stones.
“Good, if there are any, I will come back to bother senior.”
Xu Qingnian knew what spirit stones were, they were hard currency for Immortal Dao cultivators, as for how much they were worth Xu Qingnian really didn’t know, he would check later.
“Okay, wait for your good news.”
Dan Shen was happy, it seemed to be finally opening.
And at that moment.
It was already almost dawn.
It should be time to get ready for court at this time, but Xu Qingnian called out to Yang Hu.
“Yang Hu, go and find Lord Gu, the Minister of Household Affairs, and tell him that I’m a little unwell and ask him to take a sick leave for me.”
Xu Qingnian shouted, he did not intend to go to the court.
What would be said in the courtroom today and what the civil and military officials would do, Xu Qingnian could basically guess.
The scourge of the Fan merchants had been resolved and the treasury had received an objective amount of silver, so Xu Qingnian planned to plan at home how to spend the money.
Only one of his three axes has fallen so far, with the remaining two axes targeting the scholars and the powerful respectively.
At the same time, the taxation in Great Wei does need to be changed and cannot be treated equally.
At the very least, a minimum levy should be introduced, otherwise there would be no substantial benefit to the people, the scholars and some country squires and landowners, who are the main targets of taxation.
The powerful and wealthy are naturally no match for these gentry and landowners and the readers, who are, after all, only the middle cla*s in any country.
The taxation of the powerful and noble is just the icing on the cake, the real aim is to weaken them so that they have no capital to rebel.
So the second axe, which must never fall lightly, must wait if it is to be truly implemented!
At least half a year later, otherwise, it will lead to chaos, and this group of scholars and gentry will definitely not agree, but can not do the same as the Fan merchants want to kill.
So one must think it through, every step needs to be thought twice, either don’t move, or move with a flourish.
After a while, Xu Qingnian withdrew his mind and asked Yang Bao to prepare the bath water and take a bath to rest and relax.
Half an hour later.
Great Wei Imperial Palace.
Above the courtroom.
The voice of Gu Yan, the Minister of Household Affairs, resounded in the middle of the great hall.
“Your Majesty! After a careful and rigorous investigation by the Ministry of Accounts, this time, the rebellion of the Fan merchants has resulted in 70,000,000 taels of silver and 50,000,000 taels of a*sets, all of which have been transported to the state treasury.”
Gu Yan’s voice rang out.
His words were loud and clear.
How many years have pa*sed.
How many years had it been.
He was finally able to speak out loud like this.
Over the years, whether it was His Majesty or other officials, whenever money was talked about, his first reaction was to bow his head and shut up, because the treasury had no money.
This bunch of military officials, clamouring for a northern expedition, north of your masters, where do you get the silver for a northern expedition? You give it to me?
There are other departments, such as the Ministry of Justice, which needs more staff, the Ministry of Rites, which needs silver, and so on.
Now it’s good, I have money in the Household Department.
I’m showing my cards, I’m a billionaire.
Gu Yan was a little smug, he raised his head, looking at the crowd at this moment, inexplicably feeling that they were all a bunch of pikers.
“Hiss!”
Also just after Gu Yan said this, the sound of sucking in cold air instantly rang out.
The ministers were all stunned, unable to believe that this was true.
Except for the Minister of War and the Minister of Penalty, the rest of them were stunned.
Seventy thousand million taels of silver.
And 50,000,000 taels worth of good land a*sets.
Several State Princes could not help but mutter.
“These Fan merchants are so rich? I should have known to cut them off earlier, so why worry about not having silver for the Northern Expedition?”
“No wonder Qingnian’s nephew is looking for trouble with these merchants, so he knew that they were so rich? I regret that I didn’t know about it earlier.
“70,000,000 taels, that’s enough for the Northern Expedition, right?”
The military officials couldn’t help but murmur one by one, they were really shocked by this astronomical figure.
As for the civil ministers, however, they spoke up at the first opportunity.
The Minister of Rites was the first to step forward and shouted.
“Your Majesty, now that the treasury is in surplus, I implore Your Majesty to allocate funds to the Ministry of Rites, firstly to prepare for Your Majesty’s birthday, and secondly because the official uniforms in the palace as well as the civil and military officials, the imperial regalia and so on all need to be replaced recently to welcome the changes in the first year of the new dynasty.”
“I, I implore Your Majesty.”
The Minister of Rites was the most thievish, knowing that there was money to be had, and hurried over to ask for money.
“How much do you need?”
The Empress said in a calm tone.
Perhaps it was because there was money, the empress did not retreat from the question, instead she asked it directly.
“Not much, five million taels will do.”
Wang Xinzhi, the Minister of Rites, stated a figure.
As soon as this was said, Gu Yan’s voice rang out.
“Five million taels? What do you need so much silver taels for? We have official uniforms and imperial ceremonies that we can put off, and they are not too old, so now that we have a little silver, we have to spend it indiscriminately?”
Gu Yan said this astronomical amount, proud of it is proud, but you ask him to take the money out, he still can’t spare it.
It was so easy for the treasury to be full that he could not spare the money.
“No, Minister Gu, what do you mean by that? When His Majesty’s birthday is celebrated and messengers from all nations come, aren’t the various rewards silver? Furthermore when the amba*sadors come, if we are still dressed in our old official clothes and use our old things, how will people see us?”
“Besides, what I want is not much, only five million taels, my lords, you judge, is it too much?”
Wang Xinzhi spoke up, he didn’t feel he was asking for too much.
“Five million taels is too much, Your Majesty, I do not agree, at most 500,000 taels. Is this not disgusting to others? We won’t give it this time, we’ll talk about it next time.”
Gu Yan directly knocked down the price, five million taels would definitely not do, let’s give half a million, save your money.
“Hiss! You’re a real miser, Minister Gu, you asked for five million taels, and you’re putting me down to five hundred thousand taels? What’s 500,000 taels for?”
“Three million taels is the minimum, you have to give it even if you don’t. If you don’t, I dare to say in front of His Majesty today that in the future, your Household Department will use the worst and oldest things.”
Wang Xinzhi also lost his temper.
Seventy thousand million taels of silver! Brother, 70,000,000 taels, I want 5 million taels, is that too much? It’s not much at all, okay?
“That’s fine, then I won’t give you a single tael… Oh, Lord Wang is really a good man, he can even send old clothes without paying silver… I’d like to thank Lord Wang for the Ministry of Household Affairs.”
At this moment, Gu Yan instantly changed greatly, the mention of silver taels made his whole person different.
Showing off that the treasury had money was fine!
Making the treasury pay for it? Sorry, please lie down on the side and don’t get in my way.
“You!”
“You!”
Wang Xinzhi pointed at Gu Yan, his arm trembling.
“Don’t argue anymore.”
“It’s a big deal for the envoys of the nations to come, allocate two million taels, the imperial regalia need not be replaced, as for the official robes and such, replace them above the fourth rank, forget it below the fourth rank.”
The empress spoke up, allocating two million to be a peacemaker, five million she also felt was a bit much, but half a million was also less, two million was almost enough.
“Your Majesty! This …… Alas, forget it, thank Your Majesty for your kindness.”
Wang Xinzhi had some difficulty, two million taels was indeed not enough, but after thinking about it, he let it go, anyway it was still early, the big deal was to grind it out slowly.
Immediately after the Minister of Rites said this, the Minister of Officials, Chen Zhengru, came out.
“Your Majesty, since two million taels have been allocated to the Ministry of Rites, I hope that Your Majesty will allocate some to the Ministry of Officials, not to raise the salaries of officials, but for the past three years, the salaries of officials everywhere have been extremely low, and there is no reward.
Chen Zhengru spoke up, but he didn’t say that he would raise the salaries of all the officials in the world, which would definitely not work, because just because Wei was suddenly rich, it didn’t mean that they could collect so much money every year.
If there was so much silver every year, then indeed the wages could be increased.
“How much does Ai Qing need?”
The empress asked calmly.
“Minister, it should not be too much, fifty million taels.”
Chen Zhengru said without a blush on his face.
The civil and military officials: “…….”
Empress: “…….”
Good man, good man, good man, what is called a lion’s mouth? This is called a lion’s mouth.
50 million taels? All the officials in the whole of Great Wei would probably not need that much even if they were given out all over again, right?
This is equivalent to an extra month’s salary.
“Lord Chen, are you serious?”
Gu Yan spoke a little oddly.
“That’s not true, it’s mainly to leave room for bargaining, how much does Lord Gu think is appropriate?”
Chen Zhengru smiled, he knew he was asking for a bit too much, but he couldn’t help it, if he really wanted to say 8 million taels or 10 million taels, he wouldn’t get it back.
It would be better to just set a sky-high price and then let you press it slowly.
“How about eight hundred thousand taels?”
Gu Yan thought about it and said an extremely low amount.
Chen Zhengru: “…….”
Eight hundred thousand taels?
Are you still a human being? Eight hundred thousand taels for each person to share a couple of meters as a gift for the Mid-Moon Festival? You can give that away?
“A minimum of twenty million taels.”
Chen Zhengru’s expression became serious.
“One hundred and fifty!”
Gu Yan also became serious.
“Minister Gu, you are going too far ha, the Ministry of Rites is giving two million taels, and my entire Ministry of Officials is only giving one hundred and fifty?”
Chen Zhengru was a little annoyed, I’m getting serious and you’re still playing this game with me?
“Twenty million taels is impossible, three hundred, three hundred is the limit, not even a tael more, not even to death.”
Gu Yan also put down fierce words.
Just three million taels, not one tael more.
“Your Majesty! Minister Gu is already old, let him go back, I am willing to take over the responsibility of the Ministry of Household.”
Chen Zhengru was too lazy to bother with this guy and applied directly to go to the Ministry of Household.
It was quite good to replace the Minister of Officials with the Minister of Household.
“All right.”
“The two loving ministers don’t argue, let’s allocate eight million taels to the Ministry of Officials, and then promise that there will be next year as well, only more and no less.”
The empress continued to neutralise the situation, giving eight million taels, but promising to give it next year as well, and that it would only be more, not less.
It was not much, but at least the officials were looking forward to next year’s Mid-Moon Festival.
The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Rites had finished asking for the silver.
The Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Punishment followed suit.
After some bickering, the Ministry of Penalty was sent away with 700,000 taels and the Ministry of Works with 1.5 million taels.
It was also at this point that a voice finally rang out.
“Your Majesty! Since the treasury is now full, can the matter of the Northern Expedition be discussed again?”
With the sound of this voice.
The courtroom was instantly quiet.
