Qing Yu wanted to leave the Mountain River Academy.
From the very beginning, it was not Qing Yu’s own wish to come to Mountain River Academy. When he first made his plan to “escape from the Golden Cicada” in Yangcheng, he intended to find a veritable novice village map after he succeeded and take it one step at a time.
Unexpectedly, Lu Qifeng caught his tail and went undercover at the Mountain River Academy. If it wasn’t for Lu Qifeng’s accidental confirmation that the Heavenly Son Martial Arts Academy did exist, this undercover job would have taken at least three years without much progress. There was even a chance that his identity would be discovered and he would die on the spot within those three years.
In the Shanhe Academy, one has to be careful at all times, otherwise people will see what one is up to. Due to the long stay in the academy, it was not even easy to find a place to practise.
More importantly, Qing Yu’s literary skills were really not up to scratch. Every six months, Shanhe Academy would conduct an examination, and if you failed twice, you would be expelled. This is also a kind of spur to those exempt students who enter through the back door.
The lecturer who conducted this examination was Lu Qingzhu, who had betrayed the academy.
When he learned of Lu Qingzhu’s betrayal, Qing Yu finally knew where the reference answers had come from in the first place. And why Department Six was confident that Qing Yu would not be brushed off the exam every six months.
And now that Lu Qingzhu had run away, Qing Yu was afraid that if he stayed at the Mountain River Academy any longer, he would not even have time to practise and would need to spend all his time on Confucian scriptures and teachings.
Therefore, Qing Yu wanted to leave the Shanhe Academy. At the right time, Qingyu had the intention of closing his hearing to help with his “knowledge of things” and his Taixu eyes, so he used this as a reason to leave the Academy to seek medical treatment.
On the other hand, Qing Yu had also prepared a reason for his departure from Department Six. In the small secret realm, Qing Yu had hypnotised Luo Yan and made a good start and finish, putting all the blame on Brother Wu and the other four. And Brother Wu and the others could not afford to be investigated, because Ming Rui and Luo Feng thought that if the Great Qian side had such a big advantage and still lost, it could only be an inside job.
Compared to Luo Yan, who was alone and seriously injured, it was more likely that Wu and the other four were the traitors. By searching the soul of one of them, the actions of the four would be directly exposed. In the end, the four Wu brothers were thrown to the ground by the furious Divine Martial Marquis Luo Feng.
After the incident failed, Qing Yu, as a close friend of Feng Jiu as well as a scholar of the academy, was left behind to continue working undercover at the suggestion of Luo Yan. However, on the grounds that his disguised “Hao Rang Zheng Qi” was difficult to hide from Zhuge Long Su, who had already advanced to the Tong Shen realm, Qing Yu withdrew and continued his activities as Feng Jiu’s staff.
Qing Yu reveals to Lu Qifeng some of Feng Jiu’s unusual features, such as the possibility that Feng Jiu’s “Hao Rang Zheng Qi” is also disguised. This is used as a justification for acting in this way.
However, there is another problem with leaving the Mountain River Academy ——
“What about my ‘Black Heavenly Tribulation’?” Feng Jiu asked this question.
Feng Jiu’s ‘Black Heavenly Tribulation’ would come about once every two to three days if no martial force was activated. If there was active martial arts, it would come once a day. If there was a fierce battle, it might be necessary to input true qi to dissipate the “Black Heavenly Tribulation” after the battle. Therefore, Feng Jiu could not leave Qing Yu for a long time.
And it was also impossible to leave the Mountain River Academy with Qing Yu. It had taken so much effort to get Feng Jiu to make a name for himself in the academy, and to do so, he had offended the Northern Zhou Emperor who was eager for the martial arts of the Son of Heaven, so how could he just walk away?
“Don’t worry, I’ve already prepared a countermeasure.” Qing Yu pulled out a four-square box from his sleeve, placed it on the table and pushed it in front of Feng Jiu.
Feng Jiu opened this box and inside was a rolled round yellow crystal that shone with these micro lights. Feng Jiu suddenly became a little excited, he could feel that this yellow crystal contained something, or energy, an energy that he needed.
“What is this?” Feng Jiu asked as he looked up.
“You can call it – ‘Holy Relic’.”
‘Holy Relic’, or rather ‘Evil Emperor’s Relic’, was exactly the name of this yellow crystal ball.
Qing Yu had suffered from a lack of body refining techniques and a lack of body strength in the small secret realm, so it could be said that he was determined to find a good body refining technique.
If his body was not strong enough, he would not be able to use his “Taiyi Light Splitting Sword” to its fullest potential, and he would not even be able to use the “Dragon Subduing Palm” with ease. In the small secret realm, even a fighter who was not as strong as him had his hands turned red, so if he met an expert of equal or even greater strength who was also skilled in fierce martial arts, he would probably have to break his hands.
The “Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon”, the “Number One Palm in the World” in the original, is a great martial art even in this world, and if Qing Yu, a practitioner, were to have his hands broken by someone using the same masculine palm technique, he would really be ashamed of himself.
So, with no other way to obtain a body refining technique in a short period of time, Qing Yu used the remaining 2000 villain points to come up with two intermediate draws.
The result ——
3-star item “Evil Emperor’s Relic” and 3-star secret book “Innate Astral Qi”.
Although it was not a guaranteed one like drawing a two-star, which was good luck, it was far from Qing Yu’s expectation.
Moreover, the “Evil Emperor’s Relic” was still empty, it did not contain the essence of the evil emperors of the Evil Extreme Sect’s past generations, it was empty, just a true qi storage device.
The good thing is, even a piece of straw paper has its purpose, not to mention a three-star item. Now, it was the time for it to come in handy.
Qing Yu pointed to the yellow crystal ball and said, “This “Holy Relic” has the effect of storing true qi essence, and I have already input enough true qi into it to support you for four months. In these four months, even if you fight people day in and day out, you do not need to worry about suffering from the ‘Black Heavenly Tribulation’.”
“That’s good.” Feng Jiu stroked this seemingly plain yellow crystal very precious, this was his life for the next four months.
“Next, in the academy, you just need to be a normal student, you don’t need to do anything extra. Especially on the emperor’s side, you need to keep your distance from him so that you can also gain the support of the academy.” Qing Yu instructed.
This time, Chen Yan’s trio’s actions were basically untethered from the Northern Zhou Emperor, so they absolutely could not get too close to the Emperor now.
“Don’t worry about that,” Feng Jiu still treasuredly touched the ‘Evil Emperor’s Relic’ and said, “This time, that father of mine pulled Feng Qiwu out and ignored me, I am dead set on gaining his support. However, this is good, after the boundaries are clear, I can fall completely to the side of the academy.”
It was a blessing in disguise, the emperor had been unconcerned and disgusted with Feng Jiu. Even the gift of a reward not long ago was offset by this indifference towards Feng Jiu. Feng Jiu can fall back on the Shanhe Academy and get the full support of the academy.
In Feng Qiwu’s place, it would not be possible. Although he was a closed disciple of Zhuge Longxu, the emperor’s years of favouritism towards him and the fact that his mother was the empress of the dynasty were destined to be too much for him to give up. And a man with his heart set on outside forces could not, in any way, be the head of the Shanhe Academy.
In Qing Yu’s estimation, after what happened to Chen Yan and the others this time, the academy’s support for Feng Qiwu would definitely decrease.
“Mr. Ouyang spoke to me two days ago, saying that I could always approach him if I had problems with my studies, or even go to Dean Zhuge. The third floor of the Guardian Collection Pavilion is also open to me, and I can browse the books on the third floor at will. This time, I’ve made a big profit.” Feng Jiu smiled smugly.
The first and first floors of the Guardian Collection Pavilion were directly open to the core scholars. Above the third floor, except for a few scholars, others who wanted to enter needed an extremely tedious application and inspection.
As far as Qing Yu knew, among the first and second years, previously only Feng Qiwu could enter the third floor of the Hidden Preservation Pavilion at any time, now with the addition of Feng Jiu. Indeed, as he said, he had earned a lot, and it was not in vain that he had given the Heavenly Son Martial Science to the academy.
“There is also the Sixth Prince’s side, you also need to make more contact. At the moment, he is both a wonderful provider of benefits and a wonderful target, and having him cover will also cover up your recent positive wind investment.” Qing Yu reminded.
Since the Sixth Prince, Feng Chaonan, had gradually severed his ties with the Si family and cut back on his power, the emperor was not as wary of him as he once was. The fact that he and Feng Qiuwu were following Feng Mingxiao to represent the imperial family in the literary arena this time was a sign of his current prosperity. In the past, the emperor would rarely consider him for such a show of face.
Secretly, however, his power is growing rapidly. With the plague-like addictive nature of the Longevity Pill, he has ingested a large amount of benefits.
With these benefits to cultivate his power in the shadows, his overall power has in turn grown larger and larger compared to what it was before he severed ties with the Si family.
Of course, with the Pill Master, a pawn planted by Qing Yu, the person who benefits is Qing Yu. By using this pawn, who was currently trusted by the Sixth Prince to preside over his shadowy affairs, Qing Yu had stolen a lot of benefits from the Sixth Prince.
“Then where do you plan to go this time when you leave the Mountain River Academy?” Feng Jiu asked.
“It won’t be too far,” Qing Yu said, “That restless Sixth Imperial Brother of yours has recently taken the business of Longevity San to Great Qian. Right now, the Medicine Master is in charge of the sale of Longevity San at the border of Yan Prefecture, the generation bordering Great Qian.
I am going there this time to help the Medicine Master deal with some troubles. By the way —— borrowed the chicken to lay eggs and borrowed the Sixth Prince’s power to train the men we need for ourselves. The Sixth Prince’s focus has always been in this Divine Capital City, and he won’t devote much attention to things like selling Longevity San to the Great Qian, as long as the funds to be channeled are in place.”
Qing Yu raised the cup of tea in his hand and drained it in one go, turning the mouth of the cup towards Feng Jiu and said, “The imperial throne has bewitched his eyes, causing his eyes to only see this small Divine Capital City. He doesn’t know that Divine Capital City has always been under the Emperor’s nose, and no matter how much he does, the Emperor can destroy all of him with a single word.”
“Hehehaha ——” Feng Jiu lost his smile, “Divine Capital City, in your eyes, is only the size of this teacup, this is really ——”
“Isn’t it?” Qing Yu asked rhetorically, “Even the entire Northern Zhou only occupies two states of the Central Plains, and there are seven more states in the hands of the Great Qian. The world is so big that there are still mountains and rivers beyond the Central Plains. Is the divine capital just a small cup of tea to the world?
Or someone’s teacup. The Northern Zhou Emperor is in the prime of his life, and what he needs to do now is not to make it look as if he is going to die soon, as if he wants to sit on the throne tomorrow, but to bide his time. With the Sixth Prince like this, it will be hard to wait until the day the Emperor dies.”
Throughout Qing Yu’s previous history, a wise emperor in his previous life could not control his desire for power. Those imperial sons who became crown prince when the emperor was young basically had a hard time waiting until the day they ascended the throne.
This is still the previous world, in this world, with the existence of the martial arts dao, some crown princes may wait until the day they die, but the emperor is still alive and well.
“In that case, then I wish you a good journey!” Hearing this, Feng Jiu raised her cup of tea and said.
Qing Yu also poured the tea and set up a flag, “Bon voyage!”
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Three days later, Meng De, a student of Shanhe Academy, left the academy.
