Chapter 68 Team! Silent all night. The next day, the Dinghaiwei garrison began to raid the homes of the Zhou family, a merchant family in Dinghai County. Of course, there is also the local gentry family, the Lin family. All the families that had dealings with the Zhou family directly spread to Jinjiang County and the entire southeast. There was solid evidence against all the merchant families involved, so the local government and the garrison took joint action and began to search their properties. The same goes for the gentry and wealthy families. Evidence of their illegal land annexation appeared in the hands of local authorities overnight. Countless nodes of the Xu Jie family's interest network in the southeast disappeared at this point. A hole was directly pierced in a big net.
At one time, a large amount of money was seized, and those lands would be directly taken over by Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang Province, and distributed to military households. In addition, with the strict party's preparation, slogans encouraging military farming were also shouted. For this reason, the news from the southeast spread rapidly within a day due to the deliberate propaganda of the Yan Party. In the southeast, many military households heard that the imperial court was going to reorganize military fields and would offer various preferential policies. Although it was just some groundless rumors, they were spread with certain details and did cause some waves. However, these news were suppressed in a short time. This was naturally another confrontation between the Qingliu and the Yan Party, but they were all minor skirmishes. The Yan Party knew that now that the matter had been settled, any further disturbance would be against the Emperor's will, and the Qingliu Party also knew that this was the end of the matter. Everyone knows that the real battlefield between the two sides will be in the north. As for the southeast, the status quo will remain. There will be no changes until the "war between the two factions" in the north ends. Jiajing knew nothing about the speculations of the Yan Party and the Qingliu Party, the finishing work in the southeast, and Hai Rui's instructions for his death. Because at this time, he was ready to enter the world of cultivating immortals. The setting sun was blood-red and the sky was getting darker. Jiajing raised his hand and handed a small bottle containing only one or two ounces of spiritual energy to Lu Fang. "There is one or two spiritual essences in here," Jiajing said in a serious tone, "You haven't entered the first level of Qi training yet, so you can't swallow it directly. Just touch it with the tip of your tongue and swallow it with saliva." "After that, use the huge spiritual energy to start guiding the Qi. After breaking through the first level of Qi training, you can swallow it in small sips." Hearing Jiajing's words, Lu Fang said with a serious expression, "Master, rest assured, I will remember your instructions!" "Yes," Jiajing nodded and said, "During my retreat, guard the Yuxi Palace and do not allow anyone to enter." "If there are other major events in the court, just pray at the gate of Yuxi Palace every day like last time, and I will know about it." "Yes!" Lu Fang nodded and agreed to everything. "Go down..." After giving all the orders, Jiajing waved his hand, waited for Lu Fang to leave, closed the door of the hall, and then cast a forbidden talisman to seal off the Yuxi Palace. Then his heart moved, his eyes slowly closed, and he communicated with the world of cultivation.
"Buzz." As the space rippled, Jiajing slowly opened his eyes and felt the rich spiritual energy filling the space between heaven and earth. The night of the Ming Dynasty is the daytime of the world of immortal cultivation. On the top floor of the Heritage Pavilion, outside the opposite window, the sky was just getting light. After a while, the orange-yellow morning sun shone from afar. After a while, the window was completely illuminated, and blade-like beams of light shone in through the gaps, and some dust rolled in the air. Well, even in the world of cultivating immortals, besides spiritual energy, there are still some dust floating in the air. However, these blade-like beams of light appear to be purer and brighter than those of the Ming Dynasty. After removing the restrictions set up around him and activating the formation on the top floor of the inheritance pavilion, Jiajing stood up and walked towards the stairs. The Heritage Pavilion has a total of six floors. Each floor is filled with bookshelves, but most of the bookshelves on the top four floors are empty. Only the two underground floors are filled with martial arts and other books that the three Dugu brothers collected from various places. Well, ordinary books naturally refer to those books about ordinary people, such as some classics of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, as well as some martial arts techniques. Some mortals who have not embarked on the path to immortality will also choose the path of martial arts and live another kind of life in another "world". The second layer is the various good and bad immortal cultivation techniques collected by the "Black Wind Village" before, as well as some inherited skills. The first layer is ordinary books and some common sense books in the world of immortal cultivation, such as various maps, ancient beast illustrations, biographies, etc. I walked all the way to the first floor of the stairs, and then I heard Liu Quan's hoarse and familiar voice. "The fourth elder of my Daming Immortal Sect is named Zhu Cong." Outside the Heritage Pavilion, Liu Quan, dressed in black and with a serious face, said to the twelve young men and women who were sitting cross-legged in the square outside the Heritage Pavilion. "The fourth elder is a genius," Liu Quan, who was wearing a black loose robe and had his hair tied up, looked quite decent. He looked around and saw the little guy with his head raised, and snorted and laughed: "Do you know how old he was when he embarked on the immortal journey?" As he spoke, a scoundrel-looking middle-aged uncle smiled and said, "If you guess correctly, you will be rewarded with two taels of spiritual energy!" When they heard about the quiz with prizes, the little ones immediately became interested and raised their hands and shouted "Me, me, me". "Well, in the third row, the fat guy on the far right, um, that's Dugu Donglai, it's you." Liu Quan pointed at the fat guy. “Shhh!” When his name was called, the five-year-old Xiao Pang sniffed his nose, pulled up his pants, and said, “Three years old!” When the other little ones heard this, they all looked at Liu Quan nervously, hoping to hear that the answer was wrong. "Hey, that's not right," Liu Quan put his hands on his waist, shook his head, and then looked in another direction, "Second row, third from the left, it's you, the girl from the Liu family, you say." "Six years old!" The little girl with pigtails and wearing a plain beige coat blinked her eyes, raised her little palm to make a "five" gesture, then stretched out her other hand and raised her fingers. "No!" Liu Quan pressed his hand, motioning her to sit down, and pointed at a few more little guys in succession, "No, no..." "Alright, all twelve of you didn't guess correctly, so naturally you won't get the reward. I will punish you by making you copy the Nine Songs of the Great Ming Dynasty one hundred times. I will check it tomorrow morning!" As Liu Quan's sinister voice fell, the wailing of the little ones rang out, and he didn't say that there would be any punishment if they answered incorrectly. The Great Elder is so bad! The little guys looked at Liu Quan with some resentment. Hearing this, Jiajing smiled, walked downstairs and came to the door. At this time, Liu Quan also turned around.
A smile appeared on his face with a neatly trimmed beard, and he said, "Just now I discovered the spiritual fluctuations of the top-level restrictions and the lifting of the formation, and I knew that you had come out of seclusion..." "Well, you're at the fourth level of Qi training. I thought you had made another breakthrough." As he spoke, Liu Quan looked Jiajing up and down. "After a month, my realm has only loosened a little, but there hasn't been much gain." Jiajing said, looking down at the twelve little guys who were looking at him curiously. At first glance, the oldest was about twelve years old, and the youngest was only three or four years old. Each little one was sitting cross-legged. Curiosity was revealed in their clear eyes. During this period, Liu Quan had brought them to meet many high-ranking officials of the sect. These little guys were all born in the village and had seen all the high-level officials in the village. The only ones they hadn’t seen were two. One is the third elder Liu Yuan, and the other is the fourth elder in front of him, Zhu Cong. "This is the norm. The fourth level belongs to the middle stage of Qi training. The breakthrough in realm belongs to another stage, so it is naturally more difficult..." Liu Quan smiled and nodded, saying, "It's only been a month, but your realm has already loosened up. I estimate that in another month, you will be able to break through to the fifth level of Qi training. By then, you will be on par with Elder Liu." Hearing this, Jiajing smiled without comment. It's only the fifth level of Qi training, and there's still some distance to go before he can build a foundation. And his goal is more than just this. "But you, have made another breakthrough?" Jiajing could clearly feel that Liu Quan's aura had also become stronger. "Yes," Liu Quan nodded, a look of satisfaction on his face, "Ninth level of Qi training, seven jumps nine!" Seven jumps to nine?! Upon hearing this news, Jiajing was also shocked. Liu Quan is the real genius, right? "Look at you!" Liu Quan rolled his eyes, "You are the only one allowed to practice quickly, are you surprised that I jumped to a higher realm?" He waved his hands helplessly and said, "It's thanks to the opening of the war." "Everyone has gained something from the war. The flesh and blood of the ancient beasts, as well as some spiritual medicines and rare treasures are all rare things on the road of cultivation. My cultivation has exploded because my life essence has been strengthened. With the feedback from my life essence, my cultivation has exploded." Opening up a war, Jiajing nodded in understanding after hearing this. At the same time, he was somewhat yearning for this opening up a war. "Don't think about it. If the master makes a breakthrough after coming out of retreat, he will most likely give the remaining temporarily useless resources to the brothers." Liu Quan saw the yearning in Jiajing's expression, smiled, and said: "By then, you should also have a share." "That's the nature of the Sect Leader. He's very generous to his brothers! Come, meet these little guys. You have to pay attention to them in the future..." "I will be responsible for teaching them how to practice, and you will be responsible for teaching them how to behave." Liu Quan looked at the little guys and said, "This is the fourth elder of my Daming Immortal Sect. Come over and greet me!" Hearing this, the little ones all stood up, bowed to Jiajing, and their childish voices rang out. "Disciple, I pay my respects to Elder Zhu!" Looking at these twelve little guys with childish faces, Jiajing put away his thoughts, put a smile on his face, and raised his hand to support them. "Get up," Jiajing's eyes flashed with an inexplicable color, "From now on, you should regard yourselves as students, and you can call me teacher!" These children are my disciples in the world of immortal cultivation. Of course, the disciples in Jiajing’s mind are not simply master and apprentice, but the team he wants to develop in the world of cultivating immortals! These children will be the second generation of disciples of the Daming Immortal Sect in the future, and will become the backbone as time goes by. Some of them will also be developed into confidants by him. In an instant, Jiajing thought of a lot, a lot of things. Thousands of concerns emerged in his mind, but they were not worthy of being told to others.
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