After listening to Zhang Juzheng's recommendation, Jiajing recalled for a moment that Li Chunfang was usually quite tactful and sophisticated in dealing with things.
After being promoted to the first Jinshi in the 26th year of Jiajing, he served as editor of the Hanlin Academy. Later, he was selected to be admitted to Xiyuan. He specialized in writing Qingci for his predecessor, which was highly appreciated. After that, he was promoted to Hanlin bachelor's degree and is currently Taichang Shao. The position of Qing.
"How could I forget this person!" Jiajing thought, looking at Zhang Juzheng with a hint of praise in his eyes.
"Well, this candidate is quite good. Please inform the cabinet. The candidate for the examiner of this imperial examination will be Li Chunfang!"
"Having the number one scholar serve as the examiner will surely inspire the scholars of Ming Dynasty."
Jiajing said, and then added something.
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
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After the cabinet meeting, Jiajing returned to the Yangxin Hall, sat cross-legged on the futon, and began to practice the exercises.
With the purple energy surrounding his body, Jiajing entered a mysterious and mysterious realm, and in a trance, he came to a secret realm.
But this time, what appeared in the secret realm was not the dragon from last time, but a cave, more like a cemetery.
In the cave, there was a skinny corpse wearing a Taoist robe sitting cross-legged. There were no traces of mosquitoes around the corpse, so the corpse was relatively well preserved.
Jiajing entered it and found nothing unusual, but when he wanted to get close to the body, an inexplicable feeling lingered in his heart. If he took one step forward, something terrible would happen.
Jiajing stopped and looked around carefully. He saw that there were faint lights flickering between the rock walls of the cave. These lights, from point to line, and from line to surface, together formed an extremely mysterious formation.
At this time, Jiajing could feel that the mana in his body was slowly growing and becoming active at the same time.
"Is this a spirit gathering array?" Jiajing recalled the novels about cultivating immortals he had read in his previous life, and couldn't help but raise such a conjecture.
Jiajing then turned his eyes to the corpse sitting cross-legged in the formation. He couldn't see it clearly when he was far away. Now that he looked closer, it gave Jiajing a creepy feeling.
The limbs of the corpse were all twisted and deformed, and he was in a strange posture. At the same time, his face, which was not completely decomposed, still retained the panic look before death, as if he had seen something extremely frightening.
Upon seeing this, Jiajing secretly increased his vigilance, activated his magic power at the same time, and prepared the Thunder Jue to prevent possible situations that might arise next.
Perhaps sensing the fluctuations in mana, the formation that had previously surrounded the corpse began to move automatically, launching several attacks at Jiajing.
Perhaps it was because the formation had been deployed for too long, and there was no mana injected into it, so its power was greatly reduced. Jiajing just dodged a few times and dodged.
"Hmph, thirty-six thunder places, seventy-two yin gates, the general movement of Yuan Qi, turning Qi into thunder and sky, thunder is coming!"
Jiajing recited the mantra and at the same time mobilized the magic power in his body. In an instant, several thumb-width thunderbolts emerged and struck directly at the formation.
After being attacked by this attack, the light of the formation was dimmed by more than half. Jiajing saw that the thunder method was effective, and then mobilized the magic power in his body, and several thunderbolts struck the formation.
"Boom!" The formation could no longer withstand such an intense attack and was completely destroyed.
Jiajing quickly stepped forward to check the condition of the body. Seeing that the body was not damaged, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, it's okay, the body was not broken."
Immediately afterwards, a feeling of exhaustion came from all over the body. Most of the mana accumulated in the body was consumed, and there was no way to quickly restore the mana. Jiajing had to rest on the rock wall beside him in the hope of regaining some strength.
When it was almost time to rest, Jiajing slowly came to the body. He still held Lei Jue in his right hand and poured mana into it to protect himself if something went wrong.
"I'm offended." Seeing that there was no danger and that the body was extremely dead, Jiajing lowered his guard and started groping around the body.
Soon, a bag attracted Jiajing's attention.
"Is this... a storage bag?" Jiajing carefully removed the bag and poured his own magic power into it. Since the original owner was dead, Jiajing easily erased the soul mark left behind. After the soul mark was destroyed, Jiajing took out the contents of the bag.
There are more than a dozen stones that exude aura, a few books, a few unnamed elixirs, and the diary left by the owner of the storage bag.
Jiajing didn't care about anything else, but just picked up the diary and read it.
"Since I was a child, my master has told me that there are immortals in the world. He often said that the way to become an immortal is all about fate. When fate comes, you will become an immortal. I asked the master what fate is, but he laughed and didn't answer."
"The master is dead. He died in Qingxu Temple. He looked very scary when he died. His limbs were twisted and his death was terrifying. It seemed that he had seen something terrible. I don't know what happened to him. After he was buried solemnly , and left the Qingxu concept where I grew up."
"I traveled around the world, trying to find the fate that the master said, but even if I traveled through thousands of mountains and rivers, I could still find no trace of the immortal. Is the master lying to me? Helpless, I returned to Qingxu Guan."
"Later, I picked up an abandoned baby and taught him carefully. Watching him grow up day by day, I was very happy. I also taught him the same way my master taught me, and passed on everything about Qingxu Kuan to him."
“And one day, he asked a question that I had asked before: “Master, do immortals really exist?” "
"I smiled and explained to him: "The journey of cultivating immortality depends on the word fate. When fate comes, immortality will be achieved. "
"Then what is fate? He asked."
"I smiled, and when I was about to answer, something suddenly dawned on me..."
"Hahaha, I have become it, I have become an immortal cultivator! Master did not lie to anyone, Master did not lie to anyone!"
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"It's fake, it's all fake, there's nothing... I'm going to die too."
The diary ends here, and the rest of the writing can no longer be read clearly.
After Jiajing read the diary, he was speechless. Then he sighed and said softly: "Thank you, fellow Taoist, for your guidance."
After Jiajing said that, he used his magic power to dig a hole in the hole and solemnly placed the body into it.
After burying the body, Jiajing began to count his harvest, including more than a dozen spiritual stones and some scattered elixirs. Jiajing also briefly browsed through the books and found that they were about formations. The content of the book was too obscure and difficult to understand, and he didn't understand the words on it. After a few glances, Jiajing put it in his storage bag.
Immediately after Jiajing walked out of the cave, he found that everything behind him began to gradually collapse, disillusioned, and in a daze, Jiajing returned to the Hall of Cultivation of the Heart.
The moment Jiajing woke up, he hurriedly touched the storage bag at his waist and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that the storage bag was still there.
"It seems that everything I have experienced before is real. I don't know what will happen if I fall in the illusion?" Jiajing thought for a moment and quickly put this question behind him and stopped thinking about it.
Jiajing took out the formation secret book from the storage bag and began to try to study it. He planned to maximize the use of more than a dozen spirit stones in it. It would be great if he could restore a spirit gathering formation, which would greatly speed up his cultivation. There are benefits.
