Seven days later, He Ping'an returned to Xuanyang, and Zhuo Yungui, the Minister of Rites, personally went to greet him outside the city.
"Master He, it's been a hard journey."
Zhuo Yungui looked at He Ping'an who had traveled a long and dusty journey and cupped his hands.
"Shang Shuo, you're welcome."
He Ping'an returned the gift and then entered the city with Zhuo Yungui.
"Master He, you have done me a big favor this time."
Zhuo Yungui continued: "You don't know that when the news of your successful recruitment came back to Xuanyang, many officials were stunned."
"Especially Liu Yong from the Ministry of Household Affairs and Yang Shangshu from the Ministry of War. They were already prepared to join me if their recruitment failed. On that day when they went to court, their faces were dark the whole time and they couldn't say anything."
"Especially Yang Shangshu, when he retired from the court, he personally performed a handstand walk in front of all the civil and military officials."
"Ha ha ha ha......"
Zhuo Yungui, the Minister of Rites, brushed his beard and laughed.
Liu Yong from the Ministry of Revenue and Yang Shangshu from the Ministry of War have always been his old enemies. Now that they were slapped in the face, how could he not be happy?
After the two entered the city, He Ping'an handed the recruitment letter to Zhuo Yungui and returned to the Palace of Eternal Life.
Going to court to meet the emperor later was too complicated, so Zhuo Yungui could just handle it.
...
He Pingan quickly returned to the Alchemy Department, and then sat cross-legged in the alchemy room.
His mind sank into the clone that was still in the Department of Biochemistry, and he was about to see how the preparations for the big killer weapon he had refined were going.
The scene in front of him was blurry, and He Ping'an's mind had already fallen into the clone. What came to his face was the suffocating green poisonous mist.
He Ping'an didn't care much about these poisonous mist. He had already tasted it many times. For him, even one day's practice could not increase at this time.
But if the monks who are in the transcendent realm dare to step into this place rashly, the green poisonous mist alone is enough to eat a pot of these monks who sneak in quietly.
In front of him, there were countless bottles and jars made of transparent glass, as well as some homemade tweezers, measuring cups, test tubes and other tools.
If a modern person enters this place, he will be surprised to find that except for the lack of gloves, masks, and protective clothing, it looks like a modern biochemical laboratory.
In a closed transparent bottle, there was a group of dark green mist, which was rising continuously with extremely spiritual energy.
However, there is a golden talisman attached to the body of the bottle, which is constantly flashing with spiritual light, revealing the extremely corrosive nature of this mist. If it had not been suppressed by the talisman, I am afraid that the mist would have been unable to hold it back and escaped from the bottle. out.
He Pingan opened the bottle, opened his mouth and drank half of the dark green mist, then smashed it into his mouth. The taste was slightly bitter, but the effect was pretty good.
Below the true fairyland, it can be said that there is no possibility of survival.
He Ping'an put half a bottle of green mist into his arms with satisfaction, and then his mind changed and he sank into another clone.
The environment in which this clone is located is similar to that of the previous clone. The only difference is that what this clone has developed is a bottle of blue liquid. However, this bottle of liquid has not yet fully matured. .
"Five grams of weak water..."
Based on the results of the previous experiment, He Pingan picked up a test tube and poured five grams of weak water into the blue liquid according to the scale.
The weak water entered, and the faint blue liquid began to boil immediately like boiling water.
He Pingan quickly injected a trace of mana into the talisman to stabilize the test tube, so that the test tube did not collapse.
It wasn't until half an hour later that the blue liquid slowly returned to calm.
"It's done!"
He Ping'an was extremely pleasantly surprised. This time, the blue liquid did not evaporate and disappear like before, but stabilized.
It seems that after many experiments on his own, he finally succeeded.
This faint blue liquid is a result of him using his own secret skills such as pill making and medicine to understand all the elixir scriptures of the Changsheng Palace, and combined it with the bone-corroding poisonous rain, weak water, etc. in the wind and rain. It is also very useful for transcending the realm. The poisonous water that threatens the world is a venom that has just been developed.
In total, there is only one small bottle like this.
"But I don't know what the effect will be?"
He Pingan pointed his finger and drew out a drop of venom with magic power, which immediately fell into his mouth.
All the test products were tasted by He Ping'an personally, and he was well aware of the toxicity of these test products.
The venom entered the body and He Ping'an immediately fell into a daze.
Yidan Pavilion appeared in front of him in an instant. Unfortunately, there was only the busy figure of He Pingan's clone in the picture.
Immediately, the reward appeared, and the Tao was practiced for three hundred years!
"Huh......"
He Ping'an was a little confused. In the past, rewards were based on obtaining treasures or magical powers before rewarding Taoism.
This venom is good, there is no magic treasure reward, it directly rewards Taoism.
However, the reward is not low. One drop of venom for three hundred years is much stronger than the pill of the Dragon King and Prince that he took before.
After a second thought, He Pingan understood.
Although his venom has just been refined and born, he has already tasted all the raw materials in it.
For example, he had tasted the bone-corrosive poisonous rain, weak water, and other poisons in them before integrating into them.
So there are no other rewards, only Daoxing rewards, which is normal.
He Ping'an waved his hand and ingested a few drops of blue venom again, entering his mouth, and the Taoist rewards continued to appear again.
It wasn't until He Ping'an had used up almost half of the entire bottle of venom that he was still unsatisfied.
It's a pity that the venom at the end, like other poison pills, increases the Tao Xing very little. Otherwise, he will definitely have to try some more.
He kept the remaining half bottle of venom close to his body. This bottle of venom was not easy to refine. The most important thing was that some of the raw materials were difficult to find even in He Ping'an.
It was the time when the Palace of Eternal Life began to collect poisons and poisonous weeds, and some raw materials were collected.
In a short period of time, it should no longer be refined.
Of course, hard work pays off and everything is worth it.
Not to mention the rewards of Taoism and practice, the toxicity of this venom is far higher than that of other poisons. After He Ping'an tasted it just now, he used his own Eight-Nine Mysterious Gong true energy to wrap it. That was it. In a short time, the Eight-Nine Mysterious Gong was The power was also completely corroded by the venom.
Moreover, this venom can not only affect the human body, but also the human soul will be affected by the venom.
It has the same effect as the misty soul-eating powder.
But compared to Misty Soul-Eating Powder, its toxicity is more powerful and its effect is faster. Even the Golden Immortal may not be able to withstand the double poison of body, soul, and soul even if he is not careful.
If we go to the southern border, this venom should be useful.
As for the name, since this venom is refined from seven kinds of poisonous water, He Ping'an will temporarily call this venom, Xuanming Seven Poison Waters.
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The second day, Xuanyang Imperial City.
Jinluan Palace.
Emperor Longqing sat high on the dragon chair, looking down at the civil and military officials in the audience, and then said in a deep voice: "My dear friends, who has the book to write?"
Zhuo Yungui, the Minister of Rites, immediately stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to report to you."
Seeing that it was Zhuo Shangshu, Emperor Longqing's eyes warmed up and he said, "That's right."
"Your Majesty, He Ping'an, the alchemist of the Alchemy Department, has fulfilled his mission and successfully recruited Black Wind Village. He has brought back the recruitment letter, and please express it personally, Your Majesty."
Siluke
After Zhuo Yungui finished speaking, he handed the recruitment letter to Chen Daban who came down.
Emperor Longqing took the book of recruitment, glanced at it casually, and said with great joy: "Shang Shuo has solved my urgent need, so I will reward you!"
After receiving the news that the recruitment was successful, Emperor Longqing wanted to reward Zhuo Yungui, but was stopped by the ministers, saying that the recruitment letter had not been brought back at this time, and he did not know whether it was true or false.
Although they knew in their hearts that this matter could not be false, they still tried their best to stop it.
However, by this time, they already knew that the general trend could not stop Zhuo Yungui's reward at all.
However, Emperor Longqing's reward still surprised all the officials.
"If you are awarded the Cabinet Bachelor degree, you can refer to the matters of various ministries."
Originally, there were only three bachelors in the cabinet, but when Zhuo Yungui entered the cabinet, he became the fourth bachelor.
Does this mean that one of the three bachelors in the cabinet may be squeezed out?
The corners of Yan Shoufu's mouth moved, but in the end he stood silently and said nothing.
When the new emperor Longqing took over, he would naturally make some adjustments to Daxuan's officials. This was just the beginning of his minions.
Yang Shangshu was stunned for a moment, but he didn't know what to say.
Liu Yong's eyes were cold and he said nothing.
Originally, he was the most promising minister to advance to the cabinet, but at this time, Zhuo Yungui took the lead.
All the civil and military officials present fell silent immediately.
The person who laughed at Zhuo Yungui before and tried to stop him now wanted to slap himself in the mouth. He had offended this popular man in front of Emperor Long Qing. I'm afraid the days to come would not be easy.
"I thank the Lord for His kindness. Long live Your Majesty! Long live Your Majesty!"
Zhuo Yungui was overjoyed and quickly knelt down and saluted Emperor Longqing.
"Zhuo Aiqing, no courtesy."
Emperor Longqing waved his hand, and a stream of true energy enveloped Zhuo Yungui, and he stood up involuntarily.
His cultivation level, which had just broken through to the first-level realm, could easily withstand Emperor Longqing's true energy.
But of course he followed the donkey's descent and stood up.
Emperor Longqing smiled and said: "Since I am the Lord of Daxuan, I must have clear rewards and punishments. Anyone who does things for me will naturally be rewarded, but if he violates my will, I will naturally not let him go."
After speaking, his stern gaze glanced at the civil and military officials in the audience intentionally or unintentionally, causing a chill to rise in everyone's hearts.
I know that the Emperor Longqing above will no longer be as easy to do as the Emperor Jiaming who did not go to court before.
If you continue to use the previous method, you may just drop a stone on your own foot.
Just a few days ago, Emperor Longqing handed over all the monks who were attached to King Jing and participated in the Dragon Fight to the Ministry of Punishment, and all of them were dealt with severely according to the crimes they had committed before.
Most of the monks were sentenced to death and their heads were displayed in public.
Today, the heads of those monks are still hanging on the city gate.
Only Zhu Ming and a few other monks escaped due to carelessness, but they were also more or less implicated.
All the civil and military officials felt uneasy. After a long time, Emperor Longqing lowered his voice and broke the tense atmosphere in the court: "My dear friends, if you have something to do, please leave the court!"
The tense atmosphere was broken, and the civil and military officials felt relieved and were preparing to retreat from the court first. After returning, they would carefully plan their future plans.
"Whoosh!"
At this moment, a messenger talisman suddenly flew from the horizon, with a shrill sound of breaking through the air, and fell directly into the hands of Yan Shoufu, who was still in court.
Yan Shoufu's expression changed. Unless it was an emergency, usually when he went to court, the communication talisman would not directly enter the Jinluan Hall.
Only some important military and national events will be reported to the Jinluan Palace.
Yan Shoufu quickly put his spiritual sense into the messenger talisman, then his expression changed, and he quickly walked out from among the officials: "Report to the Holy One, I have something to report to you."
"What's the matter?"
Emperor Longqing was also slightly stunned. He had originally planned to give these civil and military officials a blow after establishing his power.
Who knows, could something big happen again?
Yan Shoufu glanced at Zhuo Yungui, who was proud of the spring breeze at this time, and then said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, Chuzhou has come to report that Zhang San, the leader of Heifeng Village, led all the mountains of Heifeng Village just yesterday. Thieves, break out of camp."
"Isn't this a good thing?"
Emperor Longqing said in surprise.
"But just last night, he suddenly changed his itinerary and came north."
"What?"
Emperor Longqing's expression suddenly changed. He came north from Chuzhou, heading towards Xuanyang.
Could it be that this Zhang San pretended to recruit people, but in fact, he went straight to the capital under the pretense of recruiting people.
"But what else is there?"
Emperor Longqing asked quickly.
"Because it was midnight, when the Chuzhou side discovered it, it was already a little late, and they had not had time to contact the people in Heifeng Village."
Yan Shoufu quickly added.
"Trash, how come the governor of Chuzhou is supervising Heifeng Village? They are just a bunch of losers!"
Emperor Longqing couldn't help but became furious. Chuzhou didn't find out about such a major matter until the second day, so how could he not be angry.
Yan Shoufu remained silent. By this time, a steady stream of news was flowing into the communication device he carried with him.
Last night, the Chuzhou officials saw that Heifeng Village was following the agreement and relaxed their vigilance at night.
In the middle of the night, they suddenly discovered that Heifeng Village did not go south as agreed, but instead went north, so they urgently contacted the supervisors who stayed in Heifeng Village.
But found that they couldn't be contacted at all.
Only then did he realize the seriousness of the problem, and quickly sent out scouts to investigate and report it to Xuanyang.
Upon hearing this, Yang Shangshu of the Ministry of War immediately stood up and said: "Your Majesty, it is too late to blame the officials of Chuzhou at this time."
"Most of the bandits in Black Wind Village are people with good cultivation, and they can move very fast."
"Fortunately, the country's justice is in Xuanyang. Why don't we ask him to immediately lead the third-level masters to Chuzhou and command the Chuzhou soldiers and horses to block the road and kill him."
At this time, Liu Yong also took a step forward and took the opportunity to use his killing move: "Please, Your Majesty, punish Zhuo Yungui for his negligence."
At this time, Zhuo Yungui, as the initiator of the recruitment, was naturally to blame.
Emperor Longqing frowned slightly. Zhang San had already signed the recruitment letter. Logically speaking, he should not rebel easily. After all, the strength of Heifeng Stronghold was far different from that of Daxuan Court.
If he is entrenched in Heifeng Stronghold, it will be easy to defend but difficult to attack, so he will just resort to guerrilla warfare.
But if he chooses to attack Xuanyang, it will be unless he has a seizure.
As long as he didn't hide his master, he could even use beheading tactics and send two first-grade monks to kill his head in the midst of thousands of troops.
Once Zhang San is dead, the bandits will be like headless flies and have nothing to fear.
"Zhuo Aiqing, what do you think?"
Emperor Longqing glanced at Zhuo Yungui and asked.
After all, it was Zhuo Yungui who proposed the recruitment matter. Now that something unusual has happened, he should be asked for his opinion.
"Your Majesty, Wei Chen believes that this matter can wait and be looked at later."
Zhuo Yungui said: "And ordered Chuzhou Anhui to go and check it out and ask Zhang San, the outlaw, why he changed the marching route."
At this time, he felt a little uneasy, but thinking of Commander Qin's message and He Pingan's firm eyes, he chose to believe these two people.
Commander Qin personally pulled him back from the Netherworld, and he knew that he was able to break through to the first level, and Commander Qin's hard work was indispensable.
Especially Commander Qin, looking at Yun Danfeng Qing's every word and action, he felt like everything was under control.
Zhuo Yungui has great trust in him.
Of all the people here, only He Ping'an had contact with Zhang San, and he had the most say.
He believed in these two people more than he believed in Liu Yong and other political opponents.
"Nonsense!"
Liu Yong was the first to attack. He took a step forward, bowed his hands and said in salute: "Your Majesty, that Zhang Sanxiao is a lawless madman. He is lawless and dishonest in his words. You must not be credulous."
"If it is delayed for a long time, I am afraid that he will cross Chuzhou and enter Yongzhou, and Xuanyang will be in danger."
His voice was sincere and his words were sincere, leaving no doubt that he was sincerely thinking about the Daxuan world.
Yang Shangshu of the Ministry of War also wrote: "Yes, according to reports, their vanguard has arrived near Erlong Mountain on the border of Chuzhou. According to their speed, their vanguard will enter Yongzhou in another hour."
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