"Congratulations, Your Majesty! Congratulations, Your Majesty!" The eunuch who had been wailing just moments before knelt down without caring whether it was true or not.

"Master, how do you go to the moon?" Emperor Jiajing, however, was not swayed by the flattery.

Li Changzhou glanced at Yaochi, who smiled gently, and a cloud descended from the sky, landing in front of the side hall.

"Your Majesty, come with me!" Ignoring the exclamations of the palace maids and eunuchs, the guards' attempts to stop him, and the Jiajing Emperor's last-minute retreat, Li Changzhou pulled the Jiajing Emperor toward Xiangyun.

Even after entering a certain range, the auspicious clouds did not disappear, proving the skill was indeed effective.

"Your Majesty, please ascend the auspicious clouds," Li Changzhou said with a smile.

The eunuchs, palace maids, and imperial guards all trembled and stared in disbelief at the white clouds before them.

Emperor Jiajing carefully lifted his foot and placed it on the ground.

It's very soft, but it feels solid when you step on it!

Emperor Jiajing's heart pounded. Since ascending the throne, he had been a believer in Taoism. Now, eighteen years later, he had seen countless strange people and events, and witnessed real people summoning wind and rain. But when it came to him, Taoist temples were built one after another, and Taoist eulogies were written one after another, yet nothing came of it.

But now, he has ascended to the auspicious clouds!

"Your Majesty, hold on tight! Let's go see if there really is Chang'e!"

Auspicious clouds rose from the ground, carrying Emperor Jiajing, Li Changzhou, and Yaochi, flying towards the overcast and snowy sky.

"Your Majesty, it's cold outside, please put on your cloak! Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

Emperor Jiajing looked down and saw Huang Jin carrying a cloak and holding up the hem of his clothes, running wildly across the snow-white palace square, shouting loudly, and in the blink of an eye, he became a small black dot in the white expanse.

He looked around; the snow was falling heavily, and the Forbidden City and the capital were all in sight.

A cool breeze swept across their faces, snowflakes fluttered down, and the yellow tiles, red walls, houses, and bridges below swept past in a continuous line. In the blink of an eye, they had already ridden the wind and soared into the sky.

The sky was azure, the sun shone brightly, and the sea of ​​clouds churned.

"Hahahaha!" Emperor Jiajing laughed loudly, feeling his heart expand and finally experiencing the mindset of an emperor who could conquer the world.

No, it's the carefree life of immortals roaming the four seas!

Li Changzhou stood to one side, his robes fluttering, looking like a god. He smiled and said, "Your Majesty, the moon is very far away from us. We need to speed things up now."

Before Emperor Jiajing could react, the auspicious cloud beneath his feet suddenly flew out, stretching a long white wave through the sea of ​​clouds below.

Emperor Jiajing kept his eyes closed, and after an unknown amount of time, his speed finally slowed down.

"Your Majesty, we have arrived."

Emperor Jiajing slowly opened his eyes and saw only desolation, with potholes and endless brown and gray land stretching as far as the eye could see.

"Where am I?" He looked around.

Li Changzhou spent half of January traveling back and forth to the moon. In order to fulfill Yang Qinglan and Li Qianxia's idea of ​​going to the moon, he developed a "capability" bubble that could move freely on the moon based on the "Thai Fighting Fish Oxygen Bubble".

Inside the bubble, one can breathe freely for a short time without being disturbed by radiation or lunar dust.

"This is the moon, and there—" Li Changzhou pointed to the sky, where the distant Earth, like a large blue glass bead, hung. "Your Majesty, please look, that is the land of China."

Emperor Jiajing stared at the blue bead, unable to recover for a long time.

On the last day of 1539, the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, which was New Year's Eve, the Jiajing Emperor's worldview was shattered.