Li Shiming did not immediately go to see Meng Bin, the national master of the Xia Kingdom. In his eyes, the extremely powerful national master of the Xia Kingdom, who could even kill the royal family, was nothing more than a loser in the process of cultivating immortals, a pitiful person who had not even achieved the foundation building.

"Shijie, can I come in?" He came to Li Shijie's door and asked.

"Brother, come in quickly!" Li Shijie ran out of the house in surprise and greeted him hurriedly.

This was the first time that Li Shiming came to Li Shijie's room. He didn't know what Li Shijie was like before, but now that his family was well-off, Li Shiming assigned Li Shijie a personal maid, a personal boy, two maids to do rough work, and two nannies.

This configuration is the same as his own, which means he completely treats Li Shijie as his younger brother.

In this world, adopted children are treated the same as biological children both in terms of legality and affection, not to mention that they are originally a family by blood.

"Shijie, there is something I want to discuss with you. Do you want to become the emperor of Xia?" After Li Shiming sat down, he asked Li Shijie to sit opposite him and asked directly.

Li Shijie was so shocked that he almost fell to the ground.

He looked at Li Shiming in horror. If such words got out, his whole family would be in danger.

"The entire royal family of Xia Kingdom is dead. If you have any ideas, I can help you ascend the throne, and you don't have to worry about the instability of the throne. As long as I am alive, no one dares to seize the throne of Xia Kingdom!" Li Shiming explained lightly.

Li Shijie was silent for a cup of tea. When he looked up again, there was a gleam in his eyes.

Li Shiming knew that he had made a decision.

"Brother, I'm willing to give it a try!" Li Shijie said, gritting his teeth.

He knew that if he missed this opportunity, he would regret it for the rest of his life. When he was adopted into the family, he was still young and sensible.

Ever since he was old enough to understand, he had received the most orthodox Confucian education. However, a few years later, Li Wenyuan was dismissed from office, his property was taken away, and he also lost hope of studying for the imperial examinations.

After that, he read a lot of miscellaneous books and understood a lot of truths.

He also has ambitions, but his previous life suppressed his ambitions. Now that his eldest brother has given him a chance, he wants to seize it.

Although he is not as good as his elder brother and can become an immortal who travels the world, he also wants to have his own value.

"Okay, but you have to remember that no matter what, one of your descendants must stay in the ancestral home. Of course, if you encounter a life-and-death crisis, you can resolve it as long as you come to the ancestral home!" Li Shiming said with a smile.

For Li Shiming, the countries in the mortal world are nothing more than games among mortals.

The life span of an ordinary person is no more than a hundred years, and very few people can actually live to be a hundred years old.

He can currently live for more than 500 years. For mortals, thirty years is the golden time of their life, so mortal life is too short.

He prepared a backup plan for Li Shijie. As for what would happen to Li Shijie in the end, he did not want to get too involved. Everything depended on Li Shijie himself.

Li Shijie will be luckier than the emperors of most countries in the world, as he has a Jindan cultivator behind him. You should know that Jindan cultivators will not look down on the benefits of mortal countries.

With Li Shiming, a mid-stage Jindan cultivator, as his background, no force in Xia Country would dare to covet it.

Li Shiming left the room with a smile, leaving Li Shijie in a state of excitement.

He walked to the front hall and saw Meng Bin standing respectfully.

"Meng Bin greets the senior!" Even though he knew that Li Shiming was less than 40 years old, Meng Bin, who was almost three times older than Li Shiming, still bowed and performed the salute as a junior.

In the world of cultivating immortals, age has never been the criterion, but strength has always been respected.

"Please sit wherever you like!" Li Shiming sat down in the main seat and waved his hand.

"Thank you for the seat, senior!" Meng Bin didn't dare to disobey. He carefully sat down half of his buttocks and kept saying it.

"I'm here to report to you, senior, that all 136 members of the Jin family have been killed, and the sect has sent me to welcome the new emperor to the throne!" After sitting down, he kept his body bent, trying to lower his body by more than a head compared to Li Shiming.

"The throne will be taken by Li Shijie. You just need to ensure his safety. After supporting him to ascend the throne, you don't have to worry about other things!" Li Shiming said lightly.

It seems that this is not about deciding the throne of a country, but rather an extremely ordinary matter.

This is indeed the case. Even Meng Bin has no feelings about the throne. It makes no difference to him who sits on the throne.

As a cultivator, if there were no specially arranged formations, he would not be able to endure staying in this mortal world for even a few days.

The spiritual energy here is too poor. For cultivators without abundant resources, living in the mortal world is equivalent to committing slow suicide.

"Obey the orders of the senior!" Meng Bin breathed a sigh of relief. Li Shiming's requirements were not high and he could easily complete them.

Of course, it was impossible for him to not help at all, but Li Shiming's requirements were low, so it was easier for him to operate.

"Mo Yan, take the national teacher to find Shi Jie!" Li Shiming ordered in a deep voice to the outside.

"Master Imperial Master, please come in!" Mo Yan walked in and gestured for invitation.

About half an hour later, Li Shijie changed into a dragon robe, went to the main house to meet Li Wenyuan, and then met Li Shiming, and then sat on the dragon chariot brought by Meng Bin.

Li Shijie's glorious life had begun. Li Shiming watched all this with a smile. These were just a piece of cake for him. He only hoped that Shijie's lineage could live a better life in the mortal world.

He turned and came to the main room, where Li Wenyuan sat in his original seat and drank tea.

"I don't know if it's a good thing for Shijie to become the emperor!" Li Wenyuan said with a hint of blame.

"I asked him, he really wanted to try it, but would come back if it failed!" Li Shiming answered easily.

Li Wenyuan thought about it and it made sense. With Li Shiming as his big brother, what would it matter even if he failed?

Although he didn't know how powerful and how high Li Shiming's status was in the world of immortal cultivation, when he saw the respect that Meng Bin, the national teacher, showed from the bottom of his heart, he knew that Li Shiming was doing very well.

He had met Meng Bin before. Meng Bin was the state teacher and an immortal. He treated all mortals, even the princes of the royal family, with a condescending attitude.

I have never seen Meng Bin treat mortals in this way, not even to previous emperors.

"Shiming, let's not talk about Shijie anymore. Let's play a game of chess and see if your level has dropped!" Li Wenyuan changed the subject and said with a smile.

The servant next to them came over and set up the chessboard. Li Wenyuan held the white pieces and Li Shiming held the black pieces. Li Shiming moved first.

It was the same in the past. Li Shiming was taught Go by Li Wenyuan, and when they had some free time, the father and son would often play a game together.

Li Shiming was very careful in his moves, not because he was not good enough, but because he needed to make his father happy, so he could not win, but he also could not lose too much and make his father lose interest.

The powerful magic weapon IBMz15 has become an aid in playing chess.

The day passed amid the laughter of father and son.

At night, Li Shiming bathed, washed, and went to bed with the help of Siqin. In the middle of the night, he used magic to put Siqin to sleep again, and he went to the underground space to practice.

The next morning, when he was paying his respects to his father, a message of magic arrived.

He did not disturb his father. He greeted his father and left the room before he took off into the air.

Bo Ran stood in the air with a corpse in his hand. After seeing Li Shiming, he threw the corpse over.

"Fellow Daoist Li, this is Bo Zhao's body. The sect's law enforcement team executed him!" Bo Ran said in a deep voice.

Li Shiming's spiritual sense grasped the corpse. This corpse was that of a foundation-building cultivator. The age and appearance matched the description of Bo Zhao's appearance that he had heard from Meng Bin's thoughts.

However, when he used his telepathy to listen, he heard Bo Ran's voice.

This was not Bo Zhao, but another foundation-building cultivator who looked somewhat similar to Bo Zhao.

As for Bo Zhao, he was currently imprisoned in Bo Ran's cave. They were going to let him change his name after Li Shiming left Tianhai Island.

"Bo Zhao? This is Sun Li, right?" Li Shiming asked with a sarcastic laugh.

Bo Ran's face froze. He couldn't imagine how Li Shiming knew about his substitution, not to mention how he knew the name of the Foundation Establishment Monk who had been swapped.

He did not tell anyone about this, and no one else in the sect knew about it except his son Bo Zhao himself.

Even Bo Zhao didn't know the name of the foundation-building cultivator who died for him, which made Bo Ran feel creepy.

"Fellow Daoist Li, you are indeed a genius, but don't push us too much. The Mingxin Sect is not so easy to bully!" Of course, Bo Ran would never hand over his son. The price a Jindan cultivator pays to give birth to a son is not small.

"It seems that I have to go to Mingxin Sect to ask for it in person!" Li Shiming said lightly.

"Then I will wait for you in the sect!" Bo Ran replied in a deep voice.

After saying that, he turned and left, and Li Shiming did not take any action here.

This place is located above the capital of the Xia Kingdom. Once a Jindan cultivator takes action, even without any aftermath, just the aura of the Jindan cultivator will kill many mortals in this city.

Besides, cultivators who have reached the Golden Core stage of strength are not allowed to fight in the mortal world. This is also the rule in the world of immortal cultivation.

Li Shiming didn't want to break this rule unless it was necessary. Although he had the ability to kill Bo Ran without any resistance, he didn't do so.

After returning home, Li Shiming told his father that he was going out to do some work and would be back in the evening.

He did not use the 'Lotus Step by Step', but instead used the Meteor Ink Boat to fly slowly towards the gate of Mingxin Sect.

That mountain gate was originally the mountain gate of Tianhai Sect. Due to the geographical location of Tianhai Sect's mountain gate, it was right in the middle of the original seven sects, so it was chosen by Mingxin Sect to become its own mountain gate.

The reason why he didn't use 'Lotus Step by Step' and even didn't use the Meteor Ink Boat at full speed was because he was waiting for Bo Ran to return to the sect.

From Xia Kingdom to the gate of Mingxin Sect, if one uses the 'lotus blossoming step by step' technique, it will only take the time of an incense stick to arrive.

Taking into account the speed of Bo Ran, who was in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm, he suppressed his speed to the point where he could reach the mountain gate in two hours.

Looking at the increasingly familiar scenery, the islands on the sea are still the same as they were back then.

It’s just that these islands have changed their sects today, but their functions have probably not changed much.

When he was approaching Mingxin Sect, he saw a reef where his cave was originally located.

His mind moved slightly, and he casually put away the Meteor Ink Boat, and his figure flashed into the sea.

Eagle's Beak Island no longer looks like it did before. This was the damage caused when he left using a rocket for the last time.

The spiritual fields on the island were completely destroyed, causing seawater to flood back. Most importantly, the spiritual veins here disappeared, making this place no longer of any use to cultivators and it became abandoned.

Li Shiming came to the sea and quickly found the dark hole he left behind. He passed through the dark hole and came to an underground space.

This is the underground part of the original cave. The spiritual vein was also blocked here, making it impossible to send spiritual energy upwards.

He sat down beside the spiritual spring. The spring had not changed much. The little fish in the spring had no idea what was happening outside and were still swimming freely.

He used his divine sense to catch two small fish and made himself a spiritual fish soup.

The spiritual fish that had been of great help to him before was now just a memory.

He smiled and took out a top-grade spiritual weapon that he had obtained at some unknown time and placed it next to the spiritual spring. If any cultivator discovered this place in the future, this top-grade spiritual weapon would be considered an opportunity.

No matter who discovers this place, he or she has some connection with it.

Without staying here for long, he came out of the underground cave and flew out of the sea towards the gate of Mingxin Sect.

He revealed his aura, and this action made the Mingxin Sect's protective formation shine brightly.

Since the Mingxin Sect had occupied this place only for more than ten years, they were always on guard against attacks from monks and reacted extremely quickly.

Li Shiming was standing ten miles away from the mountain gate. In fact, this place was also within the attack range of the formation. However, with his strength, even if the formation launched an attack, the power would not be enough to hurt him at such a long distance.

He had no plan to get any closer. Although he knew that Patriarch Zang's life was coming to an end, he did not want to get too close to the mountain gate and give Patriarch Zang a chance to attack.

"Li Shiming, the elder of Shushan Sect, has come to pay homage to the mountain gate. Hand over Bo Zhao and Bo Ran who deceived me, otherwise I will blockade Mingxin Sect!" Li Shiming's voice, driven by his spiritual power, echoed in the mountain gate of Mingxin Sect.

Then he waved his hand, and twelve silver corpses appeared beside him. Even the Absolute Spirit Phantom Dragon was summoned by him, but it hid aside.

Inside the mountain gate of Mingxin Sect, Bo Ran was reporting what had happened before to the Sect Master and the elders.

He did not hide anything. Since he was involved with the elder of the Shushan Sect, a major sect in the Northern Shu Continent, and an elder who had cultivated to the middle stage of the Golden Core in just twenty years, he did not dare to hide anything.

"Are you saying that Elder Li, holding the token of Ancestor Zuo, explicitly asked Ancestor Zang not to interfere in the affairs of the Jindan period?" the sect leader asked in a deep voice.

With the token of the Yuanying ancestor in his hand, Li Shiming's position in Shushan Sect becomes even more important.

The Yuanying Patriarch seldom interfered in the sect's affairs. Not to mention the Yuanying Patriarch, even the Patriarch Zang in the sect only stepped in to help the sect evacuate from the Northern Shu Continent when the sect was facing life and death.