However, isn't this Imperial Master's cultivation level a bit too low? He's only in the middle stage of Qi Refining, yet he's already become the Imperial Master.
Shouldn't the national teacher be a big boss with powerful cultivation and the ability to call the wind and rain?
After all these days of practice, she has reached the late stage of Qi Refining. So, can she also become a national teacher?
Xue Huan's thoughts have diverged infinitely.
The appearance of the Imperial Master was like the sun, attracting everyone to salute him like sunflowers. The originally bustling hall suddenly became quiet. The dancers in the center of the hall also stopped dancing, stepped aside gracefully, bent down and bowed, and waited for the Imperial Master to pass by before they resumed their previous dance.
Naturally, a seat was arranged for the imperial teacher at the banquet, right at the lower right of the emperor. Originally, the imperial teacher had not come, so the seat was empty. Now that the imperial teacher had come, he walked towards his seat.
Xue Huan could see that this imperial teacher had a very respected status. He did not need to perform any formalities when meeting the emperor or the empress dowager. Instead, the emperor and the empress dowager, the two big bosses, were very surprised by his arrival.
The five senses of a cultivator are all very sharp. Xue Huan's scrutiny finally caught the attention of the national teacher below. When he looked up, his eyes met with the fox on the beam.
The Imperial Master blurted out, "Spirit Fox!"
A light of surprise and greed flashed in his eyes.
Nowadays, spiritual energy is scarce and the path of cultivation is bumpy and difficult. He was able to cultivate to this level with the support of the royal family and the help of the emperor's fortune. The fox on the beam was actually filled with rich and pure spiritual energy!
If he could capture it, refine its flesh and blood into pills and take them, his cultivation would surely be able to improve further!
His eyes rolled as he shouted, "Where did this demonic fox come from? How dare you trespass into the Imperial Palace and disrupt the Queen Mother's birthday banquet!"
As he said that, he reached out to grab Xue Huan.
Xue Huan had become disillusioned with this Imperial Master the moment she saw his greedy gaze. Originally, she thought he was handsome, with his snow-white clothes, and looked like one of those immortal cultivators on TV. She was delighted to have found an ally, but she didn't expect this man to reveal his true nature so quickly.
If I had known this earlier, I would have cast a breath-suppressing spell on myself.
But now, since he has come to her, there is no reason for her to retreat. After all, the Five Elements Pearl is still absorbing the purple energy, and she can't be too far away. Secondly, she has been practicing for some time and has never fought with anyone seriously. Now is a good opportunity for her to practice with this national teacher.
Xue Huan opened her mouth and spit out a fireball as big as a bowl towards the Imperial Master. The Imperial Master was startled and quickly dodged, but his clothes were still scratched a little, and a charred hole was instantly burned on his originally snow-white Taoist robe.
The Imperial Master's face suddenly darkened, and a sinister look flashed in his eyes.
Everyone else in the hall was stunned by this sudden change and hurriedly dodged to avoid being affected by the two sides in the battle.
But the fight ended as quickly as it had begun.
While dealing with the Imperial Master, Xue Huan quietly set up a trap. The Imperial Master couldn't even see through Xue Huan's illusion, and naturally didn't notice her little movements. By the time he reacted, he was already trapped in the formation.
The fox disappeared, the hall also disappeared, and the surrounding scene changed into an endless desert. The national teacher was in the desert, wandering around like a headless fly, unable to find a way out at all.
Xue Huan had only set up a simple, entry-level formation, one that anyone with some knowledge of formations would be able to handle. However, the Imperial Master, a casual cultivator without any inheritance, was completely clueless.
In fact, Xue Huan was right. This era was indeed the end of the Dharma era for cultivators. With spiritual energy almost disappearing today, even if one had extraordinary talent, one would not be able to practice.
Therefore, there are very few monks.
How did the National Master embark on the path of spiritual practice?
The Imperial Master's real name was Fang Xing. He was originally a tomb robber. During one of his tomb raids, he stumbled upon a manual for cultivation, which led him to the path of cultivation. He had good aptitude and a bit of luck, so it wasn't long before he was able to draw Qi into his body.
But after that, his practice became extremely difficult.
Without spiritual energy, natural treasures, and complete and systematic guidance, Fang Xing's progress in cultivation was so slow that it was despairing. He wanted to give up many times, but once an ordinary person embarks on the path of cultivation, he gets a glimpse of the great way and learns about the various benefits of successful cultivation. How can he be willing to give up?
It would be fine if he never knew it in his entire life, but now that he has joined the ranks of monks, he must keep going!
Since the orthodox path of cultivation was not feasible for him, he embarked on an unorthodox path. In order to improve his cultivation, he tried everything, such as dual cultivation and refining pills with infant blood.
After more than ten years of stumbling and struggling in his cultivation, Fang Xing finally achieved some success and entered the middle stage of Qi Refining.
Once this person achieves something, thoughts of pleasure will emerge. As a monk, beauty, power, and wealth will be easily obtained, right?
So he came to the most supreme and noble place in the world - the imperial capital. By chance, he established a relationship with the imperial concubine's family, the Zhang family. Relying on his ability to deceive and the means of a cultivator, he made the Zhang family treat him as a guest of honor.
The Zhang family introduced him to Imperial Concubine Zhang. Of course, at that time, Zhang was not yet an Imperial Concubine, but just a beauty of low status.
After witnessing his cunning tactics, Zhang became convinced of his abilities and even sold her beauty in order to win him over to work for her.
In this way, with the help of Fang Xing, Zhang eliminated her opponents step by step and sat on the position of imperial concubine.
During this period, Fang Xing also worked hard and became an imperial teacher who was deeply trusted by the emperor.
With the support of the royal family, Fang Xing's cultivation improved, but because he had been involved in too many evil ways before, his foundation had been damaged. Even with the royal family's abundant treasures, his cultivation could only reach the sixth level of Qi Refining at most, and he could not go any further.
Beauty, power, wealth, he got everything a man pursues in his life, but precisely because he got it, he was reluctant to let go and greedily wanted more.
For example, immortality, eternal youth.
These are things that cannot be achieved by mortal power, and can only be achieved by practicing to a higher level!
As a result, Fang Xing became even more eager for things that could improve his cultivation, even to the point of being pathological. This was also the reason why he was so impatient when he saw the fox spirit (Xue Huan).
Did he think that with his own means, it would be easy to capture a beast?
After sitting in the position of national teacher for so many years and being praised for so long, he must have become arrogant. He felt that nothing in the world could stop him.
Even the emperor was not taken seriously by him.
So what if he was the emperor? He was still a mortal, a mortal with flesh and blood. Didn't he sleep with women?
With such an inflated mentality, Fang Xing did not regard the fox as a serious opponent at all, but he was soon slapped in the face.
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