Chapter 64: Drawing Qi into the Body [Update 1]
Zhangtai Palace, waterside pavilion in the garden.
Wei Shengxue sat half leaning against the railing and casually sprinkled a handful of fish food, attracting koi in the pond to swarm in.
I originally wanted to tell Ying Zheng about my guess, but an unexpected situation forced me to postpone this matter for the time being.
After she finished two plates of pastries and a plate of sliced fruit, Ying Zheng, who had changed his clothes and was still damp, came strolling over.
"It happened suddenly and I didn't have time to check. Just stretch out your hand." Wei Shengxue brushed aside the awkward moment and turned the topic to the key point.
Ying Zheng thought of the scene just now, and his pale face darkened for a moment. He stretched out a hand and asked, "Is there something wrong with me?"
No one else reacted so violently, only him...
"If I'm not mistaken, it should be a good thing." Wei Shengxue placed her fingers on the pulse of his wrist, and the spiritual power condensed at her fingertips, flowing through his body along the meridians.
Ying Zheng felt another gentle breath rising from his wrist, passing through his chest and flowing into his heart, then flowing throughout his body, and finally lingering in his lower abdomen before slowly receding.
This feeling was extremely strange, as if his entire being was seen through, yet it had a gentle and soothing aura that prevented even someone like him who had a strong desire for control and was extremely wary from feeling any resentment.
Then I felt a chill on my wrist, and Wei Shengxue withdrew her hand.
"congratulations."
She said with a look of joy and intimacy,
"From now on, we are kindred spirits!"
Ying Zheng's mind moved, and he noticed the subtle change in her attitude.
Before, the immortal treated him differently from the others, but there was still an inexplicable barrier between them. However, this invisible and intangible barrier quietly dissipated at this moment.
He immediately considered the impact of this change in attitude on Daqin, and then realized that what this meant was—
He suddenly raised his head, and his expression rarely showed obvious changes, which included shock, joy, expectation, and confusion.
The pioneer sitting opposite him looked at him with a smile and nodded encouragingly, "It's just as you think."
"Welcome to the world of immortal cultivators."
"Fellow Daoist Ying Zheng."
This call of "fellow Daoist" was not the ambiguous courtesy as before, but a welcome to the first companion in this area.
No matter how glorious our ancestors were, it all belonged to the past. No matter how special he was, he was just an ordinary person before.
But at this moment, from this moment on, he is a companion.
"I can practice too?!" Ying Zheng was ecstatic.
Immortality! The immortality I sought has finally arrived!
"Uh... maybe not?" Wei Shengxue said uncertainly.
Ying Zheng was anxious, "Didn't I say I was already an immortal cultivator? Why am I failing again?"
Where is my immortality? !
Who stole my immortality?
The emperor's cold eyes swept across, and even Meng Yi, who was standing a few steps away, broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly took a few steps back to avoid suspicion.
"Don't worry." Wei Shengxue released a stream of spiritual power to comfort him.
"What I mean is that you shouldn't be able to practice in my way."
In the past, she relied on extracting wood spirit power from plants and trees to practice. This practice method is only applicable to wood spirit roots, but Ying Zheng has water spirit roots.
Moreover, his spiritual roots were activated through the cleansing of national destiny, which should be different from her way of cultivating herself to improve her cultivation level.
"Perhaps your method of cultivation is to continuously improve the destiny of the Qin Empire, so that a strong destiny can bring about a strong force."
Wei Shengxue tried hard to extract useful knowledge from the immortal cultivation novels she had read, but those were completely methods imagined by the interstellar people and might not be suitable for the real immortal cultivation world.
"Tong'er! Tong'er! System! Eight hundred miles of emergency! Urgent help!"
"If you don't come out now, your merits will be gone!"
Wei Shengxue made a series of fatal calls, calling back the system that was out on a date with its best friend.
After half a minute, the system came up.
[Where are my merits? How dare this wild idiot steal our merits?]
"There's no other system. There's something wrong with our big sponsor."
The system activated the scanning function and scanned, [Meow meow meow! Why did he he he suddenly draw energy into his body?!]
"National destiny."
System: [6.]
This talent is too good.
A little greedy.
Unfortunately, systems ranked below 300 can only carry one host at a time.
[Host, his talent is not inferior to yours, but he has chosen the path of national destiny cultivation, and will only be able to drag the entire empire along with him in the future.]
"Didn't you say before that you could break away from the national destiny and switch to the spiritual power flow?"
[That's someone else, but he's the master of the empire, and he's the first person in the country to embark on a path of cultivation using the nation's destiny. He's going to be tied to this country for life.]
[From now on, as long as the Qin Dynasty lasts, he will live; and as long as the Qin Dynasty perishes, he will perish.]
The system fell silent at this point. It didn't expect that such a mistake would occur without it noticing.
It has also seen many emperors of the Lucky Dynasty. They would initially rely on the national fortune to enhance their cultivation, but later when their strength grew, they would invariably pass the throne to their heirs in order to seek a higher level of transcendence.
Now...
[It's my fault. I shouldn't have gone out to visit people at this time. Otherwise, this could have been avoided.]
Wei Shengxue pursed her lips and said, "Things changed very quickly at that time. Even if you were there, could you have stopped the fusion of national destiny?"
The system is silent.
It can't.
The redemption function in the mall actually only serves as a connection point and converter, transforming the invisible national destiny into a force that can directly act on people. In essence, it is still the power of the country itself.
They, outsiders, cannot really interfere.
Ying Zheng sat opposite, looking at the immortal with a tense face, but the emotions in his eyes changed rapidly.
She is not good at hiding her emotions. Every time she talks to someone, the emotions in her eyes will change along with her expression, sometimes joy, sometimes distress, or sometimes dissatisfaction.
At times like this, he knew to control his expression, but the emotions in his eyes changed so frequently that it was hard to pretend not to see.
Ying Zheng poured himself a cup of tea and sipped it slowly.
I wonder when that unknown being will end the conversation, and whether he can give this confused little fairy a satisfactory answer?
When he drank the second cup of tea, the immortal's gaze began to focus and then fell on him, with a hint of apology and sadness.
"Fellow Daoist, you will always be bound to Daqin from now on."
Her voice was somewhat dejected. "It lives you, it dies you. You cannot transcend, you cannot reincarnate. Even if you die, your soul will become nutrients to nourish the destiny of the Qin Dynasty."
"Moreover, your strength can only increase as the Qin becomes stronger."
Ying Zheng paused while turning the teacup, his eyes, blurred by the heat, suddenly narrowed.
——Is there such a good thing?!
If I could have both immortality and the world, I would be so happy that I can’t suppress my smile!
Hold it in! Don't laugh! Listen for more good news!
Ying Zheng gulped down a cup of tea and managed to suppress the laughter that threatened to burst out of his throat. His voice was a little hoarse from the excitement. "Are there any other benefits?"
Wei Shengxue flipped through the information provided by the system, "Does it mean that no one in the Great Qin is stronger than you?"
"Of course."
Ying Zheng was very satisfied with this answer.
He believed that the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were inferior to him, and was so proud and conceited that how could he allow anyone among the subjects of the Qin Dynasty to be superior to him?
This news couldn't be better.
"What about you?" he asked.
"I?"
Wei Shengxue grabbed a ray of merit that fell from the sky.
"You can't beat me."
In terms of energy level, merit is at the top level and is purer than luck; in terms of cultivation realm, she has a higher level of cultivation and is stronger, giving her an absolute advantage over him.
Ying Zheng was not surprised to hear this answer.
It is normal that the immortal methods that can be taught at will cannot compare with the methods used by oneself.
Two people with completely different thinking processes miraculously completed the conversation.
There is another question, "Besides me, is there another one?"
The question was too brief, and Wei Shengxue took a few turns in her brain before she realized what was being asked.
"Just sense it directly. As the master of the empire, you can use your national destiny to detect faster than I can."
How to sense?
Ying Zheng originally wanted to ask, but seeing her as-it-should-be expression, he knew that asking would only get unhelpful answers like "Close your eyes and feel it" and "Perception is perception".
He closed his eyes slightly, calmed his mind, put aside all distracting thoughts, and maximized his five senses.
In the vast void, he saw nine spots of light gathered together in the northeast.
That direction is the Nine Cauldrons.
If only I could get closer and see what's glowing.
As soon as the thought came to his mind, Ying Zheng found himself in front of the Nine Cauldrons.
What shines is...luck.
No one told him, but he knew what it was the first time he saw it.
The luck on the Nine Cauldrons dispersed and gathered, condensing into a vague shadow. The left and right sides were the same size, small in the front and expanding in the back, like, like... a bird!
Black bird!
This is the Xuanniao that the Qin State has believed in for generations!
Ying Zheng was just about to walk over and touch it when he suddenly felt dizzy. His eyes lit up and he found himself back at the Linshui Pavilion in Zhangtai Palace.
"Fellow Daoist, I saw the black bird!"
His inky black eyes lit up, filled with joy, "The Xuanniao of our Great Qin!"
After intensively catching up on his knowledge for half an hour, Wei Shengxue was already able to answer this question independently. "What you saw should be the embodiment of the nation's destiny. It's probably still blurry now, so it's amazing that you can still recognize it."
Ying Zheng covered his head and leaned against the stone table, unable to support himself.
Wei Shengxue released her spiritual power to help him relieve some of the pain. "You've been out for too long, and your strength has been overdrawn. Just go back and get some sleep."
After a while, she brought up the topic that had been put on hold for the time being, "I'm leaving in two days. Is there anything I should bring?"
Set off?
Ying Zheng's brain was still aching and a little slow. It took him a while to process the information and then retrieve related memories from his memory.
Oh, she's going out traveling.
"Where are you going?"
Wei Shengxue thought for a moment and said, "To reach the four borders of Daqin, we should probably first go to the nearby areas we know."
"I promised a little friend that I would go back to see her."
"After not seeing her for half a year, I wonder what she looks like now?"
…
"E'sou, you sneaked into my study again."
The girl, a little older than last year, clutched a scroll of books and tugged at her father's sleeve, trying to get away with it by acting like a spoiled brat. "Father, I just wanted to see if there's any new news about that person. I haven't read any other documents."
The man in a long robe tapped her forehead, as if blaming her but without a trace of anger. "I don't know you, but you have a photographic memory. You remember everything you see at a glance, right? Girls, if you keep liking the things men learn, your heart will become wild. Which boy would dare to marry you?"
E's mouth pouted unconvincedly. "Everyone says I'm the smartest kid in the county and I'll have a great future. When I grow up, I want to be a high-ranking official, even higher than my father and my uncle, the county magistrate."
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