Chapter 472 Changes
This teaching lasted for three years. After teaching the most basic inscriptions on the jade book, Qingpingzi left the jade book behind for the elders to study in their daily lives.
Ji Rong happily carried her treasures back to the Danxue Mountains with Qing Pingzi to continue her deductions, while her disciples stayed in the Yuxu Palace at the Yuanqi Building to test various materials.
After all, in the future, the Dao of Space will need to be transformed from the illusory to the real, and it is impossible to always use clouds as the Dao;
Once it's actually running, it can't always rely on the authority of the Mountain and Water Gods as its foundation.
However, before Ji Rong could even leave the Jade Void Palace, she was stopped by the old Taoist Gu Lin, who was carrying a fat black dragon and rushing over, saying, "Uncle-Master, you forgot to bring the item you left with me."
Ji Rong and Qing Pingzi stopped and took a closer look. Good heavens, the old Taoist Gu Lin was rushing over with a huge, fat snake at the Xuanling Realm. Anyone who didn't know better would think he had come to deliver meat and vegetables as a sign of filial piety.
But Ji Rong still remembered the appearance of the black dragon. She smiled and said, "So it's you, little black dragon. Has your injury healed?"
Hearing this, Hei Tang, who was still dizzy from being thrown around, immediately looked up and said, "Lord Ji, it's alright now, it would have been alright three years ago."
Ji Rong then looked at Gu Lin and asked, "Does his family know about this?"
Gu Lin had already stopped. When Ji Rong asked him, he immediately put Hei Tang down, took out a contract, and respectfully handed it to Ji Rong, saying, "Uncle-Master, Hei Tang's two old servants returned to the Lianyun Mountains to report two years ago. Hei Tang's mother heard that he might stay by your side as a servant and came to ask about the money. So, I took it upon myself to refine a batch of good pills to replace him."
Ji Rong nodded, put away the contract, then reached out and scooped up the black dragon, handing it to Qing Pingzi and saying, "Senior brother, what do you think of this dragon?"
Qingpingzi took it and carefully examined Hei Tan's bones until Hei Tan's face turned red and his skin tightened. Then he put him down and frowned, saying, "Junior sister, I have never been able to teach mediocre people, and I am about to deduce the Great Dao. I really don't have time. Let him stay by your side as an attendant."
"Ha, what do I need servants for?" Ji Rong said, "If I want, I have plenty of powerful servants in my Guardian Palace. Senior Brother wants to deduce the Dao of Space, don't I need one too?"
He belongs to the dragon family. Let's take him to Dragon-Phoenix Mountain and have him follow in front of Juejun for now.”
Black Tang was handled like a commodity, passed around several times, and then arrived at the Dragon and Phoenix Palace.
Originally, Juejun did not want the black dragon. The dragon was so black and shiny that it would be too eye-catching no matter where it was placed, and it did not match her magnificent and noble Dragon and Phoenix Palace at all.
But Ji Rong pointed to the magnificent yet empty palace and said, "Brother, look at this place. Ever since Sister Qingqing and my brother went to Xizhou to manage affairs, it has become so desolate."
This Black Dragon is a brilliant strategist, quick-witted and young. It would be great to have him guarding the gate for you.
You only need to provide him with a few meals, and when you're not busy, you can call him down to listen to your explanation of the dragon's life. He will definitely be grateful to you.
Of course, it would be even better if my elder brother could teach him a method or two.
Jiao Jue squinted and said, "There are plenty of this kind of trash in the Danxue Mountains. Green, red, white, silver, and gold—which one isn't better than him? What exactly do you see in him that makes you insist on shoving him here?"
"I've got my eye on him because he's lucky!" Ji Rong grinned and said, "Big brother, this kid was the first to offer treasures at the Ascension Gathering. He's incredibly audacious; he actually donated all 1.88 million spirit crystals that the clan wanted him to use to present as betrothal gifts to the Mountain Serpent Clan to the Space Dao."
What a high level of awareness! Of course I should treat him better!
Upon hearing this, Jiao Jue sized up Hei Tan and immediately narrowed his eyes, praising, "Good lad, you have such discerning eyes. In that case, you can stay in the Dragon and Phoenix Palace."
So the black dragon stayed outside the Dragon and Phoenix Palace, coiled itself around the gate pillars, and became a gatekeeper dragon.
After settling the Black Jade, Ji Rong, Shan Shui, and Jiao Jue discussed the materials needed for the spatial passage and then rationally distributed the treasures they had brought back.
They agreed that every five years, the mountains and rivers would summon her to check the economic situation of Kyushu; and every ten years, she would tour Kyushu.
After arranging the affairs properly, Ji Rong returned to the Origin Regeneration Pool and continued to deduce the second layer of spatial inscriptions with Qing Pingzi.
The inscriptions flow and traverse day and night;
The Great Path of Space is boundless and endless...
Ji Rong spent only the first hundred years of his thousand-year reign as the supreme ruler outside the palace truly governing affairs; the vast majority of his remaining years were wasted on the spatial path.
The higher you go in the spatial inscriptions, the more difficult they become to copy.
Initially, they were able to obtain a piece of spatial inscription roughly every twenty years.
However, starting from the third level, they could only barely manage to traverse a section every eighty years.
Over the course of five hundred years, they jointly developed ten parallel public space inscription paths, and Qingpingzi's crimson hair gradually became mixed with nearly half white, turning completely pink.
Qingpingzi didn't deduce any new inscription techniques that day. He once again finished writing the known inscriptions with his whisk, and looking at the still seemingly boundless space, he sighed, "I'm truly old now. Junior sister, how much longer do you think this road needs to be paved before it reaches its end?"
Ji Rong looked at the long passage in the sky, flew up, and said, "This road has no end. Senior brother should ask us how high this world is. Apart from what has already been paved, there is only what we should explore."
After checking the stability of the inscriptions, Ji Rong used the roots of the tree trunk to crush the remaining inscriptions, then flew down to the ground and patted Qing Pingzi's paw, saying, "Senior brother, I can feel that we are very close to the Great Dao. I think that as long as we deduce two more stages, we can connect with the Outer Heavens."
Qingpingzi looked up and said, "Junior sister is deceiving me again. Last time, after we deduced the third level, you said the same thing. But after the third level, there was a fourth level."
Ji Rong said seriously, "This time it's for real. Let's go, senior brother. The senior sisters and brothers of Jade Void Palace must be getting impatient."
Many things have happened in the past five hundred years.
In the Jade Void Palace, Ji Rong died of two senior sisters and one senior brother; another senior brother from the Artifact Pavilion got itchy claws while testing materials and inscribed spatial Dao inscriptions on untested new materials, which resulted in his death.
Rebellions broke out in Danzhou, Liangzhou, and Buzhou one after another, and were suppressed by troops sent by Jiaojue.
Currently, Ze Peng is in charge of Buzhou. Shan Zhongfeng stepped down 450 years ago and returned to Yuxu Palace amidst the collective farewell of the people of Buzhou. However, after only 50 years, he was driven out by the old Daoist Gu Lin, who could no longer tolerate him. Now he is holed up in the Blood Pill Sect by the Bitter Water Lake, refining pills, and living a carefree and happy life.
Qing Guanzi had also grown older, and his love of food had become increasingly prominent, so Ji Rong told him to sleep in the Shoudao Palace and not to go out often.
In the Canglan Mountains and Waterways, moved by the rebellion in Danzhou, Yinpan re-divided the territory into prefectures a hundred years ago, and selected officials in charge of the mountains, waters, and horns. Now, although she is still the Goddess of the Canglan Mountains and Waterways, she only exercises divine authority, and all economic affairs are sent to the Dragon and Phoenix Palace for unified management by the officials in charge of each prefecture.
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