Chapter 12 Lingbao Heavenly Lord

“Lingbao Heavenly Lord...”

Ji Xiang deliberately released his demonic Qi, and Zhang Tianshi was also by his side. Although the two did not enter the ancestral temple, they had been paying attention to the movements within the temple.

The enormous evil Qi was actually emitted by the Ming Dynasty's former emperor, and Ji Xiang felt the power of the black Qi in this violent sovereign, within that dark vortex.

“I seem to know some things.”

“What do you mean?”

Facing Zhang Tianshi's inquiry, Ji Xiang pointed out some past events.

“There is black Qi here.”

“This black Qi, passed down since ancient times, is called Black Evil (hei sha). It first appeared emerging from below the Dongyue Temple. The original Dongyue Temple was established by a Xuanjiao grandmaster, who set up a formation below it to invert life, death, yin, and yang. But in the end, he abandoned this plan and stopped the formation under the Dongyue Temple.”

“And the Black Evil (hei sha) does not originate from the underworld. It's just that someone in the underworld has mastered the method of driving it. In the yang world, during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, the black and white dragons fought, and the world was filled with bloody rain. The Black Evil (hei sha) appeared in the world as the demon Zhou Sheng.”

“And as far as I know, the black Qi originates from a Jade Purity (Yuqing) evil object. Since ancient times, many people have come into contact with this object, but the Taiqing and Shangqing cultivators have almost never heard of the existence of this evil object. Only the ancient Corpse Dissection Immortals (shijie xian) knew about the Jade Purity (Yuqing) evil object.”

“And now, another powerful existence who controls the Black Evil (hei sha) Qi has appeared. It is actually Emperor Jingtai, but it should not be Emperor Jingtai's primordial spirit, but one of his three souls, merged with a huge resentment, and fixed by some kind of power, living and dying with the Ming Dynasty's imperial incense.”

“And the topic returns to the original establishment of the Dongyue Temple.”

“The original temple was established by the Xuanjiao grandmaster and has now been destroyed.”

“The new temple, which is the previous Dongyue Temple...was established by Emperor Yingzong, who renovated it on the original temple site and inscribed it.”

Zhang Tianshi pondered, and suddenly said:

“How can this matter be traced back hundreds of years? Dongyue Temple... Did Emperor Yingzong already know about the existence of the underworld immortals a hundred years ago?”

“Or is it that Emperor Yingzong colluded with the Jade Purity (Yuqing) evil object? That shouldn't be...”

It wasn't that the Tianshi didn't believe that emperors cultivated the arts of gods and ghosts. He believed this, after all, Zhengde and Jiajing both had magical powers. In the past, there should have been people who possessed magic, especially during the reign of the Chengzu Emperor, Yao Guangxiao was a famous master, standing within the pure Yang realm at the peak of humanity. There were rumors that he appeared after the death of the Ming Chengzu and ascended to become an immortal Buddha.

However, if Emperor Yingzong had the art of gods and ghosts... having obtained such great abilities, why would he need to take revenge on Emperor Jingtai?

However, the words of the violent sovereign made the Tianshi have to believe that this matter might really be related to Emperor Yingzong, and even these black Qi now had an inexplicable relationship with the past emperor.

“The affairs of the royal family are difficult to intervene in. We can only do our own thing. The affairs of the imperial family can only be solved by the imperial family themselves. We can at most do some aftermath work.”

The Tianshi believed that even if he knew, he could not intervene casually, but Ji Xiang disagreed and directly retorted:

“Even if he is the Son of Heaven, if he does something harmful to the world, he will be judged by the people of the world. If the people of the world cannot judge, then let the people in the heavens judge.”

“The Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven of the human world, the monarch of humanity, how can he control those real gods, Buddhas, immortals, and demons?”

The Tianshi frowned: “Senior Brother...”

“The violent sovereign involves the Jade Purity (Yuqing) evil object, I must come back to investigate, but now it is not the time yet.”

“Do you know that in the Heavenly Heart Realm closest to the human world today, apart from the four Heavenly Hearts of the Three Teachings, the last one who once instigated the Lu King to rebel, and even made him a proxy, is also the fifth Heavenly Heart, the Yuan Emperor. He is a Jade Purity (Yuqing) cultivator.”

“How do you know that Emperor Jingtai became like this, and that Emperor Yingzong's establishment of the Dongyue Temple, has nothing to do with him!”

The Tianshi was suddenly shocked.

Ji Xiang had already withdrawn his demonic Qi and said to the Tianshi, “The Eastern Royal Court has taken over most of it, I will now set off for the South Sea.”

The Tianshi quickly said, “The emperor's soldiers will arrive soon to meet Senior Brother.”

“The mortal soldiers are useless, and the demon soldiers and mountain monsters should not be dispatched.”

Ji Xiang suddenly reminded him.

Now that Shuntian Prefecture has recruited many demons and monsters with the Divine Investiture Decree, and incorporated them into the divine system after examining them, many demon soldiers and mountain monsters have transformed into folk gods and generals. However, these existences are of no use to the southern Dharma sects. They are not even as good as ordinary soldiers carrying firearms.

“That is natural, these demon soldiers and mountain monsters will not be dispatched. The South Sea Dharma sects are best at manipulating wilderness demon soldiers. If the court's soldiers are subdued by them, it will cause a great disaster.”

This is a case of one thing subduing another. Those monsters and mountain spirits who have become divine soldiers and generals seem awe-inspiring to mortals, but when they encounter Dharma sect cultivators who are good at subduing them, they will immediately retreat and cannot fight. At this time, when firearms are used, Dharma sect cultivators will have to retreat.

“His Majesty has already ordered troops to be transferred directly from there. He had previously obtained some useful firearms there... and ordered Chen Ju, the Chief Secretary Eunuch, to go and supervise.”

Ji Xiang was not familiar with Chen Ju, but being able to become the Chief Secretary, he was deeply trusted by the emperor. The Tianshi spoke of the previous forced acquisition of the Boca Tigris cannon factory, and the incorporation of the Western factory director of the cannon factory. Now that place is the official cannon casting site of the Ming Dynasty.

But although the factory director benefited from this matter and had official endorsement, the other Westerners did not buy it.

“In fact, when the Dharma sects sent the attached letter, the imperial court had already received a secret report from there. In Haojing Ao, Franji people colluded with the Dharma sects and sold a lot of military fire to the South Sea Dharma sects, bribing the local governor with land rent. They even began to privately recruit Japanese ronin as thugs, building city walls, setting up gun emplacements, and establishing independent armed forces. At the same time, they accepted Japanese merchant ships that were forbidden by the Ming Dynasty to trade, and carried out trade with Japan.”

“This is a group of unscrupulous outlaws. The Dharma sects are their shelter, and they are the fire support of the Dharma sects. Now if we want to use troops against the South Sea, it will inevitably greatly damage the country's strength, even more so than the Korean War.”

As the two were talking, the Wanli Emperor had just come out of the ancestral temple, but suddenly encountered a eunuch coming to report, looking flustered.

After hearing this, the Wanli Emperor's face sank, and the two immortals hidden in the sky, concealing their bodies with illusion, also turned their heads to look.

“Yang Yinglong of Bozhou has rebelled!”

The northern Tartar war had just been settled, and a war had broken out again in the land of Sichuan.

The Wanli Emperor's Three Great Campaigns: the Korean War, the Ningxia War, and the Bozhou War. Among them, the Bozhou War was just the delusional fantasy of someone who wanted to establish himself as king and divide the land to build a country.

“But in this world today, did Yang Yinglong really start the war because of arrogance?”

Speaking of the chaos in Sichuan.

Ji Xiang suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, but it was difficult to clarify.

So he pinched a magic formula.

“Future Sight, a look at the eye.”