Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Perhaps because they met again after a long separation, Lu Chen clearly felt that Jiang Chengwan was a little too enthusiastic towards him when he came back this time.

For example, the welcoming dinner on the day I came back.

Although it was called a banquet, in fact only a few court officials came, and those who just showed up said they had urgent matters at home. One said a baby was born at home, and another said that his second aunt's third uncle from his mother's uncle's family had passed away and they had to go back to attend the funeral. In short, none of them stayed for more than a quarter of an hour.

Finally, only Lu Chen, Jiang Chengwan, Chai Hongyu, and two personal maids were left in the huge palace.

There are not even eunuchs.

At the banquet, Jiang Chengwan seemed to want to prove something. She kept drinking and urging Lu Chen to drink more. She was also a big talker. She said she was not drunk, but she kept acting crazy and stuck to him.

There was almost a negative distance between the monarch and his subject, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't push it away. This made him terrified, fearing that this matter would get out and Saint King Cangming would misunderstand that he had cheated on him.

Ask Chai Hongyu for help. Chai Hongyu wanted to help, but just as she approached, Jiang Chengwan leaned on her shoulder. Then, for some reason, Chai Hongyu suddenly didn't dare to help, and even kept pushing Jiang Chengwan towards him.

In the end, maybe it was because of the alcohol, he lost consciousness, and when he woke up again, he was already back home.

As he was in a hurry to return to Beijing, Luo Xiaoyu stayed in Yuzhou, and it was Chai Hongyu who served him that day as usual.

The maids and servants in the house seemed to not exist. They had obviously all returned to the capital, but Chai Hongyu, a captain of the Xuanji Guard and a top fighter in the Great Xia Empire, was still acting as a maid and taking care of him meticulously.

But Lu Chen no longer cared about these trivial matters.

After the welcoming banquet, for half a month, he lived a life of going to and from work as Fang Yu and the others were still on their way back to Beijing.

In the morning, I went to Lingyun Mansion to handle official business. If there were any urgent matters, I would discuss them remotely with Xiao Yun who had already arrived in Yuzhou.

In the afternoon, I went to Tiangongsi to check the progress of various research projects to see if there was any way to speed them up.
When he got home from work, he would lock himself in the study and write down some thoughts on governing, modern ideas on governance, and some planning strategies for the development of the Great Xia Empire. He would compile them into a book so that if anything unexpected happened to him in the future, the new policies would not die.

Whenever he had free time, he would teach Chai Hongyu all kinds of common sense about government, and tried his best to train this fellow who shared similar ideas with him into a talented person who could govern the country independently as soon as possible.

It has come to this point, so it would be better to see it through to the end. This way, even if he dies and becomes an immortal, he won't have too many regrets.

That afternoon, when Lu Chen was about to leave for the Tiangongsi Yamen—

"Mr. Governor, Mr. Governor!"

Suddenly, there was a burst of excited shouting outside the door, and the only person the governor called him by, besides the people of Yuzhou and Chai Hongyu, was Xuan Ji Wei, who had gone to Yuzhou with him to control the flood.

After a moment, a petite figure appeared at the door.

"Governor, the Spiritual Pivot and the Phantom Spirit Array have been created!"

Lu Chen turned his head and immediately saw Li Yue running towards him with an excited look on her face. She even used her spiritual power to run in front of him in a few steps. She raised her head as if to ask for credit and said excitedly, "Quick! Governor, please follow me to the Tiangong Division and witness the power that changes the times together!"

Hearing this, Lu Chen was shocked!
The so-called Lingshu is a spiritual armor that can be deployed instantly to protect soldiers and minimize attacks from spiritual arts, combat skills, etc. It greatly enhances the attack effect of weapons and the protective effect of armor, and allows users without any cultivation to launch some new types of spiritual weapons such as spiritual power shield, spiritual essence slash and other spiritual arts.

The source of its spiritual power is the phantom spirit formation that can transmit spiritual power remotely across space.

Moreover, the source of spiritual power for the Phantom Spirit Array is no longer limited to spirit crystals. Any material containing spiritual power, such as food, can become a source of spiritual power. It is continuously converted into pure spiritual power through the array and transmitted to various places. As long as there is sufficient spiritual power, soldiers can maintain their combat effectiveness without even eating.

Of course, there is still a distance limit. The farther away from the formation, the more spiritual power is consumed during the transmission process. The originally designed phantom formation was extremely large, and it would require a city of at least the Earth level to accommodate it.

But even so, if the Phantom Spirit Array and Spiritual Pivot are truly developed, it will definitely be a sign of changing the times.

You should know that every soldier wearing a Lingshu can be regarded as a cultivator without a path. The strength equivalent to the cultivation level he can exert depends on the level of the Lingshu and the level of the soldier himself. Even the lowest level cultivator is much stronger than an ordinary soldier.

Weapons and equipment have been greatly strengthened, which is equivalent to the transition from the cold weapon era of ancient society to the firearms era, which is absolutely overwhelming.

Chai Hongyu standing by was a little confused. As a top martial artist who had mastered the art of martial arts and a cultivator who had just started to learn how to govern the world, she could not understand what the technicians' excitement meant at all.

Just as Lu Chen was also becoming excited, Li Yue suddenly reached out, grabbed his big hand, and pulled him outside.

"Hurry, Governor, don't just stand there, follow me!"

Li Yue looked anxious, and Lu Chen did not resist, allowing her to pull him all the way out of Lingyun Mansion. Chai Hongyu hurriedly followed, and then the three of them took the carriage in the Ziji City Palace.

About half a quarter of an hour later, the carriage stopped in front of the Tiangongsi gate.

As soon as she got off the car, Li Yue grabbed Lu Chen's hand and ran anxiously towards the East Courtyard of the Tiangong Division, which she was in charge of.

Chai Hongyu frowned at what she saw.

But Lu Chen also looked anxious, so she didn't say much.

Soon, Li Yue pulled Lu Chen through the gate of the East Courtyard and came to an open courtyard.

It is called a villa, but in fact it is just a large open space. The pavilions and attics inside had long been demolished and turned into a place used by the people of Tiangongsi for experiments.

At this time, a blue magic circle the size of a basketball court was operating on the open space. Dozens of officials from the Tiangong Division stood nearby. They were all wearing simple protective clothing designed by Lu Chen. There were also a dozen strong men standing beside them, each carrying a bag of different kinds of food in their hands.

About a hundred meters away from the formation, a group of soldiers in armor stood quietly in a square formation. Each soldier's face showed obvious tension, and from time to time he lowered his head to look at an orange ball the size of an egg in his hand. As soon as Li Yue arrived at the scene, without waiting for the officials of the Tiangong Division to salute Lu Chen, he couldn't wait to call out: "Quick, activate the formation immediately, let the governor see the results of our research over the past year!"

"Yes!"

Several Tiangongsi officials nodded heavily and then gestured to their deputies beside them.

"let's start."

The deputy nodded and began to convey the order.

After a while, the formation was fully activated. Several strong men stepped forward, opened the mouths of the grain bags, and poured a large bag of coarse rice in their hands into the center of one of the large formations. After pouring, the next strong man stepped forward and repeated the actions of the previous strong man.

Soon, a small mountain of grain was piled up in the center of the formation.

The next second, the Phantom Spirit Array was fully operational, and strange ancient characters emitted azure light at the same time.

Lu Chen stared at the small mountain of grain.

As he looked on with a hint of anticipation, the small grain mountain began to disappear quickly. Then, a stream of pure spiritual power gushed out from another spring in the center of the formation, and then flowed along a specific spiritual path, rapidly rushing towards the phalanx of soldiers not far away.

shhhh~~
A strong wind blew by, and the orange ball in each soldier's hand suddenly shone brightly.

Li Yue's expression suddenly became serious, and the cute look on her little face instantly disappeared, replaced by the murderous aura that she had cultivated in the Xuan Ji Guard.

"Yulin Guards, listen up! Activate Lingshu immediately!"

"promise!"

All the soldiers responded, then put the orange ball in their hands to their chests and exerted force with their right hands.

Click, click!
With a crisp mechanical sound, the orange sphere suddenly turned into a special energy body, wrapping each soldier in it and forming a light orange film on its surface.

Li Yue suddenly raised her hand and took out a banner from somewhere.

"Draw your bow and arrow!"

The soldiers did as they were told, and the moment they nocked the arrows, the energy body quickly spread to the bowstring and finally gathered into the arrow, instantly filling the originally ordinary arrow with spiritual power.

"Full string!"

The soldiers pulled the bowstrings one after another, and the bowstrings that they usually had to use all their strength to pull to their full extent, now they only needed less than 30% of their strength to pull to their full extent.

Although they had rehearsed it once in advance, everyone still looked shocked.

Amazing!

Li Yue didn't care about their expressions. She dropped the command flag in her small hand heavily, pointed at a five-meter-thick concrete wall not far away, and gave the order again -

"Shoot the arrow!!!"

Upon hearing the order, the soldiers who had already taken aim almost instinctively let go.

Whoosh whoosh!
The next second, accompanied by an extremely sharp sound of breaking through the air, a series of orange arrows flew towards the concrete wall not far away at an extremely fast speed.

Boom! !
Only a loud roar was heard, and the concrete wall suddenly exploded the moment it was hit by the arrow. The horrible shock wave instantly smashed the concrete wall into pieces. Amidst the flying rocks, the ground nearby began to crack, and the cracks spread to dozens of meters away before stopping.

With just one strike, the five-meter-thick reinforced concrete was penetrated. If this had hit a human body, one can’t imagine how horrific the scene would have been.

After those soldiers shot the arrow, the orange film on their bodies only faded a little, and there was no sign of fatigue on their faces at all.

At the same time, Tiangongsi, who was not far away, just raised his hand and signaled to the people next to him. A pure spiritual power surged out from the center of the formation and landed on the soldiers with incredible precision, causing the orange energy bodies on their bodies to instantly recover.

Chai Hongyu looked at this scene in shock.

Although this amount of lethality is nothing to her, this is the effect produced by a team of ordinary soldiers without any spiritual power. Moreover, she is a strong person in the Guiyi Realm, the ceiling of the combat power of the entire Central Continent. There is no reference value in using her as a standard.

If it were any other cultivator with average cultivation level, they would definitely not be able to withstand this attack.

She now understood why Lu Chen was so excited just now and why he said that this was the power to change the times.

With such a terrifying weapon, the court's current disadvantages can be greatly improved immediately.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but turn her head and look at Lu Chen deeply.

Tiangongsi was founded by Lu Chen, and most of the various projects within it were established by him personally. Liyue only advanced research according to the direction he provided. In the final analysis, this is the result of Lu Chen's efforts.

He could even change the times. This man was much more powerful than she had imagined. (End of this chapter)