God Weird Fairy

Chapter 353 Merit Exchange
Late at night, Nan Yi swept his spiritual sense and memorized all the information about leaving Beijing compiled by the Pei family. Then he began to quietly think about the current situation.

The current Emperor Li came from a small clan to a big clan. Originally, he should have been the transitional monarch, continuing the legitimate bloodline, striving to give birth to a prince with the aptitude to practice cultivation, and then abdicate the throne when the prince came of age.

As a result, Emperor Li, despite being a mortal, relied on the word "rules" to make "many crimes" and forced all officials to bow their heads. He actually took away the imperial power and did not want to be a powerless monarch. At the same time, he fell out with the elders of the royal family, and until now he had never taken a concubine or had children, and was unwilling to give up the throne to his son.

But no matter how good the imperial power is, it only lasts for a few decades. Deep in the heart of the Emperor, he always yearns for extraordinary power.

So when he heard that Nan Yi had opened up a new path, Emperor Li was very happy and immediately wanted to summon Nan Yi to the capital.

If we move forward fifty years, the civil and military officials would never hinder this matter. They would only think about how to get a share of the profits from the promotion of Qigong martial arts.

However, as luck would have it, steam technology was just emerging and was being introduced and promoted across the board by Dali.

For the officials of Dali, steam technology is foreign technology. During the process of its dissemination in the country, they can seek the right to define and interpret it, and to a certain extent claim it as their own to help their practice.

But the Qi martial arts was developed by Nan Yi, and Nan Yi himself holds the final right of interpretation, so it is difficult for other cultivators to seize it by trickery.

In contrast, civil and military officials would naturally prefer to promote steam technology and reap the benefits of steam technology rather than racking their brains to find ways to get a share of the profits from Nan Yi.

It can only be said that Nan Yi had never expected that the first battle he encountered in developing the true qi martial arts would be a battle with steam technology for the trend of the times.

In the next hundred years, whether it will be the steam age or the Qi age, at the moment, it all depends on whether Nan Yi can gain a firm foothold in Lijing City and successfully persuade all civil and military officials to use Lijing City as a starting point to radiate to Dali and fully promote Qigong.

Of course, true qi and steam are not incompatible with each other. Just like the royal family of Dali herding the people, it does not affect the monopoly of aristocratic families on a certain industry, and can also collect scattered spiritual energy from the people.

But the mental energy of ordinary people is always limited, and the spiritual energy that can be dissipated in daily life also has an upper limit. If you get more here, there will naturally be less on the other side.

No one wants to be inferior to others unless they really can't compete.

Fortunately, steam technology does not have an absolute leader in terms of practice. No matter how hard the Dali monks try to gain the right to define and interpret, they are only stealing this path, not the master of it.

At the same time, officials competed with each other to divide up the right to speak on steam technology, which was like a group of scattered sand, fighting each other and attacking each other.

Even if they have a tacit understanding to suppress the true Qi martial arts together, they cannot work together, and may even hold each other back.

Therefore, although Nan Yi seemed to be fighting with the entire Dali cultivation world, that is, all the outer sect cultivators of the immortal sect, he was actually able to advance and retreat freely and was not really fighting alone.

He briefly reviewed his enemies and friends.

Judging from the struggle for destiny and the general trend of the times, this generation of outer sect cultivators, that is, the civil and military officials, wanted to divide up the dividends of steam technology, but they did not expect Nan Yi to suddenly appear and disrupt the situation, thus becoming their enemy.

The introduction of steam technology and the innovation of all industries will slightly shake the ruling power of the Dali Dynasty over the lower-class people, which is a bad policy for the royal elders, that is, Yuanshi Xianmen. So from this perspective, Nanyi can win the support of the royal elders to a certain extent.

However, Li Huang, as the most needed supporter of Zhenqi martial arts, had a feud with the royal elders, and they were very unhappy about the ownership of imperial power.

Even the reason why Emperor Li ordered the introduction of steam technology was not only because the population growth caused great employment pressure on the people, and the northern Kan Dynasty had to follow suit because of the surge in national strength due to steam technology, but also because Emperor Li was ceding power and using this method to win over civil and military officials to suppress the royal elders.

From this perspective, the situation outside Beijing is extremely complicated. You are in me and I am in you, and it is difficult to distinguish between enemies and friends.

If Nan Yi wants to break the impasse, he has to find a way to divide the civil and military officials, break the tacit suppression of the nine tribes of Dali, and then win the full support of Emperor Li, and have Emperor Li personally stand up for the true qi martial arts.

For the second half, I need to wait for Emperor Li to summon me and then study it in detail after I meet him.

In the first half, however, he could move around and make some plans. With all kinds of information flowing in his mind, Nan Yi's thoughts drifted and he gradually came up with a plan.

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At daybreak, Nan Yi and his companions left Chengyou Bookstore, went to the county government, and headed straight to the Examination Yuan.

Yan Qingyun stated his purpose, wanting to use the Nine Revolutions Minor Merit to convert into one Minor Merit to redeem the "Secret Demon Sword Planting Method".

Upon hearing this, the monk from the county government frowned subconsciously.

This method is one of the three secret techniques of the Secret Demon Sword Sect. It is also the foundation of the "Secret Demon Sword Canon" and the method to transcend the mortal world.

Without this method, the casual cultivators who practiced the Secret Demon Sword Sect's Three Outer Sword Techniques would never be able to break through and become mortals.

However, the Secret Demon Sword Sect is the demon sect supported by the Dazhen Dynasty. Although the corresponding inheritance is in the secret vault of the county government, it will not be easily exchanged for by casual cultivators.

If Yan Qingyun came alone, even if he had made great contributions, the monks in the county government would still "delay" him.

However, since the Minister of Personnel Du Heng was traveling with Yan Qingyun, the monk from the county government only hesitated for a moment, and soon stopped hesitating. He followed the normal procedures and reported what Yan Qingyun needed to the secret library.

The monk on duty at the secret library didn't want to get involved.

So half an incense stick later, someone brought a copy of "The Secret Demon Sword Planting Method".

After Yan Qingyun accepted the martial arts technique and absorbed the true meaning of the technique into his sea of ​​consciousness, the book in his hand immediately disintegrated and turned into a book without words.

After the matter was settled, several people rode out of Nanhuai City and headed north.

Along the way, Yan Qingyun was trying to divide his attention and understand the true meaning of the martial arts on horseback.

After he heaved a sigh of relief and finally understood the true meaning of the technique, Nan Yi asked casually, "What does this technique mean?"

Yan Qingyun sorted out his thoughts and said, "This method is really special. It uses magic power to form the seed of the secret demon, and then extracts 10% of life force every day, transforms it into life fire and refines it repeatedly. It takes 30 days to finally condense the secret demon sword embryo."

"This sword embryo is not only the foundation for transcending the mortal realm, but also has the effect of replacing one's life. It can be regarded as the foundation of the Secret Demon Sword Sect's skills."

Nan Yi nodded slightly.

One tenth of your life force is extracted every day for thirty days. This is just like the "Eternal Life Gourd" nurturing the immortal fruit. It is equivalent to exchanging thirty years of life for a life-replacing object.

However, apart from its life-replacing effect, the Secret Demon Sword Embryo itself is the foundation for transcendence and the embryo of the true body, which is in no way comparable to the fruit of immortality.

But Nan Yi has the gift of "immortality". He can spontaneously generate vitality and restore his vitality just by lying still. Even if he waters the "Immortality Gourd" with vitality every day, his lifespan is slowly recovering.

However, Yan Qingyun, or other cultivators who practice the Secret Demon Sword Sect's techniques, would have to sacrifice thirty years of their lifespan before they could condense the Secret Demon Sword Embryo.

Of course, in the complete inheritance of the Secret Demon Sword Sect, there is a "Secret Demon Life-Taking Sword Technique" that directly turned the Secret Demon Sword Sect into a demon sect. It can increase one's own lifespan by plundering the life force of others. If the inheritance is complete, it is not bad in terms of a Taoist tradition, and there is no obvious shortcoming.

(End of this chapter)