Immortality begins with becoming a master weapon refiner

Chapter 216 The Place Where the Sixteenth Ancestor of Jinyun Fell From the Ashes

"Good tea."

"Haha, this tea is called 'Kongqing' (Clear Sky). It grows only when the soil is covered with clouds and exposed to the scorching sun. It can't be watered before it's ripe, and only three ounces can be harvested each year. This old man is usually too frugal to drink it."

"Thanks to you."

After a few words, Gu Qing smiled and acted humble after being flattered.

Their good attitude surprised even Emperor Taizu of Yan.

He had seen the geniuses outside, each one arrogant and stubborn, with nothing to offer except for the power behind them. They were nothing like him, who started from scratch and occupied such a large territory in the Yan Kingdom.

But it is precisely because of this that we are trapped here and bear the responsibility of protecting.

"Baiyue Mountain is a good place, but its heyday lasted too long, and some scoundrels always came out to do crooked and shady things that couldn't be seen by others."

"I heard about what happened in Huilongguan. They did a good job."

“I won’t tolerate those scum in my territory. But… Gu Qing, when you kill someone, you must silence them; when you cut weeds, you must nip them in the bud. Do you want me to kill those little Taoist priests you let go?”

Gu Qing paused in his tea-drinking motion.

"The grievances should be attributed to the perpetrators, and the debts should be settled by the debtors. There's no need to drag innocent people into this."

"You can fight your way back. Isn't the mindset of that abbot back then similar to yours?"

"You flatter me, Emperor Taizu."

"Who am I? And who are they? Those who are defeated by me will never see my back in their entire lives."

"Good, that's spirited!"

"However... Gu Qing, Huilongguan is a power of the Yan Kingdom. Every year, they pay a certain amount of precious medicines or spirit stones and mineral veins. In principle, if they pay tribute, they are considered members of the royal family."

Gu Qing put down the teacup.

He said calmly.

“I didn’t touch any of those people. It’s the Prince of Yan who is happy to recruit them. There are hundreds of cultivators who have reached the rank of cultivator in Huilongguan alone. Now there are faint signs of spiritual energy revival in Yan Kingdom. It is the time to expand and make progress.”

"If the Emperor Taizu intends, there may be forces similar to Huilongguan within these twelve prefectures, engaging in activities that harm the interests of the royal family."

"If it is inconvenient, Gu Qing can help."

The other party was testing him, trying to see if Gu Qing knew anything, and then using force and pressure.

Gu Qing went along with it, directly yielding and repeatedly stating that he had no hostility, even willing to solve some troubles for the Yan royal family that were inconvenient to deal with directly.

If further pressure is applied, it will not be a test but a feud.

It's somewhat like they're standing up for Huilongguan.

Gu Qing's expression was quite accurate. Although there was a difference in their levels of understanding, Gu Qing represented Baiyue Mountain and entered the country through normal means.

When the unexpected happened, Emperor Taizu of Yan was the first to be affected.

After all, in this mortal realm, only he has the power to kill Gu Qing on the surface.

A moment of silence.

Emperor Taizu of Yan continued to pour tea for Gu Qing.

"Young friend Gu is being too sensitive. I was just asking casually, don't overthink it."

"I was just saying it casually, please don't take it to heart, Grand Ancestor."

"Ha ha ha ha."

The tea was drunk for an hour. When Gu Qing came out, the Prince of Yan was still waiting at the door.

When he came out, she looked at him with some curiosity.

"Master Gu, does the Emperor have any other instructions?"

"No, let's go, take me to the Earth Fire Chamber."

"Okay, please come this way."

As the two walked away, inside the Taiji Hall, Emperor Yan sighed, looked at the Spirit Crystal Platform, and went over to press a hidden compartment.

There was also a secret room here.

After descending for a while, a small, dark room, no more than 100 square meters in size, came into view. Inside, there were coffins, filling half of the empty space, at least a dozen of them.

Arriving at the nearest coffin, Emperor Taizu of Yan pushed open the coffin lid.

Looking at the undecayed corpse inside, he muttered to himself.

“Jinyun Sixteen, your descendants are all quite ordinary. It’s a pity that an outsider came seeking revenge and wiped out the last trace of you. How tragic.” “My Yan family cannot follow in your footsteps and just disappear like that.”

As the only sixth-rank cultivator in the Yan family, Yan Taizu was actually a descendant of the Yan family, a branch of the cultivation world in the Southern Yue. When he founded the Yan Kingdom, he was full of ambition. When he was told that he would serve as the guardian of the Yan Kingdom and could not leave, it was as if the sky had fallen.

From that time on, one branch of their bloodline entered and developed in southern Vietnam.

Unfortunately, his descendants are not up to par, and no new sixth-rank cultivators have been promoted to the sixth rank so far, so he can only place his hopes on himself.

The Yan family has too few seventh-grade cultivators; the two branches combined have no more than twenty people, and the mortal side has only two.

Complete fault.

Once he dies, the probability of those loyal ministers rebelling is almost 100%. Only if he lives can the rebellion be suppressed.

If he doesn't seek change, he will suffer the same fate as the Jinyun clan.

"Therefore... the Di Hong clan is the legitimate human race, and it is not shameful to pledge allegiance to them. Although the Baiyue Mountains are good, they are not the path that the Yan family should take."

“Jinyun Sixteen, your descendants are all dead. The Jinyun Secret Realm that you created will no longer be contested and will soon belong to me.”

He muttered some incoherent words, as if trying to convince himself.

Emperor Yan placed his hand on the corpse's chest, sensed it, and discovered that the Dao Fruit, which had been gestating for nearly a hundred years, was about to take shape in the middle dantian.

What they sought was not to refine the Dao Fruit, but to use the connection of the Dao Fruit to locate the Jinyun Secret Realm.

Back then, he was able to develop.

Firstly, they were nurtured by the Baiyue Mountains, and secondly, they had the Jinyun clan as their backing.

This lineage of ancestors came to the State of Yan.

It is because before the ancestor Jinyun ascended to heaven, he created a secret realm here, which was solidified by great supernatural powers and has remained prosperous for ten thousand years. It is unknown how many secret treasures and resources were left inside.

Refining the Dao Fruit can only increase his strength by a certain amount, but his upper limit will be locked.

Finding the secret realm, the resources within are his path to success.

A century ago, the Taotie lineage of Jinyun took the initiative to seek cooperation.

Emperor Taizu of Yan secretly pledged allegiance to the Di Hong clan early on. The two sides hit it off immediately and joined forces to assassinate Jinyun Sixteen. He took the corpse, while the other side seized all the members of the Jinyun bloodline.

Everyone had their own ulterior motives.

He should have followed Emperor Hong's orders to eradicate the Jinyun clan completely and hand over seven-tenths of their resources, but he did not go to extremes.

First, be wary that the Taotie Taoist might have the means to perish together with the Jade Emperor.

Secondly, I don't want to be a dog.

The Jinyun clan should have retreated entirely into the secret realm, and the Yan state should have been handed over to him for rule. This plan would have been a win-win situation for both sides.

However, due to problems in the secret realm, his rule was more like that of a steward looking after the Yan Kingdom for his master.

Unequal cooperation is problematic from the start.

Complete trust vanished, and hatred began to sprout.

Just then, the Di Hong clan extended an olive branch, which led to what happened later. The Jinyun Secret Realm could not be opened because Taotie failed in his Nirvana. Taotie Daoist found another way: he sacrificed his clansmen to reverse his bloodline, hoping to use the aura of his ancestors to open the secret realm.

Emperor Taizu of Yan also had his own plans and methods.

While dealing with the pressure from the Emperor Hong Clan, they kept a close eye on the movements of Huilongguan, waiting for Jinyun Sixteen's Dao Fruit to take shape as the key. Both sides' methods revolved around the "sacrifice".

One seeks quantity.

One seeks quality.

All the solutions were correct, and the game should have proceeded smoothly, with each player relying on their own methods. However, Gu Qing suddenly entered the chessboard.

After testing him, he was basically convinced that Gu Qing had come seeking revenge, and that the matter of finding relatives was probably true.

It all seems like an unexpected factor, not something they deliberately came to interfere with.

The pressure on the Di Hong clan comes from a certain treasure.

He was asked to find a magical artifact resembling a pool and hand it over. Emperor Taizu of Yan believed that since Jinyun Sixteen did not possess such a treasure, it was probably within the Jinyun Secret Realm, and no one had yet obtained it.

But Gu Qing's arrival, and the destruction of Huilongguan, made him an excellent scapegoat.

"The pressure from the Di Hong clan can be transferred to Gu Qing, while I will remain hidden in the shadows. Once I obtain the Jinyun Secret Realm, I can cultivate in secret for a hundred years and perhaps then I can truly stand in the Ancestral Hall of Baiyue Mountain."

"That's it."

I worked overtime until 3 a.m., and I'm so sleepy. ((__))zzzZZ
Tomorrow is Saturday, my day off. I'll see if I can write a few more chapters.

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