Ming Dynasty: Emperor Wanshou is cultivating immortality!

Chapter 335 Praise of War
Ming Dynasty, Beijing.

The Yan Mansion is located in the small courtyard of the ancestral temple.

"Dad," Yan Shifan approached his father Yan Song, who was sitting behind the desk without saying a word, staring at the ancient book in his hand, and asked anxiously:
"What happened that caused the Emperor to send even Eunuch Lu to prison?"

"What puzzles me most is why they arrested four scientists in medicine and biology."

"As for the arrest of Eunuch Lu and the imprisonment of the kings, the outside world has already been in an uproar. All the officials in our department are waiting for you to express your opinion and make a decision for everyone."

As he spoke, Yan Shifan looked at his father tentatively. He also wanted his father to give him some advice.

The Ming Dynasty was in a state of chaos and the situation changed suddenly, catching everyone off guard.

They even don't know whether they have made any mistakes without realizing it. If they wait until the emperor deals with it, it will be too late to regret.

"Tell them," Yan Song's snow-white eyebrows trembled slightly at this time, and he looked up at Yan Shifan and said in a submissive tone: "As the saying goes, a person of integrity is not afraid of his own shadow."

"If they are dedicated to the public and have done nothing wrong to the court, I believe the emperor will not punish anyone without reason. Let them do their job."

"Dad!" Seeing that his father had not opened up to him at this time and instead said some clichés, Yan Shifan's tone became heavier and he asked, "Do you already know something?"

"I don't know." Yan Song shook his head slightly and said, "I don't need to know either." Without waiting for Yan Shifan to speak again, he continued, "Just be patient and wait and see."

"Perhaps, it won't be long before we know the result."

"Knock knock knock." At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside the study, followed by Yan Shaoting's voice.

"Grandpa, father, Shao Ting wants to see you."

"...Come in." Yan Shifan looked suspiciously at his father who put down the ancient book in his hand. He seemed to understand something. After letting Yan Shaoting in, he sat up straight beside him.

"Grandpa, father." Yan Shaoting walked in from outside the study, bowed to Yan Song and Yan Shifan, then looked at Yan Song and said, "Grandpa, a large number of crows suddenly appeared in the Western Continent. They were raised by our Ming Dynasty."

"Not only that, I also found that in some remote towns run by my Yan family, wherever the crows appeared, many cultivators had symptoms of nasal congestion, runny nose, and fever."

"If these monks recover quickly by taking some detoxification pills."

"But the people of my Yan family were not affected." Yan Shaoting hesitated and said, "I'm not sure if these phenomena are related to those crows?"

"But Grandpa, you asked me to observe the changes in the world of immortal cultivation. Currently, this is the only thing that seems to be related to our Ming Dynasty."

After saying that, Yan Shaoting looked at Yan Shifan again and explained, "Before that, after Eunuch Lu was captured and the kings were imprisoned, my grandfather asked me to go to the world of immortal cultivation."

"The main reason is that Grandpa suspects that the great changes in the capital may be related to the invasion of the world of immortal cultivation by our Ming Dynasty."

After listening to Yan Shaoting's explanation, Yan Shifan whispered, "Spiritual Crow, do cultivators have stuffy noses, runny noses, fevers, and colds?"

As he spoke, Yan Shifan couldn't help but look at Yan Song and said, "Dad, could it be that all this was done by Lu Fang and the others?"

However, when Yan Song heard Yan Shifan's question, he did not say a word. After a long while, he suddenly raised his eyelids.

At this moment he seemed to have thought of a possibility.

"Dad?" Yan Shifan and Yan Shaoting naturally saw the reaction of his father Yan Song at this moment.

"Huh," However, Yan Song was, after all, a mature and prudent old fox. Even if he guessed some things, he would never say them out loud.

Looking up at Yan Shifan and Yan Shaoting, father and son, Yan Song moved his lips and said in a deep voice:
"From today on, you two must forget all about Eunuch Lu and the other princes being imprisoned in their respective palaces."

"Just pretend it never happened!"

"Dad, why..." Yan Shifan wanted to say something else, but Yan Song scolded him in a deep voice: "Do as I say!"

"...Roar!" For a moment, an invisible tiger roar seemed to be heard in the study, as if a vicious tiger was eating people.

Yan Shifan and his son Yan Shaoting couldn't help but twitch their eyelids when they saw Yan Song at this moment.

It has been many years since they saw their father (grandfather) so domineering.

"Yes! My son (grandson) understands!"

Yan Shifan gave his son Yan Shaoting a wink, and the father and son bowed to Yan Song and responded.

Based on his understanding of his father Yan Song, Yan Shifan knew that his father must have discovered something, and that this matter had become so serious that it must not be mentioned at all.

Otherwise, Dad would never be so nervous.

"Go away. I want to rest for a while." After seeing his son Yan Shifan's response, Yan Song's tone slowed down. He waved his hand, signaling the father and son to leave.

"Yes!" Yan Shifan looked at his father who stood up and walked towards the bed on the side, as if he was about to die. He winked at his son Yan Shaoting and turned to leave the study.

"The emperor did it himself." After Yan Shifan and his son left and the study became quiet, Yan Song, who was lying on the bed, stared at the beams lifelessly and muttered.

"Plague?" Yan Song asked with doubt in his tone, and then shook his head, his brain working rapidly.

"Li Shizhen and the other three are all medical and biologists. They are even more amazing after they absorbed and integrated the medical knowledge of the scientific and technological civilization of the Mingyu Star Spirit Clan."

"Ten years ago, Li Shizhen and others suddenly disappeared, and suddenly returned ten years later." Yan Song recalled his unique intelligence network, which collected information on the dynamics of the scientist families in the Ming Dynasty world.

Among them are Li Shizhen, Leeuwenhoek, Jan Schwanmeidan, Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Kepler and others.

Yan Song knew the whereabouts, dynamics, personal preferences, and even the scientific research results of these scientists.

Ever since Hua Shang proposed to take a path that combines immortal cultivation civilization with scientific and technological civilization, Yan Song knew that these scientists would be crucial to the future construction of the Ming Dynasty.

The Yan family of immortals wants to lay out their plans for the Ming Dynasty and establish roots in all walks of life. Naturally, they will not let go of these new nobles of the future Ming Dynasty.

In fact, ever since Li Shizhen and others were arrested that day, he had keenly guessed a more likely possibility. That was why he sent his grandson Yan Shaoting to the Xiuxian world to verify his guess.

The fact is, everything was consistent with his guess.

"If the emperor were to launch a plague specifically targeting the cultivators in the world of cultivation in order to paralyze the world of cultivation, then this move would be too horrific."

"Lü Fang was imprisoned, and the kings were imprisoned," Yan Song thought, shaking his head slightly, "These are just pretexts."

"If the emperor really launched a targeted plague on the world of immortal cultivation, then Lu Fang must know the inside story."

"Now that Lü Fang, Li Shizhen and others have been imprisoned, it means that the emperor has at least rejected this matter on the surface."

"As for the kings, maybe they are just venting their anger on others, or maybe they are just taking advantage of the situation... but it is not important..."

"And in the entire Daming County, no one or group can handle this matter."

"The Imperial Household Department can't do this, the Cabinet can't do this, and the kings can't do this either. The only one in the entire Ming Dynasty who can handle this matter is the Emperor!"

Thinking of this, Yan Song, who had already figured everything out, suddenly had two rays of light flashing in his originally lifeless eyes.

I can only say that Yan Song is worthy of being Yan Song.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, when it comes to scheming, no one could outsmart him except Jiajing.

Especially now that his cultivation has reached the late stage of refining emptiness, he is getting more and more powerful. Of course, Yan Song is not the only one who thinks of this among the top leaders of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, Xu Jie was not an incompetent person. And Zhang Juzheng had grown up and become more mature.

Not to mention people like Zhao Zhenji, who always hide in the dark and observe everything.

No one in the cabinet is a simple person.

They can all infer certain possibilities through Li Shizhen and other four inconspicuous scientists who seemed to appear abruptly in the whole incident.

Naturally, Jiajing had never thought of hiding the truth from the cabinet members, who were all talented people selected and trained by himself.

There are some things that you don't want them to know, so even if they know, they will never show that they know, unless someone suddenly becomes impatient with living.

After all, from ancient times to the present, which emperor needs to consider the feelings of his subjects and explain the purpose of his actions to them?

What’s more, he is Jiajing!
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The war in the entire world of immortal cultivation is still going on.

The war expanded almost every month, and Xu Shixing continued to report the situation to Jiajing.

Of course, even if Xu Shixing did not report it, Jiajing would be able to know it through the natal objects scattered throughout the world of immortal cultivation.

One by one, the crows, starting from the immortal cultivation world of Arcturus, spread more and more of their innate weapons.

A gust of wind, a breath, can infect a living being, and then living beings can infect each other.

The world of immortal cultivation, the world of immortal cultivation on Arcturus.

Every day, sects and families, large and small, are completely destroyed in the flames of war.

At the beginning, the academy would step in to resolve, suppress, and deal with some short-sighted families or independent cultivators.

In this way, we can maintain the authority of the academy!

However, as the flames of war gradually spread to some large sects, families, and overlord-level giant forces, the academy began to hide.

However, people all over the world have suffered from the rule of academies for a long time.

The academy naturally realized that the monks all over the world were dissatisfied and resentful of the superior forces that oppressed them.

Of course, they are more concerned about those overlord-level giant forces that are comparable to a certain family in the academy.

They naturally realized that these forces wanted to overthrow the academy's rule and replace it.

Therefore, even if the academy is willing not to intervene and ignore the actions of these hegemonic forces in expanding their territory and provoking the academy, these hegemonic giant forces do not intend to let it go.

Finally, the overlord-level giant force that was the first to take the initiative to provoke, hold the academy accountable, and demand an explanation took action.

But the first target is the Li family of the academy.

This overlord-level giant force was no other than the Zi Yang Holy Land behind the Zi Yang Sect, which was one of the three Central Plains sects that was destroyed by Jiajing and was instructed by Li Changqing to oppress the Ming Immortal Sect and force Jiajing to intervene.

Well, the four elders in the Nascent Soul stage who attacked the Daming Immortal Sect were from Lingxiao Sect, Zhenwutian, and Ziyang Sect.

The overlord-level giant forces behind them are Lingxiao Sect, Zhenwu World and Ziyang Holy Land.

The provocation and forcing of the academy by the Zi Yang Holy Land can be said to be very simple and crude.

Of course, the reasons are also very interesting.

"Have you heard? Ziyang Holy Land requires the academy to hand over Li Changqing, the third son of the Li family, the first of the three veins in the academy!"

In Sifang City, there was a rough and bloody cultivator who shouted loudly after taking a big gulp of spiritual wine in a roadside tavern.

"Brother, are you also employed by the Yunshui Palace?" At this time, a casual cultivator holding a long sword with a curled blade sat down on the rough cultivator's table and said, "Me too!"

"Haha, the entire cultivation world of Arcturus is now filled with war, which is good for independent cultivators like us!"

This casual cultivator holding a long sword with a curved blade was quite outgoing. He looked around while talking, trying to get along with everyone.

However, this tavern is full of independent cultivators, and basically everyone is a hired mercenary in the wars that are happening everywhere.

On the battlefield, they might be mortal enemies to the death, but after leaving the battlefield and getting the gold, they could sit in the tavern and drink and chat happily.

Many independent cultivators had already recognized that the person opposite was the independent cultivator who almost cost them their lives on the battlefield, but when they met the other party's gaze at this moment, they suddenly grinned.

It seems like we can forget all grudges and laugh it off.

Just as that casual cultivator said, the entire cultivation world of Arcturus is now engulfed in war, and many sects have begun to recruit casual cultivators from all over to join the war in order to increase their own sect's strength on the front line.

Therefore, the price offered can be said to be extremely generous.

Many independent cultivators, as long as they go to the battlefield once and accept a job, the spiritual energy, elixirs, magic weapons and other resources they earn are enough for a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage to practice for three years!
There are even many independent cultivators who form temporary alliances just to participate in bigger wars and get more commissions.

For a time, the first batch of beneficiaries of this war that had just swept across the world of immortal cultivators on Arcturus had already appeared.

"Hahaha, as expected, only war can make money!" As someone took the initiative to talk about the war, soon another casual cultivator started talking with laughter.

"Who said it wasn't? I heard that the Fury Alliance was just a makeshift team consisting of a dozen Foundation Establishment Stage warriors and one Golden Core Stage warrior a month ago, but now they are relying on war to recruit soldiers everywhere."

"I heard that the Fury Alliance can now participate in the frontline battlefields of medium-sized sects!"

"Many of the late Foundation Establishment cultivators in the alliance have even been allocated enough resources to break through to the Golden Core Stage!"

"Not only that, a good friend of mine only escorted the daughter of the leader of a medium-sized sect to the Central Plains, and he earned one million taels of spiritual energy just by doing this trip and running errands!"

"Praise war!"

Someone suddenly raised his glass and shouted.

The others looked at this strong man who was already a little drunk and extremely arrogant even though he had a broken arm. They were all stunned when they heard him shouting praises of war.

The next moment, all the independent cultivators exploded like a lit barrel of explosives. For a moment, the entire roadside tavern shouted four words, "Praise the war!"

"Praise war, praise war, praise war!" The voices grew louder and louder, and spread wider and wider.

In the streets and alleys, more and more independent cultivators heard these four words, recalled their gains in the past period of time, and then showed fanatical expressions and expectations for the future.

Then, everyone started to cheer.

"Praise war!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)