Ming Dynasty: Emperor Wanshou is cultivating immortality!

For Li Yufu, no matter what Darry Marshall's answer was, he could accept it. All he wanted was to see Darry Marshall's decision, nothing more.

In the future he wants to build his own power, and what he needs is not someone with extraordinary cultivation.

Because there will definitely be many people like this in the future, but there will be few people who have both brains and strength.

And even if there are people who have both, and possess both decisiveness and leadership skills, there are even fewer!
The saying "it is easy to get thousands of soldiers but difficult to find a good general" is exactly this truth.

Judging from Darry Marshall's performance and temporary reaction when the old woman tried to stop him from taking the incense, it was obvious that he was a man of both strength and brains.

Coupled with his own test just now, Darry Marshall's courage to make the best judgment without hesitation was enough for Li Yufu to initially regard him as a good general!
What is the most important thing in today's era? Talent!
Therefore, he needs a large number of talents, especially those with outstanding management and leadership abilities!

"I agree." At this time, Su Nan stepped forward and stood with Li Huaizhong.

The person who made the decision right after Su Nan was Ryan, who had been acting like a good kid from beginning to end.

"I agree too." From beginning to end, he behaved like an innocent child who was involved in an experiment and always followed Su Nan closely.

Of course, the former never paid any attention to him.

Everyone knows that those who are sentenced to death by the court and become part of the experimental group are not good people in the true sense, and no one would think that he is kind just because he is a child.

The fact that he appeared here meant that he had at least one life on his hands, and it was not an accident.

With the continuous development of the Ming Dynasty, the laws of the dynasty gradually changed from the original cruel Ming Law to the current new law, the Ming Dynasty Law.

And the law is being revised again and again.

Therefore, it tends to be more civilized and perfect, and the chances of false and wrongful convictions are almost non-existent.

For example, in the case of murder, it will be divided into multiple extremely detailed scenarios and multiple verifications, unless it is intentional homicide.

Therefore, it can be explained that every murder committed by the people present was intentional and not an accident.

"We agree too." After Su Nan and Ryan made the decision, Li Yufu smiled slightly, glanced at Darry Marshall, and then the two of them stepped forward at the same time.

At this point, he had completely regarded Darry Marshall as his follower, and through this subtle performance, he made Darry Marshall subconsciously trust him and be dominated by him.

"My dear Han, what do you think?" Li Huaizhong spoke again.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Han Feng just thought about it for a moment and nodded, saying: "In that case, let's make a decision tomorrow. Today we will act together."

"But before that, we still have to go to the 'Huangyangyi' in the west of the town to check the situation."

"Just treat it as collecting clues." After saying that, without any more hesitation, he turned around and strode towards the west of the town.

"Did you discover it?" While walking on the extremely busy street, Su Nan suddenly spoke to everyone using his spiritual sense.

"The sound seems to have become smaller, and I used my spiritual sense to detect that many people were laughing but not making any sound."

After hearing Su Nan's reminder, Han Feng and the others all looked serious, and then released their spiritual sense.

Well, although their spiritual sense has now been suppressed to the point where it can only be used within a half-foot distance around their bodies, thanks to the town being so bustling and prosperous, there are people passing by them almost all the time.

Therefore, with his spiritual sense, he naturally quickly captured what Su Nan was talking about.

Indeed, there are many people who are clearly laughing and have happy expressions, but no sound comes out of them.

It's like a silent performance.

Moreover, compared to the bustling and noisy feeling when I first entered the town, the noise in the town at this moment is obviously much quieter.

"It has indeed become smaller, and the birth value is getting less and less..." Li Yufu couldn't help but communicate with his spiritual sense.

In fact, from the moment they discovered that the sound had decreased, they no longer needed to use their spiritual sense to perceive it.

Because now the sounds in the town have become detectable with the human ear, the sound is getting smaller.

For a moment, the expressions on the six people's faces gradually became solemn, and their eyes were full of vigilance.

"Shh!"

Suddenly, as if cooperating with the six people and discovering the truth behind the reduced noise in the town, the originally noisy sounds in the entire town disappeared in an instant.

A moment of silence, no, silence!
Because at this moment, the town was so quiet that the six people could almost hear each other's breathing and heartbeats. The sudden change almost made the six people's hair stand on end.

Although the ones with the lowest cultivation level here are at the Foundation Establishment Stage, the ones with the highest cultivation level have even reached the middle Golden Core Stage.

You know, there are only a handful of people who have reached the Jindan stage of cultivation in the entire Ming world.

But they all knew that the difficulty level of the strange secret realm before them was likely to have reached the late Jindan stage or even the Yuanying stage.

A cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage could almost kill everyone present with a single move of his hands. Darry Marshall and Han Feng had a deep understanding of this.

After all, their cultivation had reached the Golden Core Stage, and they were very experienced in fighting. When the government arrested them, they naturally sent out Yuanying Stage cultivators. That kind of powerlessness and weakness, even now when I think back to it, I still feel palpitations.

"Let's go!" After noticing the changes in the town at this moment, Han Feng didn't say much. He used his spiritual sense to transmit a message to everyone, let out a low shout, and suddenly quickened his pace.

The other five people followed immediately.

To be honest, looking at the small town residents around them who seemed to be very happy, with smiles on their faces and a lively atmosphere, several people felt their scalps tingling at this moment.

After a safe journey, everyone hurriedly arrived at the west of the town, where Huangyang Posthouse was located.

Two lanterns were seen hanging at the entrance of "Huangyangyi". Almost the moment the lanterns were opened, several people began to communicate with their spiritual sense to verify the colors each other saw.

"White!"

"White!"

"White!"

"red!"

"red!"

"White!"

Four white and two red!

The four people who saw white were Han Feng, Ryan, Li Huaizhong and Darry Marshall.

The ones who saw red were Su Nan and Li Yufu.

If all they saw was white, it meant that they could stay at the "Huangyangyi" or inn today. Then at least they would spend their first night in the town safely.

Then it will give them more time to collect clues to pass the level.

Although everyone had already prepared themselves mentally, after verifying this result, they all felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.

Of course, the main reason why everyone felt inexplicably depressed and looked a little unhappy at this moment was because Han Feng’s previous worries had become true.

The color of lanterns that each person sees is different, which means that it is very likely that the clues collected by each person will also be different, which greatly increases the difficulty of passing the level.

Of course, it also means that each of them must act on their own and get the clues they think are necessary to pass the level.

In this case, there is no possibility of cooperation.

They may even become enemies because of the same clue.

Among the people present, the one with the highest cultivation level is undoubtedly Han Feng, who has reached the middle stage of the Golden Core. The next one is Darry Marshall, who is in the early stage of the Golden Core. If one of them has a conflict with the clues of these two, it means that they will become enemies.

Either he would be killed by the two men during the fight over the conflicting clues in the town, or he would give up the clues and be killed by the weirdness of the town. There was no other way.

The people in the lab don't care whether they live or die.

They are a group of death row prisoners who have been sentenced to death. They are dead and have no human rights at all.

"Since we have already agreed on it, on the first night, we should stick together and spend this night safely." At this moment when everyone was in a depressed mood, the voice of the cold wind sounded again.

"In that case, no one needs to stay at the inn tonight. Next, we need to look for clues."

After Han Feng finished speaking, a sharp and ruthless look suddenly flashed across the crowd. After looking around at everyone, he said:

"Everyone, since we have agreed to unite and search for clues together on the first night, we must strictly implement our previous agreement."

“If anyone wants to break the agreement and stay in a safe place like an inn, don’t blame me for being rude!”

After hearing Han Feng's telepathic message, several people who saw the white lanterns looked at each other and nodded.

"We will abide by our agreement."

Li Huaizhong, Ryan and Darry Marshall naturally understood that Han Feng was talking to the three of them.

"...creak." At this time, the door of the post station suddenly opened, and a man dressed like a waiter suddenly smiled and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, it's getting late, and it's not peaceful outside at night. Come in quickly."

Before, there was no sound from other people talking in the town, but only the voice of the waiter at the post station was heard.

"Okay!" Han Feng nodded when he saw that everyone had tacitly agreed, and then continued to transmit the message, saying: "Now, we will start to act separately and gather at the post station the next morning."

"Discuss whether to continue cooperation next time."

"Okay!" The six people nodded, then dispersed and walked out of the post station, and soon disappeared in the crowd.

"Bang, bang..." Soon, the sound of bangzi was heard among the crowd, and the You hour had arrived.

The six people who mixed into the crowd naturally heard the voice at this moment.

Subconsciously, the six people stopped almost everywhere in the town, quietly observing everything around them.

"Shh!"

Almost at the moment when the last ray of sunlight disappeared, everyone in the town disappeared. At the same time, the lanterns in front of every house in the town were extinguished.

Only the half-hidden crescent in the sky and a few scattered stars around it emitted faint light, illuminating the small town shrouded in darkness below.

An inexplicable feeling of chillness filled the man's heart.

"Not good!" Almost instantly, the expressions of Han Feng, Li Huaizhong, Ryan, Su Nan, Li Yufu and Darry Marshall changed, because their cultivation was sealed at this moment.

It was not until this moment that they realized that the difficulty of this small town was greater than they had imagined.

Almost in an instant, several people became ordinary people.

Of course, everyone soon regained their composure, and everyone's mind couldn't help but become active. "My cultivation has been banned, which means that from the first night, I will officially start to challenge the level..." Li Huaizhong inhaled the welding smoke, then put his hands behind his back, hunched over, and walked forward.

"Not necessarily!" At the crossroads, in front of the brightly lit inn, Ryan hesitated.

What he saw was a white lantern, so he could naturally stay in the inn.

“Since everyone’s actions are likely to be banned at this moment, Han Feng’s cultivation will naturally be the same.”

"But I can't guarantee it. Tomorrow is a new day. Will my cultivation be restored again?"

"If that person starts to pursue the matter, it will be troublesome..." After figuring out the key point, Ryan shook his head for the sake of safety. Ignoring the waiter at the door who was looking forward to it and trying to keep him, he turned around and left silently.

We are all smart people, and we all understand that we should be cautious in everything, not take risks, and not be the first to act.

Therefore, neither Li Huaizhong nor Darry Marshall chose to stay in the inn, but abided by the agreement.

As for Su Nan and Li Yufu, they saw red lanterns and naturally would not stay in the inn.

However, the two also have their own considerations.

Especially Li Yufu! After realizing that everyone might collect different clues and become enemies, he decided to keep his distance from Darry Marshall in the town.

Although he was confident that he could recruit Darry Marshall as his subordinate, it didn't mean that he was a fool.

Being able to enter here and become a member of the experimental group means that Darry Marshall is also a person with life on his hands.

Essentially speaking, he is not a good person.

If faced with a life-or-death crisis, Darry Marshall would probably kill him without hesitation.

Of course, he would do the same if he had the opportunity.

"It seems that I can only rely on myself from now on!"

"According to the stories revealed by those who participated in the experiment on the dark web."

"If you want to pass the level, then you must start from the rules of each secret realm."

"First, the instructions for entering the town are: 3:30 pm... After entering the town, you must take three incense sticks in front of the City God Temple..."

"Second, night walking taboos: if you hear children playing in the alleys at midnight, you must immediately turn around nine times on the spot..."

“If you see a woman in a red wedding dress sitting alone on the bridge, you must throw all the silver and money you carry with you into the river…” Li Yufu began to quickly recall the rules for entering the town in his mind.

For a moment, the minds of the six people in the experimental group became active at this moment.

It can be said that everyone has their own agenda.

Of course, one thing they all did was to start recalling and analyzing the Huaiyin Town Rules over and over again.

What they didn't know was that what they were thinking in their hearts was actually echoing in the laboratory without reservation.

"Sure enough, is it useful to let others reveal the process of participating in secret places and strange experiments?" A slightly fat young man grabbed a handful of potato chips, stuffed them into his mouth and said vaguely.

A woman wearing thick black-framed glasses frowned, shook her head slightly, pushed her glasses up, and said:

"Pay attention to record and analyze the various data after the strange life activity began, as well as the changes in the laws of Qiankun!"

"Yeah, don't worry, boss. Are you worried about me?" The slightly fat young man said vaguely: "My life is in the 'Zhiwei Realm', which specializes in capturing details."

"And in order to cooperate with the various experiments in the laboratory, I specifically applied to Emperor Xi to have my Zhiwei Mirror placed under the laws of the Qiankun Realm."

"Just tell me, looking at the entire Benming Laboratory, is there anyone who is better than me in observing experimental data and capturing details?"

"You are stronger?" The woman smiled and shook her head, saying, "Can you be stronger than the teacher? And Mr. Li and the others?"

Hearing the woman's words, the fat boy's face suddenly fell, and he said with a bit of resentment: "You can't play like this."

"Teacher and Mr. Li can directly call up the front space mirror authority. Besides, if you want to compare like this, you might as well just bring up Eunuch Lu."

"Stop talking nonsense and focus on your work!" The woman scolded with a smile, not intending to pay any more attention to this chatterbox.

"Boss, I heard about it," but at this time the little fat man suddenly came up to her and whispered, "I just heard that according to gossip, although we are nominally looking for a way to break the current third type of weird destiny."

"But the real purpose is actually to abolish the innate cultivation system, which was proposed by Elder Zhang more than 130 years ago and has been almost forgotten by everyone!"

"We need to find a way to replace these strange innate abilities with a cultivation system that can be used to replace them!"

"And this is why we look for experimental groups again and again, enter the strange secret realm, and then observe the changes between the laws of heaven and earth and the strange laws of life in the sky realm, and find out..."

The fat boy was still talking, then suddenly shut up.

Because at this moment, the woman in front of him, whose originally gentle face was now full of indifference, was staring at him with eyes that contained no emotion.

"Gulp," the little fat boy swallowed his saliva and said fearfully, "Boss, what's wrong with you..."

"Wang Bao, if I hear you say this again, you'll be investigated." After the woman finished speaking, her tone suddenly became stern, and she scolded, "Now, get to work!"

After saying that, he got up and left.

"Yes!" The little fat man suddenly shuddered, then looked at the woman's back as she left, wiped the cold sweat from his head, and slapped his mouth in annoyance, "It's over, my stinky mouth!"

"I guess no one will be able to sleep well tonight."

"Hehe," at this time, a thin man came up and said with a sly smile: "How about it, is the look in the eyes of the Yuanying stage ancestor still gentle?"

"Get out of the way!" The little fat man rolled his eyes in annoyance and said, "Didn't you hear what I just said? Get to work!"

"But I feel that the possibility you mentioned is true!" At this time, the thin man came over and said in a low voice: "After all, there is no smoke without fire."

"I heard that recently, the Crown Prince's family and the elders in the cabinet have been getting increasingly at odds with each other."

"The immortals behind the major immortal cultivation chaebols seem to be starting to get restless."

"I heard that the war in Zhu Xian World is almost over. As long as we solve the strange plague here, the imperial court will most likely invade the Xiuxian World."

"But what's next?" The thin man said, his expression becoming serious, and he said in a deep voice: "You know my uncle, right? The Minister of the Ministry of Revenue!"

"Although I am not a high-ranking official, I will still tell my family about a lot of news."

"According to him, after the imperial court has unified the entire world of immortal cultivation, the next step will most likely be to weaken the major immortal clans in the imperial court."

"The relationship between the imperial court and the immortal families today is the same as during the Sui and Tang dynasties, when the imperial court and the aristocratic families shared the world!"

"Do you think that this kind of historical reversal is what the wise and powerful emperor would like to see?"

Listening to his best friend's vivid analysis, Xiaopang's expression gradually became serious.

Even though this best friend joined his favorite laboratory, he said that he was not interested in politics and only wanted to do scientific research.

But after all, he was born into a family of high-ranking officials in the court and was very sensitive to the situation in the court.

"Therefore, anyone who has a deeper understanding of politics can see that when the world is settled and the imperial court unites the world, the immortals should also withdraw!"

"After all, the world belongs to one family. Besides, the royal family has been developing quietly and never showing off in front of others. Who knows how much they have accumulated over the years?"

"So how do we weaken these immortals?"

"It's very simple. It's time for Elder Zhang to propose the abolition of the life practice system."

Hearing this, the little fat man frowned and couldn't help but retorted: "But the matter was so serious at the time, didn't the court say that it would not be abolished..."

"You won't abolish the innate cultivation system?" The best friend asked back with a sneer before the fat guy finished speaking, then shook his head and said, "I think you are too naive."

"First of all, I want to make it clear to you that the imperial court has not said that it will not abolish the innate cultivation system!"

"If you don't believe it, search it online yourself."

"Secondly, the one who was opposed to this matter was only His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and that was also rejected by the so-called experts from various universities. The Crown Prince just didn't deny it!"

"I'll say it one last time. Even if we abolish the Innate Immortal Cultivation System, the imperial court will definitely start with the major immortal clans and families, and they will do it one by one!"

"The first ones to be moved are those who control the resources of the upper class and are often hated by the people!"

"It's unlikely that the cabinet will do that, but haven't some big chaebols emerged in recent years?"

"Then we can just find a random reason to uproot them and even bring down the high-ranking officials behind these big chaebols, such as a provincial governor, and say they are corrupt officials!"

"In recent years, the public's dislike for these provincial governors has increased as social conflicts have increased and resources have been insufficiently allocated."

“But it’s increasing day by day.”

"When the time comes, the innate cultivation system of these high-ranking officials' families is abolished. What will these lower-class fools think?" As he said this, he sneered at the little fat man's shocked gaze:
“They’ll clap their hands and cheer.”

"And they don't even realize that the danger has already arrived."

"Pfft," the best friend said, and suddenly seemed to think of something funny, and sneered, saying:
"When I went back to the countryside to worship my ancestors some time ago, I saw an interesting phenomenon."

"Someone from my hometown took out a special pig for eating from the pig pen and slaughtered it in front of the other pigs."

"There are a few spirit pigs lying on the wall watching."

"Now, the imperial court's methods are applied to these lower-class fools in the same way."

"It's like boiling a frog in warm water. By the time even some fishermen who don't read books or newspapers realize the danger, the building will have already collapsed."

"Hey!" After saying that, the best friend shook his head and laughed, "I've said too much, just take it as a joke."

"These are just my own conspiracy theories. Maybe the court is not that dark at all, it's just me who is dark!"

Looking at his nonchalant appearance, the little fat man felt heavy-hearted.

At this moment, he remembered the rumors that had been circulating in the laboratory recently.

There are rumors that the imperial court is looking for another cultivation system to replace the original cultivation system after abolishing it.

There is no smoke without fire. The ancients were right!

"..." (End of this chapter)