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Chapter 584: Beast Mound, Palace History
Ji Ming walked in the billowing purple mist and came to the side door. As a direct official in Yanshou Palace, even with the prefix "Jinfu", he was still a casual official. He was not qualified to enter the palace through the main gate.

There is a bat mound at the side door.

The last time he came here, this stone pillar was still a golden toad pillar.

Ji Ming knocked on the bat's support, and the stone bat that was about to fly with its wings spread trembled and woke up from its stillness. It immediately looked at Ji Ming's magic scroll and said in surprise, "Where did this little official Jinfu come from?"

Ji Ming did not answer his question, but asked in a deep voice: "Is Patriarch Baihe in the palace?"

"No."

As soon as the bat responded, it heard the clinking sound of talisman coins, and its expression suddenly became lively.

"Ancestor Crane often roams freely with Old Star Lord in Yingzhou, and may not come back once every hundred years. If you need to find Ancestor Crane, you can only try to pray in the Crane Hall."

"I know that."

Ji Ming nodded and asked, "Which god general is in charge of the Crane Hall?"

The stone bat said proudly on the pier: "Who else could it be? It must be our He Patriarch's beloved general - Xuan Xuan Divine General."

Ji Ming threw out hundreds of talisman coins, and Bat caught them steadily, saying happily: "General Xuanxuan is not on duty in the palace. If you have any problems, you can find the male and female Xuanhe swords that the general left in the Crane Hall."

"Thank you!"

Ji Ming bowed and said.

The beast mounds guarding the side gate are mostly from temples in the lower realm that believe in the Three Life Old Star Gods. It is said that the competition for the positions of the gate-guarding beast mounds is extremely fierce among the spiritual beast mounds in the lower realm.

Except for the two large white crane mounds in front of the palace gate that remain unchanged for thousands of years, the animal mounds in front of the other side doors and palace gates are rotated every few decades.

The seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister, this principle is also similar to that in heaven. People like Ji Ming who do not often go to the palace need to understand the changes in the palace here at Shoudun.

For example, the relationship between the White Crane Boy and the Canglu under the Old Star God has always been unharmonious, and the conflict is almost semi-public. Even in the Yanshou Palace, where the immortal class is streamlined, such a conflict still creates a sense of opposition.

Under the White Crane Boy, General Xuanxuan is undoubtedly the leader of this faction, and Ji Ming is naturally also in the White Crane Boy's faction.

The previous two visits to Yanshou Palace did not yield much except for finding out some information about the palace. He did not even meet the faction leader, General Xuanxuan. It seems to be the same this time.

Arriving at Hetang from the side door, one can see rows of vine-patterned lanterns hanging under the eaves outside the hall, and the beams and rafters are densely covered with seal-script characters for "Fu", which are complex but not messy.

In the hall, there were a male and female black cranes suspended in the air, with their long necks intertwined and wisps of sword energy beneath their bodies.

If Ji Ming had not known in advance that Erhe was the demon-refining sword of General Xuanxuan, it would have been difficult for him to see Erhe's true form at first sight.

In front of Erhe, Ji Ming honestly expressed that he wanted to look up relevant books about Longxiao Palace.

The two cranes talked for a while, nodded in agreement, and then turned into two intertwined sword lights and fled, returning to the hall in an instant. They handed a copy of the jade slip to Ji Ming.

The male and female cranes were very efficient and much easier to talk to than the Wenhua divine official that Ji Ming met in Hetang twice before. Taking this opportunity, Ji Ming asked the two cranes to re-record some secrets of the underworld.

He knew his limits. For example, if it involved matters involving the Pleiades star officials or the evil thoughts of the demons, he would naturally not ask Erhe to help check in the palace.

"Longxiao Palace!"

When Ji Ming read the contents of the jade slip, the story of the rise and fall of Longxiao Palace slowly unfolded in his mind. Longxiao Palace was first built during the Daxia period by the dragon girl in the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea in the South China Sea. The purpose was to create a sea market in the South China Sea so that the many water spirits in the South China Sea could communicate with the immortals and gods in the sky.

Unfortunately, the Dragon Silk Palace had just been established and the Dragon Girl had just persuaded the South China Sea mermaids to surrender and recruited them into the palace to weave silk, when she encountered the East China Sea Dragon Palace recruiting a prince consort.

From then on, the dragon girl married a mortal, and in order to ensure her husband a life of wealth and prosperity, she secretly gave him the Thirty-Six Qi Treasure Mirage. From then on, a catastrophe broke out in the East China Sea, and the dragon girl had no time to take care of the Longxiao Palace in the South China Sea.

Without the protection of the Dragon Girl of the East China Sea, the palace quickly fell into decline.

At the end of the Great Xia Dynasty, Longxiao Palace was taken over by the two divisions of the Thunder Department and moved to the depths of the South China Sea, never to be seen again in the world.

However, until now, there is no specific statement as to whether Longxiao Palace belongs to Xingyun Division or Hufeng Division. It is said that the two divisions have been entangled because of the secret teachings of the dragon girl in the palace.

In addition to the above, the classics of Yanshou Palace also mentioned a high-quality Taoist product and a fairy-quality Taoist product in Longxiao Palace.

This top-grade Taoist product is the tears of the mermaid. It is an excellent choice for both refining elixirs and offering sacrifices to magical instruments. It is said that the elixir of a certain secret skill is made from the tears of the mermaid.

As for the immortal products of Taoism, they are the water-repellent silk woven in the Dragon Silk Palace.

This Taoist product was once as famous as the Yunjin in the Zhennv Palace. When the Longxiao Palace was first built, the Dragon Girl launched the Water-Repellent Silk, which made the reputation of the Longxiao Palace resound throughout the South China Sea, and was pre-ordered by immortals and gods from all directions.

Unfortunately, after the death of Dragon Girl Dao, the production of Water-Breaking Silk in this palace has been declining and has been gradually forgotten by the immortals and gods. It no longer has the momentum to be as famous as Yunjin.

The last news about Longxiao Palace was about a thunder beast that was banished to the lower world by the Five Thunder Mansions of the Thunder Department and was guarding under the stone archway of Longxiao Palace. This kind of thunder beast has always had a resounding name in the lower world - Kui.

This Kui beast was also unlucky. It was because it was greedy for drinking the immortal wine that it knocked over the Great Sage’s chariot during the Great Sage’s Dharma Assembly. As a result, it was demoted to the lower world to guard the Longxiao Palace.

However, the immortal official who recorded this in Yanshou Palace added two sentences to this matter.

It is said that before this Kui beast was demoted, a righteous general in the Five Thunder Palace wanted to kill the Kui beast on the spot.

If it weren't for the strict laws of the immortal group under the command of the Great Sage, which escorted the Kui Beast to the lower world the entire time, the Kui Beast would have no chance of survival. The most notable thing about this General Lei in the sky was that he had repeatedly failed to refine the magic weapon Thunder Drum.

"Lei Gu, what you need is a Kui skin!"

Ji Ming thought to himself.

After obtaining some pieces of information, Ji Ming returned to his body in the White Scaled Rock with satisfaction.

After fishing for a while on the fishing platform and relaxing himself, Ji Ming began to truly study the Five Elements Escape Technique in depth.

Usually, to practice the Five Elements Escape Technique, one must first understand the changes of the Five Elements. You can start with a change that you are good at, like Ji Ming's specialty, the Gangfeng Technique, which belongs to the Wood Element and symbolizes flow and growth.

And through the different properties of the罡风, we can further understand other changes.

For example, the dryness of the strong wind under the fire element, the killing power under the metal element, the extreme coldness under the water element, and the soul-stirring feeling under the earth element.

The most difficult change to understand among these is the change in the earth element. Wind belongs to the wood element, and wood overcomes earth. When the wind moves, the earth disperses. Therefore, among the different changes in the properties of the Gangfeng, the change in the earth element is the most difficult to capture.

Ji Ming's practice of the Five Elements Transformations must start with the difficult ones and then move on to the easy ones, focusing on conquering the Earth Element Transformations so as to comprehend the Earth Element Escape Technique.

(End of this chapter)