Wet viviparity

Chapter 488 Public Opinion, Zhifu Li
The white crane stretched out a slender crane foot, landed on the ground, and then asked hesitantly: "You are."

Ji Ming's heart skipped a beat. He didn't expect that he had no impression of Baihe Tongzi at all. He could only introduce himself: "Jin Tong, the Golden Fortune Envoy of Yanshou Palace."

"Golden boy, Cang-grade golden elixir."

Bai He nodded slowly and smiled at Ji Ming, "I am indeed wise. I accepted a small envoy like you without any impression in my heart. This alone shows how many talented people I have under my command. You should practice more diligently in the future."

"The ancestor sees thousands of miles clearly."

Ji Ming follows the principle of "eyes look at the nose, nose looks at the heart".

After some forced praise, Ji Ming pointed at the herb on the ground and said, "I have always kept in mind the command of my ancestor, but I am sometimes in trouble. After all, there is no reason. How can I hurt others just because I am a silver envoy in the palace?

It was not until I met this beast later that I learned that he was the Silver Elixir Master in the palace. He was narrow-minded, framed loyal people, and took revenge privately. Only then did I understand the old ancestor's painstaking efforts. "

After saying that, he bowed to the White Crane Patriarch and calmed down the White Crane.

"As the saying goes, a single leaf can reveal a whole picture of the season, and a single spot can reveal the whole picture of the leopard. I can imagine that the deer in Yanshou Palace was able to promote such a thief. His evil deeds are probably even worse than this beast's."

"Don't talk like that."

Bai He shook his head and replied solemnly.

Ji Ming pondered for a moment and looked directly at the White Crane Boy.

He did not take back what he had just said, nor did he correct it. He was no longer the same person he used to be. Sometimes, being weak easily would only make the Cang-grade golden elixir he had worked so hard to refine lose its original luster.

The White Crane Boy was not impressed by the Golden Fortune Messenger at first, but when he saw the messenger refine a Cang Dan, he became slightly interested. His current attitude left him with an even deeper impression.

The white crane gently spread its wings and stretched out its several-meter-tall body. Although this was not the real body of the White Crane Boy, but just a strand of his thought, the power it exuded still surprised Ji Ming.

The white crane opened its sharp beak and said, "That deer doesn't have a big temper, but he is still with the old star king after all, and he has many friends in the Southern Dipper Palaces, all of whom are stupid thieves, and will be robbed sooner or later."

"Golden boy, you did a good job."

Baihe twisted his slender neck and said something affirmatively, and then said: "You take my words to heart, and I am very happy. Because I am not in the palace on weekdays, the thief deer has recruited some hawks and dogs, which has ruined the reputation of the palace.

I know that if you capture this man, you will suffer the backlash of his protective merits. Let me give you two more blessings so that you will not be troubled by this in the future."

Ji Ming felt relieved, thinking that Bai He had indeed noticed something unusual about him.

The white crane blew out its tiny beak, and streams of golden auspicious clouds gushed out and poured into Ji Ming's seven orifices. It was as if the dust on his mind was wiped away, and it returned to clarity. The weed-like distracting thoughts were also brought under control.

This was the first time that Ji Ming felt the effect of these blessings, perhaps because of these extra blessings.

He no longer asked for anything else but to avoid encountering a sudden disaster like Xun Shisanlang in the future. Otherwise, he would really have to think carefully about whether the white crane brought him a blessing or bad luck.

While he was thinking, Bai He asked for the magic scroll on his head and added a few strokes on it, "Okay, Jinfu Zhifu Shangli, from now on you hold this magic scroll, your soul will leave your body and enter the Nantian Gate directly."

The greatest duty of the Zhifu Shangli was to transmit orders and decrees between heaven and the mortal world.

Take the example of the direct clerks in the one prefecture, one courtyard and two offices of the Ministry of Thunder. They often have to wander outside in spirit to respond to the prayers for rain and rituals performed by those monks who have not received the ordination and have no connections, and help them communicate the talismans for the rituals to the Ministry of Thunder.

For those like Ji Ming who work in the Tiancao under the Nandou Palaces, the only time his Yin spirit is needed to convey orders is during some important fasting and sacrificial ceremonies.

This is undoubtedly a lucrative job, but also undoubtedly a tough job.

Ji Ming did not expect to make much money from this, but the Zhifu Shangli had the authority to allow the Yin Spirit to travel and enter the South Heaven Gate directly, which was what many cultivators in the world dreamed of and thought about day and night.

Now, as long as he wanted, he could go up to the sky and enter the South Heaven Gate.

Ji Ming said with fascination for a moment.

He knew that now was not the time for him to ascend to heaven, and his first priority should be to consolidate his own cultivation. In addition, there were many trivial matters waiting for Ji Ming on Taiping Mountain, which gave him a headache just thinking about it.

Ji Ming himself has a lot of things to do in his cultivation, so how can he take care of the trivial matters in the mountain?

However, he was also coveting the huge resources of the upper government, so it seemed inevitable that he would form his own small cabinet.

For a moment, he thought of the Toad Society, which was directly under Daojun. He almost forgot that he was also a member of it.

From the affairs of the Toad Society, we can see a rule that on the road to becoming the True Lord of Taiping, one needs to win over a group, a stakeholder. Otherwise, even if one has extremely high skills, it will be difficult to hold on to this position.

Lu Daojun himself has die-hard supporters from Shangfu and Tianhe Peak, and the members of Ma Society are also elites drawn from the mountain society as their foundation, so Lu Daojun's power line has always been the three peaks and one mansion of Taiping Mountain.

Master Li Zhu had never heard of any centralized power measures that were different from those of the Taoist Lord. He naturally had the background of Jiafeng, and had always continued the style of the Taoist Lord, winning over disciples within the three peaks and one prefecture to expand his influence.

This kind of winning over is not induced by interests, but his fair heart, which is the same as that of Daojun, or even better than that of Daojun, which complements his ruthless and heartless doctrine.

A Taoist master and a magician, Ji Ming was shocked to find that there seemed to be not much room for him to display his abilities among the three peaks and one palace, and it would be difficult for his small cabinet to be implemented here.

Taiping Mountain, the residence of the True Lord.

Baicaozi's escape and disappearance was like a huge rock hitting the place, causing not ripples but huge waves. The shock caused by this incident was even more intense than Ji Ming had expected.

In the three peaks and one prefecture, public opinion was overwhelmingly about Ji Ming abusing public resources for personal gain and seeking revenge for personal gain.

Not only that, amid the uproarious public opinion, some people linked this incident to some of the crimes that Baicaozi had listed about Lingxuzi.

For example, in the past, in the Lan Yin Fang, Lingxuzi conspired with the Qian family to make huge profits from the large-scale transactions of elixir and talisman war preparations on the eve of the Second Fighting War.

Such remarks almost tarnished the reputation of Lingxuzi, the newly promoted immortal.

As public opinion on the mountain intensified, even Master Xuantan was unable to cope with it.

Not long after, a letter was sent to Jiafeng Mountain. Someone saw that after receiving the letter, Master Xuantan disappeared from Jiafeng Mountain. A disciple asked Jiang Hongqiong about it, and Jiang Hongqiong only said that no one knew where Master Xuantan had gone.

After Xuantan Zhenren disappeared, the nosy disciples did not dare to provoke Lingxuzi. After all, the name of "Slaughtering Demon General" was still circulating in the mountain.

As time passed, the strong and boiling public opinions gradually lost their original heat without any response from the relevant parties or statement from the True Lord.

Although some people secretly stirred up public opinion time and time again, Lingxuzi was as steady and calm as a mountain. No matter how serious the accusations or even the slanders were, he would not respond at all.

When public opinion cooled down, other things began to attract the attention of the Three Peaks and One Prefecture.

Some people thought that Lingxuzi would dig up the sufferings that the two gentlemen had experienced in the South China Sea in order to clear Baicaozi's name, but after waiting for a long time, they found that Lingxuzi seemed to have no such idea at all.

The strange silence stifled all public opinion against Lingxuzi.

In the mountains, someone accidentally saw Lingxuzi and found him talking to a group of birds.

Sometimes it was the sparrows in the forest, sometimes it was the egrets in the pond, and more often it was the crows. Everyone guessed that Lingxuzi must be able to understand the language of birds and was secretly looking for the young man who had conspired and framed someone in the mountains, and perhaps he had already found him.

Unconsciously, public opinion seemed to begin to reverse.

(End of this chapter)