If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1295 The Tragic State Military Commandery
"Oh, the Thousand Valleys Blessed Land is the ancestral land of the Shimen clan? That can't be a blessed land."

When the First Dragon created the secret realm, the Netherworld did not exist, and the concept of "blessed lands and grotto heavens" did not yet exist in the Three Realms!
"The Middle Realm was born after the Demon Clan's Heavenly Court fell, and after the current Heavenly Court was established," Yang Li said.

"It's true that the Ancestral Dragon existed in the ancient era. But the Shimen Clan wasn't always isolated from the world."

While flipping through the "Dragon Skin Book," Grand Tutor Yu said, "You heard it just now, the old patriarch of our sect was exceptionally hospitable and invited me to be a guest at Thousand Valleys Blessed Land!"

“He only invited the Grand Tutor.” Yang Li curled his lips. “The year before last, I also chatted with the Shi Men clan who raise dragons, and we talked about their clan’s territory.”

I was very curious, but they kept stammering and changing the subject.

Moreover, Grand Tutor, didn't you notice?

Even the dragon-raising sects practiced endogamy, with no women marrying out or forming alliances with women from other tribes.

They are extremely snobbish, only showing hospitality to the late emperor and 'great heroes of the three realms' like the Grand Tutor!

Grand Tutor Yu scoffed, "Even if it's your Maoshan sect's grotto-heaven palace, does that mean just anyone can enter?"
Intramarital marriage is a custom of other people.

The name Shimen sounds like a clan, but it was actually a group similar to the Xiongnu or Yuezhi.

I've inquired; the entire Thousand Valleys Blessed Land has over three million members from various clans!

Yang Li stared at the "Dragon Skin Book" in her hand and asked curiously, "What secret manual did the Shimen clan give to the Grand Tutor that makes him so biased towards them?"

"I'm just telling the truth, how is that biased?" Grand Tutor Yu closed the book, stared at him, and asked, "I told you to go find True Lord Meng, but why did you provoke a bunch of clueless bastards on my behalf?"

Yang Li took out the jade box and handed it back to her, saying, "Is it the old man from Nanyang and the others? I met Meng Zhenjun at Honggou."

He first recounted his experience, then asked, "I thought they would intercept me halfway and snatch the talisman from my hands!"
I didn't expect them to come directly to Xianyang to see the Grand Tutor. What did they say to you?

"They're planning to trick me out of my divine talisman. Given their greed, if you fly slowly towards Xianyang and they catch you red-handed, they'll most likely just steal it," said Grand Tutor Yu.

"A lie?" Yang Li exclaimed in surprise, "With the Grand Tutor's current prestige, would they dare to come to Xianyang and lie to you at the Imperial Observatory?"
They were even willing to trade giant peaches with Meng Zhenjun back in Honggou!

Faced with the even more powerful Grand Tutor, they should have shown greater sincerity!

Grand Tutor Yu said calmly, "They still promised me the Great Peaches of Immortality, but not now; they will give them to me after the Great Calamity ends."

Someone promised ten large peaches of immortality, five Nine-Turn Golden Pills, and a fragmented copy of the "Refining Spirit Through Wind and Myriad Sceneries."

"Wow, such a grand gesture~~" Yang Li gasped first, then realized, "Not immediately, but after the great calamity ends?"
Isn’t this nonsense!

What if the Grand Tutor doesn't live to see that day? Uh, what I mean is, they're really malicious!

He deliberately made promises he couldn't keep, then turned around and joined the "Feather-Killing Alliance," doing everything in his power to harm the Grand Tutor and immediately forgive his debts.

Grand Tutor Yu shook his head and said, "They seem more like they were warned by someone than trying to escape their debts."

I could see their extreme desire for the talisman, and the urgency and helplessness in their hearts.

If they could do that, they would even be willing to help the Qin Dynasty suppress the rebels in exchange for the divine register of the Lord of Hengshan.

That's why I said, if they run into you halfway, they might actually try to rob you."

Yang Li seemed to understand something and said, "Grand Tutor is now famous throughout the world. Even a great immortal like Fuqiu Gong has participated in the 'Killing Feather Alliance'."

"Give the Grand Tutor two more large peaches of immortality, and he'll be willing to kill even Golden Immortals at will!"

Grand Tutor Yu said, "Compared to the Great Peach, I need time more now."

If she were given two large peaches, she could indeed save hundreds of years of arduous cultivation.

It can only be said that she has not yet encountered a bottleneck that requires miraculous pills and elixirs to break through.

In fact, she hasn't even hit a bottleneck yet; she's been making rapid progress.

Having a large peach is certainly nice, but there's no need to force it if you don't have one.

However, if Meng Zhenjun wants to cultivate the elixir, he will need a large peach.

"Sigh, why is True Lord Meng so foolish? He won't even become the Lord of Hengshan, does he really want to be a Xuanxian for the rest of his life?"

Yang Li said, "It's not that True Lord Meng is depressed; he simply has no intention of turning to the path of gods, nor does he feel ashamed of himself. He's perfectly content being a 'Carefree Immortal,' why would he want to suffer the hardships of the path of gods?"

Grand Tutor Yu pondered for a moment and said, "Everyone has their own ambitions, I understand. You may leave now."

Yang Li asked curiously, "What does the Grand Tutor intend to do with the talisman?"

Grand Tutor Yu said, "Come and ask me again tomorrow morning."

Yang Li, not understanding his meaning, asked in confusion, "A few days ago, the Grand Tutor was in a hurry to go to the Central Plains to reconstruct the earth veins."

Why are you so calm and collected now, not worried at all? The Central Plains are in chaos; there will be many more rebel kings to come!

Grand Tutor Yu sighed, "I was anxious before because the situation was urgent."

I hope to reshape the land of China before the Central Plains descend into chaos and gain control of the entire continent.

Now that I'm definitely not going to get full land rights, there's no need to rush.

The key is that rushing won't help.

One thing after another came her way, as if an invisible force was preventing her from freeing up her hands to reconstruct the earth's veins in the Central Plains.

—The Mandate of Heaven truly does not lie with the Qin Dynasty!

When she served as prime minister in Western Shu, she felt a sense of exhilaration, as if the heavens and earth were working together to help her.

Once he became prime minister, the emperor and the people actively offered themselves to him.

The land rights were obtained after only a few days of research.

Then, the power of Heaven, the power of Earth, and the power of Humanity were combined, which directly led her to create the "Power of the Human King".

Now, fortune has turned against them, and even heroes are powerless. After a year of struggle, they still can't even get their hands on a "small" piece of land in China.

After Yang Li left, Master Guan came in again and found Grand Tutor Yu, saying, "The late emperor's mausoleum has been reopened."

The twelve golden statues can be moved out at any time. Will the Grand Tutor move them himself, or should we drag them to the Black Ice Platform?

Grand Tutor Yu asked, "After the late emperor's mausoleum is opened this time, when will it sink into the Netherworld Cave?"

Master Guan said, "It has been locked in place by the Heaven and Earth Hook, so it will not sink into the cave for the time being."

“I’ll go by myself in a bit,” said Grand Tutor Yu.

Qin Shi Huang's tomb was built deep within the earth's veins, and these veins are alive, with their power constantly flowing.

Therefore, the underground palace where Ying Zheng's coffin was buried has always been "drifting with the current" in the earth's veins.

If Ying Zheng's spirit were still alive, the underground palace could have been fixed in the "Blessed Land of the Human Emperor" after it entered the Netherworld. However, Ying Zheng's spirit disappeared, and the Blessed Land of the Human Emperor was never established.

If descendants of the Ying clan wish to pay homage to Ying Zheng, they can simply bring incense and candles and find his tomb directly in the Qinling Mountains.

If you want to find real burial objects, such as the Twelve Golden Men, you can't dig them out of human tombs.

We must enter the underground palace of the "Embryo of the Human Emperor's Blessed Land".

To open the underground palace, the location must be calculated in advance.

Find the approximate location, enter the ley lines, find the entrance to the underground palace, and open it using the correct secret method.

Only the Great Qin Celestial Master could do that.

If outsiders forcibly enter the underground palace, even a Golden Immortal would suffer a backlash from the Ancestral Dragon's aura.

Before nightfall, Grand Tutor Yu returned to the "Grand Tutor's Mansion," a place she hadn't visited in many days. Finding a quiet courtyard, she sat by the window, lit a candle, and quietly perused the ancient secrets recorded in the "Dragon Skin Book."

The master's family was indeed very sincere.

The content she needed about "making a great vow to become a saint" was selected by her master and compiled into a thick book as thick as a pillow, with very detailed records.

For example, every single vow made by a sage was recorded without missing a single word.

For example, the methods for making grand aspirations, and the consequences of failing to achieve them.

The sage attained sainthood through his great vow, which made many ancient cultivators extremely envious.

Many people followed suit and made grand vows.

Some succeeded, while others failed miserably and died tragically.

The "Dragon Skin Book" even records the grand ambitions of the Demon Master Kunpeng and the Styx Ancestor.

They are typical examples of people who, despite being below the level of saints, made great aspirations and succeeded.

In particular, the Styx Ancestor first imitated the Goddess Nuwa and created the Asura race in the Netherworld Blood Sea, and then established the "Styx Cult" based on the Asura race.

He almost became a saint.

The only reason why the Styx Ancestor failed to become a saint was that he lacked the Primordial Purple Qi.

Indeed, even high-level items like "Primordial Purple Qi" were described in the "Dragon Skin Book" that Qin from the sect gave to Xiaoyu.

"Should I also make a grand vow? I do have an idea, but unfortunately I don't have the power to make it come true."

Having read through the grand ambitions of many ancient powerful beings, Grand Tutor Yu was also somewhat eager to try.

Through extensive case analysis, she felt she had roughly found the right direction.

The threshold for making grand aspirations is both high and low.

Gao found the "path," and the "path" was accepted by the Pangu world.

In short, the "road" must have a positive impact on the development of the Pangu world.

It's hard.

Finding the right "direction" for cultivation is extremely difficult even for immortals, let alone finding a direction for the development of the Pangu world.

Once the "path" is found, it becomes easier to sense the will of Heaven and make grand vows to the "Way of Heaven".

Grand Tutor Yu felt she could give it a try. But she was also terrified of the consequences of failing to fulfill her grand ambition.

Making grand pronouncements sounds like bragging.

The problem is that bragging isn't illegal, but failing to fulfill grand ambitions will lead to death and eternal damnation.

"Grand Tutor Yu, Grand Tutor Yu~~~"

Around eight or nine o'clock in the evening, a familiar, aged voice called out, as if from another world, drifted out the window.

It seems both present and absent, incredibly distant, yet also right beneath the window.

Grand Tutor Yu put down the "Dragon Skin Book" and said calmly, "Please come in, sir."

"Creak~~" The door was pushed open from the outside. First, a gust of cold wind blew in, making the candlelight flicker and almost go out. Then, an old man with disheveled hair stepped in.

The candlelight fell on him, but no shadow was cast.

It's a ghost!

This old ghost was dressed in the robes of the Qin Dynasty and was of a very high rank, but he didn't look very imposing; instead, he looked quite disheveled.

Because his clothes were as messy and dirty as his hair.

Grand Tutor Yu looked him over and said with a grim expression, "How did you get into this state, sir?"

Which ghost messenger did this? Isn't the head of Yin Yinzi enough to show them the court's resolve?

The old man said with a conflicted expression, "It's not that ghosts or gods are kicking me when I'm down, it's that Qinglian Sun killed me. He's been clinging to me, pulling at me and refusing to leave."

Grand Tutor Yu's expression froze. "Why is that fellow bothering the Grand Commandant? He killed you; you should be seeking revenge on him."

Guowei Liao said bitterly, "I don't need to be afraid of Qinglian Sun alone. But Yin Yin Zi Da Xian also went to Fengdu Underworld to ask me for his head, and instructed the ghost messengers not to interfere with Qinglian Sun's 'repayment of grievances'."

The Imperial Guard has become a ghost. Any offerings made to the ghost will be received by the ghost and will certainly belong to the ghost.

One of the offerings was the head of Yin Yinzi, presented by Grand Tutor Yu.

Grand Tutor Yu was furious. "It's one thing for Qinglian Sun to be lenient, but Yin Yinzi is a dignified Quasi-Daluo, and I even let him go. Not only is he not grateful or repentant, but he also dares to use such despicable means."

Do you really think I have no way to deal with him?
Even the Emperor of Fengdu had to bow and pay his respects when he saw that scoundrel Huang Feihu.

"Where do you get the audacity to oppose me?"

The Imperial Commander quickly advised, "It has nothing to do with the Emperor of Fengdu. The Emperor of Fengdu is too busy with state affairs to notice such a trivial matter."

Moreover, the Emperor of Fengdu attained enlightenment during the reign of the Heavenly Emperor, possessing great supernatural powers and boundless magical abilities.

You can't afford to offend him, and there's no need to get into a conflict with him for no reason.

In terms of pure cultivation, Huang Feihu is nothing compared to the Emperor of Fengdu.

However, within the Heavenly Court's divine system, Huang Feihu's divine position is indeed at least half a level higher than that of the Fengdu Emperor.

“My lord, I’m not just standing up for you, I’m also trying to establish rules so that even ghosts and gods understand one principle—even if the Qin Dynasty is destroyed, they must still maintain basic respect for the virtuous people of the Qin Dynasty.”

Seeing that Guowei Liao was in a miserable state, exhausted, and weak, completely lacking the majesty and power he had in life, Grand Tutor Yu sighed, "Forget it, old man, don't worry about seeking justice. I'll handle it."

She took out a jade box from her sleeve, took out the Hengshan Divine Talisman, and handed it to him, saying, "Refine it now. With a divine position protecting you, even the Great Emperor of Fengdu will have to treat you with respect."

Poverty diminishes one's ambition. Now that the State Commandant's attempt at corpse liberation has failed and his soul is adrift, even an ordinary ghost messenger can humiliate him. Naturally, he is cautious and timid.

Give him the strength, and he will be able to regain the dignity and respect he had in life.

"Is this the talisman of Lord Hengshan?" Guowei Liao's lips and body trembled.

"Grand Tutor, I have come here only to ask you to bestow upon me a divine position, so that I may have a place to live and make a living. I would never dare to hope for a divine position among the Five Sacred Mountains." He was filled with gratitude, but also with some fear and unease.

When he was alive, no matter how big the problem was, he would always be bold, confident, and composed, without the slightest hint of humility.

Not to mention the living Guowei Liao, even the living Yang Li and Guan Zhenren were never this out of control when faced with the Hengshan Divine Talisman.

One can only imagine how much humiliation and torment the Imperial Guard had endured in the past few days.

"You should refine this divine talisman first, change your appearance, and then I will explain it to you in detail," said Grand Tutor Yu.

The Grand Commandant looked down at himself, his old face flushed with shame. "I'm sorry to have made you laugh, Grand Tutor. I could have tidied myself up a bit, but time was limited."

Realizing that the more he explained, the more pathetic he seemed, he quickly tried to save face, saying, "Actually, I also have some connections in Fengdu."

"If it were anyone else, there would be no way to get Lord Impermanence to lead them to the mortal realm to meet their deceased loved ones."

He did indeed make many friends among the gods during his lifetime, but this time he returned to the mortal world to seek a divine position, and it was not because of any connections.

He bribed the judge and the Impermanence with a large sum of money (burial goods), and threatened them with the powerful and respected Grand Tutor Yu, who was feared by ghosts and gods, in order to have the opportunity to leave Fengdu and seek connections in the human world.

(End of this chapter)