Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

So as long as we swap the two sides, the dilemma will be solved.

"How did you come up with that?"

This was indeed something he could think of on the spur of the moment - but this was not an exam, nor was it a final question. No one on the battlefield would treat all of this as a question to be solved, and then decide on a plan on the spur of the moment. He thought that since Shangluo had made this decision, he must have found some basis.

"Yes. Because I found that this old man seemed to be giving us questions."

"What do you mean?"

"We found that Xu Fu presented us with dilemmas, but also gave us solutions. These solutions are completely within our capabilities. If we can't solve them, it's usually because there's something wrong with our methods. This old guy might be squeezing our abilities step by step so that we can use all our abilities to the fullest."

"Is he going to eat magic?"

"I think it's possible." Shangluo replied, "It can't be that he is really the examiner, testing us on behalf of Daozu."

Having said this, Shangluo suddenly paused.

"Is this possible?" he asked Zhu Xianxun, as if he wanted to get something out of Zhu Xianxun.

"Perhaps it is possible, but I probably know less than you do." Zhu Xianxi told the truth, "I know nothing about Xu Fu, and I have only a vague understanding of Dragon Palace. I only know that it exists. And your understanding of Dragon Palace, including Xu Fu, has far surpassed mine. Even more, your understanding of Daozu may be better than mine. After all, I have never seen a Daozu who 'trained his body to resemble a crane'."

"Then according to the principle of leniency in predicting the enemy's outcome, I can only assume that Xu Fu has bad intentions. It is unlikely that he is testing me."

"Shangluo, I suggest you think this way - even if he is really testing you, it does not necessarily mean that he has no ill intentions. Even in military exercises, there are casualty indicators. The harm caused by a malicious person on your side may be more powerful than that of the enemy. Because the enemy is only trying to achieve tactical goals, while his tests are endless and never-ending. He may really want you to die."

"Ah, that's indeed possible. I'll keep that in mind. Then, I'll wait for you to arrive before I take action."

"That's not necessary." Zhu Xianxun replied, "Just go ahead and do your work. I can take care of myself."

"Eh? Senior Brother, don't you need someone to look after you? I mean, at least get a Jinyiwei to check it out?"

"No need. I know what I am doing. Besides, I am a celestial being now, so how could anything happen to me? I am just here for a stroll."

"Okay then." Shangluo didn't completely believe him. But since it was Zhu Xianxun's own request, Shangluo didn't intend to argue with him here. After all, he was not a Jinyiwei. Jinyiwei always felt that Zhu Xianxun was someone who needed to be taken care of, but Shangluo knew that he was fully capable of deciding his behavior.

After hanging up the phone, Zhu Xianxun sighed.

"Shangluo trusts you too much. He actually believes that you can decide his own behavior."

"Don't make sarcastic remarks. You are not the same."

The two Zhu Xianxin looked at each other in the cabin, and the third one next to them just closed his eyes and rested, and did not join their conversation.

The three Zhu Xianxen were transported by the White Star, and the Jindan-stage Lan Zhenren stood in the cockpit. Although he was used to facing the wonders of the world, it was the first time he saw the emperor himself become three.

The level of a real person is not far from heaven, but not far from the human world either. Compared to other more powerful cultivators, Lan Daoxing, who is in the Jindan stage, is entrusted by Daozu and often participates in the affairs of the court. Compared to Daozu and other heavenly masters, the one in front of him is the most powerful one among the Qigong practitioners that Zhu Xianxun often sees.

Although Zhu Xianxin's current situation was indeed very strange, Lan Daoxing still did not ask any more questions. He just came to pick him up to Edo at Zhu Xianxin's request, and nothing else mattered.

"Your Majesty." Lan Daoxing couldn't help but ask, "What on earth is wrong with you?"

"Master Lan, didn't you say you wouldn't ask?"

"It's hard for me not to ask you in your current state. Of course, it's your freedom to tell me or not, and I can't force you to tell me. But considering my friendship with the Zhu family, I still think you can tell me anything."

"Okay." Zhu Xianxin, who had his eyes closed, also sat up straight. The three of them looked at each other, and he was the one to speak:

"Zhu Xianxun is dead."

"???" The aircraft shook violently, which was the result of Lan Daoxing's own shock.

"What happened? Then who are you three?"

"After his death, his consciousness could no longer condense and split into three parts - yes, the three of us are him, but we are not him either. In other words, we are his consciousness, and there is a continuity of consciousness between us and him. From this perspective, Zhu Xianxin is not dead. But from a biological perspective, Zhu Xianxin's body has indeed stopped functioning, and Zhu Xianxin has indeed died once."

Chapter 1217 A good recipe

Lan Daoxing put his hands behind his back and walked around the front row a few times, then turned around and asked, "Where did it happen? When? Did you go insane during your retreat? You said you died, where did you die?"

"Master Lan, don't you remember what I told you before I left?"

"I remember you said you wanted to make achievements. You said you wanted to accomplish achievements like Shennong, so that you could enter the heaven with dignity. You said you wanted to go into seclusion, and I didn't stop you - could it be that you were refining the elixir and went astray while improving your cultivation?"

"That's half true." Zhu Xianxi shook his head and said, "It's true that I became possessed because of the elixir I took. But my elixir is not for breakthroughs, but for healing. What I made is a panacea that can cure all diseases. I wrote a recipe that no one has ever achieved!"

"And then he ate it himself and died?"

"I was thinking that I had to test the medicine myself. And then...then the person died."

Lan Daoxing covered his forehead and said, "What kind of thing are you doing? You haven't eaten the pills you made for so many years, and you missed many opportunities..."

Lan Daoxing didn't want to talk about it anymore. Zhu Xianxun had been stuck in his obsession for so many years. He was worried that if his body was damaged, it would affect the throne. Now he finally mustered up the courage and took a vacation to retreat. Unexpectedly, the worst thing happened. He actually ate himself to death.

What Lan Daoxing couldn't understand was that this medicine was not made for himself, but for others - it was not used for ascension, but for saving lives and curing diseases.

He had noticed from the beginning that there was a faint halo surrounding Zhu Xianxun. It was not only about power, but also about merit.

"What kind of medicine is it? Why do you think your medicine can cure all diseases?"

"I think the Heaven is about to ascend. But there are always some people who can't ascend, and we always need someone to stay and take care of those unfortunate people who can't ascend. I think the Heaven needs to be responsible for all the people. I think I must be responsible. I can't abandon them. So I hope to use the power of the Heaven to create a medicine that can cure all mortal diseases. My plan is to fight poison with poison."

"Go on, keep talking, I'm listening." Lan Daoxing sat down next to them.

"I think the key to all this lies in 'poison'. I hope to cure all diseases through poison. Specifically, I hope that this drug can efficiently, accurately and orderly activate the human immune system through toxicity, so as to eliminate all foreign substances that invade the human body. In this way, diseases that have plagued humans for a long time, including cancer and other chronic diseases, can be eliminated by the body's own immune system. This will be the treatment with the least burden on patients."

"So, what's your plan?"

"I think we should look for a 'super virus' as a carrier. Through some divination, I know that some of the viruses I need are frozen in the pathogens in the Arctic. These viruses have never appeared in human civilization history, or even biological history. I hope to use this virus as a carrier to refine a panacea to cure everyone in the world. This will completely replace all medical books designed for mortal diseases since Shennong's Herbal Medicine, and will put a perfect end to worldly medicine."

"It ended your life, didn't it? Does your wife know?"

"He doesn't know yet, and I dare not tell him." Zhu Xianxin's voice became smaller - he had not told anyone about this matter except Lan Daoxing.

"Master Lan, what about the throne?" Another Zhu Xianxun suddenly asked, "If I continue in this state, what should I do?"

"As long as there is someone to sit on the throne, any one of you three can do it. What I'm worried about is the succession to the throne. After all, there is only one queen. Which of you three will live at home? If this problem is not solved, everything will be in chaos."

"Ahhh!" Zhu Xianxi finally couldn't help it. "I thought I could cure mortal diseases. I didn't expect to be challenged by extraordinary diseases. Is this what extraordinary diseases are like? Oh my God, what should I do! If I can't cure it, I will be disabled! Zhenren, do you have medicine?"

"No." He looked at Zhu Xianxun, "I think your only gain this time is that you became a celestial being."

From the first glance, he saw that Zhu Xianxun had truly ascended to the level of a celestial being. He was even on the verge of possessing a wheel of merit. Because, in essence, he had truly died for the sake of the people of the world, his righteousness had shaken heaven and earth, causing a halo of merit to appear behind him. This was a level of merit that Fu Yuanshan hadn't been able to cultivate in his entire life.

"That's a huge reward! If possible, I don't want this wheel of merit! I want to go home safe and sound."

"First of all, we can characterize this matter." Lan Daoxing emphasized, "First of all, you are not dead. For a superhuman like you, the boundary between life and death is different from that of ordinary people. Moreover, even by ordinary people's standards, the continuity of your consciousness has not been interrupted, so you are not dead at all. However, you are indeed sick. This is a disease of superhumans, which has truly affected your life and even human relations. I think, if this is an industrial injury assessment, it should be a serious injury."

"Ah, maybe." Zhu Xianxin covered his forehead while speaking, "Maybe I am not really dead. But at that time, I definitely felt that I was poisoned to death."

"Is the medicine still there?"

"Yes." Zhu Xianxi took out a small gourd from his pocket, "Master Lan, do you want to try it?"

"." Lan Daoxing took the gourd, took out a pill and ate it.

“You really eat!”

"It's okay. I can run the virtual meridians of the small circulation." Lan Daoxing closed his eyes, gathered his strength for a while, and suddenly opened his eyes:

"Good fellow! Where did you find this virus? If given enough time, this thing will probably kill half of the mortals on Earth! How could you dig up such a thing? Now you're the only one dead, you're actually really lucky!"

"So, does this medicine work?"

"I'm sure it works." Lan Daoxing handed the gourd back. "Perhaps this is the right path for you. Promote through merit, not practice, and use merit to sense the heaven and earth. Although this doesn't seem like Taoism, you don't necessarily have to rely on Taoism to become an immortal. Didn't Xu Fu also have magic? You imitated saints of more than three generations, but this is indeed the behavior of ancient saint kings. You are very close to the Tao."

"But I don't want to die now! I want to live!"

"I know, so you found the right person." He looked at Zhu Xianxun, "Go find Xu Fu. If you want to resurrect the dead, he has the method - so how did you know you should find him?"

“Someone told me that.”

"Okay, okay. Did this person tell you why it would be useful to go to Xu Fu?"

Zhu Xianxi shook his head violently.

"I'll tell you, because Xu Fu saved a dead man before - in Changsheng Palace on July 7, in the middle of the night when no one was talking. Go to Changsheng Palace in Penglai to find him, he will help you."

"Can he really help me?"

"Freeing people from regrets is the business of the Penglai Immortals. But whether it can be solved depends on the price you are willing to pay. Penglai is different from our Kunlun lineage."

Chapter 1218 Three Mountains Dripping Blood

"Penglai Immortal? What is that?"

"You didn't know, right? Now you know." Lan Daoxing motioned the three people to stay calm. "It's called a secret, but it's not really a secret. It's just that there was no need to tell you before - because all the immortals you have seen inherited the Kunlun tradition, so there is no need to emphasize the word Kunlun. But Xu Fu is not like that. Ancient alchemists like Xu Fu practiced the Penglai tradition."

"So Xu Fu, will you help me?"

Lan Daoxing shook his head: "You should have heard Shangluo say that Xu Fu only cares about whether the agreement between him and the First Emperor can be fulfilled. He doesn't care about anything else, he only cares about this deal, whether this cause and effect is settled."

"Is this what a Taoist priest from Penglai does?"

"That's what Taoist priests from Penglai do."

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"Oh, right." Lan Daoxing went on to explain, "In fact, there is an immortal that you may know but have never seen. He is also from the Taoist school of Penglai. And his disciple, Your Majesty may know him and be very familiar with him."

"Could it be the country's surname?"

"Yes." Lan Daoxing nodded and said, "The Red Dragon King of Nanyang is the immortal from Penglai. When we formulated the strategy of letting the Guoxing family cultivate Nanyang, there was a plan to learn the Penglai Taoism through the Guoxing family. Because at that time, the Kunlun Road was not yet clear. For the sake of the world's ascension, we developed both sides."

“But I don’t seem to see any difference.”

"Your Majesty, you may not see any difference. But if you ask Shangluo, he will see a difference. As a traditional barbaric land, the development level of Nanyang is comparable to many places in the capital. People living in this era are indeed accustomed to this. But for Shangluo, this is probably the first time he has seen Nanyang developed to such a level."

"But I didn't even realize that Guoxing and I are practicing the same sect?"

"Your Majesty, you should have discovered it, but you just didn't realize it - you should have known that our swords, qi, talismans, and even elixirs are ineffective against the national surname."

"So that's why! So it's because of a different tradition?"

"The national surname has nothing to do with Kunlun." Lan Daoxing replied, "I know this, Daozu knows this, and the Heavenly Masters all know this."

"He has been searching for 10 years, 10 years of searching for immortals, spending billions of dollars, is it because he chose the wrong path? Then why didn't you tell him?"

"Because this is the way of the immortals. Throughout history, there have been so many kings, princes, generals and ministers, and now there are only a pile of desolate graves left. He is no exception. Even if he is more submissive, can there be anyone more submissive than Qin Shi Huang?"

"Okay." Zhu Xianxi nodded, "But fortunately, he has now escaped from the sea of ​​suffering. What is the difference between the Taoism of Penglai and the Taoism of Kunlun in terms of their origin?"

"The difference is huge. Kunlun is in the mountains, Penglai is in the sea. Kunlun has the heaven, Penglai has the fairyland. As for Xu Fu, he has his own fairyland - the Palace of Eternal Life."

"The Palace of Eternal Life? Could it be the place where Yang Guifei lived? But Yang Guifei went there only after she died!"

"Your Majesty, isn't he dead too? By the way, Penglai Immortal Path is where the dead go. Penglai's Immortal Path is the Immortal Path to the Immortal Realm. The distinction between the living and the dead is not so clear, and sometimes one has to risk one's life in order to be reborn. I'm afraid that's not the path that people generally yearn for - from the perspective of my Kunlun lineage, our Kunlun Taoist tradition is more like immortality in the general sense. We eat wontons, we watch movies, and we can go for a drink. But for those who have no fate with Kunlun, Penglai may not be a bad place to go."

"Why does this sound so much like Rome? Do we have a Cybernetics here too?"

"You're truly modern, saying that. According to me, Rome actually chose the Penglai route among the three. If that's the case, Rome will probably soon realize that Penglai and Cybernetics are in the same place, and that they can actually connect. Well, they'll probably know soon."

"Wait a minute." Zhu Xianxun noticed something, "Three? Do we have three here too?"

"Your Majesty, what is the lineage of the Dao League?"

"Three Mountains Dripping Blood. Wait, Three Mountains Dripping Blood is not Longhu Mountain, Maoshan or something like that, right?

"I thought your Majesty would be able to react after I mentioned Penglai. In the "Records of the Grand Historian" and "Chu Ci", there is a third road listed alongside Kunlun and Penglai: Fanghu Mountain. Kunlun, Penglai, and Fanghu are the three sacred mountains. These three mountains are dripping with blood."

"Fangzhang Island is in the center of the East China Sea, where many dragons gather. There is a palace made of gold, jade and colored glaze, where the Three Heavenly Gods govern. All the immortals who do not wish to ascend to heaven travel to this island to receive the Taixuan Shenglu - Fanghu is the Dragon Palace."

“It turns out everyone has been here all along!”

"That's right." Lan Daoxing nodded and said, "Kunlun, Penglai and Fanghu, the three Dao lineages have always been there. The Dao Alliance has also always been there. The Dao Ancestors and Heavenly Masters, as well as myself, have various affairs to deal with within the Dao Alliance."

"Then how do I know now?"

"Because Your Majesty, you wrote a good prescription, took it, and then 'collapsed'. Living people can't listen to it, but now of course they can listen to it."

"Does Shangluo know?"

"I have asked Master Sa and Master Qiu to go and tell him. I think he already knows."

"No, he doesn't seem to know. He doesn't know Xu Fu's background yet."

"Is that so? That shouldn't be the case. Logically, the Heavenly Masters should have arrived long ago. Or maybe they have other considerations. After all, you should know, Your Majesty, that for Heavenly Masters, temporary success or failure is not important. Looking at the infinite years to come, the present moment is just a moment. This is not something that I, a Jindan-stage cultivator, can predict."

At this point, Zhu Xianxun paused for a moment and mentioned another person: