Chapter 288 One step away

In the area where the Taoist books are stored in the inner treasury, the incense for awakening the spirit is lit. I don’t know if it was from the Taiyuan Hospital or some Taoist priest. It can clear the mind, refresh the mind, and improve concentration.

When Li Changzhou came up, he asked the female official in charge of the inner treasury to put out all the incense.

It is difficult to transition from extravagance to frugality. He does not want to develop the habit of relying on external objects to improve his concentration and enter "concentration".

In terms of level, the Taoist books in the inner treasury of the imperial palace are all higher than those in the Chaotian Palace.

There are half of the "Great Sun Tathagata Mantra", "Seventy-two Changes of Earthly Evil" with twenty-four changes, and "Thirty-Six Methods of Tiangang" with eight methods.

Others include "The Deed of Alchemy by the Divine Sky Inciting Thunder to Imbue the Body", "One Qi Transforms Three Purities, General Outline of the Three Worlds of Buddhism", and "Sixty-Four Collections of Ancient Escape Techniques" (compiled by later generations, which contain individual escape techniques)

, "The Immortal Bones of the Immortals", "Bagua Zhijue", "The Treasure Book of Inspirations in the Paradise of Cave" and so on.

It's like seeing a table full of favorite delicacies and not knowing which dish to eat for a while.

After hesitating for a while, Li Changzhou picked up the most famous "Thirty-Six Methods of Tiangang". Only eight methods of practice were recorded in detail in it. The rest were either incomplete and could not be practiced, or simply had only one name.

The eight methods are: repairing the sky and taking a holiday, mediating good fortune, returning to heaven and returning to the sun, knowing the future in reverse, resurrecting from the dead, flying to hold traces, turning stones into gold, and seeing through walls.

Mending the Sky Sun - The magic power is so powerful that it can mend the sky, bathe in the sun, and use this Tiangang method, the amount and power of the magic power will be increased ten times, with no upper limit;

Mediating creation - Nuwa used this Tiangang method to create humans, interfering with the birth and death of matter in the universe;

Return to Heaven and Return to the Sun - a Tiangang method of returning to the past. It also records that the police may arrest people in time (translated by Li Changzhou), and you cannot return to the past or the future at will;

Many gods can travel to the future and return to the sun. Although it is magical, Li Changzhou doesn't find it strange.

The remaining five Tiangang methods are equally powerful. Li Changzhou remembered the cultivation method and threw away the "Thirty-Six Tiangang Methods" - the entry requirements for the Beyond the Wall Insight are already the lowest, and they all require the magic power of a human immortal.

Mediating creation and turning stone into gold requires the magic power of gods. Of these two Tiangang methods, one fundamentally creates and destroys matter, and the other fundamentally changes matter.

He watched "Seventy-Two Earthly Demons" again, and the requirements were lower, but some of them also required human and immortal magic.

After memorizing it, Li Changzhou picked up a copy of "The Supreme Way of the Human Body's Eye" without having anything in particular he wanted to read.

This book of Taoism says that the sky also has eyes, which can see into everything and have infinite power. People can open an eye orifice in their body to attract the eyes of the sky.

The effects of the human body's celestial eye are different in intensity and each has its own magic.

This Taoist book also contains a message from the creator, which roughly means:

Since the Heavenly Eye can be borrowed, Heavenly Ears, Heavenly Nose, Heavenly Hands, Heavenly Feet, and every part of the body should be borrowed. I hope that latecomers can continue to create on the basis of the Heavenly Eye, until one day, the whole body is replaced with "Heaven"

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"If your whole body is replaced by 'Heaven', will you still be yourself?"

As a person who is extremely confident in his body and narcissistic, Li Changzhou doesn't even want to use the magic to change his appearance, let alone let any sky live in his body.

But it's not useless, at least it provides an idea.

He doesn't like to let heaven live in his body, but he can live in other people's bodies to protect Li Qianxia and Yang Qinglan, or to monitor and control other people.

Li Changzhou put this Taoism aside.

Even if we want to study it, it’s not now.

He reached out to pick up "One Qi Transforms Three Purities, A General Outline of the Three Worlds of Buddhism" and just unfolded the Taoist teachings when he suddenly frowned and raised his head.

The female official who had ushered him in before and whom he had ordered not to disturb was standing at the entrance to the inner library area.

"What's the matter?" Li Changzhou lowered his head and continued to read the Taoism in his hand. He guessed that Emperor Jiajing came to see him, otherwise how could a female official ignore his order.

There is a possibility that the female official thought he was too handsome and came to seduce him. In Nie Xiaoqian's words, she said: "I can't sleep on a moonlit night. I wish Xiuyan is well."

The female officer looked at him and took off her own head.

Li Changzhou turned the page of Taoism.

The black mist standing between the female officer and Li Changzhou took off his "head". The "head" left the "body" and turned into a shapeless mist, which slowly merged into the black mist.

On the "neck" of the black fog, wisps of extremely thin and light smoke re-outlined the shape of the head.

["Ghost Picking the Head" was copied successfully, and it was detected that the player's 'main' skill is full, please choose a skill to replace...]

Li Changzhou raised his head and saw the female officer holding his head behind Heiwu.

Player?

It must be a player!

Besides players, who else could do such weird things in the Forbidden City?

I took a look at the skill introduction and found it to be useless.

【No replacement】

A flame swayed out of the red charcoal in the copper basin at her feet and flew out with a whooshing sound. A hole was burned between the eyebrows and the abdomen of the head held by the female official in her hand, which connected the front and back.

The female officer fell to the ground with a thud, her head rolled out and hit the cabinet before stopping.

No ID card.

According to the introduction of "Ghost Picking the Head" in my mind, this female officer was also infected by the skill.

Li Changzhou waved his sleeves, and with a roar of wind, a handful of flames came out of the charcoal basin, burning the female official to ashes.

He continued to read "One Qi Transforms Three Purities, A General Outline of the Three Worlds of Buddhism".

Three clears: Taiqing, Shangqing, Yuqing;

Three lives: previous life, present life, and future life;

The book says: The names and effects of Buddhist and Taoist methods are different, but they are all changes and applications of the "essence, energy, and spirit" of the human body.

Something must have happened in the palace, but what does this have to do with him?

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Something happened to Li Qianxia, ​​Yang Qinglan, Yaochi, and Bi.

Just when they thought that the head-picking would spread all the way to Jiaotai Palace, all the eunuchs and maids picked up the heads they had put aside and put them back.

After their heads were installed, they stood up and looked towards the corner where they were. At the same time, they slowly placed their hands on both sides of their heads.

"Let's go!" Yang Qinglan waved her hand as she wished, and the ground surged up like a chest. In the blink of an eye, she broke through the shackles of the gold bricks and stood like a hill between everyone and the headless eunuch and maid.

The water girl wrapped herself around everyone and swallowed their figures like putting out flames.

When they appeared again, they were back in Yuchi.

"My aunt is scared to death!" Li Qianxia was in shock. Being looked at by so many expressionless headless ghosts, a normal person would probably have nightmares for ten days and a half.

"The Forbidden City is basically finished." Yaochi said.

"If we can't find the true body of the zombie fungus, it will ruin more than just the Forbidden City." Yang Qinglan said.

"Isn't it enough to just destroy it? Do you want me to take action?" Bi didn't care.

Yang Qinglan was caught off guard when he used "Life and Death". Li Changzhou, who was engrossed in reading Taoist books, didn't have time to use "Takong", and his shoes got wet.

"What are you doing?" Li Changzhou stepped out of the water and put the "Jade Slip Forging Book of Ancient Dharma Sutra" in his hand into the storage bag on his waist.

"The situation is complicated——"

"Brother, you scared me to death!" Li Qianxia threw herself into Li Changzhou's arms.

Li Changzhou patted her shoulder and looked at Yang Qinglan.

Yang Qinglan glanced at Li Qianxia and continued to explain: "——I heard from Yaochi that there are players in the palace. We originally planned to come to inquire about the news, but we encountered the zombie fungus. We were afraid that you would be infected accidentally, so we called you over."

Li Changzhou knew what they were talking about.

He didn't say anything about "ghosts beheading people" because there were many people here.

"This is an opportunity," he mused. "You guys go back first. I'll go find Jiajing and ask him to give orders to Shao Yuanjie to see his strength."

"Aren't you afraid that Shao Yuanjie will ask Jiajing to give you orders?" Yaochi said with a smile, "They have been causing trouble for you before."

"I hadn't proven myself at that time. Now that Jiajing has put all its hopes of becoming an immortal on me, how can they cause trouble for me?"

After Li Changzhou finished speaking, he patted the shoulder of his sister in his arms and helped her upright.

He told her: "Call me immediately if anything happens. This mission is more dangerous than usual. This kind of thing happened even in the palace where the dragon veins are suppressed."

"Yeah." Li Qianxia nodded obediently.

It was the same before. After watching the ghost movie, Li Changzhou would agree to whatever he asked her to do, as long as he was willing to accompany her to the toilet and sleep at night.

The waves surged up and swept them all away again. Li Changzhou was the only one left on the surface of Yuchi.

He looked around to make sure no one noticed him, and appeared directly outside the side hall door.

The eunuch on duty was so frightened that he froze.

An excited eunuch hurriedly walked into the palace to report, and came out soon after.

"Marquis Shenxian, please come in."

Li Changzhou nodded to him, walked into the side hall, and then entered the Nuan Pavilion.

Emperor Jiajing was wearing Taoist robes, sitting cross-legged, practicing the breathing technique taught to him by Li Changzhou.
To be continued...