Chapter 12: Shang Ling

If you can live for a few more years, no one wants to die sooner.

Especially when this person is the king of a country that is above millions of people.

This is the case with the old emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Yao Zhen is now 63 years old. He succeeded to the throne at the age of 32, and this year is the 31st year.

After working day and night for more than 30 years, his body has been weak, especially since the end of last year, he has been lying in bed for nearly half a month, and he can't even get out of bed and walk normally.

If he hadn't been able to remain conscious and think normally, the dissatisfied 50 surnames would have long been "deathly advice" and he had already confirmed the candidate for the prince.

After all, I can't withstand the pressure inside and outside the palace until now.

The old emperor Yao Zhen issued an edict, 24 princes and 19 princesses, whoever can offer him the method of prolonging life and health will be the next emperor/emperor!

This kind of edict sounds very ridiculous at first glance, but it was normal in the Qing Dynasty.

As mentioned earlier, behind each prince and princes, there is a force or force in the fifty surnames standing. Each new emperor election is actually just a reshuffle of the forces among the fifty surnames of the Qing Dynasty.

In other countries, this situation may cause wars and die countless times, even causing the country to be divided and finally decline. The Qing Dynasty would not, never.

Because there were alchemists in the Qing Dynasty!

Although most of the groups like alchemists are obsessed with alchemy and are too lazy to get involved in secular affairs, there are all kinds of birds in the forest. There are always some people who are keen on physical enjoyment, like to have a group of wives and concubines, delicious food, and above others.

These people are the targets that the fifty surnames have tried their best to win over.

However, Kunlun has long been restricted and prohibited these alchemists from participating in the war against mortals. Once discovered, they will be captured back to Kunlun for twelve days and will never be allowed to leave Kunlun again!

Therefore, in addition to being a deterrent and symbol of the value of alchemists to the fifty surnames, the greatest value of alchemists is the elixir in the "art of all spirits". After all, a strong body has a temptation that ordinary people can't imagine for ordinary people, especially the older generation who are gradually withdrawing from the stage among the fifty surnames.

Yao Zhengui was the lord of a country, so he naturally had a group of "monetary" alchemists. He issued this incredible edict at first, but in fact he wanted to struggle for the last time, because he knew that his "monetary" alchemists had all turned to his children and would not do his best to find a way to temporarily restore health or prolong his life for him.

He was not angry, after all, he came here like this back then. He was united by profit, and naturally he was divided by profit.

Yao Zhen issued an order and the Qing Dynasty was in full swing.

The emperor was about to change, but the people of the Qing Dynasty didn't feel anything. This was a blessing for the existence of a group of nuclear weapons like an alchemist.

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Zhang Shen had a very happy life during the more than a month on Feixian Peak.

There is no fighting, no intrigue, no world disaster, only a group of comrades and friends who are also obsessed with knowledge research and truth discussion, and although their personalities are different, they are not very scheming.

Since that bizarre car accident, Zhang Shen felt that this period was the most comfortable and pleasant day he had.

Learning, exploring, meditation, and sleeping are basically these four contents every day, which are simple but not monotonous, because you can encounter new problems every day and learn new things.

With Zhang Shen's memory and talent, he had mastered 97% of the "theory" methods of alchemy in a seemingly short period of time. As for hands-on operation, general alchemy is completely fine.

However, his good days are coming to an end soon.

"What??!! Let me represent Feixian Peak to attend the Qing Dynasty's alchemy meeting?!!" Zhang Shen looked at the old man in front of him with a white-haired and childlike face, who looked kind and had a stomach full of bad water, and leaned over with confusion, "Old Yu, have you been replaced?"

The old man with fairy spirit in front of Zhang Shen is named Yu Ming. He is an old naughty boy and is in harmony with everyone. The more than a month since Zhang Shen came to Feixian Peak, he has dealt with him a lot, and the relationship between the two is quite good.

"Go and go." Mr. Yu patted someone's malicious hand and coughed a few times, "Xiao Zhang, this is the organization's attention to you and the opportunity to exercise is given to you. You must cherish it and not let the organization down."

Zhang Shen smiled slightly: "Speak human words."

Old Yu's eyes twitched: "Oh, young people nowadays are less and less able to respect their elderly."

"hehe."

"Okay OK, I'm afraid of you."

So, so, so...

"Uh, that is to say, you noticed that there were external forces entering the Qing Dynasty and wanted to pull it out, and then I became cannon fodder?"

"Cannon fodder or something, don't say it so badly. Look..."

"Stop!" Zhang Shen interrupted Mr. Yu, "Can cannon fodder, just cannon fodder, but nowadays, even if you are cannon fodder, you don't have the energy to see substantial benefits."

Half an hour later.

"Human hearts are not old..." Mr. Yu looked at someone's back as he left with great ambition and felt a lot of emotion.

Zhang Shen estimated that it would be rare for him to go back to Feixian Peak in the future, so he made up his heart and "bang" from Mr. Yu, copying a large amount of precious information.

In fact, Mr. Yu and others also understood that Zhang Shen was unlikely to come back, so they allowed him to sweep the Feixian Peak library, and even took the initiative to take out some of his experiences and gift them to him.

The next day, Zhang Shen, who had packed his luggage symbolically, still rode Bai Lian's slide rod down the mountain and left Feixian Peak.

On Qingzhang's back, Zhang Shen looked back at the strange peak covered by a gauze, sighed lightly, full of melancholy.

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Zhang Shen learned from Yu Lao that Kunlun was not allowed to get involved in the battles between the Qing royal family in the twelve days. They needed to maintain a high-ranking attitude of "judgmenter" and "monitor" and always be neutral.

Therefore, if Zhang Shen wants to join the Dan, he will cause trouble and rain, he can only enter through other channels.

Mr. Yu gave a suggestion to operate through the power of Feixian Peak to replace another alchemist, but was rejected by Zhang Shen.

He remembered Li Yaozu and remembered that he still owed the other party a kindness.

"Well, this cause and effect are just over."

Since Zhang Chan had his own choice, Mr. Yu didn't say anything, but just gave him a token to contact the representatives of the secular forces in Feixian Peak to provide him with some convenience.

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The imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty was named Shangling. It was a huge city without city walls. It can be regarded as the world's top economic and cultural center. It is extremely rich, lively and powerful.

From Feixian Peak to Shangling, if you use the conventional means of transportation in the Qing Dynasty - riding a horse and driving, it will take at least half a month even if you have the best horse in the Qing Dynasty. Zhang Shen's universal capsule has a small aircraft, but that thing will definitely not be used.

However, even if it can be used, Zhang Shen did not intend to use it.

As the saying goes, what you have learned is to apply what you have learned, how can you not use it frequently?

Zhang Shen bought a good horse in Zhuli, which was known to travel a hundred miles a day, and then used alchemy on it.

It is not a method like "Demon Disintegration Method" that burns life for power or stimulates potential to achieve a short-term explosion, but strengthens the balance of the five elements in its body.

By the way, in order to commemorate Wangcai, who is protecting his family in the real world, Zhang Shen also named this horse Wangcai.

As a healthy adult horse, the five elements of Yin and Yang Qi in Wangcai's body are naturally balanced. What Zhang Shen does is to control the Yin and Yang Qi in heaven and earth, and condense and transform it into a force that can be absorbed by Wangcai's body.

When the alchemy was over, Wangcai, who appeared in front of Zhang Shen, had a huge change!

It increases the height by about one foot, and the muscles in the body become stronger, and you can see obvious muscle lines, which are streamlined and pleasing to the eye.

Its hooves become wider and harder, and even if the horseshoe falls off, it doesn't have much impact.

These are all external manifestations. The bones that cannot be seen in Wangcai's body have become thicker and stronger, the volume and efficiency of the hematopoietic organs have been significantly improved, and other organs have also been strengthened.

Wangcai could feel his transformation and knew who was the one who gave it to him. He jogged over very excitedly... licked Zhang's face!

"I'll go, you're a horse or not, go back, go back..."

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With the Wangcai Limited Deluxe Supreme Edition, the journey of half a month has been reduced to seven days!

If Zhang Shen hadn't tried his best to stop this horse, the over-energy horse might have traveled day and night to arrive at Shangling within four days.

At dusk, an extremely majestic city outlined through the horizon and reflected in Zhang Shen's eyes.

Zhang Shen has seen countless modern cities, and even underground cities with an area comparable to Hainan Island, have experienced them personally. However, at this moment, Zhang Shen couldn't help but exclaim.

“What a spectacular city!!”

Due to the limitations of the times, Shangling or Qing Dynasty and even the vast majority of buildings in this world are relatively low. However, because of the existence of alchemists, alchemists, etc., which master supernatural powers, there are also some great architectural miracles in this world that are astonishing as modern people even have to kneel down and lick them.

As the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty, Shang Ling naturally had many such miracles.

Zhang Shen looked at it and found that there were three buildings. No, it should have been three buildings that left a deep impression on him.

The most magnificent palace like a sacred city;

On the left, there are only twelve huge branches, each with a terrifying giant tree with different styles;

The square and rocky buildings on the right, surrounded by several huge statues, are somewhat similar to the style of Greek temples.

The three buildings are all masterpieces of alchemists.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Zhang Shen patted Wangcai on the neck. The latter screamed "王" and there was a faint sound of gold and iron.

Shang Ling, I'm here!
Chapter completed!