Chapter 24: The Battle of the Spirit Palace
The young man left with Tian Ping, and Ji Le and Cangjie continued to experiment with the spirit in the summoning array.
Just summoned corn and bamboo slips, can you directly select certain items to summon?
The red clouds curled, the lightning thundered, and Ji Le had an extra sword in his hand. But as soon as the sword was formed, it immediately turned into fine sand and scattered all over the ground.
Cangjie: "The sword you summoned this time is ......"
"A divine weapon of your time. Unfortunately, it seems that it can't be summoned. ”
More precisely, it automatically decomposes after being summoned, and cannot be manifested in this world.
"Maybe it's not enough power? Maybe it's not enough to analyze this thing? Experiment in the pre-Qin era first. ”
As a result, Ji Le continued to use the faith power accumulated by Xia Guo to summon items, while Cangjie explained and introduced it on the side.
"This is Changge in the arsenal of the Warring States Tian Qi lineage. ”
"This is the bow and crossbow of the Qin State. ”
"This is the bronze sword of the Zhao Kingdom. ”
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Cangjie kept pointing out the items that Ji Le had embodied, but these items were not of much help to them, and they were not as good as the original corn.
Ji Le was a little irritable, and once again took out a metal artifact from the red clouds: "It's still not good, I'm afraid the craftsmanship of these things is not as good as Xia Guo, right?
"There are many smelters among the ancestors of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there are ores near Jiugong City, so the weapons and skills here are indeed good. But these bronze weapons can also be used, at least not badly for us. ”
Ji Le played with the metal weapon in his hand and said lazily: "It's impossible for Yang Ke to let me take weapons from the treasury to equip the Yongle Palace, so let's use the weapons ourselves?" But these weapons are so brittle, I feel that if I go head-to-head with the army of the Xia Kingdom, they will be broken immediately." ”
"The national spirit forgot again. It's a fantasy world. There are divine arts in this world, and as long as you bless these bronzes with spells, you can even make them into magic weapons. ”
"The premise is that I can really cultivate a group of Fang Immortal Dao cultivators. Ahh Ji Le touched the metal utensils in his hand, and suddenly screamed: "This time, even the jewelry has been summoned!"
Cangjie's eyes fell on the metal object in Ji Le's arms, and suddenly realized: "Huasheng?"
"That's right, it's supposed to be a flower worn by women. Ji Le recalled what his friends had mentioned to him back then, and muttered: "If you write alone, you win, and you will be decorated before covering your hair." I remember the Han Dynasty's record of the Queen Mother of the West, and there was also 'the Queen Mother of the West who looked like a human, with a leopard's tail and tiger teeth and a good roar, and a hoopoe with fluffy hair. "This thing, it should be the kind of accessory of the Queen Mother Yusheng?"
He wiped it lightly with his sleeve and raised it to his eyes to look at Hua Sheng's shape. The shape of this flower is a blooming peony flower, with butterflies spreading their wings and landing on the petals on both sides.
"It's still a flower made of pure gold. Of course, due to the gold craftsmanship of the pre-Qin era, it is certainly not as strong as that of later generations. But the victory is exquisitely made, is it okay?" Ji Le looked through it carefully: "This thing should be an ornament of a certain king's palace?"
"'Rats flutter butterflies', once offered to the palace of the king of Zhou, should be something used by a certain queen. ”
"Queen, I was going to give it to Yu Yuan. She has helped us these days, and she always wants to express her gratitude. Ji Le sighed faintly: "This thing is given to her, in case outsiders know the origin, I'm afraid someone will suspect that I am hinting at something." ”
Something given to Yu Yuan's generation of queens, is this a hint that Yang Ke married Yu Yuan?
But if you think about it carefully, Yu Mei is like a water out of the water, delicate and beautiful. This flower is made of gold, in the shape of a peony, which is too gorgeous, but not beautiful. It would be nice to have jewelry such as water hibiscus and lotus flowers. ”
Ji Le secretly regretted it, and casually threw Peony Huasheng aside: "Well, since it is something used by the queen, I will send it to Yang Ke and his wife." Speaking of which, I haven't met his wife yet. When will she come to the Spirit Palace to have a look?"
Ji Le's eyes rolled, and he immediately had an idea. He summoned the witch who was waiting outside the Yongle Hall and handed Hua Sheng over: "You send it to Yu Yuan." Let's just say that I took his things from Yang Ke's private treasury last time, and this time I gave it to his wife. ”
This witch is only twelve years old this year, it is the year of the golden hairpin, and after seeing the flower victory, she can't help but show joy.
"Girl, don't look at it!" Ji Le saw the witch staring at Hua Sheng intently, stretched out his hand and patted her on the head, and scolded with a smile: "Your little girl hasn't grown yet, so it's not suitable to wear these heavy and gorgeous gold ornaments." I'll find some flower ribbons and jade pendants for you. ”
"Then Your Highness is not allowed to repent!" The little witch Su Zhi has been walking with Yu Yu in the past few days, and has met Ji Le many times, and she is not afraid of the identity of her own national spirit.
"Naturally. What is there to regret about this? My Yongle Hall is quiet and lonely, you witches are in the mood for flowers, dress up better, and let this cold palace be more beautifully embellished, isn't it good?"
"That'...... Then Your Highness thinks who among us is the best-looking?" the witch carefully wrapped her handkerchief in a handkerchief, and asked a question in an innocent tone that would be called a great weapon of death in the afterlife.
However, Su Zhi herself didn't have those scheming, so she just asked casually. After all, the little girl's family likes to compare the looks of the sisters the most.
Ji Le's eyes moved slightly, and then he smiled and said: "People have five fingers, but they are not the same." There are hundreds of flowers, each with its own fragrance. Like your sister Yu Yuan, there is the beauty of Hanlian and the refinement of hibiscus. And the other witch sisters in your family are either as enchanting as peach apricots, or as fragrant as Lan Zhi, they can't be said together. ”
"What about me?" the little witch was full of interest: "What kind of flower does Your Highness think I am?"
"A small bud that hasn't opened yet, can see something. Go, go, get down to business. Otherwise, your sister Yu will settle accounts with you, and she will cry again when she turns around!"
"I've grown up, and I haven't cried for a long time!" the little witch waved her pink fist, and after the demonstration, she picked up Hua Sheng and rushed to where Yu Yu was.
After that, Ji Le and the others continued to study the principle of the embodiment of objects
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This night, the lights of Yongle Hall were bright, and everyone in Los Angeles had their own thoughts.
In the Spirit Palace, Yu Yu summoned the witches to arrange matters related to the Yongle Palace.
"You are all witches, and you don't need me to say that you can sense the identity of this highness. In the future, all the expenses of the Yongle Palace, no matter how big or small, must be reported to me. ”
"Also, His Highness has really settled in the Spirit Palace, and he is like a god to us, and he will be called 'Your Highness' in the future, and he can no longer be called casually. ”
For example, titles such as "Your Excellency" and "Adult". Although it also shows dignity, it is obvious that the title of "Your Excellency" is not as valuable as "Your Highness".
In the cognition of the ancestors of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "adult" has another meaning, alluding to "parents and elders". Although it can also be advertised as noble, with Ji Le's official entry into the Yongle Palace, it is equivalent to the fact that the Spirit Palace has recognized his identity. should be like Yang Ke and become the only "His Royal Highness" in China. After all, in this mythological era, "Your Highness" is often a proxy for those gods.
"Sister Yu. A witch timidly spoke: "Our Royal Highness calls himself 'Ji Le', and he lives in the 'Yongle Palace', do you want to avoid it and change the name of the palace?"
Yu Yu was stunned for a moment, bowed her head and pondered. That's right, in the past few days, because Ji Le has hidden his identity, many etiquette numbers have been chaotic, but in the future, with Ji Le's name, he can't do this. And the name of Yongle Hall is in conflict with His Royal Highness Ji Le.
"But I overlooked it. It is true that it needs to be considered, but it is necessary to ask His Highness his own opinion first. When you go to the Yongle Hall tomorrow to say goodbye, remember to remind me. ”
Yu Yu thought of something again: "Also, the same is true for His Royal Highness Emperor Shi." He is a god, and he will be called more solemnly in the future. In particular, you can't scream like 'grandpa'. His Highness Ji Le can, but you can't, understand! He is the god of his homeland, and he has come to help us and other remnants, so you must not be taken lightly. ”
"Yes. The witches bowed their heads and lowered their eyebrows, listening to Yu Yuan's teachings.
Su Zhi ran in at this time: "Sister, Your Highness has something for me to hand over." She ran to Yu Yuan's side, handed Hua Sheng over, and relayed Ji Le's words.
"Send it to Madame?" Yu Yu muttered in her heart: "Your Highness, what is this going to do?
As Ji Le said, his every move is easy to distort various meanings in the eyes of outsiders. Obviously, it is just a trivial matter of sending flowers to win, and outsiders can turn several corners in their hearts.
"Sister, when do you say we should go to the royal court to send it over? Do you want to report to Wu Cheng?"
"No need, you can send it directly to the royal court, you don't need to report it to those uncles, and they probably can't take care of this matter now. ”
Yu Yu looked at the temple in the distance of the Spirit Palace with a gloomy gaze: "There is one more thing, you should remember." Don't go to Ningshentai recently, Lord Taibu, don't let others disturb you. If someone dares to go to Ningshentai to chew the root of her tongue, I will seal her tongue with a witch spell when I turn around, so that she will not be able to speak again in her life!"
The national spirit resides in the Yongle Palace, which is a huge pressure and a challenge for Yu Yuan. If you can take advantage of Ji Le's momentum and settle the many forces in the Spirit Palace one by one, you can successfully eliminate the internal worries of the Xia Kingdom.
And there are many witches who also want to win over Ji Le.
For example, the "Wu Cheng" that Su Zhi just mentioned.
In another hall of the Spirit Palace, eight Xuan-robed witches were sitting together. They gathered around the campfire, and were using divination to calculate Ji Le's vision of the Xia Kingdom.
After a while, Wu Cheng took the lead in speaking: "There is no problem with the identity of His Royal Highness the National Spirit, it is indeed the incarnation of my Xia Kingdom." ”
Wu Li next to him said: "Then, you can ask Your Highness to come forward and help us regain the power of the Spirit Palace!"
Over the years, with the rise of the Yang family and the formation of the Nine Palaces order, the power of the Spirit Palace has gradually been divided.
At the beginning, there were ten witches in the Linggong, named after the ten witches of Lingshan in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", namely: Wu Xian, Wu Ji, Wu Pan, Wu Peng, Wu Gu, Wu Zhen, Wu Li, Wu Di, Wu Xie, Wu Luo.
These ten witches are the heads of the Spirit Palace and preside over many affairs in the city. For example, Wu Peng is in charge of medicine and uses witch medicine to save people. But after the establishment of the Ming Palace, the doctors there received the help of the Taiping Sect and gradually freed the medical system from the influence of the Ling Palace. Wu Pan is similar in this regard, he is responsible for the blessing of newborns. But with the rise of the Ming Palace's power, this witchcraft has been abolished. The Ming Palace is in charge of taking care of the pregnant women, and then the shrine maidens perform birth prayers.
There is also the great witch Wu Zhen, who originally commanded the witch prostitutes, but now it has been banned, and the official female of the hidden palace has replaced most of the witch prostitution functions. A small number of witch prostitutes are now under the control of Yu Yuan.
Wu Li said excitedly: "The original Ten Witches of the Spirit Palace, there are only a few people left now. And most of them have been changed their names and their rights have been lost. Now the appearance of His Royal Highness the National Spirit is the moment when the witches of my Spirit Palace regain their rights!"
Today he was in charge of sealing the snake spirit, and he saw Ji Le standing beside Shi Huang's side from a distance.
"Don't you see, His Royal Highness has an extraordinary bearing, and he is not on good terms with Xia Jun, he will definitely help my Spirit Palace to regain power!"
"However, that girl Yu will never let us contact His Highness. Wu Minyou, another person in charge of the Spirit Palace, said: "Don't forget, in the past few days, Yu Ya has mobilized the guards of the Spirit Palace to lock the palace gate, and she almost fought with us directly." ”
The rest of the witches nodded their heads one after another, and their faces were not good-looking.
The appearance of the national spirit is a big event, and Yu Yu decisively suppressed it in the Spirit Palace to prevent others from coming into contact with Ji Le, and now they can't even touch the edge of the Yongle Palace.
Referring to Yu Yuan, Wu Li was in a bad mood: "Hmph, that girl has a close relationship with the Yang family, and it is the 'marriage system' that Wang Ting is making that makes their witch suddenly rise and disrupt the order of the entire Spirit Palace." ”
According to the original Ten Witches System of the Spirit Palace, Yu Yuan should be the fifth-ranked "witch girl", responsible for the education of young witches. But now, she not only swallowed up the rights of "Wu Zhen", but even "Wu Pan" was banned because of her.
Today, the pattern in the Spirit Palace, headed by the Great Witch Chief and the Witch Chief, imitates the great young priest who believes in the homeland and Chudi, forming a dualistic system. The great witch is long, corresponding to the "great priest's life", also known as "Taibu", and there are four witches under the seat: Wu Cheng, Wu Li, Wu Min, and Wu Luo. Responsible for the education of male wizards, the ritual of worshipping gods, and funeral ceremonies and ancestor worship.
The shrine maiden chief is the deputy, corresponding to the young secretary's order, presiding over the birth ceremony, witch training, witch prostitution and part of the sacrificial ceremony.
Right now, Wu Cheng, Wu Li, and Wu Min are gathered together to discuss how to take back the rights that belong to them from Yu Yuan.
As for Wu Luo among the Four Witches of Taibu, he is even more special. The young shaman advocated total indigenization, abandoning ancestral sacrifices in favor of the worship of native gods for the sake of national continuity. Therefore, this time the three witches gathered and did not come to him. Instead, he called several other great wizards cultivated by Taibu. In the final analysis, they fought with Yu Yuan, it was a normal change of power within the Spirit Palace, either the east wind overwhelmed the west wind, or the west wind overwhelmed the east wind. Let the local gods admired by Wu Luo ascend to the throne, what is it?
Wu Cheng thought of this, and said to Wu Li: "Wu Luo, you are optimistic. Let's win over His Royal Highness the National Spirit for the orthodoxy of the Spirit Palace. But if he contacts His Highness, he will definitely have bad intentions!"
"I understand. Wu Li's expression was awe-inspiring: "I will take a good look at him, and I will never let him contact His Highness." ”
Wu Min: "I think Yu Yatou is watching there, don't talk about Wu Luo, we can't enter Yongle Palace." Why don't you ask the boss to come forward?"
Taibu, that is, Cangjie once mentioned that old witch. The old man who witnessed the rise and fall of the Xia Kingdom is now at the end of his life, and his spiritual power is declining, so he can only recuperate in Ningshentai.
"This ......" Wu Li shook his head slowly, "No, right?
"Yes, don't alarm the teacher!"
A few witches next to him immediately spoke: "The teacher's body has become weaker and weaker these days, and this kind of thing can't alarm his old man." ”
"Lord Wu Cheng, what do you say?"
"The birth of the national spirit, this is a great joy for my Xia country, and I must inform Taibu. "Wu Cheng is Taibu's deputy, responsible for taking care of the affairs of the Ling Palace. Even though Yu Yuan currently has great power, she still has to report to him about matters such as entering and leaving the Spirit Palace. Of course, in many cases, it was Yu Yu who communicated afterwards and forced Wu Cheng to sign and seal.
"But the current situation is unclear, we haven't met His Royal Highness the National Spirit, how can we report to Taibu?" Wu Cheng smiled: "Don't be too wary of Yu Yuan." In the end, it is a few of us who have grown up since childhood, and Yuze is your junior sister. No matter how persecutive she is, it is only to prevent us from sitting big and restricting our rights. Don't you also want to honestly respect us elders? Tomorrow she will go to the Yongle Hall to say goodbye, and you will come with me. Can't she really control His Highness for the rest of her life and not let us witches meet you, right?"