Chapter Fifty-Eight: Jiang Ziya Descends the Mountain and Drought is Born
As if sensing Qin Lan's doubts, Kong Xuan opened his mouth again to explain. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"This is part of the essence of my inner pill, if you eat it, not only can you cultivate it to a great increase" has the huge power of the dragon elephant, but also can not invade a hundred poisons, a hundred diseases will not be born, and the life span will be extended for another three hundred years. When everyone on the side heard that this colored bead actually had such benefits, "I couldn't help but envy Qin Lan's chances, what kind of cultivation and the power of the dragon elephant are just returned, it can not invade all evils, and prolong life, which is what every emperor and nobleman dreams of."
Qin Lan smiled, and then threw the bead back towards Kong Xuan, that relaxed look seemed to be throwing an ordinary glass bead. Joking, "All evils don't invade, longevity and longevity?" Is Qin Lan a demon refining pot good, which evil can invade, and which one can live to the end?"
Of course, Kong Xuan's Inner Dan will not be discarded as garbage at will, it automatically returns to Kong Xuan's side" Kong Xuan looked at Qin Lan suspiciously, "What does Di Xin mean?"
"Saving you is just a convenient move, and you don't need to use your own Origin Inner Dan to pay it back, because you have a greater role. Qin Lan smiled, "The sky descended from the sky and gave birth to business, Kong Xuan, just remember your mission." ”
"!!", Kong Xuan, who was originally a peacock, suddenly turned into a handsome man, standing in front of Qin Lan and saluting, "I don't want Di Xin to know my identity, I really laugh." ”
"Di Xin, what are you talking about?" Yao Ji saw that the peacock had turned into a human form, and immediately walked up to him curiously and looked at him.
"Let's get to know it, this is Kong Xuan, the first peacock born between heaven and earth during the ancient flood period, his mother is the ancient god bird Phoenix, also known as Xuanniao, is the guardian beast of my great business, after the phoenix nirvana, this responsibility falls on Kong Xuan's body, so I will naturally save him. Qin Lan smiled indifferently, and a pair of eyes teased Kong Xuan, "You also sensed my existence, so you deliberately rushed here, and you want to take the opportunity to use your inner pill to help me achieve the body of a heavenly immortal and save my great business luck?" Kong Xuan immediately clenched his fists and saluted, he really had this plan, but he didn't expect to be seen clearly by Qin Lan. In fact, although Kong Xuan was injured, "he was not very afraid of Duobao Dao and Fire Spirit Holy Mother, after all, he was rated as a quasi-saint among the gods, but it was not a fool's blow, and the saints below all ignored it, saying that Kong Xuan, which naturally also included Duobao Dao people.
"It's not that I can make the decision for the luck of the big business, and the three early days have already signed the god list, this fact has no way to change, we have to think of another way...... , but you are wrong to go to the trouble of the Duobao Dao people. Qin Lan smiled at the peacock, "You probably don't know that the sect will always be on the side of our big merchants in the future............
"Huh?" At this time, Kong Xuan suddenly showed a surprised face, pinched his fingers and counted for a long time, but he was still confused.
"Huh...... Duobao Dao people have actually found you, "But it is precisely because of this that I let you go...... Kong Xuan go back with me, next, I have a lot to do, and now I need manpower. ”
"If this is the case, then do the will of the king. Kong Xuan lit up the cliff hundreds of miles away in the west.
"Where did Master's demon flee to, and why don't we continue to hunt for it?" asked the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit, who looked puzzled.
"Huo Ling'er, did you say that peacock really fled to the west?", Duobao Daoist asked casually with a long beard.
"Didn't the Great Shang Emperor Xin say just now...... "The Holy Mother of Fire Spirit reacted very quickly, and the fire flashed in her eyes", "Could it be that we were deceived? That guy is so bold!", "Yes, if I'm not mistaken" The peacock hid on the cloak behind him...... "Duobao Daoist was not angry, but praised: "A good Great Shang Emperor Xin is brave and strategic, and he is also easy to deal with us, if it weren't for my refining a pair of peeping eyes, he would have almost been concealed by him." "I only said that behind the cloak is the picture of the ancestor of the Great Shang Xuanniao" turned out to be ......", the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit was a fiery temper, and said angrily: "I saw him as a corporal of Lixian, and he was very good at our spear and dagger, and he thought that he was knowledgeable and interesting, but I didn't expect that it was actually hypocritical, perfunctory to our master and apprentice! I will go and take down that demon now, and then have a retribution with that guy!"
"Wait!", Duobao Daoist stopped the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit who rushed back, and said: "That demon is very strong, and there is little difference between him and his teacher, although he is seriously injured, he still has spare strength...... What's more, I already had a premonition that it should not die today," so I simply sold my favor to that big merchant Emperor Xin. ”
"Master, since you know that he is slandering us, why do you still stare at him with the talisman magic weapon?" The Holy Mother of Fire Spirit asked puzzledly, "According to my nature, I have to teach him a lesson!"
"Huo Ling'er don't be anxious, think that the teacher's ability, what is a mere comparable bracelet, in fact, this emperor Xin's respect for us is not a fake, it is also a fact that many of my disciples are working in Dashang" Therefore, my sect is closely related to the luck of Dashang, and this good fate is formed today, and it will be of great benefit to the prosperity of my sect in the future......", Duobao Daoren smiled, "He and it is understandable that he protects this peacock" After all, the mother of the peacock is the ancestor of the Great Shang Xuanniao, and it is said that after the Xuannia Nirvana, the peacock should inherit the responsibilities of its mother......"
"But this Great Shang Emperor Xin is just an ordinary man, how can he understand this?"
"He's definitely not an ordinary person. Duobao Daoren shook his head, "I saw clearly just now" that this Emperor Xin actually had the mark left by the Nuwa Sage...... This matter is over, and no further investigation is required. "But the disciple is really angry", but the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit is still a little unhappy.
Seeing the unwilling appearance of the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit, Duobao Daoist shook his head helplessly and smiled: "Don't worry about it anymore, you can go back to Yeming Mountain to cultivate." Recently, for some reason, the heavens have been reversed, the cause and effect are unknown, and even the mixed yuan saint is difficult to calculate, so it is better to concentrate on cultivation with peace of mind, and watch it become better, and he will go back to Biyou Palace as a teacher. Although the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit has an arrogant temperament, she has always respected her teacher, and she did not dare to disobey at the moment, gave a salute, and flew away with the light, but the Duobao Dao people didn't know that the fiery red light folded halfway.
At this time, in the Yuxu Palace of Kunlun Mountain, Yuan Shi Tianzun, the leader of the Sect of Interpretation, was sitting on the Eight Treasures Cloud Light Throne, and an old man with white hair was kneeling below, "His expression was very deferential."
Yuan Shi Tianzun opened his mouth and said: "Jiang Shang, "How many years have you been in Kunlun?" It turned out that this old man was Jiang Ziya. Seeing that the master asked, "Quickly answered: "The disciple went up the mountain at the age of thirty-two" and is now seventy-two years old. ”
Yuan Shi Tianzun asked: "What kind of cultivation realm have you reached now?", as soon as this was mentioned, Jiang Ziya's face was full of shame, and he bowed his head and replied: "The disciple is stupid by nature, although he has obtained the elixir of the master to cut the hair and wash the marrow, and the senior brothers have done their best, but he has never been able to comprehend the path of refining the void." ”
Yuan Shi Tianzun already knew about this, so he looked calm and did not blame: "This is also not to blame you" You were born with a thin life, "no immortal fate" can only be blessed by the world. If you go down the mountain to "help the master" as a general, it will not be in vain for you to go up the mountain and practice for 40 years. ”
Jiang Ziya was shocked when he heard this: "Master, the disciple is a sincere practice, and he has worked hard for years, and there are years now." Although his practice is weak, his heart towards the path is very resolute. Please be merciful, "The disciple is willing to do asceticism in the mountains, and he does not dare to covet the wealth of the red dust, and I hope that the master will take back his fame!"
Yuan Shi Tianzun shook his head and said: "Your fate is like this, you will listen to the sky, how can you disobey? This is no longer the place where you live for a long time" Pack up and go down the mountain early, don't say more. ”
Jiang Ziya was still waiting to be mourned, and the Antarctic Immortal Weng on the side stepped forward to persuade: "Ziya, the number of days has been set" and it was difficult to escape. Although you are going down the mountain, when you are done, "you will have the day to go up the mountain." Jiang Ziya was helpless, so he had to cry to Yuan Shi Tianzun: "Master's decree, disciples dare not disobey" Please ask the master to give his disciples some advice in the future. ”
Yuan Shi Tianzun asked rhetorically: "If it is according to your wishes, what do you want?" Jiang Ziya thought for a while and said: "Master Fangcai once said that the disciple went down the mountain to help the Ming Lord" can be a general "to receive the blessings of the world." The disciple plans to go to a righteous brother of Chaoge, and if he has the opportunity, he will serve the Son of Heaven with all his deeds and be loyal to the country. ”
Yuan Shi Tianzun's eyes moved slightly, but he did not comment on Jiang Ziya's plan, and only said: "Everything is determined by heaven, how can you say it everywhere? ”
Jiang Ziya saw Yuan Shi Tianzun say this, "Don't dare to stay, pack your clothes and bags at the moment, get up to say goodbye to your master, and go down the mountain."
After the Antarctic Immortal Weng on the side saw Jiang Ziya leave, he hesitated to ask Yuan Shi Tianzun: "The disciple is ignorant, the master once said to the disciple and others, the soup is exhausted, and the Zhou room will be prosperous." Fang Cai Ziya said that he was going to assist Dashang, why didn't Shizun wake him up?"
Yuan Shi Tianzun said lightly: "No matter what decision he makes, he can't escape fate. If this is the number of fates, can it not be reversed by man?"
The Antarctic Immortal Weng sighed secretly and bowed down.
If Qin Lan was here, he would definitely scoff at Yuan Shi Tianzun's words, but he didn't care about these trivial matters at this time, because a sudden disaster disrupted all his plans......
It was a drought.
This drought is completely different from the previous complete local small disasters, the scale is so large, covering almost the entire territory of the Great Shang, the most serious is the direct jurisdiction of the Great Shang, even the capital of Chaoge, has not been spared the "great drought stretches for thousands of miles" He Buli Miao Mai is dying...... "Qin Lan hurried back to Chaoge, and immediately faced the disaster situation on the urgent performance in various places, so he could no longer sit still, and his eyes were straight to the ministers in the palace: "Ladies and gentlemen, what are the countermeasures?" In their hearts, it was just a fool's dream that people would conquer the sky, how could such a natural disaster of such a scale be dealt with by manpower? Even if most of them were already the heroic spirits that Qin Lan brought out from the demon refining pot, after all, they lived in ancient times, and they didn't know how to use the power of science and technology to make rain, so there was nothing they could do.
Qin Lan saw that there was silence below, and his brows immediately furrowed, although he also paid attention to the prevention of various disasters when he was developing and building on weekdays, but this time the severity and coverage of the disaster greatly exceeded expectations, since the founding of the Great Shang Dynasty for more than six hundred years, such disasters have only been one or two times, but he just bumped into it, and it was at this critical time.
After a long time, Du Yuan, the old lady of Qintianjian, came out and said: "Recently, the sky has been very different" and the stars are dim "seems to be chaotic, and it happens that the sky has fallen into a serious disaster, and it must be the heavens to condemn the sin, please ask Di Xin to bathe and change clothes, sacrifice to the heavens and ask for rain, and pray for the heavens to forgive the sins in order to relieve the suffering of the Li people." ”
The merchant attached great importance to the sacrifice and "prayed to the ghosts and gods whenever he was undecided, and Du Yuanrui's proposal was immediately approved by many former ministers of the Great Shang, especially Bigan and others. So Qin Lan suddenly remembered that Nuwa said that the fortunes of the Great Shang and the country would take a sharp turn in three years, "Suddenly the province is fierce, can it start now? It is rumored that there are always various premonitions before the great changes in the world, and disasters are the most common one."
Qin Lan agreed to Du Yuanmi's sacrificial suggestion after thinking about it, but Taishi Shang Zhong, who had already returned to the court, also came out and said some supplementary suggestions at this time. After all, Shang Zhong was a patriarch of the Three Dynasties, and because he was a cultivator himself, although he believed in things like ghosts and gods, he didn't believe that praying for heaven and sacrificing could resolve disasters," so he proposed some practical measures to resist disasters and save himself.
This point naturally won Qin Lan's favor, in fact, "he already has his own plan, of course", it would be better if he stepped out of Ziwen Zhong's mouth.
Therefore, Qin Lan added four measures to Shang Zhong's proposal: 1. Appropriately build water conservancy to strengthen water diversion and irrigation, and quote, because the drought has already occurred, so this kind of measure cannot play a role in solving the fundamental problem, 2. Urgently promote a new drought-resistant farming method, combined with the essence of drought-resistant agriculture in previous dynasties, and strive to save water, resist drought and protect it, and intensively cultivate; 3. Appropriately supplement agriculture with animal husbandry, expand breeding Haomo; 4. Recruit experienced talents, and explore groundwater resources.
For the two armies of Chonghou Hu and Huang Feihu, who were still on the expedition against Yuan Futong and King Pingling, Qin Lan also issued instructions to suspend military affairs and fight disasters on the spot, and sent logistics troops to replenish supplies.
After the dispersal of the dynasty," Qin Lan left Wen Zhong alone, "Master, I have heard that cultivators can use magic to call the wind and rain, move mountains and seas, and I don't know if I can use Taoism to solve the misfortune of all people?" ”
Qin Lan smiled: "If you can get all the people in the world out of drought, even if there is retribution coming", why not? Wen Zhong was taken aback: "Emperor Xin is a body of ten thousand gold, how can it be like this? Even if he has to deal with this calamity, he should be done by the old minister, the problem is that the technique of calling the wind and rain is not omnipotent, even if it is forcibly cast, it cannot solve the current predicament of the great merchants." ”
It turns out that the spell that moves mountains and seas is actually a kind of transport-like spell that can temporarily move an object to another place" but this kind of transport is limited in time and scale, and it is too large to be "carried". When the time comes, it will be back to the way it was. In the romance, there was a plot of Jiang Ziya pouring the water of the North Sea to resist the winged fairy, the so-called water of the North Sea is not the water of the entire North Sea, but a part of the sea water "transported" from the North Sea. As for the art of calling the wind and rain, it is equivalent to a transformation spell, which can shoot a water source from a certain place into the sky and then turn it into rain droplets, but there is considerable loss and waste. There are also restrictions on distance and volume, "The higher the mana, the longer the distance that can be deployed, and the more sufficient the portion, but now the water source of each pool is already in short supply, and the affected area is extremely wide, this spell is not applicable."
After listening to Wen Zhong's explanation, Qin Lan was very disappointed, he originally had a lot of hopes for Dao Rainfall, especially the rain master under Yao Ji, after encountering the drought, Qin Lan thought that he would be of great use, but unexpectedly, this way was impossible. Wen Zhong saw Qin Lan frowning, and thought that he was worried, "Immediately volunteered: "Your Majesty, the old minister also has a lot of friends in the four seas, it is better for the old minister to visit them and see if there is a good way." ”
"No need ......"
"Di Xin, Lord Ping Ping asks to see you. Suddenly, the chamberlain came to report.
Qin Lan glanced at Wen Zhong in surprise, "Ping Fei is different from Fei Lian over the years, he has always been careful in doing things, never showing mountain dew, and today he suddenly took the initiative to ask to see, which couldn't help but make Qin Lan feel surprised, and the news of Ping Ping surprised him even more."
"Di Xin, this sudden drought in the world has devastated the common people, and it is not a disaster from heaven" but someone deliberately did it!"
"How?"
"Have you ever heard of the Drought Charm,?" mentioned the name of the Drought Charm, and a trace of hatred quickly slipped through Ping Ping's eyes.
Seeing Qin Lan's puzzled eyes, Wen Zhong explained on the side: "The Drought Charm is the Ancient Heavenly Maiden", also known as Nu Zhen, "has an ugly appearance, a strange temperament, and everywhere she goes, the rivers are dried up, and she is hated by the world." When Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, he fought a decisive battle with Chi You in the field of deer, Chi You was brave and unparalleled, the Yellow Emperor was invincible, and with the help of the immortals, he summoned the heavenly realm Ying Long and other strange beasts to besiege Chi You. Ying Long is good at storing water, "turning the rainstorm into a trap of Chiyou's army." Unexpectedly, Chi You's side of the wind and rain master's spell was even better, "drove the rainstorm to counterattack the Yellow Emperor's side, and the Yellow Emperor was defeated." The female charm was ordered by the Nine Heavens Xuannu to help the Yellow Emperor, "wherever the female charm goes, the wind stops and the rain rests", and finally the Yellow Emperor borrowed the power of the immortals and finally defeated Chiyou. "......" Qin Lan was speechless, wasn't Feng Boyu Master the same Fei Lian and Ping Ping in front of him now? Unexpectedly, they still participated in the battle between Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor and Chi You. "After the Yellow Emperor wins over Chi You, what about this female charm?"
Ping Fei replied, "This female charm and Ying Long are originally gods of heaven, although they are in the lower realm at the behest of the will, they are contaminated with the spirit of the mundane, and they are not allowed to return to heaven.
So the Yellow Emperor named the female charm as the god of drought and Yinglong as the god of rain, but later sealed the female in the forbidden land in the north of Chishui, so as not to bring disaster to the world. This female charm has been sealed by the Yellow Emperor, but today I don't know who released it, "The female charm has a thousand years of resentment, which is not trivial, so the world is in drought, which makes my big business country suffer." ”
Sure enough, someone secretly did something