Chapter 103: Golden Nature is Immortality; Only Say the Corpse Immortal is a War Immortal (Monthly tickets requested in the middle of

"Zhu Zhongba overestimated this net and underestimated this deity."

Jin Mingzi said.

"This net, even if connected to the dragon vein, cannot stop this deity. Moreover, he only knew that fire restrains metal, but didn't know that a golden lotus can also be planted in fire."

"This venerable one's corpse in this life was conceived in the fire cave of the northwest mountains, tempered by yin fire for seven hundred years, nearly flawless, lacking only the nourishment of yang fire. This venerable one walked the world for hundreds of years, searching for underground yang fire but could not find it, only then thinking of continuing to absorb metal energy to sleep. He, however, used the Central Plains' national destiny fire virtue to suppress and kill this venerable one, not knowing that this is precisely the yang fire this venerable one seeks but cannot obtain."

"Therefore, in addition to tempering the corpse, this deity had the leisure to harm his dragon vein little by little, letting his descendants come over to explain it to me personally."

Jin Mingzi was quite disdainful of the Zhu family, but he was also somewhat puzzled.

"However, this Zhu family emperor was able to hold his breath. The dragon vein has been decaying for ten years, and it should have been reflected on the dragon throne first. According to reason, his body should be getting worse and worse, terminally ill. How come there is no movement at all? Instead, it is you outsiders who saw it first."

Cheng Xinzhan felt something was wrong upon hearing this, and he asked Zhu Jianmo again: "Fellow Practitioner, after Ming Taizu stopped building the Central Capital, was it never moved during the Hongwu reign?"

Zhu Jianmo nodded affirmatively.

"Then was it only Emperor Yongle who ordered the continuation of the Central Capital?"

Zhu Jianmo reacted: "You mean Emperor Yongle?"

Cheng Xinzhan asked again: "Then did Emperor Yongle have a strange person like Liu Bowen beside him, who had the ability to change the great formation?"

Zhu Jianmo's eyes widened and nodded: "Yes, there is one! People of the time called him the 'Black-Clothed Prime Minister'."

Cheng Xinzhan nodded and said to Jin Mingzi,

"Senior, perhaps it is a misunderstanding. This junior has a guess and wants to tell Senior."

Jin Mingzi looked at Cheng Xinzhan and said,

"You tell me."

Cheng Xinzhan cupped his hands and said eloquently:

"Senior may not know that Ming Taizu's eldest son died young in his youth and had no chance for the throne. He was posthumously titled 'Crown Prince Yiwen.' Ming Taizu passed the throne to his grandson, the second son of 'Crown Prince Yiwen.' These secret matters, including the agreement with Senior, should have been told to the grandson."

"The grandson succeeded to the throne, which was the Jianwen Emperor. But the Jianwen Emperor focused on weakening the feudal lords. At that time, the Prince of Yan, Taizu's fourth son, raised an army to 'Pacify the South' and seized the throne, which was Emperor Yongle. Most of the Jianwen Emperor's descendants died, and those who survived lived a difficult life under the surveillance of the Yongle lineage. They probably didn't know the details."

"And Emperor Yongle lived in the Yan Mansion for a long time and ascended the throne through Pacifying the South. He probably didn't know about these secret matters at all. Perhaps it was just in some year that he suddenly felt that the construction of the Central Capital was halfway through and too wasteful, so he ordered it to be continued and built as a residence for the people."

"It's just that before continuing construction, the Black-Clothed Prime Minister saw the original construction blueprint of the Central Capital, recognized this 'Horned Qilin Swallowing Gold' formation, and thought this formation was not conducive to the ancestors' peaceful sleep, so he changed the formation map, forming a 'Fierce Fire Cooking Gold' formation, absorbing the metal Qi from this imperial tomb to strengthen the Zhu Ming dragon vein."

"But he didn't know, and Emperor Yongle didn't know, that the Central Capital's formation map was connected to the magic net designed by Senior and the Zhu family dragon vein. His change made the original protective formation become a detention formation. No, not detention, it just bound Senior's hands and feet."

"And when Senior took action against the Central Capital dragon vein, the Zhu family emperor might have been terminally ill, but these descendants of Emperor Yongle didn't know about this past event under the Fengyang ancestral tomb, so they didn't come to the door for a long time."

Jin Mingzi listened quietly and was silent for a moment before saying,

"Is it that simple?"

"Perhaps it is that simple."

"It wasn't Zhu Zhongba's intention? This deity never told him about my true identity. Perhaps he thought this deity was just a corpse demon. After he ascended the throne, he disdained to pretend with this deity and wanted to borrow the dragon vein to suppress and kill this deity?"

"It shouldn't be."

Cheng Xinzhan said with his head down.

Jin Mingzi was silent for a while upon hearing this, and suddenly laughed,

"Good, perhaps it is that simple."

Yes, it has been almost five hundred years since he met Zhu Zhongba. Mortals have long turned into dry bones, and even the lineage he designated has changed. Why is he still entangled in these things?

"Forget it. However, the mistakes made by your ancestors are ultimately for you descendants to clean up. The few juniors above, go and cut off the connection between the Central Capital dragon vein and this place. You two release your blood, and wait for this deity to dissolve this magic net."

However, after Jin Mingzi finished speaking, Cheng Xinzhan and the others didn't move and just lowered their heads without speaking.

Jin Mingzi laughed in anger upon seeing this and said,

"None of you are old, but you are quite cunning. Good, let me show you the means of this deity!"

After saying that, Jin Mingzi grabbed the fire net in front of him and pulled it hard.

"Boom—"

Suddenly the earth shook, and the mountain rocks on the karst cave fell like rain, stirring up a cloud of dust.

"Senior, wait a moment! We will go immediately!"

Someone shouted in the tunnel above. Cheng Xinzhan heard it as Sun Miaoshu's voice. While speaking, the voice had already gone far away.

"Hmph, believe it now? Still think this deity is a demon trapped here and unable to get out?"

Jin Mingzi looked at the two.

The two shook their heads repeatedly, saying they didn't dare.

"Each of you take two liang of heart blood."

Zhu Jianmo nodded this time, circulated his heart blood to his fingertips along the meridians, and at the same time, he used his hand as a knife to cut his fingertips. The bright red blood flowed out immediately, which he caught with magic power and formed into a ball in the void.

Cheng Xinzhan said: "Senior, my flesh has ailments, and I am traveling with a spiritual body, so I have no blood to use."

"No matter, no matter, I will release some more. Four liang of blood, it won't kill anyone."

Zhu Jianmo said repeatedly.

Jin Mingzi looked at Cheng Xinzhan and shook his head,

"You still don't understand what I said just now about the essence, Qi, and spirit being one. You have no essence blood, but do you have no magic power in your heart mansion?"

Cheng Xinzhan realized something, his thoughts moved, and the magic power mixed with the Sun Bing Fire and the Samadhi True Fire in his heart mansion surged out.

"Enough."

Jin Mingzi said, and held the magic power he released from his body with a means that Cheng Xinzhan could not understand,

"In your heart mansion magic power, besides the national fortune fire of Zhu Ming, there is also the taste of air fire and human fire."

Cheng Xinzhan replied: "I was lucky to have some opportunities."

"However, although your bloodline is closer to Zhu Zhongba, the national fortune fire contained in it is very weak. It seems that the one sitting on the dragon throne is indeed far from your lineage."

"This has nothing to do with me."

Cheng Xinzhan replied. Before this, he hadn't even heard of any national fortune fire. But what good could it be for a practitioner to have national fortune fire? He would have to find a way to pull out this fire intent later.

Jin Mingzi didn't say anything more, grabbed the two people's essence blood and magic power in the air, and then waved it hard, sprinkling a piece of blood mist.

The blood mist fell on the fire net, and the fire on the fire net went out immediately, revealing the original color of the fire net. It was golden, like a rope, and like light condensed. The four sides of the net went deep into the karst cave and were connected to the Central Capital dragon vein.

"Wait for those few kids to cut off the connection between the Central Capital dragon vein and this place, and the net will dissipate by itself."

Jin Mingzi said. Cheng Xinzhan and Zhu Jianmo could only hope that those four would be fast. They didn't know what good methods they could have in a hurry, but it was impossible to directly crack the earth and destroy the city. That would carry a great cause and effect.

In the gap of waiting, Jin Mingzi said again,

"Let's assume what you said is true, let's assume Zhu Zhongba didn't break his promise. This deity made an agreement with him back then that when I wake up, I will do one thing for his descendants. But now, doing things is exempted. Even if he didn't break his promise, it was because he didn't teach his descendants well. However, you two are his descendants and helped me get out of trouble today. I will allow you two to ask one question each. As long as this deity can answer, I will know everything. You can ask now, but remember, you can only ask one question each."

Cheng Xinzhan and Zhu Jianmo were unexpectedly happy upon hearing this. This was a figure who was an immortal for two lives and of the same generation as the ancestor! In terms of knowledge and techniques, it could be said to cover the world.

Zhu Jianmo wanted to ask, but Cheng Xinzhan suddenly interrupted him,

"Senior, why not wait for my fellow Daoists to return before asking? It will save them from doing things poorly and wasting Senior's energy."

Zhu Jianmo reacted immediately and agreed.

Jin Mingzi was a figure of what kind, and saw through Cheng Xinzhan's little thoughts at a glance: "This deity doesn't have that much time. Ask quickly. You can tell them the answers, and you can also tell the disciples of the Immortal. Also, about the origin of this deity, I haven't seen living people for a long time, so I told you a lot. The current sect master of your Mount Sanqing should know about these things. He should know the measure and should not spread them."

The two agreed.

Cheng Xinzhan signaled Zhu Jianmo to ask first.

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Zhu Jianmo thought for a while and said,

"Senior, is there really a Golden Immortal in this world? Is our ancestor a Golden Immortal?"

Cheng Xinzhan didn't expect Zhu Jianmo to ask this question and pricked up his ears.

Jin Mingzi replied,

"These are two questions. However, regarding the Immortal, this deity will say what I have to say. Of course, there are Golden Immortals in the world. However, there are none in the Heavenly Realm now. After I ascended, I didn't find the Immortal in the Heavenly Realm, and I don't know if he has become a Golden Immortal."

This was an unexpected answer. A short sentence made the two silent for a long time. What did it mean that there were none in the Heavenly Realm now? Where did the ancestor go?

"That kid, it's your turn. Remember, only one question."

Cheng Xinzhan thought seriously and asked:

"Senior, you attained the Dao as a Jin Horned Qilin and became a Golden Corpse in your second life. This junior wants to practice the Metal Element. May I ask, what is Golden Nature?"

"What is Golden Nature?"

Jin Mingzi repeated it.

Cheng Xinzhan nodded.

Jin Mingzi was silent for a while, as if answering this question was much harder than the previous one.

"Good question."

Jin Mingzi said, and was silent again. He was also thinking seriously.

After a long while, he said slowly:

"My clan calls itself Jin Horned Qilin. People in the world think it means my clan's scales and horns are towering, indestructible, and invincible. Actually, it's not. Look, wasn't this deity killed in the first life? Scales shattered, horns broken, and even the blood flowed dry."

"My clan is called Jin Horned Qilin just because my clan's bones are hard, taking the meaning of indomitable and true gold in fire. Heh, that group of people in heaven wanted to subdue me, but didn't know that this deity's bones are harder than the immortal artifacts in their hands!"

"As for what Golden Nature is, this deity dare not speak rashly. Golden Core is the beginning of cultivation, and Golden Immortal is the beginning of longevity. Who dares to say they have penetrated Golden Nature?"

"If I only speak one family's words, this deity feels that Golden Nature can never be just something like being sharp and strong. Golden Nature is immortality."

"Immortality?"

Cheng Xinzhan chewed on these three words.

"Not bad. Those people cut off this deity's flesh and destroyed this deity's primordial spirit. So what? As long as there is a thought, or rather, as long as that strand of Golden Nature has been cultivated in the world, this deity can still prove the Dao with the corpse and kill back to heaven! In this life, this deity is stronger than the previous life!"

"Even if they shatter this corpse again, relying on this Golden Nature, can't this deity live out a third life? Living out ten lives, who wouldn't call me a Golden Immortal!?"

At this moment, Jin Mingzi was high-spirited and sharp.

Cheng Xinzhan listened very carefully and remembered every word of Jin Mingzi, and Zhu Jianmo also had a sudden realization.

Just as Jin Mingzi finished speaking about Golden Nature, the three heard a loud noise from the northeast corner, and the earth shook gently.

And the light net covering Jin Mingzi's head gradually dissipated. It seemed they had also succeeded.

Jin Mingzi laughed,

"Little ones, it has been more than fourteen hundred years since this deity fell into the Northwest, and I have spent twelve hundred years in the earth cave. I have tasted both yin fire and yang fire, but they are nothing more than that!"

"Today, this deity will ascend again in the realm of the Corpse Immortal! Those few in heaven, don't die too early!"

Jin Mingzi laughed, released infinite light from his body, and flew straight to the sky.

"Boom—"

With the imperial tomb wall as the boundary, the land inside began to collapse, and the land outside was not damaged at all.

A group of dazzling golden light flew out from the depths of the imperial tomb and went straight into the clouds.

And Cheng Xinzhan and Zhu Jianmo also flew out of the earth cave with Jin Mingzi before the earth collapsed. Only after coming out of the ground did they find that it was sunrise outside, and the brilliant golden light shone on the earth. In the sunlight, the golden light transformed by Jin Mingzi was even more difficult to look at directly.

For a time, two suns appeared in the east and the middle of the sky, shining together.

Cheng Xinzhan forced himself to open his eyes wide, and Zhu Jianmo beside him was the same. This was an ascension!

Cheng Xinzhan saw that in the group of golden light, Senior Jin Mingzi seemed to have transformed into the body of a Horned Qilin again. The Horned Qilin corpse, covered in wounds, came alive, bathing in the golden light, stepping on the void, running, and striving toward the sky.

"Boom!"

After the earth collapsed, thunder was heard again.

It was clearly sunny, but only in the direction where the Jin Horned Qilin rose did thunder clouds appear.

Silver-purple thunder poured down, pouring on the Jin Horned Qilin like water.

"This deity treats earth fire as nothing, so what is there to fear from heavenly thunder?!"

The Jin Horned Qilin shouted arrogantly. The thunder falling on his head did not stop his body for a moment. He was still running in the void, running, and actually came to a higher place than the thunder clouds.

"The thorn head is buried in rotten grass since childhood, and now it gradually feels like looking down at the mugwort. People of the time do not recognize the towering tree, and only when it reaches the clouds do they say it is high!"

Jin Mingzi recited a poem in front of the whole world and stepped into the Heavenly Realm with laughter.

Cheng Xinzhan watched infatuatedly. The Horned Qilin's scales and horns, the Horned Qilin's body, the Horned Qilin running in the thunder and fire, were all imprinted in his mind. At the same time, echoing in his mind was that sentence,

"Golden Nature is immortality."

At this moment, he visualized a corpse of a Jin Horned Qilin, an immortal corpse.

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