Chapter 213

In the Liyuan Palace, Liu Luogu opened his eyes. All the tendons and meridians in his body had been shattered by that sound of thunder, and now he had not even a bit of strength to resist.

A golden boy the size of a watermelon hopped and skipped to behind him, tying him up with a pale yellow silk ribbon. Even though Liu Luogu had been captured, he still remained calm, using his mind to observe his surroundings. He only looked twice at the shark pearls used for lighting, the gold and silver utensils with spiritual light, and the carved beams and painted rafters, and he judged where he was.

"This is the Liyuan Palace!"

The shark pearls overhead were tribute from the Nanhai Kingdom, capable of drawing in the essence of the moon and the sun and turning it into bright light. Compared to the ordinary shark pearls and night-luminescent pearls on the market, they were far superior.

The Nanhai Kingdom had offered tribute three times, and only the one twenty-four years ago had such quality.

And those shark pearls offered as tribute, totaling more than three hundred and sixty, were all used in the decoration of the Great Ming Palace, the East Palace, the Xingqing Palace, and the Liyuan Palace.

And those gold and silver utensils were even more forbidden items in the palace. According to the Tang Code, only those of the first rank or above could use gold and jade items forbidden by the method of receiving dew and sun essence, and only those of the sixth rank or above could use silver items forbidden by the method of receiving dew and moon essence.

Gold and silver utensils were not as good as spiritual jade utensils in terms of spiritual qi, but they had one advantage.

That was that gold utensils were close to the sun's essence, and silver utensils could gather the moon's essence.

The Former Han had the Dew-Receiving Terrace, using ten-thousand-year spiritual fragrant cypress as the hall beams and clear spiritual stones as the terrace foundation, gathering the earth qi of the Chang'an dragon vein. They also used sun gold essence, bright moon frost silver, and purple haze copper essence to cast a golden stem thirty zhang high, on top of which was an immortal sculpted from jade essence, holding a copper plate and jade cup to receive the dew of the nine heavens and the essence of the sun and moon—this was the Dew-Receiving Plate.

The Dew-Receiving Plate was cast from sun gold essence, moon silver essence, and Shoushan red copper; it was a golden, silver, and copper three-layered round plate like the sun's wheel, and it was also a spiritual treasure.

The Dew-Receiving Terrace gathered the earth qi of the dragon vein that led the nine provinces of Chang'an, nourishing the clear spiritual stones and being nourished by the fragrance of the ten-thousand-year spiritual cypress, thus producing earth vein spiritual milk.

The jade essence produced in the capital under the Emperor, Western Kunlun, could condense the spiritual dew of the nine heavens.

And the spiritual treasure Dew-Receiving Plate could gather the essence of the sun and moon, condensing sun-flare flowing pulp.

The sun's flare-eating, emperor-moon flowing pulp, were all the top-tier external medicines of heaven and earth's creation. The golden stem extracted the earth vein spiritual milk condensed by the Dew-Receiving Terrace, and the immortal sculpted from jade essence dripped the spiritual dew of the nine heavens.

The milky-white earth milk and the pure blue heavenly dew, mixed with the sun's flare-eating and emperor-moon flowing pulp, were refined by heaven and earth in the acquired spiritual treasure Dew-Receiving Plate, thus turning into immortal dew, distinct grain by grain in the plate, like spiritual pearls. It was a spiritual medicine equivalent to the Third-Turn Golden Pill refined by Qian Chen.

A single drop of immortal dew could give a person the opportunity to achieve a Supreme Core Formation.

It was even more of heaven and earth's creation, without any impurities; even a Primordial Spirit True Immortal could use it for cultivation. The Immortal Han Dew-Receiving Terrace condensed a shallow plate of immortal dew every day, four hundred and ninety drops, which was used for the cultivation of the Immortal Han Martial Emperor and the immortals in the court.

Whenever it was a day of heaven and earth's beauty in the Divine Land Earth Immortal Realm, such as the Mid-Autumn Festival or New Year's Day, the Dew-Receiving Terrace could conceive a full plate of immortal dew, surpassing Qian Chen's entire current net worth.

It was during the great catastrophe at the end of the Han Dynasty that the Dew-Receiving Terrace collapsed and the spiritual treasure Dew-Receiving Plate went missing; otherwise, in the eyes of the people of the Immortal Han, the primordial energy pill path of the Supreme Dao would be just so-so! Speaking of which, the spiritual treasure Dew-Receiving Plate was the world's top-tier primordial energy pill furnace; it did not need people to refine pills, but used heaven and earth's nature and the rotation of the sun and moon as the pill master to conceive immortal dew.

Don't look at Qian Chen's own body, the Supreme Dao Dust Bead, the inherited treasure of the Louguan Dao, which has a great reputation.

In reality, if the Supreme Dao Dust Bead and the Immortal Dew-Receiving Plate were placed together, even without the nourishment of the Dew-Receiving Terrace, 99.9% of the cultivators in the world would choose the latter. After all, during the Immortal Han Dynasty, the Immortal Dew-Receiving Plate did not know how many Primordial Spirit True Immortals it had created.

At this time, the sun was setting, and a bright moon vaguely appeared in the sky.

In the palace, in the gold utensils refined with the method of receiving dew and sun essence, a shallow layer of dew appeared. Under the shark pearls, the spiritual dew floated with a layer of faint golden light.

At this time, it should be when the palace maids in the palace collected the dew accumulated in the gold utensils.

Liu Luogu also noticed the clothing and attire of the two maids, and only then confirmed that this was the Liyuan Palace.

While waiting for Zhong Kui to come, Qian Chen was checking the injuries of the woman rescued by Baili Xi.

A large yellow chicken wandered in from outside the door. Smelling the scent of the sun essence, it flew to the table where the gold utensils with sun essence forbidden methods were placed, lowering its head to peck at the sun dew inside.

Ning Qingchen hurriedly hugged it up, whispering: "Don't be naughty... these are all counted! Don't make it difficult for the two sisters..."

The two Liyuan palace maids heard this, looked up, and smiled faintly at Ning Qingchen.

The palace maid who had collected the sun dew turned around and brought over a jade bottle, carefully pouring out the moon dew stored inside.

The silver moon dew and the golden sun dew mixed, turning into spiritual dew like colorless clear water.

In the entire palace, the shark pearls drew in a huge amount of sun and moon essence, condensing a bottle of spiritual dew the size of the jade clean bottle in Guanyin's hand every day.

The two palace maids divided the spiritual dew into several cups and thoughtfully placed them beside the few people.

Sima Chengzhen was not polite at all, raised a teacup, and gulped down a mouthful, smacking his lips and saying: "What's wrong with drinking a little of his Li family's water? I've been running around for Chang'an, almost ruining my Yin Spirit; is it possible that I can't even drink his family's water?"

He carefully glanced at Qian Chen, and finding that Qian Chen had no reaction, he continued generously:

"Everyone don't mind, just treat it like you're at your own home!"

Si Qingguo glanced at him with a strange expression, not knowing whether she should feel angry or ashamed. She calmed her heart, threw away those unnecessary karmas, and felt in her heart that she still felt more ashamed.

After all, she was not a member of the Li family, yet she was a relative of the same surname as this shameless person.

What made her most angry was that she couldn't understand how this Orthodox Dao could produce such a weak and shameful Zhang Tian Shi? Compared to the majesty and dominance of her father, the Zhang Tian Shi Tao, it was truly heaven and earth.

Li Guinian, beside her, said expressionlessly: "Count it from my share!"

Sima Chengzhen laughed: "Your share, what share do you have? If it weren't for us today, by the time Chang'an falls, these things..."

He slapped the table, and the spiritual spring gold cups and silver plates all jumped.

The palace maid who was pouring water for Qian Chen rolled her eyes at him very impolitely...

Sima Chengzhen only looked at Li Guinian, angrily saying: "These gold and silver magic tools, beautiful jade and brocade, are all for the enjoyment of the rebel army in the border commandery, the Heavenly Demon An Lushan. What inner treasury storage, what counted examples, after today, they won't have any meaning!"

"You, Li Guinian, if you don't die in the demonic catastrophe, you can only wander the world, become a wild, idle person, a down-and-out musician. Spend the rest of your life missing the prosperity of Chang'an!"

His words were very impolite, clearly angry that Li Guinian had refused to help earlier.

Li Guinian remained silent.

And at this moment, Feng Shi had already broken free from Ning Qingchen's embrace, triumphantly using the spiritual dew, combined with the Jade Food Pill, to eat a few grains. The warm and harmonious qi in the spiritual dew made the golden light in its eyes even thicker. Combining with the spiritual qi of the Jade Food Pill, its tender yellow feathers were plated with a layer of golden light, becoming increasingly golden and brilliant.

Qian Chen watched it skillfully lean over, with the gold and silver boys each holding a cup, sipping there, and always felt that something was missing.

Qian Chen looked back and thought, it turned out that the Ear-Dao God fellow was not snatching food.

"Without that fellow chattering in my ear, I really feel like something is missing!"

Thinking that the Ear-Dao God was still working hard painting for him at the Zhao Jinggong Temple, Qian Chen poured the remaining spiritual dew into a gourd. Although it wasn't anything good, if that little thing knew that the gold and silver boys and Feng Shi all had some, but it didn't, it would definitely make a fuss.

Qian Chen also conveniently brought a portion for it.

Feng Shi was even more excessive, already eyeing the gold and silver magic tools that conceived the spiritual dew. It found a gold cup, its eye for quality was not bad, finding the one with the highest level of forbidden methods, and directly bit it in its mouth, turning and sneaking into Ning Qingchen's embrace.

Ning Qingchen faced this large yellow chicken losing face online, becoming increasingly powerless.

Angry, she snatched away the gold cup and grabbed the large yellow chicken to watch over it by her side.

Sima Chengzhen's eyes lit up, and he laughed: "The things here are all on the treasury's register, and the grade is too low! After all, they are only for use in the palace. After the demonic catastrophe is broken tonight and things are settled, I will go to the inner treasury to find a better food basin for the chicken for you."

"I remember the palace gave An Lushan many good things. After the demonic catastrophe is over, I'll take them all away!"

Sima Chengzhen said indignantly: "I, a dignified Zhang Tian Shi of the Dao Sect, couldn't even sit on the True Talisman Treasure Carriage of the Su craftsmanship, yet the Emperor gave one to An Lushan. It caused my surprise attack to fail, and instead, I was calculated by An Lushan... this prodigal thing."

"Leaving them to him is a waste!" He turned to Qian Chen and said: "Daoist friend, don't you think so!"

Qian Chen was a bit stunned: "You ask me about this?"

Sima Chengzhen brought a trace of flattery and laughed: "Do you Daoist friends have anything you want to take away? As long as it's in the inner treasury, don't be polite with the Li family."

Si Qingguo thought for a while, but still couldn't swallow that breath, and said: "I want a set of ceremonial carriage frames! It can't be worse than this one!"

Yan Shu tilted his head: "Just prepare some good wine and sword-refining materials for me."

Ning Qingchen was a bit shy, whispering: "This isn't good, right!"

Qian Chen was generous with the Li Tang inner treasury, laughing: "It's okay, I'm also prepared to take some spiritual materials and spiritual medicines. Even if these things aren't destroyed in the demonic catastrophe, they can be considered the remuneration of the Li Tang and the Xuan Emperor to us..."

"Consider it filial piety!"

Sima Chengzhen thought silently in his heart.

With this big shot's permission, he wouldn't have to worry about the people above the Li Tang! By then, the magic tools and treasures that the Li Tang had encroached upon from the Orthodox Dao for some special reasons when the Great Tang was founded would all be returned to him. And super doubled.

After experiencing this demonic catastrophe, he saw it clearly.

The Dao Sect still needs its own forces to monitor the world and guard against demonic catastrophes.

The Dao Academy still needs to be established; letting the imperial court mess around will only benefit the demonic path.

This time, I will take the opportunity of the big shot's past self's tacit approval to take advantage of the Li Tang! Take out the resources for the re-establishment of the Dao Academy!

Ning Qingchen gathered her courage to suppress her shyness, turned slightly and lowered her head, not daring to look directly at everyone. Her fingers were uncomfortably rubbing the corner of her clothes, whispering: "I just want a few magic tools to carry with me..."

This voice was as thin as a mosquito's.

Qian Chen shook his head and said: "Take more when the time comes... don't be polite, just take them hard. Prepare a portion for Ning Junior Sister according to the usage of Consort Taizhen."

Regarding the Xuan Emperor, Qian Chen was also a bit angry in his heart. If you can't balance things and play power politics, don't play hard. This time it collapsed. And I have to clean up the mess!

Sima Chengzhen was pleasantly surprised in his heart. With these words, how could he be polite with the inner treasury?

He hurriedly said: "I will respectfully follow the Saint's decree!"

Li Guinian, beside him, thought it was that "Like the Supreme Decree" magic seal that made Sima Chengzhen call him that. Listening to several high-ranking Daoist experts arranging the Great Tang's inner treasury like a group of bandits and robbers, his heart was also very complicated...