Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134
Chapter 135
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142
Chapter 143
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152
Chapter 153
Chapter 154
Chapter 155
Chapter 156
Chapter 157
Chapter 158
Chapter 159
Chapter 160
Chapter 161
Chapter 162
Chapter 163
Chapter 164
Chapter 165
Chapter 166
Chapter 167
Chapter 168
Chapter 169
Chapter 170
Chapter 171
Chapter 172
Chapter 173
Chapter 174
Chapter 175
Chapter 176
Chapter 177
Chapter 178
Chapter 179
Chapter 180
Chapter 181
Chapter 182
Chapter 183
Chapter 184
Chapter 185
Chapter 186
Chapter 187
Chapter 188
Chapter 189
Chapter 190
Chapter 191
Chapter 192
Chapter 193
Chapter 194
Chapter 195
Chapter 196
Chapter 197
Chapter 198
Chapter 199
Chapter 200
Chapter 201
Chapter 202
Chapter 203
Chapter 204
Chapter 205
Chapter 206
Chapter 207
Chapter 208
Chapter 209
Chapter 210
Chapter 211
Chapter 212
Chapter 213
Chapter 214
Chapter 215
Chapter 216
Chapter 217
Chapter 218
Chapter 219
Chapter 220
Chapter 221
Chapter 222
Chapter 223
Chapter 224
Chapter 225
Chapter 226
Chapter 227
Chapter 228
Chapter 229
Chapter 230
Chapter 231
Chapter 232
Chapter 233
Chapter 234
Chapter 235
Chapter 236
Chapter 237
Chapter 238
Chapter 239
Chapter 240
Chapter 241
Chapter 242
Chapter 243
Chapter 244
Chapter 245
Chapter 246
Chapter 247
Chapter 248
Chapter 249
Chapter 250
Chapter 251
Chapter 252
Chapter 253
Chapter 254
Chapter 255
Chapter 256
Chapter 257
Chapter 258
Chapter 259
Chapter 260
Chapter 261
Chapter 262
Chapter 263
Chapter 264
Chapter 265
Chapter 266
Chapter 267
Chapter 268
Chapter 269
Chapter 270
Chapter 271
Chapter 272
Chapter 273
Chapter 274
Chapter 275
Chapter 276
Chapter 277
Chapter 278
Chapter 279
Chapter 280
Chapter 281
Chapter 282
Chapter 283
Chapter 284
Chapter 285
Chapter 286
Chapter 287
Chapter 288
Chapter 289
Chapter 290
Chapter 291
Chapter 292
Chapter 293
Chapter 294
Chapter 295
Chapter 296
Chapter 297
Chapter 298
Chapter 299
Chapter 300
Chapter 301
Chapter 302
Chapter 303
Chapter 304
Chapter 305
Chapter 306
Chapter 307
Chapter 308
Chapter 309
Chapter 310
Chapter 311
Chapter 312
Chapter 313
Chapter 314
Chapter 315
Chapter 316
Chapter 317
Chapter 318
Chapter 319
Chapter 320
Chapter 321
Chapter 322
Chapter 323
Chapter 324
Chapter 325
Chapter 326
Chapter 327
Chapter 328
Chapter 329
Chapter 330
Chapter 331
Chapter 332
Chapter 333
Chapter 334
Chapter 335
Chapter 336
Chapter 337
Chapter 338
Chapter 339
Chapter 340
Chapter 341
Chapter 342
Chapter 343
Chapter 344
Chapter 345
Chapter 346
Chapter 347
Chapter 348
Chapter 349
Chapter 350
Chapter 351
Chapter 352
Chapter 353
Chapter 354
Chapter 355
Chapter 356
Chapter 357
Chapter 358
Chapter 359
Chapter 360
Chapter 361
Chapter 362
Chapter 363
Chapter 364
Chapter 365
Chapter 366
Chapter 367
Chapter 368
Chapter 369
Chapter 370
Chapter 371
Chapter 372
Chapter 373
Chapter 374
Chapter 375
Chapter 376
Chapter 377
Chapter 378
Chapter 379
Chapter 380
Chapter 381
Chapter 382
Chapter 383
Chapter 384
Chapter 385
Chapter 386
Chapter 387
Chapter 388
Chapter 389
Chapter 390
Chapter 391
Chapter 392
Chapter 393
Chapter 394
Chapter 395
Chapter 396
Chapter 397
Chapter 398
Chapter 399
Chapter 400
Chapter 401
Chapter 402
Chapter 403
Chapter 404
Chapter 405
Chapter 406
Chapter 407
Chapter 408
Chapter 409
Chapter 410
Chapter 411
Chapter 412
Chapter 413
Chapter 414
Chapter 415
Chapter 416
Chapter 417
Chapter 418
Chapter 419
Chapter 420
Chapter 421
Chapter 422
Chapter 423
Chapter 424
Chapter 425
Chapter 426
Chapter 427
Chapter 428
Chapter 429
Chapter 430
Chapter 431
Chapter 432
Chapter 433
Chapter 434
Chapter 435
Chapter 436
Chapter 437
Chapter 438
Chapter 439
Chapter 440
Chapter 441
Chapter 442
Chapter 443
Chapter 444
Chapter 445
Chapter 446
Chapter 447
Chapter 448
Chapter 449
Chapter 450
Chapter 451
Chapter 452
Chapter 453
Chapter 454
Chapter 455
Chapter 456
Chapter 457
Chapter 458
Chapter 459
Chapter 460
Chapter 461
Chapter 462
Chapter 463
Chapter 464
Chapter 465
Chapter 466
Chapter 467
Chapter 468
Chapter 469
Chapter 470
Chapter 471
Chapter 472
Chapter 473
Chapter 474
Chapter 475
Chapter 476
Chapter 477
Chapter 478
Chapter 479
Chapter 480
Chapter 481
Chapter 482
Chapter 483
Chapter 484
Chapter 485
Chapter 486
Chapter 487
Chapter 488
Chapter 489
Chapter 490
Chapter 491
Chapter 492
Chapter 493
Chapter 494
Chapter 495
Chapter 496
Chapter 497
Chapter 498
Chapter 499
Chapter 500
Chapter 501
Chapter 502
Chapter 503
Chapter 504
Chapter 505
Chapter 506
Chapter 507
Chapter 508
Chapter 509
Chapter 510
Chapter 511
Chapter 512
Chapter 513
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369 Centralized authority
After the Imperial Army became stronger, it would obviously help the Imperial court strengthen its centralized authority.
He would take back the local powers in Pingzhou and Jizhou and grant them various privileges. He would also strengthen the authority of the local authorities and let them manage the local affairs. For example, he would reduce the number of private revenge and private trials within the local powers. This would effectively reduce the control that small sects, families, and powers had over their members. Strengthen the investigation of local resources and industries to ensure tax revenue; All major forces had to hand in a list of personnel in preparation for recruitment.
These rights corresponded to law, finance, and human rights.
Of course, these changes were not carried out in one go. They were done bit by bit.
For example, the first thing he did was to check the industry. This matter was because the Imperial court was facing financial difficulties at the time.
In the past, the Imperial court of Great Yan had tried to do this, but they had faced great resistance. How could the various local powers so easily accept the Imperial court having control over their Mingmen?
Of course, the Imperial court had a deep control over them. In some sense, the Imperial court was them. Most of the officials in the Imperial Court System came from these local forces. It was quite like the Emperor and the scholars ruled the world together.
On one hand, these local forces would resist. On the other hand, he also had the intention of letting the Imperial court change its own life.
This was the internal resistance of the Imperial court.
The Lu clan dynasty did not have much of a problem in this aspect. Their Foundation was not like the Li Dynasty’s, which was built on the Imperial court. Instead, it came from the North. Moreover, after the previous great catastrophe, the Imperial court had been cleansed from top to bottom. There was some internal resistance, but it was not that great.
After the internal resistance had decreased, those local forces were unlikely to rebel openly. The faceless society’s destruction had also reduced his underhanded methods to insignificant ones.
However, there was another problem on this matter, and that was the external resistance. Yunxiao sect.
Of course, these small clans and sects were more inclined to maintain their independence in Great Yan’s system. Yunxiao sect supported this to a certain extent.
There weren’t too many considerations in terms of interests, but the most important thing was human relationships. All the factions liked to send their talented juniors into Yunxiao sect. They also worked together and often provided benefits to some of the high-level cultivators in Yunxiao sect. Just looking at the relationship of a single sect in Yunxiao sect, it might not be that strong. However, when their numbers reached a certain level, they would gather together to speak up, and it would always cause many high-level cultivators in Yunxiao sect to have some reaction.
In the past, every time the central court had the idea of centralized power and harmed the interests of the local forces, they would always look for people from the same sect or some familiar faces in Yunxiao sect to help speak for them. In the end, Yunxiao sect formed pressure on the Imperial court and obstructed the advancement of centralization.
Objectively speaking, this was also weakening the Imperial court, which was also beneficial to Yunxiao sect.
However, in the past ten years, Lu chaoxi had already resolved a large portion of the financial power. This was taken advantage of the financial difficulties of the Imperial court after the war, and they could not even maintain the tribute to Yunxiao sect.
The Lu family had just taken over and maintained a honeymoon period with Yunxiao sect. Even now, they were still in the honeymoon period. After all, no matter what, the Lu family had helped Yunxiao sect a great deal back then. At the same time, they had been rather obedient ever since they became the Emperor.
During that period of time, to solve the financial problems of the Imperial court, the businesses of the various local powers were investigated and the tax limit was set. This also revealed a lot of industries that had been hidden and avoided taxes in the past.
And since these things were already in his hands, even if the court’s financial situation eased later on, he would not have any thoughts of returning them.
The local powers did not have Yunxiao sect to speak up for them anymore, so there was much less room for resistance.
However, it was impossible for the Imperial court to not raise any objections if they wanted to go further and take back the law-enforcement and human affairs powers, disintegrate the local forces ‘control over the cultivators under them, and make it easier for the Imperial court to mobilize more manpower.
Furthermore, the Lu clan also lacked a reason that could convince Yunxiao sect on this point, like when they took back their assets.
At that time, he took back the financial power to solve the financial difficulties of the court and to better provide for the sect. Then what was the point of taking back the law-enforcement power and making those local forces hand in the list of people?
To put it bluntly, it was indeed quite difficult for the Lu dynasty to push forward this matter.
However, one thing to note was that Yunxiao sect’s opposition was not in the name of the sect to oppose the Imperial court’s direct implementation of this series of policies. Their form of objection was to send a letter to the Imperial court in the name of a certain high-level cultivator from Yunxiao sect to plead for mercy or to inquire about the matter. The Imperial court couldn’t force it, so they could only let it go for now.
Lu chaoxi was actually very unhappy about this.
Not to mention the identity of the Emperor, even if it was an ordinary person who was doing things normally, it was impossible for them to feel much satisfaction in their hearts when they were being pointed at and ordered around like this.
But what could he do? He couldn’t fall out with her, and he couldn’t resist her either. He had to continue doing things.
He could only pinch his nose, let some go first, and then speed up the processing of some. As for those who were let off, it wasn’t as simple as just letting them go. They could exert pressure on them from other directions. For example, making their business difficult, or the government finding fault with them from other angles.
To Lu Qing, he was only paying attention to this matter through listening to reports and other similar methods. His consciousness did not go there.
His son had handled the matter well. He just had to take it one step at a time. Lu Qing thought about it. Even if he were to interfere personally, it would be difficult for him to have any significant impact on the overall situation.
Moreover, he had his own matters to attend to.
In the past, the creation book and the rising stars technique were only four-star cultivation techniques. However, after he had merged them with the immemorial cultivation techniques, they were two shortcomings. He had broken through to the nascent soul realm only after obtaining the five-star White Saint Sword manual. These two cultivation techniques were originally weak points. After they were upgraded to five-star, Lu Qing’s cultivation speed was much faster than before.
Only a few years had passed, and his nascent soul state level three cultivation showed signs of improving.
Next time, when he could cultivate outside the starry sky or enter the spirit gathering temple, he might not just break through to nascent soul state level four. Perhaps, at that time, it would not be impossible for him to rush to a higher level in one go.
As for the few juniors from the other families, they had also made further progress in their cultivation.
Ming Chao and chaoxi had both reached the mid-stage golden core realm and became fourth-level golden core cultivators. Yan Ling was at the fifth-stage golden core realm. Chaohe was slightly worse off. He was still at the second-stage golden core realm.
Although Ming Chao, chaoxi, and Yan Ling stayed in the capital of Yan for a long time, they would return to Yuyan mountain at certain times. He couldn’t give up the experience of exchanging one year for ten years of cultivation in spirit gathering temple.
However, compared to the four who had already entered the Golden core stage, the ones who grew the fastest in the family were the two little guys of the Wen generation.
Wenen was still lacking a little, but Weiwen had already reached the ninth level of the initial enlightenment stage and was ready to break through to the Golden core stage.
She did not have an external elixir to use. Even so, Lu Qing was still very confident in her.
The materials she needed to break through to the Golden core stage had been luxuriously prepared by her family. Just the cost of the materials alone had reached more than 150000. If the various levels of alchemists, blacksmiths, and array Masters were included in the arrangement, the cost would probably be even higher.
Of course, for an ordinary cultivator, it would be very difficult to complete the breakthrough without the help of an external elixir. But to her, this was not a big problem.
He had the Golden heaven spirit root, the gold virtue spirit body, and the indestructible sword body that had been upgraded once, which was more compatible with the metal attribute. The talent bonus that she could have obtained before entering the solo queue had been fully pulled. Under normal circumstances, it was hard to imagine what other Ways and Means could be used to obtain a more powerful talent than Weiwen’s current one before reaching the Golden core stage.
By relying on these, she did not need an external elixir. She could obtain a very high probability of breaking through by directly relying on those relatively more conventional preparations.
Moreover, Lu Qing had prepared a rare four-star item for her to break through the bottleneck.
In reality, Lu Qing had been planning to do one thing recently: The exploration of the underground Spirit River in the spirit Lake vein.
The underground Spirit River had been discovered a long time ago. In the beginning, there was a Lake where water ghosts occupied. Lu Qing found a Yin-essence water Jade and an underground Spirit River that was full of spirit Qi. He connected the river to the surface and led water out, forming a Spirit Lake vein.
It was a land of treasure.
Without the yin-essence water Jade, it would not have been so smooth for mingchao to achieve Qiming. As a level-three water spirit vein, the spirit Lake vein had been of great help to the Lu family when they had just started to rise. Although this place was not the key to the Lu family’s rise, it was a place that provided a lot of help.
Furthermore, when Lu Qing first explored the underground Spirit River, he could clearly sense that the end of the spirit River would not be as simple as it seemed. At that time, due to the time constraints when he left his body, and the speed of his flight was not fast enough, he did not explore the end of the spirit River. However, the concentration of spiritual Qi in the part she explored had already reached the level of the fourth tier.
However, it was also because of this that Lu Qing did not continue to explore.
On one hand, the Family Matters that would come one after another were all very important. Even when he was free, Lu Qing’s attention would be placed on his own cultivation.
In addition, there was another very important point. This was his first time exploring the underground Spirit River. He had only walked halfway, but he could already feel the concentration of spirit Qi. It had already reached the level of a level four spirit vein. One could only imagine that at the end, the strength would increase even more.
There might be some important secrets hidden there, and there might be great benefits, but at the same time, opportunities were accompanied by risks. The level of danger there would probably not be too low.
In the past, the Lu family was not as powerful as it was now. Even if he explored in his consciousness form and found something, it would not be easy for the Lu family to develop it and turn it into something that he could use.
However, the time was now very ripe.
Lu Weiwen was about to break through to the Golden core stage. However, she needed some preparation time before that. Lu Qing planned to take advantage of this time to explore the area. And later on, if Weiwen could reach Jindan, perhaps she could help with this matter.
Since he had decided, he would do it.
The spirit Lake vein was no longer of any special help to the Lu family. However, the spiritual Qi there was special, and it was very suitable for cultivators with water spiritual roots to cultivate in. At the same time, it was also suitable for some water element spirit herbs to be planted there. Therefore, the Lu family had some businesses there, and some of their clansmen cultivated there.
This made things much more convenient for Lu Qing.
He immediately activated the experiential learning mode and locked onto a family cultivator in the spirit Lake vein. He directly teleported over and quickly found the entrance to the underground Spirit River and entered it.
The spirit River flowed from low to high. Lu Qing followed the direction of the spirit river’s flow and went against it.
His current flying speed in his consciousness form was much faster than before. It didn’t take long for him to surpass the position he had given up on exploring back then.
Lu Qing did not stop. He continued to fly into the distance.
But soon, he felt that the time he had left his body had come to an end.
He was not in a hurry to spend karma to replenish the time he had left his body. He first opened the map function in the system interface and took a look. He found the location of the nearest family member, which was not far away, so he teleported there directly in the experiential learning mode. After replenishing the time he had left his body for nothing, he continued to burrow underground, found the location of the underground river, and continued to go against the current.
He could save a lot of karma by doing so.
Although Lu Qing had a lot of karma now, the price of replenishing the time he spent outside his body would become very expensive in the future after it was doubled many times.
Who knew how long this underground river was? This time, since Lu Qing had made up his mind to explore, he did not want to give up halfway.
Of course, there were times when he could not find his family members nearby. In that case, there was nothing he could do. He could only spend karma to replenish the time he had left his body before continuing to fly.
Just like that, after spending quite some time, Lu Qing headed east. He actually arrived at Dong Hai County, which was located near the sea.
This underground river was actually from the sea?
“I didn’t expect this.”
Lu Qing’s curiosity grew.
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