Chapter 5: Ancient Secrets
Bai Qi concentrated his mind and listened to the wet nurse saying: "At that time, Jiuzhou was one land, which was in response to the celestial phenomena. Kunlun Ruins were the core of Jiuzhou. Later, the demons and immortals fought in a melee and Jiuzhou was broken. The continent where the Great Jin Dynasty was located was Zhongzhou. Outside Zhongzhou, the ocean was surrounded by billions of miles, with Shenzhou in the southeast, Yangzhou in the east, Xianzhou in the northeast, Xuanzhou in the northwest, Zhuzhou in the northwest, Shizhou in the west, Rongzhou in the southwest, and Yingzhou in the south."
Bai Qi heard what the wet nurse said, but had never heard of it. He could not help but doubt in his heart, and deliberately showed a look of disbelief on his face.
The wet nurse ignored it and continued: "Besides Zhongzhou, there are many Qi refiners, and the country is different from Zhongzhou. They are all Qi refiners who control the country. Among them, Shenzhou is the most."
"What is Qi Refiner?" Bai Qi couldn't help asking.
"Then we have to talk about the history of Jiuzhou. In ancient times, Jiuzhou was unified and humans and immortals were mixed. The immortal world was connected with the human world. At that time, both the human race and the demon race could freely travel to the immortal world. The creatures were strong, and some of them could even be able to turn the rivers and the seas without even practicing."
The wet nurse told the story, Bai Qi was fascinated by the hearing and didn't ask any questions anymore.
"No one knows what happened later. He only knows the chaos in the world, the immortals fight, smash the Jiuzhou Continent, the divine trees disappear, and the immortal world is missing. After the split of Jiuzhou, the immortals who remained in Jiuzhou passed down the Taoist tradition because the immortal world was gone. All those who practice immortal arts are collectively called Qi Refiners, regardless of human race or demon race."
Speaking of this, a trace of mist appeared in the wet nurse's eyes. She lowered her voice and said, "But the Jiuzhou is divided, only Rongzhou is the demon clan is prosperous, and Xianzhou is the cohabited by the human race. The rest of the big states are already ruled by the human race."
"Later, the strong men among the Qi Refiners formed the Heavenly Court and wanted to learn from the immortal world to manage Jiuzhou. Unfortunately, the Qi Refiners of Jiuzhou divided their forces in the Heavenly Court, causing chaos. Later, the Heavenly Court was divided into many heavenly realms. For some reason, they no longer care about the affairs of these Jiuzhou."
"Someone knows about the things that are blocked by heaven and man, and the heavens since then. Before that, it was collectively called the ancient times. You are now considered a person in the world of cultivation. I will tell you the level of this Qi Refiner."
"The Qi Refiners in the world, no matter what skills they practice, are divided into four levels: refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and returning to emptiness. The difference between each level is only the upper, middle and lower level. This refining essence into qi is the so-called acquired and transforming into innate, which means that the acquired aura on your current level has become innate vitality."
Bai Qi smiled and said, "Then I am a Qi Refiner now?"
"It can't be counted yet. This level can only be called a real person. When entering and leaving the world, innate warriors are no longer opponents. They need to refine Qi and turn into God to be considered Qi Refining God and returning to the emptiness, that is to achieve the golden elixir. If they are still empty and connected to the Tao, they are still immortals."
"My grandma, are you an immortal?" Bai Qi asked naturally, but the wet nurse smiled and said, "Qi'er, are you trying to ask, if your father has any disaster, I might help me?"
Bai Qi lowered his head and said, "You can't bother my mother, Qier can also help his father."
"Haha, you can't even be considered a Qi Refiner. If you encounter an ordinary army, you may not be able to protect yourself. What's more, the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty is now full of dangers, and many sects have sneaked in."
Seeing Bai Qi's appearance a little depressed, the wet nurse said: "I just formed a golden elixir. I'm afraid it won't work if I want to turn the world in the capital. However, the warrior of the first-class innate level of the Duke of the Kingdom is almost invincible under the golden elixir. If you go to the next level, even Ah Niang is not an opponent. Qier, if you practice Taoism, you can protect yourself."
"Qi'er understands."
"Well, you are fifteen years old. In another half a year, you will be crowned [Note 1]. Although your teacher is not a corrupt scholar, he has not yet cultivated the righteous spirit. I will call you the word "王机" and "王机" Qingming. "The Taoist Sutra" has a sentence that starts from the Beihai and ends from Qingming. If you can practice to the point of refining qi and turning into gods in the future, you can call yourself the Taoist Qingming."
Bai Qi nodded and said yes, and the wet nurse said, "You should not interfere in the affairs of the Duke. What you do on weekdays is good. When you enter the capital, you just think that you are a playboy, go out to fight cocks and dogs, and concentrate on practicing at home."
Bai Qi refused to nod this time, but asked, "Mom, what disaster does my father have?"
The wet nurse pondered for a moment and replied, "This starts with the establishment of the Great Jin Dynasty. The former dynasty, the Great Qin Dynasty, lasted for six thousand years. Do you know why it was defeated?"
"I don't know." Of course, Bai Qi had read about the previous dynasty in the book, but the wet nurse asked this, and there would definitely be different answers from the one in the book. He was too lazy to repeat the article on paper.
"After the breakdown of the Jiuzhou, Chixian Zhongzhou was the most chaotic. The founding Emperor of the Qin Dynasty led 100,000 Qi Refining Men and pacified the world. However, after the founding of the country, he suppressed the Qi Refining Men. The 100,000 Qi Refining Men were eventually extracted by the First Emperor, and refined twelve hundred-foot bronze men to suppress the country's fortune."
"Why is this?" Bai Qi was puzzled. Emperor Shin-chan was so surprised that even in the books of the Great Jin Dynasty, he did not dare to completely deny it. Such a person would definitely not do anything to destroy the Great Wall.
"Because in ancient times, saints were the country. The national fortune was in response to the celestial phenomena, with the protection of the Zhongtian Ziwei Beiji Taihuang Emperor, and the evil demons could not shake the foundation of the country. However, in the battle between demons and immortals, the immortal world was missing, and even the Ziwei Star Palace disappeared. The subsequent countries had no control over the heaven, and the national fortune had never lasted for more than three hundred years."
Bai Qi was so moved that this ancient secret was completely different from what was written in the book.
"The most powerful qi refiners are enough to destroy a country. Since ancient times, the people rarely had any stable life. Being able to be safe for two generations is already a great rule. It is because of this that the First Emperor wanted to rebuild humanity and suppress immortals and demons.
"This First Emperor is also a hero." Bai Qi sighed.
"Yes, but unfortunately, the killing was too much, but I didn't live for a thousand years. During the six thousand years of the Qin Dynasty, Qi Refiners withdrew from the core of Zhongzhou and no longer participated in secular power struggles. Later, the Qin Dynasty was destroyed and the Jin Dynasty rose, and the Qi Refiners became active again. Why do you think?"
Bai Qi shook his head and said, "The twelve hundred-foot bronze men cast by the First Emperor were lost. The Great Jin army captured Mount Li and did not get the treasure that suppressed the country's fortune. However, the founding emperor of the Great Jin also knew that he could not let Qi Refiners interfere in government affairs, so he still found a way to cast the Nine Cauldrons to replace the twelve hundred-foot bronze men."
"The power of these nine tripods is definitely not as powerful as that of the bronze man?"
"Of course, the Great Jin Dynasty had the position of national teacher, and all the sects of immortal cultivation wanted to intervene in this position so that their Taoist tradition could be carried forward."
Bai Qi didn't understand what this had to do with his father now.
He only heard the wet nurse say, "Originally, it would be no problem for such a great Jin Dynasty to survive for another three to five thousand years. But the current emperor, for some reason, got the news of the 100-foot bronze men in the Qin Dynasty, and sent Yulin to take back the twelve bronze men to the capital, and to build a bronze man's hall in Yanshan, the western suburbs, worship the objects of the previous dynasty, and suppress the national destiny."
At this time, without the need for the wet nurse to explain, Bai Qi also understood. His father probably wanted to supervise the construction of this bronze man palace. However, the Qi-refining men in the world would regard his father as an obstacle to destroying the bronze man.
"Yes, Qi'er, your father has been appointed as the crown prince tutor and the other position of Sikong. This position of Sikong was the censor in the Jin Dynasty, but the previous dynasty was in charge of all matters such as engineering and supervision, and was only under the Three Dukes. In ancient times, Sikong was specially responsible for the construction of altars and sacrificed to his ancestors."
Bai Qi felt cold in his heart and said, "Aren't my father in the fire?"
"That's right, but Qi'er, the immortal cultivation sects in the world, who have thirty-six cave heavens and seventy-two blessed lands, don't care much about this matter. Only those who don't have the blessed lands will regard your father as the enemy of life and death."
Bai Qi was in a mess and did not ask what a blessing is in the world. He just said, "My grandma, please save my father!"
Bai Jian, Duke of Yu, is already the peak of warriors, and is the first-class innate level. However, facing the world's Qi Refiner, Bai Qi didn't think his father had any way to live. The wet nurse dared not say that he was invincible in the Great Jin Dynasty, and his father's strength, as the wet nurse meant, was still inferior to her.
"What's the panic?" the wet nurse scolded and said, "The Great Jin Dynasty also had the luck of suppressing the refiner. If the Qi Refiner wanted to assassinate the ministers in the court near the capital, it would be risking his life. Moreover, the Qi Refiner did not dare to approach the 100-foot bronze man. As long as your father was too far away from the bronze man, life would not be in danger."
Bai Qi was still panicked. He had seen the power of Qi Refiner. The monk from Honglian Temple almost killed him and Xiaoyu with just one random attack. He was a first-class warrior of the acquired rank. In front of the monk, he didn't even have the ability to resist.
The battle between Qi Refiners is not a fight with you with one sword or one shot.
"Don't think about it, I will follow you to Beijing. If the Duke of the State is in danger... he can only take one step at a time! Now, remember this Taoist proof."
The wet nurse said, pressing her hand on Bai Qi's head. Bai Qi felt a chill in her mind, and a thought penetrated directly into her mind and was imprinted in her memory.
Bai Qi remembered a 36,000-word mantra.
Chapter completed!