In the living room of Fengming Palace, the empress sat at the head, Taoist Priest Xuanzhen, Liang Yao, and Taoist boy sat on the left, and Long Chen sat on the right.
It has been several days since Taoist Master Xuanzhen arrived in the capital, but the Empress has not summoned him. This is because Long Chen was deciphering ghost texts in the Hongwen Hall and the Empress did not see him alone.
Yu Shinan finally deciphered the first volume of ghost writing, Long Chen returned to the palace, and the empress immediately summoned the three masters and apprentices.
"Are you still used to living in the capital, Taoist priest?"
The empress asked with a smile.
Taoist Master Xuanzhen replied: "Thank you for taking care of me, Your Majesty. The Taoist temple arranged is very good."
The empress let Xuanzhen live in Qingyun Temple in the city.
Qingyun Temple is not big and there are not many Taoist priests. The empress asked the Taoist priests in the temple to move out, leaving the Taoist temple free for three masters and disciples, and ten servants.
The little Taoist boy grabbed the cakes on the table and ate them with big mouthfuls.
On the way here, the little Taoist boy was not happy. He felt it was too cold and he was not used to it.
After arriving in the capital, I found that there was a lot of delicious food here, and I quickly got used to it.
Long Chen said: "Lihuo Island is very different from the capital. Thank you for your hard work."
Taoist Master Xuanzhen said: "King Wu, don't be polite. Our Liehuo Temple was founded by the ancestors of the Long family. The ghost clan has appeared, and Pindao should have contributed."
The little Taoist boy finished eating the cake next to him, got down from the chair, and ate the cake next to Taoist Master Xuanzhen.
Seeing that the little Taoist boy liked it, Yingfeng immediately asked the maid to bring some more.
The empress said: "I should have summoned the Taoist priest earlier, but King Wu has been unable to decipher the ghost text."
"The deciphering of the ghost text has been completed today, so I would like to invite the Taoist priest to come and listen."
Taoist Priest Xuanzhen looked at Long Chen, and Long Chen said, "That's it. I found two jade volumes from the ghost's lair. They contain records about the history of the ghost clan, as well as a set of exercises."
"Fire Fire Temple also has records about the ghost clan. I would like to ask the Taoist Priest to listen to it and see if the records are reasonable."
Taoist Master Xuanzhen nodded slightly and said: "King Wu, please tell me. If the poor Taoist knows anything, I will tell you."
Long Chen said: "Then let me talk about the historical records of the ghost tribe first. The jade volume said that there was a small country near Yanmen Pass a thousand years ago. Because they worshiped the ghost tribe, it was called the ghost country."
"When they offer sacrifices to ghosts, they pray for strength. I think they get a half-ghost body."
"With this power, the Ghost Country developed rapidly and became a big country, and the surrounding territories were included in the Ghost Country's territory."
"Later, other countries fought back and defeated the ghost country, and the ghost country's princess fled into the ice field."
"I guess this princess is probably the ghost girl."
Long Chen slowly talked about the records in the jade book, while the Empress and Taoist Priest Xuanzhen listened carefully.
The empress felt strange and said: "If the ghost girl is the princess of the ghost country, she should also be half-ghost. How did she become the queen of the ghost clan?"
How can a half-ghost man lead the ghost clan?⑧①ZW.????m
It's unreasonable no matter how you think about it.
Long Chen shook his head and said: "There is no way of knowing what happened to the ghost girl after she escaped into the ice field."
Maybe the ghost girl had a strange encounter in the ice field, and her half-ghost body was refined, becoming a complete ghost tribe, ruling the ghost tribe, and becoming the queen.
Long Chen continued: "After reading this piece of history, I have another guess. It is possible that the Martial Saint also obtained a half-ghost body, just like Ji Zhang, which is why he has such a high level of cultivation."
"Because he is half-ghost, after meeting the ghost girl, the two quickly accepted each other."
"Both are from the ghost country, and both have half-ghost bodies. They fell in love at first sight."
The empress found this statement very interesting.
If the Martial Saint was half-ghost from the beginning, it would explain why he betrayed the human race and joined the ghost race.
For the Martial Saint, the ghost race is his kind.
With humans, he must hide himself at all times.
"There is also a possibility that when Wu Sheng obtained the half-ghost body, he did not know that his body had changed."
"It wasn't until he met a ghost girl that he realized he was half-ghost and not purely human."
The empress told her guess, and Long Chen felt that this guess was reasonable.
Taoist Priest Xuanzhen said: "I remember the Patriarch said that before a battle, the Martial Saint must kill prisoners and drink their blood to strengthen his army."
"Everyone thought that Wu Sheng was just doing this to boost morale, but later they found out that Wu Sheng was bloodthirsty."
Long Chen nodded slightly and said, "That's right. Wu Sheng may not know that he has changed at all."
Long Chen was thinking in his mind that before Wu Sheng met the ghost girl, he gave birth to his daughter Yin Ling with his first wife Yin Wugou.
Was the Martial Saint at that time half-ghost?
If you are already half-ghost, why can you still give birth?
It's been so long that unless Wu Sheng is asked face to face, there are many questions that I can't come up with answers to.
"The first volume records the history of the Ghost Kingdom, and that's about it."
"The holy guard is holding the jade book. I guess it is for the ghost fetus, so that he will not forget the history of his motherland."
This is Long Chen's guess. It's been almost a thousand years since the ghost country was destroyed. No one but the ghost girl still remembers it.
The ghost girl asked the ghost fetus to remember that she might want to revive the ghost country.
Thinking of this, Long Chen couldn't help but laugh: It's another story about a princess who lost her country and returned to her country.
"Where's the second volume?"
After finishing the first volume, the empress asked about the records in the second volume.
Long Chen said: "The second volume is the ghost clan's technique, called Ghost Shadow Technique. Wei Chen has practiced it for several days and found no problems."
The technique was a secret, so Long Chen didn't continue to explain it, and Taoist Master Xuanzhen didn't ask any questions.
The empress nodded slightly and asked Taoist Master Xuanzhen, "Does the Taoist Master have anything else to say?"
Taoist priest Xuanzhen smiled and said, "No."
The empress nodded. After the little Taoist boy had eaten his fill, he walked around the hall to look at the strange things. Liang Yao asked him to sit down.
Taoist Master Xuanzhen stood up and said, "If there is nothing else to do, I will leave first."
The Empress and Long Chen were supposed to be discussing the cultivation of martial arts, so Taoist Master Xuanzhen walked away knowingly.
The empress stood up and sent Taoist Priest Xuanzhen out, and Long Chen followed him out.
After being sent out of the palace, Yingfeng led the three of them back to Qingyun Temple.
"How about the technique?"
The empress and Long Chen walked back.
Long Chen said: "I practiced for a while and discovered a very strange place. The Ghost Shadow Technique and the Long Family's Mental Technique, Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix Technique, and Crazy Lion Technique are actually connected."
"In other words, after I practiced the Ghost Shadow Technique, I realized that the Long family's mental method I practiced had not reached the highest level."
The empress didn't understand what Long Chen meant and asked: "I don't understand, what do you mean?"
Long Chen thought for a while and said: "Do you remember Li Chengdao? The way he looked at that time was that he had practiced the Xuanwu Art to the highest level and obtained the true body of Xuanwu."
The empress thought carefully about Li Chengdao's appearance.
The empress didn't know the situation and regarded Li Chengdao's appearance at that time as a true cultivation level and didn't think about the Xuanwu Jue.
"If you practice the Long Family's Mental Technique to the extreme, you should have the Azure Dragon True Body; if you practice the Hundred Birds Chao Feng Jue to the extreme, you should have the Nine Phoenix True Body."
Long Chen had practiced both techniques before. This was his guess.
The empress was very surprised. She had broken through the emperor very early and had always thought that the Hundred Birds Chao Feng Jue had been cultivated to the extreme.
Today, Long Chen said that he has not reached the top yet, and there is still hope for further progress.
"I...can I go even higher?"
The empress looked at Long Chen excitedly.
Looking at the empress' fiery eyes, Long Chen was a little scared.
"Yes...I...plan to practice with you, but you have to exercise restraint and don't have any inappropriate thoughts about me..."
Long Chen said what he had to say directly to avoid confusion between the two of them in the secret room.
The empress was stunned for a moment, grabbed Long Chen's ear with one hand, and said angrily: "Say it again!"
