Chang'an, the Imperial Palace of the Western Qin Dynasty.
Hui Shi hurried to Linze's palace and shouted loudly without any etiquette: "The altar outside Chang'an City has been completed."
Lin Ze, who was meditating and calculating destiny, raised his head and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, third senior brother."
Hui Shi was very disdainful of Lin Ze's kind greetings, and said to himself: "Junior brother can plant the fragments of the Jianmu Sacred Tree for people to worship and provide faith, and by the way, arrange for people to provide a large number of medium-grade and above heavenly materials and earthly treasures as fertilizer.
Cultivation of the Jianmu Sacred Tree as soon as possible."
Lin Ze shook his head and said, "This matter is not urgent."
Hui Shi was anxious: "Teacher is particularly concerned about the revival of the Jianmu Sacred Tree. He has asked about the progress more than once. Now that the altar has finally been built, why not seize the time to cultivate it?"
Lin Ze chuckled and said, "Third Senior Brother, do you still remember that Junior Brother said before that a total of eight altars should be built, and they should be empty and real, to prevent people who have enmity with the Dao Palace from secretly planning to destroy them."
"Now that only one altar has been built, it is not the best time to plant the fragments of the Jianmu Sacred Tree. It is better to wait until the third brother has built eight altars, and then talk about matters related to the support and cultivation of the Jianmu Sacred Tree."
Hui Shi couldn't understand: "Why is this? Can't it be done in advance?"
Lin Ze looked at him with a strange look: "Building more altars is to paralyze those with evil intentions. If you plant the fragments of the Jianmu Sacred Tree just after building one, then there is still a need to build the other seven altars.
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Hui Shi said disapprovingly: "Then we won't build it. With you and Zhuang Zhou in charge of Chang'an, are you still afraid that Xiaoxiao will come and destroy it? Do you really think that the saint realm is just an idle person?"
Lin Ze flatly refused: "No, for safety reasons, eight altars must be built, not one less."
Otherwise, how could he justifiably delay planting the fragments of the Jianmu Sacred Tree?
Hui Shi had a gloomy face and said in a bad tone: "Are you deliberately looking for trouble, even if you ignore the teacher's life?"
Lin Ze said calmly: "Third senior brother, what you said is wrong. Every action of junior brother is for the sake of the teacher and the Taoist palace. There is absolutely no other thought, and there is no malicious intention to embarrass senior brother."
"If the third senior brother feels that something is wrong, he can go to the Taoist Palace and report the matter to the teacher. If the teacher feels that as long as someone is guarding it, it doesn't matter even if everyone knows about it, the junior brother will immediately change his mind."
"you……"
Hui Shi was speechless and had nothing to say. He snorted coldly and walked away with his sleeves raised.
As soon as Hui Shi left, Lin Ze said loudly: "Where is Wu Fan?"
Wu Fan, who was waiting near the palace, was like a monkey. He came to Lin Ze's side, bowed and said: "I am here, what are your orders?"
Lin Ze said calmly: "Xu Gao, the minister of the Ministry of Communication and Industry, this altar is of great importance, so we must not be careless, because the progress ignores the quality."
"If I were to find out that someone was passing off quality work as good quality or shoddy work in order to make progress, I would never let him go easily."
Wu Fan looked solemn and replied: "I obey the order."
Then he asked tentatively: "Then Wei Chen resigned?"
Lin Ze waved his hand: "Go ahead."
I hope that the generals at the Ministry of Industry will extend the time required to complete all eight altars due to their excessive pursuit of altar quality and excellence.
Only in this way can Lin Ze confidently delay cultivating the fragments of the Jianmu Sacred Tree.
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What made Lin Ze depressed but also gratified was that the generals of the Ministry of Industry were highly skilled and completed the construction of eight altars within a month with high quality and quantity.
When Hui Shi appeared in front of Lin Ze again and asked him to plant the fragments of the Jianmu sacred tree, Lin Ze could not think of any other way to delay the matter except to choose a good and auspicious day.
It's definitely not possible to make things up out of thin air and talk nonsense. Hui Shi is not a fool, so how can you believe him easily?
The Taoist Saint was not disabled, so how could Lin Ze dare to blatantly refuse him? He had not thought about falling out with the Taoist Saint.
In terms of good and auspicious days, Lin Ze did not go too far. He only said that after three days, everything will be suitable, and it will be a good time to break ground and offer sacrifices.
…
Three days later, Hui Shi arrived early and waited outside Linze's palace.
In order to prevent Lin Ze from denying his account, Hui Shi specially brought Zhuang Zhou here to witness.
Lin Ze opened the door to the palace, wearing a black ice silkworm and gold silk dragon robe that was only worn during important ceremonies.
The ice silkworm is a rare and exotic animal. If the silk it spits out is made into clothes, it has special effects of keeping warm in winter and cool in summer, so this dragon robe is priceless.
"Let's go to the altar. Don't miss the time and the good time."
Since you have to pretend, you have to pretend to be presentable. Lin Ze has never had a good impression of people with awkward acting skills.
The three of them soon arrived in front of the altar thirty miles west of Chang'an City.
This place is jointly guarded by the Western Qin Forbidden Army, Chang'an Prefecture Yamen Officers, and Jinyi Guards, which prevents thieves from climbing over the wall to the greatest extent possible.
Now that Lin Ze is here, there is no need for the three parties to continue to guard carefully. Instead, they all look at Lin Ze with excited expressions, and from time to time someone shouts long live.
Regarding this kind of situation, Lin Ze had seen it a lot since he ascended the throne, so he was naturally calm and calm.
"Please withdraw. I want to open an altar to worship heaven. It's not appropriate for you to stay here."
The group of people guarding the altar shouted almost simultaneously: "No."
Then maintain your formation and evacuate quickly.
Following the method taught by the Taoist sage, Lin Ze inserted the fragments of the sacred tree that looked like burning sticks into the large cauldron in the center of the Heaven Sacrifice, and then muttered something:
"The way of heaven has been personally revealed. Eons ago, the Demon Emperor cut off the passage between the Nine Netherworlds of Heaven and the human world. As a result, the three realms were incomplete and all living beings suffered."
"Today, I, Lin Ze, as the contemporary emperor, grant amnesty to the world, and try to restore the world to normal, but I ask God for support."
"..."
Lin Ze then faced the altar, explaining and making great ambitions, and rambled on for half an hour.
Lin Ze then bowed to the fragment of the Jianmu Sacred Tree that had been inserted into the cauldron, took out a sixth-grade treasure from his arms, and placed it next to the fragment of the Jianmu Sacred Tree.
I saw that the sixth-grade earth treasure that Lin Ze took out as "fertilizer" deflated at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if it had been sucked out of all its nutrients.
"Jab"
A subtle voice sounded, and Lin Ze took a closer look, only to see a green bud sprouting from the fragments of the Jianmu Sacred Tree that originally looked lifeless.
Well, this world is so magical, and miraculous things often have the property of resurrection from the dead.
When green buds emerged from the fragments of the Jianmu Sacred Tree, Lin Ze felt that there was a special gaze paying attention to him.
No, there's more than one, there are several, some out of curiosity, some out of spite.
Lin Ze secretly sighed. Sure enough, once the path to the recovery of the Jianmu Sacred Tree begins, there will be many causes and effects for no reason.
At this moment, Lin Ze suddenly realized that perhaps this was one of Tao Sage's plans.