The author of the book "The Book of the Dead"

Chapter 199: The Tradition of Future Generations, Penglai Company

Liang Tianyi pointed his arrow at the child.

"Shameless!" Yin Zhiping blocked Penglai King Liang Si firmly.

"It's useless. I'm also a golden elixir. Have you forgotten that the arrows of the Sun-Shooting Divine Art can turn?" Liang Tianyi sneered.

"The King of Penglai is the descendant of Lingbao and the monarch of heaven's will. Do you want to disobey heaven's will?"

"Defying the will of heaven?" Liang Tianyi looked at the bright moon in the sky and said, "My name is Tian, and I am the will of heaven. It is up to me, not heaven!!"

"Why are you doing this? Once you have the golden elixir, you can be included in the immortal class, and someone will guide you in the future." Yin Zhiping said with a wry smile.

One of the jobs of the Great Heavenly Master Shenxiao is to help freeze the golden elixir outside.

Generally, we will observe in advance. If the person is fame- and money-conscious and is unwilling to be frozen for 20 or 30 years in advance, then we will not tell the matter to avoid being rejected and not knowing how to deal with it.

“Instead of others giving you alms, it is better to take the initiative to grasp it.”

Liang Tianyi is very ambitious. He wants everyone in this family to become immortal.

From now on, I will be the Zhongzu who is no less important than my ancestors.

Yin Zhiping's fingers in his sleeves were rapidly making finger gestures.

"Behave yourself. Want to use the palm thunder? I guarantee that the divine arrow will arrive first!!"

Seeing Yin Zhiping's little trick, Liang Tianyi gave him a final warning.

Yin Zhiping looked at the young man and said with a wry smile: "I have harmed you, so let me pay you with my life."

The location of the forbidden area cannot be revealed, he would rather die.

Liang Tianyi is not an easy person to talk to.

"Since you don't want to, I will turn the world upside down to find you! If there is a god in heaven, let him find me."

Whoosh!
The arrow broke through the air, carrying with it blazing real fire.

Yin Zhiping is a mage after all. Within this range, without any Taoist soldiers stopping him, he is almost certain to die.

Faced with this situation, Liang Si did not panic, but was frighteningly calm.

He succeeded to the throne at the age of eight and had seen many kinds of human indifference, as well as the inexplicable malice from relatives and friends. He felt the danger ahead was nothing new.

Perhaps death is the real relief.

Before his death, Liang Si still had one doubt that had not been solved.

"Tianshi, will the ancestor really come down?"

Before each generation of Penglai King ascends the throne, he will know the family's biggest secret.

"The ancestor will definitely come down to earth, but meeting an immortal also requires fate. As ordinary mortals, once fate arrives, the immortals will call us."

The gods have disappeared for one hundred and eighty years. If Yin Zhiping did not have absolute trust in his master and grandmaster, he would probably have been skeptical.

Whoosh!
At this moment, the arrow fell.

A figure appeared out of nowhere in mid-air.

The figure's white hands gently grasped the arrow.

Yin Zhiping looked up suddenly.

The moonlight is like water, and the Taoist comes from the sky.

He wore a black cap and a white robe, had a handsome face, a figure as graceful as willow catkins, and eyes as bright as stars.

Suddenly, Yin Zhiping thought of the words in the ancient books:

"A romantic and divine being with a natural body."

A true immortal does not need to demonstrate powerful magical skills or secret techniques. You can tell something about him just by looking at his body shape.

Liang Tianyi's pupils shrank and he was deeply shocked.

He saw with his own eyes a god coming from the sky.

"you are……"

Liang Yue looked at this person with a calm gaze and said, "Want to live forever?"

thump!
Liang Tianyi knelt down, not daring to breathe, and said: "I am a descendant of the Tao, and I was confused for a moment. I hope my ancestors will forgive me!!"

"You have no chance."

Whoosh!
The moonlight flickered, and Liang Tianyi's head fell to the ground. Before the blood even touched the ground, it was burned to ashes by the fire breathed by Xiaotian beside Liang Yue.

Snap! !
The footsteps landed.

After one hundred and eighty years, this Taoist priest returns from history again.

Liang Yue stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes gentle.

"disciple!"

"Yin Zhiping!"

"Liang Si!"

"Meet the Jade Emperor!"

True gods are not emperors on earth. They do not need to shock the world with their domineering aura. Instead, they inspire awe with their silent and mysterious presence that is omnipresent.

The calm face of King Penglai was filled with excitement. It turned out that the ancestor's last words were true.

"No gift."

Liang Yue looked at the two of them.

"Yin Zhiping, are you frozen now?"

"Yes, I am old enough." Yin Zhiping was very satisfied. He could see the real immortal before he died. His life was perfect.

"Alright."

Liang Yue glanced at Yin Zhiping. This boy's cultivation level was at the second level of the Golden Elixir Realm. Compared to Lu Dongbin, he was mediocre, but he was also the best master in the world.

"Come with me."

Liang Yue glanced at Liang Si, told Xiaotian to play with the child, and then put his right hand on Yin Zhiping's shoulder.

Whoosh! |
The next moment, he appeared in an icy world underground.

There is a large basalt in front of the Hanmen Jumen.

Sensing Liang Yue's breath, the basalt moved, revealing a head. The head saw Liang Yue and let out a howl.

"long time no see!"

Liang Yue was deeply moved.

Time flies and people's hearts change.

Only two beasts are loyal to him.

"If I become the Green Emperor someday, I will reward you by letting the peach blossoms bloom in the same place as me."

Liang Yue looked at Yin Zhiping and said, "It's okay to tell them the secrets of the forbidden area. They can't get past Xuanwu."

"I see."

The gate is protected by a divine beast, so it seems my worries are unnecessary.

Enter the inside of the gate.

There were about twenty-five people, including Wang Chongyang, Bai Yuchan, Lin Lingsu, Qiu Chuji, and an unknown golden elixir master.

"One hundred and eighty years, twenty-five people, that's not bad."

Liang Yue’s divine sense sensed the Baiyun Imperial Township.

Wow!
The imperial town opened, and a cave appeared in the void. A suction force sucked everyone's ice sculptures into the ten thousand year old black ice cave.

Liang Yue looked at Yin Zhiping, hesitated for a moment, and said, "How about you stay for a few days? Take care of the follow-up for King Penglai, and do something for me by the way."

"Master, what is the purpose of your coming down to the mortal world this time? How about I summon the leaders of all sects and ask them to pay them a visit?" Yin Zhiping asked.

"No need to bother. This time, the itinerary must be kept secret."

"Also, contact Jiangnan and Penglai Merchants. I want to establish the Penglai Company."

"Penglai Company?"

"Zhuangzi said: The accumulation of disadvantages leads to greatness, the combination of small things leads to greatness, and the combination of things leads to public goodness. This is called 'company'."

Yin Zhiping lived for three more months. Following Liang Yue's advice, he reformed the Penglai system. He neither centralized power in the emperor nor appointed a general. Instead, he established a cabinet, increased the number of maritime merchant families in the cabinet, and suppressed the landlords and gentry.

Penglai Palace, Qingshan Garden.

In the sycamore forest beside the lake, the two men drank wine and talked about philosophy.

"The great sect in the north is called Quanzhen, and they are good at summoning spirits and sending generals, which is the method of controlling Taoist soldiers by throwing beans to create soldiers."

"In the south, there is the Shenxiao Sect, which specializes in palm thunder. The Lingbao Sect specializes in the Huainan Eight Methods passed down by the founder, with fire as the main method. The Maoshan Sect's Eight Birds Transformation, the Shushan Sect's swordsmanship. The Wudang Sect's Tai Chi swordsmanship..."

Yin Zhiping roughly talked about the current situation of the world.

Overseas, there are mostly evil cultivators.

After 180 years of slaying demons and eliminating evil, the gods and demons on earth are almost extinct.

However, some Taoists took advantage of the war to steal the beast blood demon pills and practiced them into powerful evil skills to kill people.

"There are three Jindans in the Ming Kingdom, so there is no problem for now. Overseas is more dangerous..."

When he thought that there was a god here, Yin Zhiping no longer said where the danger was.

Yin Zhiping changed the subject and asked, "Grandmaster, are you really going to allow sea merchants to join the cabinet? As for the gentry..."

"You are a bunch of country bumpkins who have been eyeing the common people's land for thousands of years. Send them all overseas!"

At this time, a white dove flew to Yin Zhiping.

"Master, the candidate for the company's head is here, would you like to meet him?"

Inside the hall, Liang Daoxuan was waiting anxiously.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, Liang Daoxuan turned around suddenly.

"Ancestor Lingbao? Disciple pays homage to the ancestor!!"

Liang Daoxuan was overjoyed and bowed down.

He never forgot her after seeing her that day.

I never thought I would see him here. I really have a strong connection with him.

Liang Yue took out a piece of jade, refined it into a jade seal with true fire, and inscribed the words "Penglai Company" on it.

"From now on, you will be the head of the sect, responsible for sailing overseas and bringing glory to China. Collect the world's greatest treasures. If there are any monsters that cannot be solved, you can report them through the jade seal."

Now that human productivity has improved, we can also provide them with appropriate support to deal with overseas demons.

In terms of the ocean, China is not much different from the West.

"Interests and conflicts drive technology forward. Maybe we can find a way to travel to Jupiter in the future."

Zhoushan Islands.

The Ming Dynasty court, Jiangnan maritime merchants, northern mine owners, and Penglai foreign capital.

The four parties offered sacrifices to the heavens and pledged to expand overseas.

Liang Yue transformed himself into an unknown Taoist priest and watched all this quietly.

There may be demons hiding in the vast ocean, and these demons will not escape my punishment.

At the meeting, everyone was talking about it. The Chinese always insisted on having a legitimate reason for going out to sea, and everyone was arguing over the reason.

At this time, the head of the sect, Liang Daoxuan, looked at Liang Yue with a slightly respectful expression and asked, "Master, what name should I use to start my sect?"

"The imperial spirit spreads among the barbarians in the West, and the barbarians admire China, which is a great benefit. We should go to war in the name of promoting the ethics of the holy religion and pacifying the barbarians to obtain treasures."

"good!!"

Everyone agreed.

Literati recorded history and painters copied scenes.

The eighteenth year of Hongwu.

Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang personally issued an imperial decree to grant Penglai Company a plaque with four characters on it.

The era of maritime China has arrived.

To the west of the sky, at the edge of the vast ocean, in a barbaric border country, an invisible negative energy seems to be brewing. This time, the negative energy is more hidden and more invisible.

Even the moonlight cannot be detected.

(End of this chapter)