I was almost eaten at the beginning, luckily I was able to transfer the negative status

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The first day of October, the 256th year of Daqing Qigong.

Chenshi.

Imperial City Mountain.

On the top of the mountain, which seemed to have been flattened by a sword of a great swordsman, there is an extremely magnificent altar. In the center of the altar stands a huge and heavy three-legged round tripod, with thick milky white smoke rising from the inside of the tripod.

The milky white smoke was not produced by the burning of any physical object, but was the manifestation of the national destiny of the entire Daqing Empire.

The thick white smoke of national destiny that rises straight into the sky shows how powerful the Daqing Empire is today.

The reason why the Great Qing Empire has become so powerful today is probably because of the middle-aged man in black robes who is standing upright in front of the round tripod.

This middle-aged man was none other than the Qing Emperor, Qing Yunxi, who was now over three hundred years old and had ruled the Great Qing Empire for more than two hundred years.

"Your Majesty, the time has come. Please pray to God and perform the abdication ceremony!"

Suddenly, the imperial teacher wearing a Yin-Yang Taoist robe below the altar shouted loudly.

While talking.

The figure of the national teacher suddenly rose higher, and a huge body of Dharma appeared from his body.

A tall Dharma image stood beside the altar. Except for the head, the rest of the body seemed to exist between reality and illusion, ethereal and mysterious.

If the Dharma image was not surrounded by a mysterious barrier, any mortal who saw the Dharma image for more than half a breath would become mentally disturbed and die from physical changes.

"The time has come. We beg Your Majesty to pray to God as soon as possible and hold a grand abdication ceremony."

At the same time as the Imperial Master manifested his Dharma image, the Prime Minister of Daqing, dressed in luxurious formal attire, led all the civil and military officials of Daqing to kneel down under the altar, loudly begging Qing Yunxi to hold a ceremony of abdication.

On the altar.

Faced with the officials' seemingly begging but actually aggressive attitude.

Qing Yunxi put his hands behind his back, held his head high and chest puffed out. There was no change in the expression on his face, which was still as calm as a deep pool. From top to bottom, from inside to outside, his whole body revealed an aura of looking down on the world.

"Second Brother, Seventh Brother, Thirteenth Brother, who do you think should I pass the throne to?"

A moment of silence.

Qing Yunxi suddenly turned around and looked at the three young men kneeling on the ground behind him and spoke in a calm voice.

Hear the words.

The three kneeling young men did not show much fear, and quickly responded in unison and in a businesslike manner:

"Your Majesty, the succession of our people will be determined by public opinion. Please do not miss the auspicious time and pray to the heavens as soon as possible to manifest the will of the people."

"Is this what the people want?"

"Hahahaha... what a popular sentiment!"

Qing Yunxi suddenly laughed out loud, his eyes sweeping deeply over the three young men kneeling on the altar and the group of civil and military officials below the altar.

"Okay, okay. Since the time has come, I will grant your wish. I will pray to God now!"

talking.

Qing Yunxi turned around and flipped his hand, holding an ancient and heavy seal.

This seal is none other than the imperial seal of the Great Qing Empire. The bottom of the seal is engraved with eight large characters: [Govern the people on behalf of Heaven, Heaven is above].

Holding the seal in both hands.

Qing Yunxi stared sternly at the three-legged round tripod from which rose white smoke of national destiny.

Suddenly, his figure suddenly rose up like the previous national master, revealing an extremely huge and majestic Dharma image.

Unlike the National Master's Dharma image, Qing Yunxi's Dharma image exists entirely between reality and illusion, which means that his cultivation in the way of immortality has surpassed that of the National Master and reached the perfect level of refining the spirit and returning to the void.

Regarding Qing Yunxi's immortal realm.

Although the people present were not aware of it before, they were not surprised at all.

After all, it is reasonable to cultivate to such a level under the blessing of imperial power for more than two hundred years.

However, Qing Yunxi did not stop there after manifesting his Dharma image.

In full view of the crowd, his vast and majestic appearance suddenly revealed an aura that far exceeded the realm of refining the spirit and returning to the void, and he suddenly leaped up into the air.

Immediately afterwards, thunder suddenly exploded in the sky.

An incomparably dazzling golden avenue suddenly spread out from the void, extending straight to the feet of Qing Yunxi's huge Dharma image, and blending with the Dharma image, causing a breath of Tao related to life and death to flow around the Dharma image.

"This, this, this... Lianxu Hedao! This is Lianxu Hedao! And the fusion is the great way of life and death!!"

All of a sudden.

All the civil and military officials below the altar, whether it was the aggressive imperial teacher or the calm prime minister, were so shocked that their eyes narrowed and they were dumbfounded.

They never expected that after only practicing for more than two hundred years, Qing Yunxi had already become a human immortal-level powerful man who had achieved the Dao of Refining Void and Combining the Dao. What made them even more uneasy was that what Qing Yunxi had combined was not just an ordinary Dao, but the extremely terrifying Dao of Life and Death.

You should know that among the top immortal cultivation sects in the evil world, those who have reached the realm of refining the spirit and returning to the void can already be respected as elders, and those who have reached the realm of refining the void and merging with the Tao can become members of the great elders group who decide the major affairs of the sect.

Currently, among the three sects of Luoyun, Changhe and Qianling that jointly control the Great Qing Empire, even the strongest Qianling Sect has only five members in the Grand Elders Council, while the other two sects have four each.

From this, we can see how difficult it is to achieve the human immortal level of Lianxu Hedao, not to mention that he reached this terrifying level in just three hundred years. How could this not surprise everyone?

To everyone's surprise.

Qing Yunxi didn't care at all and continued to move.

As time passed, the endless golden avenue containing the laws of life and death (laws are the abbreviation of the rules of the great way) merged into the Dharma at an extremely fast speed and finally completely merged into it.

In an instant, the Dao patterns of the Dao of Life and Death were imprinted on Qing Yunxi's Dharma image all over his body, and the entire Dharma image was flowing with endless Dao of Life and Death.

At this moment, he seemed to have completely become the carrier of the Avenue of Life and Death. At the same time, a point of extremely dazzling light faintly appeared above the head of the Dharma image.

At this time.

Qing Yunxi, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke:

"I, the ninth monarch of Daqing, offer my sacrifice to the heavens!"

As Qing Yunxi spoke.

The white smoke of national destiny rising from the three-legged round tripod began to boil violently, and as if attracted by the imperial seal, it gradually changed direction and slowly flowed towards Qing Yunxi, and gradually merged into Qing Yunxi's Dharma through the transfer of the imperial seal.

At the same time, the extremely dazzling light above Qing Yunxi's head slowly expanded and became more dazzling. Its shape also subtly changed, gradually transforming into the appearance of a blooming lotus.