Becoming a Wizard by Starting From the Mind Closure Technique

Chapter 801: Chapter 250 Old Acquaintances Come with Calamity_2

Over time, apart from a few aging court officials and royal relatives still holding out hope for the Lifespan Extension Pill,

many had realized something was amiss, convinced that the Lifespan Extension Pill was a sham and that Emperor Kangqian had hoarded the Longevity Peaches for himself.

It was only because Emperor Kangqian’s policies had become increasingly lenient and increasingly favorable to the royal relatives, court officials, and noble clans, that no significant uproar had occurred.

The only one who might be discontented was probably The Eldest Imperial Son born of the previous Empress.

Even when the current Empress gave birth to a Princess, it did not ease The Eldest Imperial Son’s mind.

For The Eldest Imperial Son’s greatest enemy was no longer his siblings, but his father who had most likely consumed the Longevity Peach and could thus live a long and healthy life!

By the time he, The Eldest Imperial Son, was laid to rest in the earth, his father would still be alive for who knows how many more years.

And so, let us not dwell on the secret machinations of The Eldest Imperial Son.

Inside a side hall, the increasingly frail old head of the Astronomical Bureau was meticulously tending to the fire in the furnace.

Next to the old head, his closed-disciple, the Big Dipper Taoist, watched his master with eyes full of worry.

“Foolish child, birth, aging, sickness, and death are the natural order of life. Besides, your teacher has lived long enough; why fall into the same old rut?”

Without even looking at his disciple, the old head knew what the Big Dipper Taoist was thinking at that moment.

“Master could have lived even longer.”

The Big Dipper Taoist bowed his head slightly, hiding the unusual emotions in his eyes.

“Heh…”

The old head chuckled, “What’s the use of living long if in the end one cannot transcend?”

“Transcend.”

At this word, the Big Dipper Taoist had a moment’s hesitation, his expression turning bitter.

The revered predecessors of Taoism, like the Heavenly Master Xu Jing who claimed to have come from the higher realms, had stated that one can ascend from this world only by succeeding in the Tribulations.

Those who had successfully ascended in the past were almost immediately killed by the Heavenly Demons from beyond this domain after their departure from this world.

To succeed in the Tribulations, sacrifices are needed.

It’s also possible if one merely relies on outsiders.

But in doing so, the portion of fortune feedback that the Taoist sects of this world could receive would be minimal.

Ascension is possible, but transcendence remains an illusion.

The task the old head was now attending to was to put forth more effort for Taoism in this Tribulation, to fight for a greater share of fortune feedback.

“Foolish child! Foolish child!”

Turning around, the old head reached out to touch the Big Dipper Taoist’s willingly lowered head, “Go then, to Fuli County, by the side of those undergoing the Tribulations, to protect their path.”

“Yes, Master.”

The Big Dipper Taoist respectfully kowtowed to the old head, then stood up and left the side hall.

After a few steps, his figure disappeared, without any dragginess.

This was not unfeeling.

Instead, it was for fear that if he left too slowly, he wouldn’t be able to leave at all.

“Ah!”

The old head watched his closed-disciple depart, letting out an indistinct sigh of contemplation, then chuckled to himself, “The old Taoist has scrabbled through life but finally dares to do something decisive at the end.”

His withered right hand gently tapped the lid of the furnace.

With a clang,

the lid spun open, revealing an empty yet mysteriously atmospheric inner chamber.

“I summon the White Lotus Saintess to meet her death!”

Turning around to face the direction of the Kun Ning Palace, the old head murmured to himself, and then his entire being plunged into the inner chamber.

From the empty yet mysteriously atmospheric inner chamber, a wisp of fragrance that reached the entire Capital City in the blink of an eye wafted out.

In the Capital City, no matter what everyone was doing or where they were, they all smelled this wisp of fragrance at the same time and simultaneously looked up to the sky.

In the void, the Big Dipper Taoist, who was teleporting towards Fuli County, sensed something and a tear of turbidity slid from the corner of his eye.

In the sky over the Capital City, the figure of an old Taoist with a stooped body and aged appearance appeared.

From everyone who had smelled the fragrance, a tiny bit of their fortune was pulled away and converged upon the old Taoist.

Gradually, the wrinkles on the old Taoist’s face smoothed out, unveiling the handsome features of his youth, and his stooped body straightened, showing the peerless grace of his younger days.

To take, one must first give.

The old head, as the price for embodying the Heavenly Dao, converted his life’s cultivation into a sovereign medicine. Using the nation’s fortune as a furnace, he concocted a pill of dragon and tiger.

A sacrifice to heaven and earth, it brings blessings upon countless beings.

Leveraging the whisper of fortune fed back from the countless beings, gathered into a single furnace, he refined it with the fire of the heart into a Pill of the People’s Will.

As heaven watches through my eyes, and listens through my ears,

At this moment, the old head, holding the Pill of the People’s Will, stood in the stead of heaven’s heart, momentarily wielding the authority of the Heavenly Dao.

Suddenly, inside and outside the Capital City, throughout the world of Da Yong, all cultivators in all four directions sensed something and looked towards the Capital City.

The rejuvenated figure of the head and his peerless grace were clearly visible to them.

Then they heard a request as soothing as a spring breeze.

“I, Chunfeng of the humbler paths, entreat the White Lotus Saintess to embrace her demise!”

The voice faded, and the figure of the Astronomical Bureau Chief vanished like a dream or a bubble, disappearing into the sky.

All those in the Capital City and beyond who had looked up at the sky now lowered their heads, returning to their unfinished tasks as before.

It was as if the fragrance was an illusion; the Astronomical Bureau Chief had never appeared, and nothing had changed.

In Fuli County, at the Octagon Martial Arts School.

Li Shuwen, gazing toward the Capital City from afar, showed a trace of sorrow on his face: “The Astronomical Bureau Chief has passed away!”

In his youth, Li Shuwen had only roamed the Southern Pugilistic World and was not unwilling to step into the north. It was Big Dipper Taoist who had stopped him.

The Big Dipper Taoist represented the old Chief of the Astronomical Bureau.

An elder who had stood sentinel on the Observing the Stars Platform, yet dominated across several generations.

Link, standing beside Li Shuwen, frowned deeply.

He had never met the old Chief and was indifferent to whether the other was dead or alive.

But after the words “Please, Saintess, go to your death,” the changes that occurred somewhere in the direction of the Capital City caught Link’s attention.

An old acquaintance he hadn’t seen in a long time had suffered a heavy blow following the “Please, Saintess, go to your death.”

The kind that bordered on death.

“Sigh,”

Link sighed inwardly, knowing that he could no longer extricate himself from the so-called apocalyptic catastrophe.

“Troublesome.”

With another sigh, Link said to Li Shuwen, “Master, I have urgent matters and need to leave for a while.”

Li Shuwen turned to look at his eighth disciple, sensing something profound.

Breaking through the void, one could see the divine.

The sincere path allowed one to foresee.

The two were not in conflict but complemented each other.

The mysteries of the God Seeing Realm were gradually being mastered by Li Shuwen, and his “foreseeing” ability was becoming more refined.

No sooner had Link spoken than Li Shuwen received a hint from the unknown.

At this moment, both master and disciple stood at a crossroads of fate.

Every word and decision would have far-reaching impacts.

It was even highly possible that in the end, master and disciple would stand on opposing sides, weapons drawn against each other.

After a long silence, Li Shuwen let out a sigh and admonished with resignation, “No matter what, take care of yourself and don’t overdo it.”

“Thank you, Master.”

Link took a deep look at his mentor, who had taught him in this world, the greatest partner who helped him perfect the Martial Arts Constructor way, and the guide who inspired him to embark on the path of a Construction Wizard. In a flash, Link vanished from sight.

“Brother Li, where is your esteemed disciple going?”

The next second, the figure of Big Dipper Taoist appeared, asking the question.

“I do not know.”

Li Shuwen responded calmly.

“This…”

Big Dipper Taoist opened his mouth as if to say something but found himself at a loss for words under Li Shuwen’s emotionless gaze.

“Sigh!”

Big Dipper Taoist heaved a deep sigh.

Looking in the direction of the Capital City, he was silent, his expression extremely grave.

The Capital City.

Imperial Palace, Kunning Palace.

All the eunuchs and palace maids were hurriedly driven out by The Empress in a sudden fury.

The Emperor Kangqian version of Wei Dutong—who had been treated like a “blood bag”—was desperately transferring his True Yuan into the body of the newly born Princess.

However, the Princess’s complexion grew paler, her Vitality ebbing away faster and faster.

The Empress was already kneeling on the ground, offering fresh blood from her palm to the palm-sized Divine Statue, imploring the White Lotus Saintess for a response.

She swore that if the body she had meticulously prepared for the Saintess’s descent was ruined by that detestable Taoist, she would eradicate the Taoism sect and kill all the Taoists in the world!

“Who?”

The Emperor Kangqian version of Wei Dutong suddenly stopped transferring True Yuan, bellowing loudly, his guard up.

Just now, he had sensed a ripple in the void.

Someone had actually penetrated the Fortune Array that enshrouded the entire Imperial Palace and snuck into Kunning Palace!

“Long time no see.”

Link emerged from the void, revealing his figure, and glanced at the dying infant girl. Then, he turned his gaze to the Divine Statue that was about to respond to The Empress.

“Should I call you White Lotus Saintess now, or…”

Link spoke in a melancholic tone, his emotions exceedingly complex,

“Elise?”

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