Chapter 229: The World's Greatest Daoists, the Two Greatest Prodigies
Qingming Realm.
Li Daoxuan used the Qingming Rebirth Talisman to open the passage and came here again.
I haven't seen it for a while . The Qingming Realm has become much more prosperous. There are many ghosts whose life span has not yet ended living in the ghost town. The difference from the Huangquan Realm is that there are men, women, young and old here, and everyone is alive.
Some of them farm, some weave, and they live a normal life just like people in the human world. In fact, because they don’t have to worry about war and disease, many ghosts are even happier than they were in the human world.
Li Daoxuan could see sincere smiles on their faces.
There are also many dead souls who do not want to be reincarnated. They work hard to participate in training and examinations, striving to become a glorious ghost messenger. They can also accumulate good karma and bless their family and descendants in the world of the living.
Compared to the cruelly ruled underworld, this place doesn't seem like hell at all, but more like a paradise.
Of course, for those who have done many bad things in their lives and are burdened with sins, this place is still cruel and terrifying. They will be escorted to hell by ghosts and suffer various punishments until their sins are eliminated and they can be reincarnated.
As to whether he was reincarnated as a human, or a rat or cockroach, it is hard to say.
Li Daoxuan had been hiding his figure with the art of escape, quietly observing everything, and did not find any bullying. He was very satisfied and had a sense of accomplishment in his heart.
He also contributed a lot to the development of the Qingming Realm. He often "video chatted" with the Empress and shared some management methods he knew during the chat. For example, people in the ghost town could pass an exam to become ghost messengers. This was his proposal.
It seems to be working pretty well now.
He lifted his escaping technique and revealed his true form.
The next moment, the ghost patrolling around immediately discovered him.
"Who is it?"
The ghost messengers immediately surrounded him, but when they saw that it was Li Daoxuan, their expressions immediately changed, and they saluted respectfully and said, "Greetings, Envoy Qingming!"
Li Daoxuan nodded, and with a wave of his sleeves, he released the ghosts hidden in the Wuchang Military Talisman.
When these old people and children from the underworld saw the ghost catcher, they were all frightened and thought they were being sent back again.
"Don't be afraid, everyone. This is not the Yellow Springs Realm, but the Azure Underworld. Next, you will follow these ghost messengers to judge good and evil. If you have enough good deeds, you can live here or be reincarnated."
With Li Daoxuan's comfort, they quickly calmed down and followed the ghost officials away obediently.
Li Daoxuan breathed a sigh of relief, finally dealing with them all properly.
Next, auspicious clouds rose under his feet and floated towards the holy place of Qingming Realm, Mount Yamu.
Mount Yamfu is a holy mountain, and the bedroom of the Green-robed Lady is located here, so flying is generally prohibited. However, as Li Daoxuan is the Qingming Envoy, he naturally has the privilege of flying.
After a moment, he landed gracefully on the ground, and the auspicious clouds turned into mist and dissipated.
Li Daoxuan looked up at the majestic and beautiful palace, and his heart beat slightly faster.
He hasn't seen the Empress for a long time.
The last time, it was in this bedroom that he and the empress had a special "dual cultivation". Although there was no direct contact between the two, there was an extra touch of charm.
From then on, Li Daoxuan often thought of his mother.
He still remembered that after the "dual cultivation" that day, he walked out of the bedroom and saw the empress wearing a gorgeous cloud-like fairy dress, with long flowing hair and fluttering ribbons, standing on the top of the mountains, gazing at the endless starry sky alone.
At that moment, he felt that the empress was very beautiful. It was no longer a divine beauty, but a pure beauty, a beauty that made his heart beat.
Later, the empress let down a strand of her hair and made a bracelet for him.
At that time, he thought that their relationship had made a huge leap forward, but he never expected that from then on, the Empress' attitude towards him gradually became distant, and after accepting Sister Yu as her disciple, this alienation became even more obvious.
It was not until he entered the underworld that the Empress' attitude changed a little by pestering her, and she wrote a spell for him with her own hands.
Boom boom boom!
Li Daoxuan knocked on the door gently and said, "My lady, I'm here to see you."
His heartbeat inexplicably quickened, and there was a hint of anticipation.
The next moment, the door opened.
An old figure walked out. It was the mother-in-law beside the empress.
She looked at Li Daoxuan with a complicated look and said, "The Queen is not in the bedroom, but in the lotus pond."
"Lotus Pond?"
"Three hundred miles to the southeast, there is a spiritual liquid lotus pond. Miss Ziyu was planted there. Your Majesty should have gone to see her."
Li Daoxuan's heart moved. Where is Sister Yu?
Then he could go and see Sister Yu. He wondered how old she was now after not seeing her for so long.
"Thank you, mother-in-law. I'll take my leave now!"
Li Daoxuan turned around and was about to leave.
The mother-in-law looked at him deeply and said, "Li Daoxuan, what do you think of my young lady?"
Li Daoxuan was stunned, and it took him a while to react that the "young lady" she mentioned was the empress.
"Your Majesty, naturally—"
"Not the queen, but my lady!"
Li Daoxuan didn't quite understand what she meant, but he still expressed his true thoughts.
"Your lady... is very beautiful and very kind to me."
"Then will you marry her?"
The mother-in-law went straight to the point with a sharp look in her eyes.
Li Daoxuan coughed and almost suspected that he had heard it wrong.
After a long while, he gritted his teeth and said, "If the queen - your young lady favors me, I would naturally be willing, but it is almost impossible."
When the mother-in-law heard his answer, a smile appeared on her lips, but she asked a sharp question.
"My young lady is a natural talent, a thousand-year-old ghost fairy, and the master of the Azure Underworld. If you marry her, you must draw a clear line with other women and never take concubines for the rest of your life. Are you willing?"
In her heart, the young lady is the most stunning woman in the world. Although Li Daoxuan is not bad, he is still not worthy of the young lady.
But he is indeed the only man that the lady has treated specially in thousands of years.
Miss, you can marry him, but don’t even think about taking a concubine.
She also needs to draw a clear line between herself and Miss Ziyu. After all, Miss Ziyu is the young lady's apprentice, and was raised by the young lady herself in the lotus. She has a mother-daughter relationship and a master-apprentice relationship.
"Take...take a concubine?"
Li Daoxuan said sternly: "I will never take a concubine!"
Of course he would not take a concubine. If he wanted to marry, he would marry them all. They were all his wives. Sister Yu had saved him many times and she almost sacrificed herself when he was slaying the dragon in Hongzhou. Their love was so deep and loyal that Li Daoxuan would never treat her with contempt in the name of a concubine.
Only children make choices, adults want them all!
The mother-in-law nodded with satisfaction and said, "I have asked all the questions. You can go find the queen."
The look in her eyes when she looked at Li Daoxuan suddenly became much kinder.
Of course, if she knew what Li Daoxuan was thinking, she would probably raise her cane and start a fight.
…
Qingming Realm, next to the spirit pond.
Two figures were standing by the pool. One of them was wearing a green skirt, with divine light flowing around her body. She had a fairy-like appearance and a holy and otherworldly temperament. She was holding a jade-green willow branch, her wrist was as white as frost, and she sprinkled a little fairy dew on the ninth-grade lotus in the pool.
It was the Lady in Green.
However, facing the peerless beauty in green, the other person was not at all inferior. She was wearing a snow-white Taoist robe, standing with her hands behind her back, her black hair flowing like a waterfall, emitting a flawless and clear light.
There is a dot of cinnabar between the eyebrows, eyes are like dots of lacquer, lips are like flowing red, skin is snow-white, and the figure is graceful.
She was not as dignified and holy as the Lady in Green, but her manners were quite casual, but beautiful without being gaudy, lazy without being idle, and her temperament was fresh and refined, like the bright moon in the mountains and the fresh breeze in the forest. Her every word and action had an inexplicable fairy charm.
"Taizhen, how come you have time to leave your flower today?"
The lady in green asked as she sprinkled the celestial dew.
She was happy about her good friend's visit, but her joy or anger would never show on her face, and she always looked indifferent.
Compared to her, Taizhen is much more casual.
She sat by the pool, opened her arms, breathed in the fresh air around her, and said with a smile: "Chang'an is too stuffy, and there are those so-called princes and nobles, each of them stinks, but they always want to enter my yard. Even those five-colored spiritual chickens I raise smell better than them!"
Upon hearing this, the Qingyi Lady smiled and said, "The wealthy families, the nobles, may seem to be living in luxury, but they are just corpse worms and lustful blood. In the end, they will not be able to escape the fate of being buried in a grave and becoming a pile of yellow earth."
"Even Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, when he met the Queen Mother of the West, was only evaluated as having a dirty body and soul, blood leaking from his brain, unclean internal organs, and no jade in his bones, let alone those ordinary dignitaries."
Hearing her words, Taizhen nodded, but also expressed a different opinion.
"This generation of human emperors is extremely courageous and has a strong dragon spirit. He can be called a man of great talent and strategy. If he can inspire the universe and make the mountains and rivers magnificent, it can be considered as immeasurable merits, far better than ordinary immortals."
Lady Qingyi hesitated for a moment and said, "How could you think so highly of Li Shimin?"
Taizhen smiled and said, "He visited me three times and wanted me to be the leader of the world, but I rejected him every time. However, I recommended you to him because of his sincerity."
The lady in green shook her head and laughed, saying, "You may seem to be the leader of the world, but you are the target of public criticism. I was wondering why you suddenly came to see me, but it turns out you are here to lobby for others."
Taizhen took her hand and begged for mercy: "Sister, if you don't agree, forget it. I just mentioned it by the way, but I don't intend to lobby for a stinky man."
After a pause, Tai Zhen's eyes lit up with a strange light, and she said, "Sister, I heard that you and my junior brother... practiced dual cultivation?"
The fire of gossip burned in her eyes. Perhaps this was the reason why she came all the way to the Qingming Realm.
The lady in green paused, her eyes wavering slightly.
"It's just an emergency."
Taizhen smiled and said, "Sister, you are aloof and unparalleled, your nature is like glass, untainted by dust. I have never heard that you would be willing to do something with other men."
"Even if it's really an emergency, the fact that you're willing to do it with my junior brother means that you don't reject him in your heart, and you even have a good impression of him, sister, is that right?"
The lady in green slightly opened her red lips, wanting to deny it, but ultimately did not say it out loud.
She has a noble character, as bright as the moon, and she disdains lying the most.
Silence is actually a kind of answer.
