Chapter 243 Two Different Peach and Plum Fruits
After choosing to help Wang Mingyi, Zhang San directly began to ask Wang Mingyi about his ideas for the newspaper.

Zhang San thinks very quickly and can handle problems quickly.

"'New Confucianism' is somewhat interesting, but it is rather boring to limit it to Confucianism. It might be better to just call it 'New Learning'."

"You want to start with his On Teachers. Well, that's a good suggestion. He dares to give this article to you, so we can't be stingy."

"As for dropping his name, that's easy..."

"We will directly offer a reward of one thousand gold and three treasures, and ask the students of the Imperial Academy and even the hundreds of schools in Tianjing to write an article on the topic of 'Investigating Things to Gain Knowledge' that can surpass 'On Teachers'."

"Those idiots will write for the sake of profit, and true like-minded friends will write for the sake of truth. When the time comes, we will publish one or two articles by the idiots to embarrass them, and like-minded friends will publish five or six articles to explain the new learning. This newspaper will naturally spread among students and help us screen the good from the bad."

"His mechanical art that can be used by ordinary people is amazing. I have a hunch that it can lead to many changes that we don't know about. We should set aside a page specifically for the Mohists and Gongshuists to work on. We just need to find excellent results and encourage their development."

"The problem of the orthodoxy? There is no need to worry about it. There will be experts from Gongshujia and Mohism to worry about it for us. If he really wants to promote it to the whole world, then the various schools of thought and even the emperor will force him to completely open up the orthodoxy. This is the general trend. I think he has also seen this trend, so he is willing to give the steam printing press to the Legalists. I am afraid that it will not take long before his steam printing press can be purchased by ordinary people. By then, everyone can publish a newspaper, which will be lively!"

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On the way to the Mishan Colosseum, Zhou Tieyi got a piece of news from Ada.

The Zhou family has a share in the Mishan Colosseum!

Zhou Tieyi recalled it carefully and it seemed that this was indeed the case, but the Zhou family did not have much share in the Mishan Colosseum. The real big player was the Right General's Mansion.

Recalling Hao Ren's strange look, I finally understood what Hao Ren meant. It turned out that he thought I was here to grab a share.

Zhou Tieyi touched his chin and said, "It seems that this is not wrong, but it would be too ugly to do it now. Anyway, I will have a large income in a few days, so there is no need to be so vicious and ruthless."

When Zhou Tieyi's carriage arrived in front of the Mishan Colosseum, the chief steward Yuan Chaolong was already waiting at the door with many stewards.

Zhou Tieyi got out of the car and looked at Yuan Chaolong, a steward he had met once in the Right General's Mansion.

"Inspector Zhou, the account book is inside, please."

Yuan Chaolong thought Zhou Tieyi was here to "check the accounts". After thinking about it, he took out the account book to see what Zhou Tieyi had to say.

Zhou Tieyi said with a smile, "I'm just here to buy exotic animals today."

Yuan Chaolong breathed a sigh of relief, and the smile on his face became more sincere. "The Zhou family already has a share in the Mishan Colosseum. We are all family, so how can we talk about buying and selling? Mr. Zhou, please follow me."

Led by Yuan Chaolong, Zhou Tieyi walked into the dungeon under the Colosseum.

Yuan Chaolong had no intention of introducing the ordinary lower-third-grade exotic beasts. Zhou Tieyi had come in person, and if he didn’t bring out some top-level mid-grade exotic beasts, it would be an injustice to Zhou Tieyi’s current power.

In front of a huge dungeon, Yin-Yang School runes were engraved in silver on the surrounding walls. As soon as Zhou Tieyi approached, he heard a low, thunder-like breathing sound.

Only when he arrived in front of the dungeon did Zhou Tieyi see clearly the strange beasts imprisoned in the dungeon.

It was a coiled dragon snake, snow-white in color, with a pair of huge wings that could cover an area of ​​ten feet in radius, wrapping up the entire coiled body like a small mountain.

And the sound of its sleeping breathing can turn into surging wind and thunder.

"This is?"

"This is a strange beast with the blood of Yinglong and Bashe. We have always restricted it to the fifth rank and made it sleep. We only hold gambling games with it during major festivals such as the New Year. In fact, it is more accurate to say that we let it eat. Once it eats, it can sleep for about half a year."

At this point, Yuan Chaolong showed an expression of admiration, "Even though its talent is extremely high, we dare not let it break through to the fourth level. We can only let it stay in a dormant state most of the time."

Zhou Tieyi nodded.

Yuan Chaolong also looked at Zhou Tieyi curiously.

It is not easy to tame this dragon snake, it can even be said to be almost impossible.

After all, this dragon snake has been bound by humans for so long, and its hatred for humans is deep-rooted. Even if a top-three military general can subdue this dragon snake with force, it is absolutely impossible for him to keep it with him all the time. Once this dragon snake can move freely, even if it cannot escape, it will frantically attack the humans around it. This has been tested.

"If we release the dungeon now, it won't wake up immediately, right?"

Zhou Tieyi looked at the sleeping white dragon snake. "No, his dream was written by a third-grade novelist himself, and he was also injected with a 'Dragon Drunken Incense' developed by a doctor. Unless both restrictions are removed at the same time, it will be difficult for him to wake up."

The protective measures are in place.

Zhou Tieyi thought about it, and he used his [True Vision] to examine the dragon and snake in front of him to make sure that there would not be a bloody plot where the other party suddenly woke up and exploded as soon as he entered.

"Then open the cage."

Zhou Tieyi ordered.

Yuan Chaolong took out one of his tokens, and the light of the silver talismans dimmed. The heavy stone door was lifted up under the drive of the ink stone.

Without the influence of other forces around him, Zhou Tieyi produced a white jade chessboard with his backhand, and shone the chessboard on the dragon and snake that was more than ten feet long. The next moment, his figure and the dragon and snake disappeared, leaving only a white jade chessboard in place.

In the chessboard world, when Zhou Tieyi appeared with the dragon and snake, Tao Du Weng rushed over in surprise.

In the black void, green and red tree veins and blood vessels spread out, followed by a ten-foot-tall peach and plum tree with an indistinguishable human face.

"Father God, you are so good to me! Wings, fins, claws, horns... I have them all!"

Tao Du Weng's voice was full of praise.

“You can use this resource now.”

Zhou Tieyi took a step back and saw tree veins and blood vessels winding out from the darkness like a group of twisted snakes. Soon they completely enveloped the sleeping dragon snake.

Then those blood vessels suddenly pierced into the dragon snake's body along the scales. The dragon snake, still sleeping in a dream, twisted violently instinctively. The terrifying force directly broke the veins of the tree, but more veins grew, wrapped, and entangled, biting the prey tightly and not letting go.

At the same time, Zhou Tieyi also sensed that the spatial force within the chessboard was being mobilized, allowing the twisting force of the dragon and snake to be transmitted to the void, just like a person struggling in space, where only one tenth of the tenth strength could be used, unless one had the ability to break the connection between the inside and the outside.

The red blood vessels pierced into the flesh and blood, and relying on the control over the power of flesh and blood, they completely ignored the defense of a fifth-grade dragon snake. The blood vessels expanded and contracted, and the dragon snake's flesh and blood, which was like a hill, was withering and decaying at a speed visible to the naked eye. The peach and plum tree, which was already ten feet tall, grew again at an incredible speed and instantly reached three feet tall. On the branches covered with lightning marks, peach flowers, some pure white, some deep red, bloomed out of season.

In just two or three breaths, the branches were covered with layer upon layer of lush flowers, as if spring had silently arrived in this dry and lonely world.

Then, within two or three breaths, the white or red peach blossoms quickly withered and died, leaving only two huge peach and plum fruits at the top, one snow-white and the other bright red.

And when Zhou Tieyi looked at the mountain-like dragon snake entangled by Taodu Weng, the entire dragon snake had disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared.

Just based on the digestion speed and results, it deserves full marks.

Taodu Weng stretched out his branches and handed two huge peaches to Zhou Tieyi in a flattering manner.

During this process, Zhou Tieyi also discovered the changes in the Taoduweng. Not only did it grow to three meters tall, but its originally straight trunk also became "soft" and could be twisted and entangled at will. Tiny scales also appeared on the bark.

It's like a dragon, snake, and tree hybridized, and a life with a human face grew out.

Zhou Tieyi picked up the snow-white peach first, and asked curiously, "What is the use of this fruit?"

The original teachings of Confucianism can help people gain sudden enlightenment, and in an instant they allowed Zhou Tieyi to comprehend the twelve dragon seals.

Taodu Weng stretched out a branch and pointed at the white peaches and plums. "This fruit has accumulated the dragon snake's lifelong understanding of wind and thunder. It contains two complete dragon seals. Eating it will most likely help you comprehend the dragon seal of thunder."

Directly refine the complete life into an incomplete dragon seal!
This seems to be another derivative of his authority to usurp God.

His own [Usurpation God] authority is powerful, but it also has its limitations. The core of the usurpation lies in the rules. If a complete rule is not formed and it only exists in scattered forms, then [Usurpation God] will not be able to obtain useful information, just like that group of Yellow Spring power.

If one wants to activate his own [Usurpation of God], he must target the complete power of rules. Now, divine power and Taoist tradition perform best.

Tao Du Weng can supplement his authority in a certain way, that is to integrate the scattered power of rules to form a complete dragon seal!

"Can you also produce fruit with the dragon seal using other complete 'nutrients'?"

Tao Du Weng thought about it seriously, and then replied, "As long as the other nutrients are complete, I can try my best to breed fruits containing dragon seals. However, due to the limitations of my own Taoism, the loss is the smallest when I breed dragon seals of the four attributes of thunder, righteousness, flesh and blood, and plants. The loss of other dragon seals will be much greater. For example, I need three or four nutrients of this level before I can breed other types of dragon seals."

(End of this chapter)