Chapter 288 Preparations for a Cruise on the Luo River
In the chessboard world, Zhou Tieyi holds red and white flames in his hands.

As the holder of authority, he also knew how to use this fire.

First, this flame can burn most things in the world, including but not limited to matter, inner demons, ancestral qi and even impurities in the soul.

This characteristic has enabled the flame to play a huge role.

Even if the temperature of an ordinary flame is very high, it is helpless against invisible things such as inner demons.

But even if Zhang Hu's awakened Suanni's talent [Heart Fire] was only aimed at the Yin Demon.

The flame formed by the combination of the Red Emperor statue and the White Phoenix Fire can not only target external demons such as the Yin Demon, but can also burn the excess essence, energy and spirit absorbed by the body, that is, the impurities of the soul, which are the internal demons, also called the heart demon.

Second, this flame has a certain ability to be reborn from the ashes.

Of course, the power Zhou Tieyi can control now is not enough, just like the [Blood God Son] in his hands can only play a basic role. The red and white flames can repair injuries at this time, but it is far from being reborn from the ashes.

Third, this flame can ignite the ancestral qi, gather the rules of heaven and earth, and then bestow them on things.

In other words, with this flame, even if he has not reached the fifth level of military strategist "Forging Weapons", Zhou Tieyi can start trying to forge his own secret treasure.

He now has a lot of spiritual materials in his hands. Zhou Tieyi thought of the essence of the crocodile god. The other party has absorbed too many redundant essences, and cannot be melted into his golden body like a water python. Otherwise, it would be equivalent to himself taking on the impurities in the crocodile's essence. However, it is good for refining weapons.

Of course, this idea does not need to be tested immediately, as forging weapons is not a matter of one or two days.

Zhou Tieyi closed his palm and the red and white flames disappeared.

"Red Emperor Flame."

After naming it in the simplest way, Zhou Tieyi began to try his second harvest.

As soon as he had a thought, his soul jumped out of his body the next moment. This was the core ability of the seventh-grade Shinto skill "Forging the Soul", the spiritual journey.

For ordinary gods, with this ability, they are not limited to their own territory, but can go to wider areas to spread faith, and it is easy for them to travel thousands of miles at night.

But for Zhou Tieyi, this state is not of much use for the time being.

Even because he was in Tianjing, he just wandered around the world of the white jade chessboard twice.

After his soul returned to his body, Zhou Tieyi tried the effect of the embryonic form of his [State] authority again, and a wisp of light yellow breath lingered at his fingertips.

This is the power of national destiny that countless practitioners desire.

"But the power of national destiny in my hand is still too shallow. Compared with the power of national destiny of Daxia, there is a gap of tens of thousands of times, and it is difficult to put it into practical use..."

Zhou Tieyi evaluated it carefully and of course there is a tricky way to use it.

Zhou Tieyi thought of the "smell of money" of merchants. He thought he could use the power of national destiny in his hands to attach it to some things, giving them the smell of national destiny.

Because this is the true power of national destiny, those practitioners with the ability to see energy can see it from afar. As long as they don't get their hands on it, they will most likely think that this is a secret treasure of national destiny.

However, in front of the secret treasure of national destiny, I am afraid that many practitioners will find it difficult to control their greed. Combined with the smell of money, there are some special uses for it. Of course, how to use it specifically still needs experimentation.

After leaving the white jade chessboard, Zhou Tieyi appeared in the Qilin Pavilion of the Zhou Mansion. In front of him were a large number of letters and official documents.

During these ten days, he focused most of his attention on dealing with the wild world, while Daxia was also proceeding step by step. At the court meetings every three days, he was like a fighting cock, arguing with the Ministry of Justice and the Three Departments about the Huxin Academy case raised by Prince Ning, wanting to let the God-Slaying Department investigate the case as soon as possible.

But this time, Dong Xingshu and Qingkong Gui, the two third officials, also took it seriously, and the matter came to a standstill in the government.

As for Prince Ning's explanation, Zhou Tieyi's answer was also very simple.

He needed to publish this matter in the Tianjing News, spark public discussion, and finally use public opinion to force the Confucianists and Legalists to make concessions. This process would take time, and more than ten days was normal.

By the way, in order to show his appeasement to the Ning Palace, Zhou Tieyi invited Gu Yingtian, the representative of the Ning Palace, to cruise on the Luo River together in two days and visit the new medium-sized ship.

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In the Land of Illusion, inside a secret room.

"He decided to cruise the Luo River on July 13th."

Shanyin was the first to tell the time Zhou Tieyi had changed.

The figures shrouded in thick fog could not be distinguished between men, women, young and old.

One of them asked, "Why did you suddenly change the time?"

Shanyin explained, "People from Prince Ning's Mansion came to Tianjing. In order to win over the people from Prince Ning's Mansion, he planned to have the Tianjing Shipyard build a new shipyard in Tangzhou Prefecture. So this cruise on the Luo River is one way, and the other is to show Prince Ning's Mansion the achievements of the ship, which can not only sail in calm lakes, but also sail upstream in real rivers."

After listening to Shanyin's explanation, one of them said, "I know about this."

He did not say that he knew the source of the information, only that he knew who it was.

The others thought about it for a while. This was indeed in line with Zhou Tieyi's identity and personality. Even if he brought his beauty to travel along the Luo River, he still had to be busy with official business half of the time.

The singer Shanyin is just used to entertain and relieve boredom.

It was common for the bigwigs to cruise on the river and discuss world affairs. At night, it was common for them to have singing girls and beautiful ladies perform songs and dances on the several-story pleasure boats.

Thinking of this, one of them couldn't help but sneer, "He is indeed 'concerned about the country and the people'. When he was traveling with the singing girl, he didn't forget to win over the local vassal kings!"

"The person coming from Prince Ning's Mansion is a third-rank master!"

The person who had previously spoken out about knowing about this matter continued to speak out what he knew.

This news silenced everyone present.

The appearance of a third-grade person will cause many accidents.

Seeing that no one spoke for a long time, one of them smiled and said, "A third-rank cultivator is within the normal range of expectations. Everyone, he is not a fool, so it is normal for him to be accompanied by a third-rank cultivator when he leaves Tianjing, even in Luohe."

"The only thing we should be thankful for is that he has already used the Triple Ambergris, and this third-rank strategist is just his collaborator. He may help him fend off some enemies as a gesture of goodwill, but he will definitely not risk his life for him."

"That makes sense." Another person said, "Before he enters the Tomb of Soldiers, this is the best opportunity if you really want to claim the reward from the Dark Tower."

"Then proceed as planned. However, the real action will depend on you, the Caesalian Dao and the Joyful Dao. The most we can do is to help you disrupt the heavenly secrets within a certain range and stop that third-rank person for a short period of time."

"Of course."

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Inside the white jade chessboard.

Zhou Tieyi is making final preparations for a cruise on the Luo River the next day.

He has a killer move [Dark Drum of the Universe], which can affect the changes in the surrounding space in a short period of time. It can effectively affect the battles against the upper three ranks, especially when preventing the upper three ranks from escaping, it can play a miraculous role.

A battle of this level can decide life or death in just a breath or two.

The only problem is that my current strength is not enough. After using it once, I will be almost exhausted.

But Zhou Tieyi has found another solution.

Talisman!

When the Great Xia Emperor was in perfect condition, he used his power and national destiny to draw a spring thunder talisman.

And now, even without the help of His Majesty the Great Xia, Zhou Tieyi can respond to himself!
In a simple ritual, writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone are all available.

The paper was naturally the top-grade talisman paper obtained from the senior sister. Although this kind of talisman paper was precious and each piece was no less than a fourth-grade spiritual object, with the background of Taiyi Temple and Zhou Tieyi's identity, he was still able to get more than a dozen pieces.

Next to the paper, there was a ball of national destiny. This ball of national destiny was certainly not the simple stuff like Zhou Tieyi's, but the national destiny extracted from the jade pendant obtained from Li Jing.

Although Zhou Tieyi of the shipyard was not going to intervene, it was reasonable for him to get other benefits from Li Jing accordingly.

After everything was ready, Zhou Tieyi used his hands as a pen, and the blood and energy at his fingertips completely merged with the golden power of national destiny. Compared to the last time he drew the talisman, he was more adept this time.

One stroke moves the world.

The ox horns and the coiled dragon come together, and the phoenix pattern is the number one deity!
This time, in addition to the ten common talisman heads of Daxia, Zhou Tieyi used the talisman head of a god for the first time, which also symbolized his own ox horn and coiled dragon pattern!

When the talisman head fell, in the desolate world, Zhou Tieyi's divine body opened its eyes.

Nine drums of thunder and one drum of time and space converge.

The drums beat vigorously, and the power was transmitted across time and space.

With the help of the divine body, Zhou Tieyi himself seemed to be assisted by a god.

The invisible force of time and space also gathered in the ritual like ancestral qi. The appearance of [Dark Drum of the Universe] also appeared behind Zhou Tieyi. He continued to write. A dragon seal symbolizing space appeared under the combination of national destiny and his own blood, acting as the talisman's core and filling the talisman.

However, this time, Zhou Tieyi did not choose to end the talisman with the word "Feng", but chose to end it with the word "Ling".

The power of this deity comes from himself, and the dragon seal of [Dark Drum of the Universe] comes from himself. Zhou Tieyi's control over this talisman is naturally greater than that of the original Spring Thunder Talisman.

Naturally, you can end with a stronger word "令".

After the pen was put to paper, invisible spatial fluctuations spread out like ripples on the water. The fruits on the peach and plum trees behind Zhou Tieyi began to sway slightly. It was unknown whether the blood-colored fruits were formed by absorbing human corpses, but gradually they took on complete human shapes. They were like less than one-month-old fetuses, swaying slightly on the branches, and even faint laughter could be heard.

Zhou Tieyi put down his pen and looked at the golden talisman in front of him with a tired look. Because it was integrated with a powerful force of national destiny, this talisman was a level stronger than the [Dark Drum of the Universe] that he cast himself.

Now we are just waiting to cruise on the Luo River.

(End of this chapter)