Chapter 224 Young Loyalty
Yuan Ming, with doubts in his heart, carefully sensed Lin Junsheng's practice process.
The next moment, he found that Lin Junsheng's practice of the method, the flow of mana in the meridians in his body, etc., were much clearer than the previous experience of the burning and exploding technique that he felt when he possessed the little emperor.
Since Lin Junsheng's practice of the method is very similar to the Nine Yuan Jue, and Yuan Ming practiced the Nine Yuan Jue by self-study in most cases, without the guidance of teachers, this intuitive feeling, compared with the situation when he practiced the Nine Yuan Jue, did benefit a little.
However, Yuan Ming burned incense and possessed Lin Junsheng this time, not for these things, but to find out whether this person was related to the assassination of himself. Now that Lin Junsheng was sitting here and practicing motionlessly, he couldn't find out anything.
Yuan Ming tried to influence Lin Junsheng, but the two seemed to be close at hand, but also seemed to be separated by a very long distance. No matter how he operated his soul power or tried to make other efforts, he could not affect the other party at all.
A sense of powerlessness arose spontaneously.
All he could do now was to share the other party's vision and feelings.
"This is the difference between the imitation black incense and the original black incense." After a few attempts, Yuan Ming had to give up.
Not long after, his eyes went dark again, and his consciousness returned to his body.
Yuan Ming opened his eyes and frowned slightly.
This time, the same materials were used to make incense, but the incense ash from the Lord's Mansion was added. Although the feeling of possession was clearer than before, the duration was almost the same. It seems that this is all because of the use of different incense ash?
The incense burner can only be used after seven days. In a short period of time, it is impossible to find out the truth of this assassination, and it is imperative to change the next itinerary.
Yuan Ming took out a piece of animal skin, on which he drew a map of the South Xinjiang based on the information he collected. If you don't return to the Middle Earth from the North Region, you can only detour to the East Region or the West Region.
The South Xinjiang and the West Region have always been mysterious. It is said that they are controlled by a huge religious cultivation force. They are extremely xenophobic and have basically no exchanges with the other three regions. They also strictly prohibit cultivators from other places from entering the West Region.
Yuan Ming's eyes fell on the southern border east region marked on the animal skin map. It seemed that he had no choice but to go here.
He pondered for a moment and took out a dirty token from his storage ring.
This was given to him by the Xuanhua Zhenren when he bought Qingxuanxiang in the Black Rock City Market. The man claimed to be from the Xuanhua Temple in the East Region. If Yuan Ming passed through the East Region in the future, he could visit him on the way.
He just listened casually at the time and didn't take the man's words seriously, but he still put the token in the storage ring. After all, it didn't take up much space.
However, with the superposition effect of Qingxuanxiang and elixirs during cultivation, and his in-depth exploration of various spiritual incense, he had to re-examine the spiritual incense, which was not valued by the North Region.
Yuan Ming has a lot of things he wants to do now. If he hadn't had to, he wouldn't have made a special trip to the East Region. But now the situation forced him to go to the East Region. It's just right to ask the old Taoist for advice on incense making.
Thinking of this, he roughly planned the route on the animal skin map, then flew out of the valley and headed east with the white jade shuttle.
The southern border and northern regions are vast. Although the white jade shuttle travels fast, it consumes a lot of mana. Although the Qingyun Crane does not require too much mana to drive, its endurance is insufficient. Yuan Ming used the two alternately, almost day and night, and it still took a full five days to reach the border of the northern region.
Although the southern border and eastern regions are not as closed as the western regions, rash entry, especially by flying, may easily attract the attention of the local cultivation world and cause unnecessary trouble.
Yuan Ming just wanted to keep a low profile, so he simply mixed in with ordinary business people and easily entered the eastern region.
The eastern region is close to the sea, and the mortal cities are generally much richer than the northern region, and the people live more comfortably. Yuan Ming walked on foot, feeling the simple and natural mortal world, and his tense mood was relieved a lot.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and the journey was quite smooth.
Yuan Ming was relieved, and he raised the jade shuttle and continued to move forward according to the previous plan.
Half a day later, a towering green mountain appeared in front of him. The mountain was beautiful and rich in spiritual energy. It was a good place for cultivation.
Such a place for cultivation is usually occupied by a sect of immortal cultivation. Yuan Ming was about to take a detour, but suddenly stopped his escape light and looked at the top of the mountain.
From here, he could vaguely see the situation on the top of the mountain. There were many buildings there, but they were all in a dilapidated state, a desolate scene, and no human breath.
He was a little confused, and he quickly arrived near the mountain by controlling the jade shuttle.
The closer the distance, the clearer the situation on the green mountain.
There were many buildings on the top and halfway up the mountain. It seemed that they were once the location of a large-scale immortal cultivation mountain gate. Now they are in ruins, covered with moss and cobwebs, and I don’t know how many years they have been abandoned.
Yuan Ming was a little disappointed. This sect ruins that had been dilapidated for many years and placed here upright must have been searched many times by people, and it was unlikely to leave him any benefits.
He flew around the mountain twice and found a dusty plaque in a collapsed ruin. On it were three large characters "Liu Xin Zong", which seemed to be the name of this ruined sect.
Yuan Ming's expression suddenly changed, and he landed on a ruined hall on the mountainside.
This seemed to be an ancestral hall. There was a table in the corner of the nearly half-collapsed wall, on which were several tablets piled up in a mess, all of which were written with the names of immortal cultivators.
Naturally, no one had cleaned this place for a long time. A thick layer of dust was piled on the altar and the tablet. Only half of the portrait of a person on the wall behind the table remained. It was vaguely recognizable that it was an old man with a celestial appearance.
Yuan Ming's eyes turned, and then he quickly walked to the collapsed corner of the wall, leaned over and pushed away some broken bricks and tiles, revealing an ancient bronze incense burner leaning on a half-block of wood, with a lot of gray-black incense ash deposited in it.
He looked at the incense burner in front of him, and his mind turned.
The previous possession made Yuan Ming realize that the black incense made from different incense ashes had different effects of possession. The incense burner was his biggest help. If he could figure out the specific details of the influence of incense ashes on the possession effect, it would be a major breakthrough for him to explore the mystery of the original black incense.
Yuan Ming took some incense ashes, found a hidden place on the green mountain, and began to make incense.
His incense making skills are now quite proficient, and he soon completed a black incense with possession.
The Tai Chi pattern of the incense burner has been completely lit, and Yuan Ming inserted the incense stick into it and lit it.
Lin Junsheng, the little emperor, and his father, General Yuan, flashed through his mind, and finally locked onto his father, and his eyes quickly fell into darkness.
When he woke up, he had already possessed General Yuan.
At this moment, General Yuan was sitting in a carriage, closing his eyes to rest, as if he had just returned home from court.
Yuan Ming's vision was also very clear this time. He sensed the situation in his father's body, and the flow of mana was clearly presented in his mind, which was clearer than when he possessed Lin Junsheng before, almost like turning over the palm to see the lines.
"It seems that different incense ashes have different effects. The incense ashes from Liuxin Sect are better than those from Tiehu Town." Yuan Ming had expected this and was not surprised.
The carriage soon arrived at the general's mansion, and General Yuan changed into casual clothes and walked quickly to the side hall of the wing room.
A beautiful woman in white, about forty years old, was sitting here alone, wearing a blue jade hairpin and a snow-white fur coat. Her eyebrows were curved like crescents and as light as distant mountains. She was extremely gentle and decent.
Yuan Ming looked at the beautiful woman in front of him, and an indescribable emotion surged in his heart. This person was the wife of the general, his mother.
Compared with the appearance in his memory, there were more fine lines on both sides of his mother's eyes, and there was also some inconspicuous silver in the black hair on her temples.
"Madam, your cold is not healed yet, why did you come out?" General Yuan asked.
Yuan Ming's heart tightened. His mother had a cold? It looked like she was not in good condition.
The cold can be serious or mild, and you must not be careless. It's a pity that he was not at home, otherwise he would definitely check his mother's pulse.
As soon as this thought came up, General Yuan suddenly stepped forward and held the wrist of the beautiful woman in white.
"It's okay for a minor illness... Why are you holding my hand? You don't know medicine!" The beautiful woman in white said strangely.
"Nothing..." General Yuan was stunned, let go of his hand, and sat down on the chair next to him, feeling a little confused.
He didn't know why he held his wife's wrist, and it seemed that this strange idea suddenly came into his mind.
Yuan Ming was also stunned there. What happened just now? Did his thoughts affect his father's behavior?
"Is there any news about Ming'er?" The beautiful woman in white asked without paying attention to General Yuan's strange behavior.
"Don't worry, we have found him." General Yuan's stern face showed a faint smile.
"Really?" The beautiful woman in white couldn't help but stand up and asked in surprise.
"It's true, and Ming'er has also turned a disaster into a blessing. He has been accepted into a sect in Southern Xinjiang to practice, and can be considered a person in the immortal way." General Yuan said.
"It's good that he is safe! Ming'er, this stubborn child, wanted to be accepted into Changchun Temple back then, but was not accepted because of his poor qualifications. The young man was arrogant and swore in anger that he would not step into the immortal way. But I know he must be unwilling in his heart, and now he has got what he wanted." The beautiful woman in white breathed a sigh of relief.
"Although Ming'er is already a cultivator, his cultivation is still shallow after all. The journey from Southern Xinjiang to Dajin is long. I have sent someone to pick him up, and I believe he will be able to go home soon." General Yuan said.
Yuan Ming's heart moved. General Yuan seemed to be unaware that he was not traveling with the guards he sent. It seemed that Southern Xinjiang was too far away from the capital of Dajin, and there was no convenient means of communication between the two.
He shook his head and his thoughts returned to what had just happened.
In addition to the black incense that came with the incense burner, which could directly control the behavior of others, when he used his own spiritual incense to possess others, he was just a "bystander" who was in the situation, but he had never been able to influence the behavior of the possessed. When he possessed Lin Junsheng seven days ago, he tried to influence the other party, but it was ineffective.