The birds spread their wings and flew high, passing over the city whose houses stretched to the end of the sky.

This is the Shenjing of the Great Zhou Dynasty, a prosperous capital for hundreds of years. After several expansions, the outer city now has no city walls and is only divided into small towns.

The crisscrossing avenues divide Kyoto into grids.

The bird flew over the avenue and the grid-like square market, and was about to fall into the palace with red walls and gold tiles.

At this time, an invisible thin thread fell from the cloud and penetrated into the bird's body.

The translucent white silk thread was continuously injected, and the bird kept struggling, but in an instant it lost its life and hung in the air.

With the injection of extremely fine silk threads, nets can be faintly seen forming throughout the meridians in the bird's body and even in its eyeballs.

It looked like a spider web, and then quickly disappeared.

Not long after, the bird spread its wings again, turned around and flew towards the southeast.

That's the direction of Yanding Mansion.

In the splendid palace hall below, the charcoal stove is still burning even though spring has begun.

There were layers of guards outside, and the palace maids stood in pairs along the corridor to the very end.

Among the golden gauze curtains, an old man wearing a white Taoist robe was sitting cross-legged on a futon, meditating on enlightenment.

In fact, just sitting there and not thinking about anything is not as real as Gao Xian's Supreme Dream Sutra.

A eunuch led two people holding food boxes and walked in through the corridor.

He carefully opened the curtain and said, "Your Majesty! The medicine is ready!"

"Ahem!"

The emperor in Taoist robes coughed twice, sat up with help, drank the medicine in one gulp, and his face was already glowing red.

The eunuch whispered again: "Liu An is back. He is waiting outside. He said he has something urgent to do and wants to see His Majesty."

The emperor frowned: "Didn't I ask him to invite the immortal? Why did he come back so soon?"

"Let him in."

Yanding Prefecture was originally the place at the feet of the Emperor and the gateway to the capital. Riding a fast horse from Yanding Prefecture, one could reach the capital in as little as one day.

Eunuch Liu An, who had gone to see the immortal, hurried back and knelt down in front of the emperor in great excitement.

"Your Majesty, this slave is back."

The old emperor opened his eyes and was shocked: "You...are Liu An?"

Liu An was still an old eunuch with wrinkles on his face. When he came back, most of the wrinkles on his face had gone away. He looked as if time had gone back in time and he had become much younger.

The Emperor Zhou, who had silver hair like an old lion, was the most sensitive to this change. He rushed out immediately, squatted in front of Eunuch Liu An, grabbed his face and looked at him carefully.

Eunuch Liu did not dare to move, and allowed the emperor to grab his face and look around.

The more the old emperor looked at it, the more excited and twinkling his eyes became: "Tell me, what is going on?"

Eunuch Liu knelt down and kowtowed again: "Elixir of Life! This old slave took a breath of the elixir of life, and that's why he changed like this."

"What did you say? The elixir of life?"

The emperor gasped when he heard this, his eyes turned red, and he shouted eagerly: "You old guy, don't show off, tell me quickly."

Eunuch Liu immediately told in detail everything that happened when he arrived at Yanding Mansion.

When talking about how to go up the mountain, the immortal waved his whisk, and the clouds and mist swirled down from the top of the mountain.

"The whole mountain is covered with clouds, and the Taoist temple seems to be floating on the clouds."

"The Immortal is sitting cross-legged on the clouds, holding a fly whisk in his arms, and between his eyebrows there is a trace of the Dao like a Dao talisman."

"The immortal smiled and replied..."

At this point, Eunuch Liu became hesitant and did not dare to say anything more.

"What did the immortal say?" The old emperor, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, said in an urgent voice.

When the emperor asked, Eunuch Liu knelt on the ground and said with trembling body.

"When did gods become sealed by humans?"

The emperor was shocked and regretful when he heard this. Instead, he felt that this was the immortal he was looking for, not the deceitful people raised in Beijing.

Finally he let out a loud laugh: "Hahahahaha! Why does anyone need to seal the gods!"

"This is the true immortal! The true Taoist Lord!"

After finishing speaking, he asked Eunuch Liu to continue.

Only then did Eunuch Liu get up: "Just after the immortal said these words, suddenly there was an earthquake on the mountain. When the old slave looked up, he saw a ray of light rushing to the sky from the top of the mountain, and then a long rainbow hung down.

At the top of the mountain.”

Eunuch Liu also raised his head at this moment, and that touching scene seemed to flash across his pupils again.

"I even faintly saw an immortal cauldron emitting golden light. The light reaching the sky was leaked because the cauldron lid was opened."

"The alchemy energy rushes down from the mountain, and we are waiting to meet it."

"In an instant, flowers bloom on the hillside, trees leaf out, bloom, and bear fruit in just an instant."

"I turned around again and saw that Taoist Lingxu next to me had his hair turned black, and all the wrinkles on his face were gone."

The more the emperor listened, the more impatient he became, and the more he felt as if a kitten was tickling his heart, which was unbearable.

Hearing this, he stood up immediately: "What is refined in that immortal cauldron must be the legendary elixir of immortality, the supreme elixir."

"If not, how can a burst of elixir energy make hundreds of flowers bloom, dead trees bloom, and people rejuvenate and rejuvenate?"

Having said this, the emperor looked at the red eunuch kneeling in the hall with jealousy and sigh.

"Why am I not here, so I can't have a glimpse of the immortal's grace?"

"On the contrary, this slave like you has been given a hint of immortality. It's really a waste of natural resources."

He turned to look at the other eunuch at the door: "Please quickly invite Si Tianjian Tao Xianjian to enter the palace."

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It was already dark, and a carriage arrived in front of the palace gate.

Tao Xian, the eunuch who had changed into an official robe, stepped out of the carriage, walked through the palace corridor, and entered the palace greeted by several eunuchs carrying lanterns.

The emperor was still wearing his Taoist robes, sitting cross-legged on a futon, with a gorgeous and refined woman standing beside him, also wearing Taoist robes and holding a fly whisk. She was a concubine.

This feels a little weird.

One is obviously a true Taoist priest, but he wears official uniform.

They are obviously the emperor and concubine, but they are pretending to be Taoist priests and Kun Dao.

"I have met Your Majesty and Concubine Li Shu!" Tao Xian stepped forward to greet them.

"Give me a seat for Tao Aiqing," the emperor said calmly.

When he met the emperor, Tao Xian just bowed and bowed, and was given a seat by the emperor.

It can be seen that Tao Xian was regarded as a civil and military official, but his status in the emperor's heart was transcendent.

The emperor couldn't wait to talk about the immortal Kongchenzi and asked Tao Xian: "Is this a real immortal?"

After Tao Xian listened carefully, his eyes became even more shocked, but he also felt a little worried.

"Of course he is a true immortal."

"Pindao has checked and found that there are records of this immortal from the previous dynasty. This dynasty has been in existence for nearly a hundred years, and this immortal is still immortal."

"You don't practice strange magic and magic, but you use the power of heaven and earth with every move you make."

"A sword can cut mountains and rivers, fire can refine the universe, it can move objects thousands of miles, and it can even call for wind and rain."

"Except for immortals, I can't think of anyone who can do this."

The emperor's eyes were even brighter: "So, this elixir of life is also real?"

Tao Xian also answered truthfully: "Taoist Lingxu is a disciple of our Tianjian, and he is also proficient in the art of alchemy."

"Since he guessed that the elixir refined by the immortal is the elixir of immortality, his words are probably true. Even if not, since a burst of elixir energy can make people rejuvenate, then the elixir refined in the Kunlun Divine Cauldron must also be true.

It has the effect of immortality, even more than that."

The emperor immediately stood up and made a decision: "In this case, I want to go to the Immortal Mountain of Yanding Prefecture to personally welcome the immortal down the mountain."

"Tao Aiqing can come with me."

Tao Xian entered the palace today to tell the emperor about the legendary leader of the Five Gods Sect, the legendary Lord Xuanzhu Huode.

Although the True Lord Xuanzhu Huode has not been found so far, Tao Xian has found many clues.

Not only did the capital secretly revive the belief in enshrining the True Lord Xuanzhu Huode, but they also traced it all the way, even into the palace.

Secretly, Tao Xian even felt that some of the civil and military officials had experienced abnormalities recently, especially officials from Jiangzhou, Gongzhou, and Yunzhou, who were vaguely related to this incident recently.

If both the emperor and himself left the capital at this time, major changes would most likely occur.
To be continued...