About a quarter of an hour later, Zhang Yue, who had finally stopped laughing, was looking at the map while coming up with rotten ideas, "What was that? I feel like you, Qianzhi, might as well break your own legs and claim you’re seriously injured and can’t make the appointnt."
"Nonsense! Even if Qianzhi capsized, the worst outco would be breaking arms and legs. They can’t possibly slaughter him, can they?
Since he already has the determination to break both of his legs, why not try sothing before capsizing instead of chickening out before the fight?"
Peng Fulai also was staring at the map, "The scariest thing is if those at the heavenly level and half-heavenly level start fighting, the whole Capital City would suffer. So we must attend the appointnt. I have a feeling that if we can prevent this fight, it would be an imasurable rit."
Hearing this, Li Xuan’s face couldn’t help but turn green.
"He’s asking for it." Zhang Yue snickered and continued to advise Li Xuan, "How about you learn the Taoist Divine Skill ’Yiqi Hua Sanqing’? Wouldn’t that solve the problem?
One person splits into three incarnations. Whether it’s four boats or ten boats, everything could be arranged perfectly."
"I’ve thought about this thod too." Li Xuan, rubbing his chin, was discussing seriously the feasibility of this thod with Zhang Xuan, "The Gate of ’Yiqi Hua Sanqing’, is available in the Qinglong Hall’s book collection building and I have sufficient rits in my hands.
The only question now is whether I can create a miracle by mastering this ultimate Divine Skill within two days."
After hearing this, Peng Fulai couldn’t help but laugh, "As far as I know, the seventh generation Heavenly Master Zhang Wuji mastered ’Yiqi Hua Sanqing’ after reaching the heavenly level, right? He’s regarded as the person at Longhu Mountain who ca closest to Zhang Daoling.
Also, I rember that to get to ’Yiqi Hua Sanqing’ you must concurrently cultivate the techniques of wind, earth, and wood, none of which you know."
Li Xuan sighed, his expression sorrowful.
He was thinking about how he ended up in this situation.
When he first crossed into this world, he wanted to be a monogamous man, to show the won of this era what a modern man is like.
Yet sohow, he ended up on this road of no return, a road leading to the royal harem—
Even if it was the royal harem, the key point was that none of the won in the harem were the ones he could beat or conquer.
Li Xuan pondered a lot, and finally concluded that he was ’forced by circumstances’. He didn’t intend to be a scoundrel man from the start.
It was all due to the ti, the situation, the fate, there was an invisible hand controlling him—yes, that’s it!
"But apart from that, there’s simply no solution!" Zhang Yue scratched his head, "We can’t possibly create two or three extra hours, can we? Also, the Taiqing Palace at Paozi River is at the southeast corner of the Capital City, while Shicha Sea is at the northwest corner. The straight line distance between the two places is thirty miles, and they’re separated by a palace. Just commuting would take up quite a lot of ti."
At this mont, Peng Fulai suddenly had an inspiration, "Create two or three extra hours? I now have an immature idea that may work. However—"
His gaze turned to one corner of the room, "Before we discuss the plan, we need to remove the insider,"
"Insider?"
Li Xuan followed Peng Fulai’s gaze in confusion, then noticed the Azure Phoenix Niulang standing on the folding screen.
The Azure Phoenix Niulang just stared blankly, wondering how he beca the insider. Was the matter they were discussing related to him?
After so consideration, Li Xuan reached out and grabbed the Azure Phoenix Niulang, who was trying to escape, tied it up, and stuffed its ears.
"Done!" Li Xuan threw Niulang, bound hand and foot, to the side, while clapping his hands, "Peng, what’s your idea? Let’s hear it."
"The key is to create more ti!"
A flash of brilliance passed through Peng Fulai’s eyes, "I just thought about the ’Fire Tree Silver Flower Nightless Sky’, which usually begins at the end of Hour of You and lasts for two hours.
What if we can advance the ti for fireworks? Advancing it to the sixth mont or the fourth mont of the Hour of You? Wouldn’t that create an extra hour?
Following this line of thought, we should be able to solve this problem."
"Great idea!" Li Xuan’s eyes lit up, giving Peng Fulai a hearty slap on the shoulder, "Good job! Truly a good friend of mine, Peng!"
"But Princess Changle certainly won’t let Li Xuan leave the palace before the gates are locked at the eighth mont of Hour of You,"
Zhang Yue was pessimistic about this plan, "Yu Hongchang is deeply affectionate towards Li Xuan, you’ve seen her nature and tactics. Unless we can also advance the ti when the palace gates are locked, it’s unlikely she’ll let him go,"
Li Xuan and Peng Fulai shared a look, then Li Xuan sighed, "Also a good friend of mine, Taishan!"
Zhang Yue was perplexed, wondering if he had said sothing wrong?
Nonetheless, he was happy to be of help to Li Xuan.
"As for Taiqing Palace, I should have a way. The problem is how to make them lock the palace gate earlier?"
Peng Fulai, stroking his chin, fell into deep thought, "And Xue Yunrou. No matter how much earlier the ’Fire Tree Silver Flower Nightless Sky’ is set off, it still needs to be extended to the fourth mont of Hour Xu (8pm). We can’t have people setting off fireworks during the dayti, can we?
Moreover, after watching the fireworks, Li Xuan can’t just leave, right? At the very least, he needs to spend so ti with her, and escort her back to Earl Jingan’s mansion."
Zhang Yue snorted, "That’s even more impossible, unless Xue Yunrou gets the ti wrong."
Upon hearing this, Li Xuan and Peng Fulai’s eyes lit up.
Li Xuan couldn’t help but sigh again: "This thod can be called a clever plan, you, Taishan, truly have great wisdom under an appearance of stupidity."
"That is indeed a wonderful thought!" Peng Fulai also uttered with admiration: "He might actually be the smartest among us, you know."
Zhang Yue scratched his head, wondering what these two were talking about.
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The ancients say ’three lieutenants are better than Zhuge’, indeed it makes sense, the early morning ’combat eting’ brilliantly concluded after an hour.
Not only was Li Xuan revitalized, he cheerfully walked Peng Fulai and Zhang Yue to the door, sweeping away his previous listless deanor.
That was because he would have to rely on the two of them for the upcoming battle in two days, thus he couldn’t help but show more respect.
However, after walking them out, he found that the Jiang’s dical Hall next door was already showing signs of life.
Li Xuan was just about to find Jiang Yunqi to express his gratitude, so he brought a large pile of gifts he had extorted from Sun Jizong and visited him.
Certainly the divine doctor from Jiangnan was in the dical hall, his mood seed desolate, even Li Xuan’s arrival did not cheer him up.
When Li Xuan asked when the dical hall was going to open, Jiang Yunqi looked at him with a complex expression.
"It’s too late this year, it will have to be next year. I plan to begin treating patients on the eighth day of January. Afterwards, I have to stay in this dical hall for three months."
He thought it was this rascal who caused him to rush to Beijing during the New Year. At this ti, his wife and daughter are not by his side, making the New Year a bit bleak.
"So, on New Year’s Eve, wouldn’t Uncle be alone?"
Li Xuan could only shake his head, a look of incomprehension on his face: "Uncle, you are really sothing. You couldn’t open up before New Year’s anyway, and it wouldn’t matter if you delayed it by more than a month. Why did you have to co to Beijing at this ti?"
Speaking of this, he also felt a little guilty. He initially planned to hold a small birthday party and invite Jiang Yunqi to celebrate New Year’s Eve with him.
But he thought that if Jiang Yunqi saw a table full of girls, he would probably get even more upset. Moreover, Jiang Yunqi probably wouldn’t like this kind of young people’s gathering, so he gave up.
Now that his New Year’s Eve is already split between his beloved ladies, it’s even more impossible.
Jiang Yunqi thought, isn’t my quiet New Year’s Eve all because of you, you little rascal?
Looking at the result of his entry into Beijing, his wife’s worries were not unfounded.
"We practitioners, what do we care about New Year’s Eve?"
Jiang Yunqi nonchalantly waved his hand: "Your aunt and Hanyun talked about coming to Beijing to accompany , but I declined. I have these disciples with , so I won’t be lonely."
Upon hearing the first sentence from Jiang Yunqi, Li Xuan’s heart skipped a beat. He couldn’t spare any more ti on New Year’s Eve!
It was only when he heard that Lady Jiang and Jiang Hanyun were not coming that he sighed with relief.
Li Xuan then kept Jiang Yunqi company for a long ti, discussing so questions about dicine and cultivation, before he finally said goodbye and left.
Shortly after Li Xuan turned and left, Jiang Yunqi’s expression changed slightly, and he looked towards the void.
The next mont, a golden talisman broke through the air and fell in front of Jiang Yunqi.
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After leaving the dical hall, Li Xuan did not go to the Liudao Division, instead he returned to Earl Jingan’s mansion to continue refining the ’Dayan Divine Shield’.
No other choice, this was his final ticket on New Year’s Eve. If worse cos to worst, he would have to let Yu Hongchang and the others vent their anger, so he had to keep an eye on this device.
In fact, Li Xuan had started refining it the previous night, but had not yet completed it by dawn.
The Dayan Divine Shield is not a complete shield, it is composed of fifty palm-sized tal pieces. Forty-nine pieces are solid, and one piece is hidden in the void, invisible.
This accords with the profound aning of ’Dayan’s number is fifty, its use is forty-nine, one is hidden’ from the "Changes" series of classics.
Usually, these fifty tal pieces are distributed around Li Xuan’s body, blocking any external force attacks automatically.
However, the defensive power of a single piece can only reach the strength of a top-grade magical instrunt. To make the ’Dayan Divine Shield’ reach a higher defensive strength, six pieces of it must be grouped together organically, so that their sum reaches one hundred forty-four, two hundred sixteen, three hundred sixty, or their product reaches eleven thousand five hundred twenty.
This coincides with the quotation from the "Changes" classic, ’the number of strategies in Cong equals two hundred sixteen, the number of strategies in Kun equals one hundred forty-four, a total of three hundred sixty, corresponding to the number of days in a year. The sum of the two strategies is eleven thousand five hundred twenty, which stands for the number of all creatures.’
In summary, this is a very interesting magical instrunt. In the hands of soone who is proficient in mathematics, its defensive power is almost on par with an immortal treasure.
Li Xuan spent almost half a day and finally managed to refine this magical instrunt. Afterwards, he took out an elixir from the small Sumi Ring.
This was the elixir ’White Tiger Xiyuan Elixir’ that he had exchanged from the Liudao Division for his rits in capturing the Demon Qilin.
As Li Xuan swallowed the elixir, in less than twenty breaths, his whole body made a ’pang pang’ sound, as if mung beans were continuously bursting inside his body.
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