Chapter 292: Learn to Fight for Favor Correctly

Although Huang Lingling's cooking skills are amazing, even he, a god and demon who has tasted all kinds of delicious food, finds her food delicious.

This is without using any god-level ingredients, but love requires not only cooking skills, but also feelings.

For the time being, he is not planning to make Huang Lingling his new love, he is just giving her a chance.

There is a saying in the previous life that if you want to capture a man's heart, you must first capture his stomach. At least for now, Huang Lingling has captured his stomach.

So Lu Changjing was going to give her a chance. If she could seize the opportunity, he would let her become his new love.

But before that, he planned to improve Huang Lingling's cultivation strength, so that Huang Lingling would not get old before she had eaten many meals cooked by her.

The girl's talent and aptitude are pretty good, more than one in a hundred, and her appearance is also in the thousands, but her talent is a little bit biased.

The best thing is naturally cooking, which is at the top level, and he has extraordinary talent and qualifications in this area.

In addition, he also has a good talent in alchemy. Although he is only eighteen years old, he is already a high-level ordinary alchemist.

You should know that her cultivation level is only that of a mid-level warrior, but her alchemy skills have advanced further.

If it is cultivated well, it can be considered a promising material.

Lu Changjing told her the skills and methods of undergoing hair removal and marrow cleansing. After she understood and mastered them, he began to perform hair removal and marrow cleansing on her.

There was no direct verbal battle, just palm to palm, face to face, and the contact area was not large.

Although Huang Lingling is good-looking, Lu Changjing can't just hit her on the lips when they first meet. There has to be some sense of boundaries and he can wait until they are familiar with each other.

Even if it's love, it's just quasi-love, it hasn't reached the level of love yet.

As mentioned before, he did this for the sake of their practice and did not have any major distractions for the time being.

With the attention of the power of heaven and earth, Huang Lingling reacted quickly. Even if it was just the contact of the palm, it was not something Huang Lingling could bear, so Lu Changjing could only slow down the speed of hair removal and marrow cleansing.

"Concentrate and practice well!"

With Lu Changjing's reminder, Huang Lingling cleared away all the messy thoughts in her mind and began to practice with all her strength.

Lu Changjing also continued to increase the energy poured into Huang Lingling's body. In addition to the power of heaven and earth, he gradually poured in the Nine Yang Qi and the energy of gods and demons.

With wave after wave of impacts, Huang Lingling's talent, cultivation foundation and realm began to soar. Among them, the biggest improvement was naturally the realm of cultivation, but the power consumed was not much. The biggest consumption was still in talent and cultivation foundation.

Only a fraction of her strength was used to improve her cultivation level, but it has already allowed Huang Lingling to make rapid progress.

His physical cultivation level immediately broke through to the high-level warrior level, and then his spiritual cultivation level, which had just begun to be practiced, was raised to the middle-level warrior level at an extremely fast speed.

After that, his physical cultivation broke through the shackles and became a top-level warrior. Then his spiritual cultivation entered the high-level warrior level.

As time goes by, Huang Lingling's adaptability is improving, and she can withstand more and more shocks and forces.

The foundation of cultivation has increased by more than two times, and the talent and aptitude has also increased by more than several times. The feeling of rapid progress makes Huang Lingling a little intoxicated.

She is like a small boat on the waves, being tossed by the waves and on the verge of collapse, but every time she experiences the impact of the waves, she can gain great improvement.

Unknowingly, Huang Lingling's body and mind cultivation have reached the pinnacle of a tenth-level warrior, and she is about to reach the bottleneck of a grandmaster.

In order to better help Huang Lingling break free from the shackles, Lu Changjing had to increase the area of ​​contact and hold Huang Lingling in his arms, so that he could better grasp the situation inside her body and at the same time inject more energy into her body.

Then even more turbulent energy rolled in, and Huang Lingling almost couldn't bear it.

Fortunately, just when she thought she was about to break, accompanied by a loud roar, the bottleneck leading to the Qi Refining Master was broken.

At this moment, Lu Changjing had already kissed her cherry lips. There was no other way. In order to help her break through the barrier better, Lu Changjing could only give Huang Lingling the advantage and let her take his first kiss of the day.

After the breakthrough in Qi Refining, the levels of Body Refining and Spirit Refining followed closely, breaking through the bottlenecks and shackles one after another and reaching the first-order Grandmaster level.

There was no need to push on. The improvement this time was already big enough, and if it got any bigger, Huang Lingling would hurt herself.

From a sixth-level warrior to a first-level grandmaster, there are five small realms and one big realm, and it is the kind that cultivates both spirit, energy and mind at the same time. Together, there are a dozen small realms and several big realms in total. The improvement is really huge.

However, with Lu Changjing's comprehensive strength close to the top level of gods and demons, he did not hesitate to sacrifice his foundation to help Huang Lingling improve her cultivation. He also let her take a lot of spiritual fruits and spiritual medicines, even magical fruits and magical medicines. It is normal to have such an improvement.

Moreover, Lu Changjing also used the top-level mystical marrow cleansing secret technique. Under such circumstances, he was only promoted to the first-order grandmaster level, which was already a deliberate suppression by Lu Changjing.

Although Huang Lingling's talent and aptitude have not yet reached the level of one in a thousand, she is very close. After a few more hair removal and marrow cleansing, she should be able to break through to the level of one in a thousand.

His cultivation foundation is already three times that of warriors of the same level, and his overall strength has increased more than a hundred times. It will probably take a long time just to adapt, and it cannot be accomplished in a short period of time.

Lu Changjing took special care of Huang Lingling, at least allowing her to walk and live a normal life. Otherwise, with her now rapidly increased strength, she might destroy everything around her and cause serious harm to herself if she was not careful.

It took several hours for Huang Lingling to get used to the situation and stop destroying things at will. Only then did Lu Changjing send her back.

Lu Changjing was quite appreciative of the method Huang Lingling had chosen to win favor. During this period, he had seen many concubines and concubines use strange methods to win favor, and many of them were quite speechless.

For example, fainting, deliberately bumping into others, or walking on the runway in the Qianqing Palace... In just a few months, Lu Changjing had been bumped into by dozens of concubines and concubines.

If his heart was not as broad as the ocean, able to accommodate the strange behavior of these girls, he would have taught them a lesson long ago.

However, Lu Changjing would not tolerate those concubines and concubines who used means to harm others, and would give them corresponding punishments. Those who had done the most extreme things had been banished to the cold palace.

The method Huang Lingling chose to win his favor and attract his attention was very good, which made Lu Changjing admire her so much that he was willing to give her a chance.

At the same time, it also set an example for other concubines and concubines, so that they would choose the right way to compete for favor in the future and not do messy things. On this point, some concubines obviously realized it.

Not long after, when Lu Changjing was reviewing some important memorials, Imperial Concubine Tang Qingyi came over.

Seeing that His Majesty was busy dealing with government affairs, he hurried forward and gave him a back massage and shoulder massage. Although his technique was a little unfamiliar, it was obvious that he had learned it before and he did it quite well.

Lu Changjing couldn't help but laugh and said, "My beloved, have you learned the technique of massaging shoulders? It's really comfortable."

"I have just started learning, so I am still a little unfamiliar with it. Please don't mind, Your Majesty." Tang Qing said with a smile.

Lu Changjing asked, "Did you learn it for me?"

"This..." Tang Qingyi's pretty face turned red, and she said in a low voice: "Hmm..."

Lu Changjing smiled and held her in his arms, kissing her cherry lips: "Thank you, my dear. I will also massage your back and shoulders and your whole body later."

He did not review the memorials and immediately took Tang Qingyi to the retreat room at the back...

The back massage lasted for several hours, and the imperial concubine was almost paralyzed. Fortunately, after Lu Changjing's hair removal and marrow cleansing, Tang Qingyi's cultivation level was further improved, and his talent and foundation also increased dramatically, so he recovered quickly.

The days that followed were peaceful and stable. The surrounding countries had been secretly controlled by Lu Changjing. The envoy Ju Ye was his man and listened to him in everything. He helped Lu Changjing cover up many things and prevented the three great divine dynasties from discovering anything unusual.

After two raids by the treasure-hunting dragon rat and the evil mountain ghosts, they also proved that the remaining assets of the Ning family had been almost plundered, and now they have ceded more territory to surrounding countries and allowed them to send officials in.

What they didn't know was that Lu Changjing was using this method to integrate several surrounding countries together, and more and more countries were joining in, gradually exceeding ten.

Daning, Shanman, Xueman, Huanyu, Yuying, Heili...and of course there is also the territory of the Sakura tribe, which should be the East China Sea region to be more precise.

The reason why the name of the Sakura Clan is not used is naturally because the Sakura Clan will soon be removed from the East China Sea region. From now on, this place will no longer be the territory of the Sakura Clan, but the territory of the Da Ning Dynasty.

Lu Changjing had no good feelings towards the smelly and poisonous natives of the Sakura tribe. Even the Sakura tribute girls who were sent to Baiyujing had no good feelings towards their motherland and even hated it.

Now that they can become members of the Daning Dynasty, part of the Pink Palace, and Lu Changjing's imperial attendant, these tribute girls are extremely happy to have the possibility of accompanying the emperor in the future.

But on the surface, it seems that Daning is being divided up by many surrounding forces, and it can't even control its own territory, as much of it has been occupied by other forces.

Although nominally it belongs to Daning, the people in charge of these areas have become officials of other countries, so it naturally cannot be considered the territory of Daning.

During this process, Daning's advanced culture and knowledge are spreading to the surrounding forces at an extremely fast speed, thus forming a unified force.

Gradually, these areas have merged together.

Although Lu Changjing has enough strength to suppress all disobedience, he can change the owners of these areas, but he cannot change the minds of the human race in these areas. This requires a long process and cannot be achieved overnight.

In order to better promote the integration of these regions and forces, Lu Changjing also formulated a number of policies, such as mutual migration, cultural and knowledge output, and joint efforts to deal with demons and monsters...

Fortunately, many years ago, Daning also ruled most of China, and various cultures and knowledge spread to almost all areas, so the difficulty of integration was reduced a lot.

For example, Daning's Ningshi Festival and Ningxi Night are popular throughout the land of China. Many countries and forces have similar festivals, so on the night before the first day of the first lunar month, almost all places in China are celebrating the festival, not to mention the first day of the first lunar month.

Regarding the integration of ethnic groups and forces, the previous Daning had already had relevant experience and lessons, and the various divine dynasties and imperial dynasties also had some relevant methods and experience. Lu Changjing learned a lot from them by striving for perfection.

Of course, he handed all these chores over to the four kings of different surnames to handle, with the cooperation of the three dukes and other important officials of the court.

These people also knew clearly that the seemingly precarious Da Ning Dynasty was actually secretly annexing one dynasty after another, and its territory and power were expanding at a terrifying rate.

Although I didn't know what was going on, I vaguely guessed something when I thought about the background of the master that the emperor had revealed before.

However, they didn't know that this was just what Lu Changjing wanted them to think, and the real situation was much more shocking than this.

Daning is quietly expanding, and matters concerning the Phoenix Goddess are still widely spread. Both the three major divine dynasties and many other forces are still searching for the whereabouts of the Phoenix Goddess.

It is extremely rare to find a person with combat power close to the top-level gods and demons, especially one who does not seem to belong to any force.

Seeing that the matter was getting more and more serious, Lu Changjing decided not to use this identity in the short term and decided to continue to practice with peace of mind.

Now everything is going smoothly. The main goal is to improve the realm of cultivation as soon as possible, to reach the realm of Xuanzun, or even a higher realm, without having to pay attention to the ups and downs outside.

So the days became peaceful again, practicing the Nine Yang Immortal Body, practicing the Nine Yang Visualization Method, practicing the Nine Yang Horizontal Sky Sutra, practicing various combat skills and secret techniques, practicing formation techniques, practicing alchemy... and occasionally accompanying my loves to help them shave their hair and cleanse their marrow.

As for matters inside and outside the court, they only need to be dealt with every ten days or half a month.

When practicing, the days always pass quickly. Before you know it, you have gone from practicing amidst the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers to practicing amidst the heavy snow, and from practicing amidst the heavy snow to practicing amidst the abundant harvest in autumn.

After consuming more than a thousand high-level elixirs and magic medicines, Lu Changjing's spirit, energy and spirit were cultivated to the fifth level of perfection, and he began to break through the shackles of the sixth level.

He methodically mobilized the power of the divine blood in his body and launched an attack on the bottleneck dam. Before breaking through, he also took a Xiangyun Pill, which could greatly soften the shackles of the bottleneck, thus reducing the difficulty of breaking through.

This is an intermediate elixir that can only be used on intermediate-level gods and demons. If taken when trying to impact a seventh-level god or demon, it will have no effect.

That's why Lu Changjing took it now. For him who has the golden finger, he can take the barrier-breaking elixir at will. After all, once midnight passes, all the unstable foundations will be stabilized again.

If that's the case, why not take it easy when you're going through the challenge?

It would be fine if there was no elixir to break through the barrier, but since I have it, I might as well use it.

With the help of Xiangyun Pill, cracks soon appeared on the bottleneck dam. Lu Changjing calmed down and continued to mobilize more divine power to attack the bottleneck dam.

It is inevitable to activate the characteristics of iron skin and bones in advance to better protect every part of the body, especially blood vessels, heart, etc., so that you can mobilize more strength when breaking through.

(End of this chapter)