Chapter 45 This is my territory
"We heard that Zhao Jintian is here."

As soon as the door of the imperial study was closed, Cao Wenzhen asked.

Lu Changjing nodded and pointed at the Lingjidan on the table: "Zhao Jintian said that His Majesty promised him a few months ago that if he could get a bottle of Lingjidan, he would give the position of Yinshan County Magistrate to his younger brother Zhao Yindi. I wonder if Lord Cao knows about this?"

"The governor of Yinshan County?" Cao Wenzheng's expression changed slightly. "Zhao Jintian is really greedy for wanting to exchange a bottle of Lingji Pill for one of the richest counties."

The fact that it was named after Silver Mountain shows how wealthy Silver Mountain County was.

Even among the hundreds of counties in the Daning Dynasty, Yinshan County ranks among the top. In Cao Wenzhen's opinion, this deal is obviously a bit of a loss.

"Then reject this matter?" Lu Changjing asked.

Cao Wenzheng thought about it and said helplessly: "Regarding this matter, we don't know whether it is true or not, so we need to ask His Majesty. After His Majesty has a reply, we can decide whether to agree or not."

As he spoke, Cao Wenzheng took the bottle of Lingji Pill and turned to walk outside: "But you did a good job in this matter. You didn't agree to it rashly. There is still room for maneuver."

After Cao Wenzhen left, Lu Changjing continued to practice with even greater diligence.

After all, if they don't quickly improve their cultivation level and continue to let bastards like Cao Wenzhen and Zhao Jintian mess things up, there's no telling what will become of the Daning Dynasty.

We must have enough strength to eliminate these parasites that are destroying the Daning Dynasty before the situation of the Daning Dynasty becomes irreversible.

In Lu Changjing's view, the Da Ning Dynasty was already in his pocket, so how could he allow guys like Cao Wenzhen, Zhao Jintian, and even Ning Zhongyu to do whatever they wanted?

Colluding with demons, selling official positions and titles, embezzling the national treasury... No matter which of these things, they are all digging for the roots of the Daning Dynasty. Lu Changjing will never allow such things to continue.

Asceticism, asceticism is still needed!
Originally, he thought that he would take some time to settle down and not improve too quickly. However, after experiencing this incident, Lu Changjing planned to continue taking elixirs crazily after he had initially adapted, so as to improve his cultivation level as soon as possible.

With enough resources in hand, he needs to practice Qi training, body training, and even spirit training.

As for the memorials, you only need to spend half an hour or so every day to understand them, and the rest of the time can be used for practice.

It just so happened that Cao Wenzhen had a lot of things to do during this period, and since Lu Changjing, the fake emperor, was doing better and better, he came less often.

This gave Lu Changjing enough time and energy to practice and improve himself.

As the days go by, Lu Changjing's cultivation is improving at an astonishing rate.

However, before breaking through to the third-level Grandmaster, the matter of the Spiritual Base Pill was settled.

"The book has been issued, and you can all act according to it!"

In the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Lu Changjing sat high on the dragon throne, while Cao Wenzhen beside him nodded loudly and handed out several books.

Among these several books, there was one appointing Zhao Yindi as the governor of Yinshan County.

This was Lu Changjing's second time attending court, and nothing happened. The only thing worth mentioning was the enthronement of several senior officials.

When they heard that Zhao Yindi was one of the officials to be appointed as the governor of Yinshan County, many people in the court looked a little strange.

Obviously, many ministers knew that Zhao Yindi was Zhao Jintian's younger brother. If someone said there was no trick involved, even a fool would not believe it.

Fortunately, Zhao Jintian took the initiative to step forward at this time, and his words "promote the virtuous without avoiding relatives" eased the awkward atmosphere, and also made some of the civil and military officials who wanted to say something stop talking. After all, the book was ready, the imperial seal was stamped, and His Majesty agreed, plus Zhao Jintian's full support, saying more would be useless, and would only offend Zhao Jintian and His Majesty, so it was better to keep silent.

This time, Wei Shangang did not clamor to teach the mountain barbarians a lesson. He just kept his eyes on the nose and his nose on the heart, without saying a word.

Lu Changjing was happy to be free, so as to avoid any more quarrels. If he handled it inappropriately and someone found out something, it would be bad.

The rest were just minor matters, and Lu Changjing made decisions directly on most of them, which slightly cleared his reputation as the "Emperor of Procrastination".

The morning court lasted for more than an hour and then ended. Lu Changjing, surrounded by Cao Wenzhen and others, left the Hall of Supreme Harmony and returned to the imperial study, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

There are many civil and military officials in the court who are grand masters, which puts a lot of pressure on Lu Changjing.

Once the slightest flaw is revealed, it may lead to unpredictable consequences. At the very least, he will be punished by Cao Wen Zheng, and at worst, his identity as a fake emperor will be exposed.

Under such circumstances, how could Lu Changjing dare to be careless? He would not be willing to go to court unless he had no choice.

"Today's morning meeting went well, and many decisions were correct."

Cao Wenzhen was also quite satisfied with today's morning court, although he still had a long way to go to wash away his reputation as the "Emperor who shirks his responsibilities".

But you have to know that this is Lu Changjing's second time attending court, and he was able to make a lot of decisions without any mistakes, which is already very good.

There are so many civil and military officials, including many grandmasters who are more powerful than him. It is already very good that he can avoid being exposed under their scrutiny.

So Cao Wen was preparing to find time to tell Ning Zhongyu about this matter, and was prepared to let this fake emperor live until the day when he could no longer impersonate Ning Zhongyu.

In this way, even if Ning Zhongyu needs to leave temporarily for other things, Lu Changjing will be there to take care of him, which can reduce a lot of trouble.

After the second morning court session, you can have some peace and quiet for at least half a month to concentrate on your practice.

Such a long time is enough for Lu Changjing to improve a lot.

Ten days later, Lu Changjing's Qi Refining skills reached the perfection of the second-level Grandmaster and he could strive for the third-level Grandmaster realm.

First-level Grandmaster to third-level Grandmaster are low-level Grandmasters. After entering the third-level Grandmaster level, the next level is the fourth-level Grandmaster, which corresponds to the middle-level Grandmaster.

Although he has only just adapted to his current Qi Refining level, this does not affect Lu Changjing's efforts to break through the bottleneck.

After being driven into a secret retreat room by Cao Wenzhen and having the stone door locked, Lu Changjing immediately began to strive to reach the third-order Grandmaster realm.

There is no need to make too much preparation, just mobilize the huge amount of imperial true qi and charge towards the bottleneck.

As the most powerful Qi power in the Da Ning Dynasty, and even in the entire Shenzhou world, the sharpness and terror of the Huangji Qi are well known, and it has a huge advantage when breaking through bottlenecks.

Of course, if the spiritual veins and dantian are not strong enough, this advantage will turn into a huge disadvantage.

Fortunately, with the immortal demon body as a golden finger, Lu Changjing has a unique advantage in this regard. No matter how sharp the imperial true qi is, it cannot hurt his spiritual veins and dantian at all.

(End of this chapter)