Chapter 180: Wearing Tight Shoes (2/2)
”Mother, he's already an imperial academician, a sixth ranking official. I can't raise him anymore. He is still young after all. We'll talk about it after a few years, in case the officials of the imperial court say I favor him.”
”Little divine physician, tell me more about the interesting stuff when you were little…”
Gu Linuan walked further away and went out of the palace to return to Imperial College. He had a belly full of anger yet nowhere to vent. The Daoist that was guarding Jade Dragon Lake immediately went forward and asked, ”Grand Chancellor, have the thief been executed?”
”It's all your fault for meddling. All you have to do is to look after the lake yet you created such a ruckus, making me humiliated!”
Gu Linuan stared at him and shouted, ”Release that fox and dragon qilin!”
The Daoist guarding the lake felt extremely wrong. He didn't know what he had done wrong and why Gu Linuan got so angry at him, and could only release Hu Ling'er and the dragon qilin, ”Grand Chancellor, we had already sent men to capture Wei Yong but Wei Yong was following Chancellor Ba Shan and he didn't let us take him away. How do you think…”
”What's Wei Yong's background?”
”He's from Duke Wei's family…”
”Don't look for trouble when there's none!”
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In the Imperial Garden, Empress Dowager chatted with Qin Mu for a while more. Qin Mu then checked her pulse and wrote down a few prescriptions and said, ”Empress Dowager, you're recovering well, there's no hidden danger left behind.”
”Good.”
Empress Dowager smiled, ”Thanks for the trouble, little divine physician.”
Qin Mu stood up to make his leave. Emperor Yanfeng smiled, ”Dear minister, hold your step, there's something I want to talk to you about.”
Qin Mu stopped and Emperor Yanfeng walked to him while waving his hands to let the eunuch and palace maids fall back. He walked out of Imperial Garden while smiling. ”My imperial academician, cult master of Heavenly Devil Cult, abandoned person of Great Ruins, disciple of Jade Face Poison King, Minister Qin sure has a lot of identities.”
Qin Mu was slightly stunned and his footsteps subconsciously slowed down. If Eternal Peace Imperial Preceptor could know he was the new cult master of Heavenly Devil Cult, Emperor Yanfeng naturally had his ways to know as well.
Emperor Yanfeng had already walked far away and he turned his head back to ask, ”Dear minister, why are you not catching up?”
Qin Mu hurried to catch up and smiled, ”Your Majesty has a flood of good fortune that fills the heavens.”
Emperor Yanfeng laughed, ”Heavenly Devil Cult as the number one sect of the devil path, the number one sacred ground, for their cult master to be the student of the Son of Heaven, I indeed have a flood of good fortune that fills the heavens. However, it can be a fortune or it can be a calamity. Dear Minister Qin, do you think it's a fortune or it's a calamity?”
Qin Mu smiled, ”Your Majesty, if Dao Master of Dao Sect yields to Your Majesty, what position would Your Majesty confer on him?”
Emperor Yanfeng said solemnly, ”Dao Master of Dao Sect, the head of the righteous path in this world, I will confer him as upper first-ranking, allowing him to be called king, inheriting the title generation after generation!”
Qin Mu then asked, ”If Rulai of Great Thunderclap Monastery yields to Your Majesty, what position would Your Majesty confer on him?”
Emperor Yanfeng said, ”Rulai is best in the Buddhist path and if he is willing to become an official of the imperial court, I will confer him as upper first ranking, allowing him to be called primogenitor!”
Qin Mu said, ”The three sacred grounds of Eternal Peace, the emperor will confer the sect masters of Dao Sect and Great Thunderclap Monastery as upper first-ranking, calling king and becoming primogenitor. Heavenly Saint Cult is also a sacred ground and the cult master of Heavenly Saint Cult had taken the initiative to yield yet Your Majesty only confer an unpresentable sixth-ranking and still ask if it is a fortune or calamity, aren't you making the faithful officials and loyalists bitterly disappointed?”
Emperor Yanfeng was slightly stunned and nodded his head, ”What you said is reasonable. However, I can't promote you immediately, you're still too young after all. If I promote you directly, people would gossip and they would be able to guess your identity.”
Qin Mu agreed.
Emperor Yanfeng remained silent for a moment, ”I know there are some grudges between you and Gu Linuan and also know you took his Junior Protector Sword away. You're the cult master of Heavenly Devil Cult, you need to be more magnanimous and don't always make him wear tight shoes. He is placed in Imperial College by me and if you make him too embarrassed, it won't look good on me as well.”
Qin Mu felt a little wronged, ”Your Majesty, how would I dare to make him wear tight shoes?”
Emperor Yanfeng seemed to be smiling yet not smiling, ”Didn't you just make him wear tight shoes today, putting him on the spot? You can be at ease, no one would dare to say they surpass Imperial Preceptor in being extremely daring. If I dare to use him, I will also dare to use you. There's no need for any suspicions in your heart. Alright, you can fall back.”
Qin Mu walked out of the palace and felt refreshed. He let out a murky breath and completely relaxed.
Since Eternal Peace Imperial Preceptor had known his identity, he would be slightly worried if Emperor Yanfeng didn't. Now that the emperor and Imperial Preceptor both knew his identity, he would instead be safe and wouldn't be worried that this two big shots would lay their hands on him.
Over ten days later, Qin Mu's west house was piled up with great abundance coins exchanged using the dragon's saliva. Before Chancellor Ba Shan brought Wei Yong and Prince Minyue out for experience, he went to his west house to carry away a few bags of coins. Qin Mu didn't mind at all since he was rich.
During these few days, he would refine Scarlet Fire Spirit Pills as well as another spirit pill that could replenish spirit whenever he was free. When he refined this kind of spirit pill, he would use the hand technique of Buddhism, therefore, the refined spirit pills would give off Buddha voice, which was why Qin Mu called these spirit pills as Spirit Buddha Pills.
He went to the warehouse to buy herbs these few days and almost bought all the dozens of herbs he needed. There was going to be a large-scale training in Imperial College recently and scholars were chosen to go to the front lines. Directorates of each hall were to bring scholars to the front lines to quell the rebellion.
Qin Mu was also picked by Gu Linuan who said he must definitely go to the front lines because Qin Mu was a sixth-ranking Imperial Academician and had almost the same treatment as the directorates, therefore Gu Linuan also gave Qin Mu a few scholars to let him lead.
These scholars were all scholars of the Five Elements Realm from Scholar's Residence who didn't have much battle prowess. Their cultivations were way inferior to the divine arts practitioners in Divine Arts Residence.