Chapter 96: Undeveloped Spiritual Roots
After Zhao Mu's acquired spiritual roots were completely stabilized, he left Daoxin Valley.
When he arrived in the capital, it was early morning, and a court meeting was taking place in the palace's council hall.
Zhao Mu entered the palace silently and stood on the roof of the council hall. No one could detect him.
Sima Hongyi sat listlessly on the dragon chair.
The court officials were too lazy to pay attention to him, and just discussed state affairs with Zhou Yu Niang, who was behind the curtain.
"Empress, the martial arts halls in major cities have basically been built. The martial arts secrets collected from many martial arts sects and powerful families have also been copied and sent to various martial arts halls in batches."
The left prime minister said: "However, the secrets we collected this time are all from small and medium-sized sects and families. The quality of the secrets is at most top-grade, and there are no top-level martial arts secrets."
"Hehe, it seems that some people are still dissatisfied with this national policy of mine."
Zhou Yu Niang said calmly: "Left Prime Minister, send someone to negotiate with them again, tell them that my promotion of martial arts development is good for everyone, and I hope they will cooperate well, otherwise, they should know the consequences."
"Yes, I obey your order." The left prime minister withdrew.
"Anything else?"
"Report to the queen, yesterday the report was sent from Shuiyun City in the East China Sea. It is said that half a month ago, someone in Shuiyun City saw a dragon appear on the surface of the East China Sea, and the momentum was shocking."
The Minister of Rites stepped out and said.
"Dragon?"
The ministers looked at each other.
Over the years, people from all over the Jin Dynasty often reported auspicious signs or ominous signs.
Everyone knew that they were basically fake, just some people with ulterior motives who wanted to get benefits from the court.
But Donghai Shuiyun City was a little sensitive.
After all, in history, there was a cultivator in that place.
Even that cultivator had promised to come back to accept disciples.
So the ministers had to be more cautious about the report of Donghai Shuiyun City.
"My dear ministers, what do you think about the dragon?"
Zhou Yu Niang asked in a steady voice.
The ministers looked at each other, and finally the left prime minister stood up: "Empress, Donghai Shuiyun City is special after all. The court might as well send officials to verify and see if there is really a dragon there?"
"Okay, the left prime minister will arrange this matter."
Zhou Yu Niang agreed.
After a long time, the court meeting ended.
Zhou Yu Niang and Sima Hongyi, surrounded by a group of palace maids and eunuchs, returned to the imperial study.
He waved his hand to let everyone leave.
Zhou Yu Niang sat at the desk: "Come here, I'll take your pulse."
"Yes."
Sima Hongyi came over obediently and stretched out his hand.
Zhou Yu Niang felt the pulse and frowned: "Strange, I should have cured your disease back then, why did it start to happen again recently, did you do something behind my back?"
"Queen, you think too much, I obey you, how could I do anything behind your back?"
"Tell the truth!"
"Queen, this is the truth."
Zhou Yu Niang's eyes were thoughtful.
Indeed, under the effect of the puppet pill, Sima Hongyi could not hide anything from her.
She was also very sure that Sima Hongyi was not poisoned.
But why did the other party's body suddenly have problems?
"It's a pity that the master has passed away, otherwise with the master's medical skills, maybe he could still see something."
Zhou Yu Niang was a little helpless.
"Master is not here, don't we still have junior brothers?"
Suddenly, with a chuckle, Zhao Mu walked out of the inner room.
"Junior Brother Chu, when did you come?"
Zhou Yu Niang stood up quickly, her pretty face full of joy.
"I came just now during the grand court meeting. I saw you were discussing politics, so I came to the imperial study to wait for you."
Zhao Mu walked over with a smile and said to Sima Hongyi: "Come, let me feel your pulse and see what's wrong with you?"
Sima Hongyi was indifferent, but stared at Zhao Mu with unkind eyes.
It felt like his wife had cheated on him.
"Sima Hongyi, let Junior Brother feel your pulse." Zhou Yu Niang ordered.
"Yes!"
Sima Hongyi could not disobey and could only stretch out his hand.
Zhao Mu concentrated on feeling the pulse, and after a moment, he mobilized his true energy and injected it into Sima Hongyi's body to check.
His brows were getting tighter and tighter, as if he had discovered something strange.
"What's wrong, Junior Brother, what did you see?" Zhou Yu Niang asked in confusion.
Zhao Mu remained silent and did not answer, but was very surprised in his heart.
Because he found that countless buds had grown in Sima Hongyi's flesh and blood.
Zhao Mu was too familiar with these buds. They were the initial stage of the formation of acquired spiritual roots, which was very similar to the situation when he opened the sixth heavenly gate.
But the difference was that after the buds in Zhao Mu's body grew out, they quickly grew into complete acquired spiritual roots, and the period was only the time of an incense stick.
But these buds in Sima Hongyi's body looked like they had grown for several years, or even more than ten years.
And so far, the buds have stopped growing.
As for Sima Hongyi's physical problems, they were also related to the buds of the acquired spiritual roots.
The condensation of acquired spiritual roots not only absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but also absorbs a large amount of various "nutrients" from the human body, such as true qi, blood, vitality, etc.
In other words, if you want to condense acquired spiritual roots, you must first be able to withstand it.
Zhao Mu has been practicing for the third time.
He opened the six heavenly gates step by step, strengthened his body and mind time and time again, and even entered the heavenly realm in advance with his cultivation.
If the body is compared to a field, then Zhao Mu has long since cultivated his own field into an extremely fertile and high-quality field.
It is precisely because of this that he can grow acquired spiritual roots, a good crop that not even one person in a million can have.
But Sima Hongyi was too far behind.
Sima Hongyi did not have the fruit of reincarnation and could not accumulate it over a long period of time like Zhao Mu.
And his own cultivation qualifications are not very good. To this day, he is just a warrior in the acquired extreme realm.
How could such a physical condition be able to withstand the growth of acquired spiritual roots?
Even he himself had problems because of this.
Zhao Mu estimated that Sima Hongyi might not be alive for long.
But what he was curious about was how did those spiritual root shoots in Sima Hongyi's body grow?
Seeing that Zhao Mu didn't speak for a long time, Zhou Yuniang asked again: "Junior brother, what did you see? Tell me quickly?"
Zhao Mu took a deep breath and asked, "Senior sister, have you heard of spiritual roots?"
"I've seen it in some records. It seems to be the foundation for entering the immortal world. What's wrong?"
Zhou Yuniang was confused.
"That's it..."
Zhao Mu pondered for a moment and briefly introduced Sima Hongyi's physical condition.
Finally, he asked: "Senior sister, has Sima Hongyi practiced any special skills in these years, or has he taken any special elixir?"
