Checking In for Sixty Years, From Puppet Emperor to Heavenly Emperor – Chapter 59

Ch 59: Three Purples Exit Seclusion, Border Emergency

The black-robed man in the painting rampaged around, searching for a way out, only to become disheveled and greatly depleted his True Energy. Seeing the light mirror, he snorted unhappily and shouted, “Zhou An, I admit you have some ability. This is just a clone of mine. Even if you destroy it, it’s not a big loss.”

“Did you come here just to say that?” Zhou An asked.

The black-robed man looked at Zhou An in silence, then smiled and said, “I underestimated you. You should know about the Righteous-Demonic War. I can tell you some things you don’t know. This time, the Heretical Path and the Devil Path have joined forces, and a total of 13 Innate Eighth Level and Ninth Level Cultivators have appeared. The Righteous Path currently has only six.”

Everyone knows that to deal with this level of Demon Head, you need at least two of the same level, and without the restraint of an Immortal Treasure, you can’t kill the Demon Head.

Although these Righteous Path Cultivators are proud, they must acknowledge that they have made great contributions to prevent the common people from being slaughtered by Demons. As the Emperor, if you don’t assist the Righteous Path, once the Righteous Path is destroyed, you will face the Devils alone. Consider it yourself.”

After the black-robed man finished speaking, his body turned into smoke and dissipated, leaving behind a corpse. He came full of excitement, but was trapped in the world within the painting and couldn’t get out, feeling too embarrassed. He simply abandoned this clone.

Shu Yao covered her mouth and smiled, saying, “This person cares a lot about face. He abandons a clone that he painstakingly refined just like that. This point can be exploited.”

Qi Hui said, “Originally, I wasn’t sure, but now that this person rashly came to remind us, it undoubtedly shows that this person is behind the scenes of promoting this Righteous-Demonic War. Even if he isn’t, he has a direct relationship.”

He is eager to drag Master into the water, most likely planning to wipe out all the Cultivators within the Qianyuan Empire. I think there will definitely be accidents during this duel.”

After Zhou An thought for a moment, calculating the time, Ling Sha and Ziyan and others should be about to exit seclusion. He said to the empty space in front of him, “Immediately have Ling Sha, Ziyan, Ziqiong, and Zixuan come to see me after they exit seclusion.”

“Yes.” A Purple Guard jumped out from the corner and responded.

Two days later, Zhou An was practicing the Heavenly Path Sect’s Method of Sword Control in the backyard of the Ethereal Abode. Ziyan, Ziqiong, and Zixuan entered from the backyard gate, their faces full of unconcealable joy. You should know that they are all well-trained assassins, which shows how happy this breakthrough made them.

Of course, they also have absolute trust in Zhou An now, which is why they show their emotions in front of him.

“The Emperor.” The three women greeted him.

Zhou An waved his hand, and the Son of Heaven Sword turned into a crimson-golden stream of light and flew into his body, disappearing. He turned around to look at the three women and smiled, “Yes, you’ve all reached Innate First Level. How does it feel?”

“Thanks to the Emperor’s grace, our realms have stabilized,” Ziyan said first.

“Well, this is the Ethereal Abode. From today on, all the Purple Guards will become disciples of the Ethereal Abode. You three sisters will manage this place,” Zhou An said.

“Yes.” The three women accepted without hesitation. Now they have absolute obedience to Zhou An.

Zhou An took out the Ethereal Book and gave it to the three women, saying, “This is the best Skill of the Ethereal Abode. Only women can cultivate it. From now on, stay in the Abode. No one else is allowed to practice it without my permission except for you three.”

You can ask Shu Yao for the Skills that the Ethereal Abode disciples cultivate. You can decide to distribute them based on the disciples’ merits, but they must not be spread outside, otherwise it’s a capital crime,” Zhou An said.

After the three women responded that they understood, Zhou An waved his hand, and three sets of treasures appeared in front of each of the three women.

In front of Ziyan were twenty-four Wind Flying Rings, a Supreme Spiritual Treasure, as a complete set. There was also an Intermediate Magic Treasure Purple Feather Dharma Robes, which is exclusive to the Ethereal Abode disciples. There are many of them in the Ethereal Abode treasury, of course, the three of them got the highest grade among them.

Ziqiong received the Ice Cold Aurora Sword, also a Supreme Spiritual Treasure, which the Ethereal Fairy imitated her own Ethereal Ice Sword to refine. Its power is second only to an Immortal Treasure. There was also the same set of Purple Feather Dharma Robes.

Zixuan received the Ice Spirit Divine Pearl, a Supreme Spiritual Treasure, which is also a rare treasure of the Ethereal Abode. Of course, there was also the same grade of Purple Feather Dharma Robes.

The three women were overjoyed to receive the treasures. What cultivators like most are Skills and Magic Treasures.

Thanking him with joy, Zhou An nodded and said, “You go and convey my decree. All the Purple Guards will join the Ethereal Abode, cultivate the Ethereal Abode’s Skills, and Magic Treasures can be distributed according to their previous merits. Spiritual Treasures must be rewarded for great merits.”

Now that everyone has just started cultivating, you can act expediently and speed up the improvement of overall strength. In the future, the regulations must be strictly enforced. If you encounter anything you don’t understand in your cultivation, you can come here to ask Shu Yao for guidance.”

“Yes.” The three women responded and immediately turned and left.

Zhou Ling Sha also exited seclusion the next day. Zhou An gave her the Supreme Spiritual Treasure Ten Thousand Demon Flying Blade. These Flying Daggers can usually form a pair of blade wings, integrating offense and defense. They can also be separated into 365 Flying Daggers to attack, with extraordinary power.

There was also the Supreme Spiritual Treasure Skyreach Seal, which can transform into a mountain peak to smash opponents after being released.

Zhou Ling Sha was required to join the Heavenly Path Sect, cultivate the Heavenly Path Sect’s highest Skill, the Heavenly Path Art, and also let all the Brocade Guards join the Heavenly Path Sect. However, he only got the Skill from the Heavenly Path Sect and couldn’t distribute Magic Treasures.

He could only give them the Magic Treasures that had been confiscated from Cultivators in the past. It’s a pity that most of these are Intermediate Magic Treasures or High-Grade Magic Treasures. There were only a few Spiritual Treasures, which were given to several Commanders to strengthen the Brocade Guards’ combat power.

Afterwards, he also let Zhou Ling Sha arrange for all the Brocade Guards to join the Heavenly Path Sect and let her refine the Magic Treasures he gave her as soon as possible.

He didn’t give them the Ethereal Immortal Pill, for fear that eating it would attract Heavenly Tribulation.

Now Zhou An has learned the Heavenly Path Sect’s Sword Escape. The Son of Heaven Sword has already been sheathed into his body, and he can control the Sword Light to fly. He can be considered to be able to use true Sword Control to fly.

This kind of flying, transformed into a stream of light, is extremely fast. He envied it for a long time, and finally he can also fly freely in the sky. He can basically traverse the entire Qianyuan Empire within an hour.

After that, he cultivated at night and went to various places to check-in during the day, lighting up the Map of Mountains and Rivers.

Checking in at ordinary places yields ordinary items. For example, checking in at a mountain yields precious natural treasures. Checking in at a certain Jianghu Sect yields the most famous Martial Skill of this Sect.

Immortal Cultivation Sects generally have Mountain Guardian Formations. Even if he is the Emperor, he can’t force his way in. If he offends too many, it will eventually lead to big problems. So, he temporarily doesn’t touch Immortal Cultivation Sects.

Fortunately, there are not many Immortal Cultivation Sects within the Qianyuan Empire.

Checking in at a village yields the best local specialties. Checking in at other cities is naturally more troublesome. Civil houses are checked in by area, and famous restaurants or scenic spots are checked in separately.

Most of what he gets are paintings, calligraphy, antiques. Checking in at restaurants yields delicious delicacies. Checking in at money houses, silver vaults, and jewelry stores naturally yields gold, silver, and gems.

All place check-ins are closely related to this place, and they are definitely the best things.

Since the last time the black-robed man came, no one dared to break into the Imperial Palace again. He checked in so quietly for two months, and it was also entering the New Year. Qian Capital also began to decorate with lanterns and banners, preparing for the New Year.

His small treasury was replenished again, and it even reached the point of being richer than a country.

The Qianyuan Empire is a super power, and with Shangguan Rong’s skillful means and good governance, the national treasury is becoming increasingly abundant. The national treasury’s gold and silver are already much more than when the Late Emperor was in power, which shows how much money Zhou An has now.

This does not include various rare treasures, medicinal materials, precious gems, etc.

This day, he got up from bed as usual. Ziyan, Ziqiong, and Zixuan also got up to serve him with dressing and preparing breakfast before continuing to go out to check-in.

Suddenly, a palace maid’s voice came from outside the door, “Your Majesty, the Mother Empress requests an audience.”

Zhou An was surprised. The Empress should already be preparing to attend court at this time. He quickly put on his clothes and went to the hall first.

As soon as the Empress saw him, she couldn’t bother with formalities and said directly, “Your Majesty, Left Prime Minister sent an urgent military report. The Western Border is under attack by the Heretical Path, attempting to forcibly break through the pass and let people infected with Witchcraft Poison rush into the pass.”

Left Prime Minister has already ordered the army to shoot and kill the infected people who are forcibly rushing in, but there are Houtian-level Heretical Paths relying on Magic Treasures to cause trouble, and many soldiers have been killed and injured.”

Zhou An frowned. Seeing Ziyan and the three women come out, he immediately said, “Ziyan, Ziqiong, Zixuan, listen to the order.”

The three women immediately stepped forward and saluted. Zhou An said, “You each lead ten Purple Guards and quickly join Left Prime Minister Zhou Di to assist him in guarding the border. If you are also defeated, send me a Flying Sword Letter.”

“Yes.” The three women left immediately, flying directly to the border with Sword Control.

The Empress said worriedly, “Your Majesty, it is obvious that someone wants to use Witchcraft Poison to harm my Great Qian. From the Left Prime Minister’s report, I am afraid that most of the countries in the Western Regions are victims.”

“Now that Devils are gathering in Qian Capital, Wushuang and I must sit in the Imperial Palace,” Zhou An frowned. Now, although he has strength no less than those Great Powers, the enemy is coming secretly, and he can only find out the hidden enemy before he can counterattack.

Those opponents who directly come forward are basically novices. Anyone with some strength and ability would not do things like directly coming to the door to be beaten.

Shangguan Rong showed a look of guilt and said, “It’s all because Your Subject is incompetent and cannot share the Emperor’s worries. If Your Subject also had the same power as the Hundred Flowers Goddess, she could go to the Western Border in place of the Emperor.”

“You each have your own strengths. If it weren’t for you governing the court on my behalf, where would I have time to cultivate?” Zhou An patted her hand to comfort her. What he said was indeed the truth. If it weren’t for Shangguan Rong doing it for him, he would have very little time to go out to check-in, let alone go out to brush the map as he does now.

After the Empress left, he immediately went to the Ethereal Palace. He had already noticed that a force was quietly invading the Imperial Palace. Qi Hui is good at strategy and is a good military advisor. He went there to ask for her opinion.

After all, Zhou An has only transmigrated for about half a year. The system can improve his strength, but it cannot grow from an ordinary person to a true Emperor. Zhou An has to grow himself.