signingbooks #486 - Ancient Artifacts
#486 - Ancient Artifacts
“I, a humble Taoist named Cangsongzi, ventured into the desolate wilderness of the far north several months ago and managed to gather a few spiritual Zhu Fruits. This item is the essence of heaven and earth, containing powerful and extremely yang medicinal properties, making it a rare and valuable treasure for martial artists and Qi cultivators.
Today, I offer it to Your Majesty, wishing you boundless longevity and widespread blessings.”
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“I, a humble Taoist named Xuanyuanzi, offer this gift to Your Majesty for your birthday. Earlier this year, I specially retrieved the collections of my sect's predecessors and started refining pills, spending half a year of effort to finally create a furnace of Yuanling Pills a few days ago.
Today, I bring five pills, wishing Your Majesty boundless longevity.”
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“I, a humble Taoist named Chiyangzi, years ago, I accidentally obtained an ancient Haoyang Mirror at the source of the Yellow River. Upon closer inspection, I discovered that this item is actually a divine artifact from the pre-Qin era, possessing the miraculous ability to suppress fortune. Only those who possess the aura of the Son of Heaven can wield it.
Today, I am invited to Your Majesty's birthday celebration, and I hereby present it, wishing Your Majesty boundless longevity.”
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“I, a humble Taoist named Minghezi, before dedicating myself to Taoism, I was born into a craftsman's family and practiced this craft for many years. After entering Taoism, I encountered profound Xuanmen techniques. Over the years, I have devoted myself to research, and now I have gained considerable insights into the art of refining weapons.
Today, I specially set up an altar to refine a weapon for Your Majesty, and finally created a Son of Heaven's Sword, wishing Your Majesty boundless longevity.”
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“I, a humble Taoist named Taihe Sanren, upon hearing of Your Majesty's birthday, I specially bring a pair of Yin-Yang Fish, spiritual beasts of heaven and earth, wishing Your Majesty boundless longevity.”
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“I, a humble Taoist named Yuzhenzi, to celebrate Your Majesty's heavenly birthday, I specially bring ten Guangling Immortal Grasses~”
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“I, a humble Taoist named Zhichengzi~”
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As the Taoist masters in the front row continuously stood up, bowed, and then recited their concise birthday wishes.
Outside the palace gate, palace maids, either holding or carrying birthday gifts, began to enter the hall one after another.
In an instant, various kinds of dazzling jewels, medicinal fragrances, and exotic beasts began to dominate people's vision.
These rare treasures of heaven and earth, Taoist magical artifacts, and even ancient artifacts, which are unattainable in the eyes of ordinary people, are now displayed openly in front of everyone.
Not to mention the emperor and empress on the Dragon Platform, the group of court officials and young people opposite them, even Liang Yue, the self-proclaimed knowledgeable and promising transmigrator, was dazzled for a moment.
Nan Lixiang, Jingxiang teacher, and others, who were watching the video live through the village platform, were even more enthusiastically instigating him from the sidelines, wanting him to simply take action and snatch them all away… …
Moreover, after hearing the tempting words of these few spendthrift women, Liang Yue actually had a slight impulse and idea in his heart at a certain moment.
This was really embarrassing… …
Soon, as the Taoist masters in front of a certain someone finished presenting their birthday gifts, enjoying the attention and amazement from everyone in the hall, while putting on an aloof and indifferent demeanor of a worldly expert.
Unintentionally exuding an aura of superiority.
In the blink of an eye, it was Liang Yue's turn to appear~
At this moment, only to see this guy slowly get up, unhurriedly brush the non-existent wrinkles on his gorgeous Taoist robe, leisurely salute the emperor and empress not far away, and then speak.
“I, a humble Taoist named Qingyuanzi, have heard that my Great Song Dynasty lacks horses and places to raise and train them. Therefore, I specially present a world map exquisitely embroidered with exotic silkworm silk and a Hunyuan Globe.
I hope that Your Majesty can create a new foundation for my Great Song Dynasty's successors and add blessings to the hundreds of millions of people in my dynasty. I respectfully wish Your Majesty boundless longevity and eternal grace.”
“Hmm?” “Huh?” “This?” … …
“World… … map? Hunyuan~ Globe?”
“Is it real or fake?”
“How can the world… … be like this?”
Takashiro Saya even snorted lightly, expressing her displeasure.
I don't know if she was dissatisfied with Liang Yue's stinginess, or felt that the gift he sent out was not valuable enough~
In fact, whether a gift is valuable or not is not up to them to decide.
Even Liang Yue himself could not easily say.
Just look at the reaction of the party receiving the gift, as well as the many ministers and clansmen present, and you will know.
After hearing what Liang Yue had sent, Zhao Zhen and Empress Cao on the dragon chair were greatly shocked. The original kind smile quietly disappeared, and the look of surprise was overflowing.
Immediately afterwards, without the emperor and empress having to order anything, the great eunuch serving beside them immediately gave an order to take out the gift from the wooden box.
The globe was presented on the table of the Dragon Platform, and the world map was carefully unfolded by four young eunuchs from the four corners, and carefully set up, diagonally facing the sight of the emperor and empress.
“Is this the world~ map? But where is my, my Great Song, where is my Great Song?”
At this time, Emperor Renzong of Song was full of excitement. In addition to excitement, there was also a hint of panic in his expression. He widened his eyes and tried hard to search for the area he wanted to find on the map.
Looking at that appearance, it seemed that he was a little dazzled.
However, it's not his fault.
In order to avoid some unnecessary troubles, the world map and globe that Liang Yue sent out at this time actually only used colors and exquisite brushwork to depict the outlines, terrains, and mountain ranges of the major continents and oceans.
As for the specific countries, texts, and other factors, there was none at all.
As for the group of ministers, royal children, and sect masters below, some of them may be knowledgeable and may be able to find some familiar terrains and outlines on the map.
But due to the current perspective and related etiquette issues, for a while, they could only scratch their heads and be beyond their reach.
In the end, Emperor Renzong of Song also directly turned his eyes for help to Liang Yue.
He himself, with the support of the great eunuch, couldn't wait to walk down the Dragon Platform, while reaching out and constantly groping on the map, while constantly and subconsciously swallowing saliva.
As for Empress Cao, it seemed that because of her years of martial arts training, her physical condition looked much better than Zhao Zhen's. She got up nimbly, closely following behind Emperor Renzong of Song, step by step.
In the process, she also calmly waved to someone here.
When Liang Yue saw this, he didn't dare to neglect, got up and quickly came to the center of the hall, to one side of the map, and then reached out to circle the specific area divisions on the map for the two of them.
“Your Majesty, Empress, please see, this is the territory of my Great Song.”
“This is it, but how can it… … be so, small? My Great Song, Great Song… … ”
“Please see, Your Majesty, this is the Yellow River, this is the Yangtze River, and the mouth of the Yangtze River is the East China Sea… … This sea is the Bohai Sea, which is jointly guarded by Shandong and the Korean Peninsula.”
“This is the legendary North Sea, which was the place where Su Wu herded sheep during the Han Dynasty. Further north, it is a place of pine mountains and forests… … This is Mobei, which is the Great Prairie.
This is Mount Langjuxu, which was the place where Wei Qing and Huo Qubing built altars to worship the heavens in those years.”
“This is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, where the mountains are high, the air is thin, and the Tubo people occupy this place… … This is the Sichuan Basin, the Land of Abundance, and this is the Dali Kingdom of Yunnan.”
“This is Hainan Island, also known as Qiongtai, and this is Ryukyu… … ”
“This is~”
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