Chapter 3 A Mortal Wants to Capture an Immortal

Time seemed to have pressed the accelerator.

Li Fan implemented his plan in an orderly and step-by-step manner.

With the experience of two lives, everything went smoothly.

He still took the imperial examination.

However, this time, with decades of experience in power, the articles he wrote were naturally far better than those in his previous life. He ranked first in the provincial examination, the imperial examination, and the palace examination, and won three consecutive championships, making his name famous all over the world!

Then he asked to be an official in other places on the grounds of his youth and increased qualifications. The destination was naturally Wen County.

Although there were many puzzled and regretful people in the court, his request was still approved.

So after anchoring for 3 years, he came to Wen County again.

This time, it was much better than in the previous life. Because of his great fame, and because he knew the temperaments of all the officials in the county very well. It took him almost no effort to make Wen County obedient.

Then, he began to promote and cultivate his confidants in the previous life, and continued to expand his power.

At the same time, he drew the blueprint of the flintlock, ordered the craftsmen to produce it according to the blueprint, and told them all the difficulties in production. After that, he ordered people to recruit skilled craftsmen from all over the country in private, striving to develop more advanced guns.

The mining of minerals in the mountains was not idle either. Li Fan swept all the bandits in the mountains near Wen County and took them all to mine. Relying on the mining area, he built many workshops in the deep mountains to mass-produce handicrafts and ironware. At the same time, he secretly organized caravans to tour and sell in various places to accumulate funds.

Anchored for 4 years, Li Fan secretly searched and finally found the substitute of Emperor Xuan Jing. It was the existence of this substitute that almost caused his assassination plan in the previous life to fail. Fortunately, he has always been cautious in doing things, and he did not fail with many back-ups. Li Fan personally trained the substitute, and after half a year, there was almost no flaw.

Anchored for 5 years, there was a severe drought in Jiangnan. Li Fan ordered his confidants to pretend to be refugees and attack the Langya Palace. Li Fan led the crowd to pretend to rescue, but in fact, they secretly killed the Langya King's family with the help of the insiders and the outsiders. At the same time, he let the substitute appear.

Since then, Li Fan has occupied the magpie's nest and secretly controlled the Langya Palace.

The news that the Langya King's family was killed and only the Langya King himself was saved shocked the court and the public. The emperor was furious and sent troops to suppress the refugees. Li Fan was meritorious and was promoted to the governor of Jianghuai Prefecture.

Li Fan's power expanded further. However, after that, he became cautious. He did not continue to expand outward, but low-key climbed technology and developed productivity.

Anchored for 7 years, the locust plague arrived as expected. Li Fan had been prepared for it, so Jianghuai Prefecture naturally had no disaster. He also applied to the court to open the warehouse to release grain and help the victims. The court agreed.

With this opportunity, Li Fan got a large population. After that, these victims settled down under Li Fan's rule, and Li Fan's strength also grew explosively.

Anchored for 9 years, the wedding of the King of Langya and the granddaughter of the chief university scholar was held as scheduled. That night, Li Fan broke into the bridal chamber at night and frightened the Princess of Langya half to death. After learning that Li Fan had killed the King of Langya and used a substitute to occupy the magpie's nest, she angrily denounced Li Fan as a traitor. Li Fan didn't care, but laughed and asked her to write this horrifying thing in the letter.

Li Fan took the letter, pretending to be the messenger of the King of Langya, and secretly went to Beijing to meet the chief university scholar.

Li Fan looked normal, and told the fact that he now controlled the entire Langya Palace, and claimed that he and the granddaughter of the university scholar had a real husband and wife on the night of the wedding banquet. The university scholar was shocked but not confused, and asked Li Fan what he wanted to do.

Li Fan bluntly said that the university scholar had been in power for many years and had made too many enemies. And the sons were all useless. After the death of the university scholar, it might be difficult to protect the family. As long as the Grand Secretary helps him Li Fan when necessary, he Li Fan will definitely ensure the Grand Secretary's family's prosperity for a hundred years.

The Grand Secretary pondered for a long time and slowly asked what was going on. Li Fan smiled and said that he would know the answer in the future, and then floated away.

Anchored for 10 years, the Princess of Langya gave birth to a son. Obviously, this is Li Fan's seed. Li Fan wrote a letter and went to the Grand Secretary's Mansion to report the good news.

Anchored for 15 years, the emperor finally became seriously ill. After receiving the decree of succession, Li Fan took his confidants and rushed to Beijing day and night.

After the King of Langya succeeded to the throne, Li Fan, with the emperor's decree, arranged his confidants in the court. At the same time, with the secret cooperation of the Grand Secretary, he controlled the situation without causing any waves.

Anchored for 16 years, rebellions broke out everywhere. Li Fan took the opportunity to insert his confidants into the army, and then promoted them by taking advantage of his military merits in suppressing the rebellion. However, in just three or four years, the army was also firmly controlled by Li Fan.

Anchored for 20 years, the world gradually recovered from the turmoil of the emperor's succession. Li Fan decisively poisoned the fake Emperor Kangning at this time, strangling the last possible threat in the cradle.

After supporting his son to become emperor, Li Fan named himself the Grand Master, stepped out from behind the scenes and dominated the world again.

After that, the gears of the development of the Great Xuan Kingdom not only did not stagnate, but instead ran at a faster speed because of Li Fan's will!

Anchored for 35 years, Grand Master's Mansion.

Li Fan looked at the secret letter handed over by his subordinates, read it carefully for a moment, and couldn't help frowning.

"So, the fog on the abyss will dissipate for half a day every fifteen years?"

"Reporting to the Grand Master, that's right. Our Visiting Immortal Camp was ordered to station beside the abyss and observe day and night. Finally, we got something a few days ago." The Visiting Immortal Official kneeling on the ground recalled the scene at that time, and there was still shock on his face. "After the fog dissipated, there was a faint light shining from the bottom of the abyss. We used a telescope to observe and found all kinds of inverted scenes."

"Although everyone sees it differently, there are hundreds of thousands of mountains rolling up and down, majestic buildings hidden among them, which are vaguely visible; there are towering cities standing on the plains, with fireworks flourishing, and a population of no less than a million; there are also cities in the sky surrounding them. Under the rays of light, all kinds of rare birds and animals are flying in it, it’s really..." The visitor to the immortal paused for a moment, and then expressed his feelings. "It's really incredible."

"Sure enough, it's from Xuyuan." Although he had known the news for a long time, now that he had received confirmation from his subordinates, Li Fan was still a little excited. However, many years of experience have already made him emotionless.

He asked calmly: "Have you found a way to get to the bottom of the abyss?"

The Immortal Visitor's breath stagnated, and then his face turned pale. He quickly kowtowed and apologized: "My subordinates are incompetent. We tried various methods, but as soon as we went down to a certain depth, we were cut to pieces by the sudden strong wind. The strong wind was so powerful that even our hardest armor could not withstand it for a moment." "

When Li Fan heard this, he didn't look disappointed at all.

After waving his hand and letting the visiting immortal officials leave, Li Fan said to himself: "It seems that I still have to wait for you."

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Anchored for 50 years, Daxuan Kingdom, Xuanjing.

Xuanjing City, which used to be extremely lively, is now eerily quiet.

Under the orders of the current imperial master, the vast majority of Xuanjing people were forcibly relocated to surrounding cities a month ago, supposedly to avoid disaster. Of course some people don't believe this ridiculous excuse. However, the grand master didn't do anything when he arrived, and he didn't force himself if he really didn't want to leave. He just suggested digging a basement at home to take shelter. These people only treat it as a joke.

After Li Fan received the report, he didn't take care of it. He has done his best.

Today, in the streets and alleys of Xuanjing City, there are special troops that he has carefully prepared over the years to deal with the two immortals.

Now everything is ready, all we need is the east wind!

At night, with the bright moon hanging high, the two immortal cultivators arrived as scheduled!

"Dao Xuanzi! Don't bully others too much!"

Kou Hong's angry shout spread throughout Xuanjing City.

"Da da da da..."

Countless tongues of fire suddenly lit up, and tens of thousands of bullets bombarded the two immortals like a waterfall in an instant!