Mirror of the Sky

Chapter 1 The Luo Clan

Luo Mu followed Eunuch He, walked through the long palace road, and accepted Emperor Jing's summons.

A quarter of an hour ago, he was still guarding the spirit of his brother at the National Teacher's Mansion.

His father and elder brother successively served as the national teacher of Zhou State, and died young successively.

The people of the state of Zhou firmly believed that it was the Luo clan and the sky-peeping mirror in their hands that had protected the state of Zhou for hundreds of years.The Luo family's status is high, like gods, even the Crown Prince of Zhou Kingdom must be ordered by the National Teacher to succeed to the throne.

It's just that prying into the will of heaven is harmful to fate. The Luo family has always been passed down in one line, and all of them are destined to die young, and none of them live to the age of knowing the destiny.

The higher the divination talent, the shorter the lifespan.

Luo Mu's father, Luo Zhen, was fortunate to have two sons, and his elder brother, Luo Xiao, was raised as the successor of the national teacher.

However, Luo Mu was young and frail, but was found to have spiritual roots, suitable for cultivating immortals, and was sent to the sect to study in order to prolong his life and continue his blood.

In this world, apart from mortals, there are also a group of immortals.They live in Lingshan Fairyland - a place that mortals cannot reach without the guidance of immortal cultivators.

Ordinary people with spiritual roots can participate in the selection of various sects and embark on the road of cultivating immortals.

Ordinary people without spiritual roots... are still trapped in the world of mortals, with daily necessities.

Luo Mu left Zhoudu at the age of five and went to the Misty Sect of Miaoyun Mountain to practice Taoism.When he was ten years old, he returned to Zhoudu to attend his father's funeral.Now, at the age of 15, he returned to Zhoudu to attend the funeral of his 22-year-old brother.

Of the Luo family, he was the only one left.

Now, it's his turn to be the national teacher again.

Luo Mu climbed the high steps and was led into the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, Sheng'an, the eldest prince, Da'an." Luo Mu saluted Emperor Jing, who was seated above, and the eldest prince next to Emperor Jing.

Emperor Jing showed a smile, "You don't need to be too polite, little master."

"I'm terrified." Luo Mu showed a surprised expression at the right time.

The eldest prince said: "Although the emperor hasn't issued an order yet, the national teacher is right. Congratulations to the national teacher."

"Nonsense." Emperor Jing glared at the eldest prince, and reprimanded in a doting tone: "The national teacher is still in the midst of filial piety."

Yes, his brother's hasn't been buried yet.But Emperor Jing hurriedly summoned him.In front of the imperial power, how can the Luo family be as unattainable as outsiders can see?He was also regarded as a servant and a running dog.

The First Prince didn't take Emperor Jing's reprimand at ease, and said with a malicious smile: "Then quickly give the Master Guoshi the Skypeeking Mirror, and send the Master Guoshi back to guard the spirit after the questioning."

Emperor Jing was always smiling, and asked the palace servants to hold up the Sky Peeping Mirror.

As soon as the elder brother left, Emperor Jing took Tiantianjing into the palace, saying that he was taking care of the Luo family.If it wasn't for the fact that only the Luo clan could use this mirror, it might have changed hands long ago.

Luo Mu took the brocade box brought up by the palace servants, and took out the Skypeeking Mirror, "I don't know what your Majesty wants to ask?"

Emperor Jing said sternly: "I want to know, can Prince Zhou Tang be the emperor?"

Prince Zhou Tang, five years old, the empress's son, was established as a prince as soon as he was born according to the law, but there were three emperor brothers in front of him.The eldest prince is eighteen years old, and he is the son of Emperor Jing's favorite Concubine Zhen. He has entered the court and even set up a desk in Emperor Jing's imperial study to participate in politics by Emperor Jing's side.

And the little prince... the queen died of illness two years ago, and Emperor Jing had the idea of ​​abolishing the prince.If it weren't for Concubine Zhen's family background being too low, I'm afraid she would have been crowned Empress.

Luo Mu closed his eyes and murmured the mantra, holding the sky-peeping mirror in one hand, and using the other hand to circulate spiritual energy, and wiped it on the mirror.Luo Mu opened his eyes, and saw a word "Zhou" in the mirror, and fell apart in an instant.

"Your Majesty, it's a sign of national subjugation." Luo Mu replied expressionlessly.

The eldest prince raised his eyebrows and smiled, teasingly said: "Master, the national teacher may have made a mistake."

Luo Mu: "No."

Emperor Jing relaxed his expression, "The eldest prince Zhou Shang, can you be the emperor?"

Luo Mu wiped the mirror again, and a thick black mist appeared in the mirror. Luo Mu replied, "It's not right."

The eldest prince heard this, and said anxiously: "Yes, what's wrong? You, you made a divination once, maybe you miscalculated."

He also said that he was wrong, but the tone was completely different.

Emperor Jing didn't get angry, but said in a deep voice: "Is there a solution?"

Luo Mu pondered for a moment, bowed his head and replied: "Your Majesty, I can give it a try."

This time Emperor Jing and the first prince both laughed, and Emperor Jing said: "Good! Eunuch He, please send Master Guoshi back."

The eldest prince sent Luo Mu out of the imperial study, and said to Luo Mu: "In the future, there will be Mr. Lao Guoshi."

Luo Mu said he didn't dare, and followed Eunuch He back.

Three days later, the former teacher Luo Xiao was buried.The next day, the new national teacher Luo Mu began to be on duty at the moon platform in the southeast corner of the palace.

From then on, there is no immortal cultivator named Muyun in the world, only Luo Mu who succeeds Zhou Guoguo as the national teacher.

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Five years later, Emperor Jing was ill for a long time, and the eldest prince Zhou Shang supervised the country.

These few days Luo Mu was busy with the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, instead of asking for Emperor Jing's pulse every day as in the past, today he had time to go to Emperor Jing's bedroom.

"Master National Teacher." The imperial physician and Eunuch He lowered their voices and saluted Luo Mu.

Luo Mu looked at Emperor Jing who was asleep on the dragon bed, and asked the imperial physician, "How is Your Majesty today?"

"It's much better." The imperial physician replied: "Thanks to the elixir that the First Prince begged for a few days ago, His Majesty's complexion has improved after taking it. In about half a month, His Majesty will be fully recovered."

"The eldest prince is benevolent and filial." Luo Mu smiled with the corners of his mouth pulled: "The medicine, show me."

Eunuch He showed embarrassment: "The medicine... is brought over by the eldest prince every day, and he personally serves His Majesty to take it..."

The imperial doctor said: "The ingredients in the prescription are all immortal medicines recorded by the sect of the immortal family that can nourish vitality and nourish qi, and there is no ingredient that conflicts with His Majesty's condition. The old man who tried the medicine is now running around..."

Luo Mu nodded upon hearing this, and said with a smile, "If that's the case, I won't disturb His Majesty's rest."

"My lord!" the imperial physician stopped Luo Mu, "won't you give His Majesty the pulse today?"

Luo Mu waved his hands and walked out: "I can trust the imperial physician's diagnosis, and I can also trust the eldest prince."

The imperial physician and Eunuch He looked at each other and did not stop him.

Luo Mu came out of Emperor Jing's bedroom and walked towards the platform, recalling in his mind

Immortal medicine... I have been taking it for several days...

Luo Mu stayed in Misty Sect for ten years. Due to his frail body, he was not suitable for practicing martial arts. On the contrary, he was quite talented in the formation of seal talismans, and he also had a little understanding of the art of refining medicine.

The elixir that the eldest prince begged for Emperor Jing, and Luo Mu knew that it was indeed an elixir for nourishing vitality and invigorating qi.

I heard that Concubine Zhen's long-lost elder brother joined the sect, he is a cultivator of immortality, and the immortal medicine was also sent by the eldest prince, the uncle.

With or without spiritual roots, fate is completely different.

Immortal cultivators have power and longevity beyond mortals, and they have become the existences that mortals worship and flock to.

The people's fanatical superstition for "immortals" has begun to threaten the imperial power. The royal family wants to recruit immortal cultivators to use them, but for most immortal cultivators, ordinary power is far less important than the way of cultivating immortals.

It's not that he didn't think about sending the royal blood to practice immortality like other countries, but it happened that there was no emperor's heir with spiritual roots in Da Zhou.

Eldest prince, I'm still in a hurry...

The next day, Luo Mu invited the prince's grandfather Tang Guogong for a secret meeting in Zuixianlou.

Tang Guogong asked: "What is the purpose of the national teacher to cover up people's eyes and ears like this?"

Luo Mu held out the sky-peeping mirror and said, "The Lord of the Kingdom knows that five years ago His Majesty asked me to do a fortune telling for the Crown Prince and the First Prince."

Tang Guogong became angry when he heard this. Isn't it the yellow-mouthed kid in front of him who asserted that his grandson is destined to perish?Then he asked: "What does the national teacher mean by this?"

Luo Mu didn't care about Tang Guogong's sarcasm, and said: "The hexagrams in the Sky Peering Mirror have recently changed, and the fate of the two has changed."

"Changed?" Tang Guogong's expression changed, and he asked, "What changed?"

Luo Mudao: "The omen of national subjugation was broken, and the cause of the change came from the First Prince. First, the First Prince's fate changed, and then the Crown Prince's fate followed suit."

Tang Guogong asked: "The eldest prince's fate...what has changed?"

Luo Mu replied: "It's very fierce, it's hard to live."

Tang Guogong frowned. Emperor Jing had been ill for a long time, and the eldest prince was in charge of the country. Tang Guogong thought that with the ambition of the eldest prince, he might simply control the government and take over Jingdi.But the eldest prince begged for a fairy medicine for Emperor Jing, and continued to play the role of a filial son.Emperor Jing was about to recover, but the eldest prince's fate turned out to be a disaster...

"The prince's destiny, what has changed?"

After seeing off Tang Guogong, Luo Mu slowly returned to Lanyue Platform.

There are three floors in the platform, and the National Teacher occupies the top floor.On the first and second floors, there are also several warlocks who are also proficient in divination. They are the deputy of the Master of the State Teacher.

Luo Mu pushed open the window, facing the Moon Tower, it was the Prince's East Palace.

Empress Xian was born in the Tang family, a century-old famous family in the state of Zhou, and was quite prestigious in the state of Zhou.In Tang Guogong's hand, he holds half of Zhou's military talisman.

At the beginning, Emperor Jing had taken a fancy to the power of the Tang family, married the former queen, but secretly favored a concubine who was born as a singer, and gave birth to the eldest prince.

But the Tang family was so powerful that even if Emperor Jing didn't like the first empress, he would not dare to abolish the empress.

Ten years ago, when the eldest prince was 13 years old, the former empress finally gave birth to the prince Zhou Tang.

But the Empress Empress fell ill during childbirth, and died of illness when the Prince was three years old.

At this time, the eldest prince was 16 years old, and Emperor Jing had allowed him to enter the court and participate in politics.

But if the First Prince wanted to surpass the Crown Prince and become the throne, the Tang family would not sit still.

Luo Mu was thinking about something, a little man climbed up the platform along the railing, and climbed through his window.Luo Mu smiled helplessly.

At midnight five days later, Emperor Jing died.The eldest prince was beheaded by Tang Guogong in Emperor Jing's bedroom for the crime of regicide.

The minister who received the news entered the palace overnight, only to see the bodies of Emperor Jing and the eldest prince, and Concubine Zhen tore Tang Guogong to pay for his life.

Tang Guogong ordered the palace servants to frame Concubine Zhen, without changing his face, he said, "The evidence of the eldest prince's murder of the king is conclusive, and this minister is only a quick shot."

Concubine Zhen looked at Eunuch He, who was lying on the side of the dragon bed and was crying: "The evidence? Where is the evidence? Don't wrong my son!"

Eunuch He looked at Luo Mu, and Luo Mu stood up, "The fairy medicine that the eldest prince asked for His Majesty has harmed His Majesty."

"Nonsense!" Concubine Zhen yelled angrily, "That is obviously a fairy medicine to help His Majesty recover from illness."

Luo Mu took a step forward and questioned Concubine Zhen: "Is it really a life-saving elixir?"

Concubine Zhen's face changed, no one would know their plan.Won't!

Before she could open her mouth, Luo Mu explained to the ministers: "The eldest prince deceived me and I didn't know it. Immortal medicines are too powerful for mortals, especially those who have been ill for a long time like His Majesty, so we must be cautious when using them. However, the First Prince asked the imperial physician to increase the dosage several times, saying that this would allow His Majesty to recover sooner."

"Actually, it's just forcibly hoisting the vitality in His Majesty's body. In a short period of time, his complexion seems to be improving, and there are signs of recovery, but in fact, His Majesty's body has been emptied long ago, causing His Majesty to die suddenly." Luo Mu looked at him. Eunuch He, "Eunuch He, why don't you tell the ministers about today's situation."

Eunuch He wiped his tears, choked up and said, "Duke Tang handed over the booklet to see His Majesty today. His Majesty was still in good spirits, so he summoned the Duke. After a while, the eldest prince came to urge His Majesty to take medicine. He took three medicines in total, which was more than yesterday. One extra. Unexpectedly, as soon as the medicine was taken, His Majesty suddenly fell on the dragon bed. The servant... the servant invited the imperial physician and the national teacher to come over. Exhausted... there is no way to recover..."

"The eldest prince's heart can be punished, and his deeds should be punished." Tang Guogong shook the knife in his hand, wiped off the blood on the knife, and smiled viciously: "I was just quick with the knife for a while."

Concubine Zhen's face was pale and she fell to the ground.

The palace arranged for Emperor Jing's funeral overnight, and Luo Mu was going to preside over the funeral for Emperor Jing tomorrow, so he didn't return to Guoshi's mansion, and spent the night at Lanyuetai.

Just as Luo Mu returned to the platform to change his robe, that little man climbed into his window again.

Luo Mu smiled helplessly: "It's not proper for a person who wants to be an emperor to climb the window!"

The little man barely reached Luo Mu's chest and hugged Luo Mu's waist, saying: "I haven't been seen by outsiders, so please don't scold me, Master National Teacher!"

Luo Mu grabbed the little man's hand wrapped around his back with his backhand and untied it, "How old is he, don't you know how to be ashamed!"

The little man took advantage of the situation and grabbed his hand, coquettishly said: "I won't let you go, it was the National Teacher who reached out to me first, so I will be entangled with the National Teacher."

Five years ago, Luo Mu succeeded as the national teacher. On his first day on duty at Lanyuetai, the door was pushed open with a bang, and a five-year-old doll rushed in, as if waiting A little wolf dog that is ready to bite.

But the villain, who was originally full of anger, was stunned the moment his eyes locked on Luo Mu, and he stuttered: "You, you are the new national teacher?"

"Exactly." Luo Mu got up and walked forward, bowed down to salute the five-year-old baby: "I have seen His Royal Highness."

Luo Mu bent down and put his face in front of the little prince. The little prince took a step back at a loss: "You, you, stay away from me."

"I obey the order." Luo Mu took a step back.

The little prince sized Luo Mu up and down, but he didn't expect that the new national teacher looked younger than the big emperor brother, and also looked very, very... Immortal.I heard that he is an immortal cultivating immortals.

However, this person is a bad person!

"Why do you say that I...that I cannot be an emperor?" The little prince asked him, "Why do you say that this palace will perish?"

Luo Mu knelt down in front of him, "Great Zhou is indeed a sign of subjugation, and has nothing to do with Your Highness."

"But elder brother said, you said he can be emperor."

"I said that I can give it a try, but it has nothing to do with the First Prince."

The little prince didn't understand: "What do you mean?"

Luo Mu smiled and said: "Whether your Highness or the First Prince ascends the throne, the Great Zhou Dynasty is a sign of the country's subjugation, and you can try it. You can help the First Prince or His Highness."

The little prince looked at Luo Mu in a daze.

Luo Mu stretched out his hand and asked, "Does Your Highness trust you?"

The little prince tilted his head and thought for a while, then asked, "Why did you choose me?"

Luo Mu replied: "Because, His Highness is the emperor and perishes Zhou, and the eldest prince is the emperor and perishes the world."

The little prince frowned puzzledly: "Death... the world?"

Luo Mu took the initiative to grab the little prince's small hand and said, "Your Highness can trust you."

The little prince looked into Luo Mu's eyes, thought for a while, held Luo Mu's finger with his small hand, and replied, "Okay, I will trust you once."

It seemed that what the two of them were talking about was just trivial matters.

It was the Master National Teacher who reached out to me first, and I have already entangled the Master National Teacher.