Chapter 725 — The Southern Domain Emperor Lord's Face
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 5
"The Taiwei Calculation Scripture, when deduced, remains a blank expanse. It can derive the rules of a higher Great Dao that were never noticed before, but to calculate them out requires a great many masters of the arts of number and fate.
" "The Primordial Magnetism Divine Art is much easier. Cult Master Shen has already devised several equations, and by using them to reckon the primordial magnetism runes, one need only derive equations of a deeper order and work out the foundational runes of the Primordial Magnetism Divine Art; then the outlines of that divine-art system can be fixed. " Xu Shenghua took counsel with Jing Yan.
"I intend to found the Shangcang Academy, but Shangcang is still not in my hands. Founding the Shangcang Academy must be done; otherwise, in the Jingping of the future there will be no foothold for Shangcang. Yanzi, what say you?
" Jing Yan said, "To this day no academy has been established in the Western Lands. Why does my husband not summon his people from the Western Lands? The Western Lands hold many talents, but the sectarian prejudice of the great clans is deep-rooted. If my husband goes and founds a Shangcang Academy that casts aside all sectarian prejudice, the Zhentian Palace Master will surely be glad to help you.
To help you is to help her break the great clans and powerful houses of the Western Lands. " She thought for a moment and said, "The Western Lands were conquered by Cult Master Shen, and the great clans and powerful houses of the Western Lands revere him above all. If the Shangcang Academy is to be built in the Western Lands, Cult Master Shen must be invited to serve as its Libationer. With his name, and with the support of the Zhentian Palace Master, there will be no resistance. Once the Shangcang Academy is built, my husband can strike back at Shangcang and utterly root out the running dogs the Heavenly Court left behind there; from that day on, Shangcang will fall into my husband's hands. And when Shangcang is merged into Jingping, the Emperor will support you with all his strength.
" Xu Shenghua's eyes lit up, and he laughed. "Yanzi's idea is a good one.
Let it be so. Then, of Cult Master Shen's Taiwei Calculation Scripture and his Primordial Magnetism Divine Art, which direction should my Shangcang Academy choose? " Jing Yan pondered. "The Daoist sect was founded long ago and has depths of foundation beyond measure, while the Shangcang Academy is not yet founded; my husband has not the capital to contend with the Daoist Sovereign. Moreover, the Taiwei Calculation Scripture must be exceedingly troublesome, and within several years it will hardly yield results, while the Primordial Magnetism Divine Art yields results very easily. A few years from now, the Shangcang Academy and the Tiansheng Academy will share the fruits of the Primordial Magnetism Divine Art, and borrowing the Tiansheng Academy's name to spread its fame throughout the world, once it has made a name for itself, the scholars of the realm will naturally be glad to enter the Shangcang Academy to study.
" She smiled. "And by then, the Daoist sect should have achieved little in its study of the Taiwei Calculation Scripture.
My husband will then have both fame and people, and can join in the study of the Taiwei Calculation Scripture.
" Xu Shenghua felt greatly reassured and laughed. "With a wife like this, what more could a man ask for? " Husband and wife having settled their plans, Jing Yan said, "Princess Xiu is a Commandery Princess of the First Rank, Second Class, in the Western Lands. The Emperor trusts her greatly, and she is a woman, a heroine among women. The Western Lands honor women above all, and they trust and admire her deeply; her connections are vast.
I will go and visit Princess Xiu and open up that connection, and through her open up the connection with the Zhentian Palace.