Chapter 105: Body Cleansing Realm! Desire Backfires!
After all, it is the secondary capital and one of the two prisons.
The Imperial Observatory has very high specifications both in terms of its area and architectural style.
As the second-in-command, Xu Chong was assigned to a separate courtyard.
On the north side of the yard is a two-story building with a well in the corner. On the east side, there is a lush bamboo grove that surrounds the east side.
I have to say, it is a good place to retire.
After putting down his luggage, Xu Chong did not hesitate to close the doors and windows and open the panel.
【Name: Xu Chong】
[Realm: Tenth level of Tongmai]
【True Dharma: Bao Yang Gong (Supreme )】
[Side skills: Picking stars (mastering the whole process), Greed for light (beginner’s practice)]
[Rule: Immortality (consumes 10,000 spiritual energy to activate)]
[Spiritual Source: 14]
"Now that a long way ahead is clear, and the drawbacks of the Body Cleansing Realm are clear, it's time."
Xu Chong said inwardly, his thoughts settled.
--boom!
A mighty warm current suddenly poured in.
No, more than that!
In addition, there are two pervasive pressures.
The pressure that comes from all directions and the pressure that erupts from the human body itself.
There are two pressures, one inward and one outward.
Like two big hands, they kneaded and beat Xu Chong over and over again, not letting go of even a tiny bit.
Wisps of smelly smoke were forced out from every pore of the body, curling up in the air.
"I can bear the pain, but this desire is backfiring..."
Xu Chong stared blankly into the room.
The study room, which was empty just now, was now filled with densely packed people, all of whom were familiar faces.
Xu Youan: "Without me, where would you be?! If I wasn't an official, where would I get the money for you to study and pass the exam to become a scholar?!"
Aunt Ma: "You are obviously a good person, why do you want to be an official like your father?!"
Zhang Youde: "I just wanted to remember something. What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me?!"
Fu Yuanlong: "Xu Chong! I treated you well! Why did you want to kill me!!!"
Wei Wuxie: "Traitor! Hahaha, you are the biggest traitor!"
Li Xiangxue: "You killed my father!"
Water ghost: "What an ungrateful bastard!"
…
very many.
Among these people are some who are dead and some who are still alive, some who are friends and some who are enemies.
They came up one by one, pointed at Xu Chong's nose and started cursing.
Xu Chong could even feel the other person's exhaled air and the saliva splashing on his face.
A real batch.
"what is this?"
Xu Chong was speechless for a while, "The memory of the dead suddenly started to attack me?"
Half an hour passed.
Perhaps they felt that Xu Chong was too thick-skinned to be scolded, so these imitations all disappeared.
"Huh...it's indeed a blessed place."
Xu Chong let out a breath.
Thanks to the rules of the blessed land, he not only did not feel frightened by the scene just now, but found it quite interesting.
Just as I was about to open the panel to take a look, there was a knock on the door.
"who?"
Xu Chong was stunned.
——Squeak.
A woman in a white long dress and a veil wrapped around her face walked in.
Sun Yourong!
Obviously, the backlash of desire is still continuing.
But the problem is, it’s useless to ask for someone’s life and curse them, so what’s the point of replacing Sun Yourong?
“Is it possible that…”
Xu Chong raised his eyebrows.
Sure enough, Sun Yourong took off her veil without saying a word, revealing her stunningly beautiful face.
Then he reached out to untie his belt.
Xu Chong's eyes turned cold.
The long skirt fell to the ground, revealing the white lingerie.
The inner garment fell to the ground, revealing a bellyband that just covered the towering vital parts.
Sun Yourong stopped and looked at Xu Chong with a blushing face: "Actually, you and I are not cousins at all, but a childhood marriage arranged by our families."
"Then what?"
Xu Chong asked calmly.
"I don't want to wait any longer... 嘤嘤!"
With a delicate hum, the soft and warm fragrance of jade came into her arms.
Sun Yourong's eyes were as charming as silk, and her breath was as sweet as orchid: "You, you can, take me?"
"good."
Xu Chong curled the corner of his mouth.
"real?!"
Sun Yourong was so surprised that her long eyelashes trembled.
"Of course, I, Xu Chong, will keep my word."
Xu Chong smiled and reached out his hand.
Starting from the plain, climbing up the mountain, going down the mountain... pinching the white jade neck.
Click.
Sun Yourong's neck was twisted off.
The blood spurting out from the broken part covered Xu Chong's body.
Sun Yourong was not dead yet. She stared at Xu Chong with wide eyes and hatred: "Why?! You clearly promised me!"
"You didn't say what I wanted from you, so of course I chose to kill you."
Xu Chong shrugged and threw the head away.
Gurgle gurgle, the head rolled to the corner.
“It feels very realistic.”
Xu Chong clenched his right hand and licked the corner of his mouth, "The blood is also very realistic."
"No wonder everyone talks about the backlash of desire so horribly."
"If there were no rules for calming the mind, I might not have been able to avoid being tricked."
As he was thinking silently, the bloodstains and Sun Yourong's torn body began to disappear at the same time and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Look at the panel again.
【Name: Xu Chong】
[Realm: First level of body cleansing]
[The True Dharma: Pure Yang Body Cleansing Record (for beginners)]
[Side skills: Picking stars (mastering the whole process), Greed for light (beginner’s practice)]
[Rule: Immortality (consumes 10,000 spiritual energy to activate)]
[Spiritual Source: 4]
Xu Chong seemed to be thinking about something.
After breaking through the first level of body cleansing, he thought the biggest change was not how much his strength had increased, but the feeling of lightness that came naturally from head to toe.
It was like the shackles originally imposed on the human body were loosened a little.
Wash your body, wash your body, literally.
"It's just that the consumption is really a bit high. 10 points of spiritual energy for one level..."
Xu Chong shook his head, "I don't know how much this so-called inferior blessed land can produce in a month."
Knock knock.
There was another knock on the door.
"Deputy Supervisor Xu, can I see you?"
This voice...
Su Ruochen?
Xu Chong's heart moved, and he stood up and opened the door: "Brother Su..."
"Don't dare!"
Su Ruochen waved his hands repeatedly: "Your Excellency is a sixth-rank official, and I am only an eighth-rank official, so I am not worthy of being called Brother Su."
"All right."
Xu Chong nodded helplessly and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Your subordinate..."
Su Ruochen's eyes dodged, "I have behaved abnormally outside the city. If I have offended you, please do not take it to heart."
"Outside the city? As I recall, we first met in the Observatory."
Xu Chong blinked, "When did I see you outside the city?"
"Um?"
Su Ruochen was stunned for a moment, then he started laughing: "Your Excellency is right."
"Um."
Xu Chong nodded and said, "That's great. I'm not familiar with the Imperial Observatory yet. Can you take me around?"
"my pleasure."
Su Ruochen moved sideways.
In this way, the two began to stroll in the Imperial Observatory.
As they walked, Su Ruochen introduced each subject to Xu Chong.
Astronomy observes astronomical weather and predicts good and bad luck.
For example, Su Ruochen's position as a Wuguan Baozhang official is to work in the astronomical department.
The calendar is estimated to have a date and the calendar is revised.
There are positions such as the Supervisor of the Five Organs and the Calendar of the Five Organs.
The clepsydra department records every moment, recording normally during the day and reporting to the night watchman at night.
There are positions such as Doctor of Clepsydra and Doctor of the Five Organs.
And then it was gone.
With such a large area of land, we only do these three things.
Oh no, except for the courtyard of the clepsydra department where people could be seen entering and leaving, there was not a single person seen in the astronomical department or the calendar department.
It's not just slacking off, it's considered absenteeism.
Xu Chong didn't care either.
Although he was the second-in-command, he had no intention of cleaning up the workplace.
It is a quiet government office in a quiet secondary capital. Even if you go to get off work and leave on time, you can only slack off when you stay in the government office.
"Um?"
Xu Chong suddenly stopped and asked, "Where does this lead to?"
In front of him, against the easternmost wall of the Imperial Observatory, there was a meter-high arched door.
Not far outside the wall is a three-meter-high city wall.
"Zhentian City is backed by the ocean, and has only two gates: the West Gate and the South Gate. The north and east sides are all cliffs."
Su Ruochen pointed to the ten-foot-high archway and said, "This door has a separate passage that leads directly to the cliffs outside the city, where you can watch the rising and falling sea of clouds up close."
"oh?"
Xu Chong became interested.
"I happen to have the key."
Su Ruochen smiled tactfully.
After saying that, he stepped forward and opened the archway.
Sure enough, there was a deep corridor at the entrance, which seemed to pass through the city wall.
"Let's go and take a look."
Xu Chong stepped out.
Passing through the corridor, the view suddenly opens up.
There is still a few feet of space between the city wall and the edge of the cliff, and ahead is a vast expanse of white without any obstruction.
“It’s a great place to view the scenery.”
Xu Chong nodded with satisfaction.
"you……"
A low voice sounded from behind.
Xu Chong frowned and turned his head.
Su Ruochen's face turned purple, and his confused eyes fell on Xu Chong's face, and he said word by word: "Why don't you believe me?!"
Oops!
Out of the scope of the Imperial Observatory!
Xu Chong was startled and exerted force on his feet, trying to take Su Ruochen back by force.
However, before he could take this step, Su Ruochen suddenly jumped up and plunged into the sea of clouds.
"You don't believe me, the supervisor doesn't believe me, none of you believe me!!!"
The roar echoed.
"Pick the stars!"
Xu Chong didn't even think about it and just used his secret martial arts.
——Snap!
There was a sound of wood breaking.
wood?!
Xu Chong was stunned, and then his pupils suddenly shrank into the size of a needle.
“This is fake!”
As soon as the thought came into mind, the scene suddenly changed.
Where is Su Ruochen, where is the sea of clouds and cliffs?
It’s obviously the same room!
Xu Chong sat in front of the desk, holding a broken pillar in his hand.
The window in front of him was completely destroyed.
"Desire backfires..."
Xu Chong let out a long breath and stood up immediately.
Fetch water, burn charcoal, and boil tea, all in one go.
Only after he drank a full pot of tea did Xu Chong relax a little.
But his heart was still extremely solemn.
"I didn't notice anything unusual about the scene just now, including the people and objects."
"It would be fine if it was just an illusion."
"But that move of picking stars..."
Xu Chong glanced at the broken bamboo he had thrown aside.
It was not until this moment that I truly realized the harmfulness of the backlash of desire.
I was lucky this time. I was in the study, there was a bamboo forest outside the study, and there were not many people in the yard.
If it was a place with a little more crowds, that star-picking move might not only get a piece of broken bamboo.
"I just tricked Su Ruochen a little bit, but I didn't really kill him. How could it have such a complete and meticulous backlash?"
Xu Chong frowned and thought.
Just now, in order to make him believe that everything was real, 'Su Ruochen' patiently led him to visit most of the Imperial Observatory, and only exploded when he walked out of the Imperial Observatory.
If nothing unexpected happens, the Imperial Observatory really does have such a door that leads directly to the cliff outside the city.
If he had chosen not to pick the star, but instead jumped to save it, and ultimately failed to react, he would probably have died.
Physical death caused by death of mind.
" An open conspiracy ? You are worthy of being the Supervisor..."
Xu Chong sighed and stood up.
Now I think back to the conversation at the observatory and this bag of tea.
Obviously , everything was within Yuan Shouyi's expectations.
