Chapter 148 Turning the Tide
Imperial College, public housing.
Behind Bai Changkong, there is a wooden screen made of pine wood, on which was burned with an iron the image of the ancestor of the sage family Zhu, the cultural and educational Zhu Sheng, who brought his disciples to the top of You Mountain in East Shenzhou to teach the classic "You Mountain Teaching Diagram" to nine thousand poor scholars.
Behind this screen, behind the gauze curtain, there is a cloud bed.
On weekdays, if Bai Changkong worked too late in the Imperial College, this cloud bed would be where he would stay at night.
In order to reflect Bai Changkong's "integrity" and "self-discipline", in the past, this cloud bed was only covered with a mat made of bamboo skin and a thin quilt weighing less than three pounds, regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter.
But today, the cloud bed was piled with the finest silks and satins, and the contemporary leader of the Paradise Palace, a beautiful woman dressed in gorgeous clothes and going by the alias of Bai Changkong's distant cousin's wife, was leaning on the cloud bed.
In the public house, Bai Lu roared at Bai Changkong, mocking him to her heart's content, and used the lives and deaths of 100,000 students in the Imperial College to squeeze out the negative emotions in Bai Changkong's heart.
Bai Changkong smiled like the leader of the Paradise Palace, his smile was gentle and reserved, without any emotion at all.
At the moment when Yinyuan handed Ruyi to Baishuang and promised her the position of imperial concubine, a layer of pink mist suddenly appeared beside the leader of the Paradise Palace who was leaning on the cloud bed.
Wisps of misty air carrying a hint of ethereal sounds emerged from half a foot above the body of the leader of the Paradise Palace, fell little by little, and merged into her body.
There was a burst of pink light in the eyes of the leader of the Paradise Palace. Pink mist swirled around her. Countless enchanting beauties, strong and handsome men appeared, as well as all kinds of extravagant and licentious images that were far beyond people's imagination.
She took a deep breath and slowly sat up straight.
With a 'ding' sound, a thin pink mark appeared between her eyebrows, and then her entire skin cracked left and right along the mark, and a perfect piece of beautiful skin fell off her body.
Just like a butterfly larva sheds its skin and turns into a gorgeous swallowtail butterfly, as this beautiful skin fades away, the leader of the Paradise Palace is transformed into a stunning beauty with an extremely beautiful temperament, who at first glance, appears to be only eighteen or nineteen years old.
Her long black hair fell down and dragged to the bottom of the cloud bed. At first glance, her hair seemed to be more than eight feet long.
Her skin, like mutton-fat jade, had a faint luster of gemstones. Under her fair skin, golden and pink petal patterns were occasionally faintly visible. At this moment, the leader of the Paradise gave people the feeling that the flying celestial being in mythology had descended to the earth, with a refreshing and rich fragrance wafting from her body.
"Sure enough, it worked!"
The leader of the Paradise Palace chuckled and gently held the piece of beautiful skin that had shed off in her arms.
"Strive for luck, to repair the heavenly secrets...Strive, strive, strive, strive for your mother's head!"
"What a bullshit Dayin's luck! I only need to send out a proud disciple to easily get this great benefit... You guys still have to work hard, fight and kill to fight for it, how can you get such a good deal as me?"
With a chuckle, the leader of the Paradise Palace said dimly, "But I can't blame you. Tsk, you are a thief in Buddhism and a thief in Taoism, and you can't pick out a good daughter to send to the palace."
"Fellow disciples of the Demonic Path? Tsk, the group of murderous women you raised are really a disgrace to us women!"
The leader of the Paradise Palace slowly stood up, turned sideways, and faced a huge crystal mirror placed at the end of the cloud bed, admiring the stunning beauty in the mirror, who looked like a goddess.
Bai Lu heard the movement behind the screen, and her face suddenly darkened: "Is there someone inside? Or a woman? Hey, old man, I knew you were not serious, but I didn't expect that you would dare to hide a woman in the public housing of the Imperial College?"
Bai Lu suddenly laughed again, her mouth wide open and her two rows of big teeth exposed to the air.
"So, it's not my fault. If the top beam is not straight, the bottom beam will be crooked. You yourself are such a person. You want to teach me to follow the rules and observe the etiquette?"
"It's all your fault that our family is in such a miserable state!"
Bai Lu pointed at Bai Changkong and roared.
"What's the miserable state of the Bai family? What miserable state can there be?" Bai Changkong put his hands behind his back and looked at his granddaughter whom he once cherished like a jewel in his palm. "You will soon be forgotten by the world. But my Bai family will become a royal family, and the family will prosper. It is not impossible to achieve immortality in the future!"
"Immortality?" Bai Lu's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of a needle tip.
"Xian Dao!" Bai Changkong smiled and looked at Bai Lu: "You are surprised? Or even a little shocked? Well, in the family, only your uncle knew about this matter. Your father and others only knew a little bit. Our family has a great backer behind it."
"Do you think that the Bai family will never recover because of you?" Bai Changkong shook his head and said, "You think too highly of yourself."
Bai Lu was furious and screamed at Bai Changkong.
Her eyes turned blood red, because of Bai Changkong's words, the clarity she barely maintained in her heart was annihilated in an instant. She stretched out her two hands, and her blood-red nails protruded more than a foot long, like ten daggers, fiercely stabbing at Bai Changkong's chest.
The leader of the Paradise Palace floated out from behind the screen.
Beside her, the beautiful skin she had shed had merged together perfectly, and there was no trace of the previous gap.
The beauty skin was like a real beauty, floating quietly beside her, its dark, empty eye holes staring straight at Bai Lu.
With a ding sound.
A fist-sized, pink orb with wisps of pink haze surrounding it stood in front of Bai Changkong. Bai Lu's fingernails hit the seemingly soft haze, causing countless sparks to fly, but it failed to scratch even a trace of the haze.
An extreme sense of danger surged over her. When the beautiful woman next to the leader of the Paradise Palace grabbed her, Bai Lu let out a long howl and her body suddenly flashed.
Bai Lu disappeared, and a beautiful woman in a red dress appeared in the public housing, replacing the original Bai Lu.
The beauty skin grabbed the beautiful woman, and she let out a shrill howl. Her figure flashed and disappeared without a trace. On the back of the beauty skin, a lifelike and vivid face of a beauty appeared.
"You have a good granddaughter." The leader of the Paradise Palace said leisurely, "I was just wondering where to find so many beautiful women's souls to sacrifice to refine my 'Paradise Ten Thousand Beauties Picture', and she unexpectedly sent so many beauties to me."
"Hey, hey, this is really the good fortune of my Paradise Palace."
Bai Changkong smiled and bowed deeply to her: "This is the blessing of the master. In the future, I hope you can support me on my path to immortality."
The leader of the Paradise Palace smiled, and his left hand naturally stroked Bai Changkong's old face, then he suddenly retracted his hand as if he had been electrocuted, and rubbed it hard on his clothes again and again.
Bai Changkong looked at her with resentment.
The leader of the Paradise Palace laughed dryly and said, "I only love handsome men. You are older, and your face is full of pits and wrinkles... But it doesn't matter. I think your sons are all good, haha, haha!"
Bai Changkong rolled his eyes.
The leader of the Paradise Palace wiped his hands on his clothes and walked to the window, looking out at the densely packed red figures in the sky and underground of the Imperial College.
She smiled and nodded. Pink mist continued to grow around her. A vast aura gradually rose from her body. The beauty skin floating around her flew out along with the pink gem.
The precious orb emitted a pink glow, and the frightened student felt a sharp pain in his eyes, and was unable to open his eyes immediately because of the glow.
Wherever the beauty skin passed, a violent storm swept out, and these enchanting beauties screamed and were swallowed up by the beauty skin one after another, turning into lifelike beauty masks on the beauty skin.
While the leader of the Paradise Palace was performing his actions, he whispered to Bai Changkong, "Get ready. Once I have dealt with these poor little bastards, you can go outside and do whatever you want. You scholars, what you call…"
Bai Changkong smiled and said, "Haoran righteousness!"
The leader of the Paradise Palace glanced at him and said leisurely, "Just tell those idiots that you used your righteous energy to repel these female ghosts and saved their lives."
Bai Changkong smiled and nodded: "They all have extraordinary family backgrounds. If they can become our outer disciples."
The leader of the Paradise Palace curled her red lips and said sarcastically, "Oh, you thought anyone could become a disciple of our sect? As for outer disciples, it depends on their qualifications. However, I think they can become a great tonic for our female disciples!"
There were constant screams in the air.
Bai Lu was suspended in the air, with a jade flute vibrating beside her, continuously emitting eerie cold rays that struck downwards.
The pink gem of the leader of the Paradise Palace was suspended in the air, and turned into a ball of pink rainbow with a radius of ten feet, blocking left and right, easily blocking all of Bai Lu's attacks.
As she performed the act, she smiled at Bai Lu and said, "Little girl, you seem to be quite spiritual. Considering your relationship with our sect, I will give you a chance to become the main soul of my Ji Le Wan Mei Tu."
"If you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again... If you enter my Wanmeitu, you can live forever and enjoy a carefree life. How many people can't wish for that?"
Suddenly, the beauty skin floating in the air flashed and instantly appeared behind Bai Lu, spewing out countless pink mists that turned into extremely thin chains and covered her.
Bai Lu let out a sharp scream, her body shook, and she turned into a ball of cold wind and disappeared without a trace.
"Wait and see, old woman... I am still no match for you today, just wait... I will never let you off for today's grudge!"
The leader of the Paradise Palace said leisurely: "It's just a sneak attack, haha, where do you get such a big tone from?"
Beauty skins were flying everywhere, and the red figures inside and outside the Imperial College had been swept away to the point where only a few were left.
Bai Changkong had already jumped out of the public housing, leaped into the air, and landed on a tall building. He then took a deep breath and roared loudly, "Who are you? How dare you break into our imperial academy? Do you really think that I, a sage of culture and education, can do nothing to you evil spirits?"
"The Master said, 'The rule of human relations is called 'propriety'!"
Bai Changkong roared loudly, and a wave of heat rushed out of his body, sweeping across an area of dozens of feet in an instant.
The ghostly aura was swept away from the entire Imperial College. Countless students were refreshed. When they opened their eyes, they saw Bai Changkong rising slowly from the top of a tall building, with a righteous aura surging around him. Several broken ghost shadows struggled to escape from him, but were caught in the visible white air wave and were instantly shattered.
"Oh my God, could it be that Master Baishan is a saint who has descended to earth?" Someone shouted loudly, and some even knelt on the ground.