[Martial Emperor only knew that Penglai Immortal Island was located in Moon Disc Sea Region, but because Penglai’s gate was ethereal and uncertain, he could not enter for a long time.]

[Perhaps Martial Emperor’s heart of seeking the Dao moved heaven and earth. After being baptized by a sudden great storm at sea, the wind stopped and the waves calmed, the sky cleared, and the ironclad giant ship actually sailed into a sea region never seen before. Penglai Immortal Island abruptly entered his eyes.]

[Penglai’s appearance was magnificent and strange, as if a heavenly palace had fallen into the mortal world. The island’s outline was like a natural painting, with layers of emerald peaks and coiling clouds and mist.]

[Upon the immortal island, jade towers and jeweled palaces stood row upon row, fully displaying the air of immortal families. The buildings all used white jade as their foundation, paired with emerald bamboo and green pines, their upturned eaves and interlocking brackets rising straight into the clouds.]

[Around the island, blue waves rippled. The seawater was crystal clear, the beaches were white as silver, strange treasures and exotic beasts wandered leisurely, and immortal cranes soared beneath the blue sky and white clouds…]

[However, after the ironclad ship docked, only Martial Emperor alone could disembark and land on the island. Although all the attendants did their utmost to follow, they were blocked by an invisible force and were always refused entry, unable to land on the island.]

[No one knows what happened after Martial Emperor landed on the island.]

[One day later, Martial Emperor left the island and returned. He ordered the ironclad ship to sail away. As the ship traveled farther and farther, Penglai Immortal Island, like an immortal realm, gradually vanished.]

[After the trip to Penglai, Martial Emperor ended his incognito tour and immediately returned to the imperial palace. Ignoring the opposition of all ministers, he built a Daoist treasure hall, Qinan Hall, in the Imperial Garden.]

[Enshrined in Qinan Hall was not the Three Pure Ones Dao Ancestors, but an immortal venerate with an unknown name, Central Heavenly Brahma Qi Purple Void Primordial Lady.]

[Martial Emperor revered Buddhism and suppressed Daoism, and took Buddhism as the state-governing religion. This was the foundation of the nation. Now he had not only secretly traveled east to Penglai, but had also built a Daoist treasure hall in the palace. How could this be explained to the people of the world? And how could it be explained to the Western gods and Buddhas?]

[As expected, after Qinan Hall finished construction, when Martial Emperor held the hall-opening blessing ceremony, Enma’s Right Attendant, who was also the main great Bodhisattva enshrined in the Capital, Ten Great Vows Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, descended to the mortal world and manifested!]

[Others did not know why the Bodhisattva came, only thinking that Martial Emperor building Qinan Hall had provoked the gods and Buddhas to wrath. However, the daily recorder knew that it was because of Martial Emperor secretly crossing east to Penglai.]

[After the transcendent great Bodhisattva descended to the mortal world, He spoke with Martial Emperor in the palace for half a day, then returned to Western Pure Bliss Heaven. He did not make any move to depose or establish anyone, and also seemed not to harshly blame Martial Emperor.]

[But from then on, no one in the palace dared to curry favor with Martial Emperor by going to Qinan Hall to worship that unfamiliar Daoist immortal venerate.]

[Martial Emperor also acted as if the construction had never happened, paying no attention to Qinan Hall.]

[But the daily recorder knew that every full moon night on the fifteenth day of the month, Martial Emperor would quietly enter Qinan Hall at midnight and worship the Daoist immortal venerate.]

[The daily recorder was an upright and courageous person. Regardless of whether the emperor’s words and actions were good or bad, all had to be recorded one by one. According to the rules, the emperor was not allowed to inquire about the contents of the Daily Records.]

[Therefore, the emperors of previous dynasties were all uneasy about the Daily Records, fearing that some disgraceful matters would be recorded.]

[The daily recorder itself was also an extremely risky official position. If one encountered an enlightened emperor, that was still fine. If one encountered a foolish and cruel emperor, the ending was often extremely miserable.]

[Vermilion preserved the office of daily recorder from the previous dynasty. Martial Emperor was undoubtedly an enlightened and sage emperor. He never questioned the daily recorder and allowed the daily recorder to record his words and deeds.]

[When the fifteenth night came again, faint candlelight indeed lit up in Qinan Hall. The daily recorder was determined to record Martial Emperor’s secret actions in the records, even if it might bring the risk of execution afterward.]

[The daily recorder secretly pierced the hall’s door and window paper and saw Martial Emperor kneeling to worship the immortal venerate, offering the three sticks of burning incense in his hands…]

[As the smoke from the burning incense rose in wisps, that immortal venerate statue, which held a treasure bottle in the left hand and a horsetail whisk in the right, showed an abnormality.]

[Sweet spring water overflowed from the clay-sculpted treasure bottle. Martial Emperor took out an object flashing with white light and placed it into the treasure bottle.]

[Before long, the wondrous object absorbed all the sweet spring water. Martial Emperor retrieved the wondrous object and wore it close to his body, revealing a relaxed expression. Wisps of black qi were driven out from his body and dissipated…]

[The daily recorder returned to the Internal Affairs Bureau overnight, truthfully recorded this matter, and ordered his descendants to copy one handwritten copy.]

[The next day, the daily recorder received Martial Emperor’s summons. From then on, he vanished without a trace, neither seen alive nor seen dead, and The Daily Records of Martial Emperor that recorded this matter were also destroyed together.]

[…]

[…]

[…My father has passed away, yet this matter must not be buried. I leave this handwritten copy so that later generations may clearly judge.]

[At this point, you have finished browsing the contents of the Daily Records.]

This Document Item contained a great amount of information. Lin Xun repeatedly read it and extracted several key pieces of information.

First, Penglai was located in Moon Disc Sea Region of the Eastern Black Sea.

If he wanted to pursue and eliminate Martial Emperor, who had become the evil god’s proxy, he had to go to Moon Disc Sea Region and search for Martial Emperor.

Second, that Central Heavenly Brahma Qi Purple Void Primordial Lady, as the Dao Ancestor’s disciple, was someone whose name no one knew.

At first, Lin Xun had thought that the White Elephant Demon was simply ignorant and inexperienced. But now, even the daily recorder, who was similar to a historian, did not know of this immortal venerate. This meant that no Daoist books or scriptures recorded this immortal venerate, which was very abnormal.

Third, after Enma’s Right Attendant, Ten Great Vows Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, descended to the mortal world and manifested, He should have reached some secret agreement with Martial Emperor, only then allowing this Daoist treasure hall to remain within the Imperial Garden.

Fourth, after Martial Emperor returned from Penglai, he built a Daoist treasure hall for Central Heavenly Brahma Qi Purple Void Primordial Lady, and would worship the immortal venerate every full moon each month. It seemed he was purifying his own malice?

Fifth, what was the object Martial Emperor held, and why did it have the effect of purifying malice?

Lin Xun pondered for a long while, and a bold guess faintly arose in his heart.

[You put away the Daily Records, ignore Worthy Consort’s bitter attempts to keep you, push open the hall doors, and leave…]

[The Vermilion Crown Prince has been waiting outside the door for a long time. Seeing Worthy Consort acting this way toward you, and remembering the sounds of extreme bliss he heard from outside the door just now, his expression is very complicated.]

[After considering for a long while, the Vermilion Crown Prince carefully asks, Great Buddha, what divine art did you use just now to make this Worthy Consort so… so obedient?]

[May disciple cultivate this divine art?]

[You raise your head and look at the moon. At this moment, the moon is high in the sky but not yet full. There is still one day before the fifteenth day of the month.]

[You ignore the crown prince and hurry toward Qinan Hall in the Imperial Garden…]

Lin Xun still had an item in his pocket, Brahma-Form Divine Treasure Profound Truth Deity-Inviting Mantra, which was an eternal+ grade item for summoning this Dao Ancestor’s disciple, Central Heavenly Brahma Qi Purple Void Primordial Lady.

Now that Qinan Hall had the divine image of this immortal venerate, although it was not yet the fifteenth night, he might as well go there first and see what great divine arts this allied big shot had.

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