[The Imperial Garden is located at the northernmost end of the Forbidden City, already the deepest part of the imperial palace. In the dead of night, the Imperial Garden is silent and still, with only the occasional chirping of insects.]

[The only Daoist treasure hall in the capital, one could even say the only Daoist building still existing in the Vermilion Empire, is inside the Imperial Garden.]

[There is not a single trace of human presence around Qinan Hall. Not even half a night-watching eunuch can be seen.]

[Regarding this Daoist treasure hall that defies the western gods and Buddhas, even when the imperial concubines and princes of the palace come to the Imperial Garden to relax, they will avoid it from afar and take a detour.]

[You take the lead and step into the treasure hall. After pushing open the palace gate, you see the immortal venerate divine image enshrined upon the divine platform deep within.]

[The Primordial Lady wears a sky-blue cloud brocade Dharma robe, holds a treasure vase in Her left hand, and holds a horsetail whisk in Her right. Beneath Her feet is a Dharma sword, forming the posture of flying through the sky upon a sword.]

[The divine image’s face is blurry, but it can still vaguely be seen that Central Heaven Brahma Qi Purple Void Primordial Lady is a female Daoist nun.]

[You carefully examine this divine image before you. The immortal venerate divine image has no Incense Power soaking through and surrounding it, so even if others destroy the divine image, Central Heaven Brahma Qi Purple Void Primordial Lady cannot rely on the divine image to manifest and descend.]

[After investigating, you do not detect anything unusual about the divine image…]

[The Crown Prince of Vermilion says to you, Great Buddha, when Qinan Hall was built, I was still young, only seven or eight years old, and Father Emperor also never spoke of this immortal venerate’s origins.]

[Daoist scriptures are listed as forbidden books in Vermilion. All of them were collected by Martial Emperor and placed into Wenyuan Pavilion, never to see the light of day. After it became sensible, it specially investigated in detail, but it did not find any records about this immortal venerate in any Daoist scripture.]

[The only clue that can be related to this immortal venerate is Central Heaven Brahma Qi Doumu Primordial Lady, who is the mother of the Daoist Heavenly Emperor, Northern Pole Emperor, and the multitude of stars.]

[Doumu Primordial Lady is also transformed from the yin Qi of Dao Ancestor Qingwei Yuqing, one of the Daoist Three Pure Ones. She governs the stars and the perfected beings of the constellations, saves lives and rescues from calamity, possesses heaven-reaching great magic power, and is a true Great Luo Golden Immortal through and through.]

[Their Daoist titles are similar. It suspects that this Purple Void Primordial Lady is very likely Doumu Primordial Lady’s incarnation.]

[As for why Father Emperor built a treasure hall for this Purple Void Primordial Lady, it does not know…]

[Aside from the divine image, there is nothing else worth noticing in the treasure hall. At this time, there is still one day until the fifteenth day of the month, so you can only leave Qinan Hall for the moment.]

[There are still two Buddhist halls inside the imperial palace. One Xuanqiong Treasure Hall enshrines the Three-Life Buddhas, and one Zhongzheng Hall enshrines Enma’s right attendant, Ten Great Vows Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.]

[This Great Bodhisattva is the main god and Buddha worshipped in Vermilion Capital. The White Elephant Demon tells you that Ten Great Vows Samantabhadra Bodhisattva did not cultivate a secret art and fall in realm like its family’s Bodhisattva. He is a Great Bodhisattva who has attained the first fruit rank.]

[The divine abilities and spells possessed by Ten Great Vows Samantabhadra Bodhisattva are slightly inferior to the left attendant Great Dark Endless Delusion Bodhisattva at her peak, but He is also Enma’s right-hand arm, and also an existence that once made the many yokai and dragon race tremble in fear upon hearing of Him.]

[According to scripture records, Ten Great Vows Samantabhadra Bodhisattva once fought Dragon Child Taotie for three days and three nights without victory or defeat…]

Lin Xun cursed inwardly at the hellish game’s perverted difficulty.

As one of the four great dragon children on par with Yazi, Qilin, and Baxia, Taotie could only fight Ten Great Vows Samantabhadra Bodhisattva to a draw. If Lin Xun wanted to seize the incense malice of the capital, he would have to snatch it from the hands of this big BOSS.

Thinking about it this way, conquering the capital map felt almost impossible.

“Can I ask Lu Wu to help power-level by fighting for me?”

Lin Xun thought briefly before shaking his head.

Although Lu Wu had the realm of first fruit rank, He was not skilled in spell combat. He had personally said that His own strength was far inferior to the likes of Yazi, and against Great Dark Endless Delusion Bodhisattva, He would lose without winning and could only flee.

It was likely that if Lu Wu faced Enma’s right attendant, Ten Great Vows Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, it would mostly be a situation of defeat and death. Even with Lin Xun helping in the fight… he was a whole major realm below the enemy, so the help he could provide would be too small and unable to influence the outcome of the battle.

Fortunately, there was no mandatory requirement to clear this big BOSS. For now, skipping the capital map and directly escaping class by heading to the Eastern Black Sea to pursue Martial Emperor was not impossible.

According to the intelligence obtained earlier, after Martial Emperor became the evil god’s proxy, he was bestowed with heaven-reaching and earth-penetrating great magic power.

Dao Ancestor did not state clearly how strong Martial Emperor was now, but Dao Ancestor clearly was not optimistic about Lin Xun’s strength, which was why He gave him an item for summoning a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

From this, it could be inferred that Martial Emperor at least possessed eternal grade strength, and might even possess eternal+ grade strength.

Meanwhile, the Seed of Glazed Pure Fire in Lin Xun’s pocket had not yet been upgraded, so it could not conceal heavenly secrets for allied big shot Central Heaven Brahma Qi Purple Void Primordial Lady and help Her avoid the evil god’s spying. Therefore, he also could not summon a Great Luo Golden Immortal with top-level combat power.

Before heading to the Eastern Black Sea to pursue Martial Emperor, upgrading the Seed of Glazed Pure Fire was the safest choice.

Dense characters flashed through Lin Xun’s eyes. “If my guess is right, the critical moment is tomorrow night’s full moon.”

“As for now… time to meet Martial Emperor in Qianqing Palace!”

[You do not immediately head to Martial Emperor’s sleeping chamber. Instead, you first return to the Crown Prince’s residence, Wenhua Hall.]

[The White Elephant Demon leaps up and pulls down an unconscious woman from the palace eaves.]

[The Crown Prince of Vermilion takes a close look and sees that this person is precisely Consort Li, who had long since returned to the palace…]

[You still remember Consort Li saying that Martial Emperor’s fake body puppet is not as simple as it appears on the surface. To guard against any accident, you decide to obtain some information from Consort Li first.]

Because this chapter had malice causing trouble, most monsters’ memories had been completely corroded by malice. If one wanted to obtain specific information, the method of killing monsters and seizing Shells could not be used.

Whether it was the Vermilion princes, Worthy Consort, or Consort Li, they were all the same. Fortunately, Lin Xun’s current strength was very high, and handling these low-level plot characters was as easy as turning over his hand.

[…]

[After an interrogation, Consort Li reveals the truth…]

[Martial Emperor had long since anticipated that after he crossed the sea eastward, the several princes and the Crown Prince would harbor wicked intentions. Therefore, his fake body puppet was not an ordinary person like the empress and several favored consorts, but was disguised by the number one expert of the Inner Court, the great Treasure-Suppressing Eunuch.]

[Treasure-Suppressing Eunuch entered the Dao through martial arts. His martial arts are unrivaled among all mortal beings. Even when certain evil heterodox wild gods cause trouble, he can forcefully suppress them with his martial Dao flesh body. If the Crown Prince or princes have the intent to rebel or assassinate, they will only lose the heads on their necks.]

[To guard against any accident, Martial Emperor also bestowed Treasure-Suppressing Eunuch with a God-Inviting Spell. If an unexpected situation occurs, he can invite the Great Bodhisattva to descend to the mortal world…]

[The Crown Prince of Vermilion is greatly shocked upon hearing this and says, Nonsense! Treasure-Suppressing Eunuch has always personally protected Martial Emperor. Did he not already cross the sea eastward together with Martial Emperor? How could he still remain in the palace?!]

[You ask Consort Li how she knows these secrets…]

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