Chapter 72: Chapter 63: A Shocking Turn on a Rainy Night

’It’s best not to use this Soul Fusion Remembrance if I can avoid it.’

’For a split second...’

’I actually thought I was the Black Lotus Saint...’

Su Chen restored the medicinal herb garden to its original state.

Night...

...grew deeper.

In the Library Pavilion, Cyan Sparrow’s slender figure was slumped by the candlelight, having fallen asleep while reading a book. She murmured in her sleep.

"Cultivation..."

She had always wanted to cultivate.

Unfortunately.

The Library Pavilion only contained ordinary texts, not Cultivation Techniques. At best, there were only some half-true, half-false cultivation stories, like those from storybooks and legends.

Su Chen walked over and draped the White Fox Fur cloak over her.

"You will cultivate."

After speaking,

Su Chen took a Cultivation Technique scroll he had prepared and placed it in a corner of the ninth floor of the Library Pavilion, using it to prop up a bookcase.

Although he cultivated the Eighteen Golden Body Technique and walked the Extreme Realm of the Path of the Body, he had also served as the Martial Pavilion’s second-in-command red robe for a long time. Countless techniques resided in his mind.

All of Great Liang’s Cultivation Secret Scriptures were in his memory. Now, he had his sights set on the Great Zhou’s three hundred years of accumulated heritage and its countless Cultivation Secret Scriptures.

He had once heard...

...that when Liang and Zhou carved up the Great Yu, the Great Liang Grand Ancestor took the Yu King Capital, while the Grand Ancestor of Great Zhou took all the books from the Yu King Capital.

’The feeling of the First Grade is still nowhere in sight.’

’The Thousand-year-old Treasure Medicine King...’

’...no longer has any effect on me.’

’If I can’t find any secret scriptures in this Imperial City, my only option will be to search for those ethereal Immortal Footprints...’

Spring passed and autumn came.

Winter arrived once more.

There was no snow.

Only a bone-chilling rain that lasted all year long.

The third year of the Great Zhou Xuanlong Dynasty.

The first day of the first month.

Su Chen was tending to his medicinal herb garden. Strange flowers, exotic plants, and colorful vines once again crept up the walls of the Library Pavilion.

A strange fragrance filled the air.

It was poisonous.

Now, the poison from the plants Su Chen had arranged was enough to make even a First Grade expert’s blood run cold, capable of corroding bone and dissolving the heart. This was because a Withered Leaf Heart-devouring Vine grew in the courtyard.

It was the main ingredient for the Heart-devouring Powder.

It was just that a thousand-year-old Withered Leaf Heart-devouring Vine had never before existed in the Human World.

"The plants are poisonous, so don’t lose your Jade Token. We’re just ordinary Eunuchs and Palace Maids. In this deep palace, we have to take some precautions."

"Mhm, mhm."

Cyan Sparrow nodded earnestly.

She clutched the Jade Token, her eyes filled with irrepressible joy.

In the Library Pavilion,

she had discovered an ancient, dust-covered book. It turned out to be a Cultivation Technique, and a top-level one at that—rumored to lead directly to the First Grade.

What a fortuitous encounter!

"Master Xu, I found a book..."

Cyan Sparrow wanted Su Chen to cultivate with her.

That way, the ordinary Eunuch and the ordinary Palace Maid would no longer be ordinary in the future.

"Oh, this one? It’s nothing special. I’m not interested..."

Su Chen glanced at the *Profound Celestial Jade Maiden Scripture*, shook his head, and said.

It was a Cultivation Technique for female cultivators.

It wasn’t suitable for him.

And besides...

he looked down on it.

With his Peak combat strength, he had no use for it anyway.

"Oh, I see."

Cyan Sparrow understood.

’It seems...’

’Master Xu must have looked through this book before. A shame he couldn’t cultivate it and found it difficult to even begin. That’s why he thinks it’s nothing special. Is his aptitude too mediocre?’

’No wonder Master Xu is just an ordinary Eunuch guarding the Library Pavilion.’

’So he has no talent for cultivation.’

’Sigh.’

’Looks like from now on, it’ll be up to me to protect this ordinary, unremarkable Eunuch, Master Xu.’

’I can protect Master Xu now, too.’

’That’s great.’

"Master Xu, I’m going back to my reading."

Exuberantly, Cyan Sparrow ran back to the top floor of the Library Pavilion.

She wanted to step onto the path of cultivation as soon as possible.

She wanted to give Master Xu a surprise.

’Fifth Grade is already considered very powerful.’

’But I feel...’

’...I can reach Third Grade.’

’What fortuitous encounter? It was all deliberately arranged.’

Su Chen shook his head.

Then,

he dug a pit in the medicinal herb garden.

He returned to the first floor of the Library Pavilion to continue sipping tea and reading. Speaking of which, many of the books in this Library Pavilion were not present in the one from the Great Liang era.

They were worth reading through again.

"Hmph."

"The heir to the Western Depot?"

"You ungrateful Castrated Dog! Just a common Eunuch who doesn’t even know cultivation, yet you dare refuse His Highness’s invitation? You think too highly of yourself!"

"We’ll teach you a lesson today!"

"And let you know..."

"...this is the Great Zhou! It’s not your Old Liang anymore."

Someone on the wall sneered.

Silently,

he scaled the wall and jumped into the Library Pavilion’s courtyard. He stared at the figure reading by lamplight and reached for the sharp blade at his waist.

"I’ll just take one of your ears."

He grinned viciously.

"Huh? Why is there a pit here?"

He paid it no mind.

Stepping over the deep pit, he was about to move forward.

"AH!"

His face twisted as he clutched his chest, feeling a sharp, suffocating pain. He looked at the various plants and flowers in the Library Pavilion, his eyes wide with absolute terror.

"This!"

"These... These plants are poisonous!"

THUD!

He fell into the pit. It was neither too big nor too small—a perfect fit for his body.

Now,

he understood.

This pit was meant to be his grave.

From inside the Library Pavilion,

Su Chen put down his book, walked out, and picked up a shovel. He looked at the figure, who still had a sliver of Qi left, with some surprise.

"Tsk."

’This time, it’s actually a First Grade.’

’How rare, how rare.’

’No wonder he still has some Qi left.’

After a moment,

Su Chen skillfully began to shovel dirt.

This sort of thing,

he was well-practiced.

Over the past year, he had stayed cooped up in the Library Pavilion, refusing countless invitations from nobles—dignitaries from the Old Liang and Princes of the New Dynasty alike.

But,

he was just Xu Ge from the pharmacy, a man with no cultivation whatsoever.

An ordinary Eunuch.

In the eyes of these nobles, he was just a commoner who got lucky, receiving Lord Xu’s gift and becoming the Captain of the Western Depot. For an ordinary person to dare refuse them was seen as shameless arrogance.

Thus,

for nearly a year, far too many people had snuck into the Library Pavilion to "teach him a lesson."

He couldn’t even remember them all.

So much so that the soil level of his medicinal herb garden had been raised considerably.

Most of them were Third Grade.

The strongest were Second Grade.

A First Grade...

...this was the first one.

"Little Eunuch, you’re courting death!"

The shadowy figure erupted with ferocity, igniting his Qi and blood. His fist tore through the air, whipping up a gale as it shot toward Su Chen.

He revealed a vicious grin.

’This plant poison is truly insidious.’

’But...’

’...a First Grade is still a First Grade.’

’My body is completely Leakless.’

’Even with a potent poison, I can lock my blood and suppress it.’

’Captain of the Western Depot?’

’Hah.’

’A Eunuch with no cultivation dares to provoke a First Grade, even using poison to launch a sneak attack. He deserves to be killed for it.’

The next moment,

his expression changed drastically as a searing pain shot through him. Even though his punch only contained thirty percent of its Peak Power, it was still more than enough to obliterate the Nine-Story Library.

However,

at that moment, it was like an egg hitting a stone, or a feeble child’s hand striking a solid iron wall.

Bones snapped and tendons tore.

His fist, along with his entire arm, was twisted out of shape.

"You can’t possibly be Xu Ge!"

"With such cultivation... who in the world are you?"

"I am of the Royal Race, Yun Xuanjun of the Great Zhou! If you dare kill me, you will make an enemy of the entire Great Zhou..."

His face was a mask of terror as he roared furiously.

In response,

Su Chen brushed off the wrinkles on his robe caused by the punch and, without hesitation, smashed the shovel down on the man’s forehead.

Then,

he skillfully buried him.

As for making an enemy of the Great Zhou?

Who cared.

RUMBLE—

SPLASH.

The rain intensified!

Another torrential downpour enveloped the Imperial City.

Ever since the Xuanlong Emperor fell, the world’s climate had never been normal. Rain fell throughout all twelve months, through spring, summer, autumn, and winter. It was starting to resemble the Great Liang era, with its two years of blizzards and three years of frozen earth...

’So, the Great Zhou has an "Immortal Whale" too?’

Su Chen was puzzled, not quite understanding.

"KILL!"

"Crown Prince Flame, you usurped the throne by murdering your own father! Today, we shall take your head to appease our Imperial Father’s spirit in heaven and restore justice to the world...!"

Amidst the crashing thunder and pouring rain, the Great Zhou Imperial Palace, which had been seething with undercurrents for a year, finally erupted.

Countless furious roars echoed from all directions.

Along with the clamor of battle.

That night, countless fires blazed in the Imperial Palace, lighting up the sky. Shadowy figures clashed and slaughtered one another, continuously splattering blood into the curtain of rain.

The infighting had begun.

Or rather,

the various kings had stormed the Imperial Palace, intending to... set things right!

’I’ve finally waited long enough.’

After a year of lying low, that mysterious Grandmaster’s Longevity Fire had finally vanished.

’Perhaps...’

’...he has stepped into the Abyss.’

He could also finally get a glimpse of the Great Zhou’s archives and seek the feeling of the First Grade.

Su Chen left the Library Pavilion.

He headed straight for the seventeenth floor of the Heaven-Ascension Tower.

There,

lay the archives of the Great Zhou, as well as the secret treasures of the Great Yu from over three hundred years ago.

He had been at the Second Grade for far too long...

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