Chapter 548-2: Vermilion Capital, Imperial Palace Forbidden City (2)
Lin Xun had not driven Origin Dragon Divine Palace to the Capital, but had left that void-crossing ark in the small thousand world.
Because the commotion from driving Origin Dragon Divine Palace to take flight was truly far too astonishing. Saying it shook heaven and earth was not an exaggeration.
At this moment, he was facing the manhunt of many gods and Buddhas from Western Pure Bliss Heaven, and the evil god was also spying from the shadows. Unless he wanted to end the chapter early, driving this thing would simply be openly courting death.
[The White Elephant Demon beside you lets out a heavy sigh and says to you, Junior Brother, this Vermilion Kingdom is the most prosperous and powerful country in the mortal world. How has even the capital of a nation become like this now?]
[These monsters are like evil ghosts from the Nine Nether. The Incense Power and wish power they offer is also filthy to the extreme. Do the gods and Buddhas of Western Pure Bliss Heaven not detect even the slightest abnormality after absorbing such Incense Power and wish power?]
[Or perhaps those gods and Buddhas long ago became birds of a feather with these monsters?]
[You look toward senior brother White Elephant beside you and see that its eyes are clear, with no sign of being stained by even the slightest malice.]
[It seems the Seed of Glazed Pure Fire has already removed the malice staining the White Elephant Demon completely, achieving a cure of the symptoms.]
[Do you want to take this opportunity to tell the White Elephant Demon the truth?]
After considering for a moment, Lin Xun pressed the ‘Yes’ option.
[…]
[After hearing such a heaven-shaking secret, the White Elephant Demon is completely stunned. It murmurs…]
[In other words, the one who entrusted Junior Brother to journey east to Penglai at that time was the true Bodhisattva, while that Great Dark Endless Delusion Bodhisattva in the dojo, just like the gods and Buddhas filling the heavens, is a puppet controlled by the evil god.]
[You nod and say, correct! The current Enma is also nearly unable to hold on. Only some gods hiding in small thousand worlds can escape disaster.]
[Lu Wu in Kunlun is like this, and the Daoist immortal venerates in Penglai are also like this.]
[However, hiding in a small thousand world is not absolutely safe either. Even if they survive in some remote corner, they will sooner or later be corroded by the evil god.]
[The White Elephant Demon tightly grips the large hammer in its hand and cannot help gnashing its teeth. No wonder in its memories, every god and Buddha unknowingly changed their Buddha titles, and even the divine arts and cultivation methods they cultivated changed names, revealing a sinister air. It turns out everything was that evil god causing trouble in the dark!]
[It is just about to swing its hammer and say a few harsh words, but when it remembers that even Ancient Heavenly Enma and Chaotic Origin Dragon are no match for the evil god, wanting to overturn the evil god with only it and you is no different from a fool’s dream.]
[As it thinks and thinks, it feels that the iron hammer in its hand weighs ten thousand jun, and no matter how it tries, it cannot lift it.]
[You raise an eyebrow and question loudly, what? Senior Brother is afraid?]
[The White Elephant Demon immediately flushes red and retorts, who’s afraid! Would I be afraid of that evil god?! At worst it’s just a bowl-sized scar. What the hell am I afraid of!]
[I just feel that the Bodhisattva entrusted the task to the wrong person… no, senior brother absolutely does not mean to look down on you. Compared to Junior Brother, what kind of senior brother can this White Elephant Demon count as? I only entered the sect a few years earlier than you.]
[It is just that if we two senior and junior brothers want to overturn the evil god, it is like an ant trying to shake a tree. It really is, really is…]
[Overestimating ourselves, right? You take over the White Elephant Demon’s words, then leave the White Elephant Demon behind and fly first toward the Forbidden City in Yanjing.]
[You know the White Elephant Demon will follow behind you. Without turning your head, you say, first, the Bodhisattva telling you to go to Penglai Immortal Island was not for you to overturn the evil god, but for Enma.]
[Second, even if the evil god is powerful, as long as you have come, there is bound to be a slim chance of overturning the evil god. The key lies in whether you two senior and junior brothers can grasp that thread of vitality.]
[The White Elephant Demon understands the first point you mentioned, but even after thinking until its head breaks, it cannot understand the second point you mentioned. It can only repeatedly nod while pretending to understand.]
[The imperial palace, the Forbidden City, occupies an extremely vast overall area, with many halls standing within. It can be divided into the two parts of the Outer Court and Inner Court.]
[According to the records in the Vermilion Geographical Records, the Outer Court has three great halls and is the place where the emperor holds major court ceremonies, while the Inner Court has the Rear Three Palaces as well as the Eastern and Western Six Palaces, and is the place where the emperor, empress, and consorts reside.]
[Within the Inner Court, there are Buddhist hall buildings such as Xuanqiong Treasure Hall and Zhongzheng Hall. Within the Imperial Garden behind the Inner Court, the only Daoist treasure hall in Yanjing, Qinan Hall, is preserved.]
[At this moment, the sky is dark, but the imperial palace is brightly lit.]
[You and the White Elephant Demon land at the main gate of the imperial palace and see large batches of Extreme Evil imperial guards before Meridian Gate.]
[What surprises you is that the strength of these imperial guards is quite fierce. Although they are still far from reaching demigod standards, compared to mortals, each one belongs to the masters among masters.]
[Just over a hundred imperial guards could easily crush any army corps of Sakura Falls, showing just how powerful Vermilion Kingdom’s national strength is.]
[The imperial guards turn a blind eye to you, who are covered in malice, but toward the White Elephant Demon, their malice is fully revealed, and they draw blades to face it.]
[This angers the White Elephant Demon into sweeping with its hammer, turning all the imperial guards before Meridian Gate into corpses.]
[You try possessing several guard corpses, but do not obtain any useful memory information.]
[Only after you possess two leading guard Shells do you obtain some fragmentary memories.]
[By piecing together the two sets of memories, you learn the specific distribution and locations of some halls in the imperial palace.]
[You and the White Elephant Demon do not cross the Red Water Bridge toward the three halls of the Outer Court, but take advantage of the night to proceed toward the eastern side of the imperial palace. In the memories of the leading guards, the book storage place within the imperial palace, Wenyuan Pavilion, is located here.]
[You need to find The Daily Records of Martial Emperor that the Librarian told you about. But right now, you do not know where the descendants of the daily recorder are located, so you can only first go to Wenyuan Pavilion, this royal book repository, and try your luck.]
[Wenyuan Pavilion is located behind Wenhua Hall. According to the memories of the leading guards, Wenhua Hall is the place where the crown prince lives and studies.]
[Martial Emperor lives as long as heaven and earth. Since the founding of the country, He has outlived one crown prince after another, yet not a single crown prince has dared to raise troops and rebel.]
[It could be said that the status of the Vermilion crown prince is not even as high as certain favored consorts.]
[At this moment, Wenhua Hall is brightly lit. Through the silhouettes on the door and window paper, you can see someone reading by candlelight…]
[Do you want to ambush the guards outside the hall and visit Wenhua Hall at night, or bypass Wenhua Hall and proceed to Wenyuan Pavilion?]
Lin Xun narrowed his eyes.
The ordinary monsters in the imperial palace had all fallen into Extreme Evil. They only knew to follow the memories of their lives and act according to instinct and subconsciousness.
As for this person reading by candlelight, there was very likely some special event on him.