Chapter 61: Chen De’s Dream of Longevity
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Following the narrow passage, Chen De soon arrived at a dark secret chamber.
In the depths of this secret chamber, there was a strange half-man and half-women Buddha statue with a smile on its face.
Most Buddha statues gave people kind eyes and a sense of solemnity.
However, the Buddha statue in front of him gave off an indescribable obscene and evil feeling.
Apart from its strange appearance, the Buddha statue had a very strange pose.
The Buddha statue’s hands were placed on its abdomen and made a gesture of holding something.
However, there was nothing in its hands.
…..
Or rather, it used to hold something, but now no longer did.
Chen De walked towards the Buddha statue and muttered to himself, “The Buddha statue has fallen into the hands of the Devil Slayers Division. Even the body of the Goddess who gave birth to the child was being protected by them.”
“Damn the Devil Slayers Division, damn the Qingyun Sect. I just want to cultivate a reincarnated Buddha body to seek longevity. Why are they ruining my good deed!”
After his anger subsided, Chen De slowly calmed down.
“We can find a Goddess again, but we have to find a way to get the Buddha statue back.”
“Otherwise, a mortal body like mine with no spiritual roots would be unable to cultivate a Buddha at all.”
Thinking of this, Chen De raised his head and looked at the evil Buddha statue before him.
“For the love of the Buddha, I am willing to use ten years of the Great Xia Kingdom’s national luck to exchange for ten Blood Monk Sariras.”
As he spoke, Chen De placed his Imperial Jade Seal in the palm of the Buddha statue and cut his palm, enduring the pain.
Following, Chen De’s blood fell onto the Imperial Jade Seal.
A large amount of lucky golden light appeared around the Jade Seal.
With the appearance of the golden light, the Jade Seal seemed to come alive.
The Little Golden Dragon carved on the top of the Jade Seal slowly raised its head.
However, when it just raised its head, it began to tremble crazily as if it had seen something terrifying.
Above its head, the originally motionless Buddha statue was actually looking down at it.
The Buddha statue’s closed eyes were open, and the corners of its mouth were split open to the ears, revealing a terrifying smile.
From its expression, it was as if the Buddha statue had seen some delicious food.
A moment later, a miserable roar came from the secret chamber.
It sounded like the desperate roar of a dying antelope hunted down by a lion.
After two hours, Emperor Chen De finally walked out of the secret chamber.
A half-opened wooden box appeared in his hand.
Inside the wooden box were multiple strange Blood Monk Sariras.
[Blood Monk Sarira]
[Effect: After consumption, Acquired Stage martial artist can forcefully break through to the innate realm and become a Blood Warrior Monk.]
[Side Effects: The user’s lifespan will be greatly reduced and they will lose their rationality.]
Chen De, who had just walked out of the secret chamber, suddenly spoke.
“Eunuch Zhao…”
“Servant is here.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a figure slowly walked out from the shadows beside him.
If this person had not appeared on his own initiative, ordinary people might not have discovered him at all.
This was Zhao Youwei, the chief eunuch in charge of the East Chamber of the Palace’s two chambers.
He is of the same rank as the Great Eunuch Li Tianlu, who was previously burned to death by Lu Yuan’s green flames.
Zhao Youwei, the head of the East Chambers, had also reached the Innate Stage martial artists realm.
From the evil aura on his body, it seemed that he was not as simple as an ordinary Innate Stage martial artists.
Looking at Zhao Youwei, Chen De said weakly, “Eunuch Zhao, take these Blood
Monk Sariras.”
“Everything will be the same as last time. First, we will choose ten acquired
best Imperial Guards to consume it. Then, we will train them well.”
“Servant will obey.”
He waited for Zhao Youwei to leave the Palace’s Royal Study with the Blood Monk Sarira.
Chen De sat on the imperial chair in the royal study with a tired expression. His face was a little pale.
It seemed that what happened in the secret chamber had cost him a lot.
The more Chen De thought about it, the more he felt that the Devil Slayers Division had really meddled with other people’s business this time.
If not for Lu Yuan’s interference, he would not have needed to spend so much effort.
There was even no need to sacrifice the country’s luck in exchange for these ten Blood Monk Sariras.
Why do you think he sacrificed the country’s luck in exchange for these ten Sariras?
It was all to find an opportunity to steal the Buddha Statue from the Devil Slayers Division.
Although he was the Emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom, he was only the Emperor of this generation of the Great Xia Kingdom.
Not to mention that the Qingyun Sect was above the Great Xia Kingdom.
Just the imperial family disciples who entered the Qingyun Sect for celestial cultivation could surpass him, a secular emperor, in terms of status.
Once people discovered that Great Xia Kingdom’s luck had been greatly reduced, someone would come looking for him sooner or later.
Although ten years of national luck was not little, it was definitely not a lot either.
When the time comes, he only needed to do something ridiculous to cover it up and he would be able to perfectly dodge it.
Normally speaking, Chen De, who had already reached the peak of mortal power, should not have taken such a risk.
However, humans were all like this. The more they got, the less satisfied they were.
As he grew older, Chen De gradually felt that his life was coming to an end.
However, without a spiritual root, he had no way to increase his lifespan through cultivation.
Back then, it was precisely because he did not have a spiritual root that he was lucky enough to obtain the throne of the Great Xia Kingdom.
However, if he had a choice, Chen De felt that he would rather not have the throne in exchange for the right to enter the Qingyun Sect.
After all, being a secular emperor was not as comfortable as being a high and mighty immortal.
At least, that was what Chen De thought.
Fortunately, all these took a turn for the better twenty years ago.
That year, Chen De was in his prime and had a certain amount of ambition.
He had thought that he could neither practice celestial cultivation nor seek immortality,
It would be better to put all his energy into national governance and gain a good reputation.
Therefore, when Chen De was forty years old, he specially arranged a private visit in disguise.
He wanted to take the opportunity to see the real situation in the country and formulate some beneficial policies for the country.
But it was during this year that Chen De met the person who changed his life.
A devil monk from the Joyful Clan.
After the devil monk found Chen De, he gave him two Buddha statues.
One was the Buddha statue that Chen De had placed in the secret chamber.
The other one was the Buddha statue that Xu Wan’er’s father had ‘luckily’ obtained.
…..
The Buddha statue that Xu Wan’er’s father, Xu Jiaping, had obtained was actually given to him by Chen De secretly.
The reason was very simple, and that was according to what the devil monk of Joyful Sect said.
If Chen De wanted to undergo cultivation, he had to get rid of his current physical body that lacked the spiritual root.
And if he wanted to achieve this, he could only choose to reincarnate and cultivate again.
The method of reincarnating and cultivating was not difficult.
As long as Chen De could find a woman who was born in a gloomy year, gloomy month, and gloomy day.
And make her pregnant with his own child after she was twenty years old.
Next, as long as he fused the Buddha statue into the fetus, he could complete the rebirth.
As for why Chen De did not directly kidnap Xu Wan’er and keep her captive was simple.
This was because the reincarnation he wanted was not a simple reincarnation and cultivation.
Instead, he wanted to reincarnate as a prince of the Great Xia Kingdom.
This was the only way he could use his identity as the new prince to enter the Qingyun Sect legitimately.
And if he wanted to be reborn as a prince, then Xu Wan’er’s identity had to be at least a princess.
This was also the reason why Chen De wanted to support Xu Jiaping and help him break away from his lowly peddler status as soon as possible.
As for the matter of him entering into the Qingyun Sect after reincarnation, it was at the request of the devil monk when he gave him the Buddha statue.
Of course, Chen De knew what the other party’s purpose was for asking him to do this.
However, in the face of the temptation of longevity, Chen De ultimately agreed to the deal.
He also began to secretly search for a suitable Buddha Statue to descend into the body of a Goddess.
After he found Xu Wan’er, the Goddess, Chen De began to arrange everything.
However, there was one thing that Chen De did not expect.
That was, he had forgotten about the jealousy of women when he was thinking about reincarnation.
This caused Xu Wan’er, who was about to enter the palace, to suddenly have an unexpected change.
In the end, she was brought to the Devil Slayers Division along with the Buddha statue.
The plan that was originally solid plan fell at this last step.
It was as if somewhere, something was stopping him.
However, Chen De would not give up just like that.
For a person who was about to die, for the sake of longevity… he could do anything.
“Director green flame, I don’t believe that you can stay in the Devil Slayers Division forever.”
“As long as you leave, I can get back everything I lost.”
In the backyard of the Devil Slayers Division’s headquarters.
“Director Sir, are you sure you want to build your residence in this headquarters?”
“You have to know that with your status, you can buy a good house in the best location in the Imperial Capital.”
Facing Shang Yun’s doubts, Lu Yuan said very seriously, “Practitioner Shang, I have to criticize you for what you’ve said.”
“What do cultivators like us cultivate? Naturally, it is to cultivate longevity and freedom.”
“But it’s never easy to achieve these two things.”
“The chaos of the mortal world is only a fleeting cloud in the end.”
“I’ve set up my residence here to set an example and teach you a principle.”
“That is, cultivators like us should focus our energy on cultivation and not on other messy things.”
“I have made up my mind. You don’t need to say anything else. Get someone to clean this place up.”
“During this period when I’m the director, I’m determined not to leave the Devil Slayers Division and set an example for you.”
“I want you to understand what it means to have a firm heart of Dao!”
Shang Yun didn’t believe a single word of this pompous statement.
If it wasn’t for the fact that he saw the director hugging women in the Drunken Cloud Brothel and fighting the twin courtesans alone in the middle of the night.
Shang Yun thought to himself, “I am afraid that 1 would have believed your nonsense!
I think it’s fake that the director, you, are working hard to cultivate. The real motive is that you’re hiding a mistress in your golden house.
After all, Sir… had just brought back a peerless beauty!”
However, Shang Yun naturally would not have said these words out loud.
He didn’t want the Director’s green flames to land on him.
Thus, Shang Yun cooperated and showed a look of admiration. “Director Sir is wise. It’s our fortune to have a director like you!”
Although Shang Yun said that, he started to underestimate him in his heart.
He had to remind Xiaoru not to get too close to the new director.
Although their new director had a high cultivation level and a good personality…
But it was this weakness… It seemed quite obvious.
He had only been in the Imperial Capital for a day and a night, and not only did he have sex in Drunken Cloud Brothel every night, but he even made up a pretense on the streets to kidnap a peerless beauty.
If Xiaoru and the director were to get close, there might be something more on his head…
Fire prevention, theft prevention, Lu Yuan prevention!
This was Shang Yun’s most sincere thought at the moment..