Chapter 292 Lost Innocence?
"In the Library Pavilion of the Three Judicial Departments, below the fourth floor are mostly ordinary cultivation techniques, at most reaching Immortal Grade!"
"But on the fourth floor, there are those of the Profound Realm, and even higher!"
"As for the fifth floor..."
At this point, Wang Man's face turned solemn, and he hesitated.
"I'm not too sure about this information!"
"It's okay, you can just speak."
Chen Xuan spoke slowly.
As for whether it's true or not, he would verify it himself.
As long as it wasn't deliberately made up, even if it was fake, he would not hold it against Wang Man.
"Yes!"
Wang Man nodded slightly, with no further worries, "The fifth floor contains various secret information from the Eastern Continent, but the Molan Mansion only has that of the Molan Mansion."
"But that's not the most crucial part!"
"It's said that on the fifth floor, there is an array that can communicate with the World Spirit of the Lower Realm, and this array can only be used once every ten years!"
After saying this, he stood quietly there, his head lowered, only daring to glance at Chen Xuan sitting there with peripheral vision.
Seeing that his expression didn't change,
he became even more nervous inside.
"This is your reward!"
As he spoke, he casually tossed something, and a white arc suddenly appeared.
He immediately stretched out his hands and caught it steadily.
A white porcelain bottle.
"As long as you're not too incompetent, the pills inside are enough for you to cultivate to above the Seven Layers of Purity!"
Chen Xuan raised his head, looking at the now-excited Wang Man,
"I won't ask the source of your information. If all this is true, there will be more rewards!"
"Moreover, as long as you have information I need, there will always be rewards!"
For such important information, how did a simple black-robed person like Wang Man learn of it?
Chen Xuan was naturally curious.
However... since he had channels, just let him do it, as long as he was given proper benefits, he believed Wang Man wouldn't refuse.
This also reduced his own risk.
"Yes, yes, thank you, sir!"
A whole bottle of pills, enough for him to cultivate to the Seven Layers of Purity. At this moment, he was so shocked that his hands trembled slightly.
Moreover...
The lord also said that as long as it was true, there would be further rewards later!
Not only that, he wasn't even concerned about how he got this information.
He was worried about this just now.
It now seemed that this lord only wanted the information, and everything else was disregarded.
This also put him at ease.
After all...
...
Wang Man left the Three Judicial Departments and hurried back home impatiently.
"Getting stronger! I will become stronger soon!"
"I never thought, I, Wang Man... would have such an opportunity!"
"Hahaha..."
Laughing wildly in his heart, he quickened his pace even more.
"Hehe..."
On the upper floor, Chen Xuan chuckled softly.
"The information should be reliable now."
Muttering to himself.
Even though he used telepathy, his spiritual power was always focused on Wang Man, watching his emotional changes.
Until that very moment, he was sure in his heart.
It probably wasn't a scam.
But within the Three Judicial Departments, one could communicate with the World Spirit!
What was the purpose of doing this?
Chen Xuan squinted his eyes, the Supreme Domain was too mysterious for him.
"It seems that I must enter the fifth floor once."
Although difficult, he had to enter.
He couldn't miss any information related to World Spirits.
...
Three months passed by in a flash.
In the Eastern Domain Three Judicial Departments, Chen Xuan slowly opened his eyes.
Looking at the panel in front of him.
...
[Realm: Martial Cultivator: Profound Realm (Late Stage), Spirit Cultivator: First Tier (Divine Soul (Ninth Tier))]
[Cultivation Technique: Nine Elements Dao Skill (Profound Grade) (Twelfth Layer (4 million/204 million))]
[Skill Points: 5.928 million]
...
In recent days, he finally upgraded the Nine Elements Dao Skill, successfully reaching the Late-Stage Profound Realm.
However...
Seeing the skill points required after Nine Elements Dao Skill, Chen Xuan felt a piercing pain in his gut.
More than 200 million!
Damn it, it's skill points, not a small Chen Xuan.
At the current speed, it would take at least two more years.
"Too slow!"
For others, that would be lightning fast, but Chen Xuan was still not satisfied.
Although there was a hundred-year time difference in the Human Realm, and it had only been a few years since arriving in the Supreme Domain, he still needed to find the Heaven-Reaching Bamboo as soon as possible, considering no one could be sure if any unexpected developments would occur with the World Spirit of the Human Realm.
Finding the Heaven-Reaching Bamboo early would reduce the risks by a few points.
"Sigh—"
He let out a long sigh, seeing the sky was already dim, Chen Xuan slowly stood up, walking towards the first floor along the wooden stairs.
"Greetings, my lord!"
Wang Man and Niu Qiang immediately stood up and respectfully awaited him upon hearing his footsteps.
"Alright, I don't have so many rules, haven't I told you this several times!"
Chen Xuan waved his hand.
Even after such a long time, these few people remained reverent in his presence.
Not daring to have the slightest transgression.
"Where are the others?"
Chen Xuan asked with some curiosity.
Now whether the Molan Mansion was in chaos or not was all up to him.
His own territory had, of course, been arranged long ago.
So during this period, the five of them were mostly idle, chatting in the Three Judicial Departments every day, or cultivating.
"Report, my lord, some strange things have happened in recent days, and there was another incident today, so they went over to take a look!"
Niu Qiang immediately responded respectfully.
"What happened?"
Chen Xuan became curious. Zhuo Wu had long been informed about his territory; he wouldn't dare.
"Uh..."
Faced with his inquiry, both Niu Qiang and Wang Man's expressions became strange.
"Speak up, stop hemming and hawing!"
Chen Xuan glared at the two of them.
"It's... recently, quite a few guests in the brothels have been knocked out, and after waking up, they discovered... discovered they had been violated."
Under Chen Xuan's authority, Niu Qiang stuttered.
"What?"
Chen Xuan raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.
What kind of perversion was this?
At this moment, he even felt that the martial artists in the Supreme Domain were somewhat abnormal.
Just then, Yuan Dao Yi and the others happened to return to the Three Judicial Departments.
As soon as they came in, before the three could speak, Chen Xuan immediately asked, "Did you catch the person?"
Yuan Dao Yi was taken aback at first but quickly understood.
However... they hadn't caught the person.
So he could only muster his courage and reply, "Not yet, and we feel that this person is at least Immortal Grade, maybe even higher!"
After all, several first-rate experts, and even one early-stage Immortal Grade expert, were present in the brothels of the Eastern Domain.
But still, there was no trace of them.
"Immortal Grade?"
Chen Xuan murmured to himself.
The five of them stood there, not daring to speak.
After all, Chen Xuan had said on his first day here that he wouldn't interfere with them, as long as this area remained trouble-free.
Initially, the Eastern Domain was indeed peaceful, and even petty thefts didn't occur.
The few were extremely idle as well.
And, as Chen Xuan had previously mentioned, he arrived every day, cultivated on the third floor, and left when it got dark. In three months, he probably hadn't spoken ten sentences to them combined.
Though puzzled, they enjoyed the leisurely state.
But unexpectedly, in recent days, brothels began filing reports one after another, saying their guests had been knocked out, and upon awakening, found their rears in excruciating pain.
Because of this, the brothels had to pay a large sum of silver to settle the matter.
But such incidents happened frequently in recent days without any clues, really giving the few a headache.
"Tap, tap, tap..."
Chen Xuan sat there, rhythmically tapping the armrest of the chair with his fingers.
After a long time, he asked, "Any other clues?"
"None!"
Yuan Dao Yi, having said this, immediately lowered his head.
The other four also followed suit.
Waiting for Chen Xuan's reprimand.
But... what they anticipated didn't happen.
Chen Xuan merely said blandly, "Pay more attention, start patrolling at night from now on!"
And then he left the Three Judicial Departments.
After a while!
"Nothing happened?"
Wang Man looked at everyone, with a very surprised expression.
"Ah, it's best if nothing happened."
Niu Qiang also looked relieved.
As for the others, it was much the same.
They expected to be harshly reprimanded, but unexpectedly... nothing happened, and they breathed a sigh of relief.
"But don't act as if nothing happened; the lord said we need to patrol."
Hearing this, they all nodded.
Then they began discussing, after all, the person was very likely Immortal Grade, and the strongest among them was Yuan Dao Yi, who was only at the Eight Layers of Purity, which was admittedly somewhat inadequate.
...
Night fell!
Chen Xuan's figure appeared on the rooftop.
Previously, he had gone to Zhuo Wu's place, but he was also clueless and repeatedly assured that it wasn't his men.
"Then that's strange! Who exactly is it?"
They dared to make trouble on his territory; unless they didn't let him catch them, they would understand what 'chrysanthemum residue' means otherwise.
The reason for taking action personally was that the Three Judicial Departments held evaluations of these white-robed individuals every half year.
And the Zongzheng Council personally oversaw the evaluations, even Qin Ke couldn't meddle.
Each evaluation had ratings.
Among all the Three Judicial Departments in the city, the five with the lowest ratings weren't allowed into the Library Pavilion for three years.
Consecutively entering the top three twice would allow entry to the second floor of the Library Pavilion once.
Entering the top three four times consecutively would grant entry to the third floor once!
And entering the top three six times consecutively would mean the fourth floor!
However, achieving first place in all six ratings would earn a chance to enter the fifth floor of the Library Pavilion once.
It has to be said, this temptation was huge.
But the difficulty was also great.
This was also why Chen Xuan placed such importance on it. Not only that but if his place wasn't peaceful, no other area could be peaceful either.
So today, he had already arranged it; starting tonight, create disruption every day.
In short, if he couldn't have peace, no one else could either.
Although this was somewhat wicked.
But he had no choice, he wanted to enter the fifth floor of the Library Pavilion, this was his biggest chance.
Scanning the surroundings with Telepathy, especially those Immortal Grade experts, he kept a close eye on them.
"Not coming tonight?"
Chen Xuan muttered displeasedly.
Blown by the night wind, he had been guarding here for several hours. If they didn't come, he'd be at a big loss.
And... he needed to get back.
If he missed the time, he would lose 200,000 skill points.
Two hours later!
"Damn it!"
Chen Xuan cursed, and his figure vanished directly.
A whole night wasted for nothing.
If he didn't get back, he would really take a great loss!
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