Chapter 216: Chapter 100: Breaking Through to the Third Realm to Defeat the Drought Demon, From Now On Living Among Mountains and Moon

The two women served Li Xuan, and while Li Xuan was still indifferent, the two women felt unprecedented happiness.

One night passed,

The next day,

The two women wore smiles of happiness on their faces and went off to busy themselves in the east and west residences of Prince Qing’s Mansion. As they busied themselves, familiar maids approached. Whispering secrets, phrases like "how’s Prince Qing" could faintly be heard, but in the end, they all laughed blushingly.

The rooster heralded the dawn, the oriole sang in spring, and the magpie knew the year, singing freely in the courtyard of Prince Qing’s Mansion. Smoke from cooking rose in curls, adding a touch of human life.

Further away, the first lady, second lady, Commandery Princess Chunyang, Li Zhili, Zhou Jihai, and Governor’s orphaned daughter Zhou Yanmei were all worshipping the Buddha invited from Xinci Temple.

Li Zhili and Zhou Yanmei walked closely, chatting continuously. Although the Governor of Cyan Wood Province had died on the shores of the East Sea, the autumn examinations were approaching, and Li Zhili was still planning to attend. At this moment, he was discussing with Zhou Yanmei about returning to Cyan Wood Province together. However, he was worried about the true nature of Xinci Temple in Cyan Wood Province.

Commandery Princess Chunyang planned to return to Cyan Wood Province as well. After all, Zhou Chihe had been missing for a long time, and now the Zhou family had given up searching, intending to hold a funeral with an "empty tomb". As a member of the Zhou family, she naturally had to return.

However, with Zhou Chihe dead, a new Governor also needed to be appointed. But at this tumultuous time, the court hadn’t had a chance to discuss this. Besides, the court knew about the Prime Minister’s collusion with the Demon Buddha and was preparing to lead troops to suppress them. So how could they appoint anyone at this time?

Li Xuan walked in loose robes in the tranquil Prince Qing’s Mansion. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

This day might be as ordinary as any for everyone at Prince Qing’s Mansion, but for someone like him, who either practices cultivation or fights demons, or gets swept into unknown events, it is incredibly precious.

Here, everyone lived according to their life trajectories, but if Li Xuan’s great hand hovering above didn’t hold steady, then perhaps... disaster would strike in an instant.

Everything would change.

Suddenly, sounds came from the main gates of Prince Qing’s Mansion.

Soon, a woman in a red dress led people carrying buckets from outside and walked in.

Li Xuan didn’t need to look; he already knew and saw the scene in the distance.

For any place worshipping him, he truly was the all-seeing Buddha.

Now, with the incense stabilized, he could see whatever he wanted in this area, listen to whatever he wanted, go wherever he wanted, and kill whoever he wanted, unless he "couldn’t break the defense", being truly omnipotent.

Was he stronger?

No, he wasn’t.

His power remained the same, but with the incense, even if his attributes hadn’t changed, he was on a completely different level from before.

This made Li Xuan feel a wave of fear; if the "Rotting Buddha Corpse Rat" had grown too powerful, wouldn’t he be finished?

Similarly, it strengthened his resolve to stabilize the incense. Even if the incense here wasn’t his, it shouldn’t belong to anyone. Only by personally experiencing can one know how terrifying incense beliefs are.

At this moment, he was feeding small fish to swans by the broad pond in the mansion, yet he could still see Zuo Hong in the front yard meeting Tian Yuan. His former Sister Zuo was smiling and speaking pleasing words, then produced a wooden bucket as if presenting a treasure.

There were dan fish in the bucket.

Soon, Tian Yuan led Zuo Hong to meet him.

Zuo Hong gave him a look, hesitating to speak.

Tian Yuan didn’t wait for Li Xuan to speak, directly saying, "I still have things to attend to," and then walked away.

Zuo Hong approached and respectfully handed Li Xuan a letter from her sleeve, saying, "Prince Qing, a letter from Prefect Liu."

Li Xuan laughed and said, "Sister Zuo is indeed astute."

Zuo Hong paused, quickly replied, "Just appearances; if you truly dig deep, Zuo Hong has always been Prince Qing’s person."

Li Xuan opened the letter and glanced at it.

Perhaps his previous letter before the last disaster had added favor to Liu Baiqing, for this reply was sincere, without the slightest circumlocution, stating directly "Demon Buddha is also a demon," followed by "I know Prince Qing had no choice."

Li Xuan stared for a while, and then understood.

Liu Baiqing was probing his attitude, probably having caught wind from the Grand General’s side.

The Prime Minister was indeed correct; the Grand General really intended to march south.

In Liu Baiqing’s view, the Grand General was likely to win, as he hadn’t seen the horrors of the East Sea demons. Thus, this letter was a letter of goodwill, intending to win Li Xuan over, giving him a way out.

Prince Qing was the Prime Minister’s adopted son; the Prime Minister colluded with the Demon Buddha. No matter how one looks at it, Prince Qing couldn’t escape involvement.

"You know my heart."

Li Xuan pondered, then looked at Zuo Hong and said, "Just these four words, deliver them to him."

He decided to play it ambiguously with the "Demon Buddha" identity.

Eggs shouldn’t be placed in one basket; even the ghost called Guan Wu knew this before, how could Li Xuan not know? Though the identity of Prince Qing might feel a bit constrained, yet... this is how the left hand is yin, and the right hand is yang.

Opponents and supporters are all his people.

Every shift, every fluctuation, it’s all determined by him alone, only then can he sleep peacefully.

However, Li Xuan’s current headache wasn’t this, it was how to deal with the Drought Demon.

...

After another period of rest at home, Li Xuan came to a secluded place, moved his form, and directly transformed into a rainbow, appearing in the deep mountains of Red Flower Mountain.