[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-dimension-park-i-am-the-summoning-apostle":3,"chapter-dimension-park-i-am-the-summoning-apostle-dimension-park-i-am-the-summoning-apostle-chapter-166":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Dimension Park: I Am the Summoning Apostle",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2279183,4458,"Chapter 166: The Commission Is Too Easy—Can","dimension-park-i-am-the-summoning-apostle-chapter-166",166,"\u003Cp>The three, equipped with human-skin masks, entered Lin Yuan City without incident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Task completed. You have received: Paradise Points ×10000, Attribute Points +4】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Bai’s side quest was also successfully completed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing did not choose to go with them; he was a focal figure among Lin Yuan City’s elite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he entered the city with these three strangers, Chen Jiunan and the others would inevitably draw attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was even a risk of their identities being exposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing knew nothing of the Zhao Ming Society’s situation, but they had paid him to work for them—he still had professional ethics; he couldn’t drag them down because of his own affairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Jia Simou came to visit him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Master Chu, was today’s matter handled smoothly?” Jia Simou did not come empty-handed—he carried a box of pastries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing Chu Danqing, he immediately asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They assumed Chu Danqing had left the city to contact the capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why they were so eager to know the outcome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Get ready to receive them,” Chu Danqing replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Jia Simou’s expression brightened: “Is Master Ma coming?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had received the news earlier, but confirmation from Chu Danqing’s lips made it real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, Chu Danqing himself didn’t know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Assuming nothing goes wrong,” Chu Danqing added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said it to keep deceiving the man, laying groundwork for the eventual non-arrival of this so-called Master Ma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then I thank you for your guidance, Young Master Chu,” Jia Simou smiled. “Once I’ve escaped unscathed, I shall repay your kindness with my life.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need. Just take care of yourself,” Chu Danqing said. He was cornered too—he’d been speaking nothing but vague lies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t hard to uncover the truth; all it took was a letter sent to the capital for verification.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Chu Danqing had banked on this information gap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Rest assured, I’m merely a lowly servant running errands for His Majesty—I have no connection to the Empress Dowager,” Jia Simou hurried to declare his loyalty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After more chatting, Jia Simou finally left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing, meanwhile, realized he needed to act quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I need to find a legitimate way to get this gang of corrupt officials dead,” Chu Danqing muttered to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could just kill them outright—but then what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan City had hundreds of thousands of people; if he killed every official, what would happen next?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t manage a city this large alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would only create greater chaos and more losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, the common people would suffer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who else would bear the cost?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing aimed to resolve this as smoothly as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, if he relied purely on killing, he’d have to eliminate not just the administration but also the White Tiger Hall, Vermilion Bird Tower, and Black Tortoise Gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His destruction of the Green Dragon Society had already disrupted Lin Yuan City’s grain transport; prices had risen sharply over the past three days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gangs were used by Lin Yuan’s elite as economic arteries to siphon wealth; wiping them out without preparation would collapse civilian livelihoods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Destruction is easy; creation is not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, since grain transport touched Lin Yuan City’s purse strings, the disruption was quickly contained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the damage and ripple effects had not ceased—they continued to spread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To fully quell them would take three to five months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Jia Simou, if he wanted to replace his puppet, wouldn’t choose such a brutal method as outright eradication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would use a prolonged process of support, absorption, and substitution to ensure civilian stability in Lin Yuan City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Civilian livelihoods affected taxes and profits; Jia Simou wouldn’t act rashly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So ‘Master Ma’ isn’t a name—it’s a surname plus a title?” Chu Danqing had assumed “Master Ma” was a person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His intelligence was severely lacking, and once his persona was established, he couldn’t casually ask questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could a former Imperial Green Robe Battalion Commander from the capital, secretly dispatched by imperial decree, not know this much?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had its advantages and drawbacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Jia Simou left, Liu Bai sent a formal invitation, inviting Chu Danqing to a banquet at his residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing glanced at it, accepted the invitation, and told the messenger he’d arrive on time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t an invitation without cause—it almost certainly involved Chen Jiunan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They simply wanted his strength and his forged identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All under heaven bustles for profit; all under heaven throngs for gain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing wasn’t above such baseness—how could others be?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Da Bao, tonight you can eat your fill,” Chu Danqing said with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Banquets were wonderful things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The taste and texture certainly couldn’t match the meals prepared by the Paradise’s Life Envoys, but they were free.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hehe, eat!” Da Bao had few hobbies—besides watching cartoons, he only loved eating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for combat? Who in their right mind turned work into a hobby?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Da Bao was skilled—he didn’t enjoy it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing didn’t enjoy fighting either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed swiftly; night fell. The entire afternoon, Chu Danqing had been educating Da Bai through playful lessons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to Da Bao, Da Bai’s education and cultivation were far more troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was being built from scratch, step by step—the effort involved was unimaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being young, he required not only proper growth in personality and thought, but also a process that wasn’t dull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Da Bai was happy; the hard part fell entirely on Chu Danqing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright, we’re off to the banquet,” Chu Danqing said, boarding the war chariot and casually grabbing two Spirit Beasts, chopping them up to cook dinner for Da Bai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Da Bao still walked on foot, but the chariot moved slowly, and curfew hadn’t begun—there were still pedestrians on the streets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon arriving at the Liu residence, the steward was already waiting and immediately ushered Chu Danqing inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing was the last to arrive; as soon as he entered, the gates were shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not for Bai Xiaohe and Yang Wenju still seated inside, he’d have suspected a Hongmen Banquet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who else would shut the gates at a banquet? Well—the Zhao Ming Society was officially branded as rebels by the Da Shuo court; closing the gates made sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Chu Danqing arrived, the banquet began, and the atmosphere was far more relaxed than Jia Simou’s previous gathering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least Da Bao was seated, and Liu Bai knew his appetite—he’d prepared an abundance of food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Da Bao’s plate never ran empty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A secret message from the Society reports: Master Ma will arrive in Lin Yuan City in three days.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Ma is a thorn in the Empress Dowager’s side; this journey will likely be dangerous.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Especially Jia Simou—he seems intent on defecting as an inside agent.” Once they’d eaten enough, Chen Jiunan set down his cup and turned to serious matters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing hadn’t eaten much—he’d been feeding Da Bao—so he paused his actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Bai turned to Chu Danqing and said: “I’d like to hire Young Master Chu to protect Master Ma. What’s your price?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In business, words alone won’t move Chu Danqing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing didn’t respond immediately—he waited for the Paradise’s side quest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For nearly ten seconds, the Paradise gave no reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant the commission didn’t meet A-rank side quest standards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d also suspected that escorting Chen Jiunan into Lin Yuan City hadn’t matched A-rank difficulty either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suspected the true difficulty would only manifest after completion—like the thirty Ironclad Guards he’d killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That had given the Empress Dowager a breakthrough in Lin Yuan City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s not discuss that yet,” Chu Danqing said. “I want to know: what are you planning to do in Lin Yuan City?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Chen Jiunan immediately replied: “Da Shuo has stood for three hundred years. In the time of our founding Emperor, our nation was mighty.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now? The people are weak, the state is poor, the army is decayed—we stand on the brink of collapse.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The reformers propose two laws: first, enlighten the people; second, strengthen the nation,” Chen Jiunan poured out his plan’s outline to Chu Danqing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yuan City’s current chaos was the perfect moment to act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, they’d purge the officialdom, starting with Governor Jia Simou and his entire faction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then they’d seize control of the salt, iron, and grain transport systems, currently monopolized by the four gangs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing didn’t fully understand what came after, but he understood “enlighten the people.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder the reformers were hunted down—Zhao Ming Society was branded a rebel gang for good reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This didn’t just threaten the Empress Dowager’s interests—it threatened the entire court, the nobility, and the scholarly class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To enlighten the people meant teaching them to read and write.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What about the Emperor?” Chu Danqing asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Empress Dowager will return power to His Majesty; reform and renewal will face no obstacle,” Chen Jiunan replied, not grasping Chu Danqing’s point—wasn’t the Emperor still the Emperor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing quickly spotted the blind spot: he’d assumed a constitutional monarchy, but it wasn’t—these people only changed what benefited imperial power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is still a feudal dynasty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright, I understand,” Chu Danqing replied. “But I must say this upfront.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing took on the job—enlightening the people was a good thing, after all, you can’t eat a fat man in one bite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He recounted how he had deceived Jia Simou and the man’s shift from arrogance to obsequiousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since we plan to cooperate, there’s no need to hide anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He added, “Then you must settle the remaining payment for this item before we begin our next collaboration.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He placed the Level-B Exchange Token from the Zhaoming Society’s treasury on the table and stated his demand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He requested items related to exchange and summoning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, if the selection is narrowed down, there must be compensation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chu Young Master is straightforward,” Chen Jiunan replied, then proposed an alternative: “This Level-B token is too low.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If Chu Young Master agrees, we can replace it with a Level-A token as payment for both deals.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll immediately send word to headquarters; they’ll rush your requested items here by fast horse. What do you say?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chu Danqing narrowed his eyes—Level-B tokens were for Excellent-tier exchanges; Level-A must be Fine-tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if not Fine-tier, it must be something like the Three Mountains Sword or the Suspended Heart Sword—top-tier even among Excellent-tier items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine,” Chu Danqing accepted the exchange, but added a condition: “But the item must satisfy me—if not, I’ll return it and swap again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1728,"2026-06-20T00:54:40.605Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","97d86c56ea2b5eff4bfaea1cfef9d374764e5c37e0fd09e6255f0cbf5c1ac4c3","dimension-park-i-am-the-summoning-apostle-chapter-167","dimension-park-i-am-the-summoning-apostle-chapter-165",305,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdimension-park-i-am-the-summoning-apostle-cover.jpg"]