Chapter 83: Divine Lamp

The Imperial Prince and powerful people had poured into the Medical Department, and Hua Changxi felt this was not a good sign.

The Medical Department, in the final analysis, was a technical office specializing in medical skills. Now that the powerful people had come, could the fighting be far off?

No, the fighting had already begun. Hadn't someone already died in the Servant Hall?

Seeing that Hua Changxi was somewhat inconvenienced moving the screen by herself, Yu Gui took the initiative to help: "I'll help you take it to the Servant Hall."

Hua Changxi wanted to ask more about the Servant Hall, so she didn't refuse.

Just as they were about to reach the gate of the Servant Hall, Yu Gui suddenly stopped. While signaling Hua Changxi to stand aside quickly, he whispered: "The people from the No. 1 Pharmacy on the Second Street are here again."

Hua Changxi looked forward and saw that the person who came was actually Gu Jinfan. She hurriedly lowered her head and used the screen to block most of her body: "Isn't this the young lady from the Duke's mansion you mentioned before? What is she doing here?"

Yu Gui: "There is a small dilapidated courtyard by the square. Do you know it?"

Hua Changxi immediately thought of the old courtyard facing the stone cauldron in the square and nodded.

Yu Gui: "She is going there. A hunched old man with the surname Gu lives in the small dilapidated courtyard. She seems to know him and often goes to pay respects."

Hearing this, Hua Changxi's eyes flickered: "Young Lady Gu goes there often?"

Yu Gui said "Mm": "She goes every few days."

Hua Changxi narrowed her eyes. The stone cauldron seemed to have some connection with the Shennong Cauldron. Could Gu Jinfan going to the old courtyard have something to do with the stone cauldron?

"She's gone, let's go."

After Gu Jinfan's figure disappeared, Yu Gui urged Hua Changxi to move the screen.

Hua Changxi kept this matter in mind and decided to find an opportunity to explore what Gu Jinfan was doing going to the old courtyard.

"Big Brother Yu, thank you for your help. When I have time, I'll treat you to a meal."

"Little Sister Changxi, my godfather wants to continue cooperating with you in refining medicine..."

"Big Brother Yu, this time being punished to go to the Medicine Farm, I thought about a lot of things. I am just a servant, and cooperating with Eunuch Yu to refine medicine is truly a bit out of line. I don't want to continue."

Hearing this, Yu Gui looked regretful: "Alright, when Godfather asks about you, I will tell him."

Hua Changxi smiled again: "Big Brother Yu, if you need any pills, as long as you prepare the medicinal materials, I can help you refine them."

Yu Gui's face lit up: "Little Sister Changxi, since you've said so, then I won't be polite with you. Martial artists consume too many pills, and I don't know any pharmacists. With you here, you've really helped me a lot. I'll thank you here first."

Hua Changxi laughed: "Big Brother Yu, don't say that. You've helped me a lot, and I've kept it all in my heart."

After exchanging some more polite words, the two parted ways.

Hua Changxi pushed the screen back to her residence. After placing the screen between the two beds, she directly divided the room into two, and then hung a cloth curtain at the end of the bed, creating a small private space.

That night, after Du Ruo returned to the room and saw Hua Changxi had done this, she frowned, but didn't say anything. After washing up, she lay on the bed and fell asleep.

Hua Changxi had long been lying on the bed and started practicing. Hearing the movement, her eyelashes trembled. Seeing that Du Ruo didn't make any big movements to affect her, she was very satisfied with this roommate and continued to practice with focus.

At midnight, Hua Changxi suddenly opened her eyes.

In her dantian, the black flame suddenly grew a bit larger, and the tongue of fire swayed in one direction.

"What's going on?"

Hua Changxi looked inward at the direction the black flame was swaying. After thinking for a while, she quietly got up, walked out of the room, and moved in the direction the black flame was swaying.

Soon, she arrived outside a courtyard.

"Isn't this Eunuch Lu's courtyard?"

Hua Changxi frowned as she looked at the courtyard. She took out the invisibility talisman from Jiang Laodao's storage ring, stuck it on herself, leaped, and entered the courtyard. After looking around the courtyard, she finally stopped at the door of the east wing room.

In the east wing room, Manager Leng sat cross-legged with her hands facing up on her lower abdomen. Above her palms, a black jade lotus petal was actually floating.

Seeing the black jade lotus petal, Hua Changxi's eyes lit up.

She had always kept in mind the matter of looking for the Asura Gate, but she knew very little about the Asura Gate and hadn't figured out where to start looking for the time being.

Seeing that Manager Leng actually had a black jade lotus petal, it really made her overjoyed.

Manager Leng could control the black jade lotus petal, so she was nine times out of ten a member of the Asura Gate.

At the same time, in the east wing room, Manager Leng was practicing with focus. Suddenly, she felt a pain in her palm. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw black flames igniting on the black lotus, and her expression changed immediately.

"Who is it? Come out!"

Without her ignition, the black lotus would not ignite black flames. Now that the black flames were ignited, it could only be that it was affected by other influences.

There was someone outside the house!

"Creak," the door opened, and then, with another "creak," the door closed again.

Manager Leng looked at the empty doorway, and the vigilance in her heart reached its peak.

The person who came was a cultivator!

"I don't know which fellow Daoist has visited my humble abode? Please come out and let me see you."

Manager Leng stood up while speaking, wanting to put away the black jade lotus petal. With a "bang," a burst of spiritual power struck, directly knocking the black jade lotus petal to the ground.

"What does fellow Daoist mean by this? Could it be that you want to snatch my magic weapon?"

The palm that was hit by the spiritual power felt a shattering pain. Manager Leng's face turned pale, knowing that the cultivation of the person who came was far above hers.

"Are you a member of the Asura Gate?"

A low voice rang out in the room.

After hearing this, Manager Leng's eyes flickered. Although the speaker deliberately suppressed her voice, she could clearly distinguish that it was a female voice, and she also heard a sense of familiarity: "Are you from the Servant Hall?"

"Bang~"

A burst of spiritual power passed, directly knocking Manager Leng to the ground.

"Answer my question honestly, don't force me to kill you."

Manager Leng suddenly laughed: "You ignited the black jade lotus as soon as you approached. I think the yin flames in your body must have been ignited."

"Bang~"

Seeing Manager Leng trying to seize control of the conversation, Hua Changxi swung another burst of spiritual power over. This time, it directly made Manager Leng vomit blood.

Manager Leng wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. Not wanting to be captured without a fight, she glanced at the black jade lotus petal in the distance, knowing she couldn't take the magic weapon of the sect away, and just wanted to crush the teleportation talisman to escape.

Who knew, as soon as her hand moved, a burst of spiritual power struck again.

Manager Leng cried out in pain. At this moment, a pill flew over, fell into her mouth, and before she could react, the pill fell into her stomach.

"What pill did you feed me?"

Manager Leng sensed that the spiritual power in her body was sealed, and a look of horror finally appeared on her face.

"I ask you what, you answer what, don't test my patience again."

"You have a black jade lotus petal in your hand, so you must have a high position in the Asura Gate. I ask you, what exactly is the black jade lotus petal? And what are the black flames burning on it?"

Manager Leng pursed her lips and didn't speak.

Seeing this, Hua Changxi frowned: "I know you are not afraid of death. I won't kill you, but I will abolish your spiritual veins and cut off your path of cultivation."

Manager Leng's expression changed drastically: "You dare."

Hua Changxi couldn't be bothered to talk nonsense and swung a burst of spiritual power directly at Manager Leng's dantian.

She had almost finished reading all the books left by Jiang Laodao and knew a lot of common knowledge about cultivation, knowing the importance of a cultivator's energy center.

Manager Leng also knew that once the dantian was destroyed, she couldn't continue to practice. After feeling the violent vibration of her dantian's Qi sea, she finally surrendered: "I'll say, I'll say."

"The black jade lotus is the sect-protecting magic weapon of the Asura Gate. It uses human seven emotions and six desires as fuel and can ignite the desires in people's hearts."

"Black flames, also known as yin flames, look like flames, but are actually people's desires."

"As long as people have desires, the black flames cannot be extinguished."

Hua Changxi's brows knotted, and she didn't doubt this. She compared the connection between the black flames and her own emotions and found that it seemed to be really like this.

Didn't expect that black flames were desires!

"If the black flames cannot be extinguished, can they only be allowed to grow larger?"

Manager Leng: "I said, the essence of black flames is human desire. If you don't want the black flames to grow larger, then learn to control your own desires."

Hua Changxi: "What if you can't control them?"

Manager Leng smiled: "Then be controlled by desires."

As soon as the words fell, another burst of spiritual power hit her.

Hua Changxi looked at her coldly: "You didn't tell the truth. People in your Asura Gate practice by relying on black jade lotus petals. I don't believe everyone can control their own desires. You must have other ways to solve this problem."

Manager Leng endured the severe pain and looked at the air with hatred: "I didn't lie to you. Controlling black flames really only has this one way of controlling one's own desires. As for how to control one's own desires, that depends on you finding a way yourself."

Hua Changxi still didn't quite believe it: "You'd better not lie to me or hide anything from me, otherwise no matter where you escape to, I can kill you."

Manager Leng was stunned: "You won't kill me?"

Hua Changxi: "Didn't you say you want to control your own desires? I have no grudge against you, why would I kill you? But if you lie to me..."

Manager Leng's eyes flickered: "What you said is true, you really won't kill me?"

Hua Changxi: "Black jade lotus petals can make black flames grow and strengthen. You can dawdle for a while longer until I can't control my killing desire."

Manager Leng hesitated: "There is another way to control black flames, which is to ignite the yang flames in the body, also known as white flames."

Hua Changxi: "You mean, besides black jade lotus petals, there are white jade lotus petals?"

Manager Leng said "Mm": "White jade lotus petals are not as easy to ignite as black jade lotus petals. Many people, even if they have white jade lotus petals, cannot ignite yang flames."

Hua Changxi: "Where are your white jade lotus petals?"

Manager Leng shook her head: "I don't have any."

Hua Changxi: "How could you not have any."

Manager Leng: "Of course I don't have any. In the entire Asura Gate, only the Sect Leader and the Yin-Yang Left and Right Envoys have a white jade lotus petal." As she spoke, her eyeballs turned: "The forces with the most white jade lotus petals are the Imperial Family and the Zhang Tianshi Mansion."

Hua Changxi swung another burst of spiritual power: "You lied again. Black and white jade lotus petals sound like they appear in pairs. The Asura Gate has black jade lotus petals, how could it not have white jade lotus petals?"

Manager Leng felt that her body was almost numb from pain and gritted her teeth: "I really didn't lie to you. Black and white jade lotus petals are indeed lotus petals that fell off the Divine Lamp."

"Although the Divine Lamp belongs to the Asura Gate, the Imperial Family coveted the Divine Lamp. In the struggle, the Divine Lamp shattered, and whether it was black or white jade lotus petals, they were scattered in all directions."

"The Asura Gate searched everywhere for several hundred years before finding a limited number of black jade lotus petals. White jade lotus petals are almost all in the hands of the Imperial Family, the Zhang Tianshi Mansion, and other forces."

Hua Changxi heard it a bit chaotically and sorted out Manager Leng's words.

The Asura Gate had a Divine Lamp composed of black and white jade lotus petals. This lamp was valued by the Imperial Family, who wanted to occupy it for themselves, and then broke out in a great war with the Asura Gate.

In the great war, the Divine Lamp shattered, and the black and white jade lotus petals were scattered in all directions.

The Asura Gate found some, but more were in the hands of other forces.

Whether these words were true or false, she had no way to distinguish, but she heard some keys.

"Black and white jade lotus petals can assist people in cultivation. So according to what you say, the Asura Gate and the Imperial Family, the Zhang Tianshi Mansion, and these great forces had cultivators a long time ago?"

"I don't know about this."

"Then when were you able to practice?"

"I only started practicing last year."

"Then what about the others in the Asura Gate? When did they start practicing?"

"Most of the ones I know only started in the last two years."

"What is the Asura Gate trying to do by arranging for you to lurk in the Servant Hall?"

"My task is to be responsible for exploring news about black jade lotus petals and white jade lotus petals."

Seeing that there was no sound in the room, Manager Leng thought for a while and said: "Actually, igniting black flames is not entirely a bad thing."

"Black flames can stimulate people's desires. People have desires to stimulate potential. When people's potential is stimulated, sometimes they will reap unexpected benefits."

Hearing this, Hua Changxi thought of the scene where she was trapped by the Buddha's hand. Was it the black flames that stimulated her fear of death, and then gave birth to the desire for destruction to resist the Buddha's hand?

Hua Changxi didn't entirely believe what Manager Leng said. Seeing that she couldn't ask anything else from her mouth, she didn't stay any longer.

Manager Leng watched the door open and close. After confirming that the invisible cultivator had left, she let out a long sigh of relief. Seeing the black jade lotus petal that hadn't been taken away on the ground, she looked surprised.

Didn't kill to snatch the treasure. It seems the black flames in that cultivator's body shouldn't be big yet.

Who could that person be?

Thinking that there was actually a cultivator in the Servant Hall whose cultivation was above hers, Manager Leng felt uneasy, especially after just wandering on the edge of death, which made her even more fearful.

"The Medical Department is getting more and more lively now."

Thinking of the task the sect gave her not long ago, asking her to steal the Rebirth Pills refined by the Medical Department, she felt a headache.

Before tonight, she felt that as a Qi sea stage cultivator, not to mention walking sideways in the Medical Department, at least most places could be walked at will.

But it just so happened that there was a cultivator in the Servant Hall who was even more powerful than her.

The Servant Hall is like this, what about the first nine streets in front? Were there more powerful cultivators waiting for her?

After Hua Changxi returned to her residence, she couldn't calm down to continue practicing.

The black flames actually couldn't be extinguished. This was something she hadn't expected. Even if Manager Leng said that the existence of black flames was not necessarily a bad thing, it couldn't make her feel at ease.

"A Divine Lamp that uses seven emotions and six desires as fuel..."

Hua Changxi looked inward at the black flames below her inner core, feeling a headache.

At present, what she could do was, first, control her own desires, and second, find white jade lotus petals and ignite white flames.

With white flames, they should be able to neutralize or block the growth of black flames.

But where to find them?

Hua Changxi thought of the Imperial Family and the Zhang Tianshi Mansion mentioned by Manager Leng. These two places were both out of her reach. ===== CHAPTER 84 =====