Chapter 147: The painting depicts the Jianzhu's tribulation

On the sword peak surrounded by clouds and mist in Lingzhou, in the south of the nine states.

The Little Jianzhu of Lingjian Mountain has been in seclusion for more than half a month, it is said that she is going to impact the Upper Realm of Responding to Heaven.

If she can succeed, then she will not only be the fastest Responding to Heaven Realm in the world, but may even become the fastest and youngest Boundless Realm in the thousand-year history of the human race.

Twenty-two-year-old Boundless Realm, this matter would not be believed if said out, but it is happening.

At this time, Cui'er and Xing'er and Ding Yao have been guarding in front of the door for more than half a month, revealing a sense of drowsiness in their boredom.

The Jianzhu is in a dead seclusion this time and will not easily appear, but as maids, they still have to guard here.

Because there are often some messages reported in the sect that need them to integrate and handle on behalf of the Jianzhu, and only if it is really necessary can they invite the

"Ding Shijie Ding Yao, when will the Inspector come out of seclusion?"

"Although the Inspector is exceptionally gifted, it won't be too fast for her to enter the Upper Realm of Responding to Heaven. It could take as little as half a year or as long as a year, but... she might come out of seclusion temporarily today."

Cui'er and Xing'er looked at each other: "How could she come out of seclusion without breaking through her realm?"

Ding Yao was silent for a long while before speaking: "Wanqiu returned yesterday and brought some good things inside. The Inspector should be unable to resist..."

"Oh, the papers sent in this morning, right? But since they are good things, why does Ding Shijie Ding Yao look so worried?"

"Because... because that stuff disturbs the Dao heart..."

Zhuo Wanqiu returned at noon, rushing in a panic to bring the manuscripts and picture albums to the Yun Ding Tian Que.

Ding Yao was the one who took the items and sent them in, and she had flipped through them a few times during the process.

So she wasn't fear-mongering; she had seen them with her own eyes and felt that the stuff truly disturbed the Dao heart...

This was just because Cui'er and Xing'er hadn't seen them; otherwise, whoever saw them would be disturbed.

Just as the few were speaking, a sound suddenly came from inside the palace.

The two maids were stunned by the sound, then looked inside calmly through the gauze curtain in front of the window.

Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi was currently wearing a red long dress, coming out of the quiet room used for cultivation in the palace, walking out with a pair of jade feet fairer than snow.

Having been in long-term seclusion, she hadn't washed up, and her hair was a bit messy. She trotted along while yawning, then accurately picked up the manuscripts and paintings placed on the desk, her cold, arrogant eyes suddenly appearing vivid.

"... Raising the sword toward the sky, circling for a round slash, one could hear gasps from all four directions..."

"Under three consecutive strikes, everyone thought he had been wounded, relying only on his tenacious perseverance to barely support himself..."

"The scoundrel Chu He dropped his sword, carrying ten thousand jun of force, the energy piercing through the body, and one could hear a 'rip' sound... the clothes fell away completely... the chest was broad and well-proportioned..."

The manuscripts and paintings sent by Zhuo Wanqiu were meant to be viewed in coordination, with pictures and text complementing each other.

Some plots were extremely ink-consuming and naturally came with an exquisite, realistic painting.

At this moment, Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi was reading "Under three consecutive strikes, everyone thought he had been wounded," and a trace of coldness couldn't help but appear in her eyes, but she quickly saw "one could hear a 'rip' sound... the clothes fell away completely...", and couldn't help but be startled, her small face flushing.

Her right hand flipped the painting pages a beat slower than her left hand flipped the manuscript pages, so she had read the description but hadn't seen the image yet.

However, despite this, she had imagined some of it.

So she lifted the next page of the painting with a solemn expression, her eyes narrowing slightly, wanting to verify her imagination.

This painting looked up at the man's side profile from the lower right angle, making his upper body appear incredibly strong, chest and breasts exposed, head held high, without any clothes.

Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi held her breath and couldn't help but lean in a little closer...

【I want to go see the living one】

Cui'er and Xing'er outside opened their eyes and saw that beautiful, stunning face inside the palace gradually flushing with pink, a trace of confusion appearing in her eyes.

"Why is the Inspector's face so red?"

Cui'er developed a heavy curiosity about those papers: "What is drawn on that painting?"

Ding Yao opened her mouth slightly: "What is drawn on the painting is the Inspector's tribulation."

"?"

Looking at the two maids' confused eyes, Ding Yao didn't offer any explanation and continued to stare into the room to watch closely.

Judging by the number of pages flipped so far, she knew the Inspector had already seen the ones where he was "chest and breasts exposed, head held high," and she saw her eyes brimming with emotion, her plump, pink toes beginning to curl slightly, like a blooming flower petal gathering back into a bud.

It really is a tribulation...

Ding Yao sighed in her heart, watching her Inspector flip through them continuously, then focus on observing the "chest and breasts exposed" ones in detail, appreciating them back and forth.

Until an hour later, those snow-white jade feet suddenly walked from the bed to the carpet and quickly headed toward the door.

So Ding Yao quickly straightened her back, turned around with her back to the door, and pretended nothing had happened.

Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi opened the door and spoke arrogantly: "Ding Yao, I need to send you to handle a matter."

"This servant is here, please give your orders, Inspector."

"Go to the Sword Forest and call Brother Brother Gongshu Chou to me."

"?"

After noon, Ding Yao found Brother Brother Gongshu Chou in the most crowded Sword Gazing Platform of Lingjian Mountain and brought him to the Yun Ding Tian Que of Xuanjian Peak.

At this moment, Brother Brother Gongshu Chou's expression was solemn, his brows tightly furrowed.

He knew that some part-time jobs, even if done while masked and as discreetly as possible, would eventually be exposed.

But what he didn't expect was that this matter would actually alarm the Inspector directly, even causing her to come out of seclusion mid-way to inquire about it.

One must know that in recent years, matters regarding sect affairs, internal public opinion, and so on were all handled by Abbot Yan Chong. The Inspector was devoted to cultivating the Dao and generally wouldn't personally inquire about anything unless it was an urgent and major matter.

And in recent years, the only thing she had personally inquired about was the matter of the ruins.

Brother Brother Gongshu Chou furrowed his brows for a long while; how could he confirm that the severity of this matter was comparable to the ruins?

So, with inner trepidation, he followed Ding Yao up to the Yun Ding Tian Que.

Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi had already changed into her Inspector's immortal robes, wearing a glazed immortal crown, full of majesty, truly like an immortal descending to the mortal world, causing Brother Brother Gongshu Chou to bow to the ground, not daring to look directly.

It was precisely in this solemn atmosphere that he discovered the Inspector's maid walking toward him.

Then, she stretched out her hand and handed him several sheets of paper, which were filled with dense text.

Brother Brother Gongshu Chou took them and glanced at them, discovering that what was recorded on the paper was actually the complete record of Seeing Ji You participating in the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan's outer courtyard autumn battle and sword-slashing the second son of the thousand-year Chu family, Chu He!

It was just that after it was written that "the clothes exploded," the detailed description that followed seemed to be missing a few pages, as if they had been pulled out separately.

"Inspector...?"

"Take it."

"?"

When Brother Brother Gongshu Chou was asked to leave, he was still dazed, holding the manuscript in silence for a long time, not understanding the meaning.

But he was, after all, over forty years old, his mind long since mature, and he wasn't truly unable to figure anything out.

So he flipped through the paintings again and vaguely grasped some clues.

That's it!

Although these papers were about "Seeing Ji You sword-slashing Chu He in the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan autumn battle," upon careful deliberation, two characters were deeply hidden—Sect Might!

Because the sword Seeing Ji You used to defeat the Chu family's second son was their Lingjian Mountain's sword Dao; this story highlighted their Lingjian Mountain's sect might!

Brother Brother Gongshu Chou stared at the snow-capped mountains and suddenly understood the deeper meaning of the Inspector's imperial order.

So, in the afternoon, the matter of "Seeing Ji You sword-slashing and defeating Chu He with Lingjian Mountain sword Dao in the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan autumn battle" quickly stirred up a whirlwind among the Lingjian Mountain disciples.

No one knew where this wind started, but it blew fiercely and violently, leading to endless discussions.

In fact, because the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan autumn battle invited a large number of walkers from other sects to watch, it had spread among the disciples of the Seven Great Immortal Sects.

But undoubtedly, Lingjian Mountain's version was the most detailed and realistic.

Especially the descriptions of some details, which were simply immersive.

When it was said that "Seeing Ji You unleashed seven swords together, which was Lingjian Mountain's Dao sword 【Little Heavy Mountain】," all the Lingjian Mountain disciples felt their scalps go numb.

Then there was the part about abandoning the sharpness of the sword to break the technique with force, which made countless disciples so numb they couldn't walk away.

For some reason, when they heard that Seeing Ji You had defeated Chu He and entered the inner courtyard using Lingjian Mountain sword Dao, even though they all knew this was an internal struggle of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, they still developed a sense of identification with this Heavenly Tian Shuyuan disciple named Seeing Ji You.

It was as if, although he was a Heavenly Tian Shuyuan disciple, in everyone's eyes, he already seemed like their fellow sect brother who had been wandering outside Lingjian Mountain.

Even after this story spread east and west, some female disciples of Lingjian Mountain even began to call Seeing Ji You 'Senior Brother' involuntarily.

"Is our Lingjian Mountain sword Dao actually this strong? It can actually slash through the foundation of that thousand-year noble family?!"

"It truly is worthy of being our Lingjian Mountain's sword Dao..."

"This story is too detailed; where did you hear it from?"

"I met a Senior Brother wearing a bamboo hat on the way to the Sword Forest just now, and I learned this story from him."

"Told with such detail, it seems it cannot be fake, because as long as a story is fabricated, no matter how exquisite, it will have loopholes, but this clearly has none!"

"Senior Brother Ji is really strong..."

"Indeed strong. Before, I heard people say that an average Realm of Merging with the Dao might not be able to catch his sword. I didn't believe it, but it seems my knowledge was indeed shallow."

"Senior Brother Brother Brother Gongshu was actually able to trade blows back and forth with such a sword genius, exchanging several rounds of sword moves without being killed. He is truly worthy of being Senior Brother Brother Brother Gongshu!"

On the Sword Gazing Platform, countless people were discussing this. Two hours had passed, but the heat had not yet subsided.

And just as everyone was constantly citing evidence to say how strong Seeing Ji You was, a man in a coarse black shirt was walking from the mountain path below the Sword Forest.

"It's Senior Brother Brother Brother Gongshu!"

"He is truly worthy of being Senior Brother Brother Brother Gongshu..."

At this moment, Brother Brother Gongshu Chou looked over with a detached expression, furrowed his brows slightly for a long while, listened to the crowd's discussion in silence, and finally drifted away.

Indifferent to favor or humiliation, watching the flowers bloom and fall before the courtyard; indifferent to going or staying, watching the clouds roll and unfurl in the sky.

He seemed indifferent to everything in this world, with nothing outside his heart, only the eternal sword Dao.

(It is New Year's Eve again, and I have lost quite a bit of hair. Old Cuo wishes everyone a Happy New Year, may everything go as you wish, may your whole family be happy, and may you be awesome forever!)

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