Chapter 45: Spiritual Observation
The moment the child king realized his country needed saving, he began to make plans quietly.
His first step was to find those who had awakened their consciousness in the Marrow-sucking Country, and to actively awaken some people with such potential, and quietly send them away from the Marrow-sucking Country, so that they could learn skills and knowledge and prepare for future reforms.
This country is not without talented people who are aware of the problem of the marrow-sucking country. However, due to the constraints of the environment, they can only suppress their inner thoughts and are forced to follow the crowd.
They lack a leader, and as the head of a country, he should shoulder the responsibilities he should bear and lead this group of people to fight for a better future for the Marrow-sucking Country.
His second step was to place people in Lunxun Hall and understand the internal situation of Lunxun Hall so that he could modify his strategy at any time.
He has always known that in this country, it seems that the priests are in charge of the overall situation and it is the people's faith, but in fact, the real person in power is the entire Lunxun Hall.
But at that time, their interests were relatively consistent, and his people lived a comfortable life, so he selectively turned a blind eye and ignored the painless power grabs of Lunxun Hall.
It can be said that he was numb and dull before, but now it is different.
It was when he sent people to explore deep into Lunxun Hall that he realized that the priest was actually living such a painful life. He had always been controlled and manipulated by Lunxun Hall, and he had the thought of escaping almost every time.
That was the faith of their entire nation. Even if he decided to lead his people to abandon this faith, their feelings for it still existed in their hearts. How dare those guys from Lunxuntang treat their nation's faith like this?!
“The purpose of your coming to the Marrow-sucking Country is to rescue our Marrow-sucking Country’s priest and take him away;
My goal is no different from yours. I need to change this country, get rid of their long-term dependence on priests, and let them learn to rely on their own hands to obtain their own fruits.
Therefore, our interests are aligned. I will help you take the priest away and completely leave the world of God and Madness."
The Child King spoke to them word by word.
The child king's words made Xu Ren'er and his group fall into deep thought.
"Uncle and aunt, what do you think? Should we believe what he said?"
After a long time, Xu Ren'er asked Pang Ningchun and Mo Xiaohe for their opinions.
She had never formally come into contact with a power center like the imperial court, and for a moment, she was at a loss as to what to do, so she planned to ask Pang Ningchun and Mo Xiaohe, who had once been powerful people in the capital.
"It's believable." Pang Ningchun said.
Mo Xiaohe didn't say anything, but from his facial expression, it could be seen that he agreed with Pang Ningchun's idea.
Whether considering it from the bright side or the dark side, there is no need to deceive them, Child King.
What the Child King just said were all positive images.
Another point is the balance between imperial power and divine power.
Since ancient times, no monarch has been able to tolerate theocracy overriding imperial power, allowing it to call the wind and rain and do whatever it wants.
Therefore, Mo Xiaohe and Pang Ningchun believed that the Child King was indeed on the same side as them.
Now that it has been confirmed that Xu Ren'er and the others are willing to form an alliance, the next plan will be easy to carry out.
The Child King thought to himself.
"If you want to rescue the priest, you can't just take him away and leave it at that.
You have also seen that the mixed world and the crazy world are two completely unrelated planes, and the priests live with you in the mixed world.
However, the people from Lunxun Hall can still find the priest, modify the memories in the priest's mind, and make the priest continue to pay for the Marrow-sucking Kingdom.
The priests have great legal power, otherwise they would not be able to maintain a country.
Normally speaking, it is difficult for such a powerful person to have his fate easily manipulated by others.
But it just so happened that Lunxuntang had a way to target the priests.
There are a total of 360 rooms in Lunxun Hall. Different rooms occupy different areas depending on their uses.
Among these rooms, there is a special room. In that room, there is an object called "Piaoqi". That object can produce endless musical instruments to control the priests.
The priests are completely restricted by those musical instruments. No matter how strong their magic power is, once the instrument is played, the priests' magic power will disappear instantly and they will fall into a coma on the spot.
After the priest falls into coma, Lunxun Hall will put the priest into the "Piaoqi" and perform a brainwashing ceremony on the priest to remove the priest's past memories and force him to be indoctrinated with the idea that "he must dedicate everything he has to the Dusui Kingdom".
By the way, the priest's utensils they found were also produced by that "Piaoqi".
If you want to take the priest away completely, you must destroy Piaoqi until it is completely useless."
"Can't you do it?"
Xu Ren'er listened patiently to the child king's description, thought for a moment, and then asked a question.
The Child King anticipated Xu Ren'er's question and explained:
"I can't. When we learned of the existence of 'Piaoqi', I immediately began to find a way to destroy it.
But we can’t even get close to it.”
"Can't get close to it?"
"Yes. As soon as my men approached Piaoqi, they were impacted and repelled. At the same time, a voice immediately appeared in their minds, warning them."
"What's the warning?"
Xu Ren'er asked quickly.
A glint of cruelty flashed across the child king's eyes as he spoke word by word, "You are not allowed to approach the marrow-sucking people. If you approach more than three times, your head and body will be torn apart."
As soon as these words fell, everyone fell silent again.
After a while, Tang Qiuyue came back to her senses and said in shock:
"Those people in Lunxun Hall are not from your marrow-sucking country!!!"
The child king had no expression on his face and simply nodded in response.
When he learned the news, no matter how calm he tried to be, he could not control the rage surging in his heart.
How could he possibly tolerate the fact that the Marrow-Sucking Nation, which he had protected for hundreds of years, had been constantly controlled by a group of outsiders?!
Yu Hui, who had remained silent the entire time, suddenly spoke up:
"So, this is your ultimate goal.
Being allies is one thing, but the key is that we are not from the marrow-sucking nation, or even from the world of the madman. Our existence fully meets the conditions for approaching 'Piaoqi'."
The Child King did not deny it, but added: "There is another reason, because you are very strong."
He had heard about their actions in Juzi Country from Shendong and the others. The fact that they had the ability to tear through space and come from the mixed world to their Shendian world to meet him was enough to prove that they were even stronger than he had imagined.
Such a powerful and reliable existence, whose interests are consistent with his, is completely worthy of his trust.
——
As night fell, Xu Ren'er and his group did not fall asleep.
The nights in the crazy world are very different from the nights in the mixed world.
At night in the crazy world, the sky was a very classic purple-blue hue. Clusters of fluffy clouds like cotton candy curled up into a ball, forming a flat disc shape. The edges were smooth but not flat, and a few velvety cloud edges floated away.
Inside the disc are circles of patterns. The main colors of the patterns are a mixture of pure white and light pink. Occasionally, there are scattered small dark blue or bright yellow particles dotted on the patterns of the disc.
The entire night sky is simply the epitome of dream and beauty.
"Ren'er, what did you hide when you communicated with the king? Now you can tell me."
In the guest room area arranged by the Child King, a group of people gathered in Xu Ren'er's room. Tang Beiju looked at Xu Ren'er and asked first.
The guest room is large enough, and the interior architecture is the same as before, with white as the main color and fine gold jewelry as decoration. The overall style is gorgeous yet solemn.
After all, Tang Beiju and the others had known each other for a long time, so they could definitely see that something was wrong with Xu Ren'er's expression when he was talking to the child king. Tang Beiju only started asking questions when everyone around him was his own people.
"I still can't hide it from you."
Xu Ren'er smiled slightly and glanced at Yu Hui first. Yu Hui immediately understood, closed his eyes, and moved his ears slightly. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes, stretched out his hands, raised two fingers with one hand, and clenched his fist with the other hand.
——There were twenty people around them——
Fearing that there might be eavesdroppers on the other side of the wall, Xu Ren'er chose a more troublesome way just in case. He found a round table, circulated his internal energy, stretched out his right paw and began to write deeply.
Everyone gathered around Xu Ren'er, memorizing the information bit by bit in their minds until Xu Ren'er finished writing it completely. She looked back and observed everyone's expressions. The next second, she once again exerted her internal force to completely destroy it, leaving only the remnants of the round table on the ground.
"That's pretty much it."
What Xu Rener described at the round table was the message conveyed by the priest in her mind.
'Piaoqi' actually did not exclude people from the world of Shen Chuang. The voice that appeared in the minds of Shen Dong and others was actually the voice of the head of Lunxun Hall.
'Piaoqi' was set up by the master, and only those he absolutely trusted could approach and activate it.
And those people in Lunxun Hall are not outsiders, they are pure natives of the marrow-sucking country.
The Child King thought that he had secretly planted Shen Dong and others as undercover agents to infiltrate Lunxun Hall, mistakenly believing that Shen Dong had already gained the trust of Lunxun Hall.
In fact, the man in charge was very suspicious and didn't trust anyone except a few specific candidates.
Even for those specific candidates, he cast a spirit-viewing spell on them and checked their brain memories regularly every month.
The so-called spirit-viewing technique is a method of unilaterally viewing the other party's memory. This technique cannot be used casually and requires the assistance of drugs to connect the two minds together.
There are two types of pills, one is a light purple pill, which is for the viewer to swallow; the other is a light green pill, which is for the person being viewed to take.
After both parties have taken the pill, it is not over yet. Both parties need to feed each other their own heart blood for a total of 49 days. On the second day after feeding the heart blood, both parties need to take off all their clothes and hug each other face to face for eight hours before the spiritual practice can be completed.
It can be said that although the spirit-viewing technique is easy to use, it is also a rather troublesome process and the pictures are a bit weird.
"In other words, the information the king obtained was actually wrong."
Tang Beiju concluded.
Xu Rener nodded and continued:
"But this false information is beneficial to us, so there is no need for me to specifically inform the king."
First, she couldn't explain why she knew the information was wrong. She didn't want to reveal her past life relationship with the priest.
Secondly, it was precisely because of this false information that the Child King had taken the initiative to find them. Since they were the only outsiders at the moment, and as far as he could understand, he could only let these outsiders act on his behalf. It could be said that this false information, to some extent, helped them and sped up the process of rescuing Mo Youli.
Third, this wrong cognition made the Child King believe that all the people in Lunxun Hall were outsiders. This made the Child King more determined to eradicate those people in Lunxun Hall and exclude dissidents. In terms of camp, he was perfectly aligned with them.
So, she chose to hide the truth from the child king, which was a way that would benefit them in every way.
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