Beichen Sword Sect's Headmaster's Secret Records

Chapter 100 Backdoor
Under the Immortal Palace System, there were two official systems for managing rituals and music. One was the Taiweiyuan Taichang Temple, which was responsible for sacrifices to heaven and earth, national ceremonies, and court ceremonies.

This kind is extremely formal, all of them are old men who play the gong, shang, jue and zhi, and sing in a difficult and obscure way. They are responsible for formal occasions such as audiences with vassal states, alliances of princes, great sacrifices to heaven and earth, and great court meetings of the three celestial spheres. There are strict rules on what style to sing, what music to use, and even how big each step should be. It is an ancient ritual passed down from the generations of immortals. If you dare to go out of tune, expose your chest or legs, believe it or not, those old doctors will just pick up the chimes and smash them at you.

The other is the Imperial Academy of each country. These institutions are directly under the Ziwei Palace and the twelve royal families of the twelve countries. They are the private property of the princes and nobles and are managed by eunuchs and palace maids. This is purely for entertainment purposes, mainly for the royal family, meritorious nobles, and aristocratic families, providing various entertainment services, such as music, drama, singing and dancing, performances, juggling, and others.

Since the staff of Jiaofangsi were mainly selected from the public, famous artists, and the relatives of the convicted women, who also had to be carefully selected, the specifications and performance levels were naturally much higher than those of the folk art.

In addition to occasionally participating in the palace's fixed sacrifices, ceremonies, and welcoming guests, the Jiaofangsi mainly engaged in side businesses, satisfying the paid private customization of aristocratic families to enrich the king's treasury and incidentally enhance the unity and harmony within the ruling class.

After all, when you are the winner of the political struggle, enjoying your spoils, looking at those wealthy ladies who were once out of your reach and could only kneel on the ground to look at their feet, now crawling at your feet, you have to ask yourself whether you still have the courage to disobey the king's wishes, and whether you want your family, wife and daughters to fall into such a miserable state of being bullied.

Of course, it is impossible for all those losers to be killed, and it is even more impossible for them to be willing to let their families be trapped and humiliated in the Jiaofangsi, so there will always be desperate people who try to rush into the academy to save people.

The imperial court naturally could not let them do what they wanted, so although the Jiaofangsi was not a military organization in theory, it was often directly controlled by the eunuchs in the inner court, and was built together with the imperial guards such as the Imperial Horse Administration, the Yulin Army, and the Jinwu Guard. This made it easier to supervise them, and it also helped to win over the imperial guards, allowing these strong men to vent their extra energy, so that they would not have nothing to do and do things like gathering people to demand money or changing the dynasty.

Tiedan was not sure about venturing into such a dangerous place, so he decided to go and have a look first, since it was a place that could be entered by paying money. So he wanted to go to Shopkeeper Qiao first, borrow some money to visit the Music Bureau, and throw this burden on him.

However, Baiyu insisted on going with him to see his mother's last life, and gave a reason that Tiedan could not refuse.

She can go through the back door.

Well, the so-called backdoor is just that... a simple backdoor.

"There is a secret passage in the Tongguan Palace that leads directly to the Jiaofangsi."

Tiedan was puzzled.

"Isn't the Jiaofangsi the private property of the king? Why are they sneaking around through secret passages?"

"It was not built by the king, but was secretly dug by the palace maids."

Although Zhen Baiyu was nervous for a while at the beginning because of the hugging of legs and touching of buttocks, she calmed down and was not so scared anymore when she saw that the man under her was really just rubbing her and trying to help her escape.

But this Tiedan was really strong, with hard muscles and bones, his whole body was like iron, with almost no excess flesh, and it was as tight as a piece of iron plate and steel hoop, which hurt Baiyu's thighs. So she didn't care about etiquette anymore, she put her arms around Tiedan's neck, rubbed his thighs, and then pressed her whole body against his back, adjusted her posture to be more comfortable, and whispered in the boy's ear,
"Decades ago, a group of palace maids could not stand the humiliation of the king, so they planned to stab him to death and then dig a secret passage to escape. They were not allowed to leave the palace at will, but they could go to the Jiaofangsi regularly to do business. They could also use the excuse of purchasing for the celebration to withdraw funds from the treasury, so they secretly started work in the Jiaofangsi and dug a secret escape passage."

As expected of a daughter of a rich family, she casually dropped an incredible secret.

Tiedan frowned.

"You can't even get through the main gate of the Jiaofangsi, so how can you go to the king's bedroom through a secret passage?"

Zhen Baiyu explained,
"When the king was assassinated, that side hall had long been used as a cold palace, with only some old and ugly palace maids living there. There was no defense left.

Now that the war is raging and the king has fled, the palace ladies have already scattered. The imperial guards are either escorting the king to the south or guarding the city gates and armories. There is no one left to guard the cold palace."

"Even so, are you sure the secret passage from decades ago is still there? What if it has been blocked long ago?"

"Of course there was. It was our ancestors who handled the case and kept the secret of the secret passage secret. Later, my family also secretly used this secret passage to communicate with the palace.

On the day I entered the palace to be selected as a concubine, mother specifically told me that if something happened in the future, I could escape through this secret passage. Mother would not lie to me."

Tiedan sighed.

"Brother Tie, what's wrong?"

"It's a pity that these women, despite their courage and wisdom, ultimately failed to succeed."

Zhen Baiyu shook his head.

"No, they succeeded."

“…Succeeded?”

"Well, it's recorded in my family's book. When my grandfather was the governor of Ye City, one night his subordinates captured several palace maids. They didn't know how they left the palace without permission and were covered in blood. They thought they had done something bad. After the first trial, they found out that they had exposed the truth. They said they rushed up and strangled the king to death with steel wire. They wanted to chop off his head, but his neck was too hard. The wire was rubbed and covered in blood, so they had to flee in a hurry. Only then were they discovered by the Six Gates and arrested on the spot.

Later, before they had even spent the night, they were all killed by the eunuchs from the palace who broke into the prison. The next day, the king went to court as usual and there was nothing unusual. My grandfather thought that a few palace maids had been beaten crazy and escaped from the palace, and were talking nonsense, so he naturally did not investigate further. Who would have thought that later, someone from the family entered the palace to serve and actually found this secret passage, and even the blood-stained steel wire was found in the secret passage.

Therefore, this strange incident has been kept as a secret in my family. For fear of bringing disaster, no one dared to disclose the secret. No more than five people knew about it, including me.

Oh, his neck was too hard, even the steel wire couldn't cut off his head. But he looked normal the next day. Is this the normal king who attends the morning court?

Sure enough, this is also what, a chicken qi person...

Then Kun jumped out from the darkness, leaped past Tiedan, waved his fins, and held up two signs, one said "device" and the other "machine"... You are so annoying...

"Brother Tie...is this your fish?"

Zhen Baiyu was stunned.

"Can you see it?"

Tiedan was also startled and turned back suddenly, almost bumping into Zhen Baiyu's face.

Zhen Baiyu was startled, staring blankly at the young man who was so close to her, and felt his hot breath spraying into her mouth and nose.

"Yes, yes, fairy beasts and birds, I have been able to see them since I was a child..."

Tiedan frowned.
I can actually see Kun...

Before, the other party had said that he had a lot of connections with the immortals, but he thought that those divine beasts showed up on their own initiative in order to curry favor with the wealthy. They would give gifts to other people's little daughters during festivals and say some auspicious words to establish a good relationship.

After all, Tiedan had been a doorman for wealthy families before, so he naturally knew that those aristocratic families were all bragging about each other for business. The stories about the sun and the moon appearing in dreams and getting pregnant, the auspiciousness of Ganoderma lucidum accompanying birth, the strange phenomena of heaven and earth, and the phoenix and white snake coming to pay homage were actually mostly nonsense to improve their reputations, so that they could be selected as filial and honest people, be rated as top-quality talents, and serve as officials in the court.

Who would have thought that she had actually seen it on her own?

Even Master and Senior Brothers can't see it, how could this woman's fate with the immortal be so strong...

Tiedan thought for a moment, reached out his hand and took out the blood jade from his bosom, and flashed it in front of her.
"Can you see it?"

"Yes, it is this blood jade."

Zhen Baiyu had an expression that said, "You still say you are from Xuanmen."

"But my jade is different from yours, brother. Mine is carved with a woman. It should be a jade made by the Holy Maiden of the Divine Religion."

Tiedan looked at the face on the blood jade and rolled his eyes at her.
"Isn't this also a woman? Maybe she is another saint."

Zhen Baiyu shook his head.

"This person is much more beautiful than the Saint Girl. He is clearly the Lord God."

Tiedan was stunned. "God Lord? The one with the three?"

Although Senior Tie didn't seem to recognize the Lord God, Zhen Baiyu was not surprised at all.
“Well, the Blood Jade for Transmitting Powers was made by successive leaders of the Divine Religion to impart the divine powers of the Heavenly Book to those who have made outstanding contributions in the religion.

Since the first god founded the religion, he had always worn a mask and almost no one had ever seen his true face.

Therefore, the leaders of later generations would also wear masks, and the blood jade they made would be engraved with ghost faces, as if the leader himself was present. It was also called "God's Jade" and was the highest token of the religion.

But the original blood jade was made by the God himself in nine pieces and given to his nine disciples for the purpose of teaching.

Unfortunately, most of the first generation of Dharma Kings were not talented enough and had insufficient destiny, so they were unable to achieve their full potential and could not hold on to such an opportunity to become an immortal, and were lost one after another.

Finally, only one remained in the Divine Religion, kept by successive saints. "

"Is this true? He actually looks like this..."

Tiedan looked down again and found that, indeed, this face was more beautiful than Zhen Baiyu on his back.

No wonder he has to wear a mask all the time. As a man, if he looks so effeminate and weird, he would be too ashamed to face people.

Tiedan glanced at Zhen Baiyu.
"Is this what the shadow told you?"

"Well," Zhen Baiyu nodded, "He said a lot of secrets like this. I guess he wants to recruit me to be a candidate saint of the Divine Religion."

Tiedan looked at her.
"If you become a saint, I will kill you."

What are you pretending to be...

Zhen Baiyu also glanced at him unhappily.
"Yes, Brother Tie~~Bai Yu will remember it~~"

(End of this chapter)