From Joy of Life, the Tian Gang is reversed

Chapter 208 A Humble Abode Lures a Mysterious Secret; The Bridal Chamber Awaits Your Arrival

"I want to dig a huge bridal chamber!"

Zhao Xun spoke as he dug with the shovel in his hand.

Yu Xuanji was almost ten years old. Although she didn't know much, she still knew the meaning of the words "bridal chamber." Her face immediately turned red, and she couldn't help but spit.

"Bah, shameless!"

"What do you mean 'shameless'? Don't think nonsense. Tell me, what else would it be but a bridal chamber if I dug a hole here and lived in it?!" Zhao Xun rolled his eyes at the precocious girl.

"you……!"

"What are you talking about?!" Zhao Xun struggled to dig out the soil with a shovel and said, "How is your father? Judging from the situation, it seems like he doesn't have many days left."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Zhao Xun's words were so harsh that Yu Xuanji's eyes immediately turned red.

"I'm telling the truth, he doesn't have many more days left. But what about you? Do you have any plans?"

"I...you're talking nonsense, my dad is perfectly fine!"

Yu Xuanji's voice became hoarse, and she turned and ran home.

"Oh dear, what a mess!" Zhao Xun sighed and continued his excavation.

Ten days later, in the valley, by the stream, on a peach tree, stood a brand new grave.

Yu Xuanji was dressed in plain white, her face streaked with tears, like a pear blossom in the rain.

Bian Jiang stood before the grave with a middle-aged couple, his face also showing grief. Zhao Xun watched all this calmly until Yu Xuanji finished crying and vented her emotions, then he walked to her side.

"Go back and get some rest. You haven't slept for two days. You don't want your father to worry about you down there, do you?!"

“I…!” Yu Xuanji glanced at Zhao Xun, seemingly wanting to say something, but swallowed the words back down.

"Xuanji, the young master is right, you have indeed been too tired these past two days. Go and rest first." The middle-aged woman sighed, gently stroking Yu Xuanji's hair, and said softly.

Yu Xuanji nodded, choking back tears, and remained silent.

The next morning, when Zhao Xun entered the valley, he saw that a small thatched hut had been erected in front of the grave, and Yu Xuanji, dressed in white, was kneeling there with a sorrowful expression.

Zhao Xun didn't say much. He picked up his shovel and dug across the stream for another morning. After working up a sweat, he went to the stream to take a bath, changed his clothes, and then came to the thatched hut. He sat down next to Yu Xuanji and began his abduction journey.

"Your father is gone. What are your plans for the future?"

Yu Xuanji glanced at him, paused for a moment, and said, "I don't know. I want to observe a year of mourning for my father first, and then find my mother's ashes and bring them back."

Zhao Xun curled his lip, "Don't lie to me, I think you just want to avenge your mother."

"You...!" Yu Xuanji looked up in surprise. "You, how did you know?!"

"Your father is useless and stupid."

"You're not allowed to talk about my father like that."

“My greatest strength is that I love to tell the truth.” Zhao Xun just loves to poke people in the throat. “Your father misses his homeland and his wife, but he is powerless to take revenge or restore his country. He can only talk about it. And you, you are a deep thinker. The more he talks about it, the more you will remember what I’m saying, right?”

"So what if I'm right?!"

"Do you even know who to take revenge on?!"

"Of course, we should find that butcher, Xu Xiao, the King of Beiliang." A hint of hatred flashed in Yu Xuanji's eyes when Xu Xiao was mentioned.

She escaped from Shenhuang City with her senior brother Yu. When she escaped, she looked up at the city walls. Zhao Xun could hardly understand the hatred she felt for the destruction of her country and the loss of her home.

“Xu Xiao, the King of Beiliang, you certainly know how to find someone.” Zhao Xun laughed. “This fellow is known as the Butcher of Men, with enemies all over the world. There are countless people who want revenge against him, but have you seen any of them succeed? What makes you think you can get revenge against him? Do you even have the ability to do so?!” “I…!” Yu Xuanji hesitated for a moment before realizing, “I will always find an opportunity.”

“Xu Xiao is a second-rank minor grandmaster. Even if you were given a sword and stood right in front of him, he wouldn’t resist at all, and you wouldn’t even be able to pierce his skin,” Zhao Xun said. “You don’t even know martial arts, how are you going to take revenge?!”

"What do you want to say?!"

"You want to learn martial arts? I'll teach you!"

"You?" Yu Xuanji was still a child at heart. Provoked by Zhao Xun, she looked at him with some annoyance and said, "I don't know much about martial arts, but I'm still a bit better than you. You're just slow-witted."

"Oh, so you've heard about my teachers' comments?" Zhao Xun laughed. "I may be dull-witted, but I am the heir apparent of the Prince of Jing'an, and I have many experts around me. Although the Prince of Jing'an's library cannot compare to the Tingchao Pavilion of the Prince of Beiliang, it still has some martial arts. Besides, how can you be so sure that I am really dull-witted?"

"Humph!!"

Yu Xuanji snorted coldly, and with her right index and middle fingers joined together to form a sword finger, she brought a gust of wind and struck Zhao Xun's Jianjing acupoint.

call out!
Yu Xuanji's sword finger stopped in mid-air, and she instinctively covered her right arm with her left hand.

Zhao Xun had already pressed his finger on the numb tendon at the joint of her right hand, and her entire right arm went numb.

"I also know a little bit of martial arts," Zhao Xun said with a smile. "Although I wouldn't call myself a pro, I'm more than capable of teaching you."

"you……"

The tingling sensation in her arm gradually subsided. Yu Xuanji stared at Zhao Xun with her big, dark eyes, asking curiously, "You... do you really know martial arts?"

"What do you say?"

Zhao Xun raised his right hand, waved his index finger in front of her, and laughed, "Actually, if you want revenge, you don't have to go so far. As far as I know, Xu Weixiong, the second daughter of Xu Xiao, the King of Beiliang, is a genius. She will soon come to the academy to study. By then, your martial arts should have reached a certain level. You can use this opportunity to gauge the weight of the Beiliang King's Mansion."

"Really?"

“The Jing’an Prince’s Mansion and the Bei Liang Prince’s Mansion have some grudges. The Jing’an Prince’s Mansion still has some intelligence about the Bei Liang Prince’s Mansion.”

“Okay.” This time, Yu Xuanji nodded firmly without hesitation.

Kidnapping successful!

Zhao Xun was pleased with himself. He chatted with his future daughter, Da Mimi, for a few more minutes, then picked up his shovel again, crossed the stream, and continued his digging.

Being the son of a prince is not easy, especially for a prince like the Prince of Jing'an who once vied with the emperor for the throne; being his heir is even more difficult.

Every move he made was being watched by countless eyes, which was why he came to the Shangyin Academy.

The Jing'an Prince's Mansion seemed safe, but who knew how many palace eyes were inside? In any case, Zhao Xun clearly felt that there were always more than one pair of eyes watching him from the shadows while he was at the Prince's Mansion. After arriving at the Shangyin Academy, although he could still feel the watchful eyes, there were far fewer than at the Prince's Mansion, which made him feel very comfortable.

Why did he dig the hole?
Do you really think he's doing something as trivial as merging the universe into a painting?
Obviously not!
He was exercising.

He portrayed himself as dull-witted and hopeless on the path of martial arts, but he couldn't simply let things drift without training, because having a lot of knowledge would be useless.

He was using the opportunity of digging to practice his internal energy cultivation, incorporating body-strengthening techniques into every movement, conditioning his body, and slowly expelling the toxins from his body.

In the world of Joy of Life, Gui Zitian killed Ku He with medicine, completing his transformation from a ninth-rank master to a grandmaster, becoming the only grandmaster of poisons in the world. He was called the only one, but in fact, there were only two. In that world, Li Chengqian also mastered both medicine and poisons to the grandmaster level. Although the worlds were different and the proportions of poisons might be different, at the grandmaster level, one no longer looks at the simple proportions of medicines, but at the essence of toxicity.

The unknown toxin he was poisoned with was probably a secret recipe from the imperial court. Its effects were unique. After a fever-like attack of the poison, it would gradually seep into the bloodstream and corrode the body. However, it was not visible from the symptoms. The only outward manifestation was that he was dull-witted and unworthy of further training in martial arts.

It's a very insidious medicine.

This would be an unsolvable problem for others, but in Zhao Xun's eyes, all he needed to do was complete the body tempering.

In the world of Joy of Life, he is a martial saint who continues the path of martial arts, monopolizing the luck of martial arts, and redefining the martial arts levels of that world. The second stage, Body Tempering Realm, involves the method of blood exchange, which replaces all the blood in the body, thus eliminating the poison.

Of course, the bridal chamber still needs to be dug. If the bridal chamber isn't dug properly, how will people enter the bridal chamber in the future?
(End of this chapter)