Chapter 64 – The Great Cultivation Systems

The tallest building of the night watchman’s yamen was the Haoqi Building in the atrium. It has a pointed roof and tiers of flying eaves, and looks as one in all directions.

There are corridors outside the lower four floors, and the corridors on the fifth and sixth floors can be used as lookout halls overlooking the entire night watchman’s court.

The great eunuch known as “Wei Qingyi” lived in the building.

In the tea room on the seventh floor, on the soft collapse, the man in green clothes was half leaning, holding a volume in his hand.

Sky blue shirt embroidered with complex cloud pattern, fine workmanship, black hair with jade hairpin bundle, sideburns frost white, face plate white and beardless, eyes deep, containing the vicissitudes of the years wash out.

Wei Yuan is a man with both temperament and appearance, elegant and handsome, deep and introverted.

There are two other people in the tea room, accompanied by Wei Yuan drinking tea and reading a book, is a serious and serious man, features as stiff as a carving, do not see the slightest emotion.

The other person has a feminine temperament and handsome appearance, with danfeng eyes, willow leaf eyebrows, and thin, red lips, which, at first glance, makes people suspect that it is a woman dressed as a man.

The man with the feminine temperament stood at the lookout pavilion, bathed in the warm sunlight, and pressed one hand on the hilt of the sword hanging at his waist, saying:

“The sun is shining and there are no clouds, isn’t it more fun to look at the scenery here than to hide indoors and read a book?”

Wei Yuan put down the scroll in his hand and laughed, “There are fewer and fewer books to read. I’ve recently heard that the Si Tian Supervisor has an additional blue book, which records the nature of all things in heaven and earth, and I’m very curious about it.”

“Yang Yan, in another ten days it will be the day of His Majesty’s ancestor’s sacrifice, inform the people to step up patrols in the inner city and curtail the commerce in the inner city.”

The stiff-faced man gave a “hmmm”.

The man with the feminine temperament exhaled a breath, “Righteous father, you really don’t intend to compete for the position of Minister of the Household and install your own people?”

“This is a necessary concession.” Wei Qingyi said, his gaze looking towards the entrance of the tea room as a blue-clothed mandarin entered with his head bowed.

“Duke Wei, this is the result of the qualification test of the newly promoted gong, and the household registration, please judge.”

The clerk handed over a stack of paperwork.

Wei Yuan opened the household register and took a look at it, the newly promoted gong is called Xu Qi’an, the former Changle County fast class fast man. Both his father and uncle were from the military.

This information is both important and unimportant.

Important because of the special status of the night watchman, who had to be clean and innocent for more than three generations of his ancestors. Xu Qi’an was a native of the capital city of Dafeng.

So Xu Qi’an’s status is qualified.

Unimportant in the sense that every night watchman is of a similarly innocuous status.

Underneath the household register were the results of the “Intelligence” test, Wei Yuan glanced at it, and the corner of his mouth sketched a smile, “Qianru, when you answered the question, how many breaths did you use?”

The man with a feminine temperament and beautiful appearance sniffed, his chin slightly angled, “Fifteen breaths, Yang Yan is nineteen breaths.”

“This new gong is twelve breaths.”

Twelve breaths …. The man with the feminine temperament raised his eyebrows and proudly commented, “Not bad at all.”

The stiff-faced man’s face was devoid of expression as he said, “To be able to break the tax and silver case in a short period of time, this talent, it’s not surprising.”

Wei Yuan smiled, his eyes fixed on the subsequent docket, and added, “The mandarin holding the box froze for about five breaths.”

“Impossible.” The man with the feminine air turned back suddenly and walked into the tea room.

Yang Yan frowned.

That is to say, the time for thinking is only seven breaths, what a sharp mind.

Yang Yan got up and cupped his fists, “Righteous father, give this person to me.”

“It’s under your name, he follows the silver gong Li Yuchun.” Wei Yuan put down his tea cup and looked at the man with a feminine temperament, “You have seen him, that day in the Si Tian Supervisor.”

The Heavenly Superintendent… the man with the feminine temperament mused for a few seconds and kindly laughed, “He, ah, the kid who talks out of his ass.”

Once Yang Yan heard that this newly promoted gong was working under Li Yuchun’s hand, he nodded with satisfaction.

Each gold gong governs seven silver gongs, and Li Yuchun is under his command.

“Righteous father, how is the battle power?” Yang Yan asked.

“Peak Refined Essence, there is no need to test.” Wei Yuan laughed, “This person was elected by the Eldest Princess, I see that he has a lively mind and is a capable of doing things, so I will specialize him to join the watchmen.”

Rapunzel?

Yang Yan and the man with the feminine temperament looked at each other, this news Wei Yuan did not tell them.

Wei Yuan continued to browse the results of the “Ask the Heart Pass” test, gradually, his gentle expression became serious, and his deep eyes became sharp.

Yang Yan straightened his back and looked at the paper.

The man with a feminine temperament, on the other hand, walked to Wei Qingyi’s side with a big grin, probed and laughed, “It’s even a kid who’s even madder than I am, Righteous Father, what to do with it?”

The smile was tinged with gloating.

Wei Yuan pulled out the bottom piece of paper, which was written in an ugly script:

You eat your pay, the people’s fat, the people’s wealth.

It is easy to abuse the people below, but it is hard to deceive the people above.

Wei Qingyi’s pupils abruptly froze, staring at the two paragraphs for a long time without speaking.

“The lower people are easy to abuse, but the upper heaven is hard to bully…” repeated Yang Yan.

The man with a feminine temperament’s eyes flickered slightly, recovering from his short-lived shock, and his attention was the exact opposite of face-palmed Yang Yan:

“Er eat Erlu, the fat of the people …. Hey, so this little speedster thinks he’s eating the people’s fat, not the emperor’s.”

Yang Yan thought about it and asked, “What does righteous father think?”

Wei Yuan asked rhetorically, “What do you think?”

Yang Yan deliberated, “Eat the king’s salary, bear the king’s worries.”

The implication is that one does not agree with that statement.

Wei Yuan nodded, “When that little gong rises to the golden gong one day in the future, go debate with him yourself.”

The feminine man raised his eyebrows, “Righteous Father thinks that that boy can become a Golden Gong in the future?”

“As long as he is a martial artist, then there is no problem.” Wei Yuan smiled gently, “Each of the three religions has its own rules, warlocks are dragged down by the earth’s qi, so are sorcerers, and among the current world, only martial artists are the purest.

“Although I loathe martial artists who use their strength to violate prohibitions, I have to admit that the more brash a martial artist is, the more courageous and refined he can be.

“There is nothing to honor or fear in the heart before one dares to turn the world upside down.”

Speaking of this, Wei Yuan took out a new ink stone from under the table, poured in vermilion sand and water, researched it into red ink, and dipped the brush into it.

The word “Koshigami” was written in the family register.

“To be unruly is to be a martial artist, to have the world in one’s heart is to be a chivalrous man. The greatness of chivalry is for the country and the people.”

Armor up!

There are only a handful of people who have gotten this rating since the establishment of the beatniks.

……

Some kind of secret room.

Li Yuchun pointed to the barrel and said, “Strip naked and sit in it.”

Finally stepping into the Qi Practicing Realm ….. Xu Qi’an pressed down his inner excitement and glanced at the pungent smelling bath tub filled with dark green juice.

This stuff is called Marrow Cleansing Liquid, and for this bucket, it costs almost one hundred and fifty taels of silver.

Quickly removing his shirt, pants, and shoes, he sat naked in the tub.

Li Yuchun said, “You haven’t broken your body, have you?”

Xu Qi’an nodded, “My second uncle, who is an Imperial Sword Guard Hundred, spoke with me about it. You cannot break your body before the Qi Practicing Realm.”

He leaned back comfortably in the tub and asked, “Chief, you’re in the God Refining Realm?”

Li Yuchun let out a “hmm”.

“Then the back of the God Refining Realm is copper skin and iron bones, right?”

Li Yuchun let out another “hmm”.

Xu Qi’an then laughed, “Bad name, why don’t you call it Vajra Realm.”

Copper skin and iron bones are too lowbrow, and will look like we martial artists are all uneducated mudbloods.

“The third grade of Buddhism is called Vajra.” Li Yuchun gave an explanation.

So it was! Xu Qi’an nodded his head and asked for guidance, “Chief, of the many cultivation systems in the world, which one is the strongest?”

Li Yuchun replied without hesitation, “The Dao Sect says that they are the strongest.”

“What about other systems?”

“Other systems think they are the strongest.”

“Oh…got it.”

“But there is a consensus among all systems under the sun that martial artists are the most vulgar and the most unseemly.”

“….. This I do know a little bit about, because the Wookiee only has strange powers, but not divine ones.”

Still not fancy enough.

“That’s just the surface, there’s a bigger secret inside that involves the upper limit of the cultivation system.”

Xu Qi’an straightened his back and tried, “Chief, can you tell me?”

PS: That’s six or seven hours of suing.