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Chapter 83, Magic Lamp

The princes and dignitaries flocked to the Medical Department, and Hua Changxi felt that this was not a good sign.

The Medical Bureau, after all, is just a technical department that specializes in medical research. Now that the powerful and wealthy have arrived, how far will the fight be?
No, the fight has already begun. Someone has already died in the Servants' Hall.

Seeing that Hua Changxi had some difficulty carrying the screen by himself, Yu Hui offered to help: "Let me help you deliver the screen to the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall."

Hua Changxi wanted to ask more about the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, so he didn't refuse.

When they were about to reach the gate of the errand hall, Yu Hui suddenly stopped, motioned Hua Changxi to stand aside, and whispered, "The people from the No. 1 Pharmacy on Second Street are here again."

Hua Changxi looked forward and saw that the person coming was Gu Jinfan. He quickly lowered his head and used the screen to cover most of his body: "Isn't this the young lady from the Duke's Mansion you mentioned before? What is she doing here?"

Yu Hui: "There is a small dilapidated courtyard over there in the square, do you know about it?"

Hua Changxi immediately thought of the old courtyard facing the stone tripod in the square and nodded.

Yu Hui: "She went there. There lived a hunchbacked old man named Gu in the small shabby courtyard. She seemed to know him and often went there to visit him."

Hearing this, Hua Changxi's eyes flickered: "Does Miss Gu go there often?"

Yu Hui said 'hmm': "I go there every few days."

Hua Changxi narrowed his eyes. The stone tripod and the Shennong tripod seemed to be related. Could Gu Jinfan’s visit to the old courtyard be related to the stone tripod?

"She's gone, let's go."

After Gu Jinfan disappeared, Yu Hui urged Hua Changxi to move the screen.

Hua Changxi kept this in mind and decided to find an opportunity to find out what Gu Jinfan was doing in the old courtyard.

"Brother Yu, thank you for your help. I will treat you to a meal when I am free."

"Sister Changxi, my godfather wants to continue cooperating with you to make medicine."

"Brother Yu, I've been punished to go to the medicine store this time. I've thought about a lot of things. I'm just a choress. It's really out of line to cooperate with Eunuch Yu to make medicine. I don't want to continue."

Hearing this, Yu Hui showed regret: "Okay, I'll tell him when godfather asks about this."

Hua Changxi smiled again and said, "Brother Yu, if you need any medicine, as long as you prepare the herbs, I can help you make it."

Yu Hui's face lit up: "Sister Changxi, since you said so, I won't be polite with you. Warriors consume too many pills, and I don't know any pharmacists. Having you here has helped me a lot. I would like to thank you in advance."

Hua Changxi laughed and said, "Brother Yu, please stop saying that. You have helped me a lot and I will always remember it."

After some more polite words, the two parted ways.

Hua Changxi pushed the screen back to his residence and placed it between the two beds, directly dividing the room into two. He then hung a curtain at the end of the bed to create a small private space.

That night, after Du Ruo returned to his room, he saw what Hua Changxi had done. He frowned, but didn't say anything. After washing up, he went to bed.

Hua Changxi had already been lying on the bed and started practicing. When she heard the noise, her eyelashes trembled. Seeing that Du Ruo did not make any big noise to affect her, she was very satisfied with her roommate and continued to concentrate on practicing.

At midnight, Hua Changxi suddenly opened his eyes.

In the Dantian, the black flames suddenly grew a bit larger, and the flames were swaying in one direction.

"How is this going?"

Hua Changxi looked inward at the direction where the black flames were swaying, thought for a while, then quietly stood up, walked out of the room, and moved towards the direction where the black flames were swaying.

Soon, they arrived outside a yard.

"Isn't this Eunuch Lu's yard?"

Hua Changxi frowned as he looked at the yard, took out the invisibility talisman from Taoist Jiang's storage ring and stuck it on his body, then jumped into the yard, looked around, and finally stopped at the door of the east wing.

In the east wing, Steward Leng sat cross-legged with his hands placed upward on his abdomen. Above his palms, a black jade lotus petal was floating.

When Hua Changxi saw the black jade lotus petals, his eyes lit up.

She had always kept the search for Shura Gate in mind, but she knew very little about Shura Gate and had not yet figured out where to start looking.

She was pleasantly surprised to see that Steward Leng actually had black jade lotus petals in his hand.

Manager Leng can control the black jade lotus petals, so he is most likely a member of the Shura Sect.

At the same time, in the east wing, Steward Leng, who was concentrating on practicing, suddenly felt a pain in his palm. When he opened his eyes, he saw black flames burning on the black jade lotus, and his face changed immediately.

"Who is it? Come out!"

Without her ignition, the Black Jade Lotus would not have emitted black flames. Now that the black flames had ignited, it could only be due to other influences.

There's someone outside!
With a creak, the door opened, and then with another creak, it closed again.

Manager Leng looked at the empty door and his vigilance reached its peak.

The person coming is a monk!
"Which fellow Taoist is visiting my humble abode? Please come out and meet me."

Manager Leng stood up as he spoke. Just as he was about to put away the black jade lotus petals, there was a "bang" sound. A stream of spiritual power came and directly knocked the black jade lotus petals to the ground.

"What do you mean, fellow Daoist? Are you trying to steal my magic weapon?"

The palm of her hand that was hit by the spiritual power felt a sharp pain of breaking. Manager Leng's face turned pale, knowing that the cultivation level of the person who came was far superior to hers.

"Are you from Shura Gate?"

A deep voice echoed in the room.

After hearing this, Manager Leng's eyes sparkled. Although the person who spoke deliberately lowered her voice, she could clearly tell it was a female voice, and she also heard a hint of familiarity: "Are you from the Miscellaneous Service Hall?"

"Bang~"

Another stream of spiritual power came over and knocked Manager Leng to the ground.

"Answer my questions honestly, and don't force me to kill you."

Manager Leng suddenly laughed: "As soon as you got close, the Black Jade Lotus was ignited. I think the Yin Flame in your body must have been ignited."

'Boom~'

Seeing that Manager Leng was trying to seize control of the conversation, Hua Changxi once again sent out a stream of spiritual power. This time, he hit Manager Leng so hard that he vomited blood.

Manager Leng wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. Not wanting to surrender, she glanced at the black jade lotus petals in the distance. She knew that she could not take the magic weapon from the sect this time, so she just wanted to crush the teleportation talisman and escape quickly.

Unexpectedly, as soon as his hand moved, a spiritual power attacked again.

Manager Leng cried out in pain, and at that moment, a pill flew towards her and fell into her mouth. Before she could react, the pill fell into her stomach.

"What kind of medicine did you give me?"

Manager Leng sensed that the spiritual power in his body was sealed, and a look of horror finally appeared on his face.

"Answer me when I ask you questions, and stop testing my patience."

"You have a black jade lotus petal in your hand, so I guess you hold a high position in the Shura Sect. Let me ask you, what exactly is a black jade lotus petal? And what is the black flame burning on it?"

Manager Leng pursed his lips and said nothing.

Hua Changxi frowned when he saw this: "I know you are not afraid of death. I will not kill you, but I will destroy your spiritual veins and cut off your path to cultivation."

Manager Leng's expression changed drastically: "You can't do this."

Hua Changxi didn't bother to talk nonsense and swung out a stream of spiritual power to hit Manager Leng's dantian directly.

She had read almost all the books left by Taoist Jiang, and learned a lot of common sense about cultivation, and knew the importance of Dantian to cultivators. Steward Leng also knew that once Dantian was destroyed, he would not be able to continue to cultivate. After feeling the violent vibration of Dantian Qi Sea, he finally gave in: "I'll tell you, I'll tell you."

"The Black Jade Lotus is the Shura Sect's magical weapon. It uses human emotions as fuel and can ignite the desires in people's hearts."

"Black flames, also known as Yin flames, look like flames, but they are actually human desires."

"Once the black flame is ignited, it will be impossible to extinguish it as long as the person still has desire."

Hua Changxi frowned and recalled all the experiences he had after having Black Flame. It seemed that they were really related to desire.

"The black flame cannot be extinguished. Can we just let it grow bigger?"

Manager Leng: "I said, the essence of the black flame is human desire. If you don't want the black flame to grow bigger, you must learn to control your desire."

Hua Changxi: "What if I can't control it?"

Manager Leng smiled and said, "Then wait for your desire to take control of you."

As soon as she finished speaking, another spiritual power hit her.

Hua Changxi looked at her coldly: "You are not telling the truth. You, the people of Shura Sect, rely on the black jade lotus petals to practice. I don't believe that everyone can control their desires. You must have other ways to solve this problem."

Steward Leng endured the severe pain and looked at the sky angrily: "I didn't lie to you. The only way to control the black flame is to control your own desires. As for how to control your own desires, it depends on you to figure it out."

Hua Changxi still didn't quite believe it: "You'd better not lie to me or hide anything from me, otherwise no matter where you escape to, I can kill you."

Manager Leng was stunned: "You won't kill me?"

Hua Changxi: "Didn't you say you wanted to control your desires? I have no hatred against you, why would I kill you? But you are lying to me."

Manager Leng's eyes flashed: "Are you telling the truth? You really won't kill me?"

Hua Changxi looked at the black jade lotus petals on the ground: "The black jade lotus petals can make the black flame grow stronger. You can dawdle for a while until I can no longer control my desire to kill."

Manager Leng hesitated for a moment and said, "There is another way to control the black flame, which is to ignite the Yang flame in the body, which is the white flame."

Hua Changxi frowned: "What is Yangyan?"

Manager Leng: "Everything is about the balance of yin and yang. If there is yin, there will naturally be yang. If the yin stimulates the evil side of people, then the yang stimulates the good side of people."

Hua Changxi's expression changed: "In other words, in addition to the black jade lotus petals, there are also white jade lotus petals?"

Steward Leng hummed, "White jade lotus petals are not as easy to ignite as black jade lotus petals. Many people cannot ignite Yangyan even if they have white jade lotus petals."

Hua Changxi: "Where are your white jade lotus petals?"

Steward Leng shook his head: "I don't have one."

Hua Changxi: "How could you not have it?"

Manager Leng said, "Of course I don't have any. In the entire Shura Sect, only the Sect Master and the Yin-Yang Envoys have white jade lotus petals." As he spoke, his eyes rolled. "The forces with the most white jade lotus petals are the royal family, the Tianshi Mansion, and the Bodhi Temple."

Hua Changxi waved out another spiritual power: "You are lying again. Black jade lotus petals and white jade lotus petals appear in pairs. Shura Sect has black jade lotus petals, how could there not be white jade lotus petals?"

Manager Leng felt like he was about to lose consciousness due to the pain. He gritted his teeth and said, "I really didn't lie to you. The black jade lotus petals and the white jade lotus petals are not complete magic tools. They are just fragments of the magic lamp."

Hua Changxi: "What magic lamp fragment?"

Steward Leng: "I don't know the details of what happened. I only know that the treasure of Shura Sect is a black and white lotus lamp, and the black jade lotus petals and white jade lotus petals fell off from the magic lamp."

"Because the royal family coveted the magic lamp, a war broke out with the Shura Clan. During the battle, the magic lamp was shattered, and both the black jade lotus petals and the white jade lotus petals were scattered everywhere."

"The Shura Sect searched for hundreds of years before they found a limited number of black jade lotus petals. The white jade lotus petals are mostly in the hands of the royal family, the Tianshi Mansion, the Bodhi Temple, and other forces."

Hua Changxi was a little confused and sorted out what Manager Leng said.

The Shura Gate has a magic lamp made of black and white jade lotus petals. The royal family values ​​this lamp very much and wants to possess it for themselves, and then a war breaks out with the Shura Gate.

During the battle, the magic lamp shattered and the black and white jade lotus petals scattered in all directions.

The Shura Clan found some, but more were in the hands of other forces.

She had no way of telling whether these words were true or false, but she did hear some key points.

"The black jade lotus petals can assist people in their cultivation. So, according to what you said, the Shura Sect, the Royal Family, and the Tianshi Mansion, these big forces, have had cultivators a long time ago?"

"I don't know about this."

"So when did you start practicing?"

"last year."

"What about the other people in Shura Sect? When did they start practicing?"

"Most of the ones I know about only started in the past two years."

"What do the Shura Sect want to do by having you hide in the Miscellaneous Services Hall?"

"My mission is to find the whereabouts of the black jade lotus petals and the white jade lotus petals."

When Steward Leng saw that there was no sound in the room, he thought for a moment and said, "Actually, lighting the black flame is not entirely a bad thing."

"The black flame can reveal a person's fear, thus stimulating their desires. When a person has desires, their potential can be stimulated. When a person's potential is stimulated, they can sometimes reap unexpected benefits."

Hearing this, Hua Changxi thought of the scene when she was trapped in the Buddha's hand. Was it the black flame that aroused her fear of death, and then gave rise to the desire to destroy against the Buddha's hand?

Hua Changxi did not completely believe what Manager Leng said, and seeing that she could not get anything else out of her, she did not stay any longer.

Manager Leng watched the door open and close, and after confirming that the invisible monk had left, he heaved a sigh of relief. When he saw the black jade lotus petals on the ground that he had not taken away with him, he showed surprise.

"There was no killing or stealing of treasures."

It seems that the black flame in the monk's body should not be very big.

Who could that person be?

When she thought that there was actually a cultivator with higher cultivation level than her hidden in the Mentoring Hall, Manager Leng became a little uneasy, especially since she had just hovered on the brink of death, which made her even more scared.

"The Medical Department is becoming more and more lively now."

Thinking of the task that the sect had recently assigned to her, asking her to steal the rebirth elixir made by the Medical Bureau, she felt a headache.

Before tonight, she felt that as a cultivator in the Qi Hai realm, she could move around freely in most places, even if she couldn't do anything in the Medical Department.

But there happened to be a monk hidden in the menial hall who was even more powerful than her.

If this is the case in the Miscellaneous Services Hall, what about the nine streets ahead? Are there more powerful monks hiding in the dark?

After Hua Changxi returned to his residence, he was unable to calm down and continue his practice.

She had not expected that the black flame could not be extinguished. Even though Manager Leng said that the existence of the black flame was not necessarily a bad thing, it could not make her feel at ease.

"The magic lamp fueled by the seven emotions and six desires"

Hua Changxi looked inward at the black flames beneath his inner elixir and felt a little headache.

At the moment, what she can do is, first, control her desires, and second, find the white jade lotus petals and ignite the white flames.

With the white flame, it should be possible to neutralize or stop the black flame from growing stronger.

But where to find it?

Hua Changxi thought of the royal family, Tianshi Mansion, and Bodhi Temple mentioned by Manager Leng. These places were places she had never been to.