Ah? The ladies I stabbed have come true.

Chapter 11: Qinglin County, the Millennium Tree Spirit with Roots Connecting Yin and Yang
Looking at the Demonic Path option that had appeared several times, Su Mo didn't want to choose it.

If you choose, you will be immortal.

I wonder if I can still do this job.

Immediately, Su Mo chose the second option.

You chose to continue indulging in bliss. Bai Suzhen felt something was amiss and began to advise you to stop doing it so frequently.

[When you're not studying, you're like an old ox that never rests, and even Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing are beginning to feel the strain.]

【When three years passed.】

You also successfully passed the imperial examination. After you passed, Fahai came to congratulate you personally.

[But he discovered that the Arhat's golden statue behind you was already riddled with holes. If you continue to struggle for a while, the entire statue might crumble.]

【Fahai begins to advise you.】

"Realizing the cause, when lustful thoughts arise, all other thoughts arise."

"A remarkable man must give up his love. If he does not, he will fall into the devil's web of softness and warmth."

"The Arhat status is not easy to come by."

"To achieve enlightenment, one must have a righteous mind and right thoughts, diligently practice, and cultivate good relationships. Even then, one must go through thousands of lifetimes before becoming one of the billions of novice monks in the Pure Land."

"After waiting in line for millions of years, perhaps you will get a chance to become an Arhat."

"You are the reincarnation of an Arhat. If you allow your desires to run wild, you will only end up dead and your spiritual power will be destroyed. You will only increase your sins and will never be able to ascend to the Arhat stage again."

You heard Fahai's words of advice, but you didn't agree with them. You thought he was just exaggerating. How could an old monk like you experience the joy of love in the mortal world?

What do you choose now?

Option 1: Emptiness is form, form is emptiness. The word "form" is like a sharp knife above your head. Follow Fahai's advice, identify your deficiencies, address your shortcomings, and practice diligently to ascend to the Pure Land soon.

[Option 2: Follow some of the suggestions and change from nine times a day to three times a day.]

[Option 3: Continue to fall into the ocean of desire, enjoying life with Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing. When the Arhat's golden body is broken, sacrifice it and fall into the demonic path.]

……

Looking at the three options, Su Mo directly chose the second one.

We can still simulate for a while now, which can ease the situation a bit.

You chose to listen to some of Fahai's advice and reduced your frequency with Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing.

On the ninth day after you passed the imperial examination, your father, Su Donglai, found you a job: to serve as the magistrate of Qinglin County, under the Wenzhou Prefecture. Although only a seventh-rank official, he was in charge of the entire county.

However, when Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing learned that you were going to Qinglin County to serve as the county magistrate, they became a little worried.

Bai Suzhen tells you that in Qinglin County, there lives a thousand-year-old tree spirit. Its roots connect the Yin and Yang realms, and at the intersection of the two realms, it has opened a Yin and Yang Inn, attracting countless demons, ghosts, and even local gods.

[If you go there, the Arhat's golden body will surely be coveted.]

[I wonder how much trouble this will cause.]

[After hearing Bai Suzhen's reminder, what will you choose? ]

[Option 1: Tell Bai Suzhen that you've long wanted to meet these wild spirits. If anyone dares to make a move on you, you'll absolutely uproot this thousand-year-old tree spirit, and then take Qing and Bai with you to Qinglin County to take up your new post.]

[Option 2: For your own safety, go to Jinshan Temple and ask Fahai for the golden bowl.]

[Option 3: Go to Qinglin County, absorb the essence of all demons and monsters, and fall into the demonic path.]

……

Looking at the frequently appearing option of falling into the demonic path, Su Mo felt a little angry.

Good guy.

There is less than half an hour left, and I can only simulate for three or four years at most.

After falling into the path of demons.

But it would never end. As for the option of asking Fahai for the golden bowl, Su Mo really didn't want to choose it.

After all, he had cheated Fahai so many times in the simulation, and he still wanted his golden bowl.

It's really shameless.

One more thing is.

Just die.

I have to finish this simulation quickly to avoid delaying work.

Subsequently.

Su Mo directly chose the first option.

You chose to take Qing and Bai with you to Qinglin County to take up your posts. Xiaoqing is very happy because she has several demon friends there, and it would be very convenient for her to live there.

[Also, if you encounter any difficult cases or problems, you can definitely ask her demon friends for help.]

The mountains are high and the road is long. Half a month later, you brought Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing to Qinglin County.

[However, on your first day in office, you sensed something was amiss with the Qinglin County government officials. They all seemed to have never woken up, their eyelids drooping and their spirit drained away.]

You ask the County Magistrate why everyone is so listless all day, and he tells you that a new brothel has recently opened in Qinglin County. The women there are all incredibly beautiful, and most importantly, they're cheap.

The Song Dynasty didn't prohibit officials from visiting brothels. You're also curious about the sudden appearance of a brothel. I wonder why so many beautiful women would open one in a small county like Qinglin. If it were in Hangzhou Prefecture, it would definitely make a fortune.

[When you return home, tell Xiaoqing and Bai Suzhen about this miraculous event.]

Xiaoqing was very curious. She suggested that the three of you go to the brothel and see what was going on. It was strange that so many beautiful women suddenly appeared in such a small town.

You gladly accepted Xiaoqing's suggestion, and then the three of you went together.

Xiaoqing and Bai Suzhen disguised themselves as men, and you took them to the brothel.

[Just as you approached the edge, a surge of ghostly energy surged from the interior of the brothel. Seeing that ghostly energy, you clearly felt something was wrong.]

【Xiaoqing grabbed you and Bai Suzhen and said she wanted to take you somewhere.】

【The place is called "Gray Smoke House."】

[It is the largest intelligence organization in the Yin and Yang worlds of Qinglin County.]

The Gray Smoke Pavilion was opened by a Gray Immortal from the Qing Dynasty outside the Great Wall. His name was Dou Qianli. Due to a tribulation, his true essence was shattered, and he could only remain half human, half rat for the rest of his life.

Xiaoqing wanted to ask Dou Qianli for information about the brothel.

When Dou Qianli learned that you were the newly appointed magistrate of Qinglin County, he generously offered to let you pay nothing.

[Only after learning that you wanted to inquire about the background of the brothel, Dou Qianli remained silent for a long time.]

【At the end, I only said one sentence.】

"This matter requires an additional bucket of aged glutinous rice."

[Later, you also learned the origin of this brothel. It was the thousand-year-old tree spirit that came to the 2,500-year-old catastrophe and absorbed the true essence of mortals to resist the heavenly catastrophe.]

[It's just that it's under the supervision of the underworld and can't come openly, so it uses this strategy.]

[And those prostitutes were all wandering ghosts captured by it from the underworld. Each one was as beautiful as a flower, and they were so ruthless in absorbing men's true essence that a man's life span would be shortened by at least a year after being visited by it.]

[I encountered this kind of thing right after taking office.]

【You choose? 】

[Option 1: You are also curious about the female ghost brothel, so you take Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing back to the brothel to listen to music.]

[Option 2: Ignore the situation and let things develop.]

[Option 3: Destroy the thousand-year-old tree spirit and restore peace to Qinglin County.]

(End of this chapter)