Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 296: The Case of Prince Poyang
While Chongguang Chuang was guarding Guangzhai Temple, Ren Yuan and Chen Baxian started special training together.

The reason why this was not done before was because Chen Baxian had to be awake and have his physical body brought on board by Ren Yuan before he could practice.

Although Ren Yuan could board the ship at any time of the day, he could not use the Youxian Pillow when he was completely sleepy, so he usually boarded the ship at night.

One of them wanted to get on the boat when he was awake, and the other wanted to get on the boat when he was sleepy, so they don't make sense.

In order to keep pace with Ren Yuan, Chen Baxian became very ruthless. He forced himself to sleep during the day and ate tea leaves instead of vegetable leaves for dinner, just to stay awake all night.

In this way, when Ren Yuan falls asleep, he can bring his physical body onto the ship, and he can practice on the Thousand Mile Ship.

Chen Baxian lived like this, reversing his day and night for a whole month, and the dark circles under his eyes were even heavier than those of Nangong.

But the results were also remarkable. After five months of training on the boat, he finally completed a year of foundation building, drew oil to add to his life, and recovered to his original true child body!

After seeing that his vital energy was finally intact, Chen Baxian jumped up three feet high, tears streaming down his face with excitement. He hugged Ren Yuan and Yang Zhong tightly by the shoulders, and shouted, "Brothers, I've kept you waiting! Let's go, I'll take you to the Qinhuai River with my guns, and show the girls what brutality is!"

"Why are you so excited? Why did you recover to your original childlike body?" A Yao did not draw his sword to chop him, but asked with a sneer.

"It's to be able to eat meat." Chen Baxian said without hesitation.

"I think you have damaged your brain. You are trying to practice inner alchemy, brother." Ren Yuan said speechlessly.

"Yes, you can only practice now." Yang Zhong gloated: "The inner alchemy technique requires that you cannot lose your virginity before the golden elixir is formed."

"..." Chen Baxian immediately told the truth, and wailed for a long while: "Oh my god, I just opened my third orifice!"

"Does this really require me to explode?"

Ren Yuan looked at Chen Baxian, who was struggling to get to the ground with his head, and felt quite sympathetic. You said that this matter was caused by the fact that the magical power and the martial arts conflicted to such an extent.

"I'm not going to practice anymore. I'm going to take some external elixirs!" Chen Baxian said desperately.

"That's right." Yang Zhong said with a smile, "This person should go with the flow. Why would he leave the straight road and take the narrow path with wolves in front and tigers behind?"

"You're right, start taking the medicine tomorrow!" Chen Baxian said angrily.

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But after Chen Baxian's fit, he threw the Jiuzhen Powder aside the next day and continued to practice his inner alchemy.

"Why did you change your mind again?" the three asked while eating breakfast.

"Then all the sins I've suffered in the past year have been in vain?" Chen Baxian took a sip of the cake angrily: "Won't I become a big joke then? Damn it, I can only go down this path till the end!"

"See you tonight!" After breakfast, he went into the house to catch up on his sleep.

That night, Chen Baxian followed Ren Yuan on board the ship and officially began to practice the first stage of inner alchemy - refining essence into qi!
One has to admire Chen Baxian for not only being ruthless enough to himself, but also for his own amazing talent. It only took him one month in reality to successfully refine his essence into qi and successfully open the fourth orifice.

He was pleasantly surprised to find that 'refining essence into qi' could help calm his inner fire, so he practiced even harder to offset the cost of his supernatural powers.

Ren Yuan was not bad either. When the autumn leaves turned yellow, he broke through the six orifices and gained a new magical power - teleportation! He could ignore obstacles and come and go freely.

However, due to the limitation of Jinling's formation, the distance of teleportation in the capital is only a few feet away. It is better to transform into thousands of incarnations...

But Ren Yuan was still very satisfied, he would not stay in Beijing all his life. Once he left Beijing, this would be a big killer.

He continued to work hard on his training, preparing to break through the Seven Apertures before the New Year and achieve true supernatural powers. That way, he wouldn't have to go to the toilet anymore...

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Unfortunately, the Gou Chen Si is not a place to keep idle people, so it is impossible for him to practice with pay all the time.

That day, Diwuwei and Yanfei also came to Guangzhai Temple. "Welcome to the inspection, Lord Wei." Ren Yuan hurriedly took Zuan Yangzhong to greet them with a smile.

"Stop talking so smoothly." Diwu Wei cursed with a smile, "I'm not here to inspect, I'm here to announce the deployment. From today on, Shangzhang Chuang will replace Chongguang Chuang and guard Guangzhai Temple. You should quickly hand over the command."

"Yes, sir!" Ren Yuan responded quickly and began to hand over the defense to Yan Fei.

The task here was simple, and the handover was completed in a short time. Yan Fei officially led the team to move in, and Ren Yuan led his own troops to withdraw.

"Just let Yang Zhong lead the team back." The Fifth Dimension suddenly said to Ren Yuan, "You go with Zuan and me."

"Yes." Ren Yuan and Zuan followed the Fifth Dimension and left the main force.

"What? Another case?" Zuan couldn't help but ask.

"Yes." The Fifth Dimension nodded and said, "Yesterday, the King of Poyang was almost poisoned to death."

"What?" Even Ren Yuan was surprised. "He is a demigod, shouldn't he be immune to all poisons?"

"Who said it wasn't?" Diwuwei smiled bitterly, "So this case shocked the emperor, and he ordered our company to solve the case within a time limit. Chen Shuai had no choice but to send out our ace combination."

"How many days?" Ren Yuan asked.

"Three days." The fifth dimension replied.

"Then hurry up." Zuan became anxious when he heard it.

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The group rushed to Poyang Prince's Palace, and after explaining their purpose, they were taken directly to the inner chamber to see Xiao Hui.

In the inner bedroom, Xiao Hui's face was as pale as gold paper, sitting cross-legged on the bed. He was only wearing a cloak, revealing only half of his left arm, which was wrapped in thick gauze, which was shocking.

"Your Highness, are you still injured?" After greeting him, the Fifth Dimension asked with concern.

“No.” King Poyang shook his head and said calmly, “I forced the poison to my left arm and cut it off, which saved his life.”

"Your Highness is worth a fortune. It would be a huge loss to break an arm. Is there no way to reconnect it?" asked the Fifth Dimension.

"No need. I can regenerate my limbs. My left hand will grow back slowly. It just takes some time." King Poyang shook his head and said depressedly:
"And this poison is very evil. I had already cleared it out last night, but it showed signs of recurring today."

"Have you asked the imperial physician to take a look?" Diwuwei asked hurriedly.

"It's useless for them to see me. I can only rely on myself to slowly force out the remaining poison." Xiao Hui sighed and said:

"Alas, we were supposed to set out to join the army tomorrow, but now I can only take a leave and rest."

"Poisoning the prince at this critical moment, I'm afraid it might be the work of a ghost?" The fifth dimension immediately thought of his old rival.

"These guys have been quiet for more than half a year, but finally they can't sit still anymore."

"It may not be a ghost." Xiao Hui said in a muffled voice: "It may be done by one of our own people!"

"One of our own?" The Fifth Dimension was surprised. "Who would do something that would make their loved ones sad and their enemies happy?"

"People who are jealous of me, people whose opportunities were snatched away by me, people who want to replace me!" Xiao Hui said in hatred, "They can't beat me in open or covert fighting, so they finally resort to murderous means against me!"

(End of this chapter)