Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 1237 - 552 Emperor Wu’s Daily Notes, Yama God Right Attendant Bodhisattva_2
[What you see here is Volume Seventy-Six of the Daily Life Officer’s notes, documenting nearly fifty years of major events in the Vermillion State and the itinerary and speeches of Emperor Wu.]
[You flip through the pages and quickly find the key content and the reason why this book needs to be destroyed...]
[It turns out that more than thirty years ago, Emperor Wu took advantage of a period of incognito travel and secretly set out to sea to search for ’Penglai Immortal Island’ atop the Eastern Mysterious Sea.]
[With the support of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of West Heaven, the Vermillion State has long enjoyed a prospering and unbroken reign. Emperor Wu’s covert visit to Penglai Immortal Island, whether or not he found the Daoist Immortal Venerable, amounted to a grave disrespect toward the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the West, hence this journey should not be made public.]
[According to records by the Daily Life Officer, Emperor Wu boarded an oceanic ironclad ship and drifted for a long time in the Moon Plate Maritime Domain, one of the nine great sea regions of the Eastern Mysterious Sea, in an attempt to find ’Penglai Immortal Island’.]
[The ancient texts say, it was once heard that Penglai Immortal Island, truly a Daoist sanctuary, lies hidden in the Moon Plate Maritime Domain, its portals constantly shifting, elusive to those without predestined immortal fate, barely offering a glimpse of its path. Thus, if one with fortuitous coincidence should, by chance, glimpse the secrets of heaven and find the gates of Penglai; on the other hand, those who seek it with forceful desire, even if they exhaust their entire lives, would hardly trace its whereabouts.]
[Emperor Wu only knew that Penglai Immortal Island was situated in the Moon Plate Maritime Domain, but due to the elusive and shifting entrance of Penglai, he was unable to gain entry for a long time.]
[Perhaps Emperor Wu’s earnest desire to pursue the Dao moved heaven and earth, and after a sudden, violent storm at sea had passed, the winds halted, the waves calmed, and the skies cleared, the ironclad battleship sailed into an unseen region of sea, and Penglai Immortal Island brilliantly came into view.]
[Penglai appeared majestically beautiful and strange, akin to a celestial palace descended to the mundane world, the island’s outline resembling a naturally formed painting, with green peaks piled upon one another, shrouded in mist and clouds.]
[Upon the island, magnificent buildings with eaves towering into the clouds were arrayed in sequence, radiating the grandeur of the Immortals. The structures, built on bases of white jade and adorned with bamboo and pine, soared into the clouds.]
[Around the island, azure waves shimmered, the crystal-clear sea water sparkled, the sand on the beaches shone as white as silver, and within this magnificence roamed precious Exotic Beasts and cranes soared under the blue sky and white clouds...]
[However, after the ironclad ship docked, only Emperor Wu was permitted to disembark and set foot on the island, while all his attendants, though they tried their best to follow, were stopped by an invisible force and remained excluded, unable to step onto the island.]
[No one knows what happened to Emperor Wu after he went ashore.]
[A day later, Emperor Wu returned from the island, ordered the ironclad ship to depart, and as the ship sailed further away, the enchanting Penglai Immortal Island gradually vanished from sight.]
[After his journey to Penglai, Emperor Wu ended his incognito travels and immediately returned to the Imperial Palace. Ignoring the objections of his ministers, he built a Daoist Treasure Hall named ’Qin’an Hall’ in the Imperial Garden.]
[’Qin’an Hall’ did not enshrine the Three Purities as one would expect, but an unknown Immortal Venerable called ’Purple Void Sovereign Lord of Brahma Energy’.]
[Emperor Wu has long revered Buddha and suppressed the Dao, esteeming Buddhism as the doctrine for ruling the country, a fundamental principle of the state. Now, not only has he secretly traveled east to Penglai, but he also built a Daoist Treasure Hall in the palace. How could this be explained to the people, and how could this be justified to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of West Heaven?]
[Sure enough, after the completion of ’Qin’an Hall’, during the grand ceremony of the temple’s inauguration for blessings, the Right Attendant Bodhisattva, the Main Bodhisattva venerated in the Capital City and one of the ’Third Mantra Bodhisattvas’, descended to show his divine presence!]
[Others did not know the reason for the Bodhisattva’s arrival, assuming it was because the construction of Qin’an Hall had angered the divinities. Nevertheless, the Daily Life Officer knew it was due to Emperor Wu’s secret crossing to Penglai.]
[After descending, the Celestial Bodhisattva talked with Emperor Wu in the palace for half a day, then returned to the Western Paradise. No actions regarding deposition or appointment were taken; it seemed there was no severe reprimand towards Emperor Wu either.]
[From then on, no one in the palace dared to visit Qin’an Hall to worship that unfamiliar Daoist Immortal Venerable, trying to curry favor with Emperor Wu.]
[Emperor Wu, too, acted as though the construction never happened, showing no concern for Qin’an Hall.]
[But the Daily Life Officer knew that every month on the night when the moon was full, Emperor Wu would quietly enter Qin’an Hall at midnight to worship the Daoist Immortal Venerable.]
[The Daily Life Officer was a person of integrity and courage, and regardless of whether the emperor’s behavior was good or bad, it must all be recorded in detail, as per the rules the emperor was not allowed to inquire about the contents of the ’Daily Life Notes’.]
[Thus, previous emperors were always anxious about the ’Daily Life Notes’, fearing that some unglamorous deeds might be recorded.]
[The role of the Daily Life Officer itself was extremely risky; if one encountered an enlightened emperor, it was well and good, but if one served a foolish and tyrannical emperor, the outcome was often extremely tragic.]
[The Vermillion State retained the position of Daily Life Officer from the previous dynasty, and without a doubt, Emperor Wu was an enlightened and sagacious ruler who never questioned the Daily Life Officer, allowing the recording of his actions and speech.]
[And so, on the night of the full moon, faint candlelight indeed flickered once again in Qin’an Hall, and the Daily Life Officer was bound to record the events Emperor Wu carried out in secret, regardless of the risk of beheading that might follow.]
[The Daily Life Officer secretly punctured the paper on the doors and windows of the grand hall and saw Emperor Wu kneeling before the Immortal Venerable, offering up three sticks of incense in hand...]
[As the smoke from the burning incense curled upwards, the statue of the Immortal Venerable, holding the Treasure Bottle in the left hand and the whisk in the right, revealed an abnormal state.]
[Sweet spring water overflowed from the clay Treasure Vase, and Emperor Wu took out an object that flickered with white light and cast it into the Treasure Bottle.]
[Before long, the mysterious object had nearly absorbed all of the sweet spring water. Emperor Wu retrieved the object and wore it close to his body, his expression one of satisfaction, as wisps of black energy were driven away from his body, dissipating...]
[The Daily Life Officer returned to the Household Department overnight, recorded this matter accurately, and ordered the later generations to make a handwritten copy.]
[The next day, the Daily Life Officer was summoned by Emperor Wu and from then on vanished without a trace, alive he was not seen, and dead his body was not found, along with ’Emperor Wu’s Daily Notes’ which also got destroyed.]
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[...My father has passed away, but this matter must not be buried, so I leave this handwritten copy for later generations to discern.]
[With this, you have now finished reading the content of the Daily Notes.]
This data prop contained a lot of information. Lin Xun read it over and over again and extracted several key pieces of information.
First, Penglai was located in the ’Moon Plate Maritime Domain’ within the Eastern Mysterious Sea.
If he wanted to pursue and eliminate Emperor Wu, who had become the Proxy of the Evil God, he had to go to the ’Moon Plate Maritime Domain’ to find Emperor Wu.
Second, that ’Purple Void Sovereign Lord of Brahma Energy,’ a disciple of the Daoist Ancestor, was unknown to anyone.
Initially, Lin Xun thought it was just the ignorant White Elephant Demon, but now even the Daily Life Officer, similar to a ’court official’, did not know of this Immortal Venerable, which meant that no Daoist scriptures recorded this Immortal Venerable, and that was very abnormal.
Third, the Right Attendant Bodhisattva, ’Third Mantra Bodhisattva’ under the seat of Yama God, must have reached some secret agreement with Emperor Wu after descending to Show Saint, which allowed this Daoist Treasure Hall to remain within the Imperial Garden.
Fourth, after returning from Penglai, Emperor Wu built a Daoist Treasure Hall for the ’Purple Void Sovereign Lord of Brahma Energy’ and worshipped the Immortal Venerable every full moon, as if purifying his own Malice?
Fifth, what was the object held by Emperor Wu, and why could it purify Malice?
Lin Xun pondered for a long while and had a bold guess in his heart.
[You put away the ’Daily Notes’, ignored the Consort’s earnest entreaties, pushed open the doors of the grand hall, and left...] 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚
[The Crown Prince of Vermilion had waited outside for a long time, and his expression was complex when he saw how the Consort treated you and recalled the blissful voices he had just heard outside.]
[After much deliberation, the Crown Prince of Vermilion cautiously asked, Great Buddha, what Great Divine Power did you use just now to make the Consort so... so docile?]
[Can your disciple learn this Great Divine Power?]
[You looked up at the moon, which was at its zenith but not yet full, one day shy of the fifteenth.]
[You disregarded the Crown Prince, hurrying towards the ’Qin’an Hall’ in the Imperial Garden...]
Lin Xun still had a ’Brahman Form Divine Treasure Mysterious True Invocation Spell’ in his pocket, which was an Eternal+ level item for summoning the disciple of the Daoist Ancestor, the ’Purple Void Sovereign Lord of Brahma Energy’.
Now that there was a statue of this Immortal Venerable in the Qin’an Hall, although it wasn’t yet the night of the fifteenth, it wouldn’t hurt to go and see what Great Divine Powers this enigmatic ally possessed.
