Just as the Yuzhou Guards and Suizhou Guards in Qingyun City and the other three Qingning Guards outside the city were preparing to move in full swing, Lu Chen was sleeping on the bed in the Lu Mansion in the east city of Luojing City.
He always went to work on time, but today he took a rare day off.
The empress also took a day off because of her breakthrough in enlightenment yesterday.
As a result, the ruling and opposition parties finally experienced a brief period of calm.
It wasn't until three o'clock in the morning that Lu Chen slowly opened his eyes.
"Aha……"
He straightened up, took a long stretch, then took care of himself and left the bedroom.
"Cousin, you're awake."
As soon as he opened the door, Luo Xiaoyu's soft call came from not far away, and then he heard a burst of light footsteps, and Luo Xiaoyu's delicate figure appeared in front of him.
"Um."
Lu Chen nodded slightly and then asked:
"Has anyone handed me a greeting card recently?"
Luo Xiaoyu thought for a moment, and then replied: "Aside from the ones you asked me to ignore, cousin, there is a letter of greeting from the General's Palace."
"When did this happen?"
"yesterday."
"oh."
Lu Chen responded casually.
"Please reply to the post from the General's Mansion."
Hearing this, Luo Xiaoyu nodded subconsciously.
Later, just when Lu Chen was about to go to the bamboo forest for morning exercise, Luo Xiaoyu suddenly asked softly:
"Cousin, I heard that the general is a very beautiful woman. Cousin, you have never been moved by power. You even ignored the invitations from the chief minister of the dynasty, but you only accepted the invitation from the general's palace. Greetings, isn’t it..."
"Don't think too much."
Lu Chen shook his head.
"Miss Gu once saved my life and Xiao Yi's, she was our savior, and since Saint King Cangming returned to the Holy Realm, the Tiance Mansion and the Forbidden Army are the forces that His Majesty relies on the most. With Miss Gu and Liangyu here, Your Majesty can govern with peace of mind. They are so important to the country, so I naturally want to spend more time with them. If there are any important tasks in the future, with their support, many things can be done with less effort."
Hearing this, the corners of Luo Xiaoyu's mouth raised slightly.
But the next second, she seemed to suddenly notice something, and the arc she had just raised instantly calmed down.
"Liangyu?"
"That's Commander Fu."
Lu Chen yawned, with a hint of laziness in his voice.
"Okay, no matter what happens to this kind of thing, I will go to the bamboo forest to practice for a while. If I don't practice, the purple energy will be gone."
With that said, without waiting for Luo Xiaoyu's response, he raised his feet and walked past.
Halfway through, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and without looking back, he said to Luo Xiaoyu, who was watching his back silently:
"By the way, Xiao Yu, after the practice is over, I will go to the meditation room to meditate. I will close the door today to thank guests. Please help me decline all the guests who come to visit. Unless there is something urgent, don't let them disturb me. Even Xiao Yi is the same."
Hearing this, Luo Xiaoyu immediately responded obediently.
"Okay, cousin."
After receiving the response, Lu Chen left the courtyard without speaking again.
Luo Xiaoyu just watched his figure drifting away, until he completely disappeared, she breathed a sigh of relief, then turned and left.
A breeze blew past, taking away the last trace of jasmine fragrance in front of the door.
At noon, Lu Chen, who had practiced for a while, stood up and felt the changes in his body.
Well, as expected, I barely felt any changes.
"Sure enough, simple practice has no effect."
The moment he opened his eyes, Lu Chen sighed slightly.
"It seems that my guess is correct. My predecessor practiced the Tao of helping the world. Only by making progress in the Tao, or even enlightening the Tao, can it be possible to break through in cultivation, just like in Yuzhou..."
With the system in hand, as long as the system conditions are met, his strength will naturally become stronger. Regardless of the highest reward of becoming an immortal, he can get a lot of rewards whether he stays put or is demoted.
Improving your cultivation level is basically a guaranteed reward.
Most of his current strength was obtained from the rewards of two missions, and the remaining half was a natural breakthrough from the insights he gained in Yuzhou.
Therefore, in addition to the system, if he wants to improve his strength, he must work more on how to save the world.
Of course, the most direct solution is to be dismissed from office or die in the line of duty, but this idea that originally occupied his entire consciousness has faded a bit at this time.
The reason for this is not only because he feels more and more that the more forced some things are, the more counterproductive it is. If you just follow the circumstances, you may have unexpected joys, but also because he has personally experienced this life from Chai Hongyu's perspective. How cruel is the ancient society of high martial arts like grass and grass.
When I think of the piece of meat that was to be eaten and traded as Yi Zi, and the endless despair that filled my heart when facing the overwhelming yellow sand of the Yellow Disaster, and being saved by that kind-hearted official and the common people. At that moment, Lu Chen couldn't help but tremble with joy and gratitude for the rest of his life.
Shaking his head, he suppressed these thoughts for the time being, and then walked towards the meditation room.
The moment the door of the Zen room is closed, the soundproofing technique inside is instantly activated.
At this moment, no sound could be heard in this space except Lu Chen's breathing and heartbeat.
Even time seemed to have completely stopped.
In this extremely quiet space, Lu Chen's face was inexplicably agitated.
All kinds of chaotic thoughts that he had suppressed forcibly during this period suddenly flashed through his mind after he was completely let go.
After a while, his expression gradually returned to calm.
The fists that were originally tightly clenched gradually loosened.
After realizing the existence of the system, his mind, which was just an ordinary person before the time travel, was almost completely occupied by the idea of committing suicide and ascending to the sky. This is why he made a series of cunning operations, and inexplicably became the most loyal minister in the dynasty. He was in a high position and was regarded by the empress as a good minister of the country.
This has almost become his only obsession.
Under the influence of this extremely strong obsession, although it is not blinding, and it still retains the most basic conscience of a modern person, and will not resort to any means to ascend, but it also subconsciously ignores many things.
And now, after integrating Chai Hongyu's life, he has seen with his own eyes the misery of the people at the bottom of the world, the vibrant smiles on the faces of the people of Yuzhou after his efforts, and the piece of money that came from nowhere. An immortal tablet carved from found wood.
However, his obsession has dissipated a lot, and it also made him notice some precious things that he had not noticed before and that were worthy of his attention.
For example, responsibility.
Of course, the goal will not change, but the way to achieve it will not.
Somehow, he seemed to feel why this strange system was called "The Way of Being an Official".
It seems that it’s not that weird…
The shock and impact Chai Hongyu gave him was far greater than he imagined.
Even in the extremely quiet meditation room, he could not calm down completely.
The art of silence flows slowly, and time passes quietly.
Lu Chen just sat cross-legged on the Zen seat quietly, motionless.
I do not know how long it has been--
Click!
Accompanied by a sudden crisp sound, his shoulders suddenly trembled.
Immediately afterwards, the spiritual power in his body suddenly became restless, constantly impacting the spiritual veins in his body, expanding the spiritual wall that had only expanded a lot not long ago. At the same time, under the constant impact, the originally rather scattered wall was expanded. The spiritual power gradually began to solidify.
(End of chapter)
