Statue Grotto-Heaven, beneath the gate tower.
Chen Mu lay in a rocking chair, staring gloomily at the pretty girls on the water screen before him.
"Having cultivation that's too high isn't good either..."
Yesterday, he had eagerly gone to Yicui Tower in Luandu County. But once he got close, the exceptionally beautiful girls on the water screen suddenly lost all appeal.
The transformation brought by the ninth-layer Divine Aperture Spell Talisman surpassed that of the previous eight layers combined. Not only had his Jade Seed expanded several times over, but his body had also been remolded inside and out.
His sharp vision let him clearly see the thick powder on the girls' faces, while his sensitive sense of smell let him distinguish their body odors beneath the fragrance sachets.
In those pleasure houses, where people toasted one another and shouted drunkenly, all kinds of scents mingled together. It really was not a pleasant experience.
"Sure enough, beauty comes from haziness at a distance. Once you get too close... tsk!"
"Perfecting the Divine Aperture isn't entirely a good thing either."
Three days later.
By a second-floor window in Hundred Years Tea House, Luandu County, Chen Mu tossed a fried peanut into his mouth and crunched it to pieces.
Savoring the rich oily fragrance slowly spreading through his mouth, he raised his brows in satisfaction.
His ears twitched. The miscellaneous noise from the first-floor hall was filtered away, leaving only the storyteller's rising and falling voice.
"Great General Jin Wuxia took one step into Two Lords Temple, only for darkness to fall before his eyes. When he came back to himself, the towering ancient temple had become nothing but crumbling ruins, as though hundreds or thousands of years had passed in an instant."
"General Jin's heart immediately skipped a beat..."
Smack!