Heaven and Earth Shift in Myriad Ways, Eighty-One Forms, Silver Body Banquet, High-Spirited!

The Old Garment of Heaven and Earth was a Six-Heart Heavenly Craft contrivance, intricate and profound, containing many rare materials such as coppermother ore, cottonsilver, glazed sand...

Li Xian deftly worked the mechanisms. The lotus meditation cushion shot out silver threads, winding around hands and feet, fixing a person within the cushion as poisonous mist spread, leaving them unconscious and numb.

When the cushion had just closed into a flower bud, Li Xian used his double pupils to see through it. He saw the lotus petals turn into blades, frantically grinding against whatever lay inside. Yet though the petals were sharp, they carried no killing intent. They could slice iron and sever stone, but could not harm skin or flesh, cut hair, or injure the body. Their purpose was to pass close against the skin and shred filthy garments and vulgar things.

Li Xian thought, This move is called "Casting Off Filth, Returning to Truth." Senior Yi Jiufan truly has great talent. If he is vulgar and lewd, then his naming is remarkably elegant. But if he is elegant, then his lascivious thoughts shake antiquity and blaze through the ages. He took a piece of fruit and tossed it into the cushion. The cushion closed, becoming a sealed flower bud. The lotus petals transformed into blades and spun within the bud, slicing and stripping. When the lotus bloomed again, the fruit's skin had been peeled away, revealing its tender flesh.

Delighted, Li Xian picked up the fruit flesh and swallowed it in one bite. The juice was lightly sweet. He thought, *If the Princess were to sit on this, then the lotus closed and bloomed again... that vile Princess's expression would surely be quite amusing. But... though I have obtained this garment treasure, I cannot grow complacent. That woman is