Health & Massage Parlor

Alchemy Commission.

While the primary function of this department is to handle logistical and medical matters within the Xianzhou Luofu, it actually oversees numerous healthcare and wellness facilities within the Luofu.

Bai Heng was most familiar with the Health & Massage Parlor.

From Bai Heng's perspective, it was essentially a massage parlor.

Many alchemists at the Alchemy Commission were well-versed in the distribution of human acupoints, making them incredibly skilled at providing massage services.

Many Cloud Knights soldiers who had suffered injuries and broken bones during a year on the front lines would come here to have their limbs massaged and their muscles relaxed when they returned home for the New Year.

Bai Heng was no exception. Whenever he was beaten black and blue by his master Jingliu, he would not only go to the Alchemy Commission for medication but also seek out a professional masseuse at the Health & Massage Parlor for a massage.

Now, after a long and tiring journey, the first place he thought of to relax was here.

At dawn, Bai Heng lay on a massage bed in the Alchemy Commission, with two booklets he had bought along the way in his hand.

One was called Xianzhou Gazetteer, and the other was called Gleanings from the Xianzhou Chronicles.

He bought these two books because he was very interested in the changes that the Luofu had undergone after the Shuhuo Calamity.

As he flipped through the two booklets, the Alchemy Commission's masseuse was attentively massaging his legs.

"Would you like me to massage the upper area?"

"...Yes."

"Sir, how does this pressure feel?"

"It's... acceptable."

"Sir, I'm Wang Gang, technician number thirty-four at the Alchemy Commission. Don't forget to give me a five-star review."

"Okay..."

Bai Heng was speechless, not daring to say a word.

Speaking of which, he remembered that when he came here seven hundred years ago, it was all young, beautiful, and gentle big sisters.

How did it turn into a burly, muscular, hulking uncle now?!

Fine, he might as well read.

In the small room lit by a bright orange paper lamp, a burly man vigorously massaged Bai Heng's legs, with such force that the subtle crackling of muscles could be heard.

But perhaps due to the modification of his physique by the simulation system, Bai Heng actually found the pressure just right.

An hour later, Bai Heng successfully finished reading the two booklets, which didn't contain much information.

He also gained some understanding of the current situation on the Xianzhou.

The booklets did not record in great detail, but only roughly recorded that seven hundred years ago, the Xianzhou Luofu encountered the Shuhuo Calamity, and the Luofu and the Abundance's abominations broke out in an unprecedented and fierce war.

In that war, the Xianzhou's soldiers and civilians swore to shield the Xianzhou like clouds obscuring the sky, never to fall, and ultimately won with a painful price. Tengxiao, the Luofu's general at the time, died in that war, and the High-Cloud Quintet, passed down by word of mouth among the Luofu's people, fell apart after this.

The short-lived youth Bai Heng, who made a deal with the Suiyang "Di Kui" and became a Calamity of the Finality's envoy, also fell in this battle, but the author did not record the reason for his fall.

The author only outlined the aftermath of this war in a few strokes at the end of the article.

Jingliu, the former Sword Master of the Luofu and one of the High-Cloud Quintet, was suspected of teetering on the edge of being Mara-Struck after the war and was taken into custody by the Ten-Lords Commission.

The Vidhydara High Elder Dan Feng, the short-lived craftsman Yingxing, and the Foxian pilot Bai Heng used the flesh of the Calamity-Bringer Shuhu. The Imbibitor Lunae presumptuously used the dragon transformation technique, attempting to reverse fate, causing the Imbibitor Lunae Rebellion to break out.

In the end, Jingliu killed the evil dragon in the Scalegorge Waterscape and completely fell into being Mara-Struck a year later.

Dan Feng was sentenced to have his scales removed and be reincarnated.

Yingxing and Bai Heng were affected by the remnants of the Abundance in the Imbibitor Lunae Rebellion. One disappeared, and the other has voluntarily been frozen in the Ten-Lords Commission's Prison of Confinement for seven hundred years.

Of the High-Cloud Quintet, only Jing Yuan was left to shoulder the burden alone, becoming the current general of the Luofu.

In addition, after this period of history, the people of the Xianzhou also changed the name of the Calamity of the Finality to Monarch of the Finality to mourn the young hero who completed the deal with the Suiyang "Di Kui."

"Sir, would you like to add another hour?" The vigorous voice of the Alchemy Commission's technician Wang Gang rang in Bai Heng's ears.

"No need."

Bai Heng closed the booklet, put on his coat, and prepared to leave.

However, before leaving, he asked technician Wang Gang a question:

"By the way, brother, do you have any impression of the Shuhuo Calamity that broke out on the Luofu 700 years ago?"

"Shuhuo Calamity?" The other party frowned, looking thoughtful: "I have heard stories related to this period of history... but I'm only 400 years old this year, still young. I wasn't even born when the Shuhuo Calamity broke out. I only heard my father mention it."

"Then do you have any impression of the short-lived youth Bai Heng who made a deal with the Suiyang 'Di Kui'?" Bai Heng asked.

Upon hearing this name, Wang Gang seemed to perk up, with an excited expression that said, "I know this well." He leaned closer to Bai Heng and said:

"Sir, judging by your attire, you must be an outsider from beyond the Xianzhou."

"...Yes." Bai Heng looked at the other party's excited appearance.

He thought to himself, "Am I... am I that famous?"

But what he said next poured a bucket of cold water on Bai Heng.

Because the way he was famous was really rather strange.

A technician named Wang Gang said in a gossipy tone:

"On the Luofu, the story of the former Sword Master Jingliu and that short-lived youth is known to every household..."

He started from Bai Heng becoming Jingliu's adopted child, and continued until Bai Heng died under Jingliu's sword during the Shuhuo Rebellion.

Episodes not found in books have now been preserved through word-of-mouth among the people of the Xianzhou Luofu.

It has also undergone multiple artistic embellishments in the process, truly becoming a tortuous romance.

In short, these two historical figures have become a CP that everyone on the Luofu is shipping.

There are even plays being adapted and performed based on this on the Luofu today.

It just so happened that a play would be staged at a theater on Xuan Ye Avenue tonight, and this Brother Wang Gang had an extra ticket, so he gave the ticket to Bai Heng as a way to make friends.

After Bai Heng walked out of the Health & Massage Parlor, he looked at the ticket in his hand, which was engraved with the Yaksha Emblem, sighed, and said:

"Oh well, I'll just treat it as a publicly funded trip to the Xianzhou Luofu."

Divination Commission, Great Calculation Array.

Fu Xuan, with bright eyes and white teeth, like a delicate porcelain doll, opened her amber eyes, and the jewel-like pupil between her eyebrows lit up.

The Great Calculation Array, composed of countless jade divination crystals, was operating in front of Fu Xuan:

"The stars shift, flowers fall, everything is predetermined. Former Sword Master, this is the seventh time you've come here this month, isn't it?"

Fu Xuan glanced at the woman whose figure was hidden in the shadows, her eyes covered by black gauze, her skin as white as snow, as pure and aloof as the moon, like a banished immortal.

A calm yet fragmented voice sounded in Fu Xuan's ears:

"You don't need to ask too much, just tell me the result."

Fu Xuan withdrew her gaze, and the third eye between her eyebrows peered through the Great Calculation Array:

"Sword Master, the dead are... wait..."

Jingliu released her arms, raised her slender legs, and stepped out of the shadows, saying:

"How is it?"

Fu Xuan lightly stroked her fingers, took a deep breath, and said:

"This person is within the Luofu."