Jun Changxiao wandered around Hengyuan Realm for half a month, gaining a general understanding of the local customs and culture here, and was also astonished by their harmony and joy.
Too peaceful, too harmonious.
This really violated the upper universe’s theme of martial supremacy.
“Something’s wrong!”
Jun Changxiao stroked his chin and said: “There must be something fishy, there must be a problem!”
“Tch.” The system said disdainfully: “You just can’t stand seeing a utopia exist in a cruel world.”
Jun Changxiao said: “Perhaps behind this peace, there’s hidden filth unknown to others.”
Whether utopias existed in this world, he couldn’t give a definite answer, but in a plane based on martial cultivation, being able to achieve mutual assistance and peace without worry was truly inconceivable.
Take the Eternal Realm for example.
Jun Changxiao had always advocated fairness and justice, but inevitably martial artists would develop grudges and even kill each other.
People and living beings all had seven emotions and six desires. Even if laws were established to restrict them, many unpredictable and uncontrollable things would still occur.
Dog Leftover wouldn’t explicitly prohibit martial artists from killing each other. As long as they didn’t do utterly unconscionable things, they could freely resolve personal grudges with each other.
What about Hengyuan Realm?
People yielded to each other, courteous and polite.
No so-called scheming against each other, no so-called deception and intrigue—it was simply like an ideal harmonious world fabricated in fairy tales.
Moreover, this was still a plane secretly controlled by the Heavenly Demon Emperor. This person, in order to change the universe’s structure and suppress all forces resisting him, how could he allow such a beautiful world to exist?
“Let’s go.”
Jun Changxiao said: “Go see the boundary city.”
He had doubts in his heart and had to investigate clearly.
…
Hengyuan Realm’s main city, Hengyuan City.
Just from the name you could tell—the meaning was to exist eternally, with a long and continuous history.
Relying on his invisibility ability, Jun Changxiao smoothly walked in.
It wasn’t necessary, because even though this was the boundary city, even though there were soldiers guarding, they wouldn’t inspect people coming and going.
“…”
Jun Changxiao shook his head and said: “Not even a bit of defense. If a great army suddenly came to attack, couldn’t they take it down in minutes?”
“Boom!”
Suddenly, a collision sound came from within the city.
Jun Changxiao turned his head to look, and saw blurred ripples appearing at the city wall, with a martial artist’s face pressed against it.
So there was a city-protecting grand array.
That guy was strange too—why didn’t he walk through the city gate and instead tried to crash through the wall?
“Whoosh!”
“Whoosh!”
Just at this moment, several fully armed soldiers flew over. One grabbed each arm and carried that martial artist into the city.
With such a big commotion, residents should have gathered to watch, but no one turned their heads, as if unaware, or as if accustomed to it.
“I’m not crazy!”
“I don’t want to take medicine!”
The martial artist being dragged away roared, his eyes flashing with terror.
“…”
Jun Changxiao muttered to himself: “Mental patient?”
Out of curiosity, he followed along, soon arriving in front of a building called the ‘Sanatorium.’
“No!”
“I won’t take medicine!”
That wall-crashing martial artist was being dragged, still shouting loudly. From his voice one could hear he was becoming increasingly broken down, increasingly desperate.
“Whoosh—”
Suddenly, several streams of light flew out from within the sanatorium.
They fled toward outside the city, but without exception crashed into the city-protecting array, without exception were carried back by soldiers, without exception shouting that they weren’t crazy and didn’t want to take medicine.
“…”
Jun Changxiao said: “There are quite a lot of mental patients here.”
Let’s go.
Go take a look inside.
“Bang!”
Just as Jun Changxiao was about to enter through the main gate, his forehead seemed to crash into an iron plate, and he was immediately bounced back, grimacing: “How does the sanatorium also have array protection?”
“Obviously.”
The system said: “They’re afraid patients will escape.”
“Then how did they get out?” Jun Changxiao pointed at the several patients being pressed back.
From the earlier situation, these people clearly weren’t blocked by the array and smoothly flew out from inside.
“This…”
The system was speechless.
Jun Changxiao rubbed his forehead and said: “In my view, you can’t enter here freely, but you can leave freely.”
“The more it’s like this, the more fishy it is!”
Dog Leftover became interested. He immediately sat down cross-legged, using his spiritual sense to touch the array existing in the invisible, soon establishing contact and successfully merging into it.
Since ascending to the upper realm, his research on arrays was almost zero, so when his soul body merged in and saw the intricate array lines, he immediately felt his head grow big.
“This array’s level is not low. How will the host break it?” the system mocked.
“Simple.”
Jun Changxiao closed his eyes and began recording the dense patterns, then… transmitted them to the Eternal Sect’s Array Hall.
“Swish! Swish!”
Led by Elder Taixuan and Shangguan Xinyao, array elites gathered together, their eyes always locked on the light screen where the sect master continuously replicated array patterns and basic structures.
With Jun Changxiao’s current array proficiency, it was difficult to break high-level arrays, but he could record them, transmit them to the sect, and hand them over to a group of tool people to crack!
Dog Leftover seemed to be alone in Hengyuan Realm, but behind him was actually an entire Eternal Sect.
Everyone inside was a genius, and they spoke so nicely!
“Damn!”
The system said: “What’s the difference between this and cheating?”
“Mind your own business?”
Jun Changxiao rolled his eyes, then continued transmitting patterns to the sect.
The Array Hall members were also very capable. Before the sect master had even finished replicating the entire array structure, they had already researched several cracking methods.
“Choose a secretive method that doesn’t damage the array.”
“The second method works.”
“Good.”
Jun Changxiao followed the cracking method given by Elder Taixuan and easily broke through, not even causing the slightest ripple.
Without obstacles, he easily entered the sanatorium.
When Jun Changxiao came to the outer hall resembling a martial arts training ground and saw several thousand martial artists bound to wooden pillars, being forcibly fed medicine by medical personnel wearing special uniforms, the expression on his face immediately froze.
So many mental patients?
“Puff!”
At this time, that martial artist who had crashed face-first into the wall was bound to a wooden stake. White foam sprayed from his mouth, his body convulsing violently, as if being electrocuted.
Jun Changxiao frowned and said: “Did he drink poison?”
He strode over, grasping the other’s wrist with one hand, then transmitted the pulse beat and meridian operation to the light screen in the Poison Refining Hall.
“That’s right.”
Miao Saifeng said: “It’s poison.”
“Now this makes sense.” Jun Changxiao felt relieved and said: “How could there really be a utopia? A seemingly peaceful world must have unspeakable dirty deeds in the shadows.”
Miao Saifeng continued observing the pulse and meridian beat frequency appearing on the light screen, saying: “This kind of poison won’t cause death, but will control the soul and thinking.”
In ancient times there was pulse diagnosis through suspended silk.
Today there is diagnosis through viewing light screens.
Worthy of being an expert in poisons—truly professional.
“Control soul and thinking?” Jun Changxiao was astonished and said: “Could it be…”
“Untie him.”
At this time, several soldiers came over, untying that convulsing martial artist. He slowly stood up, placing one hand on his chest like a devout believer, saying: “I am willing to become a member of Hengyuan Realm, willing to follow the Realm Lord forever.”
“…”
Jun Changxiao said: “Sure enough, brainwashed!”
Because of his invisibility, he stood nearby the whole time without being discovered, watching those martial artists who had been fed medicine one by one turn into believers, swearing to follow the Realm Lord forever.
“Heh.”
Jun Changxiao sat on a nearby stool, crossing his arms and raising one leg, sneering: “By controlling martial artists’ souls, by brainwashing to control thinking—this is the ideal harmonious world in fairy tales?”