Chapter 106 Beauty Initiation
In the Tangquan Palace, the moonlight is bright tonight. On the scattered bronze lampposts, the dim yellow firelight shines on the dense water vapor, like a dream.
Zhao Duan suspected that he was dazzled.
In the past, Empress Yu, who was majestic and graceful with the appearance of an emperor, seemed to have lost her aura of "emperor" tonight, and she looked like a fairy with ice-skinned skin.
Because he was hiding in the pool, what he saw right in front of him was a pair of snow-white, crystal-clear feet without socks.
As smooth as jade, as soft as satin, and also like two pure white lotuses blooming slowly on the surface of Tianchi.
A few blue veins are faintly reflected on the instep, and the icy muscles set off are so transparent that they are regarded as divine.
Looking up, a slender leg at the ankle is hidden in the clouds. Xu Zhenguan emerges from the dust, just like a fairy emerging from the bath and walking in the wind.
On the stunning face with no flaws, the painted eyes looked down at him without any smoke, and there was a faint hint of red between the eyebrows.
He is becoming less and less like an earthly emperor, and more like a real person outside the world.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."
Zhao Duan was stunned for a few breaths, then raised his head to show respect.
He wanted to stand up and hold his hands, but he immediately realized something was wrong and shrank back:
"I am physically inconvenient and it is difficult to perform the full ceremony..."
"It's okay." Xu Zhenguan's voice was as cold as the tinkling sound of spring water.
For some reason, her demeanor and behavior tonight were different from before.
There are many expressions missing from his face, just like the goddess statue in the temple. It seems that he is deliberately maintaining his aloofness as a "big monk" to maintain a certain sense of distance.
But when she landed on the ground, her slightly curled toes seemed to reveal that the empress's heart was far less cold and calm than her appearance.
"Hai Zongzong must have told you."
Xu Zhenguan said:
"Tonight, I will personally initiate you, cleanse your marrow with the Book of Changes, and rebuild the foundation of martial arts."
Zhao Duan bowed slightly, spread his hands horizontally, and said in a strange posture: "Your Majesty's kindness of rebuilding, I can't repay you."
He smiled bitterly:
"Actually, I'm a little worried and flattered. With my small contribution, I really don't deserve such a big reward."
As a police officer, it is within the scope of one's authority to arrest those who rebel against the party. Even if they put in more effort, it is enough to just write it down in the evaluation book and reward them with some silver coins.
What he had hoped for before was just to be able to re-enter the royal arsenal and select some good magic weapons or elixirs to assist his practice.
——After all, the pills I got last time have long been used up.
But he never expected that the empress would be so generous.
That’s all the medicinal materials just now.
It is precious to ordinary people, but it is nothing to the heritage of the six-hundred-year-old dynasty.
But the Empress personally initiated him. No one else in the world has such an honor.
What's more, it also involves the defense of men and women...
Of course, Zhao Duan also understood that it was his consecutive stunning performances that gave the empress the idea of "increasing investment."
It was also a good time for him to catch up.
The empress ascended the throne not long ago, and there are still few direct talents under her command.
It's understandable that someone like him who is both loyal and capable can be "cultivated" beyond expectations.
"Since you know that you will do more for me in the future, I will not waste my efforts." Xu Zhenguan said calmly.
Zhao Duan was not hypocritical and polite, and said seriously: "I will do my best."
Xu Zhenguan nodded lightly, quite satisfied with his statement.
Well...if we ignore the embarrassing situation between the monarch and his ministers, as well as the pile of clothes at her feet.
"Then... what should we do next? That initiation?"
Zhao Duan also felt extremely embarrassed and tried to dilute the strange atmosphere with business.
Xu Zhenguan said lightly:
"There is a stone beside the pool. Sit down with your back facing each other and expose your upper body to the water. I will give you acupuncture first."
Only then did Zhao Duan notice that the empress was holding a small cloth bag under her sleeve.
"According to the order."
Zhao Duan didn't show any pretense and immediately groped to the hot spring pool.
Sure enough, we found that there were raised stone steps in the water where we could sit.
He turned around and pulled his upper body out of the water little by little.
"Wow--"
In the quiet Tangquan Palace, there is the sound of water waves.
As Zhao Duan broke through the water, what was revealed was a tall, muscular and masculine body.
The muscles are full and smooth, the shoulders are wide and the waist is thin. The two arms stretched out on the bank of the pool are well-proportioned and slender, with no trace of fat.
It’s not dead muscle that you can develop in the gym, but the typical skinny look when dressed, and the fleshy look when undressed.
At this moment, water drops were sliding down the lines of Zhao Duan's back. He looked like a real person, a cold and aloof fairy, his breathing was slightly irregular, and he was a little distracted.
"His Majesty?"
Zhao Duan sat down obediently and waited for a while. Seeing that there was no movement behind him, he couldn't help calling softly.
Only then did Xu Zhenguan come to his senses and said calmly: "Don't move."
I didn't move... Zhao Du'an said hard.
Because his back was turned, he couldn't sense any movement behind him, and his eyes could only look at the water in front of him.
Well, fortunately it was night, and with a bunch of medicinal materials soaked in it, the entire spring pool was in chaos, and the water quality was not clear.
This greatly reduced his shame.
Behind her, the empress assessed the height, and simply sat cross-legged on the shore. She shook the cloth bag and revealed dense silver needles inside.
She picked up one with her slender jade hands and rubbed it, and the qi flowed into the silver needle from her fingertips. Immediately, feeling a little unfamiliar, he stabbed it awkwardly on a certain acupuncture point on the man's back.
The silver needle was extremely thin, and Zhao Duan only felt a slight pain, but more of a soreness, numbness and itching.
"Your Majesty, may I ask what initiation refers to? I have heard that initiation is mostly a method of martial arts passed down by martial artists." He did not forget to study.
Xu Zhenguan picked up the second silver needle, inserted it into another acupuncture point, and said: "Don't listen to these Jianghu stories. Although it is not completely impossible for a martial artist to teach martial arts, it is extremely demanding and requires more than two All those who practice the same martial arts must have a good foundation in martial arts, highly consistent meridians and acupuncture points, and a series of stringent conditions to achieve this.
But even if you meet the conditions, if you pass on your skills to outsiders, you will have to lose 77% to 88%. What you can get in the end is only 20% to 30%. The person who transfers the skills will have to lose a lot of life, so it rarely happens. "
Look, it seems that the route of finding someone to teach me my skills and making me achieve great success overnight is unworkable... Zhao Duan thought.
Xu Zhenguan continued:
"Therefore, what is often called empowerment, the great monk Tainai uses his own power to help others open up their meridians, sort out their qi, heal their wounds and strengthen their roots. At most, it can help others overcome obstacles, but this is not a good thing.
The realm of promotion with the help of others is extremely illusory. There are some family members in the world who have martial arts realm in vain, but in fact they rely on their elders for promotion and cannot learn from them. "
While he was talking, he didn't stop pricking the needle.
Zhao Duan was stunned, thought for a while, and changed the topic:
"When I saw Your Majesty walking out of the clear pool, did you also finish your bath? Ah——"
He suddenly grinned and cried out in pain.
The empress' hand that was inserting the needle shook a moment, and a stream of energy was not stabilized and hit his meridians directly.
Suddenly there was a blood-red pinprick on his back.
"..." Xu Zhenguan took a deep breath, pretended to be calm, pulled out the silver needle, pressed the wound with the cotton wool included in the bag, and frowned:
"Just endure the pain and don't scream."
No... this really hurts... Zhao Duan's cheeks twitched and he said:
"Your Majesty is he worried that the sound will spread out and be heard by people outside?"
Outside Tangquan Palace, a large number of palace people were guarding to prevent blind people from breaking in and destroying the initiation.
On Empress Dayu's plain face, her eyelashes as thick as a brush trembled, and she said calmly:
"Why should I worry?"
Zhao Duan said: "If word spreads, it will affect your Majesty's reputation."
Xu Zhenguan's mouth was slightly sarcastic, he threw away the cotton wool and applied the acupuncture again: "Reputation? Do you ever care about my reputation when you use my reputation to travel outside, covertly or covertly, and promote your identity?"
Xu Shiyin's back was turned and her face could not be seen. The "real person" posture she maintained was a bit broken, and her expression and tone were much more lively.
This sentence was said with a bit of gritted teeth.
Zhao Duan was exposed and felt embarrassed and said:
"I am doing this for His Majesty's sake, so... ah!"
His cheek twitched, and it hurt again!
On purpose!
She definitely did it on purpose this time!
Xu Zhenguan snorted coldly, squinted his eyes and said:
“Stop talking nonsense and concentrate on sensing the meridians.”
Zhao Duan did not dare to say anything, closed his mouth, and allowed the empress to pierce all the silver needles all over his back, neck, and top of his head.
Like a pitiful hedgehog.
After seeing her "masterpiece", the corners of the empress' lips could not help but slightly curl up, as if she was quite amused.
It feels like I have completed a big project and I feel full of accomplishment.
"Your Majesty, how long will this injection take?" Zhao Duan did not dare to move.
The empress made a serious face:
"For a quarter of an hour, during this period, you should meditate and regulate your breathing, slowly transporting Qi and blood, so that the whole body can open up and absorb the medicinal power."
"Oh..." Zhao Duan responded, vomiting for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes again, and asked a little uneasily: "Your Majesty, I suddenly remembered something."
"explain."
"That's it..." Zhao Duan looked a little weird: "Last time, I was walking with you in the imperial garden. His Majesty once said that with your cultivation, your spiritual consciousness can cover the entire palace, and there is no need to See with your eyes, you don’t need to hear with your ears, no slightest movement can escape your perception.”
"Well, what's wrong?"
Zhao Duan hesitated and said: "Then now, too?"
"..."
Empress Dayu was silent.
Under the night wind, a slight blush of embarrassment appeared on her cheeks, and then spread, uncontrollably.
The atmosphere between the two of them became strange.
Suddenly, Xu Zhenguan used two fingers to pick up a silver needle again, threw it away, and pierced Zhao Duan's waist at the water surface with a "pop".
Zhao Duan screamed in response.
Not far away, by the courtyard, a tulip flower standing upright against the wind was suddenly blown down by the wind.
"Your Majesty, it doesn't have to be like this."
"Shut up! Prepare for initiation and the I Ching to cleanse the marrow."
The empress flicked her sleeves, and the silver needles on his back and top of his head pulled out on their own, leaving only one on his waist untouched.
Then, Xu Zhenguan’s eyes were clear, neither happy nor sad:
"I will give you the initiation later. You must visualize the Martial God Picture and enter into practice."
"Okay." The sluggish Zhao Duan's eyes became serious.
Silently in your mind, visualize the "Picture of the God of War" and gradually enter a meditative state.
After confirming that he had fallen into meditation, Xu Zhenguan bit his lip.
A pair of beautiful hands slowly pressed towards his thick back.
The wind blew up, and in the Tangquan Palace, the thirty-six spring pools were boiling, and the coercion of the realm of heaven and man filled the air.
Thanks to Li Shipu for the reward of 200 points~
(End of this chapter)