Chapter 25: The Therapeutic Massage Parlor

Chapter 25: The Therapeutic Massage Parlor

Dan Ding Division.

Although the main function of this department is to handle logistics and medical affairs within the Xianzhou "Luofu," it actually oversees many healthcare and wellness institutions within the "Luofu" territory. Among them, the one White Heng was most familiar with was the Therapeutic Massage Parlor. From White Heng's perspective, it was essentially a massage parlor.

Many of the Dan Ding Division's practitioners are well-versed in the distribution of acupoints in the human body, making their massage services exceptionally skilled. Numerous frontline Cloud Riders who suffer from injuries throughout the year come here at the end of each year to have their limbs relaxed and their muscles soothed.

White Heng was no exception. Whenever he was beaten up by his master Kyokuryu, he not only needed to go to Dan Ding Division for treatment but also to the Therapeutic Massage Parlor for professional massage.

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

At the hour of the rabbit.

White Heng lay on the massage table within the Dan Ding Division, holding two booklets he had bought on the way. One was titled *The Chronicles of Xianzhou's Scenery*, and the other was *Supplementary Records of Xianzhou's History*. He bought these two books because he was very interested in how Luofu had changed after the sudden chaos.

As he flipped through the booklets, the technician at the Dan Ding Division was attentively massaging his legs.

"Would you like to have the upper part massaged too?"

"... Mm."

"Sir, how does this pressure feel to you?"

"It's... it's okay."

"Sir, I am Wang Gang, the thirty-fourth technician of the Dan Ding Division. Don't forget to give me a five-star rating, okay?"

"Sure..."

White Heng sighed inwardly, not daring to speak up. He remembered that when he came here seven hundred years ago, the staff were always young and beautiful women with gentle techniques. How had it turned into a burly, muscular man now?

Well, better to just read the books.

In the dimly lit room with orange paper lanterns, the burly man vigorously massaged White Heng's legs, the pressure so intense that the subtle crackling of muscles could be heard. Yet, perhaps due to the simulation system's modifications to his physique, White Heng actually found the pressure to be just right.

An hour later, White Heng had successfully finished reading both booklets, gaining some understanding of the current situation in Xianzhou. The booklets weren't very detailed, merely recording that seven hundred years ago, during the sudden chaos, Luofu and the Bountiful Goods had engaged in an unprecedented and tragic war. In that war, the Xianzhou military and civilians vowed to protect the Xianzhou, ensuring it would never fall, ultimately achieving victory at a great cost. General Teng Xiao, who was then commanding Luofu, was killed in the battle. The legendary Cloud Riders, known as the Five Heroes of the Clouds, disbanded after the war.

The young short-lived Bai Heng, who had made a pact with the Sunset "Emperor's Crown" and became a messenger under the Seat of Destruction, also fell in this battle. The reason for his demise was not recorded. The author only briefly mentioned the aftermath of the war at the end of the article.

Former Sword Master Kyokuryu, one of the Five Heroes of the Clouds, was rumored to have hovered on the edge of becoming a demon and was imprisoned by the Ten Kings Division. Longzun, the Moon Drinking Lord Dan Feng, the short-lived craftsman Ying Xing, and the flying fox warrior Bai Heng used the Blood of Sudden Chaos to attempt to reverse their fate, leading to the outbreak of the Moon Drinking Chaos. In the end, Kyokuryu killed the Demon Dragon in the Abyss of Scales and fell into demonic shadow a year later. Dan Feng was sentenced to reincarnation without scales. Ying Xing and Bai Heng were affected by the remnants of Bountiful Goods in the Moon Drinking Chaos; one went missing, and the other voluntarily remained sealed in the Ten Kings Division's prison for seven hundred years.

Of the Five Heroes of the Clouds, only Jing Yuan remained, shouldering the burden and becoming the current general of Luofu. Additionally, after this period of history, the people of Xianzhou changed the title of the Seat of Destruction to the Celestial Lord of Destruction to honor the young hero who made the pact with the Sunset "Emperor's Crown."

"Sir, would you like to add another hour?" Technician Wang Gang's robust voice sounded in White Heng's ear.

"No, that's fine."

White Heng closed the booklets, put on his jacket, and prepared to leave. Before leaving, he asked Technician Wang Gang a question:

"By the way, do you have any impression of the Sudden Chaos that broke out in Luofu seven hundred years ago?"

"The Sudden Chaos?" The technician furrowed his brows, thinking for a moment. "I've heard stories related to this history... but I'm only 400 years old this year, still young. I wasn't born when the Sudden Chaos occurred; I only heard about it from my father."

"Do you remember the short-lived youth Bai Heng who made a pact with the Sunset 'Emperor's Crown'?" White Heng asked.

Upon hearing this name, Wang Gang's expression lit up with excitement. He leaned closer to White Heng and said:

"Sir, based on your appearance, you must be an outsider from Xianzhou."

"... Mm." White Heng observed the technician's enthusiastic reaction, pondering to himself, Am I so famous?

However, Wang Gang's next words poured cold water on White Heng's enthusiasm. The way he was famous was rather peculiar. 

The technician, Wang Gang, spoke in a gossipy tone:

"In Luofu, the stories about the former Sword Master Kyokuryu and that short-lived youth are well-known. They are talked about in every household..."

He recounted the story from when White Heng became Kyokuryu's adopted child, all the way to his death under Kyokuryu's sword in the Sudden Chaos. The episodes not covered in the booklets were preserved through the oral traditions of the people of Luofu, having undergone many artistic embellishments, turning into a dramatic tale.

In simple terms, these historical figures had become the romantic couple everyone in Luofu was obsessed with. In fact, there were even plays based on their story performed in Luofu. Coincidentally, that evening, a theater on Xuan Ye Avenue was set to stage a play, and Technician Wang Gang had an extra ticket, which he gave to White Heng as a gesture of friendship.

After leaving the Therapeutic Massage Parlor, White Heng looked at the ticket engraved with the Imperial Bow pattern and sighed:

"Well, I might as well consider this a subsidized tour in Xianzhou Luofu."

...

In the Ta Bu Division, at the Grand Yin Observation Array.

With bright eyes and a flawless appearance, like a delicate porcelain doll, Fu Xuan opened her amber-colored eyes, and the gem-like pupil between her brows lit up. 

The Grand Yin Observation Array, composed of countless jade crystal stones, operated before Fu Xuan:

"The stars shift, flowers fall to the ground, everything is predestined. Sword Master, this is already your seventh visit this month, isn't it?"

Fu Xuan glanced at the figure hidden in the shadows, obscured by black gauze, with skin as white as snow and a cold, moon-like demeanor, resembling a celestial being exiled from heaven. 

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

"There is no need to question further; just tell me the result."

Fu Xuan withdrew her gaze, and the mystical eye between her brows peered through the Observation Array:

"Sword Master, the person has... wait a moment..."

Kyokuryu released her embracing arms and stepped out of the shadow, raising her leg slightly:

"Do you have the results?"

Fu Xuan casually flicked her fingers, took a deep breath, and said:

"This person is currently within Luofu."