My Arms Can Turn into Blades-Chapter 346 - 217: Ji Xin Celestial Strategy—Do You Have to Threaten Me Like This?

Yesterday in the Anomaly Realm.

Although Chen Lusi had only met that monk once, the other party undoubtedly left a deep impression on him.

When everyone, including the leader Li Zheng, was lost.

Besides himself, there was actually someone else who could remain clear-headed, which indeed surprised him.

And when facing that dreamlike yet not-quite-a-dream Anomaly Realm, the other party was evidently more composed than Chen Lusi, who was in the dark about everything.

Not only did he know it was an 'illusion' dream, but he also gave him advice. Without knowing this key information about the dream, Chen Lusi wouldn't have considered influencing the dream to overturn the entire Anomaly Realm.

Not to mention waking up everyone else later.

Chen Lusi couldn't sleep last night and thought of this matter, which led him to want to find the other party to inquire for more information.

After all, as long as the Jinling matter wasn't resolved in a day, he couldn't leave Jinling in a day.

Celestial Strategy Mansion was one aspect.

Because in this incident, he had hidden some information, and it wasn't good to let them handle everything. Some things he couldn't ask in front of those people at Celestial Strategy Mansion.

He could only try to find out himself.

In fact, he was holding a try-and-see mentality; if he could find out, that would be great, but if not, then so be it.

"Anomaly Realm? You met a monk in the Anomaly Realm?"

Wu You, hearing Chen Lusi's words, was surprised: "Could he be from Jiming Temple?"

"Jiming Temple?"

Chen Lusi asked instinctively, but then quickly thought of something: "Isn't that a tourist spot?"

"Shaolin Temple is part of the Mount Song Scenic Area, and it's still the world's most renowned ancient temple."

Wu You laughed: "Don't they also have an industry chain encompassing martial arts schools, Buddhist supplies, tourism, cultural creations, dining, clothing, and pharmaceuticals?"

Chen Lusi: "..."

"These ancient temples with a long history, apart from those whose heritage has been cut off, those that have survived to this day must have some skills."

Wu You explained: "Although on a national level, they aren't considered powerful, locally, they are a formidable Empowerer organization. In fact, they do cooperate with Celestial Strategy Mansion to deal with legends' activation, which does fulfill a certain responsibility, but nominally, they aren't under Celestial Strategy Mansion's jurisdiction.

You can understand them as 'responsible civilian groups.' Although they are generally part of the scenic property, they have management rights within their own temples and can retain their heritage."

"Responsible civilian groups…"

Chen Lusi softly repeated Wu You's words, then asked: "There are quite a few ancient temples in the country, right? Hasn't Celestial Strategy Mansion thought of leveraging this power?"

"Of course, they have."

Wu You nodded: "But it's not feasible, partly because these responsible civilian groups, some Empowerer systems are different from ours. After all, it's an outside faith, and we haven't had the 'Divine Buddha Synthesis' like in Japan; in ancient times, imperial authority was at the top, and that hasn't changed much.

If these religions want to require believers to maintain independence from political power, use religious groups to protect their believers, or attempt to set religious power against secular power, it doesn't work. They'll get beaten, and basically, they're just utilized by imperial authority.

This means integration only occurs to a very limited extent, and some systems haven't even fully merged with the Yellow Springs Mainstream."

"On the other hand... they also don't want to, you know."

"Understood."

Chen Lusi didn't continue to ask because he realized it was of no use: "Then let's visit Jiming Temple later, have you been there?"

"No, I don't quite believe in these."

Wu You shook his head: "But I heard their vegetarian dishes are pretty good, worth a try."

"..."

Chen Lusi didn't say anything more, just left a sentence saying wait for me a moment, then turned around and went into the bathroom to wash up.

About five minutes later.

He came out, taking the cat along with Wu You out the door.

And just after stepping out the door.

Wu You suddenly thought of something: "By the way, Xia Yue is back, did you know?"

Chen Lusi paused: "Xia Yue is back?"

"Yeah."

Wu You nodded, continuing: "Xiaoxiao told me when she asked about the situation yesterday. Didn't she text you... Oh, maybe because I said you just came out of the Anomaly Realm, she thought you were resting. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

No idea if Xia Panqiu knows, today she was acting strangely, she was always the first no matter if it was going to the company or doing something, I thought she had already gone to find you, but turns out she wasn't there at all."

Wu You mumbled on.

Chen Lusi said nothing, his mind conjuring up Xia Yue's figure, heaved a slight sigh of relief.

At least the matter of Lin Ying's reassignment didn't need to be worried about anymore.

Also, if he's back, the promise he made before shouldn't need to be kept, right?

This month, he'd done far more than just guarding the backlines.

He nearly traveled all over the country…

As they spoke, they had already taken the elevator to Xia Panqiu's room.

Wu You stopped mumbling and knocked on the door vigorously.

The door quickly opened.

Xia Panqiu appeared in front of them, petite in form, not much different from before.

Except for the radiant smile on her face.

"Good morning."

"..."

Wu You looked puzzledly at Xia Panqiu and then explained the day's arrangements to her.

She had no objections, quickly nodding in agreement.

"Then let's go."

Wu You looked at her suspiciously again, then turned to head for the elevator.

Chen Lusi followed closely behind.

Xia Panqiu was at the end, staring at Chen Lusi's back, thinking for a moment, then reached forward to tug at his ponytail.

Chen Lusi didn't look back, just turned his head slightly to dodge with some disdain.

Xia Panqiu lowered her hand and lightly chuckled; after last night, she had a renewed understanding of Chen Lusi.