Chapter 312 - 117 "Room Swap" (9800 words)_5
Chen Yan finally felt relieved.
If this assistant inspector died as well... then he would have to find another person to swap rooms with.
Ouyang waved at Chen Yan, who nodded, pulled Chu Keqing along, closed their own door, pocketed the key, and walked into Ouyang’s room.
Once they entered, Ouyang closed the door and leaned against the wall, his voice sapped of strength:
"Oh mama, I was almost smashed to bits!"
Chen Yan ignored him—being an inspector of the Domain Realm, even if just an assistant and still an intern, he definitely had some tricks up his sleeve.
But the scene inside the room left both Chen Yan and Chu Keqing stunned!
Not a single item in the room was intact!
Tables, beds, bedding—all shredded to pieces! Even the chandelier had fallen to the floor, smashed into fragments.
The walls were covered in horrifying cracks!
Some had been bashed out, others were from collisions, and in some places, when Chen Yan touched the marks—they seemed to have been clawed out! There were also several pits on the floor!
"What did you go through last night..." Chen Yan turned back to Ouyang, sighing, "This room of yours seems pretty dangerous... I might need to reconsider swapping with you."
"Don’t say that." Ouyang chuckled awkwardly. "I just had some bad luck. This room trial last night was, well, a bit challenging."
A bit challenging?
Chen Yan glanced around, looking puzzled.
"Alright then, just tell me." Chen Yan asked bluntly, "What’s the danger in your room’s trial?"
Ouyang took a breath, sounding a bit weak, but still answered seriously.
"At night, a monster appears, just one. At first, it’s easy to handle, but once killed, it resurrects every two hours.
With each resurrection, the monster gets stronger than before. And each time it’s killed and resurrected, it gets stronger again."
Chen Yan raised an eyebrow, "How strong?"
"Uh, it’s not exactly super strong, just... tricky." Ouyang didn’t hold back, revealing the truth, "Probably due to Secret Realm rules, this monster is immune to mana and spell attacks! You can only fight it with body techniques."
At this, Ouyang even asked concernedly, "By the way, how’s your Body Refining Technique coming along?"
Chen Yan was speechless.
Body Refining Technique?
I haven’t trained it for a single day!
Immune to all spell attacks?
This is ridiculous!
Until now, Chen Yan was a standard cultivator on the Primordial Spirit path!
He had a Body Refining Technique manual, but hadn’t practiced a minute of it.
"I’m also a Primordial Spirit cultivator, but before the Guiyuan Realm, my body was nourished by primordial qi for fifteen years, so I’ve practiced a bit of Body Refining. But I only reached the Copper Sinews and Iron Bones stage because body techniques and Primordial Spirit can’t be cultivated together. After the Guiyuan Realm, continuing Body Refining would affect my cultivation."
"If they can’t be cultivated together, how did you manage it?" Chen Yan was curious.
"You wouldn’t know this as a loose cultivator. Generally, in big families, disciples practice some body techniques before reaching the Guiyuan Realm. Since Primordial Spirit cultivation starts after the Guiyuan Realm, you can practice body techniques beforehand to strengthen yourself—it’s a bit of an opportunistic trick, but the enhancement is minimal."
Ouyang sighed before continuing, "This monster isn’t that strong. If you have the Copper Sinews and Iron Bones proficiency, you can beat it! Its only scary trait is immunity to all spell attacks! Physically, it’s not that strong!"
Seeing Chen Yan stay silent, Ouyang seemed a bit anxious.
Chen Yan sighed.
He spoke slowly, "In my room last night, the monster couldn’t directly attack guests; it could only use illusion techniques. All tactics were to deceive or force us to open the door and leave..."
Chen Yan quickly recounted all his experiences with the illusion attacks in his room the previous night.
Ouyang’s eyes lit up.
"Illusions... that’s perfect for me! I have an Innate Divine Technique called ’Illusion Breaking’! It’s the bane of all illusion techniques... I..."
Ouyang was excited but paused when he saw Chen Yan’s calm expression, "Uh... you’re not really going to back out of the swap, are you?"
Chen Yan thought for a moment, then suddenly smiled, "Let’s swap."
Ouyang was overjoyed, "Great! Brother, I’ll owe you for this! In the future, if you make any trouble in this world, as long as it’s not too much, I’ve got your back! We’re like family in the Celestial Affairs Bureau..."
"But I have one condition." Chen Yan said slowly.
"...what is it?" Ouyang sighed.
Chen Yan pointed at Chu Keqing, "Tonight, I’ll be in your room, but she... goes to my original room with you!!"
Both Chu Keqing and Ouyang were stunned.
As Chu Keqing was about to speak, Chen Yan signaled her with his eyes to stay quiet.
"Is that allowed? Doesn’t it break the rules?" Ouyang was confused and worried.
Chen Yan whispered something in Chu Keqing’s ear. She gave Chen Yan a complicated look before loudly calling out in Japanese, "Waiter!"
After ten seconds of silence, no one answered.
Chen Yan’s face relaxed—in all likelihood, some rules restricted even the waitstaff or those behind the scenes from spying on the room’s activities and sounds!
——thinking back to yesterday when Ouyang sought cooperation, even on someone else’s turf, he dared to blatantly reveal his cards while hiding in the room!