"Strange?" Rose said, "What’s strange? You just washed off the sesame oil and suddenly pushed me down, climbing on top of me.

I thought you wanted it, but you held onto me. What’s going on? Clearly, it had already started, but suddenly stopped."

Li Xuan tilted his head back and said, "Look at my neck."

Rose raised her hand to touch it and said, "Alright."

Li Xuan froze for a moment, then turned his head to check.

Were there any scratches on his neck?

Suddenly, he had an epiphany and asked, "Did I just scratch my neck frantically?"

Rose shook her head.

Li Xuan froze for a moment, frowned, and his pupils slowly contracted.

"Interesting."

As he mumbled to himself, Rose was already about to succeed.

Li Xuan suddenly got up, grabbed Rose, and sat her properly on the meditation mat, then said, "Let’s endure it until the question is answered first."

After saying this, he pondered, summarizing slowly, "The sesame oil seems like a trigger.

No! It’s an aptitude.

And as long as we portray a mother-son relationship, it’s as if we’re starting something. During this startup process, I feel my neck itching more and more, like I want to seek a head to attach.

However, once our mother-son relationship is broken, the itch quickly disappears.

Clearly... the startup was disrupted."

He stroked his chin, murmuring, "That big rat approached you in order to eat the meat of the Peacock Great Ming Monarch to become stronger.

So... this startup should be the first step in eating meat."

Li Xuan suddenly raised his eyes and said, "Rose, tell me in more detail about how that big rat usually behaved and its various actions."

Rose turned her back to him, angry.

Li Xuan approached and gently hugged her, saying, "I promise, once this is over, I’ll marry you as my wife."

"No!" Rose said.

Before Li Xuan could respond, Rose said, "Being your wife would be so boring. I don’t want to be a wife or concubine, I just want you to sneak around with me, that way... just thinking about it excites me."

Li Xuan: ...

He looked at Rose at that moment.

He could be sure that what was showing in his expression was definitely not desire, but something else. Yet, Rose was not affected by him.

"Fine." Li Xuan replied.

Then, "the pair of adulterers" got together again to discuss things in detail.

...

...

In an instant, several days passed.

Li Xuan made some small progress.

He completely mastered the switch to control the "itch sensation"—breaking the "mother-son relationship."

As soon as he stopped acting the part, the itch sensation would immediately cease.

This allowed him to use sesame oil with ease and enter the world of the "Incense Fire Divine Realm."

However, when he entered that world, it was almost no different than when he didn’t because the scene was nothing but brightness, just as it was outside.

Besides the golden body of the Peacock Great Ming Monarch and his own hollow golden body, there was nothing else.

This made him realize one thing: he had not truly and completely entered that world.

It was like being in the deep sea on a sunny day, and he was still on the ship.

The golden brilliance was on the sea, and the ship was on the sea. People on the ship could see the golden sea surface, but could not glimpse the magnificent scenery below.

Yet, the scenery beneath the sea was the true ocean world.

So, how to enter?

How to eat the meat?

Li Xuan’s answer was: endure.

As long as he could endure in that itch sensation for a longer time, he would surely have new gains.

However, such torture was unimaginable, and Li Xuan felt that forcing himself to persevere held little significance.

He decided to utilize his spirit to draw a few pictures in an extremely calm state and then try to calm his mind during the ordeal. However, after a brief attempt, he found it was useless. The itch was just as intense and he couldn’t endure any longer.

Li Xuan then summoned the "mutant monkey" and "Tiger Demon," raising his spirit to 126 points. As a result... it suddenly worked, he was suddenly able to withstand it.

...

...

Ancient incense temple, sheltering disaster victims.

The masses prayed, a scene of bright prosperity.

But the forbidden area in the rear hall, said to house the Buddha and the Buddha Mother, was a place of eerie wickedness...

Tentacles touched the ground, the Buddha was headless, holding incense.

The itch sensation continued to occur, but it had transformed from being unbearable to being tolerable.

Li Xuan slowly endured.

Then he suddenly saw something strange.

Wisps of golden aura suddenly rose from the reclining Buddha Mother’s body, drifting towards his hollow body, wrapping around it, giving him a feeling of becoming stronger.

As time passed, his hollow Buddha body became somewhat more solid, while the world of the "Incense Fire Divine Realm" in his eyes turned slightly dimmer.

He could vaguely see some gray outlines, as if a few structured shadows had emerged within the endless light.

Observing those shadowy outlines, they seemed to resemble tables and chairs.

He wanted to go take a look, but suddenly found it extremely difficult to move.

Originally, he could freely walk around and enter and exit the "Incense Fire Divine Realm" world as he wished. But at this moment, he felt a sort of stickiness, a dragging resistance.

Li Xuan tried.

He discovered that the farther he was from the Headless Buddha, the greater the resistance.

And when he got close to the Headless Buddha, the resistance would almost completely disappear.

In addition, there was one more strange thing, and that is... both the Headless Buddha and the Buddha Mother gold body were shrinking.

Li Xuan did not rashly venture further.

Since he had made progress, he began to retreat.