Longzang

Chapter 596 The best arrangement
Wei Yuan only withdrew his gaze when the sun had disappeared behind the distant mountains and only a faint red glow remained on the horizon.

The matter ended in this way, but the unveiling of one mystery has raised even more questions. Wei Yuan instinctively felt that this matter was far from over.

After this incident, Wei Yuan realized that he could no longer understand Hongye. This time, Hongye was completely different from the one he saw during the battle between the two armies. Wei Yuan couldn't even tell whether the Hongye he saw this time was a human or a witch.

He actually did it for a woman and a child...

Wei Yuan suddenly realized that Hong Ye hadn't revealed who his woman and child were. Wei Yuan immediately shifted his divine sense to the Dao Foundation Warrior in the dungeon, and then discovered that the prisoners in the cells on both sides had all transformed from witches into humans.

Moreover, there was a brief gap in the warrior's memory; afterwards, the shamans imprisoned in the cell all turned into humans, and their locations shifted, making the original correspondence impossible to discern. In other words, Wei Yuan could no longer find the child who had seen through his wicked nature at a glance.

But this didn't stump Wei Yuan. He came up with a plan and suddenly shouted, "The old demon is here!"

Chaos erupted in the cell as women and children screamed in terror and scattered in all directions, their reactions identical.

Wei Yuan hadn't expected Hongye to be so meticulous, leaving no flaws whatsoever. It seemed that the moment he popped the bubbles, he had transformed all the women and children into humans and confused their memories.

As for which one is his woman and which one is his child, the mystery may never be revealed.

Wei Yuan pondered for a long time. He originally wanted to disperse these women and children to various cities in Qingming, or even send them to human kingdoms, so that they could live ordinary lives, like drops of water merging into the ocean, and never be disturbed again.

But then he thought again, human hearts are unpredictable. What if these single women, living among ordinary people, change their minds? Hongye still has more than ten years to live!
What if, on his deathbed, this guy suddenly decides to see his woman one last time, only to find her living happily with a strange man? That man not only slept with his woman and spent his money, but also beat his child.

Wei Yuan felt that the red leaves at that time might have the power to destroy the world.

Therefore, this is absolutely impossible. Wei Yuan has never believed in any eternal promises, and any oath not accompanied by heavenly lightning and blood curses is a lie. Any test of human nature will inevitably backfire.

Wei Yuan dared not gamble that so many women could endure more than a decade of loneliness; the best solution was naturally to keep them away from all trials.

So Wei Yuan decided to settle them in the new city, where they would live until Hongye died.

In the new city, besides the Xu family's young men, there are only sacrificial offerings. The Xu family's young men are only interested in the Xu family's young women. The high-ranking sacrificial offerings lack some emotions; they are emotionally stable but have no romantic feelings for each other. Their reproduction depends entirely on the orders of their superiors.

Wei Yuan then thought about it more deeply and realized that a completely different approach, a completely opposite approach, should be taken towards Hongye's children.

These children will face numerous trials, including encounters with men, women, and all sorts of other men. The goal is to cultivate them into ruthless scoundrels who turn on you the moment they get out of bed before they reach adulthood, so that at least they won't fall victim to love tribulations like Hongye.

Wei Yuan was very satisfied with this arrangement, thinking that Hongye would be able to rest in peace, and that she might even contribute some of her luck before she died.

Naturally, Wei Yuan would not admit that he was afraid of an opponent with little lifespan left and extraordinary magical powers going mad on his deathbed.

After dealing with these follow-up matters, Wei Yuan finally had time to check his own condition. At this moment, the world was in complete disarray, a scene of utter devastation.

The central city seemed to have been wiped away by an invisible hand; all buildings of any height above the second floor vanished. The sapling of the Jianmu tree returned to its island, its branches and leaves almost entirely charred, resembling a half-burnt log from afar.

The Ice Crystal Divine Tree returned to its original place, its trunk broken in two, with branches scattered all around the half-tree.

Langya and Honglian Bodhi were almost completely bald and were now dormant. The Moon Laurel Immortal Tree had a large crack in its trunk, almost splitting it in two. But when she looked at the Ice Glass Divine Tree and saw that her old rival was on its last legs, she immediately perked up and, with an air of superiority, tossed her three drops of sap. The crack in the Ice Glass Divine Tree was thus sealed, and it no longer leaked immortal energy.

The laurel tree forgot that Bing Li had already advanced in cultivation, and even if she was just a stump, her immortal spiritual energy was far greater than hers.

The orchids were all withered and listless. After they withstood the Heavenly Water Calamity, Wei Yuan took them out. Two were planted at the entrance of the Hall of Heroes, and one was placed in the hall as a flowerpot.

When Tianyu arrived, he immediately saw through the true nature of the three orchid plants, so he focused his attention on them. He never expected that Wei Yuan's real killer move was the Ice Glass Divine Tree disguised as a wild tree by the roadside.

Although the Yang Bullet has the characteristic of always hitting, many immortals also have the ability to avoid calamities in their nature, so whether it can hit or not depends on the level of the two sides.

Facing Hongye, who could rival Long Zhe, Wei Yuan had little confidence in this regard, so he meticulously planned a killing spree. Mainly because no one expected a wild tree to fire a gun.

The mortal realm endured two heavenly tribulations, with the lightning tribulation almost entirely absorbed by the Jianmu sapling. It truly lives up to its reputation as a descendant of the first divine tree of antiquity; even inheriting only a tiny fraction of the Jianmu's aura, its essence is terrifyingly powerful.

However, the water tribulation was not so easy to overcome. The seaweed had almost destroyed ninety percent of its physical body, only weakening the water tribulation by one-tenth. In an instant, the girl Yin Yang calculated that even if all the immortal plants combined their power, they could not eliminate the water tribulation, but could only try to reduce its power as much as possible.

Therefore, the strategy was to begin constructing low walls, less than ten feet high, along the coastline. As the floodwaters passed, they would gradually weaken, and then the walls and houses of the central cities would provide some resistance. The rest would simply have to accept their fate.

Every mortal carried a hollow square cauldron. When the flood passed, many mortals were swept away, but they survived the tsunami by relying on this cauldron.

Fortunately, the water calamity consisted of only one giant wave, but after the wave passed, the central city was almost completely destroyed, tens of thousands of mortals were swept into the sea, and nearly ten thousand mortals perished as a result.

Those who die in the heavenly tribulation are truly annihilated, leaving no trace of karma.

At this time, the sea was filled with ordinary people floating everywhere, and some of them had been swept hundreds of miles away.

Large fish appeared in the sea, dragging mortals towards the shore. These large fish were companion creatures of seaweed, and as the only aquatic plant of divine significance, seaweed had an unshirkable responsibility to save people.

In the Battle Saint Hall, because all the disciples were cultivating, not many were swept away. However, most of those who remained were covered in wounds. Han Li and Long Wushuang were busy rescuing people.

At this moment, one of the injured disciples suddenly sat up from the ground, his whole body began to emit a distinct jade-colored light, and his aura was constantly rising!
He looked at his hands, the skin on them visibly becoming translucent and smooth, and was both surprised and delighted: "I... I've survived the Heavenly Tribulation and finally awakened my hidden bloodline? Gold always shines, and I, Dugu Cangqiong, will never remain subservient to anyone for long! Hahahaha!"

As he examined his body, he muttered to himself in a voice that could be heard throughout the entire Holy Hall, "What kind of Holy Body do I have? Eternal, Primordial, Undying, Unrivaled, Star River, Sky-Splitting, World-Destroying, Chaos, or is it the ultimate body of a Primordial Saint or the Demon Ancestor?"

Wei Yuan also noticed this place. This was the third guy to awaken a name, but the name was even more shameful than Long Wushuang's.

Wei Yuan wasn't in a hurry to expose them. He figured that once the spirituality of the human world increased, more people had their own names, and they began to understand the outside world, Wei Yuan would want to find a place to bury themselves.

Han Li and Long Wushuang exchanged a knowing glance. This was the same guy who had defeated Long Wushuang in a verbal battle, only to be taken down by Han Li using underhanded tactics.

The two of them had the same thought at this moment: even this guy could awaken his hidden bloodline; the Creator Immortal Venerable was truly blind.

(End of this chapter)