Shennong Sequence

Chapter 389 The Unvarnished World—The Great Horror;
After Zhao Yun and Xin Ruyin bid farewell to Grand Minister Jing, they returned together to the courtyard of the Longmen Inn where they were temporarily staying.

As Zhao Yun slept at night, he leaned against the window and gazed at the beautiful jade plate above his head.

He was indeed somewhat sad, but after the initial sadness subsided, he settled into a state of calm and tranquility.

The reasons for the sadness are complex. It's not just that her parents in this life are gone, but also that the old gambler is gone, which is a kind of relief for her...

Furthermore, in my grief, gazing at the bright moon before me, I thought of my previous life.

Although it is a temple for descendants, it is still a Taoist priest who has his own temple.

Although the incense is very popular, people from surrounding villages still come to offer incense and worship every year at special times.

Life moves slowly and peacefully.

How could it be like this now, where a battle between powerful beings has caused such a cataclysmic event, resulting in the annihilation of countless billions of lives?

No, or rather, the number of ordinary people on the vast land of Beiliang Border Continent alone, spanning tens of thousands of miles, still amounts to billions.

If we were to encompass the vast Canglan Grassland, which is thirty times larger than the entire Northern Liang border region spanning tens of thousands of miles, how many lives would be lost to the numerous barbarian tribes at the bottom of the land?
Therefore, the number of lives lost indirectly due to this powerful being and the aftermath of the battle must be well over 10 billion.

There were even hundreds of billions of deaths!

It can only be said that the unvarnished world outside is ultimately too terrifying for the creatures at the bottom of society.

The reason why the sorrow in my heart quickly subsided was that I picked up my pen and used words to express my feelings in "Thoughts on Relatives and Mourning".

Sorrowful thoughts drift away with the river, the vast waves carrying old traces.

Frosty leaves fall in the courtyard of the ailanthus, and evening clouds sink into the room of the daylily.

Looking up at the moon, one knows its waxing and waning; standing by the stream, one understands its beginning and end.

The lake of the heart is as clear as a mirror, reflecting the spring of rebirth.

So Zhao Yun, lying on the bed at this moment, reached out his arms to embrace the moon, drawing it into his heart, and suddenly fell into a deep sleep.

Nothing was said that night, and I slept soundly.

At dawn, Zhao Yun slowly opened his eyes. He saw a sliver of sunlight outside the window, the sun not yet rising from the eastern mountains, but illuminating the morning with its endless glimmer of light.

After getting out of bed and walking into the courtyard of the plum blossom garden, I saw Xin Ruyin, who had stayed in another room the night before, and she seemed rather absent-minded.

However, when she saw him come out of the house, she suddenly jumped up and walked towards him, but then stopped abruptly, turned around, and picked up a red-background object from the stone table beside her.

Then he quickly walked to his side and said:
"Young master, after you gave those six hundred soldiers leave yesterday afternoon, you quickly attracted a lot of attention in Yanmen Pass."

Furthermore, I also learned from these soldiers and innkeepers that although some people had escaped from the great flood, there were far fewer than our numbers this time. This caused quite a stir, and somehow, this news reached the ears of King You.

This morning, just as I opened the door, the innkeeper arrived with an envoy from King You, presenting an invitation and saying that King You had invited me to a banquet tonight. What do you think we should do in response?

Zhao Yun pondered for a moment, "Tell the messenger of King You that I'm going back tonight, and casually mention that my parents are not here, so that King You won't cause any trouble..."

Furthermore, any other invitations to banquets or similar events were declined.

However, Xin Ruyin had only taken two steps when Zhao Yun added, "But if there are any banquets with high-ranking officials or military personnel that you really can't refuse, bring them to me for a look, and then I'll decide what to do."

As Zhao Yun watched Xin Ruyin leave the plum blossom courtyard, he sighed again.

When you're in a wild and untamed place, who cares about banquets or parties? You're carefree, but fraught with danger.

But upon returning to this civilized land, there are always some things that cannot be refused or avoided.

"I always feel like I'm not in control of my own destiny! I need to get this promotion sorted out as soon as possible!"

As for Zhao Yun's process of advancing from Sequence 8 to Sequence 7, he still needs some spiritual essence to replenish his dantian. The final issue is the upper limit of his magical power that needs to be expanded to the extreme.
And it requires the use of the spirit of the earth element condensed from the spiritual field it has cultivated to refine a Daoist Pill.

This time, the quality of this Daoist Pill must be guaranteed to be at least top-grade.

"According to Master Longze, the process of cultivation and advancement has been simplified into ritual steps."

Therefore, if even a promotion process with specific standards and rituals cannot be perfected under clearly defined conditions, then it will inevitably lead to a situation where one mistake leads to further mistakes!

"And bridging this gap requires tens or even hundreds of times more effort and resources than before!"

Therefore, Zhao Yun still needs to rely on the connections of Yu Jing, the Grand Minister of Agriculture, who is also a leading figure in the now-extinct Northern Liang border region, to find a way for him to refine a top-grade Daoist Pill!
As for the reward for this help, the substance from the Myriad Dragon Emperor's Immortal Shadow Ascension can be used as bait!

After all, the immortal's ascension substance is an extremely rare and precious substance that Jing Yuchan, a senior brother, is eager to obtain during the process of advancing from Sequence 5 to Sequence 4, or even when a Sequence 4 wants to advance to Sequence 3.

Naturally, he could ask his senior brother Jing Yuchan to do his best to help him with the matter of refining the Daoist Pill.

Zhao Yun's return to the Great Zhou Dynasty this time was not only due to external dangers and the need for external assistance for advancement, but also because of the trouble caused by these soldiers in the divine spiritual realm.

Even within the divine spiritual realm, despite the complete vegetable cultivation, wild animal flesh and blood, and the power he and Xin Ruyin used to cultivate spiritual plants and food through 'flowers blooming in an instant, the laws of spring,' these soldiers would still cause quite a commotion every now and then.

So, let these people return ahead of time, and I can get promoted in the rankings while I'm at it!
As for the trip to the Jade Gate Inner Continent mentioned by Senior Brother Jing Yuchan, Zhao Yun did not intend to go.

Because he shattered the celestial dome a second time, the vast majority of the calamities that descended from heaven and earth were blocked outside the divine spiritual realm by the world's power of the divine spiritual realm, combined with the influence of Xin Ruyin's fortune, after his latent dragon of destiny awakened.
Then, more than 600 soldiers took turns helping him digest and eliminate the ailment.

However, even before the warning from the Hidden Dragon of Fortune, a small portion of the power of calamity still managed to penetrate the protection of the Divine Spiritual Domain and remain within his body. There was no way to use soldiers to replace the calamity, and he could only use the little bit of world power generated daily by the Divine Spiritual Domain to slowly offset it!
Therefore, if Zhao Yun were carrying the power of calamity, and were heading to the place where more and more Confucian scholars were coming from within the Jade Gate Continent... especially last night, when Jing Yuchan said that Confucian sages had sent many students to the North, this clearly revealed an unusual event.

(End of this chapter)