Shennong Sequence

Chapter 396 The Immortal War That Shattered the Heavens: A Follow-up; Okay, I'll cover for you!

Upon realizing this, Zhao Yun rose and bowed, saying, "Thank you for your gift, Your Highness. I will do my utmost whenever Your Highness needs me or has any requests!"

King You was naturally pleased with Zhao Yun's attitude and laughed loudly, "Minister Zhao, no need for formalities!"

Then, Zhao Yun accepted the top-grade spiritual treasure given to him by the King of You: the Flesh Vajra Tai Sui, a Yin Fire Origin sealed by crystal, and a golden fifth-order Golden Light Void-Breaking Escape Shuttle!
In addition, during Zhao Yun's peaceful conversation with King You, another matter was discussed:
He plans to auction off a large amount of resources he obtained from the True Dragon World at a platform set up next to the Yanmen Pass military camp three days later!
After all, King You has given him many benefits, so it shouldn't be a big problem for him to just open his mouth and demonstrate some of the military's capabilities.

Furthermore, Zhao Yun also offered a discount: he still had quite a few dragon beasts, and whenever the guards of Yanmen Pass came to buy them, they would all be sold at 80% of the final auction price.

Of course, the 20% discount only applies to dragon beasts, and each person can only buy one at most.

Because if all 2000 dragon beasts were sold at an 80% discount, it would be a huge loss.

Furthermore, limiting each person to one prevents one person from buying them all and then reselling them...

And when Zhao Yun introduced the many rare and precious materials he had obtained from the True Dragon World, he especially emphasized the Divine Dragon Wood!

This divine dragon wood, the kind that's hundreds or thousands of years old and made into dragons, is something the Netherworld King could definitely get his hands on.

However, quality that exceeds a thousand years and reaches ten thousand years is truly difficult to achieve.

After all, the growth and cultivation of the Divine Dragon Tree cannot be separated from the nourishment of dragon energy.

Besides the uniquely blessed world of True Dragon, where endless dragon energy from dragon beasts permeates the heavens and earth, which is essential for the growth of a large amount of Divine Dragon Wood.

In the main world, you either need to use real dragon veins to nourish a forest of dragonwood like this.
You could also raise a large number of dragon beasts, but dragon beasts are not so easy to raise.
Alternatively, they could use the imperial dynasty's dragon energy to nourish it, but doing so would also be a loss to the imperial dynasty's dragon energy.
How could the imperial family and the royal family bear to part with it?
Therefore, when Zhao Yun mentioned that there was another batch of ten-thousand-year-old Divine Dragon Wood, King You really became interested!

"Here's what we'll do. I'll take care of all the procedures for the auction next to the military camp three days from now."

"In addition, the Divine Dragon Wood is sold in batches... At the beginning, it will inevitably attract many merchants to buy it at high prices, but later when they see that the quantity is too large, they will deliberately lower the price."

"At that time, I will buy all the remaining Divine Dragon Wood from you at the highest price they can offer... By the way, how much Divine Dragon Wood did you bring back?"

As King You finished speaking, he asked one more question.

"There are 150 million Divine Dragon Trees. Half of them are of ordinary quality and take ten years to mature; three-tenths are of quality that takes a hundred years; one-tenth are of quality that takes a thousand years; and there are only about 2 Divine Dragon Trees that take ten thousand years to mature!"

Zhao Yun answered truthfully.
However, King You was taken aback by the number 150 million that Zhao Yun mentioned.

This is indeed a very large batch!

Fortunately, whether it's ordinary or high-quality Divine Dragon Wood, it's valuable to him and can be resold without losing money.

"Don't worry about this, I'll cover for you."

With King You saying this, Zhao Yun felt reassured.

With the business concluded, it was time for the banquet, singing, dancing, and other joyous activities. This was also why Zhao Yun had chosen to arrive in the evening; the business was finished, and the banquet was about to begin!

The two then moved to the reception room—the Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon Hall.

Outside the hall, flowers bloomed in all directions, vying for attention and displaying their beauty...

During the banquet, some people had already taken their seats.

Zhao Yun was surprised to find Commander Tu sitting there as well.

On the day of the Immortal War, after that void array shattered, Commander Tu was still able to cross the vast Yuan Tai Weak Water and return. He is truly exceptionally capable!
Unlike him, who lingered in the great flood for more than half a year before finally returning.

As Zhao Yun was thinking this and taking his seat, he saw Commander Tu move to his side and exclaim with delight:

"So, the prince is hosting General Zhao tonight!"

"After the small world of dragon beasts that we were in destroyed the barbarian royal court, the void array was also attacked by a claw from an ancestor of the barbarians who had returned from the underworld."

"Then the protective barrier around the entire void array shattered, and I was extremely anxious to see you caught in the spacetime turbulence!"

"Unexpectedly, General Zhao was able to return safely, which is a cause for celebration."

"The reason I was able to be saved is that a Celestial Venerable from our Great Zhou arrived quickly and maintained the entire void array that was about to be destroyed... However, Ji Daoyuan was a bit unlucky and was also caught in the spacetime turbulence and disappeared without a trace."

"I wonder if that kid will have your good fortune and come back alive... Especially Master Ji, he's been nagging the Prince about it for a long time now. It's really because I didn't protect him well enough that the Prince was also implicated..."

During the banquet, as everyone ate, drank, and made merry, Zhao Yun learned quite a bit about the events that occurred after the Dragon Beast Small World blew up the Barbarian Royal Court.

Furthermore, he originally thought that Commander Tu was able to sit here because he had crossed the Yuan Tai Weak Water with his formidable strength.

Little did they know, they were perfectly fine inside the formation and were rescued by the immortals who arrived later!

Such incredible luck! No wonder he was able to advance to the higher ranks!
However, if he hadn't been caught up in the Yuan Tai Weak Water, the Divine Spirit Realm wouldn't have received such rapid growth energy.

They would not use this opportunity to climb the ice pillar and obtain the 93 drops of true innate-level innate primordial weak water.

Therefore, all things considered, while he did suffer some losses by leaving the void array, the benefits he gained after wandering around were actually quite substantial: the growth of his divine spiritual domain, along with the overall enhancement of his body; the complete transformation of his skeletal structure into golden bones after continuous bathing in the Primordial Weak Water; and the acquisition of 93 drops of innate Primordial Weak Water...

So, was it really just bad luck that got you caught up in the spacetime turbulence?
Or was it just good luck that he was caught in the spacetime turbulence, but escaped the spacetime rift unharmed, and even used the power of the Great Flood to allow his divine spiritual realm to grow?
Whether it's good or bad luck, it all depends on how you feel.

However, Zhao Yun benefited greatly and escaped from a desperate situation, which can be attributed to the combination of his good fortune and Xin Ruyin's.

(End of this chapter)