241: Chapter 24 Wild Grass in the Spring Breeze 241: Chapter 24 Wild Grass in the Spring Breeze If you’re going to gamble, gamble big!
Xie Xuanyi knew that Fangyuan Square had placed a heavy bet on him.
He stared at the Snow Master, and after seeing the latter’s reaction, he was even more convinced of this.
“Master Xie, what would you like to say?”
The Snow Master sighed softly.
“I’m not curious about the identity of the great master behind Miss Snow,” Xie Xuanyi smiled and said, “To know that we are allies is enough.
Since he hopes that I will become the winner, and in the future prove my way to the Yang God Realm, then naturally, he should understand the principle of ‘as you sow, so shall you reap.'”
The Snow Master spoke gravely, “What does Master Xie need Fangyuan Square to do for you?”
“This Northern Hunt is unpredictable and dangerous,” Xie Xuanyi said softly, “I need Fangyuan Square to prepare some items for me.”
He took out a jade scroll that he had prepared earlier.
The Snow Master paused, her expression complicated as she took the jade scroll.
During their last meeting in Caipu City, she was not sure whether Xie Zhen would cooperate with her…
Now it seemed that he had been waiting for her visit.
The jade scroll contained a list of rare materials.
Most of these were used for forging array patterns and creating talismans.
“Master Xie can also set up arrays?”
The Snow Master accepted the jade scroll, feeling a weight lifted off her shoulders; now that Xie Zhen had made his position clear, her task could be considered complete.
What she feared most was that Fangyuan Square’s gamble, this gesture of goodwill, would be something Xie Zhen would appreciate only in heart, not in deed.
Every bite of food and drink is predestined.
Now that Xie Zhen had taken the initiative to ask for these materials, it meant that he was standing on the same front.
In the future, sweeping through all enemies and reaching the pinnacle of the Yang God Realm, Fangyuan Square would naturally receive a massive reciprocation of luck and good fortune!
“After all, I’ve cultivated in the library,” Xie Xuanyi said indifferently, “I’ve learned a little of several minor techniques.”
The Snow Master saw Xie Zhen’s guardedness and chuckled, “Do you mean you need these materials to be directly refined into talismans?”
“No need,” Xie Xuanyi shook his head, declining the offer.
He knew that in the Snow Master’s eyes, he might want these talisman and array materials to deal with numerous enemies.
But what Xie Xuanyi actually wanted them for was the “Divine Fruit”!
The Cave Heaven Secret Realm on Snow Mountain, enveloped by Vajra Tao Rules, required ordinary Cultivators to withstand immense pressure to enter…
One couldn’t fathom how dangerous that Cave Heaven Secret Realm was, or how many talismans and arrays it would take to cross the void of the secret realm and reach the shore where the final fruit ripens!
“In just over ten days, the Northern Hunt will commence,” the Snow Master declared solemnly, “All these materials will be ready before the hunt and will be personally delivered to your residence.”
Xie Xuanyi was no longer polite, “Then I’ll trouble you.”
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With the Northern Hunt imminent, the Great Chu Imperial City was livelier than it had been in nearly a decade.
The sects and noble families from the four territories of Da Chu were all hurrying to the Imperial City.
A struggle of great eras, a battle for luck and fortune.
Everyone wished to achieve fame and glory in the Northern Hunt—
Years ago, Xie Xuanyi hunted a phoenix-blooded Great Demon, and after that, he rose step by step, conquered the Heavenly Pride List, and became the Sword Champion, a clear trajectory for all to see.
“The Baihua Valley from Qing State will also participate in this Northern Hunt!”
“The Qiantian Palace Saint from the West Territory has arrived in the Imperial City as well!”
“The disciples of Tai Shang House and the fairies of Yuqing Pavilion from the Taoist sects are here too…
It is said that for this Northern Hunt, three out of the Seven Huts of Taoism have arrived!”
“Looking at it this way,”
“It seems like the Sword Cultivators from Da Suo have indeed declined.
This time for the Northern Hunt, only Lotus Peak and Xie Zhen alone have come…”
“Hush!
Keep your voice down!”
“Do you not know what sort of tyrannical person that Xie Zhen is?
A few days ago, Lin Yu of the Martial Sect sought to challenge him, and he used the opportunity to wreak havoc, landing the entire Lin Family in the dungeon; it is said that he and Yuan Jimo are close friends, once a Dark Child of the Imperial City’s agency, specifically working for the Imperial Family…”
Xie Xuanyi sat in the private room of the teahouse, slightly opening a wooden window, listening to the rumors in the streets, his expression somewhat complex.
Chen Jingxuan sat opposite him, listening to these outrageous rumors and sighed, “Aren’t you angry?”
“Angry?”
Xie Xuanyi shook his head.
He said lightly, “What’s there to be angry about?”
How long had he been in the Imperial City?
Gossip and rumors had already painted him as utterly wicked.
The most absurd part was…
he had suddenly become Yuan Jimo’s close friend.
“In this mundane world, the vast majority of people are merely mortals,” Chen Jingxuan said softly, murmuring, “Cultivators pride themselves as ‘Taoists’ and regard the mundane as ‘ants’; this metaphor isn’t too exaggerated…
One doesn’t need to achieve the realm of Yang God or Yin God; simply by attaining a Grotto Heaven, there is a true divide between immortals and mortals.”
A Cultivator at the Cave Heaven Realm could slaughter an entire city filled with mortals.
Though an iron cavalry could kill them, it would require the use of a great array, sealing off the qi of heaven and earth.
By then, it would still be a battle of Taoists.
“In this dynasty, mortals can ‘live’ because they can provide offerings, luck, and fortune,” Chen Jingxuan said, sitting at the highest point in the teahouse, looking down at the commoners in the Imperial City.
His gaze was tinged with pity and reluctance.
“Advancing to the Yang God Realm requires the right time, place, and harmony among people.
If one can be revered by thousands, drawing a tremendous amount of luck and fortune, then the ascension process…
will be relatively much easier.”
You Hai King desired to advance to the Yang God Realm and chose the most ruthless and bloody way!
He harvested Lichao City, forcibly drawing the lifespans of living beings for his own use!
In the Dachu Dynasty, this was a taboo that iron laws could not tolerate.
But in the Demon Country,
To advance to a Great Venerate, sacrificing tens of thousands of demon spirits’ lives was truly a “commonplace” matter.
The survival of the fittest is a rule etched in the bones of every creature in this world.
It’s just that the Human Race has protected this iron law with countless rules—
“In the eyes of the ‘supreme’ in the Imperial City, mortals are the water, and they are the boats.
Without mortals, their reign would lose its meaning.”