As Chu Chen left the imperial city and arrived on the streets, he found that the once bustling streets were now sparsely populated. Only servants from the homes of court officials were still nervously active.
Besides them, there were only troops from the Five Cities Military and Police Command, along with a small number of Embroidered Uniform Guard and Imperial Guards moving about.
"Alas, a situation that was about to take off has turned into such a state of panic. I really shouldn't have been so hasty!"
Chu Chen sighed inwardly, filled with regret for not opening the mysterious black box after Yun Yue Kingdom had stabilized.
But now that things had happened, complaining and dwelling on it would be of no use.
Returning to his manor, Chu Chen opened the Life Simulator system, preparing to draw some rewards to see if he could get something useful to deal with the situation.
"System Daddy, bless me, five draws, here we go!"
Chu Chen clasped his hands together and bowed to the semi-transparent system lottery panel before him, then with a thought, he began to draw.
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining one thousand points!]
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining a Hundred-Man Dark Division Summoning Card!]
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining a Three-Thousand-Man Light Infantry Summoning Card!]
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining a bottle of Qi Transformation Realm Spirit Pills, containing one hundred pills, which can supply the Qi Transformation Realm with a large amount of spiritual energy.]
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining one hundred thousand taels of silver! One hundred thousand piculs of grain and fodder!]
"Damn it! One more time! Five draws, here we go!"
Chu Chen spat, not seeing the items he expected. He rubbed his hands together and with a thought, continued to draw.
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining a Random Character Summoning Card!]
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining a Random Character Summoning Card!]
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining one hundred seeds of Spirit Rice!]
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining one hundred seeds of Calming Grass!]
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining a copy of Beast Taming Technique!]
"Spirit Rice seeds? Calming Grass seeds? What are these?"
"Beast Taming Technique! It looks like it could be helpful in the current situation, but I don't know how effective it is!"
Chu Chen's face lit up with joy. He couldn't bother with anything else and quickly retrieved the Beast Taming Technique from the system space.
Unlike the paper books of the past, this time it was a jade slip, which surprised Chu Chen.
"This jade slip should be observed with divine sense or mental power, right?"
Chu Chen hesitated for a moment, then circulated his mental power to infiltrate the jade slip. In an instant, a vast amount of knowledge surfaced in his mind.
"So magical! I wonder if this item belongs to the immortal path or is a general skill! Inheriting knowledge is so convenient!"
With a hint of novelty, Chu Chen absorbed the emerging knowledge, allowing it to flood into his mind and be imprinted in his memory.
A moment later, Chu Chen sighed with some disappointment, "Is this Beast Taming Technique all there is? It can only tame gentle beasts to obey commands? If one wants to forcibly tame them, one needs to be at least one realm higher than the target, and the target must be severely injured and unable to resist the spell?"
"Forget it, even if it can't be used on wild beasts, it should at least solve the problem of livestock in the city. But where can I find someone with enough cultivation?"
Chu Chen sighed again.
The Beast Taming Technique is a commonly used spell on the immortal path, specifically used to tame immortal birds and spiritual beasts to become like ordinary livestock, to be penned and their fur, blood, and flesh harvested, much like ordinary people raising poultry.
Because it is used on the immortal path, it requires the input of magic power to operate this spell, and spiritual energy is a type of magic power.
Those who possess spiritual energy must at least be in the Body Refining Realm. In Yun Yue Kingdom, apart from the Dark Division he controlled, where else could there be so many Body Refining Realm cultivators?
The entire Yun Yue Kingdom had only a thousand or so Body Refining Realm cultivators scattered across various locations, which was a drop in the bucket compared to its over ten million people.
"No, I need to improve this spell and lower its usage threshold!"
Chu Chen's heart tightened. He closed his eyes and sat cross-legged, using the many books he had browsed in the Scripture Pavilion as a reference to deduce the Beast Taming Technique.
For an entire night, Chu Chen finally managed to deduce it, or rather, simplify it into a technique suitable for the conditions of Yun Yue Kingdom.
"Finally done!"
Recalling the improved Beast Taming Technique in his mind, Chu Chen thought contentedly.
He glanced at the sky outside the window and quickly summoned the Dark Division. He first passed the spell to the more than ten Dark Division members who were staying by his side, and then had them transmit it to the Embroidered Uniform Guards still in Shuangyue City.
The Beast Taming Technique had been simplified by Chu Chen to the point where it only required the circulation of qi and blood within the body and the division of one-third of one's mental focus in the Ancient Martial Realm to transform a dozen or so chickens and ducks into docile fowls.
As for pigs and dogs, due to their size, they required relatively more qi and blood and mental focus.
After the transmission, Chu Chen immediately wrote down the simplified Beast Taming Technique and, along with the complete jade slip, dispatched the Dark Division to send them to the Empress in the imperial city, entrusting her to promote it within the army.
After dealing with these miscellaneous matters, Chu Chen finally had time to turn his attention to the other lottery rewards.
"Spirit Rice seeds? Calming Grass seeds? Let's take a look."
Chu Chen said, and then took out the seeds of the two crops.
He placed them in his palm, using both his eyes and mental power to observe them carefully.
After a moment, Chu Chen understood the effects of the two.
"So that's how it is. Spirit Rice is a mutated wheat seed. After planting, it can be eaten. It contains a large amount of nutritional value, which can be used by cultivators to replenish their qi, blood, and spiritual energy."
"With this item, the lower-level cultivators in Yun Yue Kingdom will have a way to speed up their cultivation and expand their numbers."
"As for Calming Grass, it not only makes it easier for lower-level cultivators to enter a meditative state, but it also has the miraculous effect of treating insomnia and suppressing berserkness. It can be used in conjunction with alchemy to refine a batch of Calming Pills and feed them to large domestic animals."
"Then it will be even easier to tame them!"
Chu Chen's thoughts raced, but he was also troubled by the low yield of these two crops, with a yield of only two hundred catties per mu, and they had high land requirements and a slow growth cycle.
"Forget it, it's good enough to have them. The imperial manor should have plenty of superior land. I'll give ninety percent of the seeds to His Majesty to handle."
Thinking of this, Chu Chen once again ordered the Dark Division to transmit the seeds and methods to the Empress in the imperial city.
Afterward, Chu Chen left the Prime Minister's manor and headed outside the city. He didn't care that it was daytime and found an open, deserted place to use the Dark Division Summoning Card and the Light Infantry Summoning Card.
He then arranged for these one hundred Dark Division members to go to the surrounding countries, with one Dark Division member per prefecture to be responsible for recruiting and winning over local people and collecting general intelligence.
Afterward, he returned to Shuangyue City with the three thousand light infantrymen and assigned them all to supplement the Embroidered Uniform Guard. This brought the Embroidered Uniform Guard to six thousand official members, greatly strengthening their intelligence gathering capabilities.
Upon returning to his manor, Chu Chen took out two Random Character Summoning Cards and the two Random Talent Summoning Cards he had drawn previously and not yet used, and used them all at the martial arts training ground within the manor.
A moment later, accompanied by a faint white light, four people in different attire appeared before Chu Chen.
"Your subordinate Nangong Ning greets the Lord!"
"Your subordinate Lü Youwei greets the Lord!"
"Your subordinate Zhu Wushi greets the Lord!"
"Your subordinate Yu Jin greets the Lord!"
"What the heck! Zhu Wushi? Yu Jin?" Chu Chen was stunned.