Chapter 1687

Su Xiao: "If you want effort, just tell your future self to work hard."

Zhang Taixuan: "Haha… will your personality change in the future? Your future self will probably tell an even more future self—or your past self—to work hard."

Xiao Yan: "A vicious cycle! One lazy fish telling another lazy fish to work hard—utterly ridiculous."

Su Xiao: "I really want to hit my future self! How dare she not help me now! 【Slams table】"

Xiao Yan: "Your future self feels the same way. Miss Su, if you wake up tomorrow morning with a swollen face, don't be surprised—it might just be your future self's big gift to you."

Su Xiao: "No! My future self!"

Su Xiao: "By the way, Brother Taixuan, when will we finally cultivate into a Mythic Daluo, omniscient and omnipotent? Isn't there any technique that lets us leap straight to Mythic Daluo?"

Zhang Taixuan: "Er… you're barely managing the ordinary path—still dreaming of leaping straight to the top?"

Yunxiao: "I think Miss Su should first achieve Hunyuan before thinking of anything else. Even if my husband truly created a Mythic Daluo method, the entry requirements might still be extremely difficult!"

Su Xiao: "Too hard, too hard. Why is this world so unfriendly to lazy fish—!"

Su Xiao: "Tired. Let it all be destroyed."

Xiao Yan: "You want to be lazy and yet omniscient and omnipotent—how easy do you think that is?"

Xiao Yan: "I want to too. But I also know it's impossible. Future me, why don't you work harder!"

Bai Zhi: "Future Xiao Yan: Are you all just useless? All of you are yelling at your future selves to work harder!"

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Deer Cauldron world.

Jingcheng.

After several months of development, the entire Jingcheng was utterly transformed.

The stench of blood had vanished, the air was fresh, and even the mysterious foul odors that once hung over the city had completely disappeared.

In ancient society, no matter how well it was praised,

the actual urban environment was never very pleasant, filled with all kinds of smells.

Modern urban planning students arrived, bringing advanced designs and technologies, overhauling the city's sewer systems with cement and steel—as if clearing the entire city's digestive system—bringing the city back to life.

Technologies from various worlds converged, supplemented by machines and steel from other worlds.

The development of this world accelerated rapidly.

Even the city's roads were replaced with smooth, sturdy cement pavements—dry days no longer kicked up dust, rainy days no longer turned to mud, leaving the people of this world astonished.

"Those barbarians may dress scandalously, but they sure know their stuff."

"Yes yes, I saw a female barbarian once—she drove a giant beast that dug a huge trench in just a few swings. If we tried digging by hand, we'd be at it for ages."

The "giant beast" the common folk spoke of was naturally the excavators supplied by other worlds.

Compared to human labor, these machines from beyond their era seemed like demons to the people of this time.

They didn't know the source of their power, nor their principles.

At first, some even believed the excavators required human sacrifices.

After all, the operator sat inside during excavation.

When the people saw the excavator operator, they felt conflicted, assuming the person inside was the one to be sacrificed.

But when everyone waited until evening to watch, they saw the operator step down from the machine—whole and unharmed—and the people were utterly baffled.

"This machine doesn't eat people?"

"Strange! If it doesn't eat people, how does it move?!"

Before literacy spread, the people were doomed to have no answers, and could only attribute it to divine magic.

"And there's more! One barbarian taught us farming… I thought, you teach me farming? I've farmed my whole life—how could I not know better? But—I really didn't know. He talked about some machine, some kind of seed selection—I didn't understand a word. I could only follow along and copy!"

"I've farmed my whole life—and still don't know how to farm… sigh…"

"Old Wang, stop sighing. That guy's someone His Majesty brought from the Immortal Realm…"

"No, they said they're just people from other worlds—not from the Immortal Realm."

"Same difference. By the way, I noticed your daughter's been getting close to that barbarian—aren't you watching her? Don't want her run off with him!"

"Watch her for what? The barbarian may dress differently, but he's a good man, treats me well. If he's willing, I'll make him my son-in-law!"

"You dream too big—he's a noble from another world!"

Lady Zhuang, accompanied by Da Shuang and Xiao Shuang, listened to the common folk's chatter, a smile on her face.

"It seems everywhere is the same. His Majesty is truly grand—he wants to transform the entire realm, I wonder how much money it'll cost."

The most astonishing thing was that His Majesty never imposed heavy taxes on the realm.

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It was as if all the changes in the realm had appeared out of thin air.

"Lady Zhuang, did we really come to Jingcheng just to meet His Majesty?" Da Shuang asked anxiously.

They naturally understood Lady Zhuang's intentions.

It was simply because His Majesty had killed Ao Bai, and she wished to repay the debt.

But can you just decide to meet His Majesty and expect to see him?

"I think we can. I heard those outsiders say—if we submit a petition, His Majesty might summon us!"

On the other side.

On a tavern's upper floor.

A one-armed nun, accompanied by two beautiful female disciples, listened intently, her expression turning to sudden understanding.

This woman was the One-Armed Nun, Master Jiunan.

She had merely been cultivating in the mountains, devoted to overthrowing the Qing and restoring the Ming.

She never expected that, in just a short time away from the mountains, the dynasty below had already changed.

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All those legends of immortals, all those figures from another world—at first, she didn't believe a single word of it.

But when she saw officials from another world at the Innate realm scattered all over the ground, she was utterly dumbfounded.

Such beings at the absolute pinnacle of the world, and so many of them appearing all at once—yet they were only minor clerks!

This world is far too terrifying.

The Innate realm, though only the second realm of the old martial Dao system, had long been discarded by Zhang Taixuan and the others.

But for Jiunan, it was still an existence utterly beyond reach.

Even the rumors of immortals, in the end, she had confirmed with her own eyes.

After all, the matter of Your Majesty riding Huang Long and arriving at the capital was witnessed by many people.

Outside the capital, the mountain range formed where that Huang Long descended still remains.

This cannot be faked.

"Ake, tidy yourself up. In a bit, we'll present a visiting card to Your Majesty, hoping to be granted an audience."

Jiunan rose, gazing toward the Forbidden City with an expectant look.

Ake, timid, asked in a small voice: "Master, are you thinking of taking Jiangshan back?"

Jiunan heard this and nearly laughed at her disciple.

"Ake, why would you have such a naive thought?" Jiunan shook her head. "The realm is Your Majesty's realm—how could it be returned to me with just a word from me? Besides, I couldn't govern the realm well either; what use would I have for it? I only wish to thank Your Majesty. If not for her, this realm would still be under the iron hooves of foreign races, and the common folk would not know how much more suffering they would have to endure!"

"All this is the sin of the former dynasty!"

Speaking of this, Jiunan once again thought of that father of hers who had already hanged himself.