Chapter 278

The residence bestowed upon Su Xuan by the King of Qin was actually not far from Yan Dan's dwelling.

In the room, the lamps were bright.

Su Xuan slowly opened his eyes. Turning his head, he saw Yan Lingji looking at him with a look of surprise.

"You were just..."

Yan Lingji had a look of uncertainty on her face. Just a moment ago, she felt that Su Xuan had lost all signs of life. Closing his eyes, he was like a dead person. She even went up to sense Su Xuan's breath, but ended up sensing nothing.

"I went on a spiritual journey!"

Su Xuan explained to Yan Lingji.

Yan Lingji's eyes flickered, a bit confused. Clearly, she did not understand what a spiritual journey was.

Su Xuan did not explain too much.

The so-called spiritual journey, the full name of which is "Spirit Travel," is a technique for the soul or Primordial Spirit to leave the body. After the fall of the State of Han, Su Xuan had obtained this technique. Through this period of cultivation, he could barely manage to have his soul leave his body and travel outside. However, the distance between the soul and the body could not be too far; if it were too far, something would go wrong.

As in the myths and legends heard in his previous life, Tieguai Li, one of the Eight Immortals, had his body destroyed during a spiritual journey, which is why he had to attach himself to the corpse of a cripple to gain a new life.

During the process of a spiritual journey, it is the most vulnerable moment for Su Xuan. At that time, if someone were to destroy his body, and he could not find a new body in time, he would become a masterless wandering soul and then dissipate between heaven and earth.

It was fortunate that Yan Lingji had no malicious intent earlier; otherwise, she would have had a great opportunity to complete a feat that even Donghuang Taiyi had never completed—not killing Su Xuan, but killing him.

He still had some things he hadn't said, which was that besides "Spirit Traveling" to Yan Dan's place, he had also used a "Soul Capture" technique. That day in Yongcheng, he had killed Lao Ai with a soul-chasing technique.

Soul-chasing is a technique to put someone to death. Corresponding to it is the soul-capturing technique. Soul-capturing, as the name suggests, is a technique to capture souls.

With the help of this technique, he captured one of Yan Dan's souls.

Then, he gave the Six-Fingered Black Hero three days to consider. These three days were to let the Six-Fingered Black Hero accept the fact that Yan Dan had had a soul captured and had become a living dead person.

Therefore, if the Six-Fingered Black Hero really cared about Yan Dan.

No matter what he would encounter when going to the Yin-Yang School, he would still choose to go alone.

Earlier, meeting Nian Duan in Xianyang was an accident. Later, Su Xuan developed the intention to recruit Nian Duan. After all, Nian Duan's medical skills were extremely superb, yet in the original work, she ended up with the fate of a doctor who could not heal herself, which was truly pathetic.

Su Xuan also wanted to try to change Nian Duan's fate.

To be precise, he was preparing for the future.

Because of him, the current Qin Guo's destruction of the State of Han was already several years earlier than in the original history. If there were no accidents, the destruction of the other five states and the unification of the world would also be much earlier.

And Seeing Ying Zheng had long known that there were worlds beyond the Nine Provinces. With his character, as long as the national strength allowed, he would clearly not be satisfied with just destroying the six states. Just like in the original history, after destroying the six states, he forcibly conquered Baiyue and carried out several major projects, leading to the severe depletion of the Qin Guo's national strength and the complaints of the survivors of the six states. After Seeing Ying Zheng passed away, in just a few years, the Qin Guo followed and perished.

Since Su Xuan had made up his mind to use the Qin Guo as a big tree to cultivate, he clearly did not want the Qin Guo to perish in the second generation as in history. Even, he had to find a way to improve the national strength of the Qin Guo.

Recruiting Nian Duan, training more doctors, and improving medical standards was one way.

In this era, not to mention that a cold could take the lives of the people, even childbirth had a fifty percent chance of premature death. In the final analysis, it was because the medical level was not high enough.

Improving the medical level could significantly increase the survival probability of the people.

And besides the medical level, the improvement of agricultural levels would lead to an increase in grain production, which could allow more people to have food to eat, and if the grain was sufficient, even if a war was launched, it would not lead to an empty national treasury because of one war.

In general, improving the agricultural level was something that could be done.

And in this era, the most significant way to improve the agricultural level was to transform tools.

The Mohist School practiced the theory of non-aggression, but in the original work, the mechanized beasts they created were not non-aggressive at all. Although they were not directly used in war like the Gongshu family's Mechanized City, they were not much better.

More importantly, the Mohist School in the original work, because of Yan Dan, walked down the road of anti-Qin, which was basically a dead end.

Su Xuan really couldn't bear to see them embark on this desperate path, so he was prepared to save them.

"Tomorrow, come back to the Lishan Yin-Yang School with me!"

Su Xuan said another sentence to Yan Lingji beside him.

He had an appointment to meet the Six-Fingered Black Hero in three days.

These three days were almost enough to do some preparations to see if he could persuade the Six-Fingered Black Hero to let the Mohist School be used by the Qin Guo.

The Six-Fingered Black Hero and Yan Dan were on good terms, nothing more than Yan Dan giving the Mohist School an opportunity to develop in the State of Yan.

The State of Yan was a place of bitter cold and had no potential for development at all. Therefore, instead of riding the war chariot of the State of Yan, it was better to recognize the general trend and surrender to the Qin Guo early. Who said that the Qin Guo had no place for the Mohist School?