Chapter 416

"Heave-ho!"

The Azure Dragon's massive half-body was definitely a treasure for Great Qin; aside from the divine core demon pill, Su Fan and the others would naturally not let go of the flesh, blood, tendons, and bones.

Although this journey would attract many sea beasts, fortunately, with Bai Qi presiding, it did not cause any trouble along the way.

When the Great Qin army reached the coast of the Fusang Continent, they did not stop, but charged straight in.

And this did not require Bai Qi and the others anymore.

After all, the Fusang Continent's gods, Jiuying and those few ghost gods, were either dead or had fled; as for the remaining human race, there were really no experts.

After all, these gods were not fools; they only treated the indigenous humans of the Fusang Continent as pigs to be raised, harvesting them batch after batch.

How could they raise a tiger that would cause trouble? Across the entire continent, with nearly a billion people, there were not many true experts; even the strong ones at the Profound Mastery Realm might not compare to a single commandery of Great Qin.

As for the army, that went without saying.

Comparing Great Qin's army to the Fusang Continent's army was as easy as the later US military crushing Iraq, and even far exceeded that.

They did not encounter much resistance at all, and one wondered if it was because these gods had raised them intentionally; the resistance will of the humans on the Fusang Continent was too weak, too enslaved.

In less than a month, they had conquered almost the entire continent.

Of course, these are stories for later. Su Fan and the others, after beheading the Azure Dragon, had the Mirage fleet carry the Azure Dragon's half-body back to the East Sea.

Xunzi was even earlier than them. Looking at the remains of Jiuying lying on the ground at his feet, Su Fan and Bai Qi both smiled.

This trip was truly a great harvest.

"I have troubled the Sage Xun again."

Su Fan hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "Please accept this bow from this Prime Minister."

The latter, seeing this, hurriedly dodged and said, "Marquis Su is too serious; I cannot accept such a great courtesy from Marquis Su."

Xunzi shook his head, his face solemn.

In terms of realm and cultivation, Xunzi was indeed much higher than Su Fan, but Xunzi really did not dare to accept a bow from Su Fan like this.

It was not because Su Fan was the Left Prime Minister of Great Qin; the authority of a Left Prime Minister alone was not something Xunzi took to heart.

Although the status of Confucianism in the Great Qin government was not very high, it might not even catch up to the current Mohist or Agricultural schools.

But the key was that Xunzi's status was too high; it would not be an exaggeration to say he was the number one person in Confucianism today. His cultivation had reached a very profound level, directly chasing the masters of the pre-Qin era.

His students and former subordinates were all over the world, so the mere Left Prime Minister of Great Qin was no different from an ordinary person to him.

But Su Fan was different in another aspect. Among the common people, Su Fan was not just Prime Minister Su or Marquis Su; he was most revered as Sage Su, the contemporary Agricultural Sage.

Even the Agricultural School of the past would not dare to refute this, let alone the current one.

The current Agricultural School of Great Qin even ranked Su Fan below Shennong and Xu Xing; in the eyes of the new generation of young people in the Agricultural School, Su Fan's status was even above Xu Xing's.

Don't look at the fact that Su Fan hadn't produced any ideological masterpieces or written any books; just in these few years, the Ministry of Agriculture he built had caused the world's farmland grain crops to multiply several times over.

He had saved countless lives; this merit alone was enough to be canonized as a sage.

If he were in the ancient era, no one would say anything if he went to compete for the position of Sovereign of the World.

The merit was too great; the increase in grain production had saved how many people? Tens of millions, absolutely.

With this kind of merit, even if Laozi or Confucius met him, they would have to bow and pay their respects.

So the current Su Fan, in Great Qin and among the human race, had an invisible status that was, to be honest, beyond words.

If this were a mythical world, perhaps the merit golden light of humanity behind his head could have turned into a merit golden wheel.

Even so, Su Fan could feel that the blessing of human luck he had been obtaining in recent years was constantly increasing.

This was human luck, not Great Qin's luck.

Great Qin is Great Qin, and humanity is not Great Qin; one can only say Great Qin occupies the main part of humanity, but not all of it.

The repair of the Universe Mirror was also accelerating, and his perception of heaven and earth was increasing. Not to mention his cultivation, the improvement of his divine soul realm alone was terrifying.

After he devoured the origin of the old demon god's soul in the Mohist Mechanism City, his divine soul improvement was comparable to a Nascent Soul, but that was only in quantity. In terms of true quality, he was inevitably far inferior to a Nascent Soul stage cultivator; it was very superficial.

But now, his divine soul power had long been consolidated, and he had even reached the mid-to-late Nascent Soul stage, not just the initial stage. Even if his realm couldn't keep up, it wasn't too far behind.

In these few years, although he had been busy with government affairs most of the time, his cultivation had never stopped. Don't forget he still had the Universe Mirror as an evolution space to cheat, plus various resources constantly provided by Great Qin, and even some Great Qin experts constantly giving him private tutoring.

His cultivation was now equivalent to the peak of the Profound Mastery Realm.

Of course, Great Qin had never thought about his own combat power; after all, his combat power was just a drop in the ocean for Great Qin.

Great Qin valued Su Fan's ability and the changes he brought to Great Qin. In these few years, with Ying Zheng's trust, Su Fan's actions could even be called reforms.

Of course, unlike the reforms of people like Shang Yang, he only changed some of Great Qin's policies, and Great Qin's changes were getting better and better.

The hearts of the people were becoming more and more united, and the regions were becoming more and more peaceful. In the upper echelons of Great Qin, his status could be said to be something even Li Si could not contend with.

Internally, he had the immense trust of the monarch Ying Zheng; externally, he had countless officials acting as his lackeys.

His influence was no longer limited to the Ministry of Agriculture.

Of course, Su Fan didn't care about these things; he didn't even care about his prestige among the common people.

However, he didn't care, but others couldn't not care. Even Xunzi, who had reached such a realm, treated Su Fan with a few points of respect; this was respect for Su Fan's contribution to the human race.

This was something even he, as a Three Flowers elder, could not do.

Su Fan had already become accustomed to Xunzi's attitude. In fact, in the past two years, almost everyone had been like this; even Ying Zheng no longer treated him with a simple monarch-subject relationship.

After all, Su Fan's contribution to Great Qin was incomparable, and his reputation among the common people was even higher than Ying Zheng's.

Fortunately, Ying Zheng's broad-mindedness was rare; knowing this, he didn't care at all, but instead constantly delegated power to Su Fan.

In fact, in Ying Zheng's eyes, Great Qin was not his alone; his ambition was not just Great Qin.

In his eyes, Su Fan was not his subject, but a like-minded person, so naturally, he would not be wary of Su Fan.

This was something others could not feel; only Su Fan could feel some of it.