Chapter 501: The Krypton Gold Palace Intrigue System (Main Story Concluded)

And so, after the New Year, Xie Yang happily took the Xie Family Merchant Ship on a trip to South America.

First heading to Nanyang, then west from Nanyang, she followed the general route of the maritime Silk Road, though since she was in a hurry, she did not stop at any countries along the way, sailing straight through the Cape of Good Hope to reach the South American continent.

Xie Yang introduced Xie Jing to the indigenous tribes and hired the men of the tribe to help modify her merchant ship.

The solid wood, mortise-and-tenon ocean-going ship was transformed into a modern-style vessel with an iron-plated hull, steel masts, and railings, significantly improving its moisture resistance, fire resistance, and overall safety.

During the modification of the Xie Family Merchant Ship, Xie Jing followed his younger sister to visit the "farm owner's" estate, and seeing the vast fields and pastures filled with pigs and sheep, he was filled with wonder:

"The landscape here is truly marvelous; it is clearly at the foot of a mountain, yet the terrain is so flat."

"The pork here tastes quite good; Mother couldn't bear to give away the ham you brought home last time."

Xie Yang smiled and said, "Then we'll bring back more this time."

"That would still require asking the owner."

"……"

The owner was her.

However, this matter was not easy to explain in a short while, so she simply didn't say anything.

In any case, Xie Jing was here to transport grain seeds.

She gave the Robot Bodyguard a black skin tone, input a string of gibberish indigenous language, and then brought out baskets of corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes for Xie Jing to haul away, and the task was accomplished.

"Little sister, are you really not coming back with me?"

After finishing his business, Xie Jing was in a rush to transport the ship full of high-yield crops and local specialties traded from the indigenous tribes—such as cocoa, coffee, turquoise, and Amethyst—back to Daye, so he did not linger.

Xie Yang, however, indicated that she needed to stay behind to wait for her master.

She held a note written with a Flying Knife: "Master said she is going out for a few days and will return soon; I want to wait for Master to return so we can go back to Daye together."

Xie Jing was worried about leaving her here alone.

Xie Yang showed him a trick: "Brother, I have already mastered a divine art; if you don't believe me, look."

She lightly struck a palm toward a large reef in the distance, and with a "Boom—", the reef shattered, and the surrounding sea surged with ten thousand waves.

Xie Jing: "……"

Good heavens!

He knew his sister was learning martial arts from the Saintess of a Thousand Faces, but he hadn't expected her to be practicing such a powerful martial art.

He felt his own heart itching to learn it too!

Who doesn't have a dream of being a chivalrous hero?

"Now you can rest assured, Brother?"

"……"

The way she put it, now he was worried about himself.

On the way here, he had his sister to escort him, but on the way back, there would be no martial arts expert guarding the ship.

He would have to rely on himself and the sailors.

Fortunately, they had brought plenty of Hand Grenades, so he wasn't afraid of encountering pirates.

Xie Yang didn't truly let them return on their own; she operated the Invisible Small Flying Saucer to escort her family's merchant ship back along the original route to Daye before leaving.

Her ocean-going ship was still docked at Mula Port in Turkey.

During this period, several groups of people tried to steal her ship, and some even tried to steal the steel masts, railings, and iron-plated deck, only to be knocked out by Medical Anesthetic deployed remotely by the Main System.

After waking up, these people were scared out of their wits, thinking the ship was cursed, and dared not come to steal again.

Trade at Mula Port in Turkey was already very developed at this time, though most of it consisted of cocoa, coffee, various candies and desserts, and olive oil.

Xie Yang traded a small amount using mate tea from the South American continent.

Then she sailed the ship, circled the Mediterranean, and at various busy and bustling ports, exchanged for supplies that interested her, such as local-style ham, baguettes to eat with the ham, and Mediterranean-style seafood……

She refilled the partially empty Aircraft Cargo Hold.

Then she went to Spain.

Once in Spain, she was free; with the special exemption card Carlos gave her, she could enter and exit any town in Spain at will.

She stayed there for half a month, went on an in-depth tour of Spain, and obtained the latest Extraction and Smelting System and mechanical equipment blueprints, the most interesting of which to her was the Firearm Blueprint.

She had iron, steel, and Gunpowder on hand, and with this Firearm Blueprint, she could basically be self-sufficient in manufacturing firearms.

However, to get higher-precision parts, she still needed a Machine Tool.

She had intended to ask Carlos to help get a few officially retired machine tools, but she didn't expect to run into a royal rebellion; she saved Carlos once again, and incidentally saved his uncle's family, ending the rebellion.

Out of gratitude, Carlos's uncle gifted her several brand-new machine tools directly and also awarded her an Honor Badge; from then on, she was a never-betraying close friend of the Spanish Royal Family.

……

Xie Yang brought the machine tools, blueprints, and various European specialties she had traded for, passed through the Suez Canal, and returned to Daye along the maritime Silk Road.

She stopped at multiple countries along the way, using a portion of the candy, coffee, carpets, Silver, and olive oil traded from Europe to exchange for ivory, Amber, gemstones, pearls, medicinal spices, as well as fruits and dried fruits produced in the coastal countries.

By the time she returned to Daye, it was already the crisp October of autumn.

The high-yield crops that Xie Jing had brought back had already been planted as soon as the autumn harvest ended.

Xie Yang saw that they were growing well; although the yield per mu would be lower without the Plant Nutrient Solution, it was still much better than the native grain production of the Great Ye Dynasty.

She stopped worrying about that matter and instead bought a piece of land outside the city, hired people to build a circle of workshops, placed the machine tools, and threw herself into the research and development of firearms.

During this period, Xie Jing's merchant ship went to South America again; practice makes perfect, and this time he not only brought back high-yield crops and seeds but also, following his sister's instructions, went to the mine invested in by the "Saintess" and brought back half a ship of Copper, iron, aluminum, and coal.

Xie Yang settled down in the workshop outside the city.

The Third Mistress Xie stepped down from her duties as the household manager, handed them over to Xie Jing's wife, and moved to the workshop to accompany her daughter.

The Third Master Xie still had to work, so he could only come over during his days off.

After Xie Yu and Xie Jue passed the provincial examinations, they both took their wives and children to local posts to serve as officials, but given the current development momentum of the Xie Family, they would be transferred back to Jingcheng in a few years.

Especially after Xie Yang developed the firearms, the Third Master Xie was promoted to Vice Minister of War; Xie Jing was granted the title of Imperial Merchant; and Xie Yu and Xie Jue were also promoted two ranks, allowing them to be transferred back to Jingcheng once their terms were up.

The Xie Family Third Branch, already the subject of much attention, became even more of a spectacle.

The stream of people coming to the door to propose marriage to Xie Yang was endless.

Even the Fourth Prince, who had the bearing of a wise ruler... oh, he should be called the Crown Prince now, also had his heart stirred and intended to take her as a secondary consort.

Upon learning the news, Xie Yang left behind a Flying Knife letter signed by the Saintess of a Thousand Faces and slipped away in the middle of the night.

Fortunately, having anticipated that such a day would come, she had "conjured out of thin air" a master for herself when she was three years old.

The imperial court and the martial arts world had always kept to their own spheres.

Since she had left Jingcheng under the orders of her master's sect, neither the Emperor nor the Crown Prince could do anything to her family.

Moreover, her family had just submitted the Firearm Blueprint, and with the trade route to the South American continent, as well as the connection represented by Carlos of the Spanish Royal Family, they were well capable of ensuring the Xie Family Third Branch's safety for a lifetime.

After this, Xie Yang had the Main System help keep an eye on the movements in Jingcheng, while she herself began to measure the Earth of this era with her own footsteps.

Not to mention that the Great Ye Dynasty was vast and rich in resources, even if she had finished playing and grown tired of touring the country, weren't there still South America, North America, Europe, and Africa!

However, she had no time to travel around the world at all, because while touring the famous mountains and great rivers within the Great Ye Dynasty, she inadvertently stumbled into the Shenyi Valley, which she had only ever seen in martial arts novels.

At that time, the Shenyi Valley was facing internal and external troubles: a traitor had emerged from within, colluding with wicked paths in an attempt to plunder the Immortal Grass that the Shenyi Valley regarded as its greatest treasure.

Xie Yang's arrival not only saved the hundred or so people of the Shenyi Valley, but she also helped them take back the Immortal Grass and punish the evildoers.

Afterwards, she was treated as an honored guest by everyone in the Shenyi Valley, and at the repeated, warm invitations of the Valley Master, she settled down in the Shenyi Valley, where spring lasted all year round and flowers bloomed in abundance.

She stayed there for twenty years.

During these twenty years, she taught the female disciples of the Shenyi Valley to practice the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden Technique, strengthening the overall martial power of the Shenyi Valley.

In return, the Valley Master imparted to her a wealth of pharmacological knowledge and personally took her to refine medicine, create poisons, and cultivate Immortal Grass.

Twenty years later, Xie Yang saw off the hundred-year-old Valley Master and also took her leave to exit the valley.

By then, she herself was forty years old.

But she did not stop her footsteps, instead continuing to roam the borders of Daye.

She had saved many people, killed many evildoers, helped the Zhenbei Army repel the Hu people at Beiguan, and wiped out countless bandits and pirates along the land and sea Silk Road.

It was just that her movements were ethereal, coming and going like the wind.

Gradually, rumors about her in the folk grew more and more numerous; from eighty-year-old elders down to three-year-old children, almost everyone knew of such a chivalrous woman—she had peerless martial arts, hated evil as if it were a personal enemy, walked the world with a long sword, and swept away all the injustices under heaven. It indirectly tidied up the social customs of the Great Ye Dynasty.

In this plane, Xie Yang lived until she was ninety-nine years old, remaining unmarried her entire life.

But she had practiced the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden Technique and the Shenyi Manual to their limits.

Using these two skills, she saved countless people.

Although she did not return to the Xie Mansion often, she had been watching over it in secret.

However, whether it was the late Emperor or after the Crown Prince ascended the throne, they had always been quite attentive to the Xie Family Third Branch.

Her father rose to become the Minister of War, and during his tenure, he established the first navy of the Great Ye Dynasty, with the naval ships donated by their family's merchant firm.

It could be said that her father's official rank in this life was entirely dependent on donations.

But the donations were considered worthwhile.

The business empire of her eldest brother, Xie Jing, expanded from Nanyang to South America, to East Asia, and with the help of Carlos, even to Europe.

The fame of the Xie Family Grocery Store also grew larger and larger; Nanyang Grocery, Xiyang Grocery, Dongyang Grocery... the entire street was almost the territory of the Xie Family Grocery, and its branches were like sesame flowers blooming—opening all over the north and south of the Great Ye Dynasty.

Xie Yu and Xie Jue, one abandoned literature for martial arts and, relying on his own strength and family support, became the Naval Commander; the other attained the rank of Vice Minister of Rites, mainly responsible for receiving visits from friendly countries such as Nanyang, Dayuan, and Spain.

It could be said that the Zhenguo Duke Mansion relied entirely on the Third Branch to keep from continuing its decline, and it was even more glorious than when the old Duke was still alive.

Seeing that everything in the Xie Mansion was well, and since her legs and feet were not as nimble as they were in her youth, Xie Yang finally ended her long travels and came to Australia, which the Xie Family Merchant Ship had not yet explored. With clear blue skies above and lush green grassy slopes below, she fenced off a piece of land to build a ranch, where she spent her peaceful twilight years...

【Ding! A new Task world has been opened, please prepare yourself, Host!】

{End of this volume}