Chapter 1025

After ordinary people were full and had learned to read, they suddenly felt their lives become empty.

Therefore, in the current Qingming, storybooks are prevalent. This situation was originally within Wei Yuan's expectations, but for some reason, the statistical sales of storybooks were much less than predicted by the prosperity of the myriad worlds.

Wei Yuan originally intended to use storybooks as a main battlefield for scolding wars, so he attached great importance to it, and sent people to specifically investigate the reasons.

Those sent out were elite soldiers and strong generals, and they soon concluded: a considerable number of literate people had simultaneously embarked on the path of Body Forging, working themselves to death every day for the sake of cultivation. These people wanted to sleep as soon as they got home and didn't read storybooks at all; if they did, they only read the simplest and most straightforward ones that only used the lower half of their bodies to think.

Wei Yuan felt it made a lot of sense, so he stopped worrying and temporarily put the matter aside.

In the past few days, a brand-new storybook had suddenly become popular, becoming popular for no reason.

In the lanes and alleys, there was a woman asking her husband who had worked all day and just entered the door: "If I became a caterpillar, would you still love me?"

The man had just spent the whole day consolidating his Dao foundation and was exhausted to death at this moment, not even wanting to eat. Hearing this, he suddenly felt inexplicably irritable and replied furiously: "Then I'll become a woodpecker and peck you, you troublesome woman!"

The woman never expected this answer; she wanted to cry but didn't dare, and was so angry that she returned to the room and slammed the door shut.

Sitting alone in the room, she was on the verge of tears, not knowing when she would be like the storybook, where a young and promising Realm Lord suddenly fell in love with her and treated her three children as his own.

Wei Yuan would sneeze from time to time these past few days, not understanding why he would have symptoms of a cold with his current dharma body. Wei Yuan had also considered whether someone had taken advantage of the chaos to cast a spell on him, but after asking the Eldest Senior Sister, he knew it was unlikely.

Wei Yuan was currently carrying the fortune of many people, and there was more than one immortal artifact in his Mind-Reflection World; even if Immortal Yan Shi cast a spell himself, he would have to pay a price. Where could ordinary miscellaneous immortals cast a spell on Wei Yuan?

As for the conspiracy of the alien races, it was also unlikely. Two old friends, Lady Hui Xin and Shengxin, had already been captured and imprisoned. It was one thing for these two fellows to sneak into Qingming, but they actually dared to participate in the competition; if they couldn't be caught again, Wei Yuan could just bump into a wall and die.

On that day, Lady Hui Xin was the first to take the stage. When the cold air of the Taiyin Laurel covered her, it immediately discovered her Shaman tribe body, so it secretly informed Wei Yuan. Wei Yuan had set up a net, and only after these two fellows finished competing did he secretly take them down.

Wei Yuan was quite wary of Shengxin. After putting heavy restraints on him, he specifically fed him a powerful digestion pill that could accelerate body functions. In just half a day, Shengxin was so hungry that his eyes turned green. Wei Yuan felt that a Shengxin who was half-starved to death was a good Shaman.

Not an immortal and not an alien race, Wei Yuan thought about it, but didn't understand why he would still sneeze. The only possibility was that tens of thousands of ordinary people were thinking of him at the same time; this was an alternative path of fortune, so it caused Wei Yuan's reaction.

However, this idea was too absurd, so Wei Yuan ignored it directly.

On this afternoon, Wei Yuan was making final preparations for planting the Buddha Sword Peak, when suddenly the door was pushed open, and Xu Henshui rushed in in a hurry. As soon as he entered, he said: "I have always treated you well, you, how could you treat me like this?!"

Wei Yuan was confused and said: "What did I do?"

"Look for yourself!" Xu Henshui threw a publication over.

Wei Yuan caught it lightly; it was a special issue of the "Gossip Weekly," which had been the best-selling recently, on the First Great Immortal Manifestation Assembly in the World.

All the publications and journals controlled by Qingming had issued the same special issue, but their total circulation was not as much as that of the "Gossip Weekly" alone. All the publications combined, this special issue had issued more than 100,000 copies.

The special issue had detailed introductions for all twelve immortal manifestations, and there were hand-drawn portraits of each character, emphasizing spirit over form, but all were extremely vivid. For example, Bao Yun was captured in the moment she accidentally looked back while riding the clouds; seeing only a little bit of her profile was enough to make people unable to control themselves.

These portraits were all painted by masters Wei Yuan had spent a lot of money to invite.

So what could be wrong with this publication? Wei Yuan opened it suspiciously and turned to Xu Henshui's page, seeing a portrait of a dashing young gentleman, as beautiful as jade, with unparalleled appearance.

Xu Henshui gritted his teeth and said: "Turn to the next page!"

Wei Yuan turned the page, and it was the recorded manifestation. Xu Henshui's manifestation was named Ink Jade Bell Immortal; this name was standard and not a name bestowed by the Heavenly Dao.