Chapter 144: Life Is Not Easy

Deep in the night, Wei Yuan sat by the main peak, overlooking the entire realm from here. He held a map, deep in thought.

There was a pass on the only path the Shaman tribe must take. It was only one mile wide. If they camped and guarded there, they could delay the Shaman army. However, it would take five more days for the realm to cover it.

There was a small lake in the south, full of vitality. Once the realm covered it, he didn't know how many living things would be left in the lake.

There was a small human town in the east, with thousands of mortals in the town. It seemed they didn't need to migrate; just let them continue to live there.

Thus, one problem after another kept appearing. Some could be solved, while others could only be handled randomly when the time came.

Wei Yuan looked up to the west. The sky there was pitch black, as if some huge danger was slowly surging. The feeling of unease in Wei Yuan's heart became stronger and stronger, more obvious every day than the day before.

Qingming had been established for only five days, and two Great Shamans had already been beheaded, but not a single True Person from Tai Chu Palace had appeared. The Eldest Senior Sister could break through to the Dharma Form at any time, but for some reason, she had been suppressing her realm.

His master, Zhang Sheng, had long since reached the cultivation level, but it was obvious that he was still lacking in the tempering work. Only when the fourth immortal sword was completed would it be possible to break through. According to the last gift from heaven and earth, it would be almost enough if it came two more times, but he didn't know if other conditions were needed.

Bao Yun and Xiaoyu were already in the Rebirth Realm. Xiaoyu was faster in progress; after all, the immortal sword Great Sun was relatively simple, and the progress was rapid. Bao Yun's Seven-Marvelous Treasure Tree also had tempering problems; the seven branches had to be tempered one by one, which was a slow and painstaking work.

There were some other cultivators in the realm, such as Yun Feifei and her three junior brothers and sisters. Wei Yuan hadn't thought about how to deal with these three junior brothers and sisters, so he could only keep them locked up first. That Xu Jingfeng was a valuable one; at a critical moment, he might be able to trade something from the Xu family, but it was not yet clear how much he was worth, which also needed to be figured out.

In another five days, the realm would be able to expand to one hundred miles, which was also the current limit of Qingming. This was actually a fairly large area. The map in Wei Yuan's hand was the most detailed, but there were still large blank areas on it that needed to be surveyed and filled.

Everything was waiting to be done, and countless things were placed in front, regardless of size, all needed to be done.

It was a new day again.

It was still dark, and Wei Yuan arrived at Yun Feifei's residence. She now lived in a house simply built of wood. There was only a bed in the room, and nothing else. Wei Yuan knocked on the door, and Yun Feifei's voice came from inside: "Come in."

Wei Yuan pushed the door and entered. The room was pitch black, but with a sweep of his spiritual sense, it was equivalent to seeing things as clearly as day. At this moment, Yun Feifei was sitting cross-legged on the bed, just waking up from meditation.

"Today you go to Quliu Town once, see if you can recruit some people back, must be careful of the Xu family people." Wei Yuan exhorted.

"What?" Yun Feifei seemed to be distracted and didn't hear clearly.

Wei Yuan leaned closer and repeated it again, but just as he started speaking, Yun Feifei suddenly hugged his neck and pulled down hard, but Wei Yuan remained motionless.

Yun Feifei used all her strength, but couldn't shake Wei Yuan at all. She changed tactics, hooking her hands around Wei Yuan's neck, and two snow-white fleshy legs shot out like pythons, wrapping around Wei Yuan's waist. With Wei Yuan's ability, he couldn't even see how her two legs had slipped out of her skirt.

Yun Feifei exerted force from her waist and abdomen, twisting hard, but Wei Yuan remained motionless. She threw herself hard again, wanting to throw Wei Yuan onto the bed, but Wei Yuan still remained motionless.

Yun Feifei felt as if she had hugged a mountain peak and wanted to give the mountain peak a body slam.

Wei Yuan naturally couldn't let Yun Feifei mess around like this. If someone's spiritual sense swept here, it would be troublesome. So he slapped Yun Feifei's butt, and there was a crisp "pop" where his hand landed, saying, "You behave yourself..."

How could Yun Feifei be willing to behave? Suddenly, she bit toward Wei Yuan's mouth.

Wei Yuan leaned back slightly, just missing Yun Feifei's bite by a hair. Little did he know that Yun Feifei's lips parted slightly, and suddenly she performed a white snake spitting out its tongue, lightning-fast, and tapped Wei Yuan's lips!

Before Wei Yuan could react, Yun Feifei came down herself, tidying up her dress in the blink of an eye, so fast that even Wei Yuan could barely see it. Her dress seemed to have its own spirituality, able to be put on in one thought and taken off in one thought.

"I'm going to work!" Yun Feifei took it when she saw it was good and fled in victory.

The so-called accumulating small victories into a big victory, Yun Feifei felt that as long as she made progress every day, it was not impossible to bite a piece of meat off Wei Yuan while surrounded by strong enemies.

Wei Yuan walked to another small house not far away. This was Xu Waner's residence. As soon as Wei Yuan entered the door, she also threw herself over. Wei Yuan struck like lightning, pressing her forehead and fixing her in the air.

"Today you go and interrogate that Xu Jingfeng, see if you can ask anything out of his mouth. I want to know if he is left alive, what price the Xu family is willing to pay. I want the real situation."

"What scale?"

Wei Yuan didn't understand: "What do you mean?"

"It means to what extent I can use torture."

Wei Yuan then understood and said: "As long as there is no permanent disability. Oh, small injuries and small disabilities are also fine."

"Okay. But my injuries haven't healed yet..."

How could Wei Yuan believe it? His medical skills had improved, and it must have been completely healed last time. Xu Waner saw that one trick didn't work, and immediately said: "Then you hit me, just like hitting Yun Feifei."

Wei Yuan felt a bit guilty: "When did I hit her?"

"I heard that slap from here. It couldn't be a slap in the face, right?" Xu Waner's eyes were frighteningly bright, and Wei Yuan didn't dare to look directly at them.

"This..." Wei Yuan was speechless for a moment and also a bit puzzled. Separated by such a distance and two walls, how did she hear it?

Xu Waner turned around, bent down, raised her head, and raised her butt, saying: "Hurry up, I'm going to work!"

A spiritual sense slowly came from afar, like a heavenly net hanging down, and nothing could leak out.

The situation was urgent, and Wei Yuan had to quickly end the stalemate and send Xu Waner to work.

The spiritual sense swept across the wooden house and continued forward, as if it hadn't noticed anything. The two wooden houses added up to no more than a cup of tea, and it was still dark, but Wei Yuan felt physically and mentally exhausted, sighing that it was really difficult to coax people to do some work now. I don't know if the lords and city masters of the world where Xu Wenwu was could be easier.

In that world, if you were one minute late, you would be deducted silver. Such rules could be implemented, so mortals must be very obedient, right?

Returning from the two women's residence, Wei Yuan remembered that Xu Waner and Yun Feifei felt completely different, especially that one from Yun Feifei, which still had lingering charm. However, it was an expedient measure just now, and Wei Yuan didn't think about it carefully, only now realizing something was wrong. When hitting Yun Feifei, he remembered it was slippery and elastic, as if he didn't touch cloth.

A lonely lamp lit up on the other side of the mountain peak, illuminating the rugged road.

Xu Wenwu walked with a lamp, like a lonely prophet. It seemed that he was the only one in the world who still had a little light, and the rest of the people lived in darkness, waiting for him to bring the fire to the world.

Xu Wenwu walked into the stone house and saw Bao Yun was also in the room, placing a cup of water and a plate of snacks on the table.

Xu Wenwu was taken aback. All the temperament of the hidden prophet ran to the nine heavens, and his speech was not smooth: "You, why are you here?"

"You wrote well these two days, so I prepared some food and drink for you." After saying that, Bao Yun left the stone house.

Xu Wenwu stood still for a long while before coming back to his senses, picking up a piece of snack, thinking that it turned out that a fairy would also personally make snacks for me to eat.

He suddenly felt that coming to this world was not a bad thing, at least in the previous world, he wanted to invite a girl to eat a snack, but no one agreed.

Of course, if it was a girl like Bao Yun, let alone inviting her to dinner, even eye contact, Xu Wenwu wouldn't dare. So the ones Xu Wenwu invited were the ones he felt he was still worthy of, but unfortunately, others didn't think so.

!.

He carefully took a bite of the snack, tasted it carefully, and then felt it was not as delicious as Wei Yuan's porridge.

There was no reason, it just wasn't as delicious as the porridge, and he didn't know what was missing.

Xu Wenwu didn't understand what kind of mentality this was. Logically speaking, shouldn't a steamed bun taste like immortal food at this time?

He sat in front of the desk, stopped letting his imagination run wild, picked up the pen, and prepared to write something, only to find his mind was blank. In the blink of an eye, a quarter of an hour passed, and the paper was still blank.

On this day, Xu Wenwu wrote until late at night, and even moved the thousands of words he added yesterday to use, before he barely made up thirty thousand.

A new day arrived, and Bao Yun prepared food, water, and snacks as usual. But Xu Wenwu still missed that bowl of porridge, and for some reason, he couldn't stop thinking about it.

On this day, Xu Wenwu finally felt the pain of writing. In one day, he ate snacks thirty-four times, of course, the later ones were picking up crumbs; he drank water more than ninety times, paced hundreds of circles in the room, and then only wrote two thousand words in one day.

Xu Wenwu never expected that he would have a day when he couldn't even make up a story.

At night, seeing that he was about to have no sleep, Xu Wenwu became anxious and wrote furiously, not even knowing what he was writing.

Under the night curtain, a figure was walking staggeringly in the dense forest.

The forest was full of accumulated water, and he walked with deep and shallow steps, his speed very slow. Suddenly, he let out a muffled groan, lifted his foot, and saw several finger-sized fish nailed to his lower leg, biting through his pants and sucking blood on his lower leg.

His face was a bit disgusted and also a bit fearful, but he was still calm, taking out some white powder and applying it to these small fish. One by one, the fish fell into the water and swam away in a panic.

He leaned against a tree, panting for a while, and suddenly wiped his face with his hand, resulting in a handful of insects, all rubbed into insect mud. And his face was already slightly numb, gradually losing consciousness.

This was a face that was originally very handsome, but at this moment it was full of fatigue, and there was an open wound on his cheek, the flesh beginning to turn white, with no sign of healing.

Although there was water all around, his lips were cracked dry. The water here couldn't be drunk; only by peeling off the bark and the seeping tree sap could it be drunk. But if he did that, it would leave traces for the pursuers behind him.

He struggled to stand up and continued walking.

There was a faint sound of breaking wind in the sky, and someone was searching for something in the sky. But they flew high and walked high, and none of them found this young cultivator wading through the dense forest below.

The sky gradually brightened, and he finally reached the edge of the dense forest. From here, he could see a mountain peak in the distance, and the surrounding heaven and earth were not so sultry and humid. The young cultivator's spirit lifted; that was the end of his trip.

Above the dense forest, several men in black became more and more anxious, constantly sweeping below with their spiritual sense. The young cultivator looked up and took a pill, and his whole body's Dao power suddenly surged like a volcano. He leaped up and flew toward the distant mountain peak at full speed!

Several men in black were caught off guard and had already been escaped by the young cultivator for a long distance. They were both surprised and angry, hurriedly chasing, gradually closing the distance.

Just at this moment, an invisible force descended from the sky, and several people slowed down, while the young man's speed increased sharply, and the distance between the two sides opened up instantly.

Several men in black suddenly stopped, only to see Wei Yuan standing with a spear, blocking the way.

A man in black robe shouted: "This matter has nothing to do with you, it is best not to meddle in other people's business, so as not to cause trouble!"

Wei Yuan swung his long spear and said coldly: "Do you know who I am? I am..."

Several men in black robes were concentrating on waiting to hear the name, when suddenly they felt something strange above their heads. Looking up, they saw more than a dozen burning golden tripods falling from the sky, already above their heads!

The men in black robes were shocked and dodged desperately, but two of them were still hit by the burning golden tripods, vomiting blood on the spot. Wei Yuan stepped forward like a ghost, and the long spear instantly pierced through the two of them.

The remaining men in black robes saw that the situation was not good and immediately turned around and ran. The leader in black robe had the highest cultivation and ran the fastest, shouting back from afar: "Li Zhi! You wait for me, don't think that I can't recognize you just because you have a spear!"

Wei Yuan retracted his spear, thinking that his name hadn't been used for many days. It seemed that this man in black robe was mostly an old acquaintance, just someone he knew in Quliu Town.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 145 =====