Chapter 159: Unsolicited Request

For the next day, Wei Yuan did not stop, running to seventeen human settlements of various sizes in one day, with thousands of people in the large ones and only one or two hundred in the small ones. As long as the village had more than a hundred people, Wei Yuan would go there once and let everyone spread the news. There were also many people scattered in the vast territory, but they always had to go to human settlements to exchange for necessities every once in a while, and then they would know the news of Wei Yuan recruiting mortals.

It wasn't until late at night that Wei Yuan returned.

In this day, Wei Yuan ran through all the human villages and towns of some scale within three hundred miles, notifying roughly forty thousand people.

However, when Wei Yuan first arrived here, there were about eighty thousand people around, but the Shaman army attacked several times, forcing many people to leave their original villages and towns to avoid disaster and hide in the mountains and dense forests.

Everyone was willing to move into the domain, even if the original village was where they had lived for generations, but without the protection of the boundary stone, it was no longer their hometown.

The migration of mortals was much slower, and it was not surprising that it would take more than ten days to walk three hundred miles with their families and luggage. So Wei Yuan also summoned five hundred cultivators, divided into dozens of small teams, specifically to help mortals migrate.

In fact, many people disapproved of Wei Yuan's decision, including Yun Feifei, who expressed her views tactfully. In her view, too many mortals at this time were burdens, not to mention anything else, just food was a big problem.

Shaman food contains toxins to some extent, and humans can eat a little when they have no choice, but they can't eat too much. Besides ready-made food, don't look at the abundance of living things everywhere in the Shaman Domain, there are countless fierce fish in the water, but none of them can be eaten directly by humans, and even the water cannot be drunk.

Therefore, although the products of this world look rich, people still starve to death every year.

No matter what these cultivators thought, Wei Yuan insisted on bringing all mortals back to the domain, even the old, weak, sick, and disabled, not giving up on a single one. The cultivators just thought Wei Yuan had unrealistic persistence, so they executed it silently.

In fact, they had seen many people with high character who insisted on putting mortal beings above themselves in the past, but in this Western Region, good people not only don't get good rewards, but they are also prone to bad deaths.

Wei Yuan didn't argue with them, just execute the order. After this day, Wei Yuan gained three more strands of cyan Qi, and thus knew the value of these mortals.

After arranging everything, the night was deep, and there was still an hour before dawn. Wei Yuan returned to the main peak, preparing to do some homework. But just after returning to the room, someone knocked on the door. Wei Yuan opened the door, and it was Cui Yu visiting.

At this time, there was no light in the room, so Wei Yuan manifested an Immortal sword "Pseudo-Sun" and stuck it on the wall, illuminating the room.

After the two sat down, Wei Yuan asked: "Brother Cui visits late at night, there must be something important."

Cui Yu's old face flushed, and he whispered: "This, brother has an unsolicited request. Um, it's like this, if there is a battle situation like today next time, can you let brother also come and cut two swords?"

"So it's this!" Wei Yuan laughed and said: "This kind of small matter, Brother Cui just needs to give an order, no need to come specifically to say it. However, I am a bit strange, Brother Cui, are you still short of Heavenly Merit?"

With Cui Yu's family background, the probability of achieving Dharma Form in the future is quite high, and logically speaking, Heavenly Merit is just a matter of time. Even if he wants Heavenly Merit now, it is not a difficult matter with the help of elders in the clan.

Hearing Wei Yuan ask this, Cui Yu showed a difficult expression and sighed: "Junior brother doesn't know, actually I am not as glorious as I look in the family. I have a cousin who achieved Immortal Foundation a few years ago, and since then, the family has tilted resources toward him. Not long ago, he actually obtained Heavenly Merit, which caused quite a sensation in the clan, so the elders in the clan moved some of the resources that originally belonged to me to him."

"Brother's foundation is indeed a bit worse, and I have participated in several actions related to Dharma Form before, and also hit a few swords, but I didn't get any Heavenly Merit. And my cousin has always been competitive, and the elders of his branch are also people who don't give an inch. In recent years, they have been pressing step by step, and they have done it very ugly."

Wei Yuan understood when he heard this.

This matter concerns the competition for resources between the two branches of the direct line, so the elders in the clan are not easy to obviously favor one side, so at most, they let Cui Yu find opportunities to cut a few swords during the battle, and they won't let everyone cut the Dharma Form like Wei Yuan.

Cui Yu lowered his voice again and whispered: "If there is an opportunity like today in the future, please also use the means you used on friends today on me."

Wei Yuan understood, it turned out that what Cui Yu wanted was this.

The criteria for evaluating merit in major Immortal sects are the same; to get Heavenly Merit, one must effectively hurt the foundation of the Dharma Form. With Cui Yu's Dao Foundation and current cultivation, even if he could hit the Dharma Form, he wouldn't get Heavenly Merit. Back then, Wei Yuan reversed the battle and injured the North Liao Snow Eagle with one spear, but didn't hurt the foundation, and also didn't get a single point of Heavenly Merit.

However, the battle today has already proven that whether it is black Qi or cyan Qi, it can hurt the Dharma Form after application, and both can get Heavenly Merit. This is just a matter of lifting a hand for Wei Yuan. Although Qi luck will be consumed, Wei Yuan has now found a way to replenish Qi luck, and he is rich and powerful, so he doesn't care about this consumption at all. Wei Yuan smiled and said: "A small matter, next time I guarantee Brother Cui will get enough Heavenly Merit! It's just that I don't know when I will meet a few Great Shamans again."

Cui Yu was very grateful and said again: "Can this matter..."

Wei Yuan understood and said: "Brother Cui, don't worry, I will definitely not tell anyone else, and I can do it flawlessly, guaranteeing that no one can see it."

Cui Yu was overjoyed, suddenly stood up, and bowed to the ground: "Junior brother, great kindness is not thanked! Brother remembers this matter in his heart, and will definitely not forget it!"

In the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, another strand of cyan Qi appeared.

Wei Yuan was startled and hurriedly helped him up: "Brother, your words are too heavy! A small matter, how can it be like this?"

Cui Yu stood up, sat down again, sorted out his mood, and sighed: "This matter has actually troubled me for a long time. I have been taking these brothers and sisters to practice everywhere, one is hoping that one of them can grow up, and the other reason is that I don't want to face those people at home."

Wei Yuan was a bit strange: "In such a large Cui family, can't it accommodate two geniuses?"

Cui Yu smiled bitterly: "The cake is only so big, if someone gets an extra piece, others will have less. Furthermore, no matter how many cakes the Cui family has, there will always be more people who want to share the cake."

When Cui Yu left, the sky was already slightly bright.

Wei Yuan originally thought that a person like Cui Yu had no worries since birth, but he didn't expect that he also had troubles, and it sounded like the trouble was no smaller than others.

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The direct line of the Cui family has seven branches, each spreading branches and leaves, and each branch has many people. Cui Yu's great-grandfather is currently an elder of the Cui family, holding several real powers. But with the strong rise of Cui Yu's cousin, that branch has become more and more aggressive recently, and has been forcing Cui Yu's great-grandfather to hand over part of the substantial interests. In the past six months, there have been constant conflicts between the two branches, and they are close to tearing their faces.

Noble families have been passed down for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, and have long formed a set of complex and interlocking systems.

The great elders are high above, discussing heroes based on cultivation and merit; the backbone layer holds real power, looking at both merit and cultivation, and also looking at the cultivation of the next generation, whether there are successors, so this layer is the most troublesome. The younger generation is simple, only distinguishing high and low based on talent and cultivation.

Originally, Cui Yu's cousin was an Immortal Foundation, but that Immortal Foundation was not good at fighting. And Cui Yu's Dao Foundation was an Immortal sword, good at killing, so the two were not much different in the eyes of the elders. However, as the cousin constantly obtained Heavenly Merit, the clan gradually tilted toward him.

This is actually a struggle between the two branches of the direct line, but now it is just using Cui Yu and his cousin as the point of contention. Within the noble families, the struggle is no less than anywhere else.

This matter of Cui Yu cannot be rushed, and missing today's opportunity means waiting for the next Great Shaman. Fortunately, there are as many Great Shamans as there are hairs on a cow, and there will always be opportunities.

After sending Cui Yu away, there was still some time before dawn, so Wei Yuan sat cross-legged and soon forgot about things and himself.

Wei Yuan's spiritual sense entered the sea of consciousness, and the first thing he saw was not the full moon, but a ferocious big face of a Shaman!

Wei Yuan was greatly shocked, almost awakened from the state of entering stillness. He quickly retreated, opened the distance, and as a result, brushed past several Shaman warriors!

What is going on?!

Wei Yuan looked closely, only to see that those Shaman warriors seemed not to have noticed his existence, each with a ferocious face, but dull expression. They just walked forward blankly, walking toward the Yushan in front from all directions.

Wei Yuan looked around, only to find that the vast earth was full of Shaman warriors, in various forms, but they all seemed to have lost their sanity, just taking stiff and slow steps under the call of some mysterious power, constantly walking toward the Yushan in the center of the earth.

The full moon tonight is exceptionally cold.

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