Chapter 436

Bao Yun dragged two unconscious guards out of the flying boat, hid them behind the cargo boxes nearby, and then said to the stunned Wei Yuan beside her: "What are you still standing there for? Move quickly; if we're any later, the Elders will discover us."

Wei Yuan had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow her into the flying boat. The flying boat then ascended, flew out of the Bao family ancestral grounds, and began to accelerate.

Bao Yun exerted her full strength to activate the formation, and the flying boat's speed grew faster and faster. Watching the Bao family ancestral grounds being left behind, Wei Yuan finally realized that this young lady was truly going to run away!

Wei Yuan took over the formation and channeled his Dao power into it. With his vast Dao power, the flying boat was instantly kicked away as if by an immortal, disappearing into the distance in a flash.

In the Bao family ancestral grounds, several young disciples had been watching the flying boat fly away, but when the boat suddenly vanished, it gave them a start.

A young man in the center, with a face like jade, shook his head and sighed: "It's better that she left."

A young man beside him sighed: "Ninth Brother, I don't know when we'll be able to see Little Sister again. Hmph, that barbarian really got a bargain."

The young man called Ninth Brother laughed helplessly: "Watch your tongue. None of you combined are that barbarian's match."

"Isn't there still you, Ninth Brother?"

The young man with skin as translucent and moist as jade said: "I may not be his match either. Among the Dharma Forms, perhaps only Uncle Baoshu can suppress him."

Another young girl, clearly not yet an adult, asked: "Isn't it good for Sister Yun to marry the Young Island Master? Why is Ninth Brother so opposed to it?"

"That is an arrangement, the will of those old men above. What is an arrangement? It means that whether you like it or not, you have to do what you're told. Although that barbarian in the Northwest looks very punchable, Little Sister likes him, and that's enough." Bao Jiu said lazily.

By this time, the flying boat had long since vanished, and the group of young people dispersed.

Inside the flying boat, Wei Yuan opened his spiritual sense fully. Seeing no movement from the Bao family ancestral grounds behind them and no one tracking them in the air, he breathed a slight sigh of relief and asked: "Why run away so suddenly? What about your luggage?"

Bao Yun raised her left hand and shook the bracelets on her wrist. These bracelets were all storage magic treasures, and the rank of the worst one was better than the one Wei Yuan had just replaced.

Wei Yuan looked toward the direction of the Bao family ancestral grounds; he hadn't even had time to say goodbye to Bao Manshan, and he felt it was all a bit strange.

Bao Yun knew his thoughts and said: "We've already run; if we don't run fast, wouldn't that be disrespectful to our Great-Grandfathers?"

Wei Yuan then understood: the Bao family ancestral grounds were so quiet because even if the Great Elders hadn't noticed, the Immortal Ancestor must have known already. Everyone was just pretending not to know, so of course, they had to run fast, lest someone truly blind come to chase them.

At this time, Wei Yuan was steering the boat, and Bao Yun leaned over and asked: "One more question."

Wei Yuan was both helpless and terrified. This little ancestor's questions were simply abysses of death; answer well and you're doomed, answer poorly and you're also doomed.

Bao Yun said: "Your teacher has always presented himself as a man; how did your affection come about? Could it be that you like men?"

Wei Yuan's vision almost went black; sure enough, another fatal question.

"Actually, for a period of time, I was indeed very panicked, not understanding why I…… had those thoughts. Later, the Great Curse of Cause and Effect descended……"

Wei Yuan briefly recounted the process of surviving in the polar region and the ten-thousand-mile escape, picking only the parts where he had narrowly escaped death, such as the old ghost possessing him and almost successfully taking over his body. If it hadn't been for Zhang Sheng's Yang Thunder, he would be the shell of that ten-thousand-year-old ghost now, and naturally, it would have been impossible to come see Bao Yun.

Of course, he detailed how his internal organs were destroyed, his heart was gone, and his eyes were eroded. Sure enough, Bao Yun clenched her fists unknowingly as she listened, especially when she heard that Wei Yuan was blind when he woke up and couldn't feel his own heart; her breathing even stopped for a moment.

"……Later, Master Yu Jing from Northern Liao chased me for over a million miles, but he didn't catch me, allowing me to escape back to the Northern Shanmen." After finishing the story of his tragic injuries back then, Wei Yuan decisively ended this part of the story.

Bao Yun sighed lightly and said: "So you suffered so much. Very well, since you are telling the truth this time, I'll give you a reward."

She looked at Wei Yuan, slowly leaning closer and closer, her full, moist lips—which seemed as if they would break at a touch—pursed slightly as she leaned in.

Wei Yuan could already feel the heat from her lips and subconsciously held his breath!

But Bao Yun suddenly pushed Wei Yuan hard, almost knocking him over, then returned to her original position, looking at Wei Yuan with a smile.

Wei Yuan gritted his teeth, took a deep breath to calm his mind, and focused on steering the flying boat.

A single flying boat crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, finally returning to Qingming.

As soon as they stepped onto the soil of Qingming, spiritual nature boiled within the ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains, and hundreds of wandering souls entered the Gate of Reincarnation, becoming new mortals.

Wei Yuan first took Bao Yun on a tour of Qingming, then met with old friends from the Primordial Palace to reminisce. Everyone was naturally very happy to see Bao Yun back, only Feng Tingyu had a shadow on her small face.

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At this time, Yu Zhizhuo and Sun Yu were making final preparations for the Dharma Form, waiting only for Wei Yuan to return so they could concentrate on using the Jia Wood Jianmu Sheng Xuan and the Instant Myriad Beings before beginning their seclusion.

Wei Yuan opened the Instant Myriad Beings for both of them several times, allowing them to touch the realm of the Dharma Form in advance, and that night, Yu Zhizhuo and Sun Yu began their seclusion. Wei Yuan blessed their seclusion site with Jia Wood Jianmu Sheng Xuan and had Xu Wenwu move in to stay.

Afterward, Wei Yuan came to the Northwest, choosing a place with complex terrain but also concentrated Feng Shui nodes at the edge of the domain as the site for the new city; the City Lord of the new city was Bao Yun.

Wei Yuan gathered all the refugees who had newly arrived in Qingming within the last month and placed them in the new city; there were about eighteen or nineteen thousand people in this group. Afterward, Wei Yuan picked another batch of upper-middle-grade offerings, about four or five thousand. Finally, he selected several thousand more from the captives of the Xu family's private army to make up thirty thousand people. Then Wei Yuan mobilized three thousand elites to serve as the city defense army.

The new city was named Ding'an City, located over four hundred miles from the center of Qingming, just one step away from leaving the domain.

With the new city's foundation set, Wei Yuan announced that Bao Yun was the City Lord and that this city might belong to the Bao family in the future. In Ding'an City, Bao Yun's authority was equal to Wei Yuan's.

As soon as this order was given, Wei Yuan instantly saw hundreds of strands of green fortune gathering on Bao Yun! The speed at which these new city residents bowed down simply exceeded Wei Yuan's imagination.

Back in the day, Wei Yuan risked his life and fought countless great battles before he began to harvest fortune, and the first few batches didn't have as much as Bao Yun has now. Why? Could it just be because she is good-looking?

The city residents Wei Yuan selected all had deep significance. The refugees newly arrived in Qingming had never seen Wei Yuan and were just about to start a good life; they were the most likely to generate fortune. As long as Bao Yun provided them with peace and prosperity, human fortune would naturally follow.

The same was true for the offerings.

The group from the Xu family's private army had the concept of noble families and clans deeply ingrained in their marrow. Bao Yun was a direct genius of the Bao family, and this city was considered Bao Yun's private property; joining this city was equivalent to joining the Bao family. The Bao family was far more powerful than the Xu family; in the future, they could walk sideways when they saw their former colleagues, and even the official army wouldn't dare block their way. Thus, this group bowed the fastest and contributed the most fortune.

Although Ding'an City actually only had thirty thousand people, Wei Yuan estimated that it would soon have a thousand strands of green fortune. After the Shaman tribe attacked and Bao Yun led the crowd to defend the city, the fortune might reach two thousand. By gradually supplementing the residents in the future, the human fortune generated should be able to slowly repair her damaged Dao foundation.

(End of chapter)