Chapter 465

Zhang Sheng finally completed the newly issued task and clicked submit. A moment later, the returned evaluation was "Good."

Zhang Sheng's mood instantly became excellent, and she then accepted the next task. This time, the system informed her that because her previous task evaluation was "Good," it would begin assigning node-type tasks.

Node-type tasks require Zhang Sheng to break down the task content. This time, it was split into three parts: one for herself to handle, and the other two to be assigned to others. Finally, the three parts of the work are aggregated and merged into a complete magic array, which counts as completion.

Zhang Sheng had never heard of this kind of task before. Subsequently, through the light orb, she perceived hundreds of independent consciousnesses. She needed to choose two from these people to assign the tasks to.

Everyone had detailed profiles and past task records, so Zhang Sheng had to select the recipients for the task distribution through these materials.

Just as Zhang Sheng was browsing the profiles, dozens of consciousnesses disappeared from the network; they had likely been selected by others.

At this moment, not far away, Cui Yu had just completed a task, let out a long breath, and swung his fist hard! This was his first time handling sixteen tasks simultaneously; he completed them with precision and ultimately received an excellent evaluation. Handling sixteen tasks at once, with his spiritual sense operating at ultra-high speed, left Cui Yu feeling slightly dizzy, as if he hadn't slept for days.

Just then, Cui Yu suddenly felt a spark of spirituality explode deep within his sea of consciousness, instantly like a volcanic eruption! At the same time, a thunderclap sounded outside, and dark clouds instantly gathered!

Cui Yu could hardly believe it; was his Dao Foundation spirituality complete just like that, and was he about to form a Dharma Form? But this was in Ji Weiwei Yuan's Mind-Reflection World, and his physical body was not here; how could he form a Dharma Form?

The young girl suddenly appeared, pulled Cui Yu up, and instantly vanished.

Zhang Sheng was also shocked; were there heavenly tribulations here too?

She left her seat, wanting to follow and take a look. Just as she rushed out of the hall door, the young girl appeared before her again, and then a path of light appeared in front of the two. Zhang Sheng followed the young girl onto the light path, and after a few steps, they arrived at an empty wilderness.

In this wilderness, there were six sites in total, corresponding to the attributes of the five elements, and one more whose attribute could not be discerned, but it had several iron poles standing in it, and the ground was covered with iron sand.

At this time, the tribulation lightning had already appeared above Cui Yu's head, and ripples seemed to be swaying in the deep blue tribulation clouds; his heavenly tribulation this time was water lightning. Cui Yu was currently sitting in an earthy-yellow site, surrounded by an extremely dense power of thick earth.

Using earth to control water can naturally weaken the power of the heavenly tribulation. And the other few sites looked like they were arranged with specific purposes. Zhang Sheng saw a sign standing in the distance, inscribed with several large characters: "Tribulation Crossing Site for Turning Misfortune into Good Fortune."

Zhang Sheng's expression froze; was there even a standardized process for crossing heavenly tribulations now?

At this time, the heavenly tribulation began, and waves of water lightning fell, immediately inciting a counterattack from the thick earth power in the site, and the lightning tribulation was weakened layer by layer. Cui Yu suddenly let out a loud shout, and a golden-armored warrior holding a sword appeared above his head, swinging the sword to slash at the water lightning!

Zhang Sheng shook her head slightly.

Cui Yu's Dharma Form warrior's armor and attire were very eye-catching; it was a Six Ren Heavenly Soldier. However, this kind of heavenly soldier was only slightly higher than the lowest human-form Dharma Form, barely counting as an earth-form.

After all, Cui Yu's talent and foundation were limited; although he had cultivated a Dharma Form early on, his path should have been cut off here.

This heavenly soldier was soon slashed by the water lightning until it was covered in wounds and on the verge of destruction. But just at this moment, one after another, Six Ren Heavenly Soldiers walked out from Cui Yu's body, and in the end, there were actually sixteen heavenly soldiers in total!

They held the same immortal swords and faced the tribulation lightning. At first, the movements of the group of heavenly soldiers were uniform, but soon they each acted on their own, covering and coordinating with each other, actually having a bit of the feel of a military formation.

At this time, Ji Weiwei Yuan had already sensed the unusual movement in the "Human World Renjian Yanhuo," and his spiritual sense descended, discovering Cui Yu who was crossing the tribulation.

Cui Yu's sixteen-heavenly-soldier Dharma Form greatly shocked Ji Weiwei Yuan, and this specialized tribulation crossing site also shocked him. The mortals in the "Human World Renjian Yanhuo" now almost every once in a while would come up with things that left Ji Weiwei Yuan astonished.

However, Ji Weiwei Yuan did not discover Zhang Sheng and the young girl, and Zhang Sheng also did not know that Ji Weiwei Yuan's spiritual sense had descended.

Ji Weiwei Yuan evaluated the intensity of the lightning tribulation and believed that Cui Yu could completely withstand it, so he did not intervene.

As the heavenly tribulation ended, the sixteen Six Ren Heavenly Soldiers above Cui Yu's head stood in formation, which was truly extraordinary. Subsequently, Cui Yu's figure disappeared, and he exited the "Human World Renjian Yanhuo."

Ji Weiwei Yuan immediately headed straight for Cui Yu's residence. At this time, Dao power was surging around Cui Yu, and a faint light was hidden between his eyebrows; his state was very peculiar, as his Dao power had already far exceeded the Dao Foundation, yet it was still a bit short of a true Dharma Form.

Ji Weiwei Yuan immediately examined Cui Yu's body and sea of consciousness, and a moment later, Sun Yu, Xu Xu Henshui, and others arrived one after another. After a careful examination, Ji Weiwei Yuan discovered that Cui Yu's current state was very peculiar; his Primordial Spirit had already transformed into the sixteen heavenly soldiers of the Dharma Form after experiencing the heavenly tribulation, but his physical body was still in its original state.

From the Dao Foundation to the Dharma Form, Cui Yu had walked eighty percent of the path, missing only the final two steps.

Sun Yu, whose medical Dao was profound, said: "His Primordial Spirit has already become a Dharma Form, which will conversely nourish and drive the growth of his physical body. As long as he waits for a period of time for his physical body strength to catch up, he can achieve the unity of spirit and body, truly breaking through to the Dharma Form, and at that time, the success rate will be at least eighty or ninety percent."

With Cui Yu's original talent, the probability of breaking through to the Dharma Form was only about fifty percent.

Ji Weiwei Yuan was a bit curious and asked: "Why did you suddenly want to break through?" Cui Yu was actually still a bit confused at this moment and said: "I feel that my talent is insufficient, and anyway, I can't become a Royal Scenery, so there's no need to be so perfectionist. So when I suddenly felt the opportunity coming, I thought I'd just give it a try, not expecting it to actually attract a heavenly tribulation."

Xu Xu Henshui said: "The Six Ren Heavenly Soldiers are registered Dharma Forms, and further up are the Heavenly Generals. In the past, there have been people who cultivated multiple heavenly soldiers and generals, but there have never been sixteen, which is so many. In my opinion, this Dharma Form can be listed as heaven-rank."

Ji Weiwei Yuan was naturally happy that Cui Yu could have such a key breakthrough, so he exchanged for elixirs that could increase the probability of the Dharma Form in the Merit Hall and gave them to Cui Yu to ensure the probability.

Cui Yu also wrote a letter home; the Cui family naturally had similar breakthrough elixirs, and they were even better than those of the Grand Void Gate, named "Dharma Transformation Pills." Upon hearing that Cui Yu was about to break through to the Dharma Form, the Cui family was naturally overjoyed and sent three Dharma Transformation Pills in one go.

Next, Cui Yu would improve his physical body and wait for the best time to break through to the Dharma Form. And Ji Weiwei Yuan began to organize a merchant caravan, preparing to go to Western Jin to buy people.

There was only one pass bestowed by the Jin Prince, so Ji Weiwei Yuan made the scale of this merchant caravan extremely large, ordering five hundred cargo carts capable of carrying thousands of jin from Zhao Guo in one go.

This day, Ji Weiwei Yuan was in the study room formulating the route for the merchant caravan on a map when the door was suddenly pushed open, and Behind Bao Yun walked in.

Since returning from the Northern Shanmen, Ji Weiwei Yuan had been busy every day, and Behind Bao Yun's new city was located on the front line of the domain boundary against the Shaman tribe, also being built and reinforced day and night, so Behind Bao Yun was also busy day and night, not even attending some less important daily meetings. This was the first time the two had met since Ji Weiwei Yuan returned.

Seeing Behind Bao Yun, Ji Weiwei Yuan was naturally very happy and asked: "How is your new city coming along?"

Behind Bao Yun said: "The main body is almost built, and we are still perfecting the defensive works. The rest can be built according to the scheduled progress, so I can have some time to come and see you."

Ji Weiwei Yuan pointed at the map and said: "I am pondering the route for the merchant caravan; you came just in time, we can study it together."

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Behind Bao Yun came to Ji Weiwei Yuan's side and discussed the merchant caravan route with him. Because this merchant caravan was large in scale and would need to travel back and forth many times in the future, Ji Weiwei Yuan planned to set up relay stations in several places along the way.

Normally, the relay stations could be used to accommodate refugees; refugees in the surrounding areas would first gather at the relay stations, and then be picked up when the merchant caravan passed by on its return journey. In this way, the efficiency of receiving refugees could be greatly increased.

Behind Bao Yun suggested setting up more small relay stations in places far from the main route of the merchant caravan. These relay stations could organize small-scale merchant caravans to send people and goods to the main relay stations.

In this way, a merchant network covering Western Jin began to take shape.

Solving the merchant caravan problem, Ji Weiwei Yuan let out a sigh of relief and smiled: "You are really amazing; I hadn't thought of these relay stations."

Behind Bao Yun said: "The number of refugees might be far more than you expected; we need to prepare early. Food and housing must be fully prepared."

"Food is not a problem; housing can be made do with for now. Look, I plan to open new fields in these two places; these will be the sixth and seventh million mu. The first few hundred thousand mu of fields are already ripe, and the yield can also be increased quite a bit. However, I have always been unable to understand why there are always so many refugees."

Behind Bao Yun said: "I have also asked my great-grandfather about this question; he said that the more mortals there are, the more potential cultivation seeds there are, and a country's national fortune can also be abundant, with a higher possibility of the appearance of a Son of Fortune. So all countries usually pay close attention to maintaining the population. But if they cannot become cultivation seeds, then mortals are of no use.

If they can only forge the body, the resources consumed and the final harvest are roughly equivalent, unless they can cultivate to the completion of Body Forging. If they can't even reach this, then there is no need to forge the body for these mortals at all; just let them fend for themselves."

Ji Weiwei Yuan suddenly realized and thought to himself, so that was it. Maintaining the population quantity could ensure the number of cultivators, but the vast majority of mortals had no possibility of cultivating to the Dao Foundation. In the eyes of those in power, such people were of no use; kinder monarchs would arrange some relief, but most countries among the nine nations just let them fend for themselves, which was the origin of refugees everywhere.

Such things were almost never written in history books; only aristocratic families like the Bao family would specifically explain it when educating their core descendants.

Just as Ji Weiwei Yuan was deep in thought, Behind Bao Yun suddenly said: "I heard that Uncle-Master Zhang Sheng came back with you; I haven't gone to pay my respects to her yet. I will go over and greet her now."

Ji Weiwei Yuan's hand trembled, and the pen in his hand almost smeared the map.

Behind Bao Yun did not let Ji Weiwei Yuan stop her, went out on her own, gave a light leap, and landed in Zhang Sheng's small courtyard.

Zhang Sheng was originally sleeping with her eyes closed on the bed; at this moment, she suddenly opened her eyes, sat up from the bed, came to the outer hall, and opened the door.

Behind Bao Yun stood in the courtyard, the cold moonlight falling on her, as if bathed in thin frost, exceptionally beautiful.

Seeing Zhang Sheng, a brilliance suddenly lit up in Behind Bao Yun's eyes, and then she gave a graceful bow and said softly: "Greetings, Uncle-Master."

(End of chapter)