Chapter 553: Insurance

Wei Yuan stared at this happily growing Immortal Orchid, looking left and right, as if he could see a flower.

This Immortal Orchid was indeed a flower.

There were all kinds of birds in a big forest, and with many immortal plants, there would be unexpected surprises from time to time.

This Immortal Orchid was obviously exceptionally adapted to the Nether Cold Realm, and it could even be said that it was born to grow here. It came to the Nether Cold Realm like a mouse falling into a rice jar, and it could roll around as it pleased; it only needed to open its mouth to be full.

The Immortal Orchid continuously absorbed the power contained in the Nether Crystal, and then expanded its own realm, replacing the original Nether Cold Realm.

Wei Yuan suddenly discovered that he had made a mistake; what the Immortal Orchid replaced was not the Nether Cold Realm, but the kingdom!

It was equivalent to replacing Shuli's original kingdom with another kingdom. Although the realm was very small, it was essentially the same as the kingdom.

What was eerie was that the realm produced by this Immortal Orchid was closely connected to Wei Yuan's Mind-Reflection World, like a sub-world spreading out from the Mind-Reflection World. Wei Yuan could not only perceive the Immortal Orchid's realm like perceiving the Human World Renjian Yanhuo, but could also perform limited control like in the Human World Renjian Yanhuo.

Wei Yuan's heart moved, and the first thing he did was to dig for Nether Iron.

So he tried to perceive it, and sure enough, his understanding of the physical properties of Nether Iron became much clearer; if looking at Nether Iron before was like being separated by a thick gauze, now this layer of gauze had been removed.

Although the realm power of the Immortal Orchid was weak, it could also slightly affect the environment, lowering the melting point of Nether Iron by another half percent. Don't underestimate this half percent; just this little bit of lowering made the difficulty of melting significantly reduced, the Dragon Eagle went from going all out to being relaxed, and the mining speed increased by half.

At this time, other Immortal Orchids in the Human World Renjian Yanhuo were not calm and asked to go out one after another. But seeing that this Immortal Orchid was still far from reaching the limit of expansion, Wei Yuan planned to wait for a while and returned to Qingming.

At this time in Qingming, Yu Zhizhuo had turned from his original excitement to numbness, and facing a pile of hundreds of thousands of jin of Nether Iron in front of him, he began to think about the meaning of life.

As a genius of the Heavenly Craft Hall, Yu Zhizhuo was naturally familiar with the prices of various rare materials. What he was thinking about now was, without mentioning the matter of Yu Jing, his own worth now was equivalent to three or four iron ore stones in front of him. Why was he not as valuable as a pile of broken stones?

Wei Yuan understood Yu Zhizhuo's mood at this moment, but he was powerless to help; there were still tens of millions of jin of ore in the Human World Renjian Yanhuo that hadn't been taken out. If they were all taken out, Yu Zhizhuo's Dao heart would likely collapse.

Wei Yuan had another major event to host this time, which was to preside over this month's Dao Foundation training class.

Now the candidates had all been selected, among whom over four thousand were those who had obtained the Dao Foundation building qualification after their families were promoted to commoners, over one thousand were those whose military merits had accumulated enough, plus five hundred Cui family disciples and five hundred disciples from small families and small forces.

The great battle with the Rain Kingdom led to a surge in Qingming's total military merits, and a large number of criminal people jumped directly over the soldiers and entered the ranks of commoners.

Now the Dao Foundation training classes were all familiar with the road, and Wei Yuan finished everything in half a day. He cumulatively consumed over five thousand strands of green Qi, and then the realm added eight hundred Dao Foundation cultivators; now the entire Qingming already had six thousand Dao Foundation cultivators.

The proportion of those who built the Dao Foundation in this Qingming was quite high, and the core reason was the successive great battles; these candidates were almost all killed out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, not to mention how their bone quality and aptitude were, at least their mental state was first-class and tough.

Among the eight hundred new Dao Foundation cultivators, less than one hundred were self-selected or combat-type Dao Foundations, and the rest were production-type template Dao Foundations. Among them, Wei Yuan specially promoted the two Fire-attribute Dao Foundations, Immortal Sword Pseudo-Sun and Ten Directions Glazed Golden Fire, and as a result, over three hundred were cultivated, including over one hundred Immortal Sword Pseudo-Suns.

Now Qingming had a total of over three hundred Immortal Sword Pseudo-Suns; Wei Yuan estimated that if Xiaoyu saw it, she would likely sigh that "my Dao is not alone" and faint with joy.

The proportion of people choosing template Dao Foundations in this batch of cultivators was also higher than ever before, and many people, after listening to the introduction, chose pure production-type Dao Foundations, such as Innate Life-Nurturing Water, Six Paths A-B Divine Wood Qi, etc. After the bloody battles of risking their lives, they all began to yearn for a stable and peaceful life, without having to risk their lives every day. At this time, one thousand sets of Nether Crystal heavy armor and Nether Iron battle sabers had been forged, and after careful selection from the entire army, only eight hundred Dao Foundation cultivators were selected and equipped with brand-new equipment.

Qingming now had several times the number of Dao Foundation cultivators as in the past, but the proportion of Dao Foundation cultivators specifically engaged in production continued to increase, and Wei Yuan didn't have to drag all the Dao Foundation cultivators who could move to the battlefield like when Qingming was first built.

These eight hundred Dao Foundation cultivators, plus the more than three hundred Dao Foundation captains scattered in various units, were all brave and bloodthirsty warriors, and on the battlefield, facing production-type Dao Foundation cultivators, they could easily fight two at once.

This unit was assigned to the Long Xiang Army, but it was one level higher than the ordinary Long Xiang Army, so Wei Yuan called it the Wall of Long Xiang.

At this time, Wei Yuan was already considering how to counterattack Hong Ye, so he returned to his residence and checked the recent results of the All Living Beings Equal War Equipment Research Institute.

Wei Yuan wanted to find something that could replace war horses, which could carry warriors for rapid maneuvering and, if necessary, charge the enemy formation.

Xu Wenwu had long proposed the concept of a tank, but in the eyes of the cultivators, this thing was large and clumsy, and it was a living target on the battlefield. In this day and age, who couldn't use a few tricks of iron-cutting Dao techniques and Blazing Flame Dharma Spells? Not to mention anything else, the Blazing Flame Dharma Spell was definitely much easier to use than a Molotov cocktail.

In terms of defense, a top-grade spiritual shield was much stronger than any tank and didn't affect the cultivator's flight speed.

So Wei Yuan didn't have much hope, but he really saw something quite interesting. This thing was still far from perfect; the principle was to add a saddle to the spray tube, and in front of the spray tube was a ram and a protective baffle.

During battle, the cultivator would ride this thing, start the spray tube, and charge straight at the enemy formation; the charging ability was better than heavy armored iron cavalry. The only drawback was that the mortality rate would be a bit high if done this way, roughly between sixty and eighty percent, so this thing was called "Cherry Blossom."

Wei Yuan was also dumbfounded, but there were good points in the design concept of Cherry Blossom, mainly that it could be ridden by a single soldier.

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So Wei Yuan wrote a note on it, suggesting referring to the concept of motorcycles in the world outside the heavens, and additionally adding flight capabilities to develop a new single-soldier vehicle.

After finally finishing the military affairs, Wei Yuan stretched and went to visit Behind Bao Yun.

At this time, it was near dusk, and Behind Bao Yun's temporary residence was silent, with only two cultivators guarding outside the courtyard, chatting somewhat boredly.

Wei Yuan didn't disturb them and quietly entered the courtyard, intending to see what Behind Bao Yun was doing. Walking these few steps in the courtyard, Wei Yuan had already thought of countless excuses for himself, such as worrying about her, not having seen her for a long time, not noticing there were guards at the door, etc., etc.

The study and the guest hall were both empty, and there was no one in the cultivation room, so only the bedroom was left.

For a moment, Wei Yuan felt that his luck was very good... no, it was very bad. He came to talk about business; who knew she would go to sleep before dark?

Wei Yuan pushed open the bedroom door without hesitation and eliminated all sounds with Dao power, and at the same time had already thought of an excuse for his actions—no, it was a reason: people in the world of martial arts don't stick to small details.

At this time, although Wei Yuan and Behind Bao Yun were still struggling with the issue of status, Wei Yuan had no intention of letting go, so some intimacy and ambiguity could add an insurance to the relationship between the two.

In the bedroom, Behind Bao Yun was lying quietly on the bed, her breathing even, but her brows were slightly furrowed, as if she was thinking about something with full concentration, not noticing Wei Yuan's arrival at all.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 554 =====