Chapter 594: Visitor

"Look over here! I'm talking to you, the one who looks like a human but acts like a dog!" The scholar turned his head and saw a burly man with a face full of flesh beckoning to him.

Beside the burly man was a desk with pen and paper on it, and behind it stood a document cabinet where stacks of paper were neatly arranged. A sign stood beside the desk, with the three large characters "Registration Office" written on it.

On both sides of the road at the entrance of the town, there were eight or nine similar desks, each with two or three burly men behind them.

The scholar walked over and asked with full curiosity: "Is it necessary to register to enter the Azure Void?"

The burly man glared and said in a rough voice: "Otherwise? You think you can come and go as you please in this place? Less nonsense, hurry up and register, I haven't finished my task today!"

As he spoke, the burly man slapped a piece of paper into the scholar's arms and said: "Looking at your appearance, you seem to be literate and able to write, so save me some effort and fill it out yourself!"

The scholar pointed to the small square next to him and asked: "What are those people doing?"

Thousands of people were crowded into the small square, waiting in dozens of long lines to register. There were a full hundred desks in the square, and everyone responsible for registration was writing like flying, so although the lines were long, they were decreasing quite quickly.

The burly man looked in the direction the scholar was pointing and said: "Those are refugees preparing to join the Azure Void. You are different; you shouldn't be here to join, right?"

The scholar looked at the form, frowned slightly, and said: "Why is it so troublesome? Forget it, I won't enter the town, I'll just leave."

The burly man immediately shouted: "Stop! You have to register before you can leave!"

The scholar was unconvinced and questioned: "I'm not even entering, why do I still have to register?"

"Where do all these 'whys' come from? Just because I'm happy! I tell you to register, so you have to register!"

The scholar wanted to argue, but the burly man had already raised his fist and shouted: "If you dare to nag again, I'll charge you with obstructing official business, beat you half to death first, and then throw you into the dungeon!"

The scholar said angrily: "Is there no law here? You say you'll arrest people, so you arrest them?"

The burly man sneered: "Don't talk nonsense, who said we have no law? You won't register, so we arrest you. If you registered honestly, there wouldn't be so much trouble now. Less nonsense, will you fill out this paper or not?"

Seeing several burly men surrounding him, the situation was stronger than the person, so the scholar had no choice but to honestly pick up the pen and paper.

There were more than a dozen columns on the paper, and the registration content was extremely detailed. It took a lot of effort to fill it out, and there was a line of small print at the very end: If there are lies, may heaven strike me with lightning.

Finally, there was a signature, and it was required to sign the name in both human and Shaman tribe scripts.

The scholar wrote it carefully, signed his name, and then said: "How would I know Shaman tribe script? I can't sign this!"

The burly man picked up the form without even looking at it, tore it with a "rip" sound, and then said: "Fill it out again."

The scholar was furious: "Why is this?"

The burly man said expressionlessly: "There can be no smearing on it, fill it out again!"

Under the gaze of several muscular men, the scholar had to swallow his anger and take the new paper to fill it out again. As soon as he signed his name, it was snatched away by the burly man and torn up, saying: "Fill it out again!"

This time, he was too lazy to even find an excuse.

The scholar was so angry that his face turned blue, and his hands could not stop trembling, but everyone around him turned a blind eye to this.

People wearing official uniforms passed by and chatted and laughed with the burly man, but no one paid any attention to the scholar. The scholar finally understood that all officials in the world were one family, and in this Azure Void, there was simply no place to reason.

He filled out four copies in a row, and all four were torn up, until the fifth copy, when the burly man looked carefully at the signature and nodded with satisfaction.

The scholar had spent a full hour here, exhausted and unable to speak, and walked into the small town woodenly. As soon as he entered the town, he suddenly raised his sleeve to look, and saw that several thin causal lines that ordinary people could not see had stuck to his cuffs.

The corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing a faint smile, and he muttered to himself: "So that's how it is! I didn't guard against you having such small schemes."

At this time, there were five causal lines stuck to his cuffs, which were exactly the five forms he had filled out; four of the lines were so faint they were almost invisible, but the fifth was very obvious.

The scholar walked casually in the town and soon noticed that several pairs of eyes had been staring at him. A movement suddenly arose in his heart, and he looked into the distance, his vision struggling to penetrate layers of obstruction, seeing a corner of the tribulation clouds exposed on the distant horizon.

"Someone is actually undergoing tribulation? Hmm, I didn't see the appearance of the tribulation clouds clearly, I have to take a good look." The scholar narrowed his eyes and was about to look again, but heaven and earth changed instantly, and everything in the distance was hidden in the clouds and mist, and he could no longer see clearly.

He looked down at the causal lines on his cuffs and laughed: "It can actually be like this, I underestimated you. The Azure Void is worthy of being an immortal stone, it is indeed miraculous."

At this time, these causal lines did not know what they were connected to; as long as the scholar wanted to look into the distance, the domain power would block it on its own. After trying a few times, the scholar nodded slightly and said: "I should have been discovered, but why is there still no movement? Since that's the case, I'll go see for myself."

The scholar turned and entered a shop by the road, disappearing. Several people who had been following him noticed the abnormality and rushed into the shop, but where could they find the scholar's figure?

At this time, the scholar walked leisurely, and the scenery in front of him changed with every step he took. In the blink of an eye, he had seen Yong'an City and walked into Ding'an City, which was still under construction.

Yong'an City was grand in scale; now there were hundreds of thousands of people living in the city, people coming and going on the streets, houses lined up, and he could not see the end at a glance, but the scholar only walked a few steps before coming out of the city.

But in Ding'an City, he stopped and watched the new city tower under construction quietly. People kept walking around, but they all turned a blind eye to him.

The city tower had just laid the foundation, erected iron cages made of steel bars, and then shaped them with wooden boards on the outside, and then cultivators poured buckets of mud into them. This was a brand-new construction method. The scholar actually watched for a full quarter of an hour, then closed his eyes and calculated the time required for the city tower to be completed, changing his face for the first time.

His spiritual sense swept over the city tower construction site, and he breathed a sigh of relief, muttering to himself: "Fortunately, the defense is slightly insufficient compared to traditional city walls..."

But before he finished this sentence, he saw a team of cultivators carrying a dozen steel plates flying over, laying the thick steel plates on the city wall, and then covering them with a layer of mud.

The scholar was speechless for a moment.

Just like this, he looked here and there, and half an hour passed without knowing it. At this time, he suddenly remembered: where were the tribulation clouds?

This time he did not delay, his figure disappeared instantly, and a moment later he appeared outside the Heroic Spirit Hall, looking at the Heroic Spirit Hall whose upper part had collapsed by half.

Wei Yuan's voice sounded in the hall: "A distinguished guest has come from afar, why not come in and talk?"

The scholar walked into the hall door and saw Wei Yuan standing in front of rows of spirit tablets, staring at the names on them. Many spirit tablets were dim, but some spirit tablets were floating with faint golden light, and some were even as moist as jade, with the entire spirit tablet emitting a hazy halo.

The scholar revealed a knowing smile and paced in.

Wei Yuan did not look back and said slowly: "The ones enshrined here are all people who died in the war with you. They knew that there was only one way to die on the battlefield, but they still went without hesitation. It's just that I'm afraid they didn't expect to have to experience a life-and-death test again."

The scholar scanned the room and smiled: "Your heroes are our enemies, so I wish I could burn this place down with one fire."

Read it one by one, without missing a single word!

Wei Yuan seemed not to have heard what he said and continued: "There are a million tombstones outside, occupying two mountains. If you hadn't come, they wouldn't have died."

"If I don't come, other tribes will come. Besides, even if we don't come, you will come."

Wei Yuan nodded: "That's true. You've only come now; you must have looked through the Azure Void once, how does it feel?"

"Quite unexpected, some places can even be called shocking! This is simply not something that normal humans can think of; you should have come into contact with living beings from some wonderful world, right?"

Wei Yuan was slightly startled and said: "Amazing! You can even see this. However, with your wisdom, why must you come to attack me? And why would you risk your life alone for a woman and a child? You should know that standing here, you can't leave easily."

The scholar smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "I really didn't expect that one day I would be threatened to my face by a small Dharma Form cultivator. The last person who spoke to me like this was called Long Zhe."

Wei Yuan finally turned around, his eyes like torches, and said: "You and I are at the same major realm. I was originally two minor realms worse than you, but now I am only one minor realm worse. With such a small gap, I don't think you are anything remarkable."

"So it was you undergoing heavenly tribulation just now, no wonder. You arranged so many projects in the Azure Void just to delay time so you could successfully finish the heavenly tribulation, right?"

Wei Yuan admitted frankly: "I didn't expect the heavenly tribulation to come at this time either. Otherwise, I wouldn't have had to show you so many things."

The scholar smiled slightly and said: "You think this is just a coincidence?"

"What do you mean?"

"I came today, so your heavenly tribulation came today. If I arrived tomorrow, your heavenly tribulation would also happen tomorrow."

Wei Yuan sneered: "You can really brag!"

This heavenly tribulation was triggered by the Three-Eyed Bird Head digesting the Thunder Eagle's Dharma Form soul, and Wei Yuan did not think there was anything in this world that could manipulate the shadow in the moon.

On the day of the Causal Great Curse, the Three-Eyed Bird tore open space and sent him and Zhang Sheng to the extreme north, which was the only way to survive; just the little power transmitted from afar was already so terrifying, its true status should be above the Heaven Shaman.

The scholar was not angry and said: "If I guess correctly, your heavenly tribulation this time is contrary to common sense and much more difficult than others, right? And not just this time, the previous few times should have been like this."

Wei Yuan said indifferently: "This is not hard to guess; you want to disturb my Dao heart with this, you can save it."

The scholar grabbed a few strands of tribulation energy in the air, and these gray hairs manifested, still twisting constantly.

The scholar smiled slightly and said: "If it were a guess, no one would guess that you would undergo the Heart Demon Tribulation that only the Azure Void realm has."

A cold light flashed in the depths of Wei Yuan's eyes, and he said as if nothing had happened: "There are only so many kinds of heavenly tribulations; if you guess randomly, there will always be a time when you guess right. Besides, you only said it was the Heart Demon Tribulation after standing here. Although I don't know how to look at tribulation energy, it seems you do.

So put this set away; if you wrote me a letter before you came, telling me that I would undergo the Heart Demon Tribulation at a certain time today, then I would believe you have this ability."

The scholar said: "I won't beat around the bush with you; it is indeed difficult to influence your personal heavenly tribulation. But it is not so difficult to aggravate the heavenly tribulation of the Thief Who Steals Heaven, and this is also in line with the will of heaven and earth itself. As long as you are still constantly stealing the power of heaven, the heavenly tribulation will not be easy.

Hmm, but even if you intercepted the Shaman tribe souls that should have returned to heaven and earth, it wouldn't reach the point of directly facing the Heart Demon Tribulation. You probably did something else that heaven and earth cannot tolerate, so the heavenly tribulation is so heavy."

The scholar looked Wei Yuan up and down, thoughtful: "So the person standing in front of me now, wouldn't it be a heart demon?"

"You are the heart demon! Your whole family is a heart demon!" Wei Yuan did not know why, but he accidentally said what was in his heart.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 595 =====