[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers":3,"chapter-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-179":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Mountains and Rivers of the Imperial Granary",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2231595,4184,"Chapter 179","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-179",179,"\u003Cp>Northern borderlands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The great eunuch Hai Xian from the palace led a group to offer condolences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that great decisive battle ten years ago, the Demon Emperor and Gu Zhanting both suffered heavy losses. At the same time, the Imperial Preceptor, True Person Tinglan, bypassed and raided the demon race's holy mountain, killed the demon race's High Priest in battle, and burned the holy temple to the ground. The demon race was defeated and suffered heavy losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Zhanting returned to the army to heal his wounds. Because famous generals fell in the battle, Grand Tutor Huo Liancheng was reinstated and began to preside over the military affairs of the Great Qian. His son, Huo Xingyuan, led a large army to push north, expanding the territory by hundreds of miles in a few years, with great achievements. His own strength also advanced from the second grade to the first grade, and he was titled Marquis of Zhenyuan and returned to the capital with glory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people felt that the hardest battles had already been fought, and whoever took over the subsequent matters would just be picking up the pieces; the Huo family was completely lucky. This was not entirely objective, after all, although the demon race was defeated, there were still many strong individuals in various branches. The personal strength and military ability of Huo Liancheng and his son were indeed quite strong, and the results of changing people to preside over it might not have been as good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overall, in this campaign, both Gu Zhanting and the Huo family had important contributions to the Great Qian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, Gu Zhanting began to change after this battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Zhanting, whose injuries were difficult to heal, had a mentality that was clearly different from before...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after Huo Xingyuan returned to the capital, he wanted to cultivate his second son, Huo Zhang, to take over the Northern Frontier. Of course, Huo Zhang's growth was not that fast, so the affairs of the Northern Frontier were temporarily presided over by the generals under his command, and Huo Zhang, as one of the generals, was responsible for a defense zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demon race and the nomadic tribes were not the same. In a world where personal strength had a huge impact, a great demon of the upper third grade running around could cause a piece of border city to be in chaos, and how to prevent the demon race from sneaking into the interior was also a very troublesome matter; building a Great Wall was useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, Sheng Yuanyao clearly stated at the banquet that the origin of the demons must be traced to the root. If they sneaked in from the north, the loopholes must be filled—in other words, the main general of that defense zone would be held accountable. But in reality, the young melon girl didn't think so much about how to fill such loopholes or whether the main general of that defense zone would hate you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, there had been no major wars in the past few years, but various frictions and conflicts had been constant, and many people had been earning small merits in the Northern Frontier. Including many sect members who would go to the borderlands for training, and some bold ones would even go deep into the demon territory, not knowing if they would be able to return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the loss of cities had not happened in the past few years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under this background, the imperial court's occasional condolences to the Northern Frontier were considered a norm. Whether there was anything or not, they would send people there. It was hard to say whether it was purely for condolences and rewards or if it contained the meaning of inspection. The eunuchs in the palace also liked to take this job; they could skim a layer of oil and water from the condolence gifts, and when they arrived at the borderlands, the generals would send another layer of oil and water, profiting from both ends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this time there were people from the Holy Land going together... it wasn't that they couldn't profit, it depended on the person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hai Xian looked at the Daoist beside him and said with a smile: \"Daoist Xunzhen, this servant doesn't understand magic tools very well, could you help me see how this jade pendant is?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daoist Xunzhen knew very well what this eunuch meant, but he didn't struggle and smiled: \"It's just average. I'm afraid it's not so good for the soldiers at the border. Eunuch Hai can open its light again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hai Xian felt relieved and directly gave the jade pendant to Daoist Xunzhen: \"How can it compare to the effect of a True Person from the Holy Land opening its light? I will trouble the True Person.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daoist Xunzhen accepted the jade pendant calmly and soon followed the topic: \"The Imperial Preceptor didn't give specific instructions on where to go this time, saying let us look at it ourselves. Where does the Eunuch plan to go?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hai Xian said: \"His Majesty's meaning is to go to General Pei's side to take a look.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daoist Xunzhen sighed: \"The Pei family values face, and the rules are strictly grasped. Don't make this trip in vain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hai Xian felt a sense of sympathy and said: \"We can also turn to other places; His Majesty didn't say we should only go to one place. Does the True Person have any suggestions?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daoist Xunzhen smiled: \"I heard that the Second Young Master Huo is generous and hospitable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hai Xian blinked: \"Taking this road, it seems that Second Young Master Huo's side is closer. How about going there first?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two hit it off, and the team quickly turned and headed straight for Huo Zhang's defense zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were all cultivators, so they didn't need a convoy of large and small carts; everyone could just use their storage rings. A team of people flew away and arrived in a few days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before they even arrived, they felt something was wrong. Why was there a smell of chaos?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the distance, power burst, and the sound was like thunder. No matter how you looked at it, it looked like a war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daoist Xunzhen's expression became serious: \"Don't enter the main city; go and see where the movement is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hai Xian had no objections. Their condolences did indeed contain the meaning of supervision and inspection. Unexpectedly discovering the situation might even be a merit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they went over to look, it was actually a siege.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they looked again, it was Huo Zhang leading a crowd to attack his own city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hai Xian suspected that he had woken up too violently and rubbed his eyes for a long time. It was really Huo Zhang attacking his own city, and the defensive array in the city was still the Tianyao Holy Land style.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the distance, another group of people galloped over, with the word \"Pei\" fluttering on the flag. It was Pei Qingyan's branch, Pei Zhao, the cousin of Pei Yu, and also the one Hai Xian had originally planned to visit first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that there were troops flanking, the city finally gave up defending. Several great demons took advantage of Pei Zhao's siege and abandoned the city, laughing wildly all the way: \"Hahaha, the Huo family father and son are famous in the Northern Frontier. We thought the Huo family had some amazing skills, but it's just like this, just like this, hahahaha!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huo Zhang's face was livid as he broke into the city: \"There are people in the city responding to the demon race, selling the city and betraying the country! Take them all down for strict interrogation!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait!\" Pei Zhao flew over and said coldly: \"General Huo, what a great prestige!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huo Zhang sneered: \"Why, does your Pei clan also collude with the demon race?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pei Zhao said coldly: \"I only know that someone faced a mere small group of demons attacking the city and had no defense, leading to the loss of the city. Now you want to slaughter the city to silence them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huo Zhang took a deep breath and hurriedly looked for countermeasures in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Pei Zhao really came at the wrong time. If he didn't come, he could enter the city, pick a group of people to behead, and then confirm that someone sold the city to lead the demons, and he discovered it in time to take the city back. But with Pei Zhao standing here, how could he splash dirty water and behead people?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Pei, since there is no loss in this matter, but rather a merit, why not be happy? Why bother to haggle over such things for the sake of party strife?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pei Zhao was almost laughed at: \"You want to splash dirty water on innocent people and kill them to block their mouths, and you call this a small matter?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The demon race can stay here for two days and two nights, of course, someone helped. How can it be called splashing dirty water? One interrogation will know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is Huo's defense zone. Does Brother Pei want to act beyond your authority?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hai Xian and others watching from a distance understood. Hai Xian was still thinking about the pros and cons of taking sides, but Daoist Xunzhen had already flown out: \"The Northern Frontier Comfort Envoy, Eunuch Hai, is here. We all know about the matter here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, and Huo Zhang's face suddenly turned pale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking back the city in just two days could have been covered up without a trace, and perhaps it could have turned a bad thing into a good thing, achieving a merit. It was one thing for Pei Zhao to hear the wind and come to make trouble, but how could people from the palace come at this very time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time it's a mess...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Capital. Ye Tinglan was giving a lecture to Lu Xingzhou when a paper crane floated into the room and landed in Ye Tinglan's hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Tinglan gently burned it, revealing a smile: \"Your strategy of sending envoys to offer condolences worked; the timing was just right.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou said: \"That's luck.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"His Majesty, if nothing else, at least regards the demon race matter as his lifelong achievement and keeps it on his lips. He will not allow anyone to smear him.\" Ye Tinglan said: \"Therefore, this matter of Huo Zhang can make him lose his position and return to the capital if it's big, or it can make him demoted a few levels to make up for his crimes if it's small, and it will also plant a thorn in His Majesty's heart. As for the significance of hitting the Huo family, it is more valuable than the Huo Jin and Huo Lu matters you did before, let alone the beating that day, which was purely venting anger and meaningless.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou grinned: \"Being able to remove the obstacles in the heart is the meaning; what is meaningless?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Tinglan rolled her eyes at him: \"So in your opinion, this Huo Zhang matter is not as valuable as that beating of Huo Heng, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course not.\" Lu Xingzhou stood up and saluted: \"Until this moment, I saw the hope of truly shaking the Huo family. Before this, it seemed to take advantage everywhere, but in fact, there was no place to start... Thank you, Mr., for your guidance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Tinglan said lightly: \"No need to thank me; this matter is a matter of home and country... The Pei family's interference, did you call them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Tinglan looked at him meaningfully for a long time and finally laughed: \"You... are very good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she was wearing a veil and couldn't see the full picture, the smile still made Lu Xingzhou somewhat distracted. The eyes on the veil were curved like a pair of moons, with a bit of coquettish meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly feeling that such coquettish eyes were a bit familiar... a bit like Yuan Muyu...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was distracted, Ye Tinglan quickly put away her smile and said with a straight face: \"What are you looking at?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uh... nothing.\" Lu Xingzhou came back to his senses, lowered his eyes and said: \"I just feel that Mr. rarely laughs and always feels full of worries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So what?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You should smile more; it looks good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A void palm appeared behind his head, almost slapping down. Ye Tinglan endured it and finally didn't slap, just snorted coldly: \"I am your mentor. If you talk to me in that flowery tone you used to deceive Pei Chuyun and Sheng Yuanyao again, see how I beat you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou sighed: \"That's the truth. You are worried about the Yama Palace, worried about the demon race, and worried about this rotten civil and military... Although the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, Mr. is the first grade, and it is understandable to worry about the world's worries first... But you are not in that position, not to mention there is a super grade above. These are things that the Emperor and the Imperial Preceptor should consider.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Tinglan's eyes turned: \"Then what do you think of the Imperial Preceptor? Do you think she doesn't care?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course she cares. Just look at her sending Qingli to protect Shen Tang, and Mr. is also a good friend of the Imperial Preceptor. You can tell her character from her circle. However...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Her methods are too soft; without the determination to burn the boats, many things cannot be done. If I were super grade, heh...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Tinglan sneered: \"Worthy of being a judge of the Yama Palace, full of the words of the Yama King, heh.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's go.\" Ye Tinglan stood up: \"Have you finished saying goodbye to the women you should say goodbye to?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou was stunned: \"Leaving the capital now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We cultivators, coming and going in a single thought, following our interests, traveling thousands of miles, what is there to be sticky about, delaying and lingering?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou was silent for a moment and saluted again: \"Mr. is right.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So have you finished saying what you should say goodbye to?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finished, they already know I'm leaving.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then there's no need to say it again, adding to the parting feelings. Let's go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At about the same time this sentence was spoken, Pei Chuyun suddenly felt something. The brush she was using to take notes in the Imperial Academy paused slightly, leaving a large ink stain on the paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she smiled slightly and whispered to herself: \"See you again, my Young Master.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao walked out of the ancestral hall limping, holding her bottom that had been beaten into a flower, suddenly paused, and looked up at the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Qingfeng said with a straight face: \"Why, do you want to curse someone to be sick again?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao looked at the sky light blankly for a long time and suddenly said: \"You said our Sheng family's ancestral tradition was originally the way of the battlefield.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, so what?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lu Xingzhou and the Pei family were secretly plotting against Huo Zhang before... If he is dismissed or something, can I take his place?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Qingfeng didn't know if it was surprise or joy: \"You're not playing anymore?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have to catch up, otherwise I won't even have the qualifications to be a brother... Now in their eyes, I look like a melon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\" Sheng Qingfeng thought for a while and sighed in a low voice: \"If you really have the intention to make progress, regardless of whether Huo Zhang will have problems, I can also send you to the army. But Yao'er...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Joining the army is not like the Demon Suppression Division; that's hanging your head on your belt. If you want to mix merits like Huo Zhang, it's better not to go; Dad can always protect you for a lifetime of ease in the capital.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao bowed in a subordinate's salute: \"My goal is the Hero Ranking.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lu Xingzhou himself is not on the Hero Ranking.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...What does that have to do with him? This is my own climbing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[End of Volume Two]\u003C\u002Fp>",2717,"2026-06-18T01:46:09.112Z","2026-06-18T03:18:02.290Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","384e7cbaecf2b057ee23c134fbe02fbc670b46c8c056d47c82ac5d12212e6fbd","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-180","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-178",325,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmountains-and-rivers-of-the-imperial-granary-cover.jpg"]