Chapter 46

The accelerated assimilation of the Stone Corpse people by the Song Ming began sixty years ago, so the elderly over seventy still maintained pure barbarian habits and thinking.

When killing people, they almost never had any psychological burden, having their own set of emotional logic.

This was just like the elderly during the difficult times of Zhang Gui's previous life.

When they were young, they couldn't even get enough coarse grains to eat, and the initial purpose of raising dogs and cats was to kill them for meat.

Guarding the collective granary, they could let their wives and children starve until they were skin and bones, and even if they were on the verge of death, they wouldn't take a single grain.

Such elderly people, after the great development of productivity in just half a century, were considered inconceivable by their descendants.

The act of killing a dog for the New Year was even defined as an incomprehensible atrocity.

But with Zhang Gui's intelligence, empathy, and logical deduction ability, he did not entirely agree with this outdated way, but he could completely understand it.

"Leaving the commandery road and not walking it, but crossing the Xuanzhi Mountain range to trade in the Western Yue Sea—why not just stick 'smuggling' on your forehead?

Killing him was right.

But Zaxi Dun's son-in-law should have been spared; after all, he was a tribal relative.

Now that the son-in-law is dead, what is Zaxi Dun's daughter to do?"

"Zaxi Dun's daughter is now living with her son and has moved to the flatland provinces; I haven't seen her for more than a dozen years.

Zaxi Dun now just treats her as dead.

After becoming a Stone Corpse Soldier, he recovered the physique of his prime, and he is just waiting to complete the great undertaking before finding a few more women to raise children with."

Zhang Gui had nothing to say about the deadbeat-dad behavior of his barbarian subordinate, so he waved his hand and said:

"Fine, fine.

Now is the founding stage of our True Dragon Kingdom, and it is also correct to only use civilization and benevolence on our own citizens.

Let's go, let's enter the valley first and then talk."

"Yes, Great Stone Gold Star.

Jie Luo Dan, you lead the sentries to continue the secret watch.

I will serve His Majesty into the valley."

Lao Sang Gui made the arrangements and followed behind Zhang Gui into the Mushroom Valley.

In the Great Stone Cave Mansion, fluorescent stones shone on the walls.

Zhang Gui and Lao Sang Gui used the dim light to pass through the Black Stone Road tunnel and walked into the Various Chieftains Cave, when suddenly their bodies disappeared for no reason.

A moment later.

The two of them crossed ten thousand miles of mountains and seas and appeared at the Upper Stone Corpse Capital on Giant Serpent Head Island in the outer sea.

More than a month ago, after Zhang Gui renamed Mushroom Valley to Lower Stone Corpse Capital and created a mysterious connection with the Luan Ya Upper Stone Corpse Capital, the power of the elements naturally extended into Mushroom Valley.

From that time on, Zhang Gui could exchange the symbols of 'Capital Elements'—gold and silver—into elemental energy values, pushing the 'circulation' within the elemental rules.

Connecting with the power of divine authority, he could move freely within his own national territory.

But even though he had come several times, Lao Sang Gui still felt that the Upper Stone Corpse Capital was a magical and heart-stirring land.

An empty yet orderly city.

Villages and towns attached to the city.

Fertile fields in the countryside.

At the end of the fields were iron carriages that would automatically walk as long as the boilers were filled with charcoal, ignited, and filled with water.

The metal mechanism people driving the iron carriages, and the carriages fully loaded with salted meat and leather.

And the source of these skins and meat: piles of fresh dead whales and giant birds on the beach, which were also pickled and tanned after being butchered by the mechanism people like mountains of meat.

Everything was so incredible!

Zhang Gui stood on the city wall, looking out at his founding foundation, and the more he looked, the more satisfied he became.

After three or four months of construction, the markets near the administrative areas within the city and the three townships closest to the city had already taken shape.

It could easily accommodate fifteen thousand to eighteen thousand households living within it.

"Lao Sang Gui, you have had a rich life.

You have robbed, rebelled, killed officials, and slaughtered ships.

But you have never been a proper official, so you must put your heart into it.

This True Dragon Kingdom of ours is not a makeshift troupe.

With the 'Heavenly Craft Opening All Things' combined with the power of elements and divine authority, even if we cannot swallow an elephant with a snake in the future, at the very least, it will be a vassal state situation with millions of people to herd.

At the beginning of the founding of the nation, we must be serious and orderly, otherwise, it will be difficult to correct later."

Lao Sang Gui nodded like a pounding pestle and said:

"Great Stone Gold Star, please rest assured.

When I, Lao Sang Gui, was young and followed the 'Fan Sha Wang', I also read books and understood the principle that one can conquer the world on horseback, but one cannot rule the world on horseback.

I would never dare to mess around."

Fan Sha Wang was Zhang Gui's Stone Corpse King from three generations ago, and also the leader who led the Stone Corpse tribe to its final brilliance.

He was born with half of the 'Chiyou Three-Piece Divine Cong' awakened; although it was not as complete as Zhang Gui's, he could also refine single Stone Corpse Soldiers.

Coupled with his ambition and keen intelligence since he was young.

Several decades ago, he achieved quite a career, and Lao Sang Gui was one of Fan Sha Wang's confidants at that time.

He was actually a person who had read books, had properly taken the exam for a child scholar, and had even bought the status of a tribute student with the identity of a scholar.

He couldn't be called both literary and martial, but he was definitely not a vulgar person.

"My ancestor, the former King Fan Sha, read books before he even came out of the mountains, and even spent all the tribe's silver to obtain merit.

Only then did he strive for the top, which can be considered quite wise."

Zhang Gui nodded with gratification upon hearing this.

If it weren't for the fact that the masterminds all had the status of scholars as a disguise several decades ago.

Lao Sang Gui and his group of barbarians could not have burned, killed, and looted for so long without being suspected by the government, successfully completing their primitive accumulation and embarking on the final path of revival for the Stone Corpse tribe.

In fact, the reason why Zhang Gui was able to accurately obtain his opportunity at the Old Tai Cave on Giant Serpent Head Island was that the initial clues were also obtained from 'Fan Sha Wang'.

It's just that as a native of the supernatural world, no matter how heroic Fan Sha Wang was born, he couldn't be like a traveler and bring out a brand-new path of civilization as the key to opening the ritual.

What else could be done.

And after finishing the customary reminders, Zhang Gui began to do serious business, setting up rain sheds on the Guiyang Palace square in the Upper Stone Corpse Capital.

The sheds were made of giant whale skin, fireproof, thin, tough, and waterproof.

The four corners were supported by iron rods, and one shed was three zhang square.

Piles of coking coal were stacked underneath.

Huge iron pots were placed on the coke.

Large pieces of bird meat and whale meat frozen by ice were placed in the pots.

Busy until noon, Zhang Gui filled his stomach, entered the sleeping palace, and began to hone his Divine Cong.

The so-called sleeping palace was actually just a large, empty room.

A square, huge water pool was dug in the center.

Piles of medicinal herbs were soaking in the pool.

Deep ditches surrounded the pool.

There was no water in the ditches, but they were filled with fire oil made from whale fat.

Countless large pieces of iron ore were soaking in the fire oil.

Zhang Gui jumped into the pool, fished out a piece of fire stone from the bottom of the pool, and smashed it hard against the ore.

After a 'pop' sound of stone impact, the fire oil was ignited.

The flames shot into the sky.

Looking at the big fire, he opened his mouth and inhaled.

At the same time, the pores on his skin under the water opened, taking in micro-fine water currents invisible to the naked eye.

The 'Swallow Crow' and 'Drink River' extended from the secondary Divine Cong 'As If Drinking', as well as 'Water-Fire Harmony'.

The main Divine Cong of the Kuafu bloodline awakening began to operate.

After a while, the iron ore was burned red.

Zhang Gui endured the severe pain, baring his teeth and grimacing, grabbed a red-hot one with his bare hands, and began to hone it on his body.

The water in the pool was also boiled.

The mushy medicinal herbs were mixed in the water and absorbed into Zhang Gui's body through his pores.

That Divine Cong originating from the Warlord Chiyou, 'Hundred Herbs Life Mandate' and Burning Metal, began to operate.

Driving 'Great Growth' to also make progress.

Just like this, painful yet happy, until the fifth or sixth quarter of the Hai hour, which was past ten o'clock at night, Zhang Gui finished everything.

He took Lao Sang Gui back to Mushroom Valley.

(End of chapter)