Chapter 388

Your Majesty.

The Dragon People priest found Yan Buji; besides delivering the Law Fragments to the merfolk tribe, it seemed there were other matters.

What's wrong?

The Dragon People priest laughed and said, "Old man heard Wang Man say that since you've joined the Foreigners Alliance and are doing work for the Snow People, relying on the Snow People, our Dragon People tribe won't have so many troubles. Coincidentally, I heard the Heavenly Devil King say that matter concerning Lingyu..."

Oh? The Heavenly Devil King knows who owns that Lingyu?

The Dragon People priest nodded: "He also told me how to avoid detection by the owner of that Lingyu; now it's a good time to go there again."

Yan Buji pinched his chin: "No need."

Oh? Your Majesty, what are your worries? the Dragon People priest asked.

That Lingyu doesn't have to be visited; priest, if you want to go investigate, just go; I still have other things to do.

If that's the case, I can first go scout; if there really are resources, it can serve as reserves for the Dragon People.

Hmm.

Yan Buji looked at him, his guard intensifying.

Regarding that Yellow Sand Lingyu, Yan Buji's attitude is to wait until his Martial Dao breaks through to Nascent Soul and his magic power breaks through to Golden Core before going to investigate.

Furthermore, condensing a Ground Origin Grand Pellet isn't that simple; the boundless sea trench to the outside world's earth vein is vast enough that even if I condense a Ground Origin Grand Pellet, its impact wouldn't be that great.

However, precisely for that reason, Yan Buji doesn't want treasure hunting to interfere with his original plan.

Upon reaching the earth vein, Yan Buji didn't choose to move via a formation; instead, he mobilized his magic power and activated the secret art of the Shaking Dragon Classic within the vein. Now his Heaven Gate Five Elements Law only has a small part with earth attributes, unlike during the Lianqi Phase when he relied on the earth attribute of the Shaking Dragon Classic to establish the Three Powers principle to harmonize his magic power.

Now the Heaven Gate Five Elements Law has purged most of its attributes, making Yan Buji feel it's a loss, because the technique he now uses is simply the Heaven Gate Law's foundation with some Five Elements added, not as reasonable as when he researched compatible techniques.

Perhaps also because the Heaven Gate Law is too strong and profound, it almost covers all of Yan Buji's techniques; only the Five Elements technique can barely bring a bit of other attributes.

This is one of the drawbacks of consuming the Human Origin Grand Pellet; you can't say the Heaven Gate Five Elements Law is bad, because at that time it was the most suitable technique for Yan Buji.

But if he had enough time, he wouldn't let the painstakingly built technique system become primarily the Heaven Gate Law.

This runs contrary to Yan Buji's original intention.

In other words, consuming the Three Powers Celestial Pill will cause the cultivator's strongest technique to dominate, leading to a unified breakthrough; one cannot just do whatever they want.

Yan Buji sighed; the Heaven Gate Five Elements Law almost completely negated his cultivation during the Lianqi Phase, even altering his foundation, but it also let him grasp a shallow Space Power, allowing him to travel everywhere, which is itself a tremendous ability.

But in combat, the means Yan Buji can activate are only the Magic Power Golden Wheel and Ground Origin Fire; the other five elements attributes have been purged.

However, the crucial Symbiosis of the Arboreal Technique and Seven-Leaf Ghost Orchid allows Yan Buji to store spiritual energy even without cultivation, reducing some resource expenditure.

If in the Youming Jie, the traits of the Arboreal Technique would receive a great boost.

So Yan Buji also thinks that after finishing things here, breaking through Martial Dao to Nascent Soul and gathering enough resources, he will go to the Youming Jie to cultivate; relying on the growth of the Seven-Leaf Ghost Orchid, in symbiosis he can smoothly practice the Nine Dispersals Nine Cultivations.

Having found a node in the earth vein, Yan Buji began arranging the means to condense a Ground Origin Grand Pellet. Fortunately, Yan Buji understands some formation concepts; after re-refining the broken battle flags gathered from his fights with Long Batian and company, he made a small formation to gather the earth vein's qi.

With the aid of the Shaking Dragon Classic, Yan Buji selected a location and used secret methods to gather the earth vein's qi; once the formation started operating, a large amount of earth vein's qi flowed in, allowing it to automatically begin condensing earth vein pearls, that is, the Ground Origin Grand Pellet.

After doing all that, Yan Buji then left the earth vein, returned to the Wanlong Palace, and via formations all the way went to Snow Island.

After returning to Snow Island, the first thing was to handle recent documents; it wasn't a big deal, just that some people were dissatisfied with his working hours being too long.

Regarding that, Yan Buji won't personally go out to say anything; anyway, the tasks are issued to those officials. How the officials stipulate things, Yan Buji doesn't care.

If you have the ability to finish it within a day, all wages and bonuses—whoever dares to withhold them from Yan Buji, he will certainly stand up for you.

But if you fail to complete it, not meeting the set standards within the prescribed period, that's your problem.

What's with the working hours being too long?

Voluntarily working overtime, what's the point of complaining about these?

Yan Buji looked around and called to the people outside: "Come here."

Yes!

Those who withhold wages and bonuses, gather everyone and carry out the punishment publicly.

Yes!

The Dragon People official who received the order was drenched in sweat.

Not long after, the square outside the door was packed with people, watching the Dragon People official brought to the execution ground, terrified; those below glared at him and shouted:

Hang him to death!

Hang him to death!!

His Majesty's order: whoever withholds wages, seeking personal gain through improper means, shall be executed! The time has come, carry out the execution!

Wronged! Wronged!

Kill him!

Kill!

Watching that Dragon People being hanged, the Dragon People whose magic power was sealed flushed red in the face and soon found it hard to breathe.

When lacking magic power, the difference between Dragon People and humans is not great; they merely endure a bit longer, with prolonged suffering.

After hanging a Dragon People official, the Dragon People below cheered, as if they worked more diligently.

Yan Buji stood by the window watching this scene, expressionless.

He felt that this was of little use, yet it also made Yan Buji feel that planting some spies among these Dragon People was still useful, at least to grasp the situation at the grassroots.

Your Majesty, recently these officials in the city, there are not a few who do wrong, but most are still quite restrained....

Just a warning; if they offend again, they'll be killed.

Yes.

Yan Buji looked at them; these people are the spies he cultivated, not taking much time, but it's hard to guarantee that when they appear before people, they won't collude with those inside and outside to deceive from above and below.

So Yan Buji also occasionally warns them:

Remember, you can also be corrupt, but make sure I never find out. A little corruption is fine; the Dragon People tribe is big enough to support a few corrupt officials. But if it goes too far....

Several Dragon People spies were drenched in sweat, hastily kneeling and saying: "We dare not!"

"Greed makes people progress." Yan Buji laughed, waved his hand and let them leave.