Chapter 283: Following the Heart's Will

With the elixirs from the Pill Sect, as well as the accurate locations given by Ji You searching the mountain with spiritual sense, the survival rate of the disaster-stricken people in the five provinces of Qingyun increased significantly.

Following that was resettlement and the distribution of disaster relief grain; everything continued to proceed in an orderly manner.

Every day at the three meal times of morning, noon, and evening, one could almost see smoke curling up and white mist rising from the places where shelters were built in the city.

Many young children were frightened in this snow disaster; when they first entered the city, they were like they had lost their souls, and there were countless cases of night sweats and high fevers, but they gradually improved in the following few days.

Some people who received help also began to spontaneously sweep snow in the city after slightly recovering, and some young and strong men even spontaneously participated in the search and rescue outside the city.

In fact, for thousands of years, the people of the Qingyun world have been tempered to be as tenacious as wild grass.

As long as there is a little hope, they can strive to live on.

At the same time, the second batch of disaster relief grain also arrived in Luyang County amidst the wind and snow; this is a county city located in the center of the five provinces, where disaster relief grain will be transported for the second time over a short distance.

Zhang Pingyang and Guo Ziyi, who were driving the carts, jumped off the carriage shafts, looked at the people who had just been rescued into the city, and couldn't help but look at each other.

They lived in Fengzhou and were also the first batch of people to know that spirit stones were cut off; they also saw those aristocratic disciples who went to the Fengzhou government office to ask for guilt, and they had been worrying all the way that this matter would get bigger and bigger.

Cutting off spirit stones for cultivators and transporting grain for the common people is something that has never happened in the Qingyun world.

But seeing that the disaster relief work in the city was still continuing, they found that such a shocking thing did not seem to lead to anything happening.

Just at this moment, the two suddenly heard a sound of horse hooves, so they turned their heads to look.

Only to see under the white sky of freezing cold, several carriages full of goods drove along the main road toward the outside of the city, the pulling horses panting and spraying a burst of white mist, then galloping with four hooves, driving into the endless wind and snow.

In fact, when Zhang Pingyang and the others were driving here, they had seen these carriages going in the opposite direction to them.

It was just that the wind and snow along the way were too big, and they didn't see clearly who the other party was.

Until this moment, the flags embroidered with various family crests entered their eyes.

And not far from Zhang Dongping and the others, people from nearby immortal villas were looking toward this place from a tea building.

"Which batch is this?"

"Almost the fifth batch; first it was the Chen family, Zhang family, Long family... This batch is further away, it's the Miao family and Xu family from Yongzhou."

"Even those so far away came?"

"I heard there are also teams from Lingzhou on the road."

As the words fell, everyone held their teacups and looked at the grain field opposite.

Under the white sky, a white-robed swordsman was sitting on a broken wall crushed by the wind and snow, watching a group of children whose spirits had eased kicking a round ball woven from bamboo pieces.

Since the spirit stone supply in Fengzhou was stopped, spirit stone merchants in the Qingyun world began to allocate across the board, and the stock of spirit stones was first supplied to big cities guarded by Immortal Sects or thousand-year aristocratic families, so the time they were cut off was even earlier than other places.

They originally thought that after the Qingyun world gathered in Shengjing to ask for guilt, spirit stones would soon be supplied.

Who knew that the carriages transporting spirit stones they expected did not appear, but what appeared were the constantly appearing aristocratic carriages heading to the northern border to get them themselves.

At the same time, Peng Dongyang, Mu Jing, and others from the Immortal Inspection Bureau were also standing in the grain field not far away, looking at the carriages driving past one by one, their hearts slightly relieved.

It was just that when their mood relaxed, what made them feel even more dazed was that the pressure like an immortal tilt was really forcibly resisted.

At this moment, Peng Dongyang couldn't help but think of the Snow Region, the figure who leaped from the roof of the carriage in the night and slashed forty-nine swords at the Barbarian Soldier King.

Ji You's gaze also shifted from the group of children playing football, staring for a long time.

In fact, even without the disaster relief matter, such a big snow disaster would inevitably stop the spirit stones in Fengzhou, because he didn't want those Fengzhou carriage drivers to lose their lives for those cultivators.

Now that most aristocratic families chose to get them themselves, although it was not in his expectation, it was not a bad thing.

Because staying on the mountain with magic arrays and in the manor with charcoal fire to maintain temperature, they would never understand how big this snow was.

And when they truly hit the road and really saw the goose-feather snow falling rustlingly and the ten-thousand-mile snow field without borders, they finally knew why this winter's grand snow was called a disaster.

Following that, the disaster relief work continued, and everything proceeded in an orderly manner according to the original rules.

Although the search and rescue team would still rescue a batch of refugees from outside the city every day, it was very clear that the number began to get smaller and smaller.

Then it was the arrival of the third batch of disaster relief grain, and the doctors summoned from several nearby cities by the Immortal Inspection Bureau also began to be active among the shelters.

Ji You was free, so he went to cut wood with the people from the Immortal Inspection Bureau.

Then, he and the disaster-stricken people built shelters together.

In addition, he also played football with the children, and then taught them how to play string games and hopscotch.

The gazes paying attention to him had always been many, especially those immortal villa disciples, who felt inexplicable seeing what he did, unable to figure out how such a person could resist the pressure of cutting off the spirit stones of the nine provinces, and also didn't understand why he did these things.

Is it to comprehend the Heavenly Dao, or to enhance cultivation, or to attain the Dao and ascend? ===== CHAPTER 284 =====