Volume 1 Chapter 22 (1/2)
Book 1: Winds Begin to Blow in Tai Yuan
Chapter 22 – Strong Winds Rise
Ever since that night they shook off Zhan Bei Ye, the next few days were peaceful and uneventful Yao Xun kept to his words, obediently following by theht that the reason he stayed probably was because he had seen Yuan Zhaoxu’s ht, and wanted to find a safety umbrella
Today they had already arrived at the edges of Tai Yuan’s capital Yanjing The three people found an inn to rest at, and the an to cultivate These few days she had diligently consolidated her insights, and she felt that the fourth layer of Breaking Nine Heavens was already almost at perfection
Sand noiselessly flowed down the hourglass Six hours later, Meng Fuyao opened her eyes, a radiance flashi+ng in her eyes
Picking up the sword on the table, she willed her qi into it, and the sword body ilow, the brilliance of the fourth layer Compared to the past few days, today’s brilliance was even entle, lustrously pure
“Grand Co Fuyao happily juive a kiss to?”
After saying she quickly slapped herself in rebuke “Stop thinking these randohts!”
Lazily lying down on the bed, she took out those three treasures fro them
These were the passage seals she had spent soto obtain
The Five Regions Continent had always circulated a end – collect the seven types of seal h every state Then travel across the Five Regions Continent in a path to the north, until reaching the northern-ion of Di In the Di state Heaven’s Court, on top of the reen Temple, there was an extraordinary and wise entity, who could solve any problem or obstacle in the world
Meng Fuyao didn’t have any hardshi+p she needed so of utmost difficulty that she wished for that extraordinary power to solve
Yet, reaching the altar was easier said than done The Five Regions Continent was originally split into five states, one nation for each region Later, the states went to war, territories exchanged hands o the five states had already split into seven, cutting the Five Regions into fraguarded their own territories, and even though they maintained a superficial peace, they actually eyed each other with greed and hostility Most deployed troops to guard their borders, preventing other states froh; it was ru frodoround into fine powder
Fortunately, this world respected strong cultivators, and opened doors of leniency for a select few Thirty years ago, the seven states held a conference in the continent’s centrally-positioned Infinite Eion They collected syave the “Seven State Coions Continent at the time One who possessed these cohout the seven states, their paths unhindered, and directly travel anywhere in the Five Regions besides the imperial palaces of the seven states
To be honest, this was only a way of showing goodwill With the abilities of those ten powerhouses, even without the coo anywhere they wanted
In fact after accepting the seals they instead were restricted by the fear of losing face – they couldn’t go to the inner palaces and watch eunuchs wash the underwear of concubines anymore[1]
Of course, with Meng Fuyao’s current strength, she couldn’t even drea those command seals
If one path is blocked, there will always be another Since different areas of the Five Regions Continent had their own unique productions, the goods that businesses, armies, and commoners consumed relied upon the products of each of the other states In the past few years, each state gradually came to realize the irowth Five years ago at the Infinite Ey Crown Prince Wuji, the seven states started to issue passage seals in a lih officials andpolitical and econo, and could be considered a diplohts and official protection
This type of passage right was not even affected by war Even if two states suddenly came to bloealthy merchants who possessed these seals would still be politely invited inside the borders, only afterwards returning to an appearance of war
As a preventative ainst enemies, however, these seals were released under very strict control They only collected a each states’ wealthy tycoons and plutocrats who had monopolies over their markets, as well as upper-level diplo of a court official from the other state’s imperial palace, in order to for thee seal
Without this thing, traveling to other states would rants of modern society However this era didn’t have the practice of repatriation; the only thing waiting for aliens would be a bladed axe
The situations between the states are coreen Te Fuyao to kill a path towards the temple She needed as much protection as possible, to allow herself to walk that erous journey in the future
It was because of this that after she learned of the passage seals, she started to plan out how to collect each state’s passage seals
Two o, one of Polaris Empire’s tycoons had co with hies laden with products, he reserved a whole inn to himself, and even hired the most powerful martial sect to send disciples out to protect hi the hallways, and the inn’s lights were not snuffed out for the whole night Upon the second day’s dawn, the wealthy s, with the passage seal
Aon a diplomatic mission to Xuanyuan named Sima Rui came by ay The massive, beautiful ferry ostentatiously showed off its wealth along its journey down the Yuanjiang river, with beautiful woed and wooden instru the way it collected uncountable numbers of envious stares
It was a pity then, that on the second day, a shocked cry alazes of , “My passage seal is gone!”
The whole shi+p fell into chaos at once like a boiling pot of congee Sima Rui swiftly ordered troops to surround the river, and search the fishi+ng villages near the shore A plethora of people was investigated, yet nothing was found The Sima Rui who stayed on the river for three days, afraid of overstaying past the envoy ize to the i river
Those acco full of interest about that fisher wo special, but she reat fish soup
The soup’s aroht fish was fresh Unfortunately, in the boiling steam no one could see as hidden inside the fish’s stomach
As for that gain frointo she found on thesuspicious she knocked hie seal
Meng Fuyao now already possessed the command seals of the three states Xuanyuan, Nereen Temple, if she collected the seven state seals, perhaps it would be equivalent to the “Seven State Co for the help of the oracle would then be higher
Due to the varying diplomatic relations between each state, and the fact that a passage seal would not be issued to every other state, this difference would require Meng Fuyao to do soram of the relations between each of the states, carefully considering for a while Thinking of the e way Zhan Bei Ye searched for that Nemesis seal, she felt that her future prospects were rather uncertain She couldn’t help but sigh
The sigh was halfway finished, when she suddenly heard another sighing sound from on top of the rafters —
The scare this gave her was not sers she had already swept the three seals on the table into her robes Her heart beatcareless How did she not notice there was someone on the rafters?
Her next thought was, this isn’t right, the rafter is too low to hide anyone, how could she have not noticed anything?
Lifting her head, sure enough, on the horizontal bea its snohite front teeth at her
Fuyao got angry, scolding, “You’re in perfectly fine condition, why are you learning fro? Don’t you know rats can scare people to death?”
Master Yuanbao was completely disinclined to even bother with her
After Meng Fuyao yelled for a while, she suddenly realized a probleh … ah!” She raised her head to stare at Master Yuanbao, “Tellharmful miasma, weren’t you?”
Master Yuanbao’s teeth bared even more
With a blackened face, Fuyao pierced that shaas upith her stare Master Yuanbao acted like it didn’t see anything, swaggering around and wiggling its butt
A long strip of curled paper suddenly fell down fro and swaying paper was s:
“Cliht, a pleasant life, is not much more than this”
Meng Fuyao pulled down the strip, looked it over, then couldn’t help but laugh
Hurriedly scribbling some words, she then waved it towards Master Yuanbao Master Yuanbao lifted its head to look, gave her messy words a stare of extreme contempt, then shi+fted its butt over to wait for her to tie the strip on Fuyao i its nose, she laughingly leapt up the building
On top of the building, a certain person was lazily basking in theone arm as a pillow, he played with a white jade cup with his other hand, his posture carefree
The night air was fresh and sweet, the fragrance of autumn harvest and osmanthus trees[3], mixed in with newly bloo and weak at the sa down, one could see that inside the courtyard was planted a row of osht yellow, rice-sized flowers could only be enjoyed for a while as the night fell However, they couldn’t bear to waste their youth, and so scattered their char aroma everywhere Occasionally, some petals would be lifted up by the wind and fall onto Yuan Zhaoxu’s cheek, contrasting with his skin andit seem even more brilliant like jade