Chapter 661: Chapter 196: Rescue Qiulong County! Entering the Great Yan Dynasty! (10,000-word Mega Chapter for Subscriptions)_6

Yun Jiuqing had not expected that her estranged grandfather would be a high-ranking official in the Shangwu Dynasty.

A second-rank official, that was no ordinary position!

He absolutely belonged to the core of power of a dynasty!

At the same time, he had once also been a formidable cultivator—it was no wonder he could educate Daoist Priest Fan to be such a powerful figure.

Or perhaps Daoist Priest Fan had become so powerful that even his own estranged grandfather had not anticipated it?

Although these words signaled that the Shangwu Dynasty must be dangerous, was it really a threat to Daoist Priest Fan at his current stage?

Yun Jiuqing felt that might not be the case!

Even if the Shangwu Dynasty was formidable, did they have cultivators who could slay gods at will? Even if they did, it was unlikely they had many of them!

Otherwise, that would just be too preposterous, wouldn’t it?

In that case...

Should Daoist Priest Fan directly forcefully break into the Shangwu Dynasty and come into conflict with some dangerous individuals, it seems... it would not be Daoist Priest Fan who was in danger, but those so-called dangerous individuals of the Shangwu Dynasty!

Yes!

That’s how much Yun Jiuqing trusted Fan Wu.

This immense trust!

The shadow formed by the shattered jade pendant slowly dissipated at this moment, and the entire Qiulong Temple became quiet. The only sound was the rustling of the leaves as the breeze blew through them.

After a while.

Fan Wu finally spoke, "Let’s prepare to set out tomorrow and leave the Great Zhou Dynasty."

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Qiulong County was not exceptionally far from the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty; it was exactly because of its proximity to the border that it was so remote—far from the reach of the Emperor.

And it was also due to this proximity to the border that disciples from the Blood Gu Sect who arrived from other regions chose such a place.

They used this location as a base for the Blood Gu Sect.

Last night, Fan Wu had led Xing Fengzi and the others to clean the entire Qiulong Temple, inside and out. Even the layer of dust covering the image of the True Martial Great Emperor was personally wiped away by Fan Wu.

Even though he was a traveler from Earth, Fan Wu had lived in Qiulong Temple for a bit over three years.

He had some feelings for a place like this.

He was not an unemotional wooden person.

How could he not be sentimental about the past?

And the weeds that had sprouted up in the ground were also thoroughly eliminated by Fan Wu and the others.

Lastly, Fan Wu offered several sticks of incense on the grave of his deceptive mentor as a form of remembrance.

Moreover, he also offered a few sticks of incense to the statue of the True Martial Great Emperor.

As for the tens of thousands of silver notes he had brought from the Imperial City of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Fan Wu took out nine-tenths of it and left it in Qiulong County as donations to the local people!

If anyone dared to embezzle the silver notes provided by Daoist Priest Fan, they would not even have the chance to enter the Underworld!

In the blink of an eye.

It was the next day.

On the early morning of the second day, Fan Wu and his companions had already left Qiulong County. They had not brought with them the carriages that had come from the Imperial City because the road ahead was not accessible by carriage.

Of course, before leaving Qiulong County, they had done another thing, which was to replace the wheels of the Destiny Coffin with two better ones.

By noon, Fan Wu was far away from Qiulong County and had reached a road rarely traveled by others.

The official roads were only meant to connect all the county towns within the Great Zhou Dynasty and were not extended to other dynasties; the Imperial Court also had no intention of creating a road that could lead out of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Therefore, such a road was actually pioneered by some merchants, with the natural aim of conducting trade between the two dynasties.

But since this was only a trade route, it was not as wide or as well-built as the official roads.

Moreover, this trade route seemed to have been unused for many years, and was entirely covered with weeds.

If one did not have excellent eyesight, they would not even be able to discern that there was a road here.

Fan Wu and the others were traveling along such a road,

preparing to leave the Great Zhou Dynasty.

This journey would take a full seven or eight days, and during this time they came across no villages, no county towns, and had not even seen a single common traveler.

It was as if... they were continuously traversing through desolate wilderness.

After consuming all their provisions, they began to hunt the various wild beasts in the desolate wilderness.

Fortunately, either Fan Wu and his companions were cultivators, or they were even more dreadful existences than cultivators.

In this wilderness,

it was impossible for them to starve to death.

"Tiger meat doesn’t seem to taste particularly good, a bit fishy and rank, just like unmarinated pork. Luckily, we brought a lot of spices this time. Sprinkling a ton of spices on the tiger meat is the only way to stomach it," Yun Jiuqing commented on the tiger meat she had just eaten, realizing that so-called game meat was nothing special after all. Without strong seasonings, it didn’t taste as good as domesticated animals.

Even the texture of the meat was no match for that of livestock at home, being as tough and woody as chewing on a juicy piece of dry wood.

"To be able to catch and eat a tiger in this wilderness is already quite remarkable," Xing Fengzi said, despite his Daoist Robe being torn by thorns in several places. "I wonder how much farther it is to the Great Yan Dynasty."

Liu Feng shook his head blankly beside him: "When I came to the Great Zhou Dynasty from the Great Yan Dynasty, it wasn’t on this path. I don’t know how much longer we will need to reach the Great Yan."

Compared to the Destiny Coffin, however, they were already faring much better.

Because the size of the Destiny Coffin was exceptionally suited for clearing the way,

thus, the Destiny Coffin directly became a path-clearing tool of a coffin. Wherever the Destiny Coffin rolled over, a path would appear, and they simply had to follow this path.

It was at that moment,

the Destiny Coffin, which had been pushing through the dense weeds ahead, suddenly came to a halt.

The unexpected change startled Yun Jiuqing: "Why has it stopped?"

The Destiny Coffin trembled slightly.

Then they saw a small drawer suddenly pop out of the body of the Destiny Coffin.

Inside the drawer lay a sheet of sheepskin paper, with a line of blood-red characters written on it.

The Great Yan Dynasty has arrived!

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