The wind outside the building rang the bell, and the person inside sat alone.

“This wine…” Fang Yuan You’s forehead peered out from the side of the wine jar, looking eagerly at Jiang Wang as he waved his hand outward, then closed his eyes and began to regulate his breathing.

Fang Yuan You made an “oh” sound and thumped down the stairs, hugging the wine jar. It wasn’t long.

“Hou Ye!” Fang Yuan You hurried back upstairs. Jiang Wang opened his eyes and cast him an inquiring glance.

Fang Yuan You’s hand wasn’t on the wine jar, he simply reported: “Two people came to the island, they said they were here to carry out a Tai Xu Scroll task and want to see you.”

He stepped forward a few steps and whispered: “Disciples of the Hao Ran Book Institute.”

As the commander of the Hou Mansion’s personal guards, Fang Yuan You coming up to ask whether he agreed to meet, knowing Jiang Wang was in the process of regulating, indicated the visitors’ identities were not simple.

The Hao Ran Book Institute had branches in Song Country, Zheng Country, and Li Country, all of which were quite large and had some influence in the court. The branches in these three places had no distinction between primary and secondary, and could all be considered headquarters.

They adopted a unique system of rotating institute heads, with a ten-year term. Internally, they were called: “Song Zheng,” “Zheng Zheng,” and “Li Zheng.”

The three families were originally one, and their strength was not to be underestimated. They always had the beautiful reputation of being the “Fifth Book Institute of the World.”

Of course, it was well known that there were only four book institutes in the world that could join the world’s great sects and stand shoulder to shoulder with various top-level sects. They were, in order: Diligent, Long Men, Qing Ya, and Mu Gu.

The so-called “Fifth Book Institute of the World,” the name remained, but the book institutes under that name had changed countless times.

After the rain, like bamboo shoots, they sprung up everywhere, each wanting to improve.

“Hao Ran Book Institute, Tai Xu Scroll…” Jiang Wang was a bit puzzled: “What do they want with me?”

Fang Yuan You shook his head: “They didn’t say the specific matter, only that they wanted to see you in person.”

The people below had actually reported to him, saying that the two Hao Ran Book Institute disciples who came to visit the Floating Island had a very arrogant attitude. But he didn’t plan to tell Hou Ye this report. He was a military man who had been through a lot, and he didn’t understand any grand principles. He only knew that Hou Ye had taken him under his command to handle affairs and not to cause trouble.

It was the same when he was in Lin Zi in the past, he almost never got into conflicts with people. Sometimes someone at a wine table would get drunk and act crazy, and he would just smile.

“Where are those two people now?” Jiang Wang asked casually.

Fang Yuan You said: “They’re still outside the Floating Island. Without your command, the brothers won’t let them in.”

The sea clan forces in the Ding Mao Realm Domain had been purged, and the construction of a human race camp had begun. The soldiers stationed at the boundary river would not actually obstruct the entry and exit of human race cultivators.

But the Floating Island here was different, especially the Floating Island where Wu An Hou was located, which could be considered a military important place. It wasn’t somewhere anyone could come.

“Let them come.”

Jiang Wang actually wanted to know more about these book institutes, after all, they represented prominent contemporary learning, and the various factions of Confucianism were very valuable to understand. Furthermore, he was also interested in the development of the Tai Xu Scroll.

Xu Ze Ming first mentioned the Tai Xu Scroll to him when he was on his way to envoy Mu Country. In just over a year, according to Fu Yan Qing, the Tai Xu Scroll could already influence the situation in the *Mi Jie*.

This development speed was undeniably fast.

Fang Yuan You walked quickly, and the two visitors from the Hao Ran Book Institute came even more quickly.

Before Fang Yuan You could lead and knock on the door, a vibrant voice rang out from outside the building: “Hao Ran Book Institute’s Qiao Hong Yi and Jiang Cui Lin! Greetings to Qi Country’s Wu An Hou!”

Jiang Wang looked up, and saw a pair of figures arriving like a couple flying on the wind.

The man had a decent appearance, righteous and awe-inspiring. The woman was delicate and had proper features. One had a golden body and jade marrow, the other reflected the star building from afar. They were certainly not weak. “Come, please sit!” Jiang Wang didn’t put on airs and rose to greet them.

Qiao Hong Yi didn’t look old, around thirty at most. This age and level of achievement proved he was a genius. The arrogant air between his eyebrows was hard to hide. But he was still very polite to Jiang Wang: “Please forgive our presumptuous visit, Hou Ye.”

“Look at you,” Jiang Cui Lin playfully hit his arm: “What kind of person is Wu An Hou? Does he still care about these vulgar formalities? He should be exempt from all of them!”

Their relationship was actually very good. When they arrived, they were always hand in hand. They let go after entering the wine house. Even after letting go, their gazes were still intertwined like thick hooks.

“Miss Jiang is right, we’re outside, no need to be rigid about these things.” Jiang Wang smiled warmly. He wasn’t someone who liked to waste time, so he went straight to the topic: “You two specifically want to see me, I wonder what advice you have?”

Qiao Hong Yi cupped his hands: “Presumably Hou Ye also received reports from his subordinates. My junior sister and I are here to carry out a Tai Xu Scroll task.”

Jiang Wang slightly frowned, but didn’t speak.

Qiao Hong Yi then asked with a smile: “I wonder if Hou Ye understands the Tai Xu Scroll, and the Tai Xu Illusion?”

“I’d like to hear the details.” Jiang Wang patiently endured.

Qiao Hong Yi’s voice was loud, and he said very proudly: “The Tai Xu Illusion is the greatest civilization creation in history, a miracle born when the torrent of the human path reached this point! It represents that the firelight of the human path is already unstoppable, and it also bears the important mission of illuminating human civilization.

And the Tai Xu Scroll is a very important part of the Tai Xu Illusion. It can mobilize the power of tens of thousands of us to deduce this world to a more perfect state together.

I can even say responsibly that the Tai Xu Scroll exists purely for the construction of the Tai Xu Illusion. The tasks we carry out for the Tai Xu Scroll are also for constructing the future of the human race!”

This fanatical and proud tone sounded really familiar.

“Sounds very good.” Jiang Wang nodded thoughtfully: “So I still don’t know, you came to see me because…?”

Qiao Hong Yi laughed: “I am a Tai Xu Envoy, and also the master of Chang Zai Shan in Blessed Land Sixty-One.”

Jiang Wang respectfully said: “So?”

“Speaking of the establishment of the Tai Xu Scroll, my Hao Ran Book Institute also put in a lot of effort. As for myself, I’ve had a sense of responsibility since I was young, wanting to promote the progress of the human race…” Qiao Hong Yi seemed to want to talk a lot. Halfway through, he turned his head to look at Jiang Cui Lin: “Baby, what are you always kicking me for?”

Jiang Wang was shocked by the sound of “Baby” and gasped… This kind of sticky feeling was quite fresh.

Jiang Cui Lin said with a red face: “Hou Ye is a busy nobleman, don’t waste his time, quickly get to the main point!”

Qiao Hong Yi was very puzzled: “We’re talking very happily, aren’t we? He didn’t say I was wasting his time. Baby, don’t always think so much, it’s very tiring like this.”

“That…” Jiang Wang said, stroking his chest: “I’m a little uncomfortable.”

“Where is Hou Ye uncomfortable?” Qiao Hong Yi enthusiastically expressed concern: “My medical skills are very good!”

He rubbed Jiang Cui Lin with his shoulder again: “Baby, tell him, aren’t they?”

Jiang Cui Lin covered her face a bit shamefully, but also responded with a “yes.”

“My medical skills are also okay, there are no major problems with my body, I just need to rest…” Jiang Wang never expected this guy to talk so much, and be so roundabout and sticky. He quickly said: “Brother Qiao, if you have something to say, don’t hesitate to speak directly.”

“Then I’ll get straight to the point. The thing is…” Qiao Hong Yi had a kind of talkative temperament, which made his originally quite handsome face also show a twisted sense: “You know I’m from Zheng, that time I was in Mang Cang Mountain… I encountered… We have… That’s how it is. I took this task to come to the *Mi Jie* to capture sea beasts.”

Jiang Wang swore he would never sit down and talk with this person a second time. To capture a sea beast, you could talk about your encounter at the age of ten. Why didn’t you start lecturing from the founding emperor of Zheng Country!

“Capturing sea beasts shouldn’t be a problem for Brother Qiao.” Jiang Wang said: “Do you need a large quantity?”

“We need thirty thousand!” Qiao Hong Yi said excitedly: “Of course I’m not the only one doing this task, but I want to make the biggest contribution!”

There were always behaviors of capturing, taming, and using sea beasts in the near-sea archipelago, Jiang Wang knew this point. Once, to save the sea people, he killed a runaway sea beast of the Angry Whale Gang and was even found out.

At that time, the true form of the sea lord of the sea clan had just evolved to the divine soul level, causing all the tamed sea beasts in the near-sea archipelago to go out of control.

Chen Zhi Tao also targeted the new state of the sea beasts’ divine souls, researched new prohibition methods, and freely shared them with all the sea people. This act won him huge prestige.

It was also very normal for the Tai Xu Scroll to have tasks for capturing sea beasts, but was it too many to need thirty thousand sea beasts at once?

Jiang Wang couldn’t help but ask: “Catching so many sea beasts, what exactly is the help for the construction of the Tai Xu Illusion?”

Qiao Hong Yi looked around mysteriously, Fang Yuan You, who was behind them upstairs, had armor on and pressed his knife silently.

He thought for a moment, then said: “I can only tell you about this matter—”

Jiang Wang interrupted him: “If it’s such an inconvenient thing to say, then don’t say it. Don’t make it awkward for you.”

“Convenient, convenient.” Qiao Hong Yi said busily: “I can say it with Wu An Hou!” Jiang Wang looked at him quietly, signaling him to continue.

Qiao Hong Yi said: “The Tai Xu Scroll earlier had an island building task, mobilizing large resources, and built a new island in the near sea, named ‘Fo Zhou.’ ‘Fo’ means ephemera, a tiny thing in heaven and earth, a temporary period in the path of life. With this name, it implies using a short life to create great possibilities, warning us…”

Jiang Cui Lin beside him probably saw Jiang Wang’s impatience and quickly took over: “To put it simply, Xu Ze Ming built a large heaven and earth millstone on Fo Zhou Island, which needs to be filled with a large number of sea beasts to analyze the foundation of the sea clan and reverse-engineer the sea lord’s true form!”

Jiang Wang was slightly startled. He wasn’t actually surprised that this matter was related to Xu Ze Ming, what surprised him was Xu Ze Ming’s handwriting.

To do such a thing, relying on Xu Ze Ming alone was not enough. Who else in the Tai Xu Sect was involved? How many people supported him? The elders, the sect master, or even Xu Yuan Zhi who led the construction of the Tai Xu Illusion?

Qiao Hong Yi added: “The nature of this Fo Zhou Island is similar to your Jue Ming Island. It borrows time, and it must also be a heavy weapon and strong city on the sea border of our human race!”

“Oh?” Jiang Wang said: “I actually never understood. I wonder where the position of this Fo Zhou Island is, which strong ones are stationed there, how many troops are stationed, and how many times have they fought against the sea clan?”

“Fo Zhou Island is currently mainly focused on researching the sea clan…” Qiao Hong Yi said not without embarrassment: “Its position is not far south of Xing Zhu Island.”

Saying that, he raised his head again: “But with the Tai Xu Scroll, all the strong ones in the world can use it!”

Jiang Wang himself wouldn’t think so much, but as the Hou of Da Qi Country, he couldn’t help but think— all the strong ones in the world can use it, do the six great overlord countries agree?

This matter was not for him to manage, so he only said: “So you came to me, exactly wanting…?”

“Hou Ye is a straightforward person at first glance, Hong Lang, don’t beat around the bush.” Jiang Cui Lin smiled charmingly: “It’s like this, Hou Ye, we heard you just purged the Ding Mao Realm Domain and started constructing the human race camp… so we came to ask you for some captives!”

After the sea clan showed the sea lord’s true form, they could also be used as sea beasts, which was not uncommon in the near-sea archipelago.

Jiang Wang wasn’t very surprised, only said: “How many do you need?”

Giving away one or two sea clan captives as a favor was fine. If the soldiers under his command got fewer shares because of this, he would supplement it from his own pocket.

“I just said it! Born as a human, in the face of the great righteousness of the human race, who will hesitate?” Jiang Cui Lin smiled brightly, looked at Jiang Wang seriously: “However many we want, however many.”

“It’s not impossible to talk about!”

Jiang Wang was just about to quote a price.

On the other side, Qiao Hong Yi very naturally added: “Also, didn’t you just finish the war here? The army is idle anyway, why not transfer some people to me and together promote the progress of the human race! These wild sea beasts are really hard to catch, I need some people to help me intercept them…”

Jiang Wang didn’t speak.

Combining these two guys, they didn’t want to pay anything, they came purely to beg!

They didn’t want one or two bites of food, they opened their mouths and wanted the host’s month’s rations, and still wanted to take away all the pots and pans.

“Does Hou Ye have any misgivings?” Qiao Hong Yi observed his words and expressions, and said generously: “We are all for the great righteousness of the human race, absolutely without any selfish heart!”

“But this Hou is a person with a selfish heart.” Jiang Wang sighed: “This Hou led the expedition to the *Mi Jie* this time, bringing three thousand armored soldiers. Yuan Stones, grain, fodder, they all consume. Merits, fame and fortune, everyone wants to take. Moreover, this human race camp was taken down through the merits of tens of thousands of soldiers up and down. Can this Hou occupy it for himself and throw it away lightly?”

He thought he was already getting close to implying.

But Qiao Hong Yi seemed to completely not understand: “A group of vulgar fellows who can’t push the Heaven and Earth Gate, at most they’re just filling in with their lives, what merits can they have! Doesn’t it all depend on you, Hou Ye? You are a character on the cloud peak, why worry about the thoughts of those mud legs?”

Jiang Cui Lin said in a charming tone: “You are the Hou of Da Qi Country, the commander of the three armies… isn’t this just a matter of your one sentence?”

Jiang Wang reached out to end the tea cup: “Sorry, I’m a bit tired.”

“Hou Ye!” Qiao Hong Yi was anxious: “You are the pride of the human race, the chief of the Yellow River. With the great righteousness of the human race here, we still don’t spare life and death, how can you shirk?!”

Jiang Wang pressed the tea cup on the table and looked at him quietly. He watched as his excited emotions just dissipated so coldly. “Do you hear the wind bell outside?” Jiang Wang asked.

The wind blew over.

Ding ling ling~ Ding ling ling~

Qiao Hong Yi and Jiang Cui Lin subconsciously nodded.

“This one is called the soul-summoning bell.” Jiang Wang said: “Every floating island in the *Mi Jie* has this bell. We all know that death is death, and after death everything is empty. But the warriors who fight desperately here all want to be a little closer to home when they dissipate. This useless bell is just for comfort.”

“The people who are desperately fighting here, every single one of them bears what you call the great righteousness of the human race. No one pays less than you, bears lighter than you. You are not a three-year-old child, you have no right to demand anything from anyone, do you understand my meaning?”

He didn’t have any severe actions or expressions, his voice just lowered a few points. Qiao Hong Yi and Jiang Cui Lin immediately felt huge pressure!

Killing Guang Yuan the Fish, breaking Ao Huang Zhong, these were all recent events!

“We have disturbed you.” Qiao Hong Yi, with difficulty in his tone, pulled Jiang Cui Lin’s hand, wanting to leave.

Jiang Wang slowly said: “You can come and ask for my opinion, not directly take my captives and leave, which shows you can still be somewhat reasonable. I’ll give you a suggestion at the end, do you want to hear it?”

Qiao Hong Yi nodded dully.

Jiang Wang said: “Speak less, do more. Want less, give more.”

Qiao Hong Yi might have been convinced, or perhaps not, but he could only nod. At this time, an urgent voice came from outside the building— “Emergency military order!”

The plan to send off the late guests made Jiang Wang a bit speechless.

But he soon realized this wasn’t the result after he signaled to Fang Yuan You.

He stepped to the window and looked out: “Where is the order to?”

The flag officer flew urgently in the air: “Qi Shuai’s urgent order! Instruct Wu An Hou’s department to immediately set out for the *Sa Po* Dragon Domain!”

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