“Seeing the letter as a meeting:

Linzi Road is far, and the high autumn is gradually deepening. Under the maples, greetings among youths are already sparse!

On the platform, there was once a young man, a sword champion of the world, radiating a spirited demeanor.

In the Eastern Country, there was once a Marquis with military merit, achieving merit first, with bells and tripods passed down through the family.

You cause clouds and smoke to drift.

Thinking of my ambition of ten thousand li, it cannot be extinguished.

Thinking of my white-haired heart, one with piercing clarity.

I also did not come with thoughts.

I only know the rivers and lakes are fraught with evil wind and waves.

Going there and coming here, what is the difference?

Remotely remembering past days, you descended the cloud stairs, journeying ten thousand li to Qi.

Today, leaving Qi, it is no harm to wear the moon and slowly return already.

Stupid Ash misses you, Little An misses you. Words cannot fully express the meaning.

——Cloud on Blue Rain

A long, slender, powerful hand folded the misty, light paper like thin paper.

But the concern on the thin paper was too heavy. He weighed it, then slowly unfolded it again.

Sitting alone by the window of a tall building, Jiang Wang silently read the letter one more time.

Words cannot fully express the meaning, but I hope you understand.

Other than that embrace and the sudden loss of control, he had no other inappropriate behavior. But indeed, some changes had already occurred.

For a person who stares fixedly at the distance and bears a difficult weight forward, losing control is a rare occurrence.

He must examine his own heart.

The Lingxiao secret place is one of the few places on his journey where he can completely relax and rest. Even in the former Martial An Marquis residence, he could not avoid the myriad threads of the Great Qi officialdom.

And the reason the Lingxiao secret place would open its embrace to him is solely because of Ye Qingyu.

Perhaps from the beginning, he needed Ye Qingyu, it was just that before, he had never… or rather, dared not discover it.

Now Qingyu writes to him again.

The letter asks him to ‘slowly return already,’ which is no different than saying the Lingxiao Pavilion wants to provide him shelter.

He doesn’t know how Ye Qingyu persuaded Ye Lingxiao.

But he knows that the Cloud Country, which has always upheld neutrality and traded across the world, now actually lacks sufficient strength to contend with the Zhuang Country. Except for Ye Lingxiao himself, the Cloud Country has no military force to speak of.

He also hasn’t forgotten the promise he made to the Qi Emperor, that he would not join any other country again.

He remembers even more the answer he gave Ye Lingxiao when he was being pursued by Zhuang Gao Xian—

Even death will not turn toward Lingxiao.

These words carried no resentment or anger. It was his gratitude to Lingxiao Pavilion for sheltering Jiang Anan and his promise. It was his will to bear everything alone and absolutely not involve Lingxiao Pavilion.

It was so in the past, and it is so today.

But how to reply to Ye Qingyu’s letter?

How to respond to this concern.

Jiang Wang has always been decisive and very珍惜 time.

However, sitting by the window at this moment, he paused, wrote on the letter paper and tore it up, finally writing this:

Letter received and understood, greetings Qingyu:

The edge of the sky is far, difficult to meet face to face. Words express intent, a leaf sends autumn.

Suddenly leaving the Qi capital, half a month has passed. I have come and gone back and forth seeking a path.

I have drifted for a long time!

Accustomed to being a solitary traveler, but it is difficult to stay long.

Now I see the clouds on the horizon returning, thinking of the Cloud Seal.

《Cloud Seal Divine Soul Evolution》

Sent with the letter, hoping for much exchange.

——Little Jiang under the maples

He casually cut a yellow leaf and imprinted it into the letter. Then he released it as a cloud crane, watching it ascend high into the sky.

Although Bai Yuxia’s fortune is somewhat bumpy, his ability is not in doubt. In the small Xingyue Plain, it is also very difficult to come up with accidents.

When Jiang Wang rushed to Tianfeng Valley, Bai Yuxia had already established himself here, buying a wine building. He changed the signboard overnight, renaming it ‘Baiyu Capital’.

This building is built against the cliff of the mountain valley. It is by no means exquisite or magnificent, but it is high and wide enough, with a total of twelve floors.

Before Bai Yuxia arrived, it was just

The best business in Tianfeng Valley.

Cultivators who meet the conditions in Xu Country can freely come to Xingyue Plain to build a Star Building, but Xu Country does not have power over Xingyue Plain. Although Jing Country lost the Xingyue Plain war, cultivators who meet the conditions in Jing Country, like Qi Country cultivators, can also come here freely. Only Xiang Country alone is excluded.

With both Jing Country cultivators and Qi Country cultivators present here, it is simply impossible to have one voice of authority.

In any place where the order is not unified, swords and knives will become the only order.

Xingyue Plain is no exception.

Doing any business here requires the ability to protect oneself, otherwise, losing money and goods is a common occurrence. This wine building was originally considered to have ‘strong soldiers and prosperous horses.’

Bai Yuxia saw this place at a glance, seeing it as strategically important for military and business. Hence, he moved with emotion and reasoned with logic, finally reaching a transaction.

After Bai Yuxia took over, he directly sealed the top two floors, for himself and Jiang Wang to live in respectively.

The ten floors below were then operated.

Although he did not visit his neighbors door to door, he had already used his own methods to make the surrounding messy organizations tacitly acknowledge the rise of a new emerging force in the shortest possible time.

Baiyu Capital had prosperous business on the first day after changing the signboard.

The ten floors were full of people, a mix of all kinds of fish and dragons coming to pay respects. There were not a few people who wanted to see how the former Great Qi Martial An Marquis would fall from grace and become a nobody.

But Jiang Wang himself was too lazy to pay attention to these. He only cultivated diligently behind closed doors on the top floor.

Bai Yuxia was fully responsible for everything. After getting familiar with all the forces in Xingyue Plain, he even closed the wine building for five days, personally drawing plans and wholeheartedly renovating.

Jiang Wang did not interfere with anything. Bai Yuxia had a plan in mind. That was all.

During these few days, in addition to cultivating, Jiang Wang wrote letters, received letters, various letters from Anan, always thinking of him, thinking of him, thinking of him, and then the pen turned to ask him if he needed a ‘character practicing hero’ to manage.

Zuo Guangshu’s watercolor paper cranes also frequently flew in Taixu Illusion Realm. He asked him to come and sit in the Huai Country Duke residence.

He responded to all of them, but could not go to any of them.

It is worth mentioning that Huang Sheri, the proud son of Jing Country, also sent a letter, from the northern desert to Xingyue Plain, and it was so timely and accurate, showing the strength of Great Jing’s Huanglong Residence.

In the letter, Huang Sheri actively invited Jiang Wang to be a guest at Huanglong Residence.

He said: ‘You are already a free person, you should go freely. In the morning by the East Sea and in the evening in the northern desert, embrace the long moon and pillow the jade peak.’

The letter was full of enthusiastic descriptions of Jing Country’s scenery, such as the ten thousand zhang Weapon Tomb, the hundred li Evil Ghost Slope, the Falling Soul Ridge, the Evil Spirit Spring… indicating that if Jiang Wang arrived, he would have battles every day and could spar every day.

At the end of the letter, he specifically emphasized that the folk customs of the Great Jing Empire are pure, rustic, romantic, and open, and will absolutely not restrict Marquis Wang’s personal freedom…

If not for this emphasis, Jiang Wang might have actually gone.

Speaking of Taixu Illusion Realm.

Before August 15th when he saw Ye Qingyu, Jiang Wang had already restarted his blessed land challenge, and once again defeated the ‘Fighting Child’, the guard of the final blessed land. At that time, he was suppressing his emotions. Throughout the process, he did not say a word to the ‘Fighting Child’, nor did he let the ‘Fighting Child’ finish a single word. He only attacked like a sudden gust of wind and heavy rain, constantly hitting until it was completely shattered, not even a trace could be found on the Discussion Sword Platform.

Then, within September 15th, while in Tianfeng Valley, he once again defeated a competitor with a reputation to challenge the ‘Fighting Child’.

This time, he gave the ‘Fighting Child’ an opportunity to speak.

The ‘Fighting Child’ fought and stamped his feet, scolding that as the dignified descendant of the Great Chu Duke of Wei, he was actually being targeted like this. That hateful Dugu Wudi, specifically in the last blessed land, repeatedly came and went, only picking on him, Fight So-and-so. He was unconvinced, resentful, and very angry, demanding that Dugu Wudi report his real name, declaring that Taixu Illusion Realm could not display his true strength, and wanting to find someone to duel in the real world…

Jiang Wang quietly waited for him to finish scolding, then stabbed him flying with a single sword.

And on this very day, Taixu Illusion Realm welcomed a new rule again—

Rule one, the Discussion Sword Platform challenge for God Arrival cultivators is fully open. Only God Arrival cultivators who win the honorific ‘Three Talents God Arrival’ on the Discussion Sword Platform are qualified to challenge the blessed land.

Rule two, in a winning situation, a blessed land challenge can be challenged a maximum of three times continuously.

Rule three, God Arrival cultivators who have already obtained a blessed land can still participate in the Discussion Sword Platform challenge, but cannot participate in the God Arrival cultivator Discussion Sword Platform ranking.

Relatively speaking, because a full seventy-two God Arrival cultivators are excluded from the Discussion Sword Platform ranking.

The value of ‘Three Talents God Arrival’ seems far less than Four Symbols Outer Building, Five Elements Inner Residence, etc.

But considering the essential gap between God Arrival and those below God Arrival, this is not that difficult for people to accept.

The saying goes, ‘certain rules must be old rules, and unchanging laws must be unsuitable.’

As more and more people participate in Taixu Illusion Realm, the rules of Taixu Illusion Realm are also continuously adjusted.

The new rule is very obviously intended to gradually eliminate those who exploit loopholes. As more and more cultivators participate in Taixu Illusion Realm, and the number of God Arrival cultivators catches up, Taixu Illusion Realm begins to seek ‘quality’ contributions.

Jiang Wang doesn’t care too much about these.

No matter what the rules are, he always sweeps horizontally.

The only influence of the new blessed land rule on him is that as the guard of the final blessed land, after defeating a challenger, he can easily continue down three floors.

He returned to blessed land sixty-nine.

And that ‘Fighting Child’ who swore to return and make a comeback, yet has to participate in insane Discussion Sword Platform duels within the next month, and only has the opportunity to ‘knock on the door’ again after winning the top three rankings on the Discussion Sword Platform.

But it is foreseeable that even if his challenge journey is smooth, he may not touch ‘Dugu Wudi’ again for a while.

Dugu Wudi, being considerate, in order to give Fighting Child a more lasting and profound impression. While easily completing the blessed land challenge, he also displayed the ‘Fighting Child’s’ fighting methods to every blessed land owner he defeated.

And he generously shared all the routines for defeating the ‘Fighting Child’.

Although not enough to block the ‘Fighting Child’s’ path forward just with these points. But if the ‘Fighting Child’ insists on hiding his strength, or is careless, capsizing is not uncommon. After all, everyone is a God Arrival cultivator, although their strengths vary, seizing the opportunity to hit an open door is not enough to break the defense.

Jiang Wang was busy and happy, hitting people and teaching people in Taixu Illusion Realm.

And their wine building, Baiyu Capital, welcomed its first true guest.

He arrived stepping on the dawn light, wearing a hood and monk’s clothes, looking clean and refreshed, and also very polite. He stood at the door, quietly waiting for the wine building to open.

Actually, it was still not time to open.

The cook was still preparing dishes, the door panels were only partially removed, the firecrackers were not lit…

Although Bai Yuxia was surprised that someone came at this time, he personally welcomed him: “Master, what would you like to have?”

The monk took off his hood, revealing a clear and clean face, and said very seriously: “I have come for alms.”

“No problem. To welcome guests from all directions, there must be a convenient door. Please sit here.”

Bai Yuxia did not know the visitor’s intention, but he had the demeanor of a famous family, not stingy, and invited the monk to sit, only asking: “Gourd wine, beef pot, bracken stew, are these acceptable?”

The young monk saluted with palms together and said: “Many thanks for the donor’s kindness. This humble monk abstains from meat and fish, and does not eat spicy vegetables or meat. Please give me a bowl of water and a steamed bun.”

Bai Yuxia personally filled him a bowl of water and brought him a white flour steamed bun.

“Why is this place called Baiyu Capital?” the young monk asked. Bai Yuxia smiled: “Because it is where immortals reside.”

The monk said “Oh” and sat there carefully, slowly finishing his meal and drink. He thanked Bai Yuxia, put on his hood again, and left the store.

The young monk obviously had a very clear goal. He quickly left Tianfeng Valley and came to the famous Changlin Horse Field.

He did not greet anyone along the way, walking silently, and actually walked into the pasture’s discussion hall, walking to the front of Xiong Bochen, the owner of the horse field.

The Changlin Horse Field is said to be supported by Jing Country and has connections throughout the world. It can simultaneously do horse business with Xiang Country and Xu Country, and remain firm in Xingyue Plain. It only moved once during the previous Xingyue Plain war and quickly returned after the war.

At this time, Xiong Bochen was just summoning a group of elders for discussion.

He signaled the others to stop their restlessness with his eyes, and looked alertly at the monk who had just stepped in: “Who are you? If you are a true Buddha, why don’t you take off your hood and reveal your true face?”

The monk only retorted: “What does this have to do with you all? Outsiders, it’s best to mind your own business.”

The monk, in a chanting posture, said very seriously: “I have a connection with the Baiyu Capital wine building, so I cannot not speak a word of fairness. They have just opened and have not offended you all, this is not good. Xingyue Plain is so big, Tianfeng Valley is so far, and you all do different businesses, they will not affect you. I don’t know who is behind you all doing this, can you tell him not to do this anymore? As the saying goes, enemies should be resolved, not tied. A ten-year monk fears a tiger, why don’t everyone sit down and talk sense.”

Xiong Bochen interrupted him impatiently: “Where did you come from, monk? And what connection do you have with the Baiyu Capital wine building?”

The young monk said proudly: “I am a monk from Three Treasures Mountain! As for the connection, I just came for alms!”

“To your mother’s just came for alms!” As soon as they heard it was from the unknown Three Treasures Mountain, people were especially intolerant of being perfunctory. An elder from the horse field beside him immediately drew his knife, scolding as he chopped a knife towards the monk: “Are you trying to fool this old man?”

“Elder Liu, don’t be impulsive—” Xiong Bochen pretended to stop him, but naturally could not stop him. He watched as the ruthless knife got closer and closer.

The young monk remained motionless.

Elder Liu’s fast knife chopped towards the monk’s chest, but only brought out a long string of sparks.

It didn’t even break the monk’s clothes!

Amidst the shocked gazes of the entire hall, the young monk carefully took off his hood, revealing that dry and clean face.

He had never been without this hood since he took it from his junior brother’s head. At this time, he was also the first to put it into his storage bag.

Then this monk with clear features began to roll up his sleeves, smiling brilliantly and innocently: “Nah, you all hit me first, oh.”