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Chapter 82 Miracle Project
Listening to Mr. Chai's narration and imagining a huge network of tunnels throughout Yuanzhou's underground, Geng Xuan felt dizzy.

Although he had never measured it with his own feet, he still had some rough idea of how big Yuanzhou was.

Based on some information he had known in the past, and based on what Mr. Chai had shared about his actual experience of traveling to many places in Yuanzhou when he was young, Geng Xuan guessed that the area of Yuanzhou would not be less than one million square kilometers.

To build such a huge project in such a huge underground Yuanzhou is an "incredible miracle" even if the personal qualities of the practitioners are fully taken into consideration.

Later, as Mr. Chai told his story, Geng Xuan gained a better understanding of this "miracle project."

If we trace its origins, we have to go back to the iconic event of the fall of Emperor Yuan more than 500 years ago.

With the fall of Emperor Yuan, the once powerful and unifying Daye Empire quickly collapsed.

Since then, the land of Kyushu has fallen into severe turmoil.

Yuanzhou, which was at the center of the collapse, and the billions of people living in Yuanzhou were like being at the center of purgatory, suffering the most severe pain.

There were wars one after another, endless banditry, and the plague and famine that almost always accompanied them...

At the worst time, there were "bones exposed in the wild and no one living for thousands of miles". Even the bandits who were looting on horseback would starve to death in this desolate land, making people suspect that the people of Yuanzhou had completely died out.

The reality is that naturally, many people died, one after another.

But in the end, some people survived and used their wisdom to adapt to the cruel world.

“Some are lucky enough to hide in the mountains and swamps, living a life isolated from the world, but they are only a minority.

Moreover, these people have isolated themselves from the Nine Provinces, making it difficult for them to reproduce and survive. They will die out after two or three generations at most.

The vast majority chose the seemingly more difficult path, hiding underground."

At the beginning, this may only be the choice of some people.

But as the situation in Yuanzhou continued to deteriorate, more and more people chose to hide underground.

What should we do if there are not many natural places underground for people to live?
Then dig it yourself!

Anyway, no one dares to appear on the ground unless it is necessary, so let's dig.

As long as people are alive, they will keep digging.

Digging it down, generation after generation.

From then on, Yuanzhou became two Yuanzhous.

One is Yuanzhou on the earth, which is an arena exclusively for heroes and all those who are unwilling to be mediocre and want to "shine".

One is the underground Yuanzhou, where the "mediocrities" live and die.

In order to survive, they changed their nature and turned themselves into "groundhogs".

Moreover, once they have reached a certain scale, the underground tunnels become intricate and intricate, making them the natural home ground for diggers.

Outsiders who want to harm them have to think carefully and dare not enter easily.

Otherwise, the hunter will become the prey in minutes. This is more reliable than the well-defended city fortresses on the ground!
This in turn caused Yuanzhou's underground network to become increasingly larger and more complex, until no one could explain its details.

At the beginning, these underground networks may be scattered and independent of each other, but as they spread to farther places, they more and more often "connect" with each other underground.

Chai Ye didn't know what happened when these different underground networks first intersected, and Geng Xuan knew even less, but he could probably guess a little.

And the underground black market gradually emerged in these underground intersections.

It was not until more than two hundred years ago that Yuanzhou began to transform into its current form.

The "mediocre people" slowly moved to the ground and resumed their lives of working from sunrise to sunset.

The underground black market also moved to the surface and gradually evolved into the current market which is more prosperous and more complicated than the underground black market.

As time goes by, and with the death of these "mediocrities" who have personally experienced underground life, the "underground marks" that have lasted for more than three hundred years and spanned more than a dozen generations have gradually disappeared, as if they had never existed.

Mr. Chai’s story had ended long ago, but Geng Xuan’s emotions did not stop.

He once again thought of his previous life as an elementary school student.

The old teacher, who liked to tell some historical stories in addition to normal teaching, praised the destiny of the Daji Dynasty that lasted for more than 800 years, was amazed by the unparalleled bravery of the Overlord, and was often troubled by Emperor Yuan. He was fascinated by his great achievements and indignant at his cruelty and brutality.

His "complaints" benefited his "successor" Geng Xuan a lot.

However, not a single word was mentioned about this event which had been happening right under his feet for more than three hundred years and which, in Geng Xuan's opinion, was completely worthy of being written about.

Geng Xuan didn't believe that his knowledge and experience would be worse than that of the "old killer" Chai Ye.

The only reason, then, that he never mentioned a word about it could be that he felt it was unimportant.

And this is exactly the reason why Geng Xuan sighed and was so excited.

Not to mention that an old teacher in elementary school one or two hundred years later did not take them seriously, wasn't it the same for themselves?
They, this group of "mediocrities" from generation to generation, all they do is just to make a living for themselves.

Everyone has been struggling for his or her own life from the moment he or she is born. What else is there to say?
Today, their traces have almost disappeared from this world.

The only thing left is a "spider web" hidden under the land of over one million square kilometers in Yuanzhou.

……

a few days later.

Chen family.

Today, Chen Rongshan and his son Chen Zheng both returned home early, which is a rare occasion.

At this moment, both of them were standing in the backyard, and Chen Xiaoyu was sticking to her father.

The three of them looked at another person in the yard.

Geng Xuan did not feel any pressure due to the attention of the three people.

He held a quiver on his back, a bow in one hand, and looked up at the sky slightly, as if waiting for something.

The quiver was filled with a bag of iron-headed feather arrows, which Chen Rongshan had specifically requested for him from the "Logistics Department" of Changpingfang.

——This was temporarily established during the autumn hunting period and was personally led by the owner of the Changpingfang, Li Qun, with the purpose of unifying and coordinating all human and material resources within the Changpingfang.

Just then, four little birds flew across the sky and quickly flew towards the mountains.

Geng Xuan, who was originally looking up, suddenly moved.

He stretched his left hand to his right shoulder, holding the end of a feather arrow between his index, middle, middle, and ring fingers.

With a slight pull, the long arrow came out of the bag and was placed on the black bow that had just been raised in his right hand.

Just this seemingly casual start made the eyes of Chen Rongshan and his son Chen Zheng light up.

It seems casual, yet so smooth and concise.

After watching Geng Xuan's moves, they couldn't even imagine a smoother and simpler start.

Just as the two of them were distracted, two long arrows were shot into the sky at the same time.

Because the speed was so fast, it looked like two faint dotted lines in the eyes of the two people.

The other end of the dotted line points directly to four birds flying across the sky.

The next moment, a long arrow flew over, the bird cried in panic, and feathers and blood splattered.

Except for one bird that fled in panic, wailing, towards the forest, the other three fell to the ground. Two arrows, three birds.

One of the arrows hit two of them.

Chen Rongshan and Chen Zheng both clapped their hands. Chen Xiaoyu next to them also clapped as if she understood what was going on, and her face looked more excited than anyone else.

Chen Rongshan said: "Ah Xuan, your archery skills are amazing!"

Geng Xuan said modestly: "It's all thanks to Master Chai's good teaching."

Chen Rongshan laughed and said:

"Don't push it away. That old guy is indeed very capable, but don't I know how perfunctory he is in teaching people?
If he really had the patience to teach me carefully, why would I send Chen Zheng to the martial arts school? "

"Is this Master Chai's chain of tracking arrows?" Chen Zheng asked.

"Ah."

"How many times can you last now?"

"Just twice." Geng Xuan secretly gave himself a discount.

On the second day after learning the Linking Arrow technique, Geng Xuan used up another four points of luck to raise it to the minor success level.

Today, after fully digesting it, Geng Xuan can easily shoot three arrows in a row. With a little effort, he can also shoot four arrows in a row, but the accuracy and lethality will be reduced.

Now he gave a 50% discount, but Chen Zheng did not show any disappointment. Instead, he lowered his head to think about it.

Geng Xuan knew that he was simulating how to integrate his advantage in shooting into the entire team as much as possible.

Soon, Zeng Rou prepared a sumptuous meal and asked everyone to eat.

During this time, Geng Xuan and Chen Rongshan chatted casually for a few words, but Chen Zheng kept his head down and remained silent, looking like he had not fully come out of his deep thoughts.

It was not until after dinner, when Geng Xuan was about to leave, that he suddenly spoke:

"Come to the forest farm tomorrow morning, and I'll introduce you to the others so you can get to know each other."

Geng Xuan nodded and said, "Okay."

Geng Xuan and Chen Rongshan didn't know that after seeing Geng Xuan's performance in archery, Chen Zheng actually breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Before this, Chen Rongshan wanted to put Geng Xuan into his team without discussing it with Chen Zheng, and he felt that something was wrong.

Later, as they became more and more tacit in cooperating with the rest of the team, they complained when they learned that a "relative" would join the team after the official operation.

The pressure finally fell on him.

Given his personality, he wouldn't say anything to Chen Rongshan or Geng Xuan and could only bear it on his own.

After witnessing Geng Xuan's archery skills with his own eyes today, he finally felt relieved.

……

The next day, Geng Xuan went to the nearby forest farm and stayed with Chen Zheng and other members of the hunting team for the whole day.

This forest farm is near Changpingfang, a large open space with many trees that have not been cleared. Many teams that will participate in tomorrow's autumn hunting are taking the time to do their final practice here.

On that day, Geng Xuan's interactions with the other six members of the hunting team, except Chen Zheng, went through a process of resistance and dissatisfaction, indifference, shock and astonishment, and finally closeness and intimacy.

What prompted them to make such a smooth transition was nothing more than Geng Xuan's display of his superb archery skills, which, although only at the minor success level, were enough to astonish everyone in the hunting team.

When the day ends, everyone returns home.

Geng Xuan silently contemplated his own bone refining achievements for a while, and thought to himself, "It's done."

At this moment, his bone refining achievement has reached about "28%".

Although the potential of the bone shrinking method in the minor success stage has not been fully tapped, if you wait a few more days, the bone refining achievement can still increase to about "30%".

However, Geng Xuan decided not to wait any longer.

With his mind made up, Geng Xuan first swallowed two blood-replenishing pills, and then confirmed the improvement of the "bone shrinking method".

Soon, Geng Xuan found that the bones all over his body began to heat up, burn and tighten.

As his physical consumption increased, Geng Xuan felt an instinctive thirst coming from his body. The medicinal power of the two blood-replenishing pills he had just taken quickly spread to his limbs and bones.

Seeing that something was not right, Geng Xuan swallowed another blood-replenishing pill, which barely satisfied his body's hunger and thirst.

It was not until Geng Xuan held the jar of wine and drank about two kilograms of it that his body fully recovered.

After his physical condition had almost recovered, Geng Xuan consumed another eight points of red luck, which enabled him to advance from the minor success realm to the major success realm.

More techniques and insights about archery came to Geng Xuan's mind.

After roughly sorting out all of this, Geng Xuan took a more careful inventory of himself.

【Lucky: 450
Iron Skin Skill (Master) +, Tidal Breathing Skill (Great Master) +, Cha Nu Xuan Shui Skill (Great Master) +, Bone Shrinking Skill (Great Master) +
Earthwalk (Master) +, Dismemberment (Master) +, Blowing Arrow (Master) +, Pine Waves Swordsmanship (Master) +, Disguise (Master) +, Continuous Tracking Arrows (Advanced) +, Phantom Hand (Beginner) +
Iron Sand Palm (Master), Raccoon Leap (Grandmaster), Chain Steps (Grandmaster), Featherless Arrow (Grandmaster)]

You really don’t know until you think about it. Even Geng Xuan himself was a little surprised.

But he still felt it was not enough, so he took inventory of the things he would need to carry with him for the autumn hunt.

"I don't need to worry about arrows and supplies. The hunting team and logistics will take care of them. I just need to take care of myself."

"Black bow... slashing knife... and a sword..."

"Throwing knives... forget it, let's change to javelins. I won't bring the throwing knives this time."

"Take the blowpipe and those long needles with you. Although you may not need them, they don't take up much space anyway."

"...Oh, yes, yes, there are also blood-tonifying pills. I can't neglect my cultivation. Medicinal wine is inconvenient to carry around, so blood-tonifying pills are the best choice."

After a thorough inventory, Geng Xuan finally felt at ease.

Have a good night's sleep.

Finally, Geng Xuan woke up to the sound of Chen Zheng knocking on the door.

The two came to the forest where they had gathered yesterday and found that hundreds of people had already gathered there.

Soon after Geng Xuan and Chen Zheng arrived, nearly two hundred people had gathered around.

Everyone has formed small teams of six or seven, or seven or eight people.

It looks a bit scattered, but if you let go of your mind and try to comprehend it, you will find that the energy of each hunting team is firmly integrated together.

Geng Xuan had no doubt that in such a situation, if anyone in the hunting team was attacked, the others would immediately make the most appropriate choice without any prior negotiation.

Just then, the abbot Li Qian appeared.

He didn't say much.

Just say to everyone:

“Today is the first day of September, and this year’s autumn hunting has begun.

I hope that after the autumn hunt is over, all of you will come back. By then, all of us in Changpingfang will be here to welcome you back safely.

Okay, let’s go! "

(End of this chapter)