How can one become an immortal with such laziness?

[Hong Li: !!!]

"Ah, that..."

Hei Yang took two steps back and smiled modestly: "Is there anything we can help you with?"

"That's right!"

An elderly person, whose identity is unknown, cast an admiring glance at the child, saying, "This child is so sensible!" He continued, "There are indeed some things that we need the two of you to help with!"

"Oh, may I ask what this is?"

Hei Yang tentatively asked, "What kind of thing?"

[Hong Li: I know! The next line is: It's simple, I'll borrow the lives of you two little kids for a bit, hehehehehehehehe!]

[Hei Yang: Xiao Li, calm down...]

"Ha, it's very simple."

The old man laughed heartily, and Hei Yang Hongli's eyebrows twitched instantly.

His next sentence was: "Of course, I'd like to ask you to help everyone buy some things from home!"

"Eh???"

Hei Yang Hong Li blinked.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 470 Got you! Delicious little kid!!!

Qiankun Kingdom, capital city, palace.

"Is this the royal palace?"

Hongli followed Heiyang slowly, her searching gaze sweeping around as she analyzed the situation, asking and answering her own questions.

"There are fewer and fewer pedestrians along the way, so it can't be wrong, right?"

Hong Li doesn't come to the capital often; when she does, it's usually to visit relatives during the Lunar New Year.

She came and went in a hurry, which meant she was completely unfamiliar with the palace. Even as she saw palaces gradually appearing in her field of vision, she was still somewhat uncertain.

"That's right, you'll get there soon if you just keep following this road."

The guide beside him gave an affirmative answer, paused, and then lowered his voice to say, "Actually, although there weren't many people coming and going here before, it wasn't as desolate as it is now."

The main reason is the incident involving the fifth prince two years ago. Because it caused such a huge uproar and had such a significant impact, neither members of the royal family nor those who associate with the royal family have been as active as before in the past two years.

To put it bluntly, this place feels rather lifeless right now!

"After all, the fifth prince was dragged out of the palace by a bunch of people without consulting the royal family, and was sent away in public."

Hei Yang clicked his tongue in disapproval. He was one of the participants and promoters of what happened back then. He even still had some of the money he had taken from the Fifth Prince in his warehouse, which was his first pot of gold.

When the old matter was brought up again, Hei Yang couldn't help but feel a little emotional: "No matter what, he is a member of the royal family. If he makes a mistake, whether he is punished or executed, according to the old rules, we should at least respect the process and wait for the royal family to issue a statement on the matter before taking action."

As a result, no one even paid attention to that and they immediately started fighting.

After the person had already passed away, the royal family, in a desperate attempt to save face, issued a "punishment statement." Not only could they not be angry, but they also had to appease everyone; they had lost all face.

At this point, Hei Yang chuckled, his expression a half-smile, and said, "Although the royal family has been losing face all these years, no one has ever openly barged in to arrest and try the prince. After this incident, everyone can see that this skinny camel is nearing its end."

Of course, the decline of such a royal family is also related to the fact that it was not properly centralized when it was first established, or rather, it was never established as a dynasty.

Unlike the ancient systems that Hei Yang knew in his previous life, royal representatives, military power, and political power do not exist in Qiankun Kingdom or most countries in the Aoyou Realm.

In its earliest days, it was just a makeshift operation propped up by popular appeal. Even now, the so-called army doesn't have a proper system; it's all just people getting paid to do the work...

In short, he's an abstract, deformed individual who just drifts along, and his survival to this day is solely due to the honest and simple nature of the gaming community and his own refusal to court disaster.

The Fifth Prince led the way in making a terrible mistake, and the people's hearts were instantly shattered. He almost destroyed the entire royal family and its members.

The formation of this abstract royal family, in essence, is a legacy issue from the history of the early days of the Royal Family.

As mentioned before, the predecessor of the Soaring Realm was pieced together from fragments of a certain large world.

The earliest inhabitants of the Soaring Realm were also refugees from that war-torn world, and their levels of education and abilities varied greatly.

Back then, the living conditions were harsh, and everyone who fled was penniless. They had to choose the most capable and courageous people to be their leaders, and then they all worked hard together.

To facilitate management and maintain order, they established various positions and labor organizations, which later became the earliest leadership collective in the aerospace industry, as expected by all.

When they established their leadership, they never thought about creating a regime that could last forever. Back then, everyone was starving and didn't have time to think about such things. Whoever could help them survive and have enough to eat, that's who they would follow.

Even many of the established systems and regulations were selectively inherited and borrowed from the original world!

And so it came about: your family calls itself royalty, my family calls itself a sect, and his family calls itself a clan...

Just because you're called royalty doesn't mean you're the head of this country. And just because I'm called a sect or family doesn't mean I can't participate in the management of this country. It's all a complete mess and absurd.

According to the normal development process, such a chaotic management system will soon cause problems, and it would not be surprising if there were quarrels, fights, or even bloodshed and death.

Once everyone has been hurt enough and is exhausted from the beating, then we can start licking our wounds while reorganizing and standardizing the original system.

Finally, through practical discussion, we came up with a comprehensive and perfect new unified system.

Logically, that should be the case!

But the problem is that this is a world of cultivation, and often one person can suppress thousands of discontented people!

Those earliest leaders, through their personal charisma and powerful strength, forcibly brought together a chaotic crowd to live in peace!

Those people all came from a world ravaged by war. None of them wanted to continue the endless fighting. They were all forced by the lessons of the past to become peace lovers who value truth, goodness, and beauty.

It was this group of the earliest residents of the space travel world who started it all, bringing the entire space travel world's atmosphere to a strange track.

Later, that group even rewrote the entire Heavenly Dao rules of the Soaring Realm, setting a relatively mild tone for the whole world.

For example, the idea that good deeds are rewarded and evil deeds are punished does indeed manifest to some extent under the Heavenly Laws of the Soaring Realm!

For this reason, the world of space exploration has never experienced a large-scale man-made disaster.

The biggest incident was when the Suantianmen group tried to exploit a bug in the Heavenly Dao rules and illegally occupy the resources of destiny. After their scheme was exposed, they were targeted by all the sects in the entire Aoyou world and even by the self-awareness of the Aoyou world, becoming like rats crossing the street.

The reason that group did this was because they didn't want their new home to be like the once-great world, which was full of martial spirit and conflict.

Because of this action, the residents of the Journeying Realm have lived peaceful and stable lives for thousands of years, which is obviously a good thing.

The downside is that outdated systems like the Qiankun Kingdom's royal family, which should have been eliminated and improved thousands of years ago, are only now beginning to show signs of collapse, which to some extent also hinders the development of certain social systems.

Hei Yang Hong Li came to the capital this time at someone's request, to give a push to this dilapidated and bloated carriage hanging on the cliff.

In layman's terms, the few surviving ancestors of the Qiankun Kingdom's royal family surnamed Zheng learned about the current situation of their descendants and found that not only were they living better than their ancestors, but they also had a tendency to evolve into stumbling blocks to world peace, which made them very unhappy.

In addition, they originally wanted Hei Yang Hong Li to help them with the purchase, and suddenly they saw this target. The ancestors gave them a token that was said to be sure to work, and told them to make a zero-yuan purchase, to give the already impoverished royal family a little surprise that would make matters worse...

In fact, it's not just the royal family of Qiankun Kingdom; all the major sects and four holy lands of the Five Elements Sect, as well as the various families of the Five Colors Clan, will have to make a trip after Hei Yang and Hong Li to purchase a batch of supplies for free in the name of their ancestors, cough cough...

Of course, our ancestors were all respectable people, so they certainly wouldn't go too far as to cut flesh off their own descendants. At most, they would just bleed a little to exercise the blood-producing function, which would be more beneficial to health, etc.

So the promised purchasing service turned into a freebie-stealing scheme under orders from our ancestors...

To be fair, it's not unreasonable to ask someone to help you get something from your "descendants'" home, is it?

We're all old and frail, standing guard for you while enduring the harshest winds of the universe. Now that a tribute channel has finally been opened, it's only fair that we improve our lives a little, right?

Although it may seem like collecting protection money door-to-door, on a larger scale, it's contributing strategic resources to protect the entire world from foreign invasion! This is military spending! It can't be skimped on!

Yes, the reasons are all reasonable, and the intentions are good. There's no problem!

Hei Yang and Hong Li understood the reasoning, but they still couldn't help feeling nervous about "collecting protection money for the first time, what should I do if I offend someone?"

Therefore, Hei Yang Hongli even found a local guide to lead the way in order to ease the tension.

The guide was also someone they knew; Hei Yang's cousin, Hei Chen, was the one they brought out of the Wangchuan Youth Edition River back then.

Because the other person was in a half-dead state most of the time when they were together, they could only be considered as half an acquaintance.

As for Hei Chen, a half-acquaintance and a victim of the Fifth Prince's incident back then, he had even less sympathy for the royal family's current seemingly bleak situation. He could only say that it seemed like...

As Hei Yang Hong Li walked, she looked around at the buildings, trying to remember everything she saw. It wasn't so much to admire the scenery, but mainly to estimate how much wealth the Zheng royal family still had, so she could have a general idea and avoid accidentally bankrupting them.

After all, they were entrusted by the other party's ancestors to pay (collect) the protection fee, not to take a bounty from the other party's enemy to force their entire family to their deaths...

However, after observing the situation, Hei Yang Hong Li realized that she was worrying too much about the other party. Although the Zheng royal family had fallen on hard times, they still had the foundation they had built over the years.

Although with Hei Yang Hong Li's current knowledge, they wouldn't be surprised by the other party's wealth, they were at least certain that the other party wouldn't be so easily bankrupted by their ancestor.

A series of magnificent yet ancient palaces stand around, majestically guarding the central imperial palace, like a ghost gradually being buried in history, its body slowly decaying but still unwilling to die, still murmuring incessantly that it manifests supreme royal power.

Amidst the magnificent architectural complex, there are inexplicably some short walls made of mottled bricks and stones, bearing the marks of swords and spears, seemingly telling yet another untold story.

Perhaps it was some epic tale that stirred the blood, deliberately preserved in this medium to symbolize honor.

Or perhaps it is a wound that is difficult to heal, written into ancestral precepts that must not be removed, and that one must look at it daily for self-reflection, as a painful lesson.

But eventually, as time takes away generations of people and events, those things have become stories and are no longer of concern to people.

Honors are forgotten, lessons are long forgotten, and the seeds of future events are sown. Perhaps mistakes are meant to be repeated again and again.

However, in this world of spiritual practice, there will always be a few ancestors who crawl out of history from time to time and throw the weight of those years in your face, making you rediscover those honors or lessons, just like now.

"This……"

A faint spiritual energy was channeled into the keepsake before him. The old king's cloudy eyes were filled with calm as he grasped the keepsake, carefully examined it, and gave a definitive reply: "This is indeed something left behind by our ancestors!"