I have the best bloodline

But the other people in the private room seemed completely oblivious, continuing to talk to themselves and leisurely eating the blood-stained dishes on the table.

After killing the old man, countless black threads emerged from the surrounding shadows, intertwining to form two human-faced beast-like monsters. The Blissful Immortal did not look at what was happening inside the private room and walked towards the window.

Two shadowy beasts devoured the old man's corpse and the young man sitting next to him. Then, the beasts began to writhe and transformed back into the old man and the young man, sitting at the dining table to eat.

The old man remained wary, while the young man, still sullen, picked up his chopsticks and poked at the food in his bowl.

Everything seemed as if nothing had happened; even the bloodstains around the private room had disappeared.

"Hey!"

The Blissful Immortal flipped out of the private room, looked at Su Yan who was completely dumbfounded, and laughed: "Why do you look so strange? Do you want to know about the senior's power? Now, all you need is a pound of immortal crystals to satisfy your curiosity."

"This is a truly wonderful power."

As she spoke, the Immortal of Bliss stretched out her foot, tripping a passerby who was walking nearby, causing all the account books stored in her basket to spill onto the ground.

"Who's so inconsiderate! Throwing fruit peels on the street, don't they know there's moss on the ground?"

The fallen passerby glanced back, then looked at the Blissful Immortal, and immediately began to curse loudly in the street, while picking up the account books scattered on the ground.

"Although I am very curious, thank you." Su Yan quickly waved his hand to refuse the suggestion from the Blissful Immortal. Although the senior's ability was strange and inexplicable, if Su Yan really wanted to know, he could go home and ask his elders. There was really no need to let the Blissful Immortal get a pound of immortal crystals for free here.

"So boring~"

Seeing that his attempt to persuade Su Yan had failed, the Blissful Immortal didn't mind and led Su Yan northward, saying, "By the way, we were talking about how Emperor Wusheng occupied the mountain city. Emperor Wusheng gave me two hundred catties of immortal crystals and asked me to eliminate all the nobles and their families from the original mountain city."

Zhaoyao Mountain City has completely changed hands. Even the former nobles and their families who were on the run have all perished under the influence of the two hundred catties of immortal crystals given by Emperor Wusheng.

Everyone worked together to eliminate the city lord and the families connected to him. The Immortal of Bliss smiled and suggested to everyone that all the leaders only needed to pay an extra sum of immortal crystals, and he could eliminate the old powerful forces and all future troubles and hidden dangers.

The leaders made a fortune, while the fleeing orphans also carried their family wealth, enjoying the best of both worlds.

"This is not a case of making two dishes out of one! You are clearly profiting from human suffering first, and then exploiting those who have no descendants."

Upon hearing this, Su Yan pondered for a moment, inwardly criticizing the Blissful Immortal's seemingly reasonable but morally bankrupt behavior.

This is hardly a two-birds-with-one-stone strategy. First, they slaughter all the cultivators in the family and eat their property. Then, they catch up with the fleeing family members, eliminating them completely and taking advantage of the wealth they carried with them during their escape.

"arrive."

The Blissful Immortal stood in front of a tall gate, pointed, and looked at Su Yan, saying, "The Wusheng Emperor and his gang are currently living inside."

As expected, when Su Yan looked up, the words "Zhaoyao Mountain City Lord's Mansion" came into view.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 587 This is also small, and the inside is also small.

After learning from the Blissful Immortal what had happened in the Queshan Mountains in the past two months, the Blissful Immortal safely escorted Su Yan to the main camp of the Unborn Emperor, in front of the city lord's mansion in Zhaoyaoshan City.

As Su Yan entered the city lord's mansion, he immediately saw Grand Tutor Jin, whom he hadn't seen in a long time, as well as a woman whose features resembled Feng Shiqi.

"Yo~ Little fox—"

Grand Tutor Jin, sipping tea from his covered bowl, saw Su Yan walk through the front hall and into the central courtyard. He greeted Su Yan with a smile, saying, "It's been a while since I last saw you, and your cultivation has improved by leaps and bounds!"

"?!"

Upon seeing Grand Tutor Jin, Su Yan looked surprised and asked, "Grand Tutor, what brings you here?"

The Xia Yu court was usually divided into two categories: one was when Emperor Wusheng was in charge, and the other was when Emperor Wusheng was not in charge, and Grand Tutor Jin exercised regency, suppressing the various leaders of the Xia Yu dynasty and treating them like cattle and horses.

Therefore, Su Yan was genuinely shocked when he saw Grand Tutor Jin appear in the Immortal Realm.

The officials of the Xia Yu Dynasty court were all capable and ruthless villains. Neither Emperor Wusheng nor Grand Tutor Jin were in charge of the Xia Yu Dynasty. Those villains probably drew their swords and killed their political enemies overnight, and then severely punished their subordinates who wanted to report them and take their positions.

"Compared to the infighting among the civil and military officials, the Immortal Realm clearly needs me to oversee things more." Grand Tutor Jin, seeing Su Yan's shocked expression, could roughly guess what Su Yan was thinking and said with a smile:

"With the concerted efforts of Dao Hua Zhenjun, the generals under the Third Prince, and the commander of the Demon Suppression Division, Princess Wuxi, who recently became regent, should be having a great time, and the cultivation world should also be quite happy."

The leaders of the cultivation world went to the Immortal Realm with the intention of starting their own businesses. Most of the unimportant resources in the cultivation world had already been abandoned, and even the previously out-of-control territories were thrown away. They concentrated all their resources to invade the Immortal Realm.

The most ruthless of all is the Dragon Clan. The Endless Sea is currently undergoing the process of returning the four seas to ruins. The Deep Sea City, suspended high in the sky, is drawing out all the water from the four seas for refining, extracting the evil thoughts and remnants of souls that died in the sea from the evil water.

Currently, the Xia Yu Dynasty is the most powerful in the cultivation world, with abandoned lands and resources that other leaders don't value. That's why Grand Tutor Jin said that the princess should be having a great time.

Grand Tutor Jin dared not even imagine what the princess was capable of, nor did he dare to look back, for fear that his blood pressure would explode and trigger heart failure.

After all, Princess Wuxi's personality inherited Emperor Wusheng's stubbornness and Third Master Xia's flexible sense of morality.

"The princess has taken power now?" Su Yan's face showed a subtle expression upon hearing this.

The princess, with the military strength of a county, was able to form alliances and conquer the capital of a neighboring country. Now, the princess holds the overt power of the Xia Yu Dynasty, as well as the demon clan's Nightmare Suppression Sect of the Third Prince and the Nightmare Suppression Sect of the Northern State of Dao Hua Zhen Jun.

Su Yan couldn't comment on the matter, but he agreed with what Grand Tutor Jin said. The princess was probably having a very good time and enjoying herself.

Su Yan didn't even dare to think about how happy she would be.

………………

"A little fox?"

The lady sitting at the tea table turned her head to look at Su Yan and slowly said, "I never imagined that Shiqi's ideal boy would look like this."

"My name is Feng Xiwei, the current Supreme Elder of the Feng Clan."

The lady who looks somewhat like Feng Shiqi is not the current patriarch of the Feng clan, but the previous patriarch who had long since secluded himself from worldly affairs. She is currently the Supreme Patriarch and was once an artisan who assisted Emperor Yu of Xia and Emperor Wusheng.

"Greetings, senior!"

Su Yan walked to the tea table, bowed slightly, and greeted them.

The relationship between Feng Shiqi and Su Yan is rather complicated. Simply put, Shiqi's family has too many muscular, muscular craftsmen, and Feng Shiqi's aesthetic is that of gentle, handsome, and charming scholars who are capable of strategizing and winning battles from afar.

Su Yan's image is somewhat similar to that of the Xia Yu Dynasty, which is influenced by the belief in the white fox. As a result, Feng Shiqi looks at Su Yan as if he were the best of both worlds.

During the day, they can take each other out for walks, like a divine couple that others envy. At night, they can playfully wrestle in bed, and afterwards, they can cuddle and pet the little fox's belly tenderly.

Su Yan's growth was practically dancing on Feng Shiqi's favorite tropes.

Madam Feng had complained about this before, not because she had any issues with Su Yan, but rather because she had a lot of complaints about her daughter. "You shameless thing! That little fox is small here and small there, and you're openly lusting after her body. How did our Feng family produce such a scoundrel who lusts after other people's little brothers?"

Even if you really crave it, you should wait a few years until the other person comes of age!

"Well"

Su Yan sat down at the tea table, looking at the items on it with a bit of curiosity. The tea table was nearly two meters long, with the Grand Master Jin's tea tray and other dried fruits and tea canisters taking up only a third of the space. The rest of the space was occupied by the Grand Elder of the Feng Clan.

Of the items on the tea table, Su Yan could only recognize things that resembled a simulated sand table; the rest remained largely unfamiliar.

Although Su Yan was very curious, neither Grand Tutor Jin nor the Grand Elder of the Feng Clan were prepared to introduce them; both of them were leisurely drinking tea.

"Don't be curious about those things. They're just magical artifacts used by craftsmen when forging weapons," Grand Tutor Jin said, somewhat amused and exasperated, as he interrupted Su Yan, who was still staring intently at the sand table used to create weapon blueprints.

"Let's talk about something else! You should be able to answer my questions."

"I have come to the Immortal Realm for two purposes. The first is to accumulate resources, and the second is to improve my cultivation." Grand Tutor Jin looked at Su Yan, smiled and said, "In the Immortal Realm, spirit stones are still quite valuable, but they can only buy things within the areas covered by spirit stones. They are not effective in areas that require immortal crystals."

When the Wusheng Emperor occupied the mountain city, she didn't actually use any schemes or tricks. She simply eliminated the behind-the-scenes group of the old nobles of the mountain city, severed their entanglements of interests, and then directly spent spirit stones to buy all the properties.

The leaders of the cultivation world are not short of spirit stones. Various forces control a large number of mineral veins. The celestial owner behind the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion is also frantically throwing spirit stones at the leaders. Their only request is that the leaders give them the first taste of the benefits.

The areas conquered by the leader must have been incredibly difficult for the monks and civilians there.

He is willing to send supplies to the disaster area for relief, and you don't need to worry about the price of the supplies. I will give you 30% of my net profit. After I have plundered those people into poverty, won't it be more convenient for you to rule or ruthlessly exploit the labor force?

With such a massive amount of spirit stones gathered in one place, the old forces in the mountain city, which had been overthrown by Grand Tutor Jin, and the various branches of the families that had lost the protection of cultivators, were threatened and all chose to sell their family property and exchange it for hard currency such as spirit stones to run away.

The power transition in the mountain city was so smooth that the common people were still completely unaware that the upper echelons of the city had been completely overhauled. On the surface, everything seemed to be the same as before; the farmers were still farming, and the vegetable sellers were still the same vegetable sellers.

As for who the new employer is, who cares? As long as the wages are paid, that's fine. Just live one day at a time.

"I heard from the Moon Rabbit Clan Chief that you've been mingling with those immortals lately, so you should be very clear about their views on large regions, right?"

Grand Tutor Jin looked at Su Yan and asked with a smile.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 588 The Defeated and the Spoils

In the Immortal Realm, spirit stones are extremely useful and highly effective for all cultivators below the Celestial Realm.

However, this only applies to cultivators below the Celestial Realm. Grand Tutor Jin was ordered by Emperor Wusheng to come to the Immortal Realm, not just for a pittance of spirit stones. What he was after was a higher-level and more useful treasure.

The terms "spirit stone" and "immortal crystal" are merely metaphors.

"What are the gods' views on the great regions?" Su Yan paused slightly in his tea-drinking, looking at Grand Tutor Jin with a surprised and uncertain expression. "Grand Tutor, are you preparing to...?"

Grand Tutor Jin's question was quite interesting. He asked the immortals for their opinions on the larger regions, but if it were limited to the immortals' regions, Grand Tutor Jin wouldn't have needed to specifically ask Su Yan for his opinion at all. Emperor Wusheng and the others had probably killed countless troublesome immortals to use as fertilizer during this period.

Therefore, when Grand Tutor Jin mentioned the "immortal," he specifically referred to Su Yan's recent association with the immortal. This clearly indicated that the Holy Spirits sitting in the Sky Zone viewed the Earth in this way, and whether this held any special significance for the larger regions.

"Do you remember when we were in the flower area?" Grand Tutor Hanayone changed the subject, not answering Su Yan's question, but mentioning the previous spring outing to the academy.

“Of course I remember it clearly: the Flower Region, the Southern Xinjiang Region, the Eternal Life Cult, and the Red King’s forces.” Su Yan nodded slightly in response.

Whether it's the Flower Region, the Southern Frontier Region, or the Eternal Life Cult, all of these regions were actually invaded by the Red King during the expansion of his territory.

The Flower Region bypassed the Crimson King and directly surrendered to the Emperor of No Life to obtain autonomy. At that time, everything revolved around the autonomy. Although the cultivators of the Flower Region lived in the Crimson King's territory, they obeyed the Crimson King's orders but not his summons because of their autonomy.

This was unacceptable to the Red King. He directly supported the invasion of the Flower Region by the Southern Frontier, and then sold the retired weapons of the Xia Yu Dynasty to both sides. While making money, he also kept escalating the war in the two regions, and at the same time, he suppressed the economy of the Flower Region and disrupted their politics.

With the entry of the Eternal Life Cult, Flower faced the prospect of national ruin and the loss of its people, leaving it no choice but to surrender to the Red King. The Red King, under the pretext of resisting invasion, annexed the Southern Frontier region, which originally belonged to the Southern State.

That's roughly what happened. Su Yan, who was the county magistrate of Huahua County at the time, was involved in the whole process and naturally knew some inside stories that the common people didn't know. Incidentally, he earned over 100,000 catties of spirit stones in half a year.

"It's good that you remember." Grand Tutor Jin smiled and took out two teacups, placed them on the table, filled one with tea, and pushed it in front of Su Yan, saying, "In this way, a full cup of tea represents flowers, and an empty cup represents the Southern Frontier."

"Two cups are placed in front of you. If you were sitting in His Majesty's seat now, what would you think?"

Su Yan was taken aback upon hearing this, looking at the two teacups, and for a moment he did not quite understand what Grand Tutor Jin meant.

Grand Tutor Jin chuckled lightly, but said nothing. He simply raised his hand, picked up the empty teacup representing the Southern Frontier, and took a small sip, but couldn't taste anything.

He turned the empty cup representing the southern border upside down, then took out the cup representing the flower region, which was almost overflowing with tea, and took a sip. He then gave the remaining half of the tea to Su Yan to observe.

Now, on the table, the empty cup from Southern Xinjiang is upside down, while the flower-patterned teacup sits steadily on the table, emitting the aroma of tea.

"The Flower Region is located on a vast plain and has a tree spirit from the Earthly Immortal Realm as its land god. Every year, the amount of sugar produced by the Flower Region reaches one-fifth of the total output of the Xia Dynasty, and the flower production reaches one-third of that," Grand Tutor Jin said with a light laugh. "Therefore, our Xia Dynasty directly accepted the surrender of the Flower Region and truly granted them autonomy according to their wishes, incorporating them into our territory."

“But the situation in southern Xinjiang is different. Their land consists of many hills and terraced fields. They have no agricultural output, and even self-sufficiency is a major problem. They also have no mineral deposits or abundant biological resources.”

"They also tried to emulate the flowers by secretly going directly to the court to surrender, but they were rejected. If we accept the southern border region, we will only create hundreds of thousands more people who are just siphoning off Xia Yu's financial subsidies for disaster relief."