All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 227 - 88 Kanming Frost Calamity (4/3)

Chapter 227: Chapter 88 Kanming Frost Calamity (4/3)

Even with firm belief in Huo Qing, An Jing couldn’t possibly disappear from the back house with You Ruhui and Granny Huai.

Even if the other side couldn’t imagine them being able to open the Great Void Passage, it was still not good to frighten Huo Qing sick.

Therefore, An Jing chose to take the two towards the unpopulated area of the Floating Dust Plains at night.

"This world... although it seems to have been severely damaged by the Heavenly Demon, it feels very relaxing to me."

Along the way, You Ruhui also reluctantly looked back at the recycling hut that was gradually disappearing into the darkness, "Even in the royal palace, I have never felt this relaxed."

Noticing An Jing’s somewhat strange gaze, she quickly explained, "What I mean is... it feels like many causal threads have been cut off, a kind of... freedom?"

"It’s like the willow fluff drifting in the wind." At this point, Granny Huai added vividly, making You Ruhui nod repeatedly, "Once the roots are cut, the willow fluff flies. Although one doesn’t know where it will land, floating in the wind during that time is naturally carefree and joyful."

"That’s really nice," Granny Huai said with a touch of emotion, "But fallen leaves must return to their roots, no matter how long they drift in this strange world, they must eventually go back."

"After all, you’ve come to another world."

As a fellow fugitive, An Jing nodded slightly. He could understand this mindset and also liked this feeling of freedom in the Tianyuan Realm.

Although it seemed like he was gradually establishing a base in the Tianyuan Realm, in reality, aside from Huo Qing and Nian Quan, he could abandon everything else at any moment.

This feeling of being able to turn around at any moment without sticking to causal connections is relaxing for someone who has been fleeing for a long time.

Granny Huai, for her part, had it even simpler. Locked in a small house and a single street by her Fate Pattern and Earth Vein for decades, now stepping out into an entirely new strange world, it was no wonder she felt so moved.

"Actually, there’s another thing."

You Ruhui looked up, her gaze drifting towards the nighttime view of Xuanye City not far away, even a Commandery Princess who had seen Shenjing showed a touched expression, "Although this world is still undeveloped and seems somewhat barbaric, overall, I have not seen people who are starving."

"In Da Chen, on the road of flight, I saw too many people homeless and starving because of the Frost Calamity... In order to survive, they even turned into beasts."

"Whereas in this world, even the vagrants we saw on the road, they just lacked housing, had poorer food, and even had magic artifacts in their hands, they weren’t close to starving to death."

—Indeed, the decay of a feudal empire and the decay of a cyber world definitely are not the same.

An Jing inwardly critiqued sharply, shaking his head and said, "That’s just because you’ve seen ’safe areas’... Outside of the safe areas, in the Wilderness, there are many people living day to day."

You Ruhui sighed, "At least it’s not a problem of governance."

That was indeed the case.

Thinking about it carefully, An Jing realized that although the Tianyuan Realm was rotten, it was mostly just because the groups didn’t regard people as humans.

The people in Xuanye City and the safe areas, although they had a low quality of life and were occasionally involved in gang struggles, potentially dying on the streets at any moment, generally only had a ’low quality of life’ and weren’t completely unable to survive or go hungry.

In this respect, the Tianyuan Realm was still better than Embracing the Void.

"In that case, we need to figure out what’s going on with the agriculture in the Tianyuan Realm."

An Jing thought about it and realized he had actually never seen farms or pastures, but meat and grain were never in short supply: "Could it be using Cave Heaven and Blessed Land for agriculture? Even that would be too extravagant..."

With such doubts, An Jing and his companions arrived at an uninhabited forest in the Floating Dust Plains.

"This is the place."

An Jing said as he called out the handle of Subdue Evil and opened up the Great Void Passage.

The three of them returned to the Embracing the Void realm.

Several days had passed and the Frost Calamity had not yet ceased; in fact, it had reached its peak. Now, between heaven and earth, there was only a vast expanse of white, and a faint dimness at the far end of the horizon.

"Eh? Jing Xuan? Granny Huai? Where have you two been these past few days?"

The location An Jing chose to descend was outside the streets of Youde Garden.

He knocked on the gate of Youde Garden once again, surprising the attendant who opened the door for him, "Two days ago (that’s when the people of Youde Garden noticed) when you suddenly disappeared, everyone thought something had happened, and we searched for half the day."

"I went to find my kin, fetched some items, to treat Granny Huai’s injuries."

An Jing did not elaborate further; the other party would fill in the blanks themselves. He tossed them a string of copper coins: "Can’t get through the tea shop because of the martial law, thought about it, and had no choice but to come here."

"No problem at all, please come in!"

Why ponder when there’s money to be made? The attendant immediately opened the door to welcome guests, and Steward Li also hurried over, immediately starting with sighs and laments, "Ah, Xuan, you really should have at least told us when you left last time."

"Granny, you too, even leaving a note would have been good. It’s not easy to go out searching for you in this heavy snow. If it weren’t for believing that Xuan and yourself wouldn’t joke about your lives..."

He rambled on but didn’t harbor much suspicion.

That day, as the city was in turmoil and the pharmacies were closed, if An Jing wanted to find medicine for Granny Huai, he certainly needed to use his own connections.

Now, although Granny Huai was still very weak, at least she was able to wake up and talk, presumably because young master Jing had found good medicine for her.

After some pleasantries, Granny Huai was helped by several attendants to a private room. You Ruhui used his Earth Escape Divine Skill to protect her, while An Jing stayed behind, surveying the entire Youde Garden, and exclaimed, "Goodness, with the recent heavy snow, your place is nevertheless bustling with business!"

Today, Youde Garden was nearly full, each room packed, a scene not even seen during festivals, truly unbelievable.

"Hey, there’s no helping it, aren’t these your kin, Xuan?"

At this point, Steward Li showed a helpless expression, signaling An Jing to take a serious look, "A few days ago, Dust Li suffered a demon disaster, many wealthy families brought their families here for asylum."

"With the Frost Calamity approaching, the tribe lost many hands and couldn’t protect so many people. We couldn’t just watch people die, right? So, we sorted out a batch and let them into the city, but where could we find so many places to stay in the city?"

"Those with money can still come here for a meal, rent a private room, treating it like an inn. Many others could only live in huts by the river, not knowing how many will freeze to death..."

Speaking to this point, Steward Li truly sighed deeply—business thrives on good relations, and even if they were from Dust Li, who would want to see a bunch of good people freeze to death?

But with the Heavenly Demon and the Frost Calamity, there really was no choice.

"You guys really aren’t afraid."

An Jing took a closer look and found that at least seventy percent of the people here were his ’fellow villagers’ from Dust Li. He too sighed, "I really didn’t expect such a big incident to happen after I left this time..."

"I also wonder how my hometown is doing."