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Chapter 163 - 91: Imperial Pole Worldly Scripture Great Formation Map

Chapter 163: Chapter 91: Imperial Pole Worldly Scripture Great Formation Map

The blind fortunetelling Taoist was unaware that there were now two people before him, chuckling as he said:

"Young Master, yours is a very good and auspicious Fate Grid, most auspicious."

The youth, who appeared spirited and naturally endowed with wealth and honor, laughed and said, "But, old Taoist, you have two people before your table now. Whose Fate Grid have you actually divined?"

The old Taoist became flustered and said, "Ah? Two people?"

The sightless elder didn’t know what to do: "This, this..."

The young man laughed, saying, "However, your verdict is quite interesting. Divination is just for seeking good fortune, but are our destinies truly predetermined from birth?"

"If one truly believed in these fateful pronouncements, they’d be under the control of such divinations."

She took out a piece of silver from within her sleeve robe and placed it on the table. Feeling the silver, the old Taoist was overjoyed, thanking him profusely and saying several auspicious phrases.

The young man turned around gracefully, looking towards Li Guanyi.

His brows were strikingly handsome, with a crimson vertical scar between them, his face as white as jade, and yet he was carefree.

Extending his hand in invitation, he smiled, "Would this gentleman have some leisure time? The spring is just right, why not enjoy the scenery together?"

Li Guanyi, seeing his extraordinary handsome features, felt as though the Green Bird seemed to chirp in harmony with the Phoenix.

After thinking it over, he replied:

"Then I shall respectfully comply."

The youth, marked by his Phoenix Eyes, laughed heartily, "Good, please."

He and Li Guanyi went to a pavilion within the Taoist Temple, a higher place where one could glimpse the spring scenery of the temple, with many Taoists and Pharmacists busy brewing medicine. Li Guanyi inquired with the Taoists, who mentioned that recently, the Emperor had ordered the construction of a marketplace to the east of the city and a traveling palace further east.

Conscripted two hundred thousand civilians.

Many were injured and couldn’t afford medicine, so the Taoists were picking herbs to treat them.

Li Zhao Wen smiled, "I am a man from Chen Country, second in my family, you may directly call me Erlang. May I know your esteemed surname?"

Li Guanyi said, "My surname is Li."

The young man did not continue to ask for a name, as they were but strangers who met by chance.

The beautiful girl accompanying him had already brought over tea and snacks. Beside the stone table was a small clay stove, lit for boiling water and making tea. Her demeanor was gentle and elegant. As Li Guanyi sipped the tea, he was slightly startled, noticing a subtle change in the young man’s eyes, as his heart’s bronze tripod softly hummed.

It was beginning to accumulate Jade Liquid!

This young man’s realm was higher than his.

But the accumulation of Jade Liquid was slow.

Fearing it wasn’t as significant as the heroes of the age like Yue Qianfeng and Xue Daoyong.

Yet considering his age, which was not much different from Li Guanyi’s, to have such cultivation was extraordinary. And then thinking about the Tiele youth he had just seen, Li Guanyi couldn’t help but sigh inwardly, "How many heroes there are in this world!"

But he didn’t know what improvements the accumulation of Jade Liquid could bring.

If he could take advantage of the situation and break through to the second story.

That would be best.

However, before breaking through to the second story, it would be ideal if the Four Symbols Dharma Form could rotate at will, fully achieving the Primordial Chaos state, Li Guanyi suddenly thought. If this place gathered the heroes of the world, then wouldn’t there be many who possess Dharma Forms?

Even if this bronze tripod was being picky now.

Among so many beings with Dharma Forms, there must be a few from which to extract Jade Liquid and Imprint Dharma Forms, right?

Li Guanyi suddenly felt, what seemed like the whirlpool of the Grand Ceremony of Great Chen, to suddenly burst forth with light akin to opening a treasure chest. Those various heroes and valorous figures, suddenly emitting an alluring golden light, glittering.

Danger and opportunity coexist.

He sighed in his heart.

Li Guanyi found himself getting along well with the young man who claimed to be the Erlang of Zhou County in Chen Country, engaging in a pleasant conversation that initially only touched on the Great Chen Ceremony and the spring scenery. But after only a short while, the youth suddenly changed the topic. Holding a folding fan, he gazed outside and sighed deeply:

"Now Tuyuhun is no more, and during this Great Chen Ceremony, heroes and nobles from all over have come here."

"Between Ying Country and Chen Country, and even with the Turkic, there will be major competitions and negotiations to divide the world. Though I, too, am from Jiangnan, I have never been to Jiangzhou before. Only upon arriving here did I realize the prosperity of Chen Country, and how my Jiangnan’s affluence is indeed well-deserved. Civil servants and literati are unparalleled in the world."

"Truly a major country in the world!"

"Occupying Jiangdong, and looking over the whole world!"

Changsun Wu Gou, hearing that girl talk nonsense, yet so earnest, couldn’t help but purse her lips and smile.

Li Zhao Wen sighed genuinely from his heart, then asked with a smile:

"Brother, what do you think the future holds for our Great Chen?"

"Ying Country is barbaric, the Turkic are impolite. Chen Country holds the prosperous cultural lineage of Jiangnan. Now having expanded its territory by over three hundred miles, the Emperor is hailed as the Saint Emperor, also a wise ruler."

Chen Country allows its citizens to speak freely, with no history of punishment for merely expressing opinions.

Li Guanyi looked at the young man.

This manner of suddenly shifting the conversation to the grand scheme of the world gave him an oddly familiar feeling. After thinking for a bit, he answered, "One cannot say."

Li Zhao Wen said, "Today, it’s just you and me talking casually."

Li Guanyi thought for a moment, tilted his head to drink more tea, and then replied:

"When Erlang came to Jiangzhou City, did he see the stations along the way, meet the commoners on the roads, or encountered the Buddhist Taoist prostitutes? Calling on a five hundred mile radius of counties for tributes, and sending two hundred thousand civilians to construct a traveling palace, such a king is too distant from the people."

He recited a passage from Mencius, saying, "If a ruler treats his ministers as his hands and feet, they regard him as their heart and belly; if he treats them as dogs and horses, they regard him as a fellow countryman; if he treats them as dirt or weeds, they see him as a hostile thief. Now that the ruler views people as less than dogs or horses, how will the people of Chen regard him?"