Su Yun looked from afar and saw that the treasure land of Daqin was full of blood and evil. It looked extremely ferocious. It didn't look like a treasure land, but rather like a devil's cave that devoured people's lives.
But the scholars seemed to turn a blind eye and flocked to it.
Along the way, Su Yun and his companions stopped and started to observe the customs and habits of Daqin. Hu Feiyu was anxious and urged him to get to Daqin Yundu as soon as possible, saying, "Lord Cang Jiuhua is waiting for you in Jiange."
"Our trip has already taken more than two months. Since Cang Jiuhua has been waiting for more than two months, you don't mind waiting a few more days, right?" Su Yun said with a smile.
Hu Feiyu had no choice but to let him do it.
The two chariots only drove on the country roads. It turned out that the rural road traffic in the Great Qin Kingdom was extremely developed. Although not as prosperous as the city, it was many times better than Yuan Shuo's countryside.
Su Yun observed carefully and found that these villagers were often literate and well-educated, which made him quite impressed.
The strange thing is that every village has a temple, and every day, the villagers go to the temple to worship on time.
The gods of the Qin Dynasty are worshipped in the temple.
Some people pray for wealth, some pray for marriage, some pray for safe travel, some pray for psychological comfort after killing, and some pray for the afterlife. They also offer money to God.
Su Yun saw that the spiritualists of the Great Qin also went in and out of these temples, praying for the gods to move into their spiritual worlds.
Su Yun observed carefully and found that this was different from Yuan Shuo's ancestor worship.
The Yuanshuo people worship their ancestors to express their thoughts and remember the martyrs, and also to ask for their blessings, but this does not mean that ancestor worship will not interfere with their real life.
The customs of the Qin Dynasty allowed the gods in the temple to invade the real world.
“Is their god a spirit?”
Su Yun suddenly thought of the key point. If these spirits were remembered by all living beings and cast into golden bodies, wouldn't they be able to survive by relying on the thoughts of all living beings
In the next town, Su Yun and others encountered the divine appearance of the Western gods.
The god emerged from the temple and led the villagers and spiritualists in the town to fight against the gods of another village. The killing was brutal.
The two gods were tall and strong, and they even ate people. Fortunately, Su Yun and others were just passing by and were not from the hostile villages and towns, so the two gods did not chase them.
When they came to another village, there was an outbreak of Jiehui disease there. Someone absorbed the power of Jiehui while practicing and accidentally turned into a Jiehui monster. The god worshipped by the village appeared and killed the Jiehui monster.
"Where do these gods come from?" Su Yun couldn't help but wonder.
Hu Feiyu said: "Young Master, these are the gods of my Western Heaven."
Su Yun recalled that Cang Jiuhua had once displayed the Heavenly Palace Divine Light in the Eastern Capital, and actually opened up a piece of heaven and earth where all the gods lived, so he asked: "The gods of the Western Heavenly Palace should all know each other, right? Why are they fighting each other?"
"Su Shaoshi, you are foreigners after all, you don't know much."
Hu Feiyu smiled and said, "All gods are one, but sentient beings have different thoughts, so they form different incarnations of gods. The gods you see in heaven are actually incarnations of gods. There is only one true god! I, the Western God, will satisfy the requests of sentient beings, so I have tens of thousands of incarnations, distributed in different temples."
Ye Luo and the others knew nothing about the customs and practices of the West, so they asked, "Since all the gods are one person, why did the gods worshipped by the two villages go to war with us?"
"God is omnipotent. As long as people worship him, he will not refuse people's wishes. If people want God to conquer neighboring villages and towns, then God will lead them to conquer them."
Hu Feiyu said: "The people from those two villages must have had a grudge against each other, so they asked the gods to conquer each other."
Su Yun and others looked at each other, wondering what this strange custom was.
"I think this Western god is really good at playing."
Li Zhuxian laughed and said, "He fought against himself, so he didn't suffer any loss. But those who believed in him suffered heavy casualties, and he ate countless of them. As a result, people would believe in him more and more, and become more and more devout..."
"If you don't understand, shut up!" Hu Feiyu shouted, shaking with anger.
Li Zhuxian stuck out her tongue.
Su Yun thought to himself, "Who is this Western God?"
Two days later, they were still walking around and turning left and right, but they were still far away from Da Qinyun. Hu Feiyu's patience was exhausted, and he kept talking about "Yuan Shuo barbarians".
Li Muge and others were indignant and challenged him, but were defeated one by one. Even Young Master Ye Luo was defeated by Hu Feiyu.
Hu Feiyu also came from the Great Qin Sword Pavilion. He was extremely powerful and his magical powers far surpassed Ye Luo and others.
This comparison made many of the proud sons of Tiandao Academy feel the gap between the magical powers of the two countries.
Finally, Wutong activated his magic power, causing Hu Feiyu to become so evil that he cut off one of his own arms. Only then did Hu Feiyu calm down and no longer dare to act presumptuously.
That day, Su Yun looked far away and saw a raging fire in the distance. The flames burned the sky, and there was a huge city in the flames. So he asked, "Master Hu, where is the Jiehui City?"
Hu Feiyu only had one left arm left. He glanced at Su Yun's right arm, only to see that Su Yun's right arm had gradually grown out. He said respectfully, "That place used to be the Dark City of our Great Qin. There was a Jiehui Mine under the city. Later, Jiehuo burned, and the Jiehui God King resurrected inside and occupied the Dark City. The Holy Emperor attacked several times, but the Jiehuo Fire was too dangerous and he failed to take it down. Later, Jiehui disease spread, and many spiritualists turned into Jiehui monsters, and were thrown into these Jiehui cities, left to fend for themselves."
Su Yun looked at Jiehui City from afar. After a moment, he asked, "Master Hu, how many cities in Daqin have become Jiehui City?"
Hu Feiyu said, "There are six. Not long ago, another city was set on fire."
Su Yun's eyes flickered, and he said, "Let's go to Yundu!"
Hu Feiyu was confused, but he breathed a sigh of relief as Su Yun was finally going to Yundu.
Before noon the next day, the Phoenix Chariot and the Dragon Chariot drove onto the long street leading to the sky city Yundu. One end of this long street was on the ground, and the other end connected to the sky continent. The entire street was dozens of miles long.
The streets are like ribbons hanging in the air.
There are many buildings on both sides of the street, and tall buildings stand tall into the sky, which can be described as jade palaces and beautiful buildings.
The streets are crisscrossed with bridges, and there is a constant stream of traffic and people coming and going. It is extremely prosperous and accounts for nearly half of the population of the Great Qin State!
When Su Yun saw this scene, he suddenly remembered the architectural and civil engineering magical powers that the sage Lou Ban showed him before he left. The magnificent scene displayed by Lou Ban's magical powers was the Great Qin Tian Street before him!
"Yuan Shuo is indeed much behind Da Qin, but it is not impossible to catch up."
The Phoenix Chariot and the Dragon Chariot carried everyone all the way to Yundu at the end of the Heavenly Street. This Yundu was built on land in the sky. That land was a fragment of an alien planet.
"There is a strange star in the sky, named Yinghuo, which has broken into pieces for some unknown reason."
Hu Feiyu pointed to the sky and said, "The clouds are all built on the land closest to the ground. There are also large and small lands in other places."
Everyone looked and saw fragments of Mars floating above the earth, and vaguely they could make out that it was a planet.
What’s strange is that the broken pieces of Mars are still full of green, with mountains, rivers and air on them, and you can even see white clouds floating!
"Sir Hu, is there anyone upstairs?" Li Zhuxian asked.
Hu Feiyu said: "I don't know about that. I have never been there. But Jiange has been studying how to go there in recent years and is preparing to send some scholars there to explore and gain experience. Most of you who are studying abroad are studying in Jiange, so maybe you will have this opportunity."
"Master Hu, how could Mars be broken?" Yingying asked curiously on Su Yun's shoulder.
Hu Feiyu glanced at her and said, "I don't know either. But some people in Jian Ge speculated that the Mars was probably smashed when Tianshiyuan fell, but no one knows whether it is true or not. Others have other speculations, saying that it was smashed by the ancient gods and demons in a war."
When the Phoenix and Dragon Chariots arrived at the gate of Yundu City, Su Yun could not help but take a few more glances and saw that the city gate was extremely high and was surprisingly similar to the Tianmen in Tianmen Town.
Su Yun was puzzled, so he stopped the carriage and looked at it carefully.
The patterns on the Yundu Tianmen Gate are also those of Yinglong and Taotie. Judging from the carvings, they should be extremely ancient.
Suddenly, he saw a diamond-shaped pattern of a wooden box on the portal, and he couldn't help but think: "This portal was built by Tsutenkaku!"
That diamond pattern is the logo of Tsutenkaku!
Two giants with goat heads and human bodies stood at the gate of the city. They were dozens of feet tall and held spears with a ring on the tip, like a scepter.
These two giants with goat heads and human faces have huge curved horns on their foreheads and strange patterns on their bodies.
"It looks like an argali... Strange, can an argali also cultivate into a human?"
Su Yun's face changed slightly, as if he had eaten a argali.
Hu Feiyu pointed the way and led them to the envoy's residence, saying, "Everyone take a rest first. I will go and inform Lord Cang."
In the Sword Pavilion, Hu Feiyu told Cang Jiuhua about Su Yun's experience on the way, saying: "This person is extremely fussy. He wants to see everything and ask about every custom. It took him four days to get to Yundu."
Cang Jiuhua had been listening without interrupting. Hearing this, his face was solemn and he said, "From the small details, this Su Shaoshi has seen some clues."
Hu Feiyu was surprised and asked, "Sir, what did he see?"
"What he saw is that our Great Qin is currently unable to use military force against Yuan Shuo."
Cang Jiuhua sighed and said, "The so-called study of things can be used to study all things in the world, or a country. The reason why he stayed on the road for so long was that he planned to study the national style and destiny of our Great Qin."
Hu Feiyu asked for advice: "Please give me some advice, sir."
"The customs of the people are the customs of the country. You can know the customs of the people by looking at their customs. As for the fate of the country, he can see how our Great Qin will deal with the robbery monster."
Cang Jiuhua shook his head and said, "Tell him that another city is burning with fire and has become a city of ash. Then he will know that our Great Qin has not been able to deal with the ash disease and that our Great Qin has internal troubles. And because of the ash disease, our Great Qin is fighting with Da Xia and has external troubles. Therefore, he saw the national destiny of our Great Qin and knew that our Great Qin could not use military force against Yuan Shuo."
Hu Feiyu cried out in amazement: "How can you see so many things in just a few days?"
Cang Jiuhua said calmly: "I landed in Yuanshuo Donghai County and arrived at Yuanshuo Dongdu a few days later. On the way, I saw the customs and habits of Yuanshuo and knew that Yuanshuo was weak. The master of Yuanshuo's Tongtian Pavilion naturally has such means. Tongtian Pavilion should decide who is the orthodox one..."
He raised his head and said in a deep voice: "Notify the Pavilion Master that Yuan Shuo, the pseudo-Tongtian Pavilion Master, has arrived in Daqin. Please make the decision!"
Daqin Embassy.
The original Yuan Shuo Supervisor of the Foreign Affairs Department was a white-haired old man. He had already packed his luggage and was waiting for Su Yun to come and take over.
Su Yun checked the account book and saw that Yuan Shuo, the Supervisor of Foreign Affairs, was extremely poor. There was not even any spare money in the account, and there were also many IOUs, amounting to more than a thousand Qinghong coins!
What's even more outrageous is that Yuan Shuo's foreign affairs were in decline, and the salary of the Supervisory Department of Foreign Affairs has not been paid for three years. All the young clerks of the Supervisory Department of Foreign Affairs have run away, leaving only this white-haired old man!
"I'm thirty-two years old!"
The white-haired old man raised three fingers, his mouth leaking air, and he trembled as he said, "I was ordered to come to Daqin to be a junior historian when I was 22 years old. I was beaten and insulted, and I became like this in a few years! Lord Su, you also offended someone in Dongdu and were sent here?"
Su Yun thought about it and said, "It can be considered as offending someone."
The 32-year-old man asked curiously, "Who did you offend?"
"Emperor Yuan Shuo."
Su Yun closed the account book and said to Ye Luo and others: "Although we have some money, we can't just sit there and eat it all. So, I have a great holy spirit weapon..."
Ye Luo was horrified: "Big Brother, please don't sell the Great Holy Spirit Soldiers!"
“I’d be crazy to sell it.”
Su Yun smiled and said, "I mean, you guys find a treasure land, bury the Great Holy Spirit Soldiers, create some strange phenomena, and wait for those aristocratic children to come and look for treasures. We kill them and make some money from the Qin aristocratic families to subsidize the Supervisory Department and pay off the debts. We represent the face of Yuan Shuo and cannot lose the national dignity of Yuan Shuo."