Heart of 113

  "How come you don't have an ID badge when you came here?" Zu Yao suddenly asked again.

  "I didn't know what an ID badge was, all I knew was that after coming here, the weak ones would run away when they saw me, and the strong ones wanted to kill me, but I hadn't offended them." Yuan Ye replied honestly.

  "Everyone who comes to this border area is a master, at least at the level of a Martial King. It's rare for someone who has cultivated to the level of a Martial King not to know about identity badges. Before you came here, you should have gone to find your state's State Master, he will create an identity badge belonging to that state based on your aura."

  "Is it important?" Yuan Ye asked in a silly tone.

  Zu Yao smiled slightly and said kindly, "Of course, in this border area where we have been killing each other for years, our Yaoyan Prefecture is the first to bear the brunt of the eight states. The warriors of the eight states are separated, and their military achievements are also compared with each other. This depends on the identity badges of the warriors from various states to identify them. Most importantly, the identity badge is the only thing that proves your identity."

  "An ID? I thought only Earth had IDs, it turns out they have them here too!" Yuan Ye exclaimed in surprise.

  "Yes, this is like an ID card. Everyone who comes here must find the state master to make one. The badge has its own breath. If there isn't one or the breath and badge are different, it's definitely not right. This way, everyone can directly kill you, so Duanmu Yunji and others want to kill you, you can't blame them."

  "If you don't have it, you'll be killed! I'm not blaming them, that's for sure!" Yuan Ye suddenly got angry.

  "They're afraid you're a spy." Zu Yao said directly, "The slaughter between the Lianyue Continent and the Bingpo Continent is too tragic. In order to win, they can say that there are no extremes. Let me give you a simple example. The intersection of our two continents is extremely vast, and in this vast region, there are only so many peak masters, and it's impossible to guard against them all. Once the other side finds out which place we don't have peak masters, they will surely launch a lightning-fast attack, and the consequences will be unbearable; even if one of our peak masters is alone, if the news leaks out and the enemy knows in advance, and then multiple people surround and kill him, the loss will be immeasurable. This is the problem with intelligence. In the past, we didn't know that some defeats were because spies had leaked information. So there was a rule: as long as you don't have an identity badge, you can be killed directly. Killing one Martial Emperor like you won't have much impact on the Lianyue Continent, but if you leak information and cause us to lose a Myriad God-level master or thousands of Dou Ling and Xiu Luo, the loss will be too great."

  It is better to kill one innocent person than to let a guilty one escape. Unfortunately, Yuan Ye became one of the victims.

  "No wonder those weaklings run away from me, they're afraid I'm a spy and will kill them. According to you, without an identity badge, I can't even take a step, anyone can kill me." Yuan Ye asked with utmost concern.

  "Yes! So I advise you to go back to Guyangzhou with your identity badge and come again."

  "Return to Guyang State?" Yuan Ye smiled wryly, "Actually, I'm a native of Hunluo State, but whether it's Guyang State or Hunluo State, do you think I can still go back? I am the evil demon Yuan Ye, can I say that?"

  Zu Yao's body shook slightly.

  "I couldn't get an ID badge. Now I come here with a guilty conscience to atone for my sin, but is one person not saved and has to leave?"

  "Redemption?" Zu Yao's eyebrows furrowed in puzzlement.

  "Shouldn't it be? You listen to those rumors, now they have exaggerated to the point of absurdity, but the 50,000 women and children who died in Gully City are real, 50,000 women and children, torn apart one by one. I used to like sleeping, with our strength we don't need to sleep anymore, it's a kind of enjoyment, but now I dare not do so again, because I will keep having nightmares. I want my heart to have a little peace."

  Yuan Ye and Zu Yao flew rapidly over the sea surface, the sea breeze whistling past their ears. The wind was so strong that it brought tears to their eyes. Yuan Ye's heart was also shedding tears. This was one of the rare times Yuan Ye expressed his true feelings. On the surface, Yuan Ye still seemed like the same old rascal, not yet twenty years old, with immature words and actions. But after experiencing this event, Yuan Ye's heart was slowly changing.

  "Little friend, are you certain that those fifty thousand women and children were killed by you?" Zu Yao gazed deeply at Yuan Ye, seemingly with an ulterior motive.

  "Who else could it be?" Yuan Ye smiled wryly, "Fifty thousand women and children, without the strength to even tie up a chicken, who would have the heart to slaughter them, unless... you've gone mad."

  Zu Yao felt even more guilty after hearing all this, she knew the truth but couldn't say it, so she secretly made up her mind to help Yuan Ye. Yuan Ye came here to save people in order to get spiritual comfort, and Zu Yao helped Yuan Ye to reduce her own guilt to a minimum.

  "Since you are from Hunan Province, I'll accompany you to the Hunan Provincial Government Office. I will explain your identity to them." After a long while, Zu Yao finally said.

  "Thank you, senior." Yuan Ye immediately bowed his head and thanked him sincerely.

  Under Zǔ Yáo's lead, Yuǎn Yè arrived at a huge island that was almost comparable to the mainland. The island was surrounded by many smaller islands. This was an archipelago, and from time to time, people would burst into the sky and disappear into the horizon, while intense energy fluctuations came and went, as if someone was engaged in a fierce battle. Yuǎn Yè and Zǔ Yáo stopped on the largest island.

  On this island, buildings stand tall, with the largest palace stretching 5-6 kilometers in length and over a hundred meters high. The main gate of the palace has a golden plaque inscribed with two large, gilded characters: "Hun Luo".

  "Seriously, this palace is a bit too exaggerated." A palace that stretched for ten miles also made Yuan Ye unable to help but exclaim in surprise.

  Zu Yao smiled and said, "Such a huge palace, if ordinary people were to build it, I don't know how many years it would take for them to succeed. However, with the Emperor's high-level skills, it can be built very easily. This palace is not that impressive, what's impressive are the arrays and seals surrounding the palace, even the entire island is covered in them. Anyone can build a palace, but these arrays and seals can only be done by great masters. With these arrays and seals, even if the top experts from the Iceberg Continent were to launch a sneak attack, they would be able to hold out for a long time, and by then our side's experts would have arrived. Therefore, generally speaking, people won't launch a sneak attack on such a large place, everyone here is very safe. Apart from that, this island is home to all sorts of spiritual mushrooms and immortal grasses."

  Cultivators often need various spiritual elixirs and medicines to assist in their cultivation, each of which may require dozens of rare and precious materials. The vast ocean is boundless, how can it be easy to collect them all? So we cultivate them ourselves. Planting one or two kinds is simple, but planting so many spiritual mushrooms and immortal grasses is too difficult.

  The growth environment of Lingzhi Xiancao is very peculiar, some need to grow in scorching places, some need to grow in cold places, some need to grow in dry places, and some need to grow in shady places. Large-scale cultivation of Lingzhi Xiancao is not an easy task.

  And another one is patience.

  Reishi grass grows for a relatively long time, of course there are also short ones, maybe it's done in a few months, but the longer one can last for hundreds or even thousands of years. Some heavenly treasures in legend have been around for tens of thousands of years. After planting, you need to be patient and wait, let ordinary people wait for decades or hundreds of years, this patience is also worth praising."