Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter

Chapter 582 - 184: Eldest Son of the Taiyang Goddess, Receives the Talisman Seed, Destroys the Ghost Realm

The task of establishing the "New Divine Wood Hall" was entrusted to Jing Shuixiang.

As for forming the "New Wendao Palace," it was assigned to Gu Yaojue.

Lady Yin was considered a "mobile position"; wherever help was needed, she would go and assist.

As for Li Ping’an, he had three wives and children. Li Yuan did not wish for his daughters-in-law and grandchildren to be involved in it for the moment, so he naturally allowed Li Ping’an to spend more time with them.

He had spent much time with his own wife, but he felt the need for an "observation period" with Li Ping’an’s family.

He had too many secrets, as did Cloud Mountain Path. Although only a small portion was exposed, it would create varying degrees of closeness and distance.

Regarding Tang Nian, her time was entirely occupied by the Tang Sect and puppetry.

And Xiaozhao, she was completely unfamiliar with the Shadow Blood Skill, not to mention she was still striving to manage the Cloud Mountain Commerce Association and some of the new generation of barbarians.

These were all the confidants Li Yuan could rely on.

Besides, there were Pang Yuanhua and Yan Mu.

But the former was helping Xiaozhao, and because of long-term dealings with evil ghosts, Pang Yuanhua’s mental state had become peculiar.

The latter had already completely integrated into the atmosphere of the Divine Wood Hall. He even married a girl from the Gu family and had children. Now, living well in the Gu family, Li Yuan felt he couldn’t just knock out his big nephew’s family like one would a wife, so he chose to leave them be.

Of course, Li Yuan also considered Zhenyan Xue and his youngest son, Zhenyan Huang.

But these two belonged to the Nine Flames Clan...

He didn’t wish to transfer them out.

As for Zhenyan Huang, that child should be nine by now.

However, Li Yuan did not have much time to accompany him as he grew because his "Thousand-Mile in a Line" could only connect two places. He had thought of acquiring more, but unless he visited the Paradise Palace on Ghost Street and chanced upon an opportunity, it would be impossible to obtain a second strand of Thousand-Mile in a Line.

Moreover, his wife also ran a shop on Ghost Street, so Li Yuan naturally knew the issue of "the rarer the item, the more likely it’s out of stock, even 364 days and 23 hours of the year."

Unless he risked letting Pang Yuanhua, with Cloud Mountain Path’s forces, directly clash and alert the standing forces in Mianzhou; or directly controlled the faction of "National Master Zhao Guyue"; or by sheer luck, encountered a person carrying a Thousand-Mile in a Line, there was no way.

Also, whenever Li Yuan thought of that child, a natural sadness arose.

His emotions were mixed.

But since all fronts were temporarily stable and all of Cloud Mountain Path’s affairs were delegated, he spent 600 years of lifespan with the Ghost Hammer to forge Fifth Grade Weapons for Li Ping’an and Cui Huayin.

Once the forging was done, he retained his head full of white hair, donned a wooden mask, and leaning on a cane, took half a month to arrive at the Zhenyan Clan of the Western Pole Nine Flames.

He... had not been here in a long time.

...

At this time, the Nine Flames Clan had almost completely connected with the outskirts of Cloud Mountain Path, and the new generation of Ice Barbarians, being from Cloud Mountain Path, had no barriers to communication. Instead, they were harmoniously united as one tribe.

The demon beasts that ravaged the borderlands had historically been a plague for the people here.

Yet each thing has its bane, and when these demon beasts encountered the Ice Barbarians, it was as if they met their hunters.

The Ice Barbarians joyfully hunted the demon beasts and ate them.

Previously, people of Cloud Mountain Path wouldn’t acknowledge the favor, as deep blood feuds are not easily forgotten. But now... these new Ice Barbarians had various connections with them and addressed each other with terms like "second aunt, big aunt, second uncle, third uncle, fifth grandaunt."

They finally understood that their resentment should be directed at the old generation of Ice Barbarians, not at these newborn children.

As time passed, the old generation of Ice Barbarians would all perish.

Besides, who wouldn’t want their children to grow strong?

Gradually, the people from the Social World who had resisted the Ice Barbarians began sending their children to the Nine Flames Clan to have their wives conceive near the fire, so they’d give birth to naturally strong children.

On his journey, Li Yuan saw many people from the Social World who had previously resisted the Ice Barbarians, and even caught sight of the Black and White Dual Swords.

By a stroke of luck, this duo, who once attempted to assassinate the clan leader in Chuyun City, was now meeting with the "Queen Mother."

Only then did Li Yuan learn that Zhenyan Xiong, the former clan leader of the Zhenyan Clan, had died of old age.

And his son, Zhenyan Huang, had already taken up the Barbarian King’s Axe and become the Barbarian King.

Zhenyan Xue, naturally, became the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother was willing to meet every visitor, listening to what they had to say.

Thus, Li Yuan lined up to wait for an audience.

Along the way, he observed the clan’s profound transformations.

This change was mainly reflected in the "sun worship."

Previously, the atmosphere here was simply exotic revelry around fires with singing and dancing, but now, it possessed a religious solemnity and sanctity.

Many, in reverence, gathered around flames, bowing seriously before them.

Among them were both Ice Barbarians and people of Cloud Mountain Path.

Vaguely, Li Yuan could hear them chanting words like "Taiyang Goddess" and "return."

That day, his turn did not come.

He wasn’t in a rush and was arranged to stay overnight in an outside tent of the clan.

The tent was filled with rugs and mats, and in the small space, nearly twenty people were squeezed in.

Li Yuan had no objections, and so he slept for quite a while.