jdhmnovel Chapter 205 Development 1
Chapter 205 Development 1
Even after four years, Wei Chaoyan still feels uneasy and unable to let go whenever she thinks about the complicated and messy entanglements involved.
Heartbroken, Wei Chaoyan didn't want to recall this distressing matter and deliberately shifted her attention to her beloved younger brothers.
Speaking of which, it has to be said that Wei Ying, Lan Zhan, and Qi Ye are truly remarkable. Oh, and there's also the little tail Qing Yan and the unofficial Qing Heng Jun. Their action and efficiency are genuinely swift and efficient!
During their first year away from home, before uncovering the inside story of Zezang's death, Wei Wuxian and his companions were probably inexperienced, possessing a wealth of theoretical knowledge but lacking practical skills. Furthermore, most of their attention was focused on gathering information about Zezang's past and investigating clues, which caused their revolutionary plan to progress to almost zero.
It wasn't until Qingheng-jun received Wei Chaoyan's permission to enter the space for the first time, and after undergoing numerous trials and tribulations that shattered his worldview and... no, bombarded him, and was reborn from the ashes, that he left the space and actively entered the game to stir up the Xuanzheng winds. Meanwhile, Wei Ying and the others were still searching for clues, covered in dust and dirt, in the westernmost village cluster in the Yiling jurisdiction (the closest village cluster to Badong County).
As for other progress... well, the seven large villages with over a hundred households, the twenty poor villages with no more than twenty households and as few as seven or eight households that they passed through, and a few scattered mountain settlements hidden deep in the mountains and forests, all the evil spirits and monsters that were harmful to people and disturbing the peace within their villages and the surrounding area were either converted or eradicated in the first instance.
Among them were notorious thugs, village bullies, human traffickers with a long history of crimes, cruel and ignorant human sacrifices, and the evil practice of abandoning babies in towers, all of which were perfectly resolved by them in a way that was discreet and without leaving a trace.
Secondly, they selected three suitable locations and established the prototypes of three small immortal sects. Using the Spirit-Summoning Technique, they summoned the spirits of all those who had passed away but whose resentment had not yet dissipated within the entire Yiling region. These spirits included respected village elders, retired high-ranking officials, hermits who had retreated to the mountains, talented individuals who had not yet found their place, and rogue cultivators who had unfortunately perished within the Yiling region. They placed these spirits into wooden puppet bodies that Wei Ying had already prepared (made from several top-quality pieces of wood carefully selected from a deep mountain behind Wei Village, adjacent to the Resentment-Dispelling Grass, which were completely tainted by resentment. Every part of the puppet body was inscribed with countless profound runes, forming several complementary magic arrays). These puppets became their first batch of loyal and highly capable elite subordinates.
There were a total of thirty-seven ordinary people and seven male and female independent cultivators.
They were divided into three groups based on their abilities, and each group moved into one of the three newly established families, becoming family heads, elders, and guest advisors. Following the power structure and plans established by Wei Ying and his companions, after Wei Ying and his three companions, along with several teachers, left, they quietly and systematically recruited people to develop their respective families and corresponding missions.
The third, and most important, was successfully deceiving several of the accompanying gentlemen and getting them onto the revolutionary ship.
Several gentlemen, blinded by the revolutionary ambition of "creating peace for all generations," passionately expressed that they would actively write to their old friends and classmates, trying their best to persuade them to join in this great cause of "pleading for the people"!
Ha! First step in undermining the imperial court!
Uh, that's about it!
Subsequently, news of Qingheng-jun's successful first wave of trouble arrived. Greatly stimulated, Wei Ying pondered for several days and nights before immersing himself in the laboratory for ten days of experimentation, successfully creating an enhanced version of the Origin Tracing Device, Tracking Talisman, and Bloodline Retrieval Plate.
With the help of more accurate and more effective tools, and with the strong assistance of Qi Ye and the others, as well as Lan Zhan who had resolved his inner conflict, they finally found the original crime scene three months later. The entire process of how Ze Zang and his companion chased the fleeing evil spirit to Badong County, successfully killed it, and were about to leave when they were found by a group of villagers seeking help, accepted the request for help and decided to take on the exorcism mission after investigating and finding no danger, found the target evil spirit and successfully killed it, and were ambushed by a newly emerged spider evil spirit, resulting in both of them being seriously injured and not ending up in the mass grave, was all traced back through the tracing device.
During this time, Qi Ye, who is meticulous, good at understanding people's hearts, and proficient in human micro-expressions, noticed something was amiss from the subtle expressions of guilt and remorse on the faces of the village chief and his group who came to seek help in the replay footage. So, after the source tracing device ended the replay footage, he raised some doubts and asked Wei Ying and the others to investigate in this direction.
Still reeling from the image of his parents being dragged into the mass grave by evil spirits and perishing, Wei Ying, upon hearing Qi Ye's suggestion, instinctively activated the tracking talisman without a second thought, searching for the village from which the villagers who had sought help from Ze Zang and his companion were from.
In this way, by following the clues, Wei Ying and his companions, as if divinely aided, successfully uncovered all the entanglements and conflicts that had occurred during this period.
Finally, faced with the compiled and integrated details—the version of events Wei Chaoyan knew—Wei Ying could only remain speechless.
After a long silence, Wei Ying, feeling extremely frustrated, resolved to accelerate the revolution. He wanted to completely overthrow this chaotic, dark, and corrupt world where powerful clans held absolute power, birthrights were paramount, interests were blinded by greed, and there was no order whatsoever. He wanted those high-ranking, incompetent immortal clans to be crushed into dust by the rolling wheels of history, so that more people like his parents, who were of noble character and exceptionally intelligent, would not suffer the same tragic end as them!