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Chapter 995 Smuggling into the God Realm
Chapter 995: Smuggling into the Divine Realm In the 25th year of Xining, a top scholar named Zhang Xuming caught Xiao Han's attention.
As Zhao Qinghe looked through Zhang Xuming's resume, Xiao Han, who was watching along with her, was truly moved.
Because Zhang Xuming, in fact, had a very close relationship with her.
When she and Shui Wuhen transmigrated to this mortal world, their mortal parents, Zhang Haishan and his wife, had another son after Shui Wuhen became empress.
This youngest son was their younger brother.
Zhang Xuming is a descendant of the youngest brother in the Zhang family.
In fact, ever since she came to Dayun Dynasty to become the local earth god, a wisp of her divine soul had followed Zhao Qinghe out of Shou'an County and inquired about the Zhang family's situation.
Not long after Shui Wuhen abdicated, Xiao Han and Shui Wuhen completed their tribulations, and their souls were pulled back into their original bodies.
To outsiders, the two seemed to have retired and withdrawn from the world.
However, as a relative of the first female emperor, Yun Di, the youngest brother of the Zhang family received the title and rank of a leisurely prince.
However, this title only lasted for three generations.
When Xiao Han came here to be the local earth god, her younger brother had already died of old age.
When she and Shui Wuhen left, Zhang's younger brother was only a little over a year old, and they hadn't developed much of a sibling bond, let alone with his grandchildren.
Therefore, when Xiao Han learned that his younger brother's descendants still held titles and were well-off, he paid no further attention to it.
However, the Zhang family's title had already been lost by Zhang Xuming's generation.
Without their titles, these descendants had no choice but to take the imperial examinations and earn their own future.
Xiao Han thought that there was still some bond between Zhang Xuming and herself, so she used the system to issue a task, asking Zhao Qinghe to give Zhang Xuming more important responsibilities. This could be considered as a way for her, the former "ancestor" of the Zhang family, to take care of her descendants.
In order not to reveal his secret of immortality, Xie Yi began to slowly "age" after arriving in this mortal world.
When he was around seventy years old according to his household registration, he used a little illusion magic to make several of his chief managers meet his son, who had never shown his face before.
Then all his businesses were taken over by his son.
This son, of course, is still himself.
This tactic of having the same father and son was, of course, Xiao Han's idea.
The son and father look very similar, and no one would suspect anything.
Zhao Qinghe, who had consumed many elixirs of immortality, aged very slowly and remained on the throne until she was one hundred years old, when she abdicated in favor of the successor chosen by Xiao Han.
She ruled the Dayun Dynasty for over seventy years, making the country increasingly powerful and the people live in peace and prosperity, thus ushering in the prosperous Xining era.
At this time, the Great Yun Dynasty had steam engines, trains, electricity, a postal system that covered the entire Great Yun Dynasty, and various workshops that sprang up everywhere.
Advances in agricultural technology, the development of commerce, and the abundance of the national treasury have given the Great Yun Dynasty the strength to resist various natural disasters.
The government-run five-year compulsory education system also reduced the illiteracy rate in the entire Dayun Dynasty to only about 20%.
In terms of gender equality, the Great Yun Dynasty today may not be comparable to China in the 21st century, but at least women can openly and confidently do any work alongside men.
Xie Yi had already begun selling off his various businesses five years before Xiao Han was to return to the God Realm.
The research team had long been incorporated into the imperial court's research team.
He invested all the money he got from selling his properties into infrastructure projects.
Because Xie Yi's business empire was so vast, the wealth obtained after the sale was naturally astonishing.
Although he embarked on a massive infrastructure project involving road and bridge construction, he still hadn't spent all his money by the time he left.
In the end, they had no choice but to hand over all the infrastructure projects and funds to the imperial court to continue their completion.
Having settled his business affairs, Xie Yi now lives in the Linglong Immortal Abode, spending his days staring at Ba Dou, waiting to sneak into the God Realm.
But the waiting time always seems very long.
Xiao Han used some tricks to allow Xie Yi to see the mortals who came to the Earth God Temple to pray and worship every day, even while sitting inside the Linglong Immortal Residence.
These mortals' requests were varied and numerous, and Xie Yi truly admired Xiao Han's patience.
Because Xiao Han would examine the character of every mortal who came to worship, and if he felt their requests were reasonable, then see if he could make their prayers come true.
Xie Yi felt that if being a god meant doing such trivial things, he wouldn't want to be a god at all.
When the century-long work of the Earth God finally came to an end, Xiao Han himself felt a sense of ease and relief.
Even though she could sleep and waste her days like a cultivator doing a City God mission, she felt that living like that for a hundred years would be a complete waste of her life.
Although the work of the Earth Goddess is trivial, seeing the sincere gratitude and satisfied smiles on the faces of the mortals who come to fulfill their vows makes her feel that the hard work is worthwhile.
Now that she was about to leave this mortal kingdom and the Xialing Village she knew so well, Xiao Han felt a pang of reluctance.
Although she followed Zhao Qinghe in worrying about the important national affairs of the Great Yun Dynasty, those only required grasping the general direction and did not need to be constantly monitored.
But this place is different; she knows almost all the villagers in the villages near the land temple.
Over the course of a century, she has witnessed people being born, growing old, getting sick, and dying; her children and grandchildren continuing generation after generation; and generations kneeling before the statue of the deity, devoutly praying for her, the land goddess, to protect them.
She usually treated the family feuds and conflicts of these people as if they were just reading a farming novel.
But now that she really had to say goodbye to these people, she was surprisingly reluctant to leave.
Xiao Han sighed softly.
All good things must come to an end, not even for immortals.
Looking at the parched land that hadn't seen rain for over half a month, Xiao Han cast the Spring Breeze and Rain spell for the last time.
Amidst the torrential rain, Xiao Han gripped the mission jade token and began to float upwards.
Xie Yi, who was hiding in the Linglong Immortal Abode, was on tenterhooks.
Whether or not we can enter the realm of gods depends on this one battle.
Unfortunately, Linglong Immortal Abode was cut off from the outside world at this time, and he could only sit quietly at the table and wait.
Xiao Han was enveloped in the halo of the jade tablet, and everything before her eyes was empty. Just like when she arrived, she could not feel anything.
The next moment, my eyes lit up and I found myself standing in a grand hall.
Beneath his feet was a slowly rotating nebula.
She has returned to the realm of gods.
Holding the mission jade token, he slowly walked out of the main hall.
The priest Zhou had said that there was a trace of his divine sense within the jade tablet, and that he would be able to sense Xiao Han's return soon and come to pick her up.
Xiao Han stood outside the main hall, waiting, feeling a little uneasy.
If Priest Zhou hadn't come, her entire century of life would have been wasted.
Just as Xiao Han was feeling uneasy, a figure suddenly appeared.
Upon seeing that the person who had arrived was none other than Priest Zhou, Xiao Han immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
When Zhou, the divine official, saw Xiao Han standing outside the mission hall, he said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist Xiao, you weren't waiting anxiously, were you? I rushed over as soon as I sensed that wisp of divine thought."
Xiao Han smiled and said, "I just got back too."
After speaking, he handed the mission jade token to the priest Zhou.
The priest Zhou examined the mission jade token but still couldn't see any changes in its appearance.
He took Xiao Han to the vicinity of Ascension Island, settled the remaining 150,000 divine stones with Xiao Han, and then turned and left.
Seeing that he had gone far away and there was no one else around, Xiao Han hurriedly took out the Linglong Immortal Abode to check on Xie Yi's condition.
Seeing that Xie Yi was safe and sound inside, they quickly let him out.
He then chuckled and said, "So, how about it? This shortcut was safe and secure, wasn't it a great deal?"
Xie Yi smiled happily and was about to speak.
Just then, a bolt of lightning struck Xie Yi without warning.