Ninth Sister, in a delicate manner, held a metal whip several hundred meters long and lashed it fiercely at a bright golden light that rushed in through the window.
"..."
Despite being thoroughly bullied by Ninth Sister, the bright golden light remained silent. However, when Fang Zong looked inward into his mind, the light suddenly shone brightly and called out to him in a majestic voice: "Please rest assured, Heavenly Official in charge of the cauldrons. The Three Yuan Earth Cauldron is only used to suppress me and make me more stable. It is still yours. Moreover, after being nurtured by the dragon vein, Little Earth Sister can awaken more quickly."
"Who are you?"
"The Great Fortune of the Eastern Kingdom?"
"Aren't you supposed to be thoughtless?" Fang Zong was a little confused.
Dongguo Dayun's voice was still majestic, but it was not hard to detect a somewhat mechanical tone: "I am not without thoughts, but I have no desires of my own. I am the product of the loyalty of more than a billion people to the country since the founding of Dongguo. If I had to describe it, it would be like artificial intelligence on a computer. Its only pursuit is to make Dongguo last for thousands of generations and for all eternity!"
He continued to plead, "Please, Heavenly Official in Charge of the Cauldrons, release the spring water so that the Three Yuan Earth Cauldrons can return to their place. I can severely injure you or unleash ten thousand bolts of lightning to destroy everything around us, but you are my Heavenly Official in Charge of the Cauldrons, and I will never harm my own Heavenly Official in Charge of the Cauldrons."
What is the "Heavenly Official in Charge of the Cauldrons"?
"The Nine Tripods of the State protect the great fortune of the Eastern Kingdom, so the owners of the Nine Tripods are protected by the great fortune and can be appointed as the Heavenly Official in Charge of the Tripods. However, since ancient times, apart from Shennong, who was in charge of the Shennong Tripod and had a Heavenly Official in Charge of the Tripods once, no dynasty has ever appointed a Heavenly Official in Charge of the Tripods based on the national fortune."
Why not bestow an official title upon them?
"The fate of a nation cannot be harmed by the official in charge of the tripod, so the position of the official in charge of the tripod is too special. It is a very precious thing for the pre-Qin, Han and Northern and Southern Dynasties, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as for me. It is generally not given."
"Then why give it to me?"
“Because…” Dongguo Dayun hesitated for a moment, which surprised Fang Zong greatly.
The national grand event is just like an artificial intelligence; it can speak if it can speak, and it can't speak if it can't speak. So why would it generate feelings of 'hesitation'?
As he pondered this, the Eastern Kingdom's Grand Cycle seemed to have malfunctioned and shut down.
"I don't want to talk about it... but the Celestial Official in Charge of the Cauldron is asking... the Celestial Official in Charge of the Cauldron has special power... to assess the level of threat..."
The bright golden light of the Eastern Kingdom's Grand Fortune kept flashing. Fang Zong was getting impatient and snorted coldly, "Are you going to talk or not?"
"explain!"
Dongguo Dayun's voice was still mechanical, shamelessly speaking up:
"because……
"If my own Heavenly Official doesn't rebel, I'm worried you'll kick down my gates and loot my treasure trove... In short, I'm afraid you'll beat me up..."
Fang Zong: "..."
He decisively let go, allowing the Three Elements Earth Cauldron to sink deeper into the earth's veins. When he looked up, his face was full of sighs.
"You are... the Great Fortune of the Eastern Kingdom!" Fang Zong exclaimed with great admiration. Looking at the boundless sky, he slightly turned his head and glanced at the three mortals of the Great Fortune of the Eastern Kingdom out of the corner of his eye: "Tell me, what merit do I, Fang Zong, have... that it is afraid of me beating it up?"
Cheng Ying: "..."
Murong Yu: "..."
Aiker: "..."
"I beat it up too, why isn't it scared? It's only scared of summoners, I won't stand for it..." Ever since the bright golden light left, Ninth Sister has been nagging Fang Zong, as if she wanted to fight the Eastern Kingdom's Great Fortune to the death.
Fang Zong ignored her and sensed the changes in the earth's veins below—the Three Elements Earth Cauldron had already merged into the dragon veins of the Eastern Kingdom and was moving around along the water veins below. With a thought, he fixed the Three Elements Earth Cauldron underground in the Ghost Killing Team headquarters.
"I don't feel any changes from the Three Elements Earth Cauldron's 'Nine Cauldrons Protecting the Nation'? But the Eastern Kingdom's Great Fortune says it's effective, so let's say it is. I can't exactly go to the Military Soul Valley and beat it up to see what happens. Besides, the Military Soul Valley has been closed off for a long time."
As Fang Zong was thinking, he saw off the fallen slave Murong Yu and the storyteller Ai Ke. When he went out, the great generals such as Torii had already left. However, Old Wang had prepared a lot of things for him, including a whole airliner to take him home.
"How are your wife and children?" Fang Zong asked Cheng Ying as he led the spirits to the airport.
Cheng Ying knew that Fang Zong had something to say to him, so he didn't leave and followed behind Fang Zong: "It's the same as always. Sometimes he can't help but want to devour living people, but I stop him. However, the child is hard to control. His desire to devour living people is too great."
"You'd better keep an eye on them. What if they run into me while they're trying to harm someone..."
Fang Zong didn't continue speaking. Cheng Ying understood what Fang Zong meant, nodded, and let out a long sigh.
"Wait? Did I bump into you? Are you still going out?" Cheng Ying said in surprise, "You already possess immense wealth and supreme power, why would you want to go out? You should return to Shancheng now to cultivate in seclusion. In three to five years at most, Dragon Valley will have a large number of talented younger generations, and your strength will reach the true top of the Eastern Kingdom." He widened his eyes, "Not to mention your status in the eyes of the nation's destiny, just based on yourself, you will naturally become an emperor for all time!"
"Don't mention the emperor of all time, it's not popular now, and I don't like it either."
Fang Zong raised his right foot and gently tapped the ground, saying with a touch of melancholy, "Ha, immense wealth? Supreme power?"
He calculated seriously: "To say I'm incredibly wealthy, I haven't yet, but I robbed the first level of North Korea's Great Treasury and don't know how much wealth I got. I heard that ordinary people are discussing the reparations for those two North Korean missiles, and they'll probably transfer that wealth to me. A country's war reparations to one person is truly incredible wealth."
"And then there's the immense power... Old Master Wang has already said that I can become the captain of the Ghost Slayer Squad whenever I want..."
"Yes, you already have all this, why do you still want to go out?"
"Yes, I have these things, but what about the power?"
"What?"
"I'm not strong enough!"
Fang Zong's voice was somewhat ferocious: "If I were strong enough, Di Xiaomei wouldn't have died! Cheng Ying, do you know that I've always preferred medicine to strength, so I only killed those evil ghosts? Now I understand, people should trust their fists more, and use their fists for insurance!"
While Cheng Ying was still pondering Fang Zong's meaning, things had already become lively over there.
"So big, so beautiful!"
"Is this the legendary 'airplane'? That's amazing!"
"Let's fly to Shancheng! Lord Fang Zong said there are many kind people, ghosts, and monsters there. I'm looking for a beautiful user!"
Fang Zong looked at the excited spirits and couldn't help but smile before bidding farewell to Cheng Ying.
"Time to go home," he said softly to himself.
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