Wang Yao sat cross-legged, thinking of circulating his qi to heal his injuries. However, on the one hand, he did not have a method to recover from the severe damage to his cultivation level. On the other hand, this place belonged to the human realm. Although there was some spiritual energy here, it was far inferior to that of the immortal realm, let alone the ocean realm. Even normal cultivation was completely insufficient.
Wang Yao couldn't help but let out a big yawn after trying it for a short while.
He actually dozed off? That's quite something. It seems his injury was really serious. He's relaxed now that he's back in the Six Realms, so it's not impossible that he feels sleepy. Overwhelmed by sleepiness, Wang Yao simply lay down on the ground and fell fast asleep.
Wang Yao didn't know how long he had slept, but he felt like he was back at the Xiangyang Road vegetable market in Ziqiang County, frying egg fried rice. Business was really good, with long queues in front of the shop from morning to night.
As Wang Yao was frying the eggs, he got hungry himself. He kept swallowing as he looked at the golden grains of fried rice in the pan, but there was nothing he could do. Every single grain of fried rice had been claimed, and if he tried to steal some, Qing He's sharp tongue would surely not let him off the hook, and she might say some very unpleasant things.
By the way, Qinghe? Where is Qinghe? I'm so busy I don't even have time to eat, and she doesn't even come to help. Where has that little fox gone off to?
While frying fried rice, Wang Yao looked around for Qinghe, but all he could see were all kinds of diners queuing up or wolfing down their food, and there was no sign of Qinghe.
Wang Yao grew hungrier the more he cooked. After cooking three or four batches, he finally couldn't take it anymore. He threw down the spatula and screamed, "Qinghe, Qinghe, where are you? Qinghe..."
"Hey, are you still doing business or not? Hurry up and fry the rice, I've been waiting for ages..." A chubby guy, his face covered in oil and sweat, banged on the stove and questioned Wang Yao.
"Qinghe...Qinghe..." Wang Yao ignored him and just kept calling out to Qinghe.
"Fried rice, are you still going to make it or not? I'm waiting to eat it..." The fat guy banged on the stove, making a loud noise.
"Qinghe..." Wang Yao glanced at the fat man. "Eating, eating, eating! You're already in this state and you're still eating? I'm not going to put up with you!"
"Slap slap slap..." The fat man kept hitting the door open, seemingly addicted.
"Don't let this fat guy break the stove, or I'll have a hard time explaining it to Qinghe." Wang Yao was startled and suddenly opened his eyes. "Pat pat pat..." The rapid knocking sound still echoed in his ears.
"Who..." Wang Yao turned his head around with his eyes still blurry, and the caisson ceiling above his head seemed to come alive.
“It’s me…” It was Caixia gently tapping on the thin wooden wall outside the palace. Wang Yao hurriedly rubbed his sleepy eyes and got up.
"I just fell asleep. Is something wrong?" Wang Yao asked.
"You were asleep? No wonder I knocked for so long and you didn't answer." Caixia said suddenly. "I just wanted to ask you something. We were just conducting our investigation, why did you suddenly leave? And you're so badly injured, even your cultivation level has dropped."
"Yang Shen tampered with the cross-border passage..." Upon hearing this, Wang Yao explained to her what had happened after he left the inspection team.
"What...what? So the nuclear war in the ocean was really...started by you?" Caixia seemed quite surprised after hearing what Wang Yao said, and asked stammeringly.
"Probably not? I'm fighting against foreign gods, who would think of using that thing? I've never even heard of nuclear bombs before. I guess the foreigners got into a fight among themselves and used nuclear bombs to vent their frustration. Zhang Wuji and I were just unlucky to run into it."
"Besides, when the first nuclear bomb exploded, Zhang Wuji and I saw that things were going badly, so we ran away. Later, when Zhang Wuji was trying to heal his injuries, more nuclear bombs exploded. That definitely had nothing to do with us." Wang Yao shook his head repeatedly to clear himself of any involvement.
“But I heard that you deliberately broke away from the expedition team and tried to stay in the foreign land. So the foreign land sent a great being to persuade you to return to the team, but you did not listen to the advice and went your own way. The great being chased you all the way to the border of the White Bear Kingdom and the Barbarian Bear Kingdom, which were at war, before he caught up with you again.”
"They wanted to take coercive measures against you, but in order to escape, you fought a fierce battle with the powerful Yang Shen, and also killed many soldiers and civilians from the lower realm of the Barbarian Bear Kingdom. The Barbarian Bear Kingdom was forced to launch a nuclear missile to protect itself in order to avoid being destroyed by you," Cai Xia said quietly.
"This...this is utter nonsense...How could I possibly leave the expedition team on purpose? Why would I stay in the foreign territory? What could I possibly do there?" Wang Yao was completely dumbfounded when he heard what Cai Xia said. This foreign goddess is really good at making things up!
“Based on my understanding of you, I know you can’t possibly be interested in the foreign lands. You’d even give up your ministerial post to go there. But… there’s a precedent of ministerial-level officials defecting to the foreign lands in Heaven. You’re in a very passive position right now,” Caixia said slowly.
"This...this fake can become real? I've been turned by these foreign gods time and time again. As long as I'm willing, they'll give me whatever I want. I want fame, I want to get rich, I want...they satisfy everything. I've never wavered!" Wang Yao said angrily.
"What do they want you to do with such a big wish?" Caixia asked curiously.
"They don't want me to do anything. As long as I'm friendly to the foreigners and accept their things, I reckon they want to cultivate me as a pawn. Once I've taken their things and they have leverage over me, they'll let me do some real shady business, right?" Wang Yao guessed.
"How is that possible? The foreign powers made such a big promise, yet they have no demands on you?" Caixia's tone was one of utter astonishment.
"No, they have a request, they want me to accept their things..."
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