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The Evernight and bitter snow kept spreading eastward, swallowing village after village in its icy grip.
Farmers led their livestock and families into exile, trudging eastward in search of survival.
Grain prices soared again, but there wasn’t enough to go around. The consequences were simple and cruel—roads littered with the bones of the starved, beggars swarming the streets, and desperate families selling off wives and children just to stay alive.
But in the Central Capital, it was a different world. Music and laughter filled the air, and new restaurants popped up in the bustling markets, their doors draped with firecrackers, crowds cheering and shouting praise.
As for the Eastern Sea, everyone there wore beaming smiles, hearts full of joy, proclaiming, “Never before has there been such a glorious era of cultivation!”
This was the age-old irony.
“While the common folk boil in suffering, the lords and nobles fan themselves in comfort.”
In the blink of an eye, another five years had passed.
There were no major upheavals in those five years, just an endless stream of small events.
Li Yuan came and went from the Myriad Lineages Academy. Quietly, he also harvested the ancestral seal seeds of the new disciples, pulling them back from the edge of madness. His own seed count more than doubled, jumping from 19,000 to 58,000.
His combat power rose from 37k~720k to 38k~807k.
Clearly, the explosive growth in ancestral seal seeds had reached a critical point. Any further increase brought only minor gains. His progress with the heavenly seal, however, remained utterly stagnant.
Meanwhile, ever since the Human Emperor...



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