Pei Qian still wasn't feeling sleepy, but she was ordered to go to bed by Chen Ping'an. As Chen Ping'an passed by Cen Yuanji's courtyard, he could still hear the sounds of her working conscientiously on her fist techniques, and Zhu Lian was standing by the entrance, looking at Chen Ping'an with a wide smile.0

The two of them walked along side by side. The men of the Eastern Treasured Vial Continent's north were primarily quite tall on average, and they were renowned across the entire continent for their impressive physiques and mighty strength. 0

The Great Li Empire's standard issue armor and sabers were forged in the Cao Clan style and the Yuan Clan style, respectively, and they were renowned for their immense weight, only to be equipped by warriors of worthy stature and strength. As he developed into early adulthood, Chen Ping'an had grown a lot taller, while Zhu Lian was habitually hunched over, so their heights varied drastically.0

Chen Ping'an was planning to send Zhu Lian to Bamboo Scroll Lake to deliver to Gu Can, Zeng Ye, and the others the grain rain coins required to organize the Liberation Rite of Water and Land and Heavenly Worship Ceremony, and Zhu Lian raised no objections to this. 0

Dong Shuijing was also going to be accompanying him on the journey, and they were going to part ways at Pond Water City, where Dong Shuijing would meet with Guan Yiran in secret. Both Zhu Lian and Dong Shuijing were very reliable people in Chen Ping'an's eyes, so he had no qualms about having the two of them travel together.0

Chen Ping'an also revealed the state of the world to Zhu Lian, who didn't offer much of a reaction. He said that he had been nothing more than a frog at the bottom of a well in the Lotus Flower Blessed Land, and that now that he had come to...0