Reversing the Milky Way

When Yu Qing'an saw Bai Cheng like this, he thought he was cultivating.

"Hey, looks like you're pretty enthusiastic."

But after he finished speaking, he saw Bai Cheng looking worried and slowly raising his head.

"Huh? What's wrong with you?"

"Uncle Yu, the new garrison commander of Yu Family Village has already come today."

Yu Qing'an was also puzzled when he heard this.

"Hmm? Did he say something to you? You don't look too well."

Bai Cheng was somewhat weak at this moment.

"He told me to report to the central square of the village early tomorrow morning and work with the villagers to rebuild the destroyed houses in Yujia Village."

Yu Qing'an frowned slightly after hearing this.

"What's so hard about refusing him? Just tell him you're not going. Bai Cheng, I've noticed that your thinking is quite different from the people here. You always take on all these social responsibilities and unspoken consequences, things that aren't your concern."

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng lowered his head in deep thought, then slowly raised his head and asked a question.

"Uncle Yu, if your house were also destroyed by the Golden-Winged Thunderbird, would you still be able to say such a thing?"

Yu Qing'an was stunned after hearing this.

Then he sighed softly.

“Sigh, Bai Cheng, no one can stay in one place forever. A house is just an external possession. Since it's destroyed, you can just find another house to buy. What you have learned and gained is your true wealth. This wealth will not disappear just because the place you live in is damaged. The people of Yu Family Village have simply lived here for generations. They have adapted to the living environment here, so they are happy to repair the houses in the village when they are destroyed. But you and I are just outsiders.”

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng also wanted to refute something.

"But...."

However, before Bai Cheng could finish speaking, Yu Qing'an interrupted him.

"I'm asking you, have any people from Yujia Village come to you these past few days, demanding that you repair their houses?"

Bai Cheng shook his head.

"This is not."

Yu Qing'an, however, spoke with a completely calm expression.

“That’s right. Even though all the surrounding houses were destroyed, and only ours remained intact, we didn’t hear any gossip from the people of Yu Family Village. In their eyes, we were just lucky, and they didn’t have any other prejudices. Apart from a few people who were prejudiced against us, most of them were indifferent. So, I guess some of them were willing to help with the reconstruction of Yu Family Village, but others were probably forced to. After all, the people from the Supervisory Office have already said that they will help repair the destroyed houses. This matter was caused by Xuan Taiming alone, so it is only right and proper for them to repair the houses. Letting people who can’t cultivate repair the houses will sometimes backfire.”

Hearing these words, Bai Cheng breathed a deep sigh of relief.

"What am I going to do tomorrow? Pang Yuhuai said that if I don't go, he will come to arrest me personally, saying that I am sabotaging the work of their supervisory office. He is a late-stage Qi Condensation Realm cultivator."

Yu Qing'an also looked serious after hearing this.

"Don't worry, I'll just go in your place."

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng jumped up from the ground.

"How can that be?! It's just house repairs, it's not like I can't do it myself, how can I trouble Uncle Yu to do it for me?"

However, Yu Qing'an then extended his right hand, signaling Bai Cheng to stop talking.

"Your current task is to quickly improve your cultivation level. My cultivation level recovery also needs time to adjust. It cannot be done overnight. It's just some physical labor. It won't have much of an impact on someone like me who has reached the Great Perfection of the Body Refinement Realm."

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng was at a loss for words. He felt incredibly distressed. Since arriving in this world, he had received immense care from Yu Qing'an, and he didn't know how to repay him. He had originally planned to use his knowledge to invent something here, but he hadn't expected that he was completely unfamiliar with the material rules of this world. The knowledge he had learned was basically useless here. Thinking of this, he felt even more guilty towards Yu Qing'an.

Seeing this, Yu Qing'an walked over and patted Bai Cheng on the shoulder.

"Remember, here only strength earns respect. Alright, I'll take you to the cave first thing tomorrow morning; you don't need to worry about anything else."

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng silently lowered his head. At the same time, Yue Ling beside him remained silent, her head bowed as if she were deep in thought.

That night, Bai Cheng also didn't sleep a wink. Although he had been in this world for so long, the education he received on Earth still made him feel somewhat out of place here.

The next morning, after sending Bai Cheng to the mysterious cave, Yu Qing'an immediately returned home. At that moment, Pang Yuhuai flew into Yu Qing'an's courtyard on his sword.

At this moment, Pang Yuhuai's face was very gloomy because Bai Cheng hadn't reported to the village's central square that morning. When he saw Yu Qing'an in the courtyard, he couldn't help but be taken aback.

"You? Are you that boy's father?"

Yu Qing'an looked at the person who had entered someone else's home and was wearing the uniform of the Inspectorate with an indifferent expression, and immediately felt displeased. Back in the Bai family, who would dare to fly in so swaggeringly on a sword? Even if someone did, they would be beaten up first, then thrown out, and beaten up again.

However, considering the other party's level of cultivation, Yu Qing'an still replied politely.

"My lord, the boy from yesterday was merely a distant relative of mine. He was not from Yu Family Village."

Upon hearing this, Pang Yuhuai's expression turned quite displeased.

“I don’t care whose relative he is. As long as he lives in Yujia Village, he is a resident of Yujia Village. Since he is a resident of Yujia Village, he is under my jurisdiction. Since he does not obey my management, he is obstructing the work of my supervisory office. Therefore, I think you should hand him over. After all, repairing Yujia Village is a work that benefits the people. Otherwise, I will drive your whole family out of Yujia Village!”

Then, he looked at Yu Qing'an, waiting for his answer. Because Yu Qing'an looked like a middle-aged man in his late forties, and he didn't sense any fluctuations of spiritual energy from him, which made him act recklessly for a moment.

The spiritual energy here is extremely ordinary. Even Pang Yuhuai himself wouldn't want to stay in such a remote village, let alone cultivators of higher cultivation levels. After listening to Pang Yuhuai's words, Yu Qing'an couldn't help but mentally mutter a curse.

'Tsk, that's why I don't really like people from the Inspectorate.'

Just then, Yueling came out after hearing the noise in the courtyard. Pang Yuhuai looked Yueling up and down with ill intent upon seeing her.

'I never imagined that such a stunning beauty could exist in this godforsaken village. She's even more beautiful than some of the courtesans in White Maple City.'

Upon realizing this, Pang Yuhuai's attitude towards Yu Qing'an immediately changed. He then asked with a fawning smile, "How should I address this young lady?"

Upon seeing this, Yu Qing'an's expression also hardened.

"This is my youngest daughter, named Yueling."

Upon hearing this, Pang Yuhuai's eyes lit up.

"Yueling? That's a really nice name."

Yueling also saw Pang Yuhuai dressed in the uniform of the Censorate. She slowly walked to Yu Qingan's side.

"This must be the new magistrate of Yujia Village. Why isn't he repairing his house? What is he doing here?"

Upon hearing this, Pang Yuhuai frowned slightly.

He then said obsequiously, "Of course. As an institution closely connected to the Emperor, our Inspectorate is naturally dedicated to serving the people and helping them. Since the young man is not at home and is not from Yu Family Village, I, He, will take my leave and not disturb him any further."

After saying this, he gave Yue Ling a meaningful look and then flew away on his sword.

As Yu Qing'an watched Pang Yuhuai's departing figure, he too was filled with sorrow.

At sunset that day, on Xiaonanshan Mountain south of Hejia Village, Wu Yong was hosting a banquet for a guest in the mountain stronghold, because a special guest, Pang Yuhuai, had arrived.

"Brother-in-law, I never expected that you would be the one assigned to Yu Family Village. It seems that my life will be a little easier from now on."

At this moment, Pang Yuhuai's face was flushed from drinking, and the dancers in the mountain stronghold surrounded him.

"Hahaha! It seems you've made quite a bit of money here all these years, my dear brother. I never expected you to come here after returning from your cultivation at the Overlord Sect. I've been watching your life, and you seem to be living a very carefree life. Unlike your brother-in-law, I've been sent to Yu Family Village as a lowly inspector. It's all because of this dog emperor's orders. Every year, at least tens of thousands of people die from monster attacks. Yu Family Village only has a few deaths, yet they make such a fuss. But don't worry, my dear brother, now that your brother-in-law is here, as long as you don't go too far near Yu Family Village, I'll turn a blind eye."

Upon hearing this, Wu Yong quickly stood up.

"Then thank you very much, brother-in-law. It just so happens that I have someone I've been wanting to get rid of, and he's in Yu Family Village."

Pang Yuhuai was also taken aback when he heard this.

"Oh? With your skill level, there's actually someone you can't defeat in Yu Family Village?"

Wu Yong, however, wore an indescribable expression.

“It’s not that I can’t take him down, but the disciples from various sects have been quite active lately. I’ve heard that Twin Mountains, between Yong’an Town and Wuling Town, have been visited by these sect disciples quite a few times in the past few days. I wonder if those sisters have been besieged by these people.”

Pang Yuhuai was slightly taken aback upon hearing this. On his first day at the Wuling Town Supervisory Office, he saw the wanted poster. He immediately recognized Wu Yong, but was somewhat surprised to see that Wu Yong was only at the Great Perfection of the Body Refinement Realm on the poster. Then he saw the two beautiful sisters on Twin Mountain.

Thinking of this, he also

When asked, "The bandits you mentioned from Twin Mountains, are they named Hongshuang and Hongyu?"

Wu Yong nodded slightly after hearing this.

"That's right, I met those two women once. I was leading my brothers to buy goods on the official road east of Wuling Town when we ran into them. After a brief struggle, we divided up the area. Although we were both bandits, they still took several of my brothers with them, and we haven't heard from them since. I reckon those two girls aren't exactly respectable people."

After saying that, Wu Yong raised a glass of wine and drank it all in one gulp.

Pang Yuhuai then closed his eyes and began to ponder.

"I see. What is the name of the person your brother so desperately wants to get rid of?"

Upon hearing this, Wu Yong's eyes narrowed.

"Bai Cheng!"

Pang Yuhuai was stunned upon hearing this. "It was him!"

...

At this moment, Bai Cheng was cultivating in the mysterious cave. He had tried to shorten the time it took to circulate the spiritual energy in his body to one day. Every time he completed a small cycle, he could feel his body was extremely comfortable, as if he had just taken a bath, with every pore open.

Soon, three days had passed. Bai Cheng continued to try to make the spiritual power in his body manifest. Although the golden arc of electricity in his hand had obviously grown larger, for Bai Cheng, this progress was too slow.

He could feel that he could now gather the spiritual power within his body to his limbs during his attacks, instead of relying on the spiritual power of the fragments. This was a significant improvement for him, as he had previously been able to rely on the spiritual power within the fragments to enhance his attacks.

After three days, Bai Cheng and Yu Qing'an were switched again.

After returning home, Bai Cheng began cultivating the third level of the Body Refining Technique. Since the spiritual energy content in the location of Yu Family Village was too ordinary, he decided to use his free time to improve his physical cultivation.

And so, the day after Bai Cheng returned arrived.

Pang Yuhuai then flew through the air on his sword and entered Yu Qing'an's courtyard.

Looking at Bai Cheng, who was cultivating the third level of the Body Refining Technique, Pang Yuhuai's eyes were full of disdain.

'Tsk, I can't believe Wu Yong can't even handle such a little kid. It's truly disheartening. All those years of cultivation at the Overlord Sect, has it all been for nothing?'

Thinking of this, Pang Yuhuai stepped forward and asked Bai Cheng.

"I remember you said your name was Bai Cheng, right?"

Bai Cheng stopped what he was doing and looked at the person who had just arrived.

'Tsk, damn it, what's wrong with this guy? Can't he just use the front door?'

Although Bai Cheng thought this in his heart, he honestly replied, "Uh, this Inspector Shi, my name is indeed Bai Cheng."

After listening to Bai Cheng's words, Pang Yuhuai nodded.

At that moment, he was thinking about how to lure Bai Cheng out of the village.

If the fight were taking place in the village, he could have taken care of Bai Cheng right now. However, Wuling Town has been closely monitoring the movements of Yu Family Village recently. In addition to him, patrol members from the Supervisory Office come to Yu Family Village from time to time every day to check on the situation.

Moreover, he found that only Bai Cheng was at home today, while Yu Qing'an and the girl named Yue Ling were not at home. The village chief said that this hunter named Yu Qing'an was quite famous in Yu Family Village. He was one of the few people who had reached the Great Perfection of Body Refinement Realm. He was not at home every few days and always took his daughter out. Could it be that he went hunting deep in the forest?

With that thought in mind, he casually sat down at the stone table in the courtyard.