Bearing the blue sky

"Not kill me?"

Zhu Ge was surprised, but inwardly she was pondering the words of the person who had just become the Cold Snow Official.

The person in front of me had an excellent appearance and temperament. She was fair-skinned, beautiful, slender, and had a very alluring demeanor. If you looked closely, she was even more beautiful than a woman.

Such a person must come from a well-off family.

"Why would I kill you? I originally came to kill Dai Yuanqing, oh, that is, the fisherman in the straw raincoat."

Han Xueguan smiled and shook his head:

"I discovered he was already dead halfway there, so I figured I might as well do something else. But then I ran into you, little rascal..."

Little one?

Zhu Ge looked at the young-looking man in front of her, and guessed he was about the same age as her.

However, he also knew that appearance could not determine cultivation level or age.

"Then may I ask, young master, what brings you here?" Zhu Ge asked, bowing respectfully.

Han Xueguan waved his hand gently and said with a smile, "Sit down, sit down, don't be shy, make yourself at home, sit down and talk slowly."

As he spoke, Han Xueguan plopped down on the ground, not caring whether there was dust or dirt on the ground.

Do you consider this your own home?

This is my territory... Zhu Ge sat down with a strange expression, while Liu Jianjian sat down blankly beside her.

"Now that my colleague is dead, and you seem to suit my taste quite well, let's drink and have some fun!"

Han Xueguan, looking pleased, smiled at Zhu Ge and said, "Gu Yuguan, I remember you enjoy drinking. In this situation, why not offer a few large vats?"

The Grain Rain Official?

Zhu Ge was taken aback. Before she could understand what Han Xueguan meant, she suddenly realized that there was another person next to her.

This person seemed to have been beside him from the very beginning when he was practicing martial arts, until Han Xueguan mentioned him and Zhu Ge noticed him.

Previously, they were completely invisible!

When exactly did it happen...? This made Zhu Ge's hair stand on end, and she almost stood up instantly.

Such a person could be killed without anyone noticing.

Although both involve killing, being killed without anyone noticing is different from being killed head-on.

"Sigh..." The boy beside her had a lantern on his shoulder, with a faint flame burning inside, and he looked miserable.

The boy said nothing, but simply waved his hand and took out two wine jars, which were filled with a fragrant aroma.

"Haha, my colleague here doesn't like to talk much, let's just fill our cups." Han Xueguan laughed. "He is the Grain Rain Official, in charge of records. He is a historian, recording the history of the world, the rise and fall of dynasties."

Historians!

Grain Rain Official!

Zhu Ge was deeply shaken.

"Here, this is for you." Han Xueguan handed over a wine bowl, then waved his hand, and the wine in the wine jar next to him poured into the bowl like a dragon sucking water.

"The fisherman in the straw raincoat was the Jingzhe official, and you two are Hanxue and Guyu, which means there are twenty-four kinds of official positions in the world?" Zhu Ge asked generously after taking the wine bowl.

Zhu Ge's words were neither humble nor arrogant, and Han Xueguan's performance was pleasing to the eye.

"Our human race only has ten positions, not twenty-four," Hanxueguan laughed. "What I can tell you is that the fisherman in the straw raincoat is not the real Jingzhe official, or rather, he is the Jingzhe official of the Great Sheng Dynasty, not the human race's Jingzhe official."

The Great Sheng Dynasty, not the human race?

Zhu Ge noticed this word and seemed to be deep in thought.

Hanxue Guan laughed and said, "The Jingzhe Guan is in charge of taxes? No, our human race's Jingzhe Guan is in charge of farming, and is the person in charge of farming."

"It's just that the Great Sheng Dynasty has changed. The current Jingzhe officials have divided their responsibilities, which is why there is a saying that some Jingzhe officials are in charge of taxation."

The official in charge of Jingzhe (the day of awakening) is in charge of agricultural affairs.

Zhu Ge suddenly realized.

Han Xueguan continued:

"The remaining officials are: the Qingming Official in charge of sacrifices, the Guyu Official in charge of records, the Mangzhong Official in charge of fertility, the Xiashu Official in charge of metals, the Bailu Official in charge of astronomy, the Hanlu Official in charge of water conservancy, the Shuangjiang Official in charge of purification, the Hanxue Official in charge of extermination, and... the Chuxi Official in charge of the state!"

Qingming, Guyu, Mangzhong, Xiashu, Bailu, Hanlu, Shuangjiang, and Hanxue.

There's also the Awakening of Insects, and the state!

Zhu Ge felt that she had learned a lot of amazing knowledge.

"Of course, you must understand that we are merely officials; though colleagues, we do not share a unified ideology or goal," Han Xueguan said with a smile.

"Although I am in charge of the extermination, I find the behavior of fishermen in straw raincoats the most intolerable."

"I came here for the sake of the southern wilderness of Myanmar, but since I have encountered what the fisherman in the straw raincoat did, I cannot stand idly by. However..."

Han Xueguan looked at Zhu Ge, tilted his head back and downed the wine in his hand in one gulp, laughing, "Haha, but there are still passionate men in this world whose blood hasn't cooled yet, let's raise a toast!"

After downing a bowl of wine, Han Xueguan's face flushed red, and his voice was tinged with alcohol: "My ten officials of the human race were supposed to lead all the human races under heaven, but now they exist in name only. Only Jingzhe Guan still collects taxes from all over the world. How pitiful and lamentable."

Zhu Ge remained silent upon hearing this, only glancing down at the wine before taking a small sip.

Even Han Xueguan, whose cultivation level was unknown, got drunk after just one bowl. He was afraid that Han Xueguan would explode and die after drinking one bowl.

However, after taking that small sip of wine, Zhu Ge began to doubt himself again.

This is clearly just ordinary fruit wine!

It felt only about five or six degrees Celsius, like fruit juice.

Zhu Ge held up his wine bowl and looked at it.

It tastes pretty good, like freshly squeezed juice.

"Sigh, it's just ordinary fruit wine," Gu Yuguan said with a worried look. "I picked it from a certain place. Normally, a seven or eight-year-old child could drink four or five bowls, but this guy's alcohol tolerance is too low; he gets drunk after just one bowl."

"This alcohol tolerance is so low..." Zhu Ge's expression was strange.

He then asked, "Since you two witnessed the fisherman in the straw raincoat's actions, why did you let him go unpunished?"

Fairy!

Sui Niang!

The mother and daughter were truly unfortunate. Although Zhu Ge helped them avenge their deaths, he still harbored deep hatred for the fisherman in the straw raincoat.

"That's not the case." Gu Yuguan shook his head, and the next moment he casually swung the lantern he was carrying on his shoulder forward.

The next second, the entire world in Zhu Ge's eyes began to spin as if a movie tape were being played in reverse.

Wishing you success in your martial arts practice, wishing you breakthroughs, wishing you success in your willow shoots, wishing you success in your long-fern pig...

The events that once happened in this valley are changing right before Zhu Ge's eyes.

"I am the one who remembers and observes, but I cannot be the one who interferes, alas..." The boy looked worried. "By the way, you can call me Lord Lantern-Carrying, who cultivates both history and immortality, while Han Xue's official title is Lord Annihilation, who cultivates both immortality and swordsmanship."

Grain Rain Official, Lantern-Carrying True Lord!

Hanxue Guan, Annihilation of the True Lord!

Zhu Ge remembered the titles of the two people.

He just doesn't quite understand what a "True Lord" is yet.

"Then may I be so bold as to ask, what are the next arrangements for the two True Lords...?" Zhu Ge looked at True Lord Annihilation, and then at True Lord Lantern.

The already drunken True Lord of Annihilation chuckled softly and suddenly stood up.

"Those who destroyed the southern Vietnamese and Burmese wilderness were definitely not of human descent."

The True Lord of Annihilation was filled with murderous intent, and his original amiable demeanor had vanished.

In an instant, the sky and the earth changed color.