Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 321

Chapter 321: Jiuzhou in Jiangli’s Era

“Thank you for the Human Emperor’s help.” Meng Chun thanked Jiang Li, thanking him for shaping her body.

“It was a piece of cake, Senior Meng Chun…”

“I’m not Master Da Meng, so I can’t be considered the Human Emperor’s senior. Just call me Meng Chun.” Meng Chun interrupted Jiang Li’s respectful address. According to her age, she was a newborn baby, less than two months old.

“Meng Chun, aside from those in the Tribulation Crossing Stage, you are the peak combat power of Jiuzhou. Few things in Jiuzhou can threaten you. Jiuzhou is peaceful now, and it may be very different from what you remember. You can explore it. I have something else to do, so I’ll go ahead.”

“The Human Emperor has something to do, and Meng Chun dare not delay him.” Meng Chun did not stop Jiang Li from leaving.

…

The Mysterious Secret Realm was at the border of the Great Zhou. After Meng Chun and Jiang Li parted ways, they first visited the Great Zhou.

“The Great Zhou Dynasty…” Meng Chun had heard of the Great Zhou Dynasty before, but from Master Da Meng’s memory, she had not been there much. The Mysterious Secret Realm was chosen at the border of the Great Zhou simply because she thought it had a pleasant environment.

She had some understanding of present-day Jiuzhou from the cultivators who had entered the mysterious realm, though it wasn’t complete. She had long wanted to explore it for herself, to see the Jiuzhou of Jiang Li’s time, a Jiuzhou free from the threat of extraterritorial demons.

Meng Chun, veiled, exuded an almost celestial aura, the veil adding to her allure. She drew many heads as she walked down the street.

According to Meng Chun’s experience, even dressed like this, there would still be lustful men drawn to her beauty and seeking to abduct her.

“Here you are,

you’re looking for me!” someone called out to Meng Chun. Meng Chun thought, “Here they are! Sure enough, someone has taken a liking to my beauty!

” “Please show me your ID,” two Great Zhou officials politely called out to Meng Chun.

They had long noticed this unregistered woman suddenly appearing in the city, suspecting she was an illegal immigrant.

“…” Where did Meng Chun get her ID?

“No?” the two officials looked surprised, as if they had discovered some way to make money. “Then come with us.”

Meng Chun thought, “Now they’re here!” these two men must be trying to take her to a secret place and blackmail her.

“Name.”

“Meng Chun.”

“Age.”

“Forty-nine days.”

“Hmm?” The official seemed puzzled, but recorded the information truthfully.

“Place of origin.”

“No.”

“Are you willing to register your household registration in the Great Zhou?”

“…Yes.”

Meng Chun had never expected that the first thing she would do as a new student would be to register.

“Cultivation level?”

“Fusion stage.”

“Hiss—” The two officials exchanged glances, unable to conceal their delight.

At first, they noticed Meng Chun, thinking she had smuggled herself into the Great Zhou from somewhere. Then, noticing her curiosity, they suspected she might be one of those senior cultivators who had just emerged from a long period of seclusion.

Because of the length of the retreat, the Great Zhou lacked comprehensive statistics on these cultivators, making management difficult.

Counting a cultivator emerging from seclusion was considered a significant achievement, counted toward the end-of-year official assessment, and potentially leading to a promotion.

Registering a Fusion stage cultivator in the Great Zhou meant a guaranteed promotion.

The two officials, with their low cultivation levels, were unable to determine Meng Chun’s level, so they took her to the city lord,

who was currently hearing a case.

“Ma Xi sent his men to abduct a woman, committed inappropriate acts, and attempted to bribe someone privately. He’s guilty of kidnapping, attempted r*pe, and attempted bribery. He deserves a thirty-year prison sentence. Considering Ma Xi’s Nascent Soul stage…”

Meng Chun thought to himself, “Come on, the City Lord must have reduced or even exempted Ma Xi’s sentence because of his Nascent Soul stage…”

In Da Meng Jushi’s memory, while the Great Zhou was a nation of laws, it also had its share of filth.

“The Nascent Soul stage has a lifespan of five hundred years, so the sentence should be increased proportionally. Now, the verdict: Ma Xi is sentenced to a hundred years.”

Meng Chun was surprised. The current Great Zhou legal environment was far better than Da Meng Jushi remembered.

“I’m a Nascent Soul stage!” Ma Xi was furious. Even if he had abducted a woman, he could have used connections in other countries and paid a small sum of spirit stones, but why did he have to go to jail in the Great Zhou?

And for a hundred years?

He had long heard that all were equal before the laws of the Great Zhou, but he had never imagined such complete equality.

Isn’t equality between Foundation Establishment and Nascent Soul stages, and between Nascent Soul stages?

The City Lord, a Spiritual Transformation cultivator, was unfazed by Ma Xi’s imposing aura. He simply pinned him to the ground and locked his cultivation.

“Throw him to jail.”

In the past, the City Lord would have turned a blind eye and let Ma Xi go.

But now, the situation was different. The Zhou Emperor, enraged by the Qingcheng Jiang family incident, was cracking down on the bureaucracy. Every year, he dispatched members of the imperial family, versed in the art of time, to investigate officials’ conduct over the previous year. Any instances of favoritism or corruption were severely punished.

And there was no upper limit on the rank of officials who could be punished.

If the City Lord let Ma Xi go, he would be the one in jail.

The Great Zhou held officials to stringent standards, and correspondingly, their salaries were ridiculously high. The City Lord relied on these salaries to cultivate from the Golden Core stage to the Spiritual Transformation stage.

His next goal was to become an official in the imperial court.

His cultivation was sufficient; what he lacked now was merit.

If they could capture Du Ping, a typical figure in the Great Zhou legal system, a few times, the merit would likely be sufficient.

“This is…” The City Lord realized he couldn’t fathom Meng Chun’s cultivation.

The two officials briefly reported the matter to the City Lord, who was shocked.

By allowing a cultivator in the Great Zhou to join the Great Zhou, wouldn’t that be a great achievement?

The City Lord unleashed his full strength against Meng Chun, but was easily defeated. Meng Chun’s status as a cultivator in the Great Zhou was quickly confirmed.

“Welcome to the Great Zhou.” The city lord personally handed the identity certificate to Meng Chun.

The identity certificate of the Great Zhou was a fish symbol made of metal, and the soul was used to leave an imprint on the fish symbol.

“Also, the fish symbol contains the laws of the Great Zhou, you can learn it.” The city lord reminded.

Others need to stick the fish symbol on their foreheads to see the content, but Meng Chun can do it with spiritual consciousness.

The laws of the Great Zhou are well-deserved. There are absurdly many, covering all aspects. Among them, the one that interests Meng Chun the most is the spiritual treasure law.

The spiritual treasure becoming a spirit has only happened in recent years. The mysterious secret realm opens every ten years. Meng Chun didn’t know about this until Jiang Li protected her a few days ago and she heard about it from Jiang Li.

In order to improve the compatibility between cultivators and spiritual treasures, Ji Zhi set up spiritual treasure halls in various places, where professional cultivators explain how to better cooperate with spiritual treasures.

Out of curiosity, Meng Chun went to the Lingbao Pavilion to listen in.

Before she even entered, she heard the lecturer say, “We must be strict with Lingbao…”

Meng Chun thought, how else could cultivators treat Lingbao? They must be treated harshly, using them as artifacts.

“We must strictly abide by the Lingbao Law and safeguard the rights of Lingbao.”

“All Lingbao should also pay attention. The Great Zhou protects the rights of Lingbao and requires you to fulfill your obligation to help your masters. The relationship between cultivators and Lingbao is a two-way give and take…”

Meng Chun also witnessed cultivators and Lingbao fighting together at the Lingbao Pavilion, which was clearly much more powerful than just holding a rigid Lingbao.

She also witnessed the Dao Sect send representatives to the Great Zhou to preach the latest Lingbao cultivation methods developed by the Yin-Yang Heavenly Seal. Many Lingbao advanced on the spot, a spectacular sight.

…

Jiang Li hadn’t deliberately asked Meng Chun to travel to Jiuzhou on her own; he truly had things to do.

The system had issued a new quest to find fragments of the Immortal Ladder.

(End of this chapter)