Chapter 290: Chapter 254: The Three Great Divine Books

Sang Que briefly narrated the events of Wangshan City to her mom, mentioning the part when Yin Child backstabbed and injured her in just a few words, focusing instead on what happened when she woke up and reached Jinzhou’s Jinfeng Mountain bandit lair.

Sang Wan understood Sang Que’s intentions and didn’t point it out. The process didn’t matter; what mattered was the result—the result was Sang Que was indeed happily in front of her, and that was enough.

Constantly worrying and regretting over things that have already happened is the most useless internal consumption; they should always look forward.

After hearing about Sang Que’s experiences, Sang Wan spoke, “I have about a month here, not too urgent. Right now, what’s more important are your matters. You said you want to build your own power. Is there a specific plan yet?”

Sang Que just knew her mom wouldn’t question her or call her dreams unrealistic but instead offer practical guidance from the very start.

Since she was young, her mom had told her that she didn’t fear her doing ’foolish’ things, only feared she wouldn’t even dare to think about them.

“Speaking of a specific plan, I indeed don’t have one yet; I only have some scattered ideas in my head.”

“You eat first, take your time, don’t rush.” Sang Wan pushed the instant noodles in front of Sang Que.

Sang Que lowered her head and ate for a while, thinking as she ate.

“Yin Child currently has two important abilities: dismemberment and assembly. Judging from my own situation, this assembly ability has a great chance of artificially creating a Yin Walker. Even if it can’t, combined with the corpse nourishing method, it could definitely raise special zombies.”

Sang Wan nodded slightly, “I’ll go find that book, ’Corpse Nourishing Secret Technique.’”

Sang Wan got up to go to the study, while Sang Que watched her mother’s back as she ate. Her legs certainly looked no different from a normal person’s. She benefitted from misfortune, but does this also count as a blessing in disguise for her mom?

If only these legs could be kept forever without any cost.

Unfortunately, given the current situation, that group leader surely has the power to take back the benefits given, and a double take-back would cause her mom to lose the other intact leg as well.

A thought suddenly occurred to Sang Que: If the matter with the story relay group cannot be resolved quickly, she should hurry to establish her power in the Deceit Dynasty and bring her mom over there, where the forces here certainly cannot infiltrate.

There must be other ways to repair broken limbs in the Deceit Dynasty; she needs to search carefully.

Sang Que was finishing her meal when Sang Wan came out of the study with the ’Corpse Nourishing Secret Technique’, opened it to a page, and said, “This indeed has methods to assemble yin objects and corpses, allowing the corpse to bear the cost of yin objects and extend their lifespan. I remember Ming Zhang, whom you first encountered, was eventually raised by Yan Daozi, attempting to combine with Yin Child’s severed arm, right?”

Sang Que nodded, “Normal combination methods are time-consuming and labor-intensive; directly using Yin Child’s assembly ability might be effective in one go.”

Sang Wan placed the book on the table, “You’ll need to conduct a lot of experiments to know the results; you…”

“The bandit lair is full of vicious men.”

The mother and daughter tacitly understood each other; they never discussed the topic of ’killing’ thoroughly, to avoid burdening each other mentally.

Killing is inevitable for Sang Que in the Deceit Dynasty, and she naturally adapts to it, never dwelling excessively.

“As long as you’re aware, you need to return at daylight, right?”

Sang Wan glanced at the household clock. It was already three in the morning.

“There’s someone with a high fever at the lair; I need to check on them in the morning. After daylight, I want to visit nearby villages and towns to inquire about news from Wangshan City.”

Sang Wan furrowed her brows in thought, “Do tell me about Jinfeng Mountain’s terrain in detail once more.”

Sang Que explained, and Sang Wan brought paper and pen to do some sketching.

“…If you just want to be a bandit, Jinfeng Mountain’s terrain is easy to defend and hard to attack, which is indeed good. But Jinfeng Mountain isn’t suited for long-term development; it can’t grow into something big. Think carefully about the traits of our super-tier big cities.”

“Mom, you mean Jinfeng Mountain is too isolated, not interconnected enough to form a trade center?” Sang Que quickly reacted.

Sang Wan nodded with satisfaction, “But don’t rush it, you can take it step by step. Now it’s spring, the important thing is to open up wasteland for farming to ensure long-term food supply. Although we can transport grains over from here, it’s not a long-term solution. Teach fishing rather than give fish.”

Sang Wan wrote ’seeds’ and ’farm tools’ on the paper.

“You can bring over the high-yield seeds we cultivate here; for farm tools, find ways to manufacture them there. Teach your people how to do it; later, when you expand, these people can manage the agriculture section for you.”

“Also, you need craftsmen and materials to rebuild the mountain fortress. Initially, you can find ways from modern times, but my advice is not to directly take rebar and concrete over; comply with the era of the Deceit Dynasty and use materials they can produce on their own. All aspects require you to learn a lot of knowledge, and most importantly…”

Sang Wan wrote ’people’ and added an exclamation mark.

“People are the primary productive force; without people, you can’t do anything. How to increase population, you need to think thoroughly. Secondly, money; you need money to build a power, and simply writing books here isn’t enough.”

“You need to earn a lot in both worlds; in the Deceit Dynasty, it’s easier. The modern world is rich with goods; there’s bound to be things to transport over for resale. But how do you quickly earn a fortune in modern times?”

Sang Que had pondered this issue, “The Deceit Dynasty’s period isn’t part of Huaxia culture, so artifacts’ value depends on historical context—jade and gold are scarce there, no point in reselling. I’ll explore and investigate during my visit.”

The two also discussed some details. Initially, Sang Que only wanted a group of people to protect herself and her friends. After the discussion with her mom, she felt she was preparing to build a dynasty and unify the world.

Neither she nor her mom found it inappropriate or felt they were crazy; what they discussed was feasibility and difficulty, as though the concept of unification had imprinted in the genes of Chinese people since Qin Emperor’s ancestors.

The person selling breakfast at their community entrance even has ambitions to monopolize all the breakfast business in their area—already edging out one vendor and taking over their shop.

The conversation continued until past five in the morning. Sang Wan knew Sang Que had urgent matters over there, so she urged her to quickly change and prepare to return.

Sang Wan could see that the events at Wangshan City greatly affected Sang Que, just like when Sister passed away, and Sang Que desperately learned martial arts to prepare to protect her.

Sang Wan went to the study to find something; Sang Que went to change clothes.

The house still had custom-made ancient clothes of Sang Que; she found a dark red suit, grabbed her new cross-body cloth bag, and carried her original Hunting Bow and Arrow Quiver.

The Hundred Victory Saber was gone; she needed to get a knife to use there.

Seeing the Connected Branch at home, Sang Que brought it in front of her mom, asking her mom for blood and hair, so she could bear potential misfortunes meant for her mom.

Sang Wan didn’t refuse, partly because there’s a world in between, effectiveness still uncertain, but it eased Sang Que’s mind.

On the other hand, Sang Que is currently bound with Yin Child and has already stepped into the fourth layer; strictly speaking, Sang Que isn’t considered alive.

Thinking about this, Sang Wan couldn’t help but ache.

If Sang Que were attacked by eerie forces, Yin Child would share part of the burden for her, and Sang Que herself has the ability to endure a portion, which indeed exceeds Sang Wan’s endurance.

The Connected Branch was still one-way, so Sang Wan agreed to connect the two, and Sang Que felt more at ease.

“Take these three books with you; study them yourself if you can learn, or find someone trustworthy to learn them.”

Sang Wan handed over three reference books she used for writing novels to Sang Que.

“These are the three great must-have books for time travelers, ’Barefoot Doctor Manual’, ’Civilian Military Training Manual’, ’Friend of Military and Civilian Dual-use Talent’, covering simple medicine, military, agriculture, construction, etc. Internet users say that mastering these three books in ancient times makes you a combination of Hua Tuo, Sun Wu, and Zhuge Liang.”

Sang Que flipped through briefly, “Why didn’t you give me these earlier?”

“Earlier you didn’t have this intention, did you? Now go busy yourself. I’ll help you prepare seeds and farm tool blueprints for spring farming in these two days. Later, I’ll find a secluded place to rent a warehouse, also, I plan to feign an illness and get diagnosed by a psychologist.”

“Huh?” Sang Que was puzzled.

Sang Wan laughed, “As a writer, always daydreaming, one day developing a ’apocalypse syndrome’, worrying about world destruction, thus frantically hoarding supplies, even moving into mountains and buying materials to build fortresses—all very reasonable, right?”

Sang Que suddenly understood, her mom was setting the stage for what she planned to do next, finding cover.

“Mom, you’re the best mom in the world!”

“Quit being mushy, go on now, come back in a few days for seeds.”

“Okay, Great General, take good care of mom for me.”

Bark! Bark bark!

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