Zuo Yan was baffled, unable to understand Chu Qing's methods.
Chu Qing could not be bothered to explain.
At this moment:
He summoned three hundred and sixty-six strongmen and ordered each of them to grab a chain.
"Circle the Imperial Capital once!"
"Then head to the Liuli River!"
The strongmen roared, their eyes hollow, and hoisted the chains as they ran with shouted work chants.
Clatter!
Clatter!
The enormous chains slithered along like giant serpents.
Serpents stretching tens of thousands of meters.
As the chains moved, dust billowed into the air.
Even the wind and snow began to churn restlessly.
Zuo Yan asked curiously, "Why circle the Imperial Capital?"
"Why go to the Liuli River?"
Chu Qing smiled without answering.
The chains were dragon sinews he had forged.
And circling the Imperial Capital, according to certain explanations within the ritual, was meant to bind the Great Gan Empire—or rather, use the Imperial Capital of the Great Gan Empire as an anchor point.
With that anchor point, his future cultivation would also become more convenient.
As for casting them into the Liuli River, that too had its own reasoning.
It was an idea born from his fusion of Unorthodox Path techniques and Mechanical Path techniques.
In the Unorthodox Path, some people could forge artificial creations hundreds or even tens of thousands of meters long into strange treasures.
Flesh and Blood Martial Arts, meanwhile, could implant artificial creations into flesh and blood, even using them to replace organs or limbs.
He wanted to refine the chains into strange treasures, use them as great sinews, and implant them into his body.
That way, the Unorthodox Path and the Mechanical Path would merge.
As for throwing the chains into the Liuli River, one reason was that the river lay close by.
The other reason