Chaoge Arc: Immortals Contend with Mortals

Three months later.

Western Qi City.

Under the azure sky, Li Ping'an—the young Ji Dan—sat atop a towering pile of millet, watching his "father," Ji Chang, lead a group of Ji family members in a political stunt.

Wasn't it a political stunt?

The dignified Western Marquis should have been thinking about improving the people's livelihood, developing production, training troops, handling wrongful cases, and freeing slaves. Instead, he spent his limited time on this sort of people-pleasing display.

For one thing, Ji Chang's harvesting efficiency was far too low.

Among the officials, generals, commoners, civilians, and slaves working in the fields alongside the Western Marquis, who would dare harvest faster than him? Did they have a death wish?

As a result, the overall harvesting efficiency dropped sharply. Ji Chang was clearly having the opposite effect.

"Fourth brother! Why are you slacking off again?!"

Ji Fa came running over with a bundle of crops on his shoulder.

After several years apart, Ji Fa had fully grown into a dark-skinned, powerfully built man with imposing features. He could not be called unattractive; he was simply far too fierce, with an overwhelmingly masculine air.

Li Ping'an smiled. "I'm helping everyone calculate when it will rain. As long as I sit here, it won't rain."

Ji Fa widened his eyes. "Huh? Everyone says you learned a lot in Chaoge City. They even say you can communicate with immortals in your dreams. Is that true?"

"I lied to them. You believed it too, second brother?"

"I knew it!"

With a single leap, Ji Fa jumped onto the millet pile, took the waterskin from his waist, drank deeply, and handed it to Li Ping'an.

"Here! Spring water from the pastures!"

Li Ping'an looked faintly disgusted. He snapped his fingers to the side, and a female guard immediately