Half a Year Later, the Five Elements Mortal Dust Qi Was Complete

Anyang County.

Restful Bookstore.

It was a modest-sized bookstore, but very clean and tidy, located in Pingyi Ward, one of the county seat's seven hundred and twenty wards.

Pingyi Ward was home to many commoners and few nobles.

"Shopkeeper Li! Shopkeeper Li!"

"Shunzi joined a Demon-Slaying squad. He's leaving the city tomorrow to slay demons!"

"What am I supposed to do?"

"His wedding to Qian'er is in half a month. What if something happens to him...!"

"You have to help me talk him out of it."

"He's only at the sixth rank. He'll be at the bottom of the squad!"

A middle-aged man dressed like a scholar hurried over, panting, and spoke anxiously to Li Yue.

Li Yue put down the book in his hand and looked at the rather portly man before him, Fu Qing.

The man was an insignificant minor official in Pingyi Ward. His life wasn't particularly comfortable, but he had enough to get by.

He had a son and a daughter, and they often came to the bookstore to read. He also lived in the neighborhood, so they had gradually become familiar with one another.

"What made him decide to leave the city and slay demons?"

Li Yue asked in an even voice.

On the Eternal Continent, space was dense and heavy. Only beings of the seventh rank or above could survive there.

But before the Great Zhen Imperial Court moved here, too many Believers were below the seventh rank.

So Li Xiuwu, ruler of the Great Zhen Imperial Court, had established a protective barrier around the entire court, allowing the believers within its territory who were below the seventh rank to live in safety.

Likewise—

Demons and fiends below the seventh rank could survive there, too.

And—

After they moved to the Eternal Continent, its