After leaving Yue Kingdom, Jiang Wang went to Li Kingdom.
This time, he did not travel under the name of True Person Jiang, nor did he call upon anyone. He merely concealed his perception and walked simply through the country.
Every place he had passed through before had been too hurried. Now, to sort out the threads of the mortal world, to grasp the "world" of the small world and the "truth" of the True Person, he needed to experience more of the lives of different droplets in the sea of suffering.
He still gave his time to cultivation, but his way of cultivating had changed.
Of course, he also needed to observe carefully how different small kingdoms, under the Vein-Opening Pill system, dealt with the various problems involved in producing Vein-Opening Pills, to see whether there was anything worth learning from—Du Yehu, Li Jianqiu, and the others had already done much similar work, observing the situations of nearly every small kingdom in the Western Border. Jiang Wang himself had seen quite a few as well, such as Xu State, which he had inspected with Yin Guan long ago, and Zhao State, which he later observed on his own...
But he still needed to take another look.
In Li Kingdom, apart from silently saving some people from Ferocious Beasts, he did nothing at all.
What was called "a dustless True Person's journey."
Leaving Li Kingdom, he went on to Liang Kingdom.
Liang Kingdom itself was not strong. What was strong were the Sword Pavilion and Blood River Sect that supported it.
Having to pay tribute to two great sects of the realm at once, Liang Kingdom actually faced less pressure over Vein-Opening Pills—at least, less than Jing Kingdom's demands upon Zhuang Kingdom.
This was because when the great sects of