"So that was it. The Scholar Forest also had a will, but that will had long since scattered beyond all measure. Over countless years, innumerable thoughts and soul bodies had passed through it. While the aura of the Scholar Forest infected those thoughts and soul bodies, it was also influenced by the auras within it, becoming ever more bloated, vast, and complex. Long ago, it had ceased to be something a single will could control. It would be more accurate to say that it had become an existence akin to a collective subconscious."
Within Heaven Will Continent, Qiu Yan's projected body slowly opened its eyes as he contemplated certain matters.
These thoughts were not being considered by this projection alone, but by the will that ran through all his bodies, its ripples reaching in every direction.
Nearly half a month had passed since he sent Jadebreaker and the others away.
Over this long period, each of Qiu Yan's bodies had taken action. His Human Path Body had initiated the first small-scale reform in Great Rui, targeting the Garrison System he had established in the Southern Border years ago. This system involved the interests of the frontier regions and the Military School, as well as a great many soldiers and laborers. It was no simple matter, and once it began, ripples were bound to spread.
One had to know that in Qiu Yan's previous life, an ancient dynasty had dismissed its postal stations, leaving the postal runners unemployed and triggering a chain of disturbances. Combined with other factors, it had even buried that dynasty. Thus, though this matter appeared simple, it was not easy to carry out.
Yet this process of governing the state was also an important path for advancing the Human Path and for Qiu Yan to absorb the