Hu Ya Comes Home to Eat Meat

Lin Xiaosu accompanied the Thousand-Spirit Saintess and spent three days by Tashan Lake.

There was no war.

There were no stories.

There was only the calm comfort of autumn days.

Upon the platform, the Thousand-Spirit Saintess played the zither while Lin Xiaosu played the flute.

There was no spiritual energy infused into her zither, nor true energy infused into his flute.

The tune she played came from the Ancient Spirit Race.

The flute melody he played was the crystallization of Daxia's wisdom over thousands of years.

Ancient and modern merged here.

Man and woman stood here without distance between them.

Lin Xiaosu seemed truly to be honoring his promise: he had not accompanied her in the past, could not accompany her in the future, but today, he would accompany her.

At this point in time, when her identity had returned to that of the Thousand-Spirit Saintess.

At this point in time, when she had cast aside the belonging of this fleshly body and come to a foreign land.

He accompanied her as she slowly familiarized herself with the mountains and rivers around them, the earth beneath her feet, the customs and culture of this land—and slowly, they became familiar with each other as well...

Until the fourth day!

A heaven-shaking event began on the internet.

"Daxia Qianlong Releases: 'Global List of Hydra Members'!"

The list contained more than 183,000 names!

It covered 186 countries across the globe.

There were 28,652 people within Daxia!

Before the list was released, the overwhelming majority of those twenty-odd thousand people had already been arrested.

The arrests had caused a stir and sparked suspicion within limited circles. Once the list was published, people compared it against those who had been inexplicably arrested over the past two days and suddenly understood.

So the Qianlong Operation had