Yu Ziqing felt there was a dark force at work, not because of what he saw now.

It was because, from the north of Dazhen, all the way down, the scenes he saw made him think of many things.

He thought of the current Wilderness.

He thought about how, just three days after he landed, disasters in the Wilderness began.

The Great Sun hung in the sky, destroying everything, and then it was about to turn winter, with the weather getting colder by the day. After winter came, it never left.

How similar it was to the current north of Dazhen.

Except that the people of Dazhen were already accustomed to the bitter cold of winter. Moreover, Dazhen had a lot of land suitable for farming and many grasslands suitable for herding, so there was rarely a food crisis. At least most people in the nation wouldn't starve to death.

They endured for a while longer, but it was only an extra year.

If the current situation in Dazhen was fundamentally due to the increasingly cold weather, just like the Wilderness,

then it could be said that from the third day after Yu Ziqing landed, to a few months later when he was caught by the shepherd and became a cook, to now, everything began due to the disaster in the north of the Wilderness back then.

Yu Ziqing encountered famine for the first time and starved to death.

Countless people in the Wilderness starved to death.

The disaster in the west of Dali.

People from the north of Dazhen who couldn't survive migrated south, starting conflicts with the south over land to live on, which triggered a large-scale civil war.

Also, the old Yang transformed into a sheep, fleeing pursuit with the shepherd, preferring to become a demon and walk the Demon Dao.

Retrospecting to the past, it all pointed to the same event.

Yu Ziqing didn't know, if all these things were caused by the same disaster,

what kind of disaster it would be to trigger such a large-scale climate anomaly.

If it was man-made, it would have to involve at least the Tenth Tier or even Eleventh Tier power.

Old Yang never mentioned it. When asked once, he didn't answer.

Yu Ziqing used the existing information to draw an isotherm on a rough map.

From the Wilderness to Dazhen, it ran roughly from southwest to northeast.

Above the isotherm, throughout the year, the cold weather extended so long that one couldn't complete a single season of farming and harvesting.

It just happened to encompass the Wilderness and the north of Dazhen.

Below the isotherm, although the overall weather had cooled, in a year, there was still enough warm time to complete a season from sowing to harvest.

This area just happened to include the west of Dali and the south of Dazhen.

As for the places further south, they were negligible. In those areas, in previous years, even during winter, ice barely formed on the rivers for a few days, and in some places, it never froze at all.

Yu Ziqing felt he should go back and have a good talk with Old Yang.

With King Huai being eradicated, Yu Ziqing refused multiple times, not wanting the thousand-mile fertile land.

He couldn't take it. Jinlan Mountain didn't have the strength to guard such a vast area. If he accepted it, he would inevitably be drawn into Dazhen's current civil war.

Would those who could barely survive heed the words from above and not approach these vast fertile lands?

Could Yu Ziqing really kill them one by one as they came?

As for the fixed assets in King Huai Mansion's properties, the same logic applied; taking them would also be unmanageable.

He didn't dare to take any of the other treasures either.

He felt the situation was too complex. As long as he took anything from King Huai Mansion, no matter the amount, he would surely be entangled in the aftermath.

Especially remembering how, in the end, King Huai stared at a blank sheet of paper, determined to make them notice it even in death, that in itself was strange.

Directly removing the spirit field was already the limit of Yu Ziqing's greed.

Lei Yu felt somewhat regretful.

He sincerely wanted to give everything to Qing Ziyu, afraid that Qing Ziyu wouldn't accept it.

As long as Qing Ziyu accepted it, he would have to leave some of his focus there, and as development progressed, he would gradually establish a foundation.

With a foundation in Dazhen, inevitably, there would be intersections with the Lei Clan.

With connections established, through friendly contacts over time, a bond would naturally form.

Their Lei Clan, Lei Yu, and Jinlan Mountain's Forbidden Land would also forge a bond.

A place where the king of hungry ghosts slept, and there was a terrible Great Divine Power.

Enough for the Lei Clan to form a genuine connection.

And aside from the top-tier factors, there was also Qing Ziyu.

As well as Wu Shuangge and Cece, these remarkable hungry ghosts.

He didn't know if there were more remarkable hungry ghosts like them. If there were, then the hungry ghost race would need to reconsider their positioning.

Anyway, in both the long term and the short term, forming good relations was far more advantageous than offending.

Being sincere and honest made it easier to gain favor.

Lei Yu knew that he had a long way to go compared to Ancestor Li.

At the very least, Ancestor Li wouldn't care about face problems Lei Yu considered so important before.

Lei Yu chatted with Yu Ziqing about many things, and shamelessly brought Wu Shuangge in to join the conversation.

At their parting, Wu Shuangge even felt that this face-swollen monster wasn't as repulsive as before.

He even let Lei Yu use the toilet bucket once.

After using it, Lei Yu was pleasantly surprised, and upon hearing that Yu Ziqing opened a shop in Almsgiving Town, he repeatedly said he would visit when he had time.

Yu Ziqing and Cece were a bit surprised.

Riding on the Flying Boat heading toward the Wilderness, halfway through, Yu Ziqing couldn't help but ask.

"Gege, you actually let Lei Yu use the toilet bucket? And didn't charge him?"

Wu Shuangge chuckled, a harmless smile on his face.

"I memorized his aura. Next time, if we need to kill him, we'll find him and then kill him."