The sun had just woken up. When it stretched, some sunlight broke free and spilled into the lower world.

Once the sun arrived, the public sun chariot could be set in motion.

Two newly appointed drivers took their positions. Over twenty villagers from Zhengjia Village boarded the vehicle in turn and began their journey toward the village.

Riding home to farm every morning had become essential for Zhengjia Village’s people, but today their hearts were heavy.

The news brought by Xing Honglang was bad; thieves in Heyang County could rush into Zhengjia Village at any moment, ruining their crops…ah…

It was hard-earned progress after the Deity summoned the Dragon King, revitalizing Zhengjia Village. Everyone had tended the wheat fields carefully since planting last autumn. With the “celestial fertilizer” granted by the Deity, this year’s wheat grew promisingly. Come harvest, they might achieve an unprecedented bounty.

Why did Heyang County have to see thieves now!

The two new drivers were overly cautious, moving the vehicle slowly. The six li of cement road took the time for most of an incense stick to burn. The villagers jumped off impatiently.

Zheng Daniu’s father was the first to run to his field’s edge. He was about to step onto the land when a loud “pa” sound echoed through the sky, as if someone had clapped their hands up high.

The villagers startled and lifted their heads. They saw a sheet of paper emerge where the clouds parted, bearing two large characters: “Be careful!”

None of the twenty-something villagers could read. They didn’t understand the giant paper in the sky, but they knew the Deity must have a reason for giving an instruction.

“The Deity issued an edict, but what does it say?” Zheng Daniu’s father shouted. “Everyone stay sharp and alert! Is it those Heyang County thieves coming?”

At this, they all jumped nervously. Movements became cautious instantly, and their eyes sharpened noticeably.

Curiously, with heightened awareness, something felt off at once.

Their fields seemed…tilted?

Yes, the field’s borders looked broken!

Though uncultured and inexperienced, the villagers knew sunlight could refract on water—they grasped the result, not the cause.

Zheng Daniu’s father cried out, “Hey, did anyone notice? A transparent wall is blocking the field front.”

Of course, everyone had spotted it.

This glass wall might escape detection if overlooked, but with the slightest attention, it was visible.

City dwellers might recognize this as “glazed glass,” but Zhengjia’s people did not. They exchanged confused glances. “What is this transparent wall? Why block our farmland?”

“Let’s find an opening to get in.”

The villagers circled the glass wall. After a full lap, they found no way through.

That baffled them even more!

“What on earth is going on?”

“Ah! I get it, haha, I know!” Zheng Daniu’s father suddenly laughed wildly. “This is a magical artifact set down by the Deity. He used it to surround our farmland and keep Heyang County’s thieves out, saving our wheat from destruction.”

Those words lit up their minds. The edict from the Deity just now must have been signaling the deployment of a magical artifact!

Though illiterate, they saw the edict had two characters—weren’t those “magical artifact”?

Armed with this outsider’s perspective, their thoughts flew free. “This magical artifact is transparent. It stops thieves but not sunlight—truly powerful.”

“A magical artifact is a magical artifact! This transparent wall is so thick. A heavy hammer couldn’t smash it.”

“Let them stare at our thriving wheat but starve. How maddening for them, hahaha!”

“Hey, but we can’t get in either. I planned to weed today.”

“This…”

Everyone went blank.

Li Daoxuan deliberately waited without action. Once they discussed it thoroughly and grasped the situation, he began. He reached into a box, gently picked up a bottomless fish tank, and lifted it out.

The villagers only heard a rumbling as the transparent wall suddenly rose into the sky, vanished into the clouds, and disappeared.

Zheng Daniu’s father cheered. “I can enter my field now, haha! I get it, I understand! When we come to work, the Deity removes the magical artifact. After we finish and leave, he covers it again.”

Li Daoxuan retrieved fish tank after fish tank.

Zhengjia’s villagers hurried into their fields, hurriedly completing their tasks, then retreated beyond the fields and bowed respectfully to the sky.

True to their guess, when work was done and they readied to leave, sky-borne transparent magical artifact shells descended again, going “duang duang duang” as they sealed every wheat field in Zhengjia Village.

Zhengjia Village cheered, “The Deity bless us!”

This left the villagers more confident in their farms than ever. Their footsteps lightened as they cheerfully boarded the public sun chariot, happily returning to Gaojia Fortress…

Li Daoxuan also grinned. He tapped the characters “Gaojia Village,” and his vision swept back instantly.

That very moment, a fine scene greeted him.

Gao Yiye was dressed formally, standing sternly before the militia.

The hundred-strong militia stood respectfully, feet together, posture bolt upright, each listening intently with serious faces.

Save one exception—Ground Rabbit!

Ground Rabbit mumbled softly, “What’s this? I barely passed the trials to join, yet you won’t teach me boxing. Now you pull me in for class for no reason.”

Gao Yiye glanced at him. “Ground Rabbit, you’re new, right?”

“Yes!” Being singled out, he shed some laziness and straightened hastily. “I enlisted just yesterday.”

He nearly called himself “Mr. Rabbit” by habit but, facing the Saint Lady, dared not be insolent, so he dropped the honorific.

Gao Yiye smiled. “I won’t blame you as a newcomer unaware of rules. But if you stay idle like this again, even if I let it slide, the Deity himself will punish you.”

That shocked Ground Rabbit. “What? Skipping class draws the Deity? Seriously? I thought he was easy on everyone. When Gao Sanwa cut classes, he didn’t get punished. Why am I singled out this harshly?”