The cheat system is useless, but I have the strongest living dad.

Chapter 397 Suffering

Feng Yu steadied her and asked softly, "What dream?"

Shen Yao's eyes sparkled, and her expression was exceptionally shy.

She looked into his eyes and whispered, "Young Master Hua Shan appeared to me in a dream, saying that you were Feng Yuan's master in your past life..."

At this point, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed, lowered her eyes and said in a low voice, "He said... you liked me in your past life and proposed to my adoptive parents many times."

The scene before her eyes spun around her, and in the blink of an eye, she was carried in Feng Yu's arms and placed on the bed.

Her gentle and refined husband descended like a dark cloud, his love overflowing, and kissed her first.

His six senses are not clean at all. Even after being cleansed and tempered under the Dragon Waterfall, he is still as heavy with desire as ever.

Fortunately, considering her health, they stopped when it was time to calm down.

He sets off the fire recklessly, and once it's lit, it's impossible to put it out; he just loves to suffer.

At this moment, his possessiveness kicked in again: "Yanzhou, since we were husband and wife in our past and present lives, and now we have a child, can we just not have the two of them?"

"Just as I only love you, will you only love me too?"

He will find fault when he is deeply in love with someone.

But he had already been very restrained, and hadn't made a similar request for many years, so Shen Yao was willing to accommodate him.

She drew a circle on his Adam's apple with her index finger and said evasively, "Who said we were husband and wife in our past life? Fourth Brother said that you proposed to him several times, and each time your parents rejected you."

Feng Yu couldn't understand it: "Wasn't my past life good?"

“Hmm.” Shen Yao looked directly into his phoenix eyes: “In your past life, you were very stubborn, cold-hearted, and an old fogey.”

Feng Yu's beautiful eyebrows furrowed slightly: "No wonder, I also had a dream. In my dream, there was a paper couple who cursed me for a long time."

"Haha." Shen Yao chuckled upon hearing this, "It must be my adoptive parents. Fourth Brother said that Father and Mother asked him to appear in your dream."

She was curious: "What did they say to you?"

The paper effigy of the couple in my dream both had angry expressions and were hurling very harsh insults.

Feng Yu picked up on the more audible part and said lightly, "They called me shameless... that even in my reincarnation I still care about the daughter they raised with so much effort..."

Shen Yao was amused and covered her face to laugh.

As she laughed, the smile in her eyes gradually faded.

In her previous life, when she was still Yao Niang, her adoptive parents seemed to love her very much.

Why didn't they look for her when she accidentally fell into Earth?

Perhaps they simply didn't know she was on Earth; she didn't have the bloodline of the Divine Phoenix, so they couldn't have predicted it.

Moreover, traversing different dimensions is so difficult that even if one wanted to, one probably wouldn't be able to.

Besides, Fourth Brother kept mentioning the great war, so Fire Phoenix City would definitely not be peaceful at that time.

She quickly cheered herself up. The hardships of her past life were long gone. Over the years, those hardships had taught her how happy she was now.

Feng Yu noticed her unhappiness: "Yanzhou, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Shen Yao pushed him up and helped him tie his belt: "Get up, take our daughter out for a walk."

Since arriving in Licheng, Shen Yao hasn't had a proper chance to explore the city.

On the day I arrived, I only got to admire the peach blossom forest outside the city. When I entered the city, I was running so fast that I didn't get a good look at the outside world.

Once she arrived at the city lord's mansion, she spent all her time resting and recuperating during her pregnancy, and never went out again.

It's time to stroll through the streets and alleys of Licheng.

Shen Yao gave Lian Yi and Xu Qin a day off, allowing them to do as they pleased.

Jiang Ming won't be coming over early in the morning, so Huo Die went to find Chu Yun again early in the morning.

Only Shen Yao brought her daughter, and she went shopping with Feng Yu and Tu Xiaoxiao.

For more than two months, Feng Yu has been by my side at night, as I need to take care of my pregnancy and the baby.

Adhering to the principle of fairness, Shen Yao let Feng Yu hold her daughter while she held Tu Xiaoxiao's hand and strolled around town, giving him appropriate favoritism.

Carrying water is no easy task.

At times like these, she couldn't help but admire Long Jiajia, the master of maintaining balance.

This favoritism wasn't enough for Tu Xiaoxiao. After a year of being the only one he loved, his appetite had grown, and he wanted more.

But that didn't stop his ten fox tails from wagging merrily, unable to hide his joy.

Licheng is hardly a prosperous city.

Only the main street had some liveliness; most streets were deserted and empty.

There's not much point in just strolling around.

The few shops only sell daily necessities; there's not much to buy.

On East Street, where the City Lord's Mansion is located, there are also inns and restaurants.

On South Street, only city guards and patrolmen could be seen. Occasionally, a few small vendors with carts would sell their goods on South Street, but they would also be checked by the city guards and patrolmen.

Further south, the closer you get to the South Gate, the more city guards you'll find.

Because not far from the South Gate lies the border battlefield.

Tu Xiaoxiao's fox tail was so distinctive that the city guards knew he was the Ten-Tailed Fox Emperor who had come to help in the battle, regardless of whether they recognized him or not.

They moved freely on South Street without being checked by the city guards.

Since there wasn't much to see, Shen Yao led them through a shortcut from the back of South Street, down a secluded alley, towards West Street.

She didn't know if the alley was passable, so she just wandered around aimlessly.

If you encounter a dead end, just climb over the wall and stroll along the top of the wall; it's a unique and fun experience.

Wearing low-heeled, beaded cloud-embroidered shoes, Shen Yao stepped onto the wall and looked ahead, saying, "There are fewer and fewer peach trees here."

Tu Xiaoxiao responded, "I smelled a very strong stench of blood."

Demon cultivators have a more acute sense of smell than immortals and demons, and as the Fox Emperor, his sense of smell is even more acute.

Tu Xiaoxiao clearly stated that it smelled like the blood of a cultivator.

They decided to go and find out what was going on.

As they approached the southwest corner of West Street, Shen Yao and Feng Yu also smelled the blood and stench of decay emanating from the street.

There shouldn't be any danger inside the city, so why is there such a strong smell of blood?

Their curiosity grew, and they quickened their pace.

There are also patrol guards in the remote southwest alleys.

Tu Xiaoxiao stopped a group of city guards and asked, "What's going on here? Why is there such a strong smell of blood?"

The city guard leading the group recognized Tu Xiaoxiao and respectfully replied, "Your Majesty, the people living here are all wounded soldiers and their families. Many of them are unable to receive medical treatment, and their wounds have worsened, which is why the smell is so strong."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yao asked, "Where are the pharmacists? Doesn't the True God Sect have pharmacies in every city, providing free medical treatment and medicine to border soldiers and their families, as well as lower-level cultivators? Why aren't they receiving treatment?"

The city guard leading the group replied frankly, "Fairy, it's not that the pharmacist refuses to treat, but there are simply too many injured and disabled people to save."

Only those with a wood-based spiritual root can learn healing arts and refine elixirs.

Furthermore, not every cultivator who awakens the wood spirit root will specialize in the wood spirit root, and they may not necessarily become a pharmacist.

Proportionally speaking, there aren't many pharmacists.

Most mid- to low-level pharmacists have limited spiritual power, and can only treat a limited number of wounded people each day.

The pharmacists at the True God Pharmacy could only prioritize treating those with more severe injuries.

Compared to those wounded whose soul cores or spiritual roots are damaged and whose lives are hanging by a thread, those who are missing limbs or whose wounds are contaminated by evil energy and are recovering slowly are nothing.

Those who were not immediately fatal were all sent to the West Street Wounded Camp to be cared for, and then queued up for treatment according to their severity and time of death.

Not only Licheng, but all the cities near the border are like this, and have always been like this.

Shen Yao was so well protected that, over the years, whether at Longquan Cliff or Chongcheng, bad news never reached her ears.

She originally thought that as long as there was a sufficient supply of Perfect Stones, the Mingyu Foundation operated normally, and the aristocratic families and sects were united, the lives of the middle and lower-level cultivators suffering from the war would get better and better.

She never considered the problem of insufficient pharmacists, nor did she consider how difficult it would be to ensure that all benefits were effectively implemented.

Unbeknownst to her, she had risen too high and could no longer see the true suffering in the world.

Without much thought, Shen Yao said, "Since we're here, let's go help them."