Chapter 199: Accepting the Battle

“The Acacia Faction has already been completely eradicated by me. Not only that, but I also plundered more than 90 billion top-grade spirit stones from the Acacia Faction.”

“How much?”

Lu Xiaoran immediately did not dare to believe his ears.

“More than 90 billion.”

Lu Xiaoran :”…”

He had gone through a lot of trouble robbing other people’s ancestral graves. After working for more than half a month, he had almost dug up all the ancient tombs in the Great Zhou Empire. However, he had only obtained 10 billion or so. Moreover, those weapons and whatnot did not even reach 20 billion.

In the end, Ji Wushang had only shut down the Acacia Faction’s sect and obtained more than 90 billion. Was this a joke?

“Senior Lu, what’s wrong?”

As if seeing that Lu Xiaoran was silent, Ji Wushang’s heart suddenly trembled and he hurriedly asked.

Lu Xiaoran waved his hand and said, “Nothing.”

“That’s good. Here are 90 billion top-grade spirit stones. Senior, please take them.”

Lu Xiaoran nodded and put the spirit stones into his Mountain and River State Painting.

“Did anything troublesome happen recently?”

Ji Wushang replied, “Yes, there’s been a bit of trouble. It’s just that a few kings of the imperial palaces, the heirs, and some of the old trusted aides of the previous emperor have not been very obedient. It has been quite difficult to order them around.”

Lu Xiaoran advised sincerely, “You’re an emperor now. In the future, don’t always use your power to suppress others. Sometimes, you have to learn to use your power to give people benefits. Remember, there are no eternal enemies or eternal friends in the world. However, as long as you have money, you will have eternal bootlickers.”

It was true that in a world where martial artists were respected, the weak would submit to the strong.

However, this did not mean that the weak would unconditionally work for the strong.

Without any practical benefits, one would not work foolishly.

Humans die for wealth, and birds die for food. This was the eternal truth.

The size of a fist could only be displayed when one could see it. If one could not see the fist, it was useless no matter how big the fist was.

Ji Wushang had now ascended to the throne by relying on the Grand Elder he controlled, King Zining, and the old king who had already advanced in cultivation.

After obtaining absolute strength, its display could still threaten some people. However, as time passed, people would gradually forget this threat.

Moreover, some people were unwilling to accept this powerful suppression from the beginning.

“Yes, I’ll definitely remember Senior Lu’s words.”

Lu Xiaoran nodded.

“Alright, if there’s nothing else, you can go back.”

Ji Wushang bade Lu Xiaoran farewell and Lu Xiaoran also began to cultivate.

In the past few days, Yun Lige and the others had already increased their cultivation by a lot, allowing Lu Xiaoran’s cultivation to also increase a lot. He needed to enter meditation and fuse his martial arts concepts in order to completely master everything so that he could perfectly control his current cultivation.

…

Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, nine days had passed.

When Lu Xiaoran opened his eyes, the cultivation in his body emitted popping sounds.

It was as if the spirit energy had opened a small world in his body, triggering waves of thunder.

“Sixth level Supreme Realm!”

Lu Xiaoran clenched his fists and felt that a special magnetic field had formed around him. In this magnetic field, the spirit energy had become an extremely gentle little sheep that was completely at his mercy.

A Supreme Realm expert was called a Supreme Realm expert because they could suppress the spirit energy and make the spirit energy submit to them. From then on, he would reach a completely new level of control over spirit energy.

With every increase in his cultivation, this magnetic field would become stronger until it evolved to the next level, the legendary Saint Realm!

“It’s said that those at the Saint Realm also use cultivation techniques. However, even though they use the same cultivation technique, they can still suppress the other party with a single word. I wonder if that’s true.”

In martial arts, the characteristics of every level were different.

The higher he went, the harder it was for others to resist him.

However, this also indirectly showed how terrifying Fang Aotian and Li Liushui’s talent was.

Despite being in a higher realm, they could still surpass two realms. They were unlike Lin Fei and Xiao Bei, who could only fight one realm higher.

“We should see the cultivation of our disciples, Wang Cai!”

“Coming, coming, Master, I’m here.”

“Generate Yun Lige and the others’ cultivation panels.”

“Alright, Master. It’s being generated.”

Wang Cai quickly generated the information panels for Lu Xiaoran.

“Lige is doing quite well this time. He has already advanced to the fifth level of the Shattering Void Realm. Looks like he didn’t cultivate in vain these days.”

The time passed in the Mountain and River State Painting was different from the time spent outside. One day outside was equivalent to seven to eight days inside.

Because of this, several months had already passed inside the Mountain and River State Painting.

Lu Xiaoran looked at Ji Wuxia again and immediately fell silent.

The second level of the Essence Realm.

The difference seemed to have widened again.

Moreover, Ji Wuxia seemed to have vaguely obtained an… egg?

What was this?

Another divine soul?

However, this divine soul was a little strange. It was actually an egg.

Forget it, he could not figure it out for the time being. In any case, it was fine as long as it was not harmful. He would look at the others first.

With that said, Lu Xiaoran opened Fang Tianyuan’s information panel again.

The perfected tenth level of the Essence Realm.

Lu Xiaoran: “???”

Why were these people all advancing so quickly?

Why was Fang Tianyuan so many times more abnormal than Yun Lige and Ji Wuxia?

At this moment, the purple Demon Ape phantom in Fang Tianyuan’s body was much bigger. There was naturally also one in Lu Xiaoran’s body. Lu Xiaoran could sense that this Demon Ape Divine Soul was actually extremely powerful. If he combined it with a God Realm cultivation technique, who knew how powerful he would be.

“Looks like the effect of the divine soul is indeed very powerful. Now that Wuxia also has a divine soul, her cultivation speed will probably increase. I wonder if this poor child, Lige, can still endure in the future.”

Thinking of this, Lu Xiaoran casually opened Li Changsheng’s information panel.

As expected, Li Changsheng had already advanced to the tenth level of the King Realm.

The speed of his advancement this time was actually not fast. The main reason was that time had been greatly accelerated by Lu Xiaoran. Although it seemed like less than two months had passed outside, it had actually been almost a year inside.

In a year, with their talent and so many trump cards, it was already enough for them to increase their strength at this speed.

“There’s also Ziqiong, my youngest disciple. Her cultivation is probably similar to Li Ge’s, right?”

However, when Lu Xiaoran opened Zhuge Ziqiong’s interface, he could not help but click his tongue.

Zhuge Ziqiong’s cultivation had already reached the first level of the Essence Realm.

This girl… was indeed not human.

In fact, there was a reason why Zhuge Ziqiong’s cultivation increased so quickly.

She was unlike ordinary people like Yun Lige who could only consume one Martial Monarch Realm Blood Pill, Martial Monarch Realm Soul Pill, Martial Monarch Realm Marrow Pill, and the like.

Lu Xiaoran had refined Martial Monarch Realm blood and Martial Monarch Realm marrow from those medicinal pills and gave it to her to directly consume.

Lu Xiaoran even gave her a Martial Monarch Realm heart.

The effect of a Martial Monarch Realm expert’s heart was simply too powerful.

If he let Li Ge and the others eat it, they would definitely not eat it. However, Zhuge Ziqiong was a zombie, so she did not mind at all.

Sigh!

Forget it. Lu Xiaoran decided to not care about Lige anymore. He didn’t care if Lige would be the weakest of the bunch.

After all, the faster his disciples improved, the faster his own cultivation would increase.

While his heart ached for Lige, Lu Xiaoran received a pile of gifts with tears in his eyes and casually opened them.

God Blood Pill x100.

Mid-grade God Realm Wolf God Totem x1.

Low-grade God Realm Moon Shattering Saber x1.

Top-grade God Realm luck Golden Dragon x1.

Golden Luck Dragon, could be used to increase one’s luck and reduce one’s bad luck.

Mid-grade God Realm Steel Dragon Armor x1.

Mid-grade God Realm divine beast egg x1.

Top-grade God Realm cultivation technique, Beast Control Divine Art x1.

Divine Dao Spirit Stone x10000.

…

Lu Xiaoran already felt numb to these things.

In any case, he threw all of them into the Mountain and River State Painting.

Just as he finished working, a subordinate from the Imperial Palace rushed in from outside the next second.

“Senior Lu, there’s an urgent letter outside for you.”

Lu Xiaoran raised his eyebrows slightly.

“What’s the matter?”

“Senior Lu, I don’t know…”

With a thought, the letter immediately arrived in his hand.

Lu Xiaoran swept his divine sense again and learned the information.

To his surprise, there was a challenge letter inside.

What surprised him even more was that these people were actually old friends.

Nalan Hongyu, Fang Aotian, and Li Liushui.

“These three people actually want to fight me? Interesting.”

However, this was more or less within Lu Xiaoran’s expectations. After all, he had already blocked the advancement path of the three of them. If the three of them wanted to live, they could either escape from the Great Zhou Empire or fight him head-on.

It was simply unrealistic to simply hide and cultivate for dozens of years before seeking revenge on him.

The hot shots would never submit to others. This was the natural arrogance of the hot shots. They were unwilling to wait for decades.

“I’ll satisfy your wish.”

Lu Xiaoran snapped his fingers.

“Tell this person who sent the letter that I, Lu Xiaoran, will accept their challenge.”

“Yes.”

The subordinate of the Imperial Palace retreated, and Lu Xiaoran summoned the others.

“Greetings, Master.”

The few of them bowed in unison, and Lu Xiaoran nodded slightly.

“You all did well. You cultivated very seriously this time.”

“Thank you for your praise, Master.”

“You’re welcome. I summoned you for serious business.”

“Please tell us, Master.”

“Nalan Hongyu sent over a challenge letter. They have challenged us and I’ve already accepted it. Currently, the other party is prepared to unleash some sinister moves. I want to ask for your opinion.”

“Sinister moves?”

“The other party will be attacking from three different places. They want to fight us separately.”

Li Changsheng immediately understood.

“Master, let me go to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect. The Azure Lotus Sword Sect is the place that gave birth to me and raised me. I know what Li Liushui wants to do there. I have to go.”

“Don’t be in a hurry to make a decision. Since the other party dares to challenge me, their strength must be extraordinary. If we’re careless, we might die.”

“But Master, my family is in the Azure Lotus Sword Sect. I can’t watch them be killed by Li Liushui. They’re very important to me.”

“You’re just as important to me.”