Chapter 259: Chapter 252: Warm reunion!
"Ahh.. home sweet home.."
Duan Li exhaled a breath of fresh air upon reaching the gate of his residence court with a big smile on his face. Somehow, he missed the rowdy bunch of those followers of his.
I wonder how the rest of them are doing..
"If they slacked on their cultivation, I would have to reprimand them for a little bit!" he nodded with a slight chuckle.
Kreaak..
...
The moment Duan Li stepped inside the gate, Xiahou Yu, Shen Lu, Wang Xiolun, Shen Murong, Wei Wang, Wei Shang, Xu Rong, Fei Longwei and Guo He that were deeply immersed in their cultivation, immediately opened their eyes simultaneously.
"He's back?"
They were busy reinforcing their cultivation realm in a separate location around the residence court, and they could somehow feel that their 'Lord' has returned.
Perhaps, this was due to Duan Li's blood that was infused into them during their body tempering phase before, thus they obtained this mystical senses of theirs!
Suuu! Suuu! Suuu!
Everyone quickly stood up on their feet and flew to Duan Li's direction. Similarly, Duan Li could also detect them approaching his location at an impressive speed!
"Oh? Xiahou Yu is the fastest? That's unexpected.." Duan Li was surprised when he payed more attention to this mystical feeling.
Of all of his followers, Xiahou Yu's realm was the lowest before. However, he could now sense that she had gotten incredibly strong to the point of almost reaching the level of her other peers!
Impressive!
"I guess, the higher my realm, the stronger would be my connection to them.." he cupped his chin as he stood still, waiting for them to come.
'Would that mean that one day I could also feel what they feel?'
Duan Li shook his head and put such thoughts at the back of his head.
Huuu..
Rustling sounds of leaves from the nearby trees were gently caressed by an inconspicuos wind before they scattered along around Duan Li slowly, whom was standing tall with his hands behind his back, his black hair fluttering ever so slightly.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
At the same time this scene happened, all of his followers arrived at the exact moment despite their differences in flying speed. It seems that they have met up with each other along the way and decided to present themselves together.
Standing in front of their Lord like this, both parties were silent for a while as the leaves scattered between them, displaying a vivid image of a warm reunion that could shed tears upon those that witnessed this.
According to the normal route, the followers would either ecstatically called up their Lord with teary eyes and emotional face, while running towards Duan Li with snots hanging by their nose.
However, one would need to be a normal party in the first place for this to happen, and with Duan Li's, this party of his was definitely not something ordinary.
Therefore, a unique scene played out instead.
"DUAN LI!!"
Shen Murong shouted out at the top of his lungs like a madman and dashed towards his Lordship with an intent to smash the latter's face to that of a peasant's.
"Huh?"
Duan Li of course, was caught off-guard by this sudden romantic approach of Shen Murong.
With a reflex surpassing the normal people, Duan Li's left elbow quickly curved to deflect Shen Murong's fist as it was only an inch apart from breaking his nose.
"You crazy bastard, your Lord here has just returned and you already assaulted him like this? Hmph!" Duan Li harrumphed as he thought of this in his mind and he followed up with a counter.
Thankfully, he had already assimilated the 'Martial True Instinct' ability subconsciously, and it was integrated with his every movements. Otherwise, with his injuries, he would most likely suffer from this sudden attack.
After deflecting the fist with his left elbow, Duan Li used the momentum to spin himself and get behind Shen Murong, before doing a donkey kick to the latter's butt!
Putong!
Shen Murong was sent crashing to the wall on the side.
"Hmph! You need more practice!" Duan Li snorted a little bit.
Plucking himself out from the wall, Shen Murong wiped off the blood trail on his lips cooly before saying, "You're good.."
Puu!!
Duan Li almost choked on himself.
This bastard has grown a little bit too cocky since I was gone, I'll teach him a lesson latter on..
Ignoring the other party, Duan Li nodded to the rest of them with a satisfied expression.
"Everyone, I see that your cultivation has almost reached the pinnacle of Foundation Establishment within the span of a week.. that's quite good!"
Hearing this from their Lord, they could only smile wryly to themselves while thinking;
Only 'quite good'..
A cultivator that had reach this level with our speed could already be considered as a peerless genius within the Jiu Empire alone, yet we only got such a praise from him?
As a result, they were a little bit dissatisfied by this and were about to voice out complaints for not praising them more when Wang Xiolun, whom was already at the Core Formation realm and was always impassive, widened his eyes and suddenly said something which shocked them.
"P-Pinnacle stage of Core Formation realm?!"
Puu!!
They simultaneously choked on themselves.
F*cking monster!
Now they know that their cultivation speed they were so impressed with just now was viewed nothing much by their Lord here.
After all, in front of this monster Lord of their's, ascending straight to the Pinnacle stage of each realm was but like drinking and eating - not worth a mention!
Feeling so stifled inside, they sighed out at the same time with a downcasted expression.
Duan Li, not knowing their inner thoughts, misunderstood this as they were being sad because he did not bring them any gifts.
Thus, he quickly laughed out.
"Ahahaha! Don't worry everyone, I have plenty of stuff I can gift you all for all your hardwork!"
Again, they sighed helplessly when they heard this.
Hais!
"..." Duan Li.
...
Inside the Imperial Royal Palace in the capital, the meeting room was in such a tense atmosphere that the guards literally broke out in cold sweats.
Right now, Fei Jin Fang, the Supreme Knight of the Knight's Order, was currently giving out murderous aura towards a certain person opposite of him.
"What? You disagree with what I just said? Tsk! To think that your Emperor would cast away his honor and appoint an Imperial Overseer, this Jiu Empire sure has its fate sealed!" said a haughty young man with freckles in an arrogant tone.
This young man was Liu Shuiyui, a Prince from the neighbouring empire, the Liu Empire!
Upon receiving the invitation from the Jiu Empire, they quickly came over just to mock the other party right on the face.
In their opinion, an Emperor that would willingly appoint an Imperial Overseer, whose status was practically like stepping over the head of the Emperor, deserves a thoroughly tongue lashing!
After all, it was a disgrace for the royal family.
"Liu Shuiyui, say that once more and I will kill you this instant." Fei Jin Fang said coldly.
By the looks of it, he was really serious in his threat.
Therefore, the two attendants of the prince could not help but to have their face warped in fury upon hearing this.
"You lowly scum! You are just a mere Knight! How dare you said such things to the.."
Before one of the attendant could even finish his sentence, a slight brush of wind went past them and had his head exploded into bits and pieces!
Psshhh!!
"You are saying?" Fei Jin Fang spoke indifferently, as if he had only smashed an inconsequential fly to its death.
"If a person really has the balls of steel to say such things to my face, why not come over here with their real body instead of using clones?" he continued and spatted to the side with a disdainful look.
Turning to the two Knights behind him, he instructed, "Throw them out from the window!"
"..." everyone.
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