Chapitre 11: Advancement
Éditeur: Atlas Studios
In fact, before Leng Ruoxue went into seclusion, she wanted Baby to enter the spirit beast space. But it had been impossible to convince him, and he even claimed that he was not a spirit beast. He didn't want to stay there, and he wanted to protect his big sister outside. So Leng Ruoxue had no choice but to leave him in her grandfather's care.
"Baby." Leng Qingtian called out the little beat's name as he walked to his side.
Lying on the floor, Baby didn't even bother to look up. His big tail even covered his body tightly.
"…"
This little beast named Baby didn't pay any attention to him, making Leng Qingtian feel a little awkward. After all, it had already been more than ten days since he had begun caring for and feeding this little thing every day, yet Baby didn't show a hint of gratefulness.
"Master, Eunuch Liu is here." A butler interrupted Leng Qingtian, who was thinking about how to redress any errors he could have made.
"This really isn't a good time," Leng Qingtian said, feeling somewhat annoyed.
"Guard here and prohibit anyone from approaching." After instructing his subordinates, Leng Qingtian walked slowly toward the main hall.
"Greetings, Great General." Eunuch Liu, the emperor's chief eunuch, hurriedly stood up and bowed deeply upon seeing Leng Qingtian. Although the emperor favored him, he dared not offend General Leng. If he offended him, even the emperor might not be able to preserve him.
"No need to be so polite, Eunuch Liu. Please take a seat," Leng Qingtian said politely.
"Are you here to deliver my compensation?" Leng Qingtian smiled. It had been more than ten days, so everything should have already been collected.
Eunuch Liu took out a storage ring and handed it to Leng Qingtian. "Great General, the compensation you requested is in this ring. Please check if the compensation is correct so that this servant can go back to report on the completion of this task."
Leng Qingtian candidly began to shift the items from the ring to his own, taking stock of the inventory one by one.
"There are no problems," Leng Qingtian said after taking inventory.
"General Leng, please receive this imperial edict!" Eunuch Liu exclaimed suddenly. Then without even reading the edict, he directly handed it to Leng Qingtian with both hands and hurriedly turned around, preparing to leave.
"Eunuch Liu, you haven't read the imperial edict yet. Why are you in such a hurry to leave?" Leng Qingtian quickly said upon seeing that Eunuch Liu was planning to slip away. He didn't even need to read the edict to know that it wouldn't be anything good.
"General Leng, His Majesty said that you could read the imperial edict on your own. His Majesty is still waiting for this servant to report back, so please excuse me." With that, Eunuch Liu hurriedly mounted his flying spirit beast and departed.
Leng Qingtian read the edict and then furiously tossed it aside. Hmph! In his dreams! The emperor intended to drag him forcefully to the seventh prince's side because it was another decree of marriage. He had canceled the engagement with the seventh prince. But the emperor bestowed a marriage to Xue'er and the seventh prince's aunt's second son, who was frail and sickly. And afraid that he would reject the marriage on the spot, Eunuch Liu didn't even dare to read it. Actually, it was better that Eunuch Liu didn't read it. He could pretend that he didn't see it, and the emperor would unlikely be able to do anything to him.
Inside the secret room…
Leng Ruoxue sat cross-legged on the spirit jade bed and absorbed the rich spiritual energy. After a few days of continuous cultivation, Leng Ruoxue's body had abundant spiritual power. Through introspection, she saw that the light ball of spiritual power in her body was growing and beginning to rotate. She increased her speed of absorbing spiritual power, and the spiritual power all around flowed toward her body. As the spiritual power in her body increased, she felt her spiritual power become saturated. She knew that the only way for her to continue absorbing spiritual power was to break through the barrier before her. She decided that there was no better time than now to break through, so she channeled all the spiritual power in her body and blasted the barrier once, twice… Finally, she heard a sound resembling a crack. Immediately after, heaven and earth laws descended upon her, and she knew that she had advanced to Spiritual Monarch.
"Miss has advanced!" Outside the secret room, Lü Tao and Cui Zhu exclaimed happily. The moment they saw the heaven and earth laws descend, they knew their young miss had successfully broken through. Prior to Spiritual Monarch, heaven and earth laws would not descend upon advancement. Only after advancing to Spiritual Monarch would you enjoy such treatment. The descent of heaven and earth laws would give the cultivator sizable benefits, such as widening the meridians. This was a reward from the heavens granted to the cultivator. And the more spiritual power absorbed during the descent of the heaven and earth laws, the more beneficial it was for future cultivation.
"Eh, why didn't Baby change at all?" Lü Tao and Cui Zhu stared at the little beast without a single difference, feeling puzzled. When the young miss advanced, the little beast should have also benefited. But after the heaven and earth laws baptized the little beast, why was he still the same?
"Xue'er advanced?" When Leng Qingtian, who had been settling matters in his study, felt the descent of the heaven and earth laws, he bolted out of the room.
"Yes! Miss has advanced!" Lü Tao said.
"Good! This is excellent news!" Leng Qingtian was overjoyed, the elation written all over his face.
"Old Master, Baby just gained some benefits as well, but why didn't he change at all?" Cui Zhu was feeling puzzled and was looking at their old master with anticipation.
"…"
"This little thing can't be understood by common sense," Leng Qingtian said after deliberating.
Normally, the advancement of the master would spur their spirit beast to advance as well. But not only did this little thing not advance, it still looked as weak and puny as before. Leng Qingtian didn't understand what was going on!
"…"
"Miss should be coming out soon!" Cui Zhu said. Alas, Old Master doesn't know.
"It shouldn't be so soon. Continue keeping watch here and immediately notify me if anything happens." Leng Qingtian returned to his study, feeling relieved that Xue'er had successfully advanced.
In the secret room, Leng Ruoxue was undergoing the baptism of the heaven and earth laws. The meridians in her entire body widened at least twofold, and her speed of absorbing spiritual power was faster. She remembered her grandfather telling her that heaven and earth laws would descend when she advanced to Spiritual Monarch, and the more spiritual power absorbed before the heaven and earth laws dissipated, the more beneficial it would be for future cultivation. Thus, she did not stop and continued absorbing spiritual power diligently. As the heaven and earth laws dissipated, Leng Ruoxue stopped absorbing, and her fingertips released a wisp of spiritual power. It was light golden in color, which was unique to the spiritual power of Spiritual Monarchs. And to her surprise, she found out that she was already at peak elementary Spiritual Monarch and was only one step away from intermediate Spiritual Monarch.
Chapitre 12: I Have an Elder Brother? (1)
Éditeur: Atlas Studios
From the moment you became a Spiritual Monarch and the following stages of Spiritual Sovereign, Spiritual Supremacy, and Spiritual Deity, they each had the level of elementary, intermediate, advanced, and peak. Once your spiritual power was fully saturated, advancement would happen automatically. However, heaven and earth laws would not descend for the advancement to the intermediate, advanced, and peak levels. Heaven and earth laws would only descend for the advancement to Spiritual Monarch, Spiritual Sovereign, Spiritual Supremacy, and Spiritual Deity.
Although Leng Ruoxue's advancement was successful, and she had stopped absorbing spiritual energy, she did not immediately leave the secret room. Instead, she began to cultivate advanced spiritual skills. You could only cultivate heavenly spiritual skills at the Spiritual Sovereign stage, so she planned to finish cultivating the advanced fire and wind element skills before leaving. This way, she would at least have the ability to protect herself.
The advanced fire-element spiritual skill 'Prairie Blaze Spark' was one of the most powerful advanced fire-element skills. Moreover, it was a group-attack skill. It could be considered as the upgraded version of the 'Explosive Flames Art', but its power was several times stronger. 'Flame Feathers' was also one of the mightiest advanced fire-element skills, but 'Flame Feathers' was a single-target skill. The advanced wind-element skill 'Wind Chasing Art' was primarily used to increase movement speed during combat, and it was the upgraded version of the 'Quick Wind Art'. These advanced spiritual skills were the ones that piqued Leng Ruoxue's interest, so she cultivated them first. After learning these skills to a point where she was fluent, she intended to leave seclusion, lest her grandfather and the others have to wait for her anxiously. She decided to cultivate other skills at her own pace later.
When Leng Ruoxue opened the door of the secret room, a fluffy little beast jumped into her arms.
"Big Sister, Baby missed you so much!" Baby laid needily in her arms.
Leng Ruoxue looked somewhat helplessly at Baby lying in her arms, oblivious to why this little thing loved sticking to her.
"Big Sister missed you too," Leng Ruoxue coaxed. "When Big Sister wasn't around, was Baby a good boy?"
"Big Sister, Baby was a very good boy!" The little beast raised a small paw, as if he was swearing.
"Miss, Baby said he wanted to protect you and was unwilling to leave the door of the secret room," Cui Zhu said to her young miss with a look of adoration on her face.
Leng Ruoxue looked down at the shy little beast in her arms. She initially thought that this little thing just said it casually, but she didn't expect him to really not move an inch and protect her at the door of the secret room. Even without doing this, just his intention was enough to touch her heart, and the initial annoyance she felt slowly faded away. From this moment on, she decided to love Baby as her little brother.
"Where is Grandpa?" Leng Ruoxue's beautiful eyes glanced around.
"Old Master is in his study," Lü Tao answered.
"I'll go see Grandpa." Holding Baby in her arms, Leng Ruoxue walked toward the study.
"Old man, your darling granddaughter is finally clear-headed. Are you very happy?" commented the middle-aged man sitting opposite Leng Qingtian in the study.
"Of course I'm happy."
"You must be so happy that you forgot you had a grandson! Hmph." The middle-aged man snorted, a displeased look on his face.
"How could I forget? Ruohan is the grandson I'm proudest of!"
Leng Ruoxue heard the voices coming from the study and stopped in her tracks. Grandfather has a guest? While she was contemplating whether to go in or to return later, the door of the study opened.
"Xue'er! Hahaha, Grandpa's dearest is finally out. Come! Let Grandpa take a good look at you." When Leng Qingtian saw his precious granddaughter standing at the door, his face lit up, and a wide smile crept up on his face as he hugged her.
"Hmph!"
"Grandpa has a guest?" Upon hearing the snort, Leng Ruoxue turned her gaze toward the source. She saw a middle-aged man who wasn't particularly handsome but had an extraordinary presence. At first glance, she could tell that he had been in a high position for a long time. Although he was restraining his imposing manner currently, no one would doubt that he was a powerhouse. However, this person didn't seem to like her, so she began wondering if she had offended him somehow before.
"Xue'er, he is Grandpa's old friend. Just call him Grandpa Lin," Leng Qingtian introduced simply.
"Hello, Grandpa Lin," Leng Ruoxue greeted politely.
"Well, old man, no wonder you dote on this granddaughter so much. Unexpectedly, your granddaughter is such a rare genius. She's already a Spiritual Monarch at such a tender age." Lin Liang's sharp eyes sized up Leng Ruoxue with an intense gaze.
"Grandpa Lin, Xue'er is flattered. I was only able to advance so smoothly because of a spiritual essence pill," Leng Ruoxue explained with the reason she had discussed with her grandfather beforehand.
"Spiritual essence pill? No wonder. With a spiritual essence pill, you can become a Spiritual Monarch even with poor aptitude! Old man, you're so biased. When Ruohan advanced, you were unwilling to give him a spiritual essence pill!" Lin Liang shouted in discontent.
"Ruohan is a genius. Even without a spiritual essence pill, he still advanced smoothly. Furthermore, with you, his master, beside him, how could he have been in any danger? It's not like you don't know that using a spiritual essence pill to advance is the last resort. Which genius do you know that has used a spiritual essence pill?" Leng Qingtian roared back, unwilling to be outdone. Those who reached Spiritual Monarch using a spiritual essence pill would cultivate much slower than those that reached Spiritual Monarch by themselves. Even so, spiritual essence pills were extremely rare and precious.
Not only could spiritual essences pills help with advancement, but they could also reduce the risk. However, only Great Spiritualists could use them. Since ancient times, countless spiritualists had hit a wall and were unable to advance to Spiritual Monarch. The Great Spiritualist stage was a considerably important obstacle that spiritualists had to face. The status of 'Great Spiritualist' was only marginally more prestigious than ordinary people, but the moment you advanced to Spiritual Monarch, your status and standing would rise significantly. This was why spiritual essence pills were priceless and couldn't be found on the market.
"Anyway, you're too biased!" Lin Liang hollered.
"Grandpa, since you have a guest, Xue'er will visit you later," Leng Ruoxue said. At times like this, she should steer clear to prevent herself from becoming a target.
After returning to Listening Snow Pavilion, Leng Ruoxue immediately called for Lü Tao and directly asked, "Lü Tao, do I have an elder brother?"
"Miss, did you recall Young Master?" Lü Tao asked, a little unsure.
"Nope. I really have an elder brother? Why hasn't anyone raised him with me?" Leng Ruoxue said with displeasure.
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