After handing Number Three Soul to Er Ya, Jun Changxiao returned to the outside world.
Regarding the Soul Clan continent, he had gained further understanding. If he wanted to resolve it safely, the best method was to capture the empress.
How to capture her?
Jun Changxiao quickly thought of two plans.
The first was to subdue the Soul Clan empress through force. The second was to rely on his own beauty.
The several Soul Clan members hadn’t returned for ten thousand years. Heaven knows how strong Empress Lingping’s power had grown. So the first plan had uncertain factors.
Thus, he could only execute the foolproof second plan—conquering her with his good looks.
The system remained silent.
After all that spitting and ptuying in the Tianyuan Soul-Suppressing Tower, it was already parched.
Jun Changxiao was assuming things here, completely unaware that after ten thousand years, things had changed dramatically. The Soul Clan boss was no longer Empress Lingping, but Empress Rose.
…
Soul Clan continent, desolate land.
“Boom boom boom!”
Violent energy roared forth. The ground showed huge fist impressions one after another, while the surrounding space was churned until shattered and broken.
If Jun Changxiao were present, he would definitely be greatly shocked.
Because judging from the aura contained in the air, the one attacking had cultivation definitely stronger than Taihyun Holy Sect’s Lan Jingting!
“Swish!”
On the mountain peak, Empress Rose descended gracefully carrying sky-filling rose petals, her mature lady-like face showing a captivating smile.
The Soul Clan powerhouses watching had their eyes wide open.
After Empress Majesty took power, she used all her time attacking other planes. Unexpectedly, not only had her martial dao not fallen behind, she had already reached Return to Simplicity Realm!
The Soul Clan continent’s two highest level realms were Return to Simplicity Realm and Return to True Realm respectively.
In terms of Xingyun Continent realms, Return to Simplicity Realm was stronger than Martial Saint Great Perfection but weaker than Martial Emperor. If one broke through to Return to True Realm, they could shatter the void and ascend to the upper realm.
Every plane had different realm classifications and names. To get more accurate comparisons, both sides would need to fight to know.
“Long live the Empress!”
“Long live the Empress!”
Everyone immediately shouted loudly, their gazes showing intense worship.
In Soul Clan history, four empresses had taken office in total. The first three had relatively ordinary strength. Only this Empress Rose had extraordinary talent, even already standing at the pinnacle of the entire continent in cultivation.
Of course.
Her cultivation improved so quickly also stemmed from constantly leading forces to attack other planes after taking office. Every bit of growth was hammered out from actual combat.
Having both personal strength and absolute power.
Empress Rose was absolutely a supreme belief existence in the Soul Clan continent.
“The seal leading to Xingyun Continent—still not broken?”
“Reporting to the Empress, we are working hard!”
“A bunch of waste!”
Empress Rose’s brows showed anger, extremely disappointed in her subordinates’ efficiency.
The previous administration sent nine hall masters to attack Xingyun Continent ten thousand years ago. As a result, they never returned. The mess left behind definitely needed resolving.
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“Taihyun Holy Sect’s Grand Elder just stepped into Martial Saint Great Perfection.”
“I fought him for hundreds of moves without gaining the upper hand. I need to become stronger even faster.”
Jun Changxiao muttered to himself before the formation.
With various equipment and weapons boosting him, he could defeat the Heavenly Battlefield ghosts.
But after all, they were low-level beings without self-awareness. When encountering powerhouses like Lan Jingting, even though the man had just entered Great Perfection level, there still wasn’t much chance of victory.
“However.”
Jun Changxiao thought: “The Soul Clan empress’s strength is weak. If I can’t seduce her with beauty, conquering through strength is also easy.”
“So…”
Rubbing his temples: “What I need to consider now is how to enter the Soul Clan continent!”
Judging from the frequent energy fluctuations from the formation, the Soul Clan was trying to break through. Rather than sitting idle waiting, better to strike first and kill his way in. As long as he dealt with the Soul Clan empress, the problem could be perfectly resolved.
The system suggested: “Since there’s a transmission gate leading to the battlefield, perhaps there’s a transmission gate leading to the plane?”
Jun Changxiao rolled his eyes.
This guy’s purpose was to make him spend money!
The plane battlefield transmission gate was given for completing a mission. Deliberately refreshing the store—who knows how much contribution value it would cost!
The system said: “The opportunity is placed before the host. Whether you’re willing or not is up to you.”
“Of course.”
“You might spend a lot of contribution value, but if you happen to refresh it, even spending everything would be profitable.”
“How so?”
“If there’s a plane transmission gate, the host can freely transmit to other planes. Martial dao resources Xingyun Continent doesn’t have—wouldn’t they be readily available?”
The system wasn’t a professional system, because it was often instantly slapped in the face.
But it was definitely a very qualified salesman. One sentence made Dog Leftover’s heart race.
Currently speaking, with Xingyun Continent’s resources, it probably would be difficult to support all disciples breaking through to Martial Emperor or even higher. If he went to other planes to seek resources, it would seem much easier.
“Exactly.”
The system said: “Those who do great things must have long-term vision!”
“Good!”
Jun Changxiao opened the intermediate store: “Let’s try!”
“…”
The system was speechless.
After all that talk, he was actually going to refresh the intermediate one!
Jun Changxiao maintained rationality: “The intermediate store sometimes produces good things too. Perhaps there’ll be an unexpected harvest.”
Indeed.
Some products in the intermediate store were very practical.
Like the field artillery still useful now, and the modified vacuum cleaner with miraculous effects against the Soul Clan.
The system said: “Refreshing the advanced store is the proper way. The intermediate store is completely gambling on luck. The host shouldn’t waste contribution value.”
“I don’t believe it!”
Jun Changxiao got stubborn and refreshed once.
“Damn!”
The system exclaimed: “The host actually refreshed Emotional Intelligence Liquid again!”
This refresh not only had Emotional Intelligence Liquid but also a martial technique of decent grade. Jun Changxiao bought it without hesitation. After confirming the other products were useless, he decisively refreshed again.
System: “…”
He perfectly missed the second opportunity. Destined to be alone and old in this lifetime.
Jun Changxiao continued refreshing. Anyway, he now had several tens of thousands of contribution value. Refreshing a few dozen times wouldn’t hurt.
“Ding! Contribution value: 58900/70000.”
“Ding! Contribution value: 57800/70000.”
“Ding! …”
With each refresh and purchase, large amounts of contribution value gradually left him.
During this time, quite a few decent-grade martial techniques and weapon equipment formulas appeared, though compared to Seven Mystic Luminous Breaking Light and Dragon Fang series, they were a bit weaker.
The sect’s martial techniques weren’t abundant. These could all be matched up, giving disciples more choices in cultivation. As for weapon equipment, with the Wangu Sect’s current ore reserves, it was impossible for everyone to have Dragon Fang series. So having something a grade lower was also good.
The system said speechlessly: “So this guy isn’t refreshing for methods to enter other planes, but providing more martial learning resources for the sect.”
“Obviously.”
Jun Changxiao said: “It’s not like contribution value is so abundant there’s nowhere to spend it!”
“Ding! Contribution value: 38900/70000.”
After refreshing again, in a short time he’d spent 20,000 merit points total.
He obtained over ten various martial techniques, and over twenty weapon equipment formulas, covering swords, spears, staffs, and clubs, axes, halberds, hooks, and forks!
In the past, Dog Leftover would definitely collapse because he didn’t refresh the plane transmission gate he wanted.
Fortunately, this refresh focused on strengthening the sect’s hardcore foundation. So not only did he not feel heartache, he even thought he made a small profit.
Sure enough.
In doing anything, mindset was most important.
“Wait!”
Jun Changxiao’s eyes suddenly brightened as he looked at the new products, because a product called ‘Time-Space Larvae’ appeared in his vision!
Time-Space Larvae?
Time-Space Worm!
Dog Leftover hastily clicked on the introduction—
Item: Time-Space Larvae.
Introduction: Living in the depths of cosmic space, a type of insect that can penetrate spatial barriers.
Advantages: Starting from the beginning point, it devours spatial barriers until reaching the end point, forming an unrestricted time-space tunnel along the path, allowing any living beings to freely enter and exit.
Disadvantages: Larvae have no ability to penetrate barriers and need to be fed until adulthood.
Price: 2000 contribution value.
“Hahahaha!”
Jun Changxiao laughed with hands on hips: “Don’t we have it right here, don’t we have it right here!”
System: “…”
Swearing confidently that Emotional Intelligence Liquid wouldn’t refresh, only to get slapped in the face on the very first refresh.
Thinking that refreshing the intermediate store was wasting contribution value, yet 20,000 points refreshed one out. Good thing it had no physical form, otherwise its face would be swollen thicker than Dog Leftover’s face.
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