The planar powerhouses came as quickly as they fled, to the extent that when the Star Meteor Continent martial artists came to their senses, the forest above was already completely empty.
“This…”
City Lord Han’s mouth twitched.
These Planar Battlefield martial artists were frightened away—frightened away by Jun Changxiao!
No.
To be precise, they were frightened away by the miniature knife in Gou Sheng’s hand.
After all, many people had been present back then. That scene of slaughtering people like cutting grass after unsealing remained vivid in their minds!
When faced with absolute strength, all greed would be completely suppressed, because living was always more comfortable than dying.
“They just ran like that?”
Jun Changxiao shook his head and said, “I was hoping for a good fight.”
Zilin Demon King: “…”
Ding Xingwang: “…”
They understood very clearly that if the Sect Master truly wanted a good fight, he definitely wouldn’t have taken out the miniature knife to frighten people!
…
A natural phenomenon arose, an opportunity appeared.
Who would have known Jun Changxiao would walk out from inside, causing what should have been an impending bloodbath to end before it even began.
The Star Meteor Continent martial artists were deeply shaken. On their way back, they couldn’t help but secretly guess—did that fellow really kill tens of thousands?
“It’s definitely like that!”
City Lord Han firmly believed it in his heart!
In his view, only having killed tens of thousands could form such terrifying deterrent power. Otherwise, planar martial artists wouldn’t have fled in panic!
“This person…”
City Lord Han raised his head, looking at Jun Changxiao flying ahead, thinking silently, “Just how strong has he become?”
Without equipment enhancement, Sect Master Jun was merely a Half-Step Sword and Martial Dual Saint. With equipment added, fighting low-level Earth-grade powerhouses was completely no problem.
As for using the Blade Beyond Recall, that was even more terrifying.
Of course.
This kind of trump card wouldn’t be casually deployed, as unsealing talismans weren’t numerous.
…
Star Meteor Continent stronghold.
Jun Changxiao returned with the Jade Pure Profound Spirit, and the stronghold began expanding outward until it stopped, its area fully a circle larger than before!
“Sect Master!”
Li Qingyang gaped in astonishment and said, “What’s going on?”
Jun Changxiao said, “Probably because the opportunity brought back reached Heaven-grade level, so it gave more area than before.”
Li Qingyang said gravely, “If it expands a few more times like this, reaching the size of a small city won’t be a problem!”
In Star Meteor Continent, reaching city-scale depended on area and total population. Even the smallest had to be comparable to four or five towns in size.
The current Star Meteor Continent stronghold, having expanded by a full circle, had already reached the scale of two towns, so it was undoubtedly closer to the smallest city-scale.
Jun Changxiao shook his head and said, “If we’re going to play, let’s play big. This seat doesn’t care for small cities.”
“Sect Master.”
Li Qingyang’s mouth twitched as he said, “Building the stronghold to large city-scale will definitely require a very long time.”
“Half a year.”
Jun Changxiao said solemnly, “We must achieve it.”
“Half a year?” Li Qingyang immediately felt a bit dizzy.
Jun Changxiao didn’t want to focus his thoughts on stronghold development either, but Epic Quest Nine was related to it. Based on past completion rates, only by doing better than the original foundation would he obtain more abundant rewards.
What was the original foundation?
Develop the Star Meteor Continent stronghold to city-scale.
This was rather vague, because cities were also divided into small, medium, and large. If reaching small-scale counted as completion, it could only be considered barely passing. If developing to medium or large scale, it would definitely count as exceeding expectations.
“We still need to continue searching for opportunities.”
“If they’re all at the Jade Pure Profound Spirit level, finding eight or nine should make reaching medium-scale city or above no problem.”
Jun Changxiao’s thinking was quite good.
But in reality, Jade Pure Profound Spirit belonged to Heaven-grade level, which the Treasure Detector couldn’t discover.
Obtaining the parchment scroll by accident and finding one through sheer luck—he couldn’t rely on good fortune every time, right? Otherwise, wouldn’t that make him a protagonist who could only get by relying on protagonist’s halo?
“Nothing is difficult in this world, the human heart is simply not firm!”
Jun Changxiao said earnestly, “As long as the effort is deep enough, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle!”
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way!”
The System said, “Open the Shop and boldly refresh it. Perhaps you can draw products even better than the Treasure Detector!”
“Scram.”
…
The next day.
Jun Gou Sheng woke up early, then flew out from the stronghold to begin a brand new day’s journey searching for opportunities.
Next, martial artists from various major planes would face a nightmare, because opportunity locations they had locked onto in advance—when they went to find them with absolute confidence and timing—turned out to have nothing inside.
“That’s not right!”
“Why is there nothing at all!”
“Could we have guessed wrong—there was never any opportunity here!”
“Sect Master, there’s a line of text carved on the wall!”
“Oh?”
Everyone looked over and saw written there—The opportunity has already been taken by this seat. Everyone, please don’t worry yourselves. Jun Changxiao.
“Jun Changxiao!”
Someone exclaimed in surprise, “The Myriad Ages Most Powerful Sect’s Sect Master from Star Meteor Continent?”
“Damn it!”
The sect master clenched his fist and said angrily, “This place is so far from the Star Meteor Continent stronghold—how did that fellow get here first!”
Taking the opportunity and fearing others wouldn’t know, deliberately leaving his name behind.
This was truly despicable!
Actually, Jun Changxiao had his difficulties too. After all, if they wouldn’t play with him in the Planar Battlefield, he could only go crazy causing trouble, trying to provoke various major planes, then finally sing “Rendezvous in ’98” together in the Slaughter Asura Field!
…
“Swoosh!”
Inside a certain mountain valley, Jun Changxiao flew out.
The space that seemed torn apart gradually healed. The opportunity that had slumbered within for many years was taken by him, and even the box containing the treasure hadn’t escaped his clutches.
As long as it was an opportunity location he entered, even seemingly ordinary stones would be collected into his spatial ring, truly achieving a complete sweep.
Of course.
Jun Changxiao would also occasionally return to the sect to preside over the overall situation.
At this moment, he had already achieved two-handed management of sect development and stronghold development, both hands strong.
“Sect Master!”
On this day, Old Wei rushed to the main peak’s great hall, excitedly saying, “That pile of soil you gave me is simply too miraculous. Medicinal materials planted three days ago matured today!”
Jun Changxiao said in surprise, “That fast?”
The soil Old Wei mentioned was used to plant the Jade Pure Profound Spirit.
At the time, Jun Changxiao felt it was extraordinary, so he dug it all up. He never expected that after placing it in the medicine fields, it would enhance medicinal material growth cycles.
Moreover, the enhancement speed was extremely terrifying! Because the medicinal materials planted on it were for refining Martial King Pills. In ordinary soil, it would take at least two to three months, but now only three days were needed!
“We struck gold!”
Jun Changxiao’s eyes lit up.
Though the soil wasn’t much and couldn’t be used for large-scale planting.
But being able to increase growth speed by nearly twenty times—if high-quality medicinal materials were planted in the future, the benefits would definitely be numerous!
“Let’s go.”
“Go take a look!”
Jun Changxiao hurried to the medicine fields.
But upon arriving at the location, he discovered Wild Boar Peppa lying on the soil leisurely resting, several medicinal plants crushed askew beneath it!
“Your uncle’s!”
Jun Gou Sheng’s temper flared up instantly, and he directly summoned the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade.
However, just as he was preparing to slash forward, he saw strange properties floating up from the soil and then merging into Wild Boar Peppa’s body. The latter’s face revealed an indescribable expression.
“Sect Master.”
Old Wei said gravely, “This soil is helping Peppa!”
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