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"Wasn't that the case?" Chu Feng furrowed his brows slightly, his gaze turning sharp. From the look of things, it seemed she truly had something else in mind.
"Of course not. Would I really mobilize so many people over a few insignificant factions?"
"Actually, I came to find you today to express my gratitude," Jiang Yini said.
"Gratitude?" Chu Feng was completely baffled by her words. He had no connection with the
"Back at the Myriad Beast Mountain, you saved my younger brother
"My brother Jiang Wushang is the hope of our Jiang Dynasty, and more than that, he is my pride. He absolutely cannot come to any harm, so anyone who saved him is, in effect, a benefactor of mine, Jiang Yini."
"I apologize for meeting you this way, but I had no other option. Because of your disputes with the
"But rest assured, even though our Jiang Dynasty has promised the Jie Clan and the others that we would eliminate you, we will never actually move against you."
"This is a small token of my appreciation. Please do accept it." As she spoke, Jiang Yini tossed a Universe Bag toward Chu Feng, which landed neatly in his hand.
Immediately after, Jiang Yini turned to leave, but after just a few meters she stopped and looked back, smiling at Chu Feng and Ziling: "Miss Ziling is truly breathtakingly beautiful — she could easily be called the number one beauty on the
"Young Brother Chu Feng, when such an outstanding woman is willing to stay by your side, make sure you cherish her well."
"Wait — is your Jiang Dynasty truly not going to come after me? After all, those people served under your dynasty. I killed their disciples, which is essentially the same as moving against your people," Chu Feng quickly asked.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Yini's smile grew even more radiant. "That may be how you see it, but in the eyes of our Jiang Dynasty, only those of our own blood are our people. Everyone else will always be outsiders."
Having said that, Jiang Yini leaped into the air. Her golden dress billowed as she soared toward the distant horizon.
At that moment, Chu Feng could see that the Jiang Dynasty experts standing far off in the sky were also flying through the air, following after her. The people of the Jiang Dynasty had truly left.
"They made such a massive show just to come thank you?" Ziling stared at Chu Feng, still unable to believe it. But she had to admit that Chu Feng's decision to save Jiang Wushang back then had been the right one.
"If it were you in danger and someone saved you, I think I would do the same as she did — try every way to find that person and thank them."
Chu Feng smiled, then opened the Universe Bag. After doing so, his eyes lit up and his mouth fell open in astonishment. "Could this really be…?"
Seeing Chu Feng's shocked expression, Ziling quickly leaned over to look. And when she saw the snow-white flower less than an inch in diameter that Chu Feng had pulled from the Universe Bag, even she burst into excitement, exclaiming:
"It's a Heaven Medicine — a high-grade Heaven Medicine! These are incredibly precious and incredibly rare. It's said that on the Nine Provinces Continent, only the Jiang Dynasty can cultivate such Heaven Medicines. The medicinal power of a single high-grade Heaven Medicine is equivalent to a thousand Mystic Pearls."
"Really? So you're saying that Jiang Yini gifted me one million Mystic Pearls to thank me for saving her brother?" Hearing Ziling's words, Chu Feng was overjoyed, because the Universe Bag held a full one thousand high-grade Heaven Medicines.
"It certainly seems that way." Even though Ziling found it hard to believe, the reality before them spoke for itself.
Afterward, Chu Feng and Ziling returned to the cave where they had been resting. In the time that followed, no one from the Jiang Dynasty appeared again.
Chu Feng refined every last Heaven Medicine. He felt his Dantian fill considerably, but he was still far from a breakthrough.
Facing this result, Chu Feng truly felt like cursing out loud. He had already consumed over two million Mystic Pearls, yet he was still a long way from breaking through to the seventh level of Xuan Wu. By his estimate, he would need at least three million more Mystic Pearls before his cultivation could advance.
This was absolutely ridiculous. Five million Mystic Pearls in total — that was essentially the thousand-year savings of a top-tier sect on the Nine Provinces Continent. It would have been enough to cultivate generations of Heaven Martial realm experts. Yet for Chu Feng, it could only push him to the seventh level of Xuan Wu. If he calculated like this, breaking into the Heaven Martial realm was nothing short of a pipe dream.
Even the Jiang Dynasty probably didn't have enough cultivation resources to help Chu Feng reach the Heaven Martial realm, because that number would be astronomically terrifying. Just thinking about it gave him a headache.
Seeing Chu Feng so frustrated, the normally domineering Ziling suddenly became gentle and sweet. She said to him: "My grandfather told me that the more powerful a hereditary bloodline, the greater the cultivation resources needed to advance it, and the greater its future potential. So you should be happy, Chu Feng — this is actually a sign that your bloodline rank is exceptionally high. Your future may even surpass mine."
Chu Feng could only take Ziling's words as comfort. After all, her grandfather had read those claims in ancient texts, and there was no way to verify their truthfulness.
Besides, even if everything in those books was true, if Chu Feng couldn't amass those enormous cultivation resources, he would still hit a ceiling at a certain level. What good was boundless potential if he couldn't realize it?
And at times like these, Egg, who could always sense Chu Feng's shifting mood, would pop out and say: "What the hell are you worrying about? This world is huge, and cultivation resources are everywhere. Besides, who are you? You're a Spirit World Master!"
"Not just any Spirit World Master — you're a Spirit World Master who has formed a contract with this great queen. For a Spirit World Master, would cultivation resources ever be a problem? For a magnificent Spirit World Master, cultivation resources are practically inexhaustible."
"As soon as you break through to the seventh level of Xuan Wu and become a Blue-Robed Spirit World Master, this queen will teach you the Method of Finding Veins — how to locate the hidden cultivation treasures scattered throughout heaven and earth. I guarantee you'll never have to worry about cultivation resources again."
"My only concern is that by then, you'll be too dull-witted to reach a satisfactory level of cultivation, and all the extraordinary skills I've taught you will go to waste."