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"HAHA! Look at how fast the Emperor"s replies got here. It would have taken him days normally." the Princ.i.p.al laughed out.
"If you included Meng Yue"s name in your message, of course he would prioritized it. Back then, the young Emperor did something foolish and got beaten up badly by her." the Vice-Princ.i.p.al replied.
The princ.i.p.al chuckled as he recalled that tragic beating. After that incident happened, practically no one in their generation didn"t know of who Meng Yue were.
She was called as the Tyrant of Jiu!
Even w.a.n.g Guozhi and Ling Yu of the junior generation during that time had at least heard of this nickname before, thus they too nodded.
"Senior elder sister Meng Yue"s might was undisputable back then.. even at such a young age, she had already stepped into the Nascent soul realm level.. if only the Dark Sects did not attack the Empire, she would still be-"
Just before Ling Yu could finish her sentence, she was stopped by w.a.n.g Guozhi. When she turned to him, she saw the latter shaking his head, only then did she realized that she had mentioned a certain name that was considered as a taboo for the older generation.
Both the Princ.i.p.al and Vice-Princ.i.p.al went silent when they heard that name..
The Dark Sects..
That name made them recall some terrible memories of the past..
The Dark Sects was considered as the most blasphemous of existences in the whole Tian continent. Even the entirety of the Nine Empires jointly labelled them as dangerous criminals of ma.s.s murder and worshipper"s of the Satanic ritual.
They are small in numbers, but their individual prowess, especially their unique ability, could cause ma.s.s panic and severe damage to an Empire.
In other words, each member of the Dark Sects was considered to be at a national level threat!
"Let"s get changed. We can"t use these robes outside there or people would notice we left the academy." the Vice-Princ.i.p.al said to the Princ.i.p.al after suppressing the terrible memory back into the depths of their minds.
After all, each of them had a significant losses back then.
"Yeah.. wanna race of who could arrive there faster and slaughter that b.a.s.t.a.r.d whole?" the Princ.i.p.al said.
Hearing this, the Vice-Princ.i.p.al chuckled, "Oh? Let"s get going then."
After donning a pair of black robes, both the Princ.i.p.al and Vice-Princ.i.p.al bolted off into the sky as they headed to a certain direction in the North at a neck-breaking speed!
Psheww!!
...
At the moment, Duan Li had already crossed back into the border and was currently boarding the express Airtrain to return back to the capital city of Nine Lotuses.
"Arff! Arff!" Daelius playfully ran inside the train as it explored the entire carriage along with the sword.
Since it was already night time, there were virtually no people other than them boarding the train from the North station to the capital as it was a place close to the border. Therefore, Duan Li wasn"t worried for the cub and the sword to cause any sorts of trouble inside the Airtrain away from his supervision and let them play around.
"They sure got along well now.." Duan Li commented as he saw them going into the next carriage.
Well, Its time to cultivate the monster cores now!
Eventhough Daelius only managed to gather around 30 percent of the monster core drops during the previous battle, it was still a substantial amount nevertheless.
After all, the total amount of monster cores inside his spatial ring right now numbered more than 2,000!
Driving his consciousness inside his lower dantian, Duan Li appeared within the mysterious room that Dilong made.
"Eh Master! What"s up?" Zhulong said as he noticed Duan Li"s figure appearing beside them.
"Zhulong and Dilong, roughly how many more monster cores would it take for you two to evolve?" Duan Li straightly asked them.
Hearing this question, both Dilong and Zhulong became excited.
Could it be that Master had found some good monster cores for us to absorb?
"It should be around a thousand for us to evolve from this Fetus level to a Newborn level.. provided if the monster cores were of average quality." Dilong replied after thinking for a while.
"Oh? How many levels of evolution do you guys have?" Duan Li asked out of curiosity.
Both Zhulong and Dilong then explained to Duan Li regarding the various evolution stages for an Elemental Origin Spirit like them.
In total there were 6 evolution stages;
The first stage was the infancy stage - the Fetus level. At this level, they could only exist within the host and was very limited in terms of what bonuses they could provide to the host.
The next stage would be the Newborn level. This was the first step for them to be able to exist within the physical realm through materialization. At this stage, they could project a spectral body using their consciousness outside of the host. While their abilities to help the host would still be limited, they could already manipulate the surroundings to a certain degree according to their elemental attributes.
Then, the third stage was where they could finally materialize their own real physical body instead of just a spectral body. Their real abilities and potential would be unlocked at this stage which would vastly aid their host in any sorts of situation including melee fights. This stage was called as the Rookie level.
The fourth stage of evolution, was the Champion level. Their physical body sizes would start to grow exponentially, sometimes reaching for more than 10 times of their Rookie level body! At this stage, they could cause widespread mayhem if their host weren"t able to control them.
Then, was the Ultimate level. Only few have ever evolved to this fifth stage and their physical sizes would be even more colossal than before. Everywhere they went, there would be chaos and destruction. Battlefield would be levelled out entirely with their powerful area of attack and they could also already break free from their host at this stage if they wished.
And finally, the legendary mythical Mega level, the sixth stage of evolution that was only heard of in old tales to scare away children, was so far only achievable for the dragon species, or so as was told by Zhulong and Dilong right now.
Hearing all six stages of evolution along with their description, Duan Li could already imagine the kind of trouble these two would bring him when they matured, thus he swiftly said;
"If the two of you planned to cause problems for me in the future, I won"t let you two cultivate anymore monsters cores, do you hear that?" he said with a stern and strict tone as if a father reminding his children to not be naughty.
"Of course! Dilong would never do that, but Zhulong might!" Dilong answered as she wriggled her worm like body around.
"Hey! What do you mean by that! I"m not some violent creature! Please don"t listen to her Master.. its definitely not true.. " Zhulong nervously said as he pleaded to Duan Li while flapping his chicken like wings.
Duan Li chuckled when he heard them bickering like this, especially this Zhulong with his chicken-like appearance, which reminded him of Cucko.
This Zhulong and Cucko would definitely become best brother if they ever met!
"Alright, you two should better keep your words! I will cultivate the monster cores now for you two to absorb, so prepare yourselves!" Duan Li said.
"Hurrayy!! We can be a Newborn level soon!" they both broke out into cheers.
Retracting back his consciousness, with a single wave of his hand, the entire room was filled with monster cores to the brim as he started to cultivate them one by one.
...
Pshew!!
Up in the airs.p.a.ce above the Airtrain that Duan Li was currently boarding right now, were two figures bolting through the sky at an unbelievable speed.
"Seems like you"ve made some improvements in your strength for the past while." the Princ.i.p.al said, a little bit surprised.
"That is only natural. If it were not because of you who begged me to become the Vice-Princ.i.p.al, I would have long left you to the dust." the Vice-Princ.i.p.al replied as he increased his speed further.
Pshew!
They continued bolting through the night skies to soon pa.s.sed over the Grand Canyon and finally the border.
"It appears that the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh squad had not yet rested judging from those lights coming off from their main tents. They should be quite busy adjusting their new strategy for tomorrow.." the Princ.i.p.al remarked as they pa.s.sed over the campment areas.
"Indeed. But watch out now, since we are already outside of the Empire"s territory, we wouldn"t want anyone here to be able to identify who we are. Let"s not use any signature skill arts later on." the Vice-Princ.i.p.al said.
The Princ.i.p.al nodded in agreement. After all, even though the non-agression pact does not strictly mention that individuals of their level were forbidden to step out from the Empire, there were still many other scheming people out here that could twist facts to craft out an entirely different rumor!
Thankfully, since the Vice-Princ.i.p.al was an 8 Star Rank Strategist, he has a plethora of method and numerous networks of information that could counter such a rumor even if it was spread.
Furthermore, he knew where the scouts of the other empires around them were hiding within these wilds, so they were able to avoid those areas with no trouble at all.
The both of them were among the top notch existences within the Empire"s lineup, so their speed and overall ability were well-above the standard level of the normal Nascent Soul realm experts!
Thus, after an hour of bolting through the air from the academy non-stop, they finally reached their destination.
"Looking at these aftermath of destruction caused by Duan Li, they looked far more impressive in reality." the Princ.i.p.al said as he nodded in satisfaction.
As expected of the chosen one, even while still in the Foundation establishment realm, Duan Li was able to brought out a fighting prowess almost equal to the means of a Nascent Soul realm!
Impressive indeed!
They had only been able to peer through the situation by using the jade beacon before, thus they weren"t able to see the entire thing perfectly.
"Indeed.. let"s see now.. seems like the enemy has relocated their position 30 kilometers away from here.." the Vice-Princ.i.p.al said after sensing the environment using his Soul Sense.
Nodding to each other, they reigned in and retracted their aura as close as possible to their body.
Their objective this time was to eliminate the Alpha monster only, without disturbing the rest of the monsters.
After all, an Alpha monster would be too much of a task for the Subjugation squads tomorrow morning to handle when taking into consideration of the thousands of other monsters that they had to handle at the same time.
Thus, they went into stealth mode and slowly approach the monsters from a distance..
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