Nāgata: Infernal Night, Qinghan and I are True Love

Chapter 169 Breakthrough in Seclusion

A moment later, Huang Ling carried Yue Shan and slowly glided towards Muhua City.

Watching this scene from the air, Wuchen revealed a meaningful smile.

"You're quite the troublemaker, but everyone has ambition."

Wuchen revealed a smug look.

Snowflakes began to sing praises at just the right moment.

"Master is indeed incredibly insightful, but this kid is still somewhat wicked. I'm afraid I might raise a tiger that could cause me trouble!"

Wu Chen snorted coldly upon hearing this: "Raising a tiger to cause trouble? With his cultivation level, does he really think that taking over Leizhou and the Shen family will give him a foothold?"

Xue Mantian felt Wuchen's aura and was startled. He immediately realized he had misspoke and quickly continued to flatter him:

"It was a slip of the tongue by your disciple. Xu Tianyi is just a mere servant. Master will surely be able to manipulate him at will."

However, this man is quite capable. He resolved the Ning Hongye incident, then broke up Shen Miao and Hu Wei, and even bewitched Yue Shan. He's truly a troublesome individual.

Wu Chen laughed heartily: "He thought he was countering every move, but little did he know... hmph..."

Upon hearing Wuchen's sinister words, Xue Mantian immediately chimed in, "Little did he know he was still within Master's chessboard, hahaha..."

Wu Chen nodded smugly, his heart already swelling: "Once Yue Shan goes to Yuanzhou to establish his own faction, and then Hu Wei also establishes his own faction in Zhongzhou or Linzhou, the Crown Prince will die at his hands. What will Gu Qinghan do then?"

The Crown Prince has evidence that Ning Hongye killed Gu Feixue. What choice should Xu Tianyi make?

If Wei Qing were to forcefully betroth Tang Zhi to her at this moment, would Xu Tianyi save her or not?

The Ji family has sided with the Crown Prince. Ji Yingying wants revenge on the Ji family, but the Ji family has sided with the Crown Prince. Does Xu Tianyi have a choice?

Ji Canghai has sided with Xu Tianyi, but Cui Sanniang has sided with the Crown Prince. What will become of their relationship?

As for Shen Miao, what if Yue Shan wipes out the Shen family? What choice will Xu Tianyi make then?

How many geniuses have I stirred up with just Xu Tianyi and the Crown Prince?

Once they are all as carefree as Hu Wei, then it's time for their cultivation levels to receive a major boost, right?

Next, I will take them to Jukuzhou. I'm sure Wanxiang's days are numbered!

Hehehe..."

The sinister smile on his face wouldn't go away no matter what, and even Xue Mantian was afraid of it, so he could only keep agreeing with him.

Wuchen waved his whisk: "Alright, you just need to hold Zhongzhou and wait to see how things develop. I'm heading to Runzhou now. Contact Raven if anything comes up..."

Xue Mantian nodded hurriedly, "Yes! This disciple respectfully sees Master off!"

. . .

After a pillar of light reaching the sky, Wuchen was teleported away.

At this moment, Xu Tianyi is in seclusion in Wangchuan Town.

Realizing his own inadequacy, he made up his mind that he must break through to the Grandmaster realm.

Gu Qinghan and others were also transferred over to protect him, and they were also needed to maintain order on the front lines.

Xu Tianyi was meditating inside a tall building.

A grandmaster is required to have perfect essence, energy, and spirit.

The true energy stored in the jade pendant in his mind was now completely full.

Although his physical condition was somewhat poor, with Yin Ziping's healing pills, he could definitely give it a try.

As for the mental aspect, I've always had good willpower and have even grasped the essence of the concept, so I'm fully capable of giving it a try.

After going into seclusion, Xu Tianyi learned the breakthrough process for becoming a Grandmaster.

Xue Mantian broke through to the Grandmaster level because Wuchen helped him comprehend the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Subsequently, Wuchen used his body's spiritual roots to continuously flush the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into his body, enabling his body to generate a great deal of resonance with heaven and earth.

In this way, one can enhance one's spiritual root talent and control a large amount of spiritual energy in the surrounding world, thus possessing almost unlimited true energy.

In this way, one can be considered a grandmaster.

Simply put, a grandmaster like him doesn't possess a domain, but he has an extremely fast speed of absorbing and transforming spiritual energy, and his own spiritual root will also transform from a trash spiritual root into a top-grade spiritual root.

In other words, someone like Ning Hongye, who is inherently very talented, doesn't face much of a bottleneck in breaking through to the Grandmaster level. As long as there is sufficient spiritual energy and her physical condition is good enough, she can rapidly increase her cultivation level.

Xu Tianyi is different; he transforms his spiritual power into true qi by relying on the jade pendant, and also by relying on the demon core.

At this moment, he faced a choice.

If one wants to break through to the Grandmaster level, one cannot use the spiritual power of the jade pendant; one must rely on one's own spiritual energy to draw upon it.

Simply put, the cheat software can only help him to this extent.

After calming himself down, he blocked the external spiritual power injection.

Rely on yourself to begin sensing the surrounding spiritual energy.

Beside him, a large number of Yin-Yang and Five Elements spiritual objects were placed on the ground.

There were even some demon cores.

Logically speaking, such a fantastical world should have many demons, but for some reason, demon cores are extremely scarce.

Xu Tianyi guessed that they must have been killed to extinction.

He couldn't afford to be distracted at that moment; he focused entirely on comprehending the meaning.

Sure enough, the attributes of his spiritual roots were very clear: a superior-grade demonic spiritual root, a low-grade chaotic spiritual root, a low-grade fire spiritual root, and a mid-grade metal spiritual root.

There are also some very thin spiritual roots with extremely low conversion efficiency, which can be almost ignored.

He hadn't expected that he also had a fire spiritual root and a metal spiritual root. Does having multiple spiritual roots mean having multiple paths?

Before he could even reflect on his actions, a problem arose: he needed to perfect one of his spiritual roots, which meant he had to choose a particular spiritual root.

If you choose the demon spirit root, then you basically have to put the other spirit roots aside for the time being.

Currently, the demonic spiritual root is his strongest spiritual root, and he has always been using demonic energy.

But if I choose the demonic spirit root, how will I govern the human race?

If one chooses other spiritual roots instead of demonic spiritual roots, it will take longer and be more difficult to break through to the Grandmaster level.

After thinking it over for a long time, Xu Tianyi immediately had an answer in his heart.

I absolutely must cultivate the Chaos Spiritual Root!

Because all things want to transform from Yin-Yang spiritual roots to Chaos spiritual roots.

Yi, the strongest of the human race, also possessed a chaotic spiritual root.

It can be said that the Chaos Spiritual Root is a unique spiritual root of the human race. Everyone can cultivate Chaos True Qi, only differing in the grade of the spiritual root.

If a perfect Chaos Spiritual Root is 100 points, then I currently only have about 15 points.

Having reached this point, Xu Tianyi temporarily left the pass to explain some matters.

Gu Qinghan and the others were somewhat surprised to see him come out so quickly.

Xu Tianyi hugged her: "From now on, our family depends on you."

Gu Qinghan was a little puzzled: "What's wrong?"

Xu Tianyi smiled slightly: "You are the mistress of the house, so you have to take good care of our home. I'm going into seclusion for a month. During this month, you have to lead the sisters to do things well. Of course, you can come to me if you encounter any problems. I can answer them, but you can't move. You can also come to see me if you miss me."

Gu Qinghan smiled: "I thought you were in seclusion and shouldn't be disturbed..."

Xu Tianyi shook his head: "That's not true. Breaking through to the Grandmaster level is just a bit troublesome, requiring more time and resources."

When the time comes, call Ziping and Hongye over. I need Ziping's help anytime, and Hongye also needs treatment.

In short, I'm going to sit here and continuously practice the technique.

Gu Qinghan nodded silently after hearing this: "Don't worry, I'll handle it."

After explaining everything, Xu Tianyi began to circulate his cultivation technique.

During this time, he studied a large number of martial arts techniques, including the Shen family techniques, royal techniques, the Ice Heart Technique, the Flame Technique, the Netherworld Ghost Fire Technique, the Impermanence Life-Locking Technique, the Myriad Trees Reviving Technique, and other heroic techniques. In addition, there were some martial arts techniques from various major families that Yu Linglong gave him, as well as the Tongjiao Yin Yang Spirit Communication Technique.

With a vast amount of cultivation techniques accumulated in his mind, and possessing an exceptional memory and keen comprehension, he grasped them quickly.

Since the goal is to refine one's own chaotic spiritual root, it is natural to use the royal family's supreme Qi refining technique as the foundation and begin to improve the characteristics of the technique so that it can adapt to one's own body.

Xu Tianyi began to try it out gradually.

Not long after, Gu Qinghan entered and informed him of the outcome of the battle on the Yue Mountain side.

Hu Wei led Yue Shan to escape, and the entire Wuchang Division followed them.

Xu Tianyi felt a little annoyed, but when he heard that Ji Canghai had gone to search for him, he immediately asked Hei Wuchang to go and look for him as well.

I can't get away from this matter right now, so I can only ask Gu Qinghan to reassure everyone and tell them to wait patiently for the search results. The Yue Shan army can search the area east of Leizhou, near Zhongzhou.

The second issue was the casualties; over 6,000 of their 20,000 elite troops were lost, which shows that Hu Wei was indeed ruthless.

Manager Hu went to comfort them and distribute rewards and compensation.

It would take approximately 300,000 taels of silver, which is not difficult, since 1.2 million taels of silver have been seized.

Qin Xian surrendered, and Xu Tianyi ordered Manager Hu to gather 30,000 surrendered soldiers and have Qin Xian cooperate in retraining them. At the same time, he ordered Qin Xian to thoroughly inscribe the Valley God Sect tattoo and include it in the roster.

The third thing is that Leizhou is under its jurisdiction.

Liu Qingfeng began compiling and arranging the candidates for official positions, and they were sent to various counties to govern.

A total of one thousand outstanding officials were transferred to other counties and towns in Leizhou, while a large number of talented people were recruited locally to begin in-depth management.

As for the local gentry and powerful families, they await further action.

The fourth thing, the victory celebration banquet, will be postponed.

The fifth matter is that the Crown Prince's envoy personally requested Gu Qinghan to come to Yanzhou for a meeting.

Xu Tianyi refused the offer, and Gu Qinghan also stated that Xu Tianyi would not leave until he had completed his seclusion.

The sixth matter is that the Yanzhou Valley God Sect branch requests to be placed under Xu Tianyi's jurisdiction and join Xu Tianyi's Leizhou Valley God Sect. They are willing to offer five counties in Yanzhou as a sign of submission, but they are unwilling to submit to the Crown Prince, fearing that they will be purged by the Ji family of Yanzhou.

Xu Tianyi was also somewhat troubled by this matter, since he couldn't spare the time to deal with it.

They could only accept the other party's submission and demand that the other party lead a large number of people back to Leizhou and temporarily abandon Yanzhou.

Since the other party was unwilling to relinquish its territory, Xu Tianyi had no choice but to put the matter aside for the time being.

The seventh thing was that three days later, after Yue Shan returned and completely stabilized people's hearts, he requested that his wife, Huang Ling, follow Liu Qingfeng to learn how to govern county towns in the nine eastern counties of Leizhou.

When Xu Tianyi saw Yue Shan bring Huang Ling over, he acknowledged Huang Ling's intelligence and independence and agreed to let her observe and learn from him.

The eighth thing is that the King of Chu of Yuzhou gradually began to counterattack Yueshan. Yueshan requested to shrink his power, retaining only one county and giving up the rest.

The purpose was to make preparations first, and then destroy the King of Chu next year.

After a moment's thought, Xu Tianyi agreed.

. . . .

There were many other things that Xu Tianyi would take an hour out each day to deal with, even when he was in seclusion.

I also worry about how they will handle this.

This made him sigh.

If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight!

Want to lie down and enjoy yourself? That's impossible. Even emperors have a lot to do and still have to go to work.

A month passed in the blink of an eye.

Xu Tianyi has completely adjusted his cultivation method and has also begun to gradually cleanse his spiritual root.

The time came to August of the Wuji calendar, 1670.

My spiritual root has been refined from 15 to over 80.

The further you go, the more effort it takes.

All he wants now is for the entire power structure to calm down, giving him ample time to realize his ideals.

But on this day, Ji Yingying and Ning Hongye came to him.

Xu Tianyi was still cleansing his spiritual root when he saw the two of them, and he became somewhat curious.

"What about Qinghan?"

In the past, although Gu Qinghan wouldn't be with them every day, she would come to see him during work hours every day. But today, it was them who came.

Ji Yingying immediately spoke up.

"Are you going to pledge allegiance to the Crown Prince?"

Xu Tianyi was surprised by her question and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Ji Yingying was about to speak when Ning Hongye spoke first: "Qinghan left today to see the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince said that I killed Gu Feixue."

Upon hearing this, Xu Tianyi was speechless: "Qinghan should go and explain, it's alright, she'll explain it clearly."

Ning Hongye chuckled: "What if she believes it too? These past few days, the way she looks at me has been strange, and she's been spending a lot of time with her younger brother in private."

Xu Tianyi was surprised: 'Younger brother?'

Ning Hongye nodded: "The Crown Prince's son, fourteen years old, is said to be the son of the Crown Prince and the Sun Goddess of Twilight Valley."

Xu Tianyi's eyes sharpened, and he stroked his chin, beginning to ponder.

"What are you thinking! Now the Crown Prince wants Gu Qinghan to hand over the entire Leizhou, especially the army!" Ji Yingying said unhappily.

Xu Tianyi's heart skipped a beat: "How could that be? Qinghan won't agree!"

Ji Yingying snorted coldly: "The Crown Prince is her biological father, who knows? Now, I'll only ask you one question: are you going to side with the Crown Prince?"

Xu Tianyi immediately shook his head: "What would I pledge allegiance to! Don't you understand what I'm going to do? Even if I support Qinghan to ascend the throne, I would never pledge allegiance to the Crown Prince. At most, I would sideline him and use the emperor to command the princes."

Ji Yingying shook her head: "The Crown Prince will not listen to you. He is the royal family of the Wuji Empire. I dare not say much about Sister Qinghan's thoughts, but she values ​​family very much."

Finally, you know about the Ji family's alliance with the Crown Prince. You promised my brother and me that you would help me get justice.

During this time, you went into seclusion, and I didn't say anything. I was just your slave, and I had no right to ask you anything.

But now, I really want an answer.

She looked at Xu Tianyi with a determined gaze.

Xu Tianyi looked at her somewhat indifferent yet stubborn face, then turned to look at Ning Hongye, who was equally annoyed.

He smiled and immediately spoke: "..."