With your authority, your treasures, and your influence.
Yaoshi Yuan once again deeply felt the immense power contained in Dragon Locking True Person's words.
As long as she was willing, the entire country would revolve around her. Everyone would have to bow their heads, and any dream she had last night could become reality today. Even Li Long, the famed Ascending Dragon Hand of Zhou Kingdom whom she had once struggled to catch up with, had obediently handed her his most important relic.
But what rose within her at that moment was not joy or delight, but an unfathomable chill.
This was both a gift and a warning. Today, she could borrow Dragon Locking True Person's power to bully others, but someday, others could likewise borrow the power of a Foundation Establishment True Person to bully her. To Foundation Establishment cultivators, everything in the mortal world was merely a toy to be taken or discarded at will... Li Long was like this, and so was Yaoshi Yuan.
Only by ascending to Foundation Establishment could she become a true "person," qualified to speak to a Foundation Establishment cultivator as an equal, instead of becoming a gift that one Foundation Establishment cultivator gave to another.
Dragon Locking True Person had not even deliberately warned her. She had merely given Yaoshi Yuan power so vast that she could not bear it, and that alone was enough to make Yaoshi Yuan understand her own insignificance.
"Duke?" a palace attendant asked quietly. "Do you need more time to consider? These three Rare Treasure Relics can remain here for you to try, but only for three days at most. If you need longer, this servant will have to report it to Your Majesty..."
"No need." Yaoshi Yuan shook her head, quickly scanned the list of relics,