Qin Shaofeng paid little attention to the Martial Kings and Martial Emperors who appeared near the Elegant Villa.
Instead, quite a few pieces of good news had come from the Elegant Villa during this time, lifting his spirits.
The first was that Old Scorpion had finally entered the Martial Emperor Realm with the help of the Ninefold Spirit Pills.
Qin Shaofeng was pleased.
Mm, I finally have a Martial Emperor subordinate.
Still, Qin Shaofeng felt that was not enough. He gave Old Scorpion plenty of Three-Star Ninefold Spirit Pills and had him continue cultivating and making breakthroughs.
The Nine Spirit Palace had changed.
After his cultivation reached the Martial Emperor Realm, Qin Shaofeng could employ quite a few methods. Using some of them, he set up several special formations in the Nine Spirit Palace.
These were all illusion formations. After Old Scorpion and the others broke through, they could enter the formations and fight opponents conjured within the illusions.
These illusion formations targeted the soul directly and were extremely high-level. Had Qin Shaofeng not possessed considerable skill in formations, and had Old Scorpion and the others not still been relatively weak, he would never have been able to set them up.
Even after successfully setting them up, Qin Shaofeng paid a considerable price: another large amount of spiritual energy was drained from the Nine Spirit Palace.
Now, the Nine Spirit Palace had hardly any spiritual energy left to speak of.
Otherwise, Qin Shaofeng would not have gone to such lengths to trade with Wang Feiran for high-grade spiritual herbs.
Still, paying that price brought substantial rewards.
Take Old Scorpion, for example. Although he was only a first-level Martial Emperor, after tempering himself in the illusion formations, he could kill a Martial Emperor like Gao Yangfeng within three moves.
Even against