Breaking the Rules

Lu Zhen smiled. What he lacked most right now was time and resources.

Li Zonghan had a sharp eye. He had truly read Lu Zhen well.

"Alright."

Lu Zhen picked up the jade slip on the table, read through it, and left his mark.

"I'll take you as a friend."

The smile on Li Zonghan's face deepened.

He pushed over a dark-gold crystal card and a black access token.

"These are this month's Mystic Coins and the pressure chamber's authorization token."

"Young Friend Lu, the Great Wilderness is a long way off." Li Zonghan clasped his hands. "I look forward to the day you soar from the abyss like a true dragon."

Before long, several attendants dressed in Li Family shop uniforms came to record Lu Zhen's Afterimage.

"Young Master Lu, yes, raise the sword a little higher."

"Make your gaze sharper! Let it show the killing aura of someone who slew a Martial Saint against all odds!"

The lead manager held a palm-sized Afterimage formation disk. Its formation light flickered as it continuously recorded Lu Zhen's bearing.

Holding his sword, Lu Zhen changed several poses in succession as they instructed.

"Excellent! Perfect!" The manager beamed. "With Young Master Lu's bearing and our Li Family's spirit-gathering formation disks, they'll definitely sell out!"

Lu Zhen sheathed his sword and nodded slightly.

Business in the Great Wilderness really is thriving, Lu Zhen thought.

They had even mastered tricks like the "advertising endorsements" from his past life, going so far as to use artifacts like Afterimage formation disks.

After sending off the Li Family people, Lu Zhen headed straight for the Primordial Pressure Chamber deep within the academy.

It was a tower built entirely from dark-blue boulders.

Two stewards stood guard outside the tower.

Lu Zhen stepped forward, took out the black