Journey to the Secret Realm, Falling Goose Empire!

Journey to the Secret Realm, Falling Goose Empire!

As for the Basic Formation Annotations Xiao Lin had bought, he had actually given it a rough look-over back at the Mittel Auction House. He just had not examined it closely.

This time, after returning to his own courtyard and spending some time with his son Xiao Zhan, he began reading the book in earnest.

Even taking his time, Xiao Lin finished the entire book in less than half an hour.

"It really lives up to its title, Basic Formation Annotations. There isn't even a single formation diagram in here. It only teaches you how to set up formations and gives some history. Isn't this a scam?

No wonder no one bid when the starting price was ten thousand gold coins. So it really is useless?

Does that mean I really became a sucker?"

After finishing the Basic Formation Annotations, Xiao Lin wore a thoroughly gloomy expression.

He had thought his protagonist's halo had flared up and allowed him to snag a bargain.

So now he could stick a little red ball on his nose and go work at a circus.

The Basic Formation Annotations only taught people how to set up formations and what to watch out for while doing so. There was no other useful information.

What use was that?

He did not even have a formation diagram right now. What was the damn point of knowing how to set up a formation?

In the end, Xiao Lin resentfully tossed the Basic Formation Annotations into a corner of his Storage Ring.

"I'll use it to prop up a table leg if I ever get the chance. Sure enough, bargains like this could never happen to me. I don't have the fate of a protagonist, yet I've caught the protagonist's disease. That describes me perfectly right now..."

Having gained practically nothing, Xiao Lin had now learned to mock himself.

Clearly, the matter of buying the Basic Formation Annotations had left Xiao Lin so frustrated he wanted to cough up blood.

Though ten thousand gold coins were little more than pocket change to the Xiao Household, the feeling of being scammed was still extremely unpleasant.

After giving up on researching the Basic Formation Annotations, Xiao Lin threw himself back into cultivation.

There were still three months until the journey to the secret realm, enough time for his strength to rise another level.

In the first year after the war between the Gama Empire and the Cloud Empire ended, Xiao Lin's concealed cultivation had risen from a Four-Star Dou Emperor to a Six-Star Dou Emperor, while his apparent cultivation had broken through from a Nine-Star Dou Spirit to a One-Star Battle King.

Another year later, both Nalan Jie and Mu Chen had broken through to the Battle King realm, while Xiao Lin's concealed cultivation had risen another star, reaching the Seven-Star Dou Emperor realm.

Moreover, Xiao Lin had already remained at the Seven-Star Dou Emperor realm for some time.

Thus, he decided to use the three months before the journey to the secret realm began to break through to the Eight-Star Dou Emperor realm!

As for his apparent cultivation, there was no need for it to break through for the time being.

Xiao Lin did this to make others believe that his talent was actually only about on par with Nalan Jie and Mu Chen.

In truth, ever since Xiao Lin awakened his Past-Life Wisdom, his cultivation talent had long since become incomparable to what it once was.

He could feel it every time he cultivated.

How should he put it?

Whenever Xiao Lin cultivated, it always felt as if both his past-life self and present-life self were cultivating at the same time!

Put plainly, it was the stacking of the cultivation talents from two lives.

That was why, after awakening his Past-Life Wisdom, Xiao Lin had spent just eight short years breaking through from a Four-Star Battle Spirit to his current Seven-Star Dou Emperor realm.

And that was with him having spent five of those years creating a cultivation technique.

It was clear that awakening his Past-Life Wisdom had not merely granted Xiao Lin a Heavenly Soul Realm. It had also made his cultivation talent sufficient to rival the geniuses of the younger generation among the eight ancient clans!

To Xiao Lin, this was absolutely an unexpected delight!

Still, time waited for no one.

Though there were still roughly thirty years before the original plot began, that amount of time was normally nowhere near enough for Xiao Lin to become one of the continent's peak experts.

Even whether he could become a Dou Saint was still uncertain.

That was why Xiao Lin's goal from the very beginning had been to cling to his grandson's thigh.

After all, Xiao Lin could not cultivate the Flame Mantra. No matter how outstanding his cultivation talent was, there was clearly no way he could contend with Hun Tiandi within a mere thirty-odd years.

One had to know that even Xiao Xuan, Hun Tiandi, and Gu Yuan, the three possessors of Divine-Grade Bloodlines, had spent over a hundred years to attain the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm.

Even if Xiao Lin's cultivation talent rivaled theirs, where would he find over a hundred years to grow?

So it was not that Xiao Lin wanted to cling to his grandson's thigh.

It was simply a necessity!

As a transmigrator himself, who would consider themselves inferior to anyone else?

If he had the chance, he too wanted to become the continent's strongest expert and become his grandson's support!

But reality stood before him, forcing him to compromise.

After all, if Hun Tiandi defeated Xiao Yan, then the Xiao Household would undoubtedly vanish directly into the dust of history.

Xiao Lin clearly remembered that the author of Battle Through the Heavens had personally admitted that whether Xiao Yan defeated Hun Tiandi or Hun Tiandi defeated Xiao Yan, the victor would become one of the three people who defeated the Heavenly Evil God in the Greater World.

Clearly, this proved that the future was not absolute. Hun Tiandi also had a chance to win.

What Xiao Lin needed to do now was turn Hun Tiandi's chance of victory into zero. That was all.

Time slowly passed as Xiao Lin cultivated.

In the end, Xiao Lin spent only around two months successfully breaking through to the Eight-Star Dou Emperor realm.

Then, during the remaining month, Xiao Lin consolidated his cultivation while teaching his son Xiao Zhan how to cultivate. Whenever he had time, he also gave guidance to the younger members of the Xiao Household.

And so, the day when the various forces of the Gama Empire were to gather finally arrived.

Rather than dragging his feet and playing the last-minute tricks some protagonists liked, Xiao Lin led ten Great Dou Masters and one Battle Spirit from the Xiao Household to gather outside the eastern gate of the Jia Ma Imperial Capital early.

After waiting for less than half an hour, the various forces had basically all arrived.

The other forces had made choices similar to the Xiao Household's, each bringing around ten clan members to explore the secret realm.

Only the four Dou Emperor forces brought somewhat more people. Each had around twenty or thirty people, with the weakest among them being Great Dou Masters, alongside Battle Spirits and Battle Kings!

After waiting another half hour, a massive group of roughly several hundred people set off.

The destination of their journey was an ungoverned region between the Gama Empire and the Falling Goose Empire.

No wonder the Falling Goose Empire had also discovered this secret realm.

Because everyone in the group was at least a Great Dou Master, it took them only a little over half a day to reach their destination.

However, when the people from the Gama Empire arrived, another group had already been waiting there.

And the other side also had several hundred people!

Clearly, these people came from the Falling Goose Empire.

Though there were also a few scattered groups nearby, if nothing unexpected happened, they were forces from the small nations that had attended the auction held by the Gama Empire's Mittel Family.

There were actually several hundred nations, large and small, throughout the Northwest Continent.

Nations like the Gama Empire, the Cloud Empire, and the Falling Goose Empire were considered medium-sized countries.

Below medium-sized countries were small nations.

These small nations generally survived by attaching themselves to medium-sized countries or first-rate empires.

Therefore, the large-scale auctions held by the Mittel Family would occasionally attract certain forces from those small nations.

Although the forces of these small nations were rather ordinary, they could still muddy the waters!

See? Apart from the Gama Empire and the Falling Goose Empire each dispatching several hundred people for this secret realm expedition, the combined forces from these small nations also numbered two or three hundred.

These people could fully play the role of troublemakers!

Compared to the already somewhat weaker Gama Empire, these troublemakers would clearly disgust the Falling Goose Empire even more!

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