To raise a group of Tower-Climbing Realm Martial Immortals step by step...
Would take centuries, even millennia.
Great Tang could not afford to wait.
Neither did Jiang Yuechu have the time.
But this incense-fire path was different.
If...
Great Tang had hundreds of millions of subjects. If all that immense power of thought could be gathered together, how terrifying a force would it become?
As for the drastic loss of strength upon leaving one's sanctum, that was indeed a fatal weakness for anyone seeking to expand their territory.
But for Great Tang, which now needed only to hold its borders and recuperate...
What did it matter?!
At that thought...
Jiang Yuechu felt a blaze of excitement in her heart.
Most of the lingering frustration she had felt because those useless wretches of Five Immortals Mountain had failed to sate her hunger now dissipated.
She had killed a few old dogs, yet found a shortcut to making her nation strong.
That was no losing bargain.
The girl drew a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the thoughts surging through her heart.
"Then do you know how this Incense-and-Fire Golden Body is actually cultivated?"
Wang Ziyu froze.
His mouth fell open as he stared at Jiang Yuechu in utter disbelief.
"You... what are you planning? Don't tell me you want to..."
Has she gone mad?
This girl possesses the body of a True Dragon and such terrifying reserves. The Great Dao lies within her reach.
Why ruin her own future by cultivating the Incense-and-Fire Path?!
Jiang Yuechu offered no explanation.
Only the light in her eyes grew ever more fervent.
"I'm only asking you... do you know, or not?"
Her stare made Wang Ziyu's skin crawl.
He instinctively retreated half a step, avoiding that searing gaze.
After a moment's silence...
The boy sighed and