Sixth-Order Radiant Knight

Whale rubber actually had effects like these.

Most importantly, Jiang Li had found a way to take it after only just encountering and analyzing it.

"This has considerable benefits for both Soul Master and knight cultivation. You can collect more when you have time."

Feeling a considerable improvement in his strength and cultivation speed, Jiang Li was very satisfied.

"All right, I'll go back and have them collect it right away."

Learning that whale rubber had such impressive effects and could even help Jiang Li cultivate and strengthen his physique, Qian Renxue immediately hurried off like a gust of wind.

As for the immortal herbs, she only took those Jiang Li had no use for at the moment.

"Wait, why the rush...?"

Watching Qian Renxue leave just like that, Jiang Li was quite surprised.

Still, this worked out nicely. He could use this opportunity to deliver the immortal herbs prepared for his teacher and the others. After taking the immortal herbs and pills to break through, he would begin studying the herbs' properties and try refining pills with them as the main ingredients.

During his previous pill refinement, Jiang Li had already discovered that refining pills on the Holy Demon Continent drew spiritual power into them, bringing out the medicinal ingredients' effects more fully and even producing value far beyond that of the ingredients themselves.

Barring anything unexpected, this was caused by the difference in the two worlds' planes of existence.

The Douluo Continent's current plane of existence was far below the Holy Demon Continent's. In a certain sense, the Holy Demon Continent's level was equivalent to what the Douluo Continent would reach after devouring the Abyss Plane.

Thus, after being brought to the Holy Demon Continent, these medicinal ingredients would improve themselves more effectively. During pill refinement, they would not only be supplemented by this plane's laws but also incorporate a certain amount of spiritual power, allowing them to work more effectively.

After putting everything in order, Jiang Li even specially prepared several very expensive-looking boxes and placed the ten thousand year ginseng king and nine-grade purple ganoderma inside before heading to his teacher's and junior brother's quarters.

When giving gifts, naturally, he had to make their value clear to the recipients.

"This is..."

Just as he approached his teacher's quarters, Jiang Li noticed something unusual.

The spiritual power around his teacher's location was extremely dense, vaguely forming a small vortex.

The signs were obvious. His teacher was advancing.

He had been thinking of using the nine-grade purple ganoderma to help his teacher break through, but to his surprise, his teacher had reached the sixth order so quickly.

This was how hardworking, research-oriented geniuses truly came into their own.

Their talent might leave them trapped at a certain realm, unable to advance, but once they broke through its limitations, their progress would be astonishing.

It was not just Jiang Li. Soon, Hall Master Nalan Shu also arrived at the place where Ye Hua was in seclusion, evidently having sensed his breakthrough.

"That old fellow actually broke through before me."

At the sight, Nalan Shu could not help praising him, though his words carried a trace of sourness.

His talent far surpassed Ye Hua's, and their age difference also worked in his favor. Yet he was still a fifth-order knight, while Ye Hua had already broken through to the sixth order.

Most importantly, Ye Hua's talent was inferior to his.

"My teacher put in enough effort. This is the reward he deserves."

Jiang Li explained with a calm smile.

The effort was certainly there, and his teacher had undoubtedly put in far more than other Soul Masters of the same order.

But effort alone was not enough in this world.

Jiang Li had understood this clearly from the beginning, and that was precisely why he had come here.

"You really do defend your teacher no matter the circumstances, kid."

Hearing Jiang Li's words, Nalan Shu merely smiled calmly and said nothing more.

He believed Ye Hua could create miracles, but creating miracles was never so simple or so quick.

Without sufficient groundwork and accumulation, even if a miracle happened occasionally, it could neither be replicated nor sustained.

Ye Hua breaking through alone would have been one thing, but judging by Jiang Li's current spiritual power fluctuations, this boy was no longer merely at the fourth order.

After all, not long ago, he had still been a third-order peak knight.

With these two things happening together, effort could no longer explain it.

Under these circumstances, there were only two possibilities.

The first was that his old friend Ye Hua had made some new discovery in his research and found a way to improve talent.

But once Ye Hua succeeded at something like that, he would not hide it from him.

Then there was only the second possibility.

They had recently encountered a fortuitous opportunity.

Some time ago, the unusual phenomenon Ye Hua and the others had caused in the awakening chamber had been glossed over. But as someone capable of becoming a hall master, how could he have noticed nothing?

Now, this confirmed it all the more.

The reason he neither asked nor investigated was simple: the fewer people who knew about such things, the better.

Only then could Ye Hua and Jiang Li's safety be assured.

He had come here to prevent any accidents.

That way, he could help Ye Hua and the others eliminate risks in advance.

Has he noticed something?

Jiang Li also noticed Nalan Shu's unusual behavior. He had spent too long thinking.

Clearly, he had noticed something.

For now, however, Jiang Li paid it no heed.

As long as the other party would not harm them and was not an enemy, there was no problem for the moment.

Sure enough, I can't underestimate anyone in this world.

After noticing these clues, Jiang Li could not help sighing inwardly.

Just then, Long Haochen also arrived.

"Senior Brother, is Teacher about to break through?"

Seeing Jiang Li again, Long Haochen's face immediately filled with joy.

The Light Spirit-Nurturing Pill his senior brother had given him some time ago had not only replenished the depletion caused by signing the knight contract but also further increased his spiritual power, saving him several whole months of cultivation.

Now, he was not far from becoming a fifth-order knight.

His senior brother had given him all of this.

Even now, he wanted to find something to repay his senior brother with, but he had never found anything valuable enough.

"With Teacher's foundation, breaking through isn't difficult."

Facing Long Haochen, Jiang Li responded with a smile as well.

Then Long Haochen naturally walked to Jiang Li's side and waited quietly.

"Haoyue, try the specialty I prepared for you."

Seeing Long Haochen's mount, Haoyue, beside him, Jiang Li had a thought and took out the Soul Beast meat Qian Renxue had brought back from his Storage Soul Tool.

It was meat from a ten-thousand-year subdragon Soul Beast.

One reason he was getting close to Haoyue was that this fellow was the future God of Damnation. The other involved Reverse Summoning.

Once Haoyue's intelligence had developed sufficiently, he could ask him for pointers.

"Senior Brother, that's raw meat. Haoyue likes cooked food..."

Seeing Jiang Li take out raw meat, Long Haochen hurried to remind him. But before he could finish, he saw Haoyue actually approach his senior brother on his own, showing great interest in the meat.

Then he saw Haoyue's two heads tear madly into the meat. Most importantly, while Haoyue was eating it-

Through their blood pact, Long Haochen could sense that Haoyue's strength had actually increased a little.

Although that little increase was negligible, consuming it over a long period would bring Haoyue quite astonishing improvements.

Although he did not know what kind of meat this was, sensing Haoyue's happiness told him that it must be very valuable.

He did indeed want to obtain more from his senior brother. After all, Haoyue liked it.

But the problem was that he had already received good things from his senior brother many times.

Even now, he had yet to offer anything sufficiently substantial in return.

Should I share the inheritance with Senior Brother?

Long Haochen hesitated.

The only things he currently had that were worth offering were inside the Inheritance Ring his father had left him.

If they were his own, he would absolutely share them with his senior brother without hesitation.

But his father had told him before not to reveal them to outsiders lightly.

For a moment, Long Haochen was caught between two difficult choices.

Just then, a powerful aura of holy light shot straight into the sky.

Inside the room, Ye Hua successfully broke through to the realm of sixth-order knight.

At this realm, he was already one of humanity's mainstay powerhouses.