"Brother Ling, are we really not going to go with them to earn contribution points?" Old Bai asked, somewhat puzzled.
"A month is plenty of time, what's the rush?" Lin Xiaoxiao said, pouting, before Ling Yi could speak.
"This herb garden secret realm has Demonic Beast at the fourth level of the Mortal Transcendence Realm and above. Those few good-for-nothings think they can earn contribution points? They're dreaming!" Lin Xiaoxiao said with a Taunt.
"You really think earning contribution points at the academy is so easy!"
"So, Teacher Cheng Yuan just painted a big pie in the sky for us?" Old Bai said.
"What else did you think? 100 guaranteed contribution points is already a lot, you want more? Pshaw!"
Old Bai took a big bite of the roasted meat, then fell silent, feeling frustrated.
"Of course, if this guy is willing to make a move, we should still be able to reap some rewards."
Lin Xiaoxiao pointed at Ling Yi and said.
Ling Yi didn't speak, but silently opened his system.
He has now saved up nearly eight small goals' worth of Low-Grade Spirit Stone, which is enough to upgrade the system.
The system is currently amplifying Blood Shadow's power by less than a hundredfold.
That won't do.
"You guys eat first, I'll work on something." After saying that, Ling Yi randomly found a room, went inside, and then closed the door.
"This guy definitely has a big secret on him," Lin Xiaoxiao snorted twice.
"By the way, what's Brother Ling's cultivation level? Can you tell?"
"At least at the Platform Realm level, otherwise where would such Divine Ability come from?"
"But I heard from my teacher that some Body Refining allow one to unleash Divine Ability even with a low cultivation level." Old Bai found it hard to believe that Ling Yi had reached the Spirit Platform Realm at less than twenty years old.
"Anyway, I can't figure him out. Oh well, whatever. This guy's always so secretive. I'm going to practice my sword."
After Lin Xiaoxiao finished speaking, she shouldered her greatsword, ran to the side, and began to vigorously swing it.
Liu Rui remained silent throughout. As Ling Yi's Blood Shadow, he naturally knew Ling Yi's current cultivation level.
He really wanted to say, and I'm not bragging, but with Ling Yi around, all those geniuses in the academy are trash.
Given time, Ling Yi will likely be able to establish his own new Asgard power.
Then the Nine Asgard will become the Ten Asgard, or... perhaps the Nine Asgard will become the One Asgard, directly unifying the Nine Palaces Realm— wouldn't that be better?
Around 3 PM, Xiu Rui, who was using his Spiritual Power to nurture the growth of the Gu worms, suddenly stood up, Perception the Changes in his own strength with a look of surprise.
He went from the Ten Thousand Gu Realm to the Tribulation Gu Realm in one step, and even reached the ninth level of the Tribulation Gu Realm. His strength was equivalent to the ninth level of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm of Spiritual Cultivation, and he also Perception the time limit for his Ascension in the dark.
Fortunately, the system conceals Blood Shadow's cultivation level. As long as he doesn't actively reveal his cultivation, just like Ling Yi, no one will notice.
As evening fell, Ling Yi walked out of the room looking dejected.
Damn it, eight small goals worth of Low-Grade Spirit Stone only leveled the system up to level 23.
This system is really greedy for money.
It costs 1.28 billion Spirit Stone to level up from level 23 to level 24.
No, how exactly did the system calculate that? It's 1.28 billion.
How many Spirit Stone would it take to level up the system to level 100?
Ling Yi felt that perhaps his Blood Shadow System would never have the chance to reach level 100 in this lifetime.
Unless, of course, I can plunder all the Spirit Stone in the Nine Palaces Realm myself, it seems like I could make a move.
Of course, level 23 already puts Ling Yi's strength at the Pinnacle of this world.
At level 15, the Blood Shadow Deployment and Coordinate Sharing functions no longer have the "limited to this realm" restriction.
In other words, Ling Yi and Ling Yi Blood Shadow can now travel freely between the Heavenly Origin Continent and the Nine Palaces Realm.
At level 20, the system added a new feature: Blood Shadow Realm.
This is a world that belongs exclusively to Blood Shadow.
The more Blood Shadow there are, the larger the Blood Shadow Realm becomes.
When Blood Shadow is taken into the Blood Shadow Realm, the speed of injury recovery increases by 100 times, the speed of cultivation increases by 100 times, and the comprehension increases by 100 times.
The appearance of the Blood Shadow Realm allowed Ling Yi to discover a function of the Blood Shadow that he had always overlooked.
That is to assist in cultivation.
Ling Yi's cultivation level is the sum of all the Blood Shadow' combined power, while Ling Yi's techniques, Divine Ability abilities, and skills are all Sharing from the Blood Shadow.
Furthermore, the Blood Shadow Sharing their techniques and Divine Ability.
What If...? all Blood Shadow were to cultivate the same technique simultaneously, it would be equivalent to all Blood Shadow Sharing the cultivation insights.
Similarly, if all the Blood Shadow cultivate at the same time, it's equivalent to all the Blood Shadow cultivating for Ling Yi at the same time.
What geniuses, what prodigies, whose cultivation speed can match Ling Yi's?
This further solidified Ling Yi's belief that the system was Ling Yi foundation, and that the number of Blood Shadow and the system level were the keys to improving Ling Yi strength.
Nothing else matters!
However, Ling Yi seemed to have discovered a problem.
I don't know if this is a bug after the system reset and update, or if this world, like the Heavenly Origin Continent, has a problem with the Ascension Passage.
His Blood Shadow could vaguely Perception the time of his Ascension, but he himself could not Perception it at all.
It seems that I didn't Perception the power of Ascension when I was on the Heavenly Origin Continent.
The Ascension Passage first appeared when the Thunder Demon Ape of the Blood Shadow Thunder Demon Ape Blood Shadow Cloud and Mist Mountain Range broke through to the Beyond-Boundary Realm, which led to the appearance of the Ascension Passage.
The second time was when Ling Yi Summon fifty Beyond-Boundary Level Blood Shadow, which caused the Ascension Passage to reappear and the Boundary Soldier to descend.
Prior to this, Ling Yi had not Perception any power of Ascension.
Ling Yi had previously thought that the Ascension Passage of the Heavenly Origin Continent was sealed by the Boundary Soldier, which was why he could not Perception the power of Ascension. Now it seems that this is not the case at all.
"So, from now on, only after Blood Shadow successfully Ascension can I use Blood Shadow's Ascension Passage to Ascension?"
"Or, by using the system's Coordinate Sharing function, I can sneak myself over there after Blood Shadow arrives in the new world?"
Ling Yi didn't understand at first.
But after talking with Liu Rui, Ling Yi instantly understood.
There's a reason the system does this.
If he, like Ying Yi, is unable to suppress the power of Ascension, it means that he, like Liu Rui, will have to Ascension to the upper realm after three months.
In this situation, how could he continue to upgrade the system, suppress his strength, and solidify his foundation within the Nine Palaces Realm?
Furthermore, now that Sharing coordinates are no longer limited by the world, what's the difference between Blood Shadow's Ascension and one's own Ascension?
Wherever the Blood Shadow appears, he can Teleportation there at any time.
Thinking of this, Ling Yi felt much better.
As for the Heavenly Origin Continent, Ling Yi Summon the Blood Shadow Thorn Poison Vine, the Blood Shadow Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquito, and the Blood Shadow Thunder Demon Ape, which had not appeared for a long time, to the Blood Shadow Realm.
The Blood Shadow Thorn Poison Vine has transformed into a slender woman dressed in Green Robe; she is large and imposing.
Among the three Blood Shadow Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquito, two transformed into petite girls dressed in grey robes and wielding scythes of Death God. However, their appearances ultimately deviated somewhat from normal human aesthetics.
Its eyes are slightly larger than normal human eyes, its skin and hair are dark reddish-brown, and its whole body is filled with a bloodthirsty and malevolent aura.
One of them transformed into a hunched, short, and wretched old man shrouded in Black Robe.
As for the Blood Shadow Thunder Demon Ape, its transformation into a burly man nearly two and a half meters tall was entirely expected.
Because of the imperfect rules in the Heavenly Origin Continent, Blood Shadow Guo Ming and others can completely Ignore the power of Ascension. Whether they want to Ascension to the upper realm or not is just a matter of a thought.
Ling Yi thought for a moment and then Summon all the Blood Shadow except for Mo Yumeng to Zhuge Feiyu's side.
Ling Yi only gave them one task: to collect Spirit Stone.
Sneaking into the village, avoiding gunfire, collecting a bunch of Spirit Stone, then Ascension to the upper realm and leaving.
Within the secret realm of the herb garden, when Bai Wujiang and his companions, exhausted and bearing some injuries, returned to the manor, their faces immediately darkened upon seeing Ling Yi and his three companions eating hot pot.
Bai Wujiang walked angrily to Ling Yi and the others, and kicked over Ling Yi's dining table.
"We're Combat Demonic Beast while you're leisurely enjoying delicious food! This is outrageous!" Bai Wujiang roared, clearly feeling resentful.
Ling Yi looked at him expressionlessly, his gaze indifferent, and said without emotion, "This morning, you were afraid we'd steal your contribution points, so you wouldn't let the four of us go kill the Demonic Beast, right?"
"I'll give you a chance. Apologize, clean up this place, and I'll pretend nothing ever happened."
"Oh! By the way, idiots like you usually don't understand human language unless you get a good beating, Little Rui!"
"Yes, Young Master!"
"Just don't kill him!"
Bai Wujiang was so angry he laughed. Just as he was about to say something, he saw countless golden specks of light fly out from Liu Rui's sleeves.
"Gu, Gu cultivator?" Bai Wujiang's expression changed drastically.
A Gu cultivator at the Ten Thousand Gu Realm? If you're so powerful, why didn't you say so earlier?
"I..."
Liu Rui snorted coldly and said, "I've wanted to teach you a lesson for a long time. You have no strength whatsoever, yet you dare to act tough in front of the Young Master. Your father is the city lord of White Moon City, right? I'd like to see if he dares to say anything after I kill you!"
" Ten Thousand Gu Devour the Body, Go!"
"Buzz!"
Countless golden Gu worms instantly swarmed towards Bai Wujiang.
Bai Wujiang was shocked and turned to run, but he was no match for the Gu worms.
Instantly, a piercing scream rang out.
Liu Rui certainly wouldn't actually kill him, but Bai Wujiang's fate wouldn't be much better either.
In the blink of an eye, Bai Wujiang was bitten and turned into a bloody mess, with not a single patch of good skin left on his body.
"This is a lesson for you. If it happens again, you'll be dead!"
Bai Wujiang was in excruciating pain, his face contorted with hatred and fear, but he dared not say anything more.
Stepping through the bloodstains, he silently walked to the side, took out Healing Pill from his storage ring, and put it in his mouth.
This pill was clearly a high-grade product; in just over ten minutes, Bai Wujiang's injuries were almost Qiqi healed.
"Your Gu worm's attack method is a bit disgusting. You shouldn't use it next time." Ling Yi gave Liu Rui a somewhat disdainful look.
This whole thing ruined everyone's original enthusiasm for the food.
Nothing happened that night, and the next morning, Ling Yi and the other three still did not leave the manor.
Bai Wujiang and his group didn't come back to court death. Early in the morning, they went to the East Valley entrance again to farm contribution points.
Meanwhile, at the entrance to the treasury of the White Moon City Lord's Mansion, the guards responsible for watching over the treasury were dumbfounded when they saw that the treasury was now completely empty.
Meanwhile, the treasuries of all the major families in White Moon City were robbed.
This incident quickly caused a huge sensation.
If it were just one or two households, that would be one thing, but there were more than a dozen that were robbed.
However, this was just the beginning.
The next day, more than a dozen more families were robbed.
On the third day, the treasure vault of the Asgard Academy was completely robbed, and at this point, some people could no longer sit still.