Liu Bai and Jiu You Palace's actions had clearly caught the other factions off guard.
In Blood Eagle King and the others' imagination, even if Jiu You wanted to reclaim her lost territory, she would surely wait until after the Great Luo Golden Pool. After all, if she truly had confidence in Liu Bai, then as long as they fought this first battle of her return well, Jiu You Palace's momentum would rise considerably. Reclaiming those cities afterward would require far less effort.
Jiu You had indeed done so in the original story, but this time, the person she had brought back was not Mu Chen, but Liu Bai.
Though he had only just condensed his own Dharma Body, that was already enough for Liu Bai. With a Supreme Dharma Body, he was now a genuine First Grade Supreme. In that case, the several million Experience Points in his possession finally had a use.
He directly spent two million Experience Points, raising his cultivation to the realm of a Second Grade Supreme.
Moreover, Liu Bai discovered that his cultivation did not advance bit by bit through the early and middle stages of the Second Grade Supreme. Instead, it had directly reached the late stage of the Second Grade Supreme. His next advancement would take him straight to Third Grade Supreme...
Of course, the prerequisite for such leaps in cultivation was Experience Points—huge quantities of Experience Points!
Advancing to Second Grade required two million Experience Points, while Third Grade required three million. By the time he advanced to Earthly Sovereign, it would take ten million Experience Points... To the current Liu Bai, that number was astronomical.
Furthermore, due to the system's restrictions, the higher his cultivation became, the stronger the enemies he had to kill. It was manageable while he was