The square-faced elder at their head was in an excellent mood. He waved a hand and said,
"Reporting to the Great Elder, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan has developed a Class 2 Soul Tool and has already begun demonstrating it at the various Soul Tool sales branches. It is several times more powerful than the previous Soul Tool."
As soon as he said that, all the elders present felt as though a basin of cold water had been dumped over them.
Their burning hopes were snuffed out at once.
No wonder the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had classified the Soul Tool as Class 1 when it first announced the sale.
There was an even more powerful Soul Tool.
The square-faced elder nearly ground his teeth to pieces.
He also felt as if he had been sent right back to the starting point overnight.
"Great Elder, what should we do now?"
The other elders were somewhat flustered as well. They all turned to the Great Elder and asked.
They had clearly come to regard the Great Elder as their mainstay.
After hesitating for a moment, the Great Elder practically forced the words out through his teeth.
"Keep buying! The empire's treasury has more than enough! As long as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan develops Soul Tools, we'll buy them and maintain the empire's strength at all times."
It was not just the Heaven Dou Imperial Family. All the other clans and sects had essentially made the same decision.
They had no choice. At a time like this, not buying them meant falling behind.
And once they fell behind, they would be beaten down on the continent in the future.
Before, the only measures of a sect's strength had been the number and level of its experts.
But now, Soul Tools had also become a crucial measure.
A Class 2 Soul Tool was already almost as powerful as a Soul Master at level twenty or thirty.
Who knew whether Soul Tools comparable to Soul Emperors, Soul Douluo, or even Titled Douluo might be developed in the future?
No one noticed that what had once been a transaction between willing buyers and sellers had become a binding relationship.
The immense wealth brought in by the Soul Tools allowed the members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to advance rapidly.
With more resources available to each person, as long as their talent was not a pile of crap, growing stronger was only a matter of time!
The earlier summation feedback for the Martial Soul category had also steadily strengthened Yu Tianheng's Martial Soul.
Just as the clan's development was in full swing, a new plan had already taken shape in Yu Tianheng's mind.
That evening, Yu Tianheng gathered all the shadow guards he had trained before.
These shadow guards had different Martial Souls and could be divided into ten squads in total.
Each squad had an exceptionally well-balanced lineup: Power Attack System, Control System, Auxiliary System, Agility Attack System, and Defense System.
Even if they were sent to the Soul Master Tournament now, they would undoubtedly achieve a fairly good ranking.
"Greetings, Young Clan Leader!"
The shadow guards spoke in unison and saluted Yu Tianheng.
In their hearts, they admired Yu Tianheng through and through.
Back at their Martial Soul Awakening, although the shadow guards all had fairly good Martial Souls, their Innate Soul Power had generally been only at level five or six.
In the vast Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, that was not considered outstanding at all.
On top of that, their Martial Souls were not inherited from the clan. In the past, they would never have received the clan's attention.
If Yu Tianheng had not selected them and given them sufficient resources to cultivate,
these people could never have reached this point.
Even if Yu Tianheng ordered them to go straight to their deaths, they would not hesitate in the slightest.
"I have an important task for you, but it's top secret. You must not tell anyone."
As soon as he finished speaking, the shadow guards immediately spoke up to declare their loyalty.
"Young Clan Leader, rest assured! We will complete the task!"
"Without the Young Clan Leader's training, I wouldn't be where I am today. My very life belongs to the Young Clan Leader!"
"..."
Their words rang out one after another, sounding more like an oath.
"It's not as serious as you think. The condition for completing this task is that all of you stay alive."
A great deal of resources had gone into training these shadow guards.
Losing even one of them would be immensely painful for Yu Tianheng.
As he spoke, Yu Tianheng pointed to a huge map hanging behind him.
Most of the cities in the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire were marked on it.
It could be considered a map of the entire Douluo Continent.
Yu Tianheng pointed to the regions beyond the continent and said,
"Your task is to explore these places. If I'm not mistaken, there should be other continents besides the Douluo Continent."
As a transmigrator, when the Sun Moon Continent collided with the Douluo Continent ten thousand years later, it changed the entire landscape of the Douluo Continent.
At present, even the Sun Moon Empire had probably not yet developed.
What he wanted was, before the rise of the Sun Moon Empire,
to make it the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's new home.
A mere Douluo Continent could not satisfy Yu Tianheng's needs.
Seeing that Yu Tianheng had assigned tasks to only half the shadow guards,
the other half grew anxious.
"Young Clan Leader, where are we going, then?"
"We definitely won't disgrace you, Young Clan Leader. Please let us go with them!"
"Please grant our request, Young Clan Leader!"
"..."
Hearing this, Yu Tianheng smiled and waved his hand.
"Don't worry. Your task is fundamentally the same: exploring the regions beyond the Douluo Continent. The world is vast and boundless; there can't be just this tiny continent. They'll go north and south, and you'll go east and west."
Aside from the Sun Moon Continent, what interested Yu Tianheng most was the location of the Dragon Clan Graveyard.
The place where the remains of fallen dragons lay.
However, Yu Tianheng himself was not quite sure where the Sun Moon Continent and the Dragon Clan Graveyard were at present.
To prevent the shadow guards from being unable to open the space containing the Dragon Clan Graveyard, Yu Tianheng even pricked his fingertip.
He left a few of them two drops of essence blood.
The pure bloodlines of the Water Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King should presumably be able to resonate with that space.
"Yes!"
Hearing that the Young Clan Leader was willing to entrust them with a task, the few of them were wild with joy.
As the shadow guards withdrew, Yu Tianheng did not forget to remind them once more.
"Remember, your goal is only to explore new continents. The two groups don't need to explore the same areas. No matter what happens, put your own safety first."
"Yes!"
After making arrangements for this important matter, Yu Tianheng threw himself back into cultivation.
He was a cultivation fanatic through and through.
Naturally, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling could not be as crazed as Yu Tianheng.
Aside from cultivating, they usually spent their time playing wherever they pleased.
In just a few days, the three women had become like sisters born of the same parents.
They were extraordinarily close!
There was no rift between them at all.
At Dugu Yan's suggestion, the three women had even settled their positions in the household.
Ning Rongrong was the principal consort, Dugu Yan the second consort, and Ye Lingling the third consort.
Aside from Ye Lingling blushing and being too embarrassed to speak when she heard the suggestion,
there were no objections whatsoever.
During this time, Ye Lingling also received a piece of good news from home.
A third child with the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul had appeared in the Ye Clan!