Your Majesty, Stop Eavesdropping! A Change in the Space

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Outside a treasury behind the Snake-People Tribe's temple, Lu Yuan thanked Queen Medusa.

In the end, the queen had agreed to his request and allowed him to come here and take a high-grade Spirit Storage.

"Just don't forget what you promised me." Queen Medusa's voice wavered slightly as she withdrew her presence. "I'm going to sleep. I'll recover faster that way. You may stay with the Snake-People Tribe for a while, or you may leave."

"All right," Lu Yuan replied.

The next moment, Queen Medusa's presence, which had previously emanated from his body, vanished completely.

"Commander Yue Mei, sorry for the trouble, but please lead the way and arrange a side hall where I can rest." Lu Yuan waved his guest elder's token.

"Yes, Lord Guest Elder." Yue Mei resented a human holding a higher position than her, but she could only obey.

Lu Yuan was escorted to a luxurious side hall. After looking around, he sat cross-legged on the bed, formed a hand seal, and entered a cultivation state.

After integrating forty percent of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's bloodline into his own and gaining some of the ancient magical beast's abilities, his talent had risen once again.

Even without his cheat, his own cultivation talent was probably no worse than that of Dou Di descendants with sixth-grade or even seventh-grade bloodlines.

"Recovered."

An hour later, Lu Yuan had returned to peak condition. He opened his eyes and took out the high-grade Spirit Storage.

The thumb-sized crystal glowed warmly in his palm. Inside it was the seed for opening up a space, and the source used to refine high-grade Storage Rings.

Lu Yuan knew how to use it, and formed a seal to begin.

But to his surprise, the instant his Dou Qi touched the high-grade Spirit Storage, the crystal burst apart. It turned into a mass of amber-colored power that surged into his eyes.

Immediately afterward, a wisp of consciousness separated off in a part of the Purifying Lotus Triple Flower Pupils' space.

"Hm?"

The strange change made Lu Yuan frown.

"What's going on? Isn't a high-grade Spirit Storage supposed to open up a small world in the dantian, where you can store a certain kind of extraordinary natural treasure?"

"I was going to try putting the Green Lotus Core Flame in it. If it had to consume the source flame to work, I'd get the Green Lotus Core Flame's lotus platform instead. It would be good to have somewhere to store poisons normally, too. What's going on?"

Lu Yuan sensed around, but for the moment, he found nothing different or unusual.

"I keep feeling like the Purifying Lotus Triple Flower Pupils' space has become much more substantial."

After a moment's thought, Lu Yuan took a bottle of pills out of his Storage Ring and tried putting it into his eye space.

"It actually worked!"

Looking at his empty hand, Lu Yuan's dark eyes lit up.

The eye space had originally been able to hold only other contracted magical beasts or soul bodies. It was a soul-type space.

Now, after merging with the high-grade Spirit Storage, a portion of it seemed to have become more real.

Things could be put inside without a contract.

"Opening up an independently existing space is a power only a Dou Sheng can master."

"Mine is an infinitely stripped-down version, but I'm only at the Nine-Star Dou Wang Peak."

Lu Yuan smiled. This was equivalent to having a high-grade Storage Ring inside his eye space.

From now on, he could store ordinary items that weren't particularly valuable in different Storage Rings, while putting all his valuables in the eye space.

"If one day I can go inside myself, that'll be a truly invincible eye technique."

Lu Yuan formed a hand seal and resumed cultivating.

The next morning, he returned to the central island where Queen Medusa had made her breakthrough. He tried putting an entire pool of Ice Spirit Cold Spring into his eye space, followed by the ice lotus seat, and finally the Green Lotus Core Flame.

"It really worked."

Lu Yuan rubbed his eyes. He had succeeded, but it had taken quite a bit of soul power.

He also sensed, however, that if his soul power became more abundant, the eye space would grow along with it.

"Hm?" Queen Medusa sensed the presence of a Heavenly Flame in her sleep and awoke. When she spotted the Green Lotus Core Flame not far away, surprise flashed in her eyes.

"Lu Yuan, the space in your eyes can actually hold a Heavenly Flame!?"

Back then, she had been a Nine-Star Peak Dou Emperor, yet she had still suffered serious injuries bringing this Heavenly Flame back.

Of course, that had also been because she had been in a world of lava, where the Heavenly Flame held the advantage of the terrain.

But Lu Yuan was only a Nine-Star Dou Wang.

"I was lucky enough to gain a new ability," Lu Yuan's voice rang out.

"Some luck." Queen Medusa was almost envious of the man's talent and fortune.

"Your Majesty, get some proper rest. Don't keep waking up at the slightest thing," Lu Yuan's voice rang out again. "I'm worried you'll pry into my privacy."

Queen Medusa narrowed her eyes. "What privacy do you have that's worth prying into? I would never stoop to such a thing."

"Who was it that eavesdropped when I was talking to Yun'er the other day, and found out about my inheritance?" Lu Yuan retorted.

Queen Medusa fell silent.

She had indeed eavesdropped, and had been quite interested.

Lu Yuan smiled faintly and did not press the attack. He formed wings from Dou Qi and left.

He went to the side-hall area and swaggered around with his guest elder's token.

He could also deliberately release Queen Medusa's presence from his eye space, letting others know that she was recuperating inside him.

"Yun'er, Elder Hai, let's go."

After lunch, Lu Yuan picked up Qing Lin and called Yun Yun and Hai Bodong to leave with him.

The three flew swiftly. It took them only a day and a half to cross the edge of the Tagor Desert and reach the Jia Ma Empire's Northeastern Province. A few hours later, they arrived at Salt City.

Salt City was the capital of the Jia Ma Empire's Northeastern Province. The Lu Clan's main family was located there, and the city was vast.

Lu Yuan and the other two flew in from high above without anyone noticing.

The Lu residence occupied an entire corner of the city, with courtyard upon courtyard.

When he arrived at the house where he lived, Lu Yuan released his soul power to sense his surroundings. His brow immediately furrowed.

"Let's go."

Lu Yuan led Yun Yun and Hai Bodong to the clan's council hall.

The doors of the council hall where the matter was being handled stood open, and the hall was filled with people.

As clan head, Lu Tong Xuan sat in the seat of honor, gripping the arms of his chair, his gaze icy.

Seated below him was a man who bore some resemblance to him, dressed in fine brocade robes and holding a cup of tea. He was a Lu Clan elder and Lu Yuan's eldest uncle in name, Lu Tong Zhou.

"Tong Xuan, it's been so many days. Have you made up your mind?" Lu Tong Zhou raised his head and looked at Lu Tong Xuan. "It's time to return the position of clan head to its rightful owner."

"Return it to its rightful owner?" Lu Tong Xuan sneered. "My dear elder brother, if I hadn't cared about our brotherly bond back then, you wouldn't even count as a member of the Lu Clan anymore. And you talk to me about returning it to its rightful owner?"

"Have you forgotten what you promised in front of Father that day?"

As he spoke, Lu Tong Xuan released a trace of his presence, making Lu Tong Zhou's breath catch.

But immediately afterward, an old man stepped out from behind Lu Tong Zhou and blocked Lu Tong Xuan's presence.

The pressure on Lu Tong Zhou eased, and he breathed a sigh of relief. "Lu Tong Xuan, breaking through to Dou Ling and even reaching a high level is certainly impressive. It was beyond my expectations," he said coldly.

"But high cultivation alone doesn't qualify someone to be clan head."

"I have the city lord's estate backing me, the Mittel Family backing me, and the Mo Clan backing me. What do you have to fight me with?"

"Speaking of which, the Mo Clan is willing to support me because your dear son knows how to pick women."

"Hand over that Xiao Yi Xian immediately. Give her to the Mo Clan's grand elder."

"Then the Mo Clan will give our Lu Clan even more benefits."

"Even if it's just for the Lu Clan's sake, you're the clan head. You ought to know what to do."