Chapter 174: Duan Li's student!

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'What is this Eternal Qi?' Duan Li thought inwardly.

Furthermore, the black cube that encassed this Eternal Qi was made up of something that even the Tetra Soul Sense could not decipher!

How mysterious!

"How do I use this thing?" Duan Li asked towards Fei Jin Fang.

The latter cupped his chin before answering, "Honestly, all these while, I've only kept it within my storage ring, and from time to time, it will radiate out some extremely thick spiritual Qi which I will then cultivate."

He then continued, "Although the interval between when it became active is extremely long, but once I absorb it, I was usually able to skip a few levels in my cultivation realm in an instant no matter what realm I was currently in!"

Duan Li was surprised to hear this. For every cultivation realm, increasing one's level would become more difficult the higher one's realm were, and the amount of spiritual Qi required to progress into another level was extremely demanding.

To think that this cube which housed the Eternal Qi within it would allow its user to skip levels no matter what cultivation realm they were in..

Isn't that too formidable?

One has to remember that, spiritual Qi absorbed into one's dantian would firstly formed Qi pools, and when these Qi pools becomes ten, it would transform into Qi balls. Then, when those Qi balls reached ten in total, they would turn into Qi Core. Next, when there are ten Qi Cores, they would form the Golden Core, and finally, when ten Golden Cores was formed, they would evolve into a Nascent Sea!

Duan Li clenched his hand tightly into a fist in agitation. If what the other party said was also applicable to someone like him with 3 dantians, he would be an immortal in no time at all!

However, looking at it realistically, since he was already in the pinnacle stage of Foundation establishment realm, that means that he has 30 Qi balls in total within his 3 dantians currently, which was equivalent to a level 3 Core formation cultivator to say the least!

Therefore, it was rather doubtful whether this Eternal Qi would be able to grant him the same kind of benefit like what Fei Jin Fang had experienced before.

Nevertheless, Duan Li was still thankful for such a valuable treasure being given to him as a gift.

"Is that so? Thank you for these gifts everyone." Duan Li bowed towards both the Emperor and Fei Jin Fang.

"Don't mention it, its useless in my current state anyway.. and just think of it as an advance payment for when you unlock my second dantian next time!" Fei Jin Fang gave Duan Li a grin.

"Ahh.." Duan Li's face turned blank, before casting a glance towards Liu Sheng Juan.

Noticing this, the other party harrumphed coldy, "Hmph! What are you looking at?"

If you think that I would give you something just because the both of them had given you their prized possessions, you won't be able to get anything from me!

Don't even dream about it!

"N-Nothing!" Duan Li shook his head quickly as his face turned red. He was hoping for the latter to give him something too, only to have his intention being spotted on by the other party.

"A-Anyway, I have to return to my residence court now, so until next time your majesty." Duan Li bowed before he left the main hall.

He was already exempted from kneeling before the Emperor before, as his standing as the Imperial Overseer was actually on par, if not a little bit higher than the Emperor himself. Thus was why Fei Jin Fang was fine with it.

Just as he was about to left the exit gate of the royal palace, a familiar figure approached and greeted him hurriedly with excited expression.

"Teacher! I've been promoted to the Imperial Doctor yesterday! This was all due to your guidance before! Thank you teacher!"

Oh?

It was Ju Zhianhu, the Chief Doctor from the royal palace that had acknowledged him as a teacher before.

He only remembered showing the other party some few stuff regarding medical arts from his perspectives, did that really helped him to be promoted?

"Congratulations on your promotions! You've worked hard I see. But how did you managed to do it? If I remembered it correctly, the last time I showed you something was back when we treated my follower Wang Xiolun from his lifelong trauma.." Duan Li turned around and asked, assuming the disposition of an expert by clasping both hands behind his back.

"Indeed, but to me, that was already so profound that I managed to understood a lot of things that I previously couldn't make sense of!" Ju Zhianhu replied, full of vigor.

Hearing this, Duan Li only nodded in satisfaction.

'It seems that, eventhough my method isn't exactly advance, but because the way I do things were very different, it had evolved his understanding regarding the way of medical arts..' Duan Li thought.

It was then that he remembered something really important, thus he quickly inquiried to this student of his;

"Now that you've become the Imperial Doctor, could you lend me more advance books regarding the subject? The more the better I guess.." Duan Li said, his intent was to find ways to perfect his theory on how to successfully guide others to cultivate their second dantian.

Ju Zhianhu chuckled, and waved his hand.

Huala!

Rows of books neatly stacked together were materialized right in front of Duan Li. Just from a single glance, Duan Li was able to estimate that the total should be around a few hundreds!

"This.. are you really allowed to take this much?" Duan Li was stumped to see such quantity, and couldn't help but to be suspicious of this student of his, afraid that in order to satisfy him, he looted all these books secretly.

Ju Zhianhu realized the suspicious stare from his teacher, thus he quickly answered, "O-Of course! I borrowed these books from the royal palace's library, and some of them were even the personal collection of his majesty! I was actually planning to borrow only one or two books from there because the procedure was extremely strict."

Stroking his beard, he then continued, "Therefore, I told them the real reason and that it was to lend it to you Teacher. But upon mentioning of your name, the next thing I knew, they let me borrow everything I want.."

Duan Li's brows shot up.

Ahh.. if that's that the case.. no wonder..

I practically owned everything in this Empire anyway..

My name must've been passed to the Emperor somehow, and this was why he was able to borrow all these books..

Well, this is so much more convenient then!

"I must say that it should be because of your increasing reputation Teacher. Recently, I've even heard of your exploits in the battle against the monster stampede a few days ago! This should make his majesty really impressed with you and thus grant you this benefit!" Ju Zhianhu said confidently.

When Duan Li heard this, he couldn't help but to chuckle slightly and nodded, "Perhaps that's truly the case.."

After a moment of catching up session between a teacher and a student, Duan Li bid his farewell and headed back to the academy. Not too long after that, he arrived at his residence court and summoned up all of his party members.

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"I'm sure that some of you already know about this, but I have went inside the Eternal maze before, and this time around, I'm planning to enter it again!" Duan Li said with confidence.

"Eh, you're planning to enter the Eternal maze?" his party looked at him with worried faces.

Duan Li nodded, "That's right. For me, there are so much things to discover inside the Eternal maze. Firstly, you would only be able to enter one region of it at a time, according to your cultivation level and realms. Secondly, there are treasures to seek.."

Duan Li began to brief them on what he knew about the Eternal Maze so far with excited look. As they listened to his story, they had also came to an agreement that there should be a lot of opportunities to encounter something good in such a mysterious place.

This left them wanting to enter the Eternal maze as well and explore along with their Lord. However, Duan Li rejected their idea.

"It's not that I look down on you guys, but even with my capabilities, I have only managed to survive by a hair's width in the end, and that's only the first region made specifically for Qi condensation realm!" Duan Li explained.

If the first region was already so dangerous, then the least could be said about the second region. If his intuition was right, the place should be several times more extreme than the last!

This was also the reason why he chose to store the spiritual Qi inside his spatial ring before, even at the cost of attracting the Heaven's Will committee themselves.

Because he was already half step away from the Core formation realm, he could step into it anytime he wanted with the spiritual Qi inside his spatial ring.

That was his trump card!

However, his followers did not have anything on them at the moment. Even if their whole aptitude was raised significantly after they tempered themselves with his blood, that would amount to almost nothing at all inside the Eternal maze.

"But I want to be stronger too!" Shen Murong gritted his teeth, and the same could be said about the rest of his followers.

This had Duan Li feeling extremely troubled and guilty, thus he pondered for a moment before coming up with an idea to appease them.

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