359: Chapter 359 Finally Breaking Through 50 Billion

It is precisely because the rewards for the Prodigy Tournament held every hundred years are extremely rich.

Major powers all want to Cultivate their own Prodigies to compete for these rewards.

Furthermore, having a Prodigy within one's own Sect or Family is also beneficial for recruiting Disciples or attracting experts.

Of course, to be qualified to Cultivate a Prodigy, one must at least be a first-rate power.

After all, without sufficient foundation and cultivation resources, even if one encounters a person with great talent, it is very difficult to Cultivate them into a Prodigy.

Take the Great Song Dynasty, for instance. In this generation, they are only cultivating three Prodigy candidates.

Is it that they don't want to Cultivate more? No. It is that they cannot afford to.

Currently, those three Prodigy candidates of the Great Song Dynasty are all undergoing bitter cultivation within a Secret Realm, not daring to slack off for even a moment.

They are doing so to shine at the July Domain Prodigy Tournament in three years and seize the qualification to participate in the Tianyu Heaven Prodigy Tournament.

Indeed, participating in the Tianyu Heaven Prodigy Tournament requires qualifications. Only by placing in the top ten of the July Domain Prodigy Tournament does one gain the qualification to participate in the Tianyu Heaven Prodigy Tournament.

As for the July Domain Prodigy Tournament, there are not many restrictions. As long as one is not over 500 years old, anyone can sign up to participate.

At the same time, both the July Domain Prodigy Tournament and the Tianyu Heaven Prodigy Tournament have already formed a massive profit-generating entity behind the scenes.

Every time a Prodigy Tournament begins, many people participate in gambling on it.

Time flew by. It was midnight again.

The new underling points for tonight were still 5.839 billion. The total amount of underling points consequently reached 44.892 billion.

Next was card-opening time. Following the old routine, he opened the good luck card first.

After obtaining five times good luck, Chen Hu opened all the other cards in one go, leaving only the intelligence card, treasure hunting card, connection card, and identity card.

It is worth mentioning that the night before last, Chen Hu used the enlightenment card to raise his Taixuan Dao Integration Technique to the ninth level of the Dao Integration Realm. The Tianhe Sword Technique also reached Perfection with the help of the enlightenment card.

He opened the connection card and obtained a D-grade connection. He chose not to use it.

He used the identity card. It was also an unimportant identity. He chose not to use it.

He opened the treasure hunting card and obtained a new Treasure Trove location.

He opened the intelligence card. Today's intelligence: "Your act of saving Xia Qianqian has made Nangong Yun extremely dissatisfied. She has already contacted her father, the head of the Nangong Family, to send Family experts to eliminate you."

Seeing this intelligence, Chen Hu couldn't help but furrow his brows slightly.

The fact that the Nangong Family could send two Dao Integration Realm experts to assassinate Xia Qianqian shows that the Nangong Family is not weak; they must be a first-rate Family, or perhaps even a top-tier Family.

If they were just a first-rate Family, there would be nothing much to say. But if they are a top-tier Family, dealing with them would be quite troublesome.

Afterwards, Chen Hu went to the Treasure Trove location to retrieve the treasure, then returned to his room to sleep.

It was another morning. Chen Hu had just finished breakfast with the ladies when someone came to knock on his door.

Chen Hu ordered someone to bring the person outside in.

The person who arrived was a woman in the Nascent Soul Realm. After she stated her identity, Chen Hu couldn't help but become a bit more enthusiastic: "May I ask, Fellow Daoist, what brings you here?"

"Immortal Master Chen, this Junior is Xu Xing. This is an auction invitation from my Myriad Beasts Pavilion. Ten days from now, my Myriad Beasts Pavilion will hold an auction in Jueqing City, and we hope you can attend!"

Chen Hu had heard of this before. The Myriad Beasts Pavilion does not sell Spirit Beasts above the Soul Transformation Realm directly; instead, they sell them through auctions.

In other words, the Myriad Beasts Pavilion was going to sell Spirit Beasts of the Soul Transformation Realm this time.

Thus, he accepted the invitation and smiled: "Very well, I will certainly attend when the time comes!"

"In that case, Immortal Master Chen, I still have to deliver invitations to other places, so I shall take my leave now!"

Chen Hu stood up to see her off. After seeing her off, Chen Hu flipped through the invitation to take a look.

He discovered that the Myriad Beasts Pavilion had actually noted on it that there would be 10 Soul Transformation Spirit Beasts and two Dao Integration Spirit Beasts up for auction this time.

"Damn, worthy of being a cross-domain power, to actually auction two Dao Integration Realm Spirit Beasts at once!" Chen Hu was still somewhat surprised.

Since entering the Great Cultivation World, Chen Hu had already learned quite a lot about the situation.

First of all, the Sect Masters and Family heads of top-tier powers are all held by experts in the Dao Integration Realm.

Furthermore, without the appearance of those in the Mahayana Realm, the Dao Integration Realm is already the top combat power in the cultivation world.

Chen Hu could anticipate that for those two Dao Integration Realm Spirit Beasts, the various powers would likely fight tooth and nail.

Afterwards, Chen Hu left the Immortal Mansion. He went to the entertainment venue again to watch the performances.

In fact, the performances inside the entertainment venue were quite spectacular. Especially the illusion performances, which were simply miraculous.

Unfortunately, Chen Hu's cultivation level was too high; he could see through those illusions at a glance.

Therefore, he was more interested in the singing and dancing instead.

Even in his previous life, with only a few thousand years of civilization, there were many types of dances. The Great Cultivation World, which has lasted for tens of millions of years of civilization, has even more varieties of dances.

Even if he watched one type a day, he could watch for decades, or even centuries.

In a flash, the morning passed. Chen Hu came to another restaurant to taste delicacies.

After tasting the delicacies, Chen Hu pondered where to go to have fun this afternoon. Suddenly, his gaze inadvertently swept over a tea stall by the street.

He activated the Eye of Insight. The woman's identity and cultivation information appeared in his mind.

"Interesting, it's actually a Ghost Cultivator!" Chen Hu thought to himself.

So-called Ghost Cultivators are actually those who have died and turned into ghosts before cultivating.

But in general, Ghost Cultivators are relatively rare. Those who are able to become ghosts basically all possess lingering grievances.

With grievances, they naturally want to harm people. Once a ghost harms someone, it will be eliminated by cultivators.

Therefore, it is very difficult for a ghost to achieve success in cultivation. Consequently, there are not many Ghost Cultivators in the cultivation world.

And this Ghost Cultivator that Chen Hu discovered was actually at the first level of the Dao Integration Realm. That made her even more rare.

However, the other party was a member of the Feiyu Guard. The Feiyu Guard is the Great Song Dynasty's strongest intelligence agency.

The other party had no malice towards him; she was likely sent by the Emperor of the Great Song to investigate him. Therefore, he couldn't be bothered to pay her any mind.

Watching Chen Hu leave, Ghost Lady frowned slightly and thought to herself: "Did that guy discover me?"

The report from her six subordinates last night made her very dissatisfied. Therefore, she planned to track Chen Hu herself today.

However, after tracking him for the whole morning, she had discovered nothing.

Chen Hu wandered around and came to a teahouse. He discovered that someone was telling stories inside this teahouse.

Thus, he went inside, requested a private room on the second floor, and ordered a pot of tea and several snacks.

Today, the storyteller was talking about the Prodigies from the previous July Domain Prodigy Tournament. Chen Hu listened with great interest.

When evening arrived, Chen Hu walked out of the teahouse and headed towards the Inner City. After dinner, he found that his wives were all undergoing bitter cultivation.

Chen Hu then summoned Dongfang Jun to accompany him in a game of chess. After a few games, Chen Hu asked: "Dongfang, are you returning to the Small World, or staying here?"

"I want to stay here!" Dongfang Jun said.

"Alright then!" Chen Hu summoned a Foundation Establishment slave and arranged a courtyard for Dongfang Jun to reside in.

Unknowingly, time reached midnight. Chen Hu's emotions were somewhat stirred. He brought up the System panel.

After seeing the underling points, a smile appeared on his face. Because the underling points had finally reached 50 billion. The total was 50.731 billion.

The next moment, Chen Hu entered the Small World. He prepared to make his Breakthrough within the Small World. "System, connect me to the Dao of Time!"