93: Only a tiny bit of reward. (Bonus chapter for Huahua Ya)
Emperors Son Palace, small courtyard.
"Eh—it's really nothing."
"These past two days, I was just rewarded with a tiny bit of cultivation, allowing me to Breakthrough to the Ninth Heaven."
"Plus one Ultimate Imperial Weapon, one half-immortal artifact, four Spirit Ascension Pills, three saint spirit pills, a portion of some undying secret medicine, and a remnant great emperor dao fruit, that's all. It's really nothing. Hmm, Great Grandfather, Second Great Grandfather, why are you all looking at me with those eyes?"
The Fourth Ancestor, who was the least composed, had a face that was usually fiery, but now it was filled with dullness.
He felt he had already seen great storms and waves, but at this moment, he even doubted if there was something wrong with his ears.
"Yuaner, you, you say that again?"
Jiang Zhan beside him nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.
That's right, that's right, that's exactly the feeling.
He had been shocked by his nephew several times already.
So, early this morning, when he received the voice transmission from Jiang Yuan, he guessed that he must have made gains yesterday.
Therefore, he couldn't wait and risked being beaten to return to the ancestral land.
He brought five Old Ancestors here to block the door.
Oh no, to hear the good news from Jiang Yuan as soon as possible.
It wasn't just the Fourth Ancestor and Jiang Zhan.
Even the First Ancestor Jiang Qidao, who had always been as calm as an ancient well, had his eyes that seemed to be able to pierce through eternity rippling with intense waves at this moment.
The entire Emperors Son Palace courtyard fell into an eerie silence.
Five great emperors, plus one unnamed Quasi-Emperor.
Five plus one supreme existences standing at the pinnacle of the Emperor Immortal Great World.
At this moment, they looked like country bumpkins who hadn't seen the world.
They stared straight at Jiang Yuan, their eyes full of expressions saying, "Are you kidding me?"
"Cough, cough."
Jiang Yuan felt a bit uncomfortable being stared at, so he cleared his throat and repeated it again.
"..."
"It really is just this, just a tiny bit. The System was a bit stingy, but the days are long, we can talk about it later."
"..."
"A... a tiny bit?"
The Fourth Ancestor's mouth twitched fiercely.
He felt that his Dao Heart was suffering an unprecedented impact, more stimulating than when he was fighting to the death with the ancient emperors of the Forbidden Zone back then.
He suddenly turned his head to look at his other brothers and lowered his voice, his tone as if he was afraid of disturbing something:
"Did you hear that? Ninth Heaven! When this kid came to see us last time, he seemed to be only at the 7th Heaven, right? Just... just slept twice?"
"To be precise, it was two naps." Jiang Yuan corrected from the side.
This is very important. Can sleeping once and sleeping twice be the same?
This is a qualitative difference, a difference in feeling.
"You kid, shut up first."
The Third Ancestor's hand stroking his beard froze in mid-air, muttering to himself:
"I remember, when I went from the 7th Heaven to the 9th Heaven back then, it took me a full ten years..."
"The point is not the cultivation," the Fifth Ancestor, who had been silent, finally spoke. His voice was slightly hoarse, his burning gaze fixed on Jiang Yuan. "Tell me more about the things at the back!"
Cultivation breaking through quickly, although outrageous, considering Jiang Yuan's Heaven-Defying sacred body, the Old Ancestors couldn't... well, actually it was still hard to accept, but barely understandable.
But the things that followed, every single one of them was enough to set off a bloody storm in the entire Emperor Immortal Great World!
"The Ultimate Imperial Weapon goes without saying, our Jiang Family is not short of those. What is that undying secret medicine?"
Jiang Yuan blinked:
"Oh, the System introduction says it's called the nine marvels undying herb, which can allow a great emperor to live for another lifetime."
"Pfft—"
The Fourth Ancestor couldn't catch his breath and almost choked himself to death.
"Allow a great emperor... to live for another lifetime?!"
The weight of this sentence was as heavy as the eternal blue sky!
Although the Lifespan of a great emperor is long, they are not immortal.
These old monsters who have sealed themselves from the distant era, every time they wake up, they are burning their already scarce Lifespan.
Why do those ancient emperors in the Life Forbidden Zone spare no cost to launch the Dark Turmoil?
Isn't it just to linger on, to live a few more years?
A divine medicine that can allow a great emperor to live for another lifetime!
This means the Jiang Family can have one more Peak great emperor, just like the Hengyu Great Emperor back then, running rampant in the future troubled times!
One Hengyu Great Emperor suppressed the Nine Great Life Forbidden Zones—oh, now it is eight—and they didn't dare to make a fart.
If there are two Peak great emperors who will be in their prime for the next hundreds of thousands to millions of years...
That deterrence... will be immeasurable!
"This item is too important, we must discuss who will take it!" The First Ancestor set the tone.
Jiang Yuan shrugged indifferently.
This thing was originally intended by him for the great emperors to use.
He is still young, his body is good, he doesn't need this thing at all.
"What else? What's the deal with that great emperor dao fruit?"
The First Ancestor's voice already carried a hint of urgency.
"This one."
Jiang Yuan scratched his head and took out a jade box with flowing radiance from the System space.
"The introduction says it is a divine object formed by the fusion of Dao insights and world Law after the fall of the Seven Emotions Great Emperor, but it is incomplete and the effect is discounted."
The moment the box was opened, a desolate, ancient, and grand Dao rhythm instantly permeated the air.
It was as if a supreme existence was expounding the ultimate mystery of the seven emotions and six desires in everyone's ears, making people involuntarily immerse themselves in it.
The eyes of the six people instantly became extremely solemn.
Among them, Jiang Zhan was the most deeply fascinated.
He had a crazy thought in his heart.
Want to eat, want to eat, want to eat, want to eat!
"Wake up."
The First Ancestor's voice was like the roaring of the Dao.
In an instant, Jiang Zhan was shocked awake, and then he felt a blur before his eyes, and he was thrown to the outside world.
"No sense of propriety."
He was confused at this moment. Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?
Oh, I was looking at the treasure Yuaner took out, and then... I was involuntarily addicted!
Terrible!
Just a little bit of a great emperor's Dao rhythm made him, a Quasi-Emperor Ninth Heaven, addicted.
But why is Yuaner completely fine?
Just when he was puzzled, an attendant came up and said cautiously:
"Family Head, the ground is cold, I have brought you a stool."
Jiang Zhan: "..."
"No sense of propriety, get out, get out, get out."
He patted his pants and left with a dark face.
Two attendants: "???"
Family Head, is your menopause twenty thousand years late?
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...
On the other side, the five great emperors who drove Jiang Zhan away were still circling the remnant great emperor dao fruit.
"Good stuff! This is definitely good stuff!"
The Third Ancestor was flushed with excitement. He was proficient in the three paths of alchemy, weapons, and formations, and could best understand the value of this dao fruit.
"How is this incomplete? This clearly retains more than 70% of the Dao insights of that Seven Emotions Great Emperor! If an ordinary Quasi-Emperor can refine it, not to mention a 100% chance to Attain the Dao, at least it can increase the chance of Alternative Dao Attainment by more than 30%!"
30%!
This is already a number that would make all Quasi-Emperors crazy!
You must know that throughout the ages, how many amazingly talented Quasi-Emperors, who exhausted their whole lives, were stuck at that last step and eventually turned into dry bones in the long river of time.
"Oh! Does that improve the strength of the five Old Ancestors?" Jiang Yuan asked curiously.
The five Old Ancestors were silent for a moment. Except for the Third Ancestor, everyone shook their heads.
"The third child Attained the Dao through external objects. The Dao of this Seven Emotions Great Emperor barely has the effect of drawing inferences about other cases for him, but the effect is not strong. Rather than wasting it on us, it is better to give it to another person."
"Who?" Jiang Yuan asked curiously.
"Your father, Hengyu."