I Can Reap Qi Fortune from Players-Chapter 628 - 115: Surging Undercurrents

Xirong Academy suddenly awakened two representatives, one fully and one partially, and this academic leader published an "academic paper," immediately shaking the Human Race across the Nine-State.

At such a clever time point, it was just five days before the rebellious Sea Race ascended the throne, which in everyone's eyes, was imbued with certain political significance.

Now, the trends among various Human Race forces are all heading towards "political involvement" with the Sea Race. Could it be Xirong wants a share of the spoils too?

Various forces from the Nine-State and the Four Seas are exploring the issue.

"Indeed, as the Nine-State's academic leader, this is the era of scholars, and his move makes an impact much stronger than the present Saint's."

"Tut-tut, the Saint is about to be overshadowed."

"Isn't this the servant overpowering the master? Eunuchs ruling and overshadowing the royal family... Such immense reputation, how can this be tolerated?"

"Exactly, the mere academic leader of the Human Race... actually threatening the royal family, if this isn't removed..."

The winds and waves grow strong, inevitably attracting criticism.

Some ill-intentioned forces are making moves, constantly creating public opinion, provoking the relationship between "Xin Xichen" and "Xi Rong."

The two were once inseparable collaborators, even Xi Rong had assisted Xin Xichen before he ascended... having the merit of assisting the Dragon.

But now, they might not necessarily remain allies.

Throughout the history of emperors ascending, there have been many cases of removing allies post-establishment, eliminating founding ministers, those who helped them ascend, sanctuaries...

To prevent them from growing stronger and influencing royal authority.

The era of Jiu Shui marked a rare dynasty where founding ministers were not killed, and the King of Nine States' enfeoffment was almost entirely autonomous.

The territories managed by the Saint himself were even less than any continent.

The Saint ruled the map of the celestial Tenth Continent Nursery, but back then everyone knew this Tenth Continent in name only, filled with tombs, hard to control... He did so, equivalent to the Emperor guarding the national gate, leaving the hardest continent for himself.

Yet the King of Nine States did not betray the Saint's expectations, did not rebel against the royal family, fully aided in building the Earth Vein, Communication Token, Teleportation Array, together creating a prosperous scholarly dynasty.

Putting aside these court politics, some serious scholarly discussions were quite emotional:

"Previously, it was the embers' split and fusion technology... Now, it's the embers awakening technology. They, Xi Rong, are leading the era too much in this field of embers domain."

"Maybe, this century-long seclusion was all for researching this embers awakening technology."

"Perhaps!"

...

The forces lurking in Xirong Academy began to act, began to study dizzy's awakening situation.

And based on current situations, conducted personality analyses on dizzy, explored data across various aspects.

Never underestimate the level of Immortal Artifacts in the new era, under various secret Divine Techniques, dizzy's data files quickly entered the sight of major powerhouses!

Previously, the Pseudo-Ghost King created by the Jiu Shui royal family, after awakening, still retained some ghost defects, going berserk.

But now through testing, repeatedly using colors, sounds... probing, trying to trigger dizzy's killing conditions, yet he did not have the Pseudo-Ghost King's berserk or killing conditions.

However.

His combat power is weaker than the Ghost King of the same tier.

Initial conclusion is:

More advanced than the Jiu Shui royal family's Pseudo-Ghost King technology, but weaker than naturally occurring Ghost Kings.

However, this is also expected.

Artificially awakened Ghost Kings ultimately have defects.

But just this technology is already quite good... Not having the targeted ghost weaknesses, what does the combat power weakness matter?

The high-levels across the Nine-State discussed again:

"This is a preliminary judgment."

"Indeed, the personal value of dizzy is very low, he was just a weak scholar in life... after revival, he is still a weak scholar, a blank canvas, whether he inherits the cultivation technique, divine techniques, knowledge, personality from his previous life, these can't be explored."

...

The template of dizzy cannot provide too much information.

If high-tier powerhouses were to use this technology to awaken a Ghost King, would there be other characteristics?

We can only say dizzy is an exception.

Some even speculate this is merely a signal... The awakening of the Xirong Manor Master is the real core of studying this technology's strength.

Waiting to see if that one revives, when the time comes, the truth will be revealed.

...

"This Nine-State is indeed lively!" Li Youzhu exclaimed.

On the island, the sea wind blows.

Since the Blood Separation Flower family encountered accidents, the Hidden Vein completely activated, once again branching out here.

Previously there were living members of the Blood Separation Flower family in the Hidden Vein.

But all that remained were scarecrows with human heads, now restarting the Hidden Vein for revival... some young Blood Separation Flowers have already emerged.

After all, a century has passed, enough for the younger generation to mature.

The three major ancestral graves are still nurturing young people... Even in this century, due to aligning with the Dragon Race, their Blood Separation Flowers have completely advanced, become Upper Grade Blood Separation Flowers.

The young generation cultivated with Upper Grade Spiritual Roots prodigies has already reached the Four Viscera Realm standard.

One could say after a century, they have entirely re-established their own lives.

At this moment.

Outside, members of the Blood Separation Flower family come and go, while in the Paper House of the Meat Field sister, the Puffy-Eyes trio are bragging.

"Just a pseudo-awakening, the world sighs in relief... but that's merely what we let the world see." Puffy Eyes said lightly.

Swollen Eyes remarked, "You know better than us what we are hiding, our dizzy is alive! Just splitting out an ember awakening into Ghost King!"

The Meat Field sister and others were even more shocked, knowing the truth.

The other party is alive, with living embers now able to awaken?

They recalled what the other side said:

"Going to Ximen to recruit the old troops, embers will slay Yama ten thousand-fold!"

The first awakened Ghost King old troop has already appeared.

But what if in the future, living dizzy continues to split out his embers, one after another of artificially awakened embers, ultimately leading ten thousand awakening dizzy Ghost Kings, how earth-shattering would that be?

Of course, they don't believe there would be ten thousand Ghost Kings that exaggerated.

But if another one or two dizzy Ghost Kings were created, their Ghost King clones... having a few would already be very strong, capable of taking hold of a region.

The most crucial thing is, I'm still alive!

My Ghost King clone can devour ghosts to grow; given time, it's guaranteed to become a powerhouse at the One Heart Realm.

"No wonder you are quite the lord of Puffy Eyes," Meat Field Lady praised.

"Not too bad," Puffy Eyes nodded.

"No wonder you are indeed the lord of Swollen Eyes," Adoptive Father Ancestor Qi also said.

"Not bad, not bad."

The Puffy Eyes trio was delighted.

Adoptive Father Ancestor Qi, Meat Field Lady, now truly embodying the saying: cunning ones are heroes.

No wonder they hail from Demon Cultivator backgrounds, able to bend and adapt.

But it's quite normal.

The world wants to curry favor with us Xirong Divine Craftsman, queueing from Xinyi Continent to Rose Continent!

At this moment, Puffy Eyes was secretly thrilled.

Back in the day, they crazily flattered the Adoptive Father, seeking to recognize him as their father, and now, finally, the tables have turned.

He felt like his cowardly Heart Demon was shattered!

Goodbye, Father, and my cowardice!

Isn't this the thrill for players, seeing an NPC and frantically calling them Dad, then defeating monsters, leveling up, finally standing tall, and then seeing NPCs as Little Qi.

Though it seemed a bit too unscrupulous.

Puffy Eyes quietly reflected, wondering if he's turned into the heartless type of web-novel protagonist.

That won't do.

We value loyalty most.

So, Puffy Eyes casually said, "Don't worry, we'll help you develop the Blood Separation Flower family, build island developments, hunt and fish. We certainly can thrive, and we'll definitely make the most of your talent for robbery."

Clearly, this is the right way to play.

We've opened the Blood Separation Flower Secret Realm management dungeon, and we are the bosses here, responsible for management.

Over there, secret realms are all deserted with dead people; mine here has living people and it's survival on an island, wilderness survival.

Nearby, it's said there are races like seagulls and guillemots, specializing in fishing!

No wonder the Sea Race prefers building cities underwater because near the sea surface, common folk of the Sea Race face predators and can't escape.

"The new map, follow my lead."

The Puffy Eyes trio felt the unfolding of the new map.

...

Xirong Academy.

Unlike the noise outside, the academy is rather quiet.

At this moment, in the residence of the Sword Fairy, the swirling focus of Nine-State fame, there's a unique atmosphere inside.

External forces are all boisterous, definitely couldn't imagine the Sword Fairy here observing her new map.

[Viewer's Perspective], 2000 blacksmiths were crazily watching.

[Wow, a new perspective is finally open.]

[Looks great, nice aesthetics.]

[We're back.]

[I announce, Ximen City is our sacred inviolable territory.]

...

They commented on the Sword Fairy's residence, the splendid palace, murals, various thoughtful little Immortal Artifact buildings, lighting, switches.

The perspective can only be mounted on players, unable to switch to the Ember baby NPC's side.

But now.

Sword Fairy, Dizzy, both are logged-in live players.

So, a group of curious blacksmiths raced to watch the view here.

Sword Fairy and others gladly led them to tour for an entire morning.

This Xirong Academy is indeed enormous, packed with students.

"Hello, Principal."

"Hello, Dean."

"Hello, Lord."

...

Upon meeting the Medical Fairy, everyone respectfully greeted her, giving a delightful feeling.

The sworn rival constantly exchanging banter with the Medical Fairy, the Five-Star General Shao Chaikun remarked, "Feels like this is Sword Fairy's harem, with thousands of handsome Saint Child male models."

This made Shao Chaikun envious.

Curse it!

In this era, seasoned players are dispatched outside, claiming lands, becoming dungeon bosses, while I'm still stuck here?

This academy, claimed to be the second of Nine-State Human Race, has solely relied on Sword Fairy and Dizzy's management all these years, ranking second just based on reputation.

The first academy is the Capital's Xin Family Royal Academy.

After a tour, Sword Fairy started handling serious businesses, commanded some academy confidants, furiously stirring the "Xirong Resurrection Technique" debate, even igniting the public discourse.

Increasing the buzz, operating effectively!

Reputation boost!

Reputation boost!

After the busywork, Sword Fairy and Dizzy began discussing future plans.

"Those guys said they want to come over here too, what's your take?" Sword Fairy scratched her head.

"Why come here? There's no Great Power possession; to be regarded as little chickens?" Dizzy was speechless, "They seek dominance here? I can only say they overthink it."

The responsibility here isn't easy to shoulder.

The whole world is watching.

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