"Yes, alright. I’ll have to trouble Speaker Li, then..."
"That’s fine, too. I was already planning to Change Heaven and Earth, so I have no objection to Speaker Li’s arrangents."
"Mm, then I will wait for Speaker Li’s arrival in East Sea City."
After speaking on the phone for another mont, Lu Xuan slowly put his phone down, his expression relaxing.
The call was from Li Yutong. He inford Lu Xuan that Du Hongfu had been detained, then asked if he could pay an official visit and bring Du Hongfu along.
A so-called "official visit" ant it would be public. With all the major dia outlets in tow, he, the Speaker of the Federation, would personally grace East Sea City with his presence.
Even though he knew this would completely expose him to the public, turning him into the center of everyone’s attention, Lu Xuan didn’t refuse. Just as he’d said, what he was about to do was a monuntal task equivalent to Changing Heaven and Earth,
But before he could succeed, he needed enough ’fa’ and enough ’montum’—just like when he rode his chariot and held his black banner for eighty-one days on his campaign to invade Qi.
’I’m about to beco famous...’
Lu Xuan’s gaze was profound. He put his phone away, then turned to the trembling crowd beside him and smiled.
"The matter is resolved. Du Hongfu has been temporarily detained, so no one will be coming to bother you anymore, Elder Chu."
Chu Shuangtian nodded blankly and said with a quavering voice:
"I... I thank you for your help, Lu Xiaoyou..."
As he spoke, he seed to be in a daze. They had all overheard Lu Xuan’s two phone calls—
From his demand for the authority to ’oversee all officials, monitor the financial consortiums, and te out rewards and punishnts,’ to the news that the Speaker himself would be visiting...
Chu Shuangtian couldn’t understand. ’It’s only been half a year...’
’What in the world happened during these past six months?’
He swallowed hard. The other Grandmasters, as well as Chen Xue and Chen Shan, were in no better state. Their eyes were vacant, their expressions dazed.
Lu Xuan sighed softly. He knew there was no point in staying any longer; he could no longer interact with them as he used to. In the unseen world, he also sensed that one of his four Karma Tribulations had been resolved.
He rose gracefully to his feet and smiled gently.
"I won’t stay any longer, then. I still need to go into the city to et a few other old acquaintances and prepare for my eting with Speaker Li... I’ll take my leave now."
The people in the building were startled back to their senses. They hurriedly and respectfully bowed, not daring to speak.
Lu Xuan shook his head, a hint of disappointnt in his eyes. He then said calmly:
"Since our paths have crossed, it is a matter of fated connection."
A sense of loneliness arose in his heart, and his tone unconsciously took on a hint of world-weariness and detachnt, as if he were speaking to his juniors.
However, the group found nothing amiss. On the contrary, they seed to breathe a sigh of relief and bowed respectfully once more. Including Chu Shuangtian, they all spoke in a reverent chorus:
"To be in the presence of an Upper Immortal is our great fortune."
Looking at the trembling, utterly deferential crowd before him, he glanced sideways at the young woman who had been chatting and laughing so freely just monts ago but was now filled with terror and awe.
Lu Xuan lowered his gaze, the loneliness in his heart growing heavier. His voice beca even more placid and cold, unconsciously taking on a trace of the flavor of Supre Forgetting Emotions. When he spoke, his words carried the resonance of the Dao, as if he were issuing a Decree.
"Since there is a connection, I shall gift you all an opportunity. I hope that if you achieve success in your cultivation in the future, you will do good and benefit the world."
As his voice fell, Lu Xuan raised a finger and tapped lightly.
diation of Creation activated. Now that he possessed the body of an Earth Immortal and had survived five tribulations, using this Dharma again consud a minuscule amount of his Essence, Qi, and Spirit, not enough to shake his foundation.
Droplets of Spiritual Light erged from the void. Drawing support from the Peach Blossom Spring within the Acupoints of his right hand, he extracted its Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi for replenishnt. Combined with his own nearly Innate physique and a True Spirit suffused with hazy Primordial Ancestral Qi, he gathered the air, dust, and other particles, reconstructing them. They finally transford into a single peach, shimring with Immortal Light, which slowly landed in his palm.
This was a Postnatal Peach of Immortality, created by reconstructing Postnatal matter. A single one could extend a lifespan by three thousand years.
Before long, six Peaches of Immortality had been created. Lu Xuan pushed his hand forward, and the peaches, enveloped in dense Immortal Spiritual Qi and Divine Essence, slowly drifted before the six people.
They swallowed hard and held out their hands to receive the peaches. As they breathed in the terrifyingly dense Immortal Spiritual Qi, they all clearly felt their Physiques strengthening, their qi and blood surging, and their minds becoming sharp and clear!
And... that was just from a single sniff!
Lu Xuan said with his eyes lowered:
"These are Peaches of Immortality. Eating one will add three thousand years to your lifespan and nourish your body and soul. I gift these to you."
All six of them gasped. Three thousand years of life!!
What did that even an?
A Celestial Human only has a lifespan of a thousand years. Even an Earth Immortal can only live for ten thousand years... A single peach was worth one-third of an Earth Immortal’s entire lifespan!
This... this... this...
Chen Xue couldn’t help but sniffle, taking a deep breath of the peach’s fragrance. She felt her qi and blood surging violently. Her cultivation, which had been stuck at the Marrow Refining Stage for half a year, began to stir, showing signs of developing her viscera and breaking through to the Grandmaster realm...
Her heart trembled.
After another round of deep, respectful bows, the six of them swallowed the peaches. The Peaches of Immortality dissolved in an instant. A terrifying amount of Immortal Spiritual Qi crazily reforged and strengthened their Physiques and True Souls, and their lifespans skyrocketed!
The four Grandmasters silently beca Celestial Humans, forging their Divine Ladders. Chen Xue and Chen Shan’s cultivation also advanced by leaps and bounds. Within a few breaths, they had developed three or four viscera and beco Grandmasters!
Watching the group as Immortal Spiritual Qi continuously billowed from their pores, Lu Xuan smiled silently. He casually set up a protective ward, then turned and pushed the door open, leaving.
By the ti the six of them had managed to digest about half of the Peaches of Immortality and their minds had cleared, the young Upper Immortal was already gone. However, they didn’t neglect their courtesies, all bowing deeply in the direction the Immortal had departed.
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