Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1009 - 1009 0600 Li Mijias Bullying Arrival_1

Chapter 1009: Chapter 0600: Li Mijia’s Bullying Arrival_1 Chapter 1009: Chapter 0600: Li Mijia’s Bullying Arrival_1 Chapter 0600: Li Mijia on the Doorstep

While Qi Tian was still pondering how to further solidify his Gold Core, he was unaware that the entire Eastern Capital City had already fallen into a state of sheer panic because of his breakthrough.

Su Jinghan himself was a Gold Core Realm powerhouse, and the Array of Spirit Gathering he had set up was of very high quality, deliberately designed for his breakthrough in the Gold Core Realm.

Attempting a breakthrough within the Gold Core Realm was never an easy task. Even though the concentration of Spirit Qi in Eastern Capital City was high, purely relying on this aspect alone was insufficient for Su Jinghan to easily make progress in his cultivation level. He needed to utilize various forces to maximize the possibility of avoiding a standstill in his cultivation foundation. For this reason, Su Jinghan specially set up this Array of Spirit Gathering, the size and scale of which he had meticulously calculated.

According to Su Jinghan’s plan, once the Array of Spirit Gathering was activated, it would draw in the Spirit Qi within the confines of Jianwu Palace, pooling it into the array for his sole use.

The reason why the extraction range of the array was confined to this area was primarily that Su Jinghan did not want to court trouble. After all, beyond Jianwu Palace were the streets, and beyond the streets, other imperial palaces. Drawing Spirit Qi from other princes’ palaces would inevitably attract their attention, and if it led to their displeasure or even outrage, he certainly couldn’t bear the wrath of the other princes.

However, if the coverage of the Array of Spirit Gathering was limited to within Jianwu Palace, even if its operation resulted in a certain degree of Spirit Qi loss in adjacent palaces, such loss was within a normal and acceptable range—as everyone was doing the same.

Today you might cause some loss on my side, tomorrow I can similarly cause some loss on yours; increasing and decreasing, decreasing and increasing—always maintaining a dynamic balance. This way, everyone coexisted peacefully, without disputes arising from this matter.

Yet, when Su Jinghan was making his calculations, he did not take into account a situation like Qi Tian’s, whose cultivation required an exceedingly large amount of Spirit Qi. Despite the large number of top-grade spirit stones placed within the Array of Spirit Gathering, they still could not meet his cultivation needs, and external Spirit Qi was still necessary to supplement it—and the amount required was no small figure. This led to Qi Tian, during his cultivation, drawing in Spirit Qi not only from Jianwu Palace but also spreading over a considerable area surrounding it.

Such a drastic flow of Spirit Qi was bound to catch the attention of others. First and foremost, the palaces adjacent to Jianwu Palace noticed the anomaly, but that was not all. The fluctuations of Spirit Qi continued to spread outward, with the potential to encompass the entire Eastern Capital City.

Such a widespread movement of Spirit Qi could not be ignored by the other imperial palaces. After all, the kind of vast Spirit Qi fluctuation capable of causing this was well understood by every cultivator to signify a prominent individual or an extremely high-quality weapon or armor about to emerge—no one could afford to overlook such an event unfolding.

The first person to notice this abnormal fluctuation of Spirit Qi was Emperor Jianwu himself. Having hidden in a small space for over a hundred years to avoid Heavenly Punishment and barely surviving Su Jinghan’s underhanded attempt, this painful lesson made Emperor Jianwu reflect deeply. In the past few days, all he had done was to reorganize Jianwu Palace, eliminate Su Jinghan’s cronies, and remove other potential threats that could destabilize his absolute control over the palace.

After several days of reorganization, Emperor Jianwu had reinstated his supreme position in Jianwu Palace and reestablished his absolute authority. Having completed these tasks, Emperor Jianwu started to take stock of Jianwu Palace, reviewing its current cultivation resources. During his period of closed-door cultivation, the development of Jianwu Palace had essentially come to a standstill, not only lacking progress but also constantly in decline, which the stocktaking results mildly indicated.

This outcome was not what Emperor Jianwu expected. Qi Tian had helped him cleanse the toxins in his meridians, allowing him to continue his cultivation, and Emperor Jianwu now desperately longed for an abundance of cultivation resources to help him advance to the Nascent Soul Stage as soon as possible, thus extending his lifespan significantly. Presently, this was Emperor Jianwu’s most fervent wish.

As Emperor Jianwu considered how to reorganize Jianwu Palace’s strength and how to obtain more cultivation resources, it was then that he sensed the abnormal flow of Spirit Qi within the palace.

Emperor Jianwu was an experienced cultivator; having reached the Gold Core Realm hundreds of years earlier and witnessing similar scenes dozens of times in his life, he was all too familiar with it. He instantly realized someone was attempting a breakthrough at this moment. He had not yet realized who was breaking through or to what realm, but he instinctively sensed that this breakthrough was not going to be simple.

Emperor Jianwu immediately ordered an investigation to determine who was undergoing a breakthrough at this time.