Chapter 497 - 497 Could His Backing Be?

497 Could His Backing Be?

The strongest force in Holy King City was the City Lord’s faction, followed by the branch of the Evil Slayer Sect.

Based on the information collected in the past few years, it could be confirmed that there were six Immortal Realm experts in Holy King City.

Two were from the City Lord’s faction, one was from the Evil Slayer Sect, and the other three had unknown origins. It was only known that people had seen them several times in the city.

A large part of the reason why Gui Nian was able to obtain this information was because of the battle between Lin Qiye and the Seven-Headed Demon.

Because of his provocation, many mysterious existences emerged.

“The demons could invade at any time. My power may be able to protect myself, but I can’t guarantee the safety of you and the people here.

“But don’t worry about it. I have some countermeasures in hand. As long as we implement them quickly, we could fight against demons in the future.”

Butcher and the others had no doubts about Lin Qiye’s abilities.

They thought that the invasion of the demons was just a coincidence. They did not know that the demons’ true target was Lin Qiye.

Therefore, they greatly underestimated the danger of the demons. On the contrary, Butcher was a little worried about the other problem in front of him.

“My Lord, those evil things may not be a big deal to you, but our recent development has been so rapid that I’m afraid the City Lord of Holy King City has been alarmed. If this continues, I’m afraid it won’t be long before he comes to find trouble with us.”

The expressions of Chang Shi and the others also changed slightly.

The Holy King City’s City Lord could be considered one of the more outstanding Immortal Realm experts. Furthermore, he had the support of the Shang Empire’s emperor.

Even Lin Qiye could not resist if someone were to lay a hand on them.

“Don’t worry about this matter. I’ll handle it myself.”

Lin Qiye waved his hand.

He knew that if he developed too quickly, he might attract the jealousy and suppression of the local bigwigs.

However, they were all humans, after all. As long as he mentioned the matter of the demons, they wouldn’t fall out over some resources that were not of much use to them.

After all, there was no such thing as fighting for incense among human cultivators.

They fought for things from the secular world only to accumulate wealth for their subordinates.

Something that could catch the eye of an Immortal Realm expert was rare in the mortal world.

“From now on, you must strictly supervise the fiends. I want to build an army of Golden Core Realm cultivators in the shortest time possible!”

As Lin Qiye spoke, he handed a thick stack of documents to them.

“This information is top secret. I’ve already listed out the core parts, so only a few of you can read it. Except for the marked parts, the rest can be passed to the fiends for perusal.”

The gang took the information in confusion.

At first, they didn’t have much idea about the Golden Core army Lin Qiye had mentioned. However, after reading through the information, they couldn’t help but be shocked.

“There’s such a way to increase one’s cultivation base in this world?”

“What a powerful awakening potion. Even the lowest grade can allow an ordinary person to complete the Foundation Establishment Realm! The high-level ones can even help you break through to the Incarnation Realm!”

“And these, the secret forging technique recorded can forge weapons and equipment comparable to high-grade magical treasures!”

“My God! If we can get enough potions and good equipment, we can build an invincible army of Incarnation Realm warriors!”

Butcher and the others were stunned. They had never heard of such a method to mass-produce experts.

Even Lonemoon, who had followed Lin Qiye for the longest time, had never seen him take out such a heaven-defying item.

“Don’t be so excited. It’s not that easy to build an Incarnation Realm army. With the power we have now, it’ll be good enough if we can make all the people of the Holy King City reach the Golden Core Realm.

Lin Qiye combined the information sent by Gui Nian and roughly made an inventory of the resources produced in the territory under Holy King City’s jurisdiction.

With their current abilities, they should have a high chance of creating a potion that could help millions of people reach the Golden Core Realm.

“Gulp!”

“My Lord, you mean that… You want all the people to complete the transformation?”

They couldn’t help but swallow their saliva.

It turned out that the army Lin Qiye referred to was not the hundreds of thousands of fiends but the mortals with even more numbers and lower cultivation levels.

This was not a simple matter.

Although they were all shocked by the awakening potion and the various magical transformation methods, that was still a few million people!

It was definitely not an easy task to gather so many potion materials.

“That’s right. Only by raising everyone’s strength will they have a certain level of self-protection when they face the demons in the future.”

Even in the demon army, the strength of the low-level demons, no matter how strong, was only around that of the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core Realms.

The higher they went, the fewer the numbers.

“These are the seeds of the medicinal herbs used to produce the awakening potion. Distribute them and let the fiends nurture them. You can think of other ways to collect the missing portion.

“In addition, weapons and equipment must be forged quickly. Everyone must have a complete set of equipment within a year.”

With a wave of Lin Qiye’s hand, a large pile of boxes appeared, filling up the courtyard.

Those were the spiritual herb seeds the various forces in Star City had sent to him according to his needs.

He had planned to cultivate his forces in Star City but didn’t expect to use it here first.

When she saw those boxes, Lonemoon was shocked.

Lin Qiye had shown her the same box. It was filled with spiritual herb seeds.

Back then, Lin Qiye had said she could have as many as she wanted. Now, it seemed like he was not bragging!

However, Lonemoon didn’t know that the box Lin Qiye had given her previously contained the seeds of high-level spiritual herbs. These seeds were much inferior and could only be used to make a few low-level awakening potions.

Chang Shi and the others did not check the boxes on the spot. Instead, they waited for Lin Qiye’s further arrangements.

“You can take your pick of these weapons and protective equipment. The extra can be used as a reward and given to fiends with high contribution points. I’ll leave the details to you.

“I’ll need to go into seclusion for a while. After I come out, I’ll focus on improving your strength. If anything happens during this period, report to me as per the old rules.”

As Lin Qiye instructed, he took out thousands of weapons and equipment.

Most of them were gold and platinum tier, with a small number of diamond tiers.

Diamond-tier equipment was equivalent to a magic treasure of the Incarnation Realm, and magic treasures seemed to be extremely precious in this world.

The Blue Star Clock in Luo Xiaobei’s hand was an Incarnation Realm treasure, but they called it an Immortal Level treasure.

Other than the clock that was barely passable, Lin Qiye did not see any other outstanding weapons or equipment.

Even though Butcher was an Embodier Realm cultivator, the weapon in his hand was almost no match for a silver-tier weapon.

“Don’t worry, Lord. We won’t let you down!”

The treasures in the courtyard had already made Butcher and the others somewhat numb.

Even after Lin Qiye left, they were still in a daze.

This was what it meant to be rich and generous!

Even the City Lord of Holy King City would be envious of the items Lin Qiye had taken out.

In this world, the resources were not as abundant as in the main world, so even low-grade spiritual herbs were considered relatively valuable.

Lin Qiye did not care about this. At this moment, he had already arrived at the main hall of the City God Temple. He transformed into an illusory baby statue and replaced the shattered Outer Dao Dharma.

“It doesn’t seem that easy to reconstruct the physical body of an Outer Dao Dharma.”

He sat cross-legged in the hall.

A massive amount of power of faith gushed forth, slowly filling up the statue’s illusory state.

“At this rate, I’m afraid it’ll take a few months before I can reincarnate the Outer Dao Dharma.”

Lin Qiye felt a little helpless.

It was simple to reconstruct the physical body of an Outer Dao Dharma. As long as there were enough materials and it was refined with the power of faith, it could be regenerated quickly.

However, Lin Qiye had to save the materials on hand to build his own body, so he could only use the pure power of faith to nourish it slowly.

Fortunately, the Outer Dao Dharma was special, and the power of faith was enough. Although the speed was a little slow, it was still acceptable.

Lin Qiye focused on absorbing the power of faith.

The sky above the City God Temple was covered by a purple cloud. One could even faintly see a giant pale golden dragon rolling within.

That was the fortune the White Dragon had attached to Lin Qiye before it died.

After the baptism of the power of faith, it seemed to be on the verge of turning into a Golden Dragon of Fortune.

The dragon repeatedly absorbed the energy and then lowered its body. It landed in the temple and fed the absorbed energy back to the baby statue.