Chapter 349: Cultivating a Core Team; Xue Ke

Nan Feihuang took the medicine bottle handed over by Snake Spear Douluo; it would be impossible to say he wasn't moved.

Qian Renxue truly cared for him very much.

Her affection for him was likely far greater than his for her.

On this point, Nan Feihuang knew he had wronged Qian Renxue; although both of them had their own calculations in how they treated each other, when it came to the emotion of liking someone, Feihuang was far less pure than Qian Renxue.

After all, Qian Renxue carried some of the "love-brain" traits passed down from her mother, while Nan Feihuang's mind was filled with various twists, turns, and schemes—even the act of pursuing Qian Renxue was merely to use her to restrain Bibi Dong.

Not just now, but in the future, there would still be many times when Feihuang would deceive Qian Renxue.

It seemed Feihuang really needed to find time to study Xun Yu's "Green Tea Man" secret techniques, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to avoid being "cleaved" (killed by a yandere) one day.

"Your Excellency Snake Spear, please be sure to express my gratitude to Sister Xue when you return. Once my injuries have healed, I will certainly go to see her again," Feihuang urged.

Snake Spear Douluo nodded, "Very well, kid, you focus on recovering. I have important matters to attend to, so I shall take my leave now."

A Title Douluo was just that carefree—arriving in a rush and leaving in a rush.

She Long indeed had many things to do and naturally could not continue to linger here.

"Alright, it is time for me to get back to work. E Lai, go tell Wenruo to compile all of this year's agricultural output and income for the country and report it to me."

"Lingqi, you are now acting on behalf of Mother to manage the affairs of the inner palace. Issue an order: from now on, our country shall advocate for frugality, starting with my royal household. There shall be no extravagance or waste in the inner palace. We must store up sufficient grain, fodder, and wealth. The continent will surely fall into chaos in the future; this is a necessity for recruiting soldiers and buying horses, to compensate for our country's lack of military strength. As long as we have money and grain in hand, we need not fear a lack of soldiers when the time comes."

Nan Feihuang returned to the palace and began issuing orders in an orderly manner.

"Understood, my Lord!"

"Yes, Husband!"

Although Dian Wei and Lv Lingqi usually appeared, one simple-minded and the other pure, they were still very reliable when it came to getting things done.

As his most trusted core team, Feihuang entrusted important matters to them and Xun Yu.

Besides them, Jia Kui, Xing Daorong, Zhang Xingcai, Pan Feng, Ye Lingling, Meng Yiran, and others were responsible for assisting them throughout the process.

Feihuang's future core team was gradually taking shape.

Another matter was the cultivation of high-end combat power. Although these people had good aptitude, they were young after all, and it was not easy to grow to the level of a Title Douluo in a short period of time.

Therefore, Feihuang had not forgotten to cultivate the older generation of experts.

Apart from giving most of his resources to his father, Nan Tianchen, he was also working hard to cultivate Elder Zhang, Jia Chong, and Long Gong.

Feihuang gave the two strength-type soul bones he had obtained from Bone Douluo to Jia Chong and Long Gong, one each, and also provided them with some medicinal herbs gathered from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Although they were not Immortal Herbs, they were not much inferior to the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma.

Jia Chong was originally at Level 84; after two or three years, with the help of these, he should be able to reach the high-level Spirit Douluo stage of Level 86 or above.

As for Long Gong, he had already broken through Level 88; relying on the soul bone and medicinal herbs, breaking through the remaining two levels should not be too difficult.

Once he and his father, Nan Tianchen, both emerged from seclusion, the Gu Lei Kingdom would immediately gain two Title Douluo-level combatants.

As for Elder Zhang, Feihuang did not expect him to reach the Title Douluo level quickly, as the cultivation difficulty for a Food-type Soul Master was truly too high, and it became harder the further one progressed.

Elder Zhang had already passed the golden age for cultivation, and the difficulty for him to reach the Title Douluo level was extremely high; therefore, Feihuang only hoped he could become a Spirit Douluo. In reality, a Food-type Spirit Douluo held a status in any faction that was only higher, not lower, than an average Title Douluo.

Elder Zhang's martial soul was Fruit; on the battlefield, he was the strongest mobile granary, capable of both resisting hunger and quenching thirst. Especially with his eighth soul skill, once a Food-type martial soul reached the eighth ring or above, the effects produced would be incomparably powerful.

If Elder Zhang were already a Food-type Spirit Douluo now, and the effect of his eighth soul ring leaned toward healing, Nan Feihuang's injuries would likely be completely healed in just a few days.

These talents all needed to be cultivated with emphasis. In addition, there was Dugu Bo; Feihuang had given him the inner core of the Ten-Headed Fierce Serpent earlier.

It was not for a soul ring, but because this inner core contained most of the toxicity of the Ten-Headed Fierce Serpent.

The poison of the Ten-Headed Fierce Serpent, like the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor poison, possessed similar characteristics: that of repelling all snakes.

If Dugu Bo could master this virulent poison, which was on the same level as his own Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor poison, his realm would surely be greatly improved, which would also be very helpful for his advancement to a Level 95 Super Douluo.

Feihuang worked hard to cultivate his country's core team. He knew deeply that no matter how much he relied on Qian Renxue's power to delay the time the Spirit Hall took to act against him, it was only treating the symptoms, not the root cause.

Only by becoming strong himself would he have the confidence to resist all enemies.

A few days later, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect quickly sent the three young women over to marry Jia Kui and the other two.

Actually, there were four; one girl had mixed into the wedding procession and quietly followed along.

It was none other than Xue Ke.

She had also learned of Nan Feihuang's serious injury while at home, and was so worried she couldn't sleep at night, not wanting to wait for Nan Feihuang to come and pick her up.

So, she took this opportunity to disguise herself and mix into the procession, following all the way to the Gu Lei Kingdom.

This left Nan Feihuang between laughter and tears. In fact, she didn't need to be so anxious at all; he had intended to wait until his injuries had improved slightly before immediately going to pick her up in his capacity as her fiancé. He hadn't expected her to be unable to wait even that little bit of time.

However, for her to reach the Gu Lei Kingdom so smoothly, Nan Feihuang believed that Qian Renxue must have had a hand in it.

She had secretly helped her.

Otherwise, if Princess Xue Ke had suddenly gone missing, the Great Emperor Xue Ye would have long since conducted a carpet search, and the procession would likely have been intercepted by the Royal Knights before it even left the borders of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Qian Renxue's purpose in doing this was also very simple: to let Xue Ke leave the Heaven Dou Empire as soon as possible.

After all, if the Soul Hunting Operation Plan were moved forward, then all of the Spirit Hall's plans would have to be moved forward, and the Tiandou Imperial City and its surrounding areas would become a place of trouble.

At this time, it was slightly safer for Xue Ke to stay by Nan Feihuang's side.

She didn't care about the lives of others in the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, but she still had quite a bit of affection for this younger sister she had raised with her own hands.

When the Great Emperor Xue Ye learned of this, he was both anxious and angry. Fortunately, Xue Ke was ultimately by her fiancé's side and hadn't followed anyone untoward, so there were no safety issues.

Nan Feihuang immediately sent people to the Heaven Dou Empire to express his wish to keep Xue Ke by his side to take care of her. Xue Ye thought that since the two would be of age to marry before long anyway, he did not object.

Thus, Xue Ke finally succeeded in staying by her beloved's side.

(End of chapter)