Chapter 25: Heading to the Imperial Capital

At night, the small courtyard was quiet, and a bright moon hung in the sky.

Xu Que was half-lying on the bed, his chin resting on his hand by the window, looking at the night sky and thinking.

He decided that he could set off to leave in a while and head to the Imperial Capital.

After all, there were five Imperial Mausoleums waiting for him to break into, and the dangers inside were extraordinary.

Of course, he had to take the opportunity to take revenge on the Emperor and the Princess. Although the Emperor and the Princess were calculating the original owner of this body, after Xu Que occupied this body, those memories also existed in his mind, as if he had experienced them himself, and the dissatisfaction and hatred that should be there would still be there.

So if there was a grudge, it had to be avenged, otherwise, with Xu Que's narrow-mindedness, he would definitely not be able to sleep at night!

However, before leaving, Xu Que intended to give the Grand Void Gate another great gift.

After all, the Divine Might Charging Cannon was so powerful that it would inevitably be known by outsiders and cause covetousness. Once someone joined forces to snatch it, the Grand Void Gate wouldn't be able to defend it with just these three Divine Might Cannons!

Xu Que summoned the system, and the personal information interface appeared before his eyes:

"Host: Xu Que

Cultivation: Golden Core Stage Tenth Layer (Perfected)

Experience: 0/1,500,000

Acting Cool Points: 380 points

Technique: 'Ancient Five Elements Art' Intermediate

Skills: Dragon Soaring Nine Transformations (Perfected); Three Thousand Thunder Movement (Perfected); Bing Character Secret (Progress 10%); Flame Splitting Swallowing Wave Ruler (Perfected); Six Harmonies Wandering Body Ruler (Perfected); Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus (Progress 30%)

Strange Fire: Green Lotus Core Flame; Bone Spirit Cold Fire

Essence: Technique (30 points)

Occupation: None

Status: Prince Consort of the Fire Origin Kingdom, Eastern Desolate Continent

..."

Now that his cultivation had reached the perfection of the Golden Core Stage, the next step was to experience the legendary Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation like a demon beast, and then he could enter the Nascent Soul Stage.

The Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation belonged to the most basic Heavenly Tribulation, being struck by lightning four times. If he could survive it, he could break the pill to form the infant, and from then on, the vast world would be his to explore.

If he couldn't survive it, he would definitely have his soul scattered and his body destroyed!

However, this kind of Heavenly Tribulation would be a bit harsher for demon beasts, but for human cultivators, there was no difficulty, and generally, they could easily pass it. Xu Que didn't pay too much attention to it.

Now he was worried that his Acting Cool Points were not enough. After exchanging for the "Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Liquid" prescription, he only had over 380 points left now.

With just this many Acting Cool Points, what could he exchange for the Grand Void Gate?

A few more Divine Might Cannons? It didn't seem very good. In case the enemy used human sea tactics, a few cannons wouldn't be enough to hit them all.

"If I exchange for a formation, it happens to be something only I can control. Once I'm not here, the formation can at most exert active defense, and it can't cooperate with the people of the Grand Void Gate..." Xu Que frowned.

No matter how powerful a formation was, without a formation controller to manipulate the formation disk, its power would definitely be greatly reduced. Back then, Panshan Village was like that, which was why it was forcibly broken into by Elder Sun using a formation-breaking shuttle.

If Xu Que had been in Panshan Village at that time, even if he didn't take action, just by manipulating the formation disk to exert the power of the formation, even if that Elder Sun possessed a formation-breaking shuttle, he would definitely have been blasted half-dead by the formation, and it wouldn't have been just a minor internal injury.

"Eh, right!"

Suddenly, Xu Que seemed to have remembered something and sat up from the bed.

"When the system upgraded today, it seemed that two new functions were added..." Xu Que said, while entering the system interface.

In the system interface, there was an upgrade information introduction, which clearly recorded the content added every time the system was updated!

Two new functions were indeed added after the upgrade today. One was adding mall items, such as the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Liquid prescription, which was a newly appeared heaven-defying item.

The other function was opening the permission to use items, so that in the future, he could give the things he exchanged from the system to outsiders, and it would no longer be something only he could use.

This second function immediately solved Xu Que's problem!

Since others could use it, what was there to worry about? He could just exchange for a formation!

Xu Que immediately entered the system mall, chose the formation column, and carefully selected from a pile of "Initial-grade Formations."

Logically speaking, the safest thing was to exchange for an Intermediate-grade formation, but the cheapest of those Intermediate-grade formations cost over 200 Acting Cool Points, and those few formations were all used for gathering spiritual energy for cultivation, not suitable for defense and counterattack. The other few Intermediate-grade formations with attack power cost over 400 Acting Cool Points, and Xu Que really couldn't afford them!

So he had to settle for the next best thing and select from the Initial-grade formations!

Originally, Xu Que wanted to continue to exchange for the Eight Trigrams Four Symbols Array to give to the Grand Void Gate!

But after scanning down, he found a few sets of formations he hadn't seen before among the Initial-grade formations, one of which possessed super-strong attack and defense capabilities.

【Eight Trigrams Ten Thousand Swords Array】:

Originating from the remnant array of the Ancient Eight Formation Diagram, Qian is Heaven, Kun is Earth, and each trigram is a world! Once the intruder enters the array, they will lose their way, heaven and earth will be overturned, and they will suffer the punishment of ten thousand swords piercing the heart, and they will definitely die! (Note: This array is ineffective against experts at the Infant Transformation Stage and above.)

Price: 200 Acting Cool Points.

"Damn, so expensive! The price is almost catching up to an Intermediate-grade formation. However, this formation is really not bad. If this formation had been available back in Panshan Village, no matter how powerful that old woman was, she definitely wouldn't have been able to break it. It's just a pity... sigh!"

As soon as Xu Que recalled the Panshan Village incident, his heart was inevitably filled with thoughts.

He looked down at the Soul Gathering Pagoda hanging on his chest, watching Xiao Rou's soul lying quietly inside and sleeping, and his low mood finally eased a little.

Afterwards, Xu Que gritted his teeth and exchanged for the "Eight Trigrams Ten Thousand Swords Array."

"Ding! Congratulations to the host 'Xu Que' for successfully exchanging for the 'Eight Trigrams Ten Thousand Swords Array', consuming 200 Acting Cool Points!"

Whoosh!

A white light flashed before his eyes, and a small formation disk appeared in the system package.

Xu Que took it out, took a look at it, and couldn't help but nod.

With this formation, even if he wasn't there in the future, the Grand Void Gate could protect itself, and coupled with those three Divine Might Cannons, the future of the Grand Void Gate would definitely be unstoppable!

"This time... I can leave with peace of mind! It's a pity, I haven't even flirted with the beautiful Sect Master yet, I'm really reluctant!" Xu Que muttered to himself and smiled faintly.

Finally, he wrote a letter, clearly explaining how to use the "Eight Trigrams Ten Thousand Swords Array," and placed it on the table together with the small formation disk. Then he turned and stepped out of the room, performed the Three Thousand Thunder Movement, swept into the high sky, and gradually went far away until he disappeared into the pitch-black night.

"Sigh!"

After Xu Que left, a soft sigh suddenly came from the corner of the small courtyard!

A white-clothed figure slowly walked out, her skin like grease, her temperament refined—it was the Sect Master of the Grand Void Gate, Su Cloud Sect Master!

Looking at the direction Xu Que left, Su Cloud Sect Master's eyes were full of complexity, seemingly with reluctance, and also with sorrow!

"Creak!"

She gently pushed open the door of the small room where Xu Que lived and walked in.

Seeing the things Xu Que left on the table, she couldn't help but be stunned, then picked up the letter and sat on the bed to read it.

A moment later, a trace of faint disappointment flashed across Su Cloud Sect Master's face, and she murmured softly, "Besides explaining how to use the sword array, didn't you leave any other words for me?"

She put down the letter in her hand and slowly lay on the bed.

A trace of warmth remained in the quilt. Su Cloud Sect Master's exquisite face leaned towards the pillow, she took a deep breath, and a blush appeared on her cheeks. ===== CHAPTER 26 =====