I Can See Your Combat Power

Chapter 310 - 306: Persuasion (Seeking monthly tickets at the beginning of the month, kiss kiss!)

Since Tang Luo entered the Minor Spiritual Realm, exactly twenty days had passed, as did the Tang Siyuan, Tang Zhen, and Tang Qifan trio held their positions beside the pure white Spirit Realm Gate for the whole twenty days.

During these twenty days, key figures of the Tang Clan would visit daily, always asking the same question – whether Tang Luo had returned? Each time, the same reply would be given by Tang Siyuan, with a shake of his head.

In these short twenty days, Clan Leader Tang Zhi experienced an unprecedented level of pressure.

At the clan council at the end of the third month, Tang Hongtao from the Secret Arts Pavilion didn’t even attend, which showed his anger towards Tang Zhi. The joint difficulties raised by the sect head and mountain leader only made the council a critical one.

“Elder Tang Luo is our clan’s future. Even if we have to forfeit the heritage of this treasury, and sacrifice those students from the First Cultivation Ground, we should not let him take such risks in the Minor Spiritual Realm!” The sect head did not leave any face for Tang Zhi at the clan meeting, chastising angrily.

“The sect only has two descendants; it’s not just about the sect leader’s prominent merit in fighting for the clan in the past two years; it’s also inappropriate for the second son to enter the Minor Spiritual Realm under the clan’s order. And how could the clan leader let the eldest son of the sect head enter the Minor Spiritual once again in light of the drastic change in the realm? If any accident happens to elder Luo, wouldn’t the clan leader make the sect head childless?!¹‘ Even Tang Kuan, who always supported Tang Zhi, questioned with a stern face in the council.

As someone who knew deeply about the difficulty of Tang Sen’s current mission, Tang Kuan dared not imagine what that man, as strong as a deity, would do if he came back and found that during his mission, both of his sons were assigned to the Minor Spiritual Realm where life and death were uncertain.

This was the first time Tang Zhi had ever been under such all-around siege in history, and the only one who could defend him, Tang Siyuan, was on duty at the Spirit Realm Gate, so he could only stay silent amid these direct accusations.

Even Tang Cunfu looked at clan leader Tang Zhi with a gloomy face. Being a representative of a subsect intending to impeach the clan leader, he was supposed to be happy, as even the mountain leader Tang Kuan, who always allied with the clan leader, criticized Tang Zhi’s qualifications in the council meeting. But every time he thought about Tang Luo, being in the Minor Spiritual Realm where his life and death were unknown, he couldn’t feel any joy.

He wanted to replace Tang Zhi as the clan leader for the development of the Tang Clan, and now the most brilliant future of the Tang Clan was unknowingly trapped in the Minor Spiritual Realm for twenty days. He only blamed himself for not impeaching Tang Zhi earlier to prevent him from making such a foolish mistake.

Especially the ripple that disappeared shortly after Tang Luo entered the Minor Spiritual Realm, which shocked everyone present.

Inside the palace of the Minor Spiritual Realm

A hundred thousand acres of spiritual fields sounded like a lot, but under Tang Luo’s harvesting, it wasn’t as terrifying as it seemed. Initially, his biggest concern was whether he would be exhausted from ceaselessly harvesting spiritual herbs, but with the circulation of innate Qi within his body, his energy seemed limitless. His strength was endlessly renewed, and a few little ones would be fatigued after half a day of intense labor, while he – like a perpetual-motion machine – was ceaselessly harvesting the spiritual fields without any moment of rest.

He completed the harvest of one hundred thousand acres of spiritual fields in just five and a half days, filling all sixty Void Stomachs.

The little ones were all frightened and shivering, because after harvesting the spiritual herbs, Tang Luo stood before them like a real giant, a giant who only used a scroll to cover his lower body’s important area – no one could help but be afraid.

Tang Fengran and Tang Zhen were standing in the back, their heads lowered and their faces covered, while Tang Zheng, who was only tall enough to reach Tang Luo’s waist, had a very unpleasant look on his face.

Tang Luo stood in front of them, not to scare them, but to give directions on some matters, because after taking the spiritual herbs, he had no use for the treasury.

The secret techniques and skills were fully shared, there was no need to swallow them into his stomach. The spirit armors and divine weapons were all old-fashioned, not easy to swallow, so Tang Luo was ready to leave with the few little ghosts.

Because the Minor Spiritual Realm’s spiritual energy wasn’t pure, he hadn’t cultivated for more than twenty days. Plus with a daily gain of 1.2 from the little ones and another use of the Immortal Wind Cloud Body Technique to show off martial skills immediately after entering, he had lost nearly four hundred points altogether.

As a spiritual power miser, Tang Luo only wanted to whimper. This short journey to the Spirit Realm had caused him to lose a significant amount of spiritual power. Because he was too heartbroken, he couldn’t speak in a particularly pleasing manner, instead, he spoke rigidly: “You all were ambushed by mechanical puppets outside the underground palace. Ji Fu died outside the door while covering for you to enter the palace. Endless blood slaves and blood beasts rushed out from the fifth floor of the underground palace and caught you off guard. Ji Ming stayed behind to pull down the mechanism and died. Understood?”

The little girls and boys all looked at each other in confusion, not understanding why Tang Luo wanted to make up this story.

The eldest, Tang Zheng, swallowed and asked, “Elder Luo, why do we have to tell it this way?”

In his mind, faithfully reporting the mission to the clan was a matter of course, but he couldn’t accept the narrative Tang Luo was suggesting.

The five people in the underground palace were the two best teams from the First Cultivation Ground; meaning that as long as they did not lose their martial hearts and become debauched with desires, they would have their place in the future power center of Tang Clan.

That’s why Tang Luo didn’t want to treat them like children. Instead, he sat cross-legged, speaking earnestly: “Because this story benefits our Tang Clan the most, and us who entered the Minor Spiritual Realm.”

“I…don’t understand.” Tang Zheng swallowed and asked.

In an external environment like this, questioning a powerful being undoubtedly required courage. Tang Zheng may have this or that shortcoming, but in terms of bravery and responsibility, he undoubtedly performed better than the little ones.

“There are a hundred thousand acres of spiritual fields in the five layers underground with over a hundred million godly herbs and treasures. According to our agreement with the Ji Clan, of these, fifty-five million belong to our Tang Clan, and Ji Fu will transport away forty-five million.” Tang Luo spoke lightly: “But now, because of me, not only can the Tang clan get sixty million godly herbs and treasures, but each of you can also get one million. These resources are enough for you to cultivate to an Undying Battle Body of 5th grade or above and even have some left over for your descendants. As long as you change the narrative of your mission. Do you understand now?”

Since the Minor Spiritual Realm project was a joint agenda of the three clans, the mission reports would be given to Ji Fu and Xu Laoying together. In fact, with the current situation, deceiving Ji Fu would not be difficult at all as she knew nothing about the Minor Spiritual Realm. The primary target of this narrative was Xu Laoying because of his acute sixth sense which allows him to perceive others’ psychological state.

But after some interaction, Tang Luo also discovered that this ability was not as mysterious as it seemed. Xu Laoying can sense emotions, not truthfulness.

In other words, even if it’s a lie, as long as you speak with confidence and without a hint of guilt, Xu Laoying won’t be able to discern the truth.

In order to speak boldly and confidently about a lie, Tang Luo needed to give the students an incentive. That was why these five million spiritual herbs were their motivators..