"Lao Zhou! How do you feel now?"
Lin Che quickly came in front of Taoist Zhouxu and stared at him straight in the eyes.
Now, one can clearly see the pale yellow light emanating from Taoist Zhouxu slowly rising into the air.
The feeling was very strange, as if Taoist Zhouxu was a half-burned piece of wood that was now emitting smoke.
"I feel okay. Haha, I am indeed old. If it were in the past, I could still fight shoulder to shoulder with the Champion Marquis."
Taoist Zhouxu stood up respectfully, his old face full of humility.
Even the former leader of Yuxu Palace had to show great respect for the eighth rank.
Lin Che was a little uncomfortable with this. He still liked Lao Zhou the way he was before.
"Let me ask you, do you feel like your whole body is glowing? Is there something constantly emanating from your body?"
When Taoist Zhouxu heard this, he immediately puffed out his chest, his face flushed, and he laughed heartily:
"Hahaha, I lent a hand to the Shenji Camp in its hour of crisis. Dealing with those bloody men is what a righteous Taoist monk like me should do. Haha, it's nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about!"
OK.
The old man thought he was praising him.
Since he couldn't get the answer, Lin Che had to try a different angle.
"How much do you know about these blood men? With such a terrifying force, there should be a thousand of them. The Sixteen States of Yanyun are quite well hidden. If they had launched a surprise attack with this force, Liangjie City would have been destroyed long ago."
Taoist Zhouxu waved his hand. "These bloody men are clearly using terrifying sorcery. They're burning their own lives to forcibly recover to peak form and break free from their shackles. If we retreat and ignore them, they won't survive until sunrise the next day."
Taoist Zhouxu sighed, "In the path of cultivation, if one wants to forcibly advance from the 'repaying the burden' stage to the peak state, and then break through the peak state, it will definitely come at a heavy price. Who can go against the will of heaven? We must all follow the laws of nature..."
"Oh, yes. Haha, Champion Marquis, at such a young age, he's already broken through to the eighth rank. His future is limitless. This is truly defying the will of heaven. Only once in a thousand years does a Champion Marquis appear!"
Lin Che was very modest. "Senior, you're too kind. I'm just diligently practicing. You reap what you sow. By the way, what do you mean by 'repaying the debt'?"
Taoist Zhouxu looked at Lin Che in surprise, as if wondering if Lin Che was deliberately asking such a simple question.
Isn't this well known?
But judging by Lin Che's expression, it seemed that she really didn't know.
"The Repaying Stage is when one reaches the seventh rank, when one enters a weakened state. The last time I met the Champion Marquis, I was already in the Repaying Stage, and even seclusion wouldn't have allowed me to survive. Fortunately, the Champion Marquis saved me."
The soldiers of the Black Armor Battalion had been listening silently nearby, and one officer couldn't help but speak up:
"General. We heard that the Zhenguo Mansion hates you to the core. How did you break through to the seventh rank? We all have a question. General, your cultivation has improved so quickly. On the one hand, you are gifted. On the other hand, His Majesty has given you many elixirs. But, how do you break through to the seventh rank?"
Of course, Lin Che couldn't say, "I have a rebellious son to help me."
"That's right, as you practice, you will achieve a breakthrough. Isn't that the case with you?"
"Ah? General, don't you need the help of your blood relatives?" Everyone was surprised, their faces full of disbelief.
"No need." Lin Che said truthfully.
"The Champion Marquis is truly gifted, a rare prodigy in this world." Taoist Zhouxu sighed, "In my entire life, I've only seen five warriors break through to the seventh rank without the help of blood relatives."
The dozen or so people in the Black Armor Battalion all smiled bitterly. An officer spoke up, "I'm only a seventh-rank cultivator, and I've been a disciple for five years. But this might be my peak state. I feel like I'm almost reaching the 'repaying my debts' stage. The general's talent is truly enviable."
"General, you can break through to the Seventh Rank without the help of your blood relatives. So, it's normal that you don't know what the Repaying the Favor Period is. We were able to break through because of our blood relatives, so after breaking through, we will naturally repay our blood relatives..."
Lin Che frowned. He suddenly had an inexplicable feeling.
He felt that there seemed to be a shocking secret hidden here.
As an outsider, he didn't really understand cultivation. He couldn't figure out why a seventh-grade cultivator needed help from blood relatives.
At first I thought it might be the special rules of heaven and earth in this world.
But, after the breakthrough, there is a "repayment period"?
Why is this?
Even Taoist Zhouxu, the former leader of Yuxu Palace, cannot escape this rule?
"Old Zhou... Senior. So, among those thousand blood men, there are also some warriors in the Repaying the Feast stage?"
"There are more than a few, the vast majority are in the Returning Nurturing stage. If we calculate based on their cultivation strength, they are about the same as the sixth rank, or even only the fifth or fourth rank. If they were all really at the peak seventh rank, how could they be willing to be sacrificed in the evil arts?"
I see.
These bloody men were only of the seventh rank once.
After performing a special secret technique, he recovered to the peak state of the seventh rank.
Shi Chongguang was able to send out over a thousand Seventh-Rank warriors at once, which seemed to indicate that he had made preparations in advance. This was like a death squad.
Lin Che suddenly thought of something and asked quickly:
"Senior, when we met, you were in the period of repaying your parents. Are you also in the period of repaying your parents now?"
"Haha. In order to deal with those blood men, I did use some medicinal pills. Now my cultivation is a little unstable, and it's normal to enter the recovery period. It will be fine in a few days."
After hearing this, Lin Che fell into deep thought again.
Could it be that the light emitted from Taoist Zhouxu's body is due to the so-called repayment period?
But that's not right either.
Those bloody corpses outside are all dead. There is no way they can repay their parents, right?
When he first saw the imperial palace, the imperial mausoleum, and his war spears and weapons, he also felt a sense of light rising into the sky. They were all buildings and treasures, so where did the period of return come from?
"Report—"
At this moment, an officer rushed in quickly.
"General, we've spotted an enemy force fifty miles ahead. Approximately five thousand men! They claim to be envoys from the Yanyun Imperial Family and request a meeting with you, General."
"Oh? Are we going to negotiate?"
Lin Che thought about it briefly.
Now he has just killed hundreds of thousands of Shi Chongguang's troops, and it is obviously useless to send another 5,000 people.
Even if there are some sneak attacks, he is now at the eighth level and is no longer afraid.
You're so polite, it seems we're going to start a negotiation.
"Okay! Since they want to see me, let them come to me."
Lin Che smiled and warned, "Remember to tell them exactly what I said. If they dare to come, I, Lin Che, will do my best not to kill them!"
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