"Look at our young master. He started practicing hard as soon as he returned to the mansion and was so strict with himself. We have to go back and supervise our own boys. The legitimate young master has the support of the elders' mansion, but he still works so hard. If we continue to indulge our children, they will have no future!" A servant sighed.
"That's right, that's right!" An old man who looked like a butler nodded repeatedly.
After a while, the Devouring Emperor finally stopped. The courtyard was a shambles, its ground dotted with huge, human-shaped pits. Enhao, his face bruised and swollen, his clothes tattered, his body stained with blood, his once neat hair a tangled mess. He scrambled out of the pit, gasping for air. Who could have imagined that this man was the eldest son of the Elders' Mansion, who, with a single palm and a single sword move, had overwhelmed the younger generation of the Spiritual Machinery Immortal Realm and firmly established himself as the "Number One."
Yu Kai sipped his tea leisurely, while the four girls each performed their duties beside him, some making tea for Yu Kai, some massaging his shoulders, as if Enhao didn't exist at all.
"Master! Sister Yuening! Why didn't you save me today?" Enhao stood up with difficulty and limped towards Yu Kai's only surviving stone table.
"Hurry up and tell me! What's the good news? If you don't tell me, don't blame us for taking action. We won't show mercy!" Yu Kai pushed a cup of tea in front of Enhao and urged him.
Enhao glanced at the Devouring Emperor, who was staring at him with one eye, with lingering fear, and hurriedly said, "Master! You are saved!"
"What?" Li Yuening and the other girls were surprised when they heard this and asked hurriedly.
Emperor Shi also hurriedly looked at Enhao, his eyes full of anticipation.
A hint of expectation also flashed in Yu Kai's eyes, and he stared straight at Enhao.
But Enhao took the tea handed to him by Yu Kai slowly, blew on it gently, and then drank it slowly.
If Yu Kai hadn't stepped forward to stop her, the straightforward Xia Shihan would have almost thrown a punch.
"Sister Yuening, your tea is becoming more and more fragrant! Pour me another cup." Enhao was completely unaware of the murderous gazes of the people around him.
"Cough, cough!" Yu Kai saw the Devouring Emperor's giant tail rise again and started coughing. This coughing aggravated his injury and made the coughing more severe. Lin Yaqi and the other women saw this and hurriedly sent spiritual energy to help him breathe.
"Master, are you okay?" Enhao also looked worried.
"Hurry up and tell me what the good news is. If you don't, not to mention senior, we will all take action!" Wu Dahu, who was guarding outside, couldn't help it anymore, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
"Oh! Master, this is what happened! I was summoned by the Emperor a few days ago. He ordered me to challenge the new master and find a way to defeat her and suppress her prestige in the Lingji Immortal Realm." Enhao then began to tell the story.
"What kind of good news is this?" Lin Yaqi frowned slightly, wondering, "What does this have to do with our young master?"
"Of course it matters! I flatly refused. After all, that Overlord is already at the peak of the Great Emperor realm, and I haven't even reached the middle stage of the Great Emperor yet. There's absolutely no chance of winning!" Enhao paused, a sly smile on his face. "Guess what the Emperor said in response?"
"Hurry up and speak!" At some point, the Devouring Emperor had quietly come to Enhao's side and roared loudly, raising his snake tail like a divine pillar high in the air.
"Don't...don't...Senior, I'll tell you, I'll tell you!" Enhao was so frightened that he fell off the stone bench and rolled and crawled towards Yu Kai.
Li Yuening and Shen Nianci helped him up from the left and right. In the past, when Enhao was beaten by the Devouring Emperor, they felt pity for him, but today they both had the urge to teach him a lesson.
"Don't keep us in suspense any longer, just tell us!" Yu Kai urged. He knew that if he delayed any further, the Devouring Emperor would definitely strike again.
"Okay, Master!" Enhao took a deep breath and calmed himself down. "The Emperor actually offered to open the Royal Family's Enhancement Pool for me!"
"Royal Enhancement Pool?" Yu Kai frowned slightly, a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.
"Young Master, this Royal Strengthening Pool is a pool of spiritual liquid created by the royal family with countless efforts, using four original treasures left over from the beginning of the world. It is specially used for strengthening the royal family's physique. It is a place of tempering that defies the heavens and can forge an indestructible body comparable to a divine body." The meticulous Li Yuening hurriedly explained to Yu Kai and Emperor Shi, his eyes revealing awe for this mysterious place.
"Yes, this strengthening pool will definitely help Master recover!" Enhao's voice trembled with excitement, his eyes full of anticipation.
Lin Yaqi and the others were all excited, but Li Yuening frowned, his hands unconsciously clenched around the corners of his clothes, and he looked at Yu Kai worriedly: "That's the royal forbidden area, heavily guarded. Can you take the young master in?"
"Yes!" Enhao showed an arrogant and complacent expression on his face, and raised his swollen face high.
"What's going on? Why is the Emperor so generous and allows you to bring people?" Xia Shihan touched his chin with suspicion in his eyes.
"How could the Emperor agree so easily? I will tell you the truth and say frankly that with my current strength, I have no guarantee of victory. But if I can bring my master in as a medicine slave, with the help of his unique abilities, I may be able to improve my strength to a higher level, and then I will have a chance to defeat the Lord!" A cunning light flashed in Enhao's eyes.
"Did he agree?" Li Yuening asked doubtfully.
"He hesitated for a moment and then nodded. Maybe because he saw that I was confident, he stopped Mr. Jiang next to me from trying to persuade me!" Enhao said proudly.
“He is straightforward. Not everyone can enter that place. If you are not careful, you will die in there!” Shen Nianci frowned slightly, his tone filled with worry.
“Oh!” Yu Kai looked at Shen Nianci with a probing look in his eyes: “Sister Nianci, how much do you know about the strengthening pool?”
Emperor Shi and others also stared at Shen Nianci closely.
"Master, I don't know much. I only know that this strengthening pool is the royal family's greatest confidence, but also the cruelest trial - it uses the power of the origin of heaven and earth to pave a path to the divine body, but it also uses boundless pain to select who is qualified to embark on this path." Shen Nianci said slowly, with a hint of fear in his eyes.
"Many royal children couldn't even last a day in the strengthening pool. The severe pain was unbearable for ordinary people. Historically, there were very few royal children who could last more than seven days in the pool. Some were so painful that their minds were broken on the fifth day, and were turned into ashes by the spiritual fluid; some were about to break through on the ninth day, but their bodies were shattered by the lightning lava due to a slight hesitation. This is probably the reason why the Emperor agreed so readily, right?" Shen Nianci looked at Enhao with scrutiny in his eyes.
Just as Enhao was about to speak, he heard the Devouring Emperor snort coldly, anger flashing in his eyes. He said in a cold voice: "It's so dangerous, you have bad intentions, don't you? Your master is so seriously injured now, do you want him to go in and die!"
Seeing that the Devouring Emperor was about to attack again, Enhao's face changed and he immediately hid behind Yu Kai, his voice trembling: "No, I absolutely have no intention of harming Master!"
Yu Kai hurriedly called out to the Devouring Emperor, "Senior, wait a moment. I believe he won't harm me. Let's hear what he has to say!"
"Hurry up and tell me!" The Devouring Emperor retracted his giant tail and shouted at Enhao.
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