[There's no other way; the concentration of spiritual energy (primordial energy) on Earth is too low, and resources are scarce. Even after more than ten years of cultivation, Chu Xiao could only reach the second realm, Earth level.]
However, thanks to his Sacred Body, which had already reached 360 times its original strength, he was comparable to the mid-stage or even late-stage of the Second Realm!
After he emerged from seclusion, he discovered that his new allies and lovers in this life were being tormented by the lingering remnants of past enemies.
Although no one died, the entire industry chain was hit hard and people were humiliated. Some male NPCs who weren't very close to Chu Xiao were even slapped and had their heads stomped on.
Some of the forces that Chu Xiao had previously beaten to a pulp also came knocking on his door, ostensibly for revenge.
[May 3, at the headquarters of the "Chu Group".]
[The High Priest of Miao Territory, the EX-level fully cyborg from Eagle Country, the Vampire Prince, the martial arts master Zhang Tianquan, the head of the royal family of Kyoto in Dragon Country, the Feng Shui master of Taiwan Province, the Grandmaster of Swordsmanship from Chicken Country, and the Grand Zen Master of Lizard Country—all have gathered here!]
These individuals and groups, some of whom were defeated by Chu Xiao, have now joined forces to put pressure on the Chu Group!
[The High Priest of Miao territory: "That little thief surnamed Chu hasn't appeared for a whole Year of the Rooster. He must have died in the Great Abyss before the Year of the Kun!"]
[The Vampire Prince: "We announced to the world a month ago that we would raze the Chu Group to the ground today. Chu Xiao still hasn't shown up; he must be dead!"]
[Grandmaster of Swordsmanship: "How pitiful. I originally wanted to fight Chu Jun to test his skills."]
[The martial arts leader Zhang Tianquan sneered: "I'm afraid that coward is still alive, but he's too afraid of our strength to come!"]
"You're talking nonsense!" A young girl rushed out from the Chu Group headquarters. Although she was immediately pulled back, she still roared at the group, "Master won't die!"
"Yes, Brother Chu must still be alive!"
"My little brother Xiao is just in seclusion somewhere. You opportunistic scoundrels!"
"He risked his life to stop the tsunami and allow more people on the beach to escape. You are all despicable!"
The Miao High Priest shook his head: "Despicable?"
Countless tiny worms crawled out from under his robe and cuffs, rustling and sending chills down one's spine and raising goosebumps.
"Why didn't you call that thief despicable when he stole my breeding stock?!"
The Miao High Priest raised a withered finger, pointing it at a young woman from the Chu Group: "My purpose in coming here is solely for her. Return her to me!"
"I will use her physique as my gestation bed and her body as my battlefield to cultivate the most powerful Gu King!"
The purple-haired girl's face turned deathly pale.
"This is also Type-Moon?"
"Speaking of which, her hair has already turned purple, doesn't that mean..."
Yun Shou scratched his chin: "Maybe the author is a cloud, thinking she was born with purple hair."
The cyborg from the Eagle Kingdom stepped forward, pointing at a seemingly ordinary woman from the Chu Group, whose eyes flashed with tiny electronic analysis frames: "She's the one I'm taking away!"
"Mr. Chu took this experimental subject, D-367, from our country. I've come to reclaim her, simply to return her to her rightful owner."
[Zhang Tianquan, the martial arts master, brandished his fist. He was a martial arts legend at the peak of the first realm, yet he was beaten to his knees and begged for mercy by Chu Xiao. Now, having finally broken through to the second realm, Chu Xiao was already dead.]
Even without the source of his revenge, he refused to give up and wanted everyone connected to Chu Xiao to suffer a terrible price!
The same goes for the feng shui master from Taiwan. The auspicious feng shui site he pointed out to the big boss was exposed by Chu Xiao, who said it was actually a cursed location. Chu Xiao ruined his reputation, and he had to take revenge!
The Grandmaster of Swordsmanship and the Great Zen Master had only recently emerged from seclusion, and had come for the sake of their murdered disciples and students.
[Besides previous conflicts, the vampire prince's main reason was that the Chu Group had many virgins with cultivation and rich spiritual energy, and he wanted to take those women away to suck their blood and play with them.]
[It's quite simple for the last head of the Wang family to arrive here.]
He set his sights on the Chu Group's exceptional products: the Youth-Preserving Pill, the Youth-Enhancing Water, and the Intelligence-Boosting Pill, among others.
The Wang family head came to obtain the exclusive formulas for those products.
The area in front of the Chu Group building was in complete chaos; pedestrians dispersed, and the entire street was cleared out.
A group of powerful foreign figures openly and arrogantly declared their intention to annihilate the entire Chu Group today.
However, to emphasize the sense of crisis and Chu Xiao's miraculous rescue, the Dragon Kingdom's military officials were rendered blind, as if they were blind themselves.
[...No, blind people still have hearing; they can hear the global announcements for thirty consecutive days. Here, the official stance has been completely rendered deaf and mute.]
You're eating melon seeds on a rooftop.
"Yun Shou, aren't we going to make a move?" someone asked beside you.
The woman in the tight-fitting clothes next to her couldn't stand it.
Although you and the others only live on Earth and have no specific interaction with Chu Xiao, you know he is a sixth-realm cultivator who has rebuilt his cultivation, but you don't get involved in his affairs.
But those Miao high priests and the like are clearly villains; we should be stopping them, not watching.
【"No hurry, no rush."】
You glanced at the time: "They've scheduled to take action at 2 PM, so there's still a little over an hour."
"But will these guys really keep their promises?" someone scoffed. "They don't seem like the type to keep their word."
"You just don't understand~"
You calmly took a sip of your milk tea: "Under other circumstances, such as admitting defeat or releasing people, they won't keep their word."
"But in these kinds of storylines where the protagonist has to come to the rescue and there's a time limit, they not only strictly adhere to the action time, but they also tend to delay it for a longer period!"
"This is called 'time-checking'."
To maximize your experience, you didn't try to predict the future, but simply waited for the story to unfold.
[Just as you said—for the next hour or so, the two groups below were practically arguing themselves to death, but they remained completely still.]
[The vampire prince, having stood in the sun for too long and suffering from blood loss, was eager to rush forward and bite someone, but was stopped by the martial arts leader.]
The martial arts leader, seeing Chu Xiao's female disciple, felt a sense of obligation to repay a debt of gratitude and was about to rush forward to cripple her when he was stopped by the Miao High Priest.
[Amidst the commotion, it was already 2 PM.]
Finally, they prepared to make their move.
[Chu Xiao, who had just emerged from seclusion about half an hour earlier, heard about this from the roadside and rushed over at full speed!]
[A humanoid object is hurtling towards us at several times the speed of sound from the horizon!]
[A trail of overlapping sound barrier clouds was left behind.]
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