384: The Lord's Ambition and Layout

"Beloved Grandson!"

Long Aotian suddenly appeared in the Heaven Hall and greeted his Beloved Grandson.

"Guai... Realm Lord, you're out?"

Long Wudi's heart filled with joy. He was about to call him 'Beloved Grandson', but then he suddenly remembered that this was a formal occasion and he had to uphold his Beloved Grandson's supreme authority. The old man managed to hold it in.

"Hm!"

"Greetings, Realm Lord!"

"Hm, there's no need for such formality, everyone!"

Long Aotian nodded again: "This Lord has heard all your discussions!

This battle for the Realm Lord is inevitable!

But in this Lord's opinion, this war won't start in the short term. Everyone can relax and just observe!"

"..."

It won't start in the short term?

How is that possible?!

The enemy has already assembled an army of three billion Immortal Emperors. The arrow is on the string and must be loosed. This war machine has already started, can it still be stopped?

Everyone was a bit bewildered, not knowing what Long Aotian was thinking, nor why Long Aotian was so confident that the war wouldn't start in the short term.

Where did his confidence come from?

Could it be his unmatched strength?

At this moment, everyone fell silent!

They didn't know whether to call Long Aotian arrogant or confident.

In short, they all felt a faint unease in their hearts.

"Are you Dongbo Xueying, the City Lord of Snow Eagle City?"

"Replying to the Realm Lord, that is precisely this humble one!"

"Oh!"

Long Aotian nodded, his expression a little strange. Isn't this the name of the protagonist of Snow Eagle Lord? What a coincidence, he didn't expect the overlord of the twenty-seventh Heaven Layer to also be named Dongbo Xueying.

"Shentu Kun, Dong Baiqi, Sima Chengfeng, Dongbo Xueying, you four will temporarily serve as the Four Great Marshals of the Dragon Heaven Army."

"We respectfully obey the Realm Lord's decree!"

"If everyone has nothing to do during this period, this Lord suggests that you can all go to the Supreme Rule Condensation Tower for closed-door Cultivation. Perhaps you might even be able to condense one more Supreme Rule!

Especially Shentu Kun, Dong Baiqi, and the rest of you, this Lord is giving you a death order: go to the Supreme Rule Condensation Tower to condense the Rules of Power, Slaughter, Speed, and Gravity. If you cannot condense them, then you needn't come out of closed-door Cultivation yet!"

These people obviously hadn't realized how Heaven-Defying the Opportunity hidden within the Supreme Rule Condensation Tower in the Dragon Heaven Palace branch truly was.

When he was in the Sky Ruins Continent, Long Aotian had taken most of the dao source stones from the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm.

He had originally intended to create a second Tribulation Dao Secret Realm in the Sky Ruins Continent for the Dragon Heaven Palace and other Cultivators of the Sky Ruins Continent to use, but Long Aotian was surprised to discover that this 'bad deed' he had done was actually an extremely good thing for the Cultivators of the Sky Ruins Continent.

Comprehending Laws in the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm would be at least several times easier than before!

Future Sky Ruins Cultivators who Ascend to the Immortal Realm would basically all be Ascenders who had comprehended at least Advanced Laws, and it would even be a disgrace for a Sky Ruins Ascender not to have comprehended a Supreme Law.

Thus, he didn't create a second Tribulation Dao Secret Realm in the Sky Ruins.

After Ascending to the Immortal Realm, he occupied the Ascension Hall, which prepared the Dragon Heaven Palace for future recruitment of those Geniuses from the Sky Ruins who had comprehended Supreme Laws.

The Sect forces in the Upper Thirty-Three Heaven Layers generally had Immortal Emperor Realm experts who had condensed Intermediate and Advanced Rules, but what his Dragon Heaven Palace wanted to do was to forge all its Disciples into top-tier experts who had condensed Supreme Rules.

He wanted the Dragon Heaven Palace to become powerful not only because of his, Long Aotian's, existence, but also because of the excellence and strength of its Disciples.

The future Cultivators of the Sky Ruins in the Lower Realm had their own Opportunities because of the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm, but the billion or so people who had Ascended did not make good use of the resources in the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm.

Long Aotian then gave them a second chance, and this chance was the Supreme Rule Condensation Tower!

Long Aotian did not cut out a portion of each of the eighty-one Supreme dao source stones and place them in. For example, he did not include the dao source stones for Time, Space, Life, Death, Destruction, Devouring, and other types that, when Cultivated, possess terrifying destructive power and are at the forefront. Instead, he chose eighteen types of combat-oriented Supreme dao source stones.

Such as:

Power, Slaughter, Gravity, Five Elements, Thunder, Earth, Blade, Sword, Wind, Speed, Gold, Ice, etc.

Eighteen types of combat-oriented Supreme dao source stones!

One thousand types of comprehensive Advanced dao source stones!

Ten thousand types of comprehensive Intermediate dao source stones!

The requirement for Dragon Heaven Palace Disciples when they Breakthrough to the Immortal Emperor Realm was to condense at least one Supreme Rule; other grades of Rules could be condensed at will.

Currently, the Disciples who had Ascended to the Dragon Heaven Palace were far from the stage of condensing Rules when Breakthroughing from the Immortal Lord Realm to the Immortal Emperor Realm. The Four Vajras with the highest Cultivation — Long Wudi, Long Bubai, Long Shijie, and Dragon War God — were only in the Middle or Late Stage of the Immortal King Realm.

The special significance of the Supreme Rule Condensation Tower for the Dragon Heaven Palace, and the Heaven-Defying Opportunity for its Disciples, had always been overlooked by everyone.

Long Aotian's instruction for Dong Baiqi, Shentu Kun, and the others to go into closed-door Cultivation in the Supreme Rule Condensation Tower was to preemptively stir up this trend, making the Disciples of the Dragon Heaven Palace realize the importance of the Supreme Rule Condensation Tower, and at the same time, making them more proactive in Cultivation, eager to condense Supreme Rules, eager to become top-tier experts, and possess the qualifications to step into the Divine Realm.

"..."

Shentu Kun, Dong Baiqi, and the others were a bit dumbfounded.

They were all Peak Immortal Emperors. The Realm Lord actually told them to condense Rules?

They had long passed the Cultivation stage of condensing Rules, alright?!

As Peak Immortal Emperors, the problem they should be considering was challenging the Godslaying Road!

Furthermore, how could condensing a Rule be so simple?

From comprehending Laws to condensing them into Rules, which Immortal Emperor expert didn't have to spend thousands or tens of thousands of years to achieve something?

Especially since Long Aotian also demanded that they condense four Supreme Rules that they had never encountered before. Unaware of the Supreme Rule Condensation Tower, they were completely bewildered, and even felt a faint dissatisfaction with Long Aotian in their hearts.

This Long Aotian, isn't he forcing people to do the impossible?

But constrained by Long Aotian's terrifying power, they dared not refute anything, nor even dared to show him any displeasure. With heavy hearts, they turned and left the Heaven Hall, silently heading to the Supreme Rule Condensation Tower...