Chapter 248 - - Scar Team 246_1

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Watching Duge transform from the Void Refinement Realm into the Integration Realm right before his eyes, the usually active director suddenly lapsed into a daze.

This wasn’t normal.

Even if he was absorbing his own spiritual power, where was the process of breaking through?

Under the shock, the director’s senses slowly returned, and the details he had previously neglected bit by bit came back to his mind.

In two months, he’d risen from Qi Refinement to Integration, traveling the path it took others a thousand years to walk, starting with those three from the Seven Star Gate, controlling Yan Country’s Supervisory Academy…

Wang Chong was a peerless genius.

Geniuses weren’t scary, what was frightening was that his manipulation skills were still so adept, something many cultivators couldn’t achieve. After all, cultivators spent most of their time cultivating, with higher cultivation levels demanding longer retreats, neglecting social interactions.

In terms of social interaction, the cultivators of the Supervisory Academy were already considered good.

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Perhaps Wang Chong really could turn the Supervisory Academy into a true Supervisory Academy!

This thought barged into Director Liu’s mind, occupying a territory and refusing to leave.

The inability of the Supervisory Academy to monitor cultivators was an eternal pain in the heart of every member.

But soon, another four characters also barged into the director’s mind, forcefully occupying a region, resonating from afar with the peerless genius—people of chaotic times.

Throughout history.

Never had a cultivator possessed such rapid growth, not even the demon heads of chaotic times, nor that Dan Cong, who awoke the Literary Heart Divine Skill without cultivation level, yet could control someone in the Integration Realm with a single word!

With these monsters popping up one after another, it seems the world might really be changing…

Perhaps.

Clinging to the thighs of these people from chaotic times was the best choice!

As the director weighed the pros and cons in his mind, his heart was filled with a mix of emotions. In that instant, he suddenly felt as though his own era had passed by without shining, and he inexplicably felt a sense of loss.

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“Come, come, come, elders of the Mutual Aid Alliance, it’s time to distribute spiritual power, whoever sees this gets a share.” By now, Duge’s spiritual power was on par with the director’s, and he couldn’t draw any more from him. Naturally, it was time to divide the spoils.

Thus.

The elders of the Supervisory Academy came forward one by one, excitedly accepting Duge’s largesse. They were so cooperative, having waited so long, wasn’t this the moment they had been waiting for?

Buying people’s hearts!

Pawns at the mercy of the knife, while I am the fish on the chopping board.

A large amount of spiritual power had already been drawn away. To have a bit more taken didn’t seem to be a problem to Director Liu, especially since all his thoughts were on contemplating the future and how to establish a good relationship with Duge…

After elevating the spiritual power of the thirty-plus elders of the Supervisory Academy to the pinnacle of the Void Refinement Realm, Duge looked at the dazed director and suddenly smiled slightly, “Director, my apologies for the offense.”

Before the director could understand what was happening, a sudden pain struck his abdomen.

He saw Duge’s finger had already pierced his belly, and then, heat bubbled in his hand where he suddenly held a steaming stomach.

After that, the director felt an emptiness inside his stomach.

His stomach was taken!

Through such a tiny hole…

At this moment.

All thoughts of clinging to his coattails were thrown out!

This damn thing!

Following him, you’d eventually be stripped and devoured…

At this moment, all of Director Liu’s fantasies took flight, leaving only hatred for Duge in his heart: “Wang Chong, you scoundrel, I will never coexist with you…”

Little did he know.

Duge had already shown him mercy.

A random probe from the outside might not always retrieve something specific, so making a small hole to take his stomach was precision extraction.

Weighing the warm stomach in his hand, Duge reassured with a laugh, “Director, don’t be angry, scars are the hallmark of our Spirit Power Mutual Aid Alliance. If everyone has one except you, it would make you seem out of place. United in pain, united in scars, it will only help us foster a sense of collective pride and cohesiveness.

Come, come, come, don’t be afraid, I will immediately reattach your stomach and limbs for you. With the scar, we are family. Then we can discuss which sect to intimidate first.”

A cult!

This guy founded a cult…

He’s going to lead the Supervisory Academy down the gutter!

At this moment.

Director Liu saw the truth clearly; he glared at Duge, huffing with heavy breaths.

Duge didn’t care about the director’s thoughts at all. He conjured two new arms with spiritual power, skillfully spread open his stomach, stuffed the stomach back inside, began stitching neatly, and patiently taught him how to use spiritual power to reconnect blood vessels and meridians to assist with healing the wound…

As meticulous as a real physician.

Meanwhile, Duge, marveling at the power of the Integration Realm, found himself with extra hands made of Spiritual Power, making even surgery more convenient.

Regrettably,

the hands conjured from Spiritual Power couldn’t use the ‘Plucking Feathers in Passing’ technique.

Otherwise,

with a long arm of Spiritual Power, who in the world could still compete with him…

Glancing at his personal panel, Duge’s status remained as a Disciple of the Medical Immortal Sect, then looking at the lifelike Spiritual Power arm conjured by Duge.

Dan Cong was almost drooling.

Discreet!

This is the epitome of discretion!

All the Alien Warriors were wrong about what it means to be discreet.

On the surface, a Disciple of the Medical Immortal Sect, but in reality the actual controller of the Supervisory Academy, a Integration Realm bigshot!

Whoever challenges him is bound to stumble…

But then again,

when will he himself possess the Cultivation Level of the Integration Realm?

If he reached the Integration Realm, he would no longer fear Duge amputating his limbs; by conjuring several more arms, his writing efficiency could at least triple!

At this moment, Dan Cong no longer cared what Wang Chong’s keywords were!

He was now learning from Wang Chong’s methods and style, valuable experience that would serve him greatly after his return…

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Having acquired the scars that represented honor, Director Liu finally became part of Duge’s team.

His reason was that when two Integration Realm powerhouses clashed, the disturbance would be immense; while he could hold back, Wang Chong was ruthless and heavy-handed, and should any commoner of Capital City get hurt, the sin would be his.

As the Director of the Supervisory Academy, provided for by successive emperors of Yan Country, he must take responsibility for the people of Yan Country.

The old Director would never admit that he worried about being unable to beat Duge, lest Duge put on a show above the skies of Capital City and, amid widespread attention, deliver him a combo meal to oblivion…

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After incorporating the Supervisory Academy into his domain, Duge finally possessed a force to be reckoned with in this world, the power to arm-wrestle with this world.

Heaven’s Path Institute, Lanning Temple, Longevity Residence, Under Mountain Academy, Blue Sea Palace, Heavenly Demon Palace, Soul Suppressing Hall, White Wolf Island…

There are many first-rate forces in this world, and what marks them as such is the presence of a Mahayana Stage powerhouse within.

Moreover,

they control abundant cultivation resources, such as Spirit stone veins, Spirit Power sources, and so forth.

Of course,

they also have more advanced cultivation techniques.

With the same Spiritual Energy and Spirit Stones, the techniques of major sects versus those of minor sects differ in the efficiency of converting them into one’s own Spiritual Power, with more advanced techniques yielding stronger results.

It is clear that the Big Dipper Seven Star Skill from Seven Star Mountain was devised in response to scarce Spiritual Energy, opening a different path. But the technique is obviously not as powerful as imagined, for if it were, Seven Star Gate would have claimed its place among the many major sects, rather than dwindling to a mere few, unable to find even a single Spirit Stone.

The underlying reason the Supervisory Academy managed to cultivate a powerhouse like the Director at the Integration Realm level lies in the fact that within Yan Country, they owned a Spirit stone vein of their own. Though its output wasn’t particularly rich, it sufficed for the consumption of the Academy’s Cultivators.

That the Supervisory Academy didn’t expand further is also tied to their worldly identity; the mundane aura ultimately pollutes Spiritual Energy. Lacking the corresponding Spiritual Energy, they certainly couldn’t match the cultivation speed of those prominent sects…

The Supervisory Academy had considered seizing a land rich in Spiritual Energy for their own use, much like the Medical Immortal Sect, a mid-tier sect with much better Spiritual Energy than Capital City.

But factions like the Heaven’s Path Institute would never stand by and allow such a thing to happen.

After all,

If they could seize one territory, they could take a second.

Backed by the empire, what the Supervisory Academy lacked least were people. If they were allowed to grow by such means, inevitably, one day, they would threaten the interests of the major orthodox sects.

Therefore,

from the inception of the Supervisory Academy, eminent sects like Heaven’s Path Institute had made a pact with them; they could manage minor sects, but were absolutely forbidden from seizing resources from other sects by force.

Otherwise,

there would be no need for the existence of the Supervisory Academy.

The main point raised by the Cultivation World is to let cultivation be cultivation, and the secular world be the secular world; it’s preferable for no one to cross the boundaries.

Yan Country, Qing Country, and other nations had to consider their citizens and wished to retain their secular authority; naturally, they didn’t want to wage war with those eminent sects and had to begrudgingly restrain the Supervisory Academy’s power.

However, whether it’s the monarch or the Supervisory Academy, neither can truly swallow this affront; no ruler would welcome a group beyond their control on their own territory.

They would prefer the whole world to be within their reign!

Without such ambitions, the Supervisory Academy would not exist in the first place…

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