World’s End: My Keyword is One More Than Others

Chapter 214: Spirit stone

Swish!

The long sword was unsheathed.

A faint bloodstain appeared on Fang Shan's neck.

Fang Shan was completely stunned. He touched his neck and felt his head still intact. He knelt down with a thud, pale-faced, and kowtowed repeatedly, "Sect Leader, spare me, spare me..."

Du Ge looked at the wound on his neck that hadn't healed for a long time, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said lightly, "Get up. If you have something to say, say it. I don't like people playing tricks on me. This is just a small punishment for you."

"Thank you, Sect Leader." Fang Shan stood up again, trembling with fear and sweating profusely.

Du Ge sat down in a chair and asked, "How many days has your son been gone?"

Fang Shan replied, "It's been about five days!"

Du Ge fell silent for a moment and asked, "Have you sent someone to track him?"

Fang Shan said, "Before he left, he took a few bodyguards and maids with him, saying that he would send someone back to report his safety after he arrived..."

That meant he had already lost contact.

Du Ge was speechless, thinking he could find an alien star warrior, but it turned out to be a waste of effort.

It had to be said.

The guy who made it to the alien star battlefield was really good at escaping. He sent someone to cause trouble and then slipped away...

"Old Fang, why are you so sure that I will help you seek revenge?" Du Ge weighed the spirit stone in his hand and asked, "I could easily take your spirit stone and do nothing, or even kill you directly like I almost did just now..."

"I am a businessman." Fang Shan wiped the sweat from his forehead and forced a smile. "Businessmen have gains and losses. I know that even if I offer the spirit stone, the people at the Supervisory Institute won't go to great lengths for my sake. I also don't have the connections or the capital to hire people from those prestigious sects. The only choice left to seek revenge for my son is the Seven Star Sect, a sect that is willing to deal with the secular world.

These days, I have learned about what has been happening. With your abilities, staying in the Seven Star Sect is not a good choice. But you stayed without hesitation, helped the Seven Star Sect through a difficult time, and even stated in the contract that investment carries risks. So, I believe that the Sect Leader is different from those people.

Now, the fact that the Sect Leader can return safely from Tianlan Valley is enough for me to take a chance. I don't expect the Sect Leader to help my son seek revenge immediately, I just hope that when the time comes for you to face him, killing him will be enough."

He paused and tentatively said, "And, I am quite knowledgeable about business matters. The Sect Leader needs to cultivate, and it's highly unlikely that you can also manage stock operations at the same time. If you entrust this matter to me, I believe I can do better than Miss Guan..."

By producing a spirit stone, not only did he find someone to seek revenge for you, but he also almost got his head chopped off just now, and he still wants to operate himself as the CEO of my Seven Star Sect...

He's a qualified businessman!

People in the real world really shouldn't be underestimated!

Du Ge looked at Fang Shan with satisfaction and nodded, "Alright, I'll take on this matter."

Fang Shan felt relieved, "Sect Leader, what about the operations on Seven Star Mountain?"

"You assist Guan Xuan in managing the Seven Star Sect's industries. I will assess your abilities and make a decision later." Du Ge smiled and asked, "By the way, where did you get this spirit stone from?"

"I found it." Fang Shan murmured, "When I was in my twenties, I traveled the world and missed my itinerary. I camped in the wilderness and happened to encounter a battle between two cultivators. One of them was defeated and fled, dropping this spirit stone from the sky, which I luckily picked up. At the time, I was anxious for a long time, thinking that the cultivator would come back to look for it, but no one returned from start to finish, so I kept the spirit stone..."

Wow!

The two sects combined don't even have one spirit stone, and you guys are still fighting and causing spirit stones to explode. There's really no reasoning with you.

Du Ge sighed inwardly and changed the subject back to the previous topic, "Old Fang, how did you discover that your son was acting strangely? Did he have any particularly unusual behavior?"

"It's just some details in his words and actions that were different from my son. He was respectful to me and obedient." Fang Shan said, "If you want to talk about specific abnormal behavior, there really wasn't any..."

"Not at all?" Du Ge reminded, "Even if there wasn't any behavior as abnormal as a cultivation sect suddenly engaging in business, there should still be some differences, such as a special fondness for certain foods, or a quick temper, or suddenly doing something more frequently?"

"More frequently?" Fang Shan frowned, pondering deeply. "During these days, the most frequent thing he did was to help the Fang family continue the bloodline. But at that time, I found out that he had been possessed, and it was my request for him to leave a descendant for the Fang family. This doesn't count as abnormal behavior on his part!"

Suddenly, he widened his eyes, shaking his head repeatedly, "No, Sect Leader, now that you mention it, it really isn't quite normal. In order to leave a descendant for the Fang family, I found him more than ten concubines, and he worked diligently and joyfully. At the time, I thought he was just a young man with a fondness for women, but now that I think about it, it really isn't right.

Even if he's young, working as hard as he did during the day should have made him look tired, but instead, he became more energetic. He... could he be using the method of replenishing vitality..."

"It's possible."

Du Ge's mouth twitched and he casually replied.

Alright.

Most likely, this guy's keywords are related to lust and sexual pleasure.

It had to be said, the concealment was quite clever. Under the guise of cultivation, he left a descendant for the Fang family and naturally cultivated his own keywords. No wonder he went out to seek immortality and brought along several maids!

It all makes sense.

Cultivation sects have extremely high requirements for innate attributes. If he wants to enter a prestigious sect, he must improve his attributes...

And if his keywords are related to replenishing vitality, lust, and sexual pleasure, then the Tian Dao Institute is definitely not his goal.

If he wants to perfectly match these keywords, his only choice is those unorthodox sects that openly practice with women and won't raise any suspicions.Du Ge was fortunate to have arrived in a world of immortality and martial arts; had he entered the real world, he would have been indulging in endless revelry and frequenting clubs every day!

It is known that when the pan-universal entertainment market opens, they would live broadcast to these warriors in real-time...

Tsk tsk!

Being randomly assigned such keywords, Du Ge himself wasn't sure he could be as bold as Fang Wenle, allowing so many people to watch him. Swallowing his saliva, Du Ge felt relieved that he had two keywords; the Alien Star Battlefield was far too dangerous.

"Sect Leader, is there anything else you wish to ask?" Fang Shan looked at Du Ge, whose expression was fluctuating, and inquired.

"No more questions, you may go. I will take Fang Wenle's matter to heart."

Du Ge waved his hand, dismissing Fang Shan, and then he too left, taking a spirit stone directly to the training room. Placing the spirit stone in his palm, he entered meditation and began circulating his energy through the meridians.

As soon as he began his practice, Du Ge felt a difference. The spiritual power stored within the spirit stone flowed through the meridians in his palm, smoothly integrating into his dantian. The effect was at least ten times faster than directly absorbing the spiritual qi from the air.

Du Ge quickly became immersed in this sensation.

After completing a full cycle of energy circulation, when he reopened his eyes, the spiritual power in his dantian had climbed significantly, and the spirit stone in his palm had been depleted by about one-fifth.

Du Ge estimated that once the spirit stone was completely consumed, his realm could be elevated to the peak of the Foundation Establishment phase.

Thus, he simply ignored the outside world and continued his practice, focusing on absorbing the spiritual power from the spirit stone.

If he wanted to enforce justice on behalf of the heavens once more, his target must be a Golden Elixir true person. Therefore, it was necessary for him to first advance his realm to the Golden Elixir stage; otherwise, how could he even touch his opponent?

His reach was too short.

Fortunately, his body, having been modified by attributes, possessed an extremely high talent, and his cultivation progressed swiftly. Moreover, the spirit stone was akin to a miniature spiritual qi storage, making absorption convenient and efficient, second only to elixirs.

But what was better than elixirs was that the spiritual qi stored in the spirit stones was even more concentrated.

In less than half a day.

An entire spirit stone had been completely consumed by Du Ge, and his cultivation had been pushed to the pinnacle of the Foundation Establishment stage, just one step away from crossing into the threshold of the Golden Elixir.

At this moment, Du Ge understood why the Seven Stars Sect and Tianlan Valley had run out of spirit stones.

Spirit stones could be considered important strategic materials.

Cultivators from large sects, upon obtaining spirit stones, would not be able to resist using them for cultivation unless there were other cultivation resources that absolutely required the exchange of spirit stones. Otherwise, it was highly unlikely that spirit stones would circulate outside.

Small sects had nothing that high-level cultivators coveted, so naturally, they weren't worth exchanging for spirit stones.

Moreover, if sects like the Seven Stars Sect and Tianlan Valley really had something desirable to high-ranking cultivators, they probably wouldn't trade with spirit stones but would resort to using force to seize it.

Du Ge looked at the remnants of the spirit stone in his palm and sighed inwardly; the Seven Stars Sect was still too weak!