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

Chapter 221: The soaring strength

In reality,

After tasting the joy of rapid leveling, few could resist becoming Du Ge's companion.

The Dean's questions were merely to help Du Ge patch up any oversights and minimize risks.

He would be the first to disagree if Du Ge were to give up.

Having had so much of his power drained, it was only right to reclaim it from others, or else he'd be a prime candidate for resentment...

Wang Chong was kind-hearted, but he could be unyieldingly tough.

Anyone who dared to hinder his growth was an enemy he could not coexist with under the same sky.

When Wang Chong declared "I am for all, all are for me," the Dean knew he couldn't change his naive way of thinking.

Then,

He would do the dirty work Wang Chong couldn't;

He would kill those Wang Chong didn't want to kill!

Not only that, but he also wanted to spread his ideology to others like Xu Heming.

As for Wang Chong, it was enough for him to be an idealistic mascot.

...

A new alliance was formed.

Junior brothers, junior sisters, and Qian Dajin each took spirit stones and secluded themselves for breakthroughs in the supervision institute. Without the special physique of alien star warriors, even with abundant spiritual energy, they needed to close themselves off.

During their seclusion, Du Ge realized that the natives' absorption and utilization of spirit stones were not as efficient as his.

After advancing to the Golden Elixir stage, he could almost completely absorb the spiritual energy from a spirit stone after cycling it through his meridians for a week.

The Dean couldn't even deplete a spirit stone in a day's cultivation.

This might have to do with talent.

The seventh junior brother had high talent, and his efficiency in converting spiritual energy from spirit stones was much higher than the junior sister's.

Seeing the speed at which Du Ge absorbed spirit stones, the Dean felt a pang of jealousy once again.

But then he remembered that Du Ge was a genius who could breakthrough in battle, and he suppressed his envy.

After all,

Without such a ferocious talent, how could one forcibly take and refine spiritual energy from others?

In the following days,

The three supervisors reorganized their subordinates and brought them before Du Ge one by one to receive a baptism of spiritual energy, inviting them to join the offensive and defensive alliance.

Du Ge had caused such a commotion in the supervision institute, even turning the Dean into a lollipop, and it couldn't be hidden. The trapped cultivators of the supervision institute waited in trepidation.

But then, seeing the Seven Star Sect and the Dean shake hands and make peace, they were somewhat surprised.

However, when Du Ge absorbed spirit stones while helping them enhance their spiritual power, everyone recognized the cooperation between the two parties.

The cultivation world was not short of talented geniuses, and cooperating with such geniuses was all gain and no loss.

Du Ge could help them restore spiritual power, just as he could help the Dean, so with the supervision institute backing them, the Seven Star Sect wouldn't dare to offend them.

Fortunately, Du Ge's speed in converting spirit stones was fast, so boosting their strength a little was not difficult.

As for the real purpose, these people didn't need to know for the time being...

The Dean was a Golden Elixir true person, having operated the supervision institute for many years and controlled the distribution of spirit stones, he had managed it as tightly as an iron barrel.

His orders went down, and there were no cultivators who would risk offending their immediate superior to secretly report to higher-ups.

...

Having dealt with the people of the supervision institute,

With an order from the Dean, the Seven Star Sect's Danyang branch company resumed operations.

Du Ge practiced sword flying at the supervision institute, incidentally learning about the layout of the cultivation world, and preparing for the expedition to the Medical Immortal Valley. The acts of "acting in the name of heaven" and "plucking feathers from passing geese" were too domineering, often crippling people by taking their limbs, so their team needed doctors with exquisite medical skills.

Therefore, reaching a cooperation with the Medical Immortal Valley was inevitable.

But how to cooperate was the question?

Although the Medical Immortal Valley was not a super sect like the Heavenly Dao Institute, with few members and not skilled in combat,

It was said that there were Divine Transformation period elders in the sect...

The Divine Transformation period was two whole levels higher than Du Ge, and with his current cultivation, it would be difficult to even get close to them.

The most crucial point was that even in the cultivation world, no one wanted to offend a group of doctors.

Because you never know which big shot the doctor treating you had helped before, being blacklisted by a group of doctors could be quite terrifying...

But in Du Ge's view, none of these were problems.

What he always worried about were the warriors hidden behind these cultivators, the skills derived from the Keywords, which could be much more terrifying than cultivators, catching you off guard.

Although Du Ge defaulted this world to a Xianxia setting, and ordinary people called cultivators who could fly with swords immortals,

In his view, the cultivators of this world had nothing to do with immortals.

They had no supernatural powers or transformations; cultivation at most meant enhancing one's physical fitness and combat power through practice, and of course, obtaining the art of longevity.

High realm, indeed formidable in a fight.

But what does that have to do with immortals?

Seventy-two transformations, turning stone into gold, summoning wind and rain, riding clouds and fog, resurrecting the dead, turning beans into soldiers...

That's what you call an immortal.

This world, at most, is just a group of people transforming their bodies with spiritual energy, pursuing a higher level of life, just a different direction of civilization development.

Moreover, because of talent,

Most of the time, the natives of this world are in seclusion, cultivating. Apart from competing for cultivation resources, they rarely come out to move around, like Xu Heming of Tianlan Valley, who secluded himself for two to three months to sprint to the Golden Elixir stage, not even knowing what his subordinates were doing.

Not to mention those Divine Transformation and Void Refinement big shots, the higher the level, the more resources needed, and there's no time to wander around every day, let alone care about worldly affairs.

To some extent, the cultivation world and the human world are already isolated, forming two different worlds.

The Dean said that there was a possibility that a Divine Transformation realm being could suddenly appear and slap him to death, but if handled well, the likelihood was low.

Throughout history, most cults were discovered or came under the attention of the state when they had already grown quite strong, and that's the reason.

But it's different once examinees are involved.

These troublemakers would use various means to eliminate their rivals, so the risk brought by Divine Transformation and Void Refinement old monsters becomes higher...

However,

Du Ge had studied many replay videos from the alien star battlefields, and the clashes between examinees mostly began two to three years after entering the battlefield.

Because they needed to hide their identities, enhance their strength, and develop their forces, otherwise they wouldn't qualify to compete for the world and might also be slapped to death in the process.

That Bai Yanshou who possessed the Minotaur had struggled for thirty-five years before initiating a decisive battle with the one who possessed the necromancer.

At that time, the original necromancer apprentice had held the first place for thirty years, and by then, he had the power to unleash a necromantic catastrophe on the continent...

Now,

Apart from him, the remaining nine in the top ten, the highest in status was the princess of the Great Qing Nation.

The Great Qing Nation was thousands of miles away from the Yan Nation, so presumably, the princess wouldn't launch a surprise attack on him from such a distance, and the identities of the others were just outer sect disciples, menial servants, and the like. It would be about two to three years before they grew enough to influence Divine Transformation and Void Refinement big shots.

Even if that time was halved, he would have at least a year and a half to develop.

A year and a half should be about right.

He was planning a surprise attack.

...

The supervision institute didn't have very good flying swords.

According to the Dean, the better the material of the flying sword, the smoother the flow of spiritual energy, and the more energy-efficient it would be when flying.

The strange talents and body control abilities brought about by attribute enhancement reduced the demand for flying sword materials. After practicing a few times, Du Ge easily mastered the flying techniques and could joyfully frolic in the sky, and his speed was even better than the Dean's.

Having mastered the ability to fly with a sword, Du Ge returned to the Seven Star Mountain once, picked up the elders with severed arms, and set off together for the Medical Immortal Valley.

The eldest senior brother was in charge of the Seven Star Sect.

With two intact Foundation Establishment period elders from the Seven Star Mountain and three supervisors from the supervision institute assisting, the Seven Star Mountain wouldn't have any issues in the short term.

They set off three days later.

During that time,

The junior sister broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage and was elevated by Du Ge to the peak of Foundation Establishment with spiritual energy.

The seventh junior brother consumed three spirit stones and barely condensed a rice grain-sized Golden Elixir in his dantian, barely able to fly with a sword, but he couldn't fly for long before falling from the sky due to insufficient spiritual energy.

However,

Du Ge did not help him enhance his spiritual power further. They were going to the Medical Immortal Valley next, and who knows what might happen? He had to ensure his own strength to deal with any potential dangers.

In these days, the spirit stones reserved by the supervision institute were almost completely consumed by him alone.

Having consumed so many spirit stones, Du Ge's realm had barely advanced to the mid-Golden Elixir stage, and the growth brought about by attribute enhancement was incalculable. After the supervision institute expressed support for the Seven Star Sect,

The Seven Star Sect's stocks in Danyang City were selling like hotcakes, even the city lord of Danyang City bought shares in the Seven Star Sect, or more accurately, Fang Shan took the initiative to send shares to the officials of Danyang City.

Businessmen naturally understand what collusion between government and business means, tying interests to the government, making the Seven Star Sect a business of their own people.

Pushing the stock prices up naturally benefits everyone.

Moreover,

The Seven Star Sect was a major taxpayer, handing over a large amount of silver, and even the most foolish officials would strongly support such an excellent and well-backed local industry.

The scale of Danyang City was many times larger than the area around the Seven Star Mountain, and the influx of silver into the Seven Star Sect was exchanged for shares representing the future. Du Ge's attributes really grew like a snowball.

It had already surpassed the time when he was trading in the second simulation field.

His attribute enhancement was growing much faster than his spiritual energy.

Du Ge felt that if he continued to grow like this, one day in the future, after plundering the wealth of the entire world, he could truly reach the level of strength where he could pull up mountains and cover the world with his power.

Hou Yi who shot down the suns, Kuafu who chased the sun, Gonggong who broke the Buzhou Mountain...

Those ancient great witches must have been powerhouses who had honed their bodies to the extreme!

To match his own formidable strength, Du Ge specially crafted many flying knives for long-range attacks.