Chapter 171
"Rumble . . . rumble . . . rumble…"
A loud rumbling rang out from within Lu Sheng's body incessantly .
His stomach was like a bottomless pit . Copious amounts of vegetables and braised meat mixed with rice were stuffed in his mouth and swallowed after a few chews .
Lu Sheng sat alone in the dining hall, with a group of guards standing by him . But at the sight of how he ate, everyone gulped hard . Just watching him eat made one feel bloated .
"News! The Head of Transformation Clan is here!" a guard outside the door shouted .
Lu Sheng put down the large bowl in his hands and wiped his mouth .
"Bring him over . "
In this era in which Crimson Whale Sect lorded over all the sects in Northern Lands, his words were like the royal edict in the Northern Lands—nobody dared defy him .
It was late autumn . Pale rays of sunlight fell into the dining hall through the doors . While it was insufficient to warm up the place, it alleviated the cold .
But not for Transformation Clan's Head, who had just entered through the doors . No amount of sunlight could alleviate the cold shivers running down his spine now .
Transformation Clan Head, Kong Yi . He was the new Head who had just come into power for less than three months . His predecessor had died of illness at home suddenly . Since he was the Deputy Clan Head then, he had to hurriedly succeed the position .
Having started off as a pickpocket, Kong Yi was lanky and skinny . He might have donned a loose-fitting velvet robe, yet he looked like a monkey in human clothing .
"Kong Yi greets Sect Master Lu . " He stood in the center of the dining hall and cupped his fists together at Lu Seng .
Lu Sheng picked up a pig's trotter and dipped it in soy sauce unhurriedly .
"Rip!"
Without warning, his mouth opened up and expanded till twice its original size . Razor-sharp teeth bit through the pig's trotter, bone included .
Shivers went down Kong Yi's spine . 'How could a man's mouth open so wide? And look at his teeth! How can human teeth be so sharp?
Could it be that this Sect Master Lu isn't human at all? Could he be a demon!?’
"Clan Head Kong . You've worked hard to safeguard the peace in my Northern Lands all these while . I've been paying attention," Lu Sheng said blandly .
Clueless about where this was leading, all Kong Yi could do was smile and agree .
"Yes, yes, yes . . . all's due to Sect Master Lu's wise guidance . "
Lu Sheng glanced at him . Although one could not see anything extraordinary about him on the surface, he had pretty decent inner Qi cultivation .
Just moments ago, he had received the tip-off that Scarlet District Mistress had paid a visit to Lu Manor . Although he knew that umbrella girl would definitely try to stop her, the fact that his family could be plunged in danger at any moment finally caused him to firm up the resolve in his heart .
It was time for all sects and factions to come under one rule in the Northern Lands .
Hence, he immediately gave orders for all sects nearby to meet him, one at a time . As the Sect Master of the Number One Sect in the Northern Lands, and given that Lu Sheng's present power and reputation exceeded even that of Hong Mingzi, naturally nobody dared to refuse .
Kong Yi was the first such leader to meet him . Transformation Clan was an organization that mostly consisted of worthless swindlers, thieves, craftsmen, fortune-tellers . . . and the like . They did not possess much in the way of actual fighting power . So, it was within expectation that they would be the first to obey Lu Sheng's summons .
"I've called you here to gift you with an opportunity," Lu Sheng spoke as he attacked the dishes before him, without even bothering to look at him .
"Sect Master Lu . . . this . . . may I know . . . what this opportunity is?" Apprehension crept into Kong Yi's heart by instinct .
"An opportunity to improve your cultivation base vastly . . . " Lu Sheng put down the pig trotter in his hand, stood up and walked slowly to Kong Yi .
"Sect Master Lu . . . this . . . Kong Yi does not deserve such fortune . I think you may . . . you may want to . . . "
"Boom!"
An alarm wailed in Kong Yi's mind by instinct . Before he could finish his words, however, his eyes rolled back and his body trembled . Slowly, he bowed his head and stared at a fair palm pressed on his chest .
"You . . . !!?"
"Szzzz…" A cold stream of Yin Qi gushed into his body at top speed . Kong Yi's body shook and trembled intensely .
Moments later, the doors to the dining hall opened and Kong Yi exited through them calmly . Under the escort of several subordinates, he departed slowly .
Lu Sheng sat on the same spot without a budge and continued eating . He did not absorb Kong Yi's inner Qi . Although his thirty years' worth of cultivation in Dark Cloud Skill was pretty decent, earning him a spot among Spirit Focus experts, that was not his purpose .
He needed more manpower, more subordinates, stronger experts . . . to protect what he wished to protect .
Thus, all he did was to implant a Yin Crane Web in Kong Yi .
Yin Crane Web effectively created a brand-new network of meridians in Kong Yi which had no bottlenecks . From this point forward, there would cease to be any limits to the growth of his inner Qi . As long as his fleshly body could cope with it, he could increase his inner Qi without limit .
The growth of inner Qi was an extremely slow and gradual process, but the emergence of an Yin Crane Web in Kong Yi sped up this process several times for him and could even enable him to break through the bottlenecks in his meridians . One could foresee that Kong Yi's inner force would really take off in the days to come . If supplemented with large amounts of medicine and herbs, he might even achieve hundred years' worth of cultivation in the next ten years!
"Next set of dishes . " Lu Sheng put down the tub of rice in his hands and wiped his mouth .
It was time to wait for the next chief, head, or leader .
After sucking all the inner force experts of their inner Qi in the dungeon, just his Yin Yang Jade Crane Aquarius Qi cultivation alone had stunningly attained seven drops of liquefied Qi .
If converted into years, that was a whopping seven hundred years' worth of inner force! And this was excluding the three hundred years' worth of cultivation in Ultimate Crimson Nine Furies Skill .
Altogether, he now had a millennium’s worth of inner force!
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