"One minute later, you meet the Daxuan Country Lord in the palace. You notice that apart from you, the Daxuan Country Lord is also meeting another middle-aged man in his forties."
"When he sees you, the middle-aged man directly questions who you are and why you are impersonating the appearance of Chen Dao Hai."
"Regarding your exposed false identity, you are somewhat surprised, but you firmly claim that you are Chen Dao Hai."
"The middle-aged man asks if you recognize him, but you don't know him, so you can't answer. The middle-aged man tells you that he is the head of the Ma family."
"It turns out that as soon as the middle-aged man learned that you appeared as Chen Dao Hai, he immediately knew that you were an imposter because the real Chen Dao Hai had already died, and the middle-aged man was present at that time."
"Being exposed like this, even though you still refuse to admit that you are an imposter, the Daxuan Country Lord no longer believes you and suddenly attacks you, intending to capture you."
"Ma family! Well, I wasn't planning to bother you, but it seems you've come to me."
A cold light flashes in Su Nan's eyes.
Originally, he didn't pay any attention to the Ma family, and he hadn't even thought about taking action against them, as the Ma family was like ants in his eyes.
Who would care about the life or death of ants on the ground?
But now this ant had crawled onto him and even bitten him. This was unacceptable.
Even in foresight.
The foresight was still ongoing, and the events that followed were the same as before. The Daxuan Country's King realized he wasn't a match and resorted to the Paper Puppets again.
This time, he didn't escape to the Grudge Dragon Mountain, but he still ended up dead.
He was caught by the King-level Peak Paper Puppet.
"This can't continue. It looks like I need to change my approach."
Su Nan didn't want to clash with the Daxuan Country Lord again.
Their strengths were not on the same level, and even if the Daxuan Country Lord couldn't discover that he was an outsider, trying to obtain the secrets of the Fragrant Fire Divine Path from him would be extremely difficult, as it involved the foundation of the Daxuan Country.
Unless he could possess the strength to suppress the Daxuan Country.
"I can't start with the Daxuan Country, so I'll go to the Five Great Noble Families. I don't believe that the Five Great Noble Families have something as formidable as the Paper Puppets!"
"Do you want to go to the Five Great Noble Families? You know there is danger in this journey. Do you want to consume a certain number of foresight opportunities to foresee the situation three minutes before your death?"
"Yes."
As he confirmed, another 20 foresight opportunities were consumed on the panel.
"Another 20 times? What's going on?"
Su Nan frowned.
Could it be that the Five Great Noble Families also had an ace up their sleeves?
"You know that making contact with the Daxuan Country's royal family is dangerous, so you choose to go to the Five Great Noble Families and plan to practice the Great Sun Golden Body Sutra before that."
"Five hours later, you finish your practice and prepare to go to the Five Great Noble Families with Chen Ying and her servant. However, before that, you need a portrait of Chen Dao Hai, Chen Ying's father, to change your appearance."
"Chen Ying and her servant don't have a portrait of Chen Dao Hai on them, so you have to go to the Chen family. Seven hours later, you arrive in the town where the Chen family is located."
"As soon as you arrive, the Ma family's people secretly spot you. After obtaining a portrait of Chen Dao Hai from the Chen family's ancient mansion and transforming into his appearance, a group of strong individuals from the Ma family surrounds you."
"When they see your appearance, the Ma family's members are shocked. Chen De takes action and kills them all. You don't spare the Ma family's intentions and, led by Chen Ying, head to the Ma family."
"Six hours later, you arrive at the Ma family. With your formidable strength, no one in the Ma family can stop you. Eventually, all the strong members of the Ma family are killed by you. Afterwards, you take Chen Ying to the Five Great Noble Families."
"The Five Great Noble Families are also located in the Daxuan Country's capital. Eleven hours later, you arrive in the Daxuan Country's capital. This time, you quietly enter the royal city without being discovered by the Daxuan Country."
"You change back into the appearance of Chen Dao Hai, find one of the Wang family's Five Great Noble Families, and want to obtain information from the Wang family using the ancient divine key as leverage."
"The head of the Wang family receives you, but after seeing you, without saying a word, he suddenly attacks you, wanting to kill you directly and obtain the ancient divine key in your possession."
"Your actions infuriate the other party, and you kill him directly. However, this also alarms the other strong members of the Wang family. A group of Wang family's strong individuals quickly appears, and you have no fear as you kill the Wang family's attackers one by one."
"Your strength terrifies the Wang family members, and they can't understand why you are so powerful. Just when the Wang family members are in despair, a Wang family's King-level Patriarch finally appears."
"King-level Patriarch? These Five Great Noble Families really do have King-level experts!"
Su Nan's expression becomes serious. Chen De had mentioned before that the Five Great Noble Families might have King-level existences, and he didn't expect it to be true.
"You engage in a grand battle with the Wang family's Patriarch, which quickly attracts the attention of other powerful beings in the city, and even the Daxuan Country Lord is drawn to the scene
."
"The Daxuan Country Lord is puzzled about why you have become so powerful. While you are battling with the Wang family's Patriarch, he chooses to control the Paper Puppets to attack you, attempting to capture you and discover the secret of your increased strength."
"It's the Daxuan Country Lord again. If he appears, there's no need to read further. I already know the outcome."
Su Nan's face darkens.
Whenever the Daxuan Country Lord appeared, the outcome was already determined.
The Daxuan Country Lord had a King-level Peak Paper Puppet by his side. As long as the Daxuan Country Lord appeared, the outcome was sealed.
Unless he could deal with that King-level Peak Paper Puppet.
It was indeed as he had expected.
In the foresight, the Daxuan Country Lord eventually used the King-level Paper Puppet, and he was killed by the Paper Puppet.
"If the Great Princess's strength is restored to the King-level later on, maybe there will be a way to deal with that King-level Peak Paper Puppet."
"I just don't know if the Daxuan Country has any other hidden cards besides that King-level Paper Puppet?"
Su Nan couldn't be sure.
After all, the Daxuan Country was once the power established by the Daxuan Empire. The Daxuan Empire had once brought the human race in the Eastern Chen region out of the post-ancient slump and to a peak after the post-ancient era.
It had also existed in this Lost Land for thousands of years. How many means they had accumulated by now was unclear.
Su Nan even suspected that there might be Imperial-level existences in the Daxuan Country!
"The reason why the Wang family targeted me was because they thought I was an easy target, believing I was just a Spirit-level and could be easily dealt with."
"If I had initially shown a King-level strength, it might have been a different situation."
Su Nan murmured to himself.
Three foresights, each one ending because of the Daxuan Country Lord. The Daxuan Country Lord was not very strong, but the Paper Puppet by his side was formidable.
He had to find a way to bypass the Daxuan Country Lord and make contact with the Five Great Noble Families without alerting the Daxuan Country Lord.
To do that, having a strong realm was necessary.
"It seems like it's necessary to change my realm."
Su Nan's hand flipped, and a stone appeared in his hand.
It was the False Restone.
Going to the Wang family with a Spirit-level realm, the Wang family's head thought he could easily take him down, which led to a series of events behind.
Chapter 271: Points Settlement
"What if he appeared directly with a King-level realm?" Su Nan thought, and he had an idea.
Unfortunately, he had run out of foresight opportunities for the day and couldn't continue to foresee.
He didn't waste any more time and sat cross-legged on the Array Plate of Summoning the Great Sun, beginning to cultivate the Great Sun Golden Body Sutra.
The Great Sun Golden Body had already begun to take shape, and Su Nan felt significantly more at ease during his second cultivation of the Great Sun Golden Body Sutra compared to the last time.
Last time, he could only endure a few minutes before his body couldn't bear it, but this time, with the support of the Golden Body, he easily lasted for ten minutes.
However, this time, the cultivation session was much longer than before.
"According to the Great Sun Golden Body Sutra, the longer one endures the burning of the Great Sun's fire, the better."
In his foresight, with the help of the Fire Essence, he could only endure half an hour, which was already excellent.
Looking at the panel, a prompt appeared:
"Would you like to spend 50 points of Demonic Energy to increase the progress of the first layer of the Great Sun Golden Body Sutra by 10%?"
"Yes!"
Without hesitation, he had saved Demonic Energy and had been waiting for this moment.
With 50 points of Demonic Energy consumed, he still had 136 points left.
Su Nan immediately felt a strange force surging within him. This force dispersed throughout his entire body, instantly increasing his physical strength.
On the panel, the progress of the Great Sun Golden Body Sutra, which had been at 1%, suddenly jumped to 11%.
"This feels good," Su Nan's eyes sparkled.
Using Demonic Energy to accelerate could only be done once a day.
Today's acceleration had ended, and now he could only continue to cultivate steadily.
Time passed, and half an hour went by in the blink of an eye.
In the real world, it was already nine o'clock, and at the same time, a message about the end of the Twelve Constellations event popped up:
"Today's Twelve Constellations event has ended. Congratulations, your White Aries Constellation battlefield, Number 407, emerged as the final victor, and you performed astonishingly, earning 82.51% of the point rewards."
"Congratulations, you successfully hunted and killed one of the defenders of the Pisces Constellation, earning an additional 10% point bonus."
"Congratulations, you earned 9251 points in this event."
"The next Twelve Constellations event will open tomorrow night at 8 o'clock."
"Over 9,000 points, not bad!"
Su Nan nodded; this point total was within his expectations.
He didn't rush to check Zhang Yang and Lang Thirteen's point totals; instead, he continued to cultivate.
After more than ten minutes, he finally couldn't continue and had to stop his cultivation.
At this point, he looked miserable, even worse than before. His entire body was burnt, and if it weren't for his breathing, no one would believe he was still alive.
He reluctantly swallowed a life-replenishing demonic creature, quickly converting it into vital energy to repair his battered body.
It took a while, but when his injuries finally began to stabilize, he switched to the character Zhang Yang.
"Congratulations, your Pisces Constellation battlefield, Number 484, emerged as the final victor among the Aries Constellations, and you performed astonishingly, earning 99.01% of the point rewards."
"Congratulations, you successfully hunted and killed one of the defenders of the Pisces Constellation, earning an additional 10% point bonus."
"Congratulations, you earned 10,901 points in this event."
"99%!"
Su Nan was somewhat surprised; he knew he could definitely earn over 90%, but he didn't expect to earn so much.
However, considering his speed in killing players, he understood.
He entered the Pisces Constellation battlefield as Zhang Yang less than a minute after the Twelve Constellations event opened, and it only took him one minute to finish the battle. There weren't many people killed in the battlefield during that time.
Especially the players from the Pala Empire, they had the late-stage Spiritual level player Kavita, so they had minimal losses, and they all ended up dying to Su Nan's flames, which allowed him to earn so many points.
Now, let's look at Lang Thirteen's rewards.
Compared to Zhang Yang, Lang Thirteen entered the battlefield a bit later and killed fewer players.
Even so, his score was still as high as 98.37%!
With the additional points earned from hunting the Pisces Constellation defenders, Lang Thirteen had 10,837 points.
The personal points ranking appeared before him.
Without any surprises, the top three positions were still held by his three characters.
Wang Nan's 9,000+ points ranked third, while the fourth position belonged to Ludi, the self-proclaimed number one god from a foreign country, with over 6,000 points.
The remaining players in the fifth to tenth positions were mostly those who had killed the defenders of the stars in the top ten rankings, but among them, two were players who had killed the defenders of the stars in the bottom ten rankings.
"This is normal; killing the star defenders first doesn't mean their strength is necessarily stronger than the others."
Just like his three characters, if we were to consider their strength, it was King Nan with his physique who was the strongest, but in terms of speed in killing players, Zhang Yang and Lang Thirteen had the advantage.
In this battle, players specializing in the Arts of Control and the Arts of Secrets were more advantageous compared to those with physique-based abilities.
Su Nan casually glanced at the ranking and didn't pay much attention to it. Instead, he reopened the points shop.
"With over 10,000 points, I can only access the third-level shop."
"Unfortunately, most of the items in the third-level shop are for Spiritual-level players, and they don't hold much appeal for me."
"Maybe there are things I can use in the fourth-level shop. If only I could see what's in the fifth-level shop, then I could start accumulating points in advance."
His guess was that the fourth-level shop might have items suitable for Profound-level players, such as Profound-level Ancient Demonic Bloodlines.
Unfortunately, opening the fourth-level shop required 50,000 points!
To open the fifth-level shop, it required 100,000 points.
The gap was substantial.
"For now, I won't think about these things. I'll repair my body first."
Looking at his battered body, Su Nan's expression grew serious. The Great Sun's fire this time had burned away all the bloodline power in his body. If someone were to attack him now, he would probably be easily killed.
Vitality turned into energy, quickly repairing his body.
Without the game's status refresh, this time the repair took an unprecedentedly long time.
Over ten hours had passed before he finally managed to repair his body.
The game had already refreshed, and it was the early morning of the second day. In the game, it was already nighttime.
"I increased the progress by 3% with this cultivation!"
"Not bad, it was worth persisting for such a long time."
A pleased look appeared in Su Nan's eyes.
On the panel, the progress of the first layer of the Great Sun Golden Body Sutra had reached 14%. At this rate, if he could endure the burning of the Great Sun's fire for an hour each time, coupled with the acceleration of Demonic Energy, he could complete the first layer in just seven more sessions.
However, he currently had enough Demonic Energy for only two more accelerations.
"Quest, I wonder what quests have refreshed today?"
(End of this chapter)