Chapter 1710: Chapter 570: Dominating Martial King’s Tomb

At this moment, she discovered another surprising thing.

Zhangsun Bingquan saw a giant Han white jade stele about three zhang high not far away.

On the stele, lines of vermilion characters as though sculpted in iron and silver hooks, each stroke clanking powerfully, resonating with the heart.

——It’s the tomb of Dominating Martial King, General of Northern Peace Qin Muge!

Is this place the Dominating Martial King’s Tomb?

Zhangsun Bingquan felt a bit of doubt in her heart.

Why did Emperor Jianyuan bring her here?

What entertaining thing did he want to show her?

Zhangsun Bingquan mocked herself secretly, what could be more entertaining and ridiculous than herself now?

As Zhangsun Bingquan pondered this, she saw a graceful and spirited woman flying swiftly through the sky.

She instantly recognized the woman.

It was none other than the elder daughter of Duke Wei, Emperor Jianyuan’s most beloved niece, Chu Ming.

Legend has it that this woman’s cultivation is First Grade Upper, and she has mastered the first move of Divine Intent Touch Death Blade, already one of the top experts in the Daning Dynasty.

Unfortunately, she is restricted by sect rules from being an enemy of the Formless Divine Sect. She is likely to be deployed in the Northern battles against the Giant Spirit, or to assist the court in suppressing other Divine Sects and Demon Sects in the future.

After Chu Ming arrived soaring through the sky, she looked at Zhangsun Bingquan, held in Emperor Jianyuan’s arms, with a slightly condescending gaze.

She thought this guy must be a man, right? How shameless!

Chu Ming was immensely curious, but expected it was her uncle wanting to play with some novel toy.

This was not her place to intervene.

Chu Ming immediately cleared away her distracting thoughts and half-kneeled on the ground: "I was engrossed in my cultivation earlier and lost track of time. I apologize for being late, please forgive me, Your Majesty."

"No problem!"

Emperor Jianyuan’s smile was gentle and kind, with a slight wave of his sleeve, he lifted Chu Ming up: "Speaking of cultivation, how is your progress these days, Ming’er?"

Chu Ming slightly raised her willow eyebrows, her expression peculiar: "The State Preceptor’s ’Yellow Millet Dream Technique’ is indeed effective, combined with the elixir provided by Your Majesty, one day of cultivation was equivalent to a decade of effort. My cultivation True Yuan has made huge advances, not only neared the pinnacle of First Grade, but when wielded, it’s far more intuitive than before.

My Martial Intent Heavenly Rules have also made significant progress. Just the Vengeance Technique has risen to twenty-two layers. However, my Life Essence is overly consumed, even now, my strength is far from comparable with Chu Xisheng—"

Her strength has improved, and the magnitude of the improvement is substantial.

Chu Ming estimates her current combat strength has entered the ranks of the top twenty on the Heavenly List.

Don’t underestimate this mere improvement of ten rankings, under normal circumstances, it’s very rare.

The ups and downs of a martial cultivator’s combat strength, potential adequacy, are essentially determined during the process of cultivation advancement, typically succeeding which it’s hard to enhance significantly. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

After all, the Heavenly Rules and Martial Arts they master are rooted in bloodline and cultivation.

Formerly Zhangsun Ruoli, ranked thirty-second on the Heavenly List several centuries ago, yet after hundreds of years of accumulated experience, her combat strength barely entered the top ten on the list.

Chu Ming, however, achieved a ten-rank increase on the Heavenly List in just short nine days.

Moreover, above thirty on the Heavenly List, the difference of ten rankings represents a difference in tier.

It must be noted that Chu Ming’s completion of the All Heavens Secret Ceremony is very poor, especially in the Vengeful Blade Lineage, with nearly no progress, making this achievement even more commendable.

Chu Ming now primarily relies on the ’Undying Heavenly Sun Saber’.

The ’Martial Intent Soul Stone’ provided by Emperor Jianyuan has indeed endured for numerous generations.

Only one of which was Qin Li, the Chief Inspector of the Daning Rites Department four hundred years ago.

This essentially achieved a very high ’Undying’ secret ceremony, transcending eras over ten generations, cultivation essence undergoing nirvana and remaining undying.

Yet, Chu Ming couldn’t find any joy in it.

The secret technique provided by State Preceptor Yu Kunlun is indeed useful, but not as she imagined.

The Yellow Millet Dream Technique offers a day in a dream, a hundred years in real-time, allowing Chu Ming to undergo a century-long life in slumber.

However, this is traded with her own Life Essence.

The divine artifact and spell provided by Yu Kunlun are essentially driven and activated with her Life Essence.

During the mere nine days since Chu Xisheng’s leave, she already consumed a total of two hundred and twenty-five years of life expectancy.

And any martial cultivator, barring deadly injuries, has only five to six hundred years of typical lifespan.

If not for Chu Xisheng’s imminent threat, and the repeated assurances by Emperor Jianyuan to supply her with life-extending medicines, along with the promise of future promotion to Super-grade as leverage, Chu Ming could never accept it under any circumstances.

Although her martial arts progression is delightful, the cost-effectiveness of the ’Yellow Millet Dream Technique’ is indeed low.

Chu Ming more wishes for the emperor to provide some elixirs that enhance comprehension or bloodline power, rather than endlessly burning her Life Essence.

Realizing this, Chu Ming found it unusual her father Chu Rulai, a close advisor to the emperor, is unexpectedly absent.

As for General Yuwen Ba, almost slain by Chu Xisheng’s hand this time, though saved by State Preceptor Yu Kunlun, the injuries to his Primordial Spirit and body are difficult to heal.

Her father is, however, fine, just needing to take some top-grade Healing Pills to fully recover in a day or two.

Moreover, why did His Majesty summon everyone to the West Mountain Dominating Martial King’s Tomb?

"Good!"

Emperor Jianyuan laughed heartily, his expression rather pleased: "Your strength reaching this realm has greatly delighted me. I have already tasked someone to seek out the Divine Artifacts of the Golden Crow and Vengeful Blade Lineage for you, as well as the final step of the ’Yellow Millet Dream Technique’. As long as this step is completed, your strength will surely enter the top ten of the Heavenly List and hold power to confront Chu Xisheng.

Rest assured, merely the consumption of over three hundred years of Life Essence, you already have the qualification to strive for Super-grade, and once you reach this realm, at minimum, you live five hundred years, if enduring five hundred-year periods of Heavenly Tribulation, it’s immortality, live as long as you desire, isn’t it exhilarating?"