Although Dragon Gate’s selection only ultimately recruited two disciples, Lin Ze was very satisfied.
At just 16-year-old, Ling Yixue was already an Initial Rank Seven Martial Vein Martial Master, so there was no need to speak about her strength.
Ling Xiao was even more terrifying. His cultivation was only Mid Rank Six Martial Vein, but he easily defeated two Peak Rank Six Martial Vein martial artists.
More importantly, his comprehension far surpassed many Martial Masters.
He had incorporated soul attacks into his martial arts and even created a “Soul Realm” above the sublimity realm.
In addition, he had comprehended a certain kill skill of <Duplicate Shadow Sword Technique>.
How did he resemble a 14-year-old child? He was a martial freak.
Lin Ze felt fortunate that such a child had not been taken away by those people from Heavenly Ren Academy but had been recruited to the Side General Residence.
This was extremely beneficial to the future development of this child, Northern Han Country. and the Human Race’s Sacred Dynasty.
After the Dragon Gate’s selection, Lin Ze’s affairs in Dragon Gate were finished.
Now, the effects of destroying Dream Pills in Dragon Gate should be brewing; the Ren Race would not easily drop this matter.
However, Lin Ze was also unwilling to drop it.
Dragon Gate was just the beginning.
The havoc of Dream Pills had already become a big problem for the Human Race’s Sacred Dynasty.
A large amount of spirit stones flowed out from the human Sacred Dynasty because of these Dream Pills. In addition, Dream Pills made the already declining human martial artists’ cultivation even more difficult.
Low-grade spirit stones were so scarce that you would sometimes have to go to high officials and noble lords for them or even seek refuge with the myriad races.
Moreover, Dream Pills had corrupted the ruling institutions of the Human Sacred Dynasty.
Many nobles, bureaucrats, and experts had been corrupted by Dream Pills, aggravating the parasitic nature of the ruling clique.
They accepted bribes, shielded the smuggling of Dream Pills, and used various methods like increasing rent and taxes to pass the costs of purchasing Dream Pills onto ordinary martial artists, making it more difficult for ordinary martial artists to improve.
Dream Pills could be called the biggest reason for many martial artists being unable to breakthrough to Martial Master.
Besides, Dream Pills seriously weakened a martial artist’s combat power.
The high-ranking military officers and soldiers of the Human Sacred Dynasty also took Dream Pills.
Furthermore, the officers and seamen of Heavenly Peak City’s navy not only used Dream Pills but also took a lot of bribes.
The navy patrol ships actually had an agreement with the Ren Race’s Dream Pill Ships: “every box of Dream Pills received corresponded with spirit stones or gold for the deliverer.” A lot of “anti-smuggling patrol ships” had even turned into Dream Pill smuggling ships.
Dream Pills had destroyed the bodies of countless human martial artists. Now, places selling Dream Pills could be found in every city and town of the Human Sacred Dynasty.
This made many martial artists mistakenly eat or use them, unable to resist their temptation, eventually becoming the Ren Race’s puppets or having their cultivations crippled.
There were tens of thousands of such martial artists.
Precisely because he had seen such problems, Lin Ze had decided to ban the import of Dream Pills. Although the Human Race’s Sacred Emperor was young, he also had a backbone and supported Lin Ze’s movements.
However, this matter was still very difficult.
Although the problem of Heavenly Peak City had been resolved, under the protection of the Ren Race, Governor Wan Ben as well as local bureaucrats, stores that sold Dream Pills could be found everywhere in White Cloud Province.
Some Dream Pill shopkeepers were openly people of the Ren Race, Blue-Eyed Race, and other alien races, so it would be no small matter to completely eradicate them.
While the carriage fleet returning to White Cloud Capital traversed the winding mountain path, Lin Ze revealed these matters to Ling Xiao.
To cultivate a martial artist, not only must his strength be cultivated, but a proper ideology as well.
If you successfully cultivated a peerless expert, but he became an evil person, it would be a waste.
Therefore, he had to tell Ling Xiao and Ling Yixue about these things and let them determine their perspectives on Dream Pills.
He wouldn’t force these two people to do something because that would bring about adverse effects. He would simply guide them with goodwill.
“Well, you two don’t need to think too much about it. With your current strength, you can’t help me in this matter, so you two should focus on improving your strength.”
Lin Ze laughed at these two people’ serious appearances.
This eased the atmosphere.
“General Lin, you are already a Peak Rank Nine Martial Vein martial artist! Can it be that even you can’t do anything you want?”
Ling Xiao asked with doubt.
“Ai.”
Lin Ze sighed and said, “Not to mention Peak Rank Nine Martial Vein martial artists, even those who have stepped into the Transcendent Realm, how can they do whatever they please? The higher you reach, the more you will know that there are people more talented than yourself in the world.”
“Transcendent Realm? What exactly is the Transcendent Realm?”
Ling Xiao asked excitedly.
He had seen a few Peak Rank Nine Martial Vein martial artists, but he had never seen even one Transcendent Realm martial artist.
Therefore, he was very curious.
Lin Ze said with a smile, “The Transcendent Realm is the realm of detaching oneself from the ordinary.”
“Speaking more specifically, it means to break away from the ordinary, secular body and step into a completely different realm. The body will undergo some very special changes, and your lifespan will also greatly lengthen.”
“Merely, it’s a pity. I’ve also only heard of it. Only when you truly reach the Transcendent Realm will you understand how powerful that realm is.”
“I also yearn for it, but Ling Xiao, from this General’s point of view, I’m sure that you will step into the Transcendent Realm. I guess that you will reach greater heights than I.”
Ling Xiao was a little surprised when he heard this. “Why does the General think so?”
“Intuition!”
Lin Ze laughe.: “Of course, it’s not only my intuition, but it can also be seen from your comprehension abilities. Generally speaking, martial artists who can enter the Transcendent Realm all comprehended profound meaning styles from Transcendent Martial Arts when they were at the Martial Master stage.”
“If I am not wrong, you must have already comprehended a profound meaning style from a Transcendent Martial Art, right?”
Ling Xiao hesitated a little but revealed the truth in the end.
“Not to hide the truth from the General, but I only comprehended five styles from a Transcendent Martial Art Fragment’s profound meaning. I’m still far from perfecting the Transcendent Martial Art’s profound meaning.”
Ling Xiao couldn’t help but recall the scene that had appeared when he had first comprehended the styles.
Transcendent Martial Arts could arouse natural power, so could Transcendent Realm martial artists borrow natural power?
If that was the case, it was no wonder that Lin Ze would say that a human’s physique and lifespan would experience great changes.
“The Transcendent Realm is peerless. Those who can reach that realm are all a faction’s master-level personage. In the human sacred dynasty, there are too few Transcendent Realm martial artists. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been bullied to this state.”
Lin Ze sighed. “The human sacred dynasty is already like this. As one of the vassal nations, there’s no need to mention Northern Han Country. As for White Cloud Province, this General has never seen even a single Transcendent Realm martial artist.”
While speaking this, Lin Ze looked clearly sad and helpless.
Why wouldn’t he want to breakthrough to such an extraordinary realm? Merely, not everyone could attain this realm.
He took young martial artists into the Side General Residence because he wanted to cultivate a few more talents for White Cloud Province, Northern Han Country, and even the entire Human Race.
If even one or two could step into the Transcendent Realm, he would be content.
