"Master, you can't abandon me!"
Taihao-Zhan Tian let out a wail of grief.
When he learned that Zhou Hao, Lin Feng, Ye Fan, and the other junior brothers had all received a pill as a gift, yet he got nothing, he completely lost his composure and burst into tears on the spot!
Captain Dongfang Mingjing beside him couldn't help but console him, "Zhan Tian, it's fine. It's just a pill. Your foundation is too strong—the effect of that pill would probably be useless on you anyway. Don't take it too seriously!"
Ji Qing next to him chuckled and said, "Maybe Divine Master Seven Stars is just too busy. Once he remembers you later, he'll give you the pill!"
Captain Dong shot Ji Qing a glare and transmitted, "Always causing trouble with your words, huh? Learn to think before speaking!"
Ji Qing curled his lips, unperturbed.
But right at that moment.
Su Yuan's voice rang out.
"Zhan Tian, your foundation is already strong enough. This pill would only boost your cultivation for you. I considered that you still need tempering, so I didn't give you one."
Zhan Tian immediately bowed toward the void. "Master, I don't need any more tempering! I feel I've been tempered enough. All I lack now is cultivation. Your disciple has been stuck at the Fifty-ninth-order for ages, unable to break through to the Sixtieth-order. Please, Master, grant me the pill and help your disciple break through!"
Su Yuan's calm voice sounded beside him.
"In that case, I'll grant you two pills. You may choose to swallow them. One can take you to the Seventy-second-order, and the second can break through the Seventy-second-order. If you wish to continue tempering yourself, just set the pills aside! The choice is yours!"
Two pills materialized out of thin air beside Zhan Tian.
At that moment, the eyes of everyone around turned toward him.
Zhan Tian's eyes lit up, and he immediately consumed both pills on the spot.
There was no need to find a secluded place for closed-door cultivation. With the Master watching over him and teammates guarding him—and given his own formidable strength—taking them right here was fine. Going somewhere else to swallow them would only invite greedy eyes.
Zhan Tian instantly felt a surging tide of medicinal power flood into his body.
His foundation was the Forty-nine-Dao Foundation of the Chaos Great Dao of Destruction—unshakably solid and terrifyingly powerful. The effect of reshaping the foundation was completely useless on him, but the vast amounts of Primal Source Power and Dao insights within the pill effortlessly merged into Zhan Tian's Origin Space.
It was like receiving enlightenment by pouring wisdom directly into his mind. Zhan Tian's cultivation realm soared at an astonishing rate.
His cultivation instantly shattered the bottleneck, reaching the Sixtieth-order, and then kept rocketing upward. In a mere three hundred years, his cultivation had reached the terrifying level of the Seventy-second-order.
Another three hundred years passed, and Zhan Tian directly broke through the Seventy-second-order bottleneck, ascending to the Seventy-third-order!
This entire process unfolded before everyone's eyes. Many who comprehended Zhan Tian's breakthrough process saw a considerable improvement in their own strength.
Of course, more importantly, the remarkable effectiveness of the pill once again ignited a frenzy.
Peak families would have sold everything they owned just to buy a single pill.
While Zhan Tian was breaking through.
Ying Wenzheng, Xie Tingfeng, and Xiuming had already dealt with the Nothingness Dominators. The three Speakers had decided to leave the Second Frontline and head to the First Frontline.
They waited for Zhan Tian.
Once Zhan Tian completed his breakthrough, they found him and asked if he wanted to leave the Second Frontline with them.
Zhan Tian naturally agreed.
And so, the four of them embarked on their journey to the First Frontline.
At the same time, similar scenes were playing out across the three thousand Second Frontlines.
One by one, Speaker-level beings, after breaking through, either formed groups or set out alone, crossing the Frontline barriers and heading toward the First Frontline.
They remembered Su Yuan's warning well and traveled to the First Frontline on their own, choosing not to accept the teleportation forward.
It could be said that from now on, everyone who broke through would no longer choose teleportation. They would all make their way to the First Frontline by themselves.
Jiang Town.
Outside Su Yuan's courtyard.
A soldier rushed over and knocked on the courtyard gate.
A young girl's head poked out from inside the yard. "Who are you?"
The soldier froze for a moment, then asked, "I am Yu Hu, captain of Jiang Town's Third Guard Squad. I received orders that equipment could be picked up here. Could you be Divine Master Seven Stars?"
The young girl's aura was at the Seventy-fifth-order Chaos Dominator—extremely deep and powerful.
You couldn't judge a book by its cover. Maybe this was an Artificer.
Su Lian shook her head. "You're looking for my father? He's inside forging artifacts! If you want to collect Dominator Artifacts, I can help."
"Oh, oh! Then I'll trouble you!"
Yu Hu said immediately.
"Follow me!"
Su Lian led him into the main courtyard.
The courtyard was a world unto itself, filled with numerous grand halls. From the main hall, waves of heat could clearly be felt, as if someone was forging artifacts inside.
Su Lian led Yu Hu to another hall.
"Give me your application token!" Su Lian said.
Yu Hu took out a token.
Su Lian waved her hand, inspected it, and said, "You're authorized to collect one hundred Dominator Artifacts ranging from the Seventy-third-order to the Seventy-fifth-order. Go in and pick!"
She pocketed the token.
Yu Hu paused for a moment, then walked inside.
The grand hall was yet another world entirely. Yu Hu could see countless clusters of light flying through the air, each containing a Dominator Artifact.
But what surprised Yu Hu was that he couldn't discern the rank or form of the Dominator Artifacts within the light clusters. He looked at Su Lian in confusion.
"May I ask your name, friend?"
"Su Lian."
"Friend Su Lian, can I sense these Dominator Artifacts?"
"No can do, no can do. If you could inspect them, then whatever falls into your hands would end up being the leftovers. Think about it for yourself."
Su Lian curled her lips.
"I understand!"
Yu Hu nodded and then randomly selected one hundred Dominator Artifacts from the available choices.
One hundred clusters of light appeared before him. The light shattered, revealing one hundred Dominator Artifacts of various kinds. Some were of extremely high quality, reaching True-Grade, while others were only Low-Grade. It was practically no different from lottery drawing.
But Yu Hu was very satisfied. He signed his name confirming receipt and then waved goodbye as he left.
Su Lian saw him out, then listlessly sat in a tree in the courtyard.
"So boring! Where did Father even go to fool around? Leaving me, a minor, to watch the house! And even if I'm watching the house, all he gave me was a bunch of pills as a reward. These pills are useless to me now!"
Su Lian looked helplessly at the few hundred Void Mixed Spirit Pills in her hand. Thinking about how casually Su Yuan had handed them to her, she knew these things were basically worthless to him.
She had eaten a few, and her cultivation had risen to the Seventy-fifth-order, and then... nothing. The pill's effect had diminished drastically on her. They were truly just candy now.
Of course, she wasn't stupid. Out of curiosity, she had looked into the price of these pills. She learned that they were extremely precious—it usually took the complete essence of a Seventy-fifth-order Dominator to refine just one such pill.
She had no idea where her father had gotten them.
"I can't sell them, eating them is too wasteful... Might as well just feed them to those little fish! They'll level up and come play with me!"

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