618 The Fourth Grand Supreme Elder! (1/2)

That was indeed the case. News of Wang Baole's return as an adopted disciple began to spread, and it shocked everyone in the Vast Expanse Dao Palace. Those who had no idea what was going on at first went through the records and discovered the prestige that had been associated with the adopted disciple rank in the past.

This newfound identity meant Wang Baole could easily call the shots in the Vast Expanse Dao Palace. After all, his rank had been bestowed upon him by the true Vast Expanse Dao Palace. His current cultivation was the only thing preventing him from seizing control of the Dao Palace at the moment.

In fact, it no longer mattered that he wasn't a native from the Dao Palace.

Wang Baole wasn't the only one who had shocked them all. There was also Zhao Yameng. Both Zhao Yameng and Kong Dao had returned as an inner sect disciple and an outer sect disciple respectively. Kong Dao's rank wasn't that great a shock, but Zhao Yameng's rank had inspired similar disbelief. If not for the mind-blowing news of Wang Baole's adopted disciple rank overshadowing Zhao Yameng's achievements, she would have been placed in the limelight.

The Federation… had finally, truly assimilated with the Vast Expanse Dao Palace. It would be almost impossible to separate the two entities now. After all, there was Wang Baole—irreplaceable and incomparable.

What the Vast Expanse Dao Palace had to decide now was the role and position Wang Baole was to be given. There were plenty of views on that matter. The ones suffering massive headaches over this were Mie Liezi and Feng Qiuran, as well as Daoist You Ran, who had just come out from his seclusion and had maintained mostly silence over the matter.

While Mie Liezi was nursing a headache, Feng Qiuran was still swimming in faint bewilderment. She didn't know what to do with Wang Baole. The three elders didn't comment on the matter at all, and the whole fiasco dragged on.

The three of them knew that they had to come up with something soon though, or there would be problems. An adopted disciple could influence both the Hyacinthus Tree and the sect's array formation. If this were the Vast Expanse Dao Palace of the past, not a single one of them would be qualified to become one of Wang Baole's followers.

The three elders fought against a growing headache while the remaining cultivators in the Vast Expanse Dao Palace continued debating heatedly over this matter. Wang Baole had returned to Green Fire Island and settled his affairs. He had issued a stern warning to the donkey before contacting Kong Dao and Zhao Yameng. The three of them gathered on the main island, prepared to exchange their loot for battle credits.

Their gains had been spectacular, which meant that everyone avoided them with a strange look on their faces when they approached the mission stone stele. As the exchange was initiated and they began to pull out item after item, the stone stele began to shake and give off a blinding light.

It wasn't a mere flash but a persistent bright light that shone unceasingly as the gang pulled out one item after another, as if their storage bags contained an endless stash of treasures!

The Dao Palace disciples around them were initially shocked, then gradually became stunned speechless. Finally, thirty minutes passed. Wang Baole and his friends finally left. It was then that an uproar erupted at the mission stone stele!

The commotion persisted for a long while, and the sounds of the commotion traveled far into the distance. Wang Baole and his friends were overcome with excitement as well. The battle credits they had earned reached almost a million credits. They had created a miracle!

They went their separate ways soon after. Wang Baole had contributed the most during the search, which was why both Kong Dao and Zhao Yameng had insisted on him having five hundred thousand battle credits. Kong Dao had claimed forty percent of the remaining four hundred thousand credits, leaving the remaining sixty percent to Zhao Yameng.

The distribution seemed reasonable. Kong Dao had thought it a fair allocation. He bade farewell to Wang Baole and Zhao Yameng, then left excitedly to exchange the credits for a Dharmic treasure. He intended to get his hands on the combat cloak with the ability to turn its wearer invisible.

Zhao Yameng had things she wanted to buy as well. She blushed as she eyed Wang Baole with a meaningful look, then left. Wang Baole himself rushed towards the Vast Expanse Techniques Chamber with his token containing the enormous wealth of battle credits he now had.

This time, I'm going to get Little Duanmu to call me daddy! Wang Baole thought proudly. As long as he had battle credits, he would be able to rule the world. He reached the Vast Expanse Techniques Chamber. With a wave of his hand, he exchanged for two hundred sets of cultivation techniques without batting a single eyelash, even though many of those cultivation techniques required more than a thousand battle credits!

He spent almost three hundred thousand battle credits on the cultivation techniques. He didn't care though, there were still a hundred and fifty thousand credits that Sun Hai was going to pay him today. Besides, he had been away for quite some time. He should have accumulated quite a bit of income from the game. He hadn't asked Xie Haiyang about it, but Wang Baole was confident that he was reaping massive profits.

He wasn't stressed by his expenditure at all. He took all two hundred cultivation techniques to the teleportation array formation and sent them back to the Federation in a single go. He could imagine the shock the Federation was experiencing at this moment, having just received two hundred cultivation techniques. He wondered if Duan Muque's jaw dropped to the floor. The thought pleased him immensely, causing his spirits to soar.

Little Duanmu, there's no way you can get out of admitting defeat. You shouldn't have tried such cheap tricks in the first place! Wang Baole patted his tummy proudly. He believed in being relentless. He had sent more than three hundred cultivation techniques back to the Federation. Perhaps he should round the figure up and make it five hundred instead!