556 Reportedly, the People in Beijing Are Going to Celebrate the Long Weekend. (1/2)

”Senior Brother, do you really want to run the tournament?”

In the bedroom, Liu Li sat on the head of the bed and curiously asked. Her eyes were filled with eagerness.

Wang Lu said, ”Of course, that's a really good opportunity. Although the majority of Moonless' harem are wastes, the number of masters is not small either. The lead concubine, concubine Xiao Yun is a Yuanying level expert, and on paper, her strength is not weaker than the head guard Han Yu. Unfortunately, after many years of harem infighting, her fighting ability had degenerated, so much that she might even only be able to use twenty to thirty percent of her ability. Now if we give them a chance to adjust their mindset and condition, after five days, we could gain endless experience.

”Great!” Liu Li could not help but touch her sword, Skybreaker.

Although most of the people in the harem were above her in term of cultivation base, Liu Li still had a strong desire to fight everyone—including Wang Lu himself.

It was good to take adventures with Wang Lu and have fun together, but if she had the opportunity to consolidate her cultivation base and refine her swordsmanship, that would be even better.

As for Wang Lu, things that he needed to consider were a bit more complicated.

From the very beginning, Wang Lu's actions were not that simple. The whimsical proposal of the harem tournament could not be passed from the result of simply relying on luck.

According to Moonless temperament, it was almost impossible to tolerate his offense. Let alone fighting with the harem members in Moon Capital, he even wounded the head guard. Not to mention that he came there with the letter recommendation from her old friend Li Yan, even if Li Yan herself was there, Moonless would still have to punish him to maintain her dignity.

Of course, the idea of harem tournament was good, but Wang Lu who proposed the idea, at most, only had to die with a bit less pain, and not be thrown into the dungeon and tortured to death.

What really made Moonless hold back was the sword strike that broke the original magical ability of Han Yu.

With the combined power of Wang Lu and Liu Li, they perfectly guided the Skybreaker. The power of that sword strike was powerful enough to make most of Daoist Master of Yuanying Stage to palpitate.

Of course, it was still far from being able to threaten a Deity Stage cultivator. If that sword strike was aimed at Moonless, she did not need to use any magical treasure to block it, her body defense alone was enough. However, the point of Wang Lu's sword strike was not to hurt the enemy, but to demonstrate something—how could a Jindan Stage cultivator unleash such a sword strike?

Although there are many Jindan Stage cultivators in this world, the ones that could unleash such an earth-shattering sword strike were simply unheard of for most of the people. Such a Jindan Stage cultivator could never be a nameless person. And the backing of one such person was likely to be even more terrifying, which Moonless would never risk provoking. The seventh rank out of the nine layers of heaven in Temple of Heaven was certainly awesome, but compared to those who could cultivate out such as a Jindan Stage cultivator, even Harmonious Heaven herself seemed insignificant.

Moonless was arrogant, cruel and opinionated, but as a political figure, she had near perfect political acumen. In the Palace of Heaven, she was like a vassal lord, so there was already no further improvement there for her. Thus, she used all of her keenness on how to preserve her current position.

Whether it was the omnipresent Moon Capital, the extravagant lakes of wine and forest of meat, or even the ridiculously huge harem, all were just means by which she showed her ambition to others. Only those who stood still without advancing could live in such extreme extravagance. Those who seek far-reaching goals would often pretend to be a moral saint. Thus, being unscrupulous in the Palace of Heaven, her goal was naturally just to remain as a vassal lord and not to look for further extravagance. At the same time, she would never offend anyone who she should not offend.

It was this complicated political move that made Moonless finally tolerate Wang Lu's impertinence, and even assigned him to complete the preparation for the harem tournament.

In these few days, it was likely that Moonless would exhaust all of her resources to dig out the bottom of Wang Lu and Liu Li. Of course, she couldn't get any result, but it was exactly because she couldn't get any result that she would instead refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases (to not act against an evil so as to prevent harm to innocents), not daring to act rashly.

With Moonless' wisdom, she would eventually find out that Wang Lu and Liu Li did not have any backing in Heavenly Earth. However, it was not known how long it would take. At least it would be enough for Wang Lu to utilize this time to use the resources in Moonless' hand to increase his experience.

For the current Wang Lu and Liu Li, nothing was more suitable than competing in a tournament to their heart's content. Most of the opponents were between Jindan and Yuanying, which was exactly the perfect opponents for the two of them, wherein they could fight with them seriously, and even take some risks, but not too powerful that they simply could not cope with. Moreover, according to the rules of Moonless, the life and death in the tournament was the destiny of each of the participant, meaning they could kill their opponent with impunity.

The life and death battle was unusual. In each fight, the profit would be more than ten times as many as that of an ordinary fight. Of course, the premise was not to suffer a grave injury in the fight. Thus, this could be said as a form of cultivation training in which both risk and benefit coexist.

Only with such a growth rate could the needs of Wang Lu and Liu Li be satisfied.

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Five days later, the Moon Capital harem tournament began on schedule.

The venue was located in the middle of Moon Capital, which was part of Moonless' training area.

Under Wang Lu's careful preparation, although it was only five days, the opening ceremony still presented a series of brilliant, dazzling, and feast-for-the-eye programs. Each and every guard that surrounded the training area of Moon Capital could not take their eyes off it. Although their duty dictated that they could not show any response, their focused stance still revealed their true thought.

At the top center of the audience sitting area, even the head concubine Xiao Yun who had always been careful and calculating in her speech revealed a smile from time to time, on the one hand pointing at the performance on the training floor while on the other hand talking to Moonless. She was talking and Moonless was listening. From the beginning to the end of the ceremony, Moonless didn't even say anything.