Chapter 566 - 346: Level Up Again

Chapter 566: Chapter 346: Level Up Again

The request was indeed baffling.

But this confusion lasted only a moment.

The next moment, an indescribable light erupted in the Sovereign’s eyes. His face instantly broke into a smile of relief and admiration, and his voice became incredibly fervent:

"Carlisle! You’ve done an excellent job! Excellent!"

The Sovereign lavished him with praise, his tone thick with unrestrained joy. "Just who is Sir Li Wen?

For him to take time out of his busy schedule to make a request of our Lain Empire—no matter what it is—is an immense opportunity for us! It is a sign of the Empire’s great fortune!"

His voice grew solemn, carrying a profound weight as if he were peering into the future:

"You must remember, the future achievements of a peerless prodigy like Sir Li Wen are far beyond our ability to fathom.

Immortality, or even higher realms, will by no means be his final stop. At that level, the bonds of cause and effect become incredibly significant.

If we can provide even the slightest, most insignificant assistance while he is still rising, forging a positive bond, we may reap blessings a thousandfold in the future!

This is a priceless opportunity! You must handle this personally. Mobilize all of the Empire’s resources and treat this matter as if it were the future of the Empire itself. Execute it perfectly! There is no room for error!"

"Yes! As Your Majesty commands! I will give it my all and live up to Your Majesty’s trust, as well as the trust of Sir Li Wen!"

Carlisle felt completely reassured, and a powerful sense of mission and pride swelled within him.

The Sovereign’s words had made him fully grasp the profound significance of this task.

After ending his communication with the Sovereign, Carlisle took immediate action.

He didn’t just issue orders over the comms. To ensure there were absolutely no mistakes, he arranged a meeting in the Virtual Cosmos with the head administrator of the Lain Empire’s literary forum.

In the virtual reception room, the head administrator, a man with a scholarly air, saw Carlisle arrive as a personal representative of the royal family.

He immediately shot to his feet and bowed, trembling with apprehension. He was terrified, having no idea why such an important figure had summoned him personally.

"Listen," Carlisle said, cutting straight to the chase with a grave and solemn tone,

"Right now—immediately—use every single top recommendation slot on your platform... every resource you can muster! I want you to promote these three papers with everything you have!"

He sent over the titles and author ID of Li Wen’s three papers.

"Remember, this is the highest priority! Spare no expense! I want every single user in the Empire who logs into the forum to see them the instant they do! Do you understand?"

Carlisle stared at the head administrator, and the invisible pressure made beads of sweat pop out on the man’s forehead.

"Understood! Perfectly understood! Lord Carlisle, rest assured! I will stake my position on it—there will be absolutely no mistakes! I will implement the highest-level promotion plan immediately!"

The head administrator stood ramrod straight. His voice trembled slightly with a mixture of excitement and nervousness, but his promise was utterly resolute.

’For a member of the royal family to personally deliver such a high-priority order face-to-face... the author of these papers must have an absolutely unfathomable background!’

Carlisle nodded, and his figure disappeared.

The forum’s head administrator didn’t dare waste a single second. He rushed back to his console, his hands a blur as he keyed in the highest-level authorization commands.

’These three papers were written by His Highness the God of Slaughter... No wonder...’

Only after he finished inputting the commands did he finally get a clear look at the author’s name. In that instant, he understood completely why Carlisle was treating this with such gravity.

As the commands were executed, the entire back-end of the Lain Empire’s virtual literary forum roared to life.

Within moments, all of the platform’s pre-allocated, top-tier promotional resources were mobilized.

......

「Villa 11, District B. Meditation Room.」

Li Wen sat cross-legged, appearing to rest with his eyes closed, but a part of his consciousness was actually connected to his Scholar panel.

Not even five minutes after Carlisle had left the virtual reception room,

notifications began to pop up frantically on Li Wen’s panel:

[Ding! Scholar Experience +10]

[Ding! Scholar Experience +15]

[Ding! Scholar Experience +8]

[Ding! Scholar Experience +20]

......

At first, the notification chimes sounded like scattered raindrops, but after just a few seconds, they intensified into a torrential downpour.

The values also soared from single digits and double digits to triple digits and quadruple digits.

The experience bar for his Scholar class surged upward at a terrifying, unprecedented speed!

Li Wen’s eyes shot open, a flicker of incredulous gold and silver light in their depths.

’This... they actually pulled it off this easily?’ he thought, staring at the waterfall of experience-gain notifications scrolling before him.

Even with his current mental fortitude, he couldn’t help but feel dazed and astonished.

When he had submitted the papers himself, whether to the "Cosmos Think Tank" or the Moluo Forum, nothing had happened.

They had vanished without a trace. Even on the Lain forum, he had only received sporadic support, and the experience gained was nothing more than a trickle.

He’d assumed the system would limit gains from this kind of external promotion, or perhaps require a more complex trigger. He had even been prepared for it to fail completely.

He never imagined that using the Lain Empire’s official power would produce such immediate and dramatic results.

The promotional power was nothing short of terrifying!

And it had only been half an hour!

The rapid, drum-like beat of the notification chimes suddenly ceased.

’Hm? It stopped?’ Li Wen was taken aback, watching as the stream of experience notifications that had been flooding his vision just a moment ago came to an abrupt halt.

[Class: Scholar Lv. 21 (123,786,277 / 104,857,600)]

He immediately looked at his panel and quickly found the reason in the information he’d received.

’Looks like I hit a cap? I gained thirty million experience... Yes, exactly thirty million.’

Li Wen was stunned for a moment. Then, a fragment of memory from his past life as a gamer surfaced in his mind.

"I see!" he murmured in a flash of insight. ’In the original game’s design, the experience cap for a single paper was ten million.

No matter how wide the promotion or how many readers it reached, one paper could provide a maximum of ten million experience. I published three, so the cap is thirty million...’

Understanding the rule didn’t disappoint Li Wen in the slightest. On the contrary, a rare, excited smile spread across his face.

’A cap of ten million per paper... means ten papers are a hundred million!’ The thought shot through his mind like a lightning bolt, igniting a fire in his eyes.

’And writing papers... what’s so difficult about that for me?’

He gazed at the thirty million experience he had gained and felt as if a golden highway had just opened up before him.

If this rule continued to apply, then raising his Scholar class to level 30 would no longer be a distant dream.

It would become an easily attainable goal.

Compared to earning Martial Dao experience through life-and-death combat, this was... an incredible bargain.

’Looks like I’ll have to play the part of a top student for the next few months before the finals.’

A smirk played on Li Wen’s lips. He had already planned his leveling route for the near future.

A steady stream of Scholar experience would be a vital asset in his push for higher realms and in facing the champions of the cosmos.

Many thoughts flashed through Li Wen’s mind.

But he quickly reined in these chaotic thoughts and refocused his attention on the experience bar for his [Scholar] class.

He had originally been just ten million experience short of leveling up to Lv. 22.

Now, thanks to the thirty million experience points from the Lain Empire’s all-out promotion, he had met the conditions to level up.

’It’s enough,’ Li Wen thought to himself, hesitating no longer.

He gave a simple command to his Star Pivot. "Star Pivot, engage maximum shielding for the villa."

"Yes, Master," the Star Pivot’s electronic voice replied calmly.

The soft light within the villa instantly turned to a cautionary red before extinguishing completely.

All external connections and sensors were completely severed, creating an absolutely silent space for cultivation.

With a thought, Li Wen triggered the level-up command.

[Scholar class has met the level-up requirements. Leveling up...]

The cold text on the panel flashed and vanished.

Immediately following, a torrent of Spiritual Power—far larger and purer than any he’d experienced during previous level-ups—emerged from the void,

surging and pouring into Li Wen’s sea of consciousness.

This torrent did not strike with brute force.

Instead, it gently but firmly expanded the boundaries of Li Wen’s sea of consciousness.

At the same time, it continuously poured into the 15,000-zhang-tall Primordial Spirit manifestation at the center of his sea of consciousness.