Dual Cultivation God Returns - Chapter 1049 - 1049: The territory of an eagle

Early in the morning of the next day, Wu Long arrived at Wei Yuanjie’s place.

“I’m guessing it’s time I gave an answer, right?”, the 9th prince made a wry smile, as he saw Wu Long enter the room. He received a message last evening that Wu Long would be departing to the Wei Dynasty for a bit, and that he would visit him before heading off, so he guessed that Wu Long was coming to continue their discussion, but then froze as he saw Shen Min’s figure appear from behind him in the door.

“There’s still time, I just wanted to see if you had some thoughts ready at this time. For now, I will first begin an investigation into the truth of the matter. Oh, and I have no secrets from Min’er, you can trust her to keep your secrets as much as you trust me”, Wu Long chuckled, speaking with a relaxing tone as he gestured to the prince to not be so pressured, sitting down to the side of him in a sofa instead of the usual armchair so that his beauty could sit next to him.

“No no, I think that I had enough time to think, maybe even too much”, Wei Yuanjie chuckled, feeling a bit nervous under the heterochromatic eyes of the beauty.

But he knew by now how close Wu Long’s relationship with his ladies was, so he knew he truly could trust Shen Min like he would trust Wu Long himself, so he quickly adapted, adding, “I think I have a basic plan on how to proceed”

“Good, let’s hear it”, Wu Long nodded as he wrapped his hand around Shen Min’s shoulder and brought her closer to him.

“The first part is gaining time, I want to have an honest and straightforward conversation with Changsun Yong. He should also have come to terms with the revelations in that letter about his Master by now, so I think if I talk to him, he would understand how important it is for me to delay that letter getting to Imperial Father, I will also try to reassure him that a delay does not mean it won’t be delivered”, the 9th prince started.

“Good choice”, Wu Long nodded, “I think he will understand”

Shen Min agreed as well, “If he’s not completely stupid, he should realize you could’ve just silenced him with no problem – why bother persuading him? The very fact you ask him to wait instead of making him disappear along with the letter, means you intend to get the letter to your Father, just with a slight delay to deal with your matters first”

“I-… I’m glad to hear that, hahaha…”, Wei Yuanjie made a slightly dry laugh as a bead of sweat went down the side of his forehead from how merciless the words of the beauty were. What she was saying was basically: ‘If he’ll have a problem with that or becomes suspicious of you over that he is an irredeemable idiot in which case why bother being nice and considerate with him in the first place?’

Though he couldn’t argue with her logic.

Wu Long added, “I will leave the talking to you, but we will sit in on the meeting, I’ll also offer him help in preparing for his revenge on the other Righteous Path Sects that betrayed his Sect in the time that he is waiting for the letter to be delivered. That will help ease his worries, and will give him something to focus his mind on, as I don’t intend to go easy on him – he’ll have to put in effort for his own revenge”

“Great!”, Wei Yuanjie’s eyes brightened as he realized that while Wu Long left the important talk to him, to give him agency on this and help him gain experience, he didn’t just drop everything off onto the prince and leave, staying to help and support him. He also thought that Shen Min’s mere presence here was great for intimidating Changsun Yong a bit – in fact he was confident in that, as she was intimidating for himself.

He then spoke with a somber tone again, “And I think of making a deal with Sister Zhenhui, I will move even more actively to help her gain influence, or rather I need to make her power even greater than that of the Imperial Father – although I will need your help and advice with that, but in return she will help me handle the situation with Mother when she is in power. I don’t think Sister is that interested in what happens to the older generation of the family once she takes the throne anyway, so she will likely readily leave this matter to me…”

His eyes looked at Wu Long, trying to gauge his reaction, since he was unsure if this simplistic idea could be called a plan, but to his relief, Wu Long nodded with approval, “That is a reasonable plan. Put someone in power who can give you the authority to make the decisions – that is both feasible since you are currently one of the Princess’ most valuable allies and practical since it doesn’t require an elaborate scheme, only doubling down on efforts to put her in power”

“You are Sister’s most valuable ally though”, Wei Yuanjie chuckled wryly as he couldn’t compare himself in value to Wu Long.

“You are in luck then, since that valuable ally is also your friend”, Wu Long laughed, and reached out to encouragingly tap Wei Yuanjie on the shoulder.

They decided not to beat around the bush and had the conversation with Changsun Yong right away, as Wu Long asked Butler Bang to send someone for him.

Wei Yuanjie’s prediction was right, since Shen Min’s mere presence along with her naturally sharp gaze even when she was in a neutral mood, made Changsun Yong think twice before saying anything aloud.

Especially since Shen Min was a lot more wary of a complete stranger like Changsun Yong than Wei Yuanjie, who she treated better because he was Wu Long’s friend and had been around for some time. Her gaze contained more scrutiny and suspicion, and coupled with her current appearance, looked far more intimidating.

This forced Changsun Yong to think more about every word before speaking and thus internally reach the conclusions that she talked about before, without making a scene or misunderstanding even if Wei Yuanjie’s conversation skills were not on par with Wu Long’s yet.

Changsun Yong was also excited to hear about receiving Wu Long’s help so soon, and right after the conversation was over, he went out with a small escort of War God Palace members to leave the Silver Wing City, toward the Oak Fortress where he would be undergoing his training, armed with the first set of jade slips given by Wu Long to start him on the path.

The next few hours Wu Long spent in meetings, accompanied by Shen Min. Even if he would be unavailable for 2 days maximum, the whole culmination of the auction plan was only in 5 days time including this day, so he had to make sure everything was on track while he was away before departing.

After that, came the moment for Song Lingfei to create a Spatial Node in the Branch of the Soaring Feather Trading Company within the Silver Wing City, before Wu Long left, since the only operating one was currently in the Crow King’s Nest, which wasn’t ideal while Wu Long was away for everyone to move around.

In the most secure part of the Protective Formation, Wu Long stood along with the entire Dao Family, who came out since they were curious about the process of the Spatial Node creation, and because Wu Long would be departing for the Emerald Falls City right after so it was also a little send-off.

Song Lingfei stood in front of a large stone monument around 3 meters tall and 1 meter wide in radius around the base, although it became narrower near the top.

It was specially prepared by the Soaring Feather Trading Company craftsmen, carved out of a regular rock.

“D-does the shape have any meaning?”, Gong Cui whispered to Wu Mengqi standing next to her.

“Of course it does”, the latter nodded with a very serious and confident look, and then added, “I mean… Big Sister Ye Ling can explain why”

Ye Ling chuckled, shaking her head, “I don’t know either, I’ve never even knew something like that was possible”

“The shape doesn’t have any particular meaning, but we are testing something out with this one”, Wu Long nodded.

Song Lingfei seemingly finished adjusting her condition, and her wings appeared behind her, unfolding wide with audible admiration from some of the beauties at the beautiful sight.

Her eyes with silver irises glowed, the black slightly uneven lines that went through them not far around the black pupils moving a bit as if showing some kind of waves.

The crystallic-looking feathers of her wings began to shine with profound patterns as she raised both hands forward, with open relaxed palms, as if gently holding something round before her and offering it.

Everyone present felt like they heard a piercing cry of an eagle, as if warning that it was marking its territory, and a single feather just like on Song Lingfei’s wings appeared to fall from somewhere toward the stone monument.

As soon as it touched the stone, it sank into it, and the stone itself underwent some kind of transformation as a formless ripple spread from it.

“Fuu~”, Song Lingfei exhaled, slightly pale and visibly tired as it seemed that it took a lot of mental strain and depleted a lot of her Spiritual Qi to channel her Mythical Beast bloodline power with a human body, supported by Wu Long who appeared behind her.

“Hehe, success”, she chuckled, turning to Wu Long, tired but happy she did it successfully again.

“Mm, though it seems the size of the Spatial Node does matter”, Wu Long nodded, “It took a lot more from you than the previous one”

“Hehe, well that one was a tiny stone”, she chuckled, “And the area around it that I can keep track of also widens as we suspected with a bigger Spatial Node, so even if it is a bit more difficult, we should still opt for this size or bigger”

“Hmm, as long as it is not too taxing, this size would be our limit for now”, Wu Long nodded, seeing the logic in that but also very protective of his beauty who smiled slightly weakly with a blush.

“Hehe, it’s not like I’ll be doing this that often anyway, I’ll be back in shape after resting for a bit”, she chuckled, but wasn’t too opposed to this care from her beloved man.

At this moment, the beauties began surrounding the stone monument, curiously inspecting it.

“Wu Long… isn’t this…”, Ye Ling spoke looking at the Spatial Node stone that seemed to be finishing its transformation, getting an extremely familiar feeling from seeing it.

“Feels like a World Stone? Hehe, yes, I thought so too”, Wu Long chuckled, “Though it is a bit different. It is not as indestructible as a World Stone, though it is very durable. And it is not automatically connected to any link, so you can’t travel to another Spatial Node stone through it just by touching, and of course, there is no movement of Spiritual Qi in between”

“But, from the similarities, it is just as immobile as a World Stone, so it will just stay in the air if the ground beneath it is removed. It also has an area of influence around it just like a World Stone, and as we just confirmed, the area varies from the size of the stone we use, so Wu Long can project Sister Baihu’s power further with a bigger one”, Song Lingfei added, “The little stone we set up in the Crow King’s Nest can handle the room that Sister Zhiqiu stays in, as well as a room below and the rooftop above but this stone covers some territory of the Trading Company branch around this place, about 300 meters wide in all directions”

“Do you sense any kind of limit on how many of them you can make?”, Nie Xiwang asked.

“Yes, but I can also tell that it is tied to my cultivation. At Essence Awakening Realm I can handle around 100 in total of this size, probably a bit more if they are smaller, but it will grow exponentially so I don’t think it will be an issue”, Song Lingfei nodded, “I can also remove them if we set it up in a place we later decide to abandon, or if we put up a maximum amount and need one somewhere important”

After they discussed the Spatial Node some more, they sent off Wu Long who gave each of them a kiss, and he disappeared into a cloud of dark mist, stepping out already outside the city, and then once again disappearing from the spot now just by taking a step forward, as he began his journey toward the Emerald Falls City with a small white fox sitting on his shoulder.