strictlysupreme Chapter 892: I’ll Invest In You (IV)
Chapter 892: I’ll Invest In You (IV)
Chapter 892: I’ll Invest In You (IV)
As for Battle Heaven aiding Li Hao, they hadn’t supplied him that much apart from the identity of a commander, the two characters of the city’s name, and some armor and other equipment. It was far less than what the outside world thought.
Hence, while outsiders felt that Li Hao had reached his current status only through Battle Heaven, the reality of the situation was that the young man had relied more on Silver Moon martial masters and the little tree from the imperial palace. Those two parties had given him much more help.
Such was the situation that Battle Heaven understood as well.
“I will earn it all back for you when I have my body again,” Director General Wang promised when he saw how reluctant Li Hao was. “At my current level, regular Immortals are no match for me after I reclaim my physical body. Ah, the caveat is that I’m not churned to pieces by the void.”
He hadn’t thought of resurrecting before, but now, Li Hao had prepared Immortal plant spirits and Water of Life. The chance to step forward in a physical body again was right in front of him. He would be a fool to give it up!
“Very well then,” Li Hao sighed. “I hope that the director general can fight with me once we leave and obtain more opportunities for ourselves.
“Director Pagoda, I’ll need to take some of the auxiliary generals with me this time. Five, I think. Too many won’t do either and I may not necessarily be able to protect them all.”
“Five... will do.” The general thought for a bit after glancing at him. “But they’re almost completely inert and will need some core origin or other energy to stimulate their consciousness. Otherwise, they will be hard pressed to absorb energy of their own accord.”
I knew it! I have to leave behind something every time I come here.
“How much?” Li Hao nodded.
“Not too much, just Water of Life will do. It’s not a high price to stimulate their consciousness, a few hundred drops is enough.”
Li Hao rolled his eyes at himself. Is that not a lot? Five plant spirits means a couple thousand drops! I just gave you ten thousand, here goes another couple thousand drops. What I collected from killing those plant spirits is all going to you guys!
Embarrassment nipped at the heels of the group as well. New Martial powerhouses were accustomed to fighting for their own needs. Li Hao was the one giving them vast sums of resources again and again.
“Eleventh Division leader, Battle Heaven is not a glutton that only knows how to eat,” coughed the old turtle. “We are in some difficulties at the moment. Once the second awakening begins or when the world can accommodate the city again, we will be sure to repay the Eleventh Division leader in full.”
General Pagoda nodded as well.
“The Battle Heaven Army is never one to take without payment!” intoned the Ninth Division leader. “Don’t be miserly. Since you’ve set the process in motion, be more generous. Battle Heaven will remember this favor!”
“Just listen to the Ninth Division leader!” Li Hao grinned. “Am I the sort to to expect payment when bestowing favors?”
Guess what, I am!
The group didn’t know how to respond.
“In that case, General Pagoda should stimulate the plant spirits’ consciousness first and tell them the situation. And another thing—they must listen to me when they leave Battle Heaven! That includes Director General Wang. We can discuss things, but they must obey my commands in important matters. We can give up this entire idea if anyone finds this inappropriate!”
“He did it for your own good,” sounded the old turtle’s voice. “The golden armor was almost one with you. I was debating how to strip you out from it, but he did the job. This is good!”
“Is this how one should separate person from item?!” Director General Wang cursed loudly. He settled down after a few ominous rumbles. What was he supposed to do when he couldn’t beat the other?
“Hmph, just you wait until I recover my physical body!” The strand of soul disappeared with the five wooden logs.
The old turtle sighed. You... might not be a match for him even after recovering your physical body. That guy’s mental strength is growing ever stronger.
......
The imperial palace.
Li Hao remained very polite toward the little tree. As waves of core origin energy appeared, the little tree’s primary body devoured them without hesitation. This was heaven! It felt so good, goodness it felt so good!
Its massive crown swayed continuously. Was this a dream? It hadn’t done much lately, at least its primary body hadn’t done much other than growing a batch of rations. And yet, there was a continual stream of core origin for it to absorb. This felt so surreal!
It was too young in the consideration of Silver Moon Territory proper. It might be the first plant spirit after the New Martial era. Small and piteous compared to other plant spirits, it couldn’t even absorb as much energy as the others.
If it wasn’t for the eruption of energy twenty years ago, it might’ve died a while back. Even so, it could still intimidate Golden Spear back when Li Hao first arrived in its ruins. At that time, Golden Spear was a Nova.
Now that its replica had absorbed vast quantities of energy and its primary body also taking in energy, the little tree felt that it could return to the level of strength that its father wielded. Granted, it knew that this was a mistaken impression, but it was still very excited.
How comfortable this was!
Li Hao laughed at this time. “Senior Tree, do you have a name?”
“Eh?”
“A name,” Li Hao repeated. “There are too many awakened plant spirits these days, I can’t keep calling you Senior Tree.”
The little tree paused. A name? It was just a plant spirit born of the last imperial palace guard, what kind of name would it have?
“How about I choose one for the senior? Imperial Guard? The one who guards the imperial majesty.”
“As you wish.” The little tree didn’t really care about what it was called.
“Senior Imperial Guard, do you wish to see the outside world?”
“Outside world?”
“Yes, the imperial palace is very safe now and no one dares come here. The senior won’t have the strength to continue guarding the palace if you stay here. The opportunity comes if you leave before the rest of the plant spirits are fully awake. Otherwise, how is the senior to guard the palace with this level of strength?”