Chapter 737 - 166: Bright Moon Overhead, Shadows of the Past

"Brother Ning Chuan."

"Hmm?"

"I’ve heard you’re quite familiar with that Marquis Jing’an?"

"Not very familiar, just acquainted."

"Could you possibly introduce me to him?"

"..."

On the other side, a similar conversation was taking place between Ming Hui and Ming Qi.

...

In the Marquis Jing’an Mansion, Li Fei, who had just completed his cultivation, was unaware of the commotion he had caused.

He had just completed the "Life Bridge."

Once the Life Bridge was formed, the dozen or so magic implants in his body finally fully integrated into his body.

He had finally refined himself into his own Lifebound Item!

The physical strength of magicians is generally similar to that of ordinary people, even when refining a magic artifact; the final lifebound aura formed through artifact resonance would not be very powerful.

But Li Fei is different; his life force is exceptionally strong!

Although the Myriad Blood Pearl is currently in a "Half Blood" state, it contains over 900 blood souls, making his life force ten times stronger than that of ordinary people!

Plus, there’s the Blood Souls stored in the Blood Spring.

Having not engaged in combat for so long, the number of Blood Souls in Li Fei’s Blood Spring had reached 3000!

This was the Blood Spring’s largest storage of Blood Souls ever, reaching its own limit.

Previously, Li Fei had never stored the Blood Spring to its limit, so he did not know how many Blood Souls it could store at most.

Now he knows.

This is also the reason why, after gaining another opportunity to enhance his Blood Soul Skill, he did not immediately proceed with the enhancement.

The most cost-effective [Blood Spring] doesn’t need to be enhanced for now.

With 3000 Blood Souls in the Blood Spring and over 900 in the Myriad Blood Pearl, Li Fei’s total life value was close to 4000 Blood Souls!

Even a Great Grandmaster doesn’t possess such a powerful life force, let alone a magician?

With such life force, refining his Lifebound Item and proceeding to deepen resonance had created the spectacle of a ’bright moon hanging in the sky.’

In the secret chamber, Li Fei carefully felt the changes in his body.

After completing the ’Life Bridge,’ a magician can enter deeper resonance with their Lifebound Magic Artifact, thereby stimulating greater power in the artifact.

Li Fei’s Lifebound Magic Artifact is himself, so he has enhanced not only his magic power but also his martial arts power!

The ultimate result is that his ’Sword State’ was strengthened in every aspect!

"This feeling..."

Li Fei clenched his fists tightly, feeling an urge to spar with someone.

He felt terrifyingly strong now...

Suppressing his inner urge, Li Fei channeled his enhanced magic power to pull at the Heavenly Water Soul Bone in his Tao Foundation.

A moment later, he opened his eyes again.

"Still a bit lacking."

A trace of regret appeared on Li Fei’s face.

Even though his combat power was strengthened in all aspects after the ’Life Bridge,’ the increase in magic power wasn’t immense, still a bit short of thoroughly pulling the Heavenly Water Soul Bone in his Tao Foundation.

"Then continue!"

Li Fei’s eyes focused.

Seizing the moment of being in good shape, he decided not to rest and planned to continue pushing through!

Next was ’Condensing True Power,’ which required continuous deep resonance with the magic artifact through the ’Life Bridge’ while constantly condensing his own Void Thought.

Li Fei himself is his Lifebound Magic Artifact, and no magician in the world has a connection with their Lifebound Magic Artifact closer than his.

Therefore, for him, condensing True Power was very easy.

Thus, Li Fei continued to stay in the secret chamber for closed-door training...

This kept the mansion’s steward and Lv Wenxing very busy.

After that lifebound aura alarmed half the city, waves of people flocked to the Marquis Jing’an Mansion, all wanting to visit the Marquis Jing’an.

Lv Wenxing could only politely decline on Li Fei’s behalf, stating that the Marquis is in closed-door training and cannot see anyone.

Not until late at night did the entrance of the mansion finally quiet down.

Suddenly, the mansion steward hurried into the main hall:

"Lord Lv!"

Lv Wenxing looked exhausted: "Who is it now?"

"It’s someone from the palace!"

The steward, though having seen big events, was still somewhat nervous at this moment.

Upon hearing this, Lv Wenxing immediately perked up, quickly standing and moving towards the entrance.

Soon, he saw a eunuch at the entrance, which startled him:

"Greetings, Eunuch Feng! Please come inside."

The visitor was none other than the Imperial Eunuch, Feng Cheng!

"Lord Lv, there’s no need for formalities; I have just a couple of questions before I leave."

Feng Cheng said with a smile.

Lv Wenxing dared not to be negligent and asked cautiously:

"Does Your Majesty have any instructions?"

He could refuse others, but if it was an order from His Majesty, he would have to inform Li Fei no matter what.

In a gentle tone, Feng Cheng said:

"No need to be tense, Lord Lv, His Majesty merely sent me to ask a few questions."

"Please do."

"Was today’s commotion caused by the Marquis Jing’an?"

"Yes, it was during the Marquis’s closed-door cultivation."

"Is the Marquis Jing’an still in closed-door training?"

"Yes."

"Is his cultivation going smoothly?"

"Smoothly."

"That’s good then."

Feng Cheng nodded with a smile, ready to leave.

"Eunuch Feng!"

Lv Wenxing quickly called out to keep him.

He knew Li Fei had been requesting an audience with the emperor since coming out from his last seclusion a month ago, but had been refused each time.

Now that he finally had someone from the palace initiating contact, he had to seize the chance to probe:

"May I ask if His Majesty is willing to see the Marquis now?"

Feng Cheng smiled slightly: "His Majesty’s thoughts are not for me to guess, but after hearing today’s news about the Marquis Jing’an, His Majesty did smile."

Hearing this, Lv Wenxing laughed heartily and gave a salute to Feng Cheng:

"Thank you, Eunuch Feng!"

Were it not for knowing that the Chief Steward before him was a deeply profound Great Grandmaster, Lv Wenxing might have even tried to present some bribes.