Chapter 37: Three Divine Beasts Ascend! Expansion of the Great Tang Territory?

Li Muchen turned his head just in time to see the White Tiger fall from the sky and crash heavily onto the ground.

Hu Bai dove downward, preparing to deliver a fatal blow to the White Tiger.

At this critical moment!!

Suddenly—

A surge of spiritual energy, brimming with murderous intent, sent the tiger demon Hu Bai flying.

"What is this?"

"How dare you be so arrogant in front of me!!"

Yun Qing stood up from the ground and walked step by step toward Hu Bai.

Everyone present was stunned, frozen in place by this sudden turn of events.

Li Muchen was the first to react. He rushed over, grabbed Yun Qing’s arm, and asked with great excitement, "You—you—have you ascended??"

"Hmm." Yun Qing nodded and gave a faint grunt of affirmation.

"Damn it—"

"Now, it’s finally my turn to be arrogant!!"

Li Muchen remembered what the system had said: once Yun Qing broke through his bottleneck, he would ascend to become a Medical God. His cultivation level would be even higher than his master, the Medical Immortal. A Medical God of the Immortal Seeking Sect was a formidable existence, excelling in both sorcery and medicine. It could be said that he now possessed the highest level of cultivation in the entire world of cultivators. As for the Lord of Green Wood Mountain, Yun Qing could crush him with a single finger.

As for that tiger demon? It had just been sent flying by Yun Qing a moment ago, so Li Muchen wasn't worried in the slightest.

He patted Yun Qing on the shoulder and said with an arrogant air, "Master Dad, I’ll leave the rest to you."

"By the way, can you... beat them all by yourself?"

"Hmm." Yun Qing nodded again.

"That’s good... that’s good..."

"Then you go ahead and handle them. I’ll recall my pets first."

"Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, return to my side."

Li Muchen withdrew the four divine beasts, leaving Yun Qing alone at the front to deal with the group of tiger demons and the people from Green Wood Mountain. He led the four beasts and his companions into a safe zone to watch the show.

"Those bastards!!"

"Once Yun Qing beats them to the ground, I’m definitely going to skin them alive," Li Muchen cursed viciously.

[System Notification!]

[If the Lord of Green Wood Mountain, the tiger demon prince, and that group of tiger demons are consumed...]

[The three divine beasts—Black Tortoise, Azure Dragon, and White Tiger—can advance to Tier 2 divine beasts.]

[The strength of the four divine beasts will double compared to before.]

Li Muchen’s eyes lit up; he hadn't expected such sudden fortune. With the four divine beasts' combat power doubling, Li Muchen would have nothing to fear, even if other demon clans came looking for trouble.

Suddenly remembering something, Li Muchen hurriedly shouted to Yun Qing up ahead...

"Master—"

"You must keep them alive! My four pets’ ascension depends on them."

Yun Qing had originally intended to deal a lethal blow to finish them off cleanly. Hearing Li Muchen’s voice, he frowned. However, remembering that it was Li Muchen who had awakened him when his consciousness was lost, helping him restore his focus to break through his bottleneck, Yun Qing pulled back his lethal intent.

In a few moments, the Lord of Green Wood Mountain, Hu Bai, and the rest of the tiger demons were all beaten to the ground by Yun Qing, in too much pain to move.

Seeing this, Li Muchen immediately ordered his three small beasts to hurry up and consume them. The Vermilion Bird had already ascended to a Tier 2 divine beast, so it wasn't included this time; the other three shared the spoils.

After consuming the tiger prince Hu Bai, the group of tiger demons, the Lord of Green Wood Mountain, and the Fourth Elder, the spiritual energy within the three divine beasts began to surge wildly. Even their physical forms grew significantly larger than before.

A quarter of an hour later, the system’s notification sounded once more:

[Congratulations, Host!]

[Black Tortoise, Azure Dragon, and White Tiger have now ascended to Tier 2 divine beasts.]

[Special rewards are about to be distributed.]

[Reward 1: The seal within the host is lifted, and the effects of the Immortal Bone Pill are about to take hold.]

[Reward 2: The territory of the Great Tang Kingdom is about to double in size.]

As the system’s voice faded, Li Muchen saw a spectacular scene unfold in his mind. The entire territory of the Great Tang Kingdom was expanding rapidly, growing and growing...

The mountains that had originally surrounded the borders, thousands of hills, were instantly leveled to the ground. The protective walls of the Great Tang Kingdom kept expanding outward until all the newly added land was enclosed within them. Where there was originally only one entrance, two new city gates appeared. Many new houses appeared out of thin air on the newly annexed land. However, except for the Imperial Palace and the five government offices, all the houses in the city remained simple wooden cabins.

A city with newly expanded territory had been built just like that. This was the first time Li Muchen had witnessed such a scene with his own eyes. His eyes were wide with shock.

"Holy crap—!!"

"Such a massive territory, expanded so easily?"

"So many hills, just flattened like that?"

"This Nation-Building System is just too damn useful!!"

Li Muchen suddenly remembered something. He turned around abruptly and observed the expressions on Yun Qing’s and the others' faces, asking tentatively:

"Did you... see anything just now?"

Yun Qing looked at Li Muchen with a strange expression, unable to understand why he was asking such odd questions. They had been here the whole time; apart from the four pets ascending...

Ah? Right.

"Are you talking about your four pets ascending?"

"No—" Li Muchen shook his head frantically.

No way. Could it be that even Yun Qing, a cultivator at the Medical God level, hadn't noticed anything unusual about what just happened?

Li Muchen couldn't believe it and asked Yun Qing again:

"Did you notice that the Great Tang Kingdom seems to have gotten bigger?"

Yun Qing’s brow furrowed even deeper. He looked at Li Muchen as if he were looking at a fool.

"What kind of nonsense are you spouting..."

"Hasn't your Great Tang Kingdom always been like this?"

"Where did this 'getting bigger' come from?"

Li Muchen’s pupils constricted in shock!!

Holy crap!!

They really didn't know anything.

Li Muchen looked at his younger sister, Li Qingyan: "Pingyang, you... didn't you notice anything either?"

Just now, when the Great Tang Kingdom was expanding, the entire Imperial Palace had shifted its geographical location in an instant. He didn't believe that Pingyang hadn't noticed.

"What are you talking about, Royal Brother?"

"Hasn't our Great Tang Kingdom always been like this?"

"Hasn't it always had two city gates?" Li Muchen asked again.

"Yes, it has always had two city gates."

Li Qingyan’s words made Li Muchen realize something.

So, every time the Great Tang Kingdom changed, the new information was updated into everyone’s consciousness. Except for him, no one... knew of the existence of the Nation-Building System?