After awakening, the female supporting character in the abused novel only wants to ascend to immorta

Chapter 361 Embezzlement
With the change in combat strategy, Lin Zhao needed to spend more time cultivating in the Blue Duck Secret Realm. Since he could no longer cultivate by absorbing and converting demonic energy, Lin Zhao simply replaced rest with cultivation once he entered the secret realm. He would fight as soon as he woke up, and go to the secret realm to cultivate when there were no battles to fight.

However, even with this kind of cultivation, her cultivation progress remained stagnant.

"As expected, each advancement in the Nascent Soul stage requires an extremely large amount of spiritual energy." Lin Zhao gathered a stream of spiritual energy at his fingertips, then swirled it into a vortex, and sighed.

Grandma Honghu said, "Even a genius who is one in ten thousand needs at least several decades or hundreds of years of accumulation to advance to the Nascent Soul stage. How long has it been for you?"

Lin Zhao knew that Grandma Honghu was trying to comfort her, but she didn't feel any comfort at all. Instead, she said with some sorrow, "I don't have much time left anyway."

Grandma Honghu helplessly spread her hands: "Then there's nothing we can do. Ji Wantang's seventeen-year-old Nascent Soul Great Perfection couldn't have been achieved step by step through her own cultivation. You either have a fortuitous encounter and inheritance like her, or you can only find a secret realm where the flow of time is much different from the flow of time in the outside world to provide you with more time to cultivate."

Neither of these two options is very feasible. She obtained the Blue Duck Secret Realm by chance, and the Blue Duck Bird's inheritance is more about enhancing her aptitude and physical body than improving her spiritual cultivation. After all, an inheritance that improves spiritual cultivation is quite demanding.

At the very least, those who receive the inheritance and those who leave behind the inheritance must be from the same sect and have the same spiritual root to receive the inheritance.

Where could Lin Zhao find an ancestor of the Phoenix Medicine Sect with the same spiritual root as him to inherit his legacy?
Even at its most prosperous time, the Phoenix Medicine Sect was still a transcendent sect, and it couldn't compare to Ji Wantang's Bright Hall.

Everything depends on yourself.

Thinking of this, Lin Zhao cultivated even more diligently, and in the battle the next day, he took the lead and rushed into the enemy camp to slaughter the enemy demons.

This has given the soldiers of the opposing city a psychological trauma from Lin Zhao's current appearance, and almost no demon generals dare to go up and fight him wherever Lin Zhao goes.

Clearly, the city lord of the opposing city also knew that Lin Zhao was a formidable opponent, so he dispatched almost all of his Nascent Soul stage experts.

However, given Lin Zhao's current spiritual foundation, it would be difficult for ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, or even those at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, to pose a significant threat to her.

After eliminating three Nascent Soul stage demon generals and handing them over to Jin Ya and Ming Gui, Lin Zhao watched the enemy's routed retreat and pondered.

"I wonder when we'll be able to capture the city lord's mansion."

Granny Honghu said, "At this rate, you'll have at most three more days. But now that you've reached their city lord's mansion, are you planning to just swallow everything inside yourself?"

Lin Zhao said, "Is it not allowed?"

Grandma Honghu asked helplessly, "The demon city lord you're currently openly loyal to, won't he ask you for it?"

Lin Zhao replied shamelessly, "Ask me, and I simply don't have it."

In any case, the demon army in these border cities has no discipline whatsoever; they fight based on strength and formation.

Therefore, it's not surprising that they looted and plundered some valuable items from the city lord's mansion.

Grandma Honghu: "..."

Lin Zhao was also enlightened by his master's silence. He realized that what he was doing was indeed a bit disregarding their future livelihood, so he said, "If all else fails, leave him some scraps."

Just as Granny Honghu had predicted, three days later, Lin Zhao led his men into the enemy's city lord's mansion. The city lord was clearly entangled with the one Lin Zhao had instigated to rebel, and the other experts had also been dealt with by Lin Zhao's forces. Therefore, Lin Zhao wasn't particularly afraid of the remaining people. After finally finding the city lord's storeroom, they discovered it was protected by an array.

Fortunately, it was only a level seven formation. Lin Zhao didn't spend too much time breaking the formation. Once inside, he was dazzled by the dazzling array of treasures.

"Wow, even the lord of a border city is so rich." Lin Zhao looked around and exclaimed.

"The demon race doesn't care about humanity. Demons in high positions get more than cultivators in high positions."

If in the cultivation world, 80% of the resources are controlled by 20% of the cultivators, then in the demon realm, this ratio is even more distorted.

Nearly 99 percent of the resources are in the hands of the high-ranking demons, while the lower-ranking demons struggle to even get enough to eat. Therefore, their thirst for human flesh and blood drives them to abandon everything and fight.

This is a vicious cycle, and the root cause of this vicious cycle is the demon race's bloodthirsty and cannibalistic nature, which is impossible to change.

Granny Honghu had a thorough understanding of the nature of the demon soldiers. "If lower-ranking demons were given a little power similar to that of higher-ranking demons, they would immediately become even more powerful oppressors. Otherwise, do you think you could have so easily instigated this demon to rebel?"

Lin Zhao deeply agreed.
While it's true that the other party was persuaded partly by the help of his formation, the greater reason was that the demons themselves craved greater power and more resources.

Apart from those who are born to be demon lords, all demons are filled with ambition and desire, but their strength limits their desires and the extent of their killing.

As she sighed, she didn't stop working. She quickly collected all the valuable and useful items in the warehouse, leaving only a tenth of the junk.

Grandma Honghu was speechless upon seeing this: "Do you think the city lord you serve would believe that his opponent only has this much?"

Lin Zhao snorted: "You have to believe it or not. How long did I fight? How long did he fight? The fact that I left so many behind shows my utmost loyalty."

You, who came here specifically to steal other people's things, are talking about unwavering loyalty...

Grandma Honghu didn't know how to complain.

However, when the Dan Chi City Lord, whom Lin Zhaoming outwardly pledged allegiance to, arrived, his expression was indeed not very pleasant.

Lin Zhao thought that Granny Honghu's words had come true, and that the City Lord of Dan Chi had discovered that he had embezzled funds. Just as he was thinking about how to cover up this outcome, he heard the other party say, "That old bastard Xuan Si is actually so rich!"

Lin Zhao: “?”

Dan Chi patted Lin Zhao's shoulder hard: "Zhao Lin, you will be an elder of my city lord's mansion from now on. You have made great contributions in this battle! You also found so many good things for our Dan Chi city!"

The deputy general behind Dan Chi was also very excited: "Yes, this is the first time in so many years that I've seen so many good things!"

Lin Zhao: "..."

She smiled and said, "It is Zhao Lin's honor to serve the city lord."