Mortals get a golden finger for immortal cultivation every year

Zhao Shuang's trip to the Kunlun Realm was immediately known to all the worlds in the Heavenly Court Realm.

Especially those worlds that are eyeing the Kunlun Realm, the geniuses sent there should be extra careful, and absolutely must not provoke Zhao Shuang, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable.

After all, if you provoke Zhao Shuang, the consequences are certain death.

Anyone who provokes Zhao Shuang is guaranteed to die a horrible death.

Zhao Shuang also had the Moon Goddess spread the word that those who were trying to take advantage of the Kunlun Realm should be careful, or they would be doomed if caught by her.

However, even so, the number of people eyeing the Kunlun Realm has not decreased; in fact, it could be said that there are even more, especially those unruly individuals.

This is especially true for figures like the Four Heavenly Kings, who can be said to have great disdain for Zhao Shuang, and also want to compete with him.

In their eyes, the Zhao Shuang of today is a completely different person from the Zhao Shuang of the past; they are completely different beings.

Frankly speaking, they look down on Zhao Shuang completely now. After all, in their eyes and hearts, Zhao Shuang is just a guy who relies on his past glory and is not worth paying attention to at all.

If they use all their strength, they will definitely teach Zhao Shuang a painful lesson, and may even kill him. This is a secret order from their backers. It's fair to say that Zhao Shuang is not invincible now.

If you have enough strength, you can definitely kill them.

They believed themselves to be strong enough to kill Zhao Shuang, and didn't think they couldn't handle him. They believed they possessed absolute power, enough to annihilate Zhao Shuang, because they were among the strongest young people in the entire Heavenly Court or Hell Realm.

The first place Zhao Shuang arrived at in the Kunlun Realm was not the Central Imperial City, although the Central Imperial City welcomed him and hoped that he would take charge, which would greatly reduce their losses. However, Zhao Shuang did not go to the Central Imperial City to take charge, but instead went to the Eastern Region.

Zhao Shuang also had a deep affection for this place, and the first thing he did upon arriving here was to meet the patriarch of the Chen family and the King of the Eastern Region.

This is a Saint King at the peak of his power. It can be said that he manages the entire Eastern Region, so he can mobilize everything in the entire Eastern Region.

Furthermore, he also possesses the most important treasure of the Eastern Region, the Flame Token. Only by possessing this item can one be considered a true King of the Eastern Region.

"Your Majesty, you've finally arrived." These were the words spoken by the King of the Eastern Region to Zhao Shuang.

"I was supposed to go to the Central Imperial City, but I thought I'd come here instead. Sure enough, your situation isn't optimistic. If you want to advance further, I can help you. However, if you want to become a Great Sage, although your lifespan will greatly increase, you'll have to leave Kunlun. So what's your choice now? Increasing your lifespan is difficult, but not impossible. It will require a price—a slight reduction in your strength to exchange for longer lifespan. This will make future breakthroughs more difficult, but not impossible. For example, the era appearing in the Kunlun Realm this time will be remnants of the Ancient, Primordial, Prehistoric, and Hades periods. If you can obtain a portion of it, breaking through to Great Sage will only be a matter of time. I can guarantee this, it's a promise. I can assure you you will have a good chance of breaking through to Great Sage, but it takes time. And you know the current situation in the Kunlun Realm—time is the most scarce resource."

"Although your cultivation level will decrease, your strength will increase, and I can guarantee that. You can still manage your current position on your own, or you can let me manage it for now. However, I feel that managing just one place is too light a task. If I want to manage more, I have to go to the Central Imperial City. So I don't plan to continue managing it because it's too tiring. I really can't handle this responsibility. Therefore, I'm planning to find someone else to manage it. What do you think of my younger brother?"

Zhao Shuang's words silenced the King of the Eastern Region, because he knew very well that what Zhao Shuang said was indeed possible. However, he still wanted to hand over his position to Zhao Shuang so that he could completely give up his position, because he believed that Zhao Shuang was capable of protecting the entire Eastern Region.

It could even be said that Zhao Shuang will be needed to manage and protect the entire Kunlun Realm in the future.

"Your Majesty, I hope you can take over my current position. That way, even if I die, I can rest in peace, because I believe you can protect everything we have now. Of course, besides my position, the entire Kunlun Realm will need to be handed over to you, because only by handing it over to you can we make the guys from other worlds wary and fearful, and dare not act rashly."

The King of the Eastern Region spoke these words without any hesitation, and Zhao Shuang did not immediately respond to them.

Although he knew that what the other party said was true, and that the Kunlun Realm could only become stronger if it was handed over to him, he still had some worries in his heart.

It wasn't that he couldn't protect the entire Kunlun Realm, but rather that the responsibility was simply too great. He had originally intended to give up, but after much deliberation, he ultimately decided to come. He knew that even if his younger brother could protect the Kunlun Realm from harm in the future, it would only be on the surface; in reality, the damage would be immense.

Most importantly, his younger brother was not yet able to shoulder this responsibility in the early stages. He needed to grow stronger step by step and compete for resources step by step. In this process, countless beings in the Kunlun Realm died.

Although this is unavoidable, it can minimize losses and casualties. All he needs to do is take over the position now, and once he takes over, he will be able to mobilize the entire Eastern Region's forces.

Even the Great Sage wouldn't be able to do anything about it then, though he can't now either. But even so, there are still people who will try every means to get rid of him. Their methods and strength may even surpass those of the Great Sage. If they didn't have this ability, those worlds wouldn't have sent those people over.

The purpose was to find a way to completely eliminate Zhao Shuang, this potential problem, this huge threat.

Only in this way can they completely obtain what Zhao Shuang left behind. Even if Zhao Shuang still has a chance to reincarnate, it is impossible for him to take it back in the short term. As long as they become stronger, they will still be able to eliminate Zhao Shuang completely in the future.

Their plan was that if they could kill Zhao Shuang once, they could kill him a second time. They intended to ensure Zhao Shuang would never recover, forever trapped in a cycle of power. This way, everything they once possessed would be theirs, and those who relied on or were connected to Zhao Shuang would no longer protect him.

Because Zhao Shuang no longer has any use to us.

"Your idea is good, but I don't intend to accept your current position. It's better for you to manage it yourself until you can't manage it anymore. Anyway, if I take over your current position now, I'll have more trouble and won't be as free. I have many things to deal with, which will greatly delay my progress and affect my plans. My plan is to minimize the losses in the entire Kunlun Realm, not just in the Eastern Region. I hope you understand this, and I know you definitely do, right?"

"How does that King intend for me to protect the entire Eastern Region?"

After hearing Zhao Shuang's words, the King of the Eastern Region hesitated, but chose to continue to take responsibility. Originally, he wanted to hand over the responsibility to Gao Fang, which would have freed him. It wasn't that he didn't want to take responsibility, but he knew very well that he was incapable of taking on the responsibility, and the resulting losses would be even greater.

"I will use a secret technique to lower your cultivation level, but it will extend your lifespan, giving you more time to guard this place. This will make things much easier for me, right? So, this task is left to you. As for me? I have more important things to do. Therefore, I need you to be prepared."

Zhao Shuang didn't give the King of the Eastern Region a chance to react. He placed his hand on the King's body and then used a secret technique to lower his cultivation level, increase his strength, and extend his lifespan.

Soon, the Eastern Domain King's realm dropped to the level of a Nine-Step Saint King, merely a Nine-Step Saint King.

Its lifespan has also increased by more than a hundred years, which may not seem like much, but it is actually enough.

"Alright, now you just need to wait for those guys to arrive. I'll leave you a few things. With these, killing those guys won't take much effort at all, and they'll also become nourishment and cultivation resources for you to advance to a higher realm. As I said before, you absolutely cannot break through to the Great Saint realm again. After all, you should be very clear about the current situation, so I don't need to say any more. You'll know all of this."

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, I understand."

"It's good that you know, then I can rest assured. Next, I plan to find the corpse of a god. Although that god has withered away and is only a skeleton, what remains of him is still useful. If we can obtain it, both my strength and the strength of others will be greatly enhanced, which is why I came here. However, I also know that this is far from enough, because to become stronger, the corpse of a god alone is far from sufficient. Not to mention that this god is only a skeleton now."

"Alright, now familiarize yourself with these things. Once you're familiar with them, you'll be able to handle even the strongest enemies. However, this only applies to Saint King level enemies. If they're above Saint King, you won't be able to deal with them. Of course, aside from those few freakish guys, you should be able to handle the others."

They directly retrieved two supreme holy artifacts, as well as several relics of the gods.

This thing can even allow a Holy King to compete with a Great Sage, so it must be of great use to the Eastern Region King in front of us.

How did they acquire these two supreme artifacts? Naturally, they were left behind by Zhao Shuang. The reason they were given to the Eastern Region King before them was simply because the Eastern Region King was no ordinary person; he was an extremely important figure, and not giving them to him would not be appropriate for the others.

Therefore, it can only be lent to the Eastern Region King for the time being. It is only a temporary loan, and he will naturally take it back when the time comes. After all, this is not an ordinary thing. It is a supreme sacred artifact that even gods may not have.

Most importantly, the supreme artifact does not possess a spirit. Otherwise, it would be impossible for it to enter the Kunlun Realm.

The spirits of these supreme artifacts are all at the Great Saint realm.

They would not be allowed to enter the Kunlun Realm, and under such circumstances, their power would be greatly reduced, to the extreme.

This was more than enough for the Eastern Region King before him. After all, even the other chosen ones wouldn't possess such a supreme artifact, except for Yan Wushen and his group. Yan Wushen and his companions wouldn't bother with an old, weak, or disabled person; they couldn't afford the humiliation.

If others find out, they will be ridiculed for the rest of their lives.

They cannot and are unwilling to bear such humiliation.

Most importantly, their pride wouldn't allow them to do that.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. With these things from Your Majesty, I am now confident that I can protect the Eastern Region."

"I'm relieved to hear you say that. I'm leaving now, and I'm not sure when I'll be back. But before I go, I want to say a few words to you. If you encounter any danger you can't handle, quickly hand that thing over to my younger brother. He'll be here soon, because I plan to have him take over your position. As for your Chen family, there isn't a suitable one. Even your current prodigy is absolutely unsuitable. If you gave him a few hundred years, perhaps he could be suitable, but it's far from that now. There's not enough time, and I can't give him that much time. In the current Kunlun Realm, let alone a few hundred years, I might not even be able to buy a few years. To buy enough time for the Kunlun Realm, it's not just me who needs it, it's all yours. To protect the entire Kunlun Realm, I absolutely cannot rely on myself alone."

"I understand what the Heavenly King has said. My lord, please go and do what you need to do. You can leave it to me."

(End of this chapter)