Gao Wu: From Martial Arts Student to Star Emperor

Chapter 664: Did he have a trick up his sleeve for her?

Chen Lie immediately understood why Shen Jiuxi had come to Blue Star. It was definitely not to attend his martial arts banquet. It turned out that she was after his knowledge of the cultivation and maintenance of spiritual fields and plants.

However, Chen Lie's methods for cultivating spiritual plants came from the Central Galaxy Empire. She didn't even bother to think about what kind of profound methods for cultivating spiritual plants could a planet like Blue Star have?

Shen Jiuxi's trip was destined to be in vain.

However, this also made Chen Lie realize that Shen Jiuxi had actually come to Blue Star to learn about cultivating spiritual plants in order to take care of the spiritual plants in that remote courtyard. This showed that the origin of that spiritual elder was definitely beyond imagination.

Shen Jiuxi herself is a top noble family on Canglong Star. There are probably more than one True Yuan Realm expert in her family, but she still comes to curry favor with that True Yuan Realm elder. This can only mean that the True Yuan Realm elder is terrifyingly strong, at least much stronger than the True Yuan Realm martial artists in Shen Jiuxi's family.

With this thought in mind, Chen Lie became even more certain that if he could serve that True Essence Elder well, it might just be an opportunity for him.

Wang Shou also found it strange. Why would a powerful figure from the three stars of Canglong Star come to Blue Star to learn the skill of cultivating spiritual herbs?

However, after a little thought, Wang Shou understood. It seemed that this top genius from Canglong Star was still after Chen Lie. They might be a pair of bickering lovers. The knowledge of cultivating spiritual herbs on Blue Star all came from outside the stars. It was too lame a reason for someone from Canglong Star to come to Blue Star to learn knowledge from outside the stars.

"Of course, that's no problem. However, our knowledge of cultivating medicinal herbs on Blue Star might be somewhat limited. I wonder if Miss Shen could..."

"It's acceptable."

Shen Jiuxi's expression changed: "What do you mean? Are you planning to hold back some tricks from me?"

"Absolutely not!"

Wang Shou said, "If Miss Shen is willing to learn, our Blue Star will certainly share everything without reservation."

Shen Jiuxi's expression finally improved.

"Although we on Blue Star also have some basic medicinal herb cultivation techniques, most of them are concentrated in Blue Capital, the capital of Blue Star. Dongchuan Province also has them, but the professional teams are a bit lacking, though they are roughly the same."

"I wonder if Miss Shen wishes to study here in Dongchuan Province, or if she would like to study in Lanjing?" Wang Shou asked.

Shen Jiuxi replied naturally, "If I'm going to learn, I'll naturally learn the best!"

"Alright, Miss Shen, please come with us to Lanjing later!"

After saying this, Wang Shou asked Chen Lie, "Chen Lie, now that the banquet is over, are you heading to Starry Sky University?"

Chen Lie nodded: "Yes, we're planning to leave today."

"In that case, would you like to come with me to Lanjing to hold a four-party star region conference for the formation of the 19th Legion of the Interstellar Alliance?"

The meeting will only last a few hours, it won't take up much of your time.

Chen Lie nodded and said, "That's fine too!"

After agreeing to Wang Shou's request, Chen Lie walked up to his parents and said, "Dad, Mom, I'm going back to Starry Sky University today."

"So soon? The banquet just ended," Feng Yuelan said.

Chen Lie said, "Students at Starry Sky University always make the most of every second when it comes to martial arts training. I've already wasted half a month on Blue Star."

"Alright then!" Feng Yuelan nodded and said, "Take good care of yourself in outer space. If you have the chance, try to find out about your sister."

"I've got it!"

Chen Lie will definitely visit Aurora Star.

After saying goodbye to their parents, Chen Lie and Huang Yuxi boarded a starship and headed to Lanjing.

The starship took off and sped towards Lanjing.

Huang Yucheng asked Chen Lie, "Chen Lie, have you really broken through to the peak of True Qi?"

"That's right!" Chen Lie replied.

Huang Yucheng couldn't help but ask, "How come so fast? Have you already grasped the true meaning of the Five Elements Martial Arts?"

Chen Lie has not yet grasped the true meaning of the Five Elements Martial Arts, but he has indeed broken through to the Five Elements Gathering Realm.

Huang Yucheng felt that she had asked a redundant question. The prerequisite for reaching the Five Elements Gathering Realm is to comprehend the true meaning of the Five Elements Martial Arts. Since Chen Lie has already broken through the Five Elements Gathering Realm, he has naturally also successfully comprehended the true meaning of the Five Elements Martial Arts.

"Now that you've broken through to the Five Elements Gathering Realm, prepare for the midterm exams at Starry Sky University in June!" Huang Yucheng said calmly.

Chen Lie asked, "What is a midterm exam?"

"The midterm exam is an assessment for martial arts teaching assistants, who will evaluate the martial arts students they select. If a student's strength does not meet the standard, the martial arts teaching assistant will also be implicated."

"Now that you've broken through to the Five Qi Gathering Realm, you must be quite strong. You shouldn't be a burden to your older sister anymore," Huang Yucheng said.

"Okay, I understand!"

Chen Lie nodded. With his current strength, even if he hadn't reached the Hidden Dragon Ranking, he was already at the threshold and wasn't afraid of any test.

After all, the Hidden Dragon Ranking only has 180 rankings. Below the fifth rank, the strongest one or two hundred people should not fail a single test.

About half an hour later, the starship landed at the Blue Capital Planet Council.

As soon as Chen Lie stepped off the starship, staff members immediately came forward.

"Hello, are you His Excellency Chen Lie, the candidate for Chief Executive?"

"It's me!"

"Please come this way!"

Guided by staff, Chen Lie entered the parliament.

Upon arriving outside the council hall, Huang Yuxi and Huang Yucheng waited in the outer lounge area, letting Chen Lie go in by himself.

Inside the council hall, representatives from the four star regions were waiting in a row.

The Blue Star governor, who was presiding over the meeting, nodded to Chen Lie upon his arrival: "Chen Lie, please have a seat!"

Chen Lie sat down in the seat marked with his name as "Candidate for Consul General".

There was another seat next to him, for the candidate for governor, Yen Cheng, but that seat was empty.

"Let's take a count and see who is still absent," the Blue Star Governor said to the staff.

"Everyone is present except for Yen Cheng, the candidate for governor who should be present."

But someone just informed me that Lord Yan Cheng is delayed by other matters and probably won't be coming.

"I see!"

The Blue Star Governor nodded, looked around at everyone, and said, "Distinguished guests from all four star regions, our interstellar alliance's 19th Legion negotiation meeting begins."

The first topic of discussion at the meeting was how many troops each of the 28 planets in our four star systems would contribute to form a new army.

A representative from the Western Star Region said, "The Azure Sky Star Region currently has 18 interstellar alliances, each with 8 to 15 troops."

Our Four Star Regions are relatively barren in terms of martial arts; we can only look down, but not up.

The seven stars of our Western Star Region have reached an agreement to determine the actual troop strength to be deployed by each of the twenty-eight stars based on the overall strength of each star.

For each star, you only need to deploy 2500 to 3000 troops.

"The 11 stars of the Southern Star Region agree!"

"The five stars of the Northern Star Region also seconded the motion."

The Blue Star Governor nodded and said, "Since everyone agrees, then let's proceed with this plan. We will organize an inspection team later, with each of the twenty-eight stars in the four star regions sending a representative to survey the overall strength of the planets and determine how many troops each planet will send."

"The second topic is the financial situation of the 19th Legion of the Interstellar Alliance."

We will distribute the soldiers' monthly salaries and the compensation for those killed in action according to a certain number of Galaxy Coins.

The Eastern Star Region would naturally have to pay the lion's share of the cost, but with the financial resources of its five stars, it absolutely could not support an interstellar army.

Financial matters are of paramount importance. We are the weakest of all the interstellar coalition forces, so we cannot be careless about our military equipment.

The Four Star Regions need to gather at least 100 million Star Yuan Galaxy Coins to purchase mechs and warships from Black Origin Star of the Ten Star Alliance, and to purchase military formation runes from Qinghe Star.

"We need to discuss and agree on how much of this 100 million Star Yuan Galaxy Coins should be allocated to each planet today."

Representatives from the four star regions and the twenty-eight stars engaged in a heated debate over the financial issues of the interstellar alliance.

One hundred million Star Yuan Galaxy Coins, even if evenly distributed among the twenty-eight stars, would amount to more than three million Star Yuan per star.

Blue Star's annual fiscal surplus is only three to four million Star Yuan Galaxy Coins, and other planets are probably not much better off.

If this money is spent, the subsequent training of the planet's geniuses will be severely hampered, so financial issues are the most difficult to discuss.

After more than an hour of discussion, no agreement could be reached on how the costs would be shared.

Chen Lie now understood why the higher-ups on Blue Star had invited so many extraterrestrial guests to their martial arts banquet. Today's banquet had indeed intimidated these three star regions.

Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to discuss asking the planets for money at today's meeting.

With today's martial arts banquet and the deterrent effect of the Starry Sky Divine Ship, the other planets in the four star regions only complained that their planets lacked sufficient funds and could not come up with so much money at the moment, rather than directly saying that they had no money.

Seeing that the discussion had gone on for a long time without reaching a conclusion on the fiscal issue, the governor had no choice but to say, "Since the fiscal issue is so complex, let's discuss it again later."

Let's first examine the third topic: the realm requirements for recruiting soldiers in the 19th Legion of the Interstellar Alliance —

The meeting lasted three or four hours, during which the governor also allowed Chen Lie to speak and offer some opinions.

However, the outcome of the meeting was somewhat unsatisfactory, as the biggest financial issue could not be resolved.

After the meeting, Chen Lie left the parliament hall, led by staff.

Just as he stepped outside, Chen Lie's communicator received a call.

The communication was connected, and the voice of Wang Shou, the president of the Martial Arts Association, came back.

"Chen Lie, is your meeting over?"

"It's over. Is there anything else?"

"Of course there is something. Isn't your classmate surnamed Shen from Canglong Star interested in learning about the cultivation of spiritual plants on Blue Star?"

I took her to the most advanced medicinal herb experimental field at Blue Star University, where the professional cultivators explained the medicinal herb cultivation methods to her.

To my surprise, your classmate got furious after hearing this, saying that we were fooling her and that we were holding back something from her.

You'd better come over here and explain this to her!

"Okay, I understand, I'll be right there."

After Chen Lie finished speaking, he hung up the communication and quickly walked out of the Blue Star Council.

Outside the parliament building, Chen Lie saw Huang Yuxi.

Huang Yuxi saw Chen Lie and went up to him, asking, "How did it go, Chen Lie? Your meeting should be over. Can you go back to Canglong Star now?"