CHAPTER 281: HUNDRED MILLION!

The day Ashen met Han Wuji in the forest of beasts,

After Ashen had entered Gang Zhao’s lair after returning from the Beast King Sect, he turned to the five king realm tigers and ordered, "You all wait here. I’ll be back in an hour!"

Saying that, he flew away, disappearing from their sight.

A few minutes later, he descended to the ground.

"I greet your highness!"

He was greeted by a man in dark robes covering his face, kneeling in front of him.

He was Han Wuji—the early-stage emperor realm cultivator who lost his grandson, Han Yujin, to Ashen’s schemes.

Having been fed the Scarlet Mind Schine, he couldn’t even think of betraying Ashen.

"Hmm," Ashen, with his hands clasped behind his back, nodded in acknowledgement of Han Wuji’s greeting and asked, "Han Wuji, have you brought the information I asked for?"

"I have." Han Wuji replied, taking out a scroll from his space ring and presenting it to Ashen with both hands. "Please take a look."

Ashen extended his hand as the scroll floated to him. Opening it, he glanced at the information.

A list of names was written inside, with each name followed by their cultivation realm and current location.

"I have personally collected this information by visiting the Eastern region." Han Wuji reported. "This list contains the names of all the individuals who are known as geniuses or have achieved an unbelievable feat to make their names resound widely, just as you asked."

Ashen nodded in satisfaction and praised, "You’ve done well, Wuji."

"All thanks to you, your highness." Han Wuji replied humbly.

Ashen gave a nod without paying further attention to him as he glanced at his villain points—they weren’t enough for his plans.

He let out a tired sigh before ordering Han Wuji, "Come with me. We have some beasts to enslave."

Han Wuji followed after him without any question.

The following days, they enslaved eleven king realm beasts before heading to the Xue Mo Tribe to attack Qin Feng and earn Villain Points.

After injuring Wang Biao and escaping from the Blood Demon Lord, Ashen and Han Wuji were teleported ten thousand kilometers away to the Baihu Tribe’s western region.

They were in the sky, from where a village to their left was visible. They made their way to the village, where they rented a small inn.

This village had no cultivators, so the villagers couldn’t know that Ashen and Han Wuji were cultivators.

Disguising themselves as travelers, Ashen and Han Wuji rented a room in the only inn in the village.

Inside the room, Ashen sat on the bed while Han Wuji remained standing, ready to fulfill any request from Ashen.

Ashen took out the scroll and a pen from his space ring. He then ordered the system in his mind.

System, check this list of names and tell me who the protagonists are.

[Ding! Host, It will cost you 5 million Villain Points. Do you want to proceed?]

Ashen nodded without any hesitation.

[Ding! Host’s confirmation received. Proceeding to search the protagonist status...]

Ashen waited patiently for the results.

After the system advanced to level 2, it had become capable of telling whether someone was a protagonist or not just by their names and location.

However, the system still wouldn’t find a protagonist for Ashen from scratch and tell their location without the protagonist search function, as in Qin Feng’s case.

This was the reason why Ashen asked Han Wuji to collect this list of names. It was to find the next target.

Ashen already had a plan in place for Qin Feng. He knew that it was only a matter of months before Qin Feng would meet his demise by his schemes; however, what worried him was the little amount of Villain Points he would receive from him.

Ashen had asked the system about the Villain Points he needed to advance to the early stage of the Emperor realm, and the answer wasn’t pleasing.

The system’s response was—

[Ding! Host, First you’ll need to increase the attainments of all four paths you cultivate, which will cost a total of 50 million Villain Points.]

[Then you’ll need another 50 million Villain Points for the Dao Patterns of the four paths to finally advance to the early stage of the Emperor realm.]

Ashen’s heart sank at this response.

Even after killing more than seventeen protagonists, he only obtained fifty million Villain Points.

But to only advance to the Emperor realm’s early stage, he required a whopping hundred million, double the amount he had received previously.

He understood that Qin Feng had a higher amount of luck points than the seventeen protagonists he killed; however, does that guarantee he would’ve a hundred million Villain Points after Qin Feng’s death??

Moreover, he needed to spend Villain Points to acquire skills to kill Qin Feng.

How was he supposed to save a fucking hundred million?

Yeah, there was an option to go after another protagonist like Qin Feng; however, how long would he need to do this??

He was tired.

He needed something more efficient!

It was then that his brain began to run to produce ideas.

Information!

He needed more information about other protagonists to come up with a better and more efficient plan that would give way more Villain Points.

Even if he had a hundred million, he would only advance to the Early stage of the emperor realm.

That would only make his cultivation equal to Han Wuji’s.

But was Han Wuji strong?

Compared to others, Yes!

But when compared to his grandfather, Shang Long, or his uncle, Shang Wu, he was like an insect!

After seeing both Shang Long and Shang Wu in person, Ashen understood one thing.

There was a vast amount of difference between each stage of the Emperor realm!

An upper-stage emperor realm cultivator like Shang Long could easily render an early-stage emperor realm cultivator like Han Wuji helpless!

Ashen didn’t want that for himself!

If he was going to grow stronger, he was going to aim for the heavens themselves!

The top!

He would either reach the top!

Or

Die trying!

He wouldn’t settle for any less!

For that he needed Villain Points, a lot more than a hundred million!

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(A/N - Thanks for reading. ^..^)