I conquered the cultivation world with scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Today, most of those who came to the training ground to watch the competition were law students.

Liu Neng made a bet with Jiang He at the Law School from the very beginning.

They were most concerned about the items Jiang He mentioned.

This is something that can disable a magic staff. What if they're fighting monsters or encountering an opportunity in a secret realm, and a cultivator with this technology happens to be nearby and wants to steal their kill or the opportunity?

Without the staff's blessing, they were already extremely vulnerable compared to others of equal cultivation level.

Magic cultivators have a wide burst damage range and can attack from a distance, but they are just as fragile as alchemists and weapon cultivators, and are generally considered to have low health.

These people already lacked a sense of security, and as soon as Jiang He spoke, they looked at the black item that was being sent for testing with great concern.

Items that interfere with the staff are not good things.

Jiang He's competition today was posted as a follow-up to the betting thread on the forum by cultivators from Wanjue Academy.

Other students who missed the match clicked in. It was the start of the school year, so academic pressure wasn't too high, and they were naturally in the mood to wander around.

Some students were surprised when they saw Jiang Hegao kill Liu Neng with his burst of ice shards.

[1156L: Is Jiang He really that powerful? This is an Ice Spirit Root! Although she didn't kill him in one move, the power is terrifying.]

1189L: We agreed to all just coast along, but this year's freshmen are something else! Three mutated spiritual roots, and all of them are the powerful ice, lightning, and wind spiritual roots.

1235L: Jiang He, what other surprises do you have that I don't know about?! Ahhh, I'm really curious now if Jiang He has other spiritual roots. I've already seen eight kinds of spiritual roots.

1256L: Liu Neng is actually dead! Isn't Jiang He being inhumane?

1300: It's normal for people to die in competitions. You'll understand if you look into the feud between Jiang He and the Liu family. I watched a video explanation made by a content creator on a certain website overnight. The Liu family tried to kill Jiang He multiple times. To be honest, I felt quite sad. Sometimes, without a background, you're really just grass in the cultivation world.

1301: What weeds? We're not even worthy of the title. We're more like dust.

1303: No, we don't need to be so humble, it makes my heart ache.

1304: Did you guys watch the whole thing? I think the technology at the end was the scariest part—a technology that can make a staff malfunction. Has any company on the market developed something like that?

1343: Never seen it before.

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Jiang He handed the items directly to the school's inspection department, without them going through any of the three parties involved.

After Liu Neng died, his henchmen scattered like birds and beasts. They never expected Liu Neng to lose, let alone that Jiang He would drag the Liu family into it.

They were worried about Jiang He and the Liu family's potential retribution.

These people originally intended to leave Wanjue Academy and live in anonymity, but when the school officials investigated the cultivators who had been with Liu Neng the next day, they found that all of them had died outside.

This made Qi Xun particularly angry. He hadn't found any evidence of the incident caused by the Liu family during the college entrance examination. Although he did investigate, Qi Xun knew that the Liu family wouldn't leave him any leverage over them.

Even if they continue investigating, they won't find anything.

The items handed over by Jiang He were indeed found by Qi Xun to be related to the staff mechanism. Such technology, which is detrimental to social development, is explicitly prohibited by imperial laws and regulations.

This matter involves too many people, and Qi Xun is unaware of which other families besides the Liu family are involved.

However, Qi Xun already had a suitable candidate in mind, and he sent a secret letter to the Empire.

The heavens and earth were dark and yellow, and countless powerful families occupied the Wanling Empire. Qi Xun thought of these powerful families that gave the emperor a headache. He believed that as long as he bypassed the forces colluding with these families and handed the evidence to the young emperor, the matter could be resolved.

A towering edifice of technology stands at the heart of this planetary continent.

The lights on Wanling Star have never gone out, from day to night.

Beside the massive, brightly lit tower stretched an endless palace complex, its entirety only visible on satellite images.

Wanqi Jingheng looked at the letter from his former comrade-in-arms, and his furrowed brows relaxed a little.

Over the years, his tacit understanding with Qi Xun remains unchanged. These intricate and complex families are like vicious snakes, devouring the cultivation resources of the Myriad Spirits Empire bit by bit. Once they have completely seized half of the cultivation resources and refuse to release them, the empire will become their domain.

Wanqi Jingheng had been looking for a pretext to deal with this, and now that Qi Xun had handed him the knife, he couldn't wait to use it to sever the ties between these powerful families.

If the Heavenly Rank families are untouchable, would they really stop him from touching the Profound Rank families?

The Empire acted swiftly; Jiang He had only submitted the evidence for two days before the results were in.

It wasn't just her and the people from Wanjue Academy who knew about it.

The entire empire is reporting on this.

Jiang He frowned as she looked at the emperor's name.

Wanqi Jingheng...

She remembered that she had handed the evidence to Qi Xun, so how did the Prime Minister of the Wanling Empire suddenly become the target?

Jiang He didn't know much about the rights and interests in this world.

Imperial power is supreme.

Theocracy was second only to imperial power, and its power was on par with that of large families.

This prime minister was directly under Wanqi Jingheng and was considered Wanqi Jingheng's sharpest weapon. With one move, he secretly wiped out the Liu family.

The fact that the entire Liu family had been imprisoned was only discovered the next day at dawn.

The Liu family's Yunhuo Company was involved in manufacturing weapons that endangered the empire's security. The Liu family's power was confiscated, and Liu family members in politics were imprisoned.

Jiang He watched the news and read it a second time, without missing a single word.

Liu Shenwei, the head of the Liu family, absconded yesterday and his whereabouts are unknown.

Jiang He's eyes darkened slightly.

Liu Shenwei escaped.

This is a big problem.

Jiang He scrolled through the news, and the next article was still about the Liu family. There were many netizens commenting in the comment section. Yesterday, the Liu family was a Xuan-rank family, but today they have become prisoners.

This has left many people sighing with regret.

[The Empire's efficiency is too fast! I remember it only took three days from the investigation to taking down the Liu family.]

The Liu family is truly immoral. How could they invent such a harmful weapon? Many cultivators from the Myriad Absolutes Academy will go to the Black Nest in the future. They are here to protect our empire. This technology is tantamount to cutting off the hands and feet of these magic cultivators. If they are not careful, they could be wiped out.

Wanqi Jingheng truly lives up to his reputation as the youngest emperor in the history of our empire; his decisive and efficient methods are characteristic of the Wanqi family.

I think this time it's not just the Liu family involved, but also other Xuan-rank families. These people enjoy all sorts of privileges and imperial resources, how can they turn around and harm their own people?

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