Liu Erlong didn't understand why her husband insisted that she become the dean of this Lanba Academy. Wasn't it much more enjoyable for her to simply play mahjong, poker, and chess with her sisters at home every day? He even gave her five million gold spirit coins, telling her to make Lanba Academy as high-end and classy as possible. He also spent a fortune to poach pretty and capable female teachers from various academies, seemingly unconcerned about money.
Of course, to prevent his wives from becoming obsessed with leisure every day, Zhao Ling didn't just make Liu Erlong the dean. He also assigned all his wives to senior management positions within the academy. Vice deans, executive vice deans, heads of the academic affairs office, and organization department heads were all appointed. This left his wives, who had been living a life of luxury and simply playing mahjong daily, completely bewildered.
However, after much persuasion from Zhao Ling, they finally understood. What her husband said was right; they spent all their time playing at home, and losing oneself to leisure was not good. Her husband spent so much money to buy the entire Tianshui Academy, rename it Lanba Academy, and move it thousands of miles from Tianshui City to Heaven Dou Imperial City. Her husband was clearly thinking of them, his sisters, not wanting them to become useless people who only knew how to eat, drink, and play all day. Her husband's intentions were truly profound.
Thus, Zhao Ling's numerous wives agreed to take up positions at Lanba Academy. Even Tang Yuehua, who had the lowest strength, saw her spirit power rise from Rank 17 to Rank 35 in the past three years. This was even after taking an Eight Immortals Pill. Normally, she wouldn't be able to teach students, but Zhao Ling specifically opened a branch academy called the Moon Pavilion within Lanba Academy for her, allowing her to specialize in teaching noble etiquette to female students. Of course, not many female students could enter the Moon Pavilion branch; at most, a hundred per year, emphasizing rarity. Tang Yuehua was quite happy about this; she had always intended to create a Moon Pavilion like this. She never expected her husband to establish a Moon Pavilion branch within Lanba Academy.
It must be said that after Zhao Ling unleashed his "money ability," he also introduced many modern management concepts into Lanba Academy. Originally, Lanba Academy was an offshoot of Tianshui Academy, one of the five element academies. But with Zhao Ling's various ingenious maneuvers, Lanba Academy quickly stood out among the five element academies.
Time flows like a river, ceaselessly, and in a blink of an eye, ten more years had passed. All nine spirit rings of Zhao Ling's second Spirit had completely transformed into orange-gold. The last four of his first Spirit also turned into a glazed gold color, and all the others became a deep red, symbolizing one hundred thousand years.
Normally, at this point, Zhao Ling should be looking for a divine position inheritance that suited him, so that he could become a deity in the future and stay with his wives forever. However, Zhao Ling felt that he didn't want to seek a divine position inheritance, because he believed that due to his advanced Barbaric War Body, the battle power he could unleash would probably be no less than that of those Divine Kings. There was simply no need to inherit those divine positions. It would be better to try and see if he could create his own divine position.
So, during several subsequent cultivation sessions, Zhao Ling unexpectedly discovered that his two Spirits subtly felt like they were merging. This made Zhao Ling feel very strange. Why would his two Spirits have a sensation of merging with each other? Was this his, Zhao Ling's, destiny?
Zhao Ling didn't know whether he should allow his two Spirits to merge or not. After all, there was no precedent for such a thing. No one knew if anything bad would happen. What if the two Spirits merged and rendered him useless? So, Zhao Ling stopped the fusion of the two Spirits several times. During the fifth attempt, Zhao Ling simply couldn't suppress the fusion of the two Spirits.
Finally, the two Spirits uncontrollably merged and drilled into his Dantian. All eighteen spirit rings were also completely absorbed into the Dantian, surprisingly forming eighteen small spaces. As these eighteen small spaces formed, Zhao Ling's strength transcended from a Rank 99 Limit Doulou to a realm never before seen on the Douluo Continent.
During this process, his storage space automatically opened, and all the low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and even the few existing top-grade spirit stones floated out from within. Then, all the spirit stones Zhao Ling had accumulated for over a decade were completely consumed. Those natural energies frantically surged into the eighteen small spaces, slowly filling them.
Through introspection, Zhao Ling discovered that the eighteen small spaces were continuously expanding. From originally being only a few soccer fields in size per layer, they rapidly expanded to tens of square kilometers. After all the spirit stones were consumed, a very large void appeared above the Douluo Mortal Realm. A large amount of natural energy surged into the Douluo Mortal Realm and even the Douluo God Realm from the void.
And Zhao Ling's body greedily absorbed the natural energies surging into the Douluo Mortal Realm. This continued until each of the eighteen small spaces in his Dantian expanded to several hundred square kilometers before slowly stopping. And Zhao Ling finally advanced to that mysterious realm after the eighteen small spaces stopped expanding.
This also caused the dense natural energy that had surged into the Douluo Mortal Realm to decrease significantly. However, even so, the natural energy in the Douluo Mortal Realm at this time was at least three times denser than before. Even the deities in the Douluo God Realm discovered that the Douluo God Realm's scope had actually expanded tenfold at a visible rate after this massive influx of natural energy. Even the density of natural energy was more than five times higher than before.
Afterward, the void above the Douluo Continent healed on its own, leading to countless speculations. Even deities in the Douluo God Realm wanted to find out what had happened. Why had the Douluo God Realm suddenly expanded tenfold, and why had the natural energy become so much denser than before? However, they found that they simply couldn't investigate, because after Zhao Ling entered that unprecedented realm, his spirit power had completely transformed into another form of existence and was entirely contained within the eighteen small spaces in his Dantian.
Even those so-called deities couldn't detect it. Zhao Ling now appeared no different from the most ordinary person in his every gesture. However, Zhao Ling felt that if he wanted to go to the Douluo God Realm, he could easily sense its location, tear through space, and arrive in a very short time. It was no exaggeration to say that he had now transcended the Douluo cultivation system and could completely disregard the natural rules of this world.
Zhao Ling also asked the system what realm he had reached now. The system said it couldn't properly evaluate his current realm because Zhao Ling had embarked on a powerful path that no one had trodden before. However, the only thing that was certain was that the path Zhao Ling was on was undoubtedly many times better than becoming a deity in the Douluo God Realm. Therefore, his fusion of the Netherworld Demon Suppressing Pagoda and the Death God Scythe this time was not a bad thing. This might create a glorious future for him...