The First Cultivator - Changing Existence - Chapter 751

Chapter 751: Tree Root – 751
After returning, Skymender returned to the lab as soon as he could. With the blood of the beast named the Plains Bull, he now had something that could possibly affect the blood of the Mountain Serpent.

Skymender used both the Mountain Serpent’s blood and the Plains Bull’s blood in different proportions, achieving various levels of success in mixing them. These experiments added to his collected knowledge, and research continued. They did not have any instant success, but Skymender felt as though they had taken a step in the right direction.

Some more time passed, and in total, it had been four years since the Emperor had given this mission to Skymender.

Although he did not have anything to show for it besides nearly endless research, he was confident that he would be able to do something by the end of the ten years given. He worked tirelessly, and Charles similarly spent most of his time in the lab.

The other researchers would come and go much more often, having other things to attend to, but it seemed as though these two could be found in the lab no matter what.

Their research had gone so in depth that only Skymender and Charles could understand it. Even the old Imperial Scholar, Fei Luzi, would not have been able to easily understand everything. Of course, if he was here, Skymender would have 100% confidence in doing this.

Time continued to pass steadily. There weren’t many surprises happening in the entire continent. With the Faceless Empire in control over it all, there was nothing that could affect the Imperial Capital in the slightest.

The Imperial Capital had been expanding rapidly over the years, though it avoided the direction of the Mountain Serpent’s large skeleton.

It was slowly becoming worthy of being called the capital of the entire continent.

Countless rich people moved from all around. Some were nobles of other Empire’s that had lost their nobles titles when the Faceless Empire took over, but retained their saved riches.

With the Faceless Empire taking over, there naturally had to be some changes in the noble statuses of nobles from other Empire’s.

Allied Empires and Empires that had willingly become subordinate were reduced to Kingdoms, though the name was more or less the only major change. The Nobles of those Kingdoms underwent review by the Emperor. Some kept their titles as a part of the Faceless Empire, some were demoted a few ranks but remained Nobles, and others were removed from nobility completely.

Those of enemy Empire’s and Empire’s that had resisted were directly demoted to common citizens or executed.

There was no imprisonment, as there was no reason to take prisoners in this time of great change. It could only possibly bring negative outcomes.

With Skymender focusing so much on his research, another year had passed for five in total.

He had not left the Imperial Palace a single time in this year. Whether it was his family, his wife, or those he had been close to, he had not seen them in a long time.

This thought only slightly popped up in his mind and he did not give it a second thought.

The Emperor occasionally checked up on their progress, and some new people were occasionally sent over to help, but nothing much had changed in the lab.

One day, Skymender was summoned by the Emperor to meet some visitors.

As he walked in the throne room, he saw a familiar group of monks. Some were missing, and some new ones were added, but most of them were simply aged a bit.

They all greeted Skymender respectfully. Skymender greeted them with just as much, if not more respect.

“What are you all doing outside of the Western Desert?” Skymender asked.

“Since the Faceless Empire has taken over the world, we felt that we should report something that may possibly threaten it. We do not hope to see any more bloodshed.” The chief of the Western Monks said.

He turned towards the Emperor. “Should we start now?”

The Emperor nodded.

The chief of the Western Monks began to speak.

“With so many changes occurring in the world, we decided to try and venture deeper into the Western Desert. We had hoped to find some new checkpoint, but what we actually saw was far more shocking. We saw something akin to a giant tree root shoot out of the ground and move around before entering the ground once again. It was merely a few moments, but it shocked us to our core.” The chief of the Western Monks said.

The Emperor asked a question. “Just how big was this tree root?”

“It was around half the thickness of that skeleton outside of the Imperial Capital, but so long we could not see the end of it. Of course, most of it was buried underground.”

The room fell into silence for a moment before the Emperor spoke. “I won’t hide it from you, we have found two mythical beasts in the last few years. One, as you know, was the Mountain Serpent. The other, which has been kept a light secret, was named the Plains Bull, and was even larger than the Mountain Serpent. I am saying this because it seems that some sort of advent of mythical beasts is arriving.”

The mere thought caused the room to go silent.

They had resolved the threats rather easily up to this point, but what if multiple attacked at the same time?

What if they attacked somewhere Sword Grandmaster Shang was not. It would be a disaster.

“If that is so, then we may need to prepare.” Skymender said.

The Emperor shook his head. “I have a feeling that they will not go out of their way to attack anyone that doesn’t disturb them, but they will most likely be seen occasionally. In the end, it is the exploration of the previously unknown wilds that has started this trend. I say that we don’t disturb them, and if they are intent on disturbing us, then we can take action.”.