Liu Gu wasn't joking, after Lin Chen was immersed in studying the War Chessboard for a month, he discovered one thing.

He leveled up.

Which means, he is now at level 19.

This made the Big White Bear incredibly happy, running around the courtyard ten times right on the spot.

Lin Chen was extremely surprised, wondering how many levels Xiaobai and the others had leveled up.

Lin Chen was also very happy, eagerly anticipating the look of the Big White Bear after successfully completing Law Evolution.

Three days after Lin Chen leveled up, Liu Gu came to find him, asking him to go to the medicine storehouse to retrieve something, saying that the reward from Dubhe Pavilion had arrived.

The rewards from Dubhe Pavilion were twofold, one being the Thousand-Year Demon Pill and the other a Celestial Beast egg.

Since the Celestial Beast Island had yet to open, it could only be the Thousand-Year Demon Pill.

Lin Chen found Instructor Xiao, who confirmed that indeed the Thousand-Year Demon Pill had arrived.

"Yours is the best one, everyone else has already taken theirs, and they all said to leave the best one for you," Instructor Xiao said with a smile.

Lin Chen was taken aback.

After returning from the Beast Fighting Conference, Wu Chen and the others left the academy, and Ning Tian and the others also went outside to train.

If Lin Chen's spirit beasts were by his side, he too would go out to train.

Lin Chen thanked him and took the pill.

"Have Liu Gu help you handle it when you get back, don't waste it." Instructor Xiao advised.

"If this Thousand-Year Demon Pill is divided into three portions, how long can it last?" Lin Chen asked.

"It should last about a year," Instructor Xiao said.

Lin Chen was very satisfied with this answer, then left the medicine storehouse and returned to the Mentor Hall, handing the Thousand-Year Demon Pill to Liu Gu.

"What do you want?" Liu Gu asked.

"Can it be made into a pendant?" Lin Chen asked.

Previously, due to Xiaobai's cleanliness issue, pendants became the unique accessory for his spirit beasts.

Liu Gu nodded and divided the Thousand-Year Demon Pill into three, adding sandalwood for refining, and finally Lin Chen himself did the carving.

It was quite a large project, taking Lin Chen a full week to complete.

"This is yours." Lin Chen handed a bear pendant to the Big White Bear, who was overjoyed upon receiving it.

Ever since Lin Chen reached level 19, the first thing the Big White Bear did upon waking each day was to see if Lin Chen had leveled up.

To recall, when Lin Chen reached level 10, Xiao Hong happened to be asleep that day and was teased by Lin Chen for a long time.

Time flew by, and two more weeks passed without Lin Chen leveling up, but Zhu Tong found him, saying he wanted to take him on a mission.

"What mission?"

"Your and Bai Ling's offspring."

"Huh?"

"Little Insect King," Zhu Tong said.

Lin Chen was embarrassed and said, "Principal, those words can't be said randomly."

Lin Chen was quite anticipating this mission, ever since the Little Insect King left, Lin Chen worried it might not adapt well.

The nature of the Insect Race is the survival of the fittest; they continuously fight and devour each other until a new Insect King is confirmed.

Hence, although the Little Insect King has a bloodline advantage, becoming the Insect King still requires undergoing life and death trials.

Zhu Tong took Lin Chen to a Secret Realm; as Lin Chen walked in, he saw the Secret Realm was quite large.

"Principal, how many Secret Realms are surrounding our Spirit Academy?" Lin Chen asked.

"That's impossible to count," Zhu Tong said. "Ling Mountain has never been an ordinary place since the Taichu Era, there's a rumor the underground might hide a dragon vein."

Speaking of dragon vein, Lin Chen thought again of Zhong Nan and Bai Ling. She had been in the Celestial Capital for almost two months now, wondering how she was adapting.

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Celestial Capital

National Master's Institute

Bai Ling had gradually adapted to life here; almost every day, she learned something new, like what the duties and affairs handled by the National Master's Institute were, etc.

Zhong Nan rarely managed Bai Ling; he was much like Yu Xiu, taking the Calamity-Devouring Beast away and leaving Bai Ling's mentorship to Zhang Jin.

"Senior brother, what is the Eight Trigrams City Plan?" Bai Ling curiously scanned the map of Cangling Ancient Country.

This was what she needed to study today.

"Every generation of National Preceptor has their achievements. For example, National Preceptor Gu Wei's achievement was reclaiming lost lands and repelling foreign enemies. The second National Preceptor stabilized the country, the third developed strength... this Eight Trigrams City is our teacher's achievement," Zhang Jin said with pride.

The so-called Eight Trigrams City Plan involves using a central small city in Cangling Ancient Country as the core to establish eight cities at equal distances nationwide from this city's center.

The layout of these eight cities is entirely based on the arrangement of the Eight Trigrams Array, adding the central small city, totaling nine cities.

This plan is also known as the Eight Trigrams Nine Cities Plan.

"The National Master's Institute publicly declares the plan to be merely a blessing design, but its true purpose is to gather Dragon Energy..." Zhang Jin continued to explain as Bai Ling still looked confused, "Once all nine cities are fully built, we just need to assign eight Spirit Dragon Fortune people to guard the eight cities, and the National Preceptor performs the Dragon Transformation Skill in the center city, then nationwide Power of Dragon Vein will be mobilized..."

Bai Ling heard about the Power of Dragon Vein and thought of Lin Chen's past Dragon Transformation Skill, thus inquired, "What level was the Dragon Transformation Skill Lin Chen used that day?"

"Probably less than half of the Power of Dragon Vein," Zhang Jin said with a smile. "The real Power of Dragon Vein is immensely terrifying. Currently, our teacher is ill and can't perform multiple dragon veins. At the peak, he could maintain around seven dragon veins."

Upon hearing this, Bai Ling swallowed and marveled, "How strong must that be."

"Someday, I should also guard a city. By then, Cangling Ancient Country will fear no country's invasion," Zhang Jin said. "The Eight Trigrams Nine Cities Plan is an ancient immortal array, unknown to others, apart from a few upper echelons in Dubhe Pavilion, so Bai Ling mustn't tell anyone about it."

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