Fairy, please step aside, I've taken a liking to your man.

As soon as Shen Bai stepped into the office, Vanka waved his hand to activate the protective array.

She forced herself to remain calm as she walked towards her desk: "You must have had a tough journey, right?"

Li Bai's powerful voice suddenly appeared in her ear: "For my beloved Rota flower, any suffering is worth it!"

Vanka felt incredibly sweet inside, but she still wanted to be a little more reserved. However, the next moment, she stumbled and fell onto the desk.

"Have you missed me?"

"I missed you so much!"

Overwhelmed by longing, Vanka could no longer suppress her emotions and fully unleashed the passion of a woman from Rota.

People lined the streets to welcome Li Bai's return.

……

At first, Janard did not take a mere Foundation Establishment stage sword cultivator seriously, even though Li Bai had a illustrious reputation.

In his eyes, he was just an ordinary sword cultivator.

Li Bai did not leave Vanka's office for a full day and night.

He finally realized something was wrong.

"You mean he hasn't come out yet?"

Janard looked at his assistant, his eyes flashing with anger.

"All reports are submitted by Miss Vanka's assistant, and Miss Vanka hasn't come out all day."

The assistant carefully observed Jannard's expression.

"That bitch!"

Jarnard's handsome face contorted into a grimace: "Doesn't she know that her family is negotiating a marriage alliance with my family?"

The assistant didn't dare to speak and stood quietly to the side.

However, he noticed that his young master's hair looked a bit green today.

Janard snorted: "Go and get his information for me. I want to see who this Li Bai really is."

……

[Ding! A love rival has been detected with a jealousy level of 60. When the rival's jealousy level reaches 80, you can extract one of their abilities.]

[Ding! Jarnard's jealousy level increased by 10, currently at 70!]

……

When Shen Bai received the system notification, he was not surprised at all.

The information about the Kuna family was already in his mind.

Janard, who is in the late stage of the Golden Core realm, can be said to be the most talented member of the Kuna family in this generation. Moreover, he has extremely high talent in weapon crafting and is now a fifth-level weapon crafter and a fifth-level formation master.

The Kuna family sent him to Qiyuan Star not only to get him closer to Wanka, but also to help him break through his cultivation level as soon as possible and become a sixth-order array master.

If Janard can be the first to establish a super-long-distance, super-large-scale intergalactic teleportation array for the Kingdom of Rota, then Janard will have made an unparalleled contribution.

Even a teleportation array with an ultra-long distance and ultra-large scale would take at least one or two years to build with just a sixth-level array master. But as long as Janard took the lead in this project, the credit would go to him.

This achievement is far greater than Shen Bai finding a sixth-order spiritual vein.

Because once this teleportation array is established, countless Nascent Soul True Monarchs, Divine Transformation Great Powers, and Integration Ancestors from the Luota Kingdom will be able to descend upon Qiyuan Star.

This planet will be at the mercy of the Kingdom of Rota.

Such an extraordinary achievement would be enough to elevate any commoner in the Kingdom of Rota to the highest level of nobility.

Although Shen Bai knew that this matter was irreversible, he did not want to give such a great credit to the Kuna family for nothing.

In particular, the Kuna family also harbored ambitions to take down their target—Vanka.

"I'd rather keep the credit for myself than give it to you!"

Shen Bai quickly began to plan in his mind how to disrupt the other party's plans.

……

On the third day, Li Bai still hadn't come out of Vanka's office.

Jannard's anger reached its peak.

He had already thought of a thousand ways to torment Li Bai.

[Ding! Jarnard's jealousy level increased by 10, currently at 80!]

……

[Ding! Jarnard's jealousy level has reached 80. You can extract one of his abilities.]

Please select 1 of your rival's abilities from the following list.

[Ability 1: Sword Momentum - Sharpness]

[Ability Two: Sword Intent - Sharpness]

[Ability 3: Sword Intent - Parting Sorrow]

……

So slow?

Shen Bai hadn't expected the other party to be so well-mannered; after three days, he had only just reached 80 points.

However, the opponent's abilities were indeed quite good, so he chose the ability "Sword Momentum: Edge".

In Shen Bai's eyes, the two sword intents were already dispensable.

The opponent's most crucial and proficient abilities—fifth-tier weapon refiner and fifth-tier array master—were no longer surprising to Shen Bai.

His current skill level in weapon crafting and formation is at the sixth rank.

He easily crushed the most talented member of the Kuna family.

After choosing ability one, he turned around and continued his intimate conversation with Vanka.

The three days of intense intimacy finally allowed Vanka to confront her own feelings; her love for this proud swordsman from the Xuan Yuan Empire was genuine.

This clarification of her emotions allowed her to complete the final preparations before advancing to the Nascent Soul stage.

……

Twenty days later, the Rota Kingdom base once again welcomed 50,000 reinforcements from Rota Kingdom.

The news of the sixth-order spiritual vein spread like wildfire to various countries' strongholds, and also brought many spies to the strongholds of the Kingdom of Rota.

These people were all searching for the location of the sixth-order spiritual vein, but unfortunately, only Li Bai, Wanka, and Bart Zhenren knew about this location.

Li Bai was kept under Vanka's protection for 24 hours a day, never allowed to leave her sight.

For twenty days, the two lived, ate, and traveled together, making everyone in the base envious.

When the new reinforcements from the Kingdom of Luota arrived, Master Bate was astonished to find that Shen Bai's cultivation had reached the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, and he could break through to the Golden Core stage at any time.

His sister, Vanka, was already overflowing with energy and could barely contain herself.

Breakthrough to Nascent Soul stage!

After the arrival of 50,000 reinforcements, their first task was to raise the protection level of the entire base.

In Vanka's office, only Li Bai, Bart, and Vanka's protector were there to accompany her during her breakthrough.

"My sister is about to become the first True Person to break through the Nascent Soul realm among the armies of various countries stationed on Qiyuan Star."

Bart whispered boastfully to Shen Bai beside him, "If you don't work harder, don't blame others for taking it from you."

Shen Bai smiled arrogantly: "The day your sister breaks through will be the day I break through. What difficulty is there in achieving a mere Golden Core?"

Bart was taken aback when he heard this, only then realizing that the young swordsman in front of him was only 33 years old.

If he can reach the Golden Core stage in a while, his talent will be even greater than mine, and his future achievements will certainly not be inferior to mine.

"Then you'd better watch out for Jarard; I could tell at a glance that he's no good!"

After giving a reminder, Bart stopped talking about the topic and focused on watching his sister's breakthrough.

This excellent learning opportunity will provide valuable experience for my future breakthrough.

Shen Bai didn't pay much attention when Bart mentioned Jarnard.

In the Luota Kingdom base, where no Nascent Soul True Monarch was present, he was truly not afraid of anyone.

Even if Janard mobilized Golden Core sword cultivators to besiege him, it would be in vain.

All his attention was focused on Vanka, who was sitting upright in the middle of the office.

At this moment, Vanka's aura was churning.

Advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, the process officially begins.

……

"She's about to advance to the Nascent Soul stage!"

A look of surprise and regret flashed across Janard's eyes.

Vanka's cultivation had already reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage, which is why the Kuna family was eager to form an alliance with the Wanpu family.

Even in marriages between Golden Core cultivators, the family can still have a say.

However, if it were a Nascent Soul True Monarch, the Wanpu family would have no chance to interject.

Any Nascent Soul True Monarch is the core strength of a family.

Foundation Establishment is the basic combat strength, Golden Core is the mid-level combat strength, and Nascent Soul is the high-level combat strength.

These three levels of talent pool are an important foundation for a family's long-term prosperity.

Moreover, Wanka, a Nascent Soul cultivator, is stationed on Qiyuan Star, which is firmly controlled by the Xuanyuan Empire. In the strongholds of various countries where only Golden Core cultivators can enter, whoever is the first to advance to Nascent Soul True Monarch becomes the person in charge of that stronghold.

According to the family's intelligence, Vanka's promotion will still take some time.

He had thought that once he arrived, he could have a proper conversation with Vanka.

As a result, who would have thought that this shameless woman and that lowly swordsman would shamelessly hide in the office and not leave for a full 20 days?

I tried to find a thousand reasons to knock on the door, but I couldn't get it open.

They have absolutely no shame.

As a result, in those 20 days, Vanka was about to enter the Nascent Soul stage, which disrupted all his plans.

Now, hundreds of thousands of cultivators are doing nothing but standing guard in the base, just to protect her. Even if he had a lot of flirting skills, he wouldn't be able to use them.

[Ding! Jarnard's jealousy level increased by 10, currently at 90!]

……

[Ding! Jarnard's jealousy level has reached 90. You can extract one of his abilities.]

Please select 1 of your rival's abilities from the following list.

[Ability 1: Tongbao Technique, Proficient]

[Ability Two: Sword Intent - Sharpness]

[Ability 3: Sword Intent - Parting Sorrow]

……

Shen Bai, who was intently observing Vanka's advancement, was initially not too concerned when he heard the system notification. After all, the newly arrived Golden Core cultivators had been constantly alerting him to the fact that he and Vanka hadn't left their room for 20 days, and their jealousy had been relentless ever since they found out.

But after a casual glance, he was immediately captivated.

The Tongbao Technique is an extremely rare and special cultivation method. Generally speaking, only family members who possess magical treasures as inheritances know this technique.

Even though I have several magical treasures protecting me, I still don't know this technique.

The primary function of this technique is to control magical artifacts and to refine them with divine thought.

Needless to say, the ability to control magical artifacts is quite simple. Regardless of whether a magical artifact has a specific incantation or not, it can be easily controlled using the Tongbao Incantation.

The method of using intention to refine magical artifacts, to put it bluntly, is a technique invented to give birth to a spirit within the artifact.

The creation of a spirit for a magical artifact is more difficult than that for a magical artifact itself, because the spirits of magical artifacts are generally simpler in nature, while the spirits of magical artifacts are more intelligent.

To imbue a magical artifact with a spirit, the Tongbao Technique is essential.

Only by constantly refining magical artifacts with divine thought can the artifacts be made compatible with one's own nature, and only then can the spirit born from them be as responsive as a human arm.

Shen Bai chose ability one without hesitation and upgraded this technique to the perfect state.

The perfected Tongbao Technique allowed him to establish a closer connection with the several magical treasures within his body. However, since it wasn't the right time, he had to suppress his excitement and continue observing Wanka's advancement.

But he already had something on his mind.

If Jarnard possesses the Tongbao Technique, it means that he or the Kuna family possesses a magical artifact.

It's just that we don't know if he brought Qiyuan Star with him.

……