Li Lanfeng sounded frustrated. “Are you preparing to gamble everything on the Lawless Lands?”

“There are too few people I can use. No matter who's available, as long as they can be used, I'll use them,” Ling Lan replied.

“Can Xia Qingyi be trusted?” Li Lanfeng asked earnestly.

“He has to listen to me until I die,” Ling Lan replied decisively.

Although Ling Lan wasn't able to contact the learning s.p.a.ce and Little Blossom, she still decided to meet Xia Qingyi. It was because with the help of her Profound Insight, she knew that Little Blossom's clone was still inside his brain. It wasn't affected by Little Blossom's disappearance. Little Blossom ordered his clone to hibernate, so even without Little Blossom's presence, the order remained as it was.

Luckily, only Ling Lan knew about Little Blossom. As for Xia Qingyi, he thought that placing Little Blossom was one of Ling Lan's abilities so for his safety, he would never betray her as long as she was alive.

“I understand.” Since Ling Lan had spoken, Li Lanfeng knew what he had to do.

Almost immediately, Li Lanfeng left the rainbow palace. He went back to the 7th Bugle Call and relayed Ling Lan's new order.

The 7th Bugle Call immediately unloaded all of its goods. Ji Ming and Yu Shangfei took care of the safety of the supplies.

The 13 Lords weren't able to confirm Ling Lan's background so they suppressed the news that Lord Gen had already died. Thus, the other factions in the Lawless Lands didn't know that Lord Gen's ident.i.ty had changed.

At the same time, Ling Lan went down to the swamp below the rainbow palace which had already turned into a ‘reed field'.

“Little White, protect me.” Ling Lan spoke to Little White which was on her shoulder.

Little White nodded its entire body obediently. The next second, it jumped down from Ling Lan's shoulder and entered the ‘reed field' before disappearing without a trace.

Ling Lan took a step forward and arrived at the center of the ‘reed field'.

Suddenly, the ‘reeds' parted away, revealing a deep hole around ten metres in diameter. Ling Lan slowly entered the hole and the hole slowly closed behind her. It turned into a swamp again. New ‘reeds' started forming on top of the hold. Finally, it turned back into an inconspicuous ‘reed field'. No evidence of the hole was left behind. It was as though nothing ever changed.

Actually, after Ling Lan found the Heart of Imperial, she had tried to swallow it. She wanted to use the power from the Heart of Imperial to open the doors of the learning s.p.a.ce and make contact with Little Four.

Ling Lan felt that there was no reaction from the learning s.p.a.ce because her domain concept wasn't powerful enough to open the doors. Now, with the Heart of Imperial, she saw a ray of hope.

Since there was hope, Ling Lan didn't want to continue waiting. There was a huge risk but she didn't care about it anymore.

Ling Lan wasn't making this decision because she was impulsive. She just didn't have the time to do things safely. She had already met six of the 13 Lords of the Lawless Lands. In order to kill one Lord Gen, she already needed to borrow Little White's strength. If she relied on her own strength, she would still be able to kill her opponent but she would get seriously injured in return. In reality, one lord was already on par with her. So what if she had the advantage of the unknown? She didn't just have one enemy. She had a bunch of enemies. If two or three of them attacked her together, she would be in trouble.

The 13 Lords were aggressive in their approach too. They only gave her two months to do something that normally could only be done in three months. This was all because she wasn't strong enough… Ling Lan hated the feeling of helplessness. Hence, she needed to become stronger so that she could protect those people that followed her and ensure their survival.

Luckily, it wasn't impossible to become stronger in two months, especially when she had the Heart of Imperial.

Since there was a possibility of success, Ling Lan wouldn't give up. Anyway, she was already dancing with Hades. She didn't mind doing another dance with him.

Returning to the darkness again made her feel like she was going back into a womb like she did in the past. At that time, she was cultivating in her mother's womb. She didn't know how long she spent inside but when she woke up, her mother was already giving birth. She didn't know what was happening so she almost caused a difficult labour to her mother. Fortunately, Little Four reminded her so she was able to avoid a disaster.

Thinking back about it, Ling Lan felt sad. She was all alone again. She didn't have her mother doting her. She also didn't have the accompaniment of Little Four. Her mind and heart felt empty.

Ling Lan suddenly smiled. Why was she feeling sad? If she was able to stand at the peak, she could get everything back. Her mother, her younger brother, all of them would return to her. None of them would be left out.

Ling Lan's gaze was firm. She slowly closed her eyes. The Heart of Imperial in her arms slowly floated out of her grasp. As it was floating in front of her, she used her spiritual power to bind the Heart of Imperial and started extracting the concept energy inside.

The Heart of Imperial's physical appearance was small but in actual fact, it was the culmination of all the concept energy an imperial realm formidable warrior gathered in his entire life. There was almost an endless supply of energy inside. However, to absorb the energy, the concept energy had to be converted to one's own. Ling Lan was very careful when doing this step. She would control the amount of energy she extracted each time, afraid that something would happen, causing her to injure herself.

This wasn't the only thing she was careful about. She also brought the last 30 second generation Nuwa agent with her.

All in all, Ling Lan wasn't a reckless and impulsive person. It was just that the current situation forced her to take a risk, but all the decisions she made were done after serious considerations. Ample preparations were already made beforehand.

Ling Lan's spiritual power and the cultivation techniques of the Divine Command sect were like cheat codes in a game. For normal humans, their energy came from their bodies. For instance, the absorption of the Heart of Imperial was done by the body. Then, the person would have to change the concept energy he sucked into his own domain concept. There would be serious damage done to the body using this method because of the collision of the concept energies in the body. That was why Lord Gen didn't dare to absorb the Heart Of Imperial. It was very easy to get injured by the energy core of an imperial realm formidable warrior. That was why he placed it below the rainbow palace and used the poisonous creatures as the transferring medium before sucking the energy.

With this method, some of the concept energy would be wasted and the effects were slower but it was overall safer.

However, to Ling Lan, getting a little injured wasn't a problem. She was able to activate her spiritual power and used the techniques of the Divine Command sect to extract the energy of the Heart of Imperial outside her body. Then, she would use her spiritual power again to fuse and change the concept energy, pulling out any foreign elements that would harm her. After that, she would absorb the energy into her body. With the cheat-like techniques, she evaded the step that everyone was most afraid of.

It had to be said that Ling Lan's golden finger was really amazing.