Unbeatable! Invincible! Unparalleled!

Hearing that the Imperial Overseer's mother and aunt was being kidnapped and sent to the Doulou Empire where she came from, Princess Meixiu's complexion immediately turned pale.

"What are you saying? That is impossible! Our borders are strictly guarded and not even you could enter undetected!" she quickly refuted before turning to bow towards Duan Li.

"Your Excellency, please don't listen to his nonsense! There is no way that such an unethical activity would go past under our nose! This is especially the case when its an outside activity being brought into our empire!" she explained in a panic.

Had it been anyone else, while she would've denied it too, she wouldn't have gone to the extent of trying to convince the other party. After all, her dignity as the Princess of the Doulou Empire were above all else!

However, this was the Jiu Imperial Overseer involved they were talking about here. If Duan Li were to be displeased with her answer, she was afraid that he wouldn't let the Doulou Empire off!

If such a thing were to happen, who knows what the other party would do?

Elder Cheng Chao also stepped in as she realized the seriousness of the issue and added, "That's right your Excellency, it would be possible if it were to happen inside the empire, but with our strict border checks and runic formations on our wall, the chances for such a thing to occur is practically nil!"

The two of them were big figures in the Doulou Empire, so they knew quite a lot on what could go into the empire, and human trafficking was definitely one of the thing that should be impossible to happen!

If one were to talk about the possibility of bribery, then that would be highly unlikely. All the patrols and guards were injected with a portion of the soul of the Supreme Justiciar Knight, the highest person in position of maintaining justice in the Doulou Empire. If they were to commit to such atrocities, it would be detected immediately and their soul will burst into flames!

"Hah! What do you insect know of our means? If we don't have such capabilities, the Dark Sect would have long gone extinct! No empire in the Tian continent can stop us!" Zeng Jianshi sneered arrogantly.

Although the Dark Sect comprises of less than ten individuals, they still have an almost encompassing hands reaching to all parts of the Tian continent! Limiting their movements would be the best any empires could do to them, but it would be laughable for mere guards, patrols, runic formations and the likes to be able to completely stop them if they were determined to achieve their goals!

Pah!

Duan Li slapped Zeng Jianshi casually with a force that exploded his head and the entire landscape behind him, such that even the nearby small hills were flattened!

BOOM!!

A casual slap with such a force behind it, it was impossible to see the bottomless depths of the Imperial Overseer! Perhaps, even the publicly declared strongest emperor in the Tian continent from the Song Empire could not match him when it came to raw strength!

Wuu...

Zeng Jianshi's head regenerated soon after and a look of extreme pain appeared on his face.

"Speak like that again, and I will make you explode indefinitely while I travel to the Doulou Empire. Try me if you dare." Duan Li said with his voice cold and full of disdain.

"..." Zeng Jianshi gritted his teeth and spoke not a single sentence after that anymore.

Just you wait.. when I reach the Doulou Empire, then... hehehe!

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"This chaos will probably last an entire month before disappearing..." Utmost Being said to Duan Li as he continued maintaining the Supreme Spatial Imprisonment Formation.

Hearing this, Duan Li cupped his chin in contemplation.

If he were to cancel the formation, the escaping chaos will definitely spread to nearby areas and might hurt other villages...

Then, Duan Li had an idea.

"I say, you should probably remove the protection around your body and let the chaos temper your physical body. Slowly make the formation smaller so that the chaos is compressed."

While this clone of his was made from a paper talisman, its body right now was perfectly identical like a real cultivator's body. Therefore, it was still possible for his clone to upgrade itself.

"Hmph! Are you sure? What if I become stronger than you then? Wouldn't you be inferior to me? If that were to happen, I might not even listen to you anymore." Utmost Being replied with his chin raised.

Meanwhile, Duan Li almost had the urge of beating the other party to a pulp, but he suppressed himself from doing so.

As of now, their physical capabilities was mostly the same, but when it comes to skill arts and spiritual Qi reserves, then Duan Li had the advantage of his three dantians as well as the powers from the mysterious pearls inside his body. After all, when the paper talisman copied his body to create Utmost Being, somehow, it wasn't able to culture all three dantians like Duan Li did.

"Well, its impossible for you to be better than me. Your cultivation now is at the Nascent Soul realm pinnacle stage, while I am still in the Core Formation realm pinnacle stage. This being the case, I am already more powerful than you. What happens when I reach the Nascent Soul realm pinnacle stage then? Do you want to get a thorough beating from me?" Duan Li replied with a scoff and proud look.

This clone of mine is getting ahead of himself, not knowing the heights of heavens!

Even if by the off-chance that you could become more powerful than me, your soul is originally derived from mine, just a single thought from me would have you running naked around the empire while saying you are stupid!

Hmph!

Of course, Utmost Being was dissatisfied with this, but it was also the truth, so he could only snort in reply.

"I need a month to use the chaos inside this formation to temper my body. In the meantime, I've already instructed the useless Jiu Emperor to do some things while I am away." Utmost Being said.

Duan Li almost plummeted from the sky when he heard his clone calling the Jiu Emperor useless.

"Hey hey, he is still the emperor, so watch your tongue and have some respect!" Duan Li reprimanded him.

Even if that was truly the case, must you really be so vicious in your words? The guy is already pitiful enough to become our lackey despite his status, the least we could do is spare him some of his dignities!

Utmost Being turned his face away with a sulking look, "Hmph! It's because he was too lazy of doing his job that I have to suffer. Had it not been for his wife, Yu Yan the Empress Dowager, handling most of the things that he should've done, the Jiu Empire would've long collapsed!"

"It's that bad?" Duan Li was shocked. Granted that he wasn't really educated on managing stuff, but surely the Emperor shouldn't be that careless?

"What do you know? You passed onto me your responsibility the moment you got the title. You and him are the same!" Utmost being answered begrudgingly.

Duan Li's face turned red behind his mask in embarrassment, so he laughed it out.

"A-Anyway, I've got to return to the empire now and report to the Principal." Duan Li changed the topic quickly.

Utmost Being frowned and wondered why Duan Li bothered with reporting to anyone when his status now was above everyone else.

If he wanted to go and do something, who could stop him? He is the Imperial Overseer!

Knowing what his clone was thinking, Duan Li shook his head, "We shouldn't get complacent with our status. Despite the seemingly high standing we have, its more like an honarary title. Compared to the title of an emperor that has been through generations of acknowldegment, ours is nothing."

"Besides, if we do everything ourselves, then wouldn't that be lonely? What's the purpose then?" he continued, his hands clasped behind his back while looking at the sky with his head tilted at 45 degrees angle, bearing the look of an expert that had gone through the vicissitudes of life.

Utmost Being was silent hearing Duan Li's reply, but he also did not refute it. In a way, he also understood such perspective, not to mention that he was not a real human being.

"He sure is weird, to be conversing to his clone like that.. its as if they are twin brothers.." Shen Murong commented while looking at Duan Li and his clone's back from a distance, finding the scene to be peculiar.

The others nodded to his remark.

Approaching them, Duan Li then told them that they will be returning back the Jixue Knights Academy.

"See you later, don't catch a cold out here! Haha!" Duan Li waved at Utmost Being from afar before teleporting away with the rest.

Now alone, in the center of a gigantic formation in the middle of nowhere, Utmost Being looked towards the sky with a complicated expression.

"Hmph.. nosy..."

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