Walker Of The WorldsWalker Of The Worlds
The more Lin Mu explored with his new elemental Qis the more he learned about them. After a day, he had an estimate of how his control over them was. From this, he learned that for battle, he certainly shouldn't use them.
'It would be fine if it's a spar or perhaps a fight against someone weaker than me. But in a full fledge battle it won't be good as the delay would be too long.' Lin Mu thought to himself. 'I'll need to continue practicing and also try to improve the size of my cores.' He understood.
The first was something he was already doing, but the second was something that would take more resources.
"Now that you have a higher position in this empire, why don't you just ask them for it?" Xukong suddenly suggested.
"Would that be fine?" Lin Mu asked. "As an Imperial Imperator, I believe you also get a salary… If you feel bad taking it for free, you can just offset it with that." Xukong replied.
"Oh yeah, I can do that." Lin Mu realized. "But wait… what even is my salary?" he had no idea.
While the Emperor had granted him the position, they had seemingly forgotten to mention some of the details to him. One of them was the scope of his power, which the Crown Prince had showed him with the assignment earlier and now the salary.
'I suppose I can ask them.' Lin Mu thought to himself and sent a message to the Crown Prince.
The response he received was shocking.
"Salary? What salary?" Crown Prince Feng Shun responded. "Why do you want a salary?" "The Imperial Imperator doesn't get a salary?" Lin Mu was surprised and so was Xukong.
"Why would you pay yourself when you can just take it from the treasury?" Crown Prince Feng Shun answered, feeling a bit confused too.
"I can… just do that?" Lin Mu found it to be very opulent and also a bit careless. 'Doess't this mean I have access to all their wealth?' It seemed like a very big responsibility.
"Yeah." Crown Prince Feng Shun confirmed. "Just send a list of things you want to the Treasury minister. He'll deliver whatever you need. Don't forget, right now, you're technically their superior." He explained.
"I see… I guess I'll do that then." Lin Mu found this to be easier than he had expected.
"What did you need, though?" Crown Prince Feng Shun asked curiously.
"Just a variety of elemental materials, regardless of their quality." Lin Mu answered.
"Oh, the thing we talked about back in the Bridge Plane?" Crown Prince Feng Shun remembered Lin Mu cultivated some kind of technique that required him to consume a variety of materials.
Lin Mu had told them vaguely about it, but not what the technique could do as Xukong had told him the knowledge about Omnicore Ascendancy could be highly dangerous to be left out.
So far, the only ones who knew about it other than Lin Mu and Xukong was the Saintess.
The Saintess was certainly shocked about such a technique too and simply attributed it to something that had been granted to Lin Mu by Xukong. As such, she didn't think further about it and was impressed that the spider had access to such techniques and that Lin Mu could practice it.
"Yeah that one," Lin Mu confirmed.
"If its the same as we talked about then there shouldn't be any problem." Crown Prince Feng Shun spoke. "They won't be worth much overall for us. Just send them a list and it should be sent over soon." He reiterated.
"Very well." Lin Mu said before cutting the connection.
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"Well, that simplifies things…" Lin Mu muttered before sending out a message to the Treasury Minister.
Thankfully, he had the Communication Jade Slip contacts of all the important personnel of the Imperial Court along with the ministers, thus he didn't need to go out and ask for it personally.
'It's good that I maintained a list from before.' Lin Mu took out a separate jade slip that had an 'exclusion' list.
These were all the items he had already consumed and ones that didn't help grow his Cores anymore. He sent this list and asked the Treasury Minister to send a batch of all the other elemental materials that didn't include these.
He specified that it didn't matter what their rank was, whether they be as basic as mortal or peak immortal.
Lin Mu did add that if it was a very rare material that couldn't be spared, it was fine not to include it and if something needed to be bought, he'd be fine with that too.
But the Treasury Minister responded that there was no such issue like that and that Lin Mu could take whatever he felt like. The man didn't even question the reason for what he needed so many materials and simply said that they'll be sent within the next few hours.
"Looks like I'll just wait till then." Lin Mu said before spreading around his senses and trying to see if the Saintess was anywhere here. "Saintess?" he called out, but received no response.
'Hmm… Guess she's busy.' He reckoned she might be busy.
It wasn't uncommon for the Saintess to be gone at times, but Lin Mu didn't know what she was doing.
'Is she cultivating or doing something else?' Lin Mu wondered before thinking of something that made him doubtful. 'Wait… can she even cultivate here?' he questioned himself.
The Saintess was a Celestial, thus Lin Mu was sure she didn't need Immortal Qi to cultivate. At the very least, even if she did use it, he didn't think she was using it to improve her cultivation. 'Since she's a Celestial she would need Celestial Qi, right? Does this world have it?' He pondered to himself.
"This world does have it." Xukong suddenly responded.
"Huh, it does?" Lin Mu replied before realizing something. "Because it is going to become a Celestial World soon?"