The Three Major Networks on the Rise

[Right now, you do not yet possess the ability to refine Immortal Artifacts.]

[You are a Heaven-tier artifact refiner, capable of crafting Heaven-tier spiritual weapons.]

[You must first advance your refining skills to the level of an Immortal-tier artifact refiner.]

[Fortunately, with the help of your traits, the future is promising.]

[The twenty-second year, forty-one years old.]

[You temporarily halted your studies in other disciplines to focus entirely on the path of artifact refining.]

[You crossed out a large portion of the resource list Old Shen gave you, exchanging it for specialized ten-on-one instruction from the top ten artifact refiners in the Star Domain.]

[Given your current attainments, this kind of teaching was more like a seminar.]

[Through communication, frequent practical exercises, and directly acquiring the experience of others, your progress was undoubtedly much faster than doing research behind closed doors.]

[Meanwhile, the Shen family had already begun contacting the Five Regions and overseas, places where the strength of human martial artists was relatively weak, to discuss joint defense against the enemy, as well as strategies to comprehensively strengthen the martial artists of various factions and develop even more martial artists.]

[Rolling out this initiative was no easy task.]

[Convincing everyone to believe in this matter was a massive undertaking in itself.]

[Fortunately, this time, the Shen family was the one yielding benefits.]

[Any surface faction willing to follow the Shen family and participate in the construction of the Human Realm's defense line...]

[...would receive better spiritual weapons, more pills, stronger formations, richer esoteric knowledge, and higher-quality martial arts masters.]

[The Shen family's technique masters could even improve the cultivation methods of the various factions.]

[Therefore, even if they didn't fully believe it, the various factions were willing to cooperate for the sake of the real money and effort the Shen family was putting in.]

[Furthermore, Sword Master, a senior with great face in the Five Regions, was traveling around to lobby them.]

[With Sword Master's reputation as an endorsement, most factions, though still unable to completely believe in things beyond their cognitive limits like realm wars and the Dragonkin race, would not go so far as to suspect the Shen family of having ulterior motives.]

[In addition, the Shen family had always presented themselves as aloof from worldly affairs, yet now they were actively organizing the Human Realm's forces to fight against this so-called Dragonkin race.]

[Such abnormal behavior must have a reason behind it.]

[The Holy Lands did not need the Shen family's resources, but they also received notification from the Shen family, informing them of the impending alien invasion and telling them to take precautions.]

[The three great Holy Lands, led by the Xiaoyao Holy Land, were all observing God Xiaoyao's attitude.]

[However, God Xiaoyao was currently in the Time Chamber and would not come out until the next generation's Holy Son and Holy Daughter of the Xiaoyao Holy Land were selected.]

[When the time came, you would deal with him.]

[The twenty-third year, forty-two years old.]

[While researching the path of artifact refining, you were also cultivating diligently, or rather, diligently popping pills.]

[Now, your cultivation base had reached the peak of the Spirit Condensation realm.]

[One more breakthrough, and you would become a Martial King.]

[Shen Yang and Shen Qingshan had already completed their fusion.]

[According to their agreement, until Shen Qingshan's closest relatives passed away from old age, Shen Qingshan would control the body during the day, and Shen Yang would take over at night.]

[Sensing that you had reached the peak of Spirit Condensation, Shen Qingshan intended to use the Shen family's resources to help you break through.]

["No rush. I've asked around; the Shen family also uses the Ten-Person Method and the Thousand-Person Method. Although Old Shen has made improvements, they still can't match the success rate of the Holy Lands."]

["Fourth Brother, since we now need to defend against the Dragonkin and require the entire populace to increase their martial strength, why not have the Holy Lands use this method to create more Martial Kings?"]

["This method is in the hands of God Xiaoyao. We have to wait for him to come out before we can discuss it."]

[The twenty-fourth year, forty-three years old.]

["Bang!!"]

[During your first attempt at refining an Immortal Artifact, you nearly blew up half a planet.]

["Little friend Chen Yi, do not rush things! The fact that you have progressed so rapidly shows that you are a world-shocking genius. As long as you slowly accumulate experience and study deeply, you will definitely become an Immortal-tier artifact refiner like us in this lifetime!"]

[Your artifact refining teachers persuaded you.]

[Watching you blow up a huge pile of precious Immortal Artifact materials truly made their hearts ache.]

[Having Immortal-tier artifact refiners did not mean having a ton of Immortal Artifacts.]

[The refining process of Immortal Artifacts was extremely complex, and the required materials were exceptionally demanding. Even the Shen family couldn't mass-produce Immortal Artifacts to the point where they were everywhere.]

[These Immortal-tier artifact refiners were often used to refine Heaven-tier spiritual weapons to ensure a high success rate and avoid wasting resources.]

[Of course you were anxious.]

[You couldn't stay in the Star Domain doing research forever; there were still many things waiting for you to do.]

[The twenty-fifth year, forty-four years old.]

[Your artifact refining skills were stuck at a bottleneck.]

[You listened to your teachers' advice to settle down and accumulate experience, no longer studying day and night.]

[Having some free time, you followed the Shen family's Martial Propagation Order on a trip to the Five Regions.]

[This Martial Propagation Order was an organization specially established by the Shen family to unite all parties, integrate resources, and support weaker factions.]

[You knew that the people in the Five Regions were the most disunited. Getting them to believe the Shen family's rhetoric of aliens are coming, we must face the enemy together would be extremely difficult.]

[So, you basically turned on your cheat codes.]

["Fellow Daoists! The Human Realm is our only home! When friends come, we have fine wine; when enemies come, what do we have?!"]

["Fists!!!"]

["The Dragonkin say they are the strongest race among the myriad races in this Void Realm! I say, we humans will beat the crap out of the so-called strongest!"]

["The Human Race is the strongest!!!"]

["As the ancients said, with great power comes great responsibility! We martial artists possess formidable strength; aren't we just waiting for a moment like this to unleash our power?"]

["We martial artists will not hesitate to fight!!!"]

[The members of the Martial Propagation Order were dumbfounded as they watched the tens of thousands of people cheering in unison below the stage.]

[The Shen family actually knew very well that the martial artists of the Five Regions only cared about taking resources and didn't take the threat seriously.]

[But after your impassioned speech, it seemed they all completely bought into it!]

[They believed it from the bottom of their hearts!]

[With gazes filled with soaring battle intent, they looked as if they couldn't wait to cross swords with the Dragonkin immediately!]

["Mr. Shen, you are truly a god among men!"]

[You looked at the commander of the Martial Propagation Order with a resolute gaze.]

["It is all for the future of the Human Realm!"]

[The commander immediately straightened his back and looked back at you with an equally unwavering gaze.]

["I swear to follow you to the death to protect the Human Realm!"]

[The Eastern Incubus trait was simply too overpowered.]

[During your speaking tour, you also took the opportunity to check on the growth of three important figures.]

[Eldest brother Chen Jing was currently surviving the shrinking safe zones in the Northern Frontier.]

[Starting with over two hundred competitors, they had now entered the final circle. Eldest brother was still playing it incredibly safe, frantically expanding his network; forcing the abdication was just around the corner.]

[Your beloved wife, Li Lingyue, was rising strongly in the Southern Frontier.]

[With a Dao Protector as her teacher and the Incense Holy Physique as her foundation, Li Lingyue was growing rapidly, using the chaotic lands of the Southern Frontier to develop her own followers.]

[Your old friend, Li Chengqian, was playing the fool in the Great Qian Imperial Palace.]

[He seized the Li family's resources from above to cultivate in secret, while deceiving everyone below, making fools out of the treacherous minister faction led by Qin Rong.]

["None of them are easy to deal with."]

[You felt that they didn't need your help at all.]

[If you interfere, I fear it will only backfire.]