Chapter 1890: Ever-Rising Standards

"Ah? Was he beaten? Did someone invade the secret realm? That's impossible. We have been guarding the entrance to the secret realm and haven't seen anyone go in!" the guard exclaimed.

Luo Qiong shook his head and said, "It wasn't an invasion by outsiders, it was our own people who fought against us!"

"Huh? What do you mean?" The two guards were confused.

Then Luo Qiong sighed and said, "This is a long story!"

"Brother Luo Rong said earlier that there are foreign enemies from the Three Worlds outside the Heaven who want to invade our Tianyuan City and seize our territory! In order to protect Tianyuan City and to better serve the Young Master in the future, all of us must practice in seclusion, cultivate a stronger power of Tao, and defend our homeland!"

A guard nodded and said, "I know this. I heard that the other party is called the Tianwaitian Du Family, right?"

Luo Qiong nodded and said, "Yes! It's them! And from what the Great Luo Immortal King said, it seems that the strength of the Du family in the outer world is extremely terrifying! Except for the few people including the young master, everyone's control over the power of Tao is stronger than ours!"

“So, after learning the news, Brother Luo Rong issued an order: All those who are in seclusion must cultivate at least one blue Dao force before they can come out!”

The guard blinked and said, "I see..."

He paused, and suddenly asked in surprise: "But, Brother Luo Rong, didn't you say that one blue Dao force would be enough? How come you cultivated seven at once? Oh! I understand, you felt that one challenge was not enough, so you increased the challenge yourself, right?"

Hearing this, Luo Qiong's mouth twitched and said, "Increase the bet? Am I sick? You all know how difficult it is to cultivate this power of Tao. Let alone the blue power, even if it is the white power of Tao, it is a painstaking and laborious thing to cultivate it!"

The guard was even more confused after hearing this. He pointed at his seven blue Dao powers and said, "Then what are you doing..."

Luo Qiong rolled his eyes and said, "It's all the fault of those monsters!"

"Monster?" The guard was puzzled.

Then Luo Qiong said angrily, "Brother Luo Rong, after setting this goal, he began to retreat with everyone! However, he only retreated for more than ten years in the accelerated time, and he cultivated a blue Dao force!"

The guard was shocked: "So fast?"

Luo Qiong glared at him and said, "Fast? This is still slow!"

"Slow? Is there anyone faster than him?" the guard asked in surprise.

Luo Qiong gritted his teeth and said, "Yes! Luo Xiaoxiao! After the strange phenomenon in that girl's Qi Sea disappeared, it was as if her Ren and Du meridians were opened up, and her talent was improved! This guy has only been in seclusion for five years, and he has cultivated a blue Dao force!"

The two guards gasped.

They all knew how terrifyingly the acceleration of time in the secret realm was.

There, thousands of years pass in a moment.

It only took her five years to master the first one. You can imagine how strong she is now.

At this moment, another guard suddenly thought of something and asked, "Then... where are the other two monsters?"

Luo Qiong's mouth twitched, and he said, "Niu Tiechui, it took three years! As for Long Yishui..."

When he said this, his expression suddenly became a little strange.

"Huh? What happened to Long Yishui? Did he take a year?" the two asked.

Luo Qiong struggled for a while before saying, "It took her a hundred years the first time, which is about the same time as when I first came out of seclusion..."

"A hundred years?" The two guards looked at each other in surprise.

Long Yishui is the number one person in Tianyuan City, second only to Luo Tian.

Whether it is strength or talent, it is an incredible existence.

But this guy actually took a hundred years?

Isn’t this almost the same talent as Luo Qiong’s?

Seeing the two people's puzzled expressions, Luo Qiong shook his head and said, "She has cultivated a large amount of blue Dao power in a hundred years!"

A guard said, "That makes sense. I was wondering, how could Lord Long Yishui be on par with someone like you?"

Another guard echoed, "That's right. I was wondering how Lord Long Yishui could have fallen. So this is it..."

Luo Qiong's mouth twitched, and he pointed at the two people and said, "What do you two mean? What do you mean by degenerate? What do you mean by people like me?"

The two guards smiled awkwardly upon hearing this.

One of the guards quickly changed the subject and said, "Um... If you cultivate the power of the Tao so quickly, shouldn't you have completed the mission ahead of time? Why are there still several follow-up items?"

Hearing this, Luo Qiong sighed again and said, "It's because it's too fast! Brother Luo Rong felt that I had set the goal too low, which was not conducive to development! So, after I came out of retreat, he changed the rules and said that everyone must cultivate two blue Dao powers before being allowed to come out of retreat!"

"Two? Wouldn't that just take another hundred years?" said a guard.

Luo Qiong rolled his eyes at him and said, "Hundreds of years? How can it be that simple? When it is your turn to go into seclusion, you will know! When you cultivate to the realm of blue Dao power, the difficulty of cultivating the second path will be much more difficult than the first one!"

"I was in there, forgetting to eat and sleep, practicing very hard. It took me at least seven hundred years to cultivate the second blue Dao power!"

The guard heard this and nodded, "Isn't this good? You have passed the test!"

Luo Qiong's mouth twitched, and he said, "Qualified? Haha, you wish!"

"Huh? What do you mean?" the guard was puzzled.

Luo Qiong took a deep breath and said, "When I came out of retreat for the second time, those monsters started to cause trouble again! Brother Luo Rong cultivated more than a dozen blue Dao powers in one breath! Luo Xiaoxiao even cultivated one like Lord Long Yishui!"

"For some unknown reason, Renniu Tiechui has locked himself up in a deathly closet and won't come out! The most annoying thing is Long Yishui... That guy's blue Dao power is so much that it's hard to count!"

The guard thought of something when he heard this and asked, "So, Brother Luo Rong has raised the standards again?"

Luo Qiong nodded and said, "That's right! And it's not just these two times. He raised the standard seven times in a row! Seven times!"

"For every additional blue Dao power I gain, the time it takes will increase exponentially! By the time I show off my seventh one, I will have been in seclusion for tens of thousands of years... tens of thousands of years! I'm going crazy!"

The guard heard this and immediately understood: "I see. So now, the standard for Brother Luo Rong is to cultivate seven blue Dao powers?"

Hearing this, Luo Qiong's mouth twitched and he almost cried, "No! That pervert, his current standard is a purple Dao force! If he can't cultivate it, he will not be allowed to come out!"