My gorgeous wife Chapter 2290 - 2258: Lord Chai Li

Li Changcun is fine.

At least for now, he’s fine, and Li Chen can be certain of this.

After all, Li Changcun’s Soul Lamp in the Red Dust Heavenly Palace is still burning brightly, without any sign of diminishing.

For the Four Great Realms, the saying "when a person dies, the lamp extinguishes" is not a metaphor; it’s literally referring to the Soul Lamp.

Once a Soul Lamp extinguishes, it means the cultivator associated with it has fallen.

A long time ago, Li Chen built a space in the Red Dust Heavenly Palace specifically for storing the Soul Lamps of family and friends.

And far away at the garrison point near the Heartless Sea of Heavenly Realm’s Star Land, there is a massive underground Soul Lamp plaza to store the Soul Lamps of everyone from the Nether Army.

At this moment, in the Red Dust Heavenly Palace, the Soul Lamp representing Li Changcun is still brightly lit, showing no signs of extinguishing.

This makes Li Chen tense but also allows him to breathe a sigh of relief.

No matter what, as long as he’s alive, it’s all good.

As the causal line appeared, Li Chen followed it once more forward, and indeed, the line extended to the desolate planet ahead.

"So the old man really came here? But such a remote desolate planet..." Li Chen frowned and didn’t continue thinking, instead directly descending onto the desolate planet.

As soon as he landed on the desolate planet, Li Chen felt an overwhelming Spiritual Energy nearly intoxicating to cultivators.

It was indeed robust; the density of Spiritual Energy here far surpasses any place Li Chen had seen or heard of. In this moment, Li Chen understood why such a primitive desolate planet could nurture mighty Innate Beings.

Of course, along with the dense Spiritual Energy here, there were the extremely crude Heaven and Earth Laws in Li Chen’s eyes.

Li Chen even felt that his own nascent Sea of Laws was more complete than the laws on this desolate planet.

"No wonder the beings here are individually powerful, but their wisdom development is akin to primitive society." Li Chen muttered to himself.

Laws are not just laws; they’re also a form of order.

The more complete the laws are, the faster the beings evolve. Whether it’s developing a technological civilization or a cultivation civilization, it’s the same.

Take a planet like Earth; although it has existed for billions of years, true civilization evolution was accomplished in a mere ten thousand years, thanks to the revival of laws during that period.

And the completeness of laws on this planet more closely resembles the dinosaur era on Earth.

However, perhaps due to the individual beings’ strength and enduring existence without destruction, the life forms here have also evolved some unique civilizations.

Similar to... the Age of Empires.

Li Chen stood on a mountaintop, gazing at various landscapes with an odd expression in his eyes.

"Gravity here is about three and a half times that of the Heavenly Realm; it seems the beings here are quite strong."

"Hmm... Age of Empires with a splash of technological civilization?"

Although the life forms here couldn’t truly use the overwhelming Spiritual Energy as cultivation resources due to flawed laws, evidently they’re trying to utilize it.

However, not for cultivation, but... as a driving force for technological development.

Li Chen couldn’t help but feel a bit peeved.

A perfectly good cultivation planet skewing its development towards technology, isn’t this putting the cart before the horse?

Calling this planet a desolate planet isn’t an exaggeration!

Just as Li Chen was considering whether to first find a place to settle down and inquire about the situation, a group of people appeared from afar.

A group of people in vehicles resembling cars came rushing in from a distance.

Upon seeing Li Chen standing on the mountaintop, a woman couldn’t help but call out to him: "@#%￥!%!#￥"

Li Chen: "???"

Descending from the mountaintop, Li Chen looked at the woman who seemed to be speaking to him, a hint of helplessness on his face.

Human Race, excellent.

No wonder it’s a race that dominates the Starry Sky with sheer reproductive prowess.

However, it’s clear that though the civilization on this planet is innately strong, it hasn’t reached Qi Refinement and even less so Divine Soul Transmission.

Li Chen walked over, and immediately, several men who appeared to be guards around the woman became vigilant, each extracting strange weapons aimed at Li Chen.

Li Chen ignored these weapons and walked straight up to the woman, his eyes flashing with mysterious light.

Eye of the Dao—read.

In a breath, Li Chen grasped the language of this planet.

This time, what they said in his ears was no longer meaningless gibberish.

"What are you doing?" Seeing Li Chen’s odd action, the woman evidently became vigilant too, frowned, and stepped back to speak.

"Nothing," Li Chen shook his head. "What did you say earlier? It was too far away and I didn’t catch it."

"I asked who you are and why you’re alone in the Jilin Mountain Plains?" The woman frowningly said.

Li Chen smiled: "Just passing by, and who might you be, here as the local lord? Do I need to report to you?"

What Li Chen didn’t expect was that the woman instantly straightened her expression and said seriously: "My name is Chai Li, and I’m indeed the lord of the Jilin Mountain Plains plus the surrounding 700-mile radius."

Li Chen opened his mouth; this is a monarchy place, and the so-called lord is equivalent to the ruler of this area.

Furthermore, according to the information Li Chen just acquired, unless a lord is defeated and loses their home, their word in their territory holds more power than a king.

"Um..." Li Chen suddenly felt awkward.

"Say your name, stranger." The woman didn’t care about Li Chen’s expression, continuing to speak seriously.

"My name is Li Chen, uh, I’m... a hero, just passing through." Li Chen coughed twice and said.

"Hero?" Hearing Li Chen’s introduction, not only the woman but many others around showed surprise.

In Mang Land, only those with powerful skills could be considered heroes.

And inevitably, every hero possesses mighty martial force.

Li Chen was also somewhat helpless; according to the information he obtained, in this place, it seems only the profession of ’hero’ suited his current situation.

As an outsider, there’s no identity more fitting for getting by than ’hero,’ because ’hero’ here was more akin to adventurer or traveler.

"Greetings, respected hero. Since you happen to be passing through Gale Plains, why not rest at my Gale Fort, allowing me, the lord of Gale Plains, to extend my hospitality?" The woman’s eyes flashed with an undetectable trace of delight, speaking calmly.

But how could this small action escape Li Chen’s eyes?

Li Chen didn’t expose it, and instead smiled and nodded.

He noticed that this Lord Chai Li seemed to be in some trouble and needed a ’hero’ to help, but he also intended to inquire for some information.

After all, the causal line only guided him to this planet; as for Li Changcun’s precise location, he was clueless.

To obtain information about Li Changcun, starting from these local residents was essential.