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Clearly quite ecstatic over this information, Azmodeus's icy boss facade slowly but surely started to crack.
Being replaced with his usual mentally insane peronsana, it wouldn't be long before his complete craziness burst out in full...
However, before he could allow his loot-craving self to rear its head, he would need to have the necessary strength to begin acting like his usual self. For that to happen, Azmodeus decided to continue laying low, at least until he had enough strength to begin taking on cultivators in the Earth Immortal Realm.
In the Immortal World, cultivation was very simple in the starter stages. One just had to either actively gather Immortal Energy within their Dantian Space or passively gather it.
For most Immortal citizens, who just wished to live normal lives, they would progress in their cultivation without even needing to do anything other than eat and drink actively. Just those two actions were enough for Immortal Energy to begin naturally accumulating inside one's body.
This would, of course, change after a certain point. But for the Half-Immortal and Human Immortal Realms, they might as well be no different than the Body Refinement Realm in the Mortal Realms. In other words, just about anybody could progress to the peak of the Half-Immortal Realm, and sometimes even the Human Immortal Realm was not out of reach.
It was only in the Peak Human Immortal Realm and Earth Immortal Realm that cultivation progress truly started to be determined by the quality of one's cultivation talent.
For Azmodeus, however, he was simply a different breed...
Even though he was lacking in cultivation talent, he made up for it with the sheer lack of fucks to give when it came to how much of a drug lord he was willing to become. Thanks to these qualities, he only needed exactly 3 days to achieve a cultivation base as a Grade 7 Half-Immortal!
Once again exhibiting that he was unparalleled in the act of bunny-hopping over the Immortal Realms, Azmodeus also showed that his ability to 'lay low' was unmatched.
Even though guards often patrolled the area and looked around for anyone suspicious, not once did they look in his direction. After all, he was one of the people who made the city go round; therefore, not a single person suspected him of being the 'toy' that escaped more than a decade ago.
To this very day, the eldest princess of the Everveil Kingdom could be seen walking around the Royal Castle in a soured mood. She lost the most handsome man she had ever laid her eyes on, and now everyone else just looked like sh*t!
Annoyed was an understatement for how she felt as of late!
Yan Jie simply wanted to get her favorite toy back and teach him who the boss lady was! Why did everything always have to go wrong for her!?
Lamenting her luck while brooding in the confines of her safe castle room, she was utterly oblivious to precisely what she had brought upon herself.
If she had just left 'him' alone and gone on her merry way, then 'he' would've spared her and the Everveil Kingdom, considering it was his starter area. But after what she had done, there was no going back, and for inviting the devil right to her doorsteps, she would soon understand what true torture represented.
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Time passed like a shadow, fleeting and transient.
More than 3 months had flown by in the blink of an eye. It was during this period of time that Azmodeus's cultivation rocketed upward like an unstoppable force!
{[Grade 8 Half-Immortal]}
{[Immortal Physiques:]}
[Immortal's Resilience: Low-Red Tier]
{[Immortal Lines:]}
[White Tier Loot Lines: 1]
{[Loot Halos:]}
[Red Tier Loot Halos: 1]
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Azmodeus had still yet to learn how to obtain more Immortal Lines to increase his Battle Power, but he had a feeling that reaching the Earth Immortal Realm would get him closer to the truth.
"Well, excluding the matter of Immortal Lines, my Battle Power is inching ever closer to the Earth Immortal Realm. In other words, it won't be long before I can begin farming Evolution Essence again."
He had been itching to get back to grind ever since arriving in the Immortal Realm, and now he was so close to bringing his dreams to fruition!
Of course, that was assuming he didn't go broke before that could happen...
"With my current net worth, I have enough money to last- wait... Why are my bank accounts so low...?"
After pulling up a few holographic screens that displayed just how much money he possessed, Azmodeus realized something absolutely devastating.
"I'm f*cking broke!!"
Looking at the numbers in front of him, he saw that he had a net worth just about as good as a cracked-up hobo on Halloween!
"If I don't have any money and I need money, then I need to get more money."
After conducting those advanced calculations inside his head, Azmodeus pondered ways that he could go about acquiring massive amounts of money. Quickly, he realized he had only one real option in this situation.
"I must give up everything and return to monke!" He exclaimed.
Doing just as he said he would, Azmodeus ripped up his business suit and changed his disguise.
After transforming from a middle-aged man just trying to make an honest living to a large, muscular man covered from head to toe in shiny armor, he set off for a massive building in the city square!
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