The Innkeeper
chapter-1301

Just as Lex was getting ready to teleport over to Cassandra, he received a few reports about issues occurring within the Midnight Games. Although he had taken precautions to avoid external interference on the planets, no preparation was perfect.

It seemed that certain people participating within the Midnight Games had received external bribes from people who had ulterior motives for some of the planets where the war was occuring, or the participating planets. War time was perfect to conduct sabotage and assassinations, and so people found a way to make it happen.

The most ideal thing was for the assassination targets to die during the war itself, which was easily achievable. Many times, the assassins didn't even need to strike on their own. They just needed to ensure reinforcements would not arrive in a timely manner if their targets were under pressure.

This was not entirely Lex's problem. Anyone who participated in war would know the risks they took. But considering that Lex created this entire war for personal reasons made him feel like their deaths were, to a small degree, his fault.

The fix was an easy one. He made some changes to the Midnight Games using his authority, and people who would purposefully sabotage allies during war would be deemed traitors, and would be marked as such by the system. Killing a traitor was equivalent to 100 enemy kills.

It was not a perfect solution, since Lex was familiar with the concept for suicide warriors, but it would stabalise the situation for now.

Lex was once again reminded of how much work he was delegating to his staff members and the system, which renewed his intention to spend more time managing the Inn once this next task was done.

With his changes implemented, Lex teleported over to Cassandra.

"It's time," Lex said, waking his teacher from her meditation. "By the way, while I have you, what's a good way to use the Heart's Blood of a Jorlam, or even a Heart, to train regular humans? I'm not asking for myself. I can probably manage to absorb it just fine on my own. I'm asking for the other Inn workers.

"For all the advantages they've gotten from the Inn, very few of them have become immortal in the last two decades. Their progress is kind of disappointing."

Cassandra studied Lex, her gaze profound, for a while before she spoke.

"Do you have some kind of misconception about what it takes to become an immortal? Becoming an immortal within 100 years is considering the highest level of talent among the entire human race. Temper your expectations young man. The progress of the Inn workers is more than sufficient. As for the Heart's Blood of a Jorlam, I actually do not advise you to use it casually. At minimum, the user must be an Earth Immortal, and preferably at the peak of the Immortal realm before you can use the blood.

"Jorlam as a species are one of the most destructive and chaotic in the universe, and their nature is carried on in their blood. Used carelessly, it can even affect the psyche of the user. If the workers at the Midnight Inn weren't exceptionally talented to begin with, I'd say let them at least reach the Heavenly Immortal realm before using it.

"Rather than them, I suggest you feed the blood to the Kun Peng I have seen within your Inn. Kun Peng have the heritage of devouring, which is similar to the Jorlam, who eat entire star systems to sustain themselves.

"As for the Heart itself… I suggest you forget about it, and don't you dare consume it yourself either, at least until you reach the very peak of the Heavenly immortal realm. I think the best course of action would be to just submit it to the Innkeeper. If you really must use it yourself, then I suggest you find an excellent chef within the Celestial immortal realm, have them prepare a smidgen of it, and then serve it as a meal to other Celestial immortals. They can, barely, afford to consume such a thing."

Lex nodded along and kept listening. As far as training humans was concerned, Cassandra was the best and most knowledgeable, which is why he consulted her on how to train others. As for himself… his situation was too special. Unless he explained to her about how he had absorbed Dao level ingredients, he doubted she would fully understand what he was capable of.

"By the way, how is your bond with the Lotus going?" she asked. "Have you experienced any problems lately? I would check on you personally, but in my current state I do not want to consume any extra energy. This clone cannot sustain much exertion."

"Not bad at all," Lex said. "Why don't I show you? Lotus has evolved quite a bit lately."

Lex summoned the power of Lotus, bringing forth the associated tattoos. The Inn would suppress his aura from hurting anyone nearby, but Cassandra still felt it and paused briefly.

"Your World Seed Lotus has already transformed into a Realm Seed Lotus, which is an extinct species. Since it is bonded with you… you can consider using some of the Jorlam blood and meat as fertilizer for its realm - but only a small amount. That will boost the growth of the Lotus, while bringing you the associated feedback as well."

"I'll do just that," said Lex. He hadn't thought that even the brand new realm could benefit from using Jorlam blood as fertilizer. Clearly, this was an ingredient on another level.

"Here, once you take a look at my sister, we can head to the Crystal realm," said Lex as he brought Cassandra to the still sleeping Moon.

Though Cassandra was conserving energy, she had already promised Lex to take a look at Moon so she extended her spiritual energy, then looked at Lex with an unusual expression.

"What's wrong?" Lex asked, confused. Cassandra didn't look worried, so it couldn't be bad news, right?

"You are nurturing a realm inside of yourself due to your connection to the Lotus. In your case, you are nurturing a realm by association, or doing it indirectly. That does not mean that there is a real realm inside your body.

"Your sisters situation is similar, and yet different. Your sister, I believe, treated a planet as a Golden core in her cultivation, but her physique which is purifying the planet has caused… an unexpected mutation.

"The planet within her has turned into a realm seed, so just like you… your sister is nurturing a realm inside of herself - except that in her case it's quite literal. I'm afraid… she won't wake up till the realm matures, and when she wakes up, with an actual physical realm serving as her core… she might directly become a Demi-Dao Lord, or even a real Dao Lord."