Global Lord: Start with Divine Favor

But Audrey started speaking, and he couldn't ignore her anymore. After all, he didn't want Audrey's relationship with Su Xi to become strained. Otherwise, managing the dynamics between these two women in the future would be truly challenging.

So he could only say, "Su Xi, that's enough for today's lesson. Let's save the rest for tomorrow."

Su Xi's slender figure appeared, her right arm stretched straight, and the long saber stopped instantly in mid-air, motionless. The blade pierced through the Idiot Dragon's jaw, making the foolish dragon hang like a dead dog on the tip of the saber, no longer having the strength to wail. It wasn't until long moments later that two streams of tears of narrowly surviving death and immense fear ran from its golden eyes.

Su Xi suddenly pulled out the long saber, causing the foolish dragon to crash heavily to the ground.

Su Xi placed the legendary long saber against its neck, speaking coldly: "If you dare talk nonsense again, I'll slaughter you. Not even your mother can save you!"

The other soldiers watching hurriedly scattered, even Su Ye felt lingering fear and swiftly left. He recalled that Su Xi had said she wanted to chop him to death this morning. He had thought it was just a girl's threat, but now he really felt grateful for her mercy at the time.

This woman is indeed different from the other women in the territory, showing gentleness solely to the Lord, while being cold as frost to everyone else.

Audrey and Silver Moon quickly stepped forward, helping Death's Wings up, and carefully checked its injuries.

But actually, it was only scared stiff and couldn't stand up. Its legendary trait meant it would never be weakened. Even if its Life Value was just a sliver, it still remained spirited.

Taking advantage of Su Xi sheathing her saber and walking toward Lin Rui, it suddenly darted out, leaving deep visible gashes on Audrey's and Silver Moon's bodies, crazily lunging at Su Xi.

Lin Rui was shocked, hurriedly raising his hand to cast a shield for Su Xi.

But Death's Wings desperately exploded with speed, moving too fast due to the cruelty and cunning of a giant dragon, even ignoring its closest, Audrey, willing to do anything to kill Su Xi, striking with lightning speed.

Yet Su Xi, with Bright Mirror Like Water, her long saber unsheathed in an instant, gripped reversely with both hands, blade under her arm, blocked the giant dragon's roar straight back into its throat, with frosty sharpness piercing through its neck.

[Bright Mirror Stilled Water lv10: Increases self's Bright Mirror Stilled Water and Heart of Destruction status, immunity to all control effects for 10 seconds, each attack guarantees a critical strike. Killing any unit extends this status by 1.5 seconds. 8s cooldown]

[Sword Intent Dao lv10: First page of the sword manual, forget the one in your heart. Immunity to charm-type mental controls, base damage of sword weapons increased by 400%, base attack speed of sword weapons +400%, attack speed +25% on hitting the same target next time (no limit)]

If Death's Wings waited a bit longer, attacking when the Sword Intent Dao bonuses faded, it might have had a chance.

But at this moment, it collided head-on with Su Xi's saber at its sharpest moment.

Su Xi remained motionless, even the hem of her dress didn't flutter much, as if the idiotic creature had bumped itself right onto Su Xi's saber.

Silver Moon admired Su Xi's demeanor greatly, saying, "Su Xi, if you have time, could you guide me on swordsmanship?"

This little girl is very different from her owner, having upright values; although she usually has a cool expression, she's very lovable, not annoying.

Su Xi's long saber twitched, reversing back, and she nodded lightly, saying, "Sure, I won't keep secrets."

Su Xi was willing to teach Silver Moon, not because of her idiot owner, but rather to elevate the territory's military strength, assisting the Lord.

Silver Moon, as a little werewolf, fights by trading damage for survival, hence having strong resilience to wounds and pain.

But her stupid owner, Audrey, is much more pampered, with deep visible gashes on her thighs and chest making her twitch from pain.

"Is this Idiot Dragon dead yet? If not, Su Xi, help me finish it off, this ungrateful beast!"

Although this Little Black Dragon was just born, its mind is still childlike; even if it inherently possesses a giant dragon's cruelty, upon learning its mother had abandoned it, it became so flustered, instantly cowering by Audrey's feet.

"Mom, I was wrong. I didn't mean to scratch you. Are your wounds okay? Let me lick them for you." It was truly scared, unable to fight back; without a "stepmother" as support, it felt it would definitely be hacked to death with random saber strikes. After being beaten severely, it could no longer care about the pride of a giant dragon. What does a giant dragon's pride matter? Is life important?

"Get away." Audrey took a breath of cold air: "Even my royal father hasn't licked me, you dare dream of it."

Su Xi's eyes lit up, smiling at Lin Rui. She always thought Audrey was inseparable from the Lord, having had intimate moments long ago.

She couldn't believe these two were so pure; wouldn't it be possible she had stolen the Lord's first kiss?

Seeing the amused glint from the mature woman's eyes, Lin Rui immediately guessed what she was thinking, straightening his back to meet her gaze. What's the issue? As if you didn't also experience a first kiss? Both for the first time, why mock me?

"Hiss~ Royal Father, are you and Su Xi flirting?"

Lin Rui pierced several Ice Needles into her body, saying righteously, "Already injured, focus on healing instead of thinking about this."

"Ah~ Clearly you didn't inject me." Audrey said weakly; facing Lin Rui, she could never be tough, naturally shifting the topic: "How about giving this Idiot Dragon a few needles as well?"

Lin Rui shook his head: "Don't overthink, it has Spiritual Immunity, needles can't penetrate, it has to recover on its own."

But with a Physique 500% effect bonus, recovery would be extremely fast. Plus, the territory has recovery life traits, so it'll be back to its full vigor in no time.

What was surprising was how quickly Su Xi could nearly wipe out a Legendary Giant Dragon's Life Value.

Even though Death's Wings hadn't received the Extreme Battle Banner's boost, with damage reduction only around sixty percent, her output efficiency was terrifyingly high.

Su Xi took initiative to speak, "I just have two matters to discuss with the Lord."

She presented her long saber to Lin Rui: "I've just slain thousands of Flame Demons, [Sin Song: Blood Red Crescent] has unlocked [Blood Moon Sin Song Chapter 2: Birth and Death of Dawn]."

[Blood Moon Sin Song Chapter 2: Birth and Death of Dawn: Everything unable to live will fear extinction; softness triumphs over hardiness, this is the dim light. When facing strong enemies with higher Life Value, each hit on the opponent will deepen damage by 20%, after an uninterrupted five stroke combo, unleashes 520% high additional damage]

No wonder her chopping made Death's Wings howl; with this damage value, under the legendary long saber's boost, a portion turned into True Damage, leaving Death's Wings' health bar to drop precipitously was uncanny.

Today, Lin Rui thoroughly witnessed just how sharp a legendary long saber could be, and how resistant legendary creatures were to a beating.

Su Xi drew back her saber, continuing to say: "Since joining the territory, enduring continuous combat for this long, even slaughtering Scarlet Tide and Flame Demons till rivers of blood flowed, my level climbed by 3 levels, having used [Bloodline Enhancement Potion (Excellency Level)], Physique Value has already reached Tier Five limit."

Upon hearing this, Lin Rui took a deep breath. Su Xi really had fought through a mountain of corpses and blood, slaughtering high-tier monsters by the thousands, ordinary monsters by tens of thousands.

But astonishingly, only gained 3 levels.

Advancing from Tier Five to Super-Tier is much more difficult than anticipated.

Lin Rui checked Su Xi's attributes, Tier Five limits at 270 Attribute Value.

[Bloodline Enhancement Potion Type III (Excellency Level)] can surpass Tier limits before Tier Five, but for Tier Five Su Xi, it's merely consumed as a supplement potion to increase Attribute Value to 270.

Relying on this potion to break through to Super-Tier was completely impossible.

This is the territory's first attempt at breaking through to Super-Tier for a troop type, Lin Rui also placed high importance on it.

He rummaged through treasures extracted from the Dragon's Nest.

This plunder of the Legendary Giant Dragon's Dragon Nest Treasure yielded numerous treasures for Lin Rui.

The legendary long saber [Sin Song: Blood Red Crescent] was just one among them, others included [Catastrophe-level Soul Seal (Black) Twilight Highlands], as well as what Lin Rui now presented, [Forest Melody].

[Forest Melody: Consumable item, after use, receives nature's blessing, entering an idyllic state, Root Bone increased by 50%, lasts for 24 hours]

This precious consumable item had been used by Audrey before, allowing her to breakthrough from Rare Level to Heroic Spirit Level.

Lin Rui planned to extreme-enhance this [Forest Melody] to increase Root Bone by 100%.

Su Xi's current Root Bone is 257, extreme-enhanced to 100%, reaching a staggering 514 points!

Advancing in such an idyllic state, she will undoubtedly acquire a Legendary Trait.

That will propel her as the strongest combat force in the territory. Of course, she currently is the strongest combat force.