The reason why Xifan controlled the princess to seize the imperial power was not because of food and drink, nor for useless power.
Everything Xifan did was for the purpose of advancing to the eighth level and becoming the most powerful person under the rules of the world.
For this promotion, Xifan has been planning for nearly a hundred years.
Over the past hundred years, Xifan has collected treasures that can help him break through the bottleneck in various secret realms and even abyss around the world.
In addition to [Shalan] who had just advanced to the seventh level in the empire, the other three seventh-level powerhouses (Roland, Andrew, and Charles Plantagenet) also maintained close contact with him.
Three years ago, Xi Fan finally gathered all the necessary treasures and was confident that he would be able to advance to the next level!
However, these treasures require a special crystal called [Frenzy Fragment] to unleash the full power of the treasure.
[Frenzy Fragments] need to be obtained from a large number of civilians. 100 civilians can obtain approximately 1 fragment after going through a special ceremony, while Xifan needs at least 3,000 fragments to activate all treasures.
In other words, he needs 300,000 civilians to participate in the ceremony to collect enough fragments.
[Frenzy Fragments] cannot be saved and will dissipate automatically in about a week. Xifan cannot accumulate them for a long time.
So he devised this plan:
Xifan contacted three seventh-level powerhouses to seize the imperial power, and used the imperial power to gather hundreds of thousands of residents of Forest City to participate in the ceremony, so that a sufficient amount of [Frenzy Fragments] could be collected.
Three seventh-level powerhouses expressed support for Xifan's plan.
If Xifan can successfully advance to the next level, then the threat posed by the northern rebels will be eliminated, and they can also gain a lot of benefits from it, which is in their interests.
However, Guardian Kevin Plantagenet was firmly opposed to Sivan's advancement.
Kevin Plantagenet believes that Sivan's advancement will cause a large number of civilian deaths, which is not in the interest of the empire as a whole. And most importantly, Sivan's promotion will threaten his status.
Therefore, Kevin Plantagenet threatened Sivan several times and ordered him not to advance.
Facing the huge pressure from Kevin Plantagenet, Xifan had no choice but to comply on the surface, and could only secretly collect the treasures needed to advance.
This also caused his collection of treasures that could have been completed in more than ten years to be delayed until nearly a hundred years ago.
Sivan used to respect Kevin Plantagenet on the surface, but actually hated him deeply.
Now the opportunity has finally come!
Kevin Plantagenet's body is stuck in the [Brilliant New World] and cannot get out. It is the best time for Xifan to advance to the next level. He must seize this time to complete his breakthrough!
That's why a series of things happened in Forest City.
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In the emperor's palace.
The leaders of the major forces followed Xifan's order to gather the common people;
Xifan stood next to the emperor who was wrapped in black mist, and used [Thought Stealing] to read his memory;
Su Yu thought carefully about the cause and effect of the incident, and became more confident about the main plot that followed.
After Xifan finished reading the memory, he stood there and meditated for a while.
Then he walked towards Su Yu and looked at him with interest: "Nemesis, what did that old guy Kevin Plantagenet say?"
The corners of Su Yu's mouth twitched slightly and he replied: "The patron saint didn't give me any reply."
Su Yu didn't tell lies. He had no way to communicate with the patron saint, and of course the patron saint wouldn't reply to him.
"Hmph! I really hope that old guy dies of anger in the new world." Xi Fan flicked his sleeves and turned into black mist to leave the palace.
But Su Yu stopped him: "Wait a minute, Xi Fan! I have sent you so many letters, why don't you give me some benefit? You don't think of me as free labor, do you?"
After hearing Su Yu's words, the black mist transformed into a human form again.
Xi Fan looked at Su Yu in surprise. How dare this kid ask for benefits from him?
Everyone else in the hall, including the seventh-level powerhouse [Sha Lan], looked at Su Yu in surprise.
At this juncture, Su Yu didn't bow his eyebrows and expressed his surrender to Xi Fan, but why did he dare to speak so loudly?
Xifan thought for a while, then threw a bottle of blue and golden potion from his sleeve and threw it towards Su Yu.
"Ding, [Glory of the Plantagenet Empire (30/100)] has been completed. Congratulations on gaining x experience points."
"Congratulations on getting the additional reward: [Advanced Blue Wisdom Potion (Golden Rare)] x1."
[Advanced Blue Wisdom Potion (Golden Rare)]: Increases your intelligence by 200 points, lasting 60 seconds. The potion has a cooldown time of 5 minutes.
This bottle of potion is quite good, it can be brought back to reality, and it can improve your explosive power quite a bit.
But Su Yu curled his lips disdainfully: "As a strong man at the peak of the seventh-level legend, that's all? Are you too stingy?"
"Stingy?!"
Shalan and the leaders of the big forces who had not left all looked at Su Yu, as if they were looking at a mentally retarded person. You want to die, right?
Well, adventurers from other worlds are not afraid of death and will be resurrected 6 hours after death.
But Xifan is a seventh-level peak powerhouse, so Su Yu isn't afraid that Xifan will permanently imprison his soul?
Xifan's face turned gloomy, and he formed a big hand made of black mist, trying to crush the bug in front of him.
But Su Yu continued without changing his expression: "Xi Fan, actually there is something we can cooperate with. You need [Frenzy Fragments], right? I have a way for you to get a lot of [Frenzy Fragments]."
Hearing the word "[Frenzy Fragment]", the big hand made of black mist stopped abruptly beside Su Yu.
In the face of such a big event as "promoting", Su Yu's small offense does not seem so important.
"What can you do?" Xifan's tone was a little stiff.
Su Yu put his hands behind his back and replied calmly: "The biggest difficulty in collecting [Frenzy Fragments] is the lack of cooperation from the people in the city. The further you go to the back, the harder it will be to collect, right?"
To collect [Frenzy Fragments], Xifan needs to set up a shadow frenzy array and activate the [Frenzy Ritual]. Civilians who enter the magic circle will attack and bite each other like crazy animals until everyone nearby is killed.
A [Frenzy Ceremony] can allow up to 10,000 civilians to participate.
After the ceremony, half of the civilians will die during the ceremony, a quarter will be seriously injured and on the verge of death, and the remaining quarter will survive by chance, but will inevitably be left with lifelong psychological trauma.
At first, people didn't know how scary the ritual was, but the first few waves of [Crazy Ritual] could be completed smoothly.
But people are not fools either.
They found that everyone who attended the ceremony never returned, and there were fewer and fewer people around. They began to spontaneously resist and run for their lives, which caused the collection of fragments to become slower and slower.
"What? Do you have any idea?" Xi Fan looked at him coldly.
"Of course." Su Yu replied: "With my appeal, I can summon millions of adventurers from other worlds for you to collect the fragments. What do you think?"