Heavenly coins were spent, and he felt new powers flood his body. His muscles gained strength, weight, and density. Now, his entire body felt significantly heavier. So much so, that he generated his own gravitational field.

Uncle Zhui was unaffected, but he was the first to notice it. "My boy, you have some new pulling force?"

"Ah. Yes." Huang Lu grinned, as he suddenly realised he could control this 'field', and then focused. The ground and rock shook, and suddenly, dirt started to gather around him.

"Oh." Toh Gen looked amused. "You're like a whirlpool that draws things to you."

Huang Lu nodded, and he mentally switched it off. Thank goodness it could be controlled. It'll be super annoying if the gravitational field was perpetual since everything would be drawn to him, and then he'll essentially grow into an actual ball as things get stuck on him.

"Are we still headed for a city?"

Huang Lu nodded. "Yeah. I need high quality pants. The pants that Yuanfang made would suffice as emergency pants, but, I'll need something stronger."

"Huh. Did you get smarter? You're using more difficult words." Toh Gen wondered.

"I don't know. Maybe I'm just as smart as the one that's controlling me behind all of this." Huang Lu shrugged. "But anyway, let's just get to a city. A city with good, high quality craftsmen."

Toh Gen took out a map, and then checked it. Uncle Zhui immediately peeked. "Huh. Not so useless for a sidekick after all."

Toh Gen looked quite offended, but ignored the old man. "The nearest large city would be Godspear City, home of the Godspear Sect."

Huang Lu had a feeling something related to his harem would happen, but decided it didn't matter. "Very well, then let us head there, but before that, let me just check on Ziyi for a while."

The door to his personal palace opened, and they walked in.

"Ah, I was about to ring the bell." Huang Lu saw Qian Ziyi and Xue Xinling sitting at the living area, and they seemed to be sipping a cup of tea. Strangely, Qian Ziyi still looked quite dirty.

"I noticed a problem with your portable palace." Lady Xue said.

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"Oh?"

"Your water supply ran out."

"It... ran out?"

"Yes."

Huang Lu looked puzzled, before the Royal Bloodline answered the question for him. [The Portable Palace's Water Storage needs to be refilled at a river. You may summon the Palace Gourd outside, and place it in the river. The Palace Gourd is connected to the Portable Palace's water storage]

"Ah." The gourd magically appeared in his hand, and there was a long rope attached to it. "I need to refill it."

"What are you going to do with that?"

"I think I need to take it to a place with water?"

"Oh."

At the same time, Uncle Zhui looked around. "I'll take a room."

"That was my room!" Toh Gen said.

"Now, now, young one, you should give a room to your seniors."

Toh Gen didn't look happy, so Huang Lu looked at his palace upgrades. Surely there's enough for everyone, and so, he decided to add another two bedrooms. One for the girls, and one more for Uncle Zhui.

[1,000 SSR coins spent. Two additional bedrooms purchased]

[Warning : Maximum number of bedrooms and beds are limited to two times the present realm. Currently, the limit is 10 bedrooms. Maximum number of utility rooms are based on realm x 4 = ie currently the maximum number of utility rooms. Total number of individuals in the palace realm is restricted to twice the number of realms, but harem members are excluded.]

It doesn't count harem members. Of course it doesn't. It's the Royal Bloodline, and the Bloodline demands concubines and partners to continue said bloodline.

"There's a limit to rooms too." Huang Lu realised that he couldn't secretly transport an army through the secret realm, which would be a fun way to exploit the secret realm. Unless, of course, Huang Lu's army comprised entirely of his harem. That would be possible. No, now that the writers have written it, it must be so.

Lady Xue immediately brought the focus back to the matter. "Water. We have a bit of it left. Enough for drinks, but not enough to clean up."

"Ah."

"It's important." Both Xinling and Yuanfang said in unison. "A bath is one of the great enjoyments of life."

Ziyi frowned a little, and this is because as a practitioner of the Wild Blood Sect, baths isn't really that much of a big deal. Then again, the town she came from would be considered savage in some parts of the continent, so she kept her mouth shut. As the girls complained to Huang Lu, uncle Zhui checked out the newly appeared room.

"This is some heavenly blessing, young Lu."

Huang Lu nodded. "Thank you. I have little to do with it. Alright, let's discuss which path we will take to go to Godspear." Toh Gen, the sidekick with impeccable timing, spread the map on the table for all to see.

"We could go through the Poisontree Marsh, or through the Northern Firemount Ridges, or the long way around, through the Red hammer Town and West Eagle Towns."

"The poisontree marsh are filled with Spiritual Trees that eat cultivators." Qian Ziyi objected to it. "Only the elders would dare approach it."

Uncle Zhui immediately rebuked the girl. "Little girl, there are three elder-class individuals here. I'm even stronger than many small sect masters."

"The Northern Firemount Ridges have the Fire-breathing Lizards, and well, the long way, well, it's safer, but long."

As if the heavens would let any of their paths be peaceful. Huang Lu decided then, to ask for heavenly opinion.