"Oh, that was the Azure Dragon energy aura! I had absorbed too much of it, and the azure dragon defensive barrier can help me sense any aura changes within a hundred-meter radius. I didn''t have to use dragon aura at all."


    "Oh, that''s much better, then," Felix said, lowering his head.


    Wilbur frowned. "But doesn''t Babbit cultivate in the Azure Dragon Lake himself? Shouldn''t he know that?"


    "The energy aura in Lord Edmund''s body shes with the Azure Dragon energy aura. He hasn''t actually been able to cultivate in theke."


    "What? Why do I see him enter theke every day, then?"


    Wilbur was shocked to hear this. Babbit cultivated in the Azure Dragon Lake every day for two hours. Why would he do that if he could not absorb the energy aura in there at all?


    Felix shook his head. "I''m not sure, but I think it might have something to do with the other City Lords. Edmund hasn''t secured his position in Buck Town just yet, and he''s wary that the other City Lords might attack him. So, he''s tricking them into thinking that he''s benefiting from Buck Town''s energy aura resource."


    Felix then told Wilbur that each of the nine major towns in the middle dimensions had a special energy resource that would help the City Lord improve their cultivation rapidly. That was what made the City Lords so much more powerful than any regr cultivator.


    Aside from the immensely powerful dimensional guardians in the upper dimensions, every other cultivator in the universe was subjected to a strict system of hierarchy. They would be meek to those above them, and strict and cold to those below them. Felix had used this theory to acquire the position of steward. It was just that the family he used to serve had been taken over by another, and many people and stories had faded into the past.


    Meanwhile, in a secret chamber, Babbit said, "Firton, send a message to the Chris family cultivators at once. I want them to force Wilbur into battle at all costs."


    Firton raised his head, frowning at Babbit. "Lord Babbit, didn''t you just grant Wilbur and Felix a hefty reward? Why are you turning the Chris family cultivators against them now?"


    Babbit paused, before saying, "I don''t trust them just yet. Don''t ask so many questions and do as I say."


    "Yes, Lord Babbit."


    Firton turned to leave, and Babbit stared after him as he thought of what George had said before. A talisman creator could sh Step anywhere within their energy aura, but Wilbur had been able to guess where Mike was every time.


    That could only mean that Wilbur was a dragon n cultivator, or that he had absorbed the special energy aura in the Azure Dragon Lake and gained the ability to sense the energy aura around him.