Chapter 169: Imperial City Battle 1 (1/2)
Chapter 169: Imperial City Battle (1)
Huang Xiaolong treated the burning, jealous gazes directed at him from the surrounding kingdoms’ geniuses as if they did not exist. He sat there with the same placid expression on his face.
“You’re called Huang Xiaolong, right?” Cui Li asked as she faced Huang Xiaolong sideways after sitting down on the empty chair next to him.
Huang Xiaolong turned sideways to look at her.
Observing Cui Li up close, he noticed underneath her sweet, innocent smile, there was a trace of seductive charm mixed within. A small exquisite nose and cherry red lips on a small mouth made it hard not to be attracted.
They were sitting quite closely, only a gap the width of an adult’s arm existed between them. Huang Xiaolong could easily touch Cui Li’s face and other body parts if he just stretched out his arm a little.
Cui Li’s mesmerizing eyes looked straight into Huang Xiaolong’s eyes. Their four eyes were locked in a gaze, lasting more than thirty breaths of time.
“That’s right.” Huang Xiaolong nodded.
Since this Cui Li knew his name, approaching and then sitting next to him was clearly not a coincidence.
“According to the rumors, you are only seventeen but you’ve already reached the level of peak late-Tenth Order warrior!”
A Seventeen-year-old, Houtian realm, peak late-Tenth Order warrior!
The crowd of geniuses were taken aback, finding what Cui Li said hard to believe as all of them looked at Huang Xiaolong, including Yuwai Kingdom’s Zhou Jie.
Xie Puti and Yanggang were also surprised.
Huang Xiaolong looked at Cui Li, frowning slightly as he shot her a stern glare before looking away, no longer bothering himself with her.
Being so obviously ignored, Cui Li did not show any anger on her face.
Time passed and another two geniuses that possessed superb talent martial spirits arrived, Pang Yu and Dai Shanni. Pang Yu was a man whereas Dai Shanni was another beauty, but compared to Cui Li, Dai Shanni possessed a soft, gentle kind of beauty.
Not long after that, the participating geniuses from all of the other kingdoms arrived and gathered. By this time, the sun was high in the morning sky, shining down on the land as the hot temperature rose.
The sunlight felt warm against Huang Xiaolong’s skin. In the next moment, the tightly shut red doors to the Duanren Imperial Palace creaked and opened. A small eunuch scurried out, announcing in his high pitched voice, “His Imperial Highness Second Prince has arrived~!”
Imperial Second Prince—Duan Wuhen!
As the eunuch’s voice fell, Duan Wuhen was seen riding out of the palace doors on a majestic lion mount amidst a protective circle of palace guards.
Since thirty years ago, Duanren Empire’s Imperial City Battle and the Military Parade affairs was overseen by Duan Wuhen. This was proof of Duan Wuhen’s importance in the Empire.
Along with some ministers, Duan Wuhen approached the arena area as the palace guards spread out, defending the four perimeters of the arena.
When Duan Wuhen entered the arena area, all the kingdoms’ geniuses stood up from their seats, saluting with half a bow, “Greeting Your Imperial Highness Second Prince!”
“Everyone need not stand on ceremony!” Duan Wuhen waved his hand. His voice sounded laid-back yet majestic, “Please sit!” He moved towards the main seat in the middle of the main platform and sat down.
The ministers that were with him took their seats, and only then did the geniuses from the different kingdoms sit down.
Duan Wuhen’s eyes swept across the many faces of these geniuses, and when they came to Xie Puti and Yanggang, they paused momentarily before moving away.
While Duan Wuhen was scanning through the crowd of geniuses, Huang Xiaolong was also observing Duan Wuhen. Compared to two years ago at the Enlightenment Lake, the invisible oppressive aura emanating from Duan Wuhen felt more daunting, like an insurmountable mountain pressing down heavily.
The atmosphere in the square became solemn upon Duan Wuhen’s arrival.