Chapter 208 – Million Stars Palace (1/2)

Chapter 208 - Million Stars Palace

‘I have to use the connections I made, the opportunities I’ve been given. The Helians will help me climb the ladders without a doubt. I will be a fool not trying to get stronger and higher through them.’

‘I am not just going away, I am entering a new world. A world where class and standing matters, I came from a family of a Supreme and I’ve inherited the Glacial Emperor’s legacy, I will use those to my advantage in the future. And maybe then, when I’ve gained a better status, I will win Ziyan…’

Ye Wei clenched his fist, determined since he learned from his master that Lin Ziyan was the only daughter of the Lin Patriarch, the dynasty’s emperor.

He now understood why she had to keep a distance; the reason she left was to protect him from a dangerous world.

“I will become unstoppable.” Ye Wei muttered, his eyes glittering with determination. His thirst to become powerful was dominating his mind.

“I will not shut myself in a room and train, that is just stupid. I will learn from the Helians, interpret their wisdom and incorporate their methods to suit my cultivation. I will not become one of their pawns!”

The capital was divided into three zone, each zone was a smaller city ran by a respective royal family.

‘So this is how things are in the capital…’ Ye Wei’s runicle glided through the mild winter storm, approaching Helian City. As he was closer in, he was seeing more and more runicles on the roads.

“Zoom!”

A luxurious runicle whizzed by. At ten times the size of Ye Wei’s carriage, it looked more like a mobile palace.

“Eh?” Ye Wei could feel a great presence from the gigantic runicle’s direction, looked at the small open yard next to its driver seat.

The young Runemaster quickly identified the source of the Qi presence in between a group of gorgeous escorts; at the young man that was dressed dashingly, in the center of the small dance.

He then shifted his focus to the flagpole at the runicle’s hind end where the Bai family crest was fluttering in the wind.

The Bai was one of the sixteen superpowers of the Zhou dynasty beneath the three royal families. Each of these sixteen influential households had over thousand years of heritage, they were treated as nobles, extension of the royals.

The young Bai sensed Ye Wei’s attention, turned around and stared back with his drunken gaze, rose his glass as the runicle drove further away.

“Zoom!”

The Bai’s accelerated and disappeared into the skyline. Its speed caused a turbulence, shaking Ye Wei’s runicle vigorously.

In the following minutes, Ye Wei encountered a few more lavish runicles, “this is the twelfth of them! What are the Bais up to?”

“Show offs!” Ye Wei channeled his Qi to stabilize his ride, decided against confronting as he was alone and new to the area. ‘Just wait, you will be bowing before me one day.’

The three imperial cities were the heart, brain and soul of the dynasty. They were guarded by the strongest elites of the land, safe from the threats imposed by demons and beasts. It was natural that the sixteen superpowers based themselves close to the royals but the area had turned into the dynasty’s most materialistic region because of the amount of money that came with them.

Ye Wei shook his head, rid the pessimistic thoughts. He looked ahead to the hills and buildings ahead.

A few hours later, a large conglomeration of building structures as wide as the skyline appeared on the horizon as Ye Wei ‘s runicle escaped the valleys.

The young Runemaster could feel the royal city’s energy and life from a hundred miles away. He could also feel a faint, ancient runic presence emitted by the centuries old city walls.

“This is a colossus runic array.” Ye Wei mumbled to himself as he narrowed his eyes. He noticed that there was a flow of runes circulating, maintaining a semi-spherical shell around the entire royal city.

‘The scale of this barrier is unbelievable, I wonder how many centuries it took for this enormous runic structure to be built…’

Not only did the array protected the royal city, it also shielded the five hundred miles radius around it, creating a humongous no-fly zone, a zone that was powerful enough to turn any lawbreakers, even ten star returned prime Warriors, into dust.

Ye Wei had realized he would have to stop as he went closer to the shield and saw a large amount of wayfarers. He got off the runicle and stored it in one of his interspatial bags.

He then used the Starblink Steps, attempted to finish the last six hundred miles of his journey as fast as he physically could.