Chapter 712: A Mighty Zhao Shenguang (1/2)
With a vacant stare, Qi Hai looked at the broken Sovereign Stele, then at the Path of Ingress leading straight into the central world. He raised his hand and almost slapped it down, but ultimately decided against the action.
Nephrite Major somehow already had a new celestial emperor on her throne, one who should’ve been in seclusion to refine the heavenly mandate. To fully refine a mandate required at least a thousand years!
In other words, apart from the dead Exalted and Truespirit celestial emperors who’d earned the acknowledgment of their heavenly mandates, none of the others had mastered theirs in the truest sense. At most, they could borrow some strength from it.
However, the new generation of celestial emperors, including the now-deceased Zhao Changkong, had been groomed by their predecessors as their chosen heirs. From the moment they’d been born, they’d basked in their mandate’s nourishing warmth. Therefore, even if they’d been mere aether dao immortals before succeeding the throne, they would’ve quickly attained the origin dao realm once in full mastery of their mandates.
But unlike Zhao Changkong, neither Zhao Shenguang nor the other celestial emperors benefited from similar advantages. Therefore, they would have to toil for a full millennium to refine and bring out the mandate’s full strength.
Indeed, why else would the old imperial uncle have left the major’s ancestral vein in Lu Yun’s care?
But now… that oddity Zhao Shenguang had raised a fuss demanding female immortals to wait upon him as soon as he’d arrived in Destiny City. Even more outrageously… he’d used Nephrite Major’s great treasure, the Path of Ingress, to break the Sovereign Stele and open the way to the central world!
In addition, the heavenly mandate’s light could be seen revolving around his figure, clear proof he’d somehow refined it!
In terms of cultivation, he was a measly peerless immortal, an ordinary one bereft of formations of heaven and earth, someone who should’ve become obsolete in this brand-new era.
But for some strange, unimaginable reasons, this kid was now celestial emperor of Nephrite Major, and had even gotten his hands on the heavenly mandate and the court’s cherished treasure.
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“Hahaha!” Zhao Shenguang laughed boisterously. “Ladies of Destiny City, are you swooning at this emperor’s graceful bearing yet…? Mommy, damn, what is that?!”
In his proudest, smuggest moment, his eyes happened to land on Ge Yanxia. He first froze for the duration of a breath, then shrieked with alarm and then… violently threw up on the spot.
“What is that thing? That, that lump, that pile, that thing’s not human and not a ghost. Men, take it away!” Suddenly remembering his lofty status, Zhao Shenguang wiped off his mouth, pointed at Ge Yanxia, and hollered loudly.
“Nephrite Celestial Emperor!” The lord of Destiny City walked out, somewhat displeased. “She is the master of the West Sea. Her status is as noble as yours.”
The city lord was barely holding in his irritation. For him, Zhao Fengyang was both a teacher and a friend. He’d met all of the emperor’s children, but the one he was least fond of happened to be Zhao Shenguang.
Sex was this fellow’s lifelong pursuit. He had a hundred dao partners in his harem, and stranger still… he was in the business of operating brothels. Be it the world of mortals or immortals, pleasure houses he’d personally established could be found everywhere.
Last time he’d come to Destiny City, he’d planned to open a brothel there, only to be kicked out by the city lord for his efforts. So now that this blackguard was here again, the city lord naturally didn’t bother to hide his annoyance.
On the other hand, he wasn’t particularly angry about the Path of Ingress smashing the Sovereign Stele. Rather, he very much approved of it.
“Master of the West Sea?” Zhao Shenguang blinked. “Dog of a West Sea Emperor?”
Snorts and stifled chuckles rose and fell in the crowd. Silverlight had just called it West Sea Dog Emperor, and now, this curiosity of a Nephrite celestial emperor was adding fuel to the flames!