Chapter 732: It’s him (2/2)
There were a few people waiting on him in the room. They each stepped forward and began reporting the major happenings throughout the Eastern Sea. Apparently, they had their respective assignments because the things they recounted were all from different fields.
The young man listened carelessly and without much interest, even more so for things outside of the Eastern Sea. Moments later, it was an old man’s turn to speak and his topics were all related to the Wolf King.
As he listened on, the young man suddenly became alert and interrupted, “Wait, so you’re saying Xue Ding went out for a while, but instead of returning to Wolf King Castle, he went to the Xue family instead?”
The old man replied, “Yes, he went to visit Xue Wu.”
Another person snorted. “Don’t tell me the Xue family isn’t content yet?”
The young man stopped him by raising his hand. “This is probably unrelated to the Xue family. This convenient brother must’ve suffered a loss and wanted his big brother to help him regain some face.”
“Why didn’t he seek out Your Highness, instead? Xue Wu isn’t your match at all.”
The young man revealed a charming smile. “You can't be sure about that. The Xue family’s secret arts are fairly powerful. In my current state, I might not win against Xue Wu in a fight. However, the fragility of the human body is their fatal weakness. After my body matures in a few years, Xue Wu? Heh heh, he won’t even have the qualifications to fight me.”
The people at the scene immediately offered their praises. “The longer the maturation period of the Wolf King’s inheritance, the greater one’s potential. Your Highness’s growth has reached thirty years. This kind of talent is no different from His Majesty the Wolf King’s back in the year.”
The young man waved his hand. “I’ve told you people so many times to stop calling me highness. According to Evernight tradition, even my father can’t be addressed in such a way, let alone me.”
“Your future prospects are not below the Wolf King, it’s only right to call you Your Highness.”
The young man sighed while covering his forehead, almost as though he was feeling helpless. “Whatever, do what you want. Sigh!”
He stood up after the men had completed their reports and stretched his body. “It’s too boring here, time to go out and about. Check where that brat Xue Ding is headed, I’ll follow him and see how things go.”
The old man replied, “I’ll arrange a guard squad.”
“What guard squad?!” The young man waved his hand impatiently. “Even if there’s someone in the Eastern Sea who can defeat me, do you think I can’t escape? Besides, who’ll dare attack me after finding out my identity?”
“But…”
The elder wanted to say something but was cut short by the young man. “I’m the son of the Wolf King, one with the right to hold an Evernight title. If I don’t even dare to travel alone in my father’s territory, wouldn’t that be a huge embarrassment for His Majesty? Am I no better than those convenient siblings?”
Seeing the prince furious, the men no longer dared to offer words of persuasion and left the room one after the other.
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Qianye’s life was just as peaceful and calm—after consolidating his realm for a couple of days, he began cultivating once more. This time, he chose to go into the waters of the Eastern Sea instead, and began cultivating the Profound Combatant Formula on one of the rocks jutting out of the sea.
Qianye noticed the difference once the formula came into effect. Vast amounts of void origin power were pulled into the just-formed origin vortex, forming a small origin storm around him. The energy around him was drained in the blink of an eye, but more of it gushed out of the ocean to fill in the gap.
The speed of absorption was already faster than on the shore even without pushing the origin vortex very hard. At this moment, the vortex was far from the point where it would tear the void apart.
Qianye suspected that the Eastern Sea was a peerless holy land for cultivation. People must’ve discovered this throughout the years, so why wasn’t anyone cultivating in the ocean?
What Qianye didn’t know was that the void origin power here was extremely violent—even the dark races couldn’t absorb it, not to mention humans. Qianye’s body had been remodeled by the auric flame blood and was at the count-level even by ancient vampire standards. As such, he sensed nothing special after absorbing the energy here. Any other ordinary vampire count would burst apart with a shattered blood core after absorbing such void origin power.
The expansion of his origin vortex became much harder in the sea as pushing the vortex into rotation felt like he was pushing against the actual seawater. One could imagine the force required to drive a hundred-meter vortex inside the water. However, Qianye also benefitted in the form of insights into domain control.
The first cultivation session in the sea filled him to the brim in less than an hour. Qianye thus retracted his Profound Combatant Formula and opened his eyes—he was shocked by the scene before him.
The seawater in a ten-meter radius around him had disappeared and the seabed, revealed. Meanwhile, the displaced water had accumulated into a ten-meter wall around the empty space and was slowly revolving around it. The moment he retracted the formula, however, the force rejecting the water quickly disappeared and the wall of water came crashing down on Qianye.
Moments later, a dripping wet Qianye crawled onto the shore. In a moment of carelessness, he had been swept into the depths of the ocean and had to rely on East Peak’s weight in order to reach the bottom and walk back to the beach.
Qianye wiped away the water from his face and plucked a starfish that was stuck on his head. Before he could even open his eyes, however, he heard someone say, “It’s him!”
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