#85 - Chapter 85: Becoming the Imperial Princess's Guest

【You chose option A, staying to observe what the treasure in Ni Chang's hand is.】

【Time passed bit by bit. On the evening of the seventh day, just like the previous simulations, Qiu Yue led the Heavenly Demon Sect to attack Blackwater Market. You quietly hid your presence in the inner city, observing the situation.】

【An hour later, you saw Qiu Yue and Ni Chang fighting. With one move, Ni Chang was severely injured by Qiu Yue, and Qiu Yue took a deep blue pearl from Ni Chang. Then, a sky full of blue light engulfed Qiu Yue and Ni Chang. You watched from the outside, unable to see what was happening inside, only vaguely hearing sounds coming from within.】

“Haha, Ni Chang, this treasure, the Merman Pearl, concerns the Deep Sea Merman Sea Kingdom. This palace will gladly accept it.”

【You guessed wrong. The treasure in Ni Chang's hand is not the Mysterious Bird Token, but a Merman Pearl!】

【You don't know much about the Merman Pearl, and you don't know much about the Deep Sea Merman Sea Kingdom. You've only heard that there is a group of Deep Sea Sea Clans in the southernmost part of the Great River cultivation world, and the Merman Sea Kingdom is one of them.】

【You thought to yourself, Qiu Yue has a lot of hidden secrets. First, the Mysterious Bird Token, and now a Merman Pearl and the Deep Sea Merman Kingdom.】

“The first doubt is resolved. It turns out that the treasure in Fairy Ni Chang's hand is the Merman Pearl. The second doubt is, how exactly did Ni Chang survive from Qiu Yue's hands?”

“Logically speaking, it should be as easy as flipping her hand for Qiu Yue to kill Ni Chang.”

Lin Changqing closely watched the blue light waves, but unfortunately, he couldn't see anything inside.

He couldn't even hear the sounds clearly.

【After a night, your doubts remained unresolved. You couldn't observe the situation inside the blue light waves. You could only see that when dawn broke, the blue light waves suddenly dissipated, and two figures soared into the sky. One was Qiu Yue, her face looking very bad, coldly snorting as she led the Heavenly Demon Sect back. The other was the seriously injured Ni Chang.】

【What happened inside the blue light waves that ultimately allowed Ni Chang to survive, and it seemed that Qiu Yue suffered a loss?】

【You were very puzzled, shook your head, and left.】

【This doubt can be resolved after you improve your cultivation. Now is the time to go to Central Continent to cultivate peacefully.】

【You need to go to Central Continent to obtain the method of refining the internal organs. You also need to contact the Central Continent royal family to learn more information about the Asong Death City. You also need to use the abundant spiritual energy of Central Continent to accelerate your cultivation improvement.】

【In Azure Province, it is no longer of much help to your cultivation improvement.】

“When I return again, it will be the moment I overturn the chessboard of Azure Province.”

The morning drizzle was falling, and a young cultivator in green clothes looked back at the market scene. Then, he turned around and strode away.

【You flew in the direction of Azure Province. Your flight route was the same as the last simulation, still passing through Sian County, Moyun County, Qingli County, and finally reaching Central Continent via the Han Sea Desert.】

【What was different from the last time was that your road to Central Continent was very smooth. No demonic cultivators came to besiege you. After all, you are not yet famous, and you have not yet done the earth-shattering thing of killing Mo Tian and Mo Batian, grandfather and grandson.】

【Five days later, you successfully arrived at the Han Sea Desert and, after a day's flight, arrived at Central Continent.】

【When you arrived in Central Continent, your first feeling was that the spiritual energy was deep, incomparably deep.】

“No wonder so many strong people emerge in Central Continent. The spiritual energy in the world is probably dozens of times stronger than in Azure Province.”

Lin Changqing felt the spiritual energy of Central Continent. At this moment, he had a feeling of “oxygen intoxication.”

There was no way around it. Having just come from Azure Province, a place with barren spiritual energy, to Central Continent with its rich spiritual energy, he was a little unaccustomed to it.

At this moment, he understood to some extent why there was not even a Nascent Soul cultivator in Azure Province.

But in Central Continent, Nascent Soul cultivators emerged one after another, and even Transformation God Heavenly Lords existed.

The reason to a large extent lies in the difference in the concentration of spiritual energy.

【Another month passed, and you have been in Azure Province for a month. During this month, you felt the strength of the Great Wu Dynasty everywhere in Central Continent.】

【The orthodox and demonic paths of Central Continent are suppressed by the Great Wu Dynasty. Even if any sect of the orthodox and demonic paths wants to recruit disciples, they must obtain the permission of the Great Wu Dynasty. If they recruit disciples without permission, then they are heretical demons, and the dynasty will immediately send troops to suppress them.】

【It's simply ridiculously strong. The best top-notch secret realm cultivation resources in Central Continent are controlled by the Great Wu Dynasty.】

【You sighed, it seems that if you want to speed up your cultivation, you really have to contact the Great Wu Dynasty.】

【In addition, you also inquired about some useful information.】

【The Great Wu Dynasty has an immortal examination every year, which is a system for selecting talents similar to the imperial examination, except that the imperial examination tests the Four Books and Five Classics, while the immortal examination tests cultivation and spiritual power.】

【Every year after the immortal examination ends, those who perform well in the immortal examination will be recruited by the princes and nobles of the capital.】

【If it is the top three, the champion and the third runner-up, then needless to say, the top princes and nobles are vying to marry their daughters to you, which is a bit similar to the scene of those ministers grabbing sons-in-law after the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty.】

【In addition, outstanding performance in the immortal examination will also attract the attention of those princes and princesses.】

【The Great Wu Dynasty adopts a gu-raising system. Princes and princesses want to recruit retainers and cultivate their respective forces to compete for the throne. Naturally, these princes and princesses pay great attention to talents. Every year in the immortal examination, a large part of those who perform well will be invited by the princes and princesses to become retainers.】

【Your next goal is to participate in the immortal examination.】

【Because you are determined to obtain the method of refining the internal organs in the secret realm of the main hall of the Mountain and Sea Sect in Central Continent.】

【And the quota for the secret realm of the main hall of the Mountain and Sea Sect is only eligible to be allocated by princes and princesses.】

【So you have to participate in the immortal examination, strive to become a retainer of a certain prince or princess, and then obtain the quota to go to the main hall secret realm from them.】

【A month later, you arrived at the capital of the Great Wu Dynasty. After finding an inn to stay in, you went to sign up for the immortal examination.】

【The immortal examination has no identity restrictions. All eighteen states of Great Wu can participate.】

【You successfully signed up and learned that the time for the immortal examination is three months later.】

【Three months later, you participated in the immortal examination and obtained a ranking of more than twenty. You didn't perform too prominently. This was intentional.】

【In fact, with your aptitude of a nine-patterned golden core, just showing it would probably qualify you for first place without even taking the exam.】

【After all, although Central Continent has deep spiritual energy, nine-patterned golden cores are also extremely rare. It is said that only the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess, these two top geniuses, have them.】

【A nine-patterned golden core is a top genius anywhere.】

【But you don't want to be too eye-catching. You still know that a big tree attracts the wind. You come from Azure Province and have no background.】

【In this life, you just want to be low-key and steadily break through your cultivation to the eighth or tenth level of the golden core, and then go back to slaughter Azure Province and snatch the Mysterious Bird Token from Qiu Yue.】

【You don't want to perform too prominently and attract attention.】

【More than twenty, this ranking is just right for you. It's not too prominent, but it also shows your potential. This ranking is enough for certain princes and princesses to recruit you.】

【On the first day after the immortal examination, the first to be recruited were the top three in this examination. At that time, people all over the capital watched as the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess, the two most outstanding princes and princesses, invited the top three to be their retainers.】

【The people in the capital envied the top three. Being recruited by the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess to be their retainers is a step to the sky. Everyone can see that the future helmsman of the dynasty must be one of these two. Being able to become their retainers, in the future, they may not be able to be listed as princes and nobles!】

【On the second day after the immortal examination, after the top three were divided up by the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess, the remaining from the fourth to the fiftieth also began to be recruited by other princes and princesses.】

【And you also received an invitation from the Seventeenth Princess, Xia Youlan.】

【The Seventeenth Princess's mansion will host a grand banquet tonight. You choose to accept and decide to attend the banquet tonight.】

“Becoming a retainer of the Seventeenth Princess is also a good choice.” Lin Changqing thought to himself, looking at the invitation in his hand.

Afterwards, he walked out of the room, preparing to go to the Seventeenth Princess's mansion for the banquet.