《Legacy: Lord Alba》


 Hello Second life

    At the peak of a mountain, an old man was gazing at the stars while reflecting on his life.


    I''m dying if you imagining something along the line of conspiracy, betrayal of a loved one or something similar?


    I''m sorry to disappoint you, but I am dying naturally of old age having experienced every aspect of life, after all, I have been living for more than three thousand years and experienced everything a life can offer.


    I still remember my first love, she was a beautiful woman with huge breasts and a small waist with long legs just like a piece of art. for me, she was like a goddess.


    I could hardly believe she was my girlfriend Until one day, she became the biggest disappointment in my life. from her, I learned both love and hate.


    She was the first person I trusted and was betrayed by the most. Now that I mentioned, it was like a typical drama of pure and beautiful romance that descended into oblivion.


    I still remember the word she said when she left me "You will never become anyone in life I look for something better" and with those words. we set out on separate paths of life.


    After that, I concentrate on cultivation, alchemy, arrays, and everything I could find just to erase those words "You will never become anyone in this life" from my head.


    I never looked for her, until a decades later when I saw her again she was the wife of a sect master. One could see the pride she radiating from her face at first sight just by walking along with her husband.


    After all, she thought that she had made the right choice at that time she never would have thought of me after our breakup.


    I wanted to show her that she was wrong but once I saw her I lost my interest. Her most significant achievement in life was to marry a Sect Master of a local sect, she would never surpass that achievement. So I thought am I a fool to bother spending my time on such a person?


    Thinking that I left my homeland and traveled the world without looking back. I wandered all my life like a lonely cultivator, lacking any backing, offending clans, and sects, being hunted day and night constantly Fighting day after day till the death of my enemies. As years go by my cultivation increased by leaps and bounds Until one day it reaches a bottleneck from which I never advanced.


    I came to this mountain more than a thousand years ago and made it my home, then immersed myself in spoils of those I killed.


    amongst them were Some alchemists, array masters, While some were weapon masters. From whom I acquired unique and rare recipes of pills beside various unique fire control techniques, also learned many Arrays and even developed some original Arrays of my own, Not to mention the infinite number of cultivation and body refinement techniques.


    I spent many years analyzing all the techniques until I concluded why I could not advance further on my path of cultivation, it¡¯s because of my weak foundation!


    When I was young I was poor, there was no teacher to guide me or resources for my cultivation. while my society hinged on ¡°strong prey on weak mentality,¡± therefore I strived to be stronger as quickly as possible to change my lifestyle. I sought after faster realm breakthrough without proper foundation which leads me to have a weak foundation.


    I could never have realized it at that time, but now with all the techniques I researched and all the notes from my spoils I came to realize it, as they all pointed to the importance of building a stronger foundation in the initial stages of cultivation, as well as many tips to help future generations.


    I spent my remaining time in silence. Studying the techniques of cultivation, body refinement, alchemy, Arrays. Until, this day.


    Everything has an end and time does not forgive anyone.


    Since I am at the end of my road called life I have decided to enter the reclusion of death.


    "it was not a perfect life, but it was the life that led me to my current achievements" So I say goodbye to the world.Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author.


    Staring at the sky full of stars for the last time. I turn around and go back to the cave I have been using for the last thousand years of cultivation.


    Closing the cave entrance with a huge rock to prevents the qi from escaping. relaxing in a lotus position, closing my eyes without knowing if I would open them ever again I entered the reclusion of death.


    Time passed ...


    (What happened? Did I die?) Everything was dark until a light engulfed him.


    The first thing he heard was "Congratulation he''s a Boy"


    (What do you mean? Where I am?) While trying to move He realized that he can''t move his body nor can he speak all that came out of his mouth are some baby noises, thus he began to observe what''s in front of him.


    He was in a clean, well-lit room along with a middle-aged man in white silk clothes should be the doctor while behind him stood three ladies who appeared to be his assistants.


    While he was in the arms of an assistant. Another assistant approached with a sphere and placed it on his hand then a stream of energy moved inside his body spreading to every part of his body then retracts back to the sphere then it shined gray before snuffing out a few seconds later.


    (I got reincarnated there no other answer as this explains why I''m in the body of a newborn. while coming to this conclusion I shout "Move that sphere away from this old man!") as my body felt tired and little sore after touching that sphere.


    (Hey, I prepared for death I did not ask anyone to reincarnate me, to say the least, I have no reason for doing this as I lived a decent life even for a lonely cultivator.


    the only thing I regret was that I died without reaching the peak of the cultivation world inevitable due to my origins and the lack of a teacher But after a moment an idea crossed my mind.)


    (Now that I reincarnated how about I cultivate this body with everything I have learned in my previous life then my cultivation could transcend new heights, hahaha it appears I have conquered death! what life would I have this time.)


    While he''s in his own world, the doctor was addressing a beautiful woman lying on the bed with a face full of weariness apparently having been through labor.


    "Congratulations to the ninth concubine. The king will be happy to have another son," said the royal doctor.


    "It''s not much, can I see him?" asked the ninth concubine.


    "Of course, bring the third prince to his mother," said the royal doctor.


    Upon hearing the order. the maid who was carrying a newborn baby approached the ninth concubine.


    While looking with eyes full of affection at her baby she received him in her arms and then she asked the doctor "Is my baby healthy? Are there any complications?"


    "He is a healthy baby, but? " The doctor said


    " But what? " asked the concubine.


    "His talent is average if we compare him with the first and second prince he is not up to there level " he replied


    "That does not matter if he can''t be a great martial artist, he can still be a great scholar, or an alchemist, or array master, there are many paths he can choose, he can be anyone he aspires to be. talent does not decide everything" said the concubine


    When she spoke these words everyone in the room including the baby could not believe what they heard, usually, the first thing each and every parent worried about were there child''s talent. but this woman said she didn''t mind her child¡¯s talent.


    (if talent was not crucial there would not be so few great masters in the world, if it were easy to walk the path of martial arts then grandmasters would be like cabbages. even though not all people with high potential are able to become grandmasters in martial arts but all the great masters had one thing in common. During there youth, they all possessed great talent and faced fewer roadblocks compared to others with average talent, when they matured it was then that they reached their present heights.) thought royal doctor.


    (The third prince had an average talent which means. he can only reach stage 4 on the martial path and if he comes across some fortunate encounters the highest cultivation he could reach would be the sixth stage in his whole life, his fate already been decided.


    compared to him, the first prince who was 5 years old and already at the peak of the first martial stage and will have the possibility to reach the level of great master of the ninth-martial stage. one could say their difference is nigh impossible to overcome


    So the third-prince is destined to live in the shadow of his older brothers, as even the second prince is more talented than the third prince, the second prince is 3 years old and has not yet to start on the path of cultivation but was proven to have a high talent. As the examination done when they are born can dictate what the child''s talent be with 99% of accuracy.


    With two older brothers with talents higher than his. you can see how tough his future will be but this woman says that she doesn''t care. The doctor doesn''t know whether he should laugh or cry at such a declaration.) royal doctor


    While she was busy speaking her thoughts, she didn¡¯t notice that her baby is immersed in own deliberation, after some time he came to a conclusion that


    (This woman is naive, from what I see the king is my father who didn¡¯t attend the delivery. from this, I can see that he doesn''t care about us or he¡¯s too busy. As they addressed her as the "ninth concubine" so there are eight other concubines without counting the queen. she must be from a noble lineage, Resignedly sacrificed herself for a political marriage to form ties with the royal family)


    At this moment. he felt little sorry for this woman. if not for him being her son. she would have ended up dead along with her associates in skirmishes between the first and second prince for their quests to the throne.


    (This woman my "mother" is fortunate I don''t have any designs on the throne but I will not let any harm come to her because of those words she spoke, even if a god wants her life he will have to pass by my corpse before reaching her. ¡°you have the oath of this old man.¡±) to please this woman he did his best acting like a cute little child, consequently avoiding any suspicion.


    "Look how cute he is, doctor since my husband has not attended my delivery there shouldn''t be a problem if I named my baby right?" Asked the ninth concubine


    "I don''t think it''ll be a problem," he said while sighing, although he knew it''s the tradition for the father to name his newborn child but knowing that the third prince has the average talent he speculated that the king would not pay any attention whatsoever for the third price, and would not even bother to name him, so he didn''t see any problem in allowing her request.


    "If that''s true, then from now he''ll be named as " Alexander" my son "Alexander Alba," said the ninth concubine with a happy smile.


    (Hahaha this old man likes that name, from today onwards I will be named Alexander my old name will be forgotten and as for that damned king I will never forgive you for not being there for my mother.)

 Everyone talks about me

    The southern part of the continent Auphera, Kingdom of Alba. Office of the King.


    Opening the door was an old man with white hair with the air of scholar walked towards the middle-aged man who is at his desk looking through papers.


    "Greetings my king", said the old man.


    "How did it go?" The middle-aged man asked.


    "Congratulations, your majesty he is a boy," said the old man.


    This old man is known as Frey the current prime minister of the kingdom of Alba. Frey had no last name since he was born into a family of commoners But his achievements would not lose even to the progenies of great aristocracies. As for the man he referred to as his majesty, he is the current king of the Alba kingdom ¡°Lewis Alba¡±.


    "what''s his talent?" Lewis asked again.


    "His talent is average," Frey replied as he already knew what was going on. It was not the first time he had given this kind of news to the king he had already experienced this treatment with the princesses who are less talented, The king believes that all his offspring should be born genius but Frey thought it was somewhat ridiculous. even though the king''s talent was considered high but he was not someone who could be termed a genius born in thousands of years! The same could be said to his wives who are talented but they were not daughters of heaven, if there were the daughters of heaven they would have married emperors or sect masters of first-class sects on the continent, not to some "king of a small kingdom."


    But due to the king''s ego, he considered himself a great martial artist, without considering that he was only at the peak of the sixth stage despite his age. while the emperors and sect masters of the lowest level wherein the 8th stage and great elders in the ninth stage grandmaster, there were rumors that there were elders who are far stronger than the great elders respected as supreme elders who are half a step away from a whole new realm to which ordinary people can not enter.


    "So he''s not worth spending time or resources. it would be better to give them to his older brothers." Lewis said without any consideration for his newborn child. for him, all that mattered was the talent. His first and second son had good talent and in the future, they would be able to reach the ninth level of grandmaster.


    (In a few years, they would be able to enter great sects and help him by providing miraculous pills made by the high-level alchemists of the sects for his breakthrough.)thought Lewis. After considering a little he said, "When he turns 2 years old we will provide him with an alchemy potion of bone marrow clenching as per any aristocratic customs, apart from that, he will receive the same amount of resources granted to the first princess for his cultivation."


    hearing that Frey couldn''t help but lament as the king has not even considered naming his newborn nor asked his name? this reveals that the king doesn''t really bother about his wife and child. Frey bows then take his leave.


    After departing from the king''s office he walked through the palace and proceeded to another room.


    Where resides two elderly couples they are Alexander''s grandparents. the founding king, and queen of the kingdom of Alba. Adam and Beth Alba, they were two commoners who founded the alba kingdom from scratch. because of the love, they had for each other Adam did not take another woman as his concubine for which they had only one son. The current king Lewis, if it were not because he is an only child he would not have inherited the throne.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.


    "Frey requests your audience to speak."


    "you can enter" stated the voice of an old man on the other side.


    Without further hesitation, Frey opened the Door and greeted the elderly couple who were seated while drinking tea. Although these people had snow-white hair, they Looked like middle-aged people. If you saw them, you would think that they were in Their forties but they are over eighty years old.


    "What is the reason for your Visit?" Asked Mrs. Alba.


    "Mr. and Mrs. Alba, I came to congratulate you as your sixth grandchild was born," said Frey, coming to the point.


    Upon hearing it, the eyes of the elderly couple lit up and the queen mother urged for more details without any delay.


    "He was born about two hours ago, he''s a boy and he''s healthy," said Frey.


    "And what''s his name?" Asked the old man.


    "Alexander," said Frey.


    "Who is his mother? and how is his talent? "asked the lady.


    "he¡¯s the son of the ninth concubine Miss Anna Webber and his talent is average"


    (When they heard that they already understood what had happened after all they knew their son very well, they are 90%  sure that the name of his grandchild was not given by his son, and he had not even seen him yet. They knew very well that his son has several wives but he only loved two women before marriage. They are the current queen of the kingdom and the third concubine the mothers of the first and second prince. while his other wives came from Great and small families of the kingdom or neighboring kingdoms as political marriages.


    They knew that Anna Webber was the second daughter of the duke Webber of the Snow Kingdom allies to the Alba kingdom. As they could not marry the princess because the queen''s position was already occupied, The Duke was ordered to marry his daughter with King of the Alba kingdom with the status of concubine.


    She gave birth to a son with average talent adding to the fact that the king did not feel a deep love for her they knew that the future of that child would not be as promising as the first and second prince.


    They could not sit by while that happened, after all, he was their dear grandson and they wanted the best for him.) Mr. and miss alba.


    If it was not because they wanted to concentrate on the martial arts they would not have retired from Their duties as Founding king and Queen.


    Currently, the elderly couple were at the peak of the seventh-stage, little longer and they can advance to the eight-stage then they can speak on equal terms with sect elders. Due to the ambition of the couple, they handed the throne and the kingdom to Their son to rule as he sees fit.


    They were different from their son as they did not care about the talent that his grandson had. The fact of being their grandson was enough for them to shower him with love without any hesitation, Frey was asked to direct them to meet his sixth grandson.


    Meanwhile in the queen''s room


    "Madam, the reports have arrived. it seems that the ninth concubine gave birth to a boy whose talent is average, so there''s no basis to worry about him obstructing the future of the first prince. Besides that according to our reports, the King plans to give him the same amount of resources as the princess," said the queen''s maid leader while leaned towards the person on the other side.


    On the other side, you could see a beautiful woman in her thirties beside her was a five-year-old boy with facial features like that of the king. they are the current Queen and the first prince.


    if one were to say one thing that is common in the duo of mother and son that would be the arrogance in their eyes identical to his mother. essentially ever since he was born his mother instilled him with the values of her family so it''s not a wonder he displays the same qualities as his mother.


    The family of the queen was one of the Greatest families of the aristocracy in the kingdom not only that but the queens'' father is the number one general of the kingdom general Vincent Keer.


    The Keer family is known for their arrogance it said that apart from the royal family they do not respect any other family within the kingdom.


    In fact, during their Youth, the scions of Keer family have done whatever they pleased but they were never punished due to the protection of their father including the fact that the king at that time the crown prince was in love with their younger sister. So guards and officials Looked away to avoid any disciplinary actions.


    This got worse when the first prince was born. thinking that although he would have the surname of Alba when he ascends the throne in a couple of decades then the Kingdom would be ruled by the Keer family.


    "That''s good I do not want any more competition for my son," said the queen. After a moment of consideration, she continued saying "In case of doubts make arrangements so that the resources that were given are of poor quality to avoid any surprises but remember not to make any direct movement towards him, his mother is the second daughter of a duke and his sister is the current queen of the Snow Kingdom. Although it''s a different country the territory of the duke is right next to this kingdom so, it would be foolish to anger him and force the Snow kingdom to declare war."


    " I will follow your orders," Said the servant as she left.


    A similar scene was playing in the room of the third concubine.

 I Have two Years

    60 years ago there was the Sail empire that consisted of 13 provinces and was adjacent to the Snow Kingdom. During that time the ruling emperor of the sail empire was in his last days before his death he appointed the son of empress the second prince as his heir however, he didn''t take into account the power that the other princes held which resulted in the unrest through the empire.


    The imperial capital was located in the southern side of the kingdom and was twice the size of a province the matriarch family held control over the capital, were as the surrounding 3 provinces were controlled by their allies and the branch family with this, they had the support of 3 provinces along with the capital they held the strongest power among other fractions. with backing from his mother''s family and his supporters, the second prince consolidated his power by taking the throne.


    but the nobles in the north of the kingdom supported the first prince, whereas the nobles in the west supported the seventh prince, and nobles in the east supported the Fourth Prince Due to this, a Civil War befell that split the empire into one empire and three kingdoms that consist of Kingdom Ethova, Kingdom Aras, Kingdom Byzuarum and the Sail empire which was left only in the name since the first, fourth and the seventh prince took three provinces each and crowned themselves kings of the respective kingdoms which left the original empire with the capital and 3 provinces.


    During the civil war, there was a province that was not occupied by anyone, it was the Smallest and weakest among all other provinces of the empire and because the lord responsible for this province was a corrupt noble the province fell to unrest due to protests, and Disorder. The only thing this province had was that the land was fertile and their neighboring Snow kingdom was in dire need of food as their lands are difficult to cultivate so they had a trade exchange going on with this province for food( wheat, rice bailey etc) in exchange for skins and meat which were hunted within the snow kingdom along with other commodities, so this land had a high commercial level trade but due to corruption it was left in misery.


    This province became a place without law and swarmed with bandits and thugs until one day two young martial artist at peak fifth-stage of cultivation arrived at this place. After 10 years of effort, they managed to bring order and peace to this province and founded the Alba Kingdom. Although the other neighboring kingdoms perturbed by this, they could not take any actions due to the civil war which left them fragile and in need of recuperation which had their hands tied because if another war broke out it was Plausible for the other empires to invade their lands. which sequentially helped for the formation of Alba kingdom.


    Closing the book a two-year-old boy nodded his head coming to a conclusion on this matter.


    (So my grandparents are opportunists hehe, they took advantage of the war between the four kingdoms to be able to establish their own country.


    but that also leaves me in doubt, as for why the other empires did not Attack the weak and divided Sail empire?


    The books recorded that there is only one realm i.e realm of body refinement which as 9 stages, I can¡¯t accept this, I think this kingdom is so backward that they have no knowledge about higher cultivation realms? and the history has not mentioned anything about General Keer and how he came to be as the number one general of the kingdom nor his origins that interesting!)


    That child is Alexander Alba, during these two years he has been in this world nothing unusual happened the only thing that bothered him is that his father treated him as if he never existed in the first place, whereas in case of his older brothers His father always plays with them and treats them very well and even grants their whims.


    You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.


    But not everything is miserable as I have three Older sisters the first, Second and third princesses they treat me very well, in fact, they are even a little annoying they treat me like a doll dragging me everywhere to their whims. therefore I sneaked into the library to escape their clutches and started reading everything I can find to collect information regarding my surroundings.


    Apart from them, there also my mother and my grandparents who cherish me and play with me and my sisters from time to time, they are nothing like my father who still hasn''t come to see me ever since my birth.


    As for my older brothers, I haven''t seen them yet, they always training or socializing with their maternal family members, the queen is the only daughter of General Keer, while the third concubine is the daughter of the wealthiest man in the kingdom whose wealth cannot be underrated, as to me that little wealth is nothing but garbage in my eyes but for the ordinary people there wealth is to die for.


    As for my mother, she doesn''t love my father nor cares what he thinks of me and nearly all her time is spent training or teaching me, she in the fourth-stage of body refinement and she only needs a short time to enter the fifth-stage of body refinement.


    As for me, till now I have not been to outside the palace, I only came in contact with my mother, grandparents, and sisters. consequently, I don''t know how many experts there are in this world. all I know is that when a child reaches five years old only than can he start to cultivate, So I decided not to do anything during these years, I''ve always had been acting like a child in front of others, not to brag but my performance is impeccable and no one suspects anything. to tell the truth, it''s not so bad it''s mainly about playing, eating, pooping, sleeping and repeating. Being a child is great!


    going back to the present time


    "Alexander, where are you?" I hear my mother''s voice so I decided to make some baby sounds so she knows where I''m, anyway I have read what I wanted in the library so it''s time to go back.


    Listening to my voice she quickly came to the library almost smashing through the door panting heavily, I discerned that she should have been searching all over the place for a long time when she saw me she did not pause to grab me in her arms and tells me in a deep voice "apparently your mother has spoiled you too much"


    when I heard that I felt a chill in my spine, my mother walked with me in her arms, her steps neither fast or slow yet I felt like I was heading toward hell with every step she took my heart started beating faster and faster.


    (I''m not afraid, remember I was a great cultivator like hell I''m going to be afraid of someone in the realm of body refinement, there nothing to be afraid of)


    While walking I repeated this again and again but when I glanced at her she gave me a mischievous smile which made my body started dripping with cold sweat, but with a determined look I said in my mind


    (Come, woman, this old man had lived for 3000 years I have no fear)


    When he realized They were already at the door to his mother''s room.


    she opened the door and the first thing she did was to sit in a chair that was facing the window and placed Alexander on her legs his face and legs hanging in air, pulled down his baby pants and began to grab momentum with her left hand.


    While Alexander with a determined face was thinking


    (Let''s do this woman I have experienced a lot of pain in my life, some spankings are nothing)


    "I''m sorry Alexander, but you made me go through the fright of my life, therefore, this is your punishment" finished saying that sounded the first spanking.


    Paaa


    Paaa


    Paaa


    when he was already at the third spanking  Alexander could not endure it anymore and began to shriek in a tearful tone.


    (has the Violent woman has not been taught that people understand words?)


    Paaa


    Paaa


    (Please I will no longer be a bad child)


    And this is how an Elder of more than 3000 years of age, an influential martial cultivator surrendered after five spanking from his new mother.


    But it was not only five but a total of twenty spankings were given to him


    After being spanked without mercy Anna lifted him in her arms asked him face to face with a flourishing motherly smile "From now on you will be a good child right? "


    Alexander seeing that smile on her mother''s face he thought he was seeing a demon, instead of his mother and without any hesitation nodded his head with all his heart while holding back the tears in his eyes.


    "That''s the way I like it" while saying it, she stroked his hair and kissed his cheek.


    This is how Alexander tasted the real terror for the first time in this life as they say pain comes and goes but the trauma always remains, that day he swears with all his heart to never anger his mother ever again.

 Lets purify it

    The next day after the worst chapter of his life (until now). Alexander turned two years old.


    "Alexander see what uncle Frey gave you," Anna said as she showed him a vial that contained a dark blood colored liquid. After a moment she continued saying "This is a vial of bone marrow cleansing, it will help you to grow big and strong"


    Alexander saw the vial with curiosity it was the first time he saw something called "Bone marrow cleansing" he wondered how It worked, so he quickly spread his hands to grab it while Anna told him "My dumb husband who didn''t even show up to see his son and now he orders someone to send this potion with a message saying it''s was for your medical bath to pave your path to martial arts "


    "Miss, you are talking to a baby who may not even understand what you are saying," said Audrey my mother''s servant she was the only one who had followed her from Duke Webber''s house, although she doesn''t seem much but  She is the one who is in charge of my mother''s safety since she is a martial artist in the sixth stage of the body''s refinement and although She is a little over thirty years old but still looks like a beautiful lady in her twenties.


    "You know Audrey, my Alexander is brilliant, plus my stupid husband only gave me a single potion while for the first and second prince he gave them three potions each. That moron who only favors his two sons because they are talented," said Anna. She was furious but can''t take any actions because although she was the daughter of a duke of a foreign kingdom she doesn''t have anyone in the royal court of the kingdom to act as her spokesperson while the queen and the third concubine were from this very nation were their parents held influence in the royal court of the kingdom.


    "Hey, my lady you should lower your tone if someone heard you they can accuse you of rebelling against the king," said Audrey with a stiff face as their destinies were intertwined so if they caught Miss she will also face the same or even worse fate.


    " Hmph, I want to see if they dare to do something to me if they dare to do it when the news reaches My father and my older sister they will not sit idly by," said Anna with a grim face.


    But Audrey had other thoughts


    (That''s you but I''ll be executed immediately no one is interested in a servant like me) she almost started to cry but suddenly she felt someone pull her dress when she looked down, a baby with a serious face was giving a thumbs up as if to say "I understand you"


    Without hesitation, she lifted the baby and stared face to face, this is the very moment Audrey knew that she found a companion to help her with Miss Anna so that her life would not be short and she would happily die of old age with tears in her eyes ready to flow at any moment she said "Young master"


    "While the baby nods his head as if to answer her," thought Audrey


    (Hey I''m still a baby if anyone heard what my mother said and it reaches either the queen or the third concubine then they can making the rest of my life very difficult and my stupid "father" would not even hesitate to sacrifice me to make them happy.)


    While these two subject and the young master formed a silent alliance. Anna stared at them and soon grabbed Alexander from Audrey''s hands saying: "Even I have not had a bond with my son except your hmph" after that she tried to do the same as Audrey by placing Alexander in front of her looking at him in his eyes but it didn''t work In fact, it was somewhat uncomfortable for Alexander because Anna was staring at him so fixedly like an Eagle looking at his prey trying to force what had previously happened with Audrey but it didn''t work.


    "Ehhh Miss you do not have to be jealous, that was just an accident hehe," said Audrey while trying to remove this feeling of discomfort in the room.


    "Audrey you idiot," she said as he let go of Alexander and ran away from the room. Seeing this Audrey could not do anything but run after her remembering how she is still a young lady even though she behaves like a refined young woman when she is in front of everyone but when she is with the people she trusts she behave like a girl. the duke and her older sister spoiled her too much.


    For now, Alexander was left alone in the room with a blank mind without believing what had just happened. He had never seen his mother behave like that. It was something new for him, In front of him, she had always behaved like a refined young woman full of maternal love but it seems that now I have just seen her true self. for a moment he wondered who was cheating who? he thought his performance was magnificent until he met his mother.Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.


    "ahhhh" Sighing Alexander pushed those thoughts to the back of his head and fixed his attention to the desk where his mother left the potion that contained dark red liquid. He went to the table and examined it.


    (I don''t know what this is but it has too many impurities, I need to purify it)


    Saying that I grab a sheet of paper from your mother''s desk along with a thin brush and began to draw a line after line exquisitely. If someone saw this scene were an almost two-year-old baby drawing an array that even the array masters of the great sects and great nations could not perform they would spat out blood.


    After a few minutes, the array was completed it was known as "Purifying Array" this array was an invention of his own invented based on researching other basic arrays but nobody ever thought of using it this way so Alexander had his own merit.


    I started making gestures with my hands to control a small amount of qi from the surroundings just enough to be able to operate the matrix for a few minutes. It can be said that even though I have not cultivated yet, I was once a great cultivator so manipulating a bit of qi present in the surrounding was very easy.


    in no time at all the black lines began to glow in a golden color without hesitation he uncorked the vial and poured all the dark red liquid on the paper then placed the empty vial under the paper, after the liquid touched the paper the paper lost it''s yellowish color and became increasingly More  black while the glass caught a pure scarlet liquid after a few minutes of work the purification was finished leaving twenty percent less from the original quantity while the paper which used to be yellowish now turned black smelling terrible.


    Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he picked the vial, ready to take it when he heard footsteps coming from the corridor, apparently running as if they expected something bad to happen.


    while Alexander was purifying the potion, at some corner in the palace there were two ladies one in a sitting position while holding her knees crying in silence while another bending over trying to comfort her.


    "It''s not fair my son had a bond with another woman who is not me," Anna said as she sobbed. "And what was worse, I had worked so hard for my son to adore me so I acted like a refined young woman all the time when I''m with him and now in few minutes the image I held in front of him had fallen"


    "calm down young lady he is only two years old by the time he grows big he would forget everything happened today,"said Audrey but inside even she didn''t believe it after all Alexander is smart and understand everything they said even though he could not speak.


    "It''s easy for you to say you took his first time," said Anna not caring who heard it but before she could finish. Audrey covered her mouth saying "Miss you better not talk nonsense if someone misinterprets you this will end badly"


    "Also if you want you could just have another child and act like a refined lady all over again in front of him" Audrey added.


    " Hmph and let that bastard(king) touch me again no thanks, I rather prefer to die. Also, Alexander will be my only son with him and I am satisfied with this, but thanks to you I lost all face in front of him hmph "said Anna with a threatening face


    " Just forget it Miss also remember that Alexander has not said his first words yet with how much he loves you I am sure that he will say mama as his first words so don''t worry about the rest," said Audrey.


    when she heard those words Anna''s eyes lit up with great enthusiasm she said" It''s true he''s already at that age and very soon he''ll start talking "


    Audrey, sighed as she succeeded to make the young lady forget about her concerns and not only that she also managed to make her happy so she could be relieved for now as she is here under the duke''s orders to see that nothing happen to his daughter.


    "Well, let''s go back, we have to prepare the bathroom so that Young Master Alexander can take the bone marrow cleansing potion" saying that Audrey started moving towards the room to prepare the bath for the young master. Usually, the potions are taken directly but due to the strength of the potion and the age of the young master, it was safer to make his body absorb the medicinal effects through a medicinal bath if a child of his age drank it he may end up exploding.


    "Yes, if I have to go listen to my son''s talk," said Anna who was still immersed in her world but just when she was looking for the potion in her dress pocket her face changed color and became a little pale.


    "What happened my lady?" Audrey asked as she watched the changes in the lady.


    "Well, I lost the potion," said Anna while blushing with embarrassment, to say the least her bastard husband only gave a single potion for his son and she lost it. and she would have to accumulate several months of her allowance just to buy another potion and it is justified to say that this lady was terrible with her money. In other words, she always spent it on jewelry, dresses, makeup, shoes or what not. and never left anything at the end of the month. just thinking about how she could not spend money for a few months would make her faint.


    "Come on, lady, it''s not good to joke about these matters, just remember where it was the last time you saw it? "Audrey asked knowing that this was crucial for the future of Alexander (so does for Miss Anna).


    Thinking a bit she carelessly said " right at the time when you and Alexander had your bond I was so jealous that I forgot to store the potion in my dress and left it on the bedside table or the desk I do not remember precisely, but it''s should be in his room so there''s nothing to worry about. "


    " it''s in the room!! "Audrey said a little pale.


    " Yes, I''m sure, "Anna said.


    " The same room where  Alexander is? "Audrey asked again


    " Yes, Audrey I did not think you would be so slow to understand even that," said Anna with a contemptuous smile


    " Just for clarification you left a potion that if swallowed by a baby may cause him to explode within reach of a baby and then you left the baby alone in a room," stated Audrey while her face was pale and her voice trembled.


    " yes ... that''s right "just when she was halfway through Anna realized how dangerous the situation was and without thinking twice they both began to run


    "My son" "Young Master" shouted the duo of women as they ran full speed towards the room of the ninth concubine.


    Because Audrey was faster then Anna she was ahead by only A few seconds followed by Anna.


    When Audrey saw the door, she slammed it open almost breaking the door.


    The first thing she saw was Alexander about to drink the potion and without hesitation, she rushed towards him.


    Alexander, on the other hand, was scared and involuntarily uttered in a childish voice "Audrey".

 It is Supreme

    Audrey did not hear what he said. all her attention was on the vial containing the potion as she could not afford to drop it. When she finally had it in her hands she placed the crock on the vial and let out a sigh of relief.


    she went to see Miss Ana and said: "Look, Miss, we arrived on time. The potion is safe "


    But while she said that, she noticed the murderous look on Anna, she was looking at her as if she was looking at her sworn enemy who stands before her at this very moment. with doubt, Audrey asks "Miss, what happens?


    "You still dare to ask. You did not listen to what Alexander said! "Anna said.


    "Say? What can he say? did he say something? "Audrey said while confused.


    "Your name," Anna said again


    "My name?" Audrey said while still confused.


    "Your name was his first words !!!!" Anna said at the top of her lung as she exploded. she could not tolerate that her son''s first words were not her. but, another woman''s name that was unforgivable. After a  moment, "Audrey in this world either you die or I die." While saying that she grabs the first stick she found and was ready to attack, not considering that Audrey had a superior cultivation than her. All I wanted was to kill that woman who stole his sons first time (In her mind).


    While Audrey was ready to subdue Miss Anna but inside she thought


    (This woman is crazy, I just saved her son and she tries to kill me).


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    Inside she felt a little bit hurt almost all her life she served the duke''s house. now she was in this situation for doing her job.


    while Anna was ready to fight, a child''s voice sounded saying: "Mom."


    Upon hearing it, Anna''s attitude took a 180-degree turn. she began to smile from ear to ear. she ran towards Alexander squeezing him in her arms and said: "Audrey you heard that his first words were" Mom "hahaha I''m pleased."


    Hearing that Audrey wanted to cry, less than a minute ago she wanted to kill me but now you''re like nothing ever happened and started hugging your son. (in her mind)


    While Alexander had a headache. I don''t know what''s going on anymore all I wanted was to drink that so-called "bone marrow cleansing potion" I inadvertently said a name by accident. Even though I could talk since I was six months old. I had not spoken because I did not want to get anyone''s attention.


    I had seen several royal families in the past and knew how bloody the road to the throne would be. Knowing that the queen and the third concubine are fighting for their son''s to inherit the throne, for now, they do not see me as a threat to their son''s but when they do see me as a threat they will kill me. for them, this small kingdom was everything, while for me it was only a small corner of the continent it''s only a matter of time before I leave it and enter the real world of martial cultivators. So why would I take them seriously?


    Seeing the forces of the surrounding powers, this piece of land can only be considered as "Desolate". If there are no cultivator in the Elemental realm within a kingdom or an empire regardless of the size of its territory it will only be considered as desolate. I was once a cultivator in the Heaven realm within a second-degree mortal country. why would I look forward to this land that only had cultivators in the realm of body refinement?


    So from now on until I start cultivating I can''t get anyone''s attention and live like a healthy child. How could I allow them to draw attention by fighting Although they were only in the fourth and fifth stage of body refinement they could destroy this room and draw the attention of all the palace guards. Therefore, I spoke hoping to dispel my mother''s anger Fortunately, it worked.


    Audrey, on the other hand, chose to be silent while witnessing this duo of mother and son.she focused on the vial that contained the potion but seeing the contents of the vial, her eyes widened and a stupid expression appeared on her face, unable to believe what she was seeing.


    "Miss( Anna), what grade is the potion that prime minister gave you?" Audrey asked in a trembling voice.


    "Ehhh it''s only a middle-grade potion you cannot see? That dumb husband did not even mind looking for high-grade potions, for his other son''s he gave them three High-grade potions each while for my son he only gave a single middle-grade potion "Anna said in an angry tone.


    "Miss come and see," Audrey said as she urged Anna to see the potion.


    "Audrey, what there to see it''s only a middle-grade potion" saying that Anna with Alexander in tow went towards  Audrey and grabbed the potion from her, but after several seconds the same thing happened with Anna as with Audrey, with there eyes wide open facing each other in a trembling voice  they shouted "Potion of Supreme Grade"

 Chapter 6: Lets use it without questions

    Both Audrey and Anna could not believe their eyes, it''s a Supreme grade potion, they only heard them in legends it was said that these potions were free of impurities and were the best resources to cultivate but they had never seen one. Only the alchemists of the great sects would be able to do such a feat.


    As far as it''s understood, potions and pills are divided into five grades irrespective of their realm: Low, Middle, High, Superior, and Supreme. They are differentiated by impurities they contain. Those of low grade will have thirty percent impurities, those of middle grade twenty percent, High grade ten percent, Superior grade five percent and Supreme grade are free of impurities.


    Although the difference is low, the medicinal effects are ten times more effective than the previous one, that is, a potion or pill of low grade would be ten times less effective than that of the middle grade, the same applies from middle to high. That means that a supreme potion or pill will be ten thousand times more effective than a low-quality potion or pill.


    Due to this, the king did not spare money to obtain high-grade potions for his first and third son. In fact, he is always looking for the highest grade potion he could get in the market, the highest grade that was sold until now was of the High-grade. Most superior-grade were seldom auctioned while the Supreme-grade were never found.


    Anna turns to see Audrey and said: "I''m not dreaming right? I''m holding a Supreme potion?"


    Audrey nodded hurriedly saying: "Yes, Miss, but how did you mistake that for a middle-grade potion?"


    "I do not know", said Anna doubtfully. when Frey gave it to her, she examined it for a few minutes and was sure that it was a middle- grade potion, so she admonished her husband, after several minutes of being dissuaded by Frey, she reluctantly left his office. she always had it with her so it was impossible to be changed. After a moment, she continued saying: "I''m going to ask Frey, I''m sure he''ll know something."


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    But when she said that, Audrey looked somewhat impatient, saying: "Miss, don''t do it, we shouldn''t let anyone know what we have here. If the king finds out, he wouldn''t hesitate to take it away to give to one of Alexander''s brothers. It would be better if we don''t think about it and use it immediately before something bad happens."


    Upon hearing those words Anna realized the reality, without a doubt what Audrey said was true if someone finds out that they have a supreme grade potion and it reaches the ears of my husband. Her husband would simply say that it was a human error so that he can take back that potion and then the owner of the potion would be one of her son''s brothers while for her and her son she would receive two medium-grade potions as "Compensation" for the misunderstanding.


    Meanwhile, Alexander had an ugly face. Originally he purified the potion to consume immediately leaving no trace behind, but he did not count on the fact that the women''s duo would return to the room so quickly.


    Besides that in his previous world, there were no so-called "Potions" the alchemists focused on pills and nothing else. So when he saw this potion he wanted to compare its effects with the pills, but he never expected the potion to fall into the hands of his mother. So without hesitation, he pulled on his mother''s sleeve and with a pitiful face pointed towards the potion. As if saying "Mommy I want it".


    Anna, seeing the situation in front of her, cleared her mind  Telling Audrey: "Prepare the bathroom immediately."


    Audrey nodded quickly and went to prepare it leaving Anna and Alexander alone in the room.


    "Hahaha you''re lucky to be able to use a supreme bone marrow cleansing potion, with this your talent will rise to new heights," Anna said emotionally as she lifted her son off the ground and carried him in her arms.


    According to what she knew, the bone marrow cleansing potion affected the body freeing it from impurities. the nobles and wealthy people bought this potion for their children with the hope of strengthening their body and increasing their innate talent but as the potions had impurities it was like swallowing some poison along the potion so this diminishes the effect that the potions would have on the body and also limiting the number of potions that can be used on the same person, if a person took five potions of average quality in a short time he would end up poisoned or worse crippled but this will not happen with the Supreme potions!.


    Being free of impurities one could take any amount he wanted without being harmed by the poison and cultivate continuously unless his body grew immunity to the potion diminishing its effects. Because of this everyone wanted Supreme potions but the people who could make these potions in every region could be counted on one hand and all were parts of great sects.


    Just thinking about it, Anna smiled from ear to ear hugging her son and started playing with him while she waited for the bathroom to be ready.


    After ten minutes Audrey came into the room saying that the bathroom was ready.


    With this Anna and Alexander got moving.

 Chapter 7: Lets take a bath

    Entering the bathrooms Anna saw a couple of maids who were preparing the bath. seeing this Anna said "Thanks for your work you can leave now"


    She could not trust these maids beside the potion should be kept secret thankfully only she and Audrey knew it.


    Audrey was the only one she had brought from the duke''s house, therefore she trusted her. but to the other people in the palace, many had been bought by the money by the third concubine while others indirectly served General Keer, acting on their beck and call.


    The king does not care about these practices because they do not affect the overall situation of the kingdom. They are only spying on the other concubines not causing any harm, therefore he looks away.


    he also knew that the other concubines also have their faction but they did not do it as openly as the queen and the third concubine. As for the ninth concubine, she did not mind and was the last to arrive. Besides that, her father was a foreign nobleman and it''s too late to have her own faction, so she did not form one.


    She did not care what the other concubines did in the end, they wouldn''t dare to do anything openly in fear of her background, all they could do is secretly plan or hire a third party to do the dirty work. There was no immediate need for a faction at least that''s how she saw it.


    Upon receiving the order, they left immediately leaving the three alone in the bathroom. Anna passed the bottle to Audrey, while she said to Alexander "Now you will take a bath, it may hurt a little but it is for your own good the longer you last the better it is for you, Even if you scream I will not help you."


    (This old man does not have any fear for a simple bath, nor the potion''s effect) While he was thinking that Anna removed his clothes It was not his first time so he not ashamed.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    as the bath was prepared, he was placed in the tub, seeing to that the water reached his shoulders. With this, Audrey put a variety of herbs in the tub and now for the last step to pour the potion into the tub. while Anna grabs Alexander''s shoulders pressing him down so that he won''t leave before finishing the medical bath as she could not let this opportunity go to waste, So she hardened her heart and turned to see Audrey indicating that it will begin.


    (hmph this is nothing for this old man, hmph) thought Alexander arrogantly.


    Without waiting anymore Audrey poured the potion into the tub and as it dissolves the clean crystalline water started turning scarlet red.


    On the other hand Alexander felt that his body was burning, his blood boiled, he could hear how his bones were breaking and rebuilding, his skin and muscles felt as if an infinite number of tiny needle penetrating him over and over again, his whole body was soaked with blood and other substances, he was sweating blood and body fluids, his eyes were red like rubies crying blood, his whole body began to leave a smelly black liquid, his body absorbed scarlet liquid while expelling that black liquid.


    Anna and Audrey were stunned and terrified by the effects of this potion there were not expecting to see this scene. In these brief moments, Anna wanted to take her son out of the bathtub but was stopped by Audrey and could not do anything but harden her heart knowing that it was best for her son.


    After ten minutes a change occurred instead of smelly black liquid a dark gray liquid started to come out. Both Anna and Audrey were stunned when they saw this as they were familiar with that liquid and at the same time they said in shock "skeletal impurities!"


    They could not believe what was happening, but when they saw that they could not help but get excited about it. Because a cultivator from the first to the third stage expel impurities from the skin and the flesh, from the fourth to the sixth they expel the impurities from the bones and the blood and finally from the seventh to the ninth impurities are expelled from the marrow and the internal organs.


    The prince was expelling the skeletal impurities which means that in the future he will be able to easily clean both the marrow and the bones, and at least he will become a cultivator of the seventh step and will have the possibility of reaching the ninth step. Just thinking about it they could not help but feel excited. The future of the prince changed thanks to this supreme potion.


    Slowly the time passed while the tub filled with scarlet red liquid started to turn black.


    While Alexander was taking his medicinal bath, In the king''s office. the king with a face full of excitement was reading not one but six sumptuous looking letters.


    "Time has come, Call Frey Right now, we have matters to discuss !!" said the middle-aged man excited.

 Chapter 8: You do not know anything, right?

    The Kingdom of Alba, Office of the Prime Minister.


    Knock Knock


    "Come in," said Frey, while waiting for the person on the other side to come in then inquires, "What brings you here?"


    "His majesty asks for your presence in his office," the messenger, said politely.


    "I understand you can leave" saying this he stopped what he was doing, arranged a couple of papers and prepared to leave. There was no emotion on his face. He was a little disgusted with the king because of his favoritism with his children, a good king must be impartial in every situation but he was the opposite, but Frey was not qualified to criticize him openly so he could only think but not act.


    This morning the third prince officially turned two, a  very particular age for children''s of nobles and wealthy people as they would prepare a medicinal bath with a portion of bone marrow cleansing to pave path to there cultivation, usually, nobles used middle-grade potions for their children regardless of their talent, if they are talented they would use high-grade potions.


    but when Frey went to get the potion for the third prince it was not even a middle-grade potion but was of low-grade, although he was not alchemist he had seen many potions during his lifetime so he could clearly appraise its grade.


    When Frey question them why? it turns out that the queen had ordered while the third concubine bribed the person in charge of the potions to replace the potion with the lowest quality. When he went to see the king to tell him about this matter, he did not care so he had to resort to the grandparents of the third prince to get middle-grade potions and have the person responsible for the potions executed.


    Everyone knew that when they turned two years the first and second prince bathed with three high-grade positions each, this kind of brazenness and clear partiality made Frey sick, he was considering retiring and stop working for this king.This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    He was from the generation of Alexander''s grandparents but had not yet retired to take care of the king and prevent him from making mistakes in his initial years. Now that the king had been on the throne for several years, so his goal had been fulfilled and he could enter his retirement. At first, he thought he could be in his position for about ten more years but due to the deterioration of his relationship with the king, he pushed forward his retirement.


    While he was thinking about it he arrived at the king''s office, while the person on guard opened the door before he even asked the king for permission to enter. Apparently, it was very urgent, Frey sighed and thought (Surely it has to do with the first and second prince.)


    entering the room moving towards the king he asked "Your Majesty, what orders do you have for me"


    "Ahh, Frey take a seat."Lewis pointed to the chair in front of him, waiting for Frey to sit then proceeds to say "Look at these letters" handing him six Letters.


    Frey having read all six letters, lifted his head to face Lewis then asked a little surprised "The Six Sects will be arriving at the kingdom at the same time?"


    "Yes, I too was surprised, apparently they are looking to recruit disciples for their sects, as they could not recruit expected number of disciples in their respective territories as compared to previous years so they came here with the hope of finding few more disciples," said Lewis.


    Upon hearing that Frey was a little doubtful and said: "Your Majesty as you know, the letters did not mention their reasons for recruitment." the letters only mention that there will be coming to recruit disciples and that we have a month to spread this news before they come.


    Hearing that Lewis said proudly "That''s because I have inside information within the sects."


    "From whom?" Frey ask.


    "From Taylor''s great-grandfather," Lewis said without further ado. After a moment he continued: "He is an inner-court elder in martial City of Ethova Kingdom, therefore this information is reliable."


    "The great-grandfather of the first prince" Frey was a little surprised, then asked, "But if General Keer has such an ancestor than what is he doing here? "


    " Ahhh Frey, do you know anything about Vincent''s Cultivation? "Lewis asked while sighing.


    "he''s in the seventh stage?" Frey replied as he believed it''s the truth like everyone else.


    "He''s not in the seventh but he''s at the peak of the ninth stage!" Lewis said as he denied what Frey had just said.


    "WHAT !!" Frey was in shock at the response he could not believe what has just heard. After calming down he continued "He is a great Master?"


    "A great Master? He is not a great master, Frey you do not know much about the martial world right? "Lewis said sighing.

 Chapter 9: Frog in the well

    "Your Majesty, what do you mean?" Frey did not understand what his majesty meant.


    "Frey you know a lot about worldly matters but when it comes to martial arts all these years you''ve been ignorant," Lewis said. Frey was paying attention to him, he did not understand what he wanted to say, According to him, the ninth martial stage was the end of the martial arts and those who were in that stage could be considered as great masters, of course, there were rumors about people more powerful than the ninth stage martial artists but he treats them as rumors and now the king tells him that he''s ignorant, he could not believe it.


    Seeing his silence, Lewis continued"Frey, I want to ask you three questions. Do you know the size of this continent? Do you know what our location is? And finally, what do you think of this land? "


    Frey hesitated a bit because the king asked him these questions but at the same time hinted Frey lack of knowledge" Responding to your majesty, this one does not know the size of the continent only knows that it is immense so much that a person could not go through it in a lifetime, We are in the extreme south almost right next to the coast if it were not for the existence of the Cesoria Kingdom, we would have entered the sea without limits and as for the land, it seems very fertile, there essentially always a good harvests and people do not die of hunger. "After a few moments" But your majesty, what it has to do with the martial world? I do not understand"


    Lewis answered " Frey, I will explain to you we are only in a small corner of the continent it is said that the more you travel towards the center of the continent there will be people, beasts, everything more and more powerful than we can ever imagine. the land that we consider fertile, in their eyes is nothing but desolate."


    Listening to that Frey knitted his eyebrows was about to speak when Lewis continued" For us the nine martial stages are all we know but, that is nothing but the beginning, in other places this is called "Realm of body refinement" "After saying that he observed Frey who is in the midst of comprehending and asked," Do you know what strengths the six sects held?"


    Frey was surprised by what he was hearing he was still digesting the information when the king asked him, but he managed to answer "the sect Masters would be in the 8th stage, Great-elders in the ninth stage, There were rumors that there were elders who are stronger than great elders who were called supreme Elders who were half a step away from unknown Realm, is that true? "He asked curiously since the king was describing the matters related to the martial world he should take advantage and ask.Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more.


    "Frey you are wrong and at the same time you are correct, It is true that the sect masters are in the eighth stage but it is not in the Realm of body refinement. "After a moment he continued" The same goes for the Great elders and Supreme Elders "


    "Then what Realm is it, your majesty please enlighten me," said Frey


    " It''s known as the Realm of qi gathering "


    " gathering of qi? What is qi? "Frey could understand what gathering meant but he could not understand the part related to "qi" it was a new term for him.


    "even I do not comprehend, according to Vincent it is the mysterious energy that surrounds us which represents the vitality of the heavens and the earth, Through it we can understand the heavens law," Lewis said with longing, continued saying "The sects are composed of external disciples, inner disciples, and core disciples, the elders are also divided into external court elders, inner court elders and core elders, above them, are the great elders and finally the supreme elders."


    ¡°All the external disciples are in the realm of body refinement, to become an inner disciple one has to enter the Realm of qi gathering before he reaches the age of 28," Lewis said. Frey, on the other hand, was immersed in digesting the information he had just heard. After a moment he asked, "Then General Keer did not make it to the realm of qi gathering?"


    " Correct, He was born in the Martial City and his father was an inner court elder, With the resources provided by his father and the sect he reached the ninth level of body refinement at age of 22 but could not overcome the last barrier to reach the realm of qi gathering "Lewis answered


    " What Barrier? "Frey asked.


    "Sensing qi," Lewis said seriously and continued "Apparently in these Sects there are thousands of disciples who are at the peak of the ninth level of the Realm of body refinement but among them, only a few can reach the next realm. All this because only a few managed to grasp qi. "


    " as he could not advance to the next realm and he was not willing to stay in the Martial city and become an old man watching his peers advance in cultivation.


    "He could not stay or rather, did not have the face to do it. To be an elder within the sect one has to be a martial cultivator of fourth stage in the realm of qi gathering, Within the Sects the disciples who exceed the age in which they are considered young" if they meet the requirements they can choose to become an elder of the Sect, if they do not meet the requirement they only have the option to leave the Sect." Lewis said.


    With that Frey closed his eyes and was analyzing the situation in silence.

 Chapter 10: When you know it will be too late.

    Frey cleared his head and asked, "my king what are your orders?"


    Lewis said "first spread the news among the masses and inform both the queen and the third concubine to prepare the first and second prince for the day of sects recruitment. it''s a great opportunity to join the sects. Taylor''s great-grandfather will be arriving personally for this year recruitment so I would not be surprised if he takes Taylor with him to the Martial City. As for Nathan with his talent, it would be easy for him to be chosen by the Sects, all except the Royal Palace."


    The Six Sects were the Royal Palace, Clan Gray, Martial City, Iron Castle, James Clan, and the Ocean Palace. All the sects territories were in the boundaries of different Kingdoms but they were not controlled by the royal powers except for the Royal Palace sect which was sponsored by the Royal family of the Sail empire, With the purpose of training elites for the service of the empire.


    due to this, Lewis could not allow Nathan to join the royal palace sect. As for the Martial City, he has no hope of joining them because the examiner will be Taylor''s great-grandfather, even though he''s Taylor brother, they''re competing for the throne. therefore he will not allow them being in the same sect but Lewis was confident that Nathan would be recruited by the remaining four powers.


    "What about the third prince and the princesses?" Frey asked, but he already knew how this going to end.


    The king did not pay any attention; all it comes to"Do what you want while you do not lose this king''s face" those were his exact words.


    "I understand," said Frey finally having made a decision he spoke "my king there is something I wanted to talk to you about"


    "speak what''s on your mind?" Said Lewis.


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    "After the Sects recruitment, I want to retire," Frey said while presenting his letter of resignation.


    Lewis did not expect it and was shocked by this request, the old man in front of him was not only the prime minister but also his mentor during his initial years of reigning, he thought he would always be his counselor while he reigned as the king and now he wants to retire. he(king) said "Why so suddenly? Is there something that bothers you? everything has a solution. Just say it "


    " Your Majesty Thank you for your words but this day had to come, Nothing bothers me, I''m just retiring from my post so that the younger generation can take charge, this old man will not always be alive after all "Frey just gave an excuse that it sounded good he could not tell him what he really thought.


    (A good King must be impartial at all times that''s the first thing I taught you but the brazenness and clear partiality you displayed, again and again, made me sick and I was considering retiring and stop working for you from a long time it''s just that I just want to quit working under you as soon as possible.


    One does not know the future, The future is unpredictable, Guessing or Betting. you(king) have placed your hopes on first and second prince while I place my hope on the third prince.


    when I first met the third prince and saw his eyes, I felt small, I believed that all the years I studied were nothing compared to his knowledge I felt his disdain, arrogance and all my being trembled before his eyes, something I have never experienced in all my years as Prime Minister, in the future he will far outshine his brothers but when the time comes, would he still recognize you as his father ?, I hope you don''t regret it after all it''s too late anyway ... Miss Anna had a good son.)


    After talking about other matters Frey says goodbye got up and left the office, Lewis did nothing but sigh, he knows he couldn''t change Frey''s mind so he let the time run its course.


    at that moment, in Anna''s bathroom, there was a baby inside the bathtub full of stinky black liquid. beside the baby were two young people with stunned faces. Anna was the first to speak and asked: "Hey Audrey, is that my son?"


    Audrey replied, "I suppose the supreme potions cannot be underestimated." When she said that, she went to the bathtub and grabbed Alexander, cleaned him with a towel and watched him for a moment.


    He used to have black hair with brown eyes, very average baby with no obvious traits but now his skin was clear as snow, soft and smooth, It would be envy of every woman, his light brown pupils changed to clear purple inside them you could feel a mystical light and finally his hair turned golden emanating a shine that made him look exalted, someone may associate his beauty with that of elf race!


    "Miss, his appearance is too striking, what should we do?" Audrey said.


    His change was too extreme, it even made his mother doubt whether he was her son. if someone finds about his changes no doubt they will connect it with the supreme potion then the queen and the third concubine would not hesitate to send someone to assassinate the third prince at any given chance.

 Chapter 11: Coincidence or not?

    After hearing Audrey''s words, Anna could not think of anything so they covered Alexander with a blanket and dashed towards their quarters and locked the doors then they started to rack their brains for a solution, the more they thought the more they seemed lost, hours passed then tiredness took over by the time they realize it was already nightfall feeling tired they went to sleep without being able to solve anything.


    At midnight, Alexander came out of his cradle nimbly and moved toward Audrey''s room standing in front of her, he hesitated a little he resolved himself then he pinched her cheek to wake her up.


    Audrey who was asleep felt a slight pain in her cheeks that made her awake, she cleared her eyes to see a two-year-old baby with purple eyes and golden hair shining from moonlight.


    "Young master, How do you get here? right now you need to rest, I''ll take you to the cradle immediately." Audrey said, In her opinion, the baby had fallen out of her crib, but when she was getting up when she heard a child''s voice saying,"  Audrey I need your help."


    When she heard those words she was shocked, she could not believe what she was hearing, early today he spoke his first words and now he was speaking fluently. she could not help muttering to herself "It''s just a dream." With that, she went back to bed and prepared to continue sleeping.


    then she heard the child''s voice again saying "have your parents not taught you that it''s rude to ignore people." As he said that his little hand steered towards her cheek and pinched her once again just that this time a lot stronger. Audrey could not help but say "ow that Hurts" while holding her cheek.


    This time she knew she was not dreaming and taken back but quickly became angry and said: "Who are you? What did you do to the young master?" For her, the only possible explanation is that someone possessed her young master and she had to save him otherwise she can''t bear to face Anna as she loves her son deeply and treats him like a treasure if she finds that something happened to her son she be distraught and may commit suicide so for miss Anna she could not allow anything to happen to him even if it cost her life!


    "Calm down  Audrey you''ll wake mom," Alexander said quietly as he looked Audrey in her eyes, then continued: "I know you have many questions, I will answer all if that makes you happy, just please lower your voice."


    Audrey did not know why but she obeyed his words and lowered his voice then asked: "What did you do to the young master?" To that, the Alexander simply replied "I have not done anything, I have always been like this"Stolen story; please report.


    "Lies the young master has always been a normal baby since his birth" Audrey did not believe it for her someone had possessed the body of the young master.


    Of course, Alexander did not even flinch instead of that he began to act as he had done in the last two years, towards all of his actions from ordering food to getting his eyes watery to ask for things, after a few minutes he became serious again and he asked: "Now you believe me? or do you want me to poop? "


    " You!" Audrey was dumbfounded and could not believe what she just saw, she was shocked but at the same time angry because it meant that this bastard could go to the bathroom all the time and had her wash his diapers. It was the part that she hated most and now he reveals that he pretends to be a baby, she was obviously going to get mad. So she could not help but grab Alexander''s neck and say in a murderous tone: "So we''re always able to do your thing in the bathroom and you laughed behind me while I was washing your diapers ehh."


    Alexander''s face became pale from her sudden action, he couldn''t understand why this woman was so angry about such a trivial matter and tried to reason with her by saying "Audrey calm down I was only acting to survive!, please let me go, I''ll explain." Hearing that Audrey managed to control her anger and said "it''s better worth it if not you will see" while saying that she cracked her knuckles.


    Alexander could not do anything but sigh and said "During all these years we have been watched by people, but suddenly they stopped doing it a couple of weeks ago. if they wanted, we would have been dead" what he said was not a lie, in his previous life he was a person in the sky realm besides that he was someone who''s been hunted day and night, therefore, he was very sensitive to the presence of others.


    "Hmph you just made it up to avoid my anger but it doesn''t work on me," said Audrey preparing to spank this brat. "I can prove it," said Alexander


    "how can you prove that?" Audrey said with doubt but still decided to give this stinky brat a chance.


    "You are at the peak of the fifth stage of body refining right? but you are unable to advance to the sixth stage no matter how hard you try!" said Alexander.


    "you''re right but I do not see what the problem is, there are a lot of bottlenecks on the martial path, so that''s common," said Audrey.


    "Are you stupid or retarded?" Alexander said with a disdainful face. but Audrey was not going to let a baby insult her so she grabbed him by the neck without caring that he was a baby and said, "What did you say?"


    "I did not say anything, let me explain" Alexander did not dare to play with this woman anymore, Audrey by his side released him again but said "hmph if you don''t give me an explanation that will satisfy me, you will see"


    Alexander was feeling very offended, he was being beaten by his own servant! He almost wanted to cry if it was how it''s going to be, he should have stayed quiet.


    "How long was your last breakthrough?" asked Alexander.


    "Four years ago but I don''t understand what it has to do with being watched" Audrey replied.


    "Now calm down I have another question, how long as it''s been since you moved to the palace?" asked Alexander.


    "Four years" replied Audrey not knowing why he asking these trivial questions.


    "So the last time you advanced was before arriving at the palace and after arriving at the palace you have not advanced anymore What a great coincidence! don''t you think it''s suspicious Audrey?" revealed Alexander.

 Chapter 12: I am your Young Master

    When Audrey heard that she began to doubt "So, what do you think happened?"


    Alexander replied: "Easy, you were poisoned"


    Audrey deeply denied "Impossible, if it was like that my health would have deteriorated, also I prepared everything for miss Anna, you and me, be it meals, medicine or daily necessities so it is impossible for us to be poisoned."


    "Audrey, not all poisons utilized to kill, this a special poison which does not affect the vitality of the person but harms their cultivation."Alexander said, Then continued " As you know to improve and breakthrough to the next stage in the martial steps one has to get rid of the impurities in the body, this poison acts upon this principle, just imagine that instead of taking a common medicinal potion you take an adulterated one with more impurities, that instead of benefiting your cultivation it harms it by building impurities in your body which prevents you from advance further no matter how much you train ultimately leading to weakening your foundation. I imagine you buy the cultivation resources from a store in the capital right?"


    when she heard what Alexander said she was stunned, she bought the resources for her and Miss Anna in the number one potion store of the Alba kingdom, the"Fancy Potion Store,"  it was known for its good reputation and fair prices She also checked their background before buying from them and the alchemist Benedict Hail was an honest person who could not be bought, so when she received this revelation, it was shocking. Audrey wanted to speak but the voice on the other side continued "Do you think it''s impossible, for a veteran alchemist to adulterate a few potions without anyone noticing it must be quiet easy, also just think about it in these years there must be some kind of news related to the alchemist of that store."


    Audrey after thinking about it for a moment opened her eyes staring straight into Alexander she said " Two years ago, there was a news saying that out of nowhere the two sons of  Benedict were accepted into the Martial City, for many people this news confused them as his children did not possess any great talent to be accepted by the martial city, but it never occurred to me, that it was in exchange for poisoning us."


    Alexander said "Do you think it was only us?, I think they did it with all the concubines! this could be the very reason why the princess and I have no talent hmph."If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.


    " What do you mean? "(Audrey)


    "Simple, usually when cultivators want to have offspring they often take several pills before fertilizing, and during their pregnancy with the hope that their children have a great innate talent, but in this case, It was the other way around. I sure my mother was already poisoned when I was fertile, which affected my innate talent hmph. I imagine that the queen or the third concubine are behind this. as the prince''s parents, they must have wanted to be sure that their sons would not face any more competition for the throne so they hatched this scheme to mess with the talent of other prince and princesses, hmph. Tell me, doesn''t it seem strange to you, my father in this part of the precinct is considered talented. The same goes for my mother, but I, their son only have average talent?" said Alexander


    " But why did they have to enact this even to the princesses they are innocent in all this, besides that they can not inherit the throne," asked Audrey


    " Any of the concubines can bear a child, and it''s unknown if it''s going to be a girl or a boy until after the childbirth, have not heard an idiom "Better kill a thousand innocents than let the guilty loose," they did all this right in front of his noses and That stupid king didn''t even find anything suspicious, that incompetent piece of shit" Alexander said,


    Alexander was furious, in these past two years he had always thought that his talent was less than his parents, but when he saw a potion his mother consumed while she trained he immediately recognize that it was altered. But as they were being watched and add to that he was just a year old baby he could not say anything and just swallow his anger. but now that he had some freedom he swore that "Since you played with me in this way, I''ll give it back to you a thousand times worse."


    On the other hand, Audrey was standing still, she never considered this plot but when she thought and connected the points, everything he said made sense but still she asked: "Can you prove it?"


    Alexander was not offended, he knew that she did not trust him completely, so he simply replied "Proving it is easy, you just need to get a potion made by that alchemist spill it on a piece of meat, a drop would suffice, if the potion is unaltered it will make it the meat tastier but if it is altered then the meat will begin to rot."


    After that Audrey rushed out of the room and ran to the royal kitchen, took out a piece of meat that was in salt, did what Alexander told her and dropped a drop on the meat after a few seconds the meat began to rot. Seeing this, Audrey just collapsed on her knees, she could not believe what was happening, they have been poisoned for all these years all because of her negligence Miss Anna had not yet advanced, because of her young master lacks talent, it was all her fault.


    Audrey began to cry in the dark blaming herself for these factors, After a few minutes footsteps were heard and a small figure entered the kitchen, Audrey raised her head between sobs, only to see a two-year-old baby with golden hair staring at her with his purple eyes. she could not believe what she has experienced in the last few minutes. This baby discovered what she could not apprehend, she could not help but ask "Who are you?"


    Alexander by her side just smiled and said "I am your young master"

 Chapter 13: Contract?

    With those words the kitchen fell silent as no one spoke, Audrey was in shock, her mind was on the verge of collapse and Alexander was waiting for her to calm down, after a few moments, he spoke: "Do you want to seek revenge?"


    "Even if I want I cannot seek revenge as I''m just a servant, while he is an alchemist, our status is very different, people will never believe me even if I tell them and they will do everything in there power to silence me," Audrey said with dead eyes


    "It''s just an old man who plays at being an alchemist, with my help you can make him shudder in despair, if you want to kill him, you will have his life, if you want to torture him, I''ll let you do what you want with him" Alexander said with a cold tone as his eyes reflecting arrogance, disdain, and murderous intention.


    Audrey when she saw him saying those words, she could not help but ask: "Why would you do something like that?"


    "For three reasons, One that son of a bitch poisoned me, two poisoned my mother and you, three he harmed my family when we did not have any enmity with them. People like these deserve the death sentence so they don''t think I''m easy to offend" answered Alexander


    "But they have the support of the Martial City" Audrey spoke reminding him of the lucking treat.


    "hmph a small Martial Village in a miserable corner of the continent dare to be arrogant in front of me, I flatten them with my own hands" Alexander was not a murderer, but these people crossed a line that they shouldn¡¯t haved, his mother was a good person and naive as a child, who had no enmity with anyone, her only sin was to marry that useless king, that shitty husband who cannot even prevent someone from poisoning his family right in front of his nose. "so I will kill every single one of them for harming his mother and If someone dared to defend them, I will kill them too".Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions.


    Audrey just stared at Alexander, her eyes lit. when she heard those words she did not know why but it felt as if they were the imperial decrees, if he ordered to go south nobody would dare to go north, after thinking about it, she stood in front of Alexander then lifted him off the ground bringing his face up close to her''s, she could not help but sigh and said: "You are not a normal baby, what happened to you?"


    "it''s not safe here let''s go back to our room," Alexander stated


    Audrey had just remembered where they were and nodded her head to say that she understood, then with Alexander in her tow, she returned to the room of the ninth concubine. After closing the door, verified that Anna was still asleep, she turned to him and said: "Now you can speak your mind right?"


    "I have nothing unusual going on, I just kept my memories of my past life," Alexander said bluntly, he needed her help in moving forward and If he did not tell her the truth, she might distrust him So the best thing is to cooperate with her honesty.


    "Past life?" (Audrey)


    "I do not know how it''s happened  but I kept my memories intact" (Alexander)


    "Ohh, what were you in your past life?" (Audrey)


    "A powerful cultivator hmph, if I were in my peak conditions I could Kill a million Audrey''s without sweating hmph" When she heard that Audrey hit him on the head and spoke:" What did you say? "


    "I did not say anything, (violent woman have you never heard that people understand with words)"(Alexander)


    "why cat got your tounge, who''s the one who bragged that he can kill half of the world a few minutes ago haa" (Audrey)


    when he heard that, he turned a little red, all this while he told the truth, but she did not believe his words and made fun of him, so he could only murmur ashamed: "That''s different."


    Audrey could not help but love this baby but suddenly she remembered the first thing Alexander said to her and she said "Before you said you needed my help, what can I do to help you, oh great supreme cultivator (while making a small bow.)"


    "You" Alexander pointed to Audrey with his trembling finger but could not do anything to this woman as she already in the sixth stage of body refinement while he was just a two-year-old baby, so he just swallowed his anger and said: "Before that, I need you to do something."


    "What do you want me to do? "said Audrey, somewhat confused, what would he come up with this time.


    "A soul contract!" Said, Alexander


    "A soul contract?" Audrey repeated the same words but she had never heard those words, so she did not know if it was something good or bad.

 Chapter 14: Lets talk about the real business

    Audrey just stared at him confused and lost not knowing what he was asking for, seeing this Alexander asked: "You do know what it is, right?"


    "No," replied Audrey while shaking her head.


    Alexander began to explain: "This is a special contract in which like its name implied the said participants in the contract intertwine a piece of their souls resulting in sharing the same fate if one party dies the other will follow so that they can not harm each other, also both parties can know the location of each other at all time just by thinking about it."


    "Young Master, are there really such mythical things as the soul? I always thought it was something to cheat the unwary people. saying that her eyes began to glow than with eyes full of enthusiasm she asked: "Young Master since you know about all these mystical things, is there any way to make me fly? if you know, how about teaching me."


    Alexander did not expect this situation, he expected something along the line like "I don''t believe that show me some proof to make me believe you" and then he would have given her some benefits to convince her but as they say a good master begets a good servant, it seems that being with my mother for so many years has made her contact my mothers simple-mindedness.


    sighing he said, "If your cultivating advances It''s not a big deal for me to teach you how to fly!; but stop changing the subject just say if you agree to make the contract or not?"


    ¡°If I make the contract, will you teach me to fly?" Audrey asked.


    which made Alexander almost puke blood, this woman does not see just how serious this contract is, it unites the lives of two people and their destinies, it is not something that is to make light off and this woman wants to do it just for me to teach her to fly.


    "Audrey, you know how serious this contract is, right? Our lives will be one, if someday you betray me, I will always know where you are, if something happens to me and I die, you will die too" stressed Alexander


    "you made it clear to me when you explained it, I am not an idiot," said Audrey.


    "Then why did you behave like that!" Alexander emphasized


    "Young master have you really not thought about it, I''m just a servant, in a few years when you I''ll start a battle for the throne, there are only three scenarios for me, the First scenario is that you will win the throne, if you win the throne nothing will happen to me but the other two scenarios are most likely to happen, well that''s what I thought until today, the second scenario is that I betrayed you than the Webber house will send hunters to capture me and I can only live a few more days being hunted than die a cruel death, as, for the third scenario I think young master knows what it''s gonna be without me saying anything. that''s why I haven''t hesitated to agree to young master," Audrey said with a carefree tone but with somewhat apathetic eyes.If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.


    Alexander understood what she wanted to say, the third scenario was for her to remain loyal to my mother but when my brothers inherit the throne they would surely look for an excuse to kill her, as the new king would not allow anyone who is not loyal to him to remain in the castle and to give an example to others of what would happen if someone is no longer loyal to him by killing the maid he giving a warning. as in the eyes of a king, the life of a servant is worth nothing.


    Alexander could not help but sigh at such thoughts and now he knew why she was dealing with the contract, as our lives were connected even without the contract, it''s like that if I win the throne, she and I will live but if I do not win the throne than my mother, she and I will die. After a moment he said: "If you agree to sign the contract I will not only teach you to fly but I will also assure you that as my servant no one will ever dare to underestimate you on this continent."


    "Well, I agree to sign it but remember your promise to teach me to fly," said Audrey, She did not take Alexander''s words seriously at that moment, she did not know what it meant to her, but that day she made a decision that changed her destiny forever.


    "Well, bring me a piece of paper, pen, and some ink," Alexander said somewhat tired after all he was still a baby. Audrey when she heard that order she did not idle to act after all it''s what her young master asked her to do.


    Alexander received the things from Audrey and placed the paper on the floor, He grabbed the pen and began to draw several strange patterns when he was done with it, the black ink began to emit a mystical glow. This was a soul contract so he had to use the power of his soul to make it!


    Alexander, although he has not cultivated his body, his soul remains as strong as before he reincarnated. So it was not a problem to make the contract. After a few minutes, he completes the contract and with sweat on his head he told Audrey: "All you have to do is make a small wound in the center of the palm of your hand and place it on the paper, then you will feel that the paper suck out your soul followed by a little pain! so get ready. "


    As Alexander had made the contract, he left a small trace of his soul in it, so all that''s left is for Audrey to do her part, Audrey was watching the paper with mysterious shining letters, she had never seen anything so magical, she squatted and followed Alexander''s instructions, grabbed a small knife that was hidden in her ankle and made a small wound in the palm of her hand, then without any hesitation she placed her hand on the paper and experienced exactly what her young master said, she felt as if the paper was going to suck out her soul followed by slight pain only for a moment, then she was done with the process and felt a little dizzy but was back to normal after getting used to it.


    "What just happened to me?" asked Audrey.


    "you felt dizzy as your soul is very weak but that''s normal since you have not cultivated the soul" answered Alexander.


    Audrey nodded, her young master was becoming increasingly mysterious. after remembering something, she asked: "haven''t you said that we could grasp the other''s whereabouts, so how do I use it?"


    "Just close your eyes, think about where I am and you will know," Alexander said while making a gesture with his hand.


    Audrey closed her eyes and did what she was told to, after a moment she could feel the direction in which her young master was, although she could not see the distance or something specific, something told her that if she went in that direction she would find her young master. she opened her eyes and saw her young master with hands crossed waiting, then she nodded to him.


    "Well, now let''s talk about the real business," said Alexander as its time to talk about more important things.

 Chapter 15: Too much...

    "Do you know why I stopped acting before you?" Alexander asked as he looked at Audrey with a serious face.


    "Well, I guess it has something to do with the changes in your body" Audrey answered inflating her chest as if to say see I am not stupid, to tell the truth, the reason was very obvious.


    "Ohh so you know what these changes signify?" questioned Alexander, while thinking that this woman was arrogant.


    "you became cute, is there anything else I am missing?" Now Audrey was confused by what his young master meant as she could only see that he became very cute.


    Upon hearing that response Alexander just sighed: "If only it was such a small reason"


    "Young master, is it very serious?" (Audrey)


    "it is, so much so that they will kill me for or want to steal my body, I have something that should not exist in the world of mortals"(Alexander)


    When Audrey heard that she got a little pale asking " What is it do you have to make it this dangerous? "


    Alexander did not answer the question but asked another question:" Aubrey, do you know how to measure the Innate talent? "


    Audrey was not sure why he asked her that but she replied:" Young master from what I know, talent is measured in Low, common, average and high"


    "Audrey that''s just rubbish, the talent is divided into nine seals Your so-called talent meter does not even measure seals. On this continent, your so-called high talent would be called garbage "(Alexander)


    "what are these seals? please explain, I do not understand"(Audrey)


    "Look I''ll explain, In the mortal world the cultivation is divided into two fundamental Realms  and nine mortal Realms, In the fundamental realms one prepares for the body to enter the mortal realms, Each seal represents a mortal realm and the more seals that are open means that your affinity to understand the heavens and the earth is greater, therefore you will not have bottlenecks until you reach a certain realm, to make it easier if a person has six open seals he would not face any bottlenecks until the sixth mortal realm" Alexander said as he looked at Audrey.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.


    Audrey was serious listening as she had never heard anything like this. then she asked, "but then what about those measured as high-talent, how many seals do they have?¡±


    When Alexander heard what she said he put on a disdainful face and said: "A so-called high talent here has no open seals, it would be lucky if they reached the first mortal realm"


    Audrey was shocked by this revelation and asked with curiosity:" Young master, but since you were born with common talent would you not be considered worse than a garbage on this continent? "


    "You!"Alexander said as he pointed his finger, this woman dares to chide me once again, ahh forget it, better not to make her angry, thinking so he sighed and replied "That was until this morning hmph"


    "You mean that your transformation increased your talent! wow, when Miss Anna finds out she''ll be very happy, so how many seals did you open? three or two" said Audrey enthusiastically she could not believe what she was hearing.


    Alexander could not help muttering: "Nine and a half" but the strange thing was that he did not say it with a cheerful or arrogant face but the opposite, he said it with a somber face.


    "Young master, did I hear wrongly, you opened nine and a half Seals, Great, that''s amazing, with this you''ll be sure to win the throne" said Audrey ecstatically, she could not believe what was happening, she could almost see the light in the darkness, now she''s no longer need''s to wait for her death, with her young master here, nobody would dare to touch her.


    "Stupid, you do not know what kind of situation we are in right now! Who the hell cares about a throne if I''m dead" Alexander said somberly.


    "Young master it''s not such a big deal, you are just highly talented. I do not think they''ll kill you for that," Audrey said as she waved her hand.


    Alexander continued: "You still do not understand the situation we''re in right now, I told you I had something that should not exist in this world, is it not?"


    "Yes, young master your talent has no comparison in the world" (Audrey)


    "It''s not that it has no comparison, it''s just that it should not exist and less on a continent like this" (Alexander)


    " Young master, what do you mean? " (Audrey)


    " As you asked, I will let you know, on this continent, someone with three open seals is considered a genius. people with four are considered genius of a thousand years and those of five are considered geniuses in ten thousand years, although it is only a seal of difference and will not have bottlenecks until the indicated realm, there is also another huge difference, until they reach their bottleneck their cultivation speed will be much faster than that of a normal person"


    "how much faster can it be?"


    "The double that of a person with a lesser seals, that is to say, a person with two open seals cultivates twice as fast as a person without one open seal, You now know what it means, my cultivation will be without bottlenecks until the ninth mortal realm besides that, my speed of cultivation and absorption of qi will be five hundred and twelve times greater than that of an ordinary person! "


    "But young master are you sure that there no one with more than five open seals?"


    "how can they not exist? Of course, they exist but it is not something that a small continent can have! they are all the children of saints and legendary figures that even in my past life I had no right to see, but even so, know that the greatest talent ever to been recorded in my previous world only had seven open seals! but now I have nine open seals! and a fucking half seal that I do not know what it is for!"

 Chapter 16: Everything is about background

    "Young master, I still don''t see the problem in that, it''s not bad for you to be very talented," said Audrey with eyes full of admiration.


    "Audrey, the problem is not the talent itself, but everything else" Alexander said in a serious tone, Audrey wanted to ask something but Alexander interrupted her: "You do not really understand, I''ll give you an example, suppose that an apparently weak old man finds a chest full of gold coins, what do you think will happen to him? "


    "Well, he lived the rest of his life as a rich man," Audrey said carelessly.


    "Idiot, do you not understand that people are greedy, it''s true there are good people in the world but there will also be people who take advantage of the weak" (Alexander)


    "So, what is the correct answer?" (Audrey)


    "The answer is it depends "(Alexander)


    " Depends? "(Audrey)


    "yes it depends, if the old man is a poor fisherman who luckily found the chest, it is more likely that when he begins to spend the money, someone with bad intentions will notice and When he discovers that he has lot''s of money, then he will surely kill him for that money. but everything changes if that old man is an old nobleman or a powerful cultivator, nobody would dare to kill him even if he killed an emperor; less for gold. "After saying that he looked into Audrey''s eyes and said:" Now I ask you, if my talent was the chest full of gold coins, what future awaits me the fisherman or the old noble? "


    When she heard that question her face turned pale then she replied in a trembling voice:" The fisherman "Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!


    "Exactly , finally you understand, I have a talent that even the children of the saints envy, but my background is shit, nothing would happen to me if my parents were invincible celestial beings, but I have my "garbage father" who a  king in this desolate continent and my mother is also a common person, but her son has such a high talent?, and even more so one day his appearance changes from a normal baby to a divine baby overnight, what stops a powerful cultivator to come kidnap me and use some dark arts to possesses my body! When that moment arrives we will all die." While Alexander was speaking, Audrey had an ugly look on her beautiful face, she had never thought about that, but she still asked: "Young master, but they should also be people who want to take you as their disciple, right? "


    Alexander replied almost immediately "Take me as their disciple?, That''s a hilarious idea, you think a decent expert would come to this desolate continent for disciples, those who will come will be the most ruthless ones, who will do anything to increase their longevity, usually good teachers do not go looking for disciples, it''s the other way around, the disciples look for a good teacher after all, there are few good teachers but there are many good disciples, now do you understand?" Alexander said, Audrey finally understood that the talent of the young master was something that could either lead to glory or could lead to his downfall. she looked at the young master and said: "So what do we do?"


    Seeing how Audrey accepted the situation and did not even regret the contract, Alexander was happy and said: "First get me a blank book, two wooden masks one for my size and another the size of an adult, and finally a bit of demonic beast blood, the soonest the better."


    Audrey nodded her head although she did not know what her young master wanted to do, that night she left the castle and hurried to collect all the things she was asked for. she did not have the time to spare as the life of the young master and Miss Anna depended on her, an hour and a half later she returned with what Alexander asked for. She said "Young master,  here is what you asked for, I also procured the blood from a demonic beast in the sixth martial step" Truthfully she went to steal, but since it was urgent she did not care.


    "That should be enough," Alexander said as he grabbed a mask, took a pen and dipped it in the blood of the demonic beast then started to draw a combination of strange letters and symbols which were too complex to understand inside the mask, as the pen began to move it emitted a strange sheen as he continued to draw the array, it took him half an hour to complete the whole array then he sighed thinking "This is the best I can do with what I have in my hands, but it should be enough for now."


    Seeing that her young master has finished with his work  Audrey asked: "Young master, what did you do?"


    Alexander replied: "This is an array of illusion, I put it behind the mask, with this I should be able to change my appearance and I can also change my aura" saying that he placed the mask on his face and then the mask started emitting a slight shine before returning to normal but this time he no longer had the golden hair and the purple eyes, he looks exactly the same as before the medicinal bath. Seeing that left Audrey surprised, thinking his young master knew many mystical things.

 Chapter 17: Couple of fools

    "Audrey, do not get excited this mask will only cheat the ones in the fundamental realm, the good thing is that it will be enough for this place." While removing the mask, he took the blank book and began to write, his speed was fast, after just ten minutes he was done with that and turned to Audrey: "Look, I''ll leave this mask and the book with you, when my mother wakes up, tell her that you found them next to your bed, apparently there is someone who is protecting the young master, also tell her that it''s better to avoid the eyes of others as it''s very dangerous at this moment. and that you came to know all these from reading this book which basically explains everything, also I used my soul force to write it so when someone reads it they will think that it was written by a powerful being, all this should be kept a secret and you should never say a word to anyone." Alexander said while looking very serious.


    Audrey nodded, she understood what her young master implied by those last words, she received the book and the mask prepared to do what she was told to, seeing that Alexander nodded his head satisfied by her actions: "Well now we''re going to sleep, tomorrow night I''ll teach you how to train so I want you to bring me some potions that you usually use to train "When Audrey heard that she was excited, her young master had told her that he was a powerful cultivator before. If he taught her a thing or two she could become much stronger than she ever imagined.


    That''s how one of the longest nights for both Audrey and Alexander concluded, They returned to their crib and bed respectively.


    The next day


    The inhabitants of the Alba Kingdom received the news that the sects would be arriving at the capital to recruit new disciples, The test would be conducted in a month and everyone had the right to participate, regardless of whether he was noble or a commoner, the only restriction decreed by the king was that any noble of the kingdom cannot join the royal palace and anyone who disobeyed would be punished with a death penalty for him and his family.


    When they received the news, most people were confused. The royal palace was not a power that the Alba Kingdom could offend,  but the king''s decree would put him against the royal palace, which leads them to question whether the king has gone crazy?.Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator.


    The capital of the Alba Kingdom, Mansion of General Keer.


    Inside the room was an Elder and two middle age man, the two middle-aged men were sitting in front of the old man waiting for him to speak.


    "Do you know why I summon you?" asked the old man as he looked sternly at his children.


    "Father, you can rest easy, although we did it without your permission, everything went well." Said one of the men, but his face was stiff, he knew that this time he had done something that angered his father.


    "Everything went well you say, YOU MORON  WHAT THE FUCK IS PASSING THROUGH YOUR FUCKING HEAD! I TOLD YOU A MILLION TIMES THAT YOU WILL NOT POISON THE NINTH CONCUBINE, BUT YOU COUPLE OF MORONS DID IT ON BEHIND MY BACK!" The old man exploded and started to scold their children as if they were beasts that only brought evil. But the other side felt unwilling to receive this, he thought he had done nothing wrong. "Father, why are you shouting at us like this, you gave us permission to do it with all but her if it were not for us the third prince would also be born talented, Although the third concubine avoid being poisoned, we achieve it with the ninth, even if a problem arises we could solve it with the identity of our grandfather"


    " HAHAHAHA LOOK AT THESE BEASTS, THESE MORONS CAN BE THE CAUSE FOR THE FAMILY''S DESTRUCTION" The old man started to laugh, but one of his children got up from the chair and slammed his hand against the table and said: "Father, what do you mean, we are not beasts, we did it to help our nephew to reach the throne. but you are afraid of a concubine just because her sister is a queen of snow kingdom. our sister is also a queen. "


    Hearing those words the old man became even more furious:" WHAT YOU MORRONS THINK YOU KNOW," upon hearing that cry the man who was standing shuddered and quickly sat down. After shouting he said with a more calm but gloomy voice "Do you two morons think that I will fear a queen with my father helping me?" When listening to this question both the middle-aged men had a bad premonition. Without giving them time to talk the old man continued, "Did you think you were invincible, four years ago when the ninth concubine came, my father wrote me a letter saying explicitly not to mess with her, but you morons have gone and done that"


    When listening to that the two men face changed "Father you did not explain such things to us?, If we had known, we would have not done what we did," they said at the same time.


    "YOU ARE A PAIR OF MORONS, YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS TO OBEY YOUR PARENTS! I DO NOT HAVE TO GIVE YOU EXPLANATIONS FOR WHY I DO WHAT I DO" When he heard the answers of his children he could not help shouting, they depended too much on their grandfather position in the Martial City which leads them to this. But one of the children still asked: "But father it not so serious, right? With a little effort, our grandfather can solve it."


    "HA HA WHAT A STUPID THING TO SAY, YOU STUPID PUNKS THINK''S THAT I WOULD BE THIS ANGRY IF IT''S NOT A SERIOUS BUSINESS HA HA" said The old man as he laughed, but his children did not have a happy face but an ugly one, they knew very well that when his father laughed like that he was extremely angry and that this time they had screwed up big time.

 Chapter 18: There is no way back

    "Father, please, tell us why we should not mess with them," said one of the middle-aged men, as he was not convinced that the consequences for poisoning the ninth concubine would be so disastrous.


    The old man forced himself to calm down and faced his two useless children in the eyes and said "Reginald, William Listen, In the Webber house, the current Duke had three children" When they heard this Reginald and William were confused they could not believe what they were hearing but the old man did not give them a chance to speak "His eldest son Joseph Webber, His first daughter Helewise Weber, and his second daughter Anna Webber, As you know the first daughter married into royalty gaining the status of Queen in the Snow Kingdom, Apparently they were childhood friends married for love, because of that the King of the Snow Kingdom has not taken any other concubines. and to show their sincerity to the Kingdom of Alba as their allies they married the queen''s sister to the king, even if it was with the status of concubine. But you know what is the status of the Eldest Son, Joseph Webber?"


    ¡°Isn''t he just the Duke''s successor?" The pair of brothers felt worse the more they heard, they had a bad premonition.


    "you''re an idiot, do you think my father would fear a successor to a Duke?" The old man was getting more and more angry with this pair of fools, he would have killed them if they were not his children "apart from being the duke''s successor, has another identity as the Core Disciple in the James Clan"


    "WHAT" the pair of idiots were in shock


    "Also, it is known that this brother is very protective of his younger sisters, It is said that once a disciple of the Sea Palace tried to flirt with his younger sister Anna so he cut off his legs and left him crippled in his anger, after that no one in the region dared to misbehave with his sisters"Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.


    "The Sea Palace did nothing?" Reginald asked with a trembling voice.


    "Do something?  He is a core disciple while the person who was crippled was just an external disciple he not worth it for the sea palace to make an enemy of James clan, Now do you understand a core disciple has great value in the whole region, even if he killed an inner-court elder like my father, the Martial City would not do anything."(Vicent)


    "But why is that even the king does not know anything regarding the background of the ninth concubine? "(William)


    "The king never thought that his wife would have such a backer, He did not even investigate her background, We also blocked that information just in case he favors the ninth concubine more than the current queen, so the king is ignorant of this matters."(Vicent)


    After saying that, the room was silent, no one wanted to speak anymore, The pair of brothers were feeling regretful for their actions, His father had told him not to do it and they disobeyed. while General Keer did not want to talk with this failure of sons.


    "what if we killed her?" Reginald asked.


    "Do you think that if we killed her and hide her body, our lives will be safe? You''re too innocent, if we do that, The Snow Kingdom declares war on the Alba Kingdom, and than the spies of all the neighboring kingdoms  will reveal what we have done all these years, When everyone knows what we did, no one will be by our side and Even my father cannot save us, After all, The current Lord of the Martial City is someone righteous and just. If he finds out what we have done, we don''t know what awaits us."(Vicent)


    Once again the three were silent. "The only solution is to leave the South Region as soon as possible and as far as possible," Vicent said as he sighed, all his work was thrown away by his foolish sons: "According to your grandfather  Joseph will be one to oversee this recruitment from James clan, but it is more of an excuse to see his dear sister, We have a month to organize everything, I will ask my father for help, I think he will also come with us, call your sister and tell her about this situation remember we have a month so in two weeks at the most we have to leave, as for Benedict let''s leave him to Joseph to relieve his anger." When he finished saying that, he got up and left the room without looking back. following that, a deep sigh filled with sadness was heard.


    The room fell silent leaving two men speechless. In their eyes you could see remorse, they could only close their eyes and accept the reality that they will have to live as fugitives.

 Chapter 19: Someone...

    The next day Anna got up late it was almost noon by the time she woke up, as she was exhausted because of yesterday''s incident.


    coming to her senses she remembered that they were unable to think of a solution and felt a little helpless and sad, as she did not know what was happened to her son.


    When Audrey saw Miss Anna, she immediately ran towards her "Miss look at this" Saying that she handed her a book.


    "What is this book?" Anna asked as she received it.


    "I don¡¯t know, when I woke up I found it next to the bed along with this child''s mask. When I read the book, it mentions what happens to the young master." Hearing that, Anna did not hesitate to open the book, as it had Something to do with her son, She started reading the book. What she perceived surprised her, this book was too mystical, it explained many things that she had never heard in her life, apparently the supreme potion raised her son''s talent so much that even the children of saints were envious, something that called her Attention was how to measure the talents, this book explains the nine open seals and how to measure them. This talent is only visible when it reaches a peak of the realm called "qi Gathering".


    "Audrey bring me Alexander in addition to that bring me a sphere to measure talent" as she resumed reading the book, the more she read the more mystical the book appeared, it was almost as if it was written by a supreme being she could not help but sigh. "This book has a lot of wisdom, I wonder who wrote it?"


    Audrey, on her side, had returned with  Alexander in her arms, but when she heard those words she could not help but put a stiff face (The one who wrote it was this baby that I hold in my arms)


    "Audrey, what''s wrong with that face?" Anna saw Audrey''s face and felt a little strange.


    "Nothing," said Audrey she could not say anything about what happened last night so she could only answer like that. her face quickly returning to a normal expression, seeing that Anna again focused on her son. Following the instructions of the book Anna tried to modify the sphere, this book explained it in a way that could almost say "For Dummies" on the cover. So even for Anna who knew nothing about the sphere, she could modify it successfully after two hours.Stolen novel; please report.


    According to what the book said the innate talent in the mortal world is divided into nine seals representing the nine mortal realms, these seals are restrictions imposed by the heavenly laws of the heaven and the earth, the more open seals the people have the fewer restrictions they face by the heavens and they will be more attuned to heavenly laws.


    Seeing that Anna could not help but get excited and made the modification to the sphere, after that she placed her son''s hand on the sphere and the sphere began to shine, but what they did not discern is that the baby was manipulating the test, for a person with Alexander''s experience it was easy to do.


    After a few seconds, the sphere gave off a gray light representing "one".


    After Anna saw that, she knew that her son had one open seal. While Audrey was confused as his young master had said he had nine and a half seals open. so what happened ?, I turned to see him and he saw her, Audrey had to wait until night time to ask for an explanation.


    "Haha my son, is unique" Anna was euphoric, it is true that she was indifferent with her son''s talent, but who don''t like to brag about their son''s? She could let her son become good for nothing, So now she was thinking about putting him in some sect, with his talent he is sure to be accepted and could even become a core disciple like his uncle. She was already dreaming of everyone praising her son. Until Audrey woke her up from her dream "Miss do not get too excited, Remember where we are now, if someone finds out about the talent of the young master we could all end up dead"


    Listening to that Anna returned to the cruel reality, then Audrey gave her a mask "Miss this mask was next to the book, let''s put it on the young master and see what happens "


    Anna nodded, received the mask and put it on her son, same as the last time, his golden hair and purple eyes where nowhere to be seen her son was now back to what he''s looked like before the medicinal bath and the mask had disappeared without a trace, she brought his hand to the small head of her son and felt something rough when she touched, she realized that the mask was still there but had become invisible. After that she put on and took off the mask, again and again, this object was very mystical, with this she would not have to worry about the changes happened to her son.


    "Audrey, maybe it''s not so bad as we expected, these things appeared just when we needed it, Someone must be taking care of us" With that Anna got a bit sentimental. Feeling gratitude towards that person who had left those treasures for her and her son.


    Audrey at her side just stared at this pair of mother and son, nodding with a smile "Yes Miss Someone is looking after us."


    (Hmph, obviously I was going to take care of them, It was also the fault of this old man that things ended up like this, as I did not expect the supreme potion to make such extreme changes.)

 Chapter 20: Do not throw it away

    While it was midnight while Anna was asleep a pair of shadows were talking in the room.


    They, of course, were Alexander and Audrey. the day has gone by without any significant matters, so as they agreed the previous night, Alexander would start teaching Audrey regarding cultivation starting tonight.


    "Young master, why did the test showed only one open seal? while You said you had nine and a half-open seals" asked Audrey.


    "Audrey, you have to understand that it''s better that fewer people know about my real talent, I made her test my talent so that she relates it to my changes With this she would not worry about my physical change. so did you bring what I asked? "


    "Yes, I brought them, look, these are the supplements that martial artists use, first the ointment, which is called "Bynana", this supplement is used by normal people to enter the first martial stage, but it has two negative factors, one, it''s is very expensive it costs a gold coin for one bottle and two that it only has a one percent chance to promote it''s user to advances successfully to the first martial stage."


    Alexander saw the small bottle, he grabbed it in his hands and asked: "so do you have the recipe?"


    "Yes, the recipe is made public, but only experienced alchemists can make it"( Audrey)


    "Why?" (Alexander)


    "Because only by the hands of an experienced alchemist can the ointment be successfully produced, according to what is said, when the pills, potions, and ointment are made, the alchemist needs to control the temperature of the huge cauldron while placing each herb one after another at a specific time in a specific order and with exact quantities, the whole process may take hours to complete and the tiniest error can lead to failure." (Audrey)This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings.


    "What is the success rate of an average alchemist?" (Alexander)


    "One in a hundred, because of that the potions are very expensive" (Audrey)


    When he heard that, Alexander had a small smile and asked:" And what the success rate of the old Benedict"


    When she heard that name the beautiful face of Audrey went black:" as for that old man, it''s in the rate of one in a hundred and sometimes two in a hundred."


    "Audrey, You want to destroy that old man, right? I think your chance has come only that you''ll have to wait a little longer"(Alexander)


    " How long do I need to wait?" (Audrey)


    "Three years to completely destroy that old man, well for now show me the other things" (Alexander)


    Audrey looked somewhat reluctant to leave the subject, she seriously wanted to destroy that old man, but the young master said she needs to wait for three years, seeing that Alexander said "Haha Audrey, believe me, it will be worth the wait, you just want to kill him, but there are other ways to get revenge, which are more painful than death, for example losing everything You have."


    Upon hearing that, she decided to trust her young master and continued saying "The following is a rank 0 potion that helps to strengthen the bones it''s called "Bone strengthing potion", unlike some other strengthening potions that have to be applied on the skin it needs to be consumed, Currently the lady and I use this option for our training, but even the low-low-grade Bone strengthing potion is ten times more expensive than the Bynana, with the monthly allowance given to the young lady, we can only purchase five medium quality potions, four for the young lady and one for me." she showed him a vial with bluish content and gave it to Alexander.


    "Did you purchased this potion from that old man Benedict store, how many do you have?"


    "I have six, but I guess I should throw them away since they are adulterated," Audrey said.


    "no, let us not waste these potions, just pass me six sheets of paper, the blood of demonic beast and a feather"


    Audrey did not hesitate. She knew that her young master would do something mystical. So she gave him the things he asked for. Alexander received the things and immediately made six purifying Array in just a few minutes because unlike standard ink, demonic beast blood had spirituality, it was much easier for him to make the purification Array. then he followed the previous method and as a result, they now had six supreme grade bone strengthing potions.


    Finishing the process he added a couple of illusion array on the vials so that they looked exactly the same as the previous one and gave them to Audrey.


    "with this it should be a lot easier for you to advance in your cultivation and it will also clean up the impurities of the adulterated potions, Besides that all the medicinal effect that you were unable to absorb due to the adulterated potions will play out, I would not be surprised if your cultivation advances by leaps and bounds, by then all traces of poisoning will disappear from your body and will return to normal," said Alexander.

 Chapter 21: Six Animals Forms

    Audrey, on the other hand, could not believe what had just happened, her young master converted six garbage potions into supreme potions, with that in mind she remembered how the young lady said she was sure that the bone marrow cleansing potion was of middle grade when she received it from Frey, but she did not understand how a supreme potion ended up in their hands. until she saw what his young master did.


    "What happened you saw how wise and great your young master is, you''re lucky to have me" When he saw Audrey starring dumb, Alexander put on a smug face, as for Audrey she was a little irritated to see a two-year-old baby act so smug in front of her, So she hit him on his head and asked: "What did you say?"


    While holding his head Alexander said: "I did not say anything, I''m lucky to have you, Audrey"


    "oh that being said, Now show me the tricks of old monster," said Audrey with a satisfied face.


    (This woman just hit me and then wants me to teach her something? She must be dreaming)


    Audrey almost as if she had read his thoughts asked "or do not you want to teach me?" while she prepared for another blow without showing any compassion for Alexander.


    "Of course I will teach you as I already promised, how can someone like me renege on my words" Alexander said that but inside he was depressed, he was once a great cultivator but now he''s being treated like a brat, because of the fear he held for that woman, he did not have the courage to stand up to her so he continued saying: "Inside the book I wrote yesterday is a cultivation technique, called" Six animal forms", read it and tell me what you think"


    "Young master, what is a cultivation technique?"


    He was confused when he heard that and asked: "Audrey if you do not know what cultivation techniques are than how did you cultivate to your Current stage?"Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author.


    "By exercising, I just exercise until I''m dead tired, that''s how everyone does it," said Audrey.


    "Then why did my mother do those weird poses when she trained, I thought it was her cultivation technique!" (Alexander)


    "Ahh, those poses, your mother did those poses to impress you, she even asked me to teach her some cool moves" (Audrey)


    When he heard those words, he blanked out, all those poses meant nothing she did all that just to impress him, having come to this conclusion he said "Ahh forget it, a cultivation technique are methods which refine one''s body, collect qi and purify it, they divided into four ranks: Mortal, Spirit, Holy, and Divine, then again are graded into "Low, Middle, High, Superior, and supreme grade," According to the level of your technique so will be the purity of your qi."


    "What rank is the "Six Animal forms"?" (Audrey)


    "Low-grade Mortal rank, Do not go complaining that you want a better technique, This technique is very good to refine the body, When you reach the peak of Realm of body refinement, I will give you another technique, but I think it will not be necessary! If you have nothing more to say, start practicing."


    Audrey wanted to complain, but held it back then started browsing the book, went to the last pages where the technique was, When she saw the technique she studied it deeply, This technique stated that one should practice it by controlling his breathing and breath in a specific pattern, While executing, the six forms that were: Wolf, Bear, Deer, Dragon, Hawk, and Elephant.


    The form of the wolf focuses on the senses, the bear in the internal organs, the deer in the agility, the dragon in the bones, the hawk in sight and the elephant in the flesh. Audrey had doubts but they were all solved by Alexander, with that she drank a  vial bone-strengthening potion and began to train according to the manual.


    After half an hour, sounds of bones breaking and reforging were heard from Audrey''s body along with gray impurities which began to expel from all over her body signifying that she advanced to the sixth stage of body refinement. when Audrey saw that she was very happy.


    "Audrey, do not get too excited, I advise you to cultivate the first five stages once again as your cultivation base is very week so in the future you may face problems if you do not strengthen your cultivation base," Alexander said those words as he didn''t want her to make the same mistake he made in his past life, he often wanted someone to have said those same words he said to her in his youth, but he did not have anyone to tell him at that time, Audrey is very lucky.


    "If there is nothing left I will go to sleep, after all, I have the body of a baby, Tomorrow I will entrust you with teaching this technique to my mother, Goodnight." (Alexander)


    Saying that Alexander went to his crib to sleep, While Audrey saw his small figure leaving, she decided to pay attention to his young master''s words, so that night she began cultivating again from the beginning to strengthen her cultivation base.


    The next day Audrey taught the technique to Miss Anna, with Audrey''s explanation, Anna was able to enter the fifth stage of body refinement, Anna praised Audrey because she thought that Audrey had understood that technique, By her side Audrey gave her the same advice that Alexander gave her, so Anna started cultivating again from scratch.

 Chapter 22: The king is crazy

    During the following days Alexander lived like a normal baby, Sometimes he played with his sisters and sometimes with his grandparents, While Audrey and Anna were training, Thanks to Alexander giving directions to Audrey during the nights, her and his mother''s Cultivation Increased very quickly. But since the two were cultivating from the beginning, the people around them did not notice the changes in their cultivation.


    An average person has a certain limit to their strength, after breaking that limit, they can reach the first stage of body refinement, suppose an average person has a limit of 50 Pounds of strength, but when he reaches the first stage of body refinement, their strength increases to 100 pounds and when he advances to the next stage his strength increases by 50 pounds for each stage until the third stage, from fourth to the sixth stage his strength increases by 100 pounds for each stage and from seventh to the ninth stage it''ll increase by 200 pounds for each stage, so the strength of a person at the peak of the ninth stage of body refinement is 1100 pounds he can defeat 22 ordinary people all by himself without breaking a sweat!


    But due to the cultivation technique, his mother and Audrey become invincible within the same cultivation level, as with their cultivation technique they received twenty percent more strength than others without cultivation techniques. Alexander could give them a better cultivation technique but he thought about the future, if he gives them a treasure coveted by all they may end up dead, besides that "Six Animal forms" was created only to be used in the Realm of body refinement, due to that it was classified as Low-rank technique, but when it comes to refining the body it''s the best technique available, Many treated this technique as garbage, but in the eyes of Alexander, who spent more than a thousand years researching techniques, saw through its depth and deduced the real motive of the creator, which was only to lay deep foundations for the following Realms.


    Because of this, he gave this technique to this pair of women, with this technique their subsequent cultivation will be much smoother than others even if they do not have any Open Seals.


    Everything was normal, time went by, until two weeks later, Something unexpected happened, The Queen and the First Prince had disappeared, When the king found out about it he became furious, this was a great shame to have his wife and son kidnapped from his own palace, he could not let this be made public, If not where his face would be, He would have no face to give to his people and even less to his father-in-law!This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it.


    So, he ordered everyone to keep this matter a secret and not to be spread, If anyone spoke of the disappearance, Then he and his whole family would be executed, The king to give the same order twice, seeing the situation of the king, they sighed and remained silent. He then later ordered to close the capital, not a person leaves or enters the city.


    During the next two days, the king secretly ordered to search throughout the capital, it did not matter if it was a powerful gang of the underworld or a noble family, everyone who was a suspect was sent to prison, and then interrogated. During these searches, several criminals were found and investigated regards to addition networks of these people and many other things, but as we are a family friendly novel we will not say it.


    The king upon hearing of these cases sent to execute his minister of justice and his chief knight, These two were linked to several cases of corruption, In addition to other nobles and corrupt merchants who were uncovered, These actions of the king were too unexpected , they did not have time to hide, During those two days they were hell for the corrupt nobles, Hundreds of heads were cut off, While the plebeians did not know what was happening but when they saw those noblemen being executed, they felt that there was justice in this world. Some even knelt and shouted to the sky with happiness. the day they thought it would never come, has arrived.


    The King was too angry, He found everything in his Capital minus his wife and son, Then he took his search to the whole Kingdom, During the next ten days, it same thing as in the Capital repeated In each and every City hundreds of cases were found of corruption, Among other things, All the corrupt were executed publicly in their respective cities. This was known as "The twelve-day purge." It did not matter if he was a powerful noble or a village chief, everyone who had committed a crime was executed on the king''s orders. Those days hundreds of thousands of heads were cut off.


    For the plebeian this made them see the king in a new light, This king was a righteous man for them, This was how he won the approval of the plebeians and their loyalty. but at that time the king was not interested in all that, he was crazy looking for his wife and son.


    Meanwhile in a tavern somewhere inside Empire Sail.


    Several hooded people entered the tavern, within the group there were two elderly, two middle-aged men, three middle-aged women, and three children. They found a place to sit and asked for food, While they ate, They heard something interesting from two men who were talking.


    "Hey, have you heard that the king of the Alba Kingdom went crazy" hearing that a middle-aged woman in that group trembled.


    "Crazy, I have not heard anything, why?"


    "so you didn''t know, I heard that twelve days ago, the king ordered to search every nook and cranny of his kingdom looking for something, apparently someone must have stolen a treasure or something. "

 Chapter 23: She Left

    "Oh, why do you say that someone stole a treasure?"


    "Well, because, it is said that twelve days ago the king began to search madly everywhere in the capital of the kingdom, but he did not find it so in his anger he executed hundreds of thugs and corrupt officers in the capital, then moved the search to the whole kingdom, but apparently he still did not find it and it ended up as a purge in which hundreds of thousands of lives were taken"


    "He killed so many people, and his people did nothing, are they not angry with his senseless killing?"


    "Angry, haha, On the contrary, they are very happy, Within those hundreds of thousands killed were all corrupt nobles, officers or criminal, You can say that the safest Kingdom in the southern region is the Alba Kingdom"


    When she heard that conversation, the middle-aged woman could not help but be sad, she was the queen of the Alba Kingdom, Isabella Keer, Because of her stupid brothers she had to run away with her son, now they headed north. She did love her husband, but she knew that if she stayed with him only death awaited her.


    "Relax Isabella, When we enter the Uri Republic we will be safe, They are a mortal country of Fifth grade, Also with the talent of your son, It will not be difficult to enter into a major sect within the Republic, Once he has a powerful backing, We will go back and claim what is ours," said an Elder with an imposing tone, he was the backing the Keer family depended on and became so arrogant, Vincent''s father, Francis Keer.


    "Yes, Grandfather I understands"


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    The King was very sad, Despite searching throughout the kingdom he did not find his wife and son, so he had no choice but to send a word to his father-in-law.


    On the other hand an elder next to him seeing how the king was, had a very cloudy mind, they had already made too much noise, but General Keer did not show up despite the noise, it could only mean one thing, the General Keer family along with the Queen were missing, She was not kidnapped but she and her family fled from the Kingdom, If he could come to this conclusion the others could also do so, but the king did not suspect anything and immersed in his false hope. the elder was very disappointed by the kin, this Elder was Prime Minister Frey.


    The king reluctantly ordered a guard: "Go to the general''s mansion and tell him to come and see me"


    "Yes, Your Majesty" Without saying another word, the guard turned around and left at a rapid pace.


    But after twenty minutes, the only one who came back was the guard. When Frey saw this, he knew that his assumption was correct and he could not help sighing. I did not know why they were fleeing but this would be a hard blow to the king.


    Seeing the guard return alone, the king could not help but frown. "What happened?"


    The guard was somewhat nervous "Reporting to his Majesty, I went to the General''s mansion, but when I arrived, the mansion was empty, Apart from two guards who guarded the entrance there was no one inside the mansion, When I asked the guards of what happened I was told that they had been paid several coins from someone for being simply on guard for the next two weeks, After that they could go"


    When he heard those words, They were like a bolt of lightning striking the king, he finally understood what was happening, His wife had not been kidnapped but had abandoned him and took her son with her. "Frey I leave you in charge of the rest, I need to rest" With that said, without waiting for the response of the other party, The King rose from his throne and left with lifeless eyes to his rooms. He was just going to drink and sleep. In these past few days, he had not slept a wink worrying about his queen and his son and now that he knew the truth, he felt betrayed and all his tiredness overcame him luring him to his sleep.


    Frey seeing the kings backfilled with loneliness couldn''t help but sigh, he was sure that in these following days, the concubines would take advantage of the situation to get a place in the king''s heart. Maybe in a few months, we will have a few births in the Royal family.


    With that, Frey took command of the Kingdom and ordered to stop the search and verify the damages that caused by killing so many nobles, Besides that he made a list consisting of people with sufficient merits to grant them the status of nobility to fill the empty positions.


    with all these done he prepared to welcome the ambassadors from the sects who would be arriving in two days.

 Chapter 24: I want to see

    Two days later


    Six figures approached the Alba Kingdom at full speed from different places, They were the representatives of the six sects of the Southern region, here to carry out the recruitment of the new disciples for their respective sects.


    Of the six individuals from the sects one drew attention among all, Of the six three were elderly while the other two were middle-aged women, and only one of them was a young man If one were asked about the age of the young man he would say he was not more than twenty-five years old.


    He is the core disciple of the James Clan and Anna''s brother.


    Joseph Webber


    Meanwhile, in the capital, Everyone was very excited, Many people had traveled from their cities or hometown to the capital to participate in the recruitment. The inns were full, the taverns cheerful full of drunks, For now, it was a peaceful city, due to the bloody purge induced by the king nobody dared to commit a crime. So it was peaceful all over the kingdom.


    Many small merchants were taking advantage of the situation, Because many of the great merchants were killed in the last few days, they had the hope of becoming big fish thanks to the sudden changes. Deals were raining everywhere, the life of commoners was never so cheap. Many believed that it was the beginning of a golden age for the Alba kingdom.


    On the outskirts of the capital


    The first to arrive was an old man in golden armor, he is the representative from the Sail empire representing The royal palace, This old man was only an external Elder but his strength was already in the fourth level of Qi Gathering, he could easily defeat anyone in the Alba Kingdom. he stood there with his hands crossed over his chest and eyes closed waiting for the others to arrive. They had agreed on this meeting point to prevent others from seeking talents before the tests. So he had no choice but to wait.


    A few minutes later the second one arrived.


    The second to arrive was an Elder with white silk clothing. This was the representative of the Martial City. His strength was comparable to that of the Elder with Golden Armor. He just smiled "Hi, buddy" but there was no response from the other side, the old man who spoke did not get angry but he just started to laugh softly.


    The last Four almost arrived at the same time leaving only a few seconds between there arrivals, These were a lady dressed in a navy blue dress, another lady who wore a mustard yellow dress, another Elder with a black armor and a young man with gray silk clothes. These were the representatives of Sea Palace, Gray Clan, Iron Castle, and the James Clan.


    These were equal in strength all were in the fourth level of Qi Gathering, except for the young man in gray clothes, he was in the sixth level of Qi Gathering, When the other five realized who the young man next to them, they were confused, because the James Clan would not send a core disciple only to perform a recruitment test? Although they had their doubts, they did not ask, they only exchanged a few words of courtesy before going to the city gates.This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    There was a newly appointed chief knight standing there waiting to receive them.


    The golden-armored Elder was very dissatisfied with this arrangement and asked: "why has the king not attended to received us personally?"


    The chief knight was a little scared at the sight of this old man, He was just a martial artist at the seventh level of body refinement seeing the dissatisfied elder he replied "Dear sir, You must know what has happened these past few days in the kingdom, it''s not that the king is not willing to receive you personally but he went into seclusion two days ago, leaving the Prime Minister in charge of everything, I was ordered to personally escort the representatives to the palace, where the Prime Minister awaits for your presence and will to give an explanation which satisfies everyone."


    It was not only the old man in golden armor who was dissatisfied with the king''s treatment, but the rest felt the same, only the old man from the royal palace expressed his thoughts before them, But when they heard the chief knight words, They gave him an opportunity to explain everything, if they did not give them a reasonable explanation, they did not care to kill a few people, to be respected and not to underestimate their respective sects.


    The knight, seeing that they agreed to follow him to the palace, could not help sighing in relief. Then he guided them on the most direct path to the palace.


    Thanks to their speed they arrived after a few minutes at the palace, where they directly entered and reached the throne hall, but instead of the king, there was the prime minister waiting for their reception.


    Upon seeing them enter, Frey made a small bow towards them. "He apologizes for the lack of hospitality that the kingdom has given them also asked for their forgiveness as in these past few days the kingdom has been through many changes that are difficult to solve."


    The woman dressed in Blue asked: "What changes?"


    Frey did not get angry at that attitude but only smiled" I imagine that those present here know about the purge which took place in the past few days"


    When he said that the others in the room nodded, they knew what had happened, but they did mind it because all the dead were criminals or corrupt. So they silently accepted the king''s actions.


    "But I imagine that many do not know what caused that series of actions"


    Again they nodded, for them, this was too sudden, it was as if it had not even been planned.


    "To tell the truth this was not planned, two weeks ago the queen was kidnapped along with the first prince, because of that the king began to search every nook and cranny of kingdom, we can say that what happened was only collateral damage, but later we found out that The whole family of the queen was kidnapped, So the king has entered seclusion to cultivate and gain strength all to rescue his wife and son "


    That was the official story being told, but the real story was that the wife abandoned her husband and when he found out he locked himself in his room, started crying, drinking alcohol and singing songs of spite, Frey could not tell the truth, he did not have the face to do it, so he said a little lie.


    The six representatives did not believe anything the prime minister said, they could see through his lies easily and guess what really happened, that created an uncomfortable atmosphere, Frey did not speak and neither did the representatives. Until finally the woman dressed in yellow spoke, praising the king''s courage to train hard to rescue his wife.


    After that the atmosphere relaxed a lot, they started to talk about the recruitment, they decided it would be tomorrow at dawn, if the interested parties were late, they will not have the right to take the tests. With that, Frey told some servants to prepare the best rooms in the palace for the guests, so they finished the meeting, but at that moment the only young representative said: "Excuse me Prime Minister, would it be ok if make a request"


    The other five representatives and Frey were somewhat curious about what this young man would ask, will he ask a young woman to warm his bed?


    "Of course, you can make any request, and if it''s possible to comply, we will fulfill it." Frey did not think much, as even if he asked for a woman, he could easily fulfill that request.


    But the words he spoke were an eye-opener for everyone: "This, I just want to spend some time with my sister, I do not know if it is possible, What do you think? Prime Minister" asked Joseph

 Chapter 25: Uncomfortable

    When they heard those words, both Frey and the other representatives were speechless. A core disciple of the James Clan has a sister residing in the Alba Kingdom?


    "Sir, if your sister is in the kingdom we will definitely find her for you" Frey spoke calmly but inside he was somewhat chaotic. If something had happened to his sister, then Alba kingdom would be ruined. So no matter what, He would do everything in his means to bring his sister safe and sound.


    "Hahaha, Mr. Prime Minister, you do not need to look for her all over the kingdom, I know where she is." Joseph had a friendly smile as he spoke, with that Frey could let a sigh of relief.


    "Where is she? I will send an escort to bring her to the palace immediately", Frey will take this opportunity to meet his sister and be able to offer her protection hereafter, So in the future, he can avoid any problems from Joseph and even own a favor to the Kingdom.


    "I am looking for the ninth concubine, so don''t be worried about the escort." When Joseph said those words Frey put on a bewildered face, He could not believe what he had just heard and asked: "You are the brother of the ninth concubine?"


    Joshep only smiled, while making a small bow, According to the Nobel customs of the continent "I should be addressed as Joseph Webber heir of duke Webber, I apologize to the Prime Minister for my lack of wisdom on my part."


    He is the first son of Duke Webber!, In addition to that, he is a core disciple of the James Clan, Although the title of Duke did not worth much outside the Snow Kingdom, the status of core disciple is completely different. They were the most talented of the younger generation, Besides they are those who have the greatest chance to become the next generation of Great Elders, Supreme Elders and among them, one will choose as the next sect head of their respective sect.


    Nobody would dare to make an enemy of them in the South Region!


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    So when Frey heard those words he was speechless, he knew that the ninth concubine had an older brother but he did not know that he was a core disciple of the James Clan. When the king married the ninth concubine he asked for information regarding her whole family and their background but the information provided by his assistants did not say anything about her brother being from a sect in the southern region.


    An error? Such an important issue was never an error it should be sabotaged by someone, with that in mind he decided that once things were finished here, he will interrogate the assistants, "So you are the brother of the ninth concubine lady Anna, you should have said so, Guards accompany Mr. Webber to his sister''s residence, we should not delay their family reunion any longer. "


    "I am very grateful for answering my request", With that, he exchanged some polite words with the others in the hall and under the direction of the guards he proceeded in the direction of his sister''s residence.


    It now made sense to the representatives as to why the James clan sent a core disciple, but there was one representative who had an ugly face. The golden-armored old man from the Royal Palace, as the king of Alba kingdom forbidden all the nobles of the kingdom from joining the Royal Palace, when the sect master of Royal palace found out about this matter he was furious, so much so that the old man was ordered to decapitate that king and bring his head, originally he planned to do it tonight before the tests, but now that the king had as a brother-in-law who''s a core disciple, it became nigh impossible to finish his mission, if he can join hands with the other five present representatives then he can do something to them, except he alone, so he could not do anything but grit his teeth and retire to his room.


    His priority, for now, was to recruit disciples even if they were plebeians as it was better than nothing, just thinking about the punishment he will be given when he returns, made him dejected, but it is better than being dead. After a few words, the other representatives also said their goodbye. Leaving Frey alone in the hall, So he told the guards to bring the assistants.


    After a few minutes, two middle-aged men arrived. These two men looked calm, they thought that their boss had called to run some errands for him.


    "Do you have any assignments for us?" The two said at the same time as they made a small bow.


    "No, actually I had some questions which I would like you two to clarify" When they heard those words the two men were confused, what questions can their boss wanted them to beget? One of the two stepped forward "As long as it is within my knowledge I will answer" for him it was an opportunity to prove himself and get a good impression on his boss so he took advantage of it.


    Seeing this, Frey laughed inside, "haha, I think it''s in your knowledge, you just have to tell me why did Miss Anna''s profile, did not mention any important information regarding her brother as I just found out that he a core disciple of James clan of the southern region" while saying that Frey stroked his beard while smiling softly, if one looked at him, he would think he was a generous Elder who would not hurt a fly.


    But for this pair of men, Those words made their faces turn black, Their face full of calm now looked sour, the one who said before, that he would answer all the questions was in an uncomfortable position, he did not want to answer that question, but as he already spoken those words, so he did not know what to do.

 Chapter 26: News

    During these last few weeks nothing changed for the ninth concubine and company, Except for Audrey who forced Alexander to go to the bathroom instead of wearing diapers, She no longer wanted to wash them, Thus under threats of being beaten, Alexander obeyed the maid.


    They did not care that the queen and the first prince had disappeared, They never had any contact in the first place, so when they disappeared nothing changed for them, in these last few days the palace has been quite a mess, Several of other concubines have gone to "comfort" the king at night except for one, The ninth concubine.


    For her, the only good thing that her husband gave her was her son, she did not owe him anything, and even if she was exiled from the palace, she would just go along with her son and Audrey to her parents'' house. With that in mind, she treated the king as if he did not exist. and did not attend to "comfort" him. and did as she wanted, nobody came to bother her, if not quite the opposite. The other concubines were happy to have less competition in the quest to "comfort" the king because some of them still did not bear any children with the king!


    Normally the queen monopolized the king and almost did not let him have any relations with other concubines. Only a few concubines bore children, but now that she was gone, now only the third concubine remained who held an advantage over the others, but she was a human and had her limits, so she had no choice but to let the others also had contact with the king as she did not know when the king could come out from his depression.


    Returning to the present, outside the room of the ninth concubine, light footsteps were heard. then the voice of a maid sounded: "Excuse me, ninth lady, you have visitors, they are waiting in the guest room." normally they knocked on the door and entered the room but the ninth lady gave the order that aside from Audrey no one can enter her room. So she had relined to informing her from outside the door.


    When Anna heard that, she could not help but be confused, she had no friends in the Alba Kingdom so no one would come to visit her, it would have to be someone from the Snow Kingdom, so she answered the maid to tell the guest that she would visit them in a few minutes, After a few moments she left the room with Alexander in her arms along Audrey, she could not leave her son alone in the palace, as she did not know what would happen.


    When they reached the hall, both women saw a young man sitting on a couch drinking tea while turning his head to see them when he saw them he just smiled and said "haha, How long it''s been, little sister, I guess he must be my nephew"Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings.


    Anna was incredulous at what she was seeing, she has not seen her brother for more than six years but he looked exactly the same as he did back then, in fact, he looked a little younger!


    Alexander looked at him with confusion like a normal baby would but inside he was somewhat shocked, he could see that the cultivation of this young man was on the sixth stage of the Realm of Qi Gathering, to think that his mother could have a relative like that?, the safest thing is that she does not know the cultivation of her brother. It was the good thing that he told Audrey to tell my mother to keep everything a secret even from her relatives. Behind his brother may be someone powerful but greedy so there is a possibility for his uncle''s backer to betray him when he discovers about my secret and harm me and my family to increase his longevity.


    After Anna saw her brother she jumped with joy without caring about Alexander who was still in her hands, this brother always spoiled her way too much, always giving her gifts and fulfilling every whim so she holds a very special place in her heart for her brother, "Brother how come you are here, you didn''t even tell your little sister about your visit"


    "haha , calm down little sister or else you would hurt my nephew, come, sit down let''s talk about what happened in all these years, also you have not introduced me to my nephew" With that Joseph made a gesture with his hands to sit down, After they sat down Anna introduced her son and told him how she had spent all these past few years to her brother. When he heard about the king''s treatment to his sister, he was furious, but because he had to see the bigger picture and dependence of the Snow Kingdom of the Alba Kingdom, he could not do anything but grumble, but this brother-in-law had disappointed him. Anna seeing that her brother was struggling to control himself from going to beat her husband could not help but worry, so she changed the subject: "Brother, what brings you here?"


    Joseph calmed down and said: "Well I came on a mission from the Sect, I''m going to act as the representative of the James Clan in the recruitment that will be held tomorrow, you didn''t know?"


    "I knew about the recruitment, but I did not imagine my brother would come for such a small matter," said Anna.


    (Joseph) "haha, to tell the truth, if it was a normal situation I would have not came personally but as it was in the kingdom of Alba I decided to come to see you, I did not go to your wedding so I did not know what your life was like, I could not let my sister live poorly," said Joseph.


    Upon hearing that, Anna got a little sentimental so she could not help but remember the times they all spent together.


    Then Joseph gave her a shocking news: "Five years ago Helewise gave birth to a girl, but the most shocking news is that this year she passed the Clan tests and not only joined James clan but also became a direct disciple of the Supreme Elder."


    Of the six powers of the South Region, each had a supreme Elder, of whom two were women, one of them was of the James Clan while the other was of the Sea Palace, while the other four were men. These elders could choose disciples at will and they will be called Direct Disciples, Regardless of their cultivation, They would have a higher status than a core disciple!


    Having such a status no neighboring Kingdom would dare to attack the Snow Kingdom, so it not only ensures the prosperity of the kingdom but could also change the existing relations such as the relation between the Kingdom of the Sun with the Snow Kingdom.

 Chapter 27: Reward

    When Anna heard this news she could not help being happy for her sister, but when she remembered what the book said she involuntarily turned to see her son. According to what she had read in the book, her son would surpass those Supreme Elders, so imagining the faces of her family when they know it. she could not help but get excited, but she still had a poker face, her family should be kept in secret about her son''s talent, besides that she could not boast of the future only of the present if his secret revealed before the time they would be seeking death.


    Seeing his sister so thoughtful while looking towards her son, Joseph could not help but ask "What''s wrong?"


    "Nothing" Anna quickly recovered her senses and shook her head, It seemed a bit strange to Joseph but seeing his sister did not want to talk about the issue he did not question her. Her family reunion lasted several hours, Audrey was in charge of the food so she prepared lunch while Alexander got bored and as a good baby, he fell asleep. Joseph wanted Alexander to participate in the tests tomorrow, but Anna refused, Alexander was too small for it, and she could not be separated from him, saying so while seeing her son asleep on her legs, After that, they talked about some unimportant issues and Joseph retired to rest to his room which was prepared by Frey. Anna and Audrey returned with an asleep Alexander to their residence.


    While Anna had her family reunion Frey was in a bad mood, It turned out that the assistants were hiding information because of the Queen, She had brought the two or rather General Keer was the one who brought them, what angered him the most was that these two denied it at the beginning and They told him that he was hallucinating because of his age, so he sent these two men to the interrogation room, he could be nice but he was not stupid.


    When they saw that they were going to be tortured, they revealed the whole truth. It turned out that before they handed him the documents they were reviewed by the queen. Because of that, a lot of information did not reach the king and they also disclosed that the queen''s family has been diverting lots of funds from the state at will, So as the acting king ordered all the properties of the Keer family to be searched, the same thing happened with Alexander''s grandparents. When they found out about it, they got angry and agreed to search the properties but also confiscated them and turned them over now all the Keer family properties were owned by the royal family.


    When the king found out what they wanted to do, he refused to do so but after his father scolded him and was threatened with a beating, he had no choice but to accept their commands, in addition to being informed that the brother of the ninth concubine was a core disciple of the James Clan, which made his shocked still, but after remembering how he had treated his wife he knew that he had no chance to establish a good relationship with his brother-in-law, His wife was in a meeting with him so she must have been having told him all about the past few years, for the first time he felt a bit of hatred towards the queen. With that in mind he could only regret it and see if he could fix the situation with his wife, but he knew it was impossible.


    After they searched through all the properties of the Keer family, they found nothing incriminating but what they did find were large stacks of gold coins, jewelry, among other things of value from this you could see that the Keer family had been cheating the royal family for several years, Seeing this, they reviewed where this money should have gone and most should go to the poor in form of programs to improve the economy of the Kingdom. But the Keer family reported it as delivered and they grab it all.Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.


    All those involved in this scheme, including Frey''s assistants, were degraded to slaves and their descendants for three generations would be slaves to the service of the Kingdom, with that more than a thousand people were degraded to slaves, many of them were officers under General Keer, but none was spared, many pleaded but none was forgiven, and the Keer family was officially published as a criminal, accused of treason, and a reward of 100 gold coins was issued for each family members head, either living or dead, with the exception of the queen and the first prince they offered 500 gold coins but only alive.


    That news was only overshadowed by news of the recruitment from the sects which will be held tomorrow morning, but it also caused a stir among ordinary people. The Kingdom had not recovered from the purge but another had begun and this included General Keer, many people could not believe it. When the representatives found out about it, they could do nothing but shake their heads.


    This Kingdom was a disaster, but they knew that this disaster was necessary if they wanted to put it in order, so they did not say anything, everyone was watching everyone but at the same time they were suppressing themselves, if one said something about the situation, they used it as an excuse saying that a foreign power was using its influence to interfere in the internal affairs of the kingdom, This would displease the citizens of the Kingdom and this would make their sects look bad before recruitment and then the aspirants would not join their sects, so they sighed stayed in their rooms.


    When dawn arrived the next day, everyone in the capital city was awake even before dawn, and they went to the center of the city where the armored soldiers training camp was located now there is a huge stage constructed in the center of the grounds were the tests would be held, the elite soldiers of the kingdom were under the orders of the king to maintain public order during the sects recruitment, there would be tests carried out to enter the sects, all young people over five years and under twenty were excited, In their eyes you could see the longing and determination, they had come from all over the kingdom with the only aim to be chosen by the sects and become a disciple!


    During the previous night, many dreamed that they were chosen by the sects and they became powerful warriors then nobody could underestimate them.


    While they were arriving at the camp they could hear murmurs


    "Haha, see how I join the Gray Clan, they told me that their disciples are the strongest"


    "You''re dreaming, they all say that the holy land of the southern region is the Martial City "


    ¡°They will see, I will go to the Sea Palace and I will find beautiful mermaids for my enjoyment"


    "You are an idiot the sirens do not exist, and If the sea palace is your choice then they are in for a mental retardation all because of you"


    "have you heard, they say that the representative of the James clan is a very handsome young man, I will definitely join them, "said a young lady with longing.


    A muscular young man heard that "You women do not notice the most important thing"


    "Yes, good men may not be handsome but they have a good heart"


    "Hey idiot who said it was the heart, I said the muscles, every respected man have muscles, because of that I join the Iron Castle "


    Thousands of people spoke at the same time after that six people came to the training camp stage, One of them took a step forward and shouted: "Silence, the tests officially begin"

 Test

    "The test is divided into two parts, first part going to be the bone test, all those present must be at least five years old and less than twenty years old, If any of those present do not meet these requirements, they must withdraw and not lose waste our time "With those words only a few among the thousands withdrew, they did not think they would be conducting bone test to find out the original age but they were wrong. Due to the fear of making the representatives angry, they left without expecting anything else.


    Seeing that the six representatives could do nothing but shake their heads since they came to this kingdom they had their hands tied, then he continued: "The second test is gonna be the traditional talent to find your potential talent, many of you have not been through this test so this day you will all have the opportunity "


    While saying that all the representatives took out a sphere the size of their palm, "These spheres are better than those found in the market, they are made especially by people of our sects who have incorporated the bone test and the talent test into one sphere to be used for the recruitment,"


    then the assistants placed six pedestals in front of the representatives, the representatives placed the spheres on the pedestals, They sat in front of the pedestals and the person in charge said: "Now, form a row in front of the sects representatives according to the sect you wish to join, if the sphere does not react to you it can only mean that your bone age does not meet the previous requirements, then by depending on the brightness, the representative will say if you pass or not."


    This test was not normally so superficial, but due to the short time that the representatives had and the pressure of the high commands, they had no choice but to measure their innate talent and wait for the best, only that these spheres were special, They could also measure if the bodies have an affinity towards some element, which was important for the sects, for example, if one had an affinity with fire he could have talent in alchemy! and these alchemists they are crucial for every sect.


    Heeding the instructions, thousands of people formed a line in six rows, hoping to join the sect of their dreams. Not long after, the voices of the representatives were heard.


    "Fail"


    "Fail"


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    "Fail"


    "Pass"


    "Pass"


    So thousands of people were evaluated by the representatives, the majority was rejected by the powers, many of them could only go with their heads down and continue with their lives, while those who were accepted, wept for joy and ran to their homes to tell the good news, After half an hour the field full of people was only at half capacity, when a lady with a child of five years surrounded by guards approached the field.


    While they were approaching, the elite guards made way for them all the way to the platform.


    One person recognized them "Look that''s the third concubine and the second prince"


    Many of them could already see that they are here for the test so they gave their place to the prince, they could only wait for there turn once again, then a voice was heard: "haha, Sister Joanna, I have not seen you for a long time"


    When everyone turned to see who the voice was from, they were surprised to find that it was from the woman in the blue dress! She was the one representing the Sea Palace. how come she knew the third concubine?


    "Hi, Sister Alice, I have not seen you for a long time" Saying that, she waved her hands while politely greeting the other representatives, then Alice left her post and approached the third concubine, but before she could speak the third concubine said: "Sister Alice, sorry for having not greeted you yesterday, you should know more or less how the situation in the Kingdom should be."


    "Do not worry, Joanna, it''s more or less you should have many things on your hands, I imagine you are here for your son to take the test, are you interested in entering the Sea Palace? " Saying that her eyesight focused on the boy who was next to the concubine. This child, despite being seen by her, did not flinch, which gave Alice a good impression.


    "If it''s ok sister Alice, I hope that my son can enter the Sea Palace" As far as she knew her father had several contacts within the Sea palace unlike the other sects, so it would be easier if her son came into that sect, Besides that the ninth concubine''s family had connections in the James Clan so that was discarded same for the Royal Palace for obvious reasons and the martial city where the queen''s family had power, that only left the Gray Clan, Iron Castle, and the Sea palace, so it was easy to choose.


    "Haha, it''s for a good sister then why not, but your son will have to pass the test like everyone else" When they heard those words many knew that they were just empty words, since everyone had heard that the second prince was talented, This woman just wanted to pretend to be fair but everyone including the representatives rolled their eyes but said nothing.


    "Sure, it can not be otherwise" Following the woman dressed in blue, she and her son went to the pedestal of Sea Palace, the other representatives stopped their activities, They wanted to know the result of the second prince, "Nathaniel, Go and place your hand on the sphere"


    "Yes, mother," With that the boy separated from his mother and went in front of the sphere, Right after touching the sphere, nothing happened, even after a few seconds still Nothing happened, This confused everyone, The second prince has no talent ? Even the woman dressed in blue felt somewhat uncomfortable, Just when she was going to speak something happened to the sphere, The sphere began to shine, it was a light blue that little by little began to shine more and more, until the sphere broke.


    When the Woman in blue saw this, she took a piece of jade from her clothes and crushed it, She was shocked, she did not think this could happen here, While Joseph had his eyes wide open, because something similar happened a few days ago in the Snow Kingdom with his niece, it could only mean that the second prince has a talent similar to that of his niece and will become a Direct Disciple at the Sea Palace.


    The confused child, not knowing what it was that he had just done, turned to see Alice and asked: "Did I pass the test?"

 interesting

    Sea Palace, Cesoria Kingdom


    A middle-aged man walked down the corridor stopped in front of a large door then knocked gently hearing the knock a voice sounded come in, inside the room was a man with an air of a master sitting at his desk immerse in his work.


    seeing this the middle-aged man said "sect master, elder Alice has broken her Jade token thus informing us that she found a disciple with high potential talent"


    "Really? Who would have thought that we''ll find such a talent in the Alba Kingdom, That''s a relief," replied the man at the desk, he the current Sect master of the Sea Palace, Nicholas. then he ordered "Send some elders to guide him towards the palace, we can not let anything happen to him at any cost"


    "I understand master, I''ve already made arrangements for him to be picked up by the inner elders to be escorted to the sect. and also, sect master I have heard some rumors about the Supreme elders of other sects having received direct disciples is it true?" asked the elder


    Hearing that question, Nicholas stopped what he''s doing, walked towards the shelf where the liquors were stored and poured himself a glass of wine, "It''s true, the supreme elders have accepted direct disciples, each one of these disciples are talents that have the ability to overcome the cultivation realm of supreme elders and reach the Elemental realm, with it we can stop being a desolate land," When he said those words you could hear his determination in his voice.


    when the elder heard those words he was very excited just thinking about it, When a desolate land becomes a mortal country of 5th grade, It would gain several rights that it did not have before, As for example within the Kingdom branches of several important guilds such as blacksmith, array and alchemy guild will be established as well as having the right to participate in activities organized by mortal countries of 3rd grade With that, local powers can develop further and consolidate their standing in the kingdom.


    Currently, there are countless Kingdoms and Empires within the southern region, but only a few are categorized as a Mortal country. You could say that all southern region is categorized as desolate land! Powers like them are very common in the Mortal countries but due to the distances between them, they had almost no interaction between them, the closest powers were the Six Sects that ordinary people knew, but they have never seen the immensity of the continent, so they have not seen how many powers exist in the South Region!


    Seeing the happiness of the elder, Nicholas said: "Solomon, They only have the possibility, nothing is certain in this life, Now reports the good news to the Supreme elder"This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there.


    "Yes" With that, Solomon turned around and left.


    Normally an inner elder would take more than a month to get from the Cesoria Kingdom to the Alba Kingdom but since this was an important situation, the elders used two Blood Eagles demonic beasts which were half a step away from the Elemental Realm. normally the sect master, the supreme elders, and the great elders were the only ones qualified to use them but this time there was an exception. With this, the elders could arrive in Alba kingdom in just three days.


    In the Alba Kingdom, after the Second Prince''s concluded his test, the other representatives showed their envy for the Sea palace but did not dare to do anything else. They knew that if they did something they would be persecuted by the Sea Palace and their sects would abandon them to avoid a War, and they would gain nothing and lose everything, They were not fools who sacrifice themselves for their sects, So they congratulated Alice for finding a great disciple for her sect and then they continued with their recruitment.


    Although they did not manage to recruit a talent such as the second prince, their harvest was still good, They gave a day to all the recruits to say their goodbyes to their families in the kingdom and left the next day when the sun was at its highest. Joseph said goodbye to his sister and left for the James Clan along with his recruits.


    The only person who stayed in the Alba Kingdom was Alice the Elder of the Sea Palace, When she explained the situation to the King and the third concubine they were very euphoric, Even the king forgot a little about the queen, The whole royal family was celebrating the entrance of the second prince to the Sea Palace and not only that but there was the possibility that he would be accepted as a direct disciple under the tutelage of the Supreme elder of sect!


    All were present at the banquet, many nobles had come to congratulate the couple, Except for the ninth concubine, Apparently the third gave orders not to invite her and the king gave a silent approval by not saying anything about that order, Some people were disgusted with such treatment but did not say anything, instead they did not attend the banquet as was Frey and Alexander''s grandparents, among the male grandchildren their favorite was Alexander, He was different from the other two who always looked at the others people as inferior beings, they even treated their fellow siblings as such, as for Alexander he''s quite obedient and treated his sisters well. So they had a good impression of this grandchild, and when he was treated less by his son, They got angry.


    But the king was too euphoric about it so he did not give any importance to the actions of his father and Frey, Anna for her part did not care because she knew of the hidden talent her son held, even if the second prince was a disciple of a supreme elder , she was confident that her child will be able to overcome it in the future. and when he does, that trash king will regret treating his son as such.


    Two days later the envoys of the Sea Palace arrived to accompany the second prince, After congratulating the king and the third concubine, They requested to stay for a day so that the Eagles could rest, The king happily granted their request and the next day the second prince said goodbye to his parents while riding the Eagle with the envoys, by his side Alice and the other recruits returned by land to the palace, But as she was the one who had recruited the second prince, When she returned she will be duly rewarded. thinking that she along with the group of new disciples accelerated there pace.


    What nobody noticed was that not too far away from them by the window of the residence of the ninth concubine a baby was watching the eagles that left with a smile on his face, It was as if he saw a new toy which he always wanted, For him this was very funny, he could not avoid murmuring: "This is interesting, I wonder if the future will be even more interesting"


    After that, a female voice was heard inside the room: "Alexander, where are you?" Hearing that the baby involuntarily quivered and returned inside the room.

 I will give you a lesson

    Three years later


    A five-year-old boy was practicing a series of postures. If people saw him, they would be shocked by the child''s cultivation. Despite his young age, his cultivation is already at the third stage of body refinement he''s Alexander who supposed to be 5 years and 1 month old right now and he started his cultivation when he''s 5 years old under the "tutelage" of his mother who "taught" him the Six animal forms technique. so to say he cultivated to this stage just under 1 month! this speed of cultivation was never heard before in the whole desolate continent.


    In all these years since the first prince disappeared and the second prince accepted into the Sea Palace, some fortuitous things have happened in the palace.


    His mother has advanced to the peak of the eighth stage of body refinement very close to the ninth stage, while Audrey was at the peak of the ninth stage! right now she the most powerful martial artist in the whole kingdom including Alexander''s grandparents, speaking about them, They recently found a note with a couple of tips that helped them breakthrough their bottleneck and entered the eighth stage of body refinement, They were happy when they did, but they did not stay content with that and followed the advice in the note to keep moving forward. the note said that they lacked basis, therefore, they again cultivated from the very beginning, with strange postures that are detailed in the letter.


    In the letter, it was said that they were forbidden to pass this technique to anyone including their son, due to the fact that they were disappointed by their son''s behavior also their fear of offending the expert behind the note they obeyed what was written in it.


    While his father the king managed to advance to the seventh stage of body refinement, all thanks to the help of the Sea Palace who sends potions and pills to the royal family most of which goes to him and the third concubine, while the leftovers he gives them to others. This angered Alexander too much so he taught Audrey some movement techniques and ordered her to steal everything the Sea Palace will send to the palace.


    Thanks to her cultivation and the direction from Alexander, Audrey''s actions perceived to be done by a professional thief without any comparison in the Alba Kingdom and now hidden inside the room of the ninth concubine were many potions and pills that were once belonged to the king, This infuriated the king greatly but he didn''t have the face to say "Hey, someone stole all the pills and potions you sent me, so send me more" So he could only suffer in silence. its been three years since Frey retired from the post of prime minister, and the new prime minister is still inexperienced which left the king somewhat busy. So he did not have enough time or resources to investigate who the thief was.This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.


    While Frey, Despite his old age, began to cultivate, Alexander had a good impression of him, so he helped him from the shadows, In only three years he had advanced to the fourth stage of body refinement, which for many was an amazing feat.


    and last but not least, Alexander was now a big brother! About a year ago the fourth prince and fifth prince were born, as well as the fourth princess. The Princes'' mothers did not want them to interact much with Alexander so they would not let them see him, on the other hand, the mother of the fourth princess knew how Alexander was with his other sisters so she let Alexander play with her daughter.


    Because the concubines were no longer poisoned, the talents of the Fourth and Fifth princes were higher than those of Alexander, Even the Fourth Princess was more talented than all her sisters, so their mothers saw that they were likely to have a chance to the throne, and the rest is history, Alexander could only sigh and focused on himself, not caring about his brothers, at least he tried, but the mothers of fourth and fifth prince did not let him.


    As for his sisters, he will always be there for them, they treat him well and without hidden motives. So he did not see anything wrong with that. In fact, he gave them hints that helped them in their cultivation but they never suspected him.


    Returning to the present, Alexander had been constantly slowing down his cultivation speed, if not, with the talent he currently possesses he could easily cultivate ten times faster, but due to his past life experience, he decided to refine and re-refine his body for a stronger foundation. After finishing his training he grabbed a towel and wiped his sweat.


    But the next movement, the door opened violently, shortly after two women entered, at first glance you could see how angry they were.


    Alexander made a worried and face ran towards them: "Mother, what happened? Why are you so angry?" Seeing her son''s worried face, Anna''s face became gentle, but all she said was not to worry and that It was a small matter. After that she retired to rest while Audrey followed behind her, Alexander could not do anything but wait for Audrey to fill him in later, If someone dared to threaten his mother, they will pay a thousand times worse.


    So he waited for the night, When two shadows meet together one being Alexandr and the other Audrey, "What happened today why has my mother been so angry?" asked Alexander.


    "It has to do with the third concubine," said Audrey


    When Alexander heard what she said some murderous intent arose from his eyes," tell me the details."


    Audrey had not yet got used to his murderous intent, for he was too scary, she could only deduce that this young master has killed many people. after he calmed down a little she continued "Today in the afternoon, Miss Anna went to ask the king for an increase in her monthly allowance to buy more resources for you, but we were unlucky when we went to speak with the king, the third concubine was also present, after we requested the Increase, she said a few words to the king and the king not only did not increase our monthly allowance but decreased it and then made us leave from his office" Audrey for her part, just by remembering such humiliation, made her blood boil, she wanted to go and give the king a good beating.


    Alexander for his part was furious, this man dared to treat his mother like that. "Well, very good, haha it seems that this couple needs to be taught a lesson to let them know the consequences for treating someone important to me like that"

 Chapter 31: Theory

    This couple dared to treat his mother like that. "Well, very good, haha it seems that this couple needs to be taught a lesson to let them know the consequences for treating someone important to me like that"


    "It''s time to break my old man''s legs", when Audrey heard that, she could not believe it, he was talking about breaking his father''s legs!


    seeing Audrey face Alexander said, "why are making that face? if he wants me to treat him like my father, first he needs to treat me as his son."


    "As for that woman, She responsible for cutting down our allowance, So we have to make them pay for it, we also going to target her father. Isn''t he very rich, we can pay him a visit to empty his coffers.


    when she heard that Audrey was confused so she asked: "why do we need to go for her father?"


    Alexander replied "have you not heard that parents need to pay for their child''s deeds so we gonna collect our allowance from his coffers along with some interest"


    Audrey still deliberated, When he saw this, Alexander said: "Audrey, you know what would happen if I were not my mother''s son," Audrey began to think but before she could speak Alexander continued: "Dead, That''s how it would end, her son would not have any possibility to take the throne, It''s something that he lost even before he was born due to dirty tricks, She would be suppressed by all and even Alexander would be intimidated by his younger brothers, what happened today would only be the beginning, You may think that, as her sister is the queen of The Snow kingdom no one will harm her(Anna) but you haven''t taken into account that for political reasons the King (Of Snow Kingdom) may end up sacrificing her(Anna), You have to understand that nobles move only for benefits, Even if the queen wants to do something, she can''t go against her husband decision or she would be frowned upon by people of her Kingom, as far as her father and brother, even they would have their hands tied for obvious reasons "


    When she heard that Audrey had an ugly face since Mrs. Anna''s life was linked to his so what Alexander said was valid, So she didn''t doubt his reasoning anymore, she put a serious face and asked: "What we do?"


    "For now nothing, that old man has too much money so he must have several people at the peak of the ninth stage of body refinement as his guards, In addition to more than one in the Realm of Qi Gathering as his personal bodyguards who stays by his side at all times, at present, neither of us can do anything to him."A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.


    "Then we will attack the King first and then later we go for father of the third concubine?" (Audrey)


    "No, the two attacks must take place on the same night, how long it''s been since you reached the peak of the ninth level?" asked Alexander.


    "Three months ago" (Audrey)


    "How do you feel about your foundation?" (Alexander)


    "Better than ever" (Audrey)


    Alexander reflected on it and said:" Three months should be enough to have a stable base, Audrey I think it''s time for you to take the last step."


    Audrey was thrilled "advance to the Realm of Qi Gathering! haha finally after a long time I can advance" After spending so much time with Alexander she knew that there were higher Realms, but her young master always told her to slow down the more she wanted to advance to the next realm, if it were not for the fear of angering the young master she would have looked for how to advance three months ago, so she obeyed the young master and strengthened her foundation. But just when she was being happy Alexander said: "it''s not yet time for you to advance to Realm of Qi Gathering."


    Audrey did not understand what her young master meant, he said it''s time for her to take the next step then if it was not for the Realm of qi Gathering, then what? Before she could even speak Alexander continued: "Audrey, do you know why there are only nine levels in each Realm?"


    after thinking for a while Audrey shook her head, Alexander continued: "I do not know either, but I can tell you something, The Realm of body refinement and Qi Gathering have more than nine levels, Listen this is a theory that I come to after a long time of investigation, According to what the ancient texts say there are three levels above the ninth level,


    The tenth stage is known as "whole being," In this level, the whole body is connected from the pores to the internal organs, doing this you should be able to feel the qi without the need to have a great perception,


    the eleventh stage is known as "Purification," once the body is connected, instead of using your meridians to absorb Qi, you will use your pores to absorb the Qi nourishing your body,


    and finally, the twelveth stage is known as "the opening," with the Qi accumulated in your flesh you will open your meridians one by one, with this you will be able to Unlock all one hundred and eight acupuncture points. Compared to only the seventy-two that can be opened in the traditional way "Alexander after finishing what he wanted to say, saw the expressions of Audrey, this was the first time since the heavens and the earth were born that someone changed the established cultivation system! contrary to what he thought Audrey was not shocked but curiously asked "Young master, how do I enter the tenth stage?"


    Upon hearing that question Alexander wanted to cry, (here I''m changing the whole cultivation system. would it kill her if she gives me a couple of praises? It took me over a thousand years to discover this, I deserve some recognition but she just wanted to know how to do it, without even asking what led me to that conclusion) he barely calmed his emotions and suffered in silence, putting on a serious face and said: "I warn you, I do not know if someone else has successfully done it before, so it''s May lead to your death, so think twice, as even I haven''t tried it out"


    "Young master, I''m sure I want to enter the tenth stage" Audrey did not put much importance in her choice, She would not have come this far without the guidance of her young master, so she believed he would never do something which may harm her in any way. therefore she trusts him.


    Seeing this, Alexander nodded: "Okay, just let me put an Array to isolate the room, we do not want anything bad to happen"

 Chapter 32: Thank you

    Alexander proceeded to place an Isolation Array, with it even the strongest expert in a hundred thousand miles would not be able to perceive anything inside the Array, Then Alexander instructed Audrey: "With your current cultivation it must be easy to control every fiber of your being, what you have to do to get to the tenth level is to open all your pores at the same time while doing that you have to flex every muscle and internal organs as if you are breathing, shortly afterward accelerate your blood circulation, you have to control it perfectly and sync it with your breathing which helps to improve your senses momentarily and it will make it easier for you to feel Qi, I will also help you by putting an Array of Qi Gathering, which will gather Qi from the atmosphere collecting it inside the Array increasing the concentration Qi present in the Array."


    With that said, he made a small formation of one square meter inside the Isolation Array then instructed "Place yourself in a lotus position calm your mind and perform the method I just taught you, if you manage to feel the Qi begins to absorb it and guide it to every part of your body opening the acupuncture points I''m going to show you" he then touched several places on Audrey''s body showing her hundred and eight acupuncture points "Remember those points and guide your Qi to open those points in the same order I showed you." saying those words Alexander kept silent, Audrey nodded and placed herself in the middle of the formation, sitting in the lotus position, following Alexander''s instructions.


    By his side, Alexander was nervous. If Audrey died he would die too! So if he saw something wrong he would absolutely rescue Audrey, as this was a just a theory that he had not tried yet, therefore, it may or may not be correct.


    Audrey began to open her pores, then she contracted her muscles and internal organs and finally began to accelerate her blood circulation, at first she was very clumsy and her face showed signs of pain if she had not refined her body to this degree her heart would have already been in pieces! But after a few minutes she managed to do better, nothing changed until half an hour later, her body began to emit a slight glow and thin white threads began to gather all over her, When Alexander saw this he could not believe it! "She succeeded"


    After an hour, pops began to be heard coming from Audrey''s body, She was opening all the acupuncture points, When Alexander finished counting the sounds there were exactly 108! knowing what it means, Alexander was flabbergastered as Audrey overcame that which was called impossible.


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    Normally the number of acupuncture points which can be opened was limited to 72, no matter what it was deemed impossible to open all 108 Acupuncture points! There were legends saying that only three races could open all the 108 Points those being the dragon race, the God race and the demon race that too only of the royal blood can open all 108 points, It was also said that humans and other races with special bloodlines could also open all 108 points. but Alexander in all his previous life had never met anyone with a bloodline.


    It was said that those humans reached the Realm of the saints, such people would never be seen in a lower plane. with his theory being proven Alexander along with his talent can use this method to reach the realm of the Saints way faster than anyone ever had, just by thinking about this made him excited!


    Audrey by his side opened her eyes and could not believe how her body felt, compared to before she was as fragile as a branch but now she felt like a trunk, She examined her body from head to toe, without believing what was happening, Suddenly a voice came to her "How do you feel?"


    She stood up and said: "Young master, I feel great as if I''m twice as strong as before" replied Audrey.


    "I can imagine, normally an ordinary person can only unlock 8 acupuncture points, and the best cultivation techniques can only manage to unlock 72 but they are legendary techniques, if you a person who unlocked 108 points told me she is weak then there are no strong in this world, You know in my past life I could only unlock 36 acupuncture points haha "Said Alexander in tone of self mocking.


    When Audrey heard that she knew how valuable this method was it was something that even the legendary cultivation techniques could not accomplish, knowing this she was very grateful to her young master, She was only a servant but he has entrusted this miraculous method to her, it was more than what she could ever gain in her whole life, so she could not help but kneel and said "Thank you very much, young master"


    "It''s nothing. If you have not yet noticed, my mother treats you like a family. I do not know how you see her but for my mother you are someone who is indispensable in her life, You could also say that you are like my disciple, in my previous life I never had one so it''s a very interesting experience by having you, if you really want to thank me then protect my mother when I am not present haha" When Audrey heard those words she could not help but cry, She knew that the nobles usually treat their servants as property and discard them when they are no longer useful, many of them were slaves bought by the nobles, So people would not say anything even if they were killed by their masters.


    This was the case for Audrey, She was a slave bought by the duke''s house when she was young, She was trained to serve Miss Anna, before meeting her, she prayed that it would be a good master and her prayers did not disappoint her, she was treated very well for a servant, Besides having good food, almost the same as Miss Anna, and now even her son was teaching her how to be a powerful cultivator, At one point she remembered the promise of a two-year-old baby he said that no one on this continent would ever dare to disrespect her even if she was his servant.


    At that time she did not take it seriously, but now, she realized that those words can be true, She was in debt to this pair of mother and son, They changed her destiny. she stood up clearing her tears and murmured: "Thank you"

 Chapter 33: False Cultivator

    Seeing Audrey like this, Alexander could not stand these sentimental scenes, so he gave her new instructions: "we still have a few hours until dawn so take advantage of the Qi Gathering formation and make your way to the Realm of Gathering Qi"


    Audrey nodded obediently, Alexander followed: "In this realm, one must sense the Qi, then absorb it guiding it towards the acupuncture points opening them one by one while filling these point with Qi then proceed to the next one. This process may take a few months to a few years to open and fill the corresponding acupuncture point depending on the cultivation technique, normally the cultivators first open the acupuncture points of the palm of their hands and use them to reach the thorax and the rest of their body. although you skipped this step and opened all 108 points previously you still have some obstructions left in your channels. it will be much easier for you clear all your channels and it takes you even less time compared to others but you should not neglect this process and clear your Acupuncture points clean. so that you will not face any problems in the circulation of your Qi and have a stronger foundation."


    having listened to what her young masters instruction Audrey sat down again in the Array and put her hands in front of her chest palms facing each other, after a few moments a ball of Qi began to appear between her palms, Audrey began to move her hands in the form of yin-yang controlling the Qi gathering between her palms while a few strands of Qi began to enter her palms clearing all the obstructions in her channels and filling up her acupuncture points. after a few hours Audrey opened her eyes full of emotion, she finally reached the realm of Qi gathering!


    "Do not get too excited, do you know what is the other name of the Realm of Qi Gathering?" Alexander said emotionlessly, he did not want Audrey to settle down from a small achievement, Audrey when she heard that question she shook her head, "They are called Fake Cultivators" answered Alexander.


    but when she heard his response she was struck dumb and asked involuntarily "Why?"


    "For three reasons, the first is that they can not use their Qi properly, Second: when they use it they will lose it forever and they will have to re-cultivate to recover it, and third: they use the most impure Qi that exists in the atmosphere called the mundane Qi, if you compare it with the spiritual Qi, the mundane Qi is garbage."


    The Qi in this world is divided into two, the mundane Qi and the spiritual Qi, One was used at the beginning of cultivation because one could not feel nor could their body withstand the force of spiritual Qi. Mundane Qi was something that only the lower cultivators would use, This southern region has a decent amount of mundane Qi but Only a thin layer of spiritual Qi, Because of that, it was not strange that there were no cultivators in the Elemental Realm in the whole region, When one makes his way to that Realm he has to convert all his mundane Qi into spiritual qi, when they have converted fifty percent of their mundane Qi to spiritual Qi they are known as half a step elemental Realm cultivators, After converting all their Qi to the spiritual Qi, one must gather all the accumulated Qi and impact his dantian to form the Qi Sea and formally enter Elemental Realm.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.


    Alexander explained everything to Audrey, who understood that her achievement was not worth much in the eyes of the true experts, seeing that the night was almost over, Alexander could only sigh: "The dawn is upon us, my mom does not take long to wake up so lets stop our section for today and take some rest. we also need to resolve the funds So, Audrey, have you or rather my mom not thought about starting a business? We should currently have enough funds to open more than one store in the capital, so present this idea to my mother and I''ll take care of everything else, if you need more funds then sell what we stole from my old man, they should at least worth a couple thousand gold coins" Saying that he went to his bed, while Audrey nodded and proceed to think of a plan to convince Anna to go along with this idea. Although she had not slept, she did not feel tired as she was no longer a normal person but a cultivator in the Realm of Qi Gathering!


    The next day Anna was still angry When Audrey presented an idea If the king does not want to give them any more funds then why not set up there own business and earn their own wealth? Anna loved that idea so she planned to open a clothing store for Ladies, as she knew a lot about that, So they set everything in motion and started planning for their new venture.


    That''s how the days went by, during the day Alexander trained hard or he spent it with his sisters and grandparents, and at night he trains with Audrey, She and his mother spend all their time planning the opening of their store, so these days he hardly sees them. With the influence of Frey and his grandparents, the officials did not make things difficult for his mother so everything went smoothly.


    After a month, Audrey reached the third stage of the Realm of Qi Gathering, her speed was terrifying, It may take at least a year just to fill an acupuncture point for a normal cultivator but it was very easy for her, if the elders of the southern powers saw this scene they would die of shame, meanwhile Alexander advanced to the fourth stage of Realm of body refinement, his speed was even more terrifying than that of Audrey.


    Currently, Alexander did not have to worry about his safety, Audrey''s current strength was over 5420 Newton, During the Realm of Qi Gathering for each stage she earned more than a thousand newtons of strength! Adding the extra twenty percent from the six animal forms technique, and the fact that her strength doubled after purifying her flesh with Qi, This gave her the strength of a fifth stage Qi Gathering cultivator. which is two stages above her current cultivation, with her strength only the High commanders of the nearby powers would be able to compete with Audrey so with her by their side neither he nor his mother would face any problems.


    Late at night, two shadows approached a certain store inside a commercial street in the Capital City.


    "is this the store?" (Alexander)


    "Yes, Young Master, Miss Anna closed the deal a few days ago, But I found something suspicious for it was so easy and without any competition, as this store is in an excellent location, I think it''s a trap" (Audrey)


    "haha, It''s certainly is a trap, but they made a mistake by not anticipating me in there equation, It''s time to remodel the store and after I''m done with that, I want to see what kind of tricks they have under their sleeve, No matter what scheme they play they will not succeed." (Alexander)

 Chapter 34: This is common

    The next day.


    In the backyard of a luxurious mansion inside the capital of the Alba Kingdom, There was an old man downed in golden clothes sitting at a table drinking tea, One would think that it is only silk dyed in golden color but in reality, his clothes were made from weaving golden treads! he was none other than the richest man within the Alba Kingdom Walter Dunham father of the third concubine and grandfather to the second prince. Behind him were a couple of middle-aged men they were the managers in charge of many of the businesses owned by Walter''s from legitimate businesses to the shady deals they oversaw everything.


    Walter was known to be cruel to his competition, many of the small-scale merchants were only able to run their business from the crumbs left behind by Walter''s businesses at least that was the way before the purge but ever since the purge a few years ago, the Alba Kingdom market situation became very competitive, Walter lost many of his partners as well as nobles who were brought by him in the purge this caused him to lose much of the power he had accumulated throughout his time, many of the small-scale merchants united and managed to resist him successfully, This instability gave the opportunity for the neighboring merchants to enter their territory, one could say that nobody had a fixed market share anymore it changed every month. This could be the dream for consumers but for businessmen, it was a nightmare, they had no room for maneuver, One mistake and they can lose everything.


    These last few years had been a headache for Walter, he knew that if it was not for his daughter he would also have died during the purge so he can only accept the situation and wait as eventually there would be many opportunities to recover, after all now that his grandson was a disciple of the Sea Palace that to a direct disciple to the Supreme Elder as long as he grows up, with his support he could make his business return to the former glory but also grow to new heights, until then he only had to endure bidding his time.


    "How''s the plot going so far?" Walter asked one of the middle-aged men, That man replies "Everything gone according to our plan, the pawn has sold the property to the ninth concubine, she does not suspect anything, we''ll act today at midnight and proceed to the next step."


    "Very good, we can not be involved directly so we can only do this, after all, it is normal for a business to fail to hire the right security, now continue with your work" After that Walter stopped talking, the two men bowed and left in silence.


    In the palace, the ninth concubine was excited and could not wait until tomorrow for the grand opening of her store, also Anna had just received a gift from a mysterious person who she supposed was the same person who gave her the book because when she opened it she felt just as Mystical as with the book, This was a black metal box of cubic meter in size, According to the instructions on the note, one had to place the clothes inside the metal box for two minutes then remove it, by doing this the cloth would become very strong as metal but still as flexible as cloth, besides it did not matter how much you wash it will never lose its color and it will remain brand new. Anna at first hesitated but after trying it once following the instructions the fabric of the clothes gained incredible strength and when she washes it over and over again even using bleaches the fabric still remained brand new, seeing this Anna got even more excited and could not wait for the wealth the store gonna bring in.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    For her part Audrey was shocked, but if Miss Anna knew what Alexander did to her store she would be slack-jawed. reviving the scene from the last night Audrey could not believe what she saw, but when she asked Alexander was it not very extravagant? he answered that it was a very normal sight in the mortal countries, in other words, it was common for the stores to be this extravagant in mortal grade countries. When she asked him about the clothes he said something similar, That box could be considered something tradable in the mortal countries of grade Two, It only reinforced the clothes through arrays it was nothing out of the ordinary but for a desolate land, it was something miraculous. when Audrey saw Alexander out of the corner of her eye he wore an expression of proudness on his face and said: "haha, this young master is very handsome is he not?"


    When she saw that face Audrey just wanted to hit him until he was half dead but it was not the right moment. so she just held herself.


    Meanwhile in the peripheral neighborhoods of the Capital City


    At the base of one of the biggest gangs in the criminal underworld which was known for their greed, never shrinks from doing anything as long as the pay is good even their name explicates their personality, they called themselves "Greedy Wolves Gang"


    But what many did not know was that they were founded through the funds of Walter Dunham, They were working for him and they are in charge of the dirty jobs he does to his competitors, Walter founded them to compete against other big bands which were controlled by great nobles or merchants, so you could say that it was a hidden battle in the darkness. This was how they put obstacles between themselves.


    Greedy Wolves Gang base


    Inside a room there was a middle-aged man who was immersed in his passion with a couple of beautiful women, These women were ladies of the night who only satisfy the nobles or rich people, and the man who''s with them is the current leader of the Greedy Wolves Gang, Tiberius, Being the leader of such a large criminal gang obviously he did not lack money. Therefore he could enjoy such luxuries. but when he was in the midst of his battle he was interrupted by a middle-aged man, he was one of the men who was with Walter this morning.


    "WHO DARES TO DISRUPT ME? I WILL CUTOFF THE HEAD OF THAT MOTHERFUCKER", Tiberius was angry when he was interrupted in the middle of his battle, so he jumped out of his bed with red eyes, ready to kill the first one he saw.


    "Ohhh really, you cut off my head, I wonder if you have the balls to do it," the middle-aged man said calmly.


    When he heard that voice Tiberius instead of being angry he became pale and confused, This person always forewarns him before coming, but now he came without any prior notice, he did not understand why.

 Chapter 35: At night

    Tiberius was about to tell the women to leave the room but was interrupted by the middle-aged man: "Quiet this will not take long So you can continue after we''re done." ignoring the naked man in front of him, He continued: "The boss wants you to destroy a certain property and you have to make sure that, not even a nail is left of it." Saying that he threw a piece of paper toward his feet.


    Tiberius did not delay in picking up the paper from the floor and immediately opened it but when he finished reading he seemed confused and asked "isn''t this the boss property?" he identified it quickly as he memorized all the properties that he should not touch and this was one of them.


    "yes it was until yesterday, a new owner came to the neighborhood and you have to teach her the rules properly and I hope to hear the good news by tomorrow" With that said the middle-aged man turned around and left.


    "Yes Sir" answered Tiberius following him to the door until he was dismissed, he knows that he was just a pawn so all he needs to do is to carry out the orders and he could live well as he does now but if he failed to do so they could just kill him and turn one of his subordinates into the boss, for them it was easy so he could not fail at any cost. He closed the doors to the room and when he turned around he saw a pair of slender bodies waiting for him, after all, he had paid a lot for their time, so he immediately changed his mood and entered the bed to continue from where he left off.


    Meanwhile in another place


    "Audrey, did you get what I asked?" (Alexander)


    "Yes, Young master" Saying that Audrey handed a map of the capital city, This map has several points marked on it, these points represent all the properties which are under Walter Dunham.


    "Young master, are we really gonna steal from all his stores?" Audrey asked worried, she never imagined that her young master would plan to do something so big.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.


    "Not only his stores we''re also gonna steal his safe from his mansion. We''ll ruin this guy and leave him in the street That''s the price he had to pay for what his daughter did to my mother," said Alexander.


    hearing this Audrey was unsettled, on the other hand, Alexander was very calm like it was something very trivial to him.


    seeing his demure Audrey calmed down and said "But young master, where would we store all the loot, even if this room was ten times bigger we will still not be able to store everything," but was interrupted by Alexander, "Take this ring and drip a drop of your blood on it When you do, you will find out," saying that he gave Audrey a ring.


    Audrey examined the ring for a moment apparently it was a normal ring made of silver, she did not understand why she had to spill a drop of her blood on it but she did it anyway, Her young master had never lied to her so she believed that something would prone to happen.


    When Audrey spilled a drop of her blood on the ring it began to shine with thousands of patterns emerging from it lasting for a couple of seconds before subsiding inside the ring After the process was completed Audrey''s small mouth was opened wide, she could not believe what''s just happened as she could now feel a connection with the ring even more unbelievable was that inside the ring there was a space equal to ten football fields.


    Alexander enjoyed her reaction and said teasingly, "Hahaha, Audrey, Now I''m wondering where we''ll store the loot?" But before he could finish speaking he saw a fist going for his head, "Don''t be so prick," said Audrey, she could not stand how he behaved so she hit him.


    Alexander could only rub his head and agree. although he has been cultivating for a while now Audrey was still a cultivation Realm above him so all he could do was suffer in silence and let it go.


    after reminiscing Alexander said "okay now, let''s just prepare for tonight, bring the clothes and masks which I have made they will assist us tonight, also remember to break the legs of that garbage king he deserves it" Audrey just nodded.


    after that, they went to do their own things while Alexander started to cultivate. Audrey headed towards the store along with miss Anna as they need to move the black box to the store so that Miss Anna could reinforce all her products bringing them a great competitive advantage that no one could match in the kingdom.


    when miss Anna came to the store she started working feverishly moving all her inventory to the black box, after a whole afternoon of work she managed to get all the clothes through the box so she returned to the palace with a smile waiting for the next morning to finally open her store, she was sure that her store will create commotion in the capital.


    when the night came a boy and a maid begin there grand theft since the founding of the Alba Kingdom, on the other side of the city the greedy wolves gang also started to move towards the direction of Anna''s new store, unknowingly two opposing sides moved against each other.


    Tonight will be the beginning of a storm for the Alba kingdom.

 Chapter 36: SHUT UP

    For this mission, Tiberius did not dare to be negligent so he brought more than two hundred men from his gang, which was more than half of the entire gang! With them, he hoped to tear down the store in a couple of minutes and flee even before the city guards arrive in order to avoid any confrontation.


    Since the purge, his boss had lost a lot of his power so was his gang so all these years his boss almost did not assign him any missions because it was too risky if anyone connects his gang with his boss which would make his boss who was already in defense mode fall even more despite his daughter backing he would lose a lot in return, so it was not worth the risk.


    In the last few years they have only done small jobs in the criminal underworld, as well as controlling the rival gangs, nothing important but now he had received his first big mission in years, he had to fulfill it flawlessly and without any delay.


    "Boss, the store is in front," said one of his subordinates, seeing this Tiberius begins to order his subordinates, he pointed to four people behind him and said: "You four, put out a perimeter around ten streets if you see a guard approach send the signal right away," with that said his men gave a sign of understanding and each one selected 5 others and went in different directions.


    Seeing that Tiberius waited a few minutes to give them time to form the perimeters.


    When everyone was in their positions, Tiberius pointing to the store and said: "Listen, I want that shop demolished leaving just a barren piece of land, As for the merchandise we will sell it to our master and with that We''ll feast on women and tons of alcohol for weeks, haha what do you think?"


    "Yes," The whole crowd of men shouted in unison with happiness and lust for this idea of their boss, they could not wait for it, for them There was nothing better than having alcohol in one hand and women on other, it was like a paradise. Just imagining made their crotch feel a little tighter. Tiberius seeing that his stimulus worked, showed a big smile with his yellow teeth and said: "Then let''s get started"This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.


    Without waiting all his men ran to Anna''s shop, These men were not ordinary people, they were all in the Realm of body refinement, many in the third stage, some in the fifth, and their leader Tiberius was at the peak of the seventh stage, so it only took them a couple of seconds to get to the store.


    Tiberius was the first to strike, hoping to break the door and be able to loot everything before destroying the store, but against all his imagination nothing happened, he a Cultivator in the seventh stage of Realm of body refinement could not break a simple wooden door.


    All those who were behind Tiberius stopped in their tracks, They saw their boss with unbelieving eyes, Was their boss so weak to not even able break a simple wooden door?


    For his side Tiberius had an ugly face, He was sure that he used more than half of his power but could not break a single door and the worst thing was that he was in front of his subordinates.


    Seeing this Tiberius tried again, but just like the last time nothing happened to the door this angered him even more and he began to hit the door as if it were his sworn enemy that killed the love of his life yet he failed to break the door.


    This made his subordinates look at him incredulously. Someone could not help whispering: "Hey since when did the boss grow so weak?" But no one answer, confused he looked around when he saw a man with blood-colored eyes filled with murderous intent was watching him which made him pale and trembled with fear and as soon as he managed to say: "Boss I''m sorry," he only managed to see a fist flying towards his head breaking it like a melon that falls to the floor.


    Seeing the corpse of the man who had just misspoken, Tiberius looked up and said somberly: "Someone else thinks I''m weak?", Everyone felt their knees shaking and shook their heads as drops of cold sweat dripped down from their head.


    Tiberius spoke again "Since you have time to shake your head, you must also have time to attack this damn store, SO DO IT AND DO NOT WASTE MY TIME," Upon hearing that none of his subordinates dared to disobey, So they started launching punches and kicks on the store, but none had any effect, This scene looked amazing, More than a hundred men were attacking the store everywhere, but the store was like a mountain, it didn''t even budge. Meanwhile, Tiberius was attacking the door again and like everyone else, he was throwing kicks and fists without stopping.


    After two hours, all those who were attacking the store were exhausted including Tiberius, They were on the ground breathing heavily when someone dared to ask: "Boss, it''s not working, what should we do now?"


    "SHUT UP" (Tiberius)

 Chapter 37: The past

    In the capital city, two shadows moved quickly, until they stopped in a dark alley.


    "Let''s go to the next one."


    "Audrey, just how many stores does that old man have? we''ve already been to twenty!" Alexander was already exasperated, On this night since they started, they had already robbed twenty stores, he always thought they were finished but Audrey was always saying that there was one more, he could not believe that a single man had so many stores in one city, one simply cannot own everything and monopolize the system.


    "Walter Dunham, has 154 sub stores and three main stores in the capital city but if we count the businesses he has all over the kingdom, I couldn''t give you an exact number," Now it was Alexander''s turn to be surprised "How can that be possible, Even if he is a good businessman, he would have to have his peers when we talk about business, besides other merchant families and powerful families competing in the market it should be impossible for a man to have so many stores".


    Audrey immediately proceeded to report: "He was an oligarch so he had sway on many of the government officials in addition to many connections with the nobles of the Alba Kingdom. for him there were only two kinds of people, people he bought and the dead if someone dared to compete with him or enter their territory normally their goods never arrived or their premises were vandalized there were even cases of homicide but there was no evidence to hold him responsible Because of this he used to have a monopoly over the market in the Alba Kingdom."


    "Why did you say it in past tense?" Alexander found this interesting.


    "Because in the purge a few years ago he lost a lot of his partners and nobles who were bribed by him he even lost many of his people he had within the government ultimately weakening his power which gave an opportunity for many merchants from the neighboring countries to do business in the Alba kingdom, Currently they only do business in the cities outside the territory of the capital but they are expanding if everything goes on as it is in a couple of years they will reach the capital, when that happens Walter Dunham commercial empire will slowly crumble or at least it would be no longer be a complete monopoly like before," In this last month Audrey had investigated about how the market was along with Mrs. Anna, therefore, she knew a lot about it.


    "But why didn''t the royal family do anything about it?" (Alexander)


    "He was an oligarch before the Sail empire was divided and the Dawn Kingdom was founded and he apparently helped your grandparents with some things in the past. Without his help, the kingdom would not have been stabilized so quickly and most of all the current king and his daughter were childhood friends having had mutual feelings for each other they are married. Now do you understand, he won the favor from two generations of kings, one through help and the other through his daughter so as long as he does not exaggeratedly raise market prices seeing that the plebeians can continue to eat and having no evidence over his crimes they cannot say or do anything against." (Audrey)This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there.


    "If my trash of a father really loved her then why is she not the queen...", Alexander was somewhat confused about it, he knew his trash father had only two women inside his harem who he truly loved one being the queen and the other the third concubine but he didn''t understand why did they have different status if he loved them both. (Alexander)


    seeing his confusion Audrey replied "As far as I know, in her childhood both the Queen and the third concubine were the childhood friends of the king, but if I had to guess it was with the help of General Keer that she won the position of queen because although the father of the third concubine has a lot of money but then the father of the queen commanded the army of the kingdom If the king made the wrong move he could have created a rebellion, while the father of the third could only raise the prices or cut the food supplies which he know is much easier to solve than a rebellion. the power they held was leagues apart so the king knew who he had to make happy." Alexander couldn''t believe what he witnessed, this woman can sometimes be so smart but other times she is so stupid, it was almost as if they were two different people. but when he was thinking about it he felt a blow in his head, when he reacted he could only ask with indignation: "Why did you hit me?".


    "Weren''t you thinking badly of me?" Audrey said while she had a smirk in her eyes as she stared at him. when Alexander felt the sight of this woman he dripped with cold sweat on his back, Clearing his voice he said: "Of course not, It would be impossible for me to think badly of you".


    "oh really?" (Audrey)


    "Yeah," When Alexander heard her voice he was afraid of the consequences, So he changed the subject "Let''s not worry about these little things, You know tonight we don''t have enough time to rob all his stores, so let''s focus on his main stores, If we rob these main stores we should affect him more than robbing a few sub-stores," Saying this he grabbed the map, memorised the nearest store and ran away from Audrey.


    Audrey didn''t want to leave things at that, but she had no choice but to follow her young master in silence.


    Returning to Anna''s shop


    Tiberius and his gang tried all their means to break into the store but with nothing to show, having been fed up and fearing the consequences he had to bear for failing his mission, Tiberius decided to contact the middle-aged man and ask for a spare key to complete his mission.


    The capitals richest residential street for commoners inside a mansion


    "Levi was very annoyed right now, a few moments ago he was with his wife having their sweet time, when a subordinate of his interrupted him, at first he wanted to refuse but when he was told that it was super important and could not wait until tomorrow he had no choice but to comply and go towards the said location.


    When Levi arrived at the said location along with the subordinate he was greeted by the sight of Tiberius waiting for him. Just when he was going to reproach him, Tiberius waved his hand sending the subordinate away. Having seen his enormity Levi suppressed his annoyance and waited for him to explain.


    "Manager Levi, I''m sorry for having you come here personally, it''s very urgent and but I can''t be seen with you at your place so I can only opt for this, I wonder if you have an extra key for the store which I can borrow?" Asked Tiberius nervously.

 Chapter 38: Scheme

    After Tiberius said those words, silence descended upon this place nobody dared to say the first word.


    "What did you say?" Manager Levi asked with a gloomy face, he couldn''t believe they called him at this hour, just for such a silly question.


    Tiberius had a complicated expression: "Wasn''t boss the previous owner of that property? as it has just been sold the locks should not have been changed yet if we can have the key we would be very grateful".


    When he heard those words Levi was first incredulous but quickly it changed to anger: "Damn useless bastards, I told you to destroy the property, so why do you need a key, just break the damn door if you want to steal."


    Tiberius felt a little indignant and said: "I tried."


    Levi raised his eyebrow and sneered at Tiberius "Try what?"


    seeing that Tiberius could only explain what happened, "Break the door, I spent more than two hours knocking and kicking that damn door, but it did not even make a scratch despite my men surrounding the store trying to destroy it but failed miserably, one of my men even died because of that damn door."


    All his subordinates at his side almost spit up blood when their boss said those last words.


    (The door didn''t kill anybody that was you, don''t blame the door) (subordinates)


    Although Levis seemed normal he was a level above Tiberius, he at the eighth stage of the Realm of body refinement so he was confident in destroying a small wooden door. So he approached the door, looking at it with contempt.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    standing right in front of the door, he threw a fist with all his might expecting to see thousands of splinters coming from the door.


    But what sounded was the sound of an ant crashing into a mountain, Levi''s fist did not do even made a scratch on the door, seeing this scene he was skeptical, His boss owner this property in secret for several years, and wanted to use this property to set up a trap, so he could not understand why this is happening.


    When his boss found out that the ninth concubine wanted to start a business, he investigated it with the help of the information from the king''s palace he was able to gather that his daughter convinced the king to lower ninth concubine''s monthly allowance.


    Knowing that this was his daughter''s doing, Walter decided to act his part in helping her finish what she started.


    So he first helped her in the shadows so that the ninth concubine would get her merchandise at a good price besides that Walter would sell her a good place to set up her store, making it easy all the way until she spent all her savings than his men would destroy her store and steal all the merchandise and sell him back, With that Walter would have a Win-Win situation, one side he profits from her stores merchandise even buying back the store when she sells it back at dirt cheap while also destroying his grandson''s competition in the process.


    The ninth concubine losing all her money could only live on her monthly allowance provided by the king so that her daughter would have more control over her by threatening to cut her allowance if she did not obey her, with this the future of the third prince would be in the hands of her daughter.


    But if they cannot execute the second part of the plan, the whole first part will be useless In fact, it even benefits the ninth concubine. This scheme was made by guaranteeing that the second part would be performed successfully and would never fail. no one ever imagined that the ninth concubine would have the strength to oppose Walter and advance without any hesitation.


    But now Levi couldn''t even break a door of the store which was owned by his boss''s until yesterday. After the initial shock, he regained his composure and started attacking again, knocking, kicking everything he could think of until a certain point his reasoning broke and he roared: "Damn door falls in front of your grandfather!


    Tiberius finally found a companion who hated the door as much as he did, That damn door must fall So he started attacking along with the manager.


    "I''m going to pound you so hard that I''m going to break you in two."


    "Damn, you liked that, right, you''re not gonna last more than two seconds when this grandfather gets serious."


    "Haha. Pretty soon you''ll be asking for some compassion."


    "I''m gonna leave a mark so that you''ll remember me."


    Meanwhile, more than hundred of his subordinates has there jaw wide open from there behavior and could only watch how these two men were attacking a door while in their fury, shouting things one would not normally express when one was in front of a door.

 Chapter 39: Space Objects

    Meanwhile, Audrey and Alexander were in front of a huge building, only the warehouse itself was about two square miles of radius! seeing this Alexander could not avoid a twitch on his face and said: "Clearly this old man is doing well financially, I never expected to find such a large warehouse in this small kingdom".


    "Young Master, are there stores larger than this?" Audrey asked surprised as she couldn''t believe it, this store was already very huge so much so that it was located in the outskirts of the capital due to its large size while Walter had three department stores same as this one all situated in the vicinity of the capital city, So only the goods that were destined for the capital was stored in this warehouse while the others were sold within the kingdom through trading partners.


    "Audrey, this is a desolate land it is foolish to compare it to a mortal country, even in a mortal country of grade five these stores are only used by small merchants, while large merchants would no longer use them but use what you have on your finger, Although you don''t believe it to build a store of that size is much cheaper than a spatial ring with a tenth the size of the store, for your information I was not surprised by the size of the store but where it is. For many, it would be a waste to build something of that size if they can have a spatial ring to keep everything in it. Now, do you understand?" (Alexander)


    Audrey nodded, she understood how practical the ring was so it seemed logical about what her young master said, Replacing the warehouses with spatial rings reduced costs so it was an obvious action for the merchants. But from one moment to the next, Audrey thought something: "Young master if this is so expensive then from where did you get it."


    Alexander showed a small smile behind the mask: "That''s because it''s was made from in a different method which I created myself, Normally a spatial object is made of rare and exotic materials which support or have great affinity with the space element Besides that you also required an Array master with the attribute of space element, That''s what makes a space object expensive because many Masters of spatial Arrays work for great clans or powers, and they are all are well known in their planes. which make it''s very hard and expensive to even procure their services."


    After a moment he continued speaking: "But my method didn''t involve all those procedures normally done by the spatial array masters, but I only imprisoned an already existing space in an object and stabilized it through secondary Array formations creating a spatial ring which costs much less than the normal spatial rings, What do you think? "Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    Audrey didn''t understand much of what Alexander said and asked, "But young master if we compare yours with the ones created by spatial Array masters, which one is better?"


    Alexander replied: "I could not give you a clear answer, they have their own pros and cons, for example in the ring which I made there is no phase such as "Time" so if you put something perishable like food, it will never rot, but in the ring made by the spatial Array masters they have time phase so perishables like food will rot as time pass but you can even store living creatures in their spatial ring, which in my case you cannot. ultimately It depends on each individual''s needs to see which is better suited to them."


    Audrey was lost in her thoughts when she heard that, what her young master said seemed incredible to her, every year a lot of food was wasted because it rots before it can be eaten, but with the help of his spatial rings a lot of food could be stored and prevented from rotting over time and the price of food could be lowered because the stored food could be sold anytime and anywhere without worrying about its spoilage, this was revolutionary method thinking to this She became ecstatic and said: "Young master, why don''t we sell these rings? with these, We''ll make a lot of money, Besides helping the poor from starving."


    "It''s not the right time yet, we don''t even have adequate strength to protect ourselves nor our interests if someone greedy wants it for themselves so let''s talk about it later. As long as one of us reaches the elemental realm very few within this region could confront us so first focus on your cultivations. Alexander could only postpone Audrey''s ideas for the time being as he went on to say: "With my mother''s business we''re already taking a risk, so for the moment we can''t take any more risks, Well enough talk, Let''s rob that old man, I''ve got four rings on me plus with yours its five, that should be more than enough."


    Audrey nodded with that, she and Alexander approached the warehouse and knocked out the guards, Alexander wanted to kill them but because of Audrey he had to leave them alive, With that everything seemed to go well.


    When they entered the warehouse everything seemed normal, with the guards knocked out they were not afraid to make some noises so they began their looting spree there were all kinds of things from groceries to parts for carriages stored in this warehouse, This showed the variety of business that Walter owned,


    while he was plundering Alexander heard Audrey''s disguised voice calling him: "Young master, please come here it''s urgent." Upon hearing that Alexander moved quickly to where Audrey was. "What''s going on?"


    "Young master look at this" Audrey passed a roll of cloth to Alexander, upon examination he realized it was just normal cloth so he asked, "It''s just normal cloth, why did you call me?"


    "Young Master, That''s the same fabric Miss Anna bought from her fabric supplier, as well as these dresses and other things she bought to sell are same as what we found here, but she bought them from different people" Audrey was a little worried when she said it, This might have been part of a big scheme.


    Alexander, on the other hand, began to laugh: "Haha, I get it now, I was always been suspicious about how it''s been too easy for my mother to set up her store, now it all makes sense haha," After that he looked towards a certain part of the store and said "Hey you should already know our identities so why don''t you reveal yourself?"


    After a moment, from the place where Alexander was staring at an old and deep voice sounded: "Who would have thought that the third prince was so capable in spite of his young age, this old man would be honored to kill you."

 Chapter 40: Interrogation

    After those words, An old man emerged from the shadows right in front of Audrey and Alexander, he had a kind smile on his face like a normal everyday grandpa which may fool anyone but his murderous aura around him proves he not kind at all.


    Alexander saw the old man and smiled back: "Oh, you sound so sure about killing me," The old man raised his eyebrows at the sight of Alexander''s calm face, and could not help but sigh while he shook his head, "Who would have thought that a five-year-old boy could be like that, the ninth concubine had a good son, pity you will die today."


    Alexander saw that this old man ignored him and couldn''t help but find that amusing, "Hey old man what makes you think that a miserable cultivator like you at the first stage of Realm of Qi Gathering can kill me."


    The old man seeing this couldn''t help but become enraged, but what worried him most was how Alexander saw through his cultivation level very easily, there were only two explanations for that either his cultivation being higher than his or there was an expert behind him. he refused to believe that a five-year-old boy could have a higher cultivation level than he did, so he believed that the third prince had some expert following him, So he turned around and ran away.


    "Ohh, so you want to run away, Audrey, cripple his cultivation base and bring him back to me," Alexander ordered. he was very disappointed by this old man cowardice, he thought there would be some action and sport a practice fight for Audrey but things turned out this way.


    "Yes," Audrey heard the order and went after the old man. After a few minutes, she caught up with the old man.


    Outside the old man saw that the prince''s companion was chasing him and couldn''t help but feel some disdain, turning around he threw a fist at her as he assumed it would be enough to kill his pursuer and declared "You are not qualified to be my opponent, if you want to blame someone, blame yourself for chasing after me," but before he could feel satisfied he realized that she was no longer there, he felt that something was wrong but it was too late: "Shit".


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    He tried to retract his fist but it was too late, suddenly he felt a pressure in his chest, then he realized that the companion of the third prince was much stronger than him, he tried to flee but it was too late, the palm sent him flying several meters until he finally crashed on the pavement, there was a trace of blood coming out from the corner of his mouth with his complexion looking very pale. When he tried to circulate his Qi to stand up, he felt that the Qi he accumulated over many years was moving very slowly like it was under tremendous pressure, coming to a conclusion he stared at the person with the hood in disbelief, "You!".


    But that person just grabbed his clothes and treated him as if he was just another load as she returned to the warehouse, meanwhile there was a five-year-old boy looting everything he could, only he had already emptied a third of the warehouse. seeing them Alexander said "Ohh, you''re back I thought it would take you a little longer, you keep looting while I ask this old man some questions," with that the boy came in front of the old man, while Audrey nodded then released the old man leaving him lying on the floor and started looting everything and storing it in her spatial ring after a few minutes everything disappeared from the warehouse leaving nothing behind.


    Alexander moved towards the half-dead old man and asked, "Hey old man I''ll be direct, for the old man Walter to hire someone at Realm of Qi Gathering to guard this place, he must have either something very valuable or a part of his fortune hidden here, so I want to know where or what it is you are guarding here, and believe me I will make you answer my question by hook or by crook?"


    The old man could barely say, "Fucking brat, you''ll see what I''ll do to you When I recover."


    "Hey old man you still haven''t realized you''re no longer a cultivator in the Realm of Qi Gathering, in other words, you''re a cripple" while saying that he kicked the old man''s abdomen, "and for a cripple to threaten me, I don''t know what he''s thinking."


    The old man groveled on the floor while spitting blood from the kick, and before he could say anything Alexander interrupted him: "Old man I already told you that you will tell me what I want to know, the difference will be the method used to get the answers be it the easy way or the hard way, if the next time you open your mouth is not to tell me what I want to know, I will assume that you chose the hard way," Then Alexander stopped talking, while looking at the old man with an icy look, When the old man saw that look he knew that this child is not to be taken lite of.


    For the first time ever he regretted not running away at the first chance. if he did not stay to see who dared to steal from his boss, he would not be in this situation, all because of his blind arrogance and knowing that death awaited him he decided to talk. "At the end of the warehouse, in the right corner, there is an elevator which leads to an underground room where my boss keeps a quarter of his fortune."


    Seeing that the other side was willing to talk Alexander asked him: "How many people like you did Walter have at his service?"


    The old man with listless eyes replied: "Without counting me, there are four others, two in his mansion and the remaining two in the other warehouses."


    Having gained what he wanted Alexander, bid him farewell "Thank you for your cooperation," at the end of those words the old man was put to sleep once and for all.

 Chapter 41: Im rich

    Just when Alexander dealt with the old man, a shadow approached him from his back and asked "Young master, why did you kill him?" This shadow was Audrey, she did not like to kill so when she saw the corpse she felt guilty.


    Whereas Alexander was indifferent to killing because in his previous life he had killed countless people which don''t mean he couldn''t understand how she felt and somehow he didn''t want her to become someone like him, So he explained: "He would be a dead man anyway, If I didn''t kill him then old Walter would have done it when he finds out that he had lost his cultivation but before that he would have reported what had happened here and exposed us, the same way he disclosed where Walter''s treasure was, now do you understand, it was inevitable. I know you don''t like to kill and I don''t expect you to become a cold-blooded killer either, but you have to know that sometimes it''s necessary to kill."


    Audrey could only nod, although she did not want to understand what her young master meant, she knew he had said those words for her own sake so she would remember those words forever.


    Alexander turned around leaving Audrey alone with old man''s corpse while saying "Keep stealing, I''ll go for the old Walter''s gold, Remember to take everything and leave nothing behind."


    "yes" Alexander only heard those words, then he speed towards the back of the warehouse, Following the instructions of the old man he found an elevator that took him to an underground room, Alexander on seeing what was in front of him could not help but put a bitter smile as his face contracted, "This is only a quarter of all his fortune? You have to be kidding, I had not seen so much money even in my previous life."


    What was in front of him were miles upon miles of money. normally people use five different denominations of coins: Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and White Gold.


    This was standardized throughout the countries all over the continent commenced by the Transcendent powers who ruled this continent because only a few could mint the coins with respective symbols of the country in their currency, Currently Alexander did not know which power ruled the continent of Auphera but normally there is always more than one transcendent power on every continent.Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.


    Each denomination is worth a hundred times more than the previous one, i.e. 100 iron coins are equivalent to 1 bronze coin. In addition during the times of war, many countries collect iron and bronze coins exchanging them for silver and gold, to melt them into weapons or armor. Because of this, there rarely a lack of weapons for war as no one could diminish the supply of iron and bronze.


    In his previous life, Alexander only used spirit stones for trading so he never had so much gold in his possession but what he saw now seemed absurd for a desolate land.


    Inside the subterranean room there were crystals that dimly illuminated everything around it, Alexander perceived that this room was just as big as the store above, Inside it there were several mountains of gold, hundreds of silver, thousands of bronze and countless of iron, In addition to that one could see a small chest that surely contained white gold coins.


    This amount of wealth, it''s impossible to accumulate it in a desolate land, unless one does illegal business or other illicit acts.


    Alexander immersed in his thoughts could only sigh, "Well, it''s not worth thinking about it, all this wealth would be mine from now anyway," Then he proceeded to store everything inside his rings, it was only after half an hour that he left the room now empty. Looking up to the ceiling, He knew that the crystals were a treasure but in the end, he thought: "let''s leave it to old Walter, he''s lost a lot today I can''t be so cruel."


    The truth was It was going to take him a lot of time and effort to remove the crystals from the ceiling, Besides that, he did not need them therefore although they were worth something, for him it was not worthwhile to bother doing something so useless. So he went to the elevator and went back to the warehouse where Audrey was waiting for him.


    When Alexander came out of the elevator, he was speechless, as found the warehouse completely empty, not even the shelves were left out, This woman took his words very literally.


    "Did you find anything good?" Alexander heard those words just after he was out of the elevator as a shadow approached him, This, of course, was Audrey.


    Alexander could not understand what was going through her head as she even stole some useless shelves, on the other hand, Audrey asked impatiently: "What''s wrong?"


    Alexander, recalling the past, spoke quickly: "Nothing, down there where tons of money more than a mortal can spend in his entire life, with this loot even if the king bar''s the allowance of my mother, it will not affect us a bit.


    Audrey hearing those words was very excited as from onwards they would face no more money problems, With this even if Mrs. Anna''s business was to fail they would be fine.


    Alexander was already tired so he said, "It''s enough for one night, Remember I''m still a growing child who needs to rest, so let''s go home."

 Chapter 42: Snake

    Hearing what her young master said, Audrey was confused "But young master, are we not going to steal the other two warehouses."


    "Audrey, if you have noticed tonight our plan has not been so perfect as we assumed, as they say, Life is full of unexpected twists and turns we cannot be too sure of anything and be prepared for the unexcepted, look at me for example, even I has underestimated old Walter be it his wealth, the number of stores he owned or the size of his warehouse. With our speed we can not finish the other two warehouses on time, hence we have no choice but to retire for tonight. anyway, I think things are going to be interesting."


    "Why?" Audrey asked piqued by this conversation.


    "You know who helped my mother to set up her business?" Alexander asked with a soft smile while leaving the warehouse and started to move towards the capital.


    "Did someone help Miss Anna?" asked Audrey.


    "Yes, apparently since you started with the business idea, he has been helping you with everything from merchandise to the local distributors, even the store we bought, that man was truly generous."


    "Who?"


    "who else but our very best friend, and the charitable soul that gave us a quarter of his fortune today, Walter Dunham," said Alexander.


    " What !" Audrey who was following Alexander stopped in her steps and looked incredulous at Alexander.


    "Why are you looking so surprised?" Alexander asked sleekly,


    "That does not make sense, Why would he help us? We are his enemies!" (Audrey)


    "That''s why he helped us because we are his enemies" (Alexander)


    "That does not make sense, who helps his enemy?" (Audrey)


    "Well, he helps his enemies so they fall into his trap. "Hearing those words, Audrey did not understand what he meant by that, so she could only wait for Alexander to explain. Seeing her confusion Alexander began to explain: "Old Walter is a closed-minded and ruthless person who doesn''t care about what he has to do to destroy someone and the best way to eliminate an enemy is to have him under your control, give everything to lower their guard, and then crush them."A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.


    After a pause he continued: "As an example take my mother, he helped her with everything to set up her store but unknown to her eventually, something unexpected would happen to her business, which leads to its demise, if I haven''t guessed wrong, my mother store doomed to face some huge problems, it can range from robbery to vandalism."


    "But what would he gain by doing that?"


    "Easy, he thinks my mother spent all her savings on this business, he could have never imagined that we gathered the capital from selling the potions that his grandson has sent to the king and his mother, haha I wonder what his face would be if he ever finds out, That would be funny haha,"


    Alexander was so immersed in his imagination that he even began to ramble. one could tell how he did not give much importance to the whole situation.


    "Young master please don''t stray away from the subject," Audrey saw Alexander swerve, got angry and started stomping on the ground.


    Alexander was a bit embarrassed to hear that, "Sorry, Well where I was going, So when we spend all our savings we will have no choice but to depend on what little allowance the trash king provide us with. but as we know, after the queen''s disappearance, the person with the most influence over the King is the third concubine, Therefore she will have a dominant position over us, Now do you understand?"


    Audrey began to process everything she heard, then she realized that in this world not everyone fights only with fists, She thought it was a simple trap at first and not one this deep, that everything from the beginning was a trap laid by someone, This was a hard blow for her.


    "Don''t be disheartened, You''re very young obviously you''ll fall into those schemes, stop feeling sorry and learn from it." Alexander could only say a few words of encouragement and ended with a phrase "just remember If something is too good to be true, as much as possible it''s not what it actually is. "


    With that Alexander did not speak anymore as he continued his way to the capital, Audrey could only see the back of the young master as she followed behind him in silence thinking (Sometimes I forget that this child was really an old monster of thousands of years old.)


    like this, the pair reached home quietly. Meanwhile in front of Anna''s shop


    Two middle-aged men were breathing heavily reclining in front of a door Pleading.


    "Please just open up I promise to be good, I''ll just steal, and will not touch the building"


    "Do not be like that, If you open I promise to buy you a wood treatment"


    "I''ll give you a new coat of varnish"


    "I''ll buy you a gold lock. Please..."

 Chapter 43: A new day

    The next morning, Anna got out of her bed very early, Her mood could not be any better, because today was the day her store gonna be finally opened for business, she has been working very hard for a month and now it was time for all her efforts to pay off.


    "Audrey, Today is our big day, Where are you?" asked Anna while busing herself getting ready to look presentable on the first day of her store, after all, She is the boss.


    "Here I am Miss," Audrey replied as she placed some plates with food on the table, even though she and the young master has been working throughout the night, she did not feel tired and they have just returned to the palace an hour ago which did not give her much time to sleep, so she started cooking breakfast for everyone.


    "Audrey, the day has finally arrived, Let''s hope it goes well", Saying that Anna sat down and started eating, While eating she heard a voice, "Mother, why are you so happy today?" she turned her head to see where the voice came from and saw a five-year-old boy watching her. "Alexander, today our store opening day and we''ll be very busy all day so you have to behave yourself today. Can you promise me?"


    Alexander just nodded his head in her direction while taking a seat next to Anna. "That''s how I like it," she approached his son and kissed him on the cheek. Then the three of them started eating.


    After breakfast, the three of them went out to the commercial avenue where Anna''s shop was located, Anna, seeing her store, got excited once again and went to the back of the store and entered through the service door.


    Currently Anna''s store is divided into four floors, the first floor was intended for the cheapest clothes for the commoners with the lowest prices, the second was for small nobles, Although it was more expensive than ordinary clothes, it still cannot be compared to something that a great noble will use, The third floor would have the finest and expensive clothes of the store Intended for the great nobles of the capital, and finally the fourth floor was the staff floor, where Anna''s office was located. Alexander would also be staying in the next room right beside Anna''s office starting today as they cannot leave him unattended in the palace, therefore he would accompany his mother to work.


    While Anna was concluding some last few cases before the store''s opening, Audrey went to leave Alexander in his room and said: "Young master, I have a doubt."


    "What is it?" Alexander asked Audrey.


    "Young master, Miss Anna''s clothes are very resilient and they do not lose their color even if they were washes a thousand times. Is it not bad for business If people only buy clothes once in a lifetime? we will be broken if that happens! "


    Alexander just gave a soft smile, "That''s what you were worried about? Audrey those clothes are not meant for normal people, it''s for cultivators! For many wearing an armor is like being put in a cage as they feel restricted in their body movements while wearing an armor, In other words, they do not like it, but it could not be helped as the common clothes could not even holdout when they practice, and they have to buy new clothes very often. Another point is that martial artists live longer than a normal person, maybe for a normal person a thousand washing''s sound something could not be done in their lifetime, but for a martial artist, it''s only a couple of years. These clothes have many advantages for them, so there''s nothing to worry about. "Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.


    Audrey finally understood what her young master wanted to state. In the City, there are plenty of clothing stores but they all sell regular clothes, none marketed clothes for cultivators needs, That is, currently there is no such store in the nearby regions which tends to the needs of the cultivator which means they have an opportunity to be flag bearers for a new industry and also have a competitive edge in the regular clothing industry. coming to this conclusion she could not help exclaiming "Young master is wise".


    Alexander did not even flinch because of that flattery, he just said: "What we are about to do, will also attract many greedy pigs to us, so give advice to my mother to be prepared and not to back down from any challenges, If they want to collaborate with us sincerely we accept but if they want to take advantage of us just kick their ass and teach them a lesson, if they didn''t learn then kill them, no need to fear anyone, in this desolate land there is no one I dare not to kill," While saying the last words Alexander emanated a murderous intent that was impossible for a five years old child to unleash.


    Audrey nodded as she went back to Anna''s office. She knew that Alexander was going to start his training and shouldn''t be disturbed anymore.


    Meanwhile in another part of the city.


    Two middle-aged men were kneeling in front of an old man, This was Walter Dunham, while the two kneeling men were Levi and Tiberius, In the corner of the room you could see a fourth person which was Walter''s other manager.


    "Sir, we''re sorry we could not complete the task," Levi said.


    When he heard those words Walter could not help but frown. This task was too simple for them to fail, "Give me more details."


    "Yes sir," Levi still on his knees told him all the events transpired in the night, as for how the set of attacks by Tiberius couldn''t even budge the door, or how the attack of more than a hundred people was unable to even scratch the wall of the building.


    After hearing about the events, Walter fell deep into his thoughts, then he turned to see the other manager and said, "Alan, the property we gave her was normal, right?"


    Manager Alan was quick to respond, "Yes sir everything of that building is made of common materials, to avoid further losses in situations like these."


    Walter turned to see the pair of people in front of him, deciding what he would do, After thinking about it for a while, he ordered" You can get up, this time It was not your fault as we seem to underestimate the ninth concubine, The situation is not as simple as it seems "


    The pair of kneeling men gave a breath of relief, they could not believe what was happening their boss had forgiven their lives, although they did not know why, they could guess more or less as to why they still alive, because they were still useful and their boss could not find a replacement in a short period.


    They got up from the floor and stood next to the other manager in silence Until a giant Blue pigeon arrived, This was a demonic beast in the Realm of body refinement, This was a beast used to send urgent messages in a short period.


    When the four people saw the pigeon in the dovecote in the backyard, They were left watching without knowing what to do, as it''s been a long time since they received the last one. Usually, they were secret messages that only the boss could see. So Walter got up and went to the backyard.


    He arrived at the dovecote and removed the message from the blue dove. but when he read it his mind went blank, he could not believe what was written inside, in all his life something like this had never happened to him before, Someone actually has stolen from him! According to what the note said not even the shelves were left out, They took everything, and that too in one night!


    For him, that was impossible because he had a cultivator in the Realm of Qi Gathering was set there to guard his fortune, something that for many was impossible, so much so that the people who were in that Realm in the Alba Kingdom can be counted on one hand! and he had five of them!


    This was a hard blow for him.

 Chapter 44: Trouble is coming

    Two hours later


    A carriage arrived at the Walter mansion, Easily passing through the security at the gate and arriving at the entrance of the mansion where two men have already been waiting.


    The carriage stopped in front of the mansion entrance and the driver of the carriage opened its door, from which a lady came out of the carriage.


    Seeing the lady, The two men bowed slightly and greeted her in unison: "Welcome Miss Joanna"


    Joanna smiled, "Manager Levi, Manager Alan, It''s been a while since I''ve last seen you," After greeting, she started walking towards the mansion and the two men followed behind her.


    After entering the mansion and closing the door, Joanna asked: "What is it so urgent that required my immediate presence? It should be worthwhile or else!" she was contacted in the palace very early today asking for her immediate presence at Walter''s mansion which forced her to cancel many commitments she had today to be here if the cause did not deserve her presence she was going to be angry.


    Levi was the first to speak, "Miss, we don''t interrupt you if it wasn''t important, it''s regarding your father."


    Joanna opened her eyes wide and looked around, "My father, What''s wrong with him, Why is he not here?"


    Alan could only sigh as he spoke: "Miss, please follow us "


    Joanna confused but still followed them, She advanced inside the mansion until she reached her father''s bedroom, she usually would never enter this room but now she has no choice but to do so.This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there.


    Upon entering the first thing she saw was an Elderly man lying in his bed his face looking ashen as if he were on the verge of death, surrounding him were several men and women dressed in white, they obviously were the doctors and nurses trying to help the Old man.


    Joanna saw this scene with incredulous eyes, Her father was currently 110 years old, and being a cultivator in the Realm of body refinement with a lifespan of 200 years, her father was just halfway through his life, therefore she found this scene unbelievable, it doesn''t make any sense how can a person who was healthy just a few days ago can be bedridden without any rhyme or reason, unable to comprehend this situation she asked, "What exactly happened?"


    They left the room and went to Walter''s office, where the managers told Joanna the whole truth, from the plans he had against the ninth concubine, how they failed even the whole process, and then "Today in the early morning a blue dove arrived with a message, The boss personally plucked the note but shortly after reading it he was so shocked that he fainted," Finished talking they passed her a piece of paper, which was the reason why Walter fainted, "We dare not to read it, So we called you urgently as we Currently do not know what to do, I hope you forgive our ineptitude."


    Joanna opened the piece of paper, When she finished reading she was in shock, she could tell why her father fainted, and could not help but murmur: "he was robbed, the entire warehouse is empty, not even the shelves were left out."


    When the managers heard that they were speechless, Someone had dared to steal from their boss, This had never happened, Manager Levi asked: "But what happened to the guardian?" As far as he knew, the guardian was much stronger than him so he could not believe that someone can cross him.


    "Dead, This morning they found him dead inside the warehouse," Joanna said somberly, even she could not believe that a person in the Realm of Qi Gathering had died so easily. Listening to those words the office fell silent.


    Joanna was silent for a couple of minutes. While the managers did not dare to say anything, they knew that she was thinking about what to do from now on.


    After a moment, she finally spoke: "The people who robbed the warehouse, must be traveling in a convoy, as it''s impossible to go unnoticed with all the goods they have stolen, therefore they should not be far away so I''ll use my influences to have the army block and search all the convoys within the 100 miles radius of the Capital city, as it''s impossible for them to travel any further than that with all the load they''ll be carrying."


    Then she focused her eyes on Manager Levi and asked: "Are you sure that the ninth concubine has bought all her merchandise from us?"


    Manager Levi nodded immediately: "Yes, she purchase it through one of my subordinates."


    Joanna then gave a small smile and said," Report to the captain of the law enforcement squad that the ninth concubine is selling the stolen goods" The pair of managers could not believe what the lady has just said: "It means that" Before they could finish talking Joanna completed her sentence; "Frame it and finish what my father has started."

 Chapter 45: First day of business

    Finally, Anna''s store was officially opened for business, everyone in front of the store was greeted by a sign with big letters that said [If you can manage to damage any outfit we will reward you with 500 gold coins].


    This received a lot of attention from people because five hundred gold coins was a lot of money for a common family, normally a family of four would only require 10 silver coins for a month, and the store was rewarding the equivalent of a thousand''s of silver coins which enables them with a stable living condition for many years to come. They could even buy Alchemy potions for their children to pursue cultivation, and all they had to do was damage a dress. Many thought it was a joke, but when they went inside the store to confirm it, they were told that it was not a joke and If they succeeded in tearing a dress, they would be rewarded 500 gold coins.


    Very soon many people came to the store to try to tear a dress that Anna provided them for the tests, but none could break it, This news spread like a wave within the Capital City, and the store was on the mouth of everyone in entire capital. this was followed by another rumor which spread saying that the outfits from the store''s don''t fade till the thousandth wash.


    Many housewives were drawn by the rumors and went to Anna''s store almost immediately, When they witnessed the durability of the outfits plus the promise made by the store that the clothes can endure a thousand washes without fading, and the price of the outfits they were astounded as it''s cost the same as the clothes brought in other common stores. so Without any further hesitation, they bought some outfits from Anna''s store.


    Many of them even asked if there were selling men''s outfits as their husband''s work resulted in a lot of wear and tear of clothes, and needed to buy clothes every two or three months, which made a big hole in the budget of average families. but if those expenses could be saved, they could have a better future. Because of this many housewives were waiting eagerly for a positive response from Anna.


    Fortunately, Anna did not disappoint them and said that at the end of the week she would have men''s outfits ready with the same features as women''s outfits. As from where she was going to bring them, she did not know, but since she had already made the promise, she could not disappoint her customers.


    After the housewives left the store feeling content, another group of women arrived right after, but there were different from the previous housewives, they all donned in armor and exuded an air of greatness, they were all hunters! A hunter profession was mostly crowded with men, as the name implies there were dedicated to hunting demonic beasts with a considerable population. They were crucial for the countries. it was very rare for women to be in this profession but not unheard of. considering that this profession has a high mortality rate!Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.


    Within this group of hunters, there were a great variety of women, fat, thin, tall, dwarf, and pretty among others, but they all have something in common, which was they were all cultivators! The leader who was in front of the rest was a cultivator in the eighth stage of the Realm of body refinement while the rest varied between the sixth, fifth and the weakest was in the third.


    This group of women approached the store because they heard rumors about this store that sold clothes harder than steel, so they came to confirm it. When they were about to enter, they saw the sign that was in front of the store dumbstruck and thought (This challenge would not include martial artists, right?)


    One of them entered the premises to ask if she could participate in the challenge, and the answer she got was: "Anyone can participate regardless of their gender, age or cultivation," This surprised her, thinking it was easy money, since it was not possible for a cultivator like her to not even tear a piece of cloth.


    So she took one of the test outfits in front of her and tried to split it in two, but to her surprise no matter how hard she tried she was unable to do so, this piqued the interest of the group leader who said: "Let me try it", When she heard that she passed the outfit to her without any hesitation, after all, she was only in the fourth stage of body refinement while her leader in the eighth stage of body refinement, It was a stark difference of there strengths.


    When the leader took the dress, she tried to split the outfit in two with her bare hands same as her teammate but even she failed to do so! This not only left her incredulous but also the whole group that was with her. Then her eyes went to Anna as she asked, "Can I use my sword?"


    Anna simply nodded, as she knew only those with the cultivation in the realm of elemental could break those clothes, so there was nothing to worry about, either with or without a sword it was impossible for her to generate that amount of force.


    Receiving the approval from the owner of the store, she drew her sword while asking her teammates to spread and hold the dress so she could cut it in two. They followed their leader''s instructions and extended the dress five meters away from her.


    The leader took a stance and with all her strength she sliced at the dress, but it was not enough as the dress was still intact and the leader felt as if her sword was against a wall of Steel.


    Then she realized that this dress was stronger than her iron armor.


    Usually, hunters are quite poor because the demonic beasts are stronger than them even if they are in the same realm. Due to this, there are days when that are not successful in their hunt earning nothing and sometimes even need to spend on medical assistance. and as soon as they earn their money they need to account for their daily expenses and spending which leaves them with nothing to invest in better equipment, due to this many hunters only wear leather armor while leaders like her after many years of Saving can only buy an iron armor whereas her assistants could only have bronze armor.

 Chapter 46: Furious

    The leader of the group turned towards Anna and asked: "Miss, how much damage can these clothes resist?"


    Anna thought it wouldn''t be a bad thing to reveal it, so she said: "If it''s a human, it should be able to withstand a force comparable to the First level of Elemental Realm, if it is a demonic beast it should be able to withstand one in the Realm of Qi Gathering as for the specific level it depends on its type" hearing this the leader along with the whole group were dumbfounded, she could not believe what Anna had just spoken, this was utterly impossible.


    "Are you sure?" The leader asked Anna skeptically. This was too shocking.


    to that Anna inflated her chest while saying: "Our store never lies," After saying those words she remained silent, as she knew that no other word would convince them since they had already witnessed the resistance of her dress If even that couldn''t convince them than Nothing else would.


    One of the women in bronze armor stepped forward and said: "Chief, I do not know about you but I''ll buy a couple of these outfits, as these will be very comfortable to wear at the same time proving us with better protection, plus I do not like to wear armor as its heavy and resist movements. and most of all these cost the same as the common clothes."


    Seeing that one of them choose, those who were still hesitant also decided to buy these clothes, Soon only the leader was left undecided, She had just purchased her iron armor. Being said that, she felt a little sad, if she had just waited a bit more then she could have saved that money which went into the armor.


    In the end, she too gritted her teeth and chose a pair of clothes, if what the store owner said is true, she could not let her subordinates be stronger than her, her pride would not allow it.


    As many of them did not have much money, they could only buy clothes from the first floor, While Anna saw that scene, involuntarily a small smile formed on her face, Her business was going well and she believed that she had a competitive advantage.


    But a moment later they heard footsteps of soldiers approaching quickly. Seeing this, Anna frowned and left the shop. When he came out she heard the voice of a man saying: "On the orders of his Majesty King Lewis Alba, and on charges of selling stolen goods, the owner of the establishment is found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. I Gerard Fenton, heir to the house of Marquis Fenton and head of the law enforcement squad of the capital city will Arrest the criminal for the sake of justice."


    What surprised Anna was that the charges were towards her shop! That man in armor was saying he was going to arrest her. This made Anna very angry, she had never been so angry in her life. In a somber voice, she shouted: "What did you say?"


    Gerard saw a woman leave the store and assumed that she was the owner of the store, he didn''t observe her carefully and said: "You are under arrest by the order of his majesty, you better not Resist otherwise, we will not be kind," After a pause he used his finger to point and ordered:" Capture her, also search for her accomplices."This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.


    After that, his men advanced towards Anna, meanwhile, Gerard was very quiet while his men executing the arrest, he thought it was only a matter of time before they captured this woman. Then he would just handover this woman to Walter''s people and get a lot of money by completing this task. thinking that he crossed his arms over his chest as he waited for his subordinates to do the dirty work.


    But very soon he felt something approaching him fast, So he took measures to avoid it, He moved to the left side, and the object just passed by. When he saw what it was he was dumbfounded, it was one of his subordinates. So he turned his gaze back towards the woman, and what he saw was quite shocking. he brought more than twenty of his men along with him to make this arrest and now they were all on the ground moaning in pain, some had broken arms and some had broken legs while some bled from all the orifices, and standing in front of him was a woman with her knuckles torn and full of blood.


    This filled Gerard with fear and in his trembling voice he said: "You, you are resisting arrest, If you do not cooperate you will be condemned to death."


    Anna was so furious when she heard those words, She approached slowly towards Gerard while saying: "Do you know who I am?"


    When Gerard heard that he felt a tingling sensation in his spine, he could only shake his head as he fell to the ground on his ass while saying: "No, I do not know who you are"


    Anna kept walking towards him and said: "I''m the ninth concubine Anna Webber Now that you know, are you saying that my husband gave orders to arrest me?"


    When Gerard heard that he could only stutter: "But, but, but, the king signed this order right in front of me," Upon hearing that Anna stopped, she raised her eyebrow and said: "Pass me the arrest warrant."


    Gerard did not hesitate, he knew that this woman was strong, he was only in the sixth stage in the Realm of body refinement while his men were in the second to fourth, He could not do what this woman just did a few seconds ago, she must at least be on the ninth level of body refinement, Someone he cannot afford to offend, So he takes out an order he had kept with him and passed it to the woman.


    Anna received the order and began to read it, This thing was signed by the king, and this order had her name, According to this she was accused of selling stolen goods, So she would have to spend five years in prison, When she finished reading it, Anna''s heart was on fire, her heart was broken, she had never loved that garbage, as she was never interested in love, she just wanted to have a child, and when she married the king it was only to bear her son nothing else, After that, she never wanted to be intimate with him.


    she still respected him as a husband because of his family''s reputation, but this was the straw that broke the camel''s back, (this garbage sent someone to arrest me even though I am his legal wife, I could tolerate many things but not this), with that she gave a Killer look to Gerarda and attacked without any mercy, and broke his limbs and three ribs, Although he is not dead, he needs to spend more than a year in bed, Anna felt it was still very light for what he dared to do.


    Gerard by her side was lying unconscious on the middle of the street, he didn''t even have an opportunity to speak and could only accept the blows.


    After Gerard was beaten black and blue, Anna returned to the store, Calmed her mood and assured the crowd, "Dear customers, Due to some complications we will close earlier than expected, so, those who have already picked the clothes they want to purchase please stop by to pay, others please come back tomorrow."


    Customers could only follow her instructions, they had just seen how strong she was, so some quickly paid while others left, as they did not have enough time to decide, Besides they wanted to spread the most recent gossip about the king sending someone to arrest the ninth concubine. This was something that will inevitably cause a great wave in the kingdom.

 Chapter 47: I told you.

    After all the customers have left, Anna closed her store and looked towards the direction of the palace where the king resides, Her eyes became very cold, This time the king has passed the line which was unforgivable. Anna was not the only one with that look but so were Audrey and Alexander, so the three of them started on their way to the palace.


    Meanwhile in the palace.


    A pair of old people barge into the king''s office without any prior notice, whereupon they focused their eyes on a middle-aged man who was at the desk busy with his paperwork totally ignoring the others present in the room, Upon seeing someone has entered, the middle-aged man looked up to see the people who had just entered and said: "Father, mother, what are you doing here?"


    when he heard that question, the old man from the pair just answered: "As if you did not know, why we are here."


    The middle-aged man was, of course, the current king of kingdom alba, Lewis Alba, While the elders were his parents Adam and Beth Alba, Faced with such a statement Lewis calmly replied: "If it is regarding the matter of the ninth concubine, you have to understand it was Joanna''s request, as she was sure that all the merchandise inside the store of the ninth came from her father''s warehouse which was robbed last night."


    Beth just stared at her son, while Adam only shook his head and asked: "do you have any proof that proves her allegation?"


    Lewis only replied: "do you mean evidence?, why do I need evidence, I''m the king and if I want to put someone in jail I''ll do it, This act will also be a reminder to the nobles that no one can escape from my law, as for the ninth, she just to convey that message to all the nobles."


    Beth and Adam were disappointed with their son, they could not believe that their son has become someone like this, he took his preference so far as to get rid of one of his wives at the instigation of another, and the worst was that he even gave an excuse that not even a child would believe, making it even more obvious why he did it.


    while this was going on, footsteps were heard coming from outside the door.


    "It must be Gerard, Now if you excuse me I have work to do," Saying that Lewis returned to reading the documents present on his desk.


    from outside the door, voices were heard: "Ladies, the king is not receiving people at the movement please visit him at another time," it was the voice of the guard guarding the king''s office. Upon hearing that everyone inside the office wanted to know who could it be, so they paid attention to hear the conversation but all they heard was a broken door, which surprised them as someone dared to do this inside the palace. when the guard saw this he immediately attacked the pair of women but was stopped midway by one of them who sent his ass flying. When he landed nobody knew if he was dead or alive.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.


    After the pair entered the office, their eyes were completed focused on Lewis.


    Now Lewis was surprised, he did not understand how come the ninth concubine be here, as he sent Gerard who should be more than enough to arrest her, but she was now standing right in front of him seeing this he asked: "What are you doing here?"


    Anna only stared at her husband coldly as if to say "I''m the one asking the questions here."


    Seeing that the other side didn''t answer his question, Lewis got angry and ordered the person behind him to "Bring the guards to catch this criminal."


    But even after Lewis finished his sentence, The man behind him did not dare to move, he could feel a murderous aura which was suffocating him, he knew that if he moved he would die for sure, soon after his face began to turn pale and his knees became weak. Seeing that the man was not moving, Lewis turned his head to see him, but all he saw was a man shaking in his boots with a pale face and about to collapse. Before Lewis could ask what was wrong with him, he heard a gloomy voice: "Who did you call a criminal!" saying that Anna moved towards him, and with a bang, she broke his desk right in front of him.


    Lewis, seeing that Anna broke his desk got angry: "How dare you break my desk," just when he was going to say that, he felt a hand coming towards his face which he failed to avoid, which resulted in him being slapped by Anna, but most surprising is that she slapped him so hard that made him bleed and many of his teeth flew out of his mouth while he was knocked off from his chair, leaving him lying on the floor. lewis seeing this could only shout at Anna "You!"


    Lewis (I didn''t know that she''s so strong! she must be at least at the ninth level of Realm of body refinement) It was something he could not deal with.


    Anna was preparing to slap this imbecile once again when an old voice sounded: "Haha, who would have thought that the daughter of the duke was so strong, it is completely unexpected."


    Soon an Elder appeared in front of them donning the robes of the sea palace. It was obvious that she was sent here by the sea palace for the protection of the royal family. This old woman observed Anna while saying: "haha, what do you say if we let this matter rest here, it is true that he ...," just when she was about to finish her sentence she was attacked. it was too fast for her to avoid so she could only receive the attack crashing through the wall of the room, almost passing through it.


    The Elder became pale after receiving the attack, she had never expected that someone present inside this office was stronger than her, Currently she was in the fourth level of Realm of Qi Gathering, In this whole kingdom there were only a few who could rival her and she knew every one of them but none of them were inside this room.


    So she looked skeptically at the one who attacked her. She was the servant of the Ninth Concubine, the woman who followed Anna without saying anything till now, but from one moment to the next she had turned violent and attacked her. when she saw her attacker she asked in a low voice. "Why did you attacked me?"


    Audrey stared at her with her cold eyes " You were about to defend that imbecile isn''t that true? That simply makes you our enemy, Now shut up or I will cripple your cultivation," After saying that Audrey looked away from her.


    The old woman hearing Audrey''s response became very angry, she could not believe that a simple servant dared to treat her like this and rebuked "I am an Elder of the Sea Palace, how dare.....," again before she finished speaking, Audrey approached her and attacked mercilessly by sending a Palm to her chest crippling her cultivation.


    after crippling her cultivation Audrey just said: "Didn''t I warn you or not?"

 Chapter 48: It can not end like this!

    After Audrey was done with her, the Elder spat blood while regret crossed her mind, thinking if only she had stayed quiet when she was told to but who can she blame she was the one who instigated this as she did not expect the other party to take any action towards her in fear of her being an Elder of the Sea Palace being one of the six sects closest to the Alba Kingdom.


    The Elder stayed quiet while feeling all the Qi that she has accumulated over the years slowly escape her body while everyone else in the office stood still, it''s not that they didn''t want to stop Audrey from attacking the elder, it''s just that it was too fast for them to even register what had just happened and by the time they came to be the deed was already been done, it can''t be helped it''s just that the difference between the realms was huge.


    Alexander''s grandparents did not even speak but they just watched as third parties. At first, they wanted to speak in favor of the ninth because they thought that they had to defend her from their son''s absurd actions. But they realized that it was the other way around as even an Elder of the Sea Palace has failed to defend Lewis. As for talking on behalf of their son, it did not even cross their mind because this time they were very disappointed by their son''s actions, So they decided to only observe how the situation would progress from here on, as they believed that the ninth would not kill their son.


    Lewis''s confidence totally collapsed when he saw the Elder in that pitiful state, She was his surety, with whom he could have secured his place on the throne and now it all came down crumbling leaving him no way out of this situation while in his desperation he was thinking about his escape but before he could even act, a furious voice reached his ears: "Now You answer me, Who did you call a criminal?"


    Lewis focused his eyes back on the angry woman in front of him, This time he knew he f****d up big time, he could only sigh, "I will withdraw the order to arrest you,....." but before he can finish his sentence Anna pressed her foot on his head while saying " You seriously think it''s this easy for you to get out of this, If I didn''t possess enough strength I would have been in jail"


    by now Lewis knew that he was not in a position to negotiate so he resigned and asked: "What do you want?"


    Anna without any hesitation replied: "I want a divorce, I''m sick of you."


    "What? Impossible, Where would my face be, If I do that," Lewis was furious, he could not believe that she asked for a divorce so he flared up and as soon as he finished what he said he felt that the pressure on his head increase.


    "That''s your problem why do I need to care about your face, You should have thought about it before you moved against me, how do you think people will see you when you just ordered an arrest warrant against your own wife, Are you an idiot or what? You''ve already lost your face when you sent guards to arrest me" said Anna while looking coldly at Lewis thinking (This useless man, how could he be manipulated by someone so easily.)This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.


    "Now I''m going to put it like this, either you give me a divorce or I break your legs, you have until I count to one to decide," said Anna.


    Lewis was angry when he heard Anna talk to him this way, he could not believe the situation he was in right now, he did not imagine that today When he signed the arrest warrant he also involuntary signed his grave, (I definitely would not have done it if I knew it would end up like this.) thought Lewis.


    "It is not necessary for you to count, Miss Anna," saying so an Elder entered the king''s office, unlike the last time, This old man entered normally, neither very fast nor slow, This Elder was the former Prime Minister of the Alba Kingdom, Frey. when he saw the physical state of the king he could not help sighing, but he knew that the king truly deserved it as this time he had openly helped the third to frame the ninth which goes against the behavior and doctrine a king should live by. coming to terms with this Frey looked towards Anna and extended his hand, in it there was a vellum made of demonic beast skin: "This is the marriage certificate between you and the king, feel free to do what you want with it" saying so Frey left the vellum to Anna.


    Seeing this Anna assuredly gave the order, "Audrey, destroy that vellum, just thinking that I''m still married to this garbage man makes me nauseous," Normally essential documents are made from demonic beast skin, Because this material was very durable, It is said that the durability of the skin increases according to the cultivation of the demonic beast, the scroll made of the weakest demonic skin can last centuries before beginning to decompose.


    hearing Anna''s order Audrey was very happy as her mistress can finally be free, so she just nodded to express her acknowledgment then went in front of Frey and broke the vellum in two. Against the predictions of the king, his parents did not even try to oppose this matter, because they knew that this relationship was over and Nobody could change that. Besides, with the current strength of Anna and her servant, no one in the kingdom could do anything to her. Besides, although she was not the wife of his son anymore, Alexander was still their grandson and their relationship with Anna does not change. Her divorce was more than justified.


    Lewis could only watch Audrey breaking the vellum in two, incapable of doing anything.


    Anna, after seeing the broken vellum finally calmed down, So she stopped stepping on the head of her ex-husband, and gave the order to Audrey, "Bring Alexander with you and start packing, we''re going out of this palace as soon as we''re done"


    Frey thinking that they had nowhere to stay, went ahead and said: "Miss Anna if you do not have anywhere to go, you can stay at my house until you can find a place to stay."


    "Thank you, Mr. Frey, it would be very helpful if we could stay at your house for some time, we promise not to be a nuisance" For Anna, Frey was one of the few people worth respecting inside the palace, He always treated her very well during the time she spent here, so she gladly accepted his good intentions.


    "Haha, It''s nothing, you do not have to be so polite", seeing how the other party treated him, he could not help but smile, for him, it was not much of a hassle to do this.


    After saying that, Anna turned her head to see her ex-husband, and with a cold look she said, "I warn you if you interrupt my business once again, I won''t just stop with breaking a vellum"


    After that, Anna exchanged some words of apology and courteous with Alexander''s grandparents ignoring the king, not long after they left the office leaving the king alone with the old lady of the Sea Palace who was badly wounded.


    After being alone for an unknown time, the king got up from the ground, He did not say a word and just approached the old woman and gave her a medicine pill and then he took a sheet of paper and started writing, After he finished writing he placed it inside an envelope, calling one of his guards he ordered "Take this envelope and send it through the pigeon that has the symbol of the sea palace"


    The guard nodded, he took the envelope and left. Meanwhile, the king fell to the ground and could only murmur: "This can not stay like this"

 Chapter 49: Why?

    Hours after what happened in the palace of the king


    It was already night while Anna, Audrey, and Alexander had settled in the mansion of the prime minister, This mansion was in the most exclusive area of the capital, where the houses of the rich politicians and merchants of the kingdom are located.


    Normally within the continent there were several names for houses, for example normally only the home of the royal family could be called "Palace", While the common nobles, their official residence was usually called "House" plus his surname Eg: house of Keer, but there were people who did not abide by those rules, like the Sail empire, their power was called "royal palace" while the residence of the imperial family, called "imperial palace", they wanted to make clear that their empire was above any kingdom.


    While normal people and wealthy people could not name their home unless they earn a noble title.


    During the night there was an old man in front of a chessboard, this view could be said to be very common, but the surprising thing was his opponent, who was a five years old boy. After a few minutes of playing the game was about to end leaving the five-year-old boy as the winner. The old man seeing this could only sigh and said, "The third prince is certainly capable"


    The boy just smiled slightly as he said, "Mr. Frey is not bad either, it just you lacks practice." This pair being Alexander and former Prime Minister Frey.


    A few hours before.


    Frey, He found out what the king had done, so he went straight to the palace to have a conversation with his student, how he did something so idiotic. This movement can cause many disputes between the royal family and divide it, he did not understand how his student could not see something as simple as this. But when he was halfway there, he heard a childish voice called from behind, "Mr. Frey, What are you doing here?"


    Upon hearing that, Frey turned around to see the person who called him, to his surprise he saw a five-year-old boy, but at this movement, he was in a hurry, so after seeing him, he only nodded at the boy before turning his head and prepared to continue on his way, but before he could do that the child said something that shocked him, "Mr. Frey, if you''re here to talk to that king, I recommend you to think twice "


    Upon hearing that, Frey stopped short, and turned around with curious eyes he faced the child, and asked: "Why?"


    The boy only replied: "Because my mother is already on her way to the King''s office, if the gentleman goes and speaks in favor of the king, maybe you end up very hurt in the best case scenario "


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    Frey recognized Alexander since he saw him, and he knew that the ninth would be furious with the king, but he did not imagine that she would face the king directly. knowing this he could not help but worry about the ninth concubine as he knew that the Sea Palace had sent an expert for the safety of the royal family, but he knew that protection was only for the king and the third concubine.


    Before he could speak, Alexander spoke again: "Sir, why do you look so worried?" At this moment Frey could only stare at Alexander, thinking Alexander did not act like an average child, After a few moments, he said. "And you''re not worried about your mother?"


    Alexander just smiled at him and replied, "haha, sir, I think I should worry about the old man from the sea palace."


    Hearing that, Frey could not help but shudder. from the time someone stole from the King, The sea palace had sent someone to prevent that from happening again. But this matter was only known to very few people inside the palace, but Frey was sure that the ninth was not one of them, so his attitude changed, being more severe and staring at Alexander he asked "How do you know about that? , it''s not something a child should know."


    "I know it from the time she came to the palace, That old lady kept watch on us a few days after she arrived So it would be weird if we didn''t know" Alexander said lightly and it was True a couple of months after the thefts toward the king, someone came from the sea palace and went looking for the stolen potions but she underestimated the formations made by Alexander. So she left empty-handed. After that, Alexander reinforced the existing formation with a formation of illusion throughout his mother''s room so that the old woman would not suspect anything and give them some leeway.


    When he heard those words Frey was somewhat incredulous, he could not believe what he had just heard, somewhat being doubtful he decided to probe Alexander, "If you know about her, you should know about her strength, Are not you worried about your mother?"


    Alexander, When he heard that question knew what Frey was coming from, He thought it was a boy boasting, thinking that his mother was the strongest person in the world. Without knowing anything about there being much stronger people outside. So he just replied: "She just in the fourth level of the Realm of QI Gathering so she won''t be a problem."


    Frey could not believe that Alexander could know something like that, as even Frey only learned three years ago, that there were more realms in the way of cultivation. But this child said it so lightly as if he were talking about an ant!


    Enjoying the expression of the old man Frey, Alexander turned around leaving the following message: "Mr. Frey, I will be honest, this time my father crossed a line that he should never cross, This time it is indefensible, I can recommend two things, One If you have to choose, do not choose the side of the king, and two, it would be better to take the marriage certificate of my mother along with you if you are going to see the king," After saying that he left without waiting for the answer from the other side.


    Frey after being stunned for a few minutes, thought about what he had just heard, he did not know why but he felt that he should follow these tips of the third prince, he made the decision and started walking.


    Returning to the present


    Frey remembering the events of the afternoon he could not help sighing. After the game, he could not help feeling that he had made the right decision. Seeing Alexander calm self he asked: "Now that your mother''s maid crippled an elder of the Sea Palace, consequently offended them, Knowing the arrogance of the sect, we can assume that the sea place would send some powerhouses to deal with us, so what plans does the third prince have for this situation?"


    Alexander liked to hear those words, especially" We ", to tell the truth, from the time Frey helped them he became a part of this group, that is to say when the Sea Palace finds about them, they categorize this group as "Criminals"and they would send some elders from the law enforcement group of their sect to capture them and be "judged", at least that was the standard procedure, if they deemed them not worthy of doing that, they would only issue a mission for the disciples of their respective sects to train and earn contribution points.


    as for Frey in hosting criminals he too became an accomplice, therefore, he expected that he too would receive the same treatment as Alexander''s group, so he asked Alexander what he thought, whereas Alexander was very calm, he just smiled slightly and said: "Mr. Frey, let me tell you that a mere Sea Palace amounts to nothing, Within this continent there are countless powers which are more powerful than them, so why should I fear them?"

 Chapter 50: Ants

    Frey just listened in silence to what Alexander was saying. As far as he knew, a normal person could not even leave the southern part of the continent in his entire life, so it did not seem strange that out there, there are powers equal or stronger than the ones he knew.


    Seeing the silence of the other party, Alexander continued: "Mr. Frey, let me be honest if there is something that you should be afraid of it''s "greed". One should know that although these sects are the local powers if we take the whole picture of the continent they would amount to no more than ants and you just have to give these ants the necessary benefits to make them fight among themselves, it is not very complicated "


    Frey reflected the words he just heard from Alexander and said unbelievingly: "Then you plan to make it that the powers are so busy fighting each other that they do not have time to deal with us."


    Alexander was very pleased by Frey response. it''s the very reason why he likes talking to smart people, the more he spoke with him the more he understood how despite being born as a commoner without any background he managed to become a prominent figure within the Alba kingdom. Although for him, that achievement was unimportant, that did not mean the same for the other party. Therefore, if one sees it from the perspective of the other side, One could see that it was a great achievement for the other side.


    Alexander said: "you are right but at the same time wrong if you have not noticed. When the six powers came to recruit new disciples, their relationship was amicable, do you know what it means?"


    After hearing that, Frey pondered for a moment, then said: "It means that they are in an alliance."


    hearing that Alexander clapped and said: "you are right, they are in an alliance, but this alliance seems to be recent, and I can only think of one reason why such powers came together to form an alliance."


    Frey, could not help but ask: "why?"


    Alexander turned a little serious and said: "They want to stop being a desolate land, and become a 5th-grade mortal country."This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.


    This confused Frey, "But third prince, that''s something they could do on their own, why do they have to form an alliance for that?"


    "Mr. Frey, As someone working in politics, you should be already aware of this, a king can not allow the neighboring kingdoms to become too strong even if the neighboring kingdom does not possess any immediate threat to your kingdom, the same goes for the powers. If the balance is broken and one becomes stronger than the rest, it is most likely that he will annex the other powers to be stronger." When he heard that, Frey understood that the relationship between the powers was not so different than the Kingdoms. Then Alexander continued: "Because of this the competition between the younger generation is very bloody, many of them die at the hands of disciples of nearby powers, so an alliance makes sense if they want to develop without being harassed."


    After hearing that, Frey leaned on the chair and slowly stroked his beard as he said: "But if the powers are in an alliance, how shall we make them fight each other?"


    Alexander calmly replied: "It''s not necessary to make them fight with each other, we just have to make everyone beware of everyone, and make powerful people stay in power, so we do not have to worry, I mean you already know how strong is Audrey right?"


    Frey could not help but nod, as he saw Audrey cripple the elder of the Sea Palace, and asked: "how do you plane to make them stand still?"


    Alexander put his elbows on the table with his fingers intertwined each other while smiling like an old fox and said: "Let''s put a price on the heads of the supreme elders of all powers, but not in money but a pill of opening Elemental!"


    "Hearing that Frey just furrowed his eyebrows" what is this opening elemental pill?" He had never heard about this pill.


    Alexander Continued: "It''s normal that you do not know but this is a pill used to break the bottleneck between the Realm of Qi Gathering and the Elemental Realm," he smiled at Frey cheerfully as he said, "Something that the other supreme elders need desperately, Now do you understand?"


    Frey opened his eyes wide in wonder, as Alexander planned to give them something that was necessary for them to breakthrough elemental realm and all they needed to do was to kill their peers which were impossible for them to accomplish all alone therefore they need to form an alliances with other supreme Elders to face their target in two to one, but how could they go to ask for an alliance to go and kill another elder and not know if another had already done it and he was the target of the other party?


    This would make the relationship between them very tense, and they will have no choice but to guard themselves at the base of their respective sects, not only that, to prevent another Sect from trapping their disciples and elders they would be ordered to return to their respective sects to protect themselves. Meanwhile, the main culprit would be free of all sin.


    After a few moments, Frey finally recovered his senses sighing and asked: "The third prince is wise, but I imagine that this situation will not last forever, right?"


    Alexander extended his hands, making a gesture towards Frey and replied:" Of course not, imagine that a guy arrives in 50 years asking for the reward, so to avoid all that It will be given a term of two years to perform the task, This will give us enough time to grow and we will not be afraid against mere powers anymore."

 Chapter 51: Deadpool

    Frey was somewhat doubtful "Two years, will it be enough?"


    Alexander just smiled, avoiding answering that question, He thought that showing the results would be better than some empty words.


    After a few moments, the silence was broken by the voice of a maid: "Excuse me, sir, I brought you some tea," saying that, she placed the tray containing the tea set on the table then poured some tea to Frey and Alexander while leaving the teapot on the table, she bowed and silently left the room.


    Seeing that Alexander did not want to answer his question, Frey did not get angry, but he understood what Alexander wanted to do, so he decided to change the subject, "Third Prince, What I do not understand is how do we make the bounty reach the ears of the sects?"


    Alexander crossed his arms as he said: "Easy, With the Deadpool"


    Frey reached for the freshly served cup of tea, after taking a sip, he asked: "Deadpool?"


    Alexander did the same and took a sip of tea but when he heard that question, he was somewhat surprised and asked: "Have you not heard of the Dead Pool?" hearing this, Frey shook his head, Seeing that Alexander began to explain: "The Deadpool is an organization that serves as an intermediary between the Clients and the Assassins, the only thing we need to do is to give them the details of the person we want dead and the deadline along with the reward and a fee for their services and they would post the name of the person you want dead on a blackboard, along with the reward, in addition to the time in which you want him killed and the first one to capture/kill him and bring his head would be given the agreed reward."


    "Is there really an organization like that?" (Frey)


    "Yes, but it does not operate in the secular world, they only allow murders of cultivators," When saying these words Alexander arose several memories of his past life, in his past life he had worked for that organization as an assassin, as well as a bounty target. Therefore Alexander knew how it worked as if it the back of his hand.


    Upon hearing that, Frey nodded his head in understanding and said: "Then just tell me where this organization is situated, and I''ll send someone by tomorrow to place the bounty." as for the issue of where the pills for the reward are gonna come from, Frey knew that it''s futile to ask Alexander as he wouldn''t answer him so he didn''t ask, although he suspected that it is more likely that the third prince has a master who is helping him secretly.This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.


    hearing Frey''s proposal, Alexander said in a calm tone: "Frey we do not need to hurry there is something that I want to confirm, and this occasion gave us the perfect opportunity to prove it."


    This aroused Frey''s interest, therefore he asked: "What is it that you want to confirm?"


    Alexander did not think it would be wrong to tell Frey, therefore, he said: "You know my uncle is a Core disciple of the James Clan, right?." Hearing that Frey nodded since he had already met him a few years ago, seeing that Alexander continued: "Three years ago my uncle gave us a news, that my cousin became the direct disciple of the supreme elder of the James Clan."


    Frey again nodded his head understanding. as it was the public knowledge that the princess of the Snow Kingdom became a direct disciple of the James Clan, so he was not surprised by what the third prince had just said. But he did not understand where he''s going with that, so he just waits in silence.


    Alexander put down his teacup and leaned back on his chair, raising his head to the ceiling, he said: "This means that my mother and I are in a state similar to the king and the third concubine but while the Sea Palace has sent an elder for the safety of the royal family, the James Clan did not send anyone," Hearing that Frey could not help but frown.


    Not caring about the other party Alexander continued: "This does not make any sense, logically they should be helping me to ascend the throne, because if my brother ascends the throne, he''s being a disciple of the Sea Palace will slowly convert the Alba kingdom into territory of the Sea Palace, something which the other powers would not like to happen, therefore I as a person without any affiliation to any power should be their best option to hold the position of the King of this kingdom without disturbing their current balance."


    Frey could see the point that Alexander has made. to explain: At the moment the kingdom of Alba is considered a neutral ground for the six powers, but it seems that in the near future it would become the territory of the Sea Palace, meanwhile, the other sects let it slide by not taking any actions to prevent it from happening and looked to the other side. which doesn''t make any sense, After thinking about something else Frey asked: "Third Prince, What happens if the other powers instead of supporting you, support the Fourth and Fifth Prince. "


    Alexander lowered his head looking at Frey and said "No that is not possible, most likely when they grow up they too would join a sect, therefore they would be in the same situation as the second Prince, therefore the remaining powers would support me, because with my little talent I can not join any of these sects in my life, so even if they wouldn''t gain any more territory, they will remain equally balanced which is the best thing for them."


    When Frey analyzed what the third prince has said, he concluded that what he had said made sense, He was by far the only option if they do not want the Alba kingdom to become a territory of a particular sect, that is, although the other princes will be part of their respective sects, they could only have the backing of that particular sect, while the third prince could have the backing of the other three powers, the difference would be overwhelming.


    Frey understood what the third prince wanted to put on to the test and asked: "So, what do you intend to do?"


    Alexander just shrugged and said: "Knowing how the Sects work, they will give a notice of capture before taking any action, then I will see whether the James Clan remains silent or acts in our favor. But I already have a rough idea of what will happen."

 Chapter 52: Start the calm

    Frey silently nodded, he thought of seeing the big picture of the region through this situation seemed ideal, but thinking about the lingering threat he asked: "But, Third prince, do we have enough time to proceed with everything?"


    Alexander just smiled slightly and said: "we do, even if my father has already sent the letter regarding these events to the Sea Palace, it would take at least two weeks to reach them, thereafter they will give us their announcement and giving us more or less two weeks to present ourselves at the Sea Palace to accept the crimes, this will give you enough time to respond to the James clan. If nobody takes any action then the Sea Palace would send a couple of elders to capture us, which would take them a month to get here, So we have two and a half months to complete our preparations."


    Frey wrinkled his eyebrows and asked: "they are taking such a long time to move, perhaps they are not afraid of us fleeing."


    Alexander shrugged his shoulders and replied:" It is not that they do not want to move faster, it''s just that they can''t, Normally the bases of the powers are located very far from the kingdoms and it would take several months to reach it on foot, As for the need to announcing it before taking any action, they have to do otherwise the remaining powers would use it as an excuse to dishonor them, which will make it so that the normal people would despise joining them."


    Upon hearing those words Frey understood the general situation, After a moment Alexander continued: "As for fleeing, if the people that the power pursues flee, it only benefits them, This will demonstrate their power and increase their prestige," When Alexander finished, Frey saw the situation completely clear, Although he did not know why Alexander knew so well about the working of the powers, he did not ask, after all that was not his business.


    Alexander knew that he did not need to make any of these arrangements at all, because, with two and a half months of time, they can easily defend themselves from the Sects. For now, Audrey could only deal with a Cultivator at the sixth level of the Realm of Qi Gathering and within two months she could easily contend with a seventh or eighth level opponent, and only the great and supreme Elders can deal with her.


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    Also, the cultivation of Audrey progresses by leaps and bounds because she already opened the acupuncture points, She just cleans the meridians and proceeds to fill the acupuncture point with qi.


    For an ordinary artist is much more difficult, because first must open a point, then with all his qi, must clean the channels that join the open point with the point you want to open and finally attack him, which will exhaust all the qi in his body, regardless of success or failure. and that cycle will repeat according to the quality of your cultivation technique.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it


    Collect qi, Clean channels, attack the point, the more points you want to open the higher the amount of Qi. This task, unless one has a way of recovering qi quickly can take many years.


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    But this would have several negative consequences, the worst possible scenario is that. Seeing their rapid growth, the powers will unite against them to find the secrets behind their growth. so to avoid that, it was better to maintain a low profile until they have the power to defeat them.


    After finishing the topic, both the child and the old man said goodbye and went to rest.


    Meanwhile in Walter''s Mansion.


    Inside Walter''s office, there were three people with one being a woman and two middle-aged men, the woman was sitting behind a desk with her head facing down, while the two men were sitting on the other side waiting for the other party to speak.


    The middle-aged woman had an ugly look on her face, She could never comprehend what happened today, she thought that by this time the ninth concubine would be rotting in jail or had been dead.


    But no, the ninth was perfectly alright, but in return her husband was quite miserable, he was injured and humiliated, She never thought that the ninth would have a maid with strength to defect an elder of a Sect, with this everything ended up severely, the elder of the Sea Palace ended up Crippled, and it was all her fault.


    Right now, until her father wakes up she will be in charge of his business, which will take up a lot of her time. Added to that she has to worry about the revenge of the other party, and with the strength of the other party, She couldn''t do anything to defend herself. The only thing that was in her favor was that her son was the direct disciple of the Supreme Elder of the Sea Palace, which she hoped was enough to dissuade the other party from acting against her.


    Moments later Joanna asked: "has my husband sent the news to the Sea Palace?"


    The two managers had previously opposed making a move against the former ninth concubine, but under Joanna''s foolishness, they had no choice but to follow her instructions which lead them to where they are now. hiding their displeasure one of them replied: "Yes, the king has already sent the news this afternoon"


    Joanna could only sigh and gave a couple of orders: "Levi, try to control the news of what happened as soon as possible and see to that so it doesn''t reach the ears of other stores and the experts who are guarding the mansion and the warehouses, We have to prevent them from giving up, give increments if necessary "


    After a moment Joanna continued: "Alan, starting tomorrow you need to hire more cultivators, the stronger the better, you will make them guard the warehouses and the mansion, and double the security, As for business everything will continue as if nothing had happened, is it clear?"


    The two men nodded, Then left the office to complete their task, leaving Joanna alone who murmur: "This is the best I can do, now it all depends on my fate," After a few moments, she finally stopped and slowly left the room, Preparing to sleep.


    The next morning


    The Capital City was in turmoil, First the king gave an arrest warrant against his own wife, which had a high impact on the citizens, but what struck them the most was what happened next, The ninth concubine or rather the former ninth concubine, asked the King for a divorce, something that was rarely seen on the continent. Although they did not know what was happening if something was clear it''s that, this time the king has lost his face.

 Chapter 53: Youre so predictable

    The next morning, In the Prime Minister''s mansion


    Everyone in the mansion did not care what happened inside the Capital City, Anna and Audrey were preparing for their second day of work, They were sure that thanks to yesterday''s advertising, Today would be much better.


    Alexander was also looking forward to going back to the store. Yesterday he was in the midst of making some changes to his room but was interrupted by the men who tried to imprison his mother. which made him pissed as when he was still staying in the castle, he couldn''t do anything in order to avoid people from getting some weird ideas and realize something about him so he had always controlled his urges and maintained his facade but now that he got his own room he can''t wait to go and finish were he left from yesterday.


    So, like the day before, the three of them went to Anna''s store.


    A few streets before arriving at Anna''s store, they saw a very long line that stretched across several streets.


    It was only until they approached the store did they realized that the line was to enter Anna''s shop. as the housewives have very much appreciated the quality of their clothes and bragged about them spreading the news all over the capital city which resulted into this long line of customers waiting to purchase some outfits.


    Alexander did not care much about that, While his mother was enthusiastic as she opened the store so was Audrey as they both started tidying up the store getting ready to welcome the customers.


    as for Alexander, he went directly to his room which looked like an ordinary room from outside but once you stepped inside you will know how wrong you are. Within the space of the room, gravity was altered to xx times of normal gravity which helps in the process of cultivation especially to those in the realm of body refinement.


    Many do not know that only when you take your body to the limit would you relate to your potential and increase your capacity to a whole new level. and the pressure of increased gravity is perfect for this process.


    Due to Alexander''s poor cultivation, he could only bear the increase in gravity by 0.1G, but this was not to be underestimated. suppose he practicing the six animal forms a 100 times inside this room then it would be equal to practicing it 110 times out of the room. This was a time saver, and that was what most martial artists lacked. which is time.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    Alexander''s previous life can be a great example. He died of old age, as his time was up before he can increase his cultivation realm which would have extended his lifeline. There were two things that cultivators and even some rich people would always look out to buy at any cost. One is the spirit crop resources, with help in increasing the rate at which they improve there cultivation making it much faster than the people who only gathered qi from the atmosphere.


    The second was much more valuable than the previous and even results in a bloodbath. They were the Objects that prolong the life of people.


    People always want to live a little longer and wouldn''t even hesitate to scale any heights as nobody wants to die. it''s true as the more you live the less you want to die


    So if we assume that Alexander takes five minutes to do a repetition of the six animal forms. then by practicing inside this room, each day he can train for 50 minutes more than the others. If you train for one year in this room, you will earn more than 304 hours of training.


    So just thinking about it, Alexander could not help but smile to himself. Entering the room, He began his training.


    A month has gone by without any incidents, During this month Alexander routine continued as follows, Every morning, Alexander would lock himself in the room and begin his training routine, While at night he would establish formations to defend the mansion of Frey.


    During this month, Anna''s store was an all-time high, no one could exceed its quality. their merchandise has been selling like hotcakes making other merchants filled with envy as they watch Anna became rich. Many thought that their merchandise would soon be out of stock. but they did not know that Audrey had robbed Walter''s whole warehouse, adding up to everything in the space ring, they had tons of clothes to sell.


    Meanwhile in the Sea Palace.


    A middle-aged man was running down the hall. In his right hand, he held a letter. While his expression was not good at all. He looked worried and incredulous.


    When he finally reached his destination, which Surprisingly was the Office of the sect master.


    Without any further hesitation, he began to knock on the door.


    knock


    knock


    After the second knock, a hoarse voice said: "come in," hearing this the middle-aged man entered the room, then made a small bow as he prepared to break the news.


    Nicholas, upon Seeing he middle-aged man asked: "What is it you want to report?"


    Upon hearing those words the middle-aged man said: "Reporting to the sect master, The Elder we sent to protect the parents of Nathaniel Alba, was crippled"


    Upon hearing those words, Nicholas was mute He wrinkled his eyebrows as he asked: "Are you joking with me?"


    The man shook his head quickly: "No, I would not dare to joke with you", After saying those words, He approached the sovereign and continued: "This letter has the seal of the royal family of Alba, In the letter they described the whole event," saying so he extended his arm leaving the letter on the desk.


    Nicholas still suspicious took the letter and proceeded to read it. While reading the letter, His face did not change. It was as if whatever stated inside the letter did not affect him at all.


    After a few minutes, he finished reading it and place it on the desk. then he placed his elbows on the desk with his fingers interlarded, immersed in thinking remaining silent for a few minutes.


    The middle-aged man waited for his orders uncomfortably, but there was nothing he could do but to wait for the sect master to speak.


    Nicholas, who was previously silent, finally opened his mouth and said in a stern tone: "Issue an arrest warrant."

 Chapter 54: Fool after fool

    The moment Nicolas said those words The office was filled with silence.


    A few seconds later, the middle-aged man spoke: "Sect master, are you sure?" In the letter, it says that it was the servant of Anna Webber who crippled the Elder, behind her back is her brother who''s a core disciple of the James Clan, in addition to that his niece is a direct disciple of the supreme elder of James Clan, if we do this we may incur their anger."


    Nicolas answered him indifferently:" Just do it, We can not let them trample us like this. Give them two weeks to volunteer and submit themselves. If they do not do so by the allotted time, send an Elder of Law enforcement to capture them." hearing this the middle-aged man just got stunned, it is impossible for them to reach their Sect in two weeks unless they have a flying beast on the eighth or ninth level of Realm of Qi Gathering, That is something that even the Sects have very few of them and are mostly be used by grand and supreme elders. So you can get the idea that it was impossible for Anna to have one.


    The Sect master just wanted to keep up his prestige by doing this, soon an idea shines through the mind of middle-aged man. "The Sect master wants to justify himself to the other powers before taking any real action, this way he can capture her without any regression from other sects."


    Apart from this, he could not think of any another explanation. After processing it, he asks the sect master: "sect master, are you not afraid of them fleeing? as the law enforcement elders will take at least a month to reach the Alba Kingdom. and If we add the two weeks of the notice period, it will give them two months or more so what stopping them from pack their bags and leave the kingdom."


    Nicholas just said:" I do not care if they run away or not, even if they flee, it only benefits us."


    The middle-aged man did not understand that very well but he acted as if he did and said:" Yes, Sect master," After that, he said his goodbye and left the office.


    That day, The Sea Palace surprised everyone by issuing an arrest warrant. what was surprising is not the arrest warrant but the people they wanted to arrest. They people being.


    Anna Webber, ex-wife of Lewis Alba, second daughter of duke Webber,


    Audrey servant of Anna Webber, and


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    Alexander Alba, Third prince, son of Lewis Alba and Anna Webber


    Many did not know who there were especially regarding Audrey, but after asking around a couple of questions their identities were revealed. They were the third prince of the Alba Kingdom and his mother along with her servant.


    what was shocking was that the Sea Palace has even issued an order for a child of five years old. Many found it unacceptable, while others investigated this matter a little more thoroughly. and they found that the elder brother of the third prince is a direct disciple of their Sect. Therefore, they thought that they were only using this situation as an excuse to help him in eliminating the competition for the throne.


    What they did find outrageous was that the guilty were given two weeks to appear voluntarily under the promise of being less severe for their crimes. as many knew that it was an impossible feat to travel from the Alba Kingdom to the base of the Sea Palace in the allocated time.


    Three days after the order was issued all the seven countries came to know about this matter, in many, it was the trending topic which was spoken by all and many were waiting for the events to unfold. Some people even bet and pondered about the reason behind issuing that warrant.


    Which has not been published, and for which it became a mystery discussed by everyone.


    Within the Alba Kingdom, In the Former Prime Minister''s Mansion.


    In one room there were three people, an old man, a young woman, and a five-year-old boy. Sitting while drinking tea.


    These were Audrey, Frey, and Alexander.


    This morning they received the news about their arrest warrant. When Audrey learned that no one knew who she was and that no one even cared about her capture, she got angry.


    "Young master, I can not believe that they dared to do this to us, if they dared to come, I will cripple them like that old woman," said Audrey, during this month she had advanced to the fifth level of Realm of Qi Gathering, and With her strength she could quickly deal with people who are two levels above her, therefore, she was not afraid of those old people from the sects.


    Alexander looked at her and answered: "Audrey, do not be so arrogant, in this desolate land you can be powerful but in other places, you would be even worse than an ant," hearing that Audrey could only lower her head and stayed quiet.


    seeing that, Alexander continued: "Dealing with these Sets is very annoying. It''s no use killing those who were sent to capture us, as they would just keep sending people who are stronger than the previous ones."


    hearing Alexander''s words Frey couldn''t help but asked: "There''s something I do not understand knowing that we kill everyone they send, why do they keep sending them to their death?"


    Alexander had an expression of disgust while he said: "Because of their face, every time you kill someone from their Sects they lose more and more of their faces, and this will make all of those who are from the respective powers very angry and hell-bent on gaining back their face. even though they were the ones who started everything. That''s why many solitary cultivators avoid getting into the midsts of these powers which they can not afford to fight."


    Frey nodded his head. He understood the general idea of the matter. So let''s move on to the next topic: "Why is Miss Anna not here to discuss the current situation? is she not worried about this predicament."


    hearing Frey''s question Audrey could only force a smile and replied: "She did not care and went to sleep early to open her store tomorrow."


    Alexander added: "My mother relies too much on Audrey''s strength, Since she learned that she can fight against them and even win, she stopped caring about it anymore." saying so Alexander asked Audrey: "By the way, has my mother stopped training recently?"


    Audrey nodded:" Yes, ever since Miss Anna opened the store, she stopped training and we cannot blame her as she''s been swamped looking after the store and by the end of the day she''s exhausted and hasn''t had the time to train."


    Hearing this Alexander could only sigh and said:" It seems that we are in lack of staff."

 Change the Model

    Audrey nodded at Alexander''s idea, and said, "Yes, I think we should put out a personal search ad."


    But Alexander did not agree, "Audrey is very risky to hire people, the most likely is that several people will send spies to know where to get the clothes.


    Frey also thought the same as Alexander, so Audrey could only furrow her eyebrows: "So if we can''t hire, what do we do?"


    Alexander said: "We must buy slaves, after all, they cannot betray us."


    What Alexander said was true, usually, slaves depend on their masters to live, they would provide basic needs, among other things.


    By buying slaves, they would be branded with the brand of the family that bought them, so they could no longer run away. Even if they ran away, they couldn''t find jobs or a way to survive. Many people were dedicated to hunting Escapees slaves. Therefore it would be complicated for them to betray their masters.


    Audrey was against it because she was also a slave.


    But Alexander said, "Audrey, you don''t have to worry, we''re not going to make them work to death. The only thing they''ll do is attend to the store, among other small things that take time."


    "Just think about it, if we don''t buy them ourselves, that doesn''t mean that others don''t buy them, and they can make them work to death."


    Hearing those words, Audrey, though reluctantly, was convinced.


    Alexander nodded, and said, "Well, then tomorrow we''ll go buy some slaves."The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    Audrey was a little surprised: "Young master, will you go too?"


    Alexander replied: "Of course, you are my mother''s assistant, I also need an assistant. I think it''s time to get one."


    Audrey was a little upset about that, but she knew it was true. So she was quiet. Accepting it quietly.


    Seeing the silence from the other side the continued theme: "Now, we have to make a change in my mother''s business model."


    Audrey asked, "Why? We''re doing great, I don''t see any reason to change."


    Alexander negotiates with his head, "Exactly why we must change the model. We are doing too well, for now, none of the great merchants have come into contact with us, but when they do. They''ll do everything they can to own the method we have."


    Audrey began to understand the problem, so I ask, "Young master, so what do you propose?"


    Alexander said, "Simple. I propose to change our customers, instead of being competitive for other clothing stores, make them our customers. Charging a flat fee per garment, to make it like the one we sell."


    Then, Frey who was listening, his eyes began to glow and said: "In doing so, any merchant who tries to obtain the method for himself will be stopped by others. After all, none will allow anything that is already public to become private. Plus it didn''t affect business revenue, it might even go up."


    Audrey, after hearing Frey''s words, His eyes began to glow. But soon after he saw Alexander and said, "But, the young master in doing this, he has something else in mind, doesn''t he?"


    That aroused Frey''s interest, so he saw Alexander in silence, waiting for his answer.


    Alexander only smiled weakly and said: "A lot of Walter''s business is based on selling clothes, I think we should return the favor for what he did to us a month ago."


    So the pair understood, This method not only gives them the above benefits, but they can also deal with an enemy and sink him in their game. The two couldn''t help but sigh, They had to learn from this child.


    Frey could only sigh inside, He thought the third prince would be an excellent King but He also knew that with his ability, A small place like the Alba Kingdom could not keep him. One day he''d leave.


    After that, the three of them put the finishing touches on the plans for the store.


    So they moved on to the next topic. The arrest warrants.


    Many think they should be worried, but on the contrary, they were very relaxed. Alexander had already told Audrey what to do. There were only a few things left to do.


    Alexander said, "Audrey, pass me a piece of paper and a pencil."


    Audrey didn''t take long, she got up from the couch and it was because of what her young master told her. After a couple of minutes, he came back with a pencil and paper.


    Alexander took the paper and wrote a few ingredients on it and said, "Audrey please buy these ingredients. In addition to buying an Alchemy cauldron, if you don''t find one you buy a normal one."


    Frey, who was listening, was surprised when what was happening. But he chose to remain silent. During this month he had received the guide of the third prince, so although he was surprised he did not find it strange.


    Audrey saw the ingredients and was surprised, Something embarrassed said: "Young master, where can I get these ingredients?"

 Why would they do it?

    On hearing that, Alexander was a little confused and said, "What do you mean, these are common medicinal herbs, the only thing that is weird about them is that they have to be 100 years old."


    Frey, who was drinking tea, couldn''t help but spit it out: "a cough, third prince, you just said, what do you want 100-year-old herbs?"


    Alexander nodded, "Yes, these are the ingredients for Elemental opening pills. Audrey passes the list to Mr. Frey."


    When Audrey heard it, she went to Frey''s and gave him the list.


    After I finish reading it, I sigh: "Third prince, don''t blame Audrey, In the current market of the kingdom you can find those herbs but at most, they will be 30 years old. It would be impossible to find 100 years."


    Alexander couldn''t help but frown, "Why, there should be some great organization selling them."


    Frey replied: "65 years ago when the sail empire was still united, there was an organization called "Precious Hall", They sold many medicinal herbs, Including the ones the third prince wants, An example can be the 100-year-old ginseng. But one day out of nowhere they announced that they no longer carry out commercial operations within the territories that belonged to the Sail Empire, Kingdom Cesoria and Kingdom Snow, After that, they left."


    When Frey finished speaking, Alexander meditated on what he had just heard. But this didn''t make sense, Although he didn''t know that power, he could say that it was at least the power of a deadly country of grade four even of grade three.


    Because of this, he could not understand, why would a power leave its territory overnight? This was something that gave them billions in profits.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.


    These powers would not usually interfere with the local powers, they even ignored them, the same thing happened with the royal families. They only did business.


    After analyzing it for a few minutes, he realized that at this moment, even if he wants to know why he doesn''t have enough data to make a deduction close to the truth. So I just sigh: "Mr. Frey, if it''s not too much trouble I could commission you to get the herbs, no matter the age."


    Frey nodded, "Just leave it to me, For when you want them?"


    Alexander replied, "As soon as possible, by the way, Mr. Frey, do you have a large room that you don''t use?"


    Although Frey did not know what he would use the room for, he called one of his trusted servants and told them to take them to the most massive empty room in the mansion.


    Frey said goodbye to Audrey and Alexander, as the third prince wanted the herbs as soon as possible, He took care of that immediately. After separating, they followed a servant into a room in the mansion. After a few minutes they arrived, Alexander examined the room and gave his approval. Then this went the servant, leaving Alexander and Audrey alone.


    Alexander continued to examine the room, while Audrey waited in silence.


    After a few minutes, Alexander finally spoke: "Audrey, remember the cauldron I asked you, I do not want one, but eleven, Also get me blood of wild beast level 1 peak, Better if it is level 2.


    "Yes" Audrey when she heard the order immediately left the room, a few years ago her young teacher had more or less explained to her the issues related to demonic beasts. if a beast had not formed its nucleus it was called the wild beast, These beasts are divided into two levels. These are the same as the humans in the functional realms.


    Just as humans form their Sea Qi to enter the Elemental Realm, wild beasts form their demonic nucleus and thus become true demonic beasts.


    For many ignorant people like her, in the past, she called all beasts demonic. But now he understood more or less of the issues. So when his young master asked him for blood from a wild beast of level one peak, he was referring to a beast equivalent to a human at the peak of the ninth level of the Realm of body refinement.


    Anna''s shop was up and running a month ago. During this month many Hunters went to the shop for clothes. It doesn''t matter if it was a female or male hunter, they all wore clothes from Anna''s shop. This allowed the profession to lower its mortality rate, Although clothing did not help when it came to hurting the beast, it did help receive its blows. therefore hunters could attack more freely without fear of being injured by the beasts.


    This helped hunters to have more and more catches per day. It can be said that the economy of the hunters had grown a lot.


    What I take that in the Alba kingdom everything related to the beasts was cheaper, Before it was rare to see wild Beast blood level 1 peak sale, but now it was much easier to get.


    Before, when a person wanted the blood of that level, he could only order it from an experienced group of hunters, but now he was in the shops. That was a big leap.


    So Audrey left for the things Alexander asked her to do.

 Professions

    After Audrey left, Alexander was left alone in the room. At this moment he was planning, He had to do his best.


    Usually, in martial professions, like an alchemist. One had to be in the Realm of Gathering qi to be considered an alchemist''s apprentice.


    The professions were owed in Apprentice or zero mortal stars, 1 to 9 mortal stars. Their respective guilds issued these.


    Only when one enters the Elemental Realm would one be considered to take the test of a Mortal star within his profession.


    This was because only those who have qi can form their spiritual flame.


    The spiritual flame was the form in which an alchemist manifested his Mana.


    When one cultivates, he takes the strength of the heavens and the earth, making it his own. Apart from it, two more forces coexist in one body, These are Mental Power and Soul qi.


    Unlike cultivation, these forces were born of oneself and develop slowly.


    These two forces have states like cultivation, which they are.


    For the soul Soul: primary, mortal, earthly, embryonic, holy, quasi-immortal, immortal. All dividing into Initial, middle, Final and Perfect. At this point, Alexander after reincarnation could feel that his soul was in the middle stage of the primary soul.


    For mental power, Alexander was not sure of the stages, I only knew that it was a power which is born, There were methods of cultivation, but they are useless if one did not go through the phase of "Awakening".


    When the three are joined at a point of equilibrium, merged Mana is formed.


    An alchemist forms a flame with him. With which I form pills.


    Within this profession, there were branches, such as the two best known, Alquimista Burui and Alquimista Ibarra. These two terms can be resolved as Alchemists who have spiritual flame and those who do not. Alexander belonged to the second group.Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.


    An Array master manipulates different objects to form a formation with him.


    Within this profession there are branches but the best known, which are:


    Dial Master


    Inscription Master


    War Master


    Master Dial was the one who could use manna to make his formations.


    The master of inscriptions, to which Alexander belonged, used materials to perform their formations, The only drawback was that their formations sometimes used much more energy than Dial Masters, therefore always needed fuel, as people who give their qi for it or lose spiritually.


    The master of war was the one who used people and geography for his formations.


    A blacksmith manipulated him so that his Creations would cease to be conventional weapons and become treasures. This profession also had its branches that were, Celestial Crafting, Terrenal Crafting. That they were the ones who had mana and the ones who didn''t have mana.


    Although all professions were different they had something in common, all used mana as a base. Even if one could become a professional without having mana, one would still be at a disadvantage against them.


    In his previous life, Alexander managed to be an alchemist and master of formation of 4 Mortal stars peak. Almost entering the five Mortal stars.


    Now I was in trouble, At first I thought I''d just have to buy the herbs, After all, money wasn''t a problem. But I never hope they couldn''t be found in this area.


    This left Alexander in a bind, so now only he could get out of it. I couldn''t do complicated formations these days. I could only do them with the help of the blood of beasts. Therefore he began to simplify a formation he created in his past life.


    This training should be so easy that with your current achievements, it can be used. So he closed his eyes, imagining in his mind. He was the creator of this formation so it was straightforward to modify it. but it would still take time.


    After two hours, Alexander finally opened his eyes, it took him two hours but he finally succeeded. In his previous life he would have considered this formation as low and straightforward class, but due to necessity, he had no choice.


    So he asked for a chisel and a hammer from a servant in the mansion. After receiving them he began to carve thousands of patterns inside the room.


    After three more hours Frey and Audrey had finished their homework by going to see Alexander. After asking a few questions, they arrived at the room in which he was.


    Opening the doors they found an incredible scene, the whole room was full of patterns, there was no part which was free of patterns. and the worst thing was that there was a big hole in the shape of a perfect circle forming a mini pool, Frey wanted to cry after all this was his house.


    Audrey had bright eyes, she was waiting for emotion.


    But neither of us talked. They were afraid to break Alexander''s concentration.


    After a few minutes, Alexander finally finished and realized the pair that was watching him.


    He saw Audrey and touched his belly: "Audrey, I''m hungry."


    You weren''t supposed to explain why the whole room, but you start saying you''re hungry. We don''t care if you''re hungry.


    Audrey put up with the urge to ask, and went to the kitchen to prepare something fast for Alexander, while Frey could only sadly see the room.


    After a while Audrey came back with a big plate of food, Alexander took it and started devouring it non-stop.


    While he was eating, he said, "Did you get everything I asked for?"


    Both Frey and Audrey nodded, Seeing this Alexander continued: "Audrey, how much blood did you get?"


    Audrey instead of talking taught him two barrels full of blood, This amount cost more than two million gold, but as Alexander did not tell him how much to buy, Choose to buy everything you could, Anyway thanks to the space ring, would not be ruined.


    Seeing the two barrels, he nodded, as he continued to eat, he said, "Mr. Frey, how old are the herbs I buy?"


    Sadly, Frey replied: "They''re all almost 15 years old."


    Alexander nodded again and began to give orders: "Call a few people to fill those patterns with blood, then place the boiler days in those ten patterns, fill them to the edge with water, and finally bring the herbs you just bought into this room.

 Rain

    Both Frey and Audrey do not understand the situation, but they followed Alexander''s orders anyway, Audrey placed the ten cauldrons where she had previously pointed. Then she proceeded to draw Water from her space ring and poured it into the cauldrons until they were filled to the brim.


    Meanwhile, Frey called to the servants of the mansion to begin to fill with blood the patterns, While another group went for the herbs that they had bought today.


    While everyone worked, you could see a child eating quietly, ignoring everyone around him. Half an hour later Alexander had finished eating and the servants had finished their chores. Frey wanted them to leave but was stopped by Alexander.


    Alexander got up from the floor, turned his head to see Audrey, pointed to a circle in the middle of the room, in front of the hole, and said, "Stand in lotus position inside that circle and pour your qi into it."


    Audrey nodded, and walked towards the circle, sat in the lotus position, and began to pour her qi into the patterns.


    At this moment everyone in the room was looking curiously at what was going on, and the result did not disappoint them.


    Shortly after Audrey poured her qi into the formation, the patterns began to shine, of all colors, Gold, Blue, Green, Red, and quickly spread throughout the room.


    Meanwhile in Walter Dunham''s mansion


    This was one of the few cultivators of the Realm of Gathering qi of the Alba kingdom. He now served Walter in exchange for resources for his offspring.


    If one noticed, a few threads of qi were going towards the old man, it was clear that he was cultivating at this time. Suddenly the old man began to frown, But he was not yet enough to interrupt his meditation. But after a few minutes, he opened his eyes in disbelief.


    Soon after, footsteps were heard from outside the room, and suddenly the door to the room opened abruptly, and an old man entered the room.If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    The old man who had just entered saw the old man inside the room and said, "I''m sorry or I''ve gone mad."


    The old man, who owned the room, wasn''t angry about the way his roommate came in, I just ignore that, and he said, "You haven''t gone mad, the density of qi in the atmosphere has doubled."


    This pair of elders were the only cultivators in the Realm of Gathering qi in the capital city, for people who didn''t feel that nothing had changed but for them, it was a big shock.


    For those who knew the density of qi could not be changed, But it had just happened right now.


    The old man who had just entered the room said, "Do you have any idea of the change?"


    The other old man shook his head and shook his head, "No, and you?"


    The other also shook his head, Sighing said, "But now I would not find it strange that cultivators begin to appear in the Realm of Gathering qi in the Alba Kingdom."


    The other Elder nodded to that, As far as he knew, the reason why the powers had large numbers of cultivators in the Realm of Gathering wants the location of them.


    Their location was not a mere whim, In the eyes of the ordinary people, these places would have no difference with their houses, but the truth was that the density of qi was higher in those places. Now with the inexplicable change in the capital, this place would not lose with the bases of the powers. So the duo would not find strange the idea that people at the peak of the ninth level of the Realm of body refinement, achieve Advance.


    Returning to Frey''s mansion


    In the room, which Alexander filled with patterns, Audrey was still in the center, But soon the room felt different.


    A Maid involuntarily saw for the ceiling and her eyes filled with disbelief, Pointing to the ceiling with her finger, Said: "What is that?!"


    When they heard that, they all saw towards the roof, and they put the same face as the maid, Unbelieving, On the roof a ball of blue Gas covering the roof, Many people wanted to run away, When they heard a voice: "Quiet, That Gas is harmless".


    That voice, of course, was Alexander.


    When Frey heard that he asked: "Third prince, do you know what that is?"


    Alexander calmly explained, "That''s Qi."


    Years ago the king had told him about qi, and how difficult it was to feel it, but now he could even see it with the naked eye. He saw the Gas again and wondered if he was going into the Gas could feel the Qi.


    Alexander without seeing Frey, Said: "You are thinking that if you go inside the Gas you will be able to feel the qi, right?"


    Seeing that his thoughts were Easily Seen, Frey could not help but be ashamed, Without giving the other side a chance to speak, Alexander shrugged his shoulders and said, "If you want to die to try it, maybe you can feel it before you explode."


    When I hear that, not just Frey but everyone in the room felt cold sweat on their backs. To think that just entering that Gas, would make them explode.


    Frey wanted to ask other questions but very soon he heard the sound of bubbles exploding, He turned his head to see the ten boilers with boiling water, Below these boilers were red patterns heating them.


    What surprised everyone was that they were far from the boilers but still felt the heat emanating from them. This seemed incredible to them. Very soon they saw how the water quickly disappeared from the boilers and turned into steam, flying toward the ceiling of the room.


    Soon they began to see changes in the roof and realized that the water vapor was fusing with the qi in the form of Gas! The two were not repelling each other but fusing.


    After a few minutes of this, they began to see that the gas of qi, it became a cloud, but instead of white, it was light blue, the more water vapor it drank, the darker it became until it reached a point at which, inside the room began to rain.

 I do not trust you

    When it rained, This was not over the whole room but only in the center just behind Audrey, At first, there were only a few, but slowly they were increasing, until it came to a small waterfall.


    After seeing this, Alexander shouted: "Audrey, you can stop now".


    Hearing this, Audrey began to slowly withdraw her qi from the formation, Opening her eyes, and stopped, Focusing her sight on Alexander. As if she wanted to kill him. You could see that she was angry.


    Alexander was already expecting this, so sighing he said: "In my defense, if tell you, you wouldn''t have done it, but look around you, it wasn''t worth it...".


    Audrey continued to see with cold eyes Alexander, She at this moment was furious, Because of having to give her qi for training, Her cultivation regressed two levels. She had lost the qi she found so hard to Gathering.


    When she heard those words she saw the waterfall of Water in the middle of the room. But this was not a regular water, but you could see a shade of blue, which gave it a mystical touch.


    This waterfall could be seen feeding the formation after she stopped. While the surplus remained in the hole causing it to slowly fill.


    After that, she followed the waterfall towards the ceiling to see a cloud of dark blue gas covering the ceiling.


    Seeing this, she began to see the rest of the room and saw all the patterns emitting a slight light of different colors, To the boilers with the boiling water releasing smoke towards the ceiling.


    Finishing examining the room, he turned his attention back to Alexander, and asked, "What is this?"


    Alexander shrugged and said: "A series of very complicated formations".


    Audrey, she realized that even if they explained it to her, she wouldn''t understand it, so she just changed the subject, she pointed to the hole with blue water: "and what is this water for?"


    Alexander responded with a slight smile: "You''d better see it," he turned around, pointed to two maids, and said "You, and you, go get a bucket, but it has to be very clean. Then take some water from that hole and water the herbs in the room.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.


    They went to look for a couple of buckets, and when they returned they showed them to Alexander. When they received his authorization they took out Water from the hole with the buckets.


    Then they walked to the herbs and saw the water on the plateaus, Audrey, Frey and the rest were waiting curiously. Luckily it didn''t disappoint them.


    A few seconds later, we began to see changes in the herbs, growing little by little. This made Frey''s eyes begin to shine, Apart from literature, I had another hobby and that was gardening, So I was well informed about the subject, so I was seeing, The herb was growing in age, this a few moments ago was 15 years old but was slowly approaching 16 and still adding.


    Then he saw again Alexander incredulous, In fact not only him but the whole room, they were seeing him, Waiting for an explanation.


    Alexander began to explain: "This formation creates a liquid, resulting from the combination of the gaseous state of water and qi in a gaseous state. This liquid is ideal to help accelerate the growth of alchemical ingredients.


    Then he turned to see everyone in the room and said: "This is something that only plants and herbs can direct. If humans consume this liquid, there is only one result, and that is death".


    These consist of more than 20 people, and examined them one by one: "Many must have doubts about why I let them see this. This is simple, it''s because I don''t know if I can trust you.


    Hearing this many became nervous, but kept hearing: "I don''t know if you''re a spy or not, but if anyone is, as usual after helping with training arrangements they would have sent information to their employers," he paused briefly and continued: "Now, you must be smart to be able to fool Mr. Frey for so long, So I asked you, If you report what you saw today, what do you think will happen?"


    At the time Alexander said this, Many thought, Having a background that does this is inconceivable, you will most likely try your best to get it, and when you do, you will kill everyone you don''t trust, just like them.


    Now they understand why that child didn''t let them leave before, If they had left long ago, the information would have been sent already, sealing their deaths.


    Alexander continued, "Now you have to make a choice, you die like a spy or you live under the wing of mister Frey.


    Many were thinking carefully about what the other party said, it was true what he said, if they told this to their employers as much as possible they would end up dead, so many decided to keep quiet about today''s issue. A few more astute ones thought that if they followed this child they could reach heights they never expected to reach.


    So I speak no more, he instructed two male servants to keep the cauldrons full of water, while two other servants would be there to water the herbs once in the morning and once in the evening. These would be rewarded with ten extra silver coins for performing these tasks, of course, it was Walter who paid.


    Alexander reminded the caretakers that herbs like this release seeds every ten years, so he wanted them collected and planted inside the room. So they would not lack medicinal herbs for themselves in the future. So he gave them money to buy everything they needed.


    Frey for his part was surprised when he heard that among his servants had spied, but after careful thought, he found it realistic, after all, he was a figure of political weight in the kingdom, so more than one wanted him controlled.


    What surprised him the most was how the third prince handled the situation, he didn''t ask for names, he didn''t punish anyone and even so, you could see that spies didn''t inform their employers.


    It was best for both parties. They didn''t say anything about what they saw today and Alexander didn''t ask about who were spies or not. This was best because if the servants disappeared, it would arouse suspicions from their employers, which would make them more curious about what was going on in the mansion. Something Alexander didn''t want.


    So Alexander, Frey, and Audrey left the room.


    Shortly afterward the other servants left, leaving only those in charge of carrying out the tasks of the boilers and watering the herbs.

 Blinded by greed

    After Alexander solved the issue on the herbs, he went back to the living room to relax to but, unfortunately as soon as he sat on the coach. Two people came rushed into the room, which is Audrey and Frey. The two inquired about what Alexander did just now.


    After the two heard Alexander explantation, Alexander was finally able to take time off, while leaving the two in their own thoughts. After all, everything they heard just now was a novelty to them. Frey only knew that if a Kingdom risen to be a Mortal country Grade 5, there will be several powerhouse guilds establish their branches in the kingdom. And as for professions, he only has limited knowledge about it. But after listening to Alexander elaboration.


    He came to know that professions are numerous and vary. There are even some rare and peculiar. Only known profession are generally alchemist and array mastery. But professions are not limited to those two. Profession is actually divided into 3 degreed categories.


    The first degree is the popular one as the profession are important for cultivation and combat force. These are an alchemist, array mastery, blacksmiths and craftsmanship.


    These are the most desired.


    The second-degree category is a profession that is mainly for external force or that were used for support. The profession is doctors, beast tamers, and poison mastery.


    The last category degree falls under "hobby" professions. There is a profession like chef, winemakers, entertainer dancer, gourmet, and appraiser.


    Although the degree category is established, the relationship between them is not absolute. For example, an alchemist who is known for his love for wine, will, without doubt, lower his pride in front of the winemaker. More than thousands of cases like this can happen. This caused Frey to broaden his perspective. Knowing the world is unpredictable, this enticed him to dream of traveling around the world and meet these eccentric people.


    And to do this he needed strength, this caused a flame ignited within Frey, and for the first time he was hungry for martial power.


    At the same time, Audrey recalled what Alexander told her a few years ago about Benedict, "he''s just an old clown playing alchemist". And after listening to the lecture, she realized that Benedict on the continent would not be considered as an apprentice.


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    The continent is stretch widely, and desolate areas like here are meant to be isolated from essential matters. They do not even know what was going on in this region.


    After contemplating for a bit, Frey frowned and said, "Third prince, I am in doubt, from what you said the inscription mastery is a branching degree, rather a totally different profession, why don''t they establish a guild?"


    Alexander replied " Mr. Frey you are correct, though the inscription mastery can be taken as another profession, it is not separated from the Guild of Array Mastery, this is due to many factors, there is 3 main factor.


    Firstly, the inscription mastery was born from people who wanted to be Dial Mastery unfortunately unsuccessful.


    Second, the majority of the inscription masters did not want to give up protection from large guild such as Array Mastery guild.


    Thirdly, due to the pressure of the Dial Master on the inscription master, many are seen as less than those you are not Dial master within the guild, which prevents them from forming their guild."


    Due to this pressure as well, many inscription masters were identified as Array master. Including me. Technically if you use several inscriptions as I did it would form a formation, so he didn''t bother much about this issue.


    He was just a rogue cultivator while the other was from a great guild, and his main profession was always been Dial Mastery, doing this will avoid many problems. Although he dared to offend many clans and powerhouses as if it was not a big deal, only if necessary he will offend powerhouse guild. Afterall he was also part of the guild and providing services.


    Anyway, offending a guild is not an easy thing to do.


    After Alexander explanation, Frey finally understood the importance of the situation, he then contemplating about other branch professions like the War Mastery, using people to form a formation. After a moment, Frey decided to ask "Third prince, is it possible that General Keer is a war mastery master?"


    Alexander replied, "he is not one, if he is a war mastery formations, I find it hard to believe he never left his power and stayed as great general for several years."


    This surprised Frey and erased any doubts that he had for several years, General Keer appeared out of nowhere and advanced his rank too fast, If he has to do something with war mastery, it was known facts, but where did he get the formation?


    As if knowing what Frey was thinking, Alexander said "those are the most common and simple formation to use, normally the power will have a few dozens of them. As long as you don''t use all the force of the formation there will be no problem using it with people outside the power."


    While they were still on about it, Audrey interrupted them "Hey, don''t you see what is important here? With the liquid that the young master made, we can sell the herbs as the Precious Hall did a long time ago. Imagine what will we earn, compare to the profits from the clothes it will be nothing."


    She do not if her Young master is an Array Master or Inscription Master. In the end, it was just a name and ever since they started doing business with Mrs. Anna, she developed a business instinct and her instinct tingling with what the liquid can be profited off.


    Hearing this Alexander could not help but frown in disappointment


    "Audrey you seem to be blinded by greed."


    Audrey lowered her and think it thought, and said "I don''t understand. Can you please explain."


    Alexander shook his head, thinking that this woman is only smart with something she already knew, but if it was something new she was dumb as a donkey. Alexander simply replied, "The Precious Hall was a powerful powerhouse, even if we do not know its strength it must be more powerful than you can imagine, do you know the only thing that can make a powerhouse like them flee?"


    Before he said anything Audrey said, " it must be someone they can''t offend, if someone like Precious hall can''t even deal with, must less the one who drove them away from doing business here."


    Listening to Alexander, Audrey''s face changed, she realized that the Precious Hall was stopped doing business by someone on this region, and replacing them would be offending the party that drove them away. She realized she was truly blinded by greed.

 Chapter 61: Anna

    From seeing her reaction, Alexander let out a sigh, ¡°Audrey, you need to know what happen at the end of merchants who are being too greedy, For example Walter, although he has the power to change the price-setting of the markets price around the Kingdom, but he didn¡¯t do it. Because he knew that one day there might be competitor shows up and go toe-to-toe with him,¡± he stop talking and look at Audrey expression, he continue ¡°when that happens, what do you think will happen if Walter being so rampant and greedy?¡±


    Audrey considered all possibilities and came up ¡°All his customers will go to the competitor¡¯s¡±


    Alexander nodded ¡°Right, many customers will leave out of anger, and went to other place with lower price, this will cause losses and it will take years to recover and expanses for Walter to gain back his customer loyalty and this will cost him much more than just doing business with fair prices, while considering the economic situation of the Kingdom. Even though there are numerous number of merchants in the Kingdom, Walter¡¯s stores continue to flourish and most favoured by the citizen of the Kingdom,¡±


    After look thoughtfully for a long time, Audrey wondered as to why Walter would have the fairest price around the Kingdom. Now she realized, that he had a foresight of a bigger picture for his business and open minded. If you do not think few steps ahead it will be your downfall in the future


    Walter foresight saw that one day great merchants from the neighbouring Kingdom will come here and do business, so his aim was to gain favour of his customer. Thinking that even if other merchants open up their store, he already have significant loyal customer and good reputation. This is exactly what was happen to the current market.


    Audrey could not help but felt respect for the old man, She then accepted that at the moment even if they wanted to, they will not be able to sell the herbs and could only use for themselves.


    Audrey was left in thought, until she heard Alexander¡¯s voice ¡°Audrey, there is another benefits comes with the liquid have you not notice yet?¡±


    Audrey was surprised and look at Alexander in wonder ¡°What?¡±


    At the moment there was not only Audrey who are piqued their of interest and also Frey, Alexander with wide smile said ¡°just close your eyes and sense the qi¡±.


    Audrey was very puzzled of the unexpected answer but still listen to Alexander and closed both of her eye. A moment later her expression began to change from calm to confuse and shocked in disbelieved.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.


    She opened her eyes and stared at Alexander in awe as there was no words coming out of her mouth.


    In silence, for few minutes Frey could not help to ask ¡°Miss Audrey, what is going on?¡±


    Audrey continued to stare at Alexander in awe, while saying, ¡°The density of the qi in the atmosphere have been doubled!¡±


    To Frey who is limited with cultivation knowledge could only say ¡°oh¡± as he had just started his martial arts and not even a cultivator yet, much less sensing the qi, so for him it was not a shocking news, nor did he know the significant of this.


    Alexander replied ¡°The formation that I installed a moment ago, pulls in qi, so it is not strange that the density in the atmosphere have been doubled.¡±


    Knowing this, Audrey was very pleased, as this will increase her cultivation speed twice than before, So could not help but ask ¡°Young master, since this formation is inside the mansion, isn¡¯t it dangerous that cultivator of realm qi gathering risk discovering the density is due to the formation?¡±


    Alexander snorted ¡°hmph, did you think that your Young master is a fool who throw a stone in a shoe, for something that took me several hours to carve out the entire whole room, I of course included illusion formation, that even experts in the Elemental Realm find it not suspicion, and think the density of the qi is because the location¡±.


    Audrey let out a relief sigh, and nodded. Following that the three of them continue to talks about minor issues.


    By the end of the meeting, Alexander ordered them to buy several all kinds of herbs around the Kingdom¡¯s market. For now, they do not have use of it but in the following future they might need it.


    After everything fish, Alexander went back to his room to get some sleep.


    The next morning at dawn, Anna was preparing many things, since yesterday when they heard an issued warrant by the Sea Palace, she left her the store empty. Many have thought they have been sanction by the Sea Palace but did not rule out the possibilities that Sea Palace might also include them.


    Because of this, they decided to go back to Frey¡¯s house early. Honestly Anna could not care less about it, she have knew of Audrey¡¯s strength and it would not be an issued unless they the send the Great Elder. So she scoffed it of as a minor matter and went to sleep.


    She slept the entire day and finally felt relaxed.


    She knew that the few days her business will not have any customer. Therefore she was calm, she got up from the bed and went to get her breakfast. Yesterday, she had not eaten dinner at all, so she was quite famish this morning.


    As soon as she went down the dining room she was greeted by the daily scene, her son talking with Frey while Audrey brought food to the table.


    Anna sat next to her son, and look at him with affection while recalling a scene.


    Eight years ago, when her older sister had a daughter, Anna was a little jealous of her older sister and wanted to get a child too.


    So she went to her father, asked him how can she have a child. Originally, her family never tried to marry her off to someone because she was fine with it. So she was not taught how babies were made.


    She had live by her mother and father who pampered her very much, in addition her older brother who always cared for her, she never thought of getting a husband.


    But, after seeing her older sister with her daughter and didn¡¯t convince her to get marry, but want her to have a child. With being unmarried, she could name it after the Webber family.


    Few weeks after that, her brother-in-law the King of Snow Kingdom, bought proposal with intention to get Anna married to King of Alba Kingdom. At first her father refused, but Anna was persistent. So her father gave up and accepted the proposal.


    She had suffered because of that decision, but seeing her son, she could say she had not any regret because of what she did.


    As she was in deep thought, a childish voice came to her ears, ¡°Good morning, Mom¡±.


    Anna could not help smile widely, and say ¡°Good morning¡±.

 Chapter 62: Slave Market

    When Frey and Audrey saw Alexander act in front of his mother, they couldn¡¯t help but to stares at Alexander for his acts. But, they quickly recovered their usual expression least Anna suspicion.


    Well, in front of his mother he would act like a docile and well-behaved child. But, behind his mother he would act like an old wise man that have been through a lot. They were like two sides of the same coin.


    Without noticing Frey and Audrey stealing a glance at Alexander. Anna started to make a conversation while having the breakfast. Audrey took a chance to mention things concerning yesterday of what Alexander ask her to do and over their solutions.


    Anna was first very sceptical about it but after hearing what Frey and Audrey¡¯s intention, she agrees to it.


    At first, Anna wanted to hired ordinary people but Audrey stepped in and said there might be chances they were hired spies among them, in conclusion after a long discussion they left with option buying slaves to operate the shop.


    With that in mind, Anna still consider hiring ordinary people for the employee after the business stabilized. She know that many trying to take advantage of her and scheme against her just like Joanna Dunham had done.


    After a deep thought, Anna decided to go to the slave market in the capital today. As for the matters related to the Sea Palace. With almost no customers, today does not affect the business by much and decided to close it for today.


    With slave helping as assistance, Anna recalled that it have been a long time since Audrey served her almost half of her age. So she showed no objection to it.


    Anna did not forget to give her thanks to Frey for his advice, But Frey didn¡¯t say a thing as he felt uncomfortable taking credits about it. As he was just relaying what Alexander said yesterday. So he just stayed in silent.


    Realizing the child scheme was so deep, yesterday they were talking about letting Audrey to go to the slave market without Anna¡¯s knowledge. But today unknowingly Anna also intended to go to the Slave market. There was only one explanation that this could happen. The child knew from the beginning even yesterday that his mother would go there today, adding to the fact that he manipulated the conversation little by little so Anna will thought it was her idea to go, Frey could not help but in awe.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    Finishing their breakfast, Anna took Alexander and Audrey to go to the slave market. Generally people would this places like slave and market is dirty and unkempt, but the place is unexpectedly clean and neat. This is because the customer mostly from wealthy and aristocrat people that needed labour for their business and take care of their territory.


    Busing slaves are much cheaper than hiring ordinary people, and only need to provide their food and a place to live. But the government has limited the amount of slaves that can be own. To ensure less unemployment, this will ensure more people working than slaves working. A kingdom should have more citizenship not just slaves.


    The royal family are very solicitous to their citizen, they gave protection regulation to small businesses like bakery, and might even biased to the small businesses protect them from leading merchant. This has shown as royal family query the noble family if there are any problem.


    It was an necessary precaution, to get the citizens attention and by doing so the citizen will have patriotic spirit for the Kingdom. As matter of fact, the royal family will give noble title and territories depend on their merit.


    Even though this might be a double-edged action, but the royal family have something on their favour, is that their normal citizens. As if noble houses trying to usurp the throne, the citizens will only support the royal family.


    Fun fact, if the present royalty treats you well, the next royalty might not give the same treatment. This will cause powerful nobles will have great amount of effort should they want to coup d''etat.


    There are also some nobles that bought people to go and live in their territory that given by the royal family, this is the opposite of the previous regulation, the royal family will support them and will not limit them.


    This is because to lessen burden of overpopulated slaves in the state, which caused the commoner do not have income to pay their taxes. With this method of distributing the slaves around the Kingdom the population will balanced out.


    So buying slaves are normal in this society.


    Anna went to the largest slave market in the kingdom, The Niv Trade Store.


    Upon entering the place, they were greeted by a well-dressed middle-aged man ¡°welcome, dear customer¡±.


    Bowing lightly, the middle-aged mad led them into a room and served them with tea and light snacks. After serving the tea and light snacks, the middle-aged man moved to the side, occasionally answer their questions.


    After few minutes passed, another man came into the room and sat down on the opposite side of them, greeted with a smile and said, ¡°What can I do for you?¡±

 Chapter 63: Shameless salesman

    Hearing the question, Anna replied ¡°I am looking for slaves to buy around 51¡±


    When the merchant heard this, he smiled and questioned, ¡°Are there any requirements? Our store will trying to adjust to your needs¡±


    Anna said ¡°I have no specific need, I am in need around 50 people workable age and a girl close to my son¡¯s age¡±


    The merchant nodded and asked ¡°what¡¯s the preferred sex¡±


    Anna fell into deep thought and said ¡°half man and half woman¡±, Anna thought that women can interact with the customer and men will take care of heavy labour when the business start.


    The merchant sorted his thought, while the butler on the side lay down a book on the table for his boss. The merchant took the book and skim-through the book while marking some pages along.


    On the other hand, while waiting Anna and the two was enjoying their tea and snacks.


    After finish assessing the task, the merchant suddenly spoke ¡°we can assess to your need within five days, and according to the law the families of slaves shall not be separate, so we kindly sells you 25 couples and I do not know if you also want their children as well.¡±


    Hearing that, Anna, Alexander and Audrey were at loss for words, at the same time they all agree that the merchant are shameless. It is illogical for kingdom to establish that law, even if they did no one would take it seriously. The merchant just ignore their shocked expression.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    The reality are cruel, as no man made law that should help weak preyed by the strong. There is only one law strength is power, in the world of law of the jungle. If a kingdom made such law they would be mocked and become a laughing-stock of the people around the world.


    This sly son of bitch just wanted to sell more. Anna didn¡¯t show any unwillingness, she just show nonchalant smile and said, ¡°all right.¡±


    Hearing the feedback, the merchant could not help to grin slyly. Seeing the grin, she was having thought of beating the merchant until half dead state. But Anna stopped her by staring at her.


    Anna prompted ¡°And the girl that I want?¡±


    The merchant who was day-dream of his profit changed his expression let out a sigh. ¡°At the moment, we only have one girl that fits the requirement, but I don¡¯t you would be interested in her.¡±


    Upon hearing that Anna was confuse and said ¡°why?¡±


    The merchant replied ¡°As I said our shop will not separate families, so will not just take someone off their family. Although there are some orphan children, unfortunately they are in reserved list, but there is one girl that no one wants.¡±


    Instantaneously, Anna, Audrey and Alexander had an annoyed expression while thinking. (Sly son of a bitch, not only he is giving excuses saying it¡¯s the law, now you state it as if it was store policy not to separate family members, why don¡¯t he just says that we should buy the girl¡¯s parents too)


    At this moment, Anna impression on the merchant went down, but at the same time she was aroused to have him as employee, her thought was conflicted as just thinking about having the merchant of this calibre manage her store she felt excited. This merchant is an ideal merchant to have, she could not help slightly envious of the store owner.


    Anna contemplate a moment, after a few breath she asked ¡°is it possible to know the reason why people do not want her?¡±


    The merchant only said ¡°it would if you see her yourself, do you want me to get her? ¡°.


    Anna turned her head facing Audrey, and Audrey nodded.


    Anna replied, ¡°Ok, sure¡±


    Upon hearing Anna answer, the merchant signalled the butler, and the butler bowed slightly and retired politely.


    While waiting, the merchant started conversing about the deal with the two women, Alexander was totally ignored. This had put him in bad mood but he got over it as he recalled that he was just a five year old boy, and stated eating snacks while listening to his mother and the merchant conversation.


    A few minutes later, the butler return with a small hooded figure.


    This had caught all their attention even Alexander stopped eating his snacks and put his attention on the small hooded figure.

 Chapter 64: I almost fell in love

    Upon seeing this, the salesman nodded to the butler. The butler walked behind the hooded figure, raised his hand and removed her hood.


    When Anna and Audrey saw that, they were incredulous, covering their mouths with their hands, they could not believe what they saw.


    According to the hooded girl''s height, one could see that she was a four-year-old girl. The antagonizing thing was the right side of her face was disfigured and reddish; it was evident that she was burned. She was a beautiful, blonde girl with pure blue eyes, smooth and soft skin which could confuse people into thinking that she was a porcelain doll if it wasn''t for her burned face.


    After getting over her surprise, Audrey got up from the sofa and approached the girl to examine her closely. As she approached, one could notice that the liveliness often see in kids there age was gone and was replaced by a deadpan expression. Audrey squatted and came face to face with the girl but the girl did not show a response and just stood there without a trace of emotion.


    Audrey didn''t say much, she just gently put her hand into the girl. When she touched it she felt the rough and dry skin. Feeling the hand she realized that it was burned too having a reddish color to it. Audrey came to the conclusion that not only her face was burned but here whole right side was burned.


    A few seconds later, Audrey released the girl''s hand got up and turning around looking at the salesman threateningly and asked, "What happened to her?"


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    Seeing the look on Audrey''s face made both the butler and the salesman anxious. ''This women is dangerous '' they thought at the same time. Knowing that the other party was not someone to be offended, the salesman began to nodded nervously and said " Don''t get it wrong our store had nothing to do with it".


    The salesman wanted to continue his explanation but Anna interrupted him: " Audrey calm down and sit".


    Audrey calmed down a bit and returned to her seat beside Anna, and glared at the salesman demanding an explanation. Anna also kept looking at the salesman, while Alexander kept looking at the girl regardless of everything going around him. At the sight of the two women the salesman could only suck in cold air and explain: " The girl is from a small village within the territory of Count Peroche, As I understand it that territory recently had an outburst of a strange disease of which i don''t know anything about".


    Audrey interrupted him " What does it have to do with the child''s condition?"


    The salesman started to get anxious again, but continued talking: "Everything. To shorten the story a little, the kid''s parents died from this disease which left the girl in her uncle''s care. That guy was the one who sold the kid to me as a slave, I want to clarify that till then she was alright but during the journey our convoy was attacked by a group of famous bandits and so in order to avoid being raped the girl spilled boiling oil on herself which left her in the current state". Finishing the explanation the salesman remained silent.


    Hearing this, Audrey could not help but get angry, " Perhaps you security was so bad that it urged the girl to do that".


    The seller could only smile bitterly and said "Our security is not bad, but they had not even arrived to that part of the convoy. Everyone other than the girl arrived safe and sound. According to the witness the girl panicked when the bandits arrived and did that."


    Upon hearing this, Anna began to reflect on it and it made sense as the girl was young and felt betrayed due to her uncle selling her which made her feel insecure.


    Thinking about it now Anna didn''t find it strange anymore. The truth was that both Anna and Audrey didn''t care for the girl''s appearance but the problem was that it was not their decision to make it was Alexander''s, if he didn''t agree then they couldn''t take the girl. While Anna was thinking that the boy sitting next to her got up and walked to the girl and with curious eyes he examined the girl from head to toe. After that the boy inched his face closer to her''s and whispered "I am impressed by your illusion, I almost fell in love with her."

 Chapter 65: Dont be so arrogant!

    Meanwhile somewhere far away in the universe.


    There is a world where the universal laws were pure and complete.


    Within the world, there is mountain range scenery full of life. Where the captivating scene is so enchanting eye-catching, mortal would think it was heavenly. The mountain was full of rare ingredient for pill concoction were treated as if they were weeds.


    The qi in the air is dense and pure that if a mortal live their whole life where they would live up to 1000 years


    Within one of the mountain, the Prik mountains. There are where one of the strongest clan in the universe reside they are known as The Prick Clan.


    The Prik Clan was one of the leading powerhouses of the Ten Thousand Races World. The clan original form is the mythical Qilin which is known for their colossal figure, but they had to shape-shifted to humanoid figure to cope up living in the mountain.


    Within one of the peaks of the highest mountains, there is a palace where the entrance plate engraved with the word "Patriarch", near that place, there is a youth rushing in a direction toward the palace. As he went inside he proceeded to a specific room. Without knocking he just went inside and greeted the man.


    "Father, the jade has been broken!" he said with a surge of anxiety


    Inside the room where the youth was facing there was a middle-aged man in blue robe meditating in lotus position. His skin was white and his chisel facial feature looks astonishingly impressive and refined for his age, he has a blond beard and his eyes color were bottomless blue sea it was as if you would not be able to see through his thought.


    Hearing his son dissatisfaction, he woke up from his meditation. The man didn''t get angry and only to shook his head. He stood up ignored his son and went to the corner of the room and took a bottle of wine and glass, pour it naturally and drank it.


    While drinking a frustrated voice came up "father, she is your daughter and my sister, how could you abandon her in the lower world. There she can never reach her full potential!"


    He then replied, "We didn''t abandon her, you must have misunderstood it, look at this" after saying that, the man threw documents to the youth.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    The young man took the documents and read it thoroughly and thoroughly while having numerous changes on his expression he then asks "what''s inside the document is a truth? "


    The middle-aged man sat on the nearby couch and said: "it is true, all the powerhouses had sent their younger generation to the lower worlds."


    "And because they sent numerous of them to the lower realm, the three great world are several times better for cultivation."


    The middle-aged man let out a sigh, "Son, the universe as we know it is going to change."


    "Change? How?" questioned by the youth in doubt.


    "The Fourth Great World is going to be born!"


    Suddenly,


    After saying those words Alexander felt dizzy and realized he was in a white world. It didn''t matter where he looks, all the direction he looked he can only see endless white without boundary. All of the sudden he heard a voice "We finally get to know each other"


    He turned around to the direction of the voice and found a middle-aged blond man who had appeared out of nowhere, with a smile on his face.


    After the few words, silence pervaded the two-man were looking at each other studying each other. The middle-aged-man was shocked as if he was seeing something he was not expected to see, why the other one in this room was an only five-year-old boy!


    Around three thousand years ago, a prophecy was spread by a powerful being that a being would be born and trigger the series of changes throughout the universe.


    Moreover the birth of the Fourth Great World, a world higher than the Three Great World. A world that is so big and sturdy that even the fights between gods would be just like a children fight one another.


    Currently, the world that they live in if a war broke out and the forces pressure from the war could hurt the law of that world. So cultivator was treated as weapons of mass destruction and when they war destruction follows.


    Luckily no one wants to be the person who destroyed his world if they did his name would be marked in history but not in a favorable way at all.


    Unfortunately, none of the powerful beings in the Three Great Worlds could go to that world in the meantime.


    So they had chosen to send talented junior so they can forge their experience and pave their path and even exceeded their ancestor.


    After deep-thought, the man let out a sigh of relief and ask, "Are you afraid?"


    Alexander just continue to stare at the man and tilted his head and replied "should I be afraid? This is all just an illusion and you are just a piece of consciousness, even if you want to harm me you can''t."


    Hearing what Alexander said the man was dumbstruck because it has not been five minutes they were in this world and the other side already know it was an illusion as if it was a normal thing. He was shocked because his illusion was one of the most powerful one in the Three Great Worlds, it wasn''t something that inferior being could saw through it.


    So the man asked with interest "How did you know this is an illusion?"


    What he did not foresee was the child just responded to him with a smile while lifting his finger and snapped it


    "Tsk"


    This caused the blond man to frown, and thought, "What is this child trying to do." Suddenly he was greeted by an explosion sound


    "pop!"


    As if the room were a mirror cracking came across the white space into thousand pieces, this did not give the man time to respond as the illusion also morphed at the same time and all the whiteness changed into darkness.


    He was so shocked and turned his head to face Alexander and as if his tongue-tied and thought (How the hell did he do that? I am the creator of this illusion, only I can change it!)


    The man then heard a childish voice said: "What''s an up old man, was that not the usual thing you experience?"


    He stared at the child soon, a grin appeared on his face and his battle intention burning on his eyes. With that, he raised one arm and copied what the child just did.


    "You brat, don''t be so arrogant!"


    "Tell me that when you defeat me!"


    And so, the battle of illusions between a child and the middle-aged man started.

 Chapter 66: Howd you do that?

    Without further ado, both the boy and the man stopped talking.


    The man raised his arm and made the space chaotic soon the chaotic storm consumed the darkness and the whole space became chaotic storm. At the centre of the storm was boy with an age of five.


    (Let¡¯s see how you modify this!) Thought the man.


    What was unexpected was the child looked unconcerned about the storm, soon the child raised his arm in front of his chest and made several hand-seals. A smoke of grey gas soon materialize under the child¡¯s feet. Seeing this the child stopped what he was doing and dipped his fingers with yolk and drew an array and placed his palm on it. After few breath time he muttered ¡°Open¡±.


    Instantaneously, the array began devouring everything near it, it didn¡¯t matter if it was the grey gas of the space storm the array devoured all of it without leaving a trace.


    What the boy didn¡¯t know his actions aghast the man. When he saw the grey gas was he recognized it.


    (Destruction Law! As someone who can summon it, he can only summon little of it! Because it was one of the most difficult Laws to understand!)


    When he saw the Array, he only frowned at the boy¡¯s action (This brat thinks that a simple array can do something against my space storms! In your dreams!)


    But, when he saw the Array devoured everything, he was horrified such terrifying array actually exist in this world!?


    The man focused all his attention toward the child without missing a single action.


    After few breath times, the small array continue to devour everything on its path but soon it stopped with hand signal by the child. And the other arm formed a fist facing toward the heaven, and he whisper ¡°Reverse¡±


    ¡°Boom!¡±


    After the explosion the small array began to expand at terrifying speed, and after few seconds, one could not see how far and wide the array stretch on the horizon.


    This caused the blond man to inhale mouthful of air.


    He just could not understand how someone from the lower world did that, even in the Ten thousand races it can be counted in one hand! And they were all old monsters that have lived for millions at the very least.


    But then, he the patriarch of one of the powerhouses in his world was seeing someone from the lower world doing it and it was damn five years old kid.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    That¡¯s impossible! The lower worlds should have not an Array master mastery of that level. Should they have one they could have enter the Three Great World easily, but non-of them had entered for millennium.


    Furthermore, that Array goes against array knowledge he had known it was as if it was Array Dow of the beginning! His clan have several Array experts but never had any of them uses and seen those kind of symbol before. It was as if it was different path into the Array world!


    Are there really another path? If so, are the current one the wrong path? Or both the right? How did someone reach this mastery?


    If he said he wasn¡¯t afraid of the child, he would be a liar. He had just wanted to know why the divination technique told him that here was the right place for his daughter to meet her future master and husband.


    His technique had never been unclear for the last 3,000 years of divination. It was as if the heaven itself protecting that person¡¯s identity and no matter countless times he divination he only prophesied the same respond. His¡¯s daughter destined to follow an inferior being, a human.


    If the clans that had wanted her daughter¡¯s hand-in-marriage found out about this, they will no doubt do everything in their power to kill this child, especially the young master of the Dragon Sulphur clan.


    The question is, what should he do?


    One must know that not only not only the powerhouses of the Ten Thousand Race world sent their younger generation to the lower World, there are also powerhouses of the Divine World and The Underworld did that.


    And not to mention the powerhouses of the lower worlds. Though they might not be as strong as the one from the Three Worlds. That was only if the previous generation included. For the younger generation their completion was enough it would be a brutal fight.


    In this era, many talented youth are born, but only few that have maturity of than their age.


    While the man was immersed in his thoughts, the child closed his palm again which caused the Array to shrink and was followed with an explosion.


    ¡°Boom¡±


    The explosion jolted the man out of his thoughts and looked around only to be presented with starry sky with countless stars covering the sky. There are no more space storm, no more black gas and lastly the Array also disappeared.


    ¡°Beautiful, don¡¯t you think so?¡± a childish voice was heard.


    When he faced toward where the voice came from, it was obviously the boy speaking to him, ¡°how did you do that?¡± the man questioned.


    ¡°Do what? If you¡¯re referring to the starry sky, isn¡¯t it your illusion you should be the one that tell me that?¡±


    ¡°You!¡± The man was exasperated and said ¡°I can¡¯t do that in real life except in an illusion!¡±


    ¡°So you¡¯re saying that you¡¯ll never be able to sought-out for yourself? I am not your master neither I am your friend, I don¡¯t even know your name and who you are, why should I explain it to you?¡±


    Hearing the boy¡¯s answer the man was loss for words. In fact what the boy said was truth as they were stranger and had no relationship. Why is he obligated to share his knowledge? Besides this was only small piece of his consciousness even if he wanted to force him he could not.


    So he couldn¡¯t help but to stare at the sky and sigh ¡°ahh, forget about it then. I look forward to our reunion in the real world. I just hope you are still alive then, please tae care of my daughter¡±.


    Without saying anything else, the man figure stare at the sky and disappeared.


    Alexander contemplate of the final sentence before the man parted, could not help but to frown.


    (From what the man said, it seems there are significant changes coming and that change will bring great danger, but as there are danger they are also opportunity)


    Realizing that Alexander¡¯s eyes were burning with fighting spirit, before slowly disappeared from the illusion.

 Chapter 67: Were finally here!

    In the World of Ten Thousand Races, within the Prik range.


    There is a blond middle-aged man who was sitting in a lotus position he seems in deep thought. The man was recalling his encounter with Alexander, he continue to rewind his memories for several times, he recalled his consciousness battle he had with Alexander after the piece of consciousness merge back with him.


    At first, he was in tranquil state all of sudden he frowned, little by little the memories he studied, his expression went from astonishment to state of shock.


    He could not help but to stare at the sky and ponder.


    (I can¡¯t believe such a being was born in the lower realm, his cultivation may be shallow but his understanding of the heavens far surpasses even someone like me, oh my daughter you were indeed destined to surpass your old man).


    (Incredible, I want to test that monster, the world as we know will soon change. You can say that due to the arrogance of our ancestor we might be in danger)


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    On the Auphera continent, Kingdom like the one Alexander resided can only be considered as small and insignificant. Far from that place, a Kingdom called Republic Uri which its vastness far surpassed them, there it was not ruled by royal family but council formed by representatives of the sects that has been elected.


    Throughout the history there were several royalties had rebelled and destroy their protector who they had served. Many times this had happen, so the sect sent limited potential elders from their sect to avoid problems should they declined.


    These countries are not that uncommon within the continent. Generally the countries are governed by sovereign monarchy and aristocracy, this generally in Kingdom, Empire and Dynasty.


    In these countries, the noble title represent power and because of that commoner was treated less respect almost to the level of slaves.


    There are also constitutional monarchy, where there are only royal families and not nobles. Within the land the family member are well known politics which have more influence than their King or Emperor, which caused the King and Emperor to loses their political stability.


    Because of that, no one had taken seriously the title bestowed by the royal family.


    Lastly, there are republics and states which are govern by specifically by local families and the sects ruled with equality, with no royal family or powerhouses backing them.


    The representative of the republics for Presidency term of office are around 16 years, before the next vote will be chosen.This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.


    There are other place that are being govern under ¡°Theocracy¡± the most influential. They are devotee who worshipped the saints in the legends who have ascended to the higher world, this place are govern by the churches.


    This kind of teaching does not harmonized with aristocracy monarchy. As there are also demons ascended in this continent they also have worshipper devotee and which sometimes churches took advantage of it, some noble are accused of blasphemy and servant of demons. This happen to those who had opposed them.


    The Uri Republic are governed by 4 Families and 4 Sects, they are: Drayton Family, Cordner Family, Carew Family, Jordan Family, Sun sect, Star Cult, Bamboo Valley, and Artemis Temple.


    Near the border of Uri Republic, there is a city called Starry Hedge. This is the land of merchants, naturally many kinds of shops and varieties can be found here.


    The City¡¯s gate are guarded by soldiers, suddenly rumbling sounds reverberated through their ears. From the view of the top gate the guards can saw a carriage with sizable size that can at least accommodate 40 people inside.


    Slowly it approaches toward the gate, as the rumbling sound reverberated to the point it was ear-splitting. The carriage was pulled by more than 32 wild beasts of level 2. Slowly as the carriage come to full-view the soldier had their focus on it. They saw a symbol of Ridge a bright grey star on the front view of the carriage. This represent and belonged to one of the four ruling families of the republic, The Carew family.


    The Carew family was well-known for their transportation business. Despite the fact that they have other source of income, their main business is the transportation service.


    Due to their credible reputation, in the past there were number of bandits who had assaulted the convoys of the Carew family but all of them had the same end annihilation. Because of that, they have many clients and merchants acquire for their services.


    Even with the reputable secure service, there are some daring bandits who assaulted their convoys. There was a famous saying in the republic, ¡°If you want to win popularity, you must use everything Carew¡±


    Many believe conspiracy is everywhere, some said the Carew convoy didn¡¯t annihilate the bandits but rather paid them the bandit to make set up and change their name to rise their fame. This was one of the most popular rumour but there were no authentication of the said rumour was real.


    Once they saw the Carew emblem, they guards didn¡¯t dare to stop the carriage. On normal occasion, any carriage or people trying to get into the city would be stopped for inspection.


    The other reason they didn¡¯t dare to stop the carriage was because the city¡¯s lord was from the Carew family


    Because of this, the carriage arrived into the city without obstruction.


    After the carriage set foot in the city, they went to a small square and stopped. Which the coachman when down from his post to open the door of the passenger.


    He greeted the passenger by ¡°Thank you for your patronage with Carew, we hope to be a service for your next trip¡±


    With that, the passengers slowly went out of the carriage one at a time. Lastly an elder went out of the carriage and walked toward the coachman and said: ¡°Good sir, can you tell me if there are sects or family recruiting soon?¡±


    Listening to the elder¡¯s question the coachman¡¯s eyes shows a little contemn. Seeing contemn in his eye the elder didn¡¯t lose his composure and smile as if in understand and took a gold coin from his pocket and threw it at the coachman.


    ¡°Dear customer, as far as this one knows, very soon the sun sect starts recruiting disciples in Sunlake City, around three months from now.


    Hearing this the elder¡¯s eyes shined in hope. He thanked the coachman for the information and turned to his group which consist of 3 ten years old children, 3 middle-aged women, 2 middle-aged men and another elderly man.


    This group was Francis Keer and his family. They had traveled for three years without obstruction and finally arrived in the Uri Republic.

 Chapter 68: Helena

    Francis went back to his group: ¡°It seems like we are in luck, the Sun sect will be recruiting disciples soon, but we have to reach the sect before three months.


    It have been three years since they left the Alba Kingdom. During the time their travels they had the same routine, hunt wild beast for money and pay their lodges, meals and transportation moving one city to another.


    For the last three years they had passes through dozens countries. They become aware of many there are many sects like the six sects in their homeland, some even have similar strength some even little stronger than the six sects back in their homeland.


    Gradually as they got closer to the Uri Republic, there were even more powerful sects and cultivators of realm gathering qi become ordinary. The last country they passed by before reaching out the Uri Republic they have seen sect with dozen elders in middle stage of Elemental Realm!


    If this was in their homeland reaching this stage would considered as Supreme Elders but here they were only great elder of their sects, which their post considered as standard.


    This was a massive blow to their group except Francis Keer. When he was young he had left the Martial city and travelled to different countries or else he wouldn¡¯t know the Uri Republic much less their existence.


    Seeing this the Keer family which always been arrogant even in front of the royal family was shocked as if it was an eye-opener except Francis who was still composed. Francis were in the Realm of body refinement, in their homeland even though it was not the strongest realm but people still treated him with respect, but here the further they went the lower the status of realm of body refinement, some even be servants.


    This can be draw as in the developed countries, their cultivation realm was seen and considered as equal to servants, this came as dreadful news to them.


    They gathered their every bit of will to continue their journey and went further into the continent. They could not help but to imagine some obstruction on the way but fortunately they had arrive to their destination.


    They came to realize although they were tyranny in their homeland. Here they were nothing more than a fish in the ocean.


    After that they decided to go to rent an inn to take some rest and eat. While asking for direction on the streets they finally arrived at the inn, which had a good reputation as it was owned by the Jordan family, one of the four ruling families in the Uri Republic.


    With reputable Inn the keer family didn¡¯t need to worry of their security, after all there are not many people within the republic who dare to cause problems within one of the four ruling families in Uri Republic.


    First, the Keer family went to the dining room and had decent meal. The trip they had took around a week, during that time they were provided why meat jerky.


    After the group finished eating, they all went respective room to rest. The next day, while the children were still sleeping the adults had meeting about what they going to do for living.


    The first to speak up was Francis: ¡°well, we¡¯ve been through a lot but we¡®ve finally arrived¡±, as he looked at everyone he continues ¡°as you must be aware, with our strength the chances that we can establish ourselves in the republic is non-existed.


    ¡°All of you are in the Realm of body refinement, which means nothing here. Yesterday I have bought a republic map and within it state the city of Sunlake is two months away from here if we go by foot but if we use public transportation will take around a month and a half¡±.


    ¡°So¡± he paused briefly and said: ¡°During this whole month, we will go buy resources for cultivation and spend the rest of our time cultivating. Does anyone have an objection?¡± Seeing the look of the old man face, no one in the family dared to say anything, they only nodded in unison.Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.


    Francis turned around and saw his grandchildren and took out a pouch size of fist and threw it at one of them and said ¡°you two, go pay for the inn for a month, and when you do, ask for a pharmacy where you can buy medicinal pills.¡±


    After all, it was their fault that they had to leave their home, and now they are suffering hardship for it. Although their family didn¡¯t abandoned them, everyone was still unhappy of the circumstances they were in, including their wives. Let¡¯s just simply put they haven¡¯t had sex for years.


    The children left the room and do what they were told to do. Two hours later they return empty-handed. Seeing this, everyone in the room who was waiting couldn¡¯t help feeling indignant.


    Even Francis frowned at the sight and questioned them, ¡°and the pills?¡±


    Hearing the question, the pair of brothers couldn¡¯t help but feel embarrassed, one of them stepped forward and said ¡°Grandfather, we didn¡¯t buy them¡±.


    This made Francis and the co¡¯s face turned sombre, and Francis would about to yell at them but the other brother came forward and said ¡°Grandfather, don¡¯t get angry we can explain¡±


    Francis tried to calm himself down, after few breath of time with the look of waiting for their explanation, the pair finally open up and explain what happened ¡°Grandpa, we did what you asked us to do we went to the pharmacy but when we arrived there, there were several types of pills that have similar appearance. So we didn¡¯t know which one to buy, so we made a list with the names and effects for you to decide, then we¡¯ll go again¡±


    Francis received the piece of paper and skimmed through it and nodded, thinking at least these grandchildren of his not so stupid. But shortly afterward he thought of why did they took it so long, squinted his eyes and stare and his grandchildren ¡°To do that, it shouldn¡¯t have taken you so long, where did you go?¡±


    The two brother expression were in dismay at the question, as they weren¡¯t expecting everyone to stay in the meeting room, after all they thought everyone would go to their rooms after the meeting. But they were wrong as everyone was still in here.


    In an instant they felt cold shivers and pairs of eyes looking at them, even without turning back to see who was staring at them they knew it was their wives and they knew the screwed up.


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    Meanwhile in Alba Kingdom, Frey¡¯s mansion.


    In one of the luxurious room, a child was lying on top of the bed with his eyes opened. He looked around to see where he was and concluded he was no longer in the slave merchant storeroom.


    Without wasting anytime he get up out of the bed and went to look for his mother. He went through the corridor and reached the door of his mother¡¯s room, just as he was about to knock the door he heard.


    ¡°Helena, remember you are now part of the family, If Alexander mistreats you don¡¯t hesitate to tell me, I¡¯ll make sure to reprimand him.¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, Miss Anna, I¡¯m sure young master won¡¯t mistreat me.¡±


    ¡°Jajaja, you can call me mother¡±


    ¡°Yes mother!¡±


    ¡°Hahahah, Good girl. Now we just need to wait for Alexander to wake up and introduces you two. That boy he dare to fall asleep in nowhere, I feel embarrass¡±


    ¡°Mother, I am sure young master is just tired don¡¯t be angry at him¡±


    ¡°You¡¯re right, maybe he stayed awake all night. I¡¯ll watch him better in the future.¡±


    On the other side of the door, Alexander frowned listening to their conversation between his mother and someone she called Helena as he had never met this Helena before.


    After few seconds, he recalled two scene before he went to sleep one was a beautiful girl whom had burned marks of her body.


    And the second one was the man he met in the illusion ¡°please take care of my daughter¡±.


    So he concluded that ¡°Helena¡±, ¡°The burned marks girl¡± and ¡°the daughter¡± are the same person.


    While Alexander was immersed in his thoughts, a beautiful woman dressed in orange lifting a tray full of drinks and snacks entered the corridor and saw Alexander in front of the door and said ¡°Young master. You finally woke up¡±.


    Obviously the woman is Audrey without turning his head Alexander asked ¡°how long was I asleep?¡±


    ¡°Just a couple of hours, go ahead Miss Anna has someone she wants you to meet¡±


    Audrey didn¡¯t understand as to why Alexander was so cautious.


    Alexander nodded, raised his arm and knocked the door.


    ¡°Knock.¡±


    ¡°Knock.¡±


    ¡°Mother, Audrey told me to come¡±


    ¡°Come in.¡±


    Alexander opened the door and entered the room with Audrey.


    Audrey proceeded forward and place the drinks and snacks on the table.


    While Alexander, with his hands on his back and looked curiously at a little girl.


    She looked a year younger than he was, her hair was blond and shiny, she have white skin and thin body, her whole face seemed as if it was sculpted by the god himself and not to mention her eyes were deep indigo blue were enchanting.


    This girl when she grows up she will become a beautiful goddess chases by countless geniuses. But Alexander only thought.


    (This woman will only bring me trouble!)


    Seeing her son was staring at the girl, Anna showed a sweet smile and said ¡°She is Helena, starting today she will be you servant¡±