Chapter 112: Marrying the Princess, the Son of Buddha
What a pity. The Marrow-Cleansing Fruit didn’t improve my spiritual root aptitude at all. After refining the Marrow-Cleansing Fruit, you sighed inwardly.
You looked at the one remaining Marrow-Cleansing Fruit in your storage space and decided to save it for the next simulation, to try again!
You came out of seclusion. You found the Old Monster and prepared to leave.
“Once you leave the Void City, everything will depend on yourself!” The Old Monster patted your shoulder.
“Senior, rest assured. This junior will definitely find the chicken farmer’s whereabouts.”
“Big Brother, you must return safely. Little Nannan will wait for you here!” After a hundred years, Little Nannan, still in the form of a child, said with a runny nose as she cried.
You smiled and rubbed Little Nannan’s head. “Don’t worry. Your Big Brother is strong!”
“Go. Although this old man cannot leave the Void City, as long as you call this old man’s name, I can still help you to some extent!”
You smiled and nodded, then mounted Xiao Long and turned to leave.
Regarding the Old Monster’s words, you understood clearly in your heart. The reason the Old Monster had lived for ten thousand years and could still maintain his peak state was naturally because he had paid a certain price.
Being unable to leave this city was one of those prices!
Even an existence as powerful as the Old Monster is bound by restrictions. Then what about me?
What exactly is the purpose of my cultivation? You began to think, pondering your future path.
You took a teleportation formation directly to Central State, riding the half-step Nascent Soul Flood Dragon, advancing all the way, heading straight for the imperial city of the Purple Firmament Immortal Dynasty!
A year later, you slew a great demon at the Spirit Transformation Great Perfection realm, gouged out its demon core, and tossed it to Xiao Long beside you.
“Hurry up and eat it, then refine it. Tomorrow we formally enter the imperial city!”
“Yes, Master.” After a year of your feeding, Xiao Long had already raised his cultivation to the Nascent Soul stage, and his bloodline power had been enhanced as well.
You ignored everyone around you and started a fire, roasting the flesh and blood of the Spirit Transformation Great Perfection great demon. Soon, waves of fragrance spread out.
Over this past year, you had traveled across the four directions of the Purple Firmament Immortal Dynasty, seeing many things and growing much.
Your cultivation, which had just broken through to the Spirit Transformation stage, was now completely stabilized.
“So fragrant!” A bald Little Monk suddenly appeared, sizing up the roast meat in your hand.
You raised your head to look at the Little Monk and smiled. “Little Monk, long time no see!”
“F-Fellow Daoist! What a coincidence, heh heh.” After the Little Monk saw your face clearly, he gave an awkward smile, and sweat had already begun to form unconsciously on the top of his head.
You looked at the Little Monk who was scratching his bald head, hesitating and unable to decide, and asked, “Little Monk, how did you end up here?”
Hearing this, the Little Monk’s scratching paused, and he could not help but ask, “Fellow Daoist doesn’t know?”
“Know what?”
“The current Emperor’s youngest daughter, Princess Pingyang, is holding a martial arts tournament to choose a husband!”
You looked at the Little Monk with a strange expression and smiled. “You’re a monk, and you want to Marry the Princess?”
“Cough cough!” The Little Monk was startled by your words and hurriedly explained, “This humble monk only came to gain experience. I have no intention of marrying the princess.”
You smiled and nodded, then fell silent once more.
After a long while, you looked at the Little Monk staring fixedly at the roast meat in your hand and found it somewhat amusing. “Want to try some?”
“Yes!” The Little Monk quickly came to your side and sat down, took the roast meat from your hand, and began to devour it.
Only after eating and drinking his fill did the Little Monk tell you all the recent major events in the imperial city.
“All the young talents of the Immortal Dynasty are coming to the imperial city?” You smiled. The more people, the better. With all kinds of people mixed together, it would be easier for you to blend into the Deer-Chasing Academy!
As for that Princess Pingyang, you were not particularly interested. Any female cultivator with a certain level of cultivation was never ugly.
And a princess merely had an additional noble identity. Without that identity, a princess was no different from an ordinary female cultivator.
The next day, the Little Monk followed you into the imperial city.
“So this is the imperial city? It’s simply like a paradise on earth, magnificent and grand!” The Little Monk looked at the imperial city before him and could not help but exclaim.
Only upon arriving at the imperial city did you learn what it meant for Golden Cores to be no better than dogs and Nascent Souls to be everywhere!
Along the way, you had not seen a single person with cultivation below the Foundation Establishment stage. Even Spirit Transformation cultivators were not rare here.
Even more, on the streets you occasionally saw a few Return-to-Void realm cultivators!
You brought the two of them straight into the Immortal Treasure Pavilion and sold off all the gains from this past year, exchanging them for ten thousand high-grade spirit stones.
You examined the imperial city map in your hand and quickly found your destination for this trip: the Deer-Chasing Academy!
“Little Monk, do you have any acquaintances in this imperial city?”
“I do. This humble monk has already sent word to my Martial-Uncle. Someone will come to receive me soon. Does Fellow Daoist want to come along?” The Little Monk extended an invitation to you.
You shook your head and refused, preparing to head to the Deer-Chasing Academy alone and investigate thoroughly.
“Little Monk, we part ways here. Until fate brings us together again.”
Not long after you left, a group of monks appeared. Looking at your back, they asked, “Son of Buddha, that person was?”
“He…” The Little Monk watched you leave with a complicated expression, then warned, “Notify all Buddhist disciples within the imperial city. No one is to offend this person, or they will be expelled from the Buddhist Sect!”
“We respectfully obey the Son of Buddha’s command!”
Walking along the road, you smiled and shook your head. With your current Spirit Transformation Great Perfection Primordial Spirit power, you naturally heard the Little Monk’s words clearly.
“Master, what are you laughing at?”
“Nothing. Let’s go.”
The public order in the imperial city was very good. You did not see any high officials or nobles bullying the weak, nor any playboy young masters seizing women by force.
Even the classic incident of a horse-drawn carriage running into someone, you did not encounter. You could not help but feel a slight regret.
“It seems the hero-saving-the-beauty scenes from novels simply do not happen in reality.” You could not help but sigh with emotion. Soon, you arrived at an inn not far from the Deer-Chasing Academy.
You had only glanced at the Deer-Chasing Academy twice when a cultivator came forward to greet you.
“Fellow Daoist, are you also here to join the Deer-Chasing Academy?” A young cultivator with a somewhat scholarly air appeared.
You sized up this person. An early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, with traces of an indistinct noble spirit about him.
“Doesn’t the Deer-Chasing Academy only recruit students once every ten years? The time shouldn’t have arrived yet, right?” You could not help but ask curiously.
“Fellow Daoist doesn’t know? Besides the normal process, there is another way to enter the Deer-Chasing Academy!”