Chapter 139: Why is it Him/Her?
"Zhu Bing?" Jiang Yue uttered in shock.
His expression was a little sluggish, and he couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
"Do you know the young emperor of the Great Zhu empire?" Xuan Ke asked in surprise.
Li Futian also looked surprised, but no one was more surprised than Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen.
"The young emperor of the Great Zhu empire?"
Jiang Yue looked at the group that had just arrived several hundred metres away. He focused his gaze on the young man leading the group and studied his features.
’He looks like Zhu Bing.’ He confirmed.
For the first two years after they joined the inner sect of the Sea Cloud sect, Jiang Yue practised at the third peak and didn’t bother with the outside world.
When he finally left the peak, he went to find Zhu Bing.
He had a good impression of the young man and wanted to take him as a personal servant.
In this way, Zhu Bing could get rid of his status as an odd job disciple and gain more cultivation resources.
However, Jiang Yue did not find the person in the outer sect.
He spent some time looking around and inquiring, but he gave up after one month of searching.
After all, he only had a good impression of the person, but they weren’t too familiar.
In the end, he gave up on finding Zhu Bing and only occasionally thought of him.
’How did he become the young emperor?’ He wondered.
’Am I thinking too much? Is he just someone who looks the same?’
Jiang Yue looked at Yu Nianzhen, and the other nodded.
They may not be life or death friends with Zhu Bing, but they had frequently met when they were in the outer sect.
Yu Nianzhen was sure that the young emperor was Zhu Bing, but he couldn’t understand the ins and outs of the transformation.
"How do you know the young emperor?" Xuan Ke asked again when he saw the two had ignored him.
"We don’t really know him." Jiang Yue answered and frowned.
The young emperor looked like Zhu Bing, and his temperament felt familiar but also very unfamiliar.
’What in the world happened?’ He wondered.
The last he heard or saw of Zhu Bing was the ten-storey pagoda.
They gave the other some pills, but ultimately, Zhu Bing didn’t make the cut and remained an odd job disciple.
As he thought of that, Jiang Yue didn’t understand how he leapt from an odd job disciple to the young emperor of the Great Zhu empire.
"What’s the name of the young emperor?" He suddenly asked.
"Didn’t you just say it? His name is Zhu Bing." Xuan Ke said.
"Was he always at the Great Zhu empire?"
"What do you mean?"
"Did he leave the empire to practice in another region for some years?"
"I haven’t heard of this."
The three looked at Li Futian and waited for his information.
"I have also not heard of it, but it is unlikely." He said.
"Why do you say that?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"The Great Zhu empire has many princes and princesses but only one crown prince in each generation."
"I don’t know what criterion is used, but the crown prince is determined at birth. Zhu Bing was named the crown prince many years ago, and his destiny was set. There is no way the empire would allow the crown prince to roam outside."
This explanation made sense, but Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen were convinced they weren’t mistaken.
They were sure the person they met was Zhu Bing, and by the time they met him, he had already been at the Sea Cloud sect for three years.
This meant that the crown prince of the Great Zhu empire was secretly an odd job disciple of their sect for many years.
As the two thought about it, they felt like they had uncovered a big secret or conspiracy.
They looked at each other and didn’t dare to talk about it.
After all, they were just ordinary people.
Whatever the empire was doing was beyond their control.
The only thing they could do was find a chance to speak to Zhu Bing and later reveal everything to master Yang when they returned to the sect.
Seeing that Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue didn’t want to talk about whatever was on their mind, Li Futian sighed.
"The two brothers must be careful." He warned.
The ancestor of the Great Zhu empire was the oldest nascent soul in the Cangxing world, and the empire had many secrets.
Although he didn’t know the specific details, he could deduce something from the questions Jiang Yue asked.
"Don’t worry." Jiang Yue finally said, and Yu Nianzhen nodded.
The monk still wanted to ask more, but finally gave up and turned to find more celebrities.
"I don’t know how the violent beauty looks like." He said with a little nostalgia in his voice.
Although he had heard about her, there were no images of her to accompany the stories.
When Li Futian heard him, he chuckled lightly, and his face was filled with amusement.
He looked like he knew something they didn’t, and the others quickly caught on.
"Does brother Li know something?" Jiang Yue asked.
"Wait and see. She is about to arrive." He looked to the east, and the others turned in the same direction.
At first, they didn’t see anything but a few breaths later, they saw a young lady arriving from the horizon.
Every step she took compressed tens of metres, and she quickly turned from a dot on the horizon to a tall young lady.
’What a powerful movement technique.’ Jiang Yue envied.
The more cultivators he met, the more he felt like a frog in the well.
He wasn’t complacent because of his talent, but he always felt inadequate.
Others had reached the ninth level of the origin forging realm, practised powerful martial arts, and even had time to learn supplementary things like movement techniques.
When he thought about his own practice, he felt a little regret.
If he hadn’t spent time on whip arts, maybe he would have had time to cultivate his body or learn a movement technique.
While Jiang Yue thought of this, he forgot that he had refined his soul.
Compared to cultivating a movement technique, refining the soul was a lot more difficult.
Without the soul refinement, his lullaby wouldn’t be as powerful as it currently was.
"Let’s plan better when we get out." Yu Nianzhen whispered to the other when he saw Jiang Yue was jealous.
In the last two months, Yu Nianzhen had created a rudimentary practice plan for the next ten years.
If things went as planned, he would be able to win a lot of face for his master in the Ice Palace conference ten years later.
"Good." Jiang Yue nodded and turned to look at the young lady who had just arrived.
The woman was incredibly beautiful, and Jiang Yue had a vague feeling of familiarity.
She wore a yellow robe, had brown hair, and harmless doe-like eyes.
However, her qi presence was extremely tyrannical and provocative.
"This..." He started.
"Yes." Yu Nianzhen agreed and smiled.
Now that he could clearly see the young woman, he recognised her from the trade valley.
She was the stall owner who sold talismans to them, but her beauty at that time was dampened compared to now.
At that time, Yu Nianzhen remembered her because of her qi presence, and it was easy to recognise her now.
"You should have met her at the trade valley." Li Futian confirmed.
"Her eyes are a little..." Jiang Yue started but couldn’t finish.
Her eyes looked harmless, but her qi presence was unusually aggressive.
When he thought she was called the violent beauty, Jiang Yue shuddered.
’That appearance is too deceiving.’ He thought.
"Don’t get on her wrong side. Once she is set off, she is worse than a berserk." Li Futian continued.
’So that is her default mode.’ He thought but wasn’t too worried.
Unless the person provoked him, he didn’t expect he would have reason to get on her wrong side.
Even if he did, he wasn’t worried that he or Yu Nianzhen couldn’t deal with her.
"I am beginning to have second thoughts about occupying an arena as soon as the battle starts." He said.
After seeing so many characters, he was interested to see how they fought.
If he occupied an arena at the beginning, he would not have time to watch them fight, and he felt it was a pity.
"There is a way." Yu Nianzhen comforted.
"How?"
"You just need to crush your opponents with absolute strength. If you do that, others will be wary of you and won’t challenge your arena. You can spend your free time watching others."
Jiang Yue almost vomited blood when he heard that.
Unlike Yu Nianzhen, he didn’t have the means to crush enemies so resolutely. He still needed to grind them slowly and consume them to death.
When he thought of the difference in their means, he glared at Yu Nianzhen and snorted in disgust.
