【Ten minutes later, you walked out of the cave and spent an hour returning to the Imperial City.】
【As soon as you returned to the Imperial City, you were invited by all sorts of people, including various princes and princesses, as well as many lords and ministers. After all, your performance in the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm was too amazing. You passed the sixth level, and in the same realm, you were better than the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess. Everyone could see the enormous potential in you, so these people all wanted to recruit you.】
【The princes and princesses wanted to test whether you might change your allegiance to someone else, while the lords and ministers wanted to ask if you had any thoughts of getting married. They wanted to marry their daughters to you to win you over.】
【Naturally, you rejected all these invitations. Right now, you only want to improve your strength. You are only at the first level of the Nascent Soul stage, and there is still a long way to go before you reach your goal of Returning to Void.】
【Seeing that you rejected the invitations of the various princes and princesses, the Seventeenth Princess breathed a sigh of relief. After all, you are indeed an unprecedented talent, and she was really afraid that you would change your allegiance to someone else. Later that night, the Seventeenth Princess met with you to discuss some matters.】
“Changqing, now that you have reached the Nascent Soul stage, I will explain things to you clearly. Your performance in the secret realm this time was very outstanding, and it has been a great help to me. The court's assessment department has determined that your performance as a guest minister this year is the best. Thanks to you, I will definitely be in the top three in this year's assessment of princes and princesses. The cultivation resources I can allocate will be greatly enhanced, and I guarantee that these resources will be prioritized for you to improve your realm.” The Seventeenth Princess looked at Lin Changqing and said seriously. The annual assessment she mentioned is an examination conducted by the Great Wu Emperor for his sons and daughters every year.
The comprehensive ranking is based on the performance of the princes and princesses and the performance of their guest ministers. The higher the ranking, the more resources the princes and princesses can allocate.
In the past, the Seventeenth Princess's ranking was around tenth, but this time Lin Changqing's performance was too outstanding, breaking through the sixth level of the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm. This huge and excellent performance helped the Seventeenth Princess enter the top three, and correspondingly, it also increased the resources she could allocate.
【Next, the Seventeenth Princess gave you a storage bag, which contained a large number of cultivation resources for the Nascent Soul stage, such as top-grade spirit stones and fifth-order elixirs. You were not pretentious and accepted them. On the one hand, this is what you urgently need to improve your realm, and on the other hand, this is what you deserve. Aren't you a guest minister in order to obtain cultivation resources more conveniently?】
【Your outstanding performance helped the Seventeenth Princess achieve a high ranking in the annual assessment of princes and princesses. The Seventeenth Princess obtained more cultivation resources, and correspondingly, you naturally shared the resources in the Seventeenth Princess's hands. The two of you are complementary to each other. No one owes anyone anything. If you hadn't broken through the sixth level this time, the Seventeenth Princess would not have been able to get into the top three, nor would she have obtained so many cultivation resources.】
【After that, you talked with the Seventeenth Princess for a while about some matters related to the Lower Nascent Soul Secret Realm in the future. Finally, the Seventeenth Princess proposed to hold a Nascent Soul banquet for you.】
【The so-called Nascent Soul banquet is a celebratory banquet held after a person achieves the Nascent Soul stage. After all, the status of Nascent Soul in the cultivation world is extraordinary. You thought about it simply and agreed. Of course, the Seventeenth Princess has deeper considerations for holding a Nascent Soul banquet for you. The Seventeenth Princess is reminding everyone that you, Lin Changqing, are still her guest minister, and you naturally don't refuse.】
【Now you and the Seventeenth Princess are still tied to the same line. If you want to obtain more cultivation resources, you cannot leave the Seventeenth Princess and do it yourself.】
【Two days later, your Nascent Soul banquet began. Various lords, princes, and princesses came to give gifts. You feasted for a day, and you were numb from receiving gifts. Then this Nascent Soul banquet ended, just when you thought that after the banquet ended, you could practice in peace, uninvited guests came.】
【It was invitation letters sent by the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess, wanting to invite you to be their guest minister. You naturally refused.】
【After refusing, late at night, you were thinking in your mansion that these two people couldn't sit still and started to invite you. You remembered that the last time you won the first place in the Nine-纹 Golden Core Competition, these two people didn't come to invite you. It seems that your performance this time was too amazing.】
【But at the same time, you also felt a sense of urgency. You are now at the first level of the Nascent Soul stage, and you are better than these two people in the same realm. Perhaps these two people can see that with your help, the Seventeenth Princess can threaten their throne.】
【You have a premonition that if you refuse this time, these two people may not give up.】
【Sure enough, three days later, you heard all kinds of discussions in the city, such as Lin Changqing's breakthrough of the sixth level of the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm was just a fluke, and he must be inferior to the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Emperor in the same realm. Maybe Lin Changqing used some unknown means to break through the sixth level, and his strength must be inferior to the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess.】
【Hearing these remarks, you sneered, are you going to start using public opinion?】
【Just as you were thinking this, the next day you encountered an assassination. It was a cultivator at the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage. Fortunately, you dodged quickly and escaped with your life. You were furious. This must have been sent by the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess. Seeing that you threatened their throne, these two people started sending people to assassinate you.】
【Just when you were thinking about how to solve this matter.】
【That night, the Seventeenth Princess came to you. Beside her was an old man. This old man was actually a Deity Transformation cultivator. The old man was holding a bloody head in his hand. That head was the person who assassinated you during the day.】
“Changqing, since you are my guest minister, I will naturally not allow outsiders to kill you casually. Daring to assassinate you is like slapping my face! This is Old Bei, my protector. Now I will let Old Bei follow you at all times. I want to see if my brother dares to send someone over to assassinate you!”
【The Seventeenth Princess dispatched her protector, a Deity Transformation cultivator, to you, and you were very grateful.】
【The Seventeenth Princess's mother is the Holy Maiden of the Ice Snow Palace. The Ice Snow Palace is also a powerful sect in the Central State of Wu Kingdom, with Deity Transformation cultivators sitting in charge. This Old Bei is the Supreme Elder of the Ice Snow Palace.】
【You heard some unexpected words from the Seventeenth Princess's words just now. Perhaps the Seventeenth Princess knew who sent the person to assassinate you. She mentioned her brother, so it is estimated that it was the Fourth Prince.】
【In addition, it must be said that the Seventeenth Princess is quite reliable, and directly dispatched a Deity Transformation cultivator to you. With a Deity Transformation cultivator protecting you, you feel that even if the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess take action, you are not afraid. In Wu Kingdom, the most powerful person besides the Great Wu Emperor is the Deity Transformation cultivator. No matter how capable the Fourth Prince is, he can't defeat a Deity Transformation cultivator.】
【Sure enough, after the Seventeenth Princess dispatched the Deity Transformation cultivator to you, the discussions in the city against you gradually subsided, and you did not see any more assassinations. It seems that those behind the scenes also knew that you had a Deity Transformation cultivator to protect you, so it was not easy to deal with.】
【In this way, you began a peaceful life of cultivation. From the Taixu calendar year 346 to 347, for a whole year, you meditated and practiced at home. There was no major breakthrough in terms of spiritual power, but you had a breakthrough in your internal organs. The Flame Ancient God nurtured in your heart broke out, marking that you have also entered the Nascent Soul stage in terms of body refinement. If all five internal organ Ancient Gods are broken out, it is equivalent to Nascent Soul completion.】
