While Chen Cheng was discovering the Small World, eliminating the Evil God, and seizing the Northern Frontier, Samlet had won first place in the Royal Academy's grand competition in the Como Royal Capital, under the identity of Sam that Fisher Doge had arranged for him.
In just a few days, the name Sam had burst onto the scene. An unknown had become one of the kingdom's most dazzling young talents overnight.
And he was a Warrior of the Warrior's Path with no family backing.
The cultivation world might look down on Warriors of the Warrior's Path as a matter of course, but no one claimed they were weak in a fight.
Those who thought so were either brainless sons of great houses or dead men who had refused to believe it until a Warrior got close enough to smash their heads with one punch.
So Sam, an emerging talent of the Warrior's Path with a clean background and no faction, immediately drew the attention of every power in the kingdom.
Samlet swatted aside the challengers as if they were children and stepped down from the arena. Just then, Jin Hong, whom he had not seen in a long time, appeared.
"Sam, over here!"
Samlet glanced at him but did not answer.
Jin Hong pushed through the crowd and came up to Chen Cheng.
"Brother Sam, don't you remember me? I was the one who brought you to the academy from the Guild."
Seeing that the Treasury Department minister's son was not about to let up, Samlet stopped and said:
"What do you want?"
Jin Hong took no offense at his cold manner. He caught hold of Samlet and said:
"The Grand Council is about to convene. You'll be fighting for the kingdom then, Brother Sam. And I hear you know