Xu Tianchen's "Death"

In Mingdu, people might not know much about the other princes, but they were quite familiar with Xu Tianchen, the lord of Sky Wind City.

There was only one reason: talent.

The emperor of the Sun Moon Empire had two exceptionally gifted sons. One was Xu Tianran. Leaving aside his talent for cultivation, his greatest gift was his strategic mind.

As for Xu Tianchen, his talent was even more terrifying—and it lay in Soul Tools.

Soul Tools were the very foundation that allowed the Sun Moon Empire to suppress the other three nations of the continent. Their importance to the empire needed no explanation.

Reaching Level 6 Soul Master at the age of fifteen and a half was unprecedented, even in a place like the Sun Moon Empire, where talent abounded.

What was more, when Xu Tianchen became a Level 6 Soul Master, his Soul Power cultivation had only reached four rings.

What did that mean? He could no longer be described as merely a genius. He was practically a monstrous prodigy!

Even someone as formidable as Ye Chen had praised Xu Tianchen's talent with Soul Tools more than once.

Yet such a person had now become His Highness the Crown Prince's prisoner.

As for the reason Xu Tianchen had been imprisoned, the people remained doubtful. Those who had lived in Mingdu for a long time understood some of the underlying reasons.

And as for that curse, most people were still watching and waiting, not entirely convinced.

The reason was the nature of the curse itself.

It was said that after Xu Tianchen was imprisoned, nothing unusual happened on the first day. He was filled with immense hatred and despair, no different from those ministers who had been imprisoned for choosing the wrong side.

The strange change began on the