"Interesting."
Outside the True Immortal Secret Realm, the Heavenly Illumination Great Emperor of the Heavenly Illumination Immortal Dynasty sat in the void.
Seeing the youth spare his child rather than slaughter him outright, a faint smile touched his lips as he said to Emperor Chu beside him,
"That youth has a kind heart."
"He is still young, after all."
Emperor Chu spoke calmly.
Had this been his younger days, he would have killed anyone who provoked him like that to establish his authority.
"For Yan-Chu to produce such a prodigy, its fortune must have come."
The Heavenly Illumination Great Emperor chuckled.
In a secluded courtyard deep within the Imperial Hall of the Heavenly Illumination Immortal Dynasty's Imperial Capital, a consort watched the spear-wielding youth flee in defeat. Her heart, which had risen into her throat, settled again, and she wept with joy.
"Thank goodness. Thank goodness that youth showed mercy and wasn't hot-tempered."
The exquisitely beautiful consort looked like a young girl. She gently patted her chest with her pale hand, relief written across her face.
When she first saw her child Jingzhao encounter that monstrous prodigy, she had been pleasantly surprised, thinking her child's chance to make his name had arrived.
Yet in the blink of an eye, Jingzhao had been defeated and beheaded.
Her mind had gone blank then, convinced the other youth intended to kill Jingzhao. He was the extraordinary prodigy her lineage's elders had sought out and arranged to reincarnate in her womb, someone who could secure her position in the imperial harem.
This Southern Region Assembly Battle was an opportunity to win merit and fame. If he were eliminated in the first round, years of nurturing would go up in smoke.
"Remember that youth. Once this is over, prepare a gift for me and send