This King Was Wrong

"Strange, where's Lin Shuguang?"

Ji Feng searched around, even using his senses, but couldn't find any trace of Lin Shuguang. If he weren't confident in his own strength, he might have truly believed Lin Shuguang had been abducted.

He guessed that Lin Shuguang had just had a conflict with the Ninth Prince and had gone into hiding. Ji Feng nodded secretly, "He's not as foolish as the Baojian Sect. The Baojian Sect has truly found a treasure this time. Good."

After fiddling with the jade pendant given by Sima Tingwei for a moment, Ji Feng glanced at the empty corridor around him before humming a tune and turning back, intending to deliver the jade pendant once Lin Shuguang returned.

Inside the Spatial Altar.

Lin Shuguang was still unaware of how many people he had disturbed with his actions alone.

Currently, he had just sacrificed Qiao Shanling's corpse.

Instantly, the entire altar space seemed to rain Golden Dew, which gushed out from the altar with a pitter-patter.

A total of four hundred drops.

This was even more than what he had obtained from killing a True Fate Realm expert at the Demonic Moon Sect before. Lin Shuguang guessed that it was because Qiao Shanling had cultivated demonic secret techniques to a profound level, thus yielding so much Golden Dew upon sacrifice.

He swallowed fifty drops in one go.

Vast spiritual energy merged into Lin Shuguang's limbs and bones. His blood energy surged, increasing his Blood Energy Value by no less than five hundred thousand Cal.

Lin Shuguang felt as if he had overeaten after swallowing the Golden Dew. He likely wouldn't be able to consume any more for a while. Seeing so much Golden Dew unable to be consumed... "What a waste."

He averted his gaze.

Lin Shuguang took out the two items before him that he couldn't refine.

One was the Divine Bone he had stolen from Marquis Gu Beishan of the Southern Dynasty, and the other was the Nine Demon Scroll he had openly snatched from the current Ninth Prince of the Great Gan Dynasty.

Lin Shuguang held the Divine Bone in one hand and the Nine Demon Scroll in the other.

"Divine Bone, just the name sounds extraordinary. Unfortunately, I haven't found much useful information about it so far. Perhaps it's too precious, so related intelligence has been sealed within exclusive circles.

As for the Nine Demon Scroll, that guy who called himself the Ninth Prince mentioned it briefly: anyone who could sign their name would become his contracted subordinate... Hmm, someone has actually signed it."

Lin Shuguang carefully examined the handwriting on the Nine Demon Scroll.

"Wang... Fugui."

He raised an eyebrow. This name was quite unexpected, to be honest. "The Ninth Prince isn't an idiot. Anyone he takes a liking to must have some special qualities, otherwise, his name wouldn't appear here."

Besides this, there were two other names on the Nine Demon Scroll... Sima Hengdao, Gu Qingshan.

Compared to the unfamiliarity brought by the name Gu Qingshan, the surname Sima in the former made Lin Shuguang raise an eyebrow.

In a previous conversation, the Ninth Prince had mentioned that he had supported and helped the Sima family back then. It was likely that this Sima Hengdao came from the same family as Sima Tingwei.

"Interesting." Lin Shuguang's lips curved slightly.

After playing with the Nine Demon Scroll for a while, Lin Shuguang was reluctant to sacrifice it.

The reason this scroll was so valued by the Ninth Prince was that it could control others.

What Lin Shuguang valued wasn't the ability to provoke the Ninth Prince, but the scroll's power.

"The person Gu Changhe values can't be ordinary. Since the Nine Demon Scroll is now in my hands, I might as well try to refine it. If I can truly refine it and gain complete control, wouldn't that mean Gu Changhe's efforts were in vain, and he ended up paving the way for me?"

Thinking of this outcome, Lin Shuguang couldn't help but laugh.

Gu Changhe, relying on his status as the Ninth Prince, was arrogant. If the talents he had painstakingly cultivated in secret were actually taken over and controlled by Lin Shuguang, he would probably be so angry he'd spit blood!

Activating the cultivation technique in his body, Lin Shuguang attempted to refine the Nine Demon Scroll. For a moment, as the energy in his body surged into the scroll, it felt like hitting a wall, blocking its path.

Lin Shuguang seemed to have anticipated this difficulty. His expression remained unchanged as he unleashed Thunder Tribulation Annihilation.

It was as if the God of Thunder had descended.

Having cultivated Thunder Tribulation Annihilation to a profound level through Pay to Win, the lightning had seemingly transformed into a form of rule power.

This rule power, which only True Fate Realm experts encountered, was already partially mastered by Lin Shuguang even though he wasn't yet in the True Fate Realm.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to kill True Fate Realm experts with his Spirit Transformation Realm cultivation.

With the power of Thunder Tribulation Annihilation, the resistance from the Nine Demon Scroll became as fragile as tofu, easily shattered by Lin Shuguang's brute force.

"Creak!"

A harsh metallic sound suddenly echoed through the air.

"Lin Shuguang!"

The Ninth Prince's familiar, enraged voice boomed.

The Nine Demon Scroll was, after all, something he had refined.

Even though Lin Shuguang had used the Spatial Altar to completely separate it from the Ninth Prince.

However, Lin Shuguang's current attempt at refinement had triggered the core of the Nine Demon Scroll, creating a small crack that allowed the Ninth Prince to detect it.

Unfortunately, this was still Lin Shuguang's domain.

The Spatial Altar was a divine object that the Ninth Prince couldn't yet access. With his strength, he naturally couldn't shake it in the slightest.

In that instant, the Ninth Prince had wanted to summon the Nine Demon Scroll back to his side.

After all, he himself didn't know how much effort he had spent investigating the scroll's whereabouts after it was snatched by Lin Shuguang.

And now, having finally seized an opportunity, he naturally wanted to immediately recall the Nine Demon Scroll, this treasure.

But alas, he couldn't budge the Spatial Altar at all.

"Damn it, what secret technique did this guy use!"

The Ninth Prince suppressed the rage in his heart. "Lin Shuguang, I'll give you one more chance. Return the Nine Demon Scroll to me immediately!"

Before he could finish speaking.

Lin Shuguang directly severed the mental connection between them.

The Ninth Prince's latter half of the sentence could only be spoken to himself. In an instant, the Ninth Prince felt like his heart and lungs were about to explode from anger!

When had he ever been so utterly ignored, especially by someone like Lin Shuguang, who wasn't even in the True Fate Realm!

When he thought about his noble status as the Ninth Prince, being defeated by a disciple from the sinful Baojian Sect, the Ninth Prince's face turned as dark as night.

He clenched his fists tightly, digging into the python patterns on his royal chair.

He knew that Lin Shuguang must be trying to refine his Nine Demon Scroll.

He was burning with anxiety!

After about three breaths, the Ninth Prince felt another connection. With a thought, he re-established mental contact with Lin Shuguang.

He hurriedly shouted, "Lin Shuguang, my magic treasure isn't that easy to refine. I advise you not to make a mistake. Refining my things will only ruin your future and implicate the entire Baojian Sect."

The same outcome occurred again.

This time, before the Ninth Prince could even finish speaking, Lin Shuguang once again impolitely cut off the connection.

The Ninth Prince's face grew increasingly grim.

Suddenly, his expression shifted slightly.

The Nine Demon Scroll seemed to be in a state of separation. He wasn't sure if this subtle change was just his imagination, but for now, he could only worry.

"Where did Shi Wenliang go? Why hasn't he succeeded yet!"

Another three breaths passed, and Lin Shuguang's mental connection arrived again.

The Ninth Prince, like a drowning person grasping at a straw, hurriedly said, "Lin Shuguang, I was wrong, can you!"