"Eh, isn't this Little Eleventh? What a coincidence. Here, take this. These milk candies are made from the milk of an Earth-tier Demonic Beast."
As Lu Xuan was walking toward Yuan Xiu Palace, he saw Lu Chen's tiger-headed, tiger-brained figure ahead and paused. A kind smile immediately spread across his face as he hurried over to Lu Chen and stuffed a handful of candies into his hands.
"Thank you, Second Imperial Brother."
Lu Chen looked at the smiling tiger before him—the man who would betray the Great Qian Divine Dynasty in the future by joining forces with the four great sects and two great academies—and sneered inwardly, but his face still wore an innocent and adorable smile.
Then Lu Chen turned toward Lu Ren, who stood beside him with a complicated expression, and tilted his head curiously.
"Seventh Imperial Brother, do you still wet your pants? Don't worry. I didn't tell anyone about you wetting yourself just now. Aside from my mother, and the palace maids and eunuchs of Yuan Xiu Palace, no one else knows."
Lu Chen wore an innocent smile as he spoke in his childish voice.
At that moment, Lu Ren, who had still been hesitating and lacked the courage to attack Lu Chen, heard those words. His face instantly flushed bright red.
"Bullshit!"
Lu Ren snarled. Then, with a clang, he drew his sword and viciously stabbed it toward Lu Chen.
However, as the Profound-tier Treasure Sword in Lu Ren's hand thrust toward Lu Chen, it suddenly let out a mournful cry.
The next moment, there was a loud bang.
The dignified Profound-tier Treasure Sword snapped in midair, while supreme Sword Qi suddenly erupted from Lu Chen's body.
In an instant, the broken section of the Profound-tier Treasure Sword floated up on its own and stabbed toward Lu Ren's thigh.
Whoosh...
"Ah..."
With another whoosh, Lu Ren collapsed onto the ground, clutching his thigh as blood poured from the wound and he screamed miserably.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye.
Lu Ren was only a half-step Grandmaster, yet he had dared to attack Lu Chen, who possessed the Supreme Sword Body and stood in the Land Immortal Realm.
Lu Chen did not even need to fight back. Before his Supreme Sword Body, Lu Ren's treasure sword had directly turned on its master and struck Lu Ren himself.
It could not inflict the slightest harm on Lu Chen.
Beside them, however, the smile on Lu Xuan's face had frozen solid.
Everything had happened too quickly. As a King Realm expert, he had not even seen what had happened clearly before his younger brother was already lying on the ground, screaming without end.
"What did you do?"
At this moment, the smile vanished from Lu Xuan's face, replaced by fury.
Just then, the only six-year-old Lu Chen suddenly wore a terrified expression.
The next moment, Lu Chen opened his mouth and burst into loud sobs.
"Waaah, waaah, Seventh Imperial Brother tried to kill me! Waaah, waaah, you're bullying me!"
Lu Chen cried so hard that tears and mucus streamed down his face, all while straddling Lu Ren and raining punches and kicks upon him.
After a few breaths, Lu Ren's face was swollen and bruised beyond recognition.
"Outrageous!"
Seeing this, Lu Xuan's expression turned extremely grim as he charged toward Lu Chen.
However, at that moment, Lu Xuan was horrified to discover that just as he was about to touch Lu Chen, terrifying Sword Qi suddenly erupted from Lu Chen's body and enveloped him.
In the blink of an eye, countless thin bloodstreaks appeared across his body.
"How is this possible!"
Lu Xuan instinctively retreated three steps, his face filled with terror.
He was a ninth-layer King Realm expert, after all.
A powerhouse at the half-step Emperor Realm.
Yet he could not even touch a six-year-old little brat. How terrifying was that?
Lu Xuan's expression shifted between light and dark, and his thoughts churned like a thousand waves.
Lu Xuan even began to wonder whether Lu Chen was a powerhouse in the Land Immortal Realm.
Otherwise, how could facing this little brat give him the same terrifying feeling as facing his Imperial Father, the Azure Emperor?
Meanwhile, Lu Chen continued to wail loudly as he punched and kicked the shrieking Lu Ren. Before long, Lu Ren had been beaten so badly that he could no longer even cry out.
At that moment, a hazy voice also rang in Lu Chen's ears.
Congratulations, you have completed the mission: Beat up the Seventh Prince, Lu Ren!
Congratulations, you have received the reward: Nine-Colored Spirit Root!
Only after hearing those two voices did Lu Chen sob his way up from Lu Ren. Still not satisfied, he viciously kicked Lu Ren between the legs.
"Ah..."
With a shriek like a slaughtered pig, Lu Ren fainted on the spot.
Before losing consciousness, he had only one thought: he felt as though something inside him had shattered...
"Waaah, waaah, Seventh Imperial Brother bullied me!"
Crying all the while, Lu Chen ran toward Yuan Xiu Palace.
Only Lu Xuan remained behind, his expression shifting unpredictably, along with Lu Ren, unconscious and covered in blood.
"You're saying that the little bastard born to that slut, Consort Yuan, beat your younger brother into this state?"
Spirit Marvel Hall!
This was the residence of the Azure Emperor's favored consort, Spirit Consort, the birth mother of the Second Prince and Seventh Prince.
Spirit Consort looked at her youngest son, who was covered in blood. After hearing Lu Xuan's words, a venomous expression appeared on her exquisite face.
"That's right!"
Lu Xuan's brows were tightly furrowed as he nodded, his thoughts in turmoil.
"Xuan'er, you're a King Realm expert. Are you really going to stand by and watch your younger brother get bullied?"
Spirit Consort could not help complaining.
"Imperial Concubine, I... That Lu Chen seems to be a monster. I seem to have no way to touch him!"
After hearing this, Lu Xuan was silent for a moment before speaking through gritted teeth.
"????"
Spirit Consort's eyes widened instinctively at those words. Her face filled with terror as she stared at Lu Xuan's ashen countenance in disbelief.
After a moment of silence, Spirit Consort took out an Earth-tier Healing Sacred Medicine—the Three-Turn Rejuvenation Pill—and fed it to Lu Ren.
"Xuan'er, don't involve yourself in this matter anymore. I'll think of a way to test just what that slut's bastard is all about."
Meanwhile, after Lu Ren swallowed the Rejuvenation Pill, he drowsily opened his eyes. The moment he saw Spirit Consort, he immediately burst into tears.
"Imperial Concubine, I want that bastard Lu Chen dead!"
"Ren'er, he will die. Once your maternal grandfather has someone test that little bastard's depths, Imperial Concubine will definitely avenge you!"
Spirit Consort embraced Lu Ren and nodded heavily.
Spirit Consort's maternal family was none other than the Ling Family, one of the four great aristocratic families of the Great Qian Divine Dynasty!
The Ling Family controlled nearly half of the Great Qian Divine Dynasty's supply of pills. The Ling Family Patriarch—Spirit Consort's father—was even an Emperor Realm expert. He was terrifying beyond measure!
"You're saying that Our six-year-old Eleventh Prince beat the Seventh Prince until he was on the verge of death and knocked him unconscious, while the Second Prince watched from the side, completely unable to approach the Eleventh Prince? You're even saying that terrifying Sword Qi erupted from the Eleventh Prince, making even you feel a trace of fear?"
At Central Extreme Palace, the Azure Emperor suddenly opened his eyes after hearing the Shadow's report.
Within his pair of weathered eyes, which seemed capable of seeing through the Great Thousand World, a rare trace of astonishment surfaced.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
A hoarse voice came from behind the Azure Emperor.
Having received confirmation, the Azure Emperor slowly closed his eyes. However, the slight tremble at the corners of his mouth showed that his heart was far from calm.
"Eleventh still hasn't turned six yet, has he?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Eleventh Prince will turn six tomorrow."
"In other words, tomorrow the Eleventh Prince will be tested for his physique, innate potential, and comprehension. Since that is the case, tomorrow I will personally see how my Little Eleventh performs in the test and see what kind of surprise he can give me!"
The Azure Emperor slowly spoke.
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