Sea God Island Revealed!

"Zhenhai City's City Lord Yang Xin—what is your relationship with him?"

Xu Tianyang's gaze was extremely sharp. After he spoke Yang Xin's name, Yang Yiyi's small body stiffened slightly, and an indescribably complicated look appeared deep in her eyes.

A trace of hatred filled those ink-black eyes.

"I have nothing to do with him... nothing to do with him..." Yang Yiyi repeated the words firmly, as though trying to reinforce their truth.

"The battle over there is over as well. Let's go see how badly the City Lord's Manor was damaged. We need to report the situation here to Mingdu as soon as possible, so Imperial Father can send people to take over Zhenhai City and pacify the populace."

Xu Tianyang gave Yang Yiyi a deep look. She was lying, and she could not hide it from him at all. But since Yang Yiyi was unwilling to speak, he did not press her.

He led the two guards past Yang Yiyi toward the City Lord's Manor.

Watching the three of them walk toward the City Lord's Manor, pain flashed through Yang Yiyi's eyes. She clenched her silver teeth, but the pain was soon replaced by determination. She turned and chased after Xu Tianyang's retreating figure without hesitation.

Feeling the small figure hurrying up behind him, Xu Tianyang's lips curved slightly.

After her Blue Silver Grass displayed its devouring power, he had already decided not to let her go. A genius like this—if she could not be used by him, then she had to be killed by him.

Yang Yiyi was undoubtedly a promising talent. She did not carry that fallen aura, which meant that even when facing devouring power, she could still hold fast to the bottom line in her heart. That was enough.

As for the fact that the public considered Yang Yiyi an Evil Soul Master—was that even a problem to him?

How could Martial Souls be divided into good and evil? Only Soul Masters who possessed power could be called righteous or wicked. And in this world where strength reigned supreme, only the strong could define good and evil.

When I become invincible beneath heaven, if I say you are an Evil Soul Master, then you are an Evil Soul Master. Even if you possess an Angel Martial Soul, so what?

By the time they arrived at the City Lord's Manor, the battle there had already ended. Once Meng Tao joined the fighting with Xu Tianyang's guard squad, there had been no room for accidents.

"Your Highness, the chief culprit has been executed, and the Evil Soul Master accomplices within the city have all been eliminated."

Seeing Xu Tianyang arrive from afar, Meng Tao sighed in relief and hurried over to his side, speaking respectfully.

"Mm." Xu Tianyang nodded. He did not even spare a glance for the Evil Soul Master corpses scattered across the ground. Looking at Yang Yiyi beside him, he saw that her eyes were gradually reddening. She wanted to look at the corpses around them, yet did not dare to, leaving her in obvious conflict.

"How is Yang Xin?" Xu Tianyang casually asked as an idea stirred in his mind.

Sure enough, upon hearing Xu Tianyang's words, Yang Yiyi's little body trembled. She pretended not to care, but in truth, she pricked up her ears and quietly moved a little closer.

Naturally, such a small gesture could not escape everyone's notice. But seeing that Xu Tianyang said nothing, no one dared to speak out of turn.

Meng Tao's expression grew solemn as he said in a heavy voice, "City Lord Yang Xin fought many Evil Soul Masters before this subordinate arrived and had already suffered grave injuries. After the battle ended, he ultimately could not hold on."

Xu Tianyang nodded without much reaction. He had long expected this outcome.

Yang Yiyi, however, revealed an unprecedentedly complicated expression upon hearing the news. There was relief, grief, and hatred.

"Temporarily take control of the Zhenhai City Lord's Manor. Send someone to Mingdu." Xu Tianyang calmly arranged the post-battle affairs.

As one order after another was issued, Zhenhai City finally welcomed the dawn, which dispersed the murderous aura of the previous night.

Within the Zhenhai City Lord's Manor, Xu Tianyang finished his morning cultivation and stepped out of his room. As expected, Yang Yiyi was standing prettily at his door and nearly ran straight into him.

"How did you rest last night?" Xu Tianyang asked softly as he looked at Yang Yiyi's slightly flushed cheeks and led her outside.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. Yiyi is perfectly well." Yang Yiyi now knew Xu Tianyang's identity and seemed somewhat restrained.

"There are not so many rules around me. You can call me little brother, Brother Tianyang, or even just by my name." Xu Tianyang saw her restraint and tried to make his tone as easygoing as possible.

"Brother Tianyang!" Yang Yiyi sighed in relief at his words and called out sweetly. None of the sorrow from before could be seen on her face, as though last night's events had happened a long time ago.

Xu Tianyang smiled faintly, not finding it strange. Yang Yiyi's information had already been placed on his desk the night before.

Her background could only be described as the Sun Moon Empire's version of Huo Gua. Her mother had merely been a maid at the City Lord's Manor and died three years after giving birth to her. As an illegitimate daughter, Yang Yiyi had not lived well in the City Lord's Manor. Coupled with her mother's death, she had little affection for Yang Xin's family.

Nine months ago, Yang Yiyi awakened her Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. Even though her Innate Soul Power had reached Level Seven, Blue Silver Grass was universally acknowledged across the continent as a useless Martial Soul, and it did not change her status in the Yang Family. Instead, her decent Innate Soul Power caused many children her age to exclude and bully her.

Having grown up in such an environment, Xu Tianyang would not find it strange if Yang Yiyi one day became powerful and wiped out the entire Yang Family.

However, all that hatred had now been resolved in last night's battle.

After taking Yang Yiyi to breakfast, Xu Tianyang took out a jade bottle and handed it to her. "These are Pulse Solidifying Pills. Your breakthrough from Soul Power Level Nine to Ten was too rushed. Take them to stabilize the Soul Power in your body. In a few days, once Mingdu sends people to take over everything in Zhenhai City, I'll take you to hunt a Soul Beast."

At present, the pills on the Sun Moon Empire market mainly fell into several categories: those that increased strength, healed injuries, and stabilized one's foundation.

There were also pills that could rapidly increase strength while maintaining the stability of one's foundation. People called them high-grade pills. Their drawback was that they were expensive and built up resistance quickly.

Pill resistance was similar to drug resistance. The body would naturally develop resistance, and as the number of doses increased, their effects would gradually weaken...

That was why ordinary people found such pills difficult to obtain.

In contrast, there were pills that were relatively cheap but caused some damage to one's foundation, leaving one's Soul Power unstable after use.

Such pills were the first choice of ordinary Soul Engineers.

Not being able to afford better pills was one reason. Another was the need to rapidly improve their Soul Tool technology, which was often linked to Soul Power Level.

Therefore, ordinary Soul Engineers in the Sun Moon Empire did not need to care whether their Soul Power was solid or not. They only needed to study all kinds of Soul Tool techniques, make Soul Tools, then sell them for money and use the money to acquire more resources and improve themselves, forming a cycle until their talent was exhausted.

Soul Engineers also fought primarily with Soul Tools, so whether their Soul Power was stable had little impact.

Of course, Soul Masters with talent and resources naturally would not consume pills that ruined their own future.

Pulse Solidifying Pills were a type of pill with very high resistance tolerance. As long as the timing was properly controlled, they could basically be taken continuously to stabilize one's foundation. They could also slightly heal injuries, and their market price outside was as high as several thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Yang Yiyi did not take it immediately. Instead, she looked at Xu Tianyang hesitantly and carefully asked, "Brother Tianyang, my Martial Soul..."

"I know." Seeing this, Xu Tianyang reached out and rubbed her head. "There is no distinction between good and bad Martial Souls. As long as Yiyi uses this power in the right places, that is enough."

"I hope that one day, I will see Yiyi use the power of an Evil Soul Master, which the world fears, to slaughter all the true Evil Soul Masters."

"Mm-hm!" Yang Yiyi looked at Xu Tianyang, her eyes reddening slightly as she was overcome with emotion. This was the first time someone had acknowledged her and made her feel warmth.

"Take it." Xu Tianyang placed the Pulse Solidifying Pills in her little hand. After encouraging her for a while, he turned and left.

Watching Xu Tianyang's departing back, Yang Yiyi secretly swore, Brother Tianyang, Yiyi will not disappoint you. Yiyi will become very strong, very strong, and then kill every Evil Soul Master in the world.

Mingdu moved quickly. In only three days, it sent new officials to take over all matters in Zhenhai City.

Xu Tianyang and the others were finally freed from the complicated administrative work. Zhenhai City had just gone through a great upheaval, and there were countless tangled matters to deal with, one after another.

Fortunately, they were finally free of it now.

Min Yingying also returned to Xu Tianyang's side with this group, bringing with her a personally written secret letter from Xu Yunxiao.

After handing the secret letter to Xu Tianyang, Min Yingying spoke respectfully.

"Your Highness, this is the secret letter His Majesty ordered this subordinate to bring. He has also issued a decree requesting that, once Your Highness finishes handing over the affairs of Zhenhai City, you immediately depart and return to Mingdu."

Xu Tianyang's expression grew somewhat grave at this. Xu Yunxiao's attitude made it seem as though something major was about to happen. But had anything significant occurred within the empire?

He thought it over but could find no clue. Xu Tianyang slowly opened Xu Yunxiao's secret letter. After reading it, he rose to his feet in shock.

"This is impossible!!!"

"How could this be possible? What exactly happened for such a massive change to occur?"

Min Yingying looked at Xu Tianyang with a solemn expression, curious about what His Majesty's letter contained that could make the usually steady Your Highness react so strongly.

However, she knew her place and did not ask. In the royal family, curiosity killed the cat was no mere saying.

It was real.

"Min Yingying, Meng Tao, receive my order. I will return to Mingdu immediately at the fastest possible speed. Depart at once!" Xu Tianyang's youthful yet imposing voice rang out, causing Min Yingying and Meng Tao to tense.

"This minister receives the order!"

Watching the two leave to make arrangements, Xu Tianyang's expression gradually deepened. Xu Yunxiao's letter had completely disrupted his plans. For the first time, he felt that matters had exceeded his expectations. He could no longer see where events would go from here.

At the same time, this also presented an enormous opportunity. It depended on whether the Sun Moon Empire—and he, Xu Tianyang—could seize it.

Lowering his head to look at the letter in his palm once more, Xu Tianyang's gaze gradually became excited.

It read: "People of Sea God Island have appeared in the depths of the empire's Eastern Sea. I hope my son returns swiftly."

High in the sky, a golden light barrier flickered, with more than ten figures standing within it. They were Xu Tianyang and his group. To return to Mingdu as quickly as possible, Meng Tao and the others brought out the empire's finest Flying Soul Tool. It was a recent creation from Mingde Hall and had not yet been widely introduced.

This Soul Tool was rather strange. Outside the golden light barrier was a pair of enormous golden wings spanning a thousand meters, gently flapping.

The golden wings were thin and soft, without the slightest metallic texture. Pale golden light flowed over them, making them look more like the wings of a flying Soul Beast.

This Soul Tool had been made by imitating the characteristics of flying Soul Beasts. It was a new research direction the empire had recently begun pursuing: Soul Tool Bionics.

Yang Yiyi, who was riding a Flying Soul Tool for the first time, continuously looked around with curious eyes. Gazing at the world outside, she felt as if she were beneath the water, observing through its surface.

Within the golden membrane, the surrounding scenery became blurry at an incredible speed. Not even the slightest sound of wind reached her ears. If not for the scenery flashing past outside, she might not have realized that they were flying rapidly through the air.

"How amazing!"

Hearing Yang Yiyi's exclamation beside him, Xu Tianyang smiled slightly. His originally tense mood also calmed.

When soldiers came, generals would block them; when water came, earth would dam it. The situation might not be so terrible.

"Yiyi, I'm afraid I'll have to break my promise about taking you to hunt a Soul Beast." Xu Tianyang looked at Yang Yiyi apologetically. "However, I'll have someone capture a suitable Soul Beast for you and let you absorb its Soul Ring directly at the academy."

Yang Yiyi was naturally going to be sent to school. No matter how talented she was, she needed time to realize that talent, and Sun Moon Royal Academy was the best place for her.

"It's all right. Brother Tianyang's matters are more important. Yiyi is fine. Didn't Brother Tianyang say that even if I don't absorb a Soul Ring, the Soul Power I cultivate afterward won't disappear? It will erupt together once my Soul Power breaks through, right? Maybe Yiyi will be able to break through two levels in a row then!" Yang Yiyi comforted Xu Tianyang with remarkable understanding, then stuck out her tongue and gave him a playful smile.

"Haha, with Yiyi's talent, Brother Tianyang believes you can definitely rise two levels at once." Seeing this, Xu Tianyang relaxed and laughed.

"Hehe!"

"When did such an outstanding girl appear beside Your Highness?"

Min Yingying watched the suddenly appeared Yang Yiyi, her mind filled with questions. Then she could not help worrying for Xu Nianshuang. Yang Yiyi's talent and appearance were no less than Xu Nianshuang's, and she would undoubtedly become Xu Nianshuang's greatest rival in the future. Looking at Yang Yiyi's obedient little-sister demeanor, Min Yingying could not help but worry for Xu Nianshuang.

A day and a night later, looking at the familiar outline ahead, Xu Tianyang felt a wave of emotion. Compared to when he had left for training, Mingdu had clearly expanded considerably.

After unifying the continent, the capital of the Sun Moon Empire had undoubtedly become the true number one city on the Sun Moon Continent. Countless people flocked toward it, causing Mingdu's original city limits to become increasingly crowded.

After Xu Yunxiao ascended the throne, Mingdu began another round of expansion.