In the blink of an eye, another three days passed. Xu Jiujiu's breakthrough to the Soul Ancestor realm as a royal princess caused no stir in the outside world—or rather, the outside world simply had no idea of Xu Jiujiu's exact cultivation.
Much like Shu Yan's existence, although he had been by Xu Jiujiu's side ever since he was six and could even be said to be inseparable from her, the outside world's only impression of him had always been that he was a retainer favored by the princess...
More absurdly... some people might even have regarded him as Xu Jiujiu's male concubine...
But this also showed just how competent the Star Luo Empire's intelligence network was. To conceal the specific information about Xu Jiujiu and Shu Yan, the manpower and resources they had expended over the years amounted to an utterly terrifying figure.
Fortunately, such efforts were worthwhile. Shu Yan's performance left Xu Jiawei two hundred percent satisfied, and it also gradually gave the emperor some other ideas. Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, everything Shu Yan had spoken of might truly come to pass...
That afternoon, Nebula Douluo personally escorted a strange-looking soul beast into the Princess Mansion.
In the open space of the rear courtyard, Nebula Douluo wore a faint smile as he looked at the horse-type soul beast lying limp on the ground, beaten until it had lost the ability to move. Then he said to Xu Jiujiu, "Your Highness Princess, after repeated searches by our forces, we finally found an exceedingly rare Ten-Thousand-Year Sacred Spirit Horse in the Star Dou Great Forest. Although its cultivation age is slightly below the standard A Yan gave us, the powerful bloodline within the Sacred Spirit Horse is more than enough to make up for that minor gap. We