The Wailing Princess

Before the imperial city gates, Ying Zhao, representing the Blood Qin Empire's imperial clan, stopped Lin Qi's betrothal-gift procession with a beaming face.

Hu Tu immediately stepped forward and exchanged questions and answers with Ying Zhao according to Blood Qin Empire etiquette. The archaic, elegant phrasing made Lin Qi's ears itch just listening to it, while Blackbeard stood beside him with a grin, puffing out clouds of smoke as he asked, "Have you met your future wife? Is she pretty?"

Lin Qi nodded vigorously. "A peerless beauty. It's just that her temper... is a little strange."

With so many people around, Lin Qi truly could not tell Blackbeard the truth. Princess Qingli's temperament was far more than merely strange. She was the Creation Maiden of the Genesis Divine Palace, and from the moment she was born, she had fused with a freshly condensed divine seed. According to Elysian Heaven's intelligence, aided by the vast divine power contained within that seed, Princess Qingli might look delicate and fragile, but she was actually a Spirit Mage at the peak of the Saint Master realm.

Spirit Mages were an exceedingly rare branch among mages. They could commune with all spirits between heaven and earth, borrowing the world's spiritual power to cast all manner of mighty spells. Spirit Mages took much longer than ordinary mages to activate large-scale spells, but the power and range of those spells far surpassed those of ordinary mages.

Both at the peak of the Saint Master realm, an ordinary frost mage's blizzard spell could cover an area of a hundred li, while a peak Saint Master Spirit Mage, with the aid of suitable magical implements and after a long period of prayer and spirit gathering, could unleash a blizzard sweeping across ten thousand li—enough to wipe out an empire!