Cultivation and the Fight for the Crown Prince's Seat!

That afternoon.

"Eighth Prince!"

Jiang Ning's eyes flashed with surprise when Qinghe brought Ji Minghao before him.

"I hope I haven't interrupted your training, Brother Jiang?" Ji Minghao smiled warmly.

"Not really. I was just about to take a break," Jiang Ning said.

After lunch, he had set aside his practice of the Grand Void Yin-Yang Sword for the time being.

Its efficiency had fallen to a tenth of what it had been.

With the Inner Landscape Grounds no longer effective, the drop was even more dramatic.

At that rate, advancing the Grand Void Yin-Yang Sword again would take more than a day or two.

So he had turned his attention to the Spiritual Altar Illumination of the True Self Method.

Reaching the first rank as soon as possible was his next goal.

"Then I did interrupt your training after all!" Ji Minghao said with a smile.

"Please, have a seat, Your Highness." Jiang Ning gestured toward a chair.

Ji Minghao shook his head. "I won't sit. The martial examination begins tomorrow, so I won't take up your time."

He looked at Jiang Ning and raised a hand. A small jade jar appeared in his palm.

"I came today especially to give you this."

"Your Highness, what is it?" Jiang Ning looked at the jar in puzzlement.

"Earth-Milk Spirit Marrow. It comes from a Grotto-Heaven," Ji Minghao said.

"So it's this!" Jiang Ning stared at the jar in Ji Minghao's hand, startled.

He had read a great many books and naturally knew of Earth-Milk Spirit Marrow.

It was a rare treasure found beneath the earth's veins.

In the present age, changes in the world's environment had driven it to extinction.

But Grotto-Heavens were different.

Each Grotto-Heaven was a small world unto itself, with an environment and laws resembling those of