"This feeling..."
After taking the Yellow Spirit Pill Ye Uchiha had given him, Crown Prince Han Bai swung his fists, whipping up gusts of wind. A light hop sent him several meters into the air. Feeling the vigorous strength coursing through his body, he reckoned he could easily beat a hundred of his former selves. Shock and delight spread across his face.
Standing beside him, Ye Uchiha offered his congratulations. "Congratulations, Your Highness. You've now reached the rank of an unranked martial artist, but that's only temporary. Once you've solidified your foundation and refined the true qi in your body, you can take this Mystic Spirit Pill and advance to the third-class rank."
Although Han Bai knew that relying on pills to advance through the martial ranks had serious drawbacks, and Ye Uchiha had warned him repeatedly, he had been a useless weakling who could barely fight. Simply entering the realm of martial arts was enough to satisfy him. Now he knew martial arts himself and no longer had to live in constant fear of assassination.
As the crown prince of Han, Han Bai still remembered how many people had coveted his life when he first became heir to the throne. Assassinations, poison, all manner of suspicious accidents... It had been unbearably stifling. Without the protection of Great General Ji Wuye, he would have been dead long ago.
No, I need to visit the Royal Palace later and ask Father for a few advanced martial arts manuals. Anything less would be unworthy of my status as crown prince.
The Royal Palace's treasury held countless martial arts manuals, including advanced techniques that only first-class martial artists could master. However, members of the royal family rarely practiced martial arts, considering it something only uncouth fighters did. Han Bai cared nothing for such