The Tang Sect's True Senior Sister of the Inner Sect: Tang San? Wasn't He a Thief Who Stole Cultivation Techniques?

On the way back to the Imperial Palace.

Xu Cheng gazed quietly through the window at the bustling streets flashing past.

Yet in the accounts of the Original Continent's nobles, this place was a gathering ground for Evil Soul Masters, with bones strewn everywhere, human skins clinging together, and souls wailing-a veritable hell on earth.

He recalled his conversation with Xu Zhen just now.

"If she's Shrek's Zhang Lexuan, then this gets interesting. This is your best way to win Xu Jiangnian over. From what you've told me, her age and Martial Soul basically match. When you get the chance, test her bone age too..."

"Find a way to win Zhang Lexuan's heart, and you'll have that brother-in-law of yours firmly on your side. Once he's secured, so is the entire Royal Soul Engineer Corps. Hahaha, just imagining that brat suddenly dropping a generation below me is amusing..."

"..."

"Could my old man really be all about pure love?" Xu Cheng muttered doubtfully.

Normally, when a prince grew powerful, the emperor would become suspicious to some degree, or suppress him. But the feeling this emperor gave him... was like Zhu Yuanzhang as recorded in the history books, while he himself was Zhu Biao.

"Interesting..."

Xu Cheng shook his head.

He shook the distracting thoughts out of his mind.

He had already cultivated to the peak of Soul King, and it was time to obtain his sixth Soul Ring.

His ice attribute also lacked at least five Soul Rings.

It was something of a headache. Ordinary people could cultivate their whole lives without having to worry about this, since there were usually long intervals between acquiring each Soul Ring, leaving ample time to think things through.

But he was different.

At such a young age, he already had eighteen Soul Rings