After leaving Purple Emblem Mountain, Xie Jinhuan released the Boar King and first made a trip to Danyang City, picking out a few little gifts for Wanyi and Momo, who were certain to be blazing with fury. Then he rushed back to Capital City at express-courier speed.
He had left in such a hurry last night that he had not noticed the changes in Capital City at all. Only now, walking through the Inner City streets early in the morning, did he discover that quite a few monks had joined the experts on patrol, and that he himself had become the universally admired Danyang County Marquis.
At three years old, Xie Jinhuan had resolved to outcompete the local natives to death. His greatest dream had been to become an overlord like Shang Lianbi, holding all of Dragonbone Shoal under his sole dominion. Though nominally just a city lord, he would effectively have proclaimed a country of his own.
Not only would he stand above ten thousand others, he could also keep cultivating, revel in pools of wine and forests of meat, and do whatever he pleased. Even if he bullied weasel spirits and octopus girls every night, no one would dare voice an objection...
But to reach that point, he first needed the raw strength to look down upon the Various Sects and hundred schools. He was clearly still a very long way from that.
Still, the Big Sister who had saved him and his father three years ago had told him to head south, promising him a princely title.
If she kept her word and both sides rewarded him, trying to have it all might prove somewhat difficult...
Besides, after witnessing Golden-Armored Big Sister soar through the skies and burrow through the earth, and recalling the hardship of his