"Brother Chu, how did it go?"
After they returned to the inn, Li Xingchen hurried over to greet him.
"How did what go?"
"You and Princess Linglong, of course."
"What could have happened between us? We just exchanged insights on cultivation, and then I came back," Chu Kuangren said mildly.
He had no habit of spreading other people's private affairs around. The marriage of convenience was Princess Linglong's business. He would neither agree to it nor interfere.
"Princess Linglong specifically asked you to stay behind just to exchange insights on cultivation?" Li Xingchen looked as though he thought Chu Kuangren was pulling his leg.
"Not everyone has a head full of dirty thoughts like you."
Chu Kuangren rolled his eyes and said no more.
After that night, word of Chu Kuangren defeating the Third Prince with a single sword strike gradually spread through the Royal Capital's circle of Heavenly Prides.
As for what kind of storm it stirred up, Chu Kuangren did not care.
The Tournament to Find a Spouse drew ever closer, but just a few days before it was to take place, something momentous happened in the Azure Dragon Domain.
The Bright Moon Secret Realm, which had vanished for ten thousand years, suddenly appeared above the North Sea!
Morning.
Chu Kuangren had just finished his prize draw when Li Xingchen rushed into his room, looking anxious, as though something major had happened.
"Brother Li, what's wrong?"
"Brother Chu, hurry! Come to the North Sea with me."
"What for? Aren't you taking part in the tournament to select a husband anymore?"
Chu Kuangren laughed.
"The Bright Moon Secret Realm, a Saint's residence that mysteriously vanished over ten thousand years ago, has appeared above the North Sea! If we don't go now, everyone else will snatch up all the