Driven by curiosity, Lin Xuan finally went to see the Thirty-Five Imperial Princess. However, unlike the others, the Thirty-Five Imperial Princess showed obvious unease in her eyes and was extremely nervous when she saw Lin Xuan.
She appeared different from the other princes and princesses.
Upon seeing Lin Xuan, she immediately took a deep breath, but her tension only intensified instead of easing.
Her appearance, coupled with the restraint and unnaturalness she exuded, led Lin Xuan to a rather bold guess.
He raised an eyebrow and, before the Thirty-Five Imperial Princess could speak, preemptively asked the question.
"You must also be from outside the illusion, right?"
As princes and princesses, no matter what, they shouldn't have such an obviously naive and innocent air.
The Vast Sea Saint Dynasty is by no means a gentle land.
So, excluding the least likely possibility, there's only one left: this Thirty-Five Imperial Princess, like herself, comes from the outside world!
Even if he guessed wrong, it wouldn't be a big deal. At most, the people in this illusionary world wouldn't understand what he was talking about and would think he had gone mad.
Even if you add a few more unpleasant suffixes to the name of the Lin Household playboy, it won't make him any better.
The Thirty-Five Imperial Princess was visibly stunned upon hearing this. Her glassy eyes lit up, and she even clenched her fists in excitement.
"You, are you one too?"
Lin Xuan nodded, admitting it directly without denying it.
Besides, coming from outside the illusion is not something worth arguing about.
Seeing Lin Xuan openly admit that she was also a "fellow villager," the Thirty-Five Imperial Princess, who had been quite nervous, immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
She patted her chest, her stiff back relaxing considerably, no longer tense or deliberately prim and proper, and exuding a more relaxed air.
Although she didn't know Lin Xuan before, nor did she know who Lin Xuan was, as a fellow visitor from the outside world, and considering that she had no enemies, she felt somewhat close to Lin Xuan, who was also a visitor from the outside world.
It's still better than these people in the illusion.
It was clearly just an illusion, but everything felt so real, so real that it frightened her.
Looking at Lin Xuan, whose face was cold and stern, and who was nothing like the playboy of the Lin Household as rumored, the Thirty-Five Imperial Princess pondered for a moment and decided to show her sincerity first.
She said sincerely, "Young Master Lin, I didn't expect you to be from the outside world as well. Well then, I'll be frank with you."
"I come from the True Spirit Prince's Mansion of the Sixteen Princes' Mansions the Taiyu Divine Dynasty."
After speaking, the Thirty-Five Imperial Princess paused.
She cleverly kept her true identity within the True Spirit Prince's Mansion a secret.
And it seems unlikely that others could definitively identify her as the princess of the True Spirit Prince's Mansion based on just a few words.
As a princess, one of the reasons she came to such a dangerous place as the Vast Sea Secret Realm was to gain experience and increase her strength.
Another reason is that he wants to risk everything to find a high-level spirit medicine that can repair the soul.
To resolve the crisis facing her True Spirit Prince's Mansion's Palace!
Otherwise, she, a princess, wouldn't have been sent out...
Taiyu Divine Dynasty?
Upon hearing these words, a look of realization flashed across Lin Xuan's eyes. He was not entirely unfamiliar with the Taiyu Divine Dynasty.
The five realms of the Saint Heaven Realm, Luo Heaven Realm, Sword Ruins, Saint Realm, Taiyu Divine Dynasty together form the Eastern Continent.
The Taiyu Divine Dynasty is a vast and ancient kingdom with an extremely expansive territory, larger than the combined territory of the eleven major domains of the Saint Heaven Realm. It is also incredibly powerful, possessing not only Great Saint but also no fewer than twenty Saint Realm experts. It is a behemoth that no force in the Eastern Continent dares to underestimate, and it is even more powerful than the entire Saint Heaven Realm combined.
Within the Taiyu Divine Dynasty, unlike the Saint Heaven Realm which is ruled by a single Holy Heaven, it is "ruled by separate kings."
There are a total of Sixteen Princes' Mansions.
Almost every lord of a royal palace is a Saint Realm, or at least Perfected Half-Saint of his realm, just one step away from achieving it.
The True Spirit Prince's Mansion, where the Thirty-Five Imperial Princess resides, is one of them.
It was also one of the weaker princely residences.
Unlike the Ten Great Saint Heavens.
No matter how weak the Primordial Holy Heaven is, how few geniuses it has, or how much it is marginalized, it is still Holy Heaven, one of the Ten Great Saint Heavens, occupying the Primordial Domain, leading a force and territory. As long as the Saint Realm exists, it will remain in an unshakeable position.
The Ten Great Saint Heavens are fixed and unchanging.
However, the Sixteen Princes' Mansions were not static.
Just as the Ten Great Saint Heavens hold a Holy Heaven Holy Heaven Grand Competition to determine their ranking, the Sixteen Princes' Mansions also hold a once-in-a-century Mansion Competition, which not only determines the ranking of the Sixteen Princes' Mansions Sixteen Princes' Mansions also what rewards they can receive within a hundred years.
The rewards for the Mansion Competition are all distributed by the Taiyu Divine Dynasty and are very generous.
It's so generous that even Saint Realm would be tempted.
In addition to these, the centennial Mansion Competition the Sixteen Princes' Mansions will also determine which mansions will be expelled and disbanded!
The Mansion Competition, held once every hundred years, is an assessment of the prince's palace.
The rewards from the Taiyu Divine Dynasty are not so easy to obtain.
The location of a prince's residence is not so easy to secure.
The Taiyu Divine Dynasty, which reigns supreme over the Sixteen Princes' Mansions, has the right to decide whether each of the Sixteen Princes' Mansions is qualified to control its own fiefdom.
The three lowest-ranking princely residences, from fourteenth to sixteenth, are subject to purge every hundred years.
Among these changes, the current head of the Prince's Mansion will be removed from the position, and a more capable person will be chosen to take over.
The decline of the True Spirit Prince's Mansion is not a recent phenomenon. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the mansion lord of the True Spirit Prince's Mansion's Mansion will be one of those eliminated in this once-in-a-century Mansion Competition.
Lin Xuan looked at the somewhat embarrassed face of the Thirty-Five Imperial Princess and shook his head slightly.
Originally, the fate of the True Spirit Prince's Mansion should not have been like this.
After all, this faction originally possessed a Saint Realm ancestor.
Unfortunately, that Saint Realm Ancestor perished unexpectedly decades ago on his way to a dangerous place, leaving the vast True Spirit Prince's Mansion without a Saint, greatly weakening its strength, and causing it to fall to the bottom.
What's even more devastating is that the True Spirit Prince's Mansion not only lost Saint Realm expert, but also two of the clan's most promising talents.
Now, the once-in-a-century Mansion Competition is about to begin. If one wants to secure the position of palace lord, one must send a prodigy to participate in the Mansion Competition. Moreover, the final ranking cannot be among the bottom three. Otherwise, the current True Spirit Prince's Mansion will change hands.
But judging from the current situation, it's practically a foregone conclusion that the True Spirit Prince's Mansion will be ranked last.
Can we cultivate another prodigy?
There's no time for that.
With the Mansion Competition around the corner, where is the time to cultivate prodigies? The only option now is to seek help from outside.
The Taiyu Divine Dynasty did not stipulate that the major royal palaces could not invite outside help. They did not care about such things at all. Being able to invite geniuses to help them was a skill and an advantage of their power.
Therefore, this was exactly what the True Spirit Prince's Mansion was planning.
Just a few years ago, as the saying goes, hard work pays off. With the great efforts and sacrifices of the Lord of the Manor—who is now the father of the Thirty-Five Imperial Princess— he finally managed to invite a top-tier prodigy willing to help the True Spirit Prince's Mansion.
This person comes from Sword Ruins!