Chapter 13

Chapter 13: Eagle's Nest, Six Gates Bureau—Breakthrough to the Innate Realm! Even the Lute Queen Wept!

【You gave an awkward laugh, saying it was all luck.】

【Elder Chen, who had been treating your injuries, shook his head: "This is no luck. While you were unconscious, I examined your body and found that your Cinnabar Field was ten times larger than that of an ordinary Postnatal Peak Realm cultivator! What does that tell you?"】

【"It tells us that Young Master is a peerless genius!"】

【Elder Chen was so delighted he danced with joy.】

【But in your eyes, this was like pouring oil on a fire.】

【Your forehead was covered in dark lines. You truly wanted to go up and punch him.】

【What peerless genius—why not just come out and say you were a Transmigrator?】

【You immediately changed the subject, asking about the background of the person who had impersonated your grandfather.】

【Daring to impersonate the Guardian King—a pillar of the nation—was a crime punishable by the extermination of one's entire family, no matter where it happened.】

【You wondered who had the gall.】

【Dian Cheng-feng's expression darkened. "That man was a death soldier. The moment he was captured, he immediately bit through his molar to release the poison and killed himself. But based on the martial art he cultivated and his disguise techniques, I can preliminarily conclude he was a member of Eagle's Nest!"】

【Eagle's Nest was the largest official intelligence force of the Di Nation—one could say it had infiltrated everything, and had caused no small amount of trouble for Great Qian over the years.】

【Quite a few of your blood relatives who had died under suspicious circumstances also bore the shadow of Eagle's Nest.】

【At present, the battle on the frontlines was intensifying.】

【If Eagle's Nest were allowed to assassinate the Guardian King's only grandson at the rear, the consequences would be unthinkable.】

【Of course, there was also information Dian Cheng-feng had not disclosed.】

【Namely, the letters he had sent out over the years had mostly been intercepted by Eagle's Nest.】

【The personal guards he had dispatched were probably dead at Eagle's Nest's hands as well.】

【He felt that Eagle's Nest had already woven a vast net around Guardian King's Manor.】

【He would not speak of these things to you, for they would only add to your worries for nothing.】

【Not long after, the Six Gates Bureau headquarters of Great Qian also dispatched one of the 4 Divine Constables—Iron Heartless—to come and investigate.】

【After all, an assassination attempt on you was no small matter.】

【But even though Iron Heartless was a Divine Constable, he was fated to gain little.】

【Because he was already lacking the most crucial witness.】

【This matter could only be pushed onto Eagle's Nest.】

【The only thing that aroused his suspicion was the Extreme Yang power at the scene.】

【After investigation, it didn't resemble the work of Innate True Energy—it looked more like Postnatal inner energy.】

【But inner energy of such high quality was unheard of; not even the Six Gates Bureau had any records of it.】

【Dian Cheng-feng naturally attributed all of this to the 4 Elite Shadow Guards the Guardian King had assigned to you.】

【After all, the 4 Elite Shadow Guards were loyalists selected from the military by the Guardian King himself, answering only to him.】

【Even the imperial court would have difficulty questioning them, let alone asking them to cooperate with an investigation.】

【Iron Heartless could only bring this question back with him as he returned to the Six Gates Bureau.】

【After recuperating for more than half a month, you finally returned to your normal state.】

【This time, you did not go to Intoxicating Fragrance Tower to relax.】

【Having learned of Eagle's Nest assassins, you absolutely refused to set foot outside Guardian King's Manor.】

【However, you could have Intoxicating Fragrance Tower's top-ranked courtesan, Dong Xiao-wan, brought to the manor.】

【Every time Dong Xiao-wan came, she left in tears.】

【It seemed she was quite reluctant to part from you.】

【Another 7 days passed. You brought yourself to peak condition and began to push toward the Innate Realm.】

【The most important thing for the Innate Realm was to comprehend a trace of Heaven and Earth's power and condense Innate True Energy.】

【Earlier, when you had used the killing move Embryonic Sun Devourment to attack the fake Guardian King, you had already sensed a trace of Heaven and Earth's power—which was why you could push toward the Innate Realm so quickly.】

【1 day, 2 days, 3 days……】

【10 days later, a peculiar fluctuation emerged from the underground secret chamber where you were in seclusion.】

【You had successfully drawn Heaven and Earth's power into yourself!】

【The Golden Crow inner energy throughout your body began to continuously transform into Golden Crow True Energy!】

【Dian Cheng-feng, whom you had already forewarned, immediately acted to conceal this fluctuation.】

【If word got out to the outside world that the Guardian King's good-for-nothing Third-Generation Heir had practiced martial arts for only a few months and was already breaking through to the Innate Realm, it would surely attract no small amount of trouble.】

【5 days later, aided by Heaven and Earth's power, all of the Golden Crow inner energy throughout your body had been transformed into Golden Crow True Energy!】

【Now, even a single strand of Golden Crow True Energy used casually could burn down an entire wooden house.】

【Its power had risen by several levels compared to before.】

【Naturally, the killing move Embryonic Sun Devourment's power rose with the tide.】

【As for exactly how powerful it was now, it would need to be tested.】

【But with the enormous aftershock this thing carried, you absolutely did not dare test it carelessly.】

【By your estimation, with a surprise attack, you could heavily wound an Innate Realm 7th-Tier martial artist.】

【Apart from the killing move, your own strength was by no means weak either.】

【At least comparable to an Innate Realm 3rd-Tier martial artist.】

【You had only set foot on the path of martial arts for around 100 days, yet you already possessed such strength. While it may not have shaken the ancient and dazzled the present, in Great Qian it was absolutely a dragon among men—1 in 10,000.】

【After emerging from seclusion, your mood was excellent. You decided to invite Dong Xiao-wan to the manor for a few days of pleasure.】

【But unexpectedly, Intoxicating Fragrance Tower's Madam came personally to the door, saying Dong Xiao-wan had run away.】

【What?! Dong Xiao-wan had also run away?】

【You stared wide-eyed, unable to believe it.】

【You asked the Madam whether Intoxicating Fragrance Tower was on the verge of closing down—first the top courtesan had run away, and now the top-ranked courtesan too?】

【The Madam replied helplessly: "After that girl Xiao-wan came back from Young Master Zhao's place, she cried and made a scene, and even tried to hang herself. I had no choice but to transfer her to another city."】

【"Now although the top courtesan and the top-ranked courtesan are gone, Intoxicating Fragrance Tower still has 12 golden beauties for you to choose from."】

【You waved your hand listlessly, saying just have the Lute Queen, Gu Qing-er—the old acquaintance—invited over.】

【Soon after, Gu Qing-er, cradling her prized lute, stepped through the gates of Guardian King's Manor.】

【Not only was she not afraid—on the contrary, she surveyed everything in the manor with curious eyes.】

【She had been in contact with you for a while and knew your body was weak, so there was nothing you could do to her.】

【You quickly went out personally to welcome this old acquaintance.】

【As the two of you passed by the Birdsong Pavilion, the parrot you kept cried out loudly: "100 times! 100 times!"】

【You hurriedly threw a pebble at it to make it shut up.】

【Gu Qing-er asked curiously: "What does that mean?"】

【You laughed awkwardly and said the parrot had learned nonsense from the servants; you didn't understand it yourself either.】

【3 days later, Gu Qing-er finally understood what it meant, and she left Guardian King's Manor in a flood of tears.】

【You, on the other hand, felt refreshed and clear-headed, all traces of fatigue swept away.】

【What puzzled you, however, was this: why did every courtesan who entered the manor end up leaving in tears?】

【Were they really that reluctant to part from you?】

【Afterward, you continued your quiet cultivation within the manor.】

【After the Innate Realm, the next step was to use Innate True Energy to continuously temper the apertures.】

【The human body has 365 major apertures, and each one required 9 breaths of True Energy to be filled before it was considered sufficient.】

【After that came the generation of inner and outer steel energy, granting all manner of inconceivable abilities.】

【To break through to the Innate Realm 2nd-Tier, all 365 of those major apertures had to be fully opened.】

【For an ordinary person, it took 3 to 5 days to open a single aperture.】

【You possessed the White Talent Tag Extraordinary Bone Aptitude, which doubled your cultivation speed compared to an ordinary person.】

【It only took you 2 days to open a single aperture.】

【If you also used the Aperture-Opening Pill, the speed was even faster.】

【In a single day, you could open 3 apertures.】