Protect Our Clan Leader

Chapter 2986: Chapter 67: I’ve Taken a Huge Loss This Time (Part 3)

Eunuch Old Tan hurriedly accepted the order and left. In just a short while, he shuttled back and forth through space-time and brought the completely baffled Prince Hao Zhe into the [Provincy Office].

This Prince Hao Zhe was quite handsome. He wore a flashy white brocade robe, a Jade Crown on his head and a jade belt at his waist. At first glance, he truly looked like a graceful young noble.

However, the moment his brows twitched and the corner of his mouth curled, that slick playboy vibe could no longer be hidden.

”Old Ancestor, you finally remembered me.” Looking at the Cangping God Emperor whom he hadn’t seen for ten years, Xuanyuan Haozhe was on the verge of tears. ”These ten years, I haven’t even been allowed to leave the family courtyard.”

The Cangping God Emperor used to dote quite a bit on Prince Hao Zhe, but now, the moment he compared him with the legendary Wang Baosheng, he immediately felt that he disliked everything he saw about him.

The more he thought, the angrier he became, and he couldn’t help scolding, ”It’s just ten years of closed-door cultivation, what’s there to whine about? If you could calm down and cultivate properly, you wouldn’t necessarily be much worse than that Ying Clan girl.”

”Old Ancestor, what am I busting my ass cultivating for?” Prince Hao Zhe pulled a bitter face despite his good looks. ”Yin Lingzhu cultivates desperately because she has a Dao Book to inherit. No matter how hard I cultivate, in the future I’ll just be a mere Saint King.”

He wasn’t wrong. The Xuanyuan Imperial Family also had a Dao Book, but the Cangping God Emperor was only about eighty thousand years old right now, still far from the Dao Book’s inheritance period. No matter how strong Prince Hao Zhe’s Bloodline or how fast his cultivation, there was simply no Dao Book for him to inherit.

Besides, the Primordial Taoist Palace never chooses disciples from clans like the Xuanyuan or Ji Family that already have Dao Book inheritances, no matter how outstanding their Bloodline is. The reason is simple: doing so would easily create a situation where one family dominates, which would be harmful rather than beneficial to the entire Dongxia Divine Dynasty.

If some clan could, by its own ability, find other Dao Books, or had the capability to deduce a Sacred Image into a Dao Book, then that would naturally be a whole different story.

It’s just a pity that, across the Eastern Dawn God Continent and even adding in the other three continents, there has yet to be a single Sacred Image promoted to a Dao Book. At most, a few heaven-defying geniuses have exhausted a lifetime’s effort to deduce their Sacred Image to Advanced level.

Cases of Immortal Scripture being promoted to Sacred Image, however, are quite common, but promotion up to Dao Book requires Bloodline that is far, far too strong.

Those qualified to inherit Dao Books are already extremely rare geniuses, and if you want to personally comprehend the Dao, you have to rely on your Sacred Image to cultivate as fast as possible to the Peak of the Great Luo Realm, and only then can you further deduce a Dao Book. How difficult is that?

You must know, even with Saint Child or Saintess Bloodline, after breaking through to the Great Luo Realm, the cultivation speed plummets. Taking several thousand or even ten thousand years to advance one Level One is normal. Whether one can reach the Peak of the Great Luo Realm in their lifetime is questionable, and the resources consumed are astronomical.

If you want to quickly cultivate to the Peak of Sacred Supreme and reserve ample time for deduction, there’s basically only one reliable method: first raise your Bloodline Talent to Taozi-level.

But pouring enormous effort into nurturing a powerful Taozi is originally for them to inherit a Dao Book, not to bury that Bloodline and make them deduce a Dao Book.

This is undoubtedly an almost unsolvable problem.

Of course, the situation during the Immortal Alliance Era was somewhat different from now.

Back then, the overall environment’s resources were relatively abundant. Under sufficient resource supply, the probability of geniuses appearing was naturally higher, which resulted in the number of young people with Taozi potential often being far greater than the number of Dao Books, and competition for Dao Books was extremely fierce.

Those geniuses who failed in that competition and had no Dao Book to inherit could only find their own paths. In this situation, generation after generation someone would relay the torch and keep deducing Sacred Images, trying every possible way to deduce them into Dao Books. Over long ages, this indeed produced quite a few successful Sacred Image promotions.

Hearing Prince Hao Zhe’s words, the Cangping God Emperor’s anger flared even more. ”No Dao Book means you can’t cultivate properly? In the future, can’t you at least strive to become a Saint King Mid Stage, Advanced Stage? The Divine Martial Wang family doesn’t have a Dao Book either, yet everyone there strives to rise up.”

Humans, above all, fear comparisons.

Reasonably speaking, apart from being a bit of a wastrel, this Prince Hao Zhe’s overall strength and capability were actually quite good.

Otherwise, the Xuanyuan clan has so many Saint King’s Residences and Immortal King Mansion, and the bloodline descendants directly under the Cangping God Emperor are numerous. Yet, among the younger generation, few have received such focused attention from him.

But unfortunately, Wang Baosheng appeared.

Even though they’re both still young, anyone with eyes can see that Wang Baosheng is far superior to Xuanyuan Haozhe. It’s practically a crushing victory.

The more the Cangping God Emperor thought about it, the angrier he got. He gave Prince Hao Zhe a thorough dressing-down, inside and out, until Hao Zhe didn’t even dare speak.

After quite a while, the Cangping God Emperor couldn’t help downing another cup of Reincarnation Holy Tea before finally calming his mood. Then he switched to business. ”Don’t rush back to cultivate yet. I have something for you to do. Old Tan, explain the situation to Prince Hao Zhe.”

”Yes, Your Majesty.”

Eunuch Old Tan answered respectfully, then turned to Xuanyuan Haozhe and gently laid out the entire sequence of events and the Emperor’s intentions in clear detail.

The more Prince Hao Zhe listened, the wider his mouth opened, and in the end his eyeballs were practically bulging out. ”That Wang Baosheng is about the same age as me, yet he’s already at the Advanced Transcendent Void Realm, and I’ve only just reached Level Three of the Void Realm! Old Ancestor, how am I supposed to give someone like that a show of force?”

”I don’t care.” The Cangping God Emperor gave a final verdict. ”I don’t care; I’ve already assigned the task to you. If you handle it beautifully, I’ll later confer you as a Prince, spare no effort to groom you, help you find a Dao Book, and in the future, at the very least you’ll have to reach Sacred Supreme Advanced Stage.”

The Dongxia Divine Dynasty only has three Taoist Masters in total. A Saint King of Sacred Supreme Advanced Stage is already someone beneath only those three and above countless millions.

”If you don’t handle it well, hehe~” The Cangping God Emperor chuckled coldly. ”Then go back and continue your closed-door cultivation. You’re not allowed out until you reach True Immortal.”

Prince Hao Zhe’s face went pale, and he almost fainted on the spot.

This was a hell-level difficulty task～～

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