Episode 9: Famous Under Heaven Chapter 3: Provocation
Imperial Emperor ‘Qiao An’ had long since heard of Linley’s great name, that magical genius who was the second in history, as well as the peerless genius who had attained the status of Stone Sculpture Patriarch at the mere age of sixteen. When Qiao An had first learned about Linley’s exploits, he had also marveled at them.
Upon seeing Linley step in.
“Truly a phenom.”
Qiao An sighed in admiration, regardless of his height proportions or that introverted temperament, in Qiao An’s opinion, he did indeed have the special temperament of a stone carving patriarch.
“Greetings, Your Majesty.”
Linley said with a slight bow.
“Unbridled.”
The shrill voice of the personal court attendant serving beside Emperor ‘Qiao An’ rang out, “How dare you not kneel to see His Majesty?”
Linley’s icy gaze swept over, and that court attendant felt as if he were being stared at by a viper, unable to help but have a shiver.
“A master figure such as Linley has been admired by this emperor for a long time, so there’s no need to perform the ritual of kneeling.”
His Majesty Joanne glanced at the attendant next to him, who immediately stopped saying anything.
In the O’Brien Empire, a general courtier was expected to kneel on one knee. However, a personal disciple of the Martial God such as Brummer only needed to bow slightly.
“Walden.”
His Majesty Joanne looked towards Walton next to Linley, “This Emperor had heard that you had such a brother, why didn’t you bring him until today?”
Wharton immediately said, “Your Majesty, my elder brother has also just arrived in the Imperial Capital not long ago.”
His Majesty Qiao An nodded bashfully before looking at Linley and smiling, “I’ve heard that when you were seventeen years old, Master Linley, you were already a rank seven dual system magician. Ten years have passed, and I wonder today. What realm have you reached again?”
Linley smiled, “After ten years of hard cultivation, I just stepped into the ninth level threshold just the other day.”
“Ninth level Archmage?”
Qiao An choked.
“Huh?”
From behind both came a startled eep, and Linley glanced at the screen behind Qiao An. Upon entering this room, Linley knew that there were two rank nine experts lurking there, one a magician and one a warrior.
His Majesty Johan glanced behind him.
Those two also knew that they had given away their whereabouts and both stepped out. One of these two wore loose magician robes and the other wore typical warrior power suits.
“These two are this Emperor’s guards, they are also amazed at your progress, Master Linley.”
His Majesty Johan smiled faintly.
“A rank nine dual system Grand Magus. I wonder how old you are, Linley?”
That silver-haired magus was however staring at Linley, as a magus, he naturally knew how difficult it was to grow in spiritual power again.
Historically, there were, and were more than ten, warriors who had reached the Holy Realm in their twenties.
However, historically, there were great magi who had reached the ninth level. There wasn’t a single one below thirty years old. The increase in spiritual power, that couldn’t be coquetted. It needed to be increased step by step.
“My brother, is twenty-seven years old.”
Walden spoke up instead.
“Twenty-seven!”
That ninth level magician had a wonderful expression on his face when he heard this number.
History was history, and history was a record of tens of thousands of years of countless geniuses, all calculated uniformly. There were some people who reached rank nine in their thirties. But those were all ancient people, hundreds of years now. There was not a single person who had reached the ninth level in their thirties.
But- “Twenty-seven, twenty-seven!”
That silver-haired old man smiled to himself. “I 170 reached the ninth level of Grand Magus, and I still think I’m not bad. But when compared to you, Master Linley ……”
This silver-haired old man shook his head and sighed bitterly.
The gap wasn’t generally large.
“Mr. Gehu, at what age did the youngest rank nine Grand Magus in past history break through?”
His Majesty Joanne immediately asked after him.
This silver-haired old man respectfully said, “Your Majesty, according to historical records. The smallest rank nine Archmagic Guide in history, that was a supreme genius more than 30,000 years ago, who stepped in when he was 32 years old. And from the first year of the Yulan Calendar to today. The most overwhelming magical genius was also the year he was 35 before he stepped into the ninth level threshold.”
Fighting qi cultivation, if one reaches any genius treasure, one’s fighting qi may rise greatly.
The realm, too, might be comprehended in one go.
In his twenties, he reached the Holy Realm. There was in history!
But this thing, spiritual power, is not something that can be increased just by saying it. Even if it was like the stone carvings of the Flat Knife Stream, Linley had only broken through once at the age of sixteen. And the ten years that followed were all about down-to-earth, hard cultivation and non-stop growth before he finally reached level nine.
“I’ve heard that Master Linley is not only a magician, but also a powerful warrior?”
His Majesty Joanne looked at Linley with a smile.
Linley smiled blandly and said, “Your Majesty, it’s perfectly fine to let the one next to you test it out.”
The corner of that rank nine warrior’s mouth twitched as he said, “Could it be that Master Linley is truly such a genius that he’s reached the rank nine warrior level?”
“Mr. Lancy, just try it, but be careful, Master Linley is from the Dragonblood Warrior clan.”
His Majesty Joanne said with a smile.
This Mr. Rancy, directly drew the dark broadsword behind him.
Linley simply flipped his hand, and the Purple Blood Excalibur appeared in his hand; against a rank nine warrior, he didn’t even need to transform himself.
“Hmph.”
A hazy layer of dreamy starlight surfaced on the surface of the ground broadsword in Mr. Ransey’s hand, “Mr. Ransey is the disciple of the Starry Sword Saint.”
His Majesty Joanne, who was next to him, explained.
Starry Sky Sword Saint?
Linley didn’t even care about the Starry Sky Sword Saint, and he still cared about his disciple?
“Pfft…”
The broadsword seemed to tear through space, carrying endless power as it chopped directly towards Linley, who didn’t move in place, the purple-blooded softsword in his hand just flickering – Mr. Ransom just felt the purple light that filled the entire world, while the surrounding space was as if it was locked.
“Peng!”
The surface of the Purple Blood Soft Sword slapped on Lan Xi’s body, and Lan Xi’s entire body flew up, ruthlessly slamming into the stone screen behind him, which burst open, and Lan Xi collapsed to the ground with blood spewing out of his mouth.
Lan Xi braced himself on the ground and stood up, he didn’t have a trace of arrogance in his eyes at the moment, instead, he gratefully said, “Thank you Master Linley for being merciful.”
The sword face slapping on his body was so powerful, if it was a sword blade, he would definitely die.
“It’s just a sparring match.”
Linley said casually.
“Master Linley you have comprehended the level of invoking heaven and earth, teacher said. To reach the Saint realm, one must comprehend this level. I’m too far behind Master Linley.”
Lan Xi was self-aware.
The feeling of being spatially locked in the ground just now was something he’d also felt when he’d sparred with his teacher.
His Majesty Johan’s eyes narrowed.
There were detailed records in the intelligence about dragon blood warriors, and the human form was able to have a nine absolute to reach the Holy Domain. And if the human form reaches the Holy Domain, then when transformed, they are invincible in the Holy Domain.
“Holy domain ……”
In His Majesty Joanne’s heart, Linley’s status continued to rise.
“Haha …… Master Linley, truly the most marvelous genius ever seen by this Emperor. Even Olivia is far inferior.”
His Majesty Joanne laughed out loud.
Olivia might catch up to Linley in terms of warriors.
But in magic? The first genius in history, who could compare?
And in stone carving? A sixteen year old stone carving master, who wouldn’t worship in their hearts as long as they preferred stone carving?
Reaching the pinnacle of any one of these aspects was rare, and to reach the pinnacle of all three of the worst aspects could only be described as ‘genius’.
“Your Majesty.”
Linley, however, didn’t want to waste time with Qiao An, “I’ve also just arrived in the imperial capital. I’m not too clear about many things in the imperial capital. But I know about Princess Nina, and I’m asking Your Majesty as the patriarch of the Baruch family, I wonder if …… Your Majesty would be willing to marry Nina off to my Baruch family?”
When Hogg died, Linley was considered the patriarch of the Baruch family.
It was just that this so-called patriarch was only two people in the entire family.
“This ……”
His Majesty Qiao An was somewhat embarrassed by Linley’s sudden attack.
Indeed, this talent of Linley’s, Joanne was very much moved.
The entire O’Brien Empire. There were quite a few Saint Realm warriors, the Martial God Sect alone had many of them. However, there were only a handful of Holy Realm Magicians. The one who listens to the orders of the entire royal family is even more pathetic.
Saint realm magician. In a separate battle, they may not have much deterrent effect.
But at the time of the war, the deterrent power of the Holy Domain Magician, that would be terrible.
Think about …… if you let the holy domain magic guide, directly to your imperial capital to a forbidden spell destruction magic. Then how big is the loss? Your hard-earned millions of troops, directly a forbidden spell magic ‘Destruction Storm’.
At the age of twenty-seven, you’ve reached the ninth level of Dual System Magician.
Such a magical genius. If someone said that Lin Raida couldn’t reach Saint Domain Magician, I’m afraid Joanne would have cursed that person for having a brain problem.
“Talent.”
A Saint Realm Magician was much more attractive than a Saint Realm Warrior.
“Master Linley. And allow this Emperor to think about it.”
His Majesty Qiao An’s attitude was too good to be true.
“Then I’ll be at my brother’s place, awaiting Your Majesty’s results.”
Linley smiled faintly, “Then, Your Majesty, I’ll take my leave.”
“Master Linley, why don’t you dine with this emperor?”
His Majesty Qiao An hurriedly said.
“Thank you for your majesty’s graciousness, it’s just that I have important business.”
Linley said with a smile, and there was a hint of disappointment on His Majesty Qiao An’s face, but he didn’t force it and smiled, “Another time then.” ……
Linley, Walden and the two of them walked inside the palace, Walden was thrilled, “Brother, I’ve never seen His Majesty be so humble, it’s just that he wasn’t like this with that Brummer.”
“The O’Brien Empire has many holy domain warriors, but there are very few holy domain magical guides.”
Linley smiled faintly, “I’m afraid he values my ground magic talent.”
A twenty-seven year old level nine dual system grand magical guide.
Saying that out loud would simply scare the pants off of people.
No one knew how terrifying Linley would be in the future.
“I see the expression on His Majesty’s face, so I guess he’ll be thinking about it more in his mind. I’ve been in the empire for so long, and I’ve yet to hear of a holy realm magic guide.”
Walton sighed.
O’Brien Empire’s ground Saint Domain Magical Guides were too rare.
“Eh?”
Walton suddenly looked at a person in the distance.
When Linley saw Walton stop, he couldn’t help but wonder, “What are you looking at?”
“Oh, it’s you, Walton. What? Went to see His Majesty?”
A cold voice rang out, and Linley looked over as well, and with just a glance Linley decided that the strength of the youth in front of him wasn’t weak either.
“Brummer, what are you doing over there?”
Walton said in a cold voice.
Wharton was more familiar with the palace, and was especially familiar with the residence of the seventh princess ‘Nina’, and that direction, was precisely the one heading to Nina’s residence.
Brummer smiled indifferently, “What? Is it not okay for me to go see Princess Nina?”
“See Princess Nina?”
Walden suddenly calmed down, “Brummer, I’m guessing that you haven’t even been able to enter the gate.”
Indeed.
When Brummer went to see Nina, Nina simply closed the gate and didn’t see her at all.
Brummer’s heart couldn’t help but feel a burst of annoyance, in his whole life, he had really not served anyone except for admiring his big brother, especially this time when he became the Martial God’s personal disciple, it was more and more confident in his heart.
“Yes, it’s not getting in.”
Brummer’s voice was low.
Walden smiled blandly, “Brummer, do you think that you will definitely be able to marry Nina if you become a Martial God’s pro-disciple? Dream on! Brother, let’s go-”
Linley shook his head with a faint smile and also turned with Walton to leave.
“Stop!”
Brummer suddenly drank.
“Oh?”
Walden turned his head to look at him, “May I ask, Martial God’s own disciple, is there anything else you want?”
Brummer looked at him icily, “Walden, I heard that you are from the Dragonblood Warrior clan, and that your strength is extraordinary after transforming. But I don t believe …… that today, I officially challenge you, do you dare to answer?”
Linley’s eyes couldn’t help but narrow.
Next to him, Warden was stunned, then laughed loudly, “What wouldn’t I dare.”
“One month from now, at the Imperial Capital’s ‘Fighting Stadium’, at that time I will invite His Majesty, as well as the senior brothers of the Martial God Sect, to host it together. If you don’t have the guts, you can abstain.”
Brummer said coldly.
With that, Brummer stopped looking at Walden and directly walked away.