Beginning Of Multiverse Saga

Chapter 167: Crown Prince Or Emperor?

"You scoundrel, you dare utter King George’s taboo name?" Lu Xiao exclaimed. However, he suddenly frowned and stared at the crown prince halfway through his sentence, asking, "You aren’t an idiot?"

The crown prince laughed. "Who said I was an idiot?"

Sharky felt his mind explode when he heard what the crown prince said and saw how he was speaking. He had thought that he was surrounded by old foxes in the capital; he hadn’t expected the trickiest one to have been right next to him! Wait, if he isn’t a fool, doesn’t that mean that everything he did with Catherine...

Lu Xiao was also quite shocked. "Wow, I never expected this! You actually fooled everyone in the capital for so long."

The crown prince didn’t reply, and only continued to stare at him indifferently.

Lu Xiao really didn’t like being looked at that way. He should be the one looking at others as if they were ants, not the one being looked at that way. "Damn fatty, you’ve hidden it quite well all this time, huh? You even tricked King George. However, it’s all meaningless. You’ll still die here."

"Are you sure I’ll die?" A mocking smile appeared on the fatty’s face. His smile would normally have only seemed comical, but now, it instead caused a strange sense of fear.

Lu Xiao didn’t know why he was getting scared. He quickly suppressed his emotions and looked at the other party. "Crown prince, you’ve really hidden this well. But it’s still meaningless! You’re still too young. Even if you cultivated ever since you were born, what level could you reach? Do you think everyone’s a monster like Sharky?!"

"Sharky?" the crown prince muttered to himself. "That fella is indeed a bit strange."

Lu Xiao frowned. He just felt that something wasn’t right, yet he couldn’t really put his finger on it. However, he quickly calmed down again. He was a powerful expert at the mid stage of the master rank. Even in the capital where powerful cultivators were everywhere, he was still among the very best. Why was he being scared by a damn fatty here?

He snorted. "I don’t feel like wasting any time on you anymore. Once I kill you, I’m going to go after the crown princess and the others."

As he spoke, he kicked outward. A blade that had landed on the ground next to the guards shot out like a cannonball. It had enough power to blast apart every blood vessel in the crown prince’s body, then nail his corpse to the tree. Lu Xiao then planned to lure vicious beasts over to devour the crown prince’s entire corpse until there wasn’t even a single bone left. This way, the emperor wouldn’t find a single trace even if he sent people inside to investigate later.

The crown prince didn’t evade at all; he didn’t even move. Lu Xiao initially thought that he had been scared stiff. But his smile quickly froze, because the blade suddenly stopped cold, floating three feet in front of the crown prince.

Lu Xiao subconsciously took a step back, exclaiming, "What’s your real cultivation?!" He couldn’t even sense how the other party had neutralized his ferocious attack.

The fatty had a strange smile on his face. "It’s already been many years since anyone dared to attack me. This kind of feeling really brings back memories."

Lu Xiao’s expression changed as his entire body went on high alert. As a mid stage master rank, he was capable of anticipating danger ahead of time. He didn’t hesitate at all and rushed into the sky. The only thing in his mind right now was to fly as fast as he could, the faster, the better. He had to get out of here.

But as soon as he began his ascent, he suddenly felt lighter. Then, he lost his center of gravity and crashed into the ground. He lowered his head and discovered that his legs had been cut off at the knees. Just then, intense pain finally spread through his body. He screamed in pain as he clutched his legs, rolling on the ground in agony. The cocky and arrogant Lu Xiao from just a moment before was nowhere to be seen.

Sharky felt a chill run down his back. He stared at the ordinary guard’s blade in front of the crown prince. It was actually still three feet in front of him, as if it had never moved. However, the drop of blood that slowly trickled down the blade declared that it was precisely that blade that had cleaved through Lu Xiao’s legs.

It’s over just like that? Sharky was horrified. He hadn’t seen how the blade attacked either. If that blade had been aimed at him, he probably wouldn’t have been able to evade it either.

"Who exactly are you?" Lu Xiao stared at the distant crown prince in horror. The laughable fatty had now become utterly terrifying.

"Who do you think I am?" The crown prince cracked a grin.

Lu Xiao gritted his teeth. He formed a sword seal with his hand, and the iron sword he had used in his younger years appeared next to him. He was a mid stage master rank cultivator, after all. Even though his legs were crippled, he could control a flying sword without them.

The iron sword screamed as Lu Xiao pointed at the crown prince, exclaiming, "Swiftly!"

The flying sword transformed into a comet, moving twice as quickly as Wei Pingyang’s sword! This was Lu Xiao’s most powerful attack, his pride, the accumulation of a lifetime of cultivation. Whether he won or lost would depend on this attack.

The crown prince finally made his move. He slowly raised his hand. His fingers clearly appeared to move slowly in Lu Xiao and Sharky’s eyes, yet they moved faster than the flying sword. His two chubby fingers clamped down on that lightning-fast flying sword.

"What?!" Lu Xiao exclaimed.

Sharky and Lu Xiao’s eyes were about to pop out of their sockets. This was a scene neither of them had expected.

Lu Xiao’s entire body trembled as he sensed the threat of death. He struggled to maintain his sword technique, trying to regain control over the flying sword. If a normal person had tried to clamp down on the flying sword like this, or even an ordinary master rank cultivator, he could just spur on the flying sword and slice those fingers to pieces. Under his control, the flying sword vibrated with noise, struggling intensely as it tried to free itself from the crown prince’s fingers.

The crown prince gave it a look, and his fingers crossed. The flying sword broke apart inch by inch, and then turned to dust in the wind!

"Pfft!" Blood spurted out of Lu Xiao’s mouth. His expression instantly became haggard, his hair turning gray.

Not only had the flying sword been smashed; the attack also continued to crush his soul! This was only something a grandmaster could do! No, not even a grandmaster could do something like this so easily.

He thought about the aura he had felt, and finally realized something. He looked at the fatty in horror, saying hoarsely, "Your majesty, it was actually your majesty..."

A look of mockery flashed through the crown prince’s eyes. "You only realized that now? Isn’t it a bit too late?"

With that acknowledgement, forget about Lu Xiao, even Sharky was incredibly shocked as he remained in hiding. Even though he’d had similar suspicions, he still found it a bit hard to believe until everything became clear.

Sharky had actually always felt that something was strange. The emperor had arranged for him to protect their party from the dark. Putting aside whether he even stood a chance against King George Manor’s people, even if he did, why would the emperor trust him so much?

When he had entered the dungeon and seen King George’s various schemes, he’d felt both admiration for King George and contempt for the emperor. He’d felt that the reason why the emperor couldn’t win against King George all these years was because his level of scheming was far inferior. But he was now the one who truly looked like a clown!

Even so, why was the crown prince the emperor? Sharky really couldn’t associate that stupid fatty with this powerful and dignified crown prince.

Lu Xiao was also confused. He cried out, "Impossible... Impossible! How can you be the emperor?!"

The crown prince looked at him with a sneer, seemingly having no intention of explaining.

Lu Xiao suddenly realized something. "I know what’s going on! You used the Immortal Phoenix Technique! You had Mi Lianying look for the method of immortality. He failed several times, but then later on, he brought news that the Queen Olivia is from the Phoenix Clan."

"And she has a technique known as Immortal Phoenix Technique, and by practicing it, can make one Immortal. But it was only the Phoenix Clan people who could practice."

"And now I realized why Queen Olivia died. She didn’t die from some poison or assassins attack. But you must have used her blood to make yourself cultivate the Immortal Phoenix Technique."

"And at the same time you have used the possession technique on the Crown Prince, which makes him slow-witted."

"Now, if I connect the dots, it’s clear that you used the possession technique on the crown prince back then and ended up wounding his soul! That was why he became slower than an ordinary person. And since he has the Phoenix blood, you can also cultivate the Immortal Phoenix Technique."

A look of praise appeared in the crown prince’s eyes. "You’re quite sharp. No wonder you were able to become Zhao Jing’s first guardian. Unfortunately, you realized this too late and joined the wrong camp."

Lu Xiao laughed bitterly. "Being able to receive your majesty’s praise has made this humble Lu’s life worth living anyway. But there is something I don’t understand. Since you’ve already possessed him, why can your majesty and the crown prince both coexist?"

The crown prince’s expression eased a bit when he heard Lu Xiao’s praise. His mood was clearly quite good. "This emperor can help clear up your confusion, but you need to reply to some key questions about King George first."

Lu Xiao hesitated, but he still nodded in the end and said, "Please ask, your majesty."

He already realized that King George was doomed to be finished after learning that the crown prince was the emperor. Whether or not he spoke wouldn’t change that reality, so he might as well die knowing the truth.

"Did Principal Scarlett take part in this secret dungeon’s affairs?" The crown prince’s gaze became incredibly penetrating. He had originally trusted Principal Scarlett, but King George had brought in so many people. There was no way the academy was completely uninvolved here.

Lu Xiao shook his head. "If Principal Scarlett had been willing to work with King George, why would King George even need to use all of these schemes?

"Three years ago, when the academy dungeon was opened, the one in charge of the dungeon entrance was Sir Eleven, Yin Shi." Even though he didn’t speak in too much detail, it was already enough.

"Yin Shi!" The crown prince was speechless, clearly already having decided on that person’s death penalty.

Meanwhile, Sharky was already angry hearing all of the Emperor’s secrets. It’s all stopped at the Immortal Phoenix Technique. Maybe, his family murderer was also him.

"Apart from sending you all in, does Zhao Jing have any other schemes this time?" the crown prince asked.

Lu Xiao shook his head. "There are no more. With our strength, we thought it would already be more than enough to wipe out the crown prince’s party. We actually had some criticism of this plan at first, thinking that any random guardian would’ve been enough for this mission, but the king insisted on this plan. Later on, only when we encountered Sharky did I feel admiration for King George’s foresight. But even with all of his planning, he still never expected to fall into your majesty’s trap in the end."

The crown prince asked Lu Xiao a few more questions, and Lu Xiao answered them all one by one. Then, he asked timidly, "Your highness, I’ve already told you everything you wanted to know. Can you help me ease my confusion now?"

The crown prince sneered when he saw Lu Xiao’s expectant and fearful expression. "You don’t need to worry; why would this emperor do something like going back on my promises?"