"You finally brought a nice carriage. Get its habit. You'll be getting this carriage for me every day after I become the Crown Prince," Xu Ming said with a smile as he glanced at the servant.

"Hah," The eunuch simply chuckled and didn't reply. He looked at Xu Ming mockingly as if he found his words funny. ​​

'You and crown prince? Only in your dreams can you think of becoming the Crown Prince! The place you're going to will be your graveyard. You shouldn't even think about coming out alive, let alone coming back as the crown prince,' the Eunuch thought as he smiled.

He didn't express his thoughts publicly, though.

Xu Ming could already guess what that man was thinking from his expressions.

"It's obvious. That man is thinking that you are going to die. He has no idea about what's actually going to happen," Valeria said to Xu Ming as she laughed.

"Let him think what he wants. Soon, the entire Kingdom is going to know the reality. The Crown Prince position will be mine," Xu Ming muttered as he walked towards the carriage. He opened the door of the carriage and entered inside.

Xu Ming sat on the carriage while the Eunuch sat at the driver seat. The carriage started moving slowly towards the city of ruins.

Xu Ming was the only person sitting inside the carriage. Valeria was still on his shoulders, but Xu Ming didn't ask her to get down from his shoulders. He had already become habitual of Valeria sitting on his shoulders. In fact, he felt weird when she was not sitting on his shoulders.

While Xu Ming's carriage was moving towards the City of Ruins, many more carriages were moving in that direction.

One of those carriages was the carriage of the First Prince. It was moving towards the city of Ruins. The First Prince's carriage was just as luxurious as the carriage Xu Ming was traveling in, if not more. The Carriage looked more intimidating, though. There were hundreds of horses and guards escorting the carriage of the First Prince. Everyone that saw the carriage realized that the carriage belonged to a Prince as they saw the number of guards escorting it.

The First Prince also waved at them from inside the carriage as he moved ahead.

Xu Ming's carriage was more isolated, though. There were no guards escorting it. In fact, there was no security for it at all. Xu Ming was very vulnerable, and if any bandits even tried to attack the carriage, then the responsibility of protection would fall on himself if he didn't want to die.

Xu Ming also kept the windows covered and didn't let anyone outside see who was inside, but most of the citizens realized that there could be no one other than the Third Prince inside that didn't get any security at all. They all knew that Xu Ming was already on the path to losing and he was just a cannon fodder in this trial. The real contest was between the First Prince and the Second Prince, after all, and there was no way that those two would be moving without security. So everyone knew who was in the lonely carriage.

Not only the royal carriages but even other carriages were moving around the city at the moment. Most of them belonged to the carriages of the Prominent clans of the kingdom that were moving towards the city of ruins.

All these carriages had Young Master and Young Mistresses of the Powerful clans that were going towards the city of Ruins to take part in the event.

Most of the Young Masters of the Cultivation families had already decided on the Prince they were going to support after the political fiasco that went on during the last few days.

Most families had approached the Princes to show their support and to join their party from the front, while a rare few powerful families that were undecided were approached by the princes to convince them to support them. At the moment, most of the families had chosen a side. Some bad even chose both sides. The pieces were set, and now the only thing that was left was to show their affiliation outside the City of Ruins.

****

"Hah, this reminds me of the hunting we did in the Mighty Demon Sect. All the beasts were against us, and the two of us were alone. Not only did we crush them, but we did so in the record time. Time to repeat the same thing again. The best hunter duo is at the case," Valeria laughed out loud as she sat on Xu Ming's shoulders.

"Yup, It'll be a hunting event, alright. Everyone thinks that they'll be hunting me, but the reality is entirely different. I'll be hunting him," Xu Ming muttered as he looked at the covered window. He moved the covers to the side and saw the beautiful scenery outside. The beautiful trees looked even more charming under the bright sunlight.

"Such a beautiful day. Too bad, it'll be covered in bloodshed," Xu Ming muttered as he stopped looking outside and covered the window again.

****

After a full day and night of travel, the carriage reached its destination.

It was a new morning, but people knew that it wasn't going to be a peaceful day. The rise of the sun was telling everyone to be ready for the war.

There were many people standing at the entrance of a city that was mostly void of people. It was a city that was left in ruins after a tragic uprising that left millions of people dead. The Royal Family was wiped out, which marked the beginning of a new era with a new Royal Family at the helm.

With that began the rise of the Royal Li Family, and Xu Ming was impersonating as their Third Prince, Li Mu at the moment.

****

Xu Ming's carriage stopped at the entrance of the City of Ruins.

"We are here."

Xu Ming heard the voice of the Eunuch.

"Time to see what this City of Ruins actually is. I wonder how big their teams will be," Xu Ming muttered as he opened the door of the carriage and stepped outside.

As soon as Xu Ming stepped out, he saw a big crowd of people.

Hundreds of Young Masters and Young Misses of their clans were here, and each of them were here with two powerful Cultivators of their clans as guards.

" The number of people here is more than I expected," Xu Ming muttered as he frowned. He also saw the Two Princes and the Minister of Kingdom standing beside them.