Prince Lin Bo Wang's eyes gleamed in the darkness. "That Lan Qing Xi is a rare genius since he managed to reach Golden Core Stage 2 since last year but he's such a simple headed person who only want to pursue martial arts. Investigate the reason why he's interested in Lin Xiao!"

"Yes, Your Highness."

Prince Lin Bo Wang raised his sword as he concentrated to train again. He had been wanting to get many talented individuals into his side but many have their own lofty ambitions or their own goal, making it difficult.

Lan Qing Xi was one of them.

He was a rare genius who was not affiliated with any of the big families in Sun Kingdom. In fact, many were curious where he came from as he seemed to pop out of nowhere. He told them that he came from Stone Village, a small village located deep in the wilderness and it would take months just to verify this because of the long distance and the fact that there was no map.

For the past two years, Prince Lin Bo Wang had tried to get close to Lan Qing Xi and even challenged the other party. However, Lan Qing Xi refused to look for him nor asked him to spar. 

And now, that Lan Qing Xi was trying to create good ties with Lin Xiao?

Slash!

Prince Lin Bo Wang's sword cut through the air several meters before him. His eyes gleamed in ruthlessness. There was no way he would let Lin Xiao grew stronger and took the people he wanted to pull to his side to the other side.

He would make sure of this!

…

Lan Qing Xi brought them to his residence and then activated some mechanism. Almost immediately, Lin Xiao turned to one direction as he could sense the rich Qi that was covering the place. 

There was a formation here.

"Is it a formation to protect this house?" Lin Xiao asked curiously. Due to the fact that he couldn't use these lower ranked formations no matter what he do, he could only ask what it was used for.

"Yes." Lan Qing Xi was quite surprised. He looked at Lin Xiao. "I didn't know you're also good at formation."

"I only have some superficial knowledge." Lin Xiao chose to be humble.

The others rolled their eyes when they heard what Lin Xiao said. Who would believe that he only had some superficial knowledge when he could even arrange a formation that was commanded by one person? They would not believe it.

"This shouldn't take much time. You can return back to the arena after it's done." Lan Qing Xi was quite apologetic since he took Lin Xiao's time.

Lin Xiao waved his hand. "There's no need to worry so much. My ranking is already good enough."

"In that case, shall we start?"

"Here?"

"Yeah, the courtyard should be big enough, no?"

The residence where Lan Qing Xi stayed was indeed really large. Lin Xiao didn't know precisely the size was but he knew that there was no problem with him practicing here. He nodded his head and took out his sword. 

Seeing that, Lan Qing Xi clamped his mouth shut and his eyes were completely focused on Lin Xiao, afraid that he would miss even a single move. 

Lin Xiao smiled and began to move. The skill relied on its fluency just like the water current that flowed unobstructed. Several slashes were formed midair. It hit nothing but the sheer power was more than enough to shake them and at the end, Lin Xiao moved the sword horizontally as if he was cutting off someone's neck.

Bang!

The rock that was located a distance away was blown apart.

Lin Yun was the most shocked. He had been practicing the skill ever since Lin Xiao showed it to him but he swore that he couldn't even do half of what Lin Xiao did just now. 

Worse still…

He knew that Lin Xiao didn't practice this skill that much and only occasionally trained with him. Lin Xiao barely even do the move and only moved around in accordance in order to teach him, but when Lin Xiao executed the move just now…

It was clear that he had high mastery.

Ever since they were in that small village, Lin Yun had already seen that Lin Xiao had great observation ability. But this was the first time he noticed that his brother could even master a skill that he only learned halfheartedly.

Looking at the sky, Lin Yun felt that it was really unfair. Just how hard should he work in order to surpass his brother? This couldn't do, he would have to repeat this set of movement countless times to study more.

"Have you seen it?" Lin Xiao turned to look at Lan Qing Xi.

Lan Qing Xi had been watching Lin Xiao just a moment ago. Right now, he closed his eyes as if he was in some deep contemplation. When he opened his eyes again, there was light from deep within his pupil.

"Your Highness, do you mind if I spar with you just using this move?"

"Not at all." Lin Xiao could see that Lan Qing Xi was someone who concerned himself wholeheartedly in martial arts. From the investigation that Lu Jian did, Lan Qing Xi didn't support either one of the princes.

If by helping him, Lin Xiao could rope him in, that would be great.

But if not, he could just get a friend.

"In that case, please be careful." Lan Qing Xi summoned his sword out. It was a long sword and from the gentle aura around it, it was clear that the sword was somewhat close to water element.

It was not really water but Lin Xiao had no time to ponder because Lan Qing Xi had already charged forward.

Swish! Clang!

The two sword met in the middle after beautiful arc. The movement didn't look like it contained any power but the two men were doing their best to hold their ground.

The force was bigger than what they expected.