After that exchange with Aina, Heifeng Jiansui still had to meet various important personages who had attended, especially representatives from Five Sacred Beast Sect and Skytemper Refining Sect. The news of his peerless refining skill had spread out along with the fact that he had simply been taking missions and using the resources of the Ten Thousand Sword Paradise, and that he thus didn’t hold much loyalty towards the Sect.

The two representatives tried their level best to get him to change sects, but Elder Shenhai promptly safeguarded him. That said, Heifeng Jiansui already possessed the basic techniques of the Five Sacred Beast Sect and the Skytemper Refining Sect’s entire archive was sealed in the inheritance he received from the one who he acknowledged as his master in this era. Switching sects wouldn’t be grant too many opportunities.

Of course, he wasn’t planning on binding himself to the Ten Thousand Sword Paradise either. He was a Crown Price now, and entitled to the resources and grooming of a Great World!

After getting in contact with the Nineyuan Heavenly Gate, Heifeng Jiansui would leave behind his relationship with the Ten Thousand Sword Paradise. After all, he didn’t have much attachment for it and hadn’t dipped into its core resources either. He had forged equipment, pills and formations in exchange for resources, so the karma between them could be considered settled.

After that, the Emperor pronounced him the Crown Prince, putting a Nine Phoenix Cloak over him to mark his status as the true heir of the Empire. Following which, he gave a speech to all the guests. It was something prepared for by the ministers, but the memorized speech still drew resounding claps.

There was a ball and of course, the as the star, Heifeng Jiansui had to dance. The first to take initiative was of course Heifeng Xingmei. Pulling her younger brother into an embrace, she took initiative to lead him into the ‘Nineheaven Phoenix Dance’, a dancelike movement technique that she had mastered and knew he had some accomplishment in as well.

Heifeng Jiansui wasn’t too interested in taking initiative so he followed along with Xingmei’s lead. Finally, the dance ended and the elder sister planted a gentle kiss on his cheek. At this the audience applauded, seeing this as the eldest sibling gracefully acknowledging her younger sibling as heir, giving up her right to the throne.

Only a few could see the torrid passion in that kiss…

After this, naturally it was Aina’s turn. Having learnt from her master that Heifeng Jiansui had read through every manual apart from those restricted to Successor Disciples, she held her hand out for Heifeng Jiansui. Using a certain footwork technique to cause pure white swordlight to dazzle around her, her feet started dancing in imperceptible patterns.

The audience realized Aina’s intentions. This was a challenge, asking Heifeng Jiansui to use the correct footwork technique to keep up with Aina’s dancing. Heifeng Jiansui was well known for reading through the entirety of the sect’s technique archive. Now the question was, just how much of it was cultivated by Heifeng Jiansui?

Of course, he didn’t disappoint. Swordlights of the same white color flashed under his feet as he danced, his hands locked into hers. After a dance came to an end, Heifeng Jiansui switched the footwork technique to a slow yet steady trot with blue stars flashing under.

Heifeng Jiansui was using a well known footwork technique of the sect. That said, even though Aina could identify the technique, she hadn’t practiced it as well. And thus, Heifeng Jiansui had to guide her step by step so that her embarrassing loss wouldn’t be noted by the audience.

Finally, the dance ended with Aina’s loss unknown. After this, Aina wrapped up Heifeng Jiansui’s arms and pressed a kiss on his lips. Her hot tongue entered Heifeng Jiansui’s mouth to wrestle with his tongue.

‘The taste of her lips was strangely like blueberry.’ Heifeng Jiansui could only think this.

But while receiving the kiss, Heifeng Jiansui could not think about why she initiated it. From the beginning, they weren’t too close. Apart from a few meeting the past year in the Illusionary Swordlands, they had only met a few times in reality.

‘Is she doing some gold-digging? Had she secretly fallen for me and finally showed her feelings today? Or…’ Heifeng Jiansui’s couldn’t help but speculate.

‘Even though my body seems mature, the true age is still 7 year old. Thus, my lifeforce and vitality is quite low as well. Even though my Phoenix blood grants me the vitality to last a century as a mortal, I am still a mortal. Stealing my lifeforce will be quite easy for a cultivator…’ In the end Heifeng Jiansui was still mortal, still vulnerable to the myriad evil of the world.

After their dance, Heifeng Jiansui was pulled away by Aina to his room. Heifeng Xingmei couldn’t help but angrily glare at the two. The Emperor and the new Empress couldn’t help but sigh at her son’s growth. As for Elder Shenhai, he thought back to how Aina had revealed her desire for him years ago and now, she had finally obtained him…

Meanwhile, the guests weren’t surprised at all. This was like a coming-of-age ceremony of the ruling beast bloodlines!

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In Heifeng Jiansui’s bedroom, he was spectating Aina’s wonderful figure. Her nude figure was pleasing, as if inviting him to pounce on her.

After wordlessly dragging him to his room, Aina had simply stripped off and posed. There was no need to know her thoughts.’ It’s a man’s shame to not eat what is offered to him!’

However, Heifeng Jiansui’s suspicions couldn’t help but rise! Her enchanting figure gleamed with radiance that almost forced him to pounce on her. Heifeng Jiansui would have succumbed if his soul was yet mortal.

Fortunately, even though it was sealed, the spirit of a Chaos Emperor couldn’t be controlled! But the radiance emitting from Aina’s figure rose little but little, and runes began tracing on her body…

These runes… Heifeng Jiansui was arguably the most knowledgeable cultivator of the Primordial Era so they weren’t too hard to identify. The principle of Heart Severing belonging to Buddhism could be sensed in the runes. But there was also the Heart Demon principle of the Way of Devils and Spirit Severing principle on the Path of Daoism. Surprising him was something that he had barely gleaned from the Black Dragon’s memories, Hruday-agni, ‘Heart Flame’!

When the Aeonian Script capable of driving a mortal to insanity by a simple glance began forming on her, Heifeng Jiansui realized that Aina was similar to him. She was a reincarnator or perhaps a transmigrator, once again walking the path of cultivation from the gifts of her previous life!

As of yet, her memories were sealed. While she would regain them in time, sensing Heifeng Jiansui’s Perpetual Dao, a desire snatch it to awaken her bloodline filled her. Now that she had failed to seduce him and easily wrest away his Dao, the only way to capture them was battle! A portion of her cultivated laws from her past life were unsealed to help her seize it!

Finally, the runes wrapping around her body were completed and Aina pounced on him. In response, Heifeng Jiansui activated the various Daoscripts he had refined in synchronization with the Perpetual Dao of the Quintessence Sword buried in his body to cover him.

Defending, he waited for Aina’s blow. Her dainty fists opened up to fingers that were like lotuses. The fingers struck the layer of runes that emitted from his body like a hand dipped into a pool of water. With it, portions of the Daoscripts that Heifeng Jiansui had painstakingly cultivated were snatched away as well!

This power of his stolen Daoscripts nurtured Aina’s spirit, unsealing more of his memories and granting her more access to the sealed memories of her past! The runes covering her grew thicker.

To regain her strength, she had to steal Heifeng Jiansui’s power. To accomplish this mission, her fingers formed a lotus for another attack!