Cultivation techniques have always been rare and sought after throughout the Base realm. These techniques have the ability to strengthen the mortal body, and even transform it in a few ways. For example, a strength based cultivation technique strengthen's one's muscles, making them even harder than rock, while others improve agility or recuperation ability. In simple words, many times a cultivation technique is able to provide a 'root access' to a body. Of course, developing a new cultivation technique is extremely dangerous and must only be developed by experts, as it requires excellent knowledge of biology and mastery over their Profound Energy.

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Little Stone's Fragrant Tea, Imperial Capital, Dragon Empire, Dragon Continent.

Evening was waning, and Prince Bahut Bhondu was nervous. The tea house would soon close, but his mysterious girlfriend still hadn't arrived. He kept watching the diagram over and over in his hand, and every time he would be shocked. This was the same diagram which was drawn by Param and Madhu, and was stolen by Shur.

'Who would be so talented to find all the energy passageways in a body', he thought as he glanced at the paper again.

A perfume's fragrance entered his nose, followed by a soft voice.

"I'm sorry, there was a little more work in the administrative office."

He raised his eyes and saw a beautiful vampire pulling out the chair in front of him and sit. He stared at her and thought that Sonam looked a little different tonight.

Sonam a.k.a. Prince Shandar became nervous as he snapped at him.

"What the hell are you staring at ?"

"Uh...Nothing. Doesn't your...your chest look a little bigger big today ?"

Sonam almost chocked on the tea she'd started drinking. Her maid suddenly found that the fake breasts were torn and needed stitching, so he could only use a substitute, which was a lot bigger than those he usually used.

He waved his hand angrily.

"What do you know ? I'm still growing so it's natural that they would grow. Enough about that, stop staring at them."

He had to spend a lot of effort to catch his attention. The large mounds were too attractive for the virgin Bhondu and his eyes kept wandering towards that place.

"Why are you so frustrated ? Is it the Giant continent ?"

"Don't talk about it. It's a mess ?" Sonam harrumphed angrily. She leaned closer to him to whisper, and Bhondu felt his mouth become dry as he looked at the dangling beauties on the woman's chest. She hit his head to attract his attention, but was inwardly quite impressed by her new item's charm level.

"The Giant continent would become a mess again, and the devils might be active participates. But let me tell you..." the cross-dressing prince began gossiping like a real lady, except that her casual gossip was some classified information.

"...Our mission is not to change the King tribe !"

"Ohh !" Prince Bhondu exclaimed. He had doubts that something was wrong, but couldn't fill in the gaps as he didn't have military intelligence, nor he had spies everywhere like his eldest brother.

Sonam continued whispering. "The dragons want to search for some sort of treasure ! You know the idiot Goblins pirates, right ? They keep searching for something called the 'One Seed', and there are rumored to be various clues for it. The Imperial Court sought out a map and analyzed it using the trajectories of the comets, and calculated an area on the Giant continent....isn't that astounding ?"

She got no response and caught the young man staring at her fake assets again and smacked him again.

"Ouch ! That's....really amazing...."

She couldn't tell what he thought of as amazing, and sighed.

"So, what do you have to tell me ?"

Bhondu became excited as he straightened his clothes and stood straight. He passed the paper and smirked, as if he was the one who created the diagram.

"See this."

Sonam held the paper, and her fingers brushed across Bhondu. It was not him being lewd or taking advantage of her. In fact, this was only one of the few countable privileges he owned, such as touching only her hands. Many times he thought that his lover was extremely mysterious, but he always felt that she would not harm him.

Sonam didn't mind him purposely touching her hand and glanced at the paper. The diagram on it was of an outline of a humanoid shape, within it were countless lines emerging from the spine. The spine had seven centers, and the lines also had many similar small circles.

"This...!!! "

She exclaimed loudly and stood up in excitement. Her chest jiggled from the sudden force and almost fell apart, and she had to support them with her hands.

The poor virgin Bhondu was slack jawed at this sight. His girlfriend was really a capable person.

"Can you lend it to me ?" she suddenly said and held Bhondu's hands. He was surprised at her reaction, she never took the initiative to touch him and always maintained a little distance.

His delayed answer made Prince Shandar a.k.a. Sonam to grit his teeth. He hardened his heart and said.

"Please ! ..... I'll let you touch my butt, okay ?"

When Little Stone's Fragrant Tea shop closed, the customers saw an idiotic prince laughing madly alone while watching a departing carriage. These customers knew this guy and snorted in disdain.

"Humph ! Looks like this virgin scored something for himself."

They laughed as they walked to their homes, leaving the laughing prince behind.

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In the carriage, Prince Shandar hummed a tune to himself as he removed the make up on his face.

"You look very happy, master. Did you perhaps ... went a step further with the prince ?" the real Sonam, who was Prince Shandar's maid teased him.

He did not mind it. "It's better than it."

He took out the diagram and looked at it with glittering eyes and spoke to himself.

"Do you know that you can alter your body using a cultivation technique ? The current dragon emperor wasn't much talented, but he gained great strength when he practiced the Twelve Purification Circulation Technique. Similarly, my brother Shur works very hard and is a very masculine person, but he has lost his vigor because he is forced to practice the Three Circle Circulation Technique."

He clenched his fist as he continued.

"...Not only will I create a new technique for Shur, I will also create a technique to feminize my body."

He looked out the window, which was only transparent from one side. His house was nearing. Suddenly he remembered the goofy smile Bhondu had while leaving.

"Even though I cannot become a woman, I will make myself the closest to the woman he desires..."

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Imperial Palace, Great Maurya Dynasty, Human Continent.

More than ten carriages moved at a moderate speed as they entered the grounds of the imperial palace. Each of these carriages were pulled by Pashupati, a beast king, and looked similar to each other. They were engraved with numerous formations, and it's body was made of thick metal sheets. All this was done to prevent assassination or sudden attacks from explosion. From this one could tell the importance of the person for whom all this was done.

The carriages stopped and a group of elite soldiers of the palace arrived to escort the person who had just come. This was followed by movements of multiple people who came out of the carriages and secured the area. After all this preparation, a soldier came near a particular carriage, the fourth one from the front to be exact, and opened its door.

Suryagupta walked out and nodded to the soldier who opened the door for him. The soldier didn't open the door as a form of flattery, but was a set of instructions which was needed to be performed to secure the person inside. These set of instructions even had a powerful name- Protocol.

Suryagupta slowly walked inside the palace and multiple people greeted him. He nodded to each one of them and eventually arrived at his working room. He glanced at a mirror and saw a person with ash brown hair, like all humans in the world. There were large black circles under his eyes, and adding to that his average face he looked like a ghost.

A man and a woman who were his assistants entered his room and greeted him in unison.

"Greetings, Emperor !"

Indeed, he was Suryagupta Maurya, a Chakravartin Samrat, the Emperor of the Great Maurya Dynasty.

Suryagupta waved his hands and received the documents and immediately started glancing through them. The assistants Siddhi and Vinayak didn't have any political power, they just handled his appointments and paper work. These two were the reason why the emperor had those terrible black circles.

He suddenly furrowed his brows upon reading a report.

"Chandragupta wants to form a militia ?" He asked his assistants.

"Indeed. The imperial prince is young and talented. He formally applied for it and it has been approved. Not surprisingly, he has passed all requirements and is ready to travel to the grasslands not part of the three dynasties."

Suryagupta rubbed his forehead. His only son was too talented and many times gave him headaches. At that moment an enchanting woman with neatly trimmed silver hair walked into the room. The emperor looked at her and passed the document with a helpless face.

"Our son is too bright."

"Of course, it's because I'm his mother !" the woman shamelessly proclaimed and glanced through the document. The assistants kept quiet as they were too used to this scenario.

"Good !"

The woman cheerfully walked on her toes near the table and opened a drawer. Then she searched for a stamp and made an impression on the document, giving the approval of the emperor. This dominating woman who could use the emperor's seal casually was Zhen Jiao, the Imperial Queen of the Great Maurya Dynasty.

She passed the document back to her husband and informed him.

"The assigned scouting team has left for the Giant continent."

The emperor simply nodded his head as he glanced through the remaining documents. The Imperial Queen sighed and said.

"Aren't you worried ? Your brother is leading this risky mission."

Suryagupta chuckled as he looked at her and said. "He'll be alright. Don't you know his name ?"

Zhen Jiao curled her lips.

"He's Ajatshatru, one who cannot be defeated by his enemies."