Jiang tried to ignore the loud banging sound on his door but couldn't because it got louder an eunuch's arrogant loud voice woke Jiang with a start, He sat up so abruptly that he ended up rolling and falling on the hard ground, He whimpered due to the pain his butt felt, He stood up and tried to soothe the pain by massaging the area affected, it wasn't a lady like thing to do at all but he did it anyway, he wasn't actually a lady, moreover, he didn't know how to act elegant and refined, after all he lived all his life in the forest.

the eunuch asked with a hint of worry in his voice and that surprised Jiang a bit because just moments ago the same eunuch sounded arrogant now his voices sounds worried and even somewhat embarrassed, Jiang sighed, he wasn't offended by the eunuchs rude actions earlier, in fact he expected it because he believed everyone in the palace will treat him badly due to the Emperor's treatment of him last night, maybe the eunuch was just confused on how to actually treat him.

Jiang who had grudgingly stood up earlier from the ground, started preparing to go and greet the emperor in the so called grand hall, Jiang eyes were still puffy by the time he left his room. He was feeling really grumpy and exhausted after all he hasn't had the chance to have a good rest after such a long journey, he had spent most of his rest time cleaning that damn room.

Jiang heard a court lady say and point at him rudely as he walked behind the eunuch that came to wake him up and was his guide to the grand hall. Jiang was genuinely confused with what they just called him however he wasn't going to dwell on such matters, he didn't think it was his business, they must just be talking nonsense about him and this he was used to.

They were times when he was still at yin province that he did travel to a small mortal town to sell some wild meat he had caught in the forest so that he could get some mortal money and buy some mortal spices to make his food taste a bit better and whenever he did this people always talked about him in such mocking tone, most people even just stayed clear from him because of the stench his body produced from time to time. Jiang was lucky to have a faithful customer that always patronized him when he visited the mortal town, If not he might have just been going there for nothing.

Another court lady said and that peeked Jiang's curiosity, he became slightly confused, he understood they were talking about him and was just going to filter their voice out of his hearing range and ignore their words like he usually did on such occasions however he couldn't understand why they kept calling him Empress Elect.

" he thought while being his usual confused self, his father told him he was coming to the imperial palace as the emperor's empress in waiting and was suppose to marry the Emperor any day from the time of his arrival, he thought that's why he was been summoned however with the way these palace maids keep looking at him with disdain, mockery, disregard and disgust in their eyes he doesn't think his father told him the complete truth, he sighed deeply because he knew something smelt fishy since the moment he stepped into the imperial palace. The way he was been treated, no matter how he sees it isn't the way a suppose life partner of the emperor should be treated even if not favored.

Jiang might be a forest bumpkin but at least he has common sense to know this much.

yetanother court lady said, they didn't even care if Jiang could hear them or not but Jiang didn't mind since from their discussions he realized he had broken through, he was too busy trying to dress up earlier that he didn't even notice the change in his body, he was so excited.

Jiang had broken through in his cultivation while sleeping again, Jiang wondered if all his big breakthroughs will happen when ever he is asleep, he likes the fact that his level of powering up is really astonishing after all it haven't been more than seven days since he started cultivating.

The cultivation levels in Tang Qin Shang empire was very complex and profound, if not that Jiang spent all his years reading the old cultivation manuals his mother gave him, he probably won't be able to recall all the so many levels of cultivation the empire had.

There is the Spirit Novice Realm which is further divided into ten ranks and after that realm is the Novice realm which is also further divided into eight ranks, this same format is applied to the Spirit magus realm, magus realm, spirit disciple realm, disciple realm, spirit expert realm, expert realm, spirit divinity realm, divinity realm, spirit grand master realm and grand master realm. It is only after a cultivator passes these stages and begins to shed their mortal skin can they truly be called cultivators.

Only when a cultivator is at the later stages of cultivation in Tang Qin Shang empire can they truly be considered as threading the path of immortality, these later stages are the empress realm which is divided into early, middle and peak, emperor realm, God realm and Ultimate supreme realm which also has the same division. In so many years no one has passed the early stages of the ultimate supreme realm so the rumored immortality realm is just more like a legendary realm that people talk about. Nevertheless, cultivators are people that defile the natural order of the universe so even if they are not certain that immortality is actually attainable, they will still not back down on the pursue for it.

Jiang checks his body and is super excited that he is just a stone throw away from the magus realm, a realm where one stops aging, ones body can develop but they won't ever age again, this was a realm he didn't think he could reach so soon, it takes years to reach the magus realm but he is just a stone throw away from reaching that realm after not more than seven days of cultivating, if he isn't a monster in cultivating then who is.

When Jiang entered the grand hall he was met with different kind of stares from the people in the hall but the one that caught his attention was the cold stare coming from a person with fiery red iris with a red hair to match, Jiang looked away almost instantly because his eyes began to sting him the moment he made eye contact with that person's eyes. In the place of where a person's iris should be was a burning blazing fire, that gave off the pressure of an inferno, although the area the iris covers is not much however when Jiang stared into those eyes it was like he had been transported into the very core region of a dangerously out of control fire.

From the brief moment Jiang gazed at the boy he thought the boy seemed very dangerous, he was sitting high up in a dragon chair with a golden crown on his head, this crown was designed in such a way that it had a board made from special material leaning forward when placed on the boy's head, it was as if the boy was bowing to the people present in full respect and concern and attached to the board, where golden chains of beads bang at the front and back, these chains were six in total dangling from the crown fasten to the the boy's head by a golden colored hairpin .

The boy on the throne's appearance was very grand and majestic , his robes and Jewelries where of the finest and most exquisite grade, the kind that was only one out there and could only be worn by him, even the throne in which he sat upon was situated at the middle of a beautifully decorated stage made of glittering marbles,beneath the boys throne was a staircase made of just four stairs and by the boy's right, standing on a stair just two steps below the boy's throne was a teenage boy Jiang was familiar with, a boy Jiang had seen before, the very one he had met by the river bank

However it didn't seem like he could recognize Jiang since he had changed the color of ice jewel before putting it on and he wasn't dressed like a boy anymore, nevertheless, Jiang knew who he was, however, opposite Fang Mu was a lady Jiang had never seen, she looked twenty six and was giving him a death glare, if glares could kill then Jiang would have been killed a million times over, she had so much killing intent towards him that even the somewhat dimwitted Jiang could sense it, it was like the lady wanted to bore holes into him.

"I don't owe her money so why is she like that" Jiang thought and even envisioned himself pouting childishly in his mind, he also began to wonder if maybe the lady was in love with the Emperor and wanted his Empress position that he will soon be bestowed upon marriage to the emperor , he will give it to her in a heartbeat, if he could but now is not the time. He still needed the title to survive for now however he will definitely sort out a chance to escape from the palace when he is strong enough to secure his life. And Yes, Jiang have figured out who the boy seated on the throne is, he could be none other but the emperor, his soon to be husband.

On seeing the girl's continuous glare, Jiang couldn't help but feel that she won't make a good Empress, she was like a pig wanting to be a swan, moreover compared to the emperor's sixteen year old kind of matured appearance, the twenty six year old lady looked like an old aunt when standing beside him, If that young mistress could listen in on Jiang's thoughts she did already cough up a mouthful of blood as well as make a move on Jiang life without care for her reputation or status.

The lady's looks although could be rated as a top notch beauty in Tang Qin Shang appeared absolutely normal when placed side by side with the emperor'sown. It was like heaven and earth, Immortal and mortal difference, she looked nothing special when compared with the emperor at all.

Jiang presently faced the dragon throne with his head bow down as he said Jiang didn't need anyone to tell him that the person seated on the dragon throne with a golden crown was the emperor, the same way he didn't need anyone to tell him to offer his greetings, everything about boy commanded respect and screamed mighty ruler, everything about him was majestic and dignified.

Although he looked no more sixteen years old had the bearing of a strong ruler, no one was foolish enough to belittle him, he had the aura of a God of war, a killing machine, his powers although constrained was overwhelming,he also appeared to look way taller, broad chested and matured than Jiang or any other of his peers however he still had the appearance of a young youth.

If Jiang was beautiful to the extent that he could cause the fall of nations then the Emperor was handsome to cause the same havoc, If Jiang beauty could cause the heavens to bow for him then the same applied to the emperor, his red long hair and cherry red lips with slim jaws just made him look heavenly, palatable and delicious, he was the very definition of captivating, His thick and long eyes lashes did justice to his whole features, he gave off dangerous mystical aura that made a person despite knowing they could get burnt if they draw close to him still want to draw close anyway.

He had a broad chest and the only skin Jiang could see glowed in a special way, Jiang had felt like drooling when he briefly glanced at the emperor but held it in, Jiang would have loved to look more if not for the fact that looking made his eyes feel like they were about to be burnt.

The Emperor was too overbearing, he was handsome, dangerous and scary yet he was like a magnet that pulled a person in, they did die without even knowing how it happened.

" his cold eyes said so much, if Jiang could raise his head and stare into them he would have seen disgust and hatred written all over the emperor's face.

said still not daring to look up. He had hoped he didn't mess up while speaking after all it took him a lot to remember all he had learnt when he was staying at his father's manor and was been prepared for his death. then he really took their teachings seriously and tried to learn all he could even if he hated doing it. His father must have really seen him as a fool seeing as how all those things where just for show.

Jiang was beginning to feel his head He lamented, Jiang believed with all this mentioning of empress elect which he still knew absolutely nothing about.

The emperor didn't know what Jiang was busy thinking and just continued speaking The emperor said and Jiang could see the smirk forming on the emperor face even without having to look, the emperor sounded like he was enjoying his misfortune, Jiang thought It seems father really pissed the Emperor this time, he pitied his unfortunate self, since once again he couldn't escape the fate of being a scapegoat even if he swore off been that.

Jiang finally gathered the courage to voice out his complain.

The Emperor angrily said, a loud "" was heard and the table before the emperor turned into powder.

Jiang tried to defend his father but most importantly save his neck, He couldn't even beg for forgiveness before an indescribable amount of pressure filled the whole room, some servants had directly past out, some were bleeding from their eyes, ears and nostrils while the extremely weaker ones com-busted and died instantly, Fang Mu was standing on his two feet with his brows creased while the girl that was glaring at Jiang earlier was on her knees, coughing up blood.

Jiang couldn't read her cultivation level which normally meant she was higher than him in level, Jiang's body right now was kissing the ground, the pressure coming from the emperor was far too overbearing for his body to withstand it,and this wasn't even up to a tenth of the emperor's powers being unleashed. Jiang didn't want to die so he thought if he could breakthrough from the tenth great circle of the spirit magus realm to the magus realm then he will have a better chance at surviving this unfortunate circumstance.

Jiang decided to use the pressure to aid his breakthrough, he circulated the mana in the air and began to absorb it, then he forced his self to stand up because he believed that it could also be a driving force for his breakthrough.

It wasn't easy at all, his bones kept making cracking sounds as he tried to stand up and face the pressure head on while the emperor just looked at Jiang with interest, he had long since figured out what Jiang was planning do and he wanted to see if Jiang will succeed. He has guts, the emperor will give him that.

Jiang didn't disappoint him because he did force his self to stand on his two feet and ones he did he breakthrough however the price for his reckless actions was grave, he presently looked like a person that was about to die, he was completely drenched in blood, due to every single part of his body that broke and bleed as he forcefully tried to stand up while attempting a breakthrough, this was a really risky move on his part however when he succeeding the mana he received at that moment served as a kind of healing force and helped healed his wounds. nevertheless If the emperor didn't withdraw his pressure at this moment, he would have probably still ended up getting seriously wounded seeing as how at such a moment of entering another realm one shouldn't be disturbed.

Jiang couldn't help but to smile wildly, his eyes which was the only thing the others could use to read him expressed untold joy , he didn't even realize that the pressure from the emperor had long gone.

The emperor said with an amused smile while watching Jiang intently as he checked his body, when Jiang felt eyes on him, he looked up and saw the emperor staring at him, he then realized how discourteous he was being in the presence of the emperor.

"" Jiang said as he bowed towards the throne, he decided it was more appropriate to address his self the way he once heard his father address his sister back at the General's manor.

Jiang heard the emperor laugh loudly, his voice was so mesmerizing to the extent that Jiang decided to risk it by taking a peek, the way the emperor laughed and smiled was breath taking, he couldn't help but feel somewhat inferior in his presence, when he finally stopped laughing he said

Jiang said.

TheEmperor said

Jiang felt so much blood lust directed towards him so he looked towards the direction it came from and saw it came from the girl opposite Fang Mu, there was surprise in her eyes which later changed to deep seated jealousy, then they was this overwhelming killing intent that could topple nations, Jiang couldn't help but wonder why this girl hated him so much but then again it wasn't too much of a surprise to him, who wouldn't be jealous of a sixteen years old Magus Elemental especially when most people reached such a level at not so young an age for example the glaring aunt lady over there, Jiang inwardly rolled his eyes as the aunt lady as he thought about all these things in his head.

The Emperor's smile didn't last long, it vanished and what remained was a stoic expression,Jiang felt like he was hearing things, nothing been said made sense to him.