Its times like this that one can't help but feel the emperor and Jiang are alike in some ways which is they can be overly dramatic and unreasonable sometimes. The emperor was jealous of his own self.

Back in the forest Jiang looked at all directions, he seemed to be using the air in the vicinity to determine which area he should head towards and by instinct, he starting moving eastwards, that very direction was going to lead him out of the forest.

Jiang had lived in the forest for most of his younger days, also he trained in the forest inside Jun Tang's manor so the forest could be said to be like a home to him so him been able to figure out something like which way to go was piece of cake to him.

Jiang didn't even move more than one Li before his journey was obstructed.

Jiang looked up and met Wang Xiu death glare with one of his own, he had thought both siblings had retreated earlier so he wasn't expecting to see the girl before him again.

Jiang really was in no mood to tolerate the dummy standing on top of a flying pink basket made of wood, the middle of the basket actually had a moving lifelike picture of Wang Wei as he pecked a red rose on his hands, he seemed to want to hand it over to someone while also flirtatiously winking at that imaginary person, although there was no other picture on the flying basket except Wang Wei's, Jiang wondered why this girl was using her brother's artifact, especially one that wasn't even pleasing to look at.

Jiang didn't care about the title but since it was his now he was going to hold it with his head held high, he wasn't going to feel inferior before any of his enemies anymore.

Jiang knew that the statement he made to Wang Xiu will enrage her but he really didn't care, he wasn't going to ever let anyone mock or look down on him ever again especially not this stupid young mistress whose only dream is to become the empress elect.

Wang Xiu smirked as she eyed Jiang up and down "And those who break the rules get punished but that's a punishment you will have to get after this young mistress is done with you" after saying that the flying artifact she was standing on began to gracefully descend slowly but abruptly stopped midair after Jiang words came out.

after saying that Jiang started walking off, he didn't think Wang Wei will let him just go but he didn't want to stay here either.

Wang Xiu suddenly appeared some distance in front of Jiang, she was still lying on the wooden artifact and refuse to completely come down from the sky, her nostrils were flaring up, she really wanted to quickly beat up this lying bitch Lei Yue and take what rightly belongs to her.

Meanwhile Jiang immediately understood what Wang Wei was talking about and then looked at the usually transparent tracker bracelet that was now black on his left ankle and couldn't help but remember the day it was handed over to him at the imperial palace, it was the day all candidates hoping to become the next empress elect where chosen.

The chief eunuch booming voice spread throughout the whole martial ground arena as he stroked his imaginary mustache while handling each contestants standing on the Martial ground stage one.

Jiang who was seated on his own personal tent and was watching all the activities going on didn't even know when the chief eunuch Bai Kang appeared before him, bowed down slightly and then said seriously "This humble servant greets empress elect, please make sure you wear this during the competition at all times" Bai Kang after handing over the bracelet to Jiang retreated back to the stage.

Jiang could feel a chilling down his spine and chose to look at the direction where he was getting such uneasy feelings from and he had seen Liang Na glaring at him like she wanted to eat him up, she must have been jealous that he was treated differently from them since Bai Kang personally went to hand Jiang his own track bracelet.

Immediately Bai Kang got back on-stage princess Yang Liu gentle voice that made almost every man on the martial ground melt and drools and just want to spoil her was for the first time heard by all present and anyone who heard her voice couldn't help but have a good feeling towards her

Bai Kang definitely wasn't among the men that were smitten because he looked at her like she was an idiot, after shaking his head disapprovingly and embarrassing the princess without even giving consideration to her title, the whole imperial palace martial ground who heard his statement stared at him angrily, they didn't like that he was bullying their kind and beautiful princess.

Bai Kang on the otherhand didn't give a shit about their feelings.

After Jiang remembers this he realized that he didn't even know when Wang Xiu was twenty feet's away from him, this was because he had a lot on his mind and the telling sign of the bracelet vibrating on his hands and indicating an enemy was close by wasn't found out by him at all.

At this moment in the middle of various cities, towns, villages in Tang Qin Shang a pearl-like object floated in the air and after a dazzling flash of bright light the pearl-like object changed into a huge screen and within the screen was Jiang who was within a huge forest with tall trees swinging about due to the strong wind and not too far from Jiang was Wang Xiu who was still in the air standing on top of a wooden artifact and glaring at Jiang as if her eyes could shot lasers and kill Jiang on the spot, Jiang on the other hand was so used to such stares that it didn't seem to affect him in the slightest anymore.

Although Jiang's flashback may seem to have taken a lot of time but in reality it didn't, Wang Xiu who was now totally angered by Jiang didn't want to waste any more words on him She had a smug smile playing on her lips as she began to chant