Chapter XIV: Succession to the Throne

The snow cherry blossoms, white and spotless, were the first thing I saw when I came to El Paso, and they were flying all over the sky as if to welcome my return.

Just after a heavy snowfall, the whole world was wrapped in a layer of silver, and the cold wind was blowing in my face, mixed with the snow that had not yet melted on the ground, I felt a little cold, and I couldn't help but reach out and wrap my crystal cloak tightly.

Less than a thousand steps away from El Paso, I looked at this strange royal city from afar, and my heart was a little complicated. The towering walls were mighty and mighty, and the gates of the sixteen palace entrances were all open, and each entrance contained a group of sturdy soldiers, all armed with two blood-red swords and a weapon that could change styles at will.

Holma had already led some members of the Thousand Spirits royal clan to wait for me outside the city gate, and standing at the forefront were three people from the Thousand Spirits who had cultivated above the super holy spirit, they were:

The ultimate shepherd god Horma, 97 years old, is a first-level super-spiritual cultivator.

Ultimate Sword God Arthur, 135 years old, third-level super spirit cultivation.

Ultimate Sword God Bai Tong, 110 years old, second-level super holy spirit cultivation.

When I approached, everyone knelt down on one knee and saluted me, and Holma said to me respectfully, "Welcome home, king!" ”

Seeing such a solemn scene, I had no choice but to get serious, "Prince Holma, please get up!" I raised my hand slightly.

When Holma got up, everyone behind her also stood up.

On the way to the Lingxuan Palace, I deliberately pulled Horma to my side, the great Thousand Spirits, he was the only one who could give me a sense of security.

"Holma, how long is the winter here? A hundred days? Or two hundred days? I asked in a whisper.

Holma smiled and said, "King, there are only two seasons in a year in Elpaso, four hundred and fifty days of bitter cold and one hundred and fifty days of scorching heat!" ”

Four hundred and fifty days? I paused, and I shuddered at the thought that I would spend most of the year in this bitter cold.

The Lingxuan Hall is the main hall of El Paso, located in the very center of the royal city, and next to it is the Jialan Academy, the most prestigious of the Thousand Spirit Clan.

Walking into the main hall, I saw all the people waiting in the hall, in addition to my grandfather's siblings and heirs, there were also the kings of the three hundred and seventy kingdoms of the Thousand Spirit Clan, and I knew that from this moment on, I was inseparable from Elpaso.

Late at night, I lay on the grass outside the dormitory and looked up at the sky, and from the moment I entered the El Paso gate, I set up a barrier over the royal city, so that the temperature in the royal city was suitable and unchanged all year round.

Ten days later, the Thousand Spirits Clan held a coronation ceremony for me, and I officially became the seventy-second king of the Thousand Spirits Clan.

On the first night after the coronation, I was practicing my sword in the snow cherry blossom forest until the early hours of the morning, and was about to go back to the dormitory to rest, when a man with red wings suddenly caught my attention, and he had been wandering outside the Sakura Palace all night.

I casually put on a squire's clothes and came to the outside of the hall, "Who are you, you are still wandering around the Sakura Palace so late." ”

When the other party heard the voice, he quickly turned around, "Are you?" He asked, looking at me.

"I'm the boy of the Sakura Palace, and I see you've been wandering here for most of the day." I said, without waiting for him to speak, I have already read his identity information from his consciousness, his name is Xichen, the sixth-level Holy Spirit Sword God, 52 years old, the second prince of Anxing, and the pavilion master of Anxing Qixi Pavilion.

"I came to El Paso with my mother, and I couldn't sleep, so I went out for a walk."

"Your mother is the Xinlan Queen of An Xing?" Among the kings of many kingdoms, I am most impressed by Queen Xinlan.

"How do you know?" Xichen hurriedly asked, he didn't expect that in this huge Thousand Spirit Clan King City, someone could see his identity at a glance.

I chuckled, "There are three hundred and seventy kings of the Thousand Spirit Clan, and there are only four queens, and your mother is one of them, in addition, the soldiers and guards accompanying each country are waiting outside the royal city, and those who can enter the royal city are only the kings of each country and their heirs or relatives, Queen Xinlan, like you, has a pair of wings, so I have roughly determined your identity." ”

"I can't imagine that a little kid can see this."

"How can I say that I am also the boy of the Sakura Palace, and I still need to have this observation ability." I said casually.

Xichen smiled slightly, "I heard from my mother, the new king of the Thousand Spirits Clan, who is about the same age as you, is also a teenager, and the people around him say that his cultivation has surpassed that of the previous king, I really want to know what kind of person he is." ”

"That's how he wants to know him?" I chuckled, these days, everyone's comments on the new king of the Thousand Spirit Clan are as countless as snowflakes in the sky above the royal city.

"His cultivation is out of reach for me, but it's a pity that the new king has only summoned the kings of various kingdoms, and with an identity like me, I am not qualified to enter the Lingxuan Palace."

"He's resting in the Sakura Palace now, if you want to see him so much, I'll lead you in." I waved.

When Xichen heard that I was going to take him into the Sakura Palace, he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, no... I'm just saying it casually, I'm afraid that if I really see the king, I'll be so nervous that I won't be able to say a word......"

I chuckled, this Prince Anxing in front of me, even if he borrowed a hundred guts, he would not dare to enter the Sakura Palace with me, the hierarchy of the Thousand Spirit Clan has always been clear, and princes of ordinary countries like him, unless they are summoned, they are not qualified to meet the King of the Thousand Spirit Clan. "Well, it's almost dawn, you better go back and rest early, all the kings will return to their respective kingdoms this morning, and when we meet next time, I will take you to meet him."

"Okay, next time we have a chance to meet, I'll have a good chat with you." Xichen bowed slightly to me after speaking, and then turned to leave.

When I returned to the dormitory, I was not sleepy, so I casually checked the history of Anxing, and I was surprised to find that it has a relationship with El Paso for more than 3,000 years, and the first article of the law of the Thousand Spirits is that El Paso has the obligation to protect the lives of Anxing people from violation.

Holma told me that in the early years of Anxing, a country with a strong Thousand Spirits, in a genocidal war, the royal city of El Paso suffered an unprecedented disaster, when hundreds of thousands of El Paso people were killed, except for less than a thousand people who fled. Later, it was the Anxing people who protected the Elpaso people with their own lives, and the invaders killed nearly half of the Anxing people without revealing the whereabouts of half of the Elpasos, and a few years later, the Elpasors rebuilt the royal city with the help of other countries of the Thousand Spirit Clan, but Anxing never recovered because of that disaster.

"Horma , I would love to have a chance to go to Anxing!" I say.

"Why is Wang suddenly interested in An Xing?"

"I'm just a little interested in Anxing's Qixi Pavilion."

"Qixi Pavilion is the gathering place of Anxing's elites, and it is personally managed by Anxing's second prince Xichen, Xichen is Anxing's highest cultivation person so far, but Wang has just arrived in El Paso, how can he know these things?" Holma asked.

"I've seen Xichen, and with his age, it's already very good to cultivate to the sixth level of the Holy Spirit."

"I have also had several contacts with him, and I heard that he is not the biological son of Queen Xinlan, his father is the former Prince Anxing Ang, and later died unexpectedly, because he did not choose an heir to the throne before his death, so the queen Xinlan inherited the throne, which is now Queen Xinlan."

"What about the eldest prince of Anxing?" I asked.

"The eldest prince Xijing is the only son of Queen Xinlan, but he does not have the blood of the Anxing royal family, Queen Xinlan was already pregnant before marrying into the Anxing Palace, but her husband Junzi Ang did not care about the child's origin, and gave him the identity of Prince Anxing, not long after, Ziang married a new princess, and then there was Xichen."

I couldn't help but sigh for a while, I couldn't imagine that An Xing's royal bloodline was so complicated.

……

On the morning of the same day, the kings of the various Thousand Spirit Clans left Elpaso one after another, and after everyone dispersed, Arthur and Bai Tong came to the Falling Sakura Palace, one of them was the dean of Jialan Academy, and the other was the vice president of Jialan Academy. When Arthur saw me, he was very embarrassed to express his intention, it turned out that Elpaso had an unwritten rule, that is, all heirs to the throne must graduate from Jialan Academy.

"Does Dean Arthur mean to let me sign up for this year's entrance exam for Jialan Academy?" I smiled and said, as early as when I was the emperor, I often heard the headwind mention this dean, he was a legalistic person, and after cultivating to break through the first-level super holy spirit at the age of 90, he was appointed by his grandfather as the dean of Jialan Academy.

Arthur was obviously a little embarrassed: "I know that the king's situation is very special, but after all, this is a rule that has been passed down from the hands of the first king, and I can't go against the will of the previous king." ”

Bai Tong on the side shook his head after hearing this, although he was Arthur's personal disciple, his thoughts were often different from Arthur's, "Teacher, I don't think it is necessary to let Wang enter Jialan, the minimum cultivation requirement for admission to Jialan Academy is the third-level Yuan Spirit, and the minimum cultivation requirement for graduation is the fourth-level Holy Spirit, not to mention that Wang's cultivation has already exceeded too much, every student who enters Jialan must have their own corresponding teacher, just ask Jialan's one hundred and seventy-six teachers, who dares to come out to be his teacher?" ”

Bai Tong's last sentence directly made Arthur speechless, as the dean of Jialan Academy, this is indeed the first problem he has to solve.

Seeing the stalemate between the two in front of me, Holma couldn't help but smile: "Arthur, if you insist on letting Wang graduate from Jialan, just go through the motions, Wang will enter the school on the same day and graduate on the same day, so that everyone will save a lot of trouble!" It's just that once Wang enters Jialan Academy, it will refresh the record of the lowest age of Jialan students, and it will also refresh the record of the highest cultivation of Jialan graduates. ”

After listening to Hormma's words, Bai Tong nodded again and again: "Teacher, you can consider Prince Hormma's opinion." ”

Arthur paused, and said with a hint of helplessness on his face: "I don't have any opinion, it's just that the teacher's name must be engraved on the graduation bracelet of every graduate!" Bai Tong, you are right, in the entire Thousand Spirit Clan, no one has dared to come out to be his teacher. ”

As soon as these words came out, the problem returned to square one.

"Arthur, I agree to enter Jialan Academy, my teacher is Prince Holma!" My words broke the deadlock.

The three of them looked at me almost at the same time, and Holma was even more surprised, "Wang... I... Where am I qualified to be your teacher? ”

I walked up to Holma and said with a slight smile: "Holma, have you forgotten that since I was 8 years old, you have been my teacher, a teacher for one day and a teacher for life, no matter how high my current cultivation is, in my heart, your position as a teacher will never change." ”

"Wang, I..." Holma was speechless with excitement, I patted him on the shoulder and said to Arthur: "Dean Arthur, regarding my entry into Jialan Academy, I completely obey the arrangement of you and Vice Dean Bai Tong, it just so happens that my understanding of medical skills is still blank, let Prince Holma teach me well, and when I reach the level of the Faun, I will graduate from Jialan Academy." ”

"Are you sure you want to do this, King?" Arthur couldn't seem to believe what I had just said.

I chuckled and said, "Does Dean Arthur think there's something wrong?" ”

"No, no, no, since it is the king's request, Bai Tong and I will arrange it."