Chapter 362 - The Secret Realm’s Core (1/2)

Jing Yi hadn't slept much that night, thus he had already cultivated for some hours when Leng Jin Yu finally came to check up on him in the morning.

Seeing the boy sitting on the bed and cultivating with an incredible speed Leng Jin Yu was somewhat speechless. How come the person who had been all panicked and afraid of remembering his past yesterday was suddenly cultivating as if he hadn't done anything else in his life?

And furthermore … why was he so fast?

Leng Jin Yu looked at the flow of the spiritual energy and slightly frowned. For a normal person, this speed of taking in spiritual energy would definitely lead to injuries sooner or later.

Maybe they could sustain it for a while if their stage was higher but someone at the second stage like Jing Yi shouldn't be able to do it. Just a slight lapse in judgment, just a bit of hesitation might even lead to death. So why … was he alright?

Could this have something to do with his special situation? But if that was the case, then wouldn't a lot of trueborn gods have ended up dead because their reincarnations ascended? After all, only a few of them would be watched as closely as the crown prince and would get impeded at every step they took. So the probability of them ascending if they ever stepped onto this path would be quite high. And even though it was said that Heaven had cursed the gods, Leng Jin Yu couldn't really believe that he'd be that harsh to allow something like this.

Leng Jin Yu really would have liked to take a closer look at Jing Yi's situation but who knew if his probing wouldn't startle the boy and thus indeed lead to an accident? He could only sigh, leave the room and close the door again.

Well, he might as well use the time and find the core of the secret realm and wrest the control over from the previous master. That way he would know if that troublesome dragon king managed to find a way around the array and could react accordingly.

As for the crown prince's reincarnation … He didn't like to leave it at that but for now, he couldn't do anything. He'd have a look as soon as Jing Yi stopped cultivating and then depending on how much progress he had made he would do something. Maybe he wouldn't even need to act. Wouldn't it be great if Jing Yi just wasn't able to make progress for long? Hindering him seemed a little vicious.

Well, now wasn't the time for that.

Leng Jin Yu walked down the corridor, keeping an eye on his surroundings so as to not activate any of the traps around him. After all, he still needed a reason to keep Jing Yi from the core of the realm.

Soon enough, he reached the door to the courtyard in the innermost part of the palace. He took a deep breath and opened it.

The courtyard in front of him wasn't big compared to the rest of the palace. In fact, it only measured about twenty steps in both directions. There was a roofed corridor leading around it and two short bridges leading to a small isle in the middle of a pond where two stone statues stood.