Xu Shan stepped inside the Royal Hall, which was filled with many important people from all over the Celestial Realm.
His hair was unkempt and his eyes looked sleepy, as if he was peacefully sleeping when he was disturbed and told to come here. He rubbed the back of his head, before stretching his arms.
"Is he..."
Many people looked at Xu Shan, the young man who matched the description of the Third Prince. However, looking at how he had entered, without even properly being prepared, many people had started judging him.
While walking inside, Xu Shan picked up a glass of wine from the tray of one of the servants, finishing it in one gulp before placing the glass back and picking another one.
The young man who had just been mocking Xu Shan stepped before him, asking, "You're the Third Prince?"
Xu Shan didn't answer. He was already sleepy, and in a frustrated mood. If possible, he just wanted to sleep all day and night, since he was to leave for the Lower Realm for Celestial Lotus tomorrow. However, instead of that, he had to be here now.
Xu Shan raised his right hand, gesturing for the young man to stop wasting his time.
The young man's face twitched. "Aren't you being too disrespectful?"
"Do you deserve my respect?" Xu Shan asked, seemingly confused. "Who are you again?"
"I'm the Crown Prince of Lestia." The young man proudly declared.
There were very few Ancient Dynasties in the Celestial Realm. And now that two were destroyed, even fewer were left. Lestia was one of them, just like the Maelstrom Dynasty in the Land of Chaos.
Xu Shan raised an eyebrow at the young man's title.
"Interesting," he muttered. "I heard that Lestia was in decline. I didn't realize it had come to this. Even you can become a Crown Prince?"
The Prince's face grew red with anger. "You! If you weren't a mortal, I would've challenged you to a Duel!"
"Yeah, yeah." Xu Shan lazily stated, ignoring the man. He simply walked past the Prince of Lestia.
Firstly, he already had a reputation like that. So he has to maintain that. And secondly, he was already too frustrated to deal with such people.
He walked straight to his father, not even caring about the Prince of Lestia.
He respectfully greeted his Father, who was standing with other important people.
The Eternal Emperor nodded to the greeting, before introducing him to the other important people in the party. It was as if Xu Shan was the star of the party.
After half an hour of spending time at the banquet, Xu Shan finally asked for a leave.
"Oh yeah, Shan'er." As Xu Shan was leaving, the Emperor called for him. "You should move into the Royal Palace from tomorrow. It'll be safer."
Xu Shan glanced back. However, he didn't nod.
He had no interest in moving back for the time being, especially since he was leaving this place soon.
Many eyes were on Xu Shan, even when the young prince left. The Prince of Lestia was especially frustrated.
"Don't worry. He doesn't have manners. When I get the throne in the future, I'll teach him some manners for you," the Second Prince told the Prince of Lestia, trying to gain support.
Both the Princes were trying to make contacts in the Banquet since it wasn't often that so many important people had gathered under one roof.
Unlike them, Xu Shan paid it no mind. In his eyes, most of the people here were too weak.
He stepped out of the Royal Palace, looking at the beautiful moon in the sky. "Finally I'm free of this hassle! Never again shall I go to such a celebration. It's so tiring."
He stepped toward his Royal Carriage, the door of which was already open.
However, just as he was about to step inside the Carriage, he stopped. His face developed a frown as he sensed something strange.
The surroundings had suddenly become much colder... It was almost freezing!
This sudden change in weather was bizarre and didn't appear to be natural at all.
He didn't know why, but he had a bad feeling about this!
He stepped back and raised his head, looking at the sky which was suddenly clouded.
The roars of thunder could be heard clearly in the sky as if a thunder storm was brewing.
The sky had darkened as the storm clouds continued gathering, and the air became colder and heavier with the scent of rain.
The first drops fell like bullets, pounding against the ground and bouncing back up in a spray of mist.
The wind picked up, howling through the trees and whipping up dust and debris. The lightning flashed, illuminating the sky in a brilliant display of light and color.
The thunder boomed, shaking the ground beneath Xu Shan's feet and rattling the windows in their frames.
Xu Shan stood in the rain, frowning. He didn't enter his carriage yet. His sleep was long gone and he was completely serious now.
As the storm intensified, the rain came down harder and faster, turning streets into rivers and flooding basements.
The wind grew stronger, bending trees and tearing branches from their trunks. The lightning struck closer and closer, illuminating the darkness with blinding flashes of light.
And then, as suddenly as it began, a spatial crack developed in the sky. The spatial crack kept getting bigger as if the space itself was being destroyed!
Inside the Banquet, the glass of wine in Ye Han's hands dropped. His eyes turned blood red as he disappeared, amidst the banquet as if he sensed something!
Even the Eternal Emperor and the other Overlords sensed something!
Outside the Royal Palace, the spatial crack in the sky kept getting wider. Two hands came out of the spatial crack, spreading the spatial crack faster, as if the person these hands belonged to, was trying to forcefully break the boundaries of this world!
"You need to leave!" Ye Han appeared next to Xu Shan. However, his entire aura was different now!
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