After Ethan left, the young lady remained silent for a long time. Then she spoke with some uncertainty, "I feel something amiss about this guy. He doesn’t seem to be a good person."

The maid, however, did not look very concerned. "That guy and his lackeys are all just at the peak of iron realm. Even if they are planning something against us, with our strength, the ones who will suffer will be them."

The young lady looked at her maid and asked, "So you think we should agree to this joint expedition?"

The maid nodded with shining eyes. "Of course. If you can achieve an emperor level bloodline heart artifact, your only disadvantage of not being born with a bloodline heart will no longer be an issue. Elder Sophia can also announce you as her successor without worrying about any opposition."

The young lady shook her head. "This is the main problem. How did this Ethan know that I don’t have a bloodline heart? And how did he know for sure that we are students of the Moon Palace Academy?"

The maid looked at her young lady, who was covered up from head to toe, and she finally realized. They were neither showing their faces nor wearing anything related to the Moon Palace Academy, yet the other party still recognized them as students of the Moon Palace Academy.

The maid furrowed her brows in concern. "You mean he already knew our identity and specifically came to us instead of this meeting being a coincidence?"

The young lady sneered. "Who knows? Anyway, like you said, if he really thinks he can plot against us relying on the eight meat shields behind him, then he won’t even know how he died."

The two maidens did not take this incident to heart and entered the broken palace to look for other opportunities.

...

Some distance away,

Ethan and his eight bodyguards walked into the inner parts of the forest and stopped in front of a cave.

Choosing a boulder, Ethan sat cross legged on its top, while his bodyguards stood beside him respectfully.

After a moment, one of the guards hesitated and asked cautiously, "Ancestor, does that lady’s physique not suit your requirements?"

Ethan looked indifferently at the guard and shook his head. "She is more than perfect. It is my current body that is lacking."

The guard hurriedly explained, "Ethan is one of the best prodigy of the new generation when it comes to body cultivation. He has the emperor level demon ape bloodline and his vital qi is already at the emperor level...."

Ethan raised his hand and the guard, understanding the gesture, closed his mouth immediately.

After a moment of silence, Ethan said in a calm tone, "The information you guys brought to me has a mistake. That girl not only has the Eclipsed Veil Physique, but hidden inside her blood there is also a trace of a very rare Eclipse Sovereign Bloodline. Previously when I tried to influence her with my yang energy, I was repelled just by a casual glance from her. This means the Eclipse Sovereign Bloodline inside her is already active even though she has not awakened a bloodline heart yet."

The guard’s expression changed and he opened his mouth to explain himself, but Ethan waved his hand dismissively. "Normally, the Eclipse Sovereign Bloodline is found in people with the Eclipsed Veil Physique as both are from the same ancestry, but having an active bloodline is rare, so you guys cannot be blamed for this."

The guard let out a sigh of relief and bowed his head.

Ethan rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Normally, I could have absorbed her soul and that would have solved the problem of integrating multiple bloodlines into this body. But with the presence of the Eclipse Sovereign Bloodline, this will not be so simple."

The guard scratched his head awkwardly and asked, "Ancestor, I have never heard of this Eclipse Sovereign Bloodline. Can you explain it to me so that we can also look for some way to help you regain your power?"

Ethan remained silent for a moment and nodded. "The Eclipse Sovereign is actually a demon beast that is quite rare with few left in this world. One of its main bloodline abilities is to parasitize another living organism by merging its vital qi with the target organism’s vital qi, thereby linking their souls into one.

Due to its other bloodline ability, Eclipsed Veil, this creature is also able to create a veil between its own bloodline and the target creature’s bloodline, which avoids any type of bloodline conflicts and even allows it to steal a portion of the original bloodline ability of the target organism as its own."

Ethan sighed somewhat helplessly and continued, "The Eclipsed Veil Physique only has the second ability of the Eclipse Sovereign demon. It can only create a veil between different bloodlines, thereby hiding their existence from one another and preventing clashes. So a person with this physique can actually have more than one bloodline as long as their body is strong enough to handle it.

But since she has the Eclipse Sovereign Bloodline, the moment I absorb her soul, my vital qi will come in contact with her vital qi and instead of becoming food for my soul, her soul will merge with mine. The only way to prevent this is to use superior vital qi to suppress her vital qi and negate the merging ability of her bloodline, which will give me an opportunity to devour her soul."

The guard thought about it and still felt something was missing in the explanation. "Ancestor, Ethan’s body contains emperor level vital qi. Would that not be enough to suppress her?"

Ethan shook his head. "When I said superiority of vital qi, what I meant is the quality of the vital qi. This body’s vital qi is completely reliant on the demon ape bloodline heart. Without the support of the bloodline, his vital qi is only mediocre at best, whereas that young lady’s vital qi already has king level quality without relying on any bloodline."

The guard nodded in understanding. "So ancestor, should we search for another vessel with high quality vital qi?"

Ethan sighed. "Since my soul is of the yang attribute, I cannot directly make that young lady my vessel. We could only look for a more perfect one. Send word to the family head. Ask him to search for a vessel with vital qi quality at least at the king level without enhancement from bloodline heart."

The guard nodded and went to the side to contact his family head. Meanwhile, Ethan sat quietly on top of the boulder, looking at the night sky, his thoughts unknown.

...

The next day, Leon woke up at five as usual and practised the Four Spirit Weapon Forging Art.

After the ultimate body forging art evolved into the Four Spirit Weapon Forging Art, even if he practised the technique or not, his life essence would only increase by a steady number each day.

Currently, according to his estimation of his cultivation speed, his life essence could increase by four hundred points each day through the automatic circulation of the Four Spirit Weapon Forging Art all day long.

When compared with his previous cultivation speed, this was definitely much faster. He did not even have to put in any work. He could just lay down and his cultivation would increase at a constant pace.

But since practising early morning had already become a habit, he went through the motions anyway.

[Primordial Law Codex - page no: 1]

[Owner: Leon (human)]

[Body Realm (Mortal): 1st Heaven]

(Life Essence: 2200/100000)

[Spirit Realm (Mortal): 1st Heaven]

(Soul Essence: 1/100)

[Elemental Grade: ???]

... 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

[Primordial Law Codex - page no: 2]

[Owner: Leon (human)]

[Life essence points: 42107]

[Technique: Four Spirit Weapon Forging Art]

[Technique grade: god]

[Technique realm (mortal): 400/400 (perfection)]

...

As he expected, after adding the Formless Spear Art to the Four Spirit Weapon Forging Art, it finally reached completion. At the same time, the points required to complete the first heaven of the mortal realm had increased to a staggering one hundred thousand life essence points.

By his estimate, with his current speed of cultivation, it would take around two hundred and fifty days to complete the first heaven of the mortal realm. Although this was somewhat depressing, he could not deny the fact that he was already twice as strong as a cultivator at the tenth heaven of the mortal realm.

Nevertheless, he had decided to go and meet that elder in the old mansion after testing his new spear spirit in the forest.

So once he had breakfast, he waved goodbye to Amelia and entered the forest.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Just as Leon reached the outside of the runed mansion, he heard the galloping of horses.

When he turned around, he saw three men on horseback moving toward him at incredible speed. In the blink of an eye, they stopped two meters away from him.

"Oh, is it not the prodigy Leon? What are you doing in the inner parts of the forest?" the man in the middle asked with a mocking grin on his face.

"Just the usual hunting. I don’t think I have to report my daily routines to the army camp, right?" Leon asked calmly as he scanned the two people beside the head soldier of the Stone Fort Village.

When he saw that Leon was not affected by the presence of the two iron rank cultivators beside him, the head soldier sneered. "Let me get straight to the point. These two are iron rank cultivators from the army camp stationed at the Rose Valley Town. They are here to escort your sister to the Rose Valley Town. Since you are her guardian in the official documents, we want a permission letter from you."

As he said this, he threw a white paper toward Leon.

"Cut your finger and leave a fingerprint at the bottom," the head soldier commanded in a loud voice.