NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 2 - Marrying the Princess?
【I declare: The protagonist is a Cultivation Sage, waiting for the Spiritual Energy Revival version to be activated! Moreover, the protagonist has a system that can add experience points and proficiency, allowing the player to cheat and completely avoid increasing their cultivation through practice!】
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In the small courtyard, the locust tree had sprouted tender buds, which shone brightly and were full of vitality under the spring sun.
“Second master has a letter for you, young master!”
Xia Qian’s face was slightly flushed with joy. Second master had finally remembered the young master. If he remembered correctly, the last letter was three years ago.
Xia Chen calmly took the letter from Xia Qian’s hand, without any sign of joy or sorrow. He said with some surprise, “Has something happened in the outside world?”
No letters had been received for three years, and this sudden one made Xia Chen feel that things might not be that simple.
“Young master is truly prescient. There is great news. Second master has slain a third-rank peerless great demon in the Eastern Wasteland. It is said that this demon was a hegemon in the Eastern Wasteland Mountains. After this battle, the demons retreated a hundred miles, and the demon troubles in the Eastern Wasteland were completely eradicated, greatly enhancing the prestige of our Martial Kingdom.”
Xia Qian was not very old, one year younger than Xia Chen, and had just turned 16 this year. He was in the prime of his youth and was now extremely excited, as if he himself had slain the third-rank great demon.
“Everyone says that the Eastern Wasteland may be completely pacified in the next one or two years. Then, Second master and Second madam will be able to return to the court.”
The young Xia Qian’s expression was agitated. After 14 years, the young master would finally be reunited with his family.
Upon hearing this, Xia Chen did not show any joy in his eyes. He had inherited all the memories of the previous Xia Chen, which was completely different from the game login in his previous life without the original owner’s memories. He seemed to be a native, possessing all the emotions of the previous Xia Chen, as if he was Xia Chen himself, only awakening his memories from the previous life two months ago.
Involuntarily, Xia Chen’s mind conjured up the information about the second master mentioned by the young servant in blue, Xia Qian.
Second master, Duke of Dong’an Xia Yuan, Xia Chen’s biological father.
In Xia Chen’s childhood memories, before the age of three, his father Xia Yuan had doted on him and loved him dearly. However, after the martial arts test at the age of three, when he was detected to be a waste, Xia Yuan fell into a moment of silence, but eventually, his gaze remained resolute.
“Although my son is a waste, as my eldest son, I will definitely find a great fortune to reverse his fate against the heavens.”
The day after he said this, the Eastern Wasteland demon tide erupted, and Xia Yuan was appointed as the demon-slaying commander, in charge of the hundred thousand troops in the eastern region. Xia Chen’s mother, Su Xiaoxue, was a powerful sorcerer and went to war with the troops.
Young Xia Chen, though unaware of what this meant, just wanted to stay by his parents’ side and go to the Eastern Wasteland with them. However, he was sternly refused, with the explanation that the Eastern Wasteland was too dangerous.
At just three years old, Xia Chen was left alone in the marquisate. It would be 14 years before he saw them again.
For the first three months, letters still frequently arrived at the Marquis of Zhen Dong’s mansion, along with demon essence, to temper Xia Chen’s flesh and blood.
After five months, the letters gradually decreased.
Young Xia Chen thought it was because the Eastern Wasteland was in chaos with great demons, and the battlefield was changing rapidly, consuming much energy and leaving no time to write letters.
A year later, Xia Chen learned from the servants of the Marquis of Zhen Dong that the marquisate was about to add a direct bloodline.
Upon inquiry, he found out that he had a younger brother.
Xia Chen’s mother, Su Xiaoxue, became pregnant again in the first month after going to war with Xia Yuan.
After having a younger brother, the letters from the Eastern Wasteland changed from once every three months to once every six months, and after the age of six, there was only one letter left. Medicinal essence and flesh and blood essence were no longer sent…
Xia Chen still believed that the Eastern Wasteland battlefield was too dangerous, with various great demons emerging one after another, and his father, as the commander-in-chief of an army, had no time to take care of him.
Until later, he learned from the servants of the marquisate that his younger brother, born on the Eastern Wasteland battlefield and always with his parents, was detected to have a peerless root bone and was praised as a heavenly talent.
Xia Chen finally realized that he… had been abandoned!
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Xia Chen has now become accustomed to this free and unrestrained life, although he is somewhat transparent in the marquisate.
But after all, there were no such melodramatic plots as in TV dramas, such as evil servants bullying the master and looking down on people.
However, his uncle and aunt treated him very well and regarded him as their own son.
And now, with his parents returning, and his younger brother Xia Hao, whom he has never met but is talented and has a special bone in his body, can his life still be as free and unrestrained as before?
Especially since Xia Chen knows that the bone is the legendary Supreme Bone.
Although it is not comparable to his innate double pupils, it can still burst into a world-shocking brilliance in the future [Spiritual Energy Revival] version…
Moreover, after 14 years without seeing each other, even some information about the Eastern Wasteland is known to the servants of the mansion earlier than him. Therefore, although Xia Chen is related to them by blood, he is no different from a stranger!
“You may go first, and also inform the kitchen to double the lunch portion today!”
Xia Chen smiled and nodded at Xia Qian, who had been with him since the age of four, and the two had spent twelve years together.
Speaking of which, Xia Qian is also a member of the family, but he is a collateral branch, a branch that separated more than 200 years ago. Although the blood relationship is somewhat distant now, he still has the surname Xia. It is because of this blood relationship that Xia Qian was able to be sent to the marquisate to be cultivated from a young age and to be with Xia Chen, a direct bloodline of the marquisate.
Xia Qian nodded, knowing that his young master had been diligently studying and practicing martial arts recently, and his appetite had increased a lot. But he was still surprised. If it was doubled again, wouldn’t that mean one person would have to eat more than 20 portions?
Watching Xia Qian leave, Xia Chen slowly lowered his head, focusing his gaze on the yellowish but kirin-patterned envelope in his hand.
After a moment of silence, he extended his finger and lightly cut the tip of his finger with the bright red long sword in his hand, letting a drop of bright red and hot blood drip down.
Instantly, the kirin pattern on the envelope seemed to be stimulated, its light shining brightly, and faintly, there seemed to be a kirin’s roar.
This process lasted for one or two breaths, and then the light subsided, and everything returned to calm.
Xia Chen knew that this was the means of his mother, Su Xiaoxue.
At this stage, although spiritual energy has not yet revived, there is still high martial arts.
There are people who can match ten thousand troops alone, and with one sword, they can cut through a great river. However, there are only a handful of people in the world who have reached this level.
The vast majority, even if they are powerful, are still within the realm of ordinary people.
The system is also relatively rough, divided into warriors and sorcerers.
In his previous life, Xia Chen simply regarded these two categories as warriors and wizards when he treated it as a mysterious and interesting game.
In addition to this, there are also demons in this world.
And Su Xiaoxue is a powerful sorcerer. Su Xiaoxue
This letter was specifically sent to Xia Chen, so only Xia Chen’s blood can unseal it. This is a kind of sorcery to prevent outsiders from intercepting and probing. This kind of sorcery is something that vulgar warriors cannot master.
Xia Chen opened the envelope, the high-quality Xuan paper, with a delicate and smooth texture, but there were only a few words on it.
“Father will return home in half a year at the earliest and two years at the latest. Also, the Emperor has granted a marriage. As my son, you are to marry the second princess. Behave well and do not disgrace the prestige of our marquisate!”
Xia Chen’s first feeling upon seeing the letter was that it was extremely concise!
Xia Chen was not surprised by the first half of the sentence. The Eastern Wasteland had a great victory. The world is divided into one to nine ranks, whether they are warriors, sorcerers or demons, all are within these nine ranks.
A third-rank great demon is rare in the world.
Having slain such a great demon, the war in the Eastern Wasteland has lasted for 14 years and should come to an end.
Moreover, Xia Qian had just told him about it.
What made Xia Chen’s pupils contract was the second half of the sentence. He was to marry the princess, and it was the second princess? The future empress?