Villain : I reincarnated as a Prince! Shouldn't I have a Harem?

Ashen nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty! There are many things that have changed. If I may have your permission, I'd like to correct some incorrect information that you and everyone here may have received about me."

Without hesitation, the emperor nodded: "Go Ahead."

"Thank you for your permission, your grace" He spoke, bowing to the emperor.

Due to the formation instilled around the stage, his voice was loud enough to be heard by everyone.

Turning toward the crowd, he proclaimed: "Everyone, Hereby I announce my participation in the war of succession on this auspicious day!"

His voice was clear and confident without at bit of nervousness.

As soon as everyone heard his announcement, an uproar erupted in the arena.

"What? Is he serious?"

"How can that be? Doesn't he only have a 1-star spirit?"

"Yeah, how can someone with a 1-star spirit even dream of becoming the emperor?"

"Does he have a way to change his spirit's level? Only then would his words make sense"

At this moment, from one of the gallery, a laughter, accompanied by words of ridicule were directed at him: "Hahaha, Little brother, have you finally gone insane? You can't even cultivate with that low level spirit of yours. Nobody in this empire will support someone who can't cultivate. You can never succeed so why even try and make a fool of yourself?"

It was the first prince who spoke and after him, the second prince followed suit.

"Indeed. Elder brother is right. Little brother, Don't embarrass yourself like this. It's not too late, just take back your words and apologize!"

"Sigh..." At their words, Ashen let out a tired sigh.

He had already predicted this type of response and thus, he closed his eyes and called forth his spirit.

Every ridicule had a common reason, his low level spirit. He would simply take this reason away from them, making them shut their mouth once and for all.

His right hand was stretched, his palm curled upward, creating the shape of a crescent moon as a bright golden light emerged in the middle of his palm.

"W-What's this bright light?"

Everyone's eyes were either squinted or being protected by the shade of their hand.

Even the emperor realm experts couldn't keep their eyes fully open in the presence of this intense glow.

Slowly, intensity of this bright light began to reduce as it took the shape of a 2 and a half meter long staff.

Soon, in Ashen's hand rested a staff with gold bands at each end.

"Huh? Wasn't his spirit said to be a white snake? Why is a stick appearing instead of his spirit?" A man in the crowd wondered loudly in surprise.

"Maybe this is an artifact?" Another man guessed.

At his guess, a sect leader from the top tier seat scoffed in disdain: "Didn't you see the light just now? That could only be produced by the manifestation of one's spirit!"

Hearing that, an elder who was sitting beside him had his eyes widened. He asked in shock: "What? But that light was so bright? Wouldn't that mean that stick is a high level spirit?"

The sect leader nodded: "Yeah, I haven't seen such an intense light being emitted from even a 7-star spirit."

The elder was in disbelief: "What? But how could that be? You mean to say that golden stick is above 7-star?"

Similar thoughts were going through everyone's heads.

Either they discussed among themselves or tried to deduce the rank of this staff.

Grand Minister, the emperor and the other high ranking guests were all trying to deduce what was the truth.

On the other hand, in the third princess' gallery, she screamed: "What is that stick? Are you telling me it is above 7-star?"

The third princess had disbelief and shock written all over her face as she glared at the head of a small sect who was in her faction with wide eyes.

He was just guessing loudly alongside the others when the princess had become so anxious as to unable to contain herself and bursted in anger like this.

She shook her head profusely, attempting to denying the reality: "No, This can't be happening! He had a 1-star spirit. Even my spies confirmed it. They had seen with their own eyes. He had awakened a white snake!"

Suddenly, her eyes widened further: "Wait! Does that mean he had been acting all this time? He was gloomy and sad all the time after the awakening ceremony, that's what the reports said. Do you mean he fooled everyone?"

Xue Nanxi stood up and held the princess's elbow softly, trying to calm her down:

"Wait, princess, It hasn't been confirmed yet. Why don't you calm——–"

Just as she was in the middle of speaking, a loud noise erupted from the crowd. This noise was of shock and disbelief.

"What happened?" She and the princess turned around to see what had happened as their eyes widened in shock and disbelief.

Ashen was standing with his right hand raised up, his palm facing the sky, however, this wasn't what shocked them.

It was what stood on top of his palm.

The stick that was previous only around 2 meters had now grown to an unimaginable height, standing vertically on his palm.

It appeared as if it was a pillar that was supporting the sky from falling.

Its round ends had grown more than the stage in area, looming its shadow over Ashen.

They couldn't even imagine what would happen if Ashen let go of the humongous staff from his hand right now.

The crowd and everyone was in uproar.

"H-How did he do that??"

"How did that stick increase in size and become something like this?"

"How is he holding it up with only one hand? From it's size, it appears to be as heavy as a mountain"

"Are we safe right now? What if he is unable to hold it and it falls on top of us?" A man from the crowd asked, his gaze up towards the huge ruyi jingu bang. He couldn't even see the top of it, it looked as if it was endlessly high.

At this moment, The Grand Minister's eyes widened in shock.

He yelled and asked: "That... Is that the Monkey King's Staff?"

Ashen, calmly holding the huge pillar with only one palm, nodded in response: "Indeed, lord Grand Minister."

"What?? The Monkey King's staff from legends?" The emperor stood up in shock, looking at the infinitely long staff with wide eyes.

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