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"Where is this?"

In a semi-conscious state a young man was confused. He lowered his head with his hands bound by strong iron chains. And in front of him were the important figures of the kingdom.

"Aren't I dead?"

The young man looked around him while keeping his head down without moving his head to know his current state.

"It seems I have been reborn."

Suddenly the young man's head felt very painful. She bit her own lip trying to endure the pain without making a sound.

The memories of the previous owner of the body began to merge with his memories.

The Central Plains Continent, in the Han Empire a Prince was born. The prince is named Han Shu. He was the first Prince as well as the Crown Prince of the Han Empire.

The Han Empire had five princes who came from different mothers. They are always scrambling to become the Crown Prince and inherit his father's power.

The First Prince is Han Shu, the second Prince is Han Wei, the third Prince is Han Jiang, the fourth Prince is Han Li, and the fifth Prince is Han Zie.

Han Shu's mother was an Empress but was later changed after she died giving birth to Han Shu.

Han Shu possessed ordinary talent but his willpower made him the strongest cultivator among the five Princes.

Han Shu has always been another prime target for Prince due to his position as the Crown Prince.

Other princes did everything they could to reduce his position as Crown Prince. Even to the point of sending an assassin to kill him but always fail because he has a strong subordinate. Her name is Xu Lin.

They also tried to poison him during a food banquet in the palace but the poison can still be cured.

This time they cooperate in plotting the murder charges against the Emperor and Empress. Han Shu's underlings of faith took part in the plan. Xu Lin was swayed by another Prince's offer.

Until finally the plan went smoothly. Han Shu was arrested on charges of murdering the Emperor and Empress. Han Shu tried to defend himself but all evidence was pointing towards Han Shu.

"Are you also working with them?" Han Shu asked Xu Lin.

Xu Lin turned her face away to avoid Han Shu's questioning.

Han Shu had his cultivation base destroyed and his meridians destroyed. He was jailed in the underground prison for three days before being tried for his sentence.

Han Shu felt hopeless in prison. He could do nothing to prove the truth.

Today is Han Shu's trial day. He was brought into the palace to be tried. Just as the trial was about to start, Han Shu killed himself by biting his own tongue.

"This is very interesting. Look at the faces of those present in the palace. Faces full of pity towards me but behind their faces they feel happy with my current situation," Han Shu thought.

"For now I shut up and see what punishment I will get."

Then Emperor Han started his trial.

"The First Prince is about to commit the murder of the Emperor and Empress. All evidence is pointing to you and it is true after being investigated."

"Because of that as an Emperor I took away the titles of First Prince and Crown Prince and made you a Commoner. You are not allowed to practice any martial arts."

The Emperor's punishment has been issued. The other four princes were displeased that the sentence was not a death sentence.

"Shit! Why don't you just give me the death penalty!" they thought.

"Hey, hurry up for my father to give him the death penalty!" The second Prince's orders to the Imperial Highness who supported him were quiet.

"Yes, Prince."

"Sorry Your Majesty, I feel dissatisfied with the punishment of the First Prince First Prince about to kill the Emperor, you could say he rebelled against the Empire to ascend the throne," he said on his knees.

"That's right, Your Majesty, a rebel must be put to death even if it is a prince. Otherwise the four princes could have also rebelled to ascend the throne." Other high-ranking officials also supported.

The voice of support for the First Prince to be executed echoed the imperial palace chamber.

"Shut up !!!"

Emperor Han shouted loudly and released his immense spiritual energy to put pressure on the palace room.

The people in the palace room felt a pressure of spiritual energy so strong that it was difficult to stand and also difficulty breathing.

"Powerful spiritual energy!"

"I'm having trouble breathing because of the pressure!"

Meanwhile Han Shu who was looking down felt a little pressured by it. Then he raised his head and straightened up looking at the Emperor. For him the pressure was not strong enough to bring him down.

"Hoo, the energy pressure is quite strong." Inner.

"Forgive us for being presumptuous Your Majesty!" Said everyone in the palace room except Han Shu on his knees.

Emperor Han stopped the pressure of his spiritual energy and then said, "The First Prince will be exiled to the border city of the Han Empire and will always be watched."

"This is my last decision!"

Emperor Han walked away from the palace room. While walking he once again took one last look at Han Shu.

"This is the only thing I can do for you. You don't have the strength to fight them. Your only trusted subordinate even betrayed you. I hope you don't hate me," Emperor Han thought.

Everyone present in the palace room also left the room. When the four Princes passed Han Shu they said, "I hope you die there! No, I will surprise you on your way."

Han Shu grinned and then said, "I won't die that easily. I'll be right back and destroy all of you."

Everyone had left and only a few soldiers and Han Shu were left in the room.

"You follow us! We'll prepare a horse carriage for you!" said the soldier a little harshly.

"Haahh, why do I have to take care of things like this?" complained the soldier.

Han Shu obeyed them. After all the necessities had been prepared, Han Shu went to the border town in a horse-drawn carriage with a coachman and twenty palace soldiers escorting him.

Meanwhile, three people who were ordered to watch him followed closely behind.

"Are we just watching him there?" asked one of them.

"No, our top priority is his safety. The other four Princes will definitely send someone to kill him on the way. We must be alert!"

The trip to the border city takes at least five days because it uses a horse-drawn carriage.

Three days later

In an unknown forest dozens of people were waiting for Han Shu's horse carriage.

"Boss, are they coming this way?"

"Yes, the second prince who has informed their route. We will wait for him here," replied the leader of the raid.

Not long after, Han Shu's horse carriage arrived. They immediately surrounded him from all directions.

"Who are you?" asked the soldier.

"Leave the First Prince to me or you will all die!" shouted the leader of the ambush.

"What are we going to do, sir? Are we going to hand over the First Prince to them? If we fight we are outnumbered. There are too many of them," asked the soldiers to their Leader quietly.

"Their average cultivation level is in the same domain as my subordinates while their Leader's cultivation realm is equal to mine. But I feel that he is stronger than me." The leader of the soldiers thought about what to do.

"What should I do now? If we attack them we will all die. But if we hand over the First Prince it is the same as being killed by His Majesty the Emperor." He still couldn't make up his mind.

"I don't feel worthy to be their leader ..."

Suddenly the warrior leader was startled by the hand of someone who tapped him on the shoulder from behind. He then looked back and found Han Shu.

"Ahh, Prince. Why did you come out? Quickly getting in here is dangerous," said the leader of the soldiers.

"Now I'm not a prince anymore so don't call me Prince."

"Looks like you guys have a problem. Quickly solve your problem. I'll go back inside to sleep," said Han Shu.

"But the Prince? There are so many of them. We can't possibly win against them."

Han Shu got back into the horse carriage to sleep but his steps stopped. Then he said, "Are you guys just going to watch?" Han Shu glanced at the three people hiding in the tree.

"How can the Prince know where we are? We have hidden ourselves well but can still be seen by him." The three of them were shocked.

"We'll come down to help them." They then descended and joined the soldiers of the empire.

"Do it fast and don't be too loud." Han Shu waved his hand at them. Then he got into the horse carriage.

"You took your time deciding! Attack them! Kill the First Prince!" The raid leader ordered his subordinates to attack.

A fierce battle broke out between them. The thunder of the sword sounded loud in the ear.

Trang Trang Trang

Sraatt

"Argghh ..." Shouts were also heard as the battle progressed.

Trang

While in the horse carriage Han Shu observed the fight outside.

“Looks like it will take them a long time to fight them. I will use this opportunity to repair the damage to the meridians on this body,” Han Shu thought.

Han Shu then sat cross-legged and calmed his mind. After a while he could feel the Qi around him. Then he absorbed the Qi into his body and flowed it into the broken meridians.

Pain started to feel inside his body. Han Shu tried to suppress the sound that was about to come out of his mouth.

"Fix it!"

His meridians were slowly starting to improve. After a few minutes the meridians were finally finished repairing.

Sweat poured out from all over his body. When Han Shu opened his eyes, he heard someone scream.

"Die!"

One of the raid group sneaked onto the horse carriage and was about to ****** his sword into Han Shu's heart. But within a split second Han Shu dodged it a little so that his sword pierced Han Shu's shoulder.

Han Shu immediately kicked his body until it came out a few meters from the horse carriage.

Han Shu immediately looked outside to check the state of their battle. Han Shu didn't want someone to notice what happened earlier.

"Luckily they didn't notice." Han Shu was a little relieved. Then he pulled out the sword that was stuck in his shoulder and hid it.

"I don't know why my father sent me to a frontier town and told them to watch over me. I will get rid of them at the right time."

Until the battle has passed for half an hour. On the ambush side, there were still five people who had not fallen, while on the soldiers side there were four people, namely the three who were previously hiding and one person was the soldier leader.

The battle caused the trees to be destroyed, the ground cracked, human blood gushing out of the bodies of the dead and filling the ground around them.

"Now that I think about it, it seems like the right time to get rid of them all. I'll wait for them to get tired first," Han Shu thought as he watched.

"Hahaha, looks like this is a tough fight." The leader of the ambush group laughed.

"I won't be playing around anymore!" The leader of the raid group brought out his original power followed by the other four who also brought out his original power.

The spiritual energy around their bodies was overflowing to the point of making the surrounding wind blow hard.

"I didn't think that you guys would still hide your true strength. Then I won't hesitate anymore!" His original power was brought out along with the other two. Meanwhile, the warrior leader was very tired and decided to withdraw from the battle.

A fierce clash of spiritual Energy occurred between them. So that many of the trees around it collapsed.

"Their spiritual energy is strong! If I don't act, this horse carriage will be destroyed. I must protect the horse carriage." Han Shu set up a defensive formation to protect his chariots from the surge of their spiritual energy.

"In the memories of this body, this world is a mortal world. The cultivation stages of the mortal world are divided into 9 Realms."

Qi formation

Qi refinement

Foundation Building

Golden Core

Nescent Soul

Soul Formation

Great Ascension

Crossing Calamity

Archiving Nirvana

Cultivation realms 1-7 were divided into 9 stages whereas others were divided into 3 stages before ascending to higher realms.

"Looks like it will take me quite a while before returning to the God Realm. I need to go to the Immortal Realm first before entering the God Realm."

Not fighting anymore, the leader of the soldiers returned to meet Han Shu in the horse carriage to take him away from there. When meeting him, the leader of the soldiers was shocked by the state of Han Shu who had injured his shoulder.

"Prince, what happened to you? Why did your shoulder hurt?" the soldier leader asked in panic.

"There was one of them who hurt me, but I can handle it." Han Shu replied calmly.

"Sorry Prince, you better get out of here and treat your wounds. It is too dangerous here," said the leader of the soldiers.

"I told you, I'm not the Prince anymore. If you want to go, please go. You don't have to worry about my safety. I can take care of myself," replied Han Shu.

"Even though you are a Commoner, you are still a Prince to me."

"Fine, whatever. I won't bother anymore."

"Let's get out of here. You are not as strong as before your cultivation base and meridians were destroyed. Now you are just an ordinary person." The army leader still insisted on taking Han Shu away.

Han Shu then came out of the carriage and hit the back of the head of the warrior leader, knocking him unconscious.

"You're so scaly!"

In battle.

"Looks like you guys are outnumbered. Give it up and leave the First Prince to me, I won't kill you," said the leader of the raid group.

"Three against five? No problem! Finish them all!" shouted Chief supervisor Han Shu.

In Emperor Han's palace room.

Emperor Han was thinking about Han Shu who was traveling to the border town.

"Is my son all right? I only sent twenty palace soldiers to escort him and also three supervisors of the Nescent Soul Realm to watch over and protect him."

"They should be fine since I gave their Leader an Earth Grade Weapon."

"What's wrong my husband? What are you thinking?" Suddenly the Empress entered the room and asked.

"I was thinking of how to make the Empire prosperous," Emperor Han lied.

"Is that true?" The Empress was a little disbelief at Emperor Han's answer.

"Yes, I was thinking about it. I'll go out for a while to meet someone. He seems to have waited a long time in the Palace Room." Emperor Han leaves his room leaving Empress Empress.

"You are still thinking about that child! I hope that child really dies! I rely on you my son ..." Empress was annoyed.

"I will help you become a Crown Prince and make you an Emperor in this Empire."

The empress of the Han Empire is named Han Xie. He came from a 1st class Family in the Han Empire. He has a son named Han Wei, the Second Prince.

Han Xie is a very ambitious woman. He will do everything in his power to expel those who get in his way.

Previously Han Xie was only an Emperor's concubine. She succeeded in becoming Empress by killing the previous Empress, the Mother of Han Shu.

He poisoned the previous Empress when she was pregnant. She wanted to kill her unborn child at the same time but was unable to kill her child.

He kept trying to find a way to kill Han Shu but it was never successful because the Emperor protected him very tightly.

Until Han Shu was 18 years old. He was made Crown Prince by the Emperor and would inherit his father's power. This added to his resentment towards Han Shu because his son was not the Crown Prince.

Han Xie always made plans to remove him from the Crown Prince and it worked out in the end.

His current ambition is to make his son the Crown Prince and become the Emperor of the Han Empire.

***

At the battle ground.

A fierce battle broke out between them again. Even though Han Shu's surveillance group numbered three, they were still superior to the raid group of five.

"Boss, they are very strong. The five of us are not enough to beat them. We should just retreat," said one of the men in the raid group.

"Retreat? What shall we say to the second prince? Did you forget what you got when the previous mission failed?" Do you want to be tortured by the second prince again? "

Their whole bodies suddenly shivered when their Leader asked that question. They returned to remember the torments they had previously suffered.

"But boss, we will get killed if they continue."

"Eat this!" Their leader threw a pitch black pill at his subordinates.

"What are these pills, boss?"

"I don't know. The second prince gave it to me and told me to use it when it was urgent."

Without lingering, they immediately ate the pill. After eating them, their strength suddenly increased greatly. The energy in their bodies was constantly churning.

"Whoa, my cultivation realm suddenly broke through two levels."

"Well, with this power we don't have to worry about fighting them anymore!" One of them suddenly dashed towards Han Shu's supervisory group quickly.

"Taste this! Crescent Moon Slash!"

A surge of energy formed after he slashed through the fields, forming a Crescent and aiming for Han Shu's chariot.

"Our target is only the first Prince. I don't need to attack them. They will definitely block my attack to protect him."

And sure enough, they immediately resisted the attack even though it didn't hit them.

BOOM!

Puffs of smoke began to appear due to the effects of the attack. Obstructed their vision.

"Was my attack successful?" He watched carefully.

Little by little the smoke began to disappear. It looked like Han Shu's supervisory group was still in good condition without being hurt at all.

Their leader carried a sword that was enveloped in flames.

"Too weak!" he said disparagingly.

He then darted towards the surveillance group members to counter his attack earlier.

"Feel this!" shouted Chief Overseer Han Shu.

In one fell swoop Superintendent Han Shu managed to kill him. But suddenly the corpse exploded with a fairly violent explosion.

BOOOMM!

The explosion made the ground around it become like a basin. The leader was seriously injured because the distance was too close.

"Phew, fortunately I immediately made a defense otherwise I would have died immediately from the explosion."

"Are they all right?" The leader looked back to see the state of his subordinate.

He was relieved that the effect of the explosion was not so extensive that it didn't hit his subordinates as well as the First Prince.

He took out a healing pill on his Storage Ring and ate it to heal all of his wounds.

"Where did you get Earth Grade Weapons in a place like this?" asked the leader of the raid.

Weapons in the mortal world are divided into 6 levels namely, Low Level, Intermediate Level, High Level, Earth Level, Heaven Level, and Heavenly Level.

Weapons above High Rank were extremely rare in the territory of the Han Empire. Only the Family and the Great Sects have, and even then, only a few. They never show it to the general public as their hidden Power.

Whereas Heavenly Level Weapons had not been seen since hundreds of years ago. Now Celestial Grade Weapons were considered as a myth as time passed.

"It's useless to tell you because you will soon die in my hands," said Chief Superintendent Han Shu.

"How dare you underestimate us ... Attack him!" The Raid Leader ordered his three men to attack.

The three of his men took out their ultimate weapon. Then they rushed straight at him and attacked him with all their might.

"Mountain-Splitting Punch!

"Heaven's Slash!"

"Divine Spear!"

BOOMM!

"Blazing Blazing Fire!"

The Waves of Flames from the Chief Guardian's sword cut through the three of them until the effect of the slash cut through hundreds of trees in front of him.

Instantly they died and their bodies exploded with an explosion that was even stronger than before.

The Overseer Leader immediately moved back to the side of the horse carriage before their bodies exploded so that he was not injured.

He had a hard time standing up straight after using that attack. He used his sword as support for his body.

"Sir, are you all right?" asked the two under him as he helped him up.

"My strength was almost completely depleted after using that attack. Right now I don't have enough strength to fight the leader," replied the Chief Overseer breathlessly.

"Now, sir, take a break first to recover your strength. We will hold it for a while—"

BOOM!

Suddenly, the two of them were hit by the leader of the ambush until they were knocked several meters away from the trees.

"Hehehe, I won't let your strength recover at all." He said.