"Lin Hao, your combat prowess surpasses your peers. I’d be glad to have you as a friend. Let me go, and we can let bygones be bygones." The moment Lin Hao entered the mansion, Marquis Mo was sent flying. With his body bound by a restriction, he was unable to move, forced to speak from his position on the ground.

Although Marquis Mo was seething with humiliation, he had no choice but to adopt a humbler attitude. He was now inside a mansion that dozens of Soul Gathering Realm Martial Artists had failed to breach even by working together.

"Brat, you’re barely adequate. How about becoming a servant for this divine turtle?" Before Lin Hao could even reply, Marquis Mo heard a voice speak up from behind him.

Though he couldn’t move or see what was behind him, he knew from the voice who was speaking.

’Him? The grand Crown Prince of the Mo Yun Kingdom, possessor of one of the twenty-four King Bodies, a servant to a turtle?!’

’It was a good thing he was paralyzed right now. Otherwise, he would spare no expense to dig up every last one of that turtle’s relatives!’

"Insolent! How dare you..." Before Marquis Mo could finish, a cloth was stuffed into his mouth from behind.

"So what if you have the Demon King Body, one of the twenty-four King Bodies? You should learn a thing or two from this little girl here. Her status is no less than yours, yet isn’t she serving as a maid to that Lin Hao kid now?" Marquis Mo’s body was pulled to his feet and spun around.

"Mmph! Mmph!" Seeing the person standing before him, Marquis Mo’s eyes shot wide open. He tried to speak, but no sound came out.

Standing before Marquis Mo was Yunxi, her head bowed low and her ears flushed crimson.

"Mmph! Mmph!" After staring at Yunxi for a moment, Marquis Mo turned his gaze to Lin Hao, his eyes practically spitting fire.

However, what he saw next made his blood boil.

He was stunned to see Mo Yanwu carefully wiping the blood from the corner of Lin Hao’s mouth.

’Because of a single person, Lin Hao, he had not only lost dozens of Soul Gathering Realm Martial Artists but had also become a prisoner. And now, upon entering this mansion, he was met with the sight of a subject’s betrayal and his own royal sister’s humiliation!’

’The architect of all his suffering was right in front of him, yet he was completely powerless.’

This pushed Marquis Mo’s humiliation to its absolute peak.

"Stop sulking. It’s your great fortune to be the first servant of this divine turtle. In the future, all the other servants—even those with Imperial or Divine Bodies—will have to call you Big Brother," the turtle said, stoking Marquis Mo’s anger until he felt his lungs might just explode.

’His constitution was one in a million! Even without the title of Crown Prince, he was a figure of immense prestige. Yet this turtle was claiming that being its servant was a blessing? That he’d be the ’Big Brother’ to future servants with Imperial and Divine Bodies? How idiotic could one turtle be to spout such nonsense!’

"Crown Prince, you should really listen to Lord Turtle. It is truly a blessing to be his servant." At that moment, Chu Yanwu stood up and spoke to Marquis Mo with utter seriousness.

"Mmph! Mmph!" Marquis Mo’s glare was so intense it looked as if his eyes might split, yet he couldn’t utter a single word.

"Alright, alright, scram. If you keep pushing him, you’ll drive him mad, and my entire servant-training plan will go down the drain. If he’s gone, you can just take his place!" The turtle was surprisingly protective of its own.

"Er, well, this humble one would also love to follow Lord Turtle, but I already belong to the Master," Chu Yanwu said with a fawning smile.

This scene left Marquis Mo utterly dumbfounded.

He knew Chu Yanwu, of course. Unlike Yunxi, he had crossed paths with him several times and knew the man was incredibly arrogant, looking down on even the highest-ranking princes and officials.

But now, Chu Yanwu was using such a tone to speak to a turtle. Marquis Mo could hardly believe his eyes and ears.

Of course, what shocked Marquis Mo even more was the title Chu Yanwu had used: Master!

There was no one else around. The identity of this "Master" was self-evident.

Lin Hao!

’Lin Hao is the turtle’s master, and now Chu Yanwu is also calling Lin Hao his master. This...’

’Just who in the world is Lin Hao?!’

For a moment, Marquis Mo’s head spun, completely overwhelmed.

"Slave Hou, what are you daydreaming about!" As his thoughts ran wild, Marquis Mo felt a smack on his head. Before he could even react, the turtle had dragged him away, and they vanished from sight.

Meanwhile, Chu Yanwu glanced at Lin Hao before leading Yunxi away as well.

Lin Hao was now sitting cross-legged on the ground, a great rumbling echoing from within his body.

Once everyone else had departed, the clouds in the vast sky began to converge over the Celestial Monarch’s Mansion.

Ordinarily, Lin Hao would not have used an imperial-class technique out in the open, but his injuries were severe this time, and his body had sustained damage. Thus, he had activated the Godslaying Celestial Slash Skill.

The Godslaying Celestial Slash Skill was a Blood Coagulation Realm Cultivation Technique that Lin Hao had already mastered. He could now wield it with perfect control, avoiding any excessive celestial phenomena.

But even though Lin Hao was holding back, the Godslaying Celestial Slash Skill was an imperial-class technique. The moment he activated it, a torrent of violent primordial energy surged toward him from all directions.

This immense power, far more than any ordinary person could withstand, poured down through the Baihui acupoint on the crown of Lin Hao’s head and flooded directly into his body.

His body was like a bottomless pit, absorbing the violent primordial energy completely and without reservation.

Above the Celestial Monarch’s Mansion, a dense, misty energy now poured down from the heavens like a great, unending river, flowing into the Baihui acupoint atop Lin Hao’s head.

His body thundered from within, emitting the legendary Tiger-Leopard Thunder Roar, and his skin became coated in a fluorescent glow.

The imperial-class technique was incredibly potent. In just a few minutes, all of Lin Hao’s internal injuries were healed, but he didn’t stop the process.

He wanted to use this opportunity to test whether the imperial-class technique had any effect on his True Self Divine Soul.

At first, Lin Hao carefully guided the primordial energy toward his True Self Divine Soul. However, he quickly gave up when he discovered the energy passed right through it, as if the Divine Soul wasn’t even there.

Clearly, this primordial energy was not what the True Self Divine Soul desired. The energy it absorbed was a brand-new, mysterious True Essence, produced only after Lin Hao drew the primordial energy into his Dantian.

Since it was of no use, Lin Hao stopped trying and ended his cultivation.

The moment he opened his eyes, he saw the turtle.

It was staring at him with wide eyes, looking as if they might pop right out of its head.

"Your... your Divine Soul... it’s really a True Self Divine Soul?!" the turtle stammered.

The turtle had naturally sensed the celestial phenomenon Lin Hao had triggered from such a close distance and had rushed back immediately. While Lin Hao was busy drawing in the primordial energy, the turtle was suddenly struck with the idea to probe his Divine Soul.

It was because Lord Lingdi had once told it of Lin Hao’s performance in the Saha World, deducing that the Divine Soul he would eventually awaken would most likely be a True Self Divine Soul!

At the time, the turtle had thought Lord Lingdi was just making it up so that Lin Hao could obtain Emperor Hongtian’s Soul Gathering Realm Cultivation Technique.

But after witnessing what Lin Hao had just done, the turtle realized that Lord Lingdi’s words were likely true.

A True Self Divine Soul, combined with Emperor Hongtian’s Soul Gathering Realm Cultivation Technique... the turtle couldn’t even begin to imagine how earth-shattering that would be.

But of one thing, the turtle was certain: if Lin Hao obtained Emperor Hongtian’s Cultivation Technique, he would one day surpass the Great Emperor himself!

How could such a thought not leave the turtle utterly astonished?!