Renxue's New Home

Qian Renxue walked around the Palace which is going to be her home for a big amount of time.

So far nothing has attracted her attention. She was dodging her future husband for a reason. After he destroyed her in their spar she doesn't know how to approach him.

For her, it was always that she approaches things from a higher position of power. Or its perfectly explained to her by her teacher or grandfather.

Now however she has no idea how to proceed!

"This makes four."

The blonde girl counted how many maids she saw. So far she only saw 4, two of them are not even Spirit masters, while they were pretty they were nothing special.

The only two she is worried about are Hu Liena who is close to getting her second ring and Na'er a silver-haired girl with Silver Dragon Spear as a martial Spirit. 

Such a girl would be heavily supported by her Spirit Hall if not for the fact that she was Xue Long's maid.

Both of them are innate spirit rank. And both of them are quite beautiful girls in making. 

While Hu Liena is quite new, Na'er is someone who has been with her future husband for close to a year. She knows him the best. So Qian Renxue needs to watch her closely.

Eventually, in her exploration, she found a garden and saw the silver-haired maid practising with her spear.

'Oh my luck is quite great, she is here.'

Qian Renxue observed this closely and realised that this girl is quite good with the spear.

'She is around Fourth Prince age, yet, she can fight like this?'

"Umm… Princess Renxue…can I help you with something?"

'Control yourself… they are your future Husband servants…nothing more.'

The blonde took a deep breath and tried to control herself.

"I am fine. I was wondering where did you learned to fight like this?" The blonde asked curiously forgetting about the whole fact that this was one of the 'hated' maids.

"...Umm… it should be obvious. I learned how to fight like this from my Prince." 

"...My future husband knows how to fight with weapons!?" The blonde girl exclaimed with a shocked look. She thought she learned everything she could about him from all the spies!

"...yes. Prince Xue Long is a Martial Genius like no other! He knows how to fight with swords and spears, he knows a multitude of different hand-to-hand techniques! His understanding of martial arts pushed all the way to look like he has a multitude of Martial Spirits as his art manifested like Martial Spirits—"

The more Qian Renxue heard this girl talk the more she realised that this silver head is pure fanatical of his! 

"Wait! You said that you reached rank 22 in a… single year!? That makes 12 ranks!!!" 

Na'er moved her head to a side in slight confusion she can't see the problem there. Her speed is abysmal compared to her prince!

"It's nothing compared to my Prince. And it's not 12 but 10 my second ring gave me 2 ranks." Silver-haired maid explained herself.

"...I see… I need to speak with my future husband. Can you show me where he is at this moment?"

"Certainly my Princess."

~~~~~~Hu Liena~~~~~~

Hu Liena didn't expect to end up in the royal palace and one of the maids which belong to the Fourth Prince, the Golden Prince, the Fourth Imperial Prince of Heaven.

The amount of titles this prince has is simply astounding!

Still through what she never expected it to be picked up like this!

When she heard about Prince Xue Ying collecting homeless kids she didn't think that she will end up as a maid for the most known person in Heavenly Dou Empire!

But it turned out that Prince Xue Ying was looking for 'maids material' for his nephew who recently broke through to Rank 30.

And it turns out the prince scored gold when he found her.

One moment Hu Liena was a homeless girl, next moment she was learning an array of arts, it was ridiculous. Dancing, painting, playing musical instruments, etiquette… and then… cultivation… from Fourth Prince himself!

Her first meeting with him immediately confirmed an array of ridiculous rumours she heard. From raising a Golden Lion to performing martial arts feats only an adult should possibly do!

Then of course she meets the first maid who was a perfect example of a maid. Powerful, elegant, beautiful. This was how she should look and behave in a few short years!

*FLICK*

"Ouch!!!"

Hu Liena was brought out from her thoughts when her Prince's finger flicked her forehead.

She quickly grabbed her forehead from the pain, ending up crouching in the process! It hurt a lot!

"What did I say about getting distracted in the middle of combat?"

"...To focus on now and not then." She said that with teary eyes as she slowly got up.

"And what did you do?"

"I was thinking about the past and how much my life has changed."

"...I see. It's wonderful how honest you are and not hiding anything from me, or trying to mislead. For that, I will teach you how to get over the fact that your life has changed." The fourth Prince said that with an indifferent look. He was in his training persona which send chills through Hu Liena's body.

"...there is something like this?"

"There is, at the moment you are at the phase where you 'digesting' what happened to you. Something like that can take from a few months to a few years. 

This may as well be a few years for you as it has been nearly half a year and you still daze off." 

The blonde maid-to-be had an embarrassed look when she heard that. 

"I U-Understand…what is I have to do to get over this?" She said that with a panicky tone as she want to stop daze like that!

Instead of explaining he walked over and his finger glowed golden light he pressed his finger on her forehead. Transferring intent behind it.

At that moment Hu Liena saw a few imagines of people meditating it's like she got a glimpse into a completely different world!

The blonde girl knew what this was… this was the sitting meditation she saw him do multiple times over her time here.

In truth, she tried doing this in her room but she didn't achieve anything and ended up falling asleep.

However… now… she knew how to proceed. It's like… she knows the direction this process has to go!

"Well? You know what this don't you?"

She slowly nodded. That moment she had giddiness washing her whole body. Finally! It's like she was finally in the 'Inner Circle,'?

Sure she might have been trained by him and he even took her to Sunset Forest to get her first ring but all that was like they were strangers but now… her Prince tough her one of his techniques!

Does this mean he finally trusts her enough? 

"Yes… this is a meditation technique…"

"It is. This technique will help you understand yourself to a spiritual level. Once you grasped it you can do things like this with your Martial Spirit." As he said that he showed how casually he can control his extremity powerful Martial Spirit which made him famous throughout the continent.

"This is not all. You can meditate on 'things', it even helps you comprehend simple and casual things. If you have bottlenecks this can help you break through them, if you don't fully understand a technique or looking for more ways to use your Spirit rings. It can help."

As he continued to explain this meditation the more she realised how absurd this method was. 

Same time feeling of heavy responsibility started to appear in her gut.

It's like the more she learns from him the more Hu Liena feels that she needs to excel at everything she does.

Now she knows how Na'er is like that. That girl has been under his tutelage for a year.

"...I understand. I won't going to fail you." She said that while quickly doing a respectful bow.

He snorted in amusement seeing how quickly she flipped like that.

"As long as you continue to train then I won't going to be disappointed." He said that while patting her hair.

Making her even more self-conscious. That moment she remembered that as his maid he can do whatever he wants with her! This made her blush even harder.

Which made Xue Long slightly confused. Why she is getting more embarrassed?

"Well, anyway. Off you go to meditate, my fiance is going to be here in a few moments."

As he said that Hu Liena stiffed.

She remembered the power that blonde Saintess wielded! It was absurd! The girl was only 9 years old and she already was Rank 35! Spirit Elder at age of 9!

However, none of that mattered to her Prince who is Rank 37 and took all of those attacks without any sort of scratch! It was truly an eye-opening moment!

"I understood! Excuse me, my Prince." She said that while doing a bow and quickly walked away to meditate.

She doesn't want to end up being stared down by that girl!

~~~~~~Qian Renxue~~~~~~

The blonde was wondering where they are walking. This place was a construction site! 

There were a bunch of regular people building something! She wanted to ask this maid if she is trying to do something fishy, that was until they passed the wooden wall fences which separated the construction site with something else.

it was a garden-like place with a lake, trees and some smaller already finished buildings. 

Her brain came up with the conclusion that the building those people are building is a palace. And the gardens were built first…

It was done in reverse… why though?

Though she quickly concluded when she saw her future husband doing… something!

It was training but she didn't understand what kind of thing it is!

He was glowing golden and some sort of steam was coming out from his body.

"This is one of three meditations My Prince—"

"Our Prince"

The blonde corrected her, she was part of this. Just as much he is her Prince, she is his Princess!

"Our Prince, it's a meditation which strengthens his martial arts comprehension the greater it is the more dangerous it is."

"...So you saying that… because of these he was much more powerful than I am at this moment."

"...Partially… his Golden Dragon King gives him at least three innate abilities to my understanding."

"...T-Three?"

"Strength, resilience and flight" 

That moment Qian Renxue recalled his grip on her and his not care that he was in the centre of the explosion.

He beat her with his actual innate abilities alone!!!

"...Do you know his true battle prowess?"

She heard her grandfather say that his speed was at least in rank 60…

But that is his speed… 

"...Umm… I don't know. He wrestled and choked 11 thousand years old wind drake, quite effortlessly. Our prince did take care of assassins last year who were close to Spirit Ancestor."

While Na'er was telling her exploits of THEIR prince, the silver head lost the blonde when she said that he wrestled and choked to death a 11 thousand-year-old Wind Drake.

"...His third ring is a black one!?"

"Umm… I thought it's public knowledge…"

"...it is but I never took rumours seriously. As they were getting more and more exaggerated." The girl said with a huff.

In truth, it was her pride, which didn't allow her to accept that someone who was the same as her 'innate rank 20' surpassed her by such a landslide. 

However, as she was here for less than a day her pride took continuous punches into critical areas. 

But, midway she ended up recovering through different kinds of means. Which is that it's her future husband who is that good! In other words as a prideful person, she is taking pride in what is hers.

Yet, there is that one issue of hers not being fully hers, which is grinding her nerves…

 "Oh, my beautiful future wife is here. You finally found me in my special corner." 

As she heard him addressing her, Qian Renxue slightly stiffed, she took a deep breath to recover. 

It was time to 'face' him again!

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