You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?

"Okay."

Lin Yue nodded slightly, then put it away and immediately asked, "Senior Sister, did you come just to give me this jade pendant?"

"Yes." Xiao Surong nodded slightly, "Senior Brother, let's go."

Although Lin Yue felt it was somewhat inexplicable, seeing that she didn't seem to want to say more, he didn't ask further and turned to leave.

He returned all the way to the Prince Mansion.

"Your Highness."

Baili Fengzhi was already waiting for him at the inner gate of the mansion, her eyes showing a hint of excitement.

Lin Yue went up to her, gave her a hug, and with a grin whispered in her ear, kissing her, "It's been a year, did you miss me? Things were urgent earlier, I didn't have the time to hug you."

Baili Fengzhi coughed lightly, a bit uneasy, and said, "Your Highness, the servants are watching."

"Oh..."

Lin Yue didn't let go, and immediately glanced at the nearby waiting servants, saying with a smile, "Did you hear? Cover your eyes."

The maidservants and servants chuckled and complied obediently.

"Is it okay now?" Lin Yue laughed and kissed Baili Fengzhi again.

Baili Fengzhi felt helpless, but she wrapped her arms around his waist as well, pressing her cheek against his neck. After a while, she whispered, "By the way, the Seventh Princess and Duke Heng are still waiting for you in the main hall."

Phoenix Crown was squeezed out, fluttering its wings innocently and flapping in a circle before finally perching on the other shoulder.

"It doesn't matter, they've already waited this long."

After releasing her, Lin Yue casually took out a gold coin, handed it over with a smile, and said, "Brought you a gift, make sure not to tell the first and second wives."

Baili Fengzhi looked at the gold coin, puzzled, "What is this?"

"Didn't you feel that the Fire Path you comprehended earlier wasn't strong enough, and were unwilling to condense its nascent form, thus you're still exploring new paths?"

Lin Yue said, "This gold coin is the core token of the Inheritance Land in North Garden Wilds. With it, you can directly enter the Inheritance Land, receive guidance from the core inheritance most suited to you, and possibly condense those extremely transcendent paths."

Baili Fengzhi was startled, immediately understanding the preciousness of this gold coin.

The guidance of core inheritance could fully lead those with sufficient talent and suitability to these extremely transcendent paths, opportunities that mostly only princes and princesses could enjoy.

Each prince and princess walked such extraordinarily transcendent paths, and coupled with the special bloodline of the Xiahong clan, they were thus so powerful.

In fact, the Dao of Universe in Duke Heng's bloodline was also such a transcendent path, but it mainly relied on bloodline, thus it could never progress or attain the state of Perfect Dao.

"Your Highness, this is too precious..." Baili Fengzhi couldn't help but say, "Isn't it said that half-demons cannot enter North Garden Wilds?"

"Don't worry, I've already arranged it for you."

Lin Yue glanced at her, deliberately saying, "I am much stronger than you now, even without using Divine Artifacts, you wouldn't match me. If you don't master such transcendent paths, you won't be able to act as my guard in the future."

Baili Fengzhi was taken aback, silently accepted the gold coin, and said slowly, "Rest assured, Your Highness, I will definitely work hard."

"That's the spirit."

Lin Yue laughed, saying, "You prepare well, you can teleport into that Inheritance Land at any time."

He was quite looking forward to it.

With Baili Fengzhi's Fire Phoenix Bloodline and Divine Body foundation, if she mastered such strong and transcendent paths, even if just condensing the nascent form, her strength might leap to the pinnacle among Great Cultivators.

"Alright." Baili Fengzhi nodded slightly.

When the two arrived at the main hall, Duke Heng and the Seventh Princess seemed to have been waiting for quite some time, with his first and second wives also sitting below, chatting.

"Your Highness."

Duke Heng showed a smile, saying, "I previously guessed that the Main Hall Master might step in for Your Highness, and it turned out so."

"I troubled Lord Qi to break the array earlier." Lin Yue cupped his hands in gratitude.

"This old bones rarely get to move, it's no trouble." Duke Heng shook his head with a laugh.

Lin Yue noticed that Duke Heng's aura of twilight grew a bit stronger.

Duke Heng used that Dao Heart Treasure 'Three-inch Spirit Heart' for over six years now, which theoretically could extend the lifespan of a Saint-level cultivator by ten years, at the shortest five.

Counting full, Duke Heng only had three or four years left.

Lin Yue sighed to himself.

Over the years, Duke Heng had helped him fend off many troubles, providing him a large number of Spirit Pills, Heaven and Earth Treasures, not only supplying him but also the Tantian Sect, and even some promising Guest Elders in the mansion were nurtured by Duke Heng.

This time, he again went all out to break the array and rescue him, even though his Dao Heart was nearing its limit, and he should be resting and nurturing spirit.

"Hope the Upper Three Cave Heavens have better Dao Heart Treasures..."

Lin Yue secretly planned.

Once prepared, he would quickly enter the former dynasty's Upper Three Cave Heavens.

"Seventh Royal Sister."

Lin Yue then turned to the Seventh Princess, walked over and cupped his hands politely, saying, "Please forgive my previous concealment, Seventh Royal Sister."

The Seventh Princess looked at his polite demeanor, appearing as siblings yet vaguely distanced, feeling inexplicably uneasy, but she could not voice it, only shaking her head, "It's fine, you are the Human Clan's number one genius, easily targeted by all sides, naturally needing to hide your identity."

At this moment, she suddenly received a divine thought transmission from Lin Yue:

"Qiuhe, my mansion surely has spies from other princes, if they discover our close relationship, you, who always stayed neutral and non-participating in conflicts, might also be implicated."

So that's why? The Seventh Princess was taken aback, hurriedly replying through divine thought transmission, "It's okay, princes and princesses also have privately close relations."

Somehow, she suddenly felt a bit happy.

Lin Yue noticed the change in her eyes, secretly muttering to himself, this royal sister either farms or heals, clearly lacking emotional experience, quite easy to appease... Such nonsense can be believed?

The closeness they had in the North Garden Wilds, with money often handed to her, who knew how many people saw that, is there really a need to hide?

What he said was just to strengthen the relationship.

That said, Lin Yue did actually like this royal sister quite a bit.

Hmm, a kind of admiration.

...

The mansion prepared a banquet, and Duke Heng and the Seventh Princess stayed.

The dinner table was filled with close acquaintances, Lin Yue also brought Xiahong Ning and Xiahong Chen, their pair of children, who had grown another year.

They encircled the Seventh Princess, calling her Aunt Qiuhe from both sides.

The Seventh Princess had no offspring in her past or present life and found them utterly novel, growing fond of these two children, even giving gifts.

After the banquet, before the Seventh Princess returned to her residence, she transmitted a message to Lin Yue, saying she planned to formally take the disabled girl from North Garden Wilds as a disciple at the beginning of next month, inviting him to participate in the disciple ceremony.

Lin Yue naturally agreed.

After seeing off the guests, Lin Yue wasn't in a hurry to cultivate, given that the two wives of the Qi family had not seen him for a year, being apart as if newlyweds, naturally required some affectionate time.

He might even try to see if another child could be born.

He wasted no time and had the two wives join together.

Continuously busy until late at night.

Qi Wanqiu, purely cultivating the Heart Phase Cultivation Method, was physically frail, exhausted early, and lacked any emotion, mainly serving as a bystander.

Meanwhile, Qi Yinmo, who had cultivated her physical body and consumed Dragon Essence, persisted half the night.

Afterwards, Lin Yue wasn't in a rush to see Yu Shiqi but headed to the Cultivation Chamber first.

Preparing all treasures and elixirs, he began attempting to refine the Primordial Spirit.

"Primordial Spirit."

Lin Yue sat cross-legged, visualizing his Divine Soul within the sea of consciousness, beginning to draw a strand of essence stained with the principles from the world.

The Primordial Spirit, essentially, was a special energy body formed by the Divine Soul with principles, and a vast amount of essence, allowing the Divine Soul to transform further and possess some miraculous abilities only the Primordial Spirit could use.

For instance, Divine Thought Imprint, which could leave marks on others, or Divine Thought extending like sensory tentacles, or Primordial Spirit out of body, allowing the Divine Soul to exist independently.

In fact, reincarnation could only preserve complete memories with the Primordial Spirit.

Time gradually passed.

Unknown how long had passed, but Lin Yue's Divine Soul finally transformed to the final stage, with a vast amount of essence already condensed to the extreme under the influence of principles, only lacking integration with the Divine Soul to truly transform into the Primordial Spirit.

"Primordial Spirit, reveal!"

After a burst of resonance from the Divine Soul, a mighty Primordial Spirit, manifesting between reality and illusion, appeared abruptly in Lin Yue's sea of consciousness.

Simultaneously, torrents of memory fragments began to flood in, rapidly integrating into Lin Yue's memory.

"They're here, Xiahou Shou's memories..."