NOVPUBThree people appeared at the gates of the city, and Amare looked around as she asked, "Why can't we just fly in?"
Hao Ren smiled and said, "There are rules to prevent your image from getting sullied."
The lady looked at him with a hint of interest. Hao Ren smiled and said, "You will know soon."
The young man walked up to the door, and he tied a jade card on his waist, which had a dragon carved on it. There was only one such card in the nation. The guards on the gate were scrutinizing everyone, and suddenly one of them froze. Following that he quickly let out a message to all his colleagues and they yelled, "Greetings, Your Excellency!!"
They knelt down on one knee and saluted Hao Ren, the visitors who were lining up at the small door were surprised from the sudden roar. The guard captain rushed over and looked up and yelled, "What the fuck are you mongrels waiting for, open the gates and let His Excellency inside, hurry up."
Hao Ren chuckled and said, "Guard Captain Yavir, you don't have to create such a ruckus, I will go from the side gate."
The guard captian shook his head and said, "Your Excellency, please don't do this, General Ye Lan will have my head on a platter if I let such a thing happen."
Hao Ren chuckled and then he waited for the big gate to open and then walked through. Only when he entered the city with the two ladies, did the guards sigh in relief, and someone asked, "Sir, who was that person? Why did you address him like that?"
The Guard Captain said, "Visitors, that personage was the Emperor of the nation, His Excellency, Wandering Dragon."
The people were stunned, they didn't expect Hao Ren to be so humble. Not only the people outside, even Amare and Akura didn't expect Hao Ren to be so humble despite being an Emperor. They moved inside the city, and they saw a completely new world. Akura was shocked by the number of Dao Realm cultivators moving around the place. She gulped, when the people saw Hao Ren they all bowed and greeted him, to which the young man kept a faint smile and nodding gesture as a predefault set up.
Suddenly, Amare stopped, her forest green hanfu fluttered with the wind as her short hair were blown back and she asked, "Hao Ren, what is that thing?"
Hao Ren followed the direction she pointed at and saw a couple of young children playing with a hovering football, and he frowned. He moved closer to the children and asked, "Guys, where did you get this hover ball?"
One of the kids replied, "Oh this? Her Highness Agnee gave it to us, you know uncle she said that if we can master this, she would get us in her team to play in the big league."
Hao Ren cleared his throat and asked, "Did you all meet her in the school?"
The children nodded, but even when talking to him they kept passing the hover ball to each other. Hao Ren sighed and turned around muttering, "This must be Xiao Mei's trick to get data from the people. This girl."
Amare was still staring at the hover ball, it was floating a few inches above the ground and spinning at a high speed, however, she could not sense any spiritual material apart from the array carved on top of it. Hao Ren said, "Senior, that is just a prototype of a tool made by my assistant, please come, I will take you to the palace."
The lady nodded and asked, "Can I get one to see what it is?"
Hao Ren nodded and sighed as he thought, we might have to hide all the valuable and unique things from her sense now, dragons like to hoard the good stuff. The young man sighed and moved through the crowd. He was observing the changes among the people, and Amare asked, "This place is so bustling, yet the luxury here outmatches the big clans and even small empires that I have seen."
Hao Ren smiled and Akura finally spoke up, "If the normal people are like this, then what about the big clans?"
The young man replied, "There are no big clans in the Crescent Moon City. The only big clan is Empress Holy Moon, Han Lingshi, my wife, and Me, Hao Ren. Below me are Ye Generals and the armed forces of the nation. Below my wife are the ministers and the governors of the different provinces. She also controls me, so she is the strongest."
As they talked, they reached the palace, and Amare was shocked by the grandeur of the place, however, this awe lasted for only a few moments before she recovered, and her innate pride surfaced. The guards knelt one more time and Hao Ren walked inside the palace through the front gate.
He didn't want to show the two ladies the teleportation formation that he had set up inside the palace, after all, even if one was a senior and the other was a junior, he didn't trust them much.
At the gates of the inner palace, Han Lingshi was standing with Maya Okudera and Hao Mei beside her. They were here to welcome Hao Ren who was coming back home after a long time. Soon, they saw a young man turning around through the corridor and appearing before them. Just when Han Lingshi was about to give up on her Empress demeanor, a calm voice sounded, "Hao Ren, I have to say, this palace is certainly much more impressive than any other palace in the world."
Hao Ren chuckled and said, "Senior Amare, your praises might give me wings. Please stop with the chastising, I will get you the things that I have promised."
The lady nodded and then Hao Ren used flash step to appear before Han Lingshi with a bright smile on his face. However, his wife was looking at him in askance. Hao Ren chuckled and leaned in to peck her forehead as he said, "Allow me to make the introductions."
He pointed at the sensual and charming Amare, and said, "This lady is the Dragon Cultivator Senior that I was telling you about. This young lady beside her is Akura, she is my guard of a sort, but now she can work for Agnee's protection."
The young lady nodded and then greeted the people with the proper manner of a host, and then she said, "We shall talk later, first I will arrange the accommodations for them."
Hao Ren nodded, and then she left with Maya Okudera. Hao Mei stood in her place before she said, "Come on, give your sister a hug."
Hao Ren rolled his eyes and gave her a hug, after that, he brought Akura and Amare outside to wander, when suddenly, Amare asked, "You have snake beasts?"
Hao Ren nodded and said, "They are not snake beasts, they are my children. Yin, Yang, Agnee!"
That said, a few minutes passed and the three children appeared in the pavilion where the guests were. They looked at Hao Ren with a smile, and greeted him with a bow, while the young man pointed at Akura and Amare.
The trio was confused and he asked, "Elder Akura would be your guard till you surpass her strength. Okay, Agnee?"
The girl frowned but, in the end, she gave in. Akura greeted the young lady with a bow, and Hao Ren said, "Go, take Elder Akura with you and show her around. Also, from now on experimental tools are forbidden from leaving the palace grounds. Understood Agnee?"
The girl stuck out her tongue and nodded. Then the two of them left. Amare sat with her leg crossed over the other. She looked at the two teenagers before her and she said, "You must have given them a lot of high level elixirs to purify their blood when they were just in eggs."
Hao Ren nodded and Amare said, "That is good, their bloodlines are stronger than anyone of their kin, and they have a greater future."
The young man nodded and just then Amare said, "I would like to train these two."
Hao Ren was surprised and asked, "Why?"
The lady smiled, it was as if the world had come to stop and the flowers bloomed in the desert. She nodded to Leo and said, "Because they would need it to reach the tribulation."
Hao Ren nodded and said, "Then do as you please. However, you must make sure that none of them will suffer unnecessarily, is that too much?"
The lady shook her head and then they shook hands on it. Then Amare asked, "Can you tell me what you want to become?"
The two answered, "Baba & Mama."
Amare nodded and said, "Repeat after me.."
She conducted a poem about loyalty and trust. She looked at the two people and said, "I have great expectations from you."
Yin and Yang nodded. 𝖓𝔬𝖛𝔭𝔲𝖇.𝔠𝔬𝖒
