The Golden Fury

Chapter 79

Chapter 79

Inside an air vacuum, one could not breathe. As such, the general marquis, whom had been inside for a while had hit his limit. His face was red like a tomato. The lack of oxygen broke his state of emptiness and he willed for the sphere of wind to disperse in all direction.

His body slowly descended back on the wall.

"Congratulations on transcendence, General!"

The soldiers shouted congratulations with fist-palm salutations.

"This wasn't transcendence."

Hendrick Graham shook his head at his men's comment. He did no transcended. At most, he had entered the transitioning step to Transcendence. Transcendence was not achieved in a single step.

"So, in order to advance beyond the th step, one had to compress energy and not gather them."

Hendrick mused. He had been enlightened on the way to transcendence. He was not disappointed

Although he had not transcended, his discovery had pried opened the door to transcendence.

The general marquis did not keep his discovery a secret and shared his experience and knowledge with the soldiers.

The road to transcendence had finally been opened!- was what the soldiers all thought.

The events of today will bring forth the booming era of cultivation. No matter how much the royal family had suppressed the secret and kept it to themselves in the past, it would not stop the era from coming. What is bound to come, will eventually but without a doubt, come.

After settling matters at the Great Wall, Hendrick decided to visit his son and check on his recovery.

…

Royal hospital, private ward.

"Young master."

A middle-aged man in butler attire entire the ward and greeted the young man laying on the hospital bed.

"Have you procured the information I inquire, Enzo?" Rowan Graham asked.

Enzo was the servant of the Graham House; Hendrick had sent to tend to his son's daily needs.

"Yes, young master. Here are my findings." Enzo handed over a piece of paper filled with information pertaining to patient at the hospital.

Several days ago, while Rowan was resting in bed, he was able to overhear some interesting gossips among the passing nurses and doctors outside of his flawed sound insulated private ward.

They talked about witnessing a divine miracle, where an ordinary patient had practically full recovered overnight after suffering a serious wound that required months to recover. It had caused quite a sensation in the hospital and the gossip about the patient did not cease for days.

The news had immediately caught Rowan's interest. He figured such fast recovery could only be due to some miracle elixir refined by an esteemed alchemist. He had inquired about this patient's identity but had unfortunately be denied by the hospital nurses and doctors.

The Royal hospital followed a strict confidentiality policy and would not diverge their patient credentials to outsiders. Only immediate family members had the right to have a look. Being refused so flatly, Rowan had no choice but to send Enzo to investigate and acquire the information he desired, either by hook or by crook.

Indeed, there's no walls you can't get around. Everyone had some selfishness in their heart. Enzo just had to find the right person and offer the right price, and he would be able to get the information he wanted. The hospital had strict policy, but it didn't mean everyone would abide by it. There were always bad eggs mixed among good ones.

Rowan read through information on the patient and immediately creased his brows.

The report read as follows;

Name: Brian Bradford

Gender: Male Age:

Status: Commoner, normal.

Occupation: N/A

Address: N/A

There wasn't much he could gain out of the piece of paper on hand, but what he did gain, made him suspicious to the authenticity of the information.

"Enzo, is this information accurate? How can a commoner afford the operation fees charged by the Royal hospital? A commoner also has a family name? This person must at least be from an aristocrat family, right? But I haven't heard of any Bradford Aristocrat family living in the Upper District."

"The information is correct, young master. I have scoured the Upper District and there is indeed no such family by that name. However, there is one in the Lower District. Unfortunately, no one was when I visited. It felt like the was abandoned. There were also some traces of battles outside their ." Enzo answered patiently, without withholding any information from Rowan.

"So, the person truly was a commoner?" Rowan had disappointment written over his face.

How can a commoner be acquainted with the respectable alchemists in the kingdom? Rowan's hope of finding the esteemed alchemist capable of refining divine healing pills through the patient was dashed. If he could move with his own limbs again, why would he still need to practice his wind control? Where could this missing commoner have gone?

"Sigh…"

"Tell me more about this battle scene. Had there been any big waves in the city recently? "Rowan said with furrowed brows.

"Yes, in fact, it's the main reason I returned earlier than planned. The Grey, Weld, Esmond and Acker family have banded together and tried to ambush the Lancaster family. No big fights broke after, but the four families have been acting very suspicious. For your safety, we should leave the capital immediately, young master."

"The four families banded together attack the Duke's family…? Have they gone mad!?"

Rowan roared in shocked at the news. That's the Duke's family, they are talking about! Someone who dares to fight the Duke's family was either a complete fool or confident in taking on the Duke's wrath!

Whatever it is they want to achieve, he wanted no part in it.

"Quickly get me the hell out of here!"

- The Cauldron Lid That Ascended The Heavens

- The Cauldron Lid That Ascended The Heavens

- The Cauldron Lid That Ascended The Heavens

Back at the Inner Palace, the palace maids had finished cleaning Leon's room after much difficulty. The metallic texture of the room should have made wiping stains a simple task, but the aftermath of pill cauldron explosion had scorched the room with blackened remains of the pill concoction. The remains had seeped into the surface of the room and made it particularly difficult to scrub off. the bed mattresses, blankets and pillow particularly had to be swapped out for new ones.

By the time the palace maids were done, the bedroom was as good as brand new and sparkling clean. However, they were exhausted at the hard labor and their faces were covered in black smudges. They were vexed at the prince for making their life difficult.

The inner palace had a specially designed pill refinement room for alchemists. Why did the prince had to use his own bedroom and not the specially designed one!?

"Hmph!"

They harrumphed out of the courtyard. Towards this, Leon could only put on a forced smile. He had not known the existence of such a room within the palace. However, after staying many days in the palace, he had pretty much familiarized himself with it. The royal palace was very large, enough to be considered a small city in and of itself. Within its walls in addition to the two palatial buildings, there many other smaller buildings like the royal library and treasury.

One particularly large gateway stood out among the many sights Leon took in within the palace grounds. It was one of the few places he had yet to explore within the palace grounds, but he had an inkling that on the other side lied the entrance to the underground ruins.

Watching the departing backs of the palace maids, it was apparent that the attitude of these maids was quite special. Even the guards, whom were stronger than him still showed him respect, but these maids didn't bother to hide their discontent. It could even be said that they were feisty and weren't afraid of displeasing him.

Leon shook his head and no longer paid attention to them. It was just a small episode he didn't need to pay heed to.

In the private courtyard, He had been sitting outside in cross-legged position to cultivate. He did not move inside his bedroom. The open environment of the outside was more suitable for cultivating.

Although he was unable to perfect his flight ability these past days, he had been able to develop another method of flight with his ability to tackle the high energy expenditure of flying. The second method involved condensing fire wings with his fire essence.

This method had extremely low expenditure as he could recover the fire essence back into his fire seed. However, there were pros and cons to everything.

Condensed fire wings grant him long airtime but sacrifices his speed, while the fire thruster method had short airtime for extreme speed.

In battle, the fire thruster flight method was still more suitable as the fire wings were too big of a target for his opponents. Once they get cut apart, all the invested fire essences in the severed wing would be lost.

But that was only under the circumstance of them being capable of fighting him in the air. If they could not, then the problem did not exist. Either way, the fire flight ability could be considered a lifesaving skill that will allow him to escape from danger.

With that settled, Leon resumed focus on the -Element Enhancing Pill. He had not succeeded in creating the pill, but he had already given it a name, albeit a simple one derived from the Spirit Enhancing Pill.

Leon glanced at the new pill cauldron that had been sitting in his courtyard for some time. It was bigger, thicker and hopefully much sturdier, roughly the size of a watermelon. He wasn't sure if the palace guards had picked the sturdiest available pill cauldron in storage, but the new pill cauldron was of a much higher grade than the trashy old one.

While inspecting the pill cauldron, Leon concluded the quality of the pill cauldron was just a step short of being graded as a spirit treasure.

Leon had an inkling of how to proceed after the initial failure. However, in the case that he still fails, then the explosion would be much more potent than the last.

"Everyone stay back. If anything goes wrong, it could become life threateningly dangerous. Do not approach the pill cauldron under any circumstances."

Leon warned the guards.

"Your safety is our greatest concern, your highness! Please allow us to stay within proximity to protect you!"