Ace lament hearing the whole story of Mathies. He was having a hard time believing that his parents were so mysterious and powerful.

But with his powerful soul sense, he could tell that Mathies was telling the truth but there was still something he was hiding.

‘Why are they’re in River-Flower city if they were so strong and have a poor lifestyle. Even grandma and grandfather didn’t tell me anything about it.’ He thought in dismay.

Suddenly he remembered Eva’s story of her parents. His mind begun to work at lightning speed. ‘Are they being in the same kind of situation as her parents?’

It was a mystery that he can’t solve because he didn’t have any clue. He wanted to ask more but he heard footsteps approaching the room.

He sighed and suppress his urge to ask more and said to Mathies in a deep voice, “I don’t know much about my parents’ secrets either and I’m grateful to you that you tell me all this. But we didn’t have much time to talk we have to escape first.”

Mathies nodded in agreement and said while his expression turns solemn, “Dulce is alone outside with only ten guards, you should take this chance and find a way to her. I’m poisoned and can’t hold more than seven or eight hours you have to get her storage ring. Everything we need is inside that ring.”

Ace’s eyes turn cold as he heard Dulce’s name and nodded. He was still grateful to Mathies for telling him about his parents and to repay this favor he wanted to save him.

He opens the window and jumps outside. He wanted to take this chance and takedown Dulce and get revenge for all those innocent people.

Mathies saw him leave from the window and a crafty light flashed across Mathies’s eyes but it vanished as soon as it appears. Because he saw Rylan was coming towards this room and left quickly as well.

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Inside her carriage, Dulce was waiting for fifteen minutes now and her face was filled with violence and anxiety. She would hear some noises now and then, but can’t tell the exact situation inside.

The feeling of uneasiness was also getting stronger every passing minute.

Suddenly she felt outside of the carriage has become extremely silent. She opens the door wanted to see what was happening outside when she saw only the corpses of guards.

Her face turns ashen and she quickly takes out a sword from her storage ring. This sword blade was red and was giving off the feeling of fire, there were four red-gems were engraving in a mysterious pattern on its hilt, a 4-Star weapon!

She comes out of the carriage for the fight. Her pride didn’t let to call for reinforcements, because in her eye the target was only a petty thief. and she was a Mid-Level Qi Foundation Building realm expert. On top of that, she was a princess of the Kingdom.

“So, what if you take down these trashes! You didn’t know your place! Surrender and I will only plant a slave item on you. You can be my third personal bodyguard and I’ll let that girl accompany you as well! You can’t win this fight!” She said loudly, she was feeling uneasy but she can’t show this to her enemy.

“Slave item heh? How do we know I can’t win this fight? Until I try, right?” Ace’s cold voice sounded in Dulce’s ears with a chuckle from behind.

She swiftly turns around and ten meters away from her was standing a handsome boy with two pitch-black swords in his hands. She felt a thick murderous aura from Ace.

“Only you? I was hoping for you to come to your sense but it seems you can’t be saved and want to rebel against your owner! Let me show you just how high heaven truly is!” Dulce said as she rushed towards Ace.

Dulce’s steps were very light, it was similar to superficially treading only using the tip of the toes. Not only was it fast, but she carried herself with graceful and strong momentum.

Dulce saw Ace motionlessly standing there, his whole body was full of openings. When she saw Ace trying to predict her steps from her footwork skill, she curls her lips in a sneer, ‘Naïve!’

She leaped into the sky like a butterfly, the sword in her hand starts to move, and a swarm of slashes full of Qi form after images overflowing from the top of the sky and surged towards Ace. Vigorous Qi shook the air with ear-piercing swords noise, obviously, Dulce’s sword and footwork were impressive.

Ace didn’t imagine this kind of attack and at that moment, he simply couldn’t escape the countless sword slashes. He didn’t think this weak-looking girl would know such an overbearing skill.

Ace HD-Qi 1starts to flow in his two swords and he used his own sword technique. He slashes his long swords horizontally and shorth sword vertically. A huge black cross was formed in the air from HD-Qi and both attacks clashed together.

“Sha, Sha, Sha” 

In a blink of an eye, the clash of both swords was stopped. Dulce because of her cultivation and powerful skill comes on top and Ace’s body was slash a few times from her attack.

Ace was shocked seeing wounds on his body, even his HD-Qi wasn’t able to stop that attack completely. This was probably his first time getting injured after he starts cultivation. He becomes even more serious. He thinks that now he has opened nine gates he should be enough to take down this arrogant bitch but he was naïve.

‘She’s different from all others.’ He thought.

Actually, he didn’t know that Dulce has opened 6 Gates before she builds her Qi foundation. The royal families of 1st Grade Kingdoms have methods to open Six Qi Gates and those methods come from ancient sects!

Ancient sects have controlled these lands for countless years and they didn’t want to lose control. So, they only give less powerful and incomplete techniques to build a weak foundation to all the power of low-level lands.

By making these techniques incomplete and create holes in the foundation of these powers, they can never rebel again sects ever!

Because one can also build a foundation by opening three Qi Gates as well but they will never be able to progress again. All those people in the lands of cities can only build a foundation of Five Gates and can only reach the Qi River realm in their lifetime with extreme difficulties. That’s was also the reason why these cities can control the huge wastelands because they didn’t have a method to open even Five Qi Gates.

This information was tightly controlled by these sects. They only gave the methods to open Seven Qi Gates to a 1st Grade Empire, and methods to open six Qi Gates to 1st Grade Kingdoms. This way no kingdom can ever rebel against empires, and empires can never reveal their fangs against sects.

If Ace knows about it he will hate all the sects. But he has opened Nine Hidden Qi Gates and they aren’t just any hidden gates they were Primordial Darkness Gates!

Even those sects’ prodigies can only open Eight Qi Gates.

He was the strongest in Qi Gate Realm.

People like Dulce with six gates foundation can only press him in mid-stage of their realm, they can’t kill him.

Dulce’s face turn ugly after seeing him only injured a little from her strong attack. She didn’t expect that she can find an opponent in this barren place and he didn’t even reach the Qi Foundation Building realm yet, on top of that he was just a twelve years boy!

She was going to used her full power this time because before she didn’t want to kill him accidentally and wanted to interrogate him about his secret.

But now she felt extreme humiliation and this invoke her killing intent, seeing he escaped from her first attack if this news were to spread to the kingdoms she would become a laughing stock of land of kingdoms.

Ace saw dulce has become serious, if they were alone and how much he hates her, he would definitely fight her to death. But it was not the case right now because after the commotion that was made by the collision of their attacks Dulce guards have been alerted and like Ace, they had jumped from the flood to reach here quickly.

“One day I’ll destroy your entire Kingdom just you wait!” Ace said with killing intent and active his stealth.

By using his silent steps, he was too fast for Dulce. He escaped successfully from her and he has again entered the Inn.

Dulce felt she might explode from anger when she saw that brat escaped from her grasp again. But she was no match for his speed at all and stomp her feet in anger.

Suddenly her focus turned towards all those people standing not too far away, they were all the customers and the owner of the Inn.

She nearly forgets about these people because of Ace. Only now did she realized that they were spectators present here and these peasants see her begin humiliated by Ace. Her eyes turn cold after thinking about it.

All those people were watching the whole scene transparent in front of them and shock to see that little boy fight equally with a princess of the kingdom.

They wanted to cheer for that boy but they wanted their life so they just pretend that they were not here and didn’t see anything. But now that crazy princess was looking towards them with cold eyes and their faces turn ashen.

Baldy and Dulce another personal guard finally arrived at Dulce’s side. When they see the aftermath of the fight and cuts of swords on the wet ground they’re face become pale like other spectators. ‘That boy can fighter her highness and even escape alive?’ that was the thought of both of them.

Dulce sees both of their faces and guessed their thoughts, “Kill all those slaves, and If I hear any of this from anyone you’re both dead!” She orders and warns them coldly.

Both of them shiver and nodded like crazy in agreement.

Dulce didn’t say anything and she slightly shakes her finger to place the sword in hand inside her storage ring. But the sword didn’t disappear as she thought. She becomes confused and looks towards her storage ring to see if there was a problem.

But when she saw her ring finger it was Empty!

“YOU SCOUNDREL THIEF!” Dulce explodes in anger as she convulsed a mouthful of blood.

(Heavenly Darkness Qi= HD-Qi)