Chapter 912

The show was indeed a good one, but Bai Lang was getting a bit impatient—he had stayed in the Capital long enough and always hoped to go out and see the world. However, even if he was a pre-destined short-lived ghost, as a prince and a prince of the second rank, he couldn't just run out of the Capital—without an imperial order, it was forbidden. Otherwise, it was treason, and even a prince would lose a few layers of skin.

If things went poorly, he would have to spend a few years behind the high walls of the Imperial Clan Court.

If he wanted to walk around freely, he either had to be the emperor or achieve the Heavenly Human realm—the latter would be 100% feared, as people would think he was definitely going out to gather troops for a rebellion. "Should I fake my death to escape? Hey? That could work." Bai Lang had actually considered this, but faking death was too weak, and the tough Bai Lang would not take that route.

So he still had to reach a certain level before he could run around freely. He hoped his brothers could understand his idea that as a master of a generation, he had absolutely no interest in the throne. Bai Lang spent his days dual-cultivating with his two wives, constantly using his "golden spear" to circulate true Qi in their "little chicken nests" to help them practice. Now, his two wives' Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden Skill had reached the level where they could release Qi armor to protect themselves.

"It's only one step away from being a Grandmaster," Bai Lang said. "Under normal circumstances, self-protection is no problem. Anyway, you won't go adventuring in the Jianghu." Bai Lang hadn't expected that once these two "water-grade" Grandmasters achieved their status, their demands would be so fierce...

"I think today is a good day; it's time for the three fires to merge." Looking at the sun in the sky that day, Bai Lang thought that when one has a feeling, one should act immediately. Bai Lang began to compress the three types of fire true Qi in his dantian, while simultaneously urging these three types of true Qi to circulate through his meridians. He had already opened half of his extraordinary meridians; today, while merging the three fires, he might as well open the remaining four.

"I'll open as many as I can," Bai Lang thought. With his ability, as long as he accumulated enough, merging the three fires would be effortless. The intensity of the Sun True Fire, the stickiness of the Earthly Fiend Yin Fire, and the commonality of the Human Fire merged directly into one, forming the Samadhi True Fire unique to Bai Lang's body. The temperature of the entire fire energy approached the true temperature of the Sun True Fire.

The fire energy he emitted now could melt gold and jade, and he could burn things out of thin air as he pleased. This made Bai Lang think of the famous pirate captain burning a gas stove... The other party probably had this style too, but unfortunately, without opening the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Pass, Bai Lang's true Qi would be hard to sustain, and the power could not respond to the heavenly mechanism to achieve the effect of burning a hundred miles.

A Grandmaster's "Fire Cloud Burning Heaven" palm had a range of no more than a few dozen miles, which was not much smaller than a Heavenly Human's, but the quality of the energy and the control ability were completely incomparable. Bai Lang's three fires merged, and he immediately took advantage of the opportunity of the fire energy expanding to break through the barrier, breaking through three meridians in one breath, leaving only a few acupuncture points unopened.

Bai Lang was still hiding quite well—it seemed that as long as his daily activities didn't change, that Eunuch Xu wouldn't specifically keep a close eye on his every move. So, in the eyes of the Zhengton Emperor and his brothers, Bai Lang was still a sickly ghost who wouldn't live long, useless in both literature and martial arts, and not even worth recruiting as a helper.

However, the current Bai Lang was the one with the highest martial arts among all the brothers. If he opened the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Pass and achieved the Heavenly Human realm, even the Emperor wouldn't be his match without the Dragon Qi. He would definitely be the number one expert of the imperial clan.

On this day, the princes were celebrating the Third of the Third Month, and the brothers went out to gather—it wasn't the Crown Prince's plan at all; it was purely the Emperor's meaning that they must perform "brotherly friendship," so as not to let people see the imperial family as a joke. "Tch, the whole world knows what these princes want to do; their intentions are as obvious as Sima Zhao's. And they don't want people to see it as a joke? I think the biggest joke is the current Saint himself, who wants to have his cake and eat it too."

Of course, Bai Lang only said this in front of his two wives; even Eunuch Xu didn't hear it.

These two wives naturally knew how serious this was, and they immediately hit Bai Lang repeatedly, "You're going to die! How can you say such things? If you were still the fierce general of the past, it would be fine... Is the martial arts of this world even higher?" Bai Lang didn't argue with these two ignorant women about which world was stronger—the experts of this world, if they went to the Three Kingdoms, would probably be finished off by him in a single charge on the battlefield.

In the Three Kingdoms world, even land immortals couldn't withstand a single strike from a fierce general, and Bai Lang was a top-tier fierce general at the time. Unfortunately, this body couldn't be a peerless fierce general, but he could be a peerless expert, with one palm strike causing thousands to vanish into ash, hahahaha. Bai Lang thought about this and decided to take time on the Third of the Third Month to open the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Pass and achieve the Heavenly Human realm.

Anyway, there was still half a month left; opening the Ren and Du meridians was no problem. For others, it would be very difficult, but Bai Lang didn't care at all. By comparison, opening the twelve regular meridians for his two wives to achieve Grandmaster status, allowing their protective Qi to circulate spontaneously, was even more difficult. Sure enough, the Ren and Du meridians were opened effortlessly, and not a single whisper of it leaked out. The Grandmaster's aura was restrained extremely cleanly, and outsiders couldn't see it at all.

Not only couldn't they see it, but they couldn't even sense the energy.

The two wives were busy running around, preparing the things needed for the big gathering at the Royal Changchun Garden on the Third of the Third Month with Eunuch Xu, while Bai Lang expressed that this was too rushed—there were still several days left. So he decided to adjust again to ensure that he could open the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Pass silently while chatting that day.

As for whether there would be a strange scene when opening it? That was because the guy who just opened it usually couldn't keep up his control with the rise in power, so he couldn't soothe the heaven and earth energy within a hundred miles, causing such a change in the sky. But what kind of person was Bai Lang? He had absolute confidence that even if the heaven and earth energy fluctuated violently at that moment, he had the ability to suppress it directly.

And so, the Third of the Third Month was held amidst the princes' feeling like they were eating shit—since the Zhengton Emperor would also attend in person, it was impossible to pretend to be sick and not go. Changchun Garden was originally a garden for the Emperor to play in, built twenty miles outside the Forbidden City at a cost of over a million taels of silver. The garden was larger than the Forbidden City, with mountains, water, and a large number of exquisite buildings and gardens.

The royal summer retreat was almost all here. In the spring, summer, and autumn, the Zhengton Emperor spent a lot of time here, only coming less in winter. The Third of the Third Month was a beautiful day, which also made many people curse secretly. Bai Lang took his two wives and arrived at Changchun Garden in a carriage, neither early nor late. The Crown Prince, the eldest, would definitely arrive first—he lived close to the Zhengton Emperor and had always had a hard life.

When Bai Lang arrived, he was the third. The Fourth was the second to arrive, and he was the third. The Second Prince arrived right after them. When the brothers met, Bai Lang and the Fourth had a pretty good relationship. As for the relationship between the Second Prince and the Crown Prince, it was the embodiment of hypocrisy. ===== CHAPTER 913 =====