Chapter 331: A Grey Mind
Chapter 331: A Grey Mind
A calm smile graced Cain’s lips. He appeared to be the least bit worried about meeting such a scheming person.
Summoning his Chaotic Emerald, he told the girls, “Kali, we’ll pick up on this later. I’m sure this meeting won’t be too long.”
“Hmph. So you are going?” Kali casually shrugged. “Well, whatever. I will only say to not buy into any of his bullshit more than the others. I don’t need either Xun or Dai to know that this Zilong is a crafty rat. In fact, he barely bothered with us in the past because we had no value.”
Amber’s smile was more supporting as she said, “I still say to try and see if it is a possible investment at all. Anything could happen.”
The girls’ advice nestled within Cain’s mind.
Then, without waiting any longer, Cain linked to Chaos Energy and spread his Chaos enhanced soul sense out. He easily detected Huang Zilong’s specific life aura within moments.
Afterward, a faint green glow shrouded Cain’s body as space crumbled to pieces around him.
With a small flash, Cain teleported out of the courtyard, setting his sights directly on the front of Huang Zilong’s imperial chamber.
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A moment later, space distorted in the imperial halls, a flash of green fluctuated out of the space distortions.
Cain appeared from the flash of green, wearing an indifferent expression. Looking from side to side, nobody else was around him.
And even if someone did spot him, it was common knowledge that Cain has a profound grasp over Space Laws.
Inwardly, Cain once again recognized the significance of having a great status that is supported by his powerful abilities. He simply didn’t want to imagine how torturous life would be without his Chaotic emerald.
Suddenly, Huang Zilong’s voice came from the chambers, interrupting Cain’s previous line of thoughts.
“The door is open. You can come in, Cain.”
Silently, Cain entered his imperial chambers. As he stepped inside, his eyes were taking a swift glance all around.
It was the standard affair of usual luxurious quality but at the center of the room held a finely crafted table with two beautiful youths reading upon it.
These two were naturally Huang Zilong and Linlong. Their gazes were briefly intent on several sparkling jade scrolls.
With a quick sweep of his Spirit Sense, Cain could vaguely tell those jade scrolls had to be at least Heaven rank cultivation manuals.
And from Huang Zilong and Linglong’s gazes, they both appeared to be genuinely understanding the Law threads forming the words.
Evidently, these two are considered great geniuses for reasons. Even a Great Divine Sea-level of Spiritual Sea would experience immense difficulty comprehending Heaven Grade cultivation manuals.
Cain’s observant gaze picked up on this within just a split second.
It may not seem like a lot, but towards those with brilliant minds, Cain believed it was far better to overestimate them and thoroughly predict them. Rather than even slightly underestimating them on any abilities.
Huang Zilong and Linlong quickly snapped their gazes from the jade scrolls, sat straight right up, and gave nods full of respect. Elegant smiles blossomed on their faces, creating a magnanimous scenery.
Huang Zilong brightly spoke, pointing to a chair at the other side of the table, saying, “Cain. It really is good you decided to come so quickly. Please, come sit with us. Pick any manuals you like. We have 3rd Grade Heaven to even 1st Grade Divine Rank here.”
Even before sitting in his seat, Cain had already obtained the general gist of the cultivation manuals here.
None were able to interest him in any noticeable way. After all, the Draconic Lightning Art itself is a 1st Grade Divine rank manual.
Despite how easy Cain had initially obtained it, any Divine Rank cultivation manual is a massive ordeal.
Regular Huang Dragons will need to pray for all their luck to obtain one.
Nearly all of the time, their bloodline and talent are immensely inferior to even the weakest direct royal descendants. They simply aren’t a worthy investment in the eyes of the high-level Huang Dragon figures.
As for the royal descendants themselves, each of them would need to pay a significant amount of contribution for one.
Huang Zilong and Linlong are crafty schemers, but even they needed to use all of their investments and extensively plan to gain all these cultivation manuals. What they have here is the fruits of countless years of hard work.
But even so, none could genuinely entice Cain.
The Heavenly Rank arts were inferior to the Draconian Lightning art. While the Divine Rank arts either held slightly weaker effects than his current art or simply didn’t suit his fighting style.
Thus, when sitting down, Cain calmly shook his head while politely saying, “This is quite alright. Grandmother has already granted me a perfect manual. What I want to know is the reasoning for this sudden meeting.”
Bluntly getting to the point didn’t faze either Huang Zilong or Linlong. They believed they were making steps by just having this meeting in the first place.
With a slightly more solemn expression, Huang Zilong plainly laid it out.
“Then I also won’t beat around the bush. Take it from me when I speak ill of the other royal descendants. I know they all speak poisonous words about Linlong and me. There’s no denying we had past altercations with all of them. However, you must similarly keep your guard up against each one of them. Especially Huang Dulong and Jaolong. Their wild ambitions are even intenser than Jielong.”
Huang Linlong nodded, promptly adding, “In terms of mind games, they’re not too exceptional. But in terms of ruthlessness, zero hesitation, and cynical line of thinking, they are genuinely a cut above us. If there’s a chance, these two won’t hesitate to cut down others and each other for their wild ambitions.”
As he listened, Cain briefly recalled all of this body’s previous memories about Huang Dulong and Jaolong.
These two were perhaps the most persistent in their attempts to obtain his and Kali’s Dragon Charms.
Many times did they both try to mentally exhaust them into simply giving up the Dragon Charms. The incident in the library and their first resources meeting were one of many examples Cain can recall.
It was no wonder they specifically had a much more vital reaction towards him and Kali’s current talent.
Still, Cain had other curious questions as he asked, “I can practically see just the kind of nature those two have. But more curious is how they act against the outside world? Out there, many rules are practically non-existent for them.”
“That…really isn’t far off the mark. On the outside world, their arrogant, domineering side is fully unleashed. If it’s not ones on the same level as the Ancient Phoenix Holy Lands, they will crush through any problems coming their way. Not even the Thunderous Sword Sect can enter their eyes. There were times they venture out to resources caves and slaughtered several squadrons for either their own treasures or a great natural resource treasure.” Huang Zilong explained.
But Cain was highly skeptical.
It was a given that these royal descendants had already stained their hands with blood. The Dragon Rules and moral ethics taught to them as a child basically played a heavy part in their current personality.
Naturally, killing without even batting any eyes becomes straightforward for the duo.
However, how could Cain not know about this?
His experiences in the lower realm and here were but a tip of a massive of the cultivation iceberg. But a tip was all that was needed for Cain to gain a considerable understanding of the Divine Boundless Heaven society.
As long your strength is high enough, then all rules can be decided by you.
What’s righteous, demonic, justice, and evil will be but labels and tools crafted by the true mighty figures in power.
Cain didn’t believe he was that cynical about this. After all, on Earth, he always tries to see things in grey areas.
The wealthy high-class with influence on companies and even the government would implement laws that are the basis for that society.
Of course, on Earth, where the majority can suppress the individual, law changing, implementation and creation take a considerable amount of time.
But the point still stands that the very top of Earth’s society creates what is supposed to be the justice law and fair beliefs.
It wasn’t as if anything was wrong with this. But more so, it was the simple fact that kept their human society running for thousands of years.
Thus, in a universe where an individual can easily suppress the majority, it would be much more common for causal murders to occur.
A single person’s life among quite literally an endless stream of people is like the tiniest drop of sand in an infinite desert.
There are, of course, bottom lines, principles, and people with genuine kind hearts.
But with grand ambitions as high in the skies, the mental state of society as a whole shift to a harsher one in accordance with the astute people inhabiting this universe.
With this in mind, just how could Cain trust the surface-level words of Huang Zilong and Linlong?
Even as they were both signaling out Huang Dulong and Jaolong for their ambitions, Zilong and Linlong were on equal if not a greater level of ambition.
The only reason he’s entertaining these two is that they both have exceptional qualities that are useful to have as an ally.
As per usual, Cain kept his grey mind perspective, saying, “Then I will do best to keep a more critical eye on those two. But, I don’t suppose you can tell me anything about Jielong? I am aware that he is the strongest genius among the royal descendants.”
“Him? The most I can say is that he’s the bluntest person I interact with. He truly doesn’t prefer to socialize. Plus, he’s far too reclusive to tell what’s going on with him. But still, his prowess isn’t to be forgotten.” Huang Zilong shrugged while explaining.
After he spoke, Huang Linlong took the time to ask next, “Cain. By the way, how is your relationship with Xun? I see that you two are marginally closer.”
Cain uncaringly nodded. “Indeed we are. She’s been taking great steps to mend our relationship.”
“Oh my? That is amusing.” Huang Linlong brightly smiled as if she had just cracked a tough code. “It’s only that she and Dai are quite secretly devious themselves. It may come as a shock, but those two were actively poisoning you to put you and Kali into a coma for a long while. Of course, they weren’t planning on killing you. But, they believed with this method, they would be able to snag your Dragon Charms.”
As he listened in, Cain’s expression stayed completely calm.