Dragon's Origin

Chapter 435: Mei'er's Identity (Part 2)

Wang Sheng's face was calm, but his heart was already surging with waves.

Mei'er's identity was unknown even to Shadow Eunuch, indicating there were likely many twists and turns. Regardless, the princess from back then definitely didn't die, but it's unknown where she ended up.

The six words were easy to understand, meaning the real princess had a birthmark, a black mole near her groin, that should be it. Unfortunately, Wang Sheng hasn't had the opportunity to see that part of Mei'er yet. Not because Mei'er was unwilling, but because Wang Sheng insisted on his principles.

Verification is easy; he could find out by returning. This issue isn't a concern for now, believing Mei'er hasn't become so wary of Wang Sheng. Even with a mole on a private area, Mei'er definitely wouldn't refuse Wang Sheng if he wanted to see it.

The reason for specifically calling Shadow Eunuch over was for this. Now that he knew the answer, or rather, knew the method of confirmation, Wang Sheng felt a weight lifted from his heart.

If Mei'er was really a princess, then Wang Sheng would need to consider future cooperative relationships with the royal family. Being so deeply involved with the royal family was always going to be a troublesome matter.

After returning to Worry-Free City, Wang Sheng could clearly feel that his cultivation speed had noticeably slowed down, a bit better than in the capital, but only slightly. A complete cultivation session was about the same as a wisp of gray mist, incomparable to being in the core of the Thousand Absolutes Land.

However, cultivating in Worry-Free City also allowed Wang Sheng to discover something: he could sense the total amount of spiritual energy his acupoints could store. Before, spiritual energy cultivation hardly played a major role in his upgrades, and Wang Sheng didn't feel how much spiritual energy his acupoints could store, only that they were always full.

Now, Wang Sheng clearly perceived that, so far, in all his acupoints, there was a condensed spiritual energy rotating, but it could never fill the acupoints, always feeling empty.

But after each complete cultivation session, Wang Sheng could sense that the spiritual energy in his acupoints would increase a little, perhaps this was the true path of spiritual energy cultivation.

And that feeling of filling the acupoints with spiritual energy was extremely refreshing, like a hungry person suddenly eating a delicious piece of chocolate, very comfortable.

Cultivating to such a comfortable level, Wang Sheng understood, basically meant he was on the right path. If cultivation became more and more painful, that would be the wrong way.

Five days passed quickly. Ten people, fifty maps, were all completed by the fifth night. Then, this group, including Shadow and Han Bing Li, all moved into a small courtyard next to the City Lord's mansion, waiting for the map sales to complete. In reality, it was only a day, which everyone could endure.

Worry-Free City's timing was very precise. The next day, the map sales started on time. One million five hundred thousand gold coins per map, fair for everyone. Don't complain about the price; there are no discounts, and they aren't sold anywhere else.

The various vassal states had already prepared gold coins and experts. Without even haggling, they hurriedly bought a map, first taking it back to their strongholds in Worry-Free City, and then carefully examining it.

Wang Sheng's past business reputation played a positive role at this time. No one suspected Wang Sheng would tamper with it, and besides, each family had verification methods.

At least several hundred messenger birds took flight that day, no one knew which messenger bird carried a spatial ring containing the real map back to each family.

That night, while Wang Sheng was still soundly asleep with A'qi in his arms, the various vassal lords had already received the maps brought back by their own messenger birds from Worry-Free City. From the lords to several important officials, they all gathered around the large map, carefully observing and analyzing it.

Several vassal states also had their own ancestral formation distribution maps, but they were very incomplete. Now, holding Wang Sheng's map of the outer perimeter of the Thousand Absolutes Land's core, they meticulously compared it with their respective ancestral secret maps.

To be honest, Wang Sheng was also puzzled for a while when he received the formation distribution map from Mei'er. Because the maps in this world completely lacked the concept of a scale, and the horizontal and vertical directions even used different scales, which brought great difficulties to map reading. The Peerless Treasure Map was actually the same, a model of severely incorrect scales.

Fortunately, Wang Sheng's strong memory allowed him to remember all the formation distributions, and then analyze them in his mind, and then compare them one by one with the actual situation to have the correct reference.

The people of the various vassal lords took Wang Sheng's standard scale map, and then compared it with their ancestral secret maps. Some places really did seem to match vaguely.

Everyone racked their brains to painstakingly copy the formations marked on the ancestral secret map one by one onto Wang Sheng's map. It took a whole night to come to a preliminary conclusion.

The secret maps inherited by the various families were only a part of Wang Sheng's map. The secret maps went deeper than Wang Sheng's map in some parts, but when they went deep into the inner circle of the Thousand Absolutes Land, only a corner remained. A very neat corner, as if it had been cut open with a knife, with several semicircles obviously left after being cut open.

Now everyone had a clue. There was a 90% chance that Wang Sheng's map was correct, because some parts could be matched with their ancestral secret maps. And their own secret maps might be the territories divided after the attack on the Lin family back then. The boundary marker of the Dai family that Wang Sheng found in the core area of the Thousand Absolutes Land should be marking the boundaries of each family.

In this way, all the guesses were correct. The core of the Thousand Absolutes Land seemed to be lifting a little bit of its mysterious veil in front of the various vassal lords, waiting for everyone to be fully prepared before going in to explore it.

The happiest among them were the Shi and Gan families. They discovered that Wang Sheng had not gone to the inner circle of the Thousand Absolutes Land at all, which meant that the Peerless Treasure could be postponed again from being discovered. However, the two families were also very depressed at the same time. A year had passed, and the nine people inside showed no signs of coming out. They knew they were alive, but they didn't know their condition, which was really worrying!

With this map, the minds of all parties became active again. Sending people in again was much easier, not exploring and paving the way, just verifying the map, saving most of the effort. Just waiting for the camps inside the Thousand Absolutes Land to be completely built and the cultivated experts to be sufficient, they could rush into the core of the Thousand Absolutes Land in one fell swoop to explore the most mysterious cultivation holy land.

Just when everyone was expecting Wang Sheng to enter the Thousand Absolutes Land again and draw a map of the inner circle of the core area to sell to everyone, Wang Sheng had already come out of the armory and embarked on the road back to the capital.

Along the way, Wang Sheng was pondering about Uncle Li he met in the armory and the two newly acquired attack methods.