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The birthday celebration arrived as scheduled.

More than half of the Cloud Arise Guards marched into the capital, with hundreds of thousands of troops enforcing martial law on every main street.

Even the dullest and most ill-informed people knew that a major upheaval was about to occur in the capital.

Despite the large size of the team, everyone was an elite.

After all, those who didn't meet the standard didn't even have the qualifications to attend the celebration!

Gu Hanmo led the team, followed closely by a dozen Martial Manor elders, and the rest were mostly Martial Manor instructors and exceptionally talented disciples.

"So many Cloud Arise Guards!" Xu Ming exclaimed in surprise as he saw the Cloud Arise Guards on full alert in the streets after leaving the Martial Manor gate. "What are all these ordinary soldiers doing here in the city? If someone really wanted to cause trouble, no amount of soldiers would be effective!"

For example, someone at Xu Ming's level couldn't be stopped by any number of ordinary soldiers; he could come and go as he pleased.

"You don't understand," Gu Hanmo said. "This is actually the emperor's last display of imperial power—he's about to abdicate, and he wants to show all the forces that he has absolute control over the Flying Cloud Army before he steps down!"

"Oh…" Xu Ming said, seemingly understanding.

Gu Hanmo continued to explain: "It's also to tell all the forces that the Flying Cloud Army will absolutely support the new emperor he chooses!"

When the team passed by the Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion, the Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion's birthday celebration team happened to be coming out as well.

Xu Ming glanced over.

In the Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion's team, the leading middle-aged man with a calm demeanor was likely the elusive Pavilion Master.

Xu Ming's gaze inadvertently fell on Chi Xue, and at that moment, Chi Xue also looked towards him.

Xu Ming's expression was indifferent, as if he were looking at a stranger—in fact, he was looking at a stranger.

The feelings in Chi Xue's eyes, however, were complex; there seemed to be stubbornness, regret, and anticipation.

When Chi Xue first came to the Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion, she thought highly of herself because of her extraordinary talent; she felt that she would pursue the innate martial path in the future, and that romantic relationships were a burden to her, something she didn't need!

Moreover, Chi Xue also felt that Xu Ming's talent was too poor and didn't deserve her.

Later, when "Xu Ming" traveled thousands of miles to the capital to find her, she regarded it as a nuisance.

In the end, Chi Xue solemnly approached Xu Ming and completely severed ties, which made her feel relieved, as if she was free from mundane entanglements and could wholeheartedly pursue the martial path.

However, as the saying goes: you only cherish what you've lost.

The life of internal strife within the Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion was not easy, and even though Chi Xue was a personal disciple of an elder, she was exhausted from dealing with it.

At this time, she slowly began to recall Xu Ming's doting and protection of her; unfortunately, Xu Ming had already drifted further and further away from her.

At this time, Xu Ming had already begun to show his talent in Cloud Arise City and was rapidly becoming more and more unfamiliar to her.

Xu Ming defeated Lin Han, defeated Lin Muqing, defeated Sikong Liangjun… One stronger opponent after another became a stepping stone on Xu Ming's path to fame, and Xu Ming quickly shone in Cloud Arise City, becoming a top figure in the entire Cloud Arise City and even the capital.

Now, Xu Ming's brilliance was becoming even more dazzling, and the Flying Cloud Kingdom was destined to be unable to contain him; he would definitely go to a wider world outside the Flying Cloud Kingdom!

"Not worthy?" Chi Xue often mocked herself when she thought of this, "Perhaps I'm not worthy of him!"

At this moment, as their eyes met again, Chi Xue's eyes faintly carried a trace of anticipation in her regret, hoping that Xu Ming would smile and nod at her, or even come forward to greet her.

However, Xu Ming's gaze only swept over her before looking elsewhere.

"Chi Xue…" Xu Ming was also quite sentimental; seeing her again, his and Chi Xue's strength and status had already reversed—before, he needed to look up to Chi Xue, but now it was Chi Xue who looked up to him.

Xu Ming sighed softly, not knowing what he was sighing about.

"I should already be considered a martial arts expert that Chi Xue looks up to, but why hasn't the obsession about Chi Xue disappeared yet?"

Xu Ming didn't understand.

The Flying Cloud Martial Pavilion seemed to intentionally avoid colliding with the Barbarian Martial Manor's team, so they deliberately lingered at the entrance, waiting for the Barbarian Martial Manor to go far before they truly set off.

Cloud Arise City wasn't too big or too small.

Along the way, Xu Ming saw several acquaintances again, and even ran into Sikong Liangjun—the heir of the Sikong family who had been instantly defeated by him during the gambling battle at the Nine Cauldrons Merchant Association.

Sikong Liangjun was severely injured by Xu Ming last time, and he was still very weak after recovering from his serious injuries.

As soon as he saw Xu Ming, he immediately trotted over obsequiously; with him was his father, the current head of the Sikong family.

"Damn, what is he trying to do? Is he bringing his father to seek revenge?"

But even so, Xu Ming wasn't afraid—he was now in the Barbarian Martial Manor's team, with Gu Hanmo and a group of innate experts by his side, and probably no one in the Flying Cloud Kingdom would dare to touch him at this time!

But what Xu Ming didn't expect was that before Sikong Liangjun could run up to him, he had already bowed deeply: "Brother Xu, I offended you greatly at the Nine Cauldrons Merchant Association last time, please forgive me."

The head of the Sikong family also said: "Young friend Xu Ming, my son is ignorant, please be magnanimous and let this matter pass."

As he spoke, the head of the Sikong family actually took out a storage ring.

At Gu Hanmo's signal, Xu Ming inexplicably accepted the storage ring before sending the two away.

"Why did they take the initiative to yield?" Xu Ming was a little strange.

"You know little about the grievances and stories of the major forces in the capital, so it's normal if you can't figure it out," Gu Hanmo said. "The Sikong family is a very opportunistic family. Some time ago, they saw that Wen Man's power was very strong, so they leaned towards Wen Man's side; but now, they have discovered that something is wrong, it seems that Marshal Wen's side is not weak either… So, they want to do some favors first and leave a way out for themselves."

Soon, Xu Ming and his party arrived near the imperial city.

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"Eh, Marshal Wen!"

Xu Ming saw Marshal Wen's team ahead.

Marshal Wen's team had only a mere twenty "people," which was a relatively small scale, but it was very eye-catching—because among these twenty people, twelve were puppets!

Puppets had long been extinct in the Flying Cloud Kingdom, and now that twelve of them suddenly appeared, it was naturally eye-catching, and people sighed that Marshal Wen was truly capable, actually managing to obtain so many puppets.

Only a few people knew that these puppets were all given by Xu Ming; moreover, the most precious thing was not these twelve half-innate puppets, but the Twelve Capitals Heavenly Gate Formation flags on the puppets!

Marshal Wen's party was about to enter the imperial city, when a team "coincidentally" came out of the imperial city.

This team had even fewer people, only eight, and they were all very unfamiliar.

When two teams meet head-on, one of them naturally has to give way.

Of course, Marshal Wen couldn't give way!

Normally, it would be fine, but today was the final crucial moment for him to compete for the throne, how could he give way?

And the other party was obviously deliberately looking for trouble, so of course they wouldn't give way either.

Marshal Wen and Elder Du's expressions were ugly, because they knew where these eight unfamiliar people came from—they were people from the Barbarian Sect, and the one with the eight-character mustache in the middle was the Envoy Zhao sent by the Barbarian Sect.

"Didn't you see that this envoy is about to go out, why are you still blocking the way?" Envoy Zhao was very arrogant, and even unscrupulously used his perfect innate aura to suppress them.

Elder Du's expression turned cold, and he immediately used his equally perfect innate aura to push back.

"Hmm?" Envoy Zhao was a little surprised, "He actually broke through to the perfect innate realm without a word!"

"Bold, who are you, daring to deliberately look for trouble!?" Xu Ming was a little strange, the other party was obviously deliberately looking for trouble, even he could see it at a glance, didn't Marshal Wen and Elder Du see it? Xu Kai, who didn't have so many twists and turns in his mind, directly cursed without saying a word.

Marshal Wen and Elder Du's expressions both changed slightly.

Of course, they knew that the other party was deliberately looking for trouble, but such things could be known but not said—after all, the other party was from the Barbarian Sect!

Sure enough, Envoy Zhao immediately became angry and turned to give a look to the side.

The young man with the hooked nose next to him immediately understood, raised his hand and slapped Xu Kai: "Where did this thing come from, yelling randomly!"

Pa!

Xu Kai's cultivation was so low that he was immediately dizzy from the slap, and half of his face was swollen.

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