Published: March 4, 2025
CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVE: IMPERIAL SEAT GUEST ELDER
Tie Butian could clearly sense Chu Yang's intentions. Although vague, he was certain that Chu Yang had no harmful intentions toward him, Iron Cloud Nation, or any ulterior motives for using Iron Cloud Nation to achieve something nefarious!
Since these factors were absent, and given Chu Yang's stunning abilities, Tie Butian naturally wanted to take a gamble! He was in desperate need of help; he had been struggling alone for too long! He needed someone to share the burden, yet among all the civil and military officials, not a single person could alleviate his suffering.
Because he was always the monarch, while the ministers were, after all, just ministers!
However, Chu Yang's appearance perfectly filled this gap! Chu Yang would never act as his minister, but in this regard, Chu Yang's position, which straddled both the martial arts world and the court, was exactly the best choice for overseeing the butian pavilion!
Regardless of who the civil and military ministers were, Tie Butian would not trust anyone to wield the divine weapon of the butian pavilion. Although he had established the butian pavilion himself, he lacked the energy to manage and develop it.
Thus, Tie Butian agreed to Chu Yang for this reason.
Or perhaps there were other reasons, which remained unknown.
Chu Yang pondered, but Tie Butian's childhood was indeed quite tragic. Even compared to the princes of ordinary nations, he had no childhood at all.
As Tie Butian had said, the path of a ruler was indeed exceptionally cruel!
"What about your Heavenly Weapon Pavilion...?" When he saw Tie Butian again, it was in the afternoon. Tie Butian had completely regained his calm demeanor and asked with a smile.
"The Heavenly Weapon Pavilion..." Chu Yang initially wanted to incorporate the Heavenly Weapon Pavilion into the butian pavilion, but stopped short and said, "The Heavenly Weapon Pavilion must naturally exist, but it can't exist in the form of a shop; that would be too wasteful. Your Royal Highness, how about I place my Heavenly Weapon Pavilion at Emerald Lake?"
Emerald Lake was a small lake within Iron Cloud City, just a few dozen miles from the inner city of Iron Cloud, but it was usually separated by dense buildings, making it seem far. It had always been a good place for recreation.
"Emerald Lake? No problem." Tie Butian readily agreed, "I'll arrange this immediately." Tie Butian thought the waste Chu Yang referred to was regarding those divine weapons; he didn't realize that Chu Yang was actually referring to Gu Duxing.
To let such an existence, a super expert with unlimited development potential, idle away, was indeed a tremendous waste!
Chu Yang remained expressionless on the surface, but inwardly he was elated.
Only he knew that Emerald Lake was not just a good place for recreation; it was where he obtained the second section of the Nine Calamity Sword in his past life—right at the bottom of Emerald Lake!
Now that he had directly occupied this place, once his cultivation reached the required level to break the seal of the second section of the Nine Calamity Sword, he would be able to retrieve it without anyone knowing.
The Nine Calamity Sword, the second section! Chu Yang's heart was ablaze with excitement.
The two of them boarded the carriage and set off. The carriage was completely sealed, and if someone looked from outside, they would never know that the current crown prince was sitting inside this ordinary carriage.
Although the space inside the carriage was not small, the two of them were not far apart. Chu Yang could only sense a faint fragrance reminiscent of orchid and musk slowly diffusing in the air. Unable to help himself, he sniffed and thought, speechless: Why is a big man wearing perfume?
Tie Butian seemed to sense something and started to chat with Chu Yang about some unrelated topics. Tie Butian's knowledge was indeed vast; whether it was celestial or terrestrial, ancient or modern anecdotes, he could recite them effortlessly, providing precise commentary on every subject involved.