THE RISE OF THE DRAGON.

25. A CASTLE.

“Fucking rabbits”

Ui Yong Jiang cursed the rabbit that was chasing him while sitting in a cross-legged position inside the hole in the big tree.

He looked at his bag, he felt a little excited about his harvest. Although he did not take much that would guarantee him quick progress to the Ninth stage, it was,

they're still better than nothing. Because he's not an Alchemist,

there was no way he could fully expel most of the essence from the herbs.

The best he could do was cook it because it was not like fruits,

herbal plants should not be eaten directly because there are toxins in them. There was a procedure in extracting their essence, but he did not know about it.

However, cooking it would only take out at most ten percent of the herbal essence.

But he had to do that for now, he did not plan on using all the plants because he did not know most of them.

What if some of them have poison? Thinking up to this point, he decided to only use the ones he was familiar with.

Since it was dark, he did not cook the plants, instead, he went to the chaos room or the pearl world and began to understand the water element.

The days passed and before Ui Yong Jiang realized it, he had been on the trial ground for a month now.

This one month could be said to be fruitful as he was able to advance quickly in his cultivation.

Currently, he was only a few steps away from the Ninth stage of the Arcane Plane.

The only thing that dampened his mood was that other than the garden, he had yet to obtain anything good that increased his strength.

He had searched several buildings but could not find anything.

The next day Ui Yong Jiang stood on top of a tree looking around his.

“A castle”

Ui Yong Jiang looked at a castle in the distance from the top of the hill where he was currently, and walked towards him.

From the palace he entered last time, he had great hopes for this castle. Although this place was not as big as the palace he had entered before, there should be good items inside.

Ui Yong Jiang took thirty minutes to get to the castle by running fast.

There was no one outside the castle, which meant two possibilities, whether they were inside, or no one was here.

He carefully entered the castle, and before he could walk any further, he heard the sounds of battle.

‘Someone fighting? No, it looks like group’

At first, he had thought it was a single battle, but from his voice, it was clear that the battle was between two groups.

He slipped to where he heard the voices and soon a large hall appeared before him,

and he saw those groups fighting against the others. There were at least ten people in each group, and on the side of the hall, six beasts were seen lying lifeless on the ground.

‘These savage beasts are not weak, they are all stronger than the average Elementalist Arcane Plane peak’

thought Ui Yong Jiang.

He had fought with ferocious beasts that were exactly like this, so he knew how strong they were.

Focusing his attention back to the group fight, he saw a few faces that he had known not long ago.

‘That's them! What are they fighting over?’

Ui Yong Jiang recognized one of the groups.

He saw them about a week ago. When he was about to enter a compound, he saw this group.

They consisted of around ten people, and the one with the weakest cultivation stage was at the Eighth stage of the Arcane Plane. But none of them were able to break through to the Origin Plane.

The leader of the group was a delicate-looking young man who had sharp features and a warm and gentle smile.

The way he spoke was very soothing to the ears and Ui Yong Jiang was sure he would have no trouble convincing people.

Just from the way he spoke, Ui Yong Jiang almost had the idea to befriend him.

But when he recognized the student from Starlight Academy behind him, he quickly ignored the thought.

Looking at them, he thought they had come to look for trouble with him.

When the leader realized this, he laughed before introducing himself to Ui Yong Jiang.

When Ui Yong Jiang heard his identity, he was shocked. The leader of the group claimed that he was the twelfth prince of the Qilin empire, the,

and from the way, the students from the Starlight Academy behaved towards him, it didn't seem like he was lying.

He had not expected the twelfth prince to recognize him, he had never even seen this twelfth prince before or any other prince.

He was invited by the prince to join their group, which he politely declined.

Since the prince spoke to her calmly, there was no need to be rude to her.

But there was something he noticed when he refused. He felt a hint of hostility from them, including the prince.

Well, he had already sensed it from the trio from Starlight Academy the moment they saw it. Although the prince hid it quickly, he could still feel it.

‘I understand the hostility coming from the students of Starlight Academy, but I have never met anyone else.

So I don't understand the reason they feel this way against me’.

‘It shouldn't be because I refused to join them right?’

Ui Yong Jiang always kept his guard up whenever he came across people, he said,

he improved it even further as he recognized some people from Starlight Academy.

He further escalated it when he felt the hostility of people he had never even contacted.

‘Hah! What is it?’

Ui Yong Jiang's attention was immediately fixed on the box that was placed not too far away from the group of fighters.

‘There is an arrangement that protects it, but it seems to be obsolete due to the time’

‘They may fight over who will get it. But from the aura emanating from the ranks, it had been attacked before. It's almost broken ’.

“Fuck you all, this place was found by us. And we also beat the beast here, now you all want to claim the prize ”

A young man from another group shouted towards the people from the Qilin empire.

The prince replied very coldly and calmly,

“It doesn't matter who finds it first, what matters is who has the power to get what's in it”

The group from the Qilin empire all laughed. They had been here before the other group defeated the ferocious beasts,

but they hide so as not to tell them of their presence.

When the group managed to kill the savage beast, they immediately went to the box but seeing that the box was protected by a line, they started attacking it.

Fortunately, the array does not seem to have any repair function of its own, or it may indeed be, but it does not work properly.

They would break ranks when the group from the Qilin empire appeared and attacked them.

Ui Yong Jiang looked at them for a while, as he looked at the box, his interest had risen,

and he's already planning how to get it.

He didn't care about any prince, if he was a prince, what did that have to do with him?