CHAPTER 59 - THE PUPPET ROYAL FAMILY
Translated by Luxican
While Yun Sheng watched as Dong Huang Ling left, Yun Canghai's eyes dimmed.
"Sheng'er, you are already six-years-old, you should enroll in a Magic Academy in two years," Dong Huang Ling's words reminded Yun Canghai that Yun Sheng couldn't always be by his side, she had to systematically learn magic.
When Yun Canghai took Yun Sheng away from Jiao Ye Village, he initially only wanted to bring her to the Yun Family and let her learn medical skills.
But now Yun Sheng already had a rare multicolored Magic Soul, and she obtained her first mutation fire magic. With such a talent, if she only studied medicine, it would be too wasteful.
"Father, what is the Magic Academy? If I have to enroll in the Magic Academy, why don't we go to Dong Huang Ling and join the Academy in the East Du Capital?" Through Dong Huang Ling Yun Sheng had expanded her worldview yet again, something that never would heave been possible in Jiao Ye Village.
Through Yun Canghai's explanation, Yun Sheng figured out what the Magic Academy was.
On the Wu Ji Continent, children who could perceive the magic elements, after passing the Magic Enlightenment of the Magic Temple, once they are six-years-old, could choose to enter the domestic Magic Academy.
Of course, children could also choose to directly join the local Magic Temple, and would learn under the Magic Temple.
In the Magic Academy, they were taught various kinds of magic knowledge. According to the different levels, the Academies of Magic were divided into Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Academies of Magic.
The Elementary Magic Academies enrolled Magic Novices. The Intermediate Magic Academy only enrolled students above and at the Magician level. As for the Advanced Magic Academy, it was also known as the Magic Elite Camp. Only the magicians recommended by major Magic Academies and various temples around the world could enroll.
"Yujing City has a special Magic Academy. As for the Magic Academy in East Du Capital...Sheng'er you're sensible, and your father wants to tell you something, it's better for you to know this earlier. Dong Huang Ling, her identity is not simple, you can be friends now, but if join the Magic Academy in the future and become a member of the magicians of the Great Zhou Kingdom, you relationship will most likely turn hostile." Yun Canghai vaguely knew of Dong Huang Ling's identity.
She had so many powerful escorts with her she had to be a very important person in the palace.
"I already know that Dong Huang Ling's brother is the Emperor in the East Du Capital." Yun Sheng was not surprised. She came from the modern era, in her opinion status didn't matter much.
What was important was that Yun Sheng and Dong Huang Ling were each other's first friends.
"She really is the sister of the East Du Empire's Emperor, Sheng'er, do you still remember what your father told you about the five powers of the Wu Ji Continent?" Yun Cnaghai sat his daughter on his lap, like a father telling his child about history.
"The five powers are the Hou Blessing Empire, Future Peng Empire, Early Ju Empire, Great Zhou Empire and Origin Tang Empire," Yun Sheng had a photographic memory. When she still was in Jiao Ye Village, she had never come in touch with the history of the Wu Ji Continent, but she still remembered the bits she heard from Yun Canghai's mouth.
Yun Canghai told her about the past, and Yun Sheng discovered that the five great powers were once one, more than a thousand years ago.
They were all part of the East Du Empire. At that time, the Dong Emperor was the supreme ruler and it was unparalleled on the continent for a while.
But since the death of Dong Huang Lie, the greatest monarch in the history of the mainland thousands of years ago, the power of the Dong Dynasty had gradually faded. Finally, more than 900 years ago, it was split, which led to the five great powers.
"Because the powers of the five great powers are similar, they secretly negotiated to retain the existence of the Dong Imperial Family and imprisoned them as only puppets in the East Du Capital. Hundreds of years ago, the direct descendance of the Dong Dynasty were assassinated through poisoning. The last generation of Dong Emperors only lived to thirty years old. Furthermore, the authorities of the various countries restricted the douqi and magic practice of the Imperial Family. This is also why Dong Huang Ling, as a distinguished princess, only dared to bring a few strong guards and one magician, to secretly go to such a humble place as Yue Wu Mountains."
Dong Huang Ling was still young, and she still retained the pride of the Imperial Family. She still did not realize that the Imperial Power would become the heaviest shackle on her in the future.
She didn't even know that it was impossible to learn the really powerful magic in the Magic Academy in East Du Capital.
Yun Canghai also knew that as citizens of the Great Zhou Empire, if Yun Sheng returned to the Yun Family, she might one day stand opposite Dong Huang Ling.
Yun Sheng bowed her head and thought seriously: " Father, even so, she is still my friend. And I will never stand opposite my friend!"
Yun Canghai looked at his daughter's firm eyes, it was as if he saw his former wife.
"Silly girl, you will understand when you grow up. We are a lot richer now, so, I will rent a carriage in the city and we will travel like this till Yujing City, you must be tired these days." They rented a carriage and instead of also hiring a coachman, Yun Canghai drove himself.
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The carriage was much more comfortable than riding a horse. Yun Sheng took out the Moon Fruit and the Withered Butterfly Vines she collected in Yue Wu Mountains earlier, and prepared to make meditation water.
Yun Sheng had not realized the importance of meditation water before she had started to use magic, but now that she had learned the Fire Crit spell, she found that her magic power was not enough.
"With my current condition, after using the Fire Crit once, the magic power in my body is almost exhausted. The recovery with normal meditation is too slow, no wonder meditation water is needed," Yun Sheng began to refine the mediation water.
The refining of meditation water required refinement through magical flames.
Yun Sheng took out the black fruit and pinched it in her hand.
Moon Fruit had the shape of pine cones, with a hard shell, only magical flames could melt its shell.
Only the fruit pulp wrapped in the hard shell could be used to refine meditation water, Yun Sheng urged the fire elements in her body.
After the Soulstone-Induction, her control was more refined, and fire elements enveloped the fruit.
After the hard shell melted, a white fruit core was exposed, Yun Sheng also refined the Withered Vine with magical flame.
Yun Sheng found that when using the fire elements to process herbs , the medicinal effects were better preserved, and so, a bottle of meditation water was successfully refined.
The father and daughter traveled all the way, closing in on Yujing City, but in the unknown, there was a crisis waiting for them. None of them could have imagined what changes this crisis would bring to Yun Sheng.
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