Within a day, Lin Ye and the rest returned to the Imperial City of the Tianyang Empire.
As soon as Lin Ye returned to the Imperial City, he was brought to the Imperial Palace by Lord Yun Sheng.
He said that the Great Emperor wanted to see him.
He did not refuse and followed Lord Yun Sheng to the Imperial Palace. Sun Wuyu, Nangong Xiyue and the rest settled down in the Imperial City and waited for Lin Ye to come out of the Imperial Palace.
It was Lin Ye's first time in the Imperial Palace.
Along the way, Lord Yun Sheng did not speak.
Lin Ye did not speak either.
Soon, the two of them arrived at the Imperial Palace.
In the Imperial Palace.
A middle-aged man sat on the main seat. The middle-aged man leaned against the throne with a calm expression on his face, but he gave off an invisible pressure.
This was the power of a superior.
A power that looked down on everything.
He was the current Great Emperor of the Tianyang Empire, one of the supreme figures who controlled the Tianmu Region.
The Great Emperor, Shen Yunlian.
Ever since he ascended the throne as the Great Emperor, no one called him by his name. Gradually, he replaced the two words' Great Emperor '. All the people and experts called him the Great Emperor.
Looking at Shen Yunlian, Lin Ye looked calm and relaxed.
Step by step, he walked towards the center of the Imperial Palace.
Facing the Great Emperor of the Tianyang Empire, he did not feel any pressure or nervousness. In the face of the unparalleled power, he could not be shaken at all. This was because he also had the power of a superior.
Moreover, he had the fate of the Lord of the Xia Kingdom.
He was the new Lord of the Xia Kingdom.
In terms of status, the Great Emperor of the Tianyang Empire and the Lord of the Xia Kingdom were worlds apart.
Therefore, Lin Ye was not afraid in front of the Great Emperor of the Tianyang Empire, Shen Yunlian. On the contrary, at this moment, it was as if he was the real Great Emperor.
This power made Lord Yun Sheng and the Great Emperor shocked and curious.
"Lin Ye pays his respects to the Great Emperor."
Lin Ye walked to the center of the Imperial Palace and stopped.
He bowed to the Great Emperor Shen Yunlian.
He was the Lord of the Xia Kingdom.
However, he was now a Half-Saint. In front of the Great Emperor of the Saint realm, he naturally had to bow.
"No need for formalities."
"Have a seat."
With a smile on his face, Shen Yunlian gestured for him to dispense with the formalities.
He stretched out his hand and pointed at the first seat in the palace for Lin Ye to sit.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
He bent over slightly and walked toward his seat.
He didn't hold back at all.
He didn't like to be overly courteous. In his opinion, respect was enough. There was no need to care about so much hypocritical etiquette. Of course, he wouldn't skimp on the necessary etiquette.
"Before you enter the ruins."
"This Saint has already decided."
"If you can come back alive from the World Ruins of the Grand Xia, I will betroth the little princess to you. You didn't disappoint me, you even exceeded my expectations."
Shen Yunlian went straight to the point.
He didn't beat around the bush at all. A Great Emperor was a Great Emperor.
Everything was done so cleanly and neatly, catching people off guard.
Even Grand Tutor Yun Sheng, who had been grooming the Great Emperor for a long time, almost stumbled. He did not expect the Great Emperor to be so direct and speak about this matter as soon as he arrived.
Lin Ye, who was sitting in his seat, had a poker face, but Shen Yunlian's words almost made him spit out the tea in his mouth.
"Your Majesty."
"You …"
Lin Ye swallowed the tea in his mouth.
He raised his head and looked at Shen Yunlian, observing him with his eyes. He wanted to know if the Great Emperor was telling the truth or was just joking to lighten the mood. However, he really didn't see the Great Emperor as joking.
For a moment, his mind couldn't wrap itself around it.
"You didn't hear wrongly."
"There's nothing in the Heavenly Purity Territory that's worth your stay."
"Go to the Tianlan True Domain. My little princess is there too."
The Great Emperor Shen Yunlian smiled.
He looked at Lin Ye with more and more satisfaction.
"Your Majesty, this is a little inappropriate."
Lin Ye was curious about the Tianlan True Domain.
He also knew that the Great Emperor was right. There was nothing in the Heavenly Purity Territory that was worth his stay. Only a bigger stage could allow him to grow faster.
However, he still couldn't accept the fact that the Great Emperor betrothed the little princess to him.
He couldn't even understand it.
He had never seen the little princess before.
"There's nothing inappropriate."
"It's decided then."
The Great Emperor shook his head.
Naturally, he wouldn't let go of the person he had set his eyes on.
Lin Ye was about to break down.
He didn't know why he would encounter such a thing today. The person in front of him was the Great Emperor of the Tianyang Empire, one of the two rulers of the Heavenly Purity Territory.
"This is a portrait of the little princess."
Lord Yun Sheng took a scroll from the Great Emperor.
Then, he came to Lin Ye.
He gently unrolled the scroll. A beautiful girl appeared on the scroll.
The girl was about fourteen or fifteen years old.
She looked like a fairy from the legends. She didn't look like a human being at all.
"The little princess should look like an imperial concubine."
When Lin Ye saw the beautiful girl in the scroll, he couldn't help but be shocked.
This girl was too beautiful.
Among the girls he knew, this girl was almost the same as Nangong Xiyue, Biluo, and Silent Soul. Moreover, her pure and sweet temperament was unique.
He looked at the girl in the scroll.
Lin Ye couldn't help but look at the Great Emperor. He opened his mouth and said something that almost made the Great Emperor spit out blood.
Lord Yun Sheng's face was extremely ugly.
Didn't he say that the Great Emperor wasn't good-looking?
"Get lost. Don't let me see you again."
The Great Emperor glared at Lin Ye fiercely and said.
He almost went berserk.
The expression on his face was as ugly as it could get.
"Lin Ye, goodbye."
Lin Ye stood up and walked out of the palace.
He felt like he was running away from a debt. He couldn't wait to leave this place. He wasn't afraid that the Great Emperor would kill him because the Great Emperor wouldn't do that. Instead, it was because the Great Emperor had betrothed the little princess to him.
"Lin Ye, wait."
Just as Lin Ye was about to leave the palace.
Lord Yun Sheng's voice sounded behind him.
Hearing this voice, Lin Ye could only stop.
"Lord Yun Sheng."
"What can I do for you?"
When Lord Yun Sheng came over, Lin Ye asked.
"This is for you from the Great Emperor."
"Tianyang Empire's Shen Family's signature martial art — Infinite Four Symbols."
"I can tell you what you want to know."
Lord Yun Sheng handed a jade box that was one foot in length, width, and height to Lin Ye and said.
There were simple sealing runes on the jade box and Lin Ye had to open it personally.
"Infinite Four Symbols?"
Lin Ye looked at the jade box that Lord Yun Sheng handed over.
His face was filled with confusion.
"Infinite Four Symbols is the only Peerless Sage Martial Art in Heavenly Purification Territory."
"It is also one of the Nine Great Sage Martial Arts in Divine Land."
Lord Yun Sheng said.
When he looked at the jade box, his eyes were filled with passion.
This was one of the Nine Great Saint-level Cultivation Methods of the Divine Land.
Even if the Infinite Four Symbols was extremely difficult to cultivate and there was only a one in ten thousand chance of entering the door, if one succeeded, the power would be terrifying and invincible among those of the same level.
However, it was left behind by the ancestors of the Shen Family.