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STnS: Chapter 171

There was a large docking bay inside of the Imperial Royal Palace. It was roughly the size of two courtyards. The Lóng Tiānkōng docked on an elevated platform and connected to a balcony that traversed much of the room via the boarding ramp.

Hou Jingshu led the procession off the airship. She glanced at Wu Jian. Even through his mask, his amazement was obvious. She couldn’t contain her smile.

“This is the first time you’ve ever seen the interior of a docking bay, isn’t i...

STnS: Chapter 170

Several days passed. Wu Jian spent almost every waking moment with Hou Jingshu. The two of them had become so inseparable that rumors had begun to spread amongst the crew about how he was her new secret lover. He thought the rumors were stupid. If he was a secret lover, no one would have known about him.

Of course, they did sorta get the lover part right, though they hadn’t had sex since the night he revealed himself to her.

“Haaaaaaaaah!”

“Raaaaaaaaaaah!”

Wu...

STnS: Chapter 169

Wu Jian and Hou Jingshu fled the training hall out of embarrassment. They wandered the airship for lack of anything better to do. Had this been before what happened in the training hall, they would have had no end of topics to discuss, but they were too embarrassed to say anything now.

Their hands brushed against each other several times, and each time, they would jerk away from each other as if scalded. One would have thought they would be closer after sleeping together, but now they w...

STnS: Chapter 168

Wu Jian ended up climbing out the window, which was terrifying. A single glance down was enough to reveal how high up they were. The ground looked like a vast stretch of land, the trees like specks in the distance. He would die if he fell. It was enough to make him sweat.

He climbed up the surface, which was smooth enough that he worried about slipping, and eventually reached the rail. Wu Jian peeked out to make sure no one was there before climbing onto the deck. This particular sectio...

STnS: Chapter 167

“Your highness?” Zheng Yawen knocked again.

“H-hang on a second! Just give me a minute to get ready!” Hou Jingshu called with a noticeable stutter in her voice. Then she turned to him. “You need to hide!”

“Where?” he asked.

“Anywhere! Under the bed! In the armoire! I don’t care! Just make yourself scarce! We can’t let her see you here!”

Well… she wasn’t wrong. No one knew who he was. To everyone else, he was just a powerful rogue cultivator ...

STnS: Chapter 166

Wu Jian awoke to a weight on his right shoulder. He didn’t open his eyes, instead choosing to lie there.

Last night’s events played out in his mind, causing him to feel an odd mixture of emotions. He had never intended what happened last night to happen. He hadn’t meant to reveal himself to Hou Jingshu, and he especially had not intended to sleep with her.

Did I screw up?

Purity was important to cultivators, but especially women who cultivated. There ...

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STnS: Chapter 165

The mask dropped from Hou Jingshu’s nerveless fingers. She brought a hand to cover her mouth. Her eyes stung, tears streaming down her cheeks as she stared at the face that had been hidden for so long, a face she would recognize anywhere.

He’s grown more mature… and more handsome.

Those were her first thoughts. The young man before her had very pale skin, possibly because he had been covering his face with a mask for so long. His eyes were a kind brown. They exuded ...

STnS: Chapter 164

“How could you leave me…?”

“I didn’t want to!”

“You left me… to die…”

“I didn’t! I promise you I didn’t!”

“Hou Jingshu… why did you leave me?”

Hou Jingshu awoke with a gasp, shooting up ramrod straight in bed. She placed a hand over her heart and took several heaving breaths. Each one sounded like a rasp in her ears.

Her back was covered in sweat. The liquid soaked through her ni...

STnS: Chapter 163

Several people were waiting onboard when they boarded the ship. Among them was someone Wu Jian recognized.

“Welcome back, Your Highness.”

“Uncle Chenguang!” Hou Jingshu exclaimed in surprise.

The man who stood before them had a youthful face and a regal bearing. His light brown hair was long, tied into a ponytail that trailed down his back. He looked Hou Jingshu over as if checking for injuries with eyes that were a similar color to his hair. He had snow-white skin a...

STnS: Chapter 162

There were no issues during their voyage. The seas were calm, no pirate vessels intercepted them, and the men who had given them trouble when they first boarded kept to themselves. It almost felt too easy. Wu Jian didn’t want to be the kind of person who would look a gift horse in the mouth, but with how often trouble found him, he had expected something to happen during his time here.

Only one thing really bothered Wu Jian during his time at sea.

“No… Wu Jian… don’t… ...

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STnS: Chapter 161

“Looks like this is where we part ways for now.”

“I guess so.”

“Don’t worry. I’m sure we’ll meet again.”

“Who would want to see you again?”

“You know you’re gonna miss me.”

The early morning sun rose on Wu Jian’s group as they stood separate from Huǒ Shuchang. It was still chilly. Nights in the desert were cold, but it wouldn’t be long before the sun turned this place into a scorching wasteland.

“Well… I’m sure my jour...

STnS: Chapter 160

Hou Jingshu’s heart was hammering in her chest. She had been trying to come up with a way to ask Jian Wu if he wanted to accompany her back to the Shang Kingdom, but she never in a million years expected him to be the one who asked her if he could tag along. She was both excited and inexplicably nervous.

“You want to come with us? Really?” she asked.

Jian Wu nodded. “I’ve been thinking about it. I was born in the Shang Kingdom, and it sounds like there�...

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STnS: Chapter 159

Hou Jingshu panicked when Jian Wu began screaming. It was a horrendous sound like he was experiencing the kind of agony that could shatter a person’s sanity. Her heart had practically leapt into her throat, and she’d rushed forward to save him, but Huǒ Shuchang held her back.

“What are you doing?! Let go of me!”

“Don’t go near him! Something is happening!”

“But he looks like he’s in pain!”

“I’m pretty sure this is part of the trial! If you go u...

STnS: Chapter 158

Wu Jian groaned as he opened his eyes. He once again found himself floating in a starry expanse of space. The giant eyes of Byakko loomed before him, though their presence seemed to be diminished.

“What happened? Did I fail?”

He did not like the thought of failing, but he couldn’t remember what happened after that roar made his eardrums explode. Had he killed the giant humanoid tiger? He had no idea. But if he hadn’t, then it meant he hadn’t passed the trial.

“On...

STnS: Chapter 157

It took almost twice the effort to kill the two remaining tigers. Their strength seemed to have increased many times over and they ignored injuries like they had gone into a berserker rage. Wu Jian had sliced off an arm and a leg from each one respectively, but they still attacked him without relent, their vicious roars instilling a deep fear within him.

Despite this, Wu Jian fought on, his left eye gone, blood running down numerous cuts on his body. They had injured him several times w...

STnS: Chapter 156

When Wu Jian was just a child, he had been a cowardly weakling. He disdained from violence, couldn’t stand up to bullies, and feared his father.

That changed once Wu Meiying shared a vision with him. There were many things he had feared, but the one thing he feared more than anything else had been the idea of his best friend being taken from him.

While that had started him on his path to strength and was the main reason he continued fighting, somewhere along the line, he had pic...

STnS: Chapter 155

They continued on after breakfast.

Huǒ Shuchang had reached the Half-Step Human Limit Realm while Wu Jian was watching over Hou Jingshu. The battle with the giant Stinger must have pushed him to exceed his limits. He had cultivated the entire time Wu Jian was looking after the Shang Kingdom Princess, consuming the rest of his pills to reach this point.

Wu Jian’s cultivation had also taken a good leap. He’d gone from the first subrealm to the second subrealm during the battle....

STnS: Chapter 154

Wu Jian rushed over to Hou Jingshu the moment she collapsed. Panic filled him as he rushed over, knelt beside her, and gently lifted the woman into his arms. Her face was pale like she had lost a lot of blood and her breathing was heavy. He couldn’t see anything else that was wrong with her. Had she been injured somewhere? He looked her over from head to toe but didn’t spot anything at first--not until he glimpsed the purple skin beneath her pant leg.

Wu Jian lifted up her pant leg ...

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STnS: Chapter 153

The giant Stinger thrust its stinger forth. It moved so fast Wu Jian almost missed it. He jumped back on pure instinct and the stinger slammed into the ground where he had been standing. Before he could even respond, the creature turned and spat acid at Huǒ Shuchang, who was able to avoid the attack by burning it with his flames.

Hou Jingshu raced forward while it was distracted, moving underneath it and attacking the magical beast’s joints. She thrust her spear, but it was blocked w...

STnS: Chapter 152

The deeper they traveled into the sect ruins, the less like a sect it began to look. Hallways that looked like they had once belonged above ground lay half-collapsed, brick wall shifting to sediment. Several areas had piled up with sand that made them impassable. Wu Jian and the others were forced to backtrack several times.

“It looks like this place was demolished,” Huǒ Shuchang said as he looked around.

Hou Jingshu shrugged. “Don’t forget this place was destroyed when s...

STnS: Chapter 151

Wu Jian sat in the middle of the cultivation zone with his legs crossed, hands forming a seal as he began circulating his chi. He took several deep breaths. In. Out. In. Out.

The battle with Sǐwáng Hou had forced Wu Jian to push past his limits. He had exhausted all his chi in that battle, and then he had dredged up even more than he should have been able to use for that last push.

Wu Jian knew he was lucky. Exceeding his limits like that could have resulted in a sequelae, but i...

STnS: Chapter 150

Wu Jian could not figure out what happened. It was like Sǐwáng Hou’s inexplicable rage had given him even more power. He swung his axe with enough strength that Wu Jian was slammed into the cavern wall. His vision darkened as pain overrode it, and when he came to, it was to discover their enemy pushing back Hou Jingshu and Huǒ Shuchang with his overwhelmingly dark aura and powerful attacks.

Gritting his teeth as he pulled himself out of the human-shaped dent, Wu Jian dashed forward...

STnS: Chapter 149

Everyone parted ways, even Sǐwáng Hou, who looked like he wanted to skewer Wu Jian and his group. It seemed the man knew tact. He wouldn’t do something with so many people from powerful sects and clans present. While it was doubtful those people would do anything, it would put them on high alert.

“Sǐwáng Hou will probably wait until we’re alone to ambush us,” Hou Jingshu determined.

Wu Jian nodded. “He’s definitely not going to let what happened in that fire cultiv...

STnS: Chapter 148

Wu Jian did not know how much time had passed. He felt like it had been eons, though he knew it couldn’t be that long.

He spent the majority of his time talking to Hou Jingshu or cultivating. His cultivation rose a little during this time period, though he had yet to reach the bottleneck that signified he was getting close to the next realm.

A few people had discovered this place, but they all left upon realizing they didn't have either a light or time element. Wu Jian was nearl...

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STnS: Chapter 147

Wu Meiying stepped outside of the cultivation zone and felt the air shift. The inside of a cultivation zone always felt thick and heavy, like something was pushing down on her shoulders. It was the result of all that chi from the medicine rivers being diffusing the atmosphere. Her cultivation was already stalling now that she had stepped outside.

Though, of course, that didn’t matter to Wu Meiying. Her cultivation had stopped not long ago. She would need more than a simple cultivation...