Lin Huang was woken up from his cultivation by the alarm on his Emperor’s Heart Ring at 8 a . m .
He stopped cultivating Seamless immediately and left the Emperor’s Palace after getting up to wash up . He left Bloody behind in the palace to continue coming up with the methods .
The meeting with the heretics would be at 9 a . m . It was not even 9 . 50 a . m . when he came back from breakfast . Just as he stepped into Dynasty’s headquarters, a voice echoed all around Emperor City, “The Heretics’ Presiding Judge, Sun Zhuo, visits Dynasty with the Vice Presiding Judge and the Virgen!”
Lin Huang stopped walking upon hearing the voice . He turned towards the direction of the voice, looking stunned . “They’re the heretics alright . They even brought their own announcer . ”
It was crowded in the Emperor City . Especially with those cultivators, someone soon posted about it on the Heart Network and all the social media platforms .
Dynasty that was initially trending as No . 2 achieved first place in less than ten minutes after the news spread .
All the social media platforms were busy early in the morning .
“Holy sh*t! They’re conquering the union organization, the underground organizations, and the neutral organizations! Is Dynasty planning to conquer the world and become the ruler?”
“They were involved with the Union Government a few days ago . They flirted with Misery yesterday and are dating the heretics today . Dynasty is a classic a*shole!”
“The commenter above is so accurate in his description! I already have the live version in my head . ”
“They really look like a*sholes if you put it this way! I’m crying from my laughter \(*T▽T*)/”
Four official accounts responded to that comment .
“A*shole! ヾ(。`Д´。)ノ彡,” commented the heretics’ official account .
“A*shole! ヽ(#`Д´)ノ┌,” commented the Union Government’s official account .
“Hehe,” commented Misery’s official account .
“???,” commented Dynasty’s official account .
As people were discussing fervently on the Internet, the people from the heretics had walked into Dynasty’s headquarters .
Lin Huang and the three Grand Dukes welcomed them .
The heretics’ Presiding Judge looked the same as Lin Huang had seen from the video a few years ago . He still wore his black robe and a terrifying white mask on his face .
“I’m the heretics’ Presiding Judge, Sun Zhuo . ” The Presiding Judge in a terrifying mask introduced the other three behind him after a simple self-introduction . There was a man and two ladies standing behind him .
Lin Huang noticed the middle-aged man behind him immediately because the man clearly had a Virtual God rank-3 aura . He looked like he was over 40 years old with a plump body . He had stubble all over his face and looked like he was sleep-deprived .
“This is our Vice Presiding Judge, Zhou Tong . ”
“This is our Presiding Judge Elder, Cao Ya . ” Sun Zhuo then pointed at the one who was skinnier among the two ladies .
The lady was very petite . She was less than 1 . 5 meters tall even in her shoes . She looked like a 12 to 13-year-old girl . She dyed her hair purple and divided it into two ponytails . She did not look like an adult no matter what .
However, Lin Huang knew very well that her real age definitely exceeded what she seemed like because her combat strength was clearly on demigod-level .
As for the last lady, Lin Huang actually recognized her as soon as he saw her .
The lady was the heretics Virgen who had attempted to capture him back to the heretics last time .
“This is the heretics’ Virgen, Xia Yu . ” Sun Zhuo and the rest were secretly observing Lin Huang’s response when Sun Zhuo said that .
Lin Huang merely peeped at Xia Yu and nodded . “I know . We met three years ago . ” However, he only glanced at her and stopped giving her attention .
The heretics’ Virgen had been on blue flame-level back then while Lin Huang, who had been on bronze-level, could only run clumsily when they met . Now that three years had passed, although this lady had experienced a great improvement whereby she was on immortal-level rank-5 now, he had surpassed her by heaps .
Meanwhile, Xia Yu was observing Lin Huang secretly .
She had a deep impression of Lin Huang because he was the one and only mission that she had ever failed in her life . Since she found out about Lin Huang’s identity as the Emperor throughout the half a year, she would occasionally follow the news about him .
She would always feel it was absurd whenever she saw Lin Huang doing something dramatic on the news . The little guy who had only been on bronze-level back then had surpassed her immensely no matter whether it came to combat strength, ability, or identity .
After the heretics introduced their people, Lin Huang also gave a simple introduction to his people . They then entered the office with the heretics . He closed the meeting room door after the four heretics had entered .
The heretics’ Presiding Judge finally removed his mask then . Lin Huang finally saw how he really looked like . He could not believe that he had such a baby face that made him looked like he was only in his early 20s .
Huang Tianfu and the other two were surprised too .
“I never thought the heretics’ Presiding Judge would be so young,” Lin Huang teased while smiling .
“Stop teasing me, Master Emperor . My parents gave me this face, so there’s nothing that I can do about it . I’ve always been treated as a little brother by everyone who’s the same age since I was a kid,” Sun Zhuo said while smiling helplessly .
Lin Huang could roughly understand why Sun Zhuo insisted on wearing a mask whenever he was out . In reality, not only did he have a babyface, but he also looked like a harmless, kind person . One could say that he was not threatening at all .
Although Lin Huang was also young and handsome, his glory on the Stairway Tree was known to the world . Nobody dared to underestimate the No . 1 genius of the era . Furthermore, as long as he did not smile and showed a poker face, he would be taken seriously no matter where he went .
However, Sun Zhuo would look like a dummy if he had a poker face with how he looked . He would look like an irritated baby when he was mad, and it would be funny .
Therefore, wearing a mask was actually a wise move .
As they were chatting, Lin Huang noticed that Xia Yu had been observing him . She looked like she had something to say but was hesitating .
“Is there anything that you would like to say, Virgen?” Lin Huang asked with a smile .
Xia Yu hesitated and decided to speak up anyway, “I’m just very curious about how you cultivated . How did you manage to cultivate so fast?!” The reason why Xia Yu asked that was that she was also a supreme genius, and she could not figure out how Lin Huang had surpassed her so much in terms of cultivation speed .
“Hmm, how do I explain this? I can only say that it depends on the body that we’re born with . I adapt to Life Power faster whereby I can break through without spending too much time digesting whenever I reach each rank . ” Lin Huang told her the excuse that he had prepared beforehand with a grin .
Naturally, he could not tell her that he managed to elevate so quickly because he could obtain a sea of Life Power by getting his imperial monsters to kill other monsters instead of refining Life Crystals to replenish his Life Power slowly .
“I’d bring you back to the heretics even if it meant death for me if I knew you have such potential back then . ” Xia Yu shook her head while sighing helplessly . Until now, she regretted having passed the chance to make a good bud such as Lin Huang back then .
Sun Zhuo and the rest had a slight change of expression after hearing that . They told Xia Yu to stop talking about that through voice transmission . After all, this part of the history was not glorious to Lin Huang .
On the other hand, Lin Huang smiled while waving his hand . He accepted everything that had happened to him in the past .
“There’s nothing that I can’t talk about . This might be fate . If you really had captured me for the heretics back then, I might not have achieved what I have today . ”
“We have to make many choices at the crossroads in our lives . It might seem unimportant when we make our decisions, but it might decide where our future leads . I just happened to be fortunate enough to have made the right choice . ”