It could fake him exploding his own cultivation to kill his opponent. If it had been Xia Ye's body that was exploding, the traces would be filled more with dark element rather than the fire element like what he had seen in the palace. 

'So, is he here? I can sense both dark element and fire element nearby.'

'Yes, he should be here.'

Lin Xiao nodded and strode inside. He scanned the surrounding and felt a bit helpless as he turned to look at Princess Lan Yi Hua. "Help me to look for him. You have an attribute of light element, so you should be able to sense him. Even if it's only for a little bit, it's fine."

Princes Lan Yi Hua nodded. She focused on her surroundings, trying her best to sense the dark element. Due to her light element, she was exceptionally sensitive towards dark element from others.

After a few seconds, she pointed to one direction.

"I think that way."

"Let me check."

Lin Xiao walked in that direction and he stopped on a room. On top of the bed was Xia Ye, who was badly injured. He swiftly moved forward and put his hand on top of Xia Ye's chest, inspecting the latter's condition while infusing his Qi.

The Lake Qi was dense and quickly repaired the damage that was done on Xia Ye's body.

However…

"It'll take some time for him to wake up and recover. I'll need to arrange someone to look over for the time being." Lin Xiao sighed. He thought that he could heal someone completely immediately.

But the truth was not that beautiful.

The damage was done towards Xia Ye's soul, which was the core of his life. Since it was damaged, it also meant that Xia Ye wouldn't be able to wake up so quickly even if his body recovered.

Lin Xiao was helpless towards his condition. 

"Let's focus on other matters first."

"Alright."

Since Lin Xiao would be taking over as the Emperor, there were a lot of matters that he had to do. Thankfully, the nobles were on his side thanks to the Fan Family influencing them. 

Lin Xiao had to admit that the shameless old man was indeed suitable for such task.

The acceptance was also easy thanks to Lin Hu's appearance on that fateful day. But of course, Lin Xiao had no intention of showing off Lin Hu out like a performance.

The progress was going smoothly and Lin Xiao asked for a large lake to be built around the palace, which was connected to his residence. They didn't ask why but built it nevertheless and only very few knew that it was because Lin Xiao needed it to be able to summon his dragon.

After all, the limitation that was placed on some dragons were not revealed to the public.

Besides, Lin Xiao knew that the limitation only existed for four of them. The other four could reveal their dragon anytime but the power of the dragon was the same as them. Unlike him where Lin Hu was a stage higher.

"I'll have preferred it if you can be summoned at any time even if you're only as strong as me."

"Heh, as if I'll believe you."

Wenren Yu and the others paid a visit to the palace half a year afterwards. They asked for permission to build Taiyi Sect again, which Lin Xiao agreed on. He also sent Elder Wang to help because Wang Jun used to be the honorary elder of the sect.

Staying inside the palace, Lin Xiao felt a bit emotional. He had been working so hard for the past few years and finally he could step here.

Right now, the hall was already cleaned and half a year had already passed. There were not many things that he did aside from cleaning up the palace. Those things were mostly done by the others, though.

'It's time to make my breakthrough to stage 3.'

Looking straight forward, Lin Xiao was thinking of the day when he first obtained the Emperor's Inheritance. His curiosity led a youth, who didn't know anything, to enter a sacred place.

In that place, he obtained the Emperor's Inheritance.

Thus, began his journey that was filled with many things.

Training, being chased, doing missions, plundering, hiding his ability… Every single event flashed for a moment before Lin Xiao broke into a smile. From the very first time he entered that place, his cultivation path has already been decided.

To be an Emperor.

That was his path.

Boom!

The Qi around his body rippled as Qi surged madly inside. The fluctuation alerted some people outside but they didn't try to come inside. After all, they knew that the one who made the commotion was their Emperor.

The Qi took some time before it finally calmed down.

Lin Xiao opened his eyes and sensed that things were somewhat different for him. He could sense the Qi more clearly and right now, he felt much better.

'Now that you have reached Golden Core Stage 3, you should hurry and destroy the restriction.' Lin Hu looked at Lin Xiao with a mocking expression. For the past half a year, Lin Xiao also settled so many things for Sun Kingdom.

'Why are you in such a hurry. I already become an Emperor, right?' Lin Xiao was speechless at the dragon's words.

'Not yet.'

'You…'

'At best, you can only be called a king.' Lin Hu snorted. He looked at Lin Xiao with disdain. 'Do you even know why there's the term Emperor and King? Emperor is the one who lead a kingdom that's as big as several kingdoms. The first Emperor gained his title because he united several kingdoms into ones.

As for you, you're only taking the throne of Sun Kingdom and yet you already want to claim to be an Emperor. What an embarrassment.'

Listening to Lin Hu, Lin Xiao got the urge to smash it to the ground.

Why didn't this annoying dragon told him about such an important matter sooner, ah? He thought that it was already the end by him taking this throne!